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Lou Dobbs, Trump whisperer: President’s media mirror is also an adviser

Veteran Fox Business host was a Trumper before Trump was. Now he reportedly calls in to White House meetings

Heather Digby Parton 04.03.2018•10:10 PM

Anyone who's been observing American politics for any length of time will be familiar with the right-wing charge that the media has a liberal bias that makes it impossible for conservatives to get a fair shake. This has been around for decades, going back to speechwriter William Safire's famous screed against the "nattering nabobs of negativism" (written for Richard Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew) and backed up by studies showing that most journalists tend to vote Democratic, while ignoring the fact that most media companies are owned or run by wealthy conservatives. There are library shelves full of books on this subject on both sides of the argument.

As should be obvious, this is actually a clever political strategy deployed by cynical GOP operatives. Back in the 1990s, a powerful Republican official named of Rich Bond spilled the beans: This was really an effort to bully the press into trying to appease conservatives, thereby creating a rightward slant by default. He told journalists:

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These days, aside from his usual impassioned nativism, Dobbs is obsessed with the "deep state" and believes it's "time to declare war" on the FBI and the Justice Department to "clear out the rot." In his supposed view, those federal agencies "have broken the public trust by destroying evidence, defying oversight and actively trying to bring down the Trump presidency." His obsequious fawning over the president is more over-the-top than a teenage fangirl backstage at a Harry Styles concert. It's embarrassing.

According to Tani and Suebsaeng, Trump sees Dobbs as more than just a fan and an adviser:

https://www.salon.com/2018/04/03/lou-dobbs-trump-whisperer-presidents-media-mirror-is-also-an-adviser/

According to that one Dobbs is much more than a panderer. Thanks, i know him better now..