Lou Dobbs Ratings in Downward Spiral Due to Birther Controversy about President Obama's Birth Citizenship

CNN's Lou Dobbs, idiot extraordinaire, is seeing the effects of his ridiculous rants about President Obama's citizenship. His ratings are falling and I hope CNN chief Jon Klein will get the message that viewers don't want to hear that BS. This "birther" madness needs to stop because it is nothing but a huge lie and a distraction. You will recall that Klein, after initially attempting to put Dobbs in check in  an email that read, "It seems this story is dead- because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef." Yeah, but the drama continued as Lou Dobbs dug himself into a deeper hole, much like Glenn Beck, that idiot on Fox News, who said President Obama, a bi-racial man, was racist. This past week, Klein, on a panel discussion at the Television Critics Association press tour, argued that Dobbs was beyond his control so long as he was using the forum of his radio show. Right. Now The New York Observer's Felix Gillette crunches the numbers, and Dobbs is swallowing a really bitter pill.

Mr. Dobbs' first began reporting on Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories on the night of Wednesday, July 15. In the roughly two weeks since then, from July 15 through July 28, Mr. Dobbs' 7 p.m. show on CNN has averaged 653,000 total viewers and 157,000 in the 25-54 demo.

By contrast, during the first two weeks of the month (July 1 to July 14) Mr. Dobbs averaged 771,000 total viewers and 218,000 in the 25-54 demo. In other words, Mr. Dobbs' audience has decreased 15 percent in total viewers and 27 percent in the demo since the start of the controversy. Source: NY Observer

Good, let Dobbs keep digging himself and CNN into a deeper hole. Several liberal media watchdog groups, including Media Matters and MoveOn.org, the Southern Poverty Law Center have petitioned CNN to fire Mr. Dobbs for repeatedly providing a forum to conspiracy theorists who believe, against all evidence, that the president was not born in the United States. There are so many more important issues that Dobbs could use his show to discuss, but he decided to get down in the muck with the extremists and some Republicans to keep this ridiculous side show going.  I would hope Mr. Dobbs will come to the realization that he isn't indispensable and he isn't the moral compass of the United States of America.