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Lou Dobbs, Former Fox Business Host and Trump Booster, Dies at 78

From New York Times

He used his platforms on CNN and Fox Business to share baseless conspiracy theories. His tenure at Fox ended after the network was sued for defamation over claims of voting machine fraud.

Lou Dobbs, the conservative television and radio host who loomed large over the cable news landscape for decades at CNN and Fox Business, and who later used his platform to promote baseless conspiracy theories and to lend unwavering support to former President Donald J. Trump, has died. He was 78.

His death was confirmed on Thursday on Mr. Dobbs’s website and social media accounts after Mr. Trump announced it on the Truth Social platform. No cause of death was given, and where or when he died was not immediately clear. Mr. Dobbs had been absent from “The Great America Show,” his podcast on the iHeartRadio network, for several weeks.

With his boyish face and authoritative demeanor, Mr. Dobbs had an on-air presence that could swing from folksy and avuncular to righteously indignant. He began his climb to cable news stardom as the host of “Moneyline” when CNN was founded in 1980.

Rising in prominence along with the skyrocketing Nasdaq during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Mr. Dobbs presided over a show that, as Ken Auletta wrote in a 2006 profile in The New Yorker, “served as a sort of video clubhouse for corporate America.”

With his rising cult of personality, the show was renamed “Lou Dobbs Tonight” in 2003, and he remade himself as a conservative populist. The Harvard-educated Mr. Dobbs, who described himself as “a kid who grew up poor” in rural Texas, was now a “full-throated champion of ‘the little guy,’ an evangelical opponent of liberal immigration laws,” Mr. Auletta wrote.

He added that Mr. Dobbs’s hourlong program featured him “in a role that combines Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan.”

“On the air," Mr. Auletta wrote, “he boomingly assails the upper management of corporate America for its ‘outrageous’ greed, pay packages and corruption, its opposition to increasing the minimum wage, its hiring of ‘illegal aliens,’ its ties to ‘Communist China,’ and its eagerness to send American jobs overseas.”

In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, Mr. Dobbs doubled down on what he considered a crisis of corporate outsourcing. “Are you willing to sacrifice 600,000 American jobs and employees to create jobs overseas?” he asked. “I love India. I love the Indian people. But the idea that we can sacrifice an American family to create jobs overseas is insensitive beyond belief.”

As David Leonhardt wrote in a 2007 article in The Times, Mr. Dobbs’s new incarnation made him “arguably this country’s foremost populist,” which was “an odd role, given that he spent the 1980s and ’90s buttering up chief executives on CNN.”

“But he is now playing it very successfully,” Mr. Leonhardt continued. “He has become a voice for the real economic anxiety felt by many Americans.”

Mr. Dobbs was part of a rising stable of cable hosts, which included Bill O’Reilly at Fox News and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, who built national profiles as aggressively opinionated talkers.

Despite CNN’s efforts to position itself as a home for straight news, Mr. Dobbs’s 6 p.m. news program was accompanied with the disclaimer that it would contain “news, debate and opinion.”

Some of those opinions were highly dubious — for example, Mr. Dobbs’s questioning, against all evidence, of whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States, a conspiracy theory also adopted by Mr. Trump.