Southern Poverty Law Center president seeks removal of Lou Dobbs from air, citing ‘birther’ claims

Examiner.com ^ | July 24, 9:05 PM | J. Samia Mair

[Red Steel]

J. Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), asks CNN President in a letter dated today to remove Lou Dobbs from the airwaves. He describes Lou Dobbs reporting as “both deplorable and an embarrassment to all serious journalists.” The letter ends with:

Respectable news organizations should not employ reporters willing to peddle racist conspiracy theories and false propaganda. It's time for CNN to remove Mr. Dobbs from the airwaves.

The letter was prompted by Mr. Dobbs repeated questioning of the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate, despite evidence to the contrary:

The truth about the president's birth is not in dispute. It has been verified by Factcheck.org, among many other serious news organizations, and his official birth documents have been made public. CNN itself has repeatedly reported on the falsity of the claims of the "birthers," and the network's esteemed legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, recently called those claims "a joke." As you know, even Mr. Dobbs' frequent fill-in anchor, Kitty Pilgrim, debunked the birthers on the July 17 edition of Mr. Dobbs' own CNN show. The fact that Mr. Dobbs suggests otherwise on CNN — while real CNN reporters tell the truth — is both deplorable and an embarrassment to all serious journalists.

According to Mr. Cohen, this “radical racist right” conspiracy theory:

was first developed by an open anti-Semite and circulated by right-wing extremists who cannot accept the fact that a black man has been elected president of the United States. Among its adherents was neo-Nazi James von Brunn, the alleged murderer of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this June. Von Brunn had helped spread the birthers' claims on the Internet and attacked the "dishonest & conspiratorial Media" for not taking them up.

Read the entire letter here.

http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=390&splcnewsletter=dnewsgen-072409

[Red Steel]

This lawyer is one big liar.

[April Lexington]

Here it comes, Lou. Your time as a useful idiot has expired. Please report to gate number 3. The train Eastward leaves in five minutes. Oh, and its spelled “GULAG.”

[Califreak]

Oh for heaven’s sake.

[deks]

and the plot thickens...

[Prophet in the wilderness]

This Southern Law Center is nothing of the sort of protecting rights of all people, that is their phony front to hid the fact that they are a gay agenda activist group and other fringe groups.

[April Lexington]

was first developed by an open anti-Semite and circulated by right-wing extremists who cannot accept the fact that a black man has been elected president of the United States.

Speaking of racist! This fellow doesn't sound too stable in the noggin. Check his communist credentials. They are impeccable!

[April Lexington]

He forgot to cite Hispanics and Asians!

[April Lexington]

The “big guns” are staring the spin. They are in a panic. I hold (without being a Wise Latina) that Obama has the BURDEN OF PROOF to demonstrate he is qualified under our constitution to serve as POTUS. The PEOPLE (that's serfs to you Mr. Cohen) do not have the burden of running all around the globe trying to prove someone is qualified to serve as POTUS. That result wold be absurd. But, then again... Mr. Cohen, your position is also absurd!

[Freedom56v2]

I have liked Lou Dobbs. He should join Fox business news or Fox news. CNN is not a free-speech free press; they are an instrument of the administration; the fourth column.

[April Lexington]

This Southern Law Center is nothing of the sort of protecting rights of all people, that is their phony front to hid the fact that they are a gay agenda activist group and other fringe groups.

Again, check the communist credentials. Do the homework and learn who these people are.

[Islander2]

“This lawyer is one big liar.”
A lawyer can be a liar?.....can’t be possible... that is way too simplistic. If true, they would be called, Liars as in the way the word Lawyers is pronounced in some parts of the country. Also to simplify this somewhat, what they do is to say things that are not true, but say them wrapped in unintelligible language, for example defining what the meaning of the word “is”, is.
Mahalo

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" was first developed by an open anti-Semite and circulated by right-wing extremists who cannot accept the fact that a black man has been elected president of the United States. "

First of all, that is pure BS ...
And 2nd, it has nothing to do with Mr. Obama being black... it has all to do with him abiding and up holding the US Constitution.... and the fact that he is a commie...
Now, we can be sure that this fringe group ( The Southern Poverty Center ) sees the US Constitution as racist and homophobic......
This Southern Poverty Center is a bogus front group to pose as a legitimate organization to hid the fact that they are promoting the gay agenda and other fringe groups.

[allmost]

I’ve disagreed with Dobbs on many occasions.

[joejm65]

This lawyer also seems to have issues with the First Amendmant and free speech. Apparently, it’s ok for ‘serious journalists’ to spend days gushing over Michael Jackson. However, if Dobbs addresses an issue that’s spurring lawsuits and causing Zero to spend a cool million in his defense, then Dobbs is a racist. Head-spinning logic from the left - again.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I don't doubt you at all that they are commies..
Who do you think are trying to destroy this country and it's Christian Judeo beliefs .... the commies , homosexuals , leftist, feminist.
It's the commies who have helped the homosexuals to gain more power in this country in key places to bring this country down.

[freekitty]

Wow, must have touched a big ol nerve. These guys are all going nuts.

[joejm65]

Great post. Someone should make you an honorary ‘Wise Latina’. :-)

[April Lexington]

I’m so deeply touched, I, I ,um, I simply don’t know how to respond!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

If you go back a few months in my post when the hate crimes bill was being talked about you will see I put a link up in one of the post about this Sountern Law Center ....
They even have Focus on the Family on their list...
This center is more in relation to the Nazi gestapo.

[Betty Jane]

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. Between the wise Latina and Gates, playing the race card isn’t an automatic trump anymore.