One of the guests Lou had on his show tonight mentions all the talk hosts that the LEFTIES are strong arming to get off the air completely. Hunting season does not start in New Jersey till November so this is an idiotic statement (But an official with the New Jersey State Police played down the incident, telling the Huffington Post that a hunter was probably to blame and that the stray bullet hit the attic of Dobbs's house. )


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Anchor Lou Dobbs says he's leaving CNN immediately


FILE - In this 2005 file photo provided by CNN, news anchor Lou Dobbs sits on the set of his show, "Lou Dobs Tonight," in New York (AP Photo/CNN, Mark Hill, File) (Mark Hill - AP)
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By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 11, 2009; 7:56 PM

Lou Dobbs, the most opinionated and divisive anchor at a cable network that bills itself as a straight-news oasis, resigned from CNN last night, saying he wants "to go beyond the role" of a television journalist in tackling the country's problems.

Saying he is acting at the urging of "some leaders in media, politics and business," Dobbs struck a populist tone, attempting to position himself as a political leader who would take on "the lack of true representation in Washington, D.C." He said that public debate was now defined by "partisanship and ideology" and that he would continue to speak out "in the most honest and direct language possible."

Liberal groups such as NDN and Media Matters had mounted a "Dump Dobbs" campaign, and Latino organizations challenged such Dobbs declarations as his 2006 statement that about a third of the U.S. prison population "is estimated to be illegal aliens"¿which the anchor later acknowledged was way off. But his position at CNN seemed secure, even as the network touted itself as a down-the-middle alternative to right-leaning Fox News and left-leaning MSNBC.

The surprise announcement by Dobbs, whose fervent opposition to illegal immigration has come to define his career, stunned most staffers at the network he helped launch in 1980. He only hinted at disagreements with CNN President Jon Klein, saying that after extensive talks Klein had agreed to let him out of his multimillion-dollar contract.

Signaling his already apparent opposition to the Obama administration, Dobbs said that in the last six months "strong winds have buffeted this country." He vowed to "be a leader" in a "national conversation" about immigration, jobs, health care, climate change and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan¿as well as "our now-weakened capitalist economy."

Dobbs was once a conventional business anchor who hosted the program "Moneyline." But in recent years, the renamed "Lou Dobbs Tonight" has served as a forum for his strong and often controversial opinions, sometimes to the discomfort of correspondents appearing as guests. Dobbs drew fire earlier this year by urging President Obama to do more to prove that he was born in Hawaii, seeming to lend credence to unsubstantiated claims by the so-called "birthers."

Last month, Dobbs said that shots had been fired at his New Jersey home while he and his wife were outside. On his radio show, Dobbs tied the shooting to his immigration stance, saying "the national liberal media has chosen sides. And they have decided that they're going to focus on the liberal view, which is that they will embrace illegal immigration no matter who is harmed, no matter how many laws are broken, or how few consequences there are for breaking those laws. My wife has now been and I have been shot at."

But an official with the New Jersey State Police played down the incident, telling the Huffington Post that a hunter was probably to blame and that the stray bullet hit the attic of Dobbs's house.