Thread: Hispanic Groups to CNN: Drop Lou Dobbs

Hispanic Groups to CNN: Drop Lou Dobbs

Sept. 15, 2009
Rob Kuznia


Several Hispanic groups are calling on CNN to drop talk-show host and frequent illegal immigrant critic Lou Dobbs, who is broadcasting his radio show from a conference put on by what some activists refer to as a "hate group."

Dobbs is among 45 radio talk show hosts who attended the rally hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

FAIR has been branded a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which asserts, among other things, that FAIR has ties to white supremacists. FAIR, meanwhile, vigorously rejects the center's label.

In any case, the event in question is the annual "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" rally in Washington D.C., in which the 45 talk-show hosts and other immigration hard-liners are calling on legislators to ensure that illegal immigrants do not receive amnesty.

The racially charged controversy surrounding Dobbs has been simmering for months.

In March, Dobbs publicly apologized on his CNN show for calling the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce "an organization that is interested in the export of American capital and production to Mexico and Mexico's export of drugs and illegal aliens to the United States."

More recently, he has taken heat for giving airtime to a fringe movement known as the "birthers," who insist, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that President Obama was born in Kenya.

The coalition pushing for Dobbs's ouster calls itself DropDobbs.org. It includes The Hispanic Institute, Dolores Huerta Foundation, League of United Latin American Citizens, National Hispanic Media Coalition, National Puerto Rican Coalition and the National Council of La Raza.

Today, NCLR, the largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, issued a press release in which the group included a quote from a letter it wrote to CNN.

"While Lou Dobbs, as a private citizen, has every right to speak at whatever event he pleases," said NCLR President and CEO Janet MurguÃ*a in a letter to CNN CEO Jim Walton. "As a representative of CNN's 'best political news team in America,' his appearance provides FAIR with the legitimacy of the CNN brand and signals an intensification of the lopsided coverage Dobbs' show has provided during the debate over immigration reform."

NCLR contends that FAIR founder John Tanton has compared immigrants to "bacteria." It also blasts FAIR for receiving -- between 1982 and 1994 -- around $1.2 million from the Pioneer Fund, a group that has stirred controversy for bankrolling studies concluding that IQs vary according to race. (The Southern Poverty Law Center has also labeled the Pioneer Fund a hate group.)

On Tuesday, FAIR spokesman Ira Mehlman fired back, saying the Southern Poverty Law Center has its own issues.

"Who made SPLC the arbiter of who is and is not a hate group?" Mehlman said, speaking to HispanicBusiness.com. "The SPLC has been discredited by a lot of people -- and not Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. The Nation (a liberal publication) called them a bunch of hucksters who hype hate to line their own pockets."

(The aim of the April 29 piece was to highlight the ironic dilemma faced by an organization dedicated to fighting racism at a time when the influence of the radical right appears to be waning.)

Mehlman added that the "Drop Dobbs" camp is merely trying to "shut down the debate."

"They are going after everyone who is opposed to their point of view on this issue, trying to brand everyone as somehow beyond the pale," he said.

Mehlman said the Obama administration has turned a deaf ear to the people who oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants.

"The purpose (of the event) is to provide a voice to the majority of the American people, who simply oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants," he said.

Finally, Mehlman rejects the idea that FAIR is anti-immigrant, let alone racist.

"There is a very important difference between immigration policy, which is a policy, and immigrants, who are human beings," he said.

Other groups in the coalition include Media Matters for America, Center for Community Change, Center for New Community, NDN, Southern Poverty Law Center and America's Voice.

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I would think that Janet Marguia would be better served in thinking about what she's going to do for a living once NCLR is shut down.... right along with the rest of the special interest criminal and aubversive criminal organizations which have been, for decades, working to drive the US right into the ground.

In case she hasn't noticed.......it's all beginning to unravel.

Or maybe she has noticed and that's why the sheer desperation is beginning to show.

Janet can kiss my *ss!! Lou Dobbs is a patriot and KNOWS what the heck is going on!!

As with the ACORN issue, they are beginning to struggle to stay afloat and are panicking, grasping at anything as they are sinking.

I believe their reaction came right on the heels of a HUGE mass of American citizens who showed up at this, plus the 9/12 event, and are now feeling threatened by the millions of organized, fed-up Americans who are fighting back against this kind of thing.

Go ahead CNN, take Lou Dobbs off. Lou Dobbs should go over to Fox and take his viewrs that sat on CNN'c ratings, over with him!!LOL

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Janet can kiss my *ss!! Lou Dobbs is a patriot and KNOWS what the heck is going on!!



That's why he's always been a threat to the likes of NCLR Jshhmr.

People like that always attack what they fear.

Make sure you tell Janet what color lipstick you prefer

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As with the ACORN issue, they are beginning to struggle to stay afloat and are panicking, grasping at anything as they are sinking.

I believe their reaction came right on the heels of a HUGE mass of American citizens who showed up at this, plus the 9/12 event, and are now feeling threatened by the millions of organized, fed-up Americans who are fighting back against this kind of thing.


We can bet the farm on all of that Elizabeth You hit it spot on

The American people have become a waking nightmare for every last one of these individuals and organizations and they are coming undone.

Feels good doesn't it?



Go ahead CNN, take Lou Dobbs off. Lou Dobbs should go over to Fox and take his viewrs that sat on CNN'c ratings, over with him!!LOL


That's right Also, I read somewhere where Lou Dobbs himself was discussing how CNN would have to buy out his contract and pay him some other sum of money in severance were they to ask him to leave.

Between the loss of ratings, perhaps even advertisers, and the chunk of money CNN would have to shell out, how likely are they to unload him at the behest of this bunch of big-mouthed, racist, radicals? Not to mention that SPLC seemed to suddenly find itself as the epitome of the cheese standing alone once the investigation and hearing into the MAIC report began.

Boy.....everybody, including the media which had previously quoted, defended, and otherwise backed, the SPLC, clammed right up and left the room. In a hurry.

Every time that nut Janet MurguÃ*a the La Idiot has ever been on Lou's show she looked like a total fool.

Dixie

"While Lou Dobbs, as a private citizen, has every right to speak at whatever event he pleases," said NCLR President and CEO Janet MurguÃ*a in a letter to CNN CEO Jim Walton. "As a representative of CNN's 'best political news team in America,' his appearance provides FAIR with the legitimacy of the CNN brand and signals an intensification of the lopsided coverage Dobbs' show has provided during the debate over immigration reform."

If CNN bows down to your DEMANDS, it would provide la raza, ( a racist, hispanic supremacy group ) with a sense of legitimacy that NO organization should ever be a part of!

Get lost la raza!!

I doubt CNN will do anything to Lou, he is the only ratings they have left...the station is going down the tubes fast, heck, even msnbc got better rateings last time, they can all ignore the majority at their own peril.

You Janet are a nobody, people are sick of ethnocentric radical racist groups such as LaRaza!

If CNN drops Lou Dobbs no one will watch them. I hope he moves over to FOX. But with Glenn Beck, O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity what time slot would he fit into?