Lou “Immigrant-Basher” Dobbs embodies American entitlement and hypocrisy

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from AlterNet:



Posted by Devona Walker at 10:17 am
October 8, 2010

Lou “Immigrant-Basher” Dobbs embodies American entitlement and hypocrisy
Posted by Devona Walker on @ 10:17 am


This is the story of a man, who has for years, lined his pockets off of division and racial resentment


Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has amassed a fortune over the years, drilling home to his viewers that “illegals” are sneaking into this country, breaking our laws, spreading disease, taking American jobs and ruining our country. As it turns out, those same “illegals” also worked for him at his multi-million dollar estate.

A yearlong investigation conducted by The Nation found five undocumented workers, all of whom worked for Dobbs for years. In his defense, Dobbs said this last night on MSNBC’s “The Last Word”:

“The only person who would have been an illegal in any context would have been a landscaper who was working for the contractor working on my house in Florida. That may have happened,” Dobbs said. “But that isn’t my employee nor is it the reason I would have contracted with that landscaper. And to suggest I hired the person who is illegal if, indeed she can document there was someone illegal, is an absurdity. I have hired no illegal immigrants, no company of mine has hired illegal immigrants and that is the essential fact.”

At the height of his career at CNN, Dobbs brought home $6 million a year, He daily ranted angry against “illegals” in this country and he also railed against the business owners who employed them. But during an investigation by The Nation magazine, one reporter tracked down five undocumented immigrants who worked for Dobbs. Actually, according to Dobbs the workers in question worked for a contractor with whom he did business. Dobbs has also tried to defend this hypocisy by saying he did not “personally” or “intentionally” employ illegal immigrant workers. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/08/lou-%E2%80%9Cimmigrant-basher%E2%80%9D-dobbs-embodies-american-entitlement-and-hypocrisy/

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1. And the other shoe has now dropped.

Is anyone really all that surprised?

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2. Make sure you see Lawrence O'Donnell's show last night

Freaking priceless.

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3. He was on Last Word

last night and my son who isn't familiar with Dobbs but, has strong feelings about that there are a lot of illegals that are being screwed said, he understood Dobb's point or lie. Dobbs said, he wasn't allowed to ask the contractor if his employees were illegal. Don't know if that's true but, Larry O'D said, 'now we're splitting hairs.'

Just thought that it was an interesting perspective from someone who isn't familiar with Dobbs's 5 year or more vendetta against illegal aliens. I need to get into this more and discuss it with the kid. He thinks that there should be something in place that would allow those here to become legal w/o being sent back. Military service and things along those lines.