Dobbs is just one more in a long line of ranters. He, like every other liberal on the planet, plays the blame game. According to Dobbs that blame nearly always lands on a Republican.

I don't take him seriously. Evidently I'm not the only one. CNN's ratings are dropping faster that Congresses approval ratings.

Lou Dobbs is a typical no-talent journalist trying to get ratings by acting angry.  If you watch his show for more than five minutes (which is very difficult for anyone with more than a high school education) you'll see that he doesn't understand much about business or government.  Rather than admit his own ignorance, he lashes out in anger and calls things "stupid," "dumb," "ridiculous," "outrageous," "irresponsible," etc. This is the same technique Olbermann uses to get ratings.

Like Olbermann, Dobbs's only appeal is to others who are equally ignorant who look to him to get angry about topics that they also don't understand.  In their minds, anything they don't understand must be "stupid."

"You have no idea how vulnerable you are."

Wow. You can see that brilliant ray of enlightenment shining out from their words in the air.

Yeah. Life is risky. Crossing the street isn't 100% safe, no matter how many federal agencies we can have.

Sorry, Lou. We can't have a federal bureaucrat be in your kitchen and wash your food for you. The bureaucrat can't make sure that your food is cooked to an acceptable temperature. He can't dispose spoiled food for you, Lou. Guess what? IT IS UP TO YOU!!

Moron.

Why should we expect the CDC or the FDA be any more competent at what they do then say our Intelligence agencies, the State Department, the Congress, FEMA, or the ego maniacs at the Pentagon.  And the fact that this outbreak has impacted 1000 people out of 300 million demostrates the absurdity of our angst and what the bureaucrats instigated w/their alarms.  I'm willing to bet there are ten's of thousands of our citizens that get a fairly good upset stomach from eating anything on any particular day, and we rightfully couldn't care less as to the cause.  Maybe the more important need is to understand why we, as a society, overreact to these incidents to the point of destroying tons of perfectly healthy food and causing economic alarm and harm to a segment of our farm community, without sufficient evidence of what the problem is.  I'm certain we're all willing to be patient with the CDC and FDA to track down the culprit, unless of course, you're tomatoe farmer and your harvest has been completely obliterated by this entire episode.    

1. The sky is blue.

2. Dogs bark.

3. The Pope is Catholic.

4. Bears s=== in the woods.

Jimmy Carter neglected the military by allowing equipment to decay and stagnating the pay of soldiers, sailors, and Marines. Training lagged during his administration. It resulted in debacles like the botched hostage rescue attempt in Iran.

If President Obama does the same thing, will Lou Dobbs demand his impeachment? Does Lou think that the FDA is more important than the Department of Defense?

Who would've thought that a federal agency could be incompetent and inefficient? How could that happen?

I know people who want to nationalize the oil industry and let the federal government run the refineries. Can you imagine that nightmare?

Dobbs is just being childish. Let's look at the "journalism" going on here. Look at the transcript of the original CNN report. Louise Schiavone reported that the CDC didn’t know where the outbreak originated. The CDC was worried that it may have begun in Mexico. OK, until this point, it’s a reasonable and factual news report.

• But let’s be clear. Schiavone acknowledged that the US doesn’t know where the outbreak originated. It may have been Mexico, but it may have been California or Guam, for that matter. They don’t know. For all their suspicions, at this moment, the US has no proof that it came from Mexico.

• If you arrogantly start pointing fingers, the Mexicans are going to resent it, and you can kiss any further cooperation from them goodbye. And if the disease does come from Mexico, where the US has no jurisdiction, you’re going to need that cooperation. So, until you have solid proof, the responsible thing to do is keep your mouth shut.

But watch how Schiavone tries to slip past all that. She continues her report by quoting “one food safety expert in academia.”

• Wait a minute! For all we know, this expert in academia is an adjunct instructor from the local community college.

• “Academia” is a weasel word for just about any kind of school. Maybe he spent some time at McDonald’s, maybe even at Hamburger University.

Schiavone slips this person into her report, even though he may (very likely) have zero first-hand knowledge of this case. But she sure runs with his quote, doesn’t she?  

“And one food safety expert in academia says it's still fair to wonder what's going on, whether or not Mexico has the science. This academic said to me one man's science is another man's non-tariff trade barrier.”

Note very carefully … this shadowy expert from academia is the source for the speculation that the FDA is refusing to investigate for fear of offending the Mexicans. Schiavone’s whole report is based on this expert’s quote. On this flimsiest of “evidence,” Schiavone claims that the Mexicans are worried about their self-image.

Here's where Dobbs comes in, throwing caution and logic to the wind. Dobbs leaps on the idea that the Mexicans are worried about their self-image. In a self-serving display of non sequitur, he “connects the dots” (incorrectly, of course). He supplies the premise that the reason the FDA isn’t protecting us is that they’re more worried about Mexican feelings than the safety of the American consumer. And from there, he’s off to the races.

For the sake of proving his moral rectitude, Dobbs seized a thin report, added his own biases and presumptions, and turned it into a petulant tantrum. Deliberation took a holiday here. Aren't there any adults on CNN?

This is what I have been saying about Lou Dobbs for years, and even during his passionate opposition to the amnesty bill; Lou Dobbs is just another nanny state supporter! The only thing the government is really good at is picking your pockets every time you earn a dime, so why would they be able to isolate the casue of this salmonella poisoning in a flash?

This rant shows just how stupid the left can be. They have fooled themselves into believing that the government is some super efficient entity that can automatically solve all of our problems, and they get pissed off when it works the way it works. But instead of addressing the inefficiency of the government, they rail against the sitting administration.

CNN's Dobbs: Many Government Agencies 'Disappointingly Incompetent'

For all their troubles I still have more faith in the FDA than I have in a Congress controlled by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and their minions. 9% approval and dropping.

Nevertheless, the perfectly clear subtext of the MSM is that our real problems (e.g., dependency on foreign oil) and imaginary problems (e.g., the recession 'that we have been in for months now') will go away with George W. Bush. And there is something to this. Any bets that, once Obama is elected, the skies will not clear, and whatever problems remain, according to what the MSM deigns to report, will not have a silver lining?

This is exactly what happened to the highly distorted homelessness problem once Clinton was elected.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.