Lou Dobbs is a tactical propagandist worse than Dr. Joseph Goebbels — “Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda in Nazi Germany”
Last night (05/02/2007), Lou Dobbs, the anchor and managing editor of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight held another of his so called “Broken Borders” a.k.a “Bash All Immigrants To Submission” town hall meeting in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
As expected, Mr. Dobbs, a “populist confederate native,” hosted a cleverly choreographed meeting in which he (Lou Dobbs) hand picked a powerful array of “anti-immigrant professionals” as participants, armed with monstrously distorted figures, as opposed to a pittance of representation from the pro-immigration lobby — a few Hispanic Americans who even though well-meaning, could hardly express themselves with sophistication matching that of Lou’s hired right-wing “distortionists.”
To ensure that the pro-immigrant participants never fully put their points across, Lou, in numerous instances, cleverly cut to commercials every time a participant raised strong point.
To underscore Mr. Dobbs’s obsession with the Mexican border and illegal immigration, I counted the words “illegal” and “alien” at least 30 times in his introductory speech, in which his approximation of the number of undocumented immigrants rose dramatically from 12 million to a “certain” 20+ million — subliminal messages to the racist, confederate and intolerant portion of the USA — including the same ill-educated masses who were previously cajoled, bamboozled and “fear-mongered” into electing a thoroughly incompetent president, on a right-wing “Jesus and Us Only” platform.
Lou Dobbs in his show(s), always asserts that illegal aliens are sending back to Mexico more than $20 billion in remittances per year, without equally mentioning how much US companies operating in Mexico bring back home by exploiting cheap labor in Mexico and the rest of the world for that matter.
Also, with unemployment at a record low of 4.7%, it doesn’t seem to me like immigrants are stealing jobs from Americans — Mr. Dobbs!.
There was one comical moment during the meeting when a thoroughly mis-informed (probably paid by Lou Dobbs) 82 year old black man, resplendently bedecked with military medals, jumped onto the stage claiming that immigrants have “stolen jobs” from his two sons in New Jersey.
For a black man, who must have experienced racism at its worst in his early life, to stoop so low — is very disturbing indeed. If I ever live to the ripe old age of 82, I envision myself to be a model of compassion and not a theatrical Uncle-Tom like this moron!
Although it must not be construed to constitute a valid reason to gate-crash the borders of the United States, I must note that this country is what it is — an economic giant, to a large extent because of years of economic exploitation and extortion of the rest of the world through it’s huge and greedy companies, and the tactical use of arm twisting tools like the World Bank, among many others.
“We are protecting English!,” screamed Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta — “I am doing what my community elected me to do!” “The people that are in this country illegally are draining the resources and draining budgets that are meant to be used to provide services for those that are here legally and paying taxes,” said Mr. Barletta, without bringing to the foreground — the fact that a big chunk of these “illegal immigrants” are paying taxes like anybody else and also contributing to a social security system that they will never benefit from as long as they stay “illegal” — “fake ID’s” or not.
One “expert” from the Heritage Foundation, an organization that spends much of it’s money pushing “right wing” ideas in the media, insinuated that legalizing 12 million “illegal immigrants” will bankrupt the United States.
Hogwash!
“Immigrants are leaving my town in the middle of the night!,” gloated Barletta, amid wild cheers by a large section of the crowd — most likely a bunch of blood thirsty rednecks choking with bigotry and racism — “sweet home Pennsylvania!”
As far as I am concerned, any person who has lived in the United States for several years, has participated fully in the system, and has no felonious mis-deeds, belongs here and ought to be treated with some respect — the “depot them all” attitude of Lou Dobbs and co., is not only inhuman but also bigoted to the core.
The two Lous – Dobbs and Barletta, are just two of the many “America is for us and only us” white bigots who will stop at nothing short of mass deportation of everyone who doesn’t look like them, for when they fail to mentioned the “positives” and instead inflame the “negatives,” they are criminally inciting a largely “TV Educated” population, that is totally incapable of a high level of information synthesis — they take in the lies and distortions — hook, line and sinker!
In a country where racism is held back in check by a cordon of laws (which are not always uniformly and fairly applied), I submit that this “distortionist” adventure which CNN and Lou Dobbs are engaged in, is not only dangerous but thoroughly unfair.
This “town hall” gathering as far as I am concerned, is a “sanctioned hate meeting” — cleverly woven into the fabric of mainstream media for profit and to promote white supremacy — a trend perfected by Fox News, the “Fair and Balanced” garbage news channel.
Here is what they hope to achieve: To scare “illegal immigrants” into submission as demonstrated by the LA ‘Gestapo’ police. [L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa condemns the Los Angeles Police Department]
How about getting them out of the woodwork and finding out who is who? Scaring them will drive them further underground — making it harder to find and track the “imaginary terrorists” you fear so much!
There is a need to look at this issue intelligently, humanely and with fairness, for no one wants to be hit by Osama Bin Laden — secure the borders [build a 60 ft wall if that's what pleases you] but let all those who have been living in the shadows come out and be counted. You can bet the criminal ones will continue hiding, but the hard working immigrants who have roots in this country must be allowed to fulfill their dreams.
By “stroking and massaging” the dormant “hate genes” residing within the “nativist nincompoops,” Lou Dobbs and other right-wing demagogues are making the process of legislating the immigration issue immensely torturous, if not impossible.
Their firm stand — “depot them all,” “we are a nation of laws” — is just a smokescreen for — “we wish this good old USA was 100% lily white.” …. a convenient tool for extortion. — the vicious and racist history of this country refers.
America is a nation of immigrants. Obviously, the flow of immigrants must be controlled and regulated in a fair manner, but we must not allow the issue to be hijacked and used to transport the racist agenda of “propagandist extortionists” like Lou Dobbs and the hateful, right wing, confederate “Macaca” maniacs.
References:
Senator Lindsey Graham — A Republican With Some Sense! — The rest are just “predatory” bigots. Kudo’s Lindsey — you are proof that some compassion exists in the cesspool known as the Republican Party. The rest are just “frothing in the mouth” extortionist morons — like Tom Tancredo
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