Editing Lou Dobbs (section)

===Departure and founding of Space.com===
Dobbs repeatedly clashed with [[Rick Kaplan]], who became president of CNN in 1997. Dobbs said Kaplan, a friend of then president [[Bill Clinton]], was "clearly partisan" and "was pushing Clinton stories", while Kaplan said Dobbs was "a very difficult person to work with."<ref name="Madashell"/>
[[File:TomIntroducingLouDobbs.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Dobbs with then-U.S. Representative [[Tom Tancredo]] in 2004]]
On April 20, 1999, CNN was covering Clinton's speech in [[Littleton, Colorado]], following the [[Columbine High School massacre]]. Dobbs ordered the producer to cut away from the speech and return to broadcast ''Moneyline.''<ref name="Madashell"/> Dobbs was countermanded by Kaplan, who ordered CNN to return to the speech. Kaplan later said, "Tell me what journalistic reason there was not to cover the president at Columbine soon after the shootings? Everyone else was doing it". Dobbs announced on the air that "CNN President Rick Kaplan wants us to return to Littleton." A few days later, Dobbs announced that he was leaving the network to start [[Space.com]], a website devoted to [[Astronautics|astronautical]] news.<ref name="Madashell"/> Dobbs was subsequently replaced as host of ''Moneyline'' by [[Willow Bay]] and [[Stuart Varney]].<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,667811,00.html |title=Moneyline Launches Bicoastal News Format |publisher=Time Warner |date=August 22, 2000 |access-date=April 12, 2010 |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011302/http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,667811,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>