News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Lou Dobbs’

In September of 2008 FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) along with 42 Talk Radio Hosts went to Washington with Message for Congress and the Next Administration: Reform Immigration Policy Without Amnesty this included Lou Dobbs. Various groups fought back with attack ads in DC papers. FAIR tried to take the upper-hand by claiming they were above such hateful rhetoric and launched their own ads touting their “30 years of developing fair, practical and effective solutions.” Yet regardless of the words used the fact is that:

FAIR — The Federation for American Immigration Reform — has been designated as a HATE GROUP by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

If you want to whine about attack language then your leaders shoudn’t have been quoted saying:

Should we be subsidizing people with low IQs to have as many children as possible?” —Dan Stein, Current FAIR President

As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?” — John Tanton, FAIR Founder and Board Director

New cultures… [in the U.S. are] diluting what we are and who we are.” — Richard Lamm, Former FAIR Advisory Board Chair

Additionally,

• FAIR was founded by a supporter of eugenics, John Tanton, with funds from the Pioneer Fund, a foundation committed to the belief that some races of people are genetically and intellectually superior to other races. Tanton continues as a leader of FAIR and sits on its board of directors.
• FAIR employed and continues to employ known anti-Catholic bigots, including Rosanna Pulido, who said of the Catholic Church in the United States:
  What better way to fill your pews and fill your offering coffers than with inviting in and giving sanctuary to illegal aliens? . . . What is being passed off right now by the Catholic Church is not Catholicism. It has nothing to do with Christianity or the Bible. (Link)

  And FAIR Executive Director Dan Stein went further, targeting Latino Catholics:
  Certainly we would encourage people in other countries to have small families. Otherwise they’ll all be coming here, because there’s no room at the Vatican. . . . Many immigrants hate America, hate everything the United States stands for. Talk to some of these Central Americans. (Link)

• FAIR’s Executive Director Dan Stein has been an author and editorial board member for the Social Contract Press. FAIR Board member Sharon Barnes has also been on the editorial advisory board. Social Contract publishes the work of numerous white nationalists such as John Vinson, who wrote that God prefers racial separation and that the South should secede from the United States to protect white people. (Link)

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The Hispanic Institute today announced that it will mount a Latino boycott of CNN to protest the cable news network’s ongoing distortion of facts surrounding U.S. immigration issues, especially in commentaries and reports on “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”

The nonprofit organization said the proposed boycott will begin today June 3, 2008 and will seek to stop Hispanic viewership of all CNN outlets, including the Spanish language service. There are now 12.14 million Hispanic television households in the U.S., according to Doug Darfield, Sr. Vice President of multicultural measurement for The Nielsen Company.”*

A new book by a prominent progressive author contains a rather ironic revelation: CNN’s Lou Dobbs — the disgruntled television voice of anti-immigration sentiment — says he would actually welcome millions of new immigrants into the United States.

“If we are to have a national debate and a national dialogue and a decision about national policy and we make a judgment that we are going to raise immigration levels - let’s say that we double them, lets say that we triple them - sign me up,” Dobbs is reported as saying in February 2007. “There is nothing in me that is a restrictionist whatsoever, and I realize that separates me from others who are against illegal immigration on the basis that there is too much immigration. I don’t believe that. I do believe that we are not in control of our immigration policies or what is happening in this country. And that leaves me in despair.”

The remark comes courtesy of David Sirota’s just released book: “The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour Of The Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street And Washington,” which documents the conflict between business interests, government policies and popular opinion on a variety of issues, from trade and the economy to immigration to Iraq.”*

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Bravo! A new study has found widespread fear-mongering and reckless journalism by cable television hosts such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, who have made a career of bashing Hispanic undocumented immigrants and their home countries.

Also good news: Likely Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told me in an interview last week that he shares concerns ”about the anti-immigrant tenor that I have seen in some of the broadcasts,” which are helping create a climate of hatred against Hispanics.”*

In a new study by the Media Matters Action Network, “Fear and Loathing in Prime Time: Immigration Myths and Cable News,” the authors examine the cable “news” shows of Lou Dobbs, CNN Headline News’ Glenn Beck, and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. The authors are able to document the number of times these men not only discuss illegal immigration on their shows but slant it in such a way that it fuels mistaken perceptions among viewers about undocumented immigrants and elevates those misperceptions into facts in the minds of people.

Of course, none of these men enjoy being the subject of such a report. After all, in their minds they are looking out for the future of this nation. Dobbs especially takes issue when he’s accused of not being fair or that he’s a lousy journalist, and denies wholeheartedly that he’s a racist or anyone who purposely misleads his viewers.”*

Rivera, who has a program on the Fox television network about immigration, said Latinos have been victimized by other ethnic groups who have erroneous ideas about them based on what they watch on television.

“Programs like Lou Dobbs that are devoted to showing the bad side of immigrants, are among the reasons why American society is so against our people. In my 40 years as a television anchor this is the first time I see these situations that are prompted by comments from people like (Dobbs),” said Rivera.

Television programs and personalities not only influence society’s point of view, but also politicians in many states, he said.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Joe Baca, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, is steamed. Latinos have become a political “punching bag” this year, the California Democrat complained recently, attacked by “the misinformed” and “the misguided.”

If you think he’s talking about Republican presidential candidates and vocal immigration critics such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, you’d be mistaken. The target of Baca’s ire is the House Democratic leadership.

Baca and other Latino lawmakers on Capitol Hill are angry at their fellow Democrats — and they say they’re not going to take it anymore.”*

House Democratic leaders worried about the November election want to thwart enforcement-only immigration legislation supported by colleagues in districts where immigration is a hot-button issue, a leading House liberal said Thursday.

“People who are very committed to comprehensive reform but who are charged with the responsibility for the next elections think about Lou Dobbs and the power of this issue in different local election contests,” said Howard Berman, D-Calif.”*

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I posted about this back on April 8th with the title “Illegal Immigrant Births - At Your Expense, Taxpayers Foot Bill For Roughly 300,000 Children Born Into Citizenship When Their Parents Are Illegal - (non-biased headline, don’t you think)” - Good to see this “story” getting some attention.

The CBS newscast that carries her name recently aired a one-sided and inaccurate report about illegal immigrant women who give birth to their children in the United States. The news story challenged the broader constitutional law of birthright citizenship and stated — without providing the correct context — that the births cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars annually.The story’s central figure was a woman identified as an illegal immigrant, who was lying in her South Texas hospital bed — her right arm wrapped around her newborn and her left hand punctured by an intravenous needle — while reporter Byron Pitts lectured her that “many Americans who struggle to take care of their own families think it is unfair that they should have to take care” of non-U.S. citizens.

Immigrant advocates found the report so crass, and so far below the network’s journalistic standards set by legends Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, that they accused Couric of sinking to the depths of Lou Dobbs, the CNN broadcaster and contributor to CBS’s “The Early Show” who has inflamed national anti-immigrant sentiment. One Hispanic group posted on its website a photo of Couric that morphs into Dobbs. “*

Leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a coalition of 21 Latino congressmembers, dispatched a letter Friday to Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes complaining that the network’s news coverage is slanted against immigration and has adopted the rhetoric of libertarian host Lou Dobbs.

CHC Chairman Joe Baca (D-CA) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) expressed outrage that their appears to meet privately with CNN have gone ignored, and that their letter to Time Warner’s CEO have instead ended up on the desk of CNN’s president.”*

Pope Benedict XVI’s calls for humane treatment of undocumented immigrants during his trip to the United States got anti-immigration zealots more riled up than usual. Good! I’m beginning to like this pope.

Soon after the pope called on Americans to fight “all forms of violence . . . so that immigrants may lead dignified lives,” and a White House statement suggested he brought up with President Bush the need to give immigrants and their children “humane treatment,” some of America’s most vocal opponents of immigration went ballistic.

CNN’s anchor-procrastinator Lou Dobbs, the hero of most U.S. anti-immigration groups, shook his head with more than his usual dose of bitterness in his April 16 broadcast and charged that the pope was visiting Washington to “push the amnesty (for undocumented immigrants) agenda.” “*

*From: http://www.sltrib.com
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The Huffington Post has obtained a new commercial for the Fox Searchlight/Weinstein picture, “Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna),” a Spanish language film that debuted last week to a box office record.

The commercial, which will premiere tomorrow, features several digs at CNN’s anti-immigrant crusader Lou Dobbs, such as, “TIME Magazine raves that ‘Adrian Alonso could melt Lou Dobbs’ heart, if he had one.’”"*

*From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com
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TO all the people who think that the illegal immigration debate is about electronic fences, NAFTA, Lou Dobbs and such, director Patricia Riggen and screenwriter Ligiah Villalobos offer a polite but emphatic rebuttal.

Immigration, say the women, is about survival. It’s about learning to be invisible. It’s about families. It’s about love.

That, Riggen says, was the insight she uncovered while leafing through Villalobos’ screenplay for “Under the Same Moon” (La Misma Luna), a Spanish-language drama about a Mexican mother who comes to work in Los Angeles, leaving behind her young son across the border.”*

*From: http://www.latimes.com
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In an interview for his website, CNN Nightly News anchor Lou Dobbs predicated “a successful manned mission to Mars in the next twenty years”. He envisioned colonizing the Moon and farming minerals from various planets and asteroids. Would this “invasion” (a term Dobbs often uses to refer to Mexicans entering the USA) and colonization of neighboring planets make our astronauts “illegal aliens”? Would our space program expect English to be spoken throughout the universe? How difficult will it be to fill these dirty farming jobs on distant planets when right here on planet earth we can’t find anyone to wash dishes or mow lawns?”*

*From: http://cims.hispanictips.com
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Decrying the surge in hate speech and violence that has surrounded the immigration debate, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., launched a campaign today to end hate speech in the immigration debate and called on presidential candidates and news media networks to divorce themselves from known hate and vigilante groups and to end rhetoric that demonizes immigrants and Hispanic Americans.

“The immigration issue deserves serious debate and serious solutions,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO. “We cannot have that debate as long as hate has the floor.”

Murguía chastised cable news television for “handing hate a microphone” over the past three years by hosting spokespeople from hate and vigilante groups such as Dan Stein of Federation for American Immigration Reform and Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox of the Minuteman Project more than 110 times, usually identifying them only as “anti-immigration advocates.” She singled out television pundits such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck and MSNBC political commentator Pat Buchanan for parroting hate speech and driving the immigration debate in a manner that demonizes the Hispanic community.

Presidential candidates who seize on the immigration issue to avoid talking about other issues such as Iraq and the economy also came under fire from Murguía. She faulted them for “amigo shopping,” a derogatory term used by suburban youth who attack and rob day laborers knowing that their victims have little recourse. Murguía specifically called on Mike Huckabee, 2008 presidential candidate and former governor of Arkansas, to renounce the endorsement of, and sever all ties to, Jim Gilchrist, a cofounder of the Minuteman Project and a self-avowed “vigilante.”

“There’s a bully in the room,” said Murguía, “and each of these candidates has a choice. They can stand up to the bully or they can cater to him. It is a question of courage or cowardice. To date, we have seen far too little courage.”

Relying heavily on documentation provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, Murguía catalogued the rise in the use of code words that label immigrants and Latinos as a threat to the American way of life. She articulated four categories of code words, rhetoric that:

* Refers to immigrants as “an army of invaders” or an “invading force”
* Associates immigrants with animals and refers to them as “a massive horde” or “swarm”
* Accuses immigrants of “bringing crime and disease” to America, including “leprosy, tuberculosis, and malaria” and “gang warfare”
* Purveys the conspiracy theory of “reconquista” or “Atzlán” – the taking back of lands in the southwestern United States for Mexico

(Click here to view a short video reel illustrating some examples www.wecanstopthehate.org.)

NCLR is conducting a campaign to educate Americans about the use of hate speech and the growing rise in violence against Latinos. Called the “Wave of Hope Campaign,” it features:

* An anti-hate website entitled “We can stop the hate ”
* Engaging media networks and candidates to separate themselves from hate groups and hate speech
o This week, NCLR wrote to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee asking him to renounce the support of, and sever all ties to, Jim Gilchrist.
o NCLR also wrote to three cable news networks – Fox, CNN, and MSNBC – asking to meet with top management about extremists appearing regularly on their programming and ending the hate speech parroted by network news commentators.
* Working with other minority groups to confront hate speech
* Asking candidates to elevate the debate and “pledge” to reject hate speech

Stating that “words have consequences,” Murguía pointed to an FBI report which shows a 23% rise in violence against Latinos. “To the Latino community,” said Murguía, “the surge in hate speech and violence is appalling. But, it should be appalling to everyone.”

Murguía said she recognized that ultimately the power to change the debate lies with the Hispanic community itself. “Latinos buy products from the advertisers supporting these programs,” she said. “Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election. We have a significant role to play picking winners and losers in both arenas. We need to make it clear to those who embrace hate that they do so at their own economic and political peril.””*

*From: http://www.nclr.org
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The country’s leading Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization is set to begin a campaign targeting several newscasters and presidential candidates for what it deems “rhetoric that demonizes immigrants and Hispanic Americans.”

The National Council of La Raza, which includes nearly 300 affiliated organizations, will launch a new initiative on Thursday titled “We Can Stop The Hate,” aimed at curtailing the influence of CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck as well as MSNBC political commentator Pat Buchanan. In addition, the organization is petitioning for Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to renounce the endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, a cofounder of the Minuteman Project, an anti-immigration group.”*

*From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com
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On the January 29 edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, correspondent Carol Costello reported that the issue of “driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants … literally drives some off the deep end, like Lou Dobbs,” referring to her CNN colleague, who hosts Lou Dobbs Tonight. Costello then aired a video clip from that program in which Dobbs stated: “[Y]ou have illegal aliens in this country demanding the rights and privileges of citizenship. It is the most, to me, arrogant thing they could possibly do.”"*

*From: http://mediamatters.org
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At the center of the Tanton web is the nonprofit Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIR, the most important organization fueling the backlash against immigration. Founded by Tanton in 1979, FAIR has long been marked by anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes. It has mixed this bigotry with a fondness for eugenics, the idea of breeding better humans discredited by its Nazi associations. It has accepted $1.2 million from an infamous, racist eugenics foundation. It has employed officials in key positions who are also members of white supremacist groups. Recently, it has promoted racist conspiracy theories about Mexicos secret designs on the American Southwest and an alternative theory alleging secret plans to merge the United States, Mexico and Canada. Just last February, a senior FAIR official sought “advice” from the leaders of a racist Belgian political party.

FAIR officials declined repeated requests for comment.

None of this — or any other material evidencing the bigotry and racism that courses through the group — seems to have affected FAIRs media standing. In just the first 10 months of 2007, the group was quoted in mainstream media outlets nearly 500 times with virtually no mention of its more unsavory aspects. FAIR President Dan Stein was featured on CNNs “Lou Dobbs Tonight” at least 12 times in the same period, along with countless appearances on other television news shows. And, perhaps most remarkably of all, FAIR has been taken seriously by Congress, which has called upon its officials to testify on immigration more than 30 times since 2000.”*

*From: http://www.ilw.com
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It never ceases to amaze me. Somehow liberals and other sensitive types in this country have managed to turn America’s greatest cable news crusader into a bigot.

Just because Lou Dobbs spends night after night fighting to criminalize people who cross the desert to pick your tomatoes, some loony leftwingers have accused him of harboring white supremacist sentiments. Just because he accidentally quotes studies conducted by racist organizations and occasionally references the opinions of eugenicists, some people have decided that Daddy Dobbs is driven by nefarious motives. Well I’m not one of them. Who among you has not unwittingly supported a Nazi on occasion? We’re all only human.”*

*From: http://www.236.com
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A group called Americans for Legal Immigration PAC launched a Website Wednesday — www.LouDobbsforPresident.org — to collect signatures to draft CNN anchor Lou Dobbs for president because of his tough stance against illegal immigration.”*

*From: http://www.statesman.com
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Illegal immigration has not just evolved into a polarizing issue during this presidential campaign but the savvy in society have learned how to manipulate this issue to their advantage.

Whether it’s used as the foundation to spearhead a presidential platform as former Republican presidential candidate, Tom Tancredo, confessed to or as a running theme of a cable talk show like CNN’s Lou Dobbs, the issue is guaranteed to draw in followers, viewers and the hope of one newspaper — readers.”*

*From: http://www.pegasusnews.com
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You’ve heard it all a dozen times. That the public is virulently anti-immigrant. That political leaders – including President Bush and the senators from both parties who voted last summer to overhaul the immigration system – are hopelessly out of touch with this angry tide. That millions of people across the country are going to vote on the basis of their fury.

And that the only immigration reform Americans will accept, this year and perhaps for years to come, is “reform” along the lines advocated by Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado and CNN’s Lou Dobbs: harsh, anti-immigrant policies designed to drive millions of foreigners out of the United States.

The only problem: It isn’t so. The situation isn’t nearly so black and white.”*

*From: http://www.dallasnews.com
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