November 19 at 9:59AM
Jon Stewart's Extended Interview with Lou Dobbs
You love Lou Dobbs so much. He's your favorite, and you've been simply beside yourself since he abruptly left CNN. You've tried recreating the show at home using makeshift puppets, but the puppets were frankly too coherent for it to be believable. No, it seems only the man himself can fill the Lou Dobbs-shaped hole in your TV. Fortunately, he was on The Daily Show last night. And if that still didn't satisfying your Dobbsian hunger, we now have an extended and uncensored version of the interview.
The interview continues below.
The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.
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This was about a brilliant political discussion as I have ever heard. I previously thought Lou Dobbs was a complete douche bag. My opinion has now changed a bit. He has something relevant to say. The most significant part was a bout not getting people to march and hold up a sign that says reasonable. This is a resilient country and all of these blowhards who continue to spew their hatred need to be at least muffled be clearer thinking people. This country is much too polarized and I think it is a direct result of the lack of education of the general population.
FYI: Really the first time I am disappointed with Jon.
Well Dobbs really impressed me here. As I never really paid any attention to him while he was on CNN.
As much as I love Jon stewart, he really disappointed me here, not letting Dobb's finish his points and cutting him off all the time.
Hats off to Dobbs for putting Jon in his place for putting Palin's words in Dobbs mouth.
I think Jon felt that he had to make Dobbs look bad and prove him wrong. But there just want much to prove wrong, Dobbs make mostly all great points, and Jon actually agrees with him (not admitting it on tv ofcours).
I completely agree with janet ramos he really doesn't put up with bull shit.
now I did respect Dobbs until he did the birther thing and I really think that destroyed his rep. this of course being my opinion o and for those who didn't like Jon interrupting Dobbs he does that with every guest.
This is my first venture into jon stewart's daily show and just as I thought the whole thing is subject to having to put up with more of j.s.'s bs while his guest is still talking but it still delivers a more comprehensive version of realty that any MSM venue.
As for lou dobbs, to me he is the 'independent's' voice of reason because for one thing all the bs about lowering taxes even more is not a viable option or solution to the issues in this country and though anything lou dobbs says is NOT ok with me his mind set is, as I believe, independent and open to what is fair for all.
And by the way, the mention of lowering taxes is nothing but a subject for keeping the rich from paying their share of taxes that keep this country running in spite of the condition it is in.
Lou have something to say,we will listen
Lou got on comedy central tonight and said exactly what he thought the audience wanted to hear. When Jon asked him why all of a sudden the whole country wants to fight government once a democrat was in office,he started stuttering. He could't explain the difference in policies from Bush to Obama that what causes broadcasters to label our Commander in Cheif a socialist. He was quick to label that as a handful of extremist, well that handful is employed by Fox News to continue to put fear and ignorance in the minds of the volurable and weak Americans.
Lou was prabably fired because of his involvement in convincing retarted Americans that our President wasn't born in America or maybe its was the way he shows absolute disgust for illegal immigrans who only come to this country for a better life like everybody else.
He's one of those douche bags who claims to be a christian but doesn't follow the "love thy neighbor as thyselve"or "give and it shall be given unto you" passages.
Good job with the musical guests before his appearace. Fucking halarious!!!!
Bottom line, I think, is that Dobbs couldn't explain why he's descending into panic now as opposed to during the Bush years. The economic crisis was caused by Bush's laissez faire policy; Bush started the war in Afghanistan AND the brazen imperialist invasion of Iraq; and Bush oversaw a stagnation in the health care reform movement at the behest of campaign contributes in the industry itself. Obama hasn't made any of these problems magically disappear—and indeed I'm frustrated that the liberals too seem to be in the pockets of i-bank and HMO lobbyists—but he's hardly created any disasters of his own (say what you will about the bailout, but I'm convinced it was necessitated by, and is in fact the intended culmination of Bush administration policy meant to benefit big business at the public's expense). Dobb's assertion that we've made a "sharp left turn" is absurd. To date, we've barely lost any of our rightward momentum. Obama is pumping the breaks, but lobbyists and corporate interests have already slashed the break lines. As for how Stewart treated Dobbs: I just don't have that much sympathy. Dobbs might not be as shameless as Glenn Beck, but that doesn't change the fact that he's a right-wing propagandist. And, speaking of cool-aid, now Dobbs has lost his job 'cause he's started drinking the Ron Paul libertarian crazy-juice and he won't spout the party line anymore… (I mean, COME ON! You really think crippling DEMOCRATIC government will HELP the people? The only reason any of us are still alive at all is because the corporate T-Rex and the governmental King Kong are too busy grappling with each other to gobble us up.)
I digress; the point is, Jon is just doing what he's always done—he's a champion of public interest—and because the public is too disorganized to compensate him for that the way mouthpieces on other networks are compensated by their corporate benefactors, Jon has to earn his keep as a comedian at the same time (on the show, i mean). And Dobbs is a corporate stooge who can't decide whether he wants to co-opt government for corporate benefit (a-la the NeoCons) or simply destroy government to make way for a corporate hegemony (a-la Ron Paul). So, based on their respective positions, I think Jon has an obligation to humiliate Dobbs, and to expose greed and ambition as Dobbs's underlying motivations. Because the fact of the matter is, Jon is absolutely right: Dobbs's sudden desire to rule from the center is a direct result of the corporates having lost the election. He's trying to seem reasonable, with all this "govern from the center" crap, but what he's really saying is; "Stop! Stop legislating! Stop reforming! Stop governing! Stop, and don't start moving again until you're ready to move right!"
note: sorry about the caps, but there's no other way to add emphasis without italics. Also, i'm not a full-on socialist; I just believe in a balance between populist, governmental, and corporate interests.
An interesting discussion. As an independent, I was a Dobbs fan for years under the Bush administration. Despite the controversy, I always felt Lou was the ONLY voice in media addressing the illegal immigrant problem in this country. And he did a very good job of pointing out the many absurdities in government otherwise. But as the Obama administration came in, I came to see him as "controversionalist" rather then an independent. How ironic that CNN would fire him as such, when it seems that they are actively engaged in that as a mainstay of business today.
jon s. has always been about interrupting, ridicule, sarcasm, exaggeration, and mocking to make a point – most often from the left – most disingenuously and irrationally… but that's also what makes him a funny guy.. a clown. if you take him too seriously or can't/don't notice the fallacy of his positions, then you're missing the real comedy.
what's the difference between the bush years and now? the neocons tried to push the country in a knee jerk to the far right… the progressives under obama try to push the country in a far left position with all the nominees who openly embrace mao, marxism, communism, socialism, and think government is the solution to all problems.
you can fight the neocon direction and undo many things, but when entitlements and government nannyism is fully implemented and relied upon it's very difficult to dismantle and reverse that course.
so in summary:
under bush – more government, pseudo free markets, thwarted liberty
under obama – monster growing of government, increased threat to any free markets, immense constriction of liberties