My email to Lou Dobbs, regarding his slander of Kerry [View All]

[Dr. Death]

I don't usually do this, but I was so mad at Dobbs for calling Kerry "arrogant" and carrying the repukes' water that I had to respond. I'm sure it will do no good. I thought that Dobbs had some brains, but apparently not.

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Mr. Dobbs,

I formerly had some respect for you as a journalist. In the world of corporate-controlled media, you were one of the few who seemed to try to stand up for average Americans. Unfortunately, that all changed today. Senator Kerry misspoke, true, but he clarified his remarks and you knew his words were directed against Mr. Bush, not American troops. Nevertheless, you went on the air and repeated Republican lies, calling Senator Kerry “arrogant.” Arrogant, Mr. Dobbs? Arrogance is a foreign policy of aggression, put forth by cowards who never wore a military uniform, that has cost almost 3,000 American troops their lives and done immeasurable harm to our reputation around the world. Arrogance is cutting the benefits of veterans who return from the war. Arrogance is shredding the system of checks and balances that our forefathers crafted into the Constitution. Arrogance is denying millions of Americans access to healthcare with one hand while outsourcing their jobs with the other – issues that YOU claim to care about.

Perhaps you really do care about these things, Mr. Dobbs, but the fact that you unthinkingly put forth Republican spin as if it were truth shows that you are in reality nothing but a tool of this administration, and, quite frankly, a fool.

Think about this, Mr. Dobbs. By misrepresenting the Senator’s words on your national news program, you may have influenced voters to support Republicans and their failed war in Iraq. You, sir, may well have just helped to cause even more deaths among the middle-class whom you claim to support. You owe your viewers nothing less than a retraction of your slander regarding Senator Kerry’s “arrogance.” Be a man and do it.

There was indeed a “self-inflicted wound” today, Mr. Dobbs – you destroyed the last shreds of credibility that you had as a journalist.