Lou Dobbs, the man who spent 29 years at CNN most notably combing over his hair and yelling at immigrants, has left the news network abruptly this week.   Supposedly the split is on good terms.

Story From AP (Courtesy of Yahoo! News):

NEW YORK – Lou Dobbs says he doesn’t feel like he was pushed out of CNN, the news organization where he worked for all but two years of its existence until last Wednesday.

“Not at all,” he said in a weekend interview. “I don’t know if people will believe it, but we had a very amicable parting on the best of terms. I spent 29 years there building that company, and I wish everyone there nothing but the best, and they have reciprocated with me.”

He announced his resignation on “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” finished the newscast and walked out of CNN.

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CNN has tried to promote an unbiased approach to establish a middle ground between opinionated hosts on Fox News Channel and MSNBC. Dobbs was quickly replaced by John King, the straightforward political reporter who used to work for The Associated Press.

Dobbs’ next plans also include discussions with the people who disagreed with him (mainly Latinos):

He said he’s eager to meet with some of the groups that have criticized him. Most prominent are Latino organizations that had contended his anti-illegal immigration stance was insulting and encouraged an atmosphere of prejudice.

“This has been an orchestrated campaign of both distortion and outright propaganda for the purpose of the open border and unconditional amnesty agenda,” Dobbs said. “That’s politics. I understand that. But I’m going to reach out to everyone with whom I’ve had a disagreement and see if there’s a way in which we can calmly and dispassionately discuss our differences and talk about solutions.”

Roberto Lovato, whose Presente.org group helped organize the anti-Dobbs petition effort, said Dobbs has called him a “flea,” a “bozo” and a “nonentity” on his radio show. He declined an opportunity to face off with Dobbs on his turf, the radio program, and said he wouldn’t be on Dobbs’ CNN show unless Klein also appeared. It didn’t happen.

Calmly and dispassionately.  Right.  Dobbs called this guy a “flea” !  A FUCKING FLEA!  This is gonna be a SHOWDOWN!  Old-school vs. new-school, conservative vs. liberal, yelling over each other tooth-and-nail the whole time!  A quarrel this contentious clearly needs to be scheduled and broadcast for the country to see on a prime-time news network.  FOX?  No they’re too conservatively biased.  MSNBC?  No they’re too liberally biased.  Maybe a more centrist network could do it if there was one.

***Credit to D-Mex.  You know why.