Lou Dobbs, a man for whom I have much respect, signed off for the last time from CNN last night. Hinting that he wanted to go “beyond [his] role at CNN,” Dobbs said this:

Good luck, Mr. Dobbs. I wish you great success in the future.

*NOTE* This post describes the lewd act of ‘teabagging’ in an effort to illustrate the gravity of the comments by Anderson Cooper and others. Reader discretion is advised.

CNN golden child Anderson Cooper apologized to a group assembled at the Univervisty of California at Los Angeles for calling participants in the Tax Day Tea Party protests ‘teabaggers’ who engaged in ‘teabagging’, a suggestive term which describes a lewd sexual act whereby the testicles of one individual are placed into the mouth of another.

Cooper, who followed lock-step with the likes of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and countless anonymous liberal commentors on blogs, became the first to apologize for his immature and suggestive comments.

From the article:

Calling it a “stupid, silly, one-line aside,” he touched on the attention it received. “I think it’s an incorrect statement to say I was, in any way, trying to disparage legitimate protests,” said Cooper. “I don’t think it’s my job to disparage, or encourage, which oddly other networks seemed to be doing. Protest is the great right of all Americans, and it’s not my job in any way to make fun of people or disparage what they’re doing.”

Cooper said he regretted making the comment. “If people took offense to that and felt that I was disparaging their legitimate right to protest, and what they were doing, then that is something I truly regret, because I don’t believe in doing that,” he said. “Having this discussion just takes away from the real story.”