Politico reports: ‘Mr. Independent’ mulls White House bid — Former CNN host Lou Dobbs fueled already rampant speculation about his political future Monday, sending the clearest signals yet that he’s mulling a bid for president–and leaving third-party political operatives salivating over the possibility of a celebrity recruit for the 2012 campaign.

Less than two weeks after announcing his departure from the cable network–and following a series of interviews in which Dobbs encouraged speculation about his political plans–the anchorman known to fans as “Mr. Independent” finally made his presidential ambitions explicit on former Sen. Fred Thompson’s radio show Monday.

Asked if he might make a run at the White House in 2012, Dobbs answered flatly: “Yes is the answer.”

“I’m going to be talking some more with some folks who want me to listen in the next few weeks,” Dobbs told Thompson. “Right now I’m fortunate to have a number of wonderful options.” [ READ MORE ]

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Dobb’s Road To Dismissal

Update: HuffingtonPost — In a recent interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo, Dobbs softened his anti-immigrant/anti-Latino message, as he attempted to position himself “as a champion of that fast-growing ethnic bloc.” “Whatever you have thought of me in the past, I can tell you right now that I am one of your greatest friends and I mean for us to work together,” he said in a live interview with Telemundo’s Maria Celeste. “I hope that will begin with Maria and me and Telemundo and other media organizations and others in this national debate that we should turn into a solution rather than a continuing debate and factional contest,” said Dobbs. [ READ MORE ]

Talk of a HYENA in a hen-house! You have gotta be kiddin’, Señor Dobbs!

Here is Dobbs in his TRUE Colors — A History of HATE and BIGOTRY

Notes: | President Dobbs: The First Tell-All Memoir | CNN’s Lou Dobbs – The Minister of ‘Propaganda and Enlightenment’ – An Anti-Immigrant Bigot. A Racist, Xenophobic Extortionist

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