Thread: Crusading TV Anchor Lou Dobbs Targeted by Alarmists

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Crusading TV Anchor Lou Dobbs Targeted by Alarmists
By John F. McManus
Published: 2007-05-15 21:50 Email this page | printer friendly version



ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:
The Southern Poverty Law Center has placed advertisements in The New York Times and other publications attacking CNN's Lou Dobbs for supposedly inaccurate reporting.

Follow this link to the source article: "Open Letter to CNN About Lou Dobbs From the Southern Poverty Law Center"
http://www.splcenter.org/images/dynamic ... bbsnew.pdf


COMMENTARY:
President J. Richard Cohen of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) wants Americans to be wary of the information given nightly on the CNN news program anchored by Lou Dobbs. In his signed ad, he also seeks to cause Dobbs problems by addressing his "Open Letter" to CNN with a demand that the newsman be required to apologize for purported inaccuracies.

SPLC's real complaint — one that its ad doesn't mention — is that Dobbs dares to draw attention to the federal government's deficiencies regarding the continuing flood of illegal immigrants pouring across our porous southern border.

The SPLC ad claims that Dobbs is guilty of airing irresponsible claims about disease brought to American by illegal immigrants. Calling him an "anti-immigration zealot," its text insists that the Dobbs broadcasts "rely on disreputable sources."

Dobbs isn't guilty of being an "anti-immigration zealot," and he doesn't have an "anti-immigration agenda," two claims made by SPLC. What Dobbs doesn't like, and what his mushrooming number of viewers also don't like, is illegal immigration and all the problems it brings. He consistently sides with those who are calling on the federal government to meet its obligation to protect this nation against what the U.S. Constitution calls "invasion."

SPLC officials would have Americans believe that their nation is awash in hatred and intolerance for Blacks, Latinos, Jews, homosexuals and others. Constantly seeking to inflame racial and ethnic passions, its hucksters raise millions from the public they alarm with claims about cross-burnings, lynchings, and bigotry throughout the land.

Richard Samp of the respected Washington Legal Foundation accuses the group of "fundraising puffery." That's pretty mild when the SPLC website claims, "Somewhere in America EVERY HOUR someone commits a hate crime. EVERY DAY at least eight blacks, four gays, two Jews, two whites and one Latino become hate crimes victims." One would think hardly anyone was safe in America.

Over the years, SPLC has targeted conservatives, libertarians and tax protesters for its brand of vilification. Now, because there are an estimated 20 million illegals in the nation, many Americans are pretty irate about being required to provide them with free education, food, medical care, and other benefits. It is hardly surprising that citizens from coast to coast applaud the stands taken by Dobbs. But SPLC assures the public that any stand taken against illegal immigration is hate-filled.

SPLC co-founder Julian Bond once likened American conservatives to Iran's Taliban. Its other co-founder, Morris Dees, raked in $297,000 in salary and benefits in a recent year. He accomplished this with such claims as, "The danger presented by the Klan is greater now than at any time in the past ten years." This is the same Klan that Nation magazine's JoAnn Wypijewski noted in 2001 had shrunk to fewer than 3,000 members from a high of over four million.

Those who accept SPLC's alarmism don't seem to realize that without its incessant cries of rampant racism and hatred, the money wouldn't be flowing into the group's coffers. And when there isn't any credible reason to scream about hatred and bigotry, attacking Lou Dobbs with claims of inaccuracy seem designed to accomplish the money-raising goal.

If I was Lou Dobb I would issue a challenge for Cohen to come on the show and show evidence of inaccuracies Of course he wont because he knows Lou speaks the truth and has facts to back it up :P

The Southern Poverty Law Center has placed advertisements in The New York Times and other publications attacking CNN's Lou Dobbs for supposedly inaccurate reporting.

The first thing I would do is consider the source. In my opinion, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a scavenger operation comprised of many Open Borders zealots.

The SPLC ad claims that Dobbs is guilty of airing irresponsible claims about disease brought to American by illegal immigrants. Calling him an "anti-immigration zealot," its text insists that the Dobbs broadcasts "rely on disreputable sources."

Check out the archives here at ALIPAC. Read the articles and look at the sources. On the Leprosy, here are two articles and I think the National Library of Medicine From the National Institutes of Health is a credible source.

Leprosy in the United States, 1971-1981.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract

Neill MA,
Hightower AW,
Broome CV.
In the period 1971-1981, 1,835 cases of leprosy were reported in the United States; only 10% of these cases were indigenous. Since 1977, the number of new cases reported each year has risen because of an increase in imported cases of disease, a situation reflecting the increased number of refugees and immigrants who have entered the United States from areas endemic for leprosy. Forty-five of the 50 states reported cases. In only 25% of the imported cases were the patients known to have had leprosy at the time of immigration; the remaining 75% were diagnosed in this country. The highest rate of disease onset for this latter group occurred within 12 months after entry into the United States, but cases continued to be reported 10 years after entry. Active refugee resettlement programs have widely distributed persons with leprosy, contacts of diseased persons, and persons from endemic areas throughout the 50 states, a situation necessitating the development of expertise by medical professionals and public health officials in the diagnosis, treatment, and long-term follow-up of patients with leprosy.

PMID: 4045245 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Imported leprosy in the United States, 1978 through 1988: an epidemic without secondary transmission.
Mastro TD,
Redd SC,
Breiman RF.
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga. 30333.

OBJECTIVES. Leprosy remains a major health problem in many regions of the world. In the United States, although leprosy continues to be reported, approximately 90% of cases are imported (i.e., occur among immigrants and refugees). An increase in imported cases began in 1978. This study was conducted to analyze this trend and to characterize the contributing cases. METHODS. Centers for Disease Control leprosy surveillance data from 1971 through 1988 were analyzed. RESULTS. The number of imported cases reported annually was relatively constant from 1971 through 1977 (mean = 119 per year), increased to 307 in 1985, and then decreased to 102 in 1988. Of the 957 excess cases reported from 1978 through 1988, 73.4% were among persons from Southeast Asia, including 51.3% from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos (Indochina). There was no coincident increase in indigenous cases of leprosy; the mean annual number of such cases was 17.7 (range = 10 to 29). Leprosy remains endemic in Texas, Hawaii, Louisiana, and possibly California. CONCLUSIONS. An epidemic of imported leprosy began in the United States in 1978, peaked in 1985, and ended by 1988. This increase was primarily due to cases among refugees from Indochina and was limited by a decrease in the influx of Indochinese refugees in the mid-1980s. There is no evidence that these cases resulted in transmission in the United States.

bet The Lou Dobbs Show will be hot today!!

Thank God for Lou Dobbs! One of the last truly honest men on TV! If it was not for Lou Dobbs, TV News watchers would have few options for learning the truth!

Keep at them Lou!

We are with you 100% !!!

W

W. wrote:

Thank God for Lou Dobbs!

I do everyday! He is one in a million! May he stay healthy and very verbal!

He challenged them on his show yesterday. True to form, Lou had all of his facts! They are pathetic traitors. They 'attempted' to humiliate him by telling him that he is the #1 anchor for all of the 'hate' groups. His expression said it all! IDIOTS!!! Of course, we know that anyone who is anti-illegal is considered a 'hater.'

You did to put a bra on your avatar, jimpasz.

Thats Ted Kennedy on his boat fishing