I respectfully disagree with your post. Lou Dobbs has some good insights. His immigration stand leaves a lot to be desired. But he speaks for a lot of people I know very well.
Just because he's on CNN and not Fox doesn't make him legitimate, and it's disturbing to see his little act being pooh-poohed as if it's no big deal. What you think this is all in our heads? That we haven't railed against Dobbs for years now? Here's a sample of what Dobbs has said and done. Is this what the people you know actually stand for?:
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Yesterday, on "Lou Dobbs Tonight," CNN ran a graphic sourced to the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group deemed to have a "white supremacy" ideology according to the Anti-Defamation League. During a piece about illegal immigrants in Utah, reporter Casey Wian said, "Utah is also part of the territory some militant Latino activists refer to as Aztlan, the portion of the southwest United States they claim rightfully belongs to Mexico."
During a piece about illegal immigrants in Utah, reporter Casey Wian said, "Utah is also part of the territory some militant Latino activists refer to as Aztlan, the portion of the southwest United States they claim rightfully belongs to Mexico."
"Tonight, Senator [Barack] Obama wins the endorsement of the nation's only Hispanic governor, Bill Richardson. Is Obama pandering to ethnocentric special interests again? We'll have complete coverage."
Dobbs also labeled the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center as "absolute advocate groups for open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens" and said of the ADL, "They are a joke."
"Tonight, Senator Hillary Clinton facing charges she's selling out our middle class to boost her presidential ambitions. Is the senator putting the interest of India ahead of working Americans?" [Dobbs then criticized Clinton for wanting to increase the number of H-1B visas]
5. Dobbs' program falsely asserted that leprosy in the U.S. had increased because of illegal immigrants.
The source of the report was a doctor who also charmingly said:
"Recognize that most of these bastards molest girls under age 12, some as young as age 5, others aged 3, although, of course, some specialize in boys, some specialize in nuns, some are exceedingly versatile and rape little girls aged 11 and women up to age 79."
6.
"it is hardly a secret that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is something akin to a Soviet-style aggregation."
7. Dobbs has repeatedly had as his guests crytporacist "anti-immigrant crusaders" such as Glenn Spencer. (If you've never heard of Spencer, he's also said things like this: "Mexican culture is based on deceit" and "Chicanos and Mexicanos lie as a means of survival"
I could go on for hours listing Dobbs' atrocities. The man is disgusting. He is not your friend just because he's tossed a bone your candidate's way.
On #5, if it's not clear, that doctor was talking about Mexicans.
That had to be a chore to document. Take a shower.
I have pity for you to having to document all of that. You've earned an uprating from me for your next questionable comment I see just for being able to tolerate Dobb's xenophobia without puking.
Big kudos.
Where is the line? If we use this Lou Dobbs video, what could be next? A Malkin endorsement? Praise from Hannity? Will Dick Cheney speak out?
Seriously, if Lou Dobbs is acceptable, then Where Do We Draw The Line?
I'm amazed the Admin's decided to un-ban Texas Darlin' so that we could get this crappy diary. Of course it's been on the rec list for two days now. Can't we do better?!?
