Lou Dobbs Is About To Get Glenn Beck’ed

Media Matters and other organizations have joined together to ask advertisers to boycott Lou Dobbs’s 7pmET CNN show. Sound familiar?

The success of the Glenn Beck campaign is certainly up for interpretation, and the timing of this Dobbs boycott seems a bit strange – but here’s the rundown.

Media Matters writes about the DropDobbs.com site, which is a partnership between Media Matters, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Hispanic Media Coalition and more. The crux of the argument for ‘dropping Dobbs’ is summed up in a YouTube video (below), which shows the historical lineage of suspect Dobbs statements. But it also shows the entire campaign isn’t particularly timely.

It’s been more than a month since Dobbs was last making headlines for his ‘birther’ discussions, but those were mainly on radio anyway. The video, and the campaign, goes back years to find all his comments on illegal immigrants and more. So why now?

Well there’s this, from Media Matters:

The hugely successful Glenn Beck advertiser boycott currently under way shows how effective this kind of coordinated pressure can be. In just a matter of weeks, 62 companies have dropped Beck, costing the program 50 percent of its ad dollars. Companies simply don’t want to be associated with Beck’s on-air hate speech. They should feel the same way about Dobbs.

We wrote yesterday that the numbers seem greatly exaggerated, and the campaign has been far less successful in hurting Fox News financially. Still, it has raised awareness, and the media (the ‘liberal’ media, for those who like to use the term) has picked up the story every step of the way. In some ways, successful or not, ColorOfChange has become a household name now – which could be considered a success on some level as well.

Here’s Media Matters video:

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