Did Lou Dobbs quit or was he fired? n/t

[cynatnite]

[rucky]

1. He quit.

But everybody assumes is was one of those "quit or you're fired" situations.

[cynatnite]

3. Some of what I've read suggests that he was forced out, but I wasn't sure. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

2. He probably was warned to tone it down, didn't want to tone it down, parties agreed to end contract.

That makes it a little of each, quitting and fired.

Sometimes it's just time to part company.

[maglatinavi]

9. WH Firered

Tone down about what???:yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks:

[NYC_SKP]

14. His xenophobic rhetoric and blather about socialism? nt

[Naturyl]

4. Lou Who?

Already forgot this lousy windbag whose lasting claim to fame will be his contribution to the evolution of the Shatner hairpiece.

[jobycom]

6. Second Baseman for the Orioles, I think. nt

[jobycom]

5. If you are on a roof and someone points a gun and says "Jump or I'll shoot?"

Did you jump or were you pushed?

[47of74]

7. That's what I was wondering if he had been pushed before he jumped.

[notesdev]

8. Even if forced out

there's no way they actually fired him - their ownership would ream them if they acted affirmatively to get rid of their #2 show when their ratings are so far in the toilet.

[Raine]

10. He jumped

just before he was pushed.

[ChicagoSuz219]

11. According to The Onion, he was deported back to Mexico... LOL nt

[Turbineguy]

12. Is he leaving

to spend more time with his family?

If so, he was fired.

[MajorChode]

13. Officially media personalities almost never get fired

It isn't in either party's interest for Dobbs to be fired. If they officially fired him, the network would look foolish for keeping him around for so long, and/or disloyal to its employees. If Dobbs had gotten officially fired, it would have done his career no good because it would make him look like an insubordinate employee.

I doubt if the network even mentioned the word in talks with him. They probably just said they were canceling his show and moving him to something else at a different (less desirable) time slot. Dobbs would have understood that he was being marginalized and he would have continually been marginalized until he was gone. So rather than fizzle out, he decided to leave while he was on top (more or less) so he could claim that he quit.

So back to the question, was he fired? No. However, a better question would be, did he really have any other option but to quit? and the answer to that question is no also. Dobbs had turned into a liability for CNN, and they aren't going to keep a liability around indefinitely.

[Love Bug]

15. What I want to know is how long it'll take before Faux News picks him up