[I assume a picture of Rebecca Romijn would be better than one of Lou Dobbs; it's a stretch, but she played "Mystique" aka "that sexy blue chick"; err...]

I used to like Lou Dobbs, a little.  Course, this was in terms of cable news anchors, so the bar was and still is noticeably low.  Even Mary Lou Retton can’t limbo it.  Something happened to him during Bush’ tenure.  He changed.  In an instant he shifted — like that sexy blue chick — into a fist pumping crazy old kook immigration hound.  That was enough to turn me off, my feelings on immigration withstanding (it’s about the WAY he discusses it); then he took it upon himself to spearhead the “Barack Obama isn’t a United States citizen” movement (known later as “birthers”) for the cable television audience and that really pushed him into la-la land.  Sure, the label everyone’s giving him is “populist“.  Perhaps he was before he went all Bellevue on us.  The Cambridge dictionary defines populism as: “political ideas and activities that are intended to represent ordinary people’s needs and wishes”.  Claiming Barack Obama wasn’t born here does NOT constitute as populism.  So if Dobbs ever was a true “populist”, he sure as hell isn’t anymore.  His contract with CNN was supposed to last into 2011, and he’s been with the network for a whopping 30 years.  That don’t matter apparently: CNN president Jon Klein released him from his contract early.  He’s done.  Whether or not he’ll be joining Fox News chatter has already begun.  Won’t matter to us, we here at WatchUrMouth hate Fox and CNN equally.  We don’t discriminate like that.

-D