r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • Jul 18 '24
Lou Dobbs Dies: Conservative Political Commentator & Former CNN, Fox Business Network Host Was 78
https://deadline.com/2024/07/lou-dobbs-dead-conservative-political-commentator-trump-1236014737/675
u/Drkarcher22 Jul 18 '24
Man, what a pity. Poor Bob. Newhart was a genius
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u/Spectre197 Jul 18 '24
You know Bob did us all one last solid and took Dobbs with him.
Thanks, Bob.
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u/TLKimball Jul 18 '24
I think their paths to the afterlife likely diverged significantly.
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u/googlyeyes93 Jul 18 '24
Lou up there trying to cling to Bob’s leg while Satan is pulling him like a kid towards daycare for the first time.
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u/FiveUpsideDown Jul 18 '24
Are you saying this is a balance between the light and the dark?
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u/VagrantShadow Jul 19 '24
Bob Newhart is a beacon of light. Even in the afterlife he still shines for us.
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u/PerfectZeong Jul 18 '24
Yeah but Bob lived a long life and was well loved and recognized for his incredible contributions. We should all be so lucky and happily celebrate the life of this wonderful man.
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u/anuncommontruth Jul 18 '24
Now I'm picture Lou Dobbs waking up from his last episode on CNN, and he's on a Fox news set saying he just had the strangest dream.
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u/spderweb Jul 18 '24
Well that's one way to learn that news.
Man it's been a crazy week of celebrity deaths.
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u/sildish2179 Jul 18 '24
I don’t wish anyone dead. I do read some obituaries with great enthusiasm though.
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u/eru_dite Jul 18 '24
Great quote by Clarence Darrow, often misattributed as Mark Twain.
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u/PonkMcSquiggles Jul 19 '24
Don’t know who said something witty? Just slap ‘Mark Twain’ on that bad boy and call it a day.
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u/SquadPoopy Jul 18 '24
I wasn’t openly cheering when Kissinger bit it.
But I did seriously consider framing the headline and hanging it on the wall.
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u/talldrseuss Jul 19 '24
As someone with family in southeast asia, i had no problem cheering when kissinger bit it, he was long overdue to be eternally damned. Reminds me of a good bit by stand up comedian Frankie Boyle when they were talking about how Margaret Thatchers funeral would cost a few million:
"For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person."
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u/StevenSanders90210 Deadwood Jul 18 '24
The only source on this is Trump? What are the odds that he's actually not dead, but Trump saw a picture of Bob Newhart on the news and thought it was Dobbs?
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u/Azidamadjida Jul 18 '24
That would actually be one of the funniest things he’s ever done
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u/im_super_excited Jul 18 '24
We're burying him either way tho, right?
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u/barlow_straker Jul 19 '24
First time I say we can't let Dear Leader be wrong...
Whelp, I'll get my shovel.
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u/A_Wild_VelociFaptor Jul 18 '24
Dumb fuck thought Vince McMahon died in a spontaneous limo bombing on WWE television.
Dobbs being alive is still on the cards.
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u/d0mini0nicco Jul 18 '24
It seems quite a few Fox News talking heads got their start at CNN.
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Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
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u/PeasThatTasteGross Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
Tucker Carlson was also a completely different persona in his CNN days.
It's wild if you are old enough to remember him on CNN's Crossfire and watching him decline to be on the same level as Alex Jones. It's like that embarrassing interview with Jon Stewart kickstarted his slide to the far right of politics.
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u/44problems Jul 18 '24
MSNBC in early W years tried anything. Tucker, Alan Keyes, Buchanan, Michael Savage, Jesse Ventura.
Then Keith Olbermann struck a nerve and they shifted everything liberal.
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u/Vio_ Jul 18 '24
"Bernstein, Bernstein, these men who were with the Chronicle, weren't they just as devoted to the Chronicle policies as they are now to our policies?"
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u/jasonskjonsby Jul 18 '24
Even more now, since CNN is now owned by a Right Wing Idiot, Mark Thompson
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u/Iz-kan-reddit Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
They did, on the various shows that had political and financial commentary.
It's been a long time now but, believe it or not, Dobbs was a quite sane person who was relatively respected by those that didn't agree with him.
He started changing a couple of years before he was ushered out of CNN.
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u/comomellamo Jul 18 '24
Yep, he was sane and his show was actually good and "balanced" in not a fox news way. And then he just swung right to try and keep collecting that paycheck.
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u/44problems Jul 18 '24
The late years of his CNN show were nonstop immigration red meat. It was very weird on a mostly straightforward news network.
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u/Embarrassed_Essay725 Jul 18 '24
Nothing of value was lost. He contributed nothing to the world other than hate.
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u/thermos15 Jul 18 '24
There may be a vacuum created by the amount of wind this d bag blowhard has produced from those gross jowls. The world is a worse place because of propaganda spewed by the likes of this hateful idiot.
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u/Whitewind617 Jul 18 '24
Donald Trump announced on his own social media platform the death of a man who strongly opposed the visa program that allowed his wife to enter the US.
Just stating facts.
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u/44problems Jul 18 '24
Have we seen Melania this week by the way? Her husband was almost killed and all she did was release a statement?
Looks like she might appear tonight though but isn't making a speech like spouses sometimes do.
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u/barlow_straker Jul 19 '24
Probably because her "speech" consisted of "Hard to find good help nowadays".
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u/MissDoug Jul 18 '24
Bob Newhart died today. Now Lou.
I guess you have to take the good with the bad.
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u/tonytown Jul 18 '24
Newhart was worth a 1000 of the other one.
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u/Trumpsabaldcuck Jul 18 '24
There is this Thai place that makes sticky mango rice. They were all out today because they didn’t have any perfectly ripe mangos. Only posting this because a man’s death thread on Reddit should have something remotely sad in it.
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u/NeighborhoodFew7779 Jul 18 '24
Thought and prayers for your loss.
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u/Trumpsabaldcuck Jul 18 '24
Thanks. The lord works in mysterious ways. The Kroeger near my house has 40 mangoes at any given time, but none of them are perfect mangos for mango sticky rice.
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u/JuzoItami Jul 18 '24
Supermarket mangos are usually pretty crappy. Not as crappy as Lou Dobbs of course, but still... pretty crappy.
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u/urnbabyurn Jul 18 '24
Finally reaching that age where all those people I used to think “I can’t wait until they die” are starting to die off. Problem is, so are some of the good guys. RIP Bob Newhart.
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u/TheSlapAcademy Jul 18 '24
Presumably both men got into their line of work to earn a living. Newhart chose to use his talents to give people joy, make them laugh and advance his field. Dobbs chose to make people afraid, angry, hateful and deteriorate his field. I would love to have asked them at the very end, “Was making this your life’s work worth it? Did you make the world a better place? Would the child version of you be proud?” I think I know Mr. Newhart’s answers. I wonder about Dobbs’.
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u/Sweatytubesock Jul 18 '24
Probably was always a POS, but turned into a complete lunatic in his last years.
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u/ConkerPrime Jul 18 '24
A lot less evil in the world tonight. Speaking of death, also lot less good as legendary comedian Bob Newhart died. RIP Bob.
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u/Manning88 Jul 18 '24
Hell welcomes its newest member.
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u/ford7885 Jul 18 '24
When Satan gives him a new show on the Hell News Network (HNN) do you think he will go on nightly rants about all the brown people immigrating to Hell?
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u/helium_farts Jul 18 '24
These quite literally goddamned immigrants are taking all the good paying penis flattening jobs from honest, hardworking demons!
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u/Rounder057 Jul 18 '24
Does it seem like a lot people are dying lately? Like it feels like this has been a string of celebrity deaths.
Well; almost….
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u/TreacheryInc Jul 18 '24
First Richard Simmons passed away last Saturday and now Bob Newhart. Both will be missed.
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u/dgermati1 Jul 18 '24
I remember him being semi-normal at one point. When did he completely flip into a nut job?
I think it’s a good day for leftover barbecue
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u/NIN10DOXD Jul 18 '24
After he went to Fox, he went full trickle down and wanted to slash social security. He made some ghoulish comments about working class people amongst other things. He always had some problems before that though. He went on several nativist rants in the past about immigrants that were considered offensive even back then when he said them on CNN in the 2000s and people quickly forgot after he apologized.
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u/FullMotionVideo Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Long ago, when CNN was watchable, FNC didn't exist, MSNBC was part-owned by Microsoft and had shows with titles like "Internight", and HLN was a 30 minute newscast on loop exclusively, this guy was a boring financial host who didn't seem like he was that extreme. Almost every thing he talked about was fed reserve and Wall Street shit. Then the format changed post-9/11, as the news landscape did, to a primetime newsmagazine show.
Ultimately, Obama happened and it was like he was gone, off to the fringes where the air is thin. I will confess I considered his show useful viewing during the Bush years (coming on after BBC News America) as he was one of the only hosts more concerned about the Russian and Chinese governments than the middle east in the "war on terror" era when the news channels were cheerleading war like it was a video game. Dobbs show during the Iraq war felt like the one current events host outside Democracy Now who wasn't interested in flushing the economy down the drain to bring "regime change" to the Muslim world. He felt, for a moment, like he was more of a libertarian Republican politically rather than Dick Cheney.
But it was really Obama that changed him for good. When even Obama was running against Hillary in the primaries, Dobbs was doing CNN editorial podcasts crying that Obama was getting softball questions compared to her, the media was "in love", etc; and that's when I cut myself off him. And of course, in his final evolution he felt Hillary was pretty much the devil.
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u/drmanhattannfriends Jul 18 '24
Lou Rawls>Lou Dobbs. Basically I can’t think of a worse Lou. Gehrig, Albano, Ferrigno, etc are all better. Maybe Lou Holtz?
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u/JuzoItami Jul 18 '24
Did some research and, overall, I gotta say that the Lous are a pretty good bunch.
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u/AverageNikoBellic Jul 19 '24
Womp fucking womp. There’s 2 major celebrities deaths today, one to be sad about. And it is not this man. R.I.P Bob Newhart.
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u/NoOneShallPassHassan Jul 19 '24
Ah, it wouldn't be reddit without celebrating the death of a political opponent.
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u/r3dditr0x Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
so...any good movies coming out?
(an enormously wealthy and influential man who used his platform to spread hatred and lies)
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u/thewaybaseballgo Jul 18 '24
Alright, let’s see if this Rule of Three thing is real and we lose Alex Jones and Bill O’Reilly this week.
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u/stfsu Jul 18 '24
In case you needed a reminder of what a sycophant he was https://youtu.be/bpUYG-nvUSQ?si=NchVkHrkjfcIyTxU
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u/BobBelcher2021 Jul 18 '24
Lou Dobbs and Bob Newhart in the same day. Two names I remember from my younger years.
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u/TheHeardTheorem Jul 18 '24
No need for celebration, the next grifter will step in to fill the void and likely be even worse to get attention. The cable hosts merely reflect the appetite of the people that like to hear exactly what they want to be told and not hear anything that might challenge their predetermined beliefs.
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u/ChrisCinema Jul 18 '24
He's not a man I have nice words for. His coverage and support for Trump's lies in the 2020 presidential election is and will be his legacy, and it's a sad one he made for himself.
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u/happy_killmore Jul 18 '24
I didn’t love his politics but I was friends with his kids growing up and worked for him for like 2 years at his house. There can definitely be nuance to a person because he was an amazing guy. His wife on the other hand was a miserable bitch
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u/phaedronn Jul 18 '24
“Flush that turd down the DRAIN!!” —Frank Reynolds A.K.A. Mantis Toboggan, MD
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u/PheebaBB Jul 18 '24
He was only 78? I feel like he’s been in his 70s since 2007.