Thread: ALIPAC reported in India's Hindustan Times paper

Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Hindustan Times
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Washington, January 19, 2008
First Published: 21:53 IST(19/1/200
Last Updated: 22:45 IST(19/1/200

Outsourcing bogey revives in USA



Admirers of the most famous United States critic of outsourcing have launched a campaign to persuade him to run for the White House. The Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee called on 62-year-old CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs to consider a run for the US presidency. It set up a website "to allow people to express their political support for Lou Dobbs, to show Dobbs what kind of support is out there, and to have some supporters organised, if he decides to run."

Dobbs, who has for years used his CNN post to launch savage attacks on US companies who outsource jobs to India and elsewhere, had recently told the Wall Street Journal he didn't have either "the personality or nature to be a politician." However, Dobbs did not rule out the idea entirely saying, "I cannot say never."

The draft Dobbs for president campaign could help revive outsourcing as an election issue in the US. Though all the major Democratic candidates have taken swipes at US companies for outsourcing jobs, the message has so far had little resonance in the broader campaign.

The committee behind www.loudobbsforpresident.org is primarily an anti-immigrant group, but the website warns about the "war on middle class America" — a reference to a segment of Dobbs's show called "The War Against the Middle Class" replete with outsourcing bashing. The committee's head, William Gheen, claims a survey showed 70 per cent of his group's support list were prepared to vote for Dobbs. By Thursday evening the website had received $ 320,000 in contributions.

Dobbs is equally at home attacking Chinese exports to the US, illegal immigrants from Mexico and call centres in India.

He has long raised the bogey of millions of white collar jobs fleeing the US for India. In an interview he once denounced, "Denying citizens of [the Midwestern US state of] Indiana a job to help citizens of India."

Says outsourcing expert Jacob Kierkegaard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, "Dobbs is the latest incarnation of a long historical list of American 'middle class' demagogues. His thinking is one-dimensional: trade (ie foreigners) are to blame for all ills that befall the US middle class."

Others were even more dismissive. Tim Adams, managing director of the Lindsey Group and former Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs, said, "I don't think Dobbs candidacy is a serious effort. It's mostly a public relations stunt to help bolster his ratings."

If Dobbs ratings are a measure of the appeal of his anti-outsourcing and anti-immigrant message, then countries like India have little to worry about. A report in December noted his CNN show averages 830,000 nightly viewers and was 16th in place in cable TV news and talk show ratings. The larger evening news programmes had viewerships about ten times larger.

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The committee behind www.loudobbsforpresident.org is primarily an anti-immigrant group,

When did we become anti-IMMIGRANT? Is this deliberate slander?

Originally Posted by WhatMattersMost

The committee behind www.loudobbsforpresident.org is primarily an anti-immigrant group,

When did we become anti-IMMIGRANT? Is this deliberate slander?

You bet, let's straighten them out in the comments section of ther article. I think our name say's it all...Americans for LEGAL Immigration PAC. Everyone at ALIPAC welcomes and congratulates LEGAL immigrants. However, we are against ILLEGAL immigration and those that have no respect for our immigration laws.

Yep, the media in India is scared of Dobbs. All those American jobs going to India might be affected if outsourcing becomes a greater issue in the Presidential campaigns.

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IMAGINE THAT. ALIPAC IS MAKING NEWS IN AN INDIAN NEWSPAPER. I guess they are all realzing that they just MIGHT have something to do with one of the reasons why Lou Dobbs is wanted by many to run for president.

INDIAN OUTSOURCING IS A HUGE FACTOR! How would these people feel if all of their jobs went to Americans? What would they feel like if we ran their call centers and none of them could understand a word we said?

Lou Dobbs would help keep our jobs at home.

Originally Posted by butterbean

IMAGINE THAT. ALIPAC IS MAKING NEWS IN AN INDIAN NEWSPAPER. I guess they are all realzing that they just MIGHT have something to do with one of the reasons why Lou Dobbs is wanted by many to run for president.

INDIAN OUTSOURCING IS A HUGE FACTOR! How would these people feel if all of their jobs went to Americans? What would they feel like if we ran their call centers and none of them could understand a word we said?

Lou Dobbs would help keep our jobs at home.

You don't expect them to see the American side of do you "butterbean"

The people from Mexico refuse to see the Americans side of the illegal immigration issue either.

If we look out for our country or our culture we are called every name in the book....So I guess we just have to not give a damn what people think of us any longer, we just have to do what we must to save our country from the greedy people who want what Americans have built for the last 250 years.

So I guess we just have to not give a damn what people think of us any longer, we just have to do what we must to save our country from the greedy people who want what Americans have built for the last 250 years.

WE HAVE TO STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHETHER PEOPLE LIKE US. THE ONLY WAY THEY WILL LIKE US IS IF WE ALLOW THEM TO PILLAGE OUR COUNTRY. SO I DONT WANT THEM TO LIKE US. IF THEY DONT LIKE US THAT IS A GOOD SIGN, IN MY OPINION.

WE HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO STRENGTHEN OUR COUNTRY AND ITS CITIZENS. EVERYTHING WE DO MUST BE FOR US. AS LONG AS WE KEEP TRYING TO HELP OTHER COUNTRIES WHO DONT WANT TO CHANGE, WE WILL SLOWLY SINK OUR OWN SHIP.