Yes, I know we’ve had a ton of Lou Dobbs stories appear this week. But this one is a wee bit different from the previous week’s stories. The LA Times’ Tim Rutten writes about Dobbs’ success at CNN but isn’t happy about it…

“Fair and balanced” already is taken, so one supposes that Dobbs’ slogan will have to be “bully and bluster.”

His program doesn’t actually add up to much more than that, but its recklessness and violent rhetoric on immigration unsurprisingly attracts a following — and in cable it doesn’t take much of a following to boost your numbers. This week, Jonathan Klein — who runs CNN, for now — assured the New York Times that Dobbs’ anti-immigrant advocacy “is not a harbinger of things to come at CNN. He is sui generis, one of a kind.”

That’s a sort of relief.

But it didn’t stop Klein from plastering Dobbs, a onetime financial journalist best known for fawning interviews with corporate chief executives, and his views across every inch of the network all week long. (Why does the image of drowning men and ropes come to mind?)

If that wasn’t enough criticism for you, there’s lots more where that came from…