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You Can Get Paid for That?

by BooMan
Mon Nov 16th, 2009 at 05:02:49 PM EST

You could pay me $8 million not to appear on CNN.

CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave, The Post has learned. "They wanted him out," according to a source.

But I'd be happy with just a small donation. It's only through the generosity of readers that I'm able to maintain Booman Tribune. If you like what we do here, please consider making a contribution to the Frog Pond.

And I promise not to act like Lou Dobbs and be an idiot.

You Can Get Paid for That? | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (4.00 / 5)

as soon as I get paid I'll share the wealth. Of course I don't know when that will be :(

after being unemployed for way too long I recently started a job! unfortunately i'm an independent contractor, so I wait to get paid. I'm confident the check will come, not sure yet how long it will take.

The Four Horsemen of Bushism: War, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Greed

by esquimaux (esquimaux1 at gmail dot com) on Mon Nov 16th, 2009 at 05:22:01 PM EST

Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (4.00 / 3)

Congrats on finding work! Not an easy task in this economic climate.

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

by CabinGirl on Mon Nov 16th, 2009 at 07:12:15 PM EST
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Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (none / 1)

thanks, it hasn't been easy. Have to admit, this time the work came and found me. A friend runs a small sw company, and one of her programmers had to go out on disability. So I'm getting to try to do stuff I had one class in.

The Four Horsemen of Bushism: War, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Greed

by esquimaux (esquimaux1 at gmail dot com) on Mon Nov 16th, 2009 at 09:48:34 PM EST
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Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (none / 0)

Congratulations!

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Mon Nov 16th, 2009 at 08:34:52 PM EST
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Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (none / 0)

Congrats!!!!!!!

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 06:39:43 AM EST
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Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (none / 1)

It probably would have been worth double that amount to get rid of him.

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Mon Nov 16th, 2009 at 08:33:28 PM EST

Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (none / 1)

Appreciate what you do (and Steven, and Terrance, and everyone else who keeps the Frog Pond chugging along).

Keith Olbermann speaks for me.

by JanetT in MD on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 12:43:08 AM EST

Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (none / 0)

What keeps it chugging along are all the members like you Janet. And I mean that sincerely.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 06:39:09 AM EST
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Re: You Can Get Paid for That? (none / 0)

You have to be a really big idiot with a TV show and a pasty dough face to get an $8 Million severance package. But the real money is in destroying the planet as CEO of Exxon Mobil. Just ask Lee Raymond.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 06:38:22 AM EST

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