Lou Dobbs=Forked Tongue?

[Bhaisahab]

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Louis Dobbs, the well-known CNN anchor, is leading a double life, hunting with the dogs as well as running with the hares.

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For the masses, Dobbs has been running a series, indeed a "nightly crusade" -- called "Exporting America."

The programme decries "outsourcing" or "offshoring" -- that is, US businesses using suppliers in other countries, like programmers in India writing IBM software.

But then there is the other Lou Dobbs, where he is appealing to subscribers to the Lou Dobbs Money Letter, a "private and confidential market report," where he carries a different tune entirely.

Here he is all praise for George Bush for ushering in the greatest economic boom since Ronald Reagan in 1982.

James Glassman, writing in Tech Central Station, stumbled on the private Lou Dobbs, ironically enough, when he received the mass-circulated e-mail, Lou Dobbs Money Letter.

Glassman discovered that while his Website, www.cnn.com/lou, has listed Boeing and Washington Mutual among the over 200 companies confirmed as "either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labour, instead of American workers," as a financial advisor, Dobbs is actually advising investors to buy shares of Boeing and Washington Mutual!

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goes on here: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/532856.cms

[Guaranteed]

1. Huh...well that's odd.

Why would he be so against Bush's policies publicly, but privately for them?

He seems to geniunely believe what he says on the air.

[htuttle]

6. I think being 'for' those policies, and making money off them...

...are probably two different things in Lou Dobb's mind, like most proper capitalists.

It's sort of a doublethink. It's what allows people to make their money exploiting child labor in Haiti and Cambodia all week, and then sit in church on Sunday.

It's just 'bidnez', you know.

[JNelson6563]

8. "Double-think" is just what it is

Just like mass lay-offs. One can lament for the workers now unemployed but at the same time buy that stock cause it's goin' up! What is misery for humans is generally good for business.

It's a funny world we live in.

Julie

[Skittles]

11. because he is a whore

a classic whore

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. Can't find www.cnn.com/lou...appears to be gone.

[ripplingwater]

3. Remove the comma

www.cnn.com/lou

[burrowowl]

4. I'm not surprised

and wondered how many DUers were duped into thinking he had gone populist.
I recommend for DUers who haven't read it: A Peoples' History of the United States, by Howard Zinn.

[sandnsea]

5. Well let's see

George Bush's policies are excellent for wealthy Americans who make money shipping jobs overseas. Lou Dobb's tells the wealthy Americans that truth. And tells the average American viewer what's going on too. Doesn't seem all that complicated to me.

[burrowowl]

7. Average Murikkkan doesn't

watch Lou Dobbs, but the so-called middle-class that does, well it makes them feel good but doesn't change a damn thing, just calms them into not taking action.

[union_maid]

9. I have to disagree there

Lou Dobbs has done a lot to publicize the outsourcing situation and to educate anyone interested about it. The fact that he's all about money and has never been a liberal or leftist in any way lends a lot of weight to some of the things he says.

[seabeyond]

10. i think it has done something

the continual hitting of the bush adminstration from the money angle, day after day i think has effected views and just another part of the whole disenfranchising