Lou Dobbs

American conservative political commentator

Photo by: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Born:September 24, 1945

Died:July 18, 2024

Age at death:78

Zodiac Sign:Libra

Children:4

Born in:Childress, United States

Residence:Wantage Township, United States

Languages:English

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Horatio Alger AwardLifetime Achievement Emmy

Lou Dobbs

American conservative political commentator

Biography

Louis Carl Dobbs (September 24, 1945 – July 18, 2024) was an American conservative political commentator, author, and television host who presented Moneyline (later Lou Dobbs Tonight) from 1980 to 2009 and 2011 to 2021. From 2021 until his death, he hosted The Great America Show on iHeartRadio and loudobbs.com. Dobbs started working with CNN at its inception in 1980, serving as a reporter and network vice president. On the air, he served as host and managing editor of the network's business program, Moneyline, which premiered in 1980. Dobbs resigned from CNN in 1999 but rejoined the network in 2001. The show was renamed Lou Dobbs Tonight in 2003. He resigned once again in November 2009. He was the former talk radio host of Lou Dobbs Radio. From 2011, he hosted Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network until the network cancelled it in February 2021. Dobbs was an early promoter of birtherism, the unfounded accusation that former U.S. President Barack Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen. He was known for anti-illegal immigration views, as well as for opposition to NAFTA and other trade deals. A staunch supporter of Donald Trump, he infused his show with pro-Trump coverage. He was one of three Fox Corporation program hosts named in a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit by Smartmatic relating to conspiracy theories used in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. Dobbs was among the hosts named in the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network defamation lawsuit for broadcasting false statements about the plaintiff company's voting machines that Fox News settled for $787.5 million and required Fox News to acknowledge that the broadcast statements were false.

This biography uses content from the Wikipedia article “Lou Dobbs”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Quotes

“This is nothing but a political persecution. It`s not even an investigation. This is purely and straightforwardly an assault. I want to talk about what these lazy, indolent, passive son of a guns can do on a declaration of war against the radical dems against the president and the American republic.”

— 5 March 2019

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Photos

Lou Dobbs speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.

Lou Dobbs speaking at CPAC 2015 in Washington, DC.

Lou Dobbs speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.

Rep. Tancredo introduces Lou Dobbs for the 2004 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration during a luncheon at the University Club in New York City, NY on June 11, 2004.

Lou Dobbs at the 2008 Christian Right Values Voter Conferencer in Washington, DC

Louis Carl Dobbs, aka Lou Dobbs, is an American television commentator, author, conspiracy theorist, anti-immigration advocate, radio show host, and the anchor of Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business Network. This caricature of Lou Dobbs was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream.