So Lou Dobbs challenged Lloyd Blankfein to a fistfight last night on his show, based on Blankfein’s suggestion to Dobbs’s boss at CNN that he ought to fire LD’s xenophobic ass? And MSNBC reported the request for a duel on “Morning Joe” today? And sources close to the Little Guy say he’s been dropping hints he’ll accept? We tack on skepticism not because we don’t want to believe all of these magical things did and will indeed occur, but because we don’t want to feel the same searing pain of disappointment we experienced the last time something like this came up and both parties (Andersen Cooper, Vikram Pandit) pussied out at the last second (and because we haven’t yet added “Lou Dobbs Tonight” and “Morning Joe” to our regular line-up). Obviously we would be eternally grateful to anyone that can give us some level of assurance here (Dobbs/Morning Joe clip, recently acquired Gold’s Gym memberships, Myoplex receipts, recorded conversations with Charlie Gasparino re: what it feels like to be hit in the face/how one would go about shattering another man’s knee-caps with minimal effort, etc.).
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ld = commie
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/dobbs-challenges-goldman-sachs-chairman-to-a-duel/
Bess, morning Joe is the shit, the second best program on tv after Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld.
Two old, white men talking shit to one another is on par with bumfights. Lou is a bit over the top; lest we forget television is entertainment. There is no such thing as cold, sterile news.
LD is correct on so many things, no wonder a guy like Blankstein feels threatened by him and would try to get him fired.
Dobbs is the worst talking head on television.
He pretends to champion the middle class all the while his daughter is an equestrian – the single most elitist sport in the world (a decent junior jumper cost $250,000).
He sells some populist message – “If the United States gets rid of illegal’s and seals its borders, it is going to ascend to its rightful place in the world”. And because the United States (the government anyway) is on its economic knees people eat it up without regard to what he is actually saying.
It is the same bullshit populist message that Hitler had Germany embrace when the country was on its economic knees after WW 1 – “if Germany gets rid of the Jews and seals its borders to the racially impure, it will ascend to its rightful place in the world”.
At best Lou is just an ass wipe, at worst he is espousing a very dangerous message.
And seriously how smart could he be taking on Lloyd Blankfein? Anybody ever taken on Lloyd and won?
Dobbs is a breath of fresh air in the media.
Dobbs is right to talk about the immigration crisis, because no one else in the media and government will.
When did a country ever become prosperous by importing poor, hostile, illiterate peasants from the third world? Overpopulation is no the answer. The US is the only country in the world that is voluntarily replacing its traditional founding population with an imported one from the third world. It’s insanity.
Blankfein is a little prick.
The USA -for one- became prosperous by importing poor, hostile, illiterate peasants throughout the 19th century.
@12:57, Last I checked ALL people here (other than the native indians) were imports. Did I miss something there? Are you native indian? In that case I agree with your view. If not, then STFU.
So Blankfein worked his way all the way up to CEO of Goldman Sach from right down there. If that makes him a little prick, what does that make you?
@ 12:57
I would take that little prick (any day) over the fat ass wipe formally known as Lou Dobbs (who near as i can tell was formally known as Archie Bunker).
Hey Lou have you ever been to your daughter’s stable? What are the chances that one of the grooms mucking (cleaning the shit ) out of your horses stall is an illegal?
In addition to Lou’s type 2 diabetes he is a pack a day smoker – he should be nicer to the illegal immigrants because in about 5 years he is going to be relying on them to change his depends
How did get here? Favoring an actual border (the sine qua non of a country) is now tantamount, among the “enlightened,” to wearing a white hood. When the equivalent of the entire population of Australia moves in without an invitation, any hope of sovereignty is lost.
Anyway, it’s not even their illegality but their all-too-American sense of entitlement. I’m a first-generation immigrant from Iran. We Persians are known for our sense of hospitality, both as hosts as guests. When you visit someone’s house, you do as they do. You eat what they serve, you follow whatever house rules they have, you help out as much as you can.
So, to us, it’s appalling and bewildering that another group of immigrants arrives and demands every possible accommodation from their hosts. (There are thousands of us in the L.A. area, but have you heard of “Press 3 for Farsi”?)
Worse yet, our hosts, or at least their elites, are apparently so ashamed of their own culture and language that they would never dream of asking anyone to respect them. Hillary Clinton the other night suggested that Americans learn another language, but do you think she was encouraging people to learn whatever language they’re interested in? Maybe Italian, if you’d like to read Dante in the original? Japanese, if you’d like to live in Tokyo one day? No, I don’t think that’s what she meant.
So, you see, it’s not only so-called “racist” white people who believe that America, like virtually other country on the plate, should have some control over who gets in.
@Bugs
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I believe we are the only country that has immigration forms in over 100 languages. If I wanted to move to a European country, you better believe I would have to be able to read, write, and speak their language, because that’s the only way you can fill out their forms. Of course, forcing assimilation is probably a bad idea. Just look at the Muslims and the French.
Morning Joe=Useless show, piece of crxp