I'm sorry it upsets you that the honor of Lou freaking Dobbs would be challenged.
I don't use the term "racist" frequently (if ever), but what the heck else do you call a guy whose made a name for himself solely by ranting non-stop about the evils of Scary Brown People?
Honestly, is this how much of a cheap date some people are around here? Throw a few anti-Obama words your way and all of the sudden you'll reflexively sing their praises?
There is no excuse for anyone praising Lou freaking Dobbs. The man is a demagogue, a bully and a race-baiter. He is anathema to true Democratic values, and I don't give a damn if he spends the next month talking about how great Obama is. He's still trash.
This diary might as well be citing Newsmax, Worldnutdaily, Hannity, Kristol, or some other sickening source. They're all the same. Democrats are better than this.
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?:
1.
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?!?
I hear him talking about the lazy Americans who won't get off their duff and DO something about a national security issue of borders that are open to the world, letting people come in to clean their lawns, to get the cheap labor with no benefits.
I think it is horrible that people leave home and family for years at a time - to come to America to make a lousy wage that will support family back home. How's that for family values?
Immigration quotas were set and rules made for all kinds of reasons, one of which is to guard against people with communicable diseases from coming in without being quarantined.
As for immigration period, this country has always had issues with anyone coming in, looking or behaving different. But we wade thru it.
What Lou screams about is the refusal to look and deal with the issue in a constructive way!
Might have something to do with big money putting it to the other countries from whence the immigrants come.
If you, whoever you are, don't see the media bias against Hillary Clinton, I don't know what I could say. It's so damned obvious it's pitiful!
With all due respect, I think it's best that we not engage in a debate on immigration policy within this thread.
I'm sorry already!
Thanks ... I was just referring to the Scarey Brown People stuff in the previous comment, but it's good to "not go there."
See - I can play nice! Valium has kicked in and I'm feeling fine. :~)
