Posted on 07/24/2009 11:09:07 PM PDT by 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
I don’t know does not mean I don’t want to do anything about it but what I fear is coming ain’t something folks on this forum are ready for yet.
those of us who live in areas where this stuff is already boiled over live with the ramifications and know this already
Hey everyone;
E-Mail CNN and thank Lou Dobbs for covering the Obama “non natural born citizen” issue. Ask them to require that Obama presents his original long form birth certificate to prove whether he is eligible to serve as President since he may not be a natural born citizen:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html
I found these addresses too:
Lou Dobbs, loudobbs@cnn.com CNN, Lou Dobbs, lou.dobbs@turner.com CNN
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Anderson Cooper 360, 360@cnn.com CNN, Anderson Cooper comment, CNN, Andrea Koppel, andrea.koppel@turner.com CNN, Bill Hemmer comment, CNN, Bill Schneider, bill.schneider@turner.com CNN, Bruce Morton, bruce.morton@turner.com CNN, Candy Crowley, candy.crowley@turner.com CNN, Carlos Watson comment, CNN, Carol Costello comment, CNN, Carol Lin, carol.lin@turner.com CNN, Christiane Amanpour comment, CNN, Crossfire, crossfire@cnn.com CNN, Daryn Kagan comment, CNN, Daryn Kagan, daryn.kagan@turner.com CNN, David Ensor, david.ensor@turner.com CNN, Daybreak, daybreak@cnn.com CNN, Fredricka Whitfield comment, CNN, Heidi Collins comment, CNN, Howard Kurtz, kurtzh@washpost.com CNN, CNN, In The Money, inthemoney@cnn.com CNN, Inside Politics, insidepoliticts@cnn.com CNN, James Carville, crossfire@cnn.com CNN, Jeanne Meserve, jeanne.meserve@turner.com CNN, Jeff Greenfield comment, CNN, Jeff Greenfield, jeff.greenfield@cnn.com CNN, Jim Walton (President of CNN News Group), jim.walton@turner.com CNN, Judy Woodruff comment, CNN, Judy Woodruff, deirdre.walsh@turner.com CNN, Kelly Wallace, kelly.wallace@turner.com CNN, Kyra Phillips comment, CNN, Kyra Phillips, kyra.phillips@turner.com CNN, Larry King comment, CNN, Live At CNN, live@cnn.com CNN, Live From, livefrom@cnn.com CNN, Live Today, livetoday@cnn.com CNN, Miles O’Brien comment, CNN, Miles O’Brien, miles.obrien@turner.com CNN, Moneyline, moneyline@cnn.com CNN, news tips, CNN, Newsnight, newsnight@cnn.com CNN, other anchor/reporter comments, CNN, Paul Begala, crossfire@cnn.com CNN, Paula Zahn comment, CNN, Paula Zahn Now, paulazahnnow@cnn.com CNN, Paula Zahn, paula.zahn@turner.com CNN, Paula Zahn, paulazahn@cnn.com CNN, report errors, CNN, Rick Davis (Executive Vice President - CNN News Standards and Practices), rick.davis@turner.com CNN, Robert Novak, robert.novak@turner.com CNN, Soledad O’Brien comment, CNN, Tom Hannon (Political Director), tom.hannon@cnn.com CNN, Tucker Carlson, crossfire@cnn.com CNN, War in Iraq comment, CNN, Weekend American Morning, wam@cnn.com CNN, Wolf Blitzer comment, CNN, Wolf Blitzer, wolf@cnn.com CNN, Wolf Blitzer, wolf@cnn.com
Here is another bit of info about these scumbags.
http://www.thedustininmansociety.org/articles/art2004feb09b.html
Here we go again with the effing Examiner.com!
My 1,000 character response:
Every time anyone has a legitimate criticism of Barack Obama, some shmuck plays the race card. Meanwhile, because Bush was white, I guess it was OK to label him, Hitler, Murderer, and American terrorist.
The only “racist” conspiracy here is what the Obama Administration has launched against white Americans: freeing dangerous terrorists. Dropping all charges on black men convicted of voter intimidation. Calling a white policeman, “STUPID,” for arresting a black activist who acted disorderly on purpose to get arrested. Telling JEWS that they can;t live in their own country.
Obama is not only the Racist-In-Chief, he is also an illegal President who is not Constutionally eligible to be President, and who has committed document and voter fraud to get elected. He does NOT have a Certification of Live Birth (COLB), did NOT post a real copy of his COLB, & FACTCHECK is who helped Obama to forge his COLB!
No “conspiracy theory” but irrefutable facts about Obama’s birth certificate HOAX.
Not if I can help it...............
I read that & thought this one was particularly vile and hateful. I put in google search two of the names that Dee Dee Myers and Chris Matthews used when they attacked birthers, crazies,etc. I wondered if once again axelturf or rahmbo had sent around talking points for these articles. Bingo, up came a few more stories that were almost within a 3 day period.
When Chris Matthews attacked around the same time Dee Dee Myers story came out, I remember her on Hardball panel during Clinton and Bush era.
The lawsuit Orly placed and the judge said there would be a trial was just too close I think. I noticed the judge dropped the case because Cook’s mission was revoked. Still too close for comfort. Now there is Apuzzo’s case and he is close.
The writer says no african americans are going around asking to see obama’s bc except alan keyes and therefore the birthers are racists. I disagree and i also do not think race is important when we are facing someone who fraudulently won the white house.
Here is another. But on the right side of truth.
Obama Birth Certificate: Lies Are Starting To Contradict Themselves | Right Soup http://bit.ly/4bUcr
Chris & Dee Dee were given the same talking points?
Memo to Cohen: Obama has a world view that most open antisemites endorse, so it would counterproductive for them to challenge his legal bona fides. On the other hand, the movement challenging Obama's constitutional qualifications includes a fair number of Jews, including those here on FR. So your attempt to taint legitimate, well-intentioned efforts to uphold the constitution with insinuations of "antisemitism" is nothing short of inane. In fact, Mr. Cohen, your efforts in this direction and your pseudo-pious attempts to suppress debate on an important issue by getting Mr. Dobbs fired from his job reveal you to be a disgrace to the Jewish people and to the organization which you claim to represent.
VERY good, Polarik
Around the 1930s, when professional boxing matches between them were generally considered to be big gate attractions.
More seriously, this thing isn't about Jews vs. Irish, but between insanity (Cohen, especially) and some semblance of rationality (Dobbs).
what the hell is oafofoffice talking about? Never mind wrong examiner article that what polarik is posting about
I love how they get so livid when someone dares to QUESTION them — tells you all you need to know.
Here is the article I found hateful and vile and once again everyone is a racist. Sorry for my mistake. I follow examiner, sf examiner and sf gate. I gots confused.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?blogid=95&entry_id=44046
You know, I’m sick of racists. Just plain tired of em. You know who they are - or maybe they’re you. People who are really upset that America elected Barack Obama, a black man, as president but since they feel they can’t say so without the anonymity of the Internet, they craft other means of expressing their anger, like hanging on the to the crazy idea that President Obama’s not an American citizen.
Maybe this is why Lou Dobbs believes -8obama was born is USA. HE NEVER SAID HE WAS A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!!
But the First Congress, on March 26, 1790, approved an act that declared, “The children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens of the United States.” The key word is citizens, both parents must be citizens, not just one.
You are SO RIGHT!!! These scurlous bastards were hard at it during the Clinton, Clinton & Gore maladministration like a bunch of heat seeking search and destroy demonizers searching the political spectrum for conservatives like Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth-Hage and even local electeds like yours truly in local government!!!
It is the epitome of hipocricy to be such enemies of conservatism that seeks to restore what's good about America, while being such enemies of the good, themselves!!!
Talk about "hate"... They are consumed with hate toward anyone that succeeds at promoting conservatism. They'll soon be subverting the epitome of good conservatism in the surge toward Sarah Palin.
They are incapable of abating their blind, seething hatred!!!
What total pond scum...
You know how that works. If the Leftists accuse you of something, chances are they are doing whatever it is they accuse you of, and are pointing the finger at you.
It is the same gambit as an unfaithful spouse accusing the faithful one of philandering.
It places those who should not be on the defensive in a position of having to prove their innocence, and has the additional bonus of simultaneously playing the 'victim' card, which makes the accuser sacrosanct and beyond criticism (see Ann Coulter on the 'Jersey Girls', she nailed it).
it was a joke and a dig at the ever lib Jewish prog
Here’s what gauls me. Obama and others play the race card by claiming that he is the first Black President. Hey, he is half-white and it is just as valid to say that he is a White President, or a Black & White President, or a Multiracial President, or a Mulatto President.
Obama and Eric Holder have made it clear that a black man cannot be a racist. Only white people, Conservatives, and republicans are racists by their definition.
(At least the SLPC gave my second novel a nice review.)
Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista review by the Southern Poverty Law Center
Books on the Right: A Nativist’s Paranoid Vision by Susy Buchanan
July 2007
In 1973, a Frenchman named Jean Raspail wrote a bitter and paranoid novel about the “invasion” of his native land by starving Third World refugees. The book was a racist vision of the consequences of non-white immigration, aided and abetted, in the author’s view, by the weak-minded liberals who failed to resist it. For almost 35 years, The Camp of the Saints has been a Bible to the radical right.
Now, courtesy of former Navy SEAL Matthew Bracken, comes the American version — a portrait of the apocalypse Bracken fears will overtake America thanks to undocumented immigration from the south. The book is a fictionalized version of the Aztlan conspiracy theory — the idea that Mexico is secretly planning a “reconquista” (reconquering) of the seven states of the Southwest — that now animates large swaths of the anti-immigration movement. It’s being plugged on extremist websites, in gun magazines and similar electronic venues, and on immigrant-bashing radio shows like Peter Boyles’ program on KHOW-AM in Denver.
This isn’t the first angry, self-published novel from Bracken. His new book, Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista, is the second in a series that began with another paranoid fantasy about gun control and evil agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a favorite bête noire of the extreme right. His latest book, marked by an enthusiastic interest in busty women, is a xenophobe’s racy vision of hell.
[A long detailed plot summary with numerous “spoilers” is snipped here. It can be read at the SPLC link.]
Domestic Enemies plods along between the over-the-top action sequences. Bracken oversexualizes his gun-loving heroine, devoting as much prose to her breasts as he does her weapons — which is a lot — and many minor players come off as one-dimensional caricatures. But a sexy heroine shooting guns of varying calibers at liberal, communist, open-borders villains in a world destroyed by immigration and multiculturalism is an irresistible fantasy for the audience this genre of fiction attracts – no matter the novel’s numerous flaws.
Of course, this fictionalization is hardly necessary, even for those given to this kind of thing. All one need do is listen to real-life zealots like Glenn Spencer, head of the hate group American Border Patrol, who puts it like this: “Our country is being invaded by Mexico with hostile intentions. When it blows up, they can’t say we didn’t tell them, when the blood starts flowing on the border and in L.A. We’re [talking] about la reconquista.”
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