Dump Dobbs
Dobbs visting the racist Minutemen
I cannot for the life of me figure out why there is not a national campaign to have CNN jettison Lou Dobbs, the racist demagogue who is leading a national charge to make undocumented workers the Jews of the Amerikan Reich. I’ve been waiting… and waiting… and waiting…
Nothing.
I can find over 130,000 hits on Google if I input “lou dobbs racist”. But no campaign stop this puffed-up, self-important, lilly-white piece of xenophobic shit from retaining a platform before half a million people to engage in thinly-coded hate speech. And the last thing I care about here is some lame-ass argument about free speech. Lou Dobbs is paid mad money by a huge multinational corporation, and they change what they are going to say all the time in the face of politicla pressure — ususally the Pentagon, but that’s another story.
A letter campaign to CNN, a “Lou Dobbs is a racist turd” cluster-blog campaign, demonstrations outside the Atlanta offices of CNN, boycotts… something. Damn.
This guy is an archetypal fascist… petit bourgeois, masculinist, populist-posing, nativist, and sower of racial paranoia. “Alien Invasion,” he says with studied outrage, referring, of course… to people. Desperate people, with a lot of indigenous blood (that means their ancestors were actually born here before yours came, Lou), who were lashed north by economic conditions created by American foreign policies.
If you want to know why there are National Guard about to stand around along the Mexican border, don’t ask George W. Bush. he ran from this issue like it was a big Rottweiller. Lou Dobbs created this obscenity; and it’s past time for people to call his dough-boy-lookin’ ass on this shit.
We just had an unprecedented immigrant uprising in this country. Maybe it’s time for a Latin@ boycott of anything advertized on CNN until this parochial popinjay is handed his walking papers. Time to call stockholders, the CEOs of advertizers; time to mount a general anti-CNN campaign (they’ve deserved it for a while).
This pasty prick actually posed for photographs with the Minutemen, a motely collection of weekend vigilantes who started hanging around the Arizona-Mexico border with binoculars and rifles, whose speech is littered with the memes of white supremacy. Dobbs brought Jim Gilchrist — the Minutemen’s founder — on his CNN program as an unopposed guest.
Since then, [wiki quote] On April 20, 2006, Gilchrist and the Minutemen Project issued a public ultimatum to Bush to “declare a state of emergency and deploy the National Guard and military reserves (and begin building a border security fence) by the 25th of May.” If the President refuses to do so, “on Memorial Day weekend, we’re going to break ground and we’re going to start helping landowners (along the US-Mexico border) to build a double layer security fence along their properties, because the federal government refuses to protect them” [end quote]
Gilchrist ordered the Prez to deploy the NGs, and Bush did it. But without Dobbs, Gilchrist would have been just another wacko. Dobbs legitimated him, and CNN legitimates Dobbs.
Basta!
Josiah:
Wow. I didn’t know about the May 25th “ultimatum.” Clearly, immigration is shaping up to be an even greater electoral decoy issue in ‘06 and ‘08 than gay marriage was in ‘04. But I didn’t think the Minutemen were actually having their demands met like that, while being lovingly tele-profiled by Lou Dobbs no less. And you can bet the Democrats will distance themselves as far as possible from the immigrants’ rights demonstrators this fall.
16 May 2006, 6:21 pmTimothy R. Anderson:
The Annoying Dobbs. I cannot remember one single
instance, during the time from March 2003 to this
moment right now, when Dobbs stopped his whiny,
self-righteous , huffy-puffiness to simply
state that the borders of Iran, Jordan, Syria, Saudi
Arabia, Turkey, and Kuwait are DANGEROUS.
I am typing this from central California. People
here, although not Hollywood-type’s , can put
two and two together fairly well.
During the months from March 2003 until RIGHT NOW
and beyond, the UNPROTECTED BORDERS of
Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq have been the source
of American soldiers getting injured and
getting killed. Dobbs is silent about this.
People here in central California can put
two and two together and get four. Mexicans crossing into California are NOT wounding American soldiers. Mexicans crossing into California are
NOT NOT NOT killing American soldiers.
So why the big focus, Dobbs ? This is soooooooo
typical of Big Media. ” We know what
we need you to think. ” ” We know what
is the issue. ” Yet …. Yet ….. Mexicans
crossing into Arizona are NOT wounding
American soldiers ; MEXICANS CROSSING INTO
ARIZONA are NOT killing American soldiers.
Period.
This is where the lie becomes unavoidable. The
President Bush prime-time speech last night
was a Dobbs-moment if I ever saw one. ” My
country’s government CANNOT do what needs
to be done over in Iraq, so let’s not
talk about that, I cannot see any value
in taking a good, looooong look at myself
and my own failings . Good thing there
are Mexicans to talk about. ”
Well, I ain’t buying it, and whether it
16 May 2006, 6:36 pmis being served by the White House and/
or Dobbs ……. no matter how U
slice it, it is STILL baloney.
Timothy R. Anderson
05 / 16 / 06
http://www.warisaracket.org
I am at # 102
Hey Stan, have you seen the lyrics to
X.T.C.’s ” Scarecrow People ” yet ? Just wonderin’
denisdekat:
He does seem racist, but he is talking class warefare. It is an interesting thing. I actually think that he really believes that illegal immigrants, in their desperation, lower wages for the middle class. Afterall, this is supply and demand.
Sill, I think immigration is not the thing to focus on, but ratherm, the corporate theft and larceny that is going on. Too bad Lou does not focus more energy on the rich rober barons destroying our body polictics (not to mention, our country)…
16 May 2006, 7:35 pmStan:
Wow! I dropped this on Huffingtonpost, and the white libs over there are really up in arms at me. I didn;t think they could employ more rationalizations than they did on the prison rape piece, but I’m being proven wrong… and the tone is rabid.
The depth of this “liberal” anti-Latin@ xenophobia is astounding, and I must say that this reaction makes me fearful about any sudden decline in middle class living standards in the US. We are closer to fascism than we think.
Y’all should drop in and read these comments (even add some if you dare). I’ve said it before, so I’ll say it again. Scratch a liberal, and you’ll find an imperialist almost every time.
Scary.
16 May 2006, 8:36 pmDeAnander:
Jensen is right:
Some of my best friends are liberals. Really. But I have found it is best not to rely on them politically.
Bashing the left to burnish credibility in mainstream circles is a time-honored liberal move, a way of saying “I’m critical of the excesses of the powerful, but not like those crazy lefties.†For example, during a discussion of post-9/11 politics, I once heard then-New York University professor (he has since moved to Columbia University) Todd Gitlin position himself between the “hard right†(such as people associated with the Bush administration) and the “hard left†(such as Noam Chomsky and other radical critics), implying an equivalence in the coherence or value of analysis of each side.
“I’m a Librul BUT…” is right up there with “I’m a feminist BUT…” (i.e. liberal-feminism). Here’s Ruth Rosen giving a classroom demonstration of Librul-Feminism for us – just listen to this:
is it any wonder if women of colour often feel that “feminism” in the US is a White Thang?
Multiculturalism is dead, fine by me? I’m all right Jack? Who cares if the neoconderthals want to turn the clock back to 1950 for all of us, it’s only white housewives who count? (not to mention Rosen’s apparent historical ignorance of at least 2 serious generations of feminists prior to the 60’s) … hey, I understand fighting your own corner; but you’d think Rosen might just have had the decency to acknowledge Jim Crow laws and lynching, and the connection between the angry-whiteboy backlash against “multiculturalism” and good ol’ racism.
Sean Gonsalves ain’t exactly a personal icon for me, but he’s got it right here:
16 May 2006, 9:42 pmS Kol:
So this is the liberal base, huh?
They want open-mindedness and do-good individuality, and all they can resort to is xenophobia (so much for open-minds…), and how your article is out-of-touch with liberals (…and non-conformity)? Hell, what is a liberal anyway?
Sorry, those comments alone depressed and pissed me off.
16 May 2006, 9:49 pmmike:
I think Fox News is a much bigger factor legitimizing the Minutemen than Dobbs; Hannity, etc. have much larger audiences than Lou does and their propaganda is much more slick.
16 May 2006, 9:56 pmfelipe:
and here i thought it was scratch a white american and you find a racist almost every time. the threat of “darkie” will serve the fascists much better than homophobia.
“liberal” air america exposes your point on a regular basis. the “progressives” there regularly trip over themselves trying to explain away the obvious racism of their political-economic rationalizations. the conspicuous absence of voices of color prevents any real discussion.
they and many other “liberals” conveniently forget the history of u.s. foreign and trade policy and the appropriation of other peoples’ lands and futures when they explain away the racism in economic terms.
slavery, imperialism and neoliberalism have no part in their analysis. our borders are great to keep people out, not to restrict our armies or our corporations. manifest destiny is alive and well.
it’s all so convenient for the relatively subtly shfiting status quo, except of course, for people of color. but hey, when has the u.s. government or the majority of the predominantly white population ever really cared about that? somewhere between the nominal reversal of “separate but equal” and abu ghraib?
i doubt it.
one of the many ironies is that the people victimized by white american racism are the closest things to allies non-plutocrat white americans would have when the shit hits the fan in the not-so-distant future.
the victims of our foreign and trade policy have a far better understanding of “resistance” than the average middle class white american who can’t figure out what the hell is going on and doesn’t want to think too hard about it.
instead of learning something–ANYTHING–from fidel or hugo or their populations, they’d rather demean them as “communists” or “socialists” and dig through the refuse pile of corporate whore democrats who on occasion do something that doesn’t completely cater to the bush administration. why? because when it comes down to it, they at least unconsciously believe themselves to be more like white bush than dark felipe.
the magnitude of the immigration rallies (by immigrants, not minutemen) should make the anti-war groups wonder why they can’t get that kind of immediate, visible support, particularly considering the significantly greater personal risks involved in the “illegal” immigrant community taking such action.
i believe we are more or less exactly where many future oriented thinkers posited we would be given the origins and development of this country. it’s not hard to make a rational argument that bush and co. represent the latest apex in american capitalism.
unfortunately, i don’t think we’ve topped out yet.
16 May 2006, 10:29 pmAudrey:
Just for fun - NBC’s coverage of Bush’s immigration plan, in case you haven’t seen it:
Bush to Move Lou Dobbs to the Mexican Border
Anchorman will serve as barrier to illegal immigrants
May 16, 2006 - In his toughest stand yet against illegal immigration, President George W. Bush today announced that he would move CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs to the United States’ border with Mexico.
The move is a reversal for the president, who one day earlier had announced that he was moving 6,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border. The decision to dispatch Mr. Dobbs, Bush said, means that the deployment of Guard troops is no longer necessary …”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12817470/site/newsweek
The husband and I used to have a running joke where we’d try to guess how Dobbs would blame any breaking news story on the immigrants. Steroid use in baseball? Caffeine is good/bad for you? With a little creativity, you can turn anything into the home version of Lou Dobbs Tonight.
16 May 2006, 11:00 pmJames M:
Desperate people … who were lashed north by economic conditions created directly by American foreign policies.
You wonder why there’s no anti-Dobbs campaign; I wonder why there’s no campaign to explain to the masses what you refer to in the above quote. I’ve seen good work on that front in some of your recent FTW articles, but I wish more space had been given in this piece to explicating this subject.
This IS about racism. But when that’s brought up, White America reflexively defaults back to the media-indoctrinated standpoint of characterizing people who bring up the uncomfortable subject as wolf-criers, demagogues pulling the race card (as one of your commenters suggested you were.) Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson immediately come to the collective mind. (Nevermind that they make legitimate points — the point is that they have become the media’s chosen straw men for the issue of race, the caricaturish figures who allow the White Male collective mind to immediately power down when racism is addressed, whether it’s anti-black or anti-brown.) And that is something we have to fight against, but there are other avenues of argument which I think pack a lot of punch and ultimately bring us back to the topic of racism, with a lot more ammunition to fight that battle.
I’m not saying shut up about race. I’m not saying cede ground to the Dobbses and O’Reillys of the world. I’m saying that as part of the discussion, we need to bring up some neglected facts, which are the hidden history of the imperial depredations of American foreign policy upon countries south of us. Stuff you well understand and can well articulate. I think this needs to be addressed, and loudly — because it trumps all the other arguments, the ones that attempt to felonize & scapegoat millions of human beings.
I know this, because I’ve had these arguments with Repub family members. (How Repub, you ask? One of them’s a lawyer for Halliburton, if that’s any indication.) And I’ve sent them into fits of inarticulate apoplexy (not typical for corporate lawyers) when they can’t come up with a counter-argument to justify things like coups in Chile and Guatemala, IMF loan-sharking, and the like. Old Cold War rationales don’t cut it anymore. They take a bit of explaining, but examples like these serve to humanize immigrants, to explain their motivations, and it’s the card I pull when someone challenges me on my support for immigrants. Wins every time.
Racism is still the elephant in the room here, and we need a concerted assault to take it down. Forgive my arrogance in making my case using military metaphors to a former teacher at West Point
… but I think the imperialist foreign policy-argument is a useful tactic within that larger battle.
17 May 2006, 12:00 amElaina:
Yo stan-
just went over to huffington post and all I can say is “shit.”
I get so ashamed of liberal gringos who go on and on about how this is a “huge problem” and how it needs a definitive “solution.” The language is fucking creepy, it’s obviously white supremacist, and everybody who’s read any fucking history books should know better. I honestly didn’t think that we were seriously that blind or stupid or selfish. Goes to show what I know, huh?
I wish I had some land. Right about now would be a good time to dig in, build a compound. I don’t like what I’m seeing AT ALL.
I hear the clomp-clomp-clomp of jackboots on the wind. Egad.
WTF?
*goes to bed all creeped out*
17 May 2006, 3:20 amJim Withey:
I can almost hear Barry Bonds cutting a version of ‘Everything’s Gonna Turn Out Grreat”.
17 May 2006, 3:25 amR.S. Morris:
“I hear the clomp-clomp-clomp of jackboots on the wind. Egad.”
No shit, huh? I tried to post on HuffPo, but it didn’t go through, so here’s the gist of what I wanted to say:
It never ceases to amaze me just how many “liberals” there are out there who are standing in line to man the detention center guntowers. That “L” word holds no positive weight in my mind any longer.
Wyoming is looking better and better these days–at least here nearly everyone wears their politics right out in the open.
Bah!
17 May 2006, 10:27 amfrank:
Consider “the deliberate dumbing down of america”. It’s why kooks like Dobbs are so successful. That, and the fact that a majority of americans are soooo plugged in to the idiot box every evening. Thirty seconds to a minute of airtime, and the absence of ten-dollar words is how Dobbs & Co. get the xenophobic message across. Perhaps if “liberals” or “progressives” or whatever the hell the people with all the “creative solutions to the problems in the world” want to call themselves could refrain from theorizing so damn much, and discard the rhetoric, and actually DO SOMETHING, the masses might grasp the ideas that are put forth; of course then I have to wish and hope that they could also come to their own senses based on pure moral sensibility, y’know, what one can sense is right & wrong, and “Oh My God!!!”, think for themselves. What a concept!
17 May 2006, 12:34 pmYolanda Carrington:
Liberal, conservative, or whatever, them fools at Huffington Post are WHITE. They reflect the true mindset of white “middle-class” (not for long, btw) people in the USA.
I love it when people insist they’re not racist but in the next sentence make FLAMINGLY RACIST remarks. And when they accuse you over and over again of “playing the race card?” Brilliant!
Who was it that said whiteness was a mental illness?
Yolanda
17 May 2006, 4:21 pmfrank:
Hey Yolanda, those folks probably didn’t read “Making Face, Making Soul”, or any other of the number of really good books out there, so they don’t understand that being a white person comes with “internalized dominance”- but even if they DID, they’d have to actually GO OUTSIDE once in awhile, preferably in a neighborhood that’s not comprised of mostly white, boring people, and speak with folks for chrissakes! Can’t change much by talking to a computer screen all day.
17 May 2006, 5:21 pmDeAnander:
When people know they are doing wrong, whether in kindergarten or adulthood, they get mulish and stubborn and frantic and flailing in their denial. It’s part of the mechanism. That’s how I hear this arrant nonsense from the angry white libruls: mulish whining and denial.
You want my $.02 — Amurkans are figuring out in some osmotic way that the promise of Infinite Growth is bogus, that capitalism is not lifting all boats, that their lifestyle comes at the expense of others. Now they could go two ways with this (at least). They could say, “Damn, I guess we’d better consume a bit less and be less wealthy and share it around more,” or they could say, “I got mine and I don’t care how many Untermenschen have to live in illiterate sordid poverty and/or die untimely and/or be held in slavery so that I can go on pigging out ad lib.” Most of them pick Option B, but Libruls feel a bit guilty about it, so they have to do extra rationalisation and fantasising and flailing to portage their brains past the inconsistency.
The border issue is just another facet of this creeping ideological crash, imho, and the frantic hostility is the same as it was when the Native Americans were still a force to be reckoned with: these people are trying to get (or keep) a share, and we don’t want to share, we won’t share, and no one can make us, so there. If there were ’spare jobs’ no one would care so much. The racism is always there, dormant like a recessive meme, but it gets activated by the jittery adrenalin of a failing economy.
What I see in this kind of Librul racism in essence is a grown up spoilt toddler throwing a major tantrum rather than share. It’s just as visceral, just as irrational, just as embarrassing for anyone not participating in the tantrum, and if you’ve ever worked with toddlers you know that tantrums can get violent; there’s a reason why we work so hard to socialise kids before they get old enough to be a real hazard
I don’t mean to trivialise the danger of this situation — I hear those jackboots too — just to point out that this kind of racism — maybe all kinds — is deep-wired emotionally, a rationalisation over very childish selfishness and fear. People were less “out there” with their racism when their own jobs, their own salaries, their own retirement and health care were not under attack. When they had the illusion of plenty they were more tolerant of other people getting a share of the goodies; but if goodies are getting scarce then they start to panic; those other people’s aspirations to decency or mere survival suddenly become a “threat” as they cannot be realised without Me Having Less, which is (gasp) unthinkable.
The horrid thing about this is that the sane rightwing regimes of rentiers and crooks who rip off the polity and create precarity and fear, benefit from the fear they induce in the whiteboy population, which preferentially directs itself at the Other rather than the Over. In other words this is a win/win for BushCo and other wannabe fascistas. Their policies bankrupt the country and threaten whitefellas’ livelihoods, and in response the whitefellas get all worked up about brownfellas and blackfellas, and demand exactly the kind of police state apparatus which will inevitably be used to control and corral the whitefellas in the end… sorry, I’m rambling on and pointing out the bloody obvious. We all know this script. I guess my question is, how do we interrupt this vicious cycle?
How do we get these whiteboys to understand that the “hordes” of brown people trying to get into the US wouldn’t be so hordelike in number and urgency if it had not been for the same NAFTA/GATT skulduggery that destroyed all those US jobs and pithed whole towns all across the Red States? If they would just connect those two small dots, light bulbs might light up. Cause, consequence.
17 May 2006, 5:52 pmDeAnander:
BTW, all the above should be xref’d with the idea that what we call “dumbing down” the electorate with TV etc could also be called “infantilising” the electorate: creating a nation of perpetual juveniles.
17 May 2006, 5:54 pmSteve:
Is everything falling apart Stan?
Whats your take-best guess on what we should expect in the USA over the next 14 years.
It looks to me like NO ONES IN CHARGE. It’s dog eat dog, to each his own, survival of the fittest.
And things are just crumbling all around us on top of it.
Or is my imagination just in overdrive?
17 May 2006, 6:05 pmJames M:
OK, it’s far worse than even I imagined. The racism isn’t the slightest bit crypto anymore, it’s bald-faced and unabashed … in case we couldn’t read between the lines with what Dobbs is saying, we have O’Reilly to spell it out in unambiguous language for us:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200605170006
Summary: Bill O’Reilly claimed that The New York Times and “many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed.” O’Reilly continued: “According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will.”
Watch the video, it’s even worse than the summary lets on.
18 May 2006, 3:04 amJames M:
P.S. It’s a bit surreal to see one of the chief spokesmen for the White Power Structure, O’Reilly, referring to it as such. I thought it was one of those things, like La Cosa Nostra, that you don’t speak of if you’re a member.
18 May 2006, 3:36 amLinda J.:
This Counterpunch article in the immigrant struggle by Juan Santos is brilliant.
http://www.counterpunch.org/
I did go to Huffington and it took two days, but my post about the ease with which rich peoples’ appropriated money flows around the world as opposed to the workers who earn it finally made it on.
After I posted the Santos article on my blog, I got an outraged email from a sometime ally on antiwar issues. Xenophobe-extraordinaire.
18 May 2006, 6:15 pmStan:
Deep, ain’t it?
18 May 2006, 6:39 pmDeAnander:
shovel harder comrades, I’m losing sight of the sky.
18 May 2006, 6:46 pmStan:
I just can’t resist… Some troll over at Huffpost who calls himself Republicnotademocracy (seems a bit tedious to type over and over) has really got his underwear in a wad about what I’m posting over there. The Murtha post netted a comment from him that called me a “traitorous snake.” In a way, it makes me sad (but not THAT sad) that I weed out flamers and the like here, because sometimes they are actually kind of fun… in a really messed up kind of way.
Here is his latest on the Dobbs post, which provoked him to do multiple andfurthermore posts, which is remarkable in its strangeness (enjoy):
“Usually Goff doesn’t really get me pissed off, because he is an intellectual lightweight in history matters and a renegade from the military he once belonged to. Obviously his oaths of service are irrelevant to him.
But this time he is so out of line that he must be responded to.
“First off, what have you got against caucasian people? Looking at your photo, you appear to be white. Why do you hate whites so, your own race? Why don’t you do a reverse Michael Jackson if you can’t stand being in your own skin? You surround yourself in your “family” with dark skinned people. What gives? Do you have a sexual predilection for non-whites?
“Your venomous hatred of Lou Dobbs is absolutely bizarre: Don’t you realize he is the darling of the Left, the one holdout on the MSM who doesn’t idolize the Right? You castigate him for his whiteness and his upbringing. YOU’RE the damned racist!
“Also, Ranman, I read your hatefilled diatribe against Rosethe jet here. What the fuck is with you? How does Stan Goff draw such ne’er-do-wells to his site?”
18 May 2006, 8:03 pmDeAnander:
OK Stan, you must be a “self-hating Anglo”!
notice how the wingnuts have appropriated the concept of “hate speech” and “hate crime” and are wielding it clumsily in all directions?
18 May 2006, 8:29 pmAudrey:
I got lost early on with Utahliberal’s description of the financial situation of his wife’s clients. Apparently there are a bunch of minimum wage immigrant workers who are “paid in cash, thus faking extreme poverty.” If you’re supporting a family here on minimum wage with no health insurance, do you really need to fake the whole poverty thing?
I’m also tangled up in the grammatical implications of Republicnotetc’s use of quotes around your “family”. I’m trying to decide if he means it’s not a real family if they aren’t all white. That doesn’t seem possible, yet the only other explanation I’ve come up with is that you’ve been lying all along about even having a family, and he knows something we don’t.
- one of your ne’er-do-wells
18 May 2006, 11:09 pmR.S. Morris:
Well, Stan Goff was a sergeant in the Army…and everyone knows that sergeants reproduce by fission.
(apologies to R. Heinlein for the bad paraphrase!)
19 May 2006, 12:11 pmchris:
About Lou Dobbs on Counterpunch:
http://www.counterpunch.org/philion05202006.html
20 May 2006, 6:57 pmTom KB:
I don’t know if you’re familiar with Michael Ventura or not, but he’s a novelist, and columnist with the Austin Chronicle. He’s one of my favorite writers. Here’s a great column in today’s Chronicle. http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2006-05-26/cols_ventura.html
25 May 2006, 9:46 pmMike Lopez:
Dump Dobbs and stop with all the xenophobic crap. For once GWB got it right when he said we should ‘uphold our proud immigrant heritage’. I do not watch any of the US networks for news. They don’t do news anymore, but rather a sort of ratings whoring televised version of people magazine. I will spare you my usual ranting, but try LINK TV or NWI (News World International). Directv satellite used to carry both but for some reason that they will not disclose dropped the latter.
29 May 2006, 1:19 pmMiles:
I’ve never heard of him.
To provide a literal answer to your question, it’s probably because almost nobody who objects has ever seen or heard of the guy.
Our media are siloed. I don’t have time to or interest in receiving information from Fox news. Fox is on another planet… hopefully a small and dying planet… no connection to my reality at all.
SHOULD I pay attention to such people? How far does my ethical obligation extend to pay attention to the rantings of racists? I’m glad to have them pointed out however.
30 May 2006, 3:22 pmGEORGE SEDENO:
MY ANCESTORS WERE HERE BEFORE LOU DOBBS, AND WILL BE HERE LONG AFTER LOU DOBBS AND ALL THE OTHER RACISTS WITH ANTI-IMMIGRATION SENTIMENTS AGAINST MEXICANS. TEXAS WAS MEXICO, AS WAS MOST OF THE WEST COAST. SO, LOU DOBBS, IS RIGHT, THE MEXICANS WILL TAKE BACK THEIR COUNTRY SOONER THAN LATER. MEXICANS ARE REPRODUCING AT AN ALARMING RATE. LOU ISN’T HAVING ANY OFF-SPRING, UNLESS HE CLONES HIMSELF. SO, YES LOU, LONG AFTER YOUR GONE, YOU’LL BE RESTING IN PEACE IN MEXICO.
26 October 2006, 4:37 pmTimothy R. Anderson:
Get ready for what we have all already seen to be seen again. Here’s a snippet of an article published on Thursday , May 18 , 2006 , yes 2006 ,
on the front page of the Los Angeles Times newspaper:
” The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure Wednesday to build at least 370 miles of
double- and triple-layered fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border , moving its immigration
bill closer to the enforcement-focused approach favored by conservatives. ”
That was written by Nicole Gaouette.What’s next was not written by her……… but by me.
As a white male living in central California, both in May 2006 and well, AT THIS VERY MOMENT , I can personally tell everyone that when the pressure was applied to the Republican - led Congress to ‘ wind down ‘ the Iraq War during April 2006 and May 2006 , the response was to talk talk talk talk talk talk up a storm about borders, Mexicans, who should do what when , and immigration.
My advice, today, is for all y’all to be ready to hear it all again.
Washington D.C. has got several more things that make it look inept than it is comfortable with.
Timothy R. Anderson , April 2007
19 April 2007, 1:46 pmTimothy R. Anderson:
The Diary of an Ex-Rich Country.
Oh, hi, hello there, I am typing this on the final Saturday of April 2007 ……. What I’m typing about is the role of America’s mainstream media in shaping what it is that Americans think about . What my prediction is that Americans will think about immigration immigration immigration immigration immigration immigration immigration
immigration A LOT , very, very SOON .
I don’t know this, of course, and my guess is not much more accurate than anyone else’s, but ………… WHY was immigration a hot, hot topic in March 2006 , April 2006 , May 2006 ?
Haven’t there always been some unresolved issues regarding our international-sized lack
of consistency ? Why is NOW the time, with
everything that’s going on all over the planet , why is now the time to talk about
immigration ?
Well, they won’t tell you why it is so important. They will tell you it is important.
And, mark my words, the American general public, somehow, will make it very, very important.
Because if you were Karl Rove you’d need something to distract America’s general public.
Distract them from the thousands of wounded Iraqi civilians rotting away in filthy “hospitals. ” Distract them from the thousands of ruined American families, with homes and relationships wrecked by the Iraq War, and the Afghanistan War, and the broken levees.
So get ready to hear about the immigration issue , y ‘ all .
Timothy R. Anderson
28 April 2007, 1:02 pmTimothy R. Anderson:
source : ” McClatchy Newspapers. ”
date : Sunday April 29 , 2007
” President Bush seized on hundreds
of examples of the American success story
at Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus’s
graduation ceremony on Saturday to make
a push for his stalled immigration
platform . ”
Please observe this as it develops …..
Tim
30 April 2007, 12:25 pmRandy Morris:
watching…
30 April 2007, 6:02 pmTimothy R. Anderson:
Page A - 3 . I’ve noticed how some important items of news are NOT on the front-page. Considering that Lou Dobbs was given his mercifully short amount of fame on the ” 60 Minutes ” t.v. program recently, I’d like to highlight something , here, now, that I saw back, waaaaay back in September 2005 . It was reported by Nicole Gaouette and Chris Kraul, on behalf of the L.A. Times newspaper.
” Mexico thought it was promoting tourism
and business when it agreed , five years ago,
to allow Brazilians into Mexico without
visas. ”
” Instead, the move provoked a wave of illegal immigration into the United States of America
by Brazilians who used Mexico as a
springboard . ”
” Now, Brazilians have become one of the largest and fastest-growing categories of illegal U.S. immigrants . They typically cross
surreptitiously into the U.S.A. after easy,
legal entry at Mexican airports. ”
the above article was published, on page A- 3,
in the September 14, 2005 ” Los Angeles
Times ” newspaper .
The above article goes on to say ” Brazilians
and other non-Mexican migrants have exploit-
ed a loophole in U.S. policy that enables
them, in many cases, to avoid deportation even
after being detained in the United States .”
” Undocumented foreigners from countries other than Mexico with no criminal records ” PLEASE READ THIS PART OF THE ARTICLE AT LEAST FOUR TIMES
( starting ….. now ) ” Undocumented
foreigners from countries other than Mexico with no criminal records can gain release
from custody by simply requesting a hearing,
which many later skip. ”
Let’s, please, think about what was written by
Kraul / Gaouette more than 18 months ago.
” Undocumented foreigners
FROM COUNTRIES OTHER THAN MEXICO
with no criminal records can gain
release from custody by simply requesting a
hearing , which many later skip. ”
To me, at the very least, that’s just about as racist as racism gets. One process for persons of Mexico, another process for persons of countries-that-are-not-Mexico.
When I was a boy we said the U.S.A. ” Pledge Of Allegiance ” to begin our schoolday. I seem to recall a phrase in there about ” Liberty and justice for all ” . Uh, this is a sad, sad
betrayal of that concept.
Tim Anderson, May 2007
10 May 2007, 1:15 pmTimothy R. Anderson:
From the back-burner to the red-hot oven ….
19 May 2007, 1:59 pmUh, President Bush, uh, made the immigration issue a major topic of his radio address today, Saturday, May 19, 2007 . That’s a calculated political move, a la Karl Rove. I mean, what with the 200 Plus American soldiers fatalities in Iraq during the past 85 days and all ……. Please, obedient media, distract the sofa dwellers with the old standby - borders and Mexicans and drug smuggling unwashed others.
I have tried and tried and tried to alert persons
to the fact that immigration will be, repeatedly, trotted out as a prize pony freakshow item as the War On Terror crash lands. I am just saying. Tim
Timothy R. Anderson:
” To make the broadcast competitive and must-watch TV. ”
Those words were spoken by Lou Dobbs, back in May 2001, when he was asked by USA Today newspaper how he intended to get viewers to watch him on CNN ’s “Moneyline. ”
At one point, according to an article written by Peter Johnson, Dobbs left CNN to run an Internet site
devoted to space exploration.
All this is in the past, now, of course, but I’m typing this in as a concerned citizen …… it concerns me that someone such as Dobbs has a platform, a visible / audible one, where what he says has an impact. His immigration-focus is undeniable.
When I type in the words immigration
will be repeatedly trotted out as a prize pony
freakshow item I mean exactly that.
Once President Bush ( Karl Rove ) detects that the American public has tired of the T.B. scare, and Darfur, and global warming, and gasoline prices, and, likely, the current economic Great Depression,
then President Bush will fall back on immigration.
Lou Dobbs passes the ball to the President. The President sinks a three, nothing but net.
That’s a basketball / sports reference, but I’m guessing most folks understand. Tim
2 June 2007, 6:42 pmTimothy R. Anderson:
In the Monday, May 14, 2001 edition of the USA Today newspaper, a reporter named Peter Johnson wrote :
” Lou Dobbs, who returns to CNN’s MONEYLINE today ( 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT ), acknowledges that he’s
a little bit nervous. ”
‘ It’s a strange feeling , ‘ Dobbs says of sitting in the anchor chair again. ‘ The setting is
familiar, but I’ve been away for almost two years,
so it requires some orientation. ‘
” But Dobbs, who left CNN to run an Internet site
devoted to space exploration, says he’s ready.
‘ I’m comfortable but rusty. But live TV knocks
rust off faster than anything I know. ‘
“The competition isn’t taking Dobbs’ return lightly.
Last week, CNBC announced that it is revamping BUSINESS CENTER and expanding it by a half-hour today to air from 6 to 8 p.m. ET ( 3 to 5 p.m. PT ) Mondays through Thursdays. ”
“CNBC hopes to grab viewers before MONEYLINE and keep them watching BUSINESS CENTER . ”
” Before Dobbs’ departure almost two years ago, MONEYLINE regularly beat BUSINESS CENTER, 366,000
viewers to 238,000. ”
” Now, however, the tables are turned - BUSINESS CENTER draws 327,000 viewers to MONEYLINE’s
254,000. ”
” And Dobbs is under no illusions about how hard
it is going to be to become more competitive with
BUSINESS CENTER and win back fans. ”
“and win back fans.” “and win back fans. ”
” and win back fans. ”
CNBC ” has a significant head start, and the
competition is intense. My short-term plan is to
restore my relationship with my traditional audience.
My long-term goal is to make the broadcast competitive and must-watch TV . ”
The above stuff was published in May 2001. During the first half of 2007 Lou Dobbs was deemed worthy of having a segment ( nine to fifteen minutes long ) about him on the CBS-TV news program ” 60 Minutes. ”
Sad to say but true…… Dobbs becAme popular between the year twenty oh one and twenty oh seven.
There were, at the very least, two other noteworthy
developments between May 2001 and THIS VERY MOMENT, actually………………….
1. Blaming Mexicans for things that have absolutely nothing to do with Mexicans became popular.
2. In September 2001, while U.S. soldiers were based in places such as South Korea, a group of nineteen hijackers, mainly from Saudi Arabia, used airplanes, not just once BUT TWICE to kill more than 3,000 American civilians. The USA’s government, as of now, has issued no explanation as to why the world’s so-called military superpower failed to stop both the first airplane and the second airplane.
Timothy R. Anderson,
4 June 2007, 1:57 pmgrandson of Dorothy M. and Rosalie A.
Fimbo:
Your article nails the issue smack on the head. CNN pretends to be neutral — yet they milk the ad dollars generated by fear-mongering. The following article examines in-depth, why Lou Dobbs is a tactical propagandist worse than Dr. Joseph Goebbels — The Nazi Minister of ‘Propaganda and Enlightenment.’: CNN’s Lou Dobbs - The Minister of ‘Propaganda and Enlightenment’
21 June 2007, 2:46 am