Lou Dobbs And The High Cost Of Bullcrap

Poor Lou Dobbs, silenced earlier this month by his own
suck up to Trump life and (probably) a huge lawsuit.

 So many anti-Trumpers, including me, did a little jig of joy when we learned earlier this month that Lou Dobbs had been sacked from Fox. 

Dobbs, I swear was like a North Korean newscaster, or "Baghdad Bob" the Iraqi spokesman who hilariously insisted that everything was fine as we invaded.

Fox's decision to dump Dobbs might have had teensy bit to do with the fact that Smartmatic, an electronic voting system company is, shall we say, a bit peeved with Dobbs and other Fox talking heads like Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro. 

As almost all of us know, all these Fox personalities relentless peddled the tale that Joe Biden "stole" the election. That tale keeps going on among the GOP cult, even though Biden has been president for almost a month now.

 If you want to force yourself to believe the QAnon line of thinking, an elaborate conspiracy involving a dead Venezuelan dictator, satanic Democrats and mysterious forces foisting scam voting machines on us. 

Or something like that. 

Of course, we all know the voting machines all worked fine, so the voting machine companies had their good reputations damaged by these idiots. 

Smartmatic is miffed enough at them to file a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox Corp. Yeah, that's billion with a "b"

Even for a behemoth like Fox, that's a little expensive. Most of the Fox conspiracy nutcases are still on the air. I guess they're still making enough revenue for Fox to stay on the air, despite the lawsuits.

Dobbs, though, was given the axe. 

The Daily Beast helpfully gave us a look back at some of Lou Dobbs' greatest hits, all of which had to do with the old bat singing the praises of Trump.

As Dobb signed off from his show one Friday in 2019, he said, "Have a great weekend....The president makes such a thing possible for us all."

So Trump invented weekends? What about the labor movement decades ago that help create the five-day workweek. Plus, what about those of us who work weekends? Why didn't Trump fix that, Lou?

 Two days before the January 6 insurrection, Dobbs puzzled and puzzled. "We're eight weeks from the election, and we still don't have verifiable, tangible support for the crimes that everyone knows were committed - that is defrauding other citizens who voted with fraudulent votes.....but we have a devil of a time finding actual proof. Why?"

Gee, I don't know, sometimes when you look and look and look and don't find evidence for something, then maybe that something didn't happen.

Back on December 1, then-attorney General Bill Barr said there was no evidence of widespread election fraud against Trump.  Barr,  obviously, is no friend to the Democrats and a man with a reputation as a Trump lapdog. 

Could Dobbs take Barr at his word? Of course not! Dobbs had theories, of course. "(Barr) is either a liar or a fool or both....He may be, um, perhaps compromised. He may be simply unprincipled. Or he may be personally distraught or ill."

Or he might have searched the cupboards for fraud and they came up bare.

As the recent impeachment trial proved, we have tons more Trump sycophants who will always repeat the lies of Trump like pull string dolls. But at least one of them, Dobbs, is forcibly quieter now. 

They call it cancel culture.  I call it dealing with the consequences of their stupidity. 

In any event, we take any victory we can, right?