{"id":1936,"date":"2009-08-05T00:42:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2017-04-03T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:40:07","slug":"confession-i-worked-for-birther-lou-dobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/confession-i-worked-for-birther-lou-dobbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession: I Worked for “Birther” Lover Lou Dobbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately, immigrant-hating<\/a> CNN maniac Lou Dobbs<\/a> is getting a lot of publicity<\/a> for giving airtime to “birthers<\/a>” — people who are convinced by the aliens who control their minds via chips installed during anal probes that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, instead of Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Some of you know that before I was a jewelry designer, I was a journalist for, among other places, CNN<\/a>. But I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned that my boss at CNN was Lou Dobbs, who was a serious financial journalist at the time. He was insane even then, mind you, but he was able to maintain the appearance of semi-normalcy on the air. Sometimes. While I was at CNN, I used to joke with MrB (who has long known Lou professionally) that I was going to write a roman a clef<\/em> about my crap job and name the boss something totally unrecognizable like … oh, I don’t know … “Boo Lobbs.”<\/p>\n

Even as Boo Lobbs became increasingly crazy over the past few years, I refrained from saying anything about him for several reasons:<\/p>\n