Lou Dobbs has moved to counter the speculation — in many ways of his own making — that he is planning to run for president as an independent. "I don't know where this is coming from," he told the New York Times. "I have no interest in running, and I’ve said that throughout."

The rumors began after Dobbs recently wrote that there was "a strong likelihood that an independent populist candidate will emerge in the next several months, whether from an independent movement or from within the party structures."