Lou Dobbs' False Immigrant 'Facts' Exposed ... Again

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=16048_0_67_0_C

CNN's Lou Dobbs continues to dig himself into the xenophobic ground, and challenge FOX's Bill O'Reilly as the most unreliable personality on television. According to a FAIR media analysis, he claimed as "fact" a baseless assertion that half of the Culinary Workers Union "are illegal aliens"; CNN's media personality Candy Crowley did not challenge him:

On the January 16 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs noted that that the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, based in Nevada, "is encouraging its members to caucus on behalf of Senator {Barack} Obama {D-IL}" and then claimed: "{I}n point of fact, as many as half of the union's members are illegal aliens" . Near the end of the segment, Dobbs referred to the "Culinary Workers Union, with just about half of its membership assumed to be illegal aliens" . CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley, appearing on-air from Las Vegas, did not challenge either assertion. On-screen text during the segment read: "Many of Culinary Workers in Nevada are Illegal Aliens" and "Fears Illegal Aliens Could Influence Outcome of Vote."

Dobbs did not provide any support to back up his assertion regarding the makeup of the Culinary Workers Union. On March 23, 2007, the Associated Press reported that, according to the Union's then-political director, "about half" of the union's members are "immigrants"...

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. I cannot WAIT until someone explains why Dobbs appeared on Conan, TDS and Colbert during the strike

I thought he was the savior of the working people :shrug:

[robcon]

2. Dobbs lied about immigrants? Water is wet.

n/t

[countryjake]

3. Not only did he smear the Culinary Workers Union and attack immigrants...

he also went after the Democratic Party "folks" in a big way, specifically implying that both the Obama Campaign and Clinton Campaign engaged in questionable caucus activities.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200801170017

Somebody needs to sue his ass right off of the airwaves.

I surely hope that when this "movement" he is building suddenly erupts into something terribly tragic as a result of the flames he fans, daily, that Dobbs will be the first indicted for the hate crimes he has instigated.