If it was McCain or Palen that did not have a birth certificate for this country the left wing would be the racists to complain about it, I guess

Media Matters had paid for this ad to run for a week on (of all places) "The Lou Dobbs Show" on CNN, as well as on FOX and MSNBC

I agree! How dare Lou Dobbs exercise freedom of thought and expression!! Off to the Gulag with him!

This is swiftboating all over again! I agree with Bill Maher, it now time to ask for Sarah Palin's High School diploma.

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Attack ads are usually aimed at politicians-not anymore. This ad from Media Matters slams Lou Dobbs for his involvement in the "Birthers" movement and will run on several major networks-including CNN.

From AP:He's become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network's "no bias" brand. And on top of all that, his ratings are slipping. How does Lou Dobbs keep his job? It's not a simple answer. CNN insists it is standing behind Dobbs, despite calls for his head from critics of his reporting on "birthers" — those who believe President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States despite convincing evidence to the contrary. The "birthers" believe Obama was born in Kenya, and thus not eligible to be president. Dobbs' work has been so unpopular that even Ann Coulter has criticized him.From Media Matters, soon to be airing on CNN (and MSNBC and FOX): I keep wondering how Dobbs' CNN colleagues feel about the damage he's inflicting on them. What's it like for Anderson Cooper and Soledad O'Brien and Rick Sanchez and Wolf Blitzer and John King and Dana Bash and Campbell Brown and Don Lemon and the others to work with such a hate-mongering racist?

Recently, CNN host Lou Dobbs joined the ranks of the birther movement, demanding that President Obama release his birth certificate to prove that he was born in the United States. Although CNN President Jon Klein originally told Dobbs to stop pursuing a “dead” story, he later backed off, telling the Washington Post that Dobbs’ critics are [...]