Posted on 04/16/2006 5:30:43 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX
Lou Dobbs: Self Interested Demagoguery
One who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain ratings
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO TAKE LOU DOBBS OFF THE AIR KICKS OFF MAY 1
Why AOL? Lou Dobbs is the number one money maker for CNN so he is not going anywhere as long as he makes money for CNN and right now he is making a ton of money for CNN bashing "illegal immigration."
CNN is owned by Time Warner and Time Warner also owns AOL which is being extensively promoted to increase its value as witnessed last week by selling 5% of AOL stock to Google. This 5% cost Google $1 Billion setting a benchmark value for AOL stock.
The Google-AOL deal gives AOL a valuation of $20 billion.
Billionaire Time Warner shareholder Carl Icahn who controls 3 percent of Time Warner shares has been organizing a proxy battle for control of Time Warner wants to sell AOL.
We could never directly muzzle Lou Dobbs because the revenue his trashing of Hispanic/Latinos generates for CNN is huge and CNN's revenue belongs to Time Warner.
The Achilles heel is AOL. If the value of AOL was to decrease dramatically because of the loss of the Hispanic/Latino market, Time Warner, and more so, Carl Icahn, would move to stop this hemorrhage. The only way to stop the hemorrhage would be to meet the demands of the Hispanic/Latino community: Remove Lou Dobbs off the Air.
Why is this so important?
The marches, rallies, and protests have been instrumental in the Senate Judiciary Committee's adoption of the McCain Kennedy Immigration Reform proposal and its submission to the Senate for debate. The monumental protests have been heard in Washington and around the USA.
As monumental as the protests have energized the Hispanic community, the protests will not take immigration over the top as witnessed by the Senate failing to approve immigration reform.
Time now for a reality check: The US Senate debated immigration reform but the Senate votes to adopt the Kennedy McCain proposal were simply not there!
Something else now needs to be added to the protests to take us to the next level if we are going to realize immigration reform as Hispanics favor.
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs has become the champion zealot of bashing "illegal immigration" each night at CNN promoting HR 4437 as the only way of dealing with "Broken Borders" to protect the USA. The only way to stop Lou Dobbs, the raving populist xenophobe, is to invoke "The Achilles heel: AOL."
The number of AOL subscribers is around 30 million. Many of these are US Hispanics, in addition, AOL has a growing percentage of Latin America accounts among new users. To increase market share, AOL is being marketed to the Hispanic/Latino internet community for its ease of use. There are other internet companies that are even easier to use, have faster speeds, and are less expensive. With a national Ax AOL campaign especially among our savvy youth with their ever increasing use of text messaging, IM, and Internet, if Hispanics would drop AOL and move in droves to other internet providers, significant pressure would result causing owners of AOL to realize the only way to re-capture market share would be to remove CNN's Lou Dobbs.
Removing Lou Dobbs off the air would completely disarm the national leader of promoting HR 4437 and would be the most powerful message that could be provided to the Congress, President Bush, 2008 presidential candidates and the entire USA. The demise of Lou Dobbs would be fatal. There would be nowhere for him to land because wherever he surfaced such as FOX, the Ax AOL campaign would follow him by simply changing our name to Ax FOX.
If CNN does not remove Lou Dobbs, we will move to escalate to boycott all CNN corporate sponsors beginning with sponsors of CNN en Espanol. We are approaching $1 Trillion in annual Hispanic purchasing. This is the real strength of Hispanic power.
Hispanic News on April 11 published a new website AxAOL.com which will become the vehicle for getting the message out throughout the USA to boycott AOL.
The Ax AOL Message Center is user friendly and allows for anyone to post a message or a comment. Presently there is no USA website that is coordinating marches, rallies or protests and AxAOL.com could become this vehicle for anyone to post what is happening in their community and to get messages out to everyone in the USA.
To promote Ax AOL throughout the USA, Hispanic News is now selling advertising using Sponsored Links. Buy an ad if you own a business or as an individual use your name. The ads are $299 but donations are welcomed for any amount. Help us make change in the USA by working together to remove Lou Dobbs off the air at CNN. Buying Ax AOL t-shirts is expensive. Hispanic News can not do this by ourselves.
You can also help by emailing everyone in your address book informing them using AOL indirectly pays Lou Dobbs' salary.
Beginning May 1, the next level of marches, rallies, protests will now include Ax AOL. The red Ax AOL t-shirts will become part of the protests. Spread the word that anyone who uses AOL is subsidizing Lou Dobbs' promotion of HR 4437's criminalizing immigrants and anyone who helps them.
You idiots supporting Lou Dobbs have not been watching him before he got onto his immigration kick.
He bashes Bush on everything he talks about, including the war on terrorism, education etc.
He is not a conservative and is not worthy of our support.
You know, posters like you make a lot of people cringe. You think you have the right to jump somebody because of their opinion, then comeback with an "oh, poor me the victim" routine. Just because you have some sappy interest in Dobbs, doesn't mean the rest of us have to. You're ability to mis-quote ("his disagreement with the Bush administration.") is your only true ability as a poster here. Go back and read my original post, if you have the ability to read, that is. I said "snide, biased" - that doesn't mean simple dissagreement. I also see being called a liberal is something you must have experienced before, considering your canned response.
Okay, his reporting is "snide and biased" so he deserves to be hung. Keep posting. You're digging yourself in deeper all the time.
All of Dobbs transcripts can be found here, www.cnn.com/lou.
Tell us what has been inaccurate. Snide and biased are your opinion.
Post it.
"Okay, his reporting is "snide and biased" so he deserves to be hung."
Glad you agree.
Oh, by all means, be a fool and defend Dobbs. If you think you're watchinginamazement now, just wait until he turns even more against the Republicans and help the democrats win this fall. I assume you'll like that because it will surely put an end to the immigration issue. The dems will move towards open borders, amnesty and Lou Dobbs for president. There you will be thumbing through his transcripts saying, "but he said, but he said".
What proof do you have that Lou doesn't care about those things?
Because you are incapable of telling what bias and snide are, here is an example:
"DOBBS: Bill Schneider, you talk about the credibility of this White House. This just smells to high heaven. And even though, as we report, leaks go on in Washington, even secret information is leaked, but this is -- this is at a new level, is it not?"
That's stating a biased opinion in a snide way.
And, if you think the democrats aren't using Dobbs and his supporters like yourself, one only has to read the left blogs for the answers:
from Carpetbagger - "A good second best solution is to have the Lou Dobbs of this world draw a significant portion of people away from the Republicans. His narrative will get a great deal more play in the corporate, right-wing media than will any Democratic narrative, and his voters would otherwise be Republican voters."
Yes, you are biased and snide. Forgive me for thinking you might be a poster who could answer a question "What has he reported inaccurately". But you won't. I'm sure you're aware that Dobbs walked out of CNN in 1999 (approx) because they didn't like him being critical of Clinton.
The floor is yours, to spread your propaganda. I don't engage trolls. Have at it.
I will NEVER agree with you. I happen to believe that Mr. Dobbs has every right to state his political opinions on his show - just like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have the right to express their opinions on their shows. And none of them should have to fear being hanged for their opinions, either.
Tell me...what other Taliban-like theories do you have about political discourse in this country?
Well Bush deserves to be bashed on many, many issues. Education is certainly one of them.
He is not a conservative and is not worthy of our support.
Bush or Dobbs?
Why blame Dobbs for talking about an issue that the Republicans in the Senate and Whitehouse could solve?
Instead of actually trying to implement policies favored by conservatives and the vast majority of Americans, Bush has actually dug in and continues to encourage illegal immigration.
Bush could solve this issue tomorrow by having the IRS, ICE and other agencies crack down on businesses that employ illegals. Can't blame the democrats for that - those laws are already on the books but Bush refuses to enforce them.
I noticed no one answered your question. Heather Mac Donald wrote of this in "National Review":
Postmodern “Rights” en Los Estados Unidos
She writes:
Unlike political protesters of the past, the illegal-alien marchers invoked no legal basis for their claims. Their argument boils down to: "We are here, therefore we have a right to the immigration status we desire."
In one stroke, the border-breaking lobby has nullified the entire edifice of American immigration law and with it, sovereignty itself.
No law has the power to confer illegal status on an alien law-breaker, they (the pro-illegal backers) say. Therefore, the existing laws are void — simply because the illegal aliens and their supporters do not like them, not because Congress has decided to withdraw them.
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So it boils down to this clown trying to impose a falsehood - that illegal immigration is a non-term - through threats of mob rule and the bold arrogance that the pro-illegal socialists seem to regard as acceptable behavior. Part of their bullying includes forcing people to accept their definitions and terms in order to skew the average citizen from logic and reason. Hence we hear them say "pro-choice" instead of "pro-infanticide", "differently abled" rather than "handicapped" and "undocumented workers" for "illegal aliens".
The entire premise of "political correctness" is, in itself, a successful scheme to make individuals conform to unnatural thinking and actions through the tyranny of non-deserved guilt and fear of ostracization. America's public schools and liberal colleges have been proactively instilling this Pavlovian response for nearly half a century. - NRT
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