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.
Dobbs Wins the 2004 Eugene Katz Award For Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration
Lou Dobbs:
"There is no nation, on the face of the earth, of any industrialized nation, whose borders are any more open as ours. Despite all that’s occurred in security since September 11 . . . we were just discussing one truism that exists: if one million illegal aliens, estimated, can cross our borders, each year, without being caught, what can a terrorist do? It is a remarkable situation . . ."
Well, we disagree, but I don't expect to agree with a Bircher.
Jon Garrido Resume
Jon Garrido
Former:
Planner I, II, III, City of Tucson
Economic Development Coordinator, City of Tucson
Federal Public Works Coordinator, City of Tucson
Executive Director of Economic Development, City of El Paso, Texas
Director, City of El Paso Industrial Development Authority (Industrial Development Bonds)
Chairman of Texas LULAC Economic Development Committee
Jon Garrido Gonzales Manufacturing Company, Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Director of Community Development, Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community
Vice President for Planning and Development for Valgroup
Managing Partner, Valgroup Wal-Mart
Jon Garrido Development, Planning Consultant
Present:
Chairman and Managing Member of The Jon Garrido Companies LLC
President and CEO of the Jon Garrido Network
(JonGarrido.com; 51Plus.com, Hispanic.cc; Subete.US; SuperiorAZ.US; JonGarridoHomes.com; USTimes.us; AZNews.us; Latina.ms; Mujer.ms; USChica.com; ClickSpanish.us; LAmNews.com; WNews.us; ActAZ.org; Aqaba.US; Amermart.com; and FSBOUSA.us)
Owner, Managing Editor, Publisher of Hispanic News, Arizona News, The US Times, Latin American News, World News, Amermart, 51 Plus, The Jon Garrido Companies, Latina, Subete, Act Arizona, and
For Sale By Owner USA.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jon Garrido Homes
Founder and President, Arizona Law and Education Center (ALEC)
http://jongarrido.com/Jon_Garrido_websites.htm
Lou does have guts. He is being attacked by both parties for his anti-illegal immigration views. A lot of people here on FR also despise him.
So, where do you stand on this illegal immigration issue and Lou Dobbs?
I admire and support Lou Dobbs. I hate cnn but Dobbs is the only reason to watch it. He actually belongs on Fox, where he can join John Gibson and Britt Hume as the only good guys on that station (I may be leaving out a few). Keep on speaking the truth Lou, this illegal problem is a cancer in the body of America. Let the bastards at cnn be vanquished! Mr. Dobbs will find another venue where he can continue to tell the truth!
This guy sure knows his English grammar.
1 in 2 new Americans since 2000 is Hispanic
U.S. adds 12 million residents; 6 million are Latinos
"Now we are everywhere," said Jon Garrido, a leader of an aggressive faction of the Valley's Hispanic community. "I project that in the year 2020 the majority of the population in Arizona will be Hispanics."
"I am a fourth-generation U.S. Hispanic," said 62-year-old Garrido. "In the earlier years, we were contained in self-imposed reservations called south Phoenix," he said, adding that nothing constrains growth and mobility today.
http://tinyurl.com/f487x
Just posted this for laughs, I'm with Dobbs.
Jon Garrido, a local Hispanic activist who is establishing a group in Mesa called the National Hispanic Legal Defense and Education Center, is pushing a boycott of the Childress' Buick and Kia car dealerships. Childress was a top backer of Prop. 200 and continues to be active in conservative immigration efforts.
"We're not going to shotgun anything. We're going to go in with a surgical strike," said Garrido of the boycott effort. "We're going to put this guy out of business."
Garrido is trying to get other Hispanic groups on board with his effort and is petitioning General Motors Corp. (the maker of Buick cars) to sanction Childress or face a more widespread boycott.
http://tinyurl.com/l36lf
Lous Dobbs has brought me back to watching CNN, although I still watch FOX for the news, whenever the clown circus performers working weekends are on vacation.
I happen to think Dobbs is an absolute worthless piece of human flesh. His inaccurate, snide, biased reporting of the Bush administration alone should get him hung. For those of you that think he's being sincere in his bashing of illegal immigrants are being fooled to the max. His original incentive to this faux-outrage was to 'get' Bush for his stand on immigration. Dobbs doesn't give a damn about deportation, immigration - illegal or not. He's only in this fight for his 15 minutes of fame and another opportunity to bash Bush and divide the republicans.(which some of you are helping him succeed in doing - thus giving him another 12 minutes) Those of you that are being led to the slaughter by Dobbs better watch where you walk - the edge of the cliff may be closer than you think.
Arizona Governor Napolitano’s Trip to Visit President Fox to Discuss Pilot Guest Worker Program Goes Without Discussion. Why?
All Americans deplore the senseless jeopardy Mexicans take risking their lives coming into the United States to find employment and to participate in opportunities America offers its residents.
It is primarily employment that is the huge magnet that draws Mexicans to put their lives in jeopardy by having to cross into the United States along the Arizona Mexico border which is where the desert awaits to claim lives of those that walk across its vastness. If the desert fails to stop these workers, American employers anxiously await the incoming flow of Mexicans to fill low paying jobs that otherwise would go unfilled.
Governor Napolitano of Arizona proposes to make Arizona the site for a pilot program to allow Mexicans to enter into Arizona with out benefit of protection, benefits or opportunity to become American citizens. Napolitano wants to bring Mexicans into Arizona to work much without benefits or access to opportunities available to other American residents.
The Mexican worker proposals put forth by the Arizona congressional delegation have many constraints and treat Mexican workers much like slaves. At least the congressional delegation proposals provide for employment anywhere in the United States and considering many Mexicans have already found work throughout the United States.
President Fox has called undocumented workers “heroes” as contributors to Mexico’s families by sending back part of each paycheck to provide for their families left in Mexico. One can only conclude, Fox withheld discussion with Napolitano because he thought it would be a futile discussion with Napolitano.
According to Napolitano, she has been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, yet to date, there are no details of any proposal forth coming from her that could be used to influence guest worker plans now being explored in Washington. One, by Senator John McCain and Representatives Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe, all Arizona Republicans, would add two categories of temporary three-year worker visas, which migrants would have to obtain before applying for residency.
Another plan, advanced by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, would give migrant workers a limited “blue-card” visa that would allow them to stay for three years, then get expedited residency consideration. Limitation on type of work and an absolute barrier to make sure these workers return to Mexico and not stay in the United States where they can apply for citizenship is the primary foundation for each of these proposals.
Each of the Washington proposals require Mexicans to return to Mexico to apply for residency consideration in the United States. Considering the bureaucracy of the new Department of Homeland Security, waiting for paper work would be a kiss of death for any residency consideration as the Mexican patiently waits unemployed in Mexico for the paper work to arrive in Mexico.
Since Napolitano supports these proposals indicates she has no understanding on what drives Mexicans to risk their lives. The job is certainly important but the draw also includes the desire to become an American citizen as afforded others that come to the United States with work visas. Napolitano is no sincere friend of Hispanics and appears more interested in a photo opportunity for Arizona publicity. Napolitano’s visit to Fox was cordial but President Fox recognized the trip for what it was, a superficial approach to yesterday’s one day headlines back in Arizona.
Jon Garrido, President
American Hispanic Coalition
Scottsdale, Arizona
His "Hispanic News" website is a little, shall we say, full of "ethnic pride".
BUMP what you said.
100% agreement.
Thanks for the links, kcvl.
Lou Dobbs is my NEW Hero ;)!
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