Yeah, I don’t really think it will happen quite that easily either. You know what they say, if it sounds too good to be true.. Ahh, a news media world without Beck and Dobbs.

The truth is that I happened to notice that a fair portion of my readers were finding me by searching the term ‘Glenn Beck is a Pathetic Loser’. I have never used that specific term –in print- so I found it interesting. I don't quite understand how it is that people searching that particular term happened to stumble upon my hubpages articles.

Far be it from me, however, to not deliver to potential readers any worthy story they wish to hear, and certainly ‘Glenn Beck is a Pathetic Loser’ is a cause I felt I could take up. Then I figured I may as well throw in Lou Dobbs as well, and kill two cuckoo birds with one stone. Ahh, a news media world without Beck and Dobbs.

It is a very sad state of affairs in American broadcasting when major news outlets keep an in-house nut job on staff, and yes I know that I am openly calling Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck nut jobs. It’s not a nice thing to do. Name-calling and all that, but they’re nut jobs, loony birds, wackos, and totally delusional idiots.

And they hold positions of influence over a significant portion of American adults. It speaks loudly of the loss of integrity and noble purpose in the world of journalism.

It also amplifies the very real fact that many Americans are hopelessly under-educated, and rather out of touch with reality. That’s the real scary part, as evidenced by our August town hall meetings fiasco. If Americans weren’t this naïve, then pundits like Beck and Dobbs would have no audience.

Thomas Jefferson, still my favorite president ever, once said "The information alone of the people at large can make them the safe, as they are the only, depository of our religious and political freedom." Despite his own personal problems and headaches caused by the newspaper stories of his day, he was a strong believer in freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Yet what good does the press do when it stops disseminating pertinent news and information and focuses instead on offering popular sound-bytes and feeding the public with rants and sensationalism? It creates a misinformed public, as evidenced by our August town hall meetings fiasco.

While statistics uphold the theory that believers in news myths and propaganda are largely under-educated, there is something more to it all than that. After all, some of them actually can spell and produce grammatically correct, properly formed sentences that are even coherent.

Perhaps some of the pundits the like of Beck and Dobbs spew their vile falsities for the sheer purpose of creating followers. I think it’s safe to say that CNN’s president Jon Klein allows Dobbs to keep up his divisive rants for exactly that reason. At the same time, Dobbs himself I’m sure feels perfectly justified in his extremely hateful views on immigrants, though he must realize the lunacy of his birther claims.

It indicates a fierce, ideological attachment to a cause or belief system that allows a certain lassitude in objectivity. An enemy of my enemy is a friend of mine sort of philosophy. A man who has been in journalism for thirty-some years ought to know better, does know better, and yet chooses to promote a false story anyway. A man who has been in journalism for thirty-some years ought to know better than to complicate real issues by spreading his message by means of spewing hatred. Why, then? What has happened to Lou Dobbs?

The world is changing. I applaud Mr. Dobbs for his ability to walk away from the Republican Party, and on some issues I agree with him. He stands up for the American middle class, and I appreciate that, and believe in his sincerity in regards to those issues. The problem with Dobbs, I believe, is that his vision of the American middle class is totally white. While he’s grudgingly willing to make room for some upwardly mobile minorities, he seems stuck on the principle that they remain minorities.

There is no other explanation for his intense and obvious hatred of President Barrack Obama, and his long perceived disdain for welfare programs. There is no other explanation for his irresponsible reporting of the immigration issue.

A journalist ought to be able to effectively report on issues in an in-depth manner without allowing his own prejudices to color his reports or to be perceived by the public. Lou Dobbs oozes with prejudices, and that touches a chord in his audience.

Glenn Beck never was a journalist, and so we can’t be disappointed by his lack of journalistic ethics. We can wonder at CNN for ever putting him in the national spotlight in the first place, however. Self proclaimed rodeo clowns don’t belong on news shows, even though his move to the Fox network did make it seem a little more appropriate.

But again with Beck we see this supposed championing of middle white America and this obvious distrust of and disdain for minorities. Indeed, the obvious disdain of both Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs for minorities really says something about them. They don’t seem to care what minorities think of them, or to seriously consider the viewpoints of minorities.

If America was made up entirely of white middle class families and rich people, then there would be no problem with Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs. But we are so much more than that. If Beck and Dobbs were professional enough to effectively report on the issues which concern them in an objective manner, then there would be no problem with them. They can editorialize, but they shouldn’t do so in by promoting falsities and hatred.

So do we boycott, do we write letters, what do we do? Yes, we boycott. It expresses our own disapproval of the tactics and the content, which lets the less informed but generally sane public viewers realize that there is a problem.

It won’t make these people go away though. The prejudiced, white, lower middle class is scared, and feels cornered. Like any beast it is attacking its perceived enemy. It’s in a frenzy. Soon enough, like a child, it will wear itself out if we stand our ground. A good percentage of it will die of natural deaths in the next twenty years anyway.

So to the searchers of ‘Glenn Beck is a Pathetic Loser’, yes, he is, and so is Dobbs. Be patient with them, and tolerant of their intolerance, but keep on talking. The only way we fight misinformation is with rational truth.