can someone vomit on Lou Dobbs for me??

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argh all the constant "ILLEGAL ALIEN" ranting makes me lose it!! we just had an 8.7 earthquake hours ago on the other side of the world, and this l0ser doesn't even bother to report it in the headlines of his show...he just launches into his xenophobic blather w/ this extremely annoying sense of urgency and i'm sure his constant waa-waahing on this subject over the past two years is somehow connected to the civilian militia-thing in arizona thats now patrolling the border and trying to shoot whoever..HEY FUCKASS THIS USED TO BE MEXICO NOT TOO LONG AGO, WHAT DO U EXPECT?

special guest appearance, Monday, 28 March 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

he's such an odd duck, he has such a thing about BROKEN BORDERS or whatever. But the thing in arizona is so not new, they were doing it at least as early as the late 80s/early 90s when I went to h.s. near nogales.

teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

well he presented it as a brand new thang earlier this year, championing it thusly ->

"and NOW, americans who are sick of our borders being VIOLATED, are taking it in their OWN HANS to keep the illegals out..." yadda yadda yew

special guest appearance, Monday, 28 March 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know what to make of this issue until I heard what some Border Patrol agents thought of it. They say that these people aren't necessary, that that's why the Border Patrol exists, that it was wrong to deliver vigilante justice, etc. These were Border Patrol agents who actually work out there on the front lines saying this kind of thing. Sooooo.... But yeah, teeny OTM, it's not a new thing, etc. And people are still going to do it, no matter what the rightness or wrongness of their actions might be. Which is sad.

(Also, if any border should be tightened/more rigorously looked after, it's GOT to be the U.S./Canadian border. Unless it's REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hard to get into Canada to begin with.)

Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

lou dobbs is a douchebag. if the bubble hadn't popped, he wouldn't have a show now.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

my parents love lou dobbs

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

someone just has to take dobbs to nogales and get him really fuckin' doobed

donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There are reasons to harp on illegal immigration beyond xenophobia. Immigrants give business a crutch to avoid paying decent wages to unskilled workers (see Wallmart et al). Because the people effected by this tend to be the poorest it generally doesn't get much play in the press (contrast this to the outcry over white-collar outsourcing).

Yeni Yol, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

but nobody legal wants those jobs, that's the problem. not that illegals take them (what else are they gonna do??).

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

So allow the immigrants to become legal and force the employers to at least give minimum wage and healthcare.

Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly. make the process easier, and penalize the employers, not the employees.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

but nobody legal wants those jobs, that's the problem. not that illegals take them (what else are they gonna do??

Why shouldn't these jobs be exposed to the same wage pressures every other job is? If Wallmart has a hard time finding people to work as janitors at midnight then (God forbid!) they might have to raise janitors pay. What's so wrong about that? A constant stream of low-wage employees destroys any ability of unskilled workers to organize. One of the demands Cesar Chavez put to agricultural businesses was that they stop employing illegal immigrants (because it was used as form of union-busting), of course he lost that particular battle.

Yeni Yol, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

there's nothing wrong with your example, of wal-mart having to raise pay -- that's the problem and exactly what i said: blame the employer not the (illegal) employee.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

peace out you piece of shit

max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:22 (sixteen years ago)

is he going to fox?

harbl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:23 (sixteen years ago)

i hope he goes to hell

max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:24 (sixteen years ago)

? did he die? please tell me he died

squarefair (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:28 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, rip racist fat man

harbl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

Leaving CNN immediately-- the phrasing of his statements about it imply to me that he's gonna run for public office.

Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:48 (sixteen years ago)

i don't understand where he would fit in at fox tbh. not ideologically of course, but logistically

nog right (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

the cumbeard is losing in the ratings to fuckin everyone, ailes is damaged in the brain but hes not dumb enough to put another racist loss-leader on his childrens channel

max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:58 (sixteen years ago)

would be amazingly lol if he ran for office

nog right (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:00 (sixteen years ago)

some speculation that he might go to that fox bizness channel that nobody watches. as sort of a marquee name, i guess.

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:02 (sixteen years ago)

PLZ LOU DOBBS RUN FOR THE PRESIDENT IN 2012.

Or form a Palin/Dobbs dream ticket.

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:25 (sixteen years ago)

this is such classic nytimes coverage:

Mr. Dobbs’ views on immigration provoked a protest by Hispanic groups. Members of the groups complained that CNN was allowing Mr. Dobbs “to spread lies and misinformation about us each night.”

why does the nytimes need to quote that, as if it's an opinion? his shows are publicly broadcast. dobbs has repeated lie after lie. they are not just "views". they are on the record and clearly demonstrable. why is it so FUCKING HARD for the paper of record to just tell the truth in a clear way without couching it as he said, she said? for instance, they could say:

Mr. Dobbs’ repeated untruths about immigration issues consistently slanted against Hispanics. Several Hispanic organizations responded by protesting against his show.

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:32 (sixteen years ago)

Mr. Vader's views about Tattoine provoked opposition from some quarters. Members of a group calling themselves "The Rebel Alliance" complained that the Empire was allowing Mr. Vader "to blow up planets as he pleases."

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

not to mention--it should be mr. dobbs's

max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)

AP style calls for just the quote with no s if it's a proper name, I believe

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:39 (sixteen years ago)

remember when he said "illegal aliens" were causing an epidemic of leprosy and were also 1/3 of the prison population

harbl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:39 (sixteen years ago)

tracer hand otm

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:40 (sixteen years ago)

i mean apostrophe

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:40 (sixteen years ago)

xpost to ayooooharbl
I can't even tell if that's a joke or not, which is sad for Lou Dobbs any way you look at it.

nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:41 (sixteen years ago)

no, he really did that

harbl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

haha, conveniently: http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/4/fact_checking_dobbs_cnn_anchor_lou

harbl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:53 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.democracynow.org/images/story/46/16246/DobbsWeb2.jpg

still think kshighway is a sock (kshighway1), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:54 (sixteen years ago)

remember when he said "illegal aliens" were causing an epidemic of leprosy and were also 1/3 of the prison population

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argh yes what a horrible man

horseshoe, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

I wonder what his wife/marriage is like

squarefair (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:39 (sixteen years ago)

pointless.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

so I guess this is why they had to fire him: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_deports_lou_dobbs

iatee, Friday, 13 November 2009 00:21 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/INS-Deports-Jump-R.article.jpg

iatee, Friday, 13 November 2009 00:22 (sixteen years ago)

i remember in like 03 when he started making the shift towards the whole protectionist populism thing and i was like ayo a guy hosting a business show actually coming out for workers big up this lou dobbs guy

and then my horror increased

my cousins & i call him "lol dobbs"

Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 13 November 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

i was trying to fall asleep in my car at 4am with npr playing and i heard this and woke up and whooped to no one in particular

Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 13 November 2009 00:43 (sixteen years ago)

AMY GOODMAN: Are you running?

LOU DOBBS: Absolutely not. It’s the last thing I could imagine. If I were a candidate, I can assure both of you that I would be the candidate of last resort in this country. That’s about 300 million people in line ahead of me.

awesome

Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 13 November 2009 00:50 (sixteen years ago)

I worry that duty, god or the anybody but palin campaign may call on him.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 13 November 2009 00:58 (sixteen years ago)

man that whole interview makes my blood boil

fucking demagogue

Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:03 (sixteen years ago)

"why are you only talking about my most egregious distortions you crazy ideologue"

Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:04 (sixteen years ago)

hoos why were you trying to sleep in yr car

jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:15 (sixteen years ago)

is your roomie that bad or

jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:18 (sixteen years ago)

Lou Dobbs sponsored a horse competition at the NJ State Fair this summer. They day I went one of the riders fell off her horse. I like to think he is to blame somehow.

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 13 November 2009 02:47 (sixteen years ago)

Not to shit on everyone else's parade, but it incredibly strange to think the immigration issue slices neatly between the parties.

Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union were intent on halting illegal immigration of undocumented workers that would undercut their wages, and tried to both block illegal immigration, and enact penalties on growers that used undocumented workers to break their strikes.

Immigration of unskilled labor helps two groups: capital (esp small business owners), and the new immigrants. For everyone else, especially the most recent prior wave of less skilled immigrants, it undercuts their value in the labor market.

I suspect people that really care about others on the bottom rung have thought more about the inexorable law of supply and demand than I, or you, have.

Deliquescing (Derelict), Friday, 13 November 2009 03:45 (sixteen years ago)

um, what parade

harbl, Friday, 13 November 2009 03:56 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

*cue Nelson laugh*.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

what a great thread title

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

this fuckin guy

crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

comments on that piece are perhaps unexpectedly egregious

sir you cannot be serious (stevie), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.avclub.com/articles/fox-news-warns-that-the-lorax-and-the-secret-world,69810/

Dobbs will protect your children from the ideological horrors foisted by multinationals upon the multiplexes

Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

Lou Dobbs railing against this awful-looking movie could only help it, surely.

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

He also goes after the newest Studio Ghibli flick, which was originally released in the summer of 2010

Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

PLUS The Borrowers/Arriety thing is 50+ years old, and The Lorax has been a thing since the 70's. I guess books are the realm of the privileged, eh Lou? More worried about the poisonous effects of these moving pictures on the 'normal' American? ugh.

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:46 (fourteen years ago)

People have been dicks about The Lorax forever!

In 1988, a small school district in California kept the book on a reading list for second graders, though some in the town claimed the book was unfair to the logging industry.[2] Terri Birkett, a member of a family-owned hardwood flooring factory, authored The Truax,[3] offering a logging-friendly perspective to an anthropomorphic tree known as the Guardbark. This book was published by NOFMA, National Wood Flooring Manufacturers' Association. Just as in The Lorax, the book consists of a disagreement between two people. The logging industry representative states that they have efficiency and re-seeding efforts. The Guardbark, a personification of the environmentalist movement much as the Once-ler is for big business, refuses to listen and lashes out. But in the end, he is convinced by the logger's arguments.

A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:49 (fourteen years ago)

Wow I had no idea. The Trurax! Lol

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.stuartflooring.com/downloads/truax.pdf

oy

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

this fuckin guy

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 17:17 (eight years ago)


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