Lou Dobbs is a political pundit, author, and television personality from the United States. He is most known for hosting the talk show “Lou Dobbs Tonight” for many years. From 2003 to 2009, he hosted the show on CNN, and from 2011 to February 2021, he hosted it on the Fox Business Network. He has also hosted the programme Lou Dobbs Radio on United Stations Radio Networks.

Dobbs also contributes to Money magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the New York Daily News as a regular contributor.

On social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram, he has a sizable fan base. His Twitter account, @LouDobbs, has approximately 2.1 million followers, while his Instagram account, @laudobbstonight, has roughly 319k followers.

What is the Net Worth of Lou Dobbs?

Lou Dobbs has amassed a substantial fortune as a result of his successful journalism career. His TV shows and hosting gigs are his main sources of income. His net worth is expected to reach $20 million in 2021. He receives roughly $5 million each year in pay.

With his wife Debi and children, he now lives on a 300-acre horse farm in Wantage Township, New Jersey.

What is Lou Dobbs famous for?

• Being an American political commentator, author, and television host.
• Famous as the former presenter of talk show, “Lou Dobbs Tonight”.

Where was Lou Dobbs born?

On September 24, 1945, Lau Dobbs was born in Childress County, Texas, United States. Louis Carl Dobbs is his given name. Frank Dobbs, a co-owner of a propane company, and Lydia Mae, a bookkeeper, were his parents when he was born. After his father’s propane business collapsed, Dobbs and his parents moved to Rupert, Idaho when he was twelve years old.

He is of White ethnicity and maintains an American nationality. Libra is his zodiac sign. He is a devout Christian.

In terms of his schooling, Dobbs earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard University in 1967. He also went to the University of Idaho College of Law in Moscow and worked for Union Bank of California in Los Angeles as a cash management specialist.

Lou Dobbs Career Highlights

• In July 2009, the controversy around Dobbs began when he was the only mainstream news anchor to give airtime to the birther theory.
• Dobbs reportedly paid $8 million in severance pay when he left CNN.On November 10, 2010, Fox Business Network announced that Dobbs would host a show on the channel and he began hosting a show titled Lou Dobbs Tonight which debuted on March 14, 2011.Voting machine company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against multiple parties including Dobbs and two other Fox Corporation program hosts, asserting they had promoted conspiracy theories alleging the company and its competitor Dominion Voting Systems had participated in an international conspiracy to rig the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump on February 4, 2021.The three programs had each run a video retraction weeks earlier, after receiving a demand letter from Smartmatic, though neither Dobbs nor the other hosts personally issued retractions.
• On February 5, 2021, The show Lou Dobbs Tonight was canceled by Fox News after nearly 10 years on the Channel.
• CNN claimed that, despite being the highest-rated Fix Business Network program, it was a loss leader because many advertisers didn’t want to be associated with the content.
• Besides, Dobbs has also appeared on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report” and Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor”.
• Even, Dobbs made a guest appearance on an episode of the TV series “The Good Wife” entitled ‘Double Jeopardy’.
• Additionally, Lou Dobbs has also worked on United Stations Radio Networks as a host of the show Lou Dobbs Radio which was guest-centered and featured political discussion and listener calls.
• He also hosts the financially themed Lou Dobbs Minute on the same network.

Lou Dobbs Political Views and Controversies

• Lou Dobbs said he thought that there should not be a St. Patrick’s Day in March 2009.
• In December 2018, Lou Dobbs suggested that the United States should start a war with China because of hacking by Chinese state actors. He compared hacking by the People’s Liberation Army of China to the attack by the Japanese military on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
• He promoted the theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and he was the only mainstream news anchor to give airtime to the birther theory in 2009.
• Lau Dobbs is known for his pro-Trump coverage. He described Mitt Romney as a “traitor and treasonous after she wrote an op-ed published in The Washington Post criticizing Trump’s character in January 2019.
• Like Trump, his surrogates and supporters made baseless claims of voting fraud in the aftermath of his 2020 election defeat, Dobbs chastised Republicans for not helping the president to claim “What is rightfully his”. Even, he said that those who voted to certify Joe Biden’s Electoral College win were “criminal”.
• On January 4, 2021, speaking to Republican consultant Ed Rollins during his broadcast, Dobbs said: We’re eight weeks from the election, and we still don’t have verifiable, tangible support for the crimes that everyone knows were committed that is, defrauding other citizens who voted with fraudulent votes. We know that’s the case in Nevada, we know it’s the case in Pennsylvania and a number of other states, but we have a devil of a time finding actual proof. Why?”
• Following the storming of the United States Capitol by Trump supporters in January 2021, Dobbs was among those who advanced the conspiracy theory that people associated with Antifa were responsible for the attack.

 Awards and Achievements

• Lou Dobbs has won a ‘Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award’ and a ‘Cable Ace Award’.
• He received the ‘George Foster Peabody Award’ for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash.
• He received the ‘Luminary Award’ of the Business Journalism Review in 1990.
• In 1990, he received the ‘Horatio Alger Association Award’ for Distinguished Americans.
• He achieved the ‘National Space Club Media Award’ in 2000.
• In 2004, he was awarded the ‘Eugene Katz Award’ For excellence in the coverage of Immigration by the Center for Immigration Studies.
• He received the ‘Alexis de Tocqueville Institution’s Statesmanship Award’, in 2005.
• In 2008, he received the ‘American Legion Public Relations Award’ from the National Commander of The American Legion.
• Dobbs was named “TV’s Premier Business News Anchorman” by the Wall Street Journal. He was also named “Father of the Year” by the National Father’s Day Committee in1993.

Who is  He married to?

Lou Dobbs is a husband and father. Debi Lee Segura, a former CNN sports anchor, has been his wife since 1982. Together, the couple has four children. He was previously married to Kathy Wheeler, with whom he had two daughters, in 1987. Unfortunately, the couple divorced in 1981. Hilary Dobbs, Jason Dobbs, Chance Dobbs, Michelle Dobbs, Heather Dobbs, and Buffie Dobbs are Dobbs’ six children with Deni and Kethi.

How tall is Lou Dobbs?

Lou Dobbs has a fair skin tone and is an attractive man. He is of ordinary height and physique. He is a towering 1.88m (6 feet and 2 inches) tall man, but his weight and other measurements are unknown. His hair is blonde, and his eyes are a light brown tint. Straight is his sexual orientation.

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