2007 - Lou Dobbs grouses about Immigrants with.....Bernie Sanders

[brooklynite]

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Golly gee whiz,

Old Lou Baby sure forgets who are all folks taking care of his daughters show horses are. Yupper,Lou Baby sure does project.

[PatSeg]

2. And his wife is Mexican American

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Used to try and watch

CNFN back in the day. Old Lou came off as a total Hypocrite who would say anything for a buck. Much like his co talent Larry Kudlow. Always assumed they shared the same Blow supplier.

[PatSeg]

16. I remember his CNN show

and he was relatively sane back then. He was even critical of the Bush administration when very few cable news people were. Now it would appear, he was always just a performer doing and saying whatever got ratings. Cracks me up that he dyes his hair now!

[Autumn]

4. Sounds good to me. That's always been his position and it's true that many HB-I visa holders

and illegal immigrants work for less money and that hurt Americans. That's automatic proof that Bernie is anti- immigrant!!! Along with a whole lot of other people who know how illegal immigration works on the labor market.

[Autumn]

13. Said NO ONE ever. LOL. Did you even listen to the video? Illegal aliens aka illegal immigrants

and the jobs they fill were being talked about by Dobbs. Bernie talked about HB-1 visa holders. The video is in the OP.

[Hortensis]

19. Pretend laughing doesn't make Sanders' populism not real.

Sanders has been waffling big time in THIS era, not just back then, about immigrants and about minority issues because he's a socialist leading a populist campaign.

Populists want progressive programs for themselves, AND a majority of populists (not all) are at least somewhat socially conservative. Remember Sanders over on Fox trolling for Trump's populists? There are a lot of them in these troubled times, and not all rabidly racist by any means, more like racist lite.

Sanders is trying to draw those disillusioned with the orange clown's promise to destroy the ACA and give them a much better program for cheaper. By promising the same thing.

That also explains why Sanders has famously always refused to commit to addressing AA concerns. He has to walk a careful line there -- talk liberal enough not to look unsupportive on racial issues, while constantly reassuring his social conservatives, who at best don't really care for immigrants or minorities, that he's an angry, resentful populist like them. And you have to admit he does carry that off very believably. In any case, AA, also famously, are much too smart not to see what he's doing.

[Autumn]

21. You words don't make it fake, Not gonna bother with anything past your

"Pretend laughing doesn't make Sanders' populism not real." Not a damn thing to do with what the outrage of the moment is. The clip was Dobbs talking about Illegal immigrants and Bernie talking about HB-1 visas.

One and done.

[NurseJackie]

5. Thank you.

[NYMinute]

6. I was afraid to post that

although it was extremely important to shine light on.

Thank you for posting it.

[brooklynite]

8. When I get something taken down...

90% of the time I get restored on appeal. Factual stuff is pretty safe.

[NYMinute]

14. I get significantly lower mileage nt

[Cha]

7. Vetting.

[George II]

9. It wasn't just Lou Dobbs grousing about immigrants in that video.

[Cha]

10. No it was Not.

[TexasTowelie]

11. Bernie was concerned about impoverished immigrants coming to Ameirca

to take away jobs. He wasn't as concerned about wealthy investors receiving EB-5 visas at the Jay Peak resort in Vermont.

[oasis]

15. I wonder if this will hurt Bernie when Nevadans get to voice

their choice early in 2020.

[betsuni]

17. K&R

[R B Garr]

18. This is disqualifying.

[TidalWave46]

20. Sanders natural instincts in this area are horrific.

Please understand this. Sanders worked his ass off to block a pathway to citizenship claiming it was because of Visa’s. Visas that were secured a short time after immigration reform failed.

A perfect example of the brutality of politics of purity.