After months of pressure from Presente.org's BastaDobbs campaign, the dark lord of the anti-immigrant and nativist movement announced last night his immediate resignation from CNN, the network he helped launch as one of its star financial news anchors over 30 years ago. Why did this happen?

Months ago the president of CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein, offered a choice to Lou Dobbs,
the channel’s most outspoken anchor. Mr. Dobbs could vent his opinions
on radio and anchor an objective newscast on television, or he could
leave CNN.

For a time, Mr. Dobbs did tone down his TV rhetoric, but on Wednesday he made a more drastic decision: He chose opinion.

This is a huge victory for Favianna Rodriguez, Roberto Lovato and the people behind the BastaDobbs campaign (and for which I lent my name and the name of this blog to launch it's campaign). Yet more importantly, this is a bigger win for CNN.

Lou Dobbs not just tarnished the CNN brand he soiled it, with his anti-Latino rhetoric. Because let's be clear: In the lexicon of Lou Dobb's xenophobilalia, "immigrant" meant "lower-lcass brown skinned Latin American hordes".  

Soledad Bravo would have needed at least 40 hours of "Latino in America" documentaries to win back the goodwill of the Latino community. CNN lost their credibility in the past 6-8 years with Dobbs increasing move to the extreme right during what was once one of the most respected prime-time slots dedicated to domestic and world financial/economy news.  Heck, even during the bailout madness there wa readon to cheer Lou Dobbs' commentary ... until he'd veer into his anti-immigrant madness.

Let's see if the rumors are correct and he does end up joining the house that Roger Ailes built over at FOXNews. It would be so awesomely sweet to have a clusterfuck of anti-Dobbs, anti-Beck, anti-Hannity and andti-Murdoch/NewsCorp grassroots activists focusing on the one channel and media company that killed US journalism. I really can't wait for Dobbs to join them.