Forget Political Fallacies: O'Reilly Brings in Dobbs to Talk Theology, Asks If Obama Is "the Devil"

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by Jeffrey Joseph

Few people would wonder why Lou Dobbs ended up off of CNN's nightly lineup, but who would have thought his post-CNN interviews would make him appear reasonable?  It would take someone asking questions so outrageous and unreasonable that the furiously conservative beliefs espoused by Dobbs would come across as sensible.  Fortunately for Dobbs, FOX News has no paucity of such extreme characters, and this time, Bill O'Reilly, the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week, took the lead to help make Dobbs look better.

In an interview shortly after Dobbs departed from CNN, Bill O'Reilly had an early opportunity to inquire about Dobbs's reasons for leaving CNN, including bits where O'Reilly clearly tries to bait Dobbs into complaining about the "liberal management" at CNN that O'Reilly felt ran Dobbs away.  Dobbs, however, managed to evade those traps and actually spoke well of Joe Klein and other members of CNN management.  Dobbs even goes so far as to partly blame himself for their ratings decline since he was a part of the lineup, a distant cry from the sensationalist interview O'Reilly had hoped to have.  By the end, O'Reilly could hold back no more and decided to make the interview less about politics and more about theology.

O'Reilly:  Final question.  Barack Obama--is he the Devil?

Dobbs, unfazed, quickly answered no, then went on to complain about how he nonetheless could not understand Obama's policy decisions.  How does asking such a ludicrous question of the legally elected leader of the nation fit in the news?  Clearly, it would only work on a network with someone as out there as Bill O'Reilly trying to convey his opinions as political, and apparently theological, facts.  Then again, O'Reilly fancies himself the self-appointed guardian of Christmas, so his veering into that arena may well be expected.  Making Dobbs, in contrast, look sensible is not.

FOX News continues to provide America with the undue vitriol that only its hosts can afford.  When someone dismissed from CNN for "advocacy journalism" makes a trip to FOX, he appears to be a relative paragon of journalistic integrity.  All the more reason that FOX News, like Lou Dobbs, probably does not deserve to be seen on TV any longer.

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