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Ruben Navarrette smears, misleads about Lou Dobbs (Enrique Morones almost co-writer) - 11/17/2009

... Union Tribune offers an anti-Lou Dobbs editorial (mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_13808533), which includes this in the middle:

LULAC, Mark Potok of SPLC, NCLR, America's Voice, MMFA cheer & smear over Dobbs leaving - 11/12/2009

... reaction from far-left groups to Lou Dobbs' announcement that he's leaving CNN here. The biases of the article's author (Victor Manuel Ramos of the Orlando Sentinel) are discussed in this separate post. The quotes below were offered at a press conference organized by Media Matters for America:

Victor Manuel Ramos misleads about Lou Dobbs, far-left illegal immigration supporters - 11/12/2009

... reaction from far-left groups to Lou Dobbs' announcement that he's leaving CNN. The quotes and link to the article are here; the following deals with Ramos' clear bias:

Howard Kurtz is still not a reliable source (Lou Dobbs) - 11/12/2009

... Washington Post offers "Anchor Lou Dobbs resigns from CNN" (link). Let me show some ways that he's still not a reliable source: Lou Dobbs, the most opinionated and divisive anchor at a cable network that bills itself as a straight-news oasis, resigned from CNN on Wednesday night... Some of the other CNN personalities - such as Rick Sanchez, Soledad OBrien, and Anderson Cooper - see...

Lou Dobbs quits CNN; illegal immigration profiteers shouldn't celebrate just yet - 11/11/2009

Lou Dobbs is announcing on CNN right now that he's quitting the network (link), saying: "Some leaders have been encouraging him to engage in positive problem solving... and to continue to do so in the most direct way possible... At this point I'm considering a number of options..." Expect illegal immigration profiteers to cheer the news, but they shouldn't do so just yet. ...

Shot fired at Lou Dobbs' house; what you can do about it - 10/29/2009

On his Monday radio show, Lou Dobbs announced that a few weeks ago someone shot at his house while his wife was just 15 feet away. And, that followed a series of threatening phone calls; the state police are currently investigating. Audio of his broadcast is attached, and a partial transcript (via this) is at [1]. It goes without saying that if something like this had happened to a "liberal&q...

"Enough is Enough!" anti-Lou Dobbs campaign from Democracia Ahora (DNC link, Obama too?; Bendixen) - 9/18/2009

... push in an attempt to silence Lou Dobbs. This group has links to the Obama administration and the Democrats that are slightly closer than the other, and given that Obama lied about Lou Dobbs during the election, it would be interesting to know the degree to which there's any coordination. The campaign is from Democracia Ahora - run by Jorge Mursuli - and is called "Enough is Enough!&quo...

Drop Dobbs: illegal activity-supporting racial power groups and far-left want Lou Dobbs off CNN - 9/17/2009

... pull their ads from CNN's Lou Dobbs show (dropdobbs.com, mediamatters.org/blog/200909150031): "...The effort aims to let companies know that their continued financial support of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight makes them complicit in the hate speech and wild conspiracy theories that he promotes..." Campaigns like this - following on the heels of the somewhat successful similar campaig...

Media Matters lies: Hawaii has not authenticated the certificate on Obama's site (Corsi, Dobbs, FAIR) - 9/16/2009

... legislative advocacy event -- Lou Dobbs interviewed WorldNetDaily staff reporter Jerome Corsi, who Dobbs described as "a pretty good guy to talk to" about immigration issues... ...On Fox News, Corsi claimed that Obama's presidential campaign "has a false, fake birth certificate posted on their website." In fact, the Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed that the birth...

Jon Klein, CNN "political researchers" were wrong: Hawaii didn't discard paper records (Dobbs, Farah) - 8/08/2009

... sent an email to staffers of the Lou Dobbs show saying that he'd asked CNN's "political researchers" to look into the "Birthers" issue and that those "researchers" had determined that Hawaii had discarded their paper birth certificates. He was attempting to show thatBarack Obama can't release his original certificate. The email is reprinted at [1]. How...

Alexandra Marks of CSM lies: Hawaiian officials never confirmed the certificate on Obama's site - 8/05/2009

... an ad criticizing CNN anchor Lou Dobbs for stoking the 'birther' controversy" [1] about an ad Media Matters for America is running against Dobbs for him daring to mention the Obama citizenship issue. It includes this: Officials in Hawaii have confirmed multiple times that the birth certificate produced by the Obama campaign in 2008 is legitimate. Factcheck.org, a project of the Ann...

Tamar Jacoby pins immigration "reform" hopes on Obama-induced "reformist mood", bad policy, racialization - 5/07/2009

... curdle into xenophobia", Lou Dobbs and Tom Tancredo are "anti-immigrant" with "inflamed, angry followers") together with things like this: Neither the economic downturn nor enhanced enforcement has driven 12 million illegal immigrants to leave the country. Enforcement is still far from effective, either on the border or in the workplace. That "enhanced enforcement&qu...

Jesse Washington /AP mainstreams MMFA smears, shows no regard for protecting U.S. from epidemic - 5/02/2009

Jesse Washington of the Associated Press - author of this sleazy pro-Obama article - now offers "Immigration foes link flu to Mexican threat claims" (link, assistance from Don Babwin and Barbara Rodriguez of the AP). The article mainstreams - and references - the recent smear article from Tom Allison of Media Matters for America in which the latter downplayed the risk of illegal aliens b...

CA LULAC: U.S.-Mexico border might not be valid; legalize Mexican illegal aliens; wants international arbitration - 4/21/2009

... over to Casey Wian on CNN's Lou Dobbs show (transcript link): WIAN: LULAC claims that 2008 Supreme Court decision in a Texas death penalty case involving a Mexican citizen could render the 1848 border treaty [of Guadalupe Hidalgo] invalid because Congress failed to make the treaty binding on individual states. So its California director says, "The government of Mexico should exercise ...

Hannah Dreier /MediaMatters misleads about Nancy Pelosi position on raids (Lou Dobbs) - 3/25/2009

... (mediamatters.org/items/200903240035): Summary: On his radio show, Lou Dobbs asked his guest for his "reaction" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "saying last week that enforcement in the workplace, immigration law enforcement is, quote-unquote, 'un-American.' " In fact, Pelosi criticized as "un-American" immigration raids that separate undocumented parents fro...

Mexican government lobbied to prevent Ramos, Compean from being released - 1/22/2009

On yesterday's Lou Dobbs show, Casey Wian said this about the Ramos and Compean commutation: Mexico's Deputy Secretary of Foreign Relations Carlos Rico (ph) said, quote, "this is a message of impunity, it's difficult to understand." He also acknowledged that Mexican officials had lobbied hard to prevent the former Border Patrol agent's release. UPDATE: There's mu...

Obama wants his poor aunt to be deported, doesn't want millions of other illegal aliens to be deported - 11/02/2008

[SEE THE SECOND UPDATE] Per this, on tonight and tomorrow night's CBS News, Katie Couric asked Barack Obama whether he would "support [his poor illegal alien aunt] being deported to Kenya". His response: If she is violating laws those laws have to be obeyed. We're a nation of laws.

The Non-Partisan Case Against Barack Obama - 10/29/2008

You don't have to be a conservative or a Republican to be opposed to Barack Obama. Here are some of the reasons that almost anyone should oppose him: 1. PERSONALITY CULT As a host of Youtube videos, comments on blogs, chants at rallies, and even tattoos show, Obama clearly has a growing personality cult. About the only policy positions some of those supporters could name would be "hope&q...

Does Barack Obama support the First Amendment? (answer: well, it depends) - 9/25/2008

... commentators such as Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs, two people that Obama has not only smeared but lied about. Clearly, he doesn't just disagree with them, he doesn't want them to have the right to speak. There's another roundup here; apparently BHO's followers reported supportive reviews of the Corsi book to Amazon, resulting in some being pulled. And, an opinion piece/roundup ...

Barack Obama lies about Census Bureau poverty statistics - 8/26/2008

... stock false choice. He lied about Lou Dobbs. And, well, there are even more but I'll save them for a future post.

Judy Bachrach/Vanity Fair smears Lou Dobbs - 8/08/2008

... Judy Bachrach offers a smear of Lou Dobbs in "Lou Doubts" (poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=549). It's yet another example of the illegal activity-supporting establishment trying to reduce his influence in order to profit from illegal activity in one way or another. It's not clear whether the article already appeared in VF, whether it will appear in VF, whether "...

Obama favored over McCain at NCLR meet, PWW reports (Fairness Doctrine) - 7/15/2008

Comrade Rosalio Munoz from People's Weekly World reports from the National Council of La Raza convention where John McCain and Barack Obama spoke: "Incredibly, McCain did not even address the issues of the war in Iraq or his policy on health care.

Barack Obama at National Council of La Raza convention (ICE as terrorists) - 7/13/2008

Barack Obama spoke at the National Council of La Raza convention earlier today. See below for more on the NCLR. BHO's prepared remarks are here. BHO said many of the things he's said before; apparently his scriptwriters engaged in a lot of copy-and-paste.

Obama, McCain, Clinton at LULAC convention (illegal immigration supporters; reconquista quote) - 7/07/2008

Barack Obama, John McCain, and even Hillary Clinton will all be speaking at this year's convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), an illegal immigration-supporting group that was once patriotic but has since been radicalized. As shown by the attendees discussed below, the convention will be a nexus of those who do not support what's in the best interests of the ...

Chicago Aldmn Cardenas, Flores introduce anti-"hate speech" resolution; Mexico-linked ICIRR cheers - 6/25/2008

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is linked to the Mexican government, and they have some involvement in a resolution introduced today by two Chicago aldermen (George Cardenas and Manny Flores) condemning "hate speech" (i.e, the facts) supposedly directed at "immigrants" (i.e., illegal aliens) [1]. The resolution also comes out in favor of legalizations of...

Lou Dobbs not running for governor of New Jersey "right now"; Frank Sharry starts fake site; Nicole Gaoutte/LAT promotes - 6/13/2008

Lou Dobbs is rumored to be considering running for governor of New Jersey, but in a voice mail message to an NJ newspaper he denied it (link). Note, however, that he said he wasn't "considering anything right now", so that might change.

Another shocking Barack Obama blogger spotted: me - 6/09/2008

Anyone can get a blog at Barack Obama's site, and you the reader might even want to get one (or more).

Jorge Bustamante of United Nations to review immigration in Prince William County, Virginia - 6/05/2008

The United Nations' special rapporteur on migrants' rights, Jorge Bustamante will be paying a visit to Prince William County, Virginia to review their strict anti-illegal immigration ordinance (link).

Barack Obama clinches nomination; hello, President John McCain! (predictions!) - 6/03/2008

Get used to saying "President John McCain", because Barack Obama has supposedly clinched the Democratic nomination. Assuming a matchup between McCain and Obama, I predict that BHO has a 0.1% chance of being elected our next president. Further, I predict that McCain will win by at least 10 points.

Dave McKenna/Washington City Paper: the most ludicrous immigration article ever? (Cheap Seats) - 5/29/2008

... a nobody, and since he calls Lou Dobbs "the thinking man's white supremacist", I'm not going to give him the award. I'll just suggest that if you live in the DC area and you support our laws, you avoid patronizing local merchants whose advertisements appear in that paper and you inform them of what you're doing. And, for those who want to know just how ludicrous Dave...

Barack Obama lies, falsely accuses Dobbs, Limbaugh of inciting hate crimes - 5/23/2008

... year... If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it's not surprising that would happen." Those statements are beyond reprehensible, and come close to accusing Dobbs and Limbaugh of breaking the law.

Media Matters for America on immigration "myths" ("Fear and Loathing in Prime Time") - 5/21/2008

... "myths" supposedly promulgated by Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck. Not only that, but members of Congress are involved in helping them push their support for illegal activity: On Wednesday, May 21, Media Matters Action Network, along with several members of Congress and prominent immigration groups, held a press conference to discuss "Fear and Loathing in Prime Time:...

Immigrant assimilation study: low scores for Mexicans; other results mixed (N.C. Aizenman/WaPo, Yglesias, Drezner, Atrios, Weigel) - 5/13/2008

N.C. Aizenman of the Washington Post offers "Study Says Foreigners In U.S. Adapt Quickly", an article about a new Manhattan Institute report called "Measuring Immigrant Assimilation", authored by economist Jacob Vigdor of Duke University. He constructed an "assimilation index" based on economic, cultural, and civic assimilation.

Jeff Bercovici, ThinkProgress spread anti-Rush Limbaugh smear (Antonio Villaraigosa) - 5/06/2008

... today's society, as practiced by Lou Dobbs, as practiced by [Sean] Hannity, [Bill] O'Reilly, [Michael] Savage -- all these guys who are appealing to a particular bigoted audience, and fanning the fires of bigotry and racism by doing these kinds of things without real concern about the consequences of their words. And the consequences are that these kinds of comments have helped in raisi...

Barack Obama misleads, smears Middle America - 4/11/2008

... welfare? Barack Obama lies about Lou Dobbs to support illegal immigration Barack Obama, just another Chicago politician (deal with Daley machine?) "Civil Rights Act of 2008" admits illegal aliens "undermine the living standards and working conditions of all Americans" (Kennedy, Clinton, Obama) Memo on Barack Obama senior advisor's meeting with Canadian government on NAFTA...

Barack Obama's "honest conversation" about immigration included dishonesty, false choice, support for illegal activity - 4/03/2008

... amnesty; note that Obama lied about Lou Dobbs in a similar fashion. The unmentioned alternative of simply enforcing our laws now, aka attrition, would not require anywhere near the resources described above. 2. It's horrible public policy to allow people to "settle" here, especially considering that some think they're "settling" their homeland. It's also horribl...

Chadwick Matlin/Slate doesn't mention Mexican government funding of "Under the Same Moon" - 4/02/2008

... "Weinstein Company Owns Lou Dobbs" about the movie "Under the Same Moon".

Neal Ungerleider fails to follow money on Dobbs-bashing "Under the Same Moon" - 4/02/2008

... "Fox Promotes Film With Anti-Lou Dobbs Ad" (link), a discussion of an ad for the new movie "Under the Same Moon" that features anti-Lou Dobbs quotes from critics.

10% of entire prison population are immigrants eligible for deportation - 3/29/2008

According to Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), around 10% of the total U.S. prison population are immigrants who could be deported (link).

Owen Gleiberman/Entertainment Weekly's movie review forgot something important - 3/27/2008

Owen Gleiberman - movie critic for Entertainment Weekly - offers a review of the new film "Under the Same Moon", a tearjerker designed to make illegal immigration acceptable. Unfortunately, Glieberman forgot to tell his readers that the movie was financed by the Mexican government.

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