Actually Fox should lose its ability to use the public airwaves entirely, unless it forces its cable division to stop creating and disseminating fake news that has become a danger to American social cohesiveness. Fox News does this all day, everyday, but Lou Dobb’s racist little Trump-pleaser on Thursday is a good example of what they’re up to. Remember Lou Dobbs? The 73 year old far right racist broadcaster was fired by CNN for one of his racist outbursts… and then happily welcomed by Fox Business News.On Thursday Dobbs just asserted one of his bullshit, incendiary tales about “millions of illegal immigrants” crossing our borders and voting in the midterms. Proof? Maybe he could shit it out of his fat ass but he sure couldn’t shit it out of his fat mouth. No proof-- just some baseless claims by a notorious neo-Nazi extremist, David Bossie. And no accountability from Fox for him spreading the lies.Dobbs, happy to undermine democracy for the authoritarian in the Oval Office whose oval balls he licks on TV everyday, claimed that illegal voters are “having an immense impact” and asked “Are we just sitting here, helpless against anyone who wants to cross that border, and to have their way with the American way?”Trump asserted the same unsubstantiatable bullshit in his interview this week with Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, a radical right website. The interview was filled with lies and nonsense like, for example, “The Republicans don’t win and that’s because of potentially illegal votes.”UPDATE: Lou Dobbs Loses His MindThat was part of a Daily Beast headline a few hours ago, emphasizing that Dobbs was at odds with his bosses at Fox, who supported CNN’s lawsuit that successfully forced Trumpanzee to give Jim Acosta White House access again.
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, granted the network’s request to temporarily restore Acosta’s White House press badge after it was revoked last week following a public spat with the president during a press conference.Dobbs, one of the network’s most feverishly pro-Trump hosts, railed against the “absurd ruling,” ending the rant with Trump’s favorite slogan as a reminder of where his loyalties lie.…The rant came two days after Dobb’s bosses at Fox News publicly backed CNN’s lawsuit against the Trump administration, filing a supportive amicus brief with other major news networks.But Lou Dobbs apparently didn’t get the company memo— or if he did, he didn’t care for it.On Thursday night, the Fox host began his show by railing against the CNN lawsuit, suggesting the real reason CNN sued the White House was to get attention and free publicity.In a segment with Trump’s former deputy campaign manager David Bossie, Dobbs started the conversation by asking about Acosta, whom he called an “embarrassment to any news organization covering the president of the United States.”“He is an embarrassment and that is one of the reasons that the president decided to take the swift action that he did,” Bossie agreed. “Jim Acosta made that press conference a travesty. And he made it about himself. It was his ego-driven speech to the president that, not a question, not a question but a speech.”Dobbs, of course, agreed, claiming that Acosta’s actions during the contentious presser was simply an attempt to become Trump’s “peer” even though he’s “a lowly journalist,” adding that the “frivolous” lawsuit should not be “taken very seriously.”This was after his bosses publicly backed the lawsuit.And yet, Dobbs continued: “This is a publicity stunt on the part of CNN and they are getting all of this airtime. Most especially when I am talking about it.”In a statement supporting CNN on Wednesday, Fox News president Jay Wallace said: “Fox News supports CNN in its legal effort to regain its White House reporter’s press credential. We intend to file an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court. Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized.”The Fox brass added: “While we don’t condone the growing antagonistic tone by both the President and the press at recent media avails, we do support a free press, access and open exchanges for the American people.”But Dobbs often openly contradicts his network’s management, typically siding with the president or baseless right-wing conspiracy theories instead of the facts.Last month, as news emerged of pipe bombs mailed to prominent Trump critics-- including CNN-- many far-right public figures declared the threats as a “hoax” aimed at garnering sympathy votes for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.Alongside right-wing media allies and later Trump himself, Lou Dobbs became the highest-profile media star to embrace the conspiracy theory, summing it up in a slogan: “Fake news, fake bombs,” before adding in a now-deleted tweet: “Who could possibly benefit from such fakery?”