http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0908/The_Dobbs_convention.html
Not yet convention'd out? CNN announced today that there's another political convention on the horizon: The Lou Dobbs Tonight Independent Convention.
It starts next week, and will "focus on election-oriented topics from an independent perspective not traditionally the focus of the Democrats or Republicans," according to the release, after the jump.
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CNN’s Lou Dobbs Hosts First-Ever Televised Convention of Independents
Lou Dobbs Tonight Independent Convention Convenes Next Week with Independent Focus on Issues
In the wake of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, CNN’s Lou Dobbs will host the first-ever televised independent convention. Lou Dobbs Tonight Independent Convention airs throughout the week of Sept. 8 to focus on election-oriented topics from an independent perspective not traditionally the focus of the Democrats or Republicans.
Independent Convention, which airs during the regularly scheduled Lou Dobbs Tonight timeslot from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. (ET), originates from New York on Monday, Sept. 8, and Tuesday, Sept. 9, and then from Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 10, and Thursday, Sept. 11. The television event concludes on Friday, Sept. 12, with a rally at Freedom High School in South Riding, Va.
The programming schedule with guests and topics include:
Monday, Sept. 8 – “Broken Government and Lobbying/Media Madness” with guests including journalist Ken Auletta; Michael Goodwin, a reporter with the New York Daily News; Howard Kurtz, media critic for The Washington Post; Paul Light, author of A Government Ill Executed; and Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman.
Tuesday, Sept. 9 – “Energy/God and Politics/Debtor Nation” with guests including Pat Choate, author of Dangerous Business and former Reform Party vice president candidate; Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition.; the Rev. John Paris of Boston College; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; T. Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of BP Capital Management; and David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general.
Wednesday, Sept. 10 – “Illegal Immigration” with guests including Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas); Jeff Frederick, chairman of the Republican Party in Virginia; Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.); Joe Madison of XM Radio; and Chris Plante of WMAL-AM in Washington, D.C.
Thursday, Sept. 11 – “Foreign Policy and Independent Candidates” with guests including Fouad Ajami, professor of Middle Eastern studies at Johns Hopkins University; Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power; Bob Barr, Libertarian Party presidential candidate; Ralph Nader, Independent Party presidential candidate; and Bing West, former assistant defense secretary;
Friday, Sept. 12 – “Education and Wrap-up” with guests including Truett Abbott, principal of Warren County Middle School in Georgia; Michael Goodwin, a New York Daily News reporter; Sharon Johnson, principal of Withrow University High School in Cincinnati, Ohio; Susan Neuman, architect of No Child Left Behind; urban sociologist Pedro Noguera; Republican strategist Ed Rollins; Christopher Swanson, supervisor of National Drop Out Rate Report; and Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman.
CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.
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I dunno what it means for The Revolution, but I would think that Independents would be ripe for the picking. More so than the Party Loyalists anyway. Might be prudent to see whats on their mind, or at the very least, look on in amusement as the mainstream media tries to box in and pigeon hole independent voters, who boast greater differences in their ideology from one voter to the next then the the two parties have between them. Starts today.
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What? No Chuck Baldwin? Who better to talk to about immigration, something Dobbs and Baldwin generally agree on?
Dobbs was the only reporter who had the gall to report on NAU. And he is particularly damning of the "establishment press."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqPLUYjnYzI
I will give him that, but he's just dead wrong on absolutely everything else. Even his stance on the NAU is rooted in his obvious worship of democracy, as he repeatedly refers to the fact that the NAU is being pursued without congressional approval. He implies - and I believe that this is just his own shallow understanding of liberty and our founding principles - that if congress voted for this move and it generally represented the will of the majority that it would be ok. He has no conception of individual rights, especially property rights, which he calls out for the government to violate on every one of his shows. He is just a populist blowhard that doesn't have the philosophical understanding to back up the self-righteous attitude that he takes, and I believe a lot of gullible people become supportive of his horrible "solutions" because they don't understand the issues either (although they are not holding themselves up like authorities as he is).
Hating might be a strong word, but fear someone will listen to him is more like it. :)
Tom Mullen
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God" - Thomas Jefferson
Lou constantly tries to market himself as a champion of the people, while all he offers is his socialism over the socialism of the present government. It isn't any more palatable than when Hitler did it, although it is just as attractive to the gullible.
Tom Mullen
www.tommullen.net
www.myspace.com/skepticsongs
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God" - Thomas Jefferson
Agreed. I watched Lou Dobbs a few times, but he was a big proponent of the housing bailout. It was always "why isn't the government doing something more to help these poor people losing their homes." He claims to be "independent", but he just wants bigger government. That doesn't seem very independent to me. To me being independent means taking care of yourself, not relying on the government (i.e. your fellow taxpayers).
I'd much rather watch Glenn Beck. He has been the only one covering the bailouts fairly without all of the propaganda. He's had Ron Paul on a lot too.
Glenn Beck is a warmonger, but he's anti-FED
Keith Olbermann is a socialist, but he's anti-WAR
Maybe there'll be someone with both good qualities become popular on the MSM
Ya Know, I don't like Lou Dobbs very much. He's a little too authoritarian for my taste. And his views on Immigration are a little extreme for me. From a Libertarian perspective, I sympathize with the open borders crowd. I don't want some government telling me what country I can and can't live in.