Lou Dobbs (TV Show Host) – Overview, Biography

Name:Lou Dobbs
Occupation: TV Show Host
Gender:Male
Birth Day: September 24,
1945
Age: 75
Birth Place: Childress,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Libra

Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs was born on September 24, 1945 in Childress, United States (75 years old). Lou Dobbs is a TV Show Host, zodiac sign: Libra. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

Trivia

He wrote the book Space, The Next Business Frontier.

Net Worth 2020

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Before Fame

He played on his high school’s football team. In 1967, he graduated from Harvard University with an economics degree.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1945

Born in Childress County, Texas in 1945, Dobbs is the son of Frank Dobbs, a co-owner of a propane business, and Lydia Mae (née Hensley), a bookkeeper. When Dobbs was age twelve, his father’s propane business failed and the family moved to Rupert, Idaho. Although accepted at the University of Idaho and Idaho State University, he was persuaded by the staff at Minico High School to apply to Harvard University, where he was accepted and graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. While at Harvard, Dobbs lived in Quincy House and was elected to the Owl Club.

1969

After college, Dobbs worked for federal anti-poverty programs in Boston and Washington, D.C., then returned to Idaho. He briefly attended the University of Idaho College of Law in Moscow, and then worked as a cash-management specialist for Union Bank of California in Los Angeles. He married his high school sweetheart in 1969, and in 1970 their first son was born. Dobbs moved to Yuma, Arizona, and got a job as a police and fire reporter for KBLU. By the mid-1970s he was a television anchor and reporter in Phoenix, and he later joined Seattle’s KING-TV. In 1979, he was contacted by a recruiter for Ted Turner, who was in the process of forming CNN.

1980

Dobbs joined CNN when it launched in 1980, serving as its chief economics correspondent and as host of the business news program Moneyline on CNN. Dobbs also served as a corporate executive for CNN, as its executive vice president and as a member of CNN’s executive committee. He founded CNN fn (CNN financial news), serving as its president and anchoring the program Business Unusual, which examined business creativity and leadership.

1981

Dobbs divorced his first wife in 1981 and later married Debi Lee Segura, a former CNN sports anchor. The couple raised four children together. Dobbs resides on a 300-acre (1.2 km) horse farm in Wantage Township, New Jersey.

1990

Dobbs has won numerous major awards for his television journalism, including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award and a Cable Ace Award. He received the George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. He also has received the Luminary Award of the Business Journalism Review in 1990, the Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans in 1999 and the National Space Club Media Award in 2000. The Wall Street Journal has named Dobbs “TV’s Premier Business News Anchorman”. In 2004, Dobbs was awarded the Eugene Katz Award For Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration by the Center for Immigration Studies and in 2005 he received the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution’s Statesmanship Award. Dobbs was named “Father of the Year” by the National Father’s Day Committee in 1993. In 2008 Dobbs received the American Legion Public Relations Award from the National Commander of The American Legion.

1997

Dobbs repeatedly clashed with Rick Kaplan, who became president of CNN in 1997. Dobbs said Kaplan, noted friend of then president Bill Clinton, was “clearly partisan” and “was pushing Clinton stories”, while Kaplan said Dobbs was “a very difficult person to work with”.

1999

On April 20, 1999, CNN was covering Clinton’s speech in Littleton, Colorado, following the Columbine High School massacre. Dobbs ordered the producer to cut away from the speech and return to broadcast Moneyline. Dobbs was countermanded by Kaplan, who ordered CNN to return to the speech. Kaplan later said, “Tell me what journalistic reason there was not to cover the president at Columbine soon after the shootings? Everyone else was doing it”. Dobbs announced on the air that “CNN President Rick Kaplan wants us to return to Littleton”. A few days later, Dobbs announced that he was leaving the network to start Space.com, a website devoted to astronautical news. Dobbs was subsequently replaced as host of Moneyline by Willow Bay and Stuart Varney.

Dobbs announced that he was leaving CNN to start up the site Space.com in July 1999. Dobbs was one of the primary shareholders in that company and later that year to become Space.com’s chief executive officer. Dobbs returned to CNN in 2001.

2000

Kaplan left CNN in August 2000, and Dobbs returned the following year, at the behest of his friend and CNN founder Ted Turner, becoming host and managing editor of the new and initially more general news program Lou Dobbs Reporting, which later became CNN News Sunday Morning. He also regained the helm of the newly renamed Lou Dobbs Moneyline (which became Lou Dobbs Tonight in June 2003).

2006

Dobbs holds anti-immigration views. Dobbs has been strongly opposed to both illegal immigration and foreign worker programs as the H-1B visa program and guest-worker programs. In a 2006 article, Dobbs expressed frustration at failed legislation to build a southern “border fence to stop the flow of illegal aliens and drugs across our borders.” He argued that the “true victims of corporate America’s lust for cheap labor” were “American working men and women, taxpayers all.” During efforts to implement comprehensive immigration reform during the Bush administration in 2007, Dobbs devoted more than a quarter of all of his airtime during a three-month period to the subject of immigration, and covered it negatively.

2007

Dobbs’ show has made factually incorrect claims, such as the one that illegal immigrants were responsible for bringing 7,000 new cases of leprosy to the United States in a three-year period, where the actual timeframe was over the last thirty years. In addressing the leprosy issue, Dobbs in May 2007 compared his critics from the left and right political spectrums to “commies” and “fascists.” Dobbs has also falsely claimed that “illegal aliens” were a third of the total prison population in the United States.

Dobbs has criticized local officials for their approach to border security. In October 2007 he labeled then-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer an “idiot” for advocating the issuance of driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Hillary Clinton labeled Dobbs’ illegal immigration segments as having “all that hot air.”

2008

In June 2008, Dobbs reached an agreement with Business Talk Radio Network to carry a rebroadcast of the show from 7 to 10 pm Eastern, displacing Bruce Williams. Dobbs’ show was also carried live on CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks.

Dobbs promoted the false conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. His willingness to raise the “birther” issue repeatedly, even though CNN itself considered it a “discredited rumor”, led the Washington Post’s TV critic to remark that this “explains their upcoming documentary: ‘The World: Flat. We Report – You Decide.'” The issue had come up in 2008 during the Presidential campaign, and had largely disappeared from the media spotlight until Dobbs picked up the issue again. His statements in support of these conspiracy theories were dubbed “racist” and “defamatory” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The controversy led to Media Matters airing ads critical of Dobbs and of CNN, and to Jon Stewart mocking Dobbs on the satirical Comedy Central television series The Daily Show. The Associated Press said that Dobbs had “become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network’s ‘no bias’ brand.”

2009

In July 2009, controversy around Dobbs began when he was the only mainstream news anchor to give airtime to the birther conspiracy theory. Several liberal advocacy groups, including Media Matters, and the Southern Poverty Law Center criticized Dobbs for his reporting. The controversy eventually caused CNN President Jon Klein to rein Dobbs in via an internal memorandum. In September, advocates challenged Dobbs for appearing at a conference organized by the anti-immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform. Multiple campaigns were launched, including “Drop Dobbs” (NDN, Media Matters). The campaigns also attacked CNN for alleged hypocrisy towards Latinos, citing CNN’s Latino in America special as incompatible with their continued support of Dobbs. The campaigns generated considerable anti-Dobbs press.

After Dobbs left CNN in 2009, he gave an interview where he did not rule out the possibility of running for President of the United States in 2012, saying the final decision would rest with his wife. Former Senator Dean Barkley said he thought Dobbs should run for president.

From 2009 to 2012, Dobbs hosted Lou Dobbs Radio on United Stations Radio Networks. The three-hour daily show had affiliates in several major markets, including its flagship station (WOR) in New York City, Washington D.C. (WHFS), Miami (WZAB-AM) and the San Francisco Bay Area (KDOW), as well as stations such as WGNY-AM in Newburgh, New York. The show was guest-centered and featured political discussion and listener calls. It aired from 2 to 5 pm Eastern, directly competing with The Sean Hannity Show, The Tom Sullivan Show and The Dave Ramsey Show. Dobbs also hosts the financially themed Lou Dobbs Minute on the same network.

Since 2009, Dobbs has made regular appearances to discuss issues on other news network programs including CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor. On October 5, 2010, Dobbs made a guest appearance on an episode of The Good Wife, entitled “Double Jeopardy”, in which he plays himself as a client in search of a new law firm to represent his legal interests.

In March 2009, Dobbs said he thought that there should not be a St. Patrick’s Day.

2010

On November 10, 2010, Fox Business Network announced that Dobbs would host a show on the channel. The network announced on March 3, 2011 the start date, show title, and time slot of Dobbs’ new show. Entitled Lou Dobbs Tonight, the program debuted on March 14, 2011, airing at 7 pm Eastern.

In October 2010, The Nation published the results of a yearlong investigation detailing undocumented workers who had worked on Dobbs’ personal properties. The labor involved upkeep of Dobbs’ multimillion-dollar estates in New Jersey and Florida, including the horses belonging to his daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper. The article featured interviews with five immigrants who had worked without papers on Dobbs’ properties. Speaking to the Associated Press, Dobbs referred to the article as “a political assault,” claiming it was a lie that he hired illegal immigrants. He said: “I have never, do not now, and never will.”

2018

In December 2018, Dobbs suggested that the United States should start a war with China because of hacking by Chinese state actors. He compared hacking by the People’s Liberation Army of China to the attack by the Japanese military on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

In November 2018, Dobbs falsely claimed that “many” undocumented immigrants voted in the 2018 mid-term elections and that they had an “immense impact.”

Dobbs is a proponent of the Deep State conspiracy theory. In January 2018, Dobbs called for a “war” on the “Deep State”, which he described as the FBI and the Department of Justice. Dobbs said that the FBI and DOJ had destroyed evidence and that they were clandestinely working to bring down the Trump presidency. In June 2018, Dobbs promoted a conspiracy which originated on Reddit and the far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit that “the FBI May have initiated a number of spies into the Trump campaign as early as December of 2015”. Shortly after Dobbs promoted the unfounded conspiracy theory, Trump retweeted Dobbs’ assertion and praised Dobbs for a “great interview”. In July 2018, Dobbs said that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was on a “jihad” against Trump, and accused him of seeking to “subvert” and “overthrow” Trump’s presidency. In December 2018, Dobbs said there was “a legion of evildoers” in the FBI and that “we’ve got all of the folks in the FBI, corrupt, politically corrupt.” That same month, he said that the judge overseeing Michael Flynn’s sentencing sounded as if he was part of Mueller’s “witch hunt.”

In July 2018, Dobbs defended the Trump administration’s decision to ban a CNN reporter from a press event. Multiple Fox colleagues, including Fox News President Jay Wallace, had shown solidarity with CNN and called on the White House to rescind the ban. His defense led to charges of hypocrisy: in 2012, when a Daily Caller reporter was criticized by the White House for shouting out a question during an address by Obama, Dobbs defended the reporter, saying “What is rude is a president not speaking to the American people and taking the questions of the White House press’. CNN’s Jake Tapper suggested that Dobbs was hypocritical.

In August 2018, Dobbs ran a segment pushing unsubstantiated claims that Google was biased against Trump and that Google was promoting anti-Trump stories. Following Dobbs’ segment, Trump tweeted that Google was suppressing conservatives and he tasked economic adviser Larry Kudlow to look into regulating Google.

In September 2018, after Trump falsely claimed that the official death count from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was fabricated by Democrats, Dobbs defended Trump’s assertion. Dobbs claimed that “the numbers were inflated” and that the organizations behind the numbers “threw out science, statistics, and evidence to discredit the Trump administration”.

In October 2018, when CNN and a number of prominent Democrats were targeted with bomb attempts, Dobbs described the bomb attempts as “fake news” and promoted conspiracy theories that the bomb attempts were by Democrats who sought to increase their support in the upcoming mid-term elections. Several Fox News employees expressed dismay over Dobbs’ rhetoric, with one employee telling CNN, “It’s people like Dobbs who really ruin it for all the hard working journalists at Fox”.

Dobbs’s Fox Business Channel shows stirred controversy in October 2018 when a guest on Dobbs’ show used what many described as an anti-Semitic trope to suggest that the State Department was “Soros-occupied” territory (which echoed the anti-Semitic trope of a “Zionist-occupied government”). The remarks came days after bombing attempts on Soros, and the remarks were replayed on Fox Business hours after an anti-Semitic attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue which killed 11 people. After widespread condemnation, Fox stated that the guest, Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch, would no longer be booked and that the program episode would be withdrawn from the Fox News archives. In the midst of the Trump-Ukraine scandal in November 2019, attorney Joseph diGenova made similar comments on Dobbs’s program, falsely claiming that “George Soros controls a very large part of the career foreign service of the United States State Department. He also controls the activities of FBI agents overseas who work for NGOs – work with NGOs. That was very evident in Ukraine.” Dobbs did push back on DiGenova’s claim.

2019

After President Donald Trump stated in March 2019 that he supported legal immigration “in the largest numbers ever,” Dobbs lamented that Trump was advancing “the interests of the global elite ahead of our citizens,” adding, “the White House has simply lost its way.”

In January 2019, Dobbs described Mitt Romney as a “traitor” and “treasonous” after he published an op-ed in the Washington Post criticizing Trump’s character. In July 2019, Dobbs referred to U.S. military generals who raised concerns about Trump’s decision to put on a 4 July military show in Washington D.C. as “Snowflake Generals”.

On September 11, 2019, Dobbs warned his viewers on Fox Business that Soros’ “tentacles were spreading globally”, deploying a well-known antisemetic canard in which the Jewish people are depicted as an octopus spreading its tentacles all over the world.

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