I Turned off CNN because of Lou Dobbs

Bubba is always giving me a hard time about watching Communist Cable News (CNN). Bubba of course watches only FOX News Network.  He is especially happy about our local affiliate Fox Channel now doing a live full hour of local news three times a day.

He was so excited he called the other morning to have me watch. Sure enough, an hour of live local news with two anchors, a black man and an Hispanic woman! Cool. Wait, there are three hosts it seems. Who is that guy in the chair on the left there? Oh, that's Congressman Ted Poe. A very very conservative Republican who has a locked seat in the House of Representatives for Northeast Houston. What's going on? Gosh, they present a story and after each clip they ask Ted Poe to comment and give his opinion. There! They did it again! Hey, they are doing this for the whole show here. They read the news, do the video and then have a right-wing lunatic interpret it for them.  I guess Blacks and Hispanics are not smart enough to figure out what's going on themselves. No exaggeration, this is really happening on KRIV here in Houston this morning.

Got sidetracked there. So anyway, Bubba heard that MSNBC was the even more communist and Marxist than CNN. It was not hard for me to make the switch, even after 20 years.

Lou Dobbs has been wearing me out. It became physical because when I saw him I would pretend to put him in a head lock and then smash him in the teeth until a family member would poke me with a stick to snap me out of it. I wrote a nice email and a snail mail to CNN management to explain they lost a long time fan because of Lou Dobbs.

Thus far the switch has been fine. It seems I have exchanged Lou Dobbs for Pat Buchanan. It seems Pat is always on in the morning with Joe Scarborough, and quite often in the afternoons with Chris Mathews.

I have been a anti fan of Mr. Buchanan for most of my life, though he never really pissed me off about anything. Sure he is a bigot and a racist and an anti-semetic but so are most people, and besides, he has a sense of humor and an easy ability to laugh at himself. I wouldn't vote for him but I would do shots with him.

Maybe I tolerate him because he is a Christian Bigot, which being in Texas so long leads me to believe is better than being a Secular Bigot like Lou Dobbs. Lou Dobbs who has no sense of humor and his independence - he was a registered Republican until he switched to Independent in 2006 to gain share - is fading fast as it looks like Barack Obama is NOT going to declare war on Mexico. And China... And Canada...  Fences all around! I wonder if the China fence will go along our West coast or their East coast?  I will have to call Bubba on that, he will know.