From DropDobbs.com: Over the years, Lou Dobbs has consistently used his CNN platform to spread hatred and fear. He has promoted the work of hate groups, spread racially charged conspiracy theories including about President Obama’s birth certificate, railed against “ethnocentric special interests,” and accused the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of being sympathetic to “Mexico’s export of drugs and illegal aliens.” When advertisers sponsor Lou Dobbs, this is what they are paying for: [ READ MORE ]

Lou Dobbs’ History of Anti-Immigrant Bigotry, Hate and Obama Bashing

Over the years, Lou Dobbs’s anti-immigrant campaign has been very similar to that conducted against Jews by Dr. Joseph Goebbels — “Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda in Nazi Germany.”

Consider the following scenarios: (from LouDobbsRadio.NET)

1.   In Nazi Germany Jews were scapegoated as the source of Germany’s economic woes. In the United States, Lou Dobbs has insinuated repeatedly that the economic troubles of the “middle class” is a direct result of U.S. jobs being exported overseas and by extension – immigrants are either stealing jobs from “middle class” directly and/or driving down wages. There is some truth in the “wage” element of this assertion, but without bothering to explain the “mechanics” of this claim, Lou’s over simplification results in “uninformed” contempt by his viewers of immigrants in general.

2.   In Nazi Germany, audiences were continually reminded of the struggle of the Nazi Party and Germany against foreign enemies and internal enemies, especially Jews. In the present United States, Lou Dobbs always reminds his audience, that millions of foreigners and criminal illegal immigrants are running rampant in the United States, quite contrary to official statistics. He often invites “white-supremacists” and demagogue politicians from racially intolerant constituencies, as analysts and commentators in his shows — while denouncing civil rights groups such as the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center as “despicable” and “reprehensible.” The few pro-immigrant guests invited to Mr. Dobbs’ shows are routinely scolded and lambasted for their stance. To stir the pot further, Mr. Dobbs’ always ends his TV shows with un-scientific impromptu polls, that are always skewed and probably doctored — maliciously presented as the view of the majority.

3.    Propagandists lauded Germany as the sole defender of what they called “Western European culture” against the “Bolshevist hordes(Russians).” In his highly touted town hall meetings (a few years ago), the issue of English as an official language came up — the fear that English will be “replaced,” by the Spanish language [...a subliminal insinuation that the white Anglo-Saxon culture in being contaminated] has been used repeatedly by Lou Dobbs and co., to drive fear up the spines of Americans.

4.   Jews in Nazi Germany were branded as disease carriers, contaminants of the pure German race — a few years ago, Lou Dobbs and despite being confronted with undisputed evidence to the contrary, maintained his claim that there have been 7,000 new cases of leprosy in the U.S. in recent years attributing the increase to “unscreened illegal immigrants.” Such irresponsible utterances in mainstream media, only help to embolden hate groups — who gather often to keep the ‘Cradle of the Confederacy‘ safe from leprosy, pedophiles, Spanish and rampant godlessness.

[ Read More ] [ Visit LouDobbsRadio.NET ] [ A collection of Lou Dobbs' Most Scandalous Moments ] [ BastaDobbs.com -- We are thrilled that Dobbs no longer has this legitimate platform from which to incite fear and hate ] [ Presente.ORG -- Seeking to strengthen the political voice of Latino communities ] [ Relentless Pressure from Progressive Groups Pushes Hatemonger Lou Dobbs Out of CNN ]

Dobbs and guest Jeffrey Lord suggest DropDobbs.com campaign is an effort “to stifle debate“

Flogging “political correctness,” Dobbs guest Jeffrey Lord links criticism of Dobbs to Fort Hood massacre

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Having it Both Ways — CNN wants us to watch “Latino in America,” but they’re still broadcasting Lou Dobbs?

From Presente.ORG:

In just one week, CNN will launch its “Latino in America” series, which tells the stories of Latinos from across the country. There’s just one thing missing: Lou Dobbs. That’s right. Four hours about the Latino experience in America, and not a word about the man who spends every weeknight telling lies about immigrants, and spreading hatred and fear about Latinos.

Together with award-winning filmmaker Arturo Perez, we’re calling out CNN’s hypocrisy with a powerful new video: “CNN: Lou Dobbs or Latinos in America?” Please watch the video and add your voice to the more than 50,000 others already demanding that CNN dump Dobbs. And then spread the word to your friends and family.

Our campaign against Lou Dobbs is clearly getting to him – he’s railed against us on his radio show, and rumors are now swirling that he’s looking for other jobs at more conservative networks. Now is the time to keep the pressure on. We’re trying to gather as many signatures as we can before “Latino in America” airs on Oct. 21-22. Will you join us, and share this action with your friends and family? It only takes a moment:

Take Action Against Dobbs — http://bastadobbs.com/video/?mid=1751-27240

Thank you and Adelante!

Favianna, Roberto, Laurie and the rest of the Presente.Org team

References

1. “Dobbs Takes Aim at HuffPost Critic,” Huffington Post, 9-23-2009: http://tinyurl.com/lrnbdx
2. “Fox’s Volley With Obama Intensifying,” New York Times, 10-11-2009: http://tinyurl.com/yg5qf9w

Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNN

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   By: Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
Congressman Joe “You Lie” Wilson has touched a raw nerve. Yet he may have also opened wide the proverbial Pandora’s Box regarding “illegals.” Not dealt with properly by the president and the Democratic Party, Wilson’s incivility could end up unleashing a new and more rabid anti-immigrant movement comparable to those seen in Europe.

Played out to its logical conclusion, this dynamic of not providing health care for migrants, in the event of a pandemic, could lead to calls for widespread quarantines and calls for massive dragnet raids, massive incarceration programs and large-scale deportations. And as occurs now, the inability to tell the difference between legal or so-called illegal aliens – with the predisposed belief that all Mexicans (Central and South Americans also) are illegal and an illegitimate population – means that all red-brown peoples in this country could be viewed and treated as suspect populations.

That aside, germs, viruses and diseases do not discriminate nor do they ask for legal documentation. They cross borders freely in both directions as neither walls or moats can hold them back. This is the perfect example of why health policies should be in the hands of health professionals, not ideologue politicians.

In the climate we live in, assuring Americans that only U.S. citizens will be eligible to receive health benefits plays well in the conservative political arena. However, from a health standpoint, it borders on suicidal. People on all sides of the issue should recognize the health implications of keeping 12 million people (or 20 million people, according to immigration restrictionists) outside of the nation’s health system.

CNN’s Lou Dobbs has made a career of scaring Americans into believing that “illegal aliens” are the cause of all the nation’s problems. He has even irresponsibly spread false myths about them spreading leprosy. Yet for the sake of argument, suppose Dobbs is correct in his basic premise that migrants (illegal or otherwise) are apt to carry and spread infectious and communicable diseases. The logical response to this threat would be to quarantine… or deport… the 12-20 million illegal migrants instantly. Yet, since even the most rabid restrictionists acknowledge that it would be impossible to quarantine or deport millions of people instantly, from a health standpoint, it makes better sense to ensure that all people in the United States have access to preventive health care. This would not solely be for the sake of the migrants, but also for the sake of the entire U.S.
population.

Under President Barack Obama’s plan, undocumented aliens will be excluded from his health plan. As it stands now, legal residents who have been in the country for less than five years are also denied many health benefits. This backward policy will continue.

As La Opinion newspaper in Los Angeles recently opined, such a policy is bad health policy and bad economic policy. However, Democrats, more concerned with Wilson’s insult to the president and to Congress, have been blind sighted to the extent that they will be forced to adopt or maintain these medically unsound policies. In fact, to prove Wilson wrong, they will be pressured into injecting or advocating militaristic solutions [to find "illegals"] into not simply the health care bill, but probably all future legislation.

The idea of intentionally excluding anyone from the nation’s health plan is to court a massive disaster. It may lead to the drumbeat demand that beyond employment – public and private – every service rendered by government, from education to housing, must be done so through its E-Verify program – a program designed to verify U.S. Citizenship among job applicants. In rabid times, it could result in an even more radical proposal; a demand to use E-verify for every commercial purpose, including the checkout stand.

At the immigration kangaroo court called Operation Streamline earlier this year in Tucson, I saw the future; because of the swine flu (H1N1) epidemic, like a surreal movie, all the defendants – from Mexico and Central America – wore protective masks in the federal courtroom. In the event of a more severe and deadly pandemic, it is highly likely that our elected leaders and politicians will insist that only U.S. citizens have access to immunization and health care.

The truth is that only where we permit other human beings to be dehumanized would a society think of denying people the right to basic health care. The other truth is that we nowadays live in a completely globalized world, which necessarily calls for global solutions and global [financial] cooperation.

It’s a health issue, stupid.

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Right-Wing media NutBAGS have baselessly blamed Mexican immigrants for spreading swine flu across the border, despite the fact that several reports have indicated that U.S. swine flu patients had recently traveled to Mexico.

Standing out in this crowd of Cattle-Callers is Michelle “Aunt Thomasina” Malkin, a Filipino American in the mode of Micheal Steele, the Head Nigger in Charge at the RNC or James T. Harris — A ReTHUGliTOM Suffering From Acute “Negro-Negrophobia.”

   [ Michelle Malkin Is An IDIOT ]

Though, she constantly refers to herself as a “Great American,” she first, as far as I am concerned, IS a child of Filipino immigrants, and that makes her call to round up all Mexicans in the United States, and lately — that Mexican immigrants are disease carriers (leprosy carriers per Lou Dobbs), more despicable than the preachings of Sick Media Toilets like Micheal Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.

[ MORE: Hate-Mongering Conservative Commentators Using Swine Flu to Promote Racism! ] [ Michelle Malkin and Michael Savage Use Swine Flu Crisis to Peddle Their Xenophobia ]

Malkin Scapegoats Immigrants For FLU Spread

Swine FLU — Possible Pandemic

Michelle The PSYCHOPATH — Accused Sen. John Kerry of Shooting Himself on Purpose

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GILA BEND, Ariz. — Soon after Antonio Torres, a husky 19-year-old farmworker, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident last June, a Phoenix hospital began making plans for his repatriation to Mexico.

Mr. Torres was comatose and connected to a ventilator. He was also a legal immigrant whose family lives and works in the purple alfalfa fields of this southwestern town. But he was uninsured. So the hospital disregarded the strenuous objections of his grief-stricken parents and sent Mr. Torres on a four-hour journey over the California border into Mexicali.

For days, Mr. Torres languished in a busy emergency room there, but his parents, Jesús and Gloria Torres, were not about to give up on him. Although many uninsured immigrants have been repatriated by American hospitals, few have seen their journey take the U-turn that the Torreses engineered for their son. They found a hospital in California willing to treat him, loaded him into a donated ambulance and drove him back into the United States as a potentially deadly infection raged through his system.

By summer’s end, despite the grimmest of prognoses from the hospital in Phoenix, Mr. Torres had not only survived but thrived. Newly discharged from rehabilitation in California, he was haltingly walking, talking and, hoisting his cane to his shoulder like a rifle, performing a silent, comic, effortful imitation of a marching soldier.

‘In Arizona, apparently, they see us as beasts of burden that can be dumped back over the border when we have outlived our usefulness,’ the elder Mr. Torres, who is 47, said in Spanish. ‘But we outwitted them. We were not going to let our son die. And look at him now!’ — [READ MORE]

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MILTON, Fla. — Three months after the local police inspected more than a dozen businesses searching for illegal immigrants using stolen Social Security numbers, this community in the Florida Panhandle has become more “law-abiding, emptier and whiter.”

Many of the Hispanic immigrants who came in 2004 to help rebuild after Hurricane Ivan have either fled or gone into hiding. Churches with services in Spanish are half-empty. Businesses are struggling to find workers. And for Hispanic citizens with roots here — the foremen and entrepreneurs who received visits from the police — the losses are especially profound.

‘It was very hard because the community is very small, and to see people who came to eat here all the time then come and close the business,’ said Geronimo Barragan, who owns two branches of La Hacienda, Mexican restaurants where the police arrested 10 employees. — [MORE]

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Behind The Veil: America’s Anti-Immigration Network — Video details the common origins of many of the country’s leading anti-immigration groups and their ties to White supremacists.

Lou Dobbs and Codewords Of Hate — A study by the Anti-Defamation League on the use of hate rhetoric in the immigration debate