Newsweek senior editor Jerry Adler on Thursday posted a bizarre poem on the publication’s website, mocking Lou Dobbs for leaving CNN and insinuating that the cable anchor might be crazy: "So wily Lou has picked the locks That kept him in his padded box And tiptoed off, in just his socks." [Punctuation original to the poem.]
Adler, whose poem reads like a cross between Dr. Seuss and Calvin Trillin, also trashed Dobbs and his viewers for opposing illegal immigration: "A network just for frat-boy jocks? Where aliens are put in stocks And viewers pelt them with big rocks Before each half-time show?" [Emphasis added.] He concluded by speculating on Dobbs’ future: "Could it be UPN, or Cox? They’d have to open up Fort Knox We know Lou’s crazy, like a Fox."
In addition to composing poetry, Adler also famously made this pronouncement about the environment on December 31, 1990: "It's a morbid observation, but if everyone on Earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."
On December 20, 1993, the Newsweek editor provided this insight into the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers accused of murdering their parents: "Handsome, but vulnerable enough to cry on the witness stand; rich, but facing an early death in the gas chamber, 25-year-old Lyle and his 23-year-old brother are the prototypical defendants of the Age of Recovery: people who kill as a cry for help." So, Adler is tougher on Dobbs than he is on two murderers?
The entire poem can be read here. [Photo credit: Newsweek.com bio page.]
—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.
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What is the point of the
November 12, 2009 - 12:55 ET by mattmWhat is the point of the existence of Newsweak? They've gone far beyond mere liberal bias and have entered the realm of the insane.
if everyone on Earth just
November 12, 2009 - 13:02 ET by notonmywatchif everyone on Earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.
And these ARE the kooks leading the left!
Most people voting democrat don't realize how insane these people are.
Because it's not reported to them...
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If this clown really has the guts.......
November 13, 2009 - 10:36 ET by Patriot III think he should practice what he preaches.....stop breathing and they can put a monitor next to him and see if it really helps the gases after 30 minute......but then of course.....he is such a gasbag...it would be at inappropriately high numbers lol......pondscum, no end to them!
Newsweak is circling the drain in a death spiral
November 12, 2009 - 13:05 ET by OxyConLayoffs at Newsweek
Newsweek editor Jon Meacham informed staff today that about a dozen positions would be eliminated due to the "economic climate in publishing."
Meacham, in a memo obtained by POLITICO, noted that the magazine has taken a different direction this year, and despite the layoffs claimed that it "continues to appear promising in terms of building and retaining an engaged audience that we hope will be attractive to advertisers."
Have liberals found the
November 12, 2009 - 13:08 ET by BKeyserHave liberals found the Fountain of Youth? because they never seem to grow up...
Can I get some bass, please? (and turn it up)
November 12, 2009 - 13:19 ET by Franksam(Start the beat here) Jerry Adler, Yo, yo , yo cuz y'know I'm so down wit you bro that if people are hungry and dying of thirst the world would be better off if you'd go first.
Please, stop breathing, you're using up my oxygen.
with love,
Franksam
→ Tighten up on that Organ
November 12, 2009 - 13:20 ET by Cool ArrowBoom Boom ba Boom Boom Ba Boom
Boom Ba Boom Boom Boom
Cool arrow
November 12, 2009 - 13:24 ET by FranksamAnd you know that's what I'm talkin' about.
→ Obamsta' Paradise
November 12, 2009 - 13:29 ET by Cool ArrowYou ain't never lied.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Cool
November 12, 2009 - 13:41 ET by FranksamThat's why 'frank' is only an adjective.
Wow, that was MAYBE third
November 12, 2009 - 13:30 ET by Six String SpiffWow, that was MAYBE third grade level poetry.
What an ass hat. Of course, maybe that's what happenswhen you realize the light at the end of the tunnel is only whats coming in from the sewer grate.
Newsweek, give it up. Have some dignity and quit before you are forced to shrink your mag even MORE.
Putz
Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range At 0800 Daily.
"The Economic Climate in
November 12, 2009 - 13:34 ET by Six String Spiff"The Economic Climate in Publishing"?!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Oh please, there's no need for fancy words when you can use simple terminology such as: "Nobody reads your sh*t anymore"
Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range At 0800 Daily.
If every liberal, communist
November 12, 2009 - 13:36 ET by ForeverOnTheRightIf every liberal, communist and socialist stoped breathing for an hour a lot more than the greenhouse effect would be solved. (Being sarcastic, I am not wishing that liberals would die, just wake up to there foolishness, they'd become concervatives. What a nice thought I think I will stay with that.)
My response...
November 12, 2009 - 14:12 ET by c5then"It's a morbid observation, but if everyone on Earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."
OK...You go first.
Throw 'da bums out!!!
Before it's too late.
www.loyaltoliberty.com
Breaking News!!!
November 12, 2009 - 14:16 ET by kengieThis just released...CNN had fired Lou Dobbs because he could not produce his birth certificate!
"Mexicans make better lovers!" ~ Lou Dobbs
wow, stone-stupid AND racist. A winning combo there
November 12, 2009 - 14:34 ET by SickofLibswow, stone-stupid AND racist. A winning combo there
WIth such a high inventory...
November 12, 2009 - 14:56 ET by dmntd1Why do we need to keep any more illegal aliens on stock? There are millions more, all we have to do is 'open the door' and they'll flood in.
WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare,
Wow, what does a poem have
November 12, 2009 - 16:02 ET by Mitchell BlattWow, what does a poem have to do with news coverage? Especially a poem about nothing. It doesn't relate in but a miniscule way to Mr. Dobbs-ermann. (And if he wanted to slam him, he should have taken on his anti-free trade views.)
Every lib media person with just 5 daily readers always has to take out their rage on successful people in ways that just remind us of why they are unsuccessful.
I bet this silly Lib writes
November 12, 2009 - 16:48 ET by bse5150I bet this silly Lib writes love poems to Obama and MEchelle all the time.
That was him, huh? I
November 12, 2009 - 18:43 ET by SlyrrThat was him, huh? I remember him saying that stupid thing about the greenhouse effect and humans breathing.
I also note that he hasn't tried it himself. Let's see him do that, he thinks it's so great...
I Once Heard Michael Medved Refer To Him As "Loon Dogs"...
November 12, 2009 - 23:20 ET by The7SticksSee, Medved has utter contempt for those who propagate the story that the borders between the United States. Mexico and Canada will be dissolved into some so-called "North American Union". Basically that's why he despises WorldNutDaily (I despise it for other reasons), but he also attacked Lou Dobbs for following this story as if it was a serious piece of journalism. And this was back during the Bush administration.