What’s next for Lou Dobbs?

Dobbs says he's exploring his options, one of which might be Fox News. Where will the controversial anchor show up next?

Until his abrupt exit Wednesday night, Lou Dobbs had been with CNN since its inception in 1980, save for a two-year stint at the Internet start-up Space.com. Dobbs says he’s now exploring several options, and that political and media figures have encouraged him to “go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem solving.” (Watch his parting words.) What does Dobbs have in mind for his next act?

Fox Business is the logical next stop: “Fox denies having talked to Dobbs,” says Allahpundit in Hot Air, but that has to be what this sudden departure is about. After all, Dobbs and Fox News chief Roger Ailes “had a confab over dinner in September,” and Ailes is on a roll, picking up “big name stars like [Don] Imus and John Stossel” to “boost Fox Business’s profile.”

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