America's Voice to Lou Dobbs: You're a loser!

CNN host Lou Dobbs may be denying plans to run for public office, but his opponents aren't taking his word for it. The immigrant advocacy group America's Voice has launched a website to "tell the truth" about Dobbs, who takes a blisteringly hard line on illegal immigration in his show.

Dobbs, who owns a 300-acre horse farm in New Jersey, denied Friday that he plans to run for governor of that state. "I'm not considering anything right now in terms of running for governor and that's where I am," Dobbs said in a voice mail message to a New Jersey newspaper. America's Voice went ahead anyway and launched the site, where it imagines a Dobbs-like platform.

Some sample campaign positions: 1. Build a Fence Around New Jersey; 2. Build like the biggest fence ever built around New Jersey; 5. Deport the Statue of Liberty back to France. Visitors to the site can submit their ideas -- in English only -- for a Dobbs campaign slogan contest. The winner will be printed on T-shirts that activists around the country will be able to buy online. The point, says America's Voice in this press release, is to shed light on "Dobbs and pundits like him, who think they can stir-up waves of anti-immigrant hysteria and ride them all the way to the statehouse, the White House or the Governor's mansion." 

Then America's Voice gets really mean. "Though the quality of CNN's programming would improve by default, the citizens of New Jersey deserve a governor that deals in facts," the group's director, Frank Sharry, said in a statement. "Let's hope he remains as far away from the Governor's mansion as he does from good journalism."

No comment yet from Dobbs, who has complained often on his show of being targeted by "ethnocentric special interests."

Photo credit: Al Seib, Los Angeles Times

--Nicole Gaouette in Washington

Comments

[Daniel]

You can try to call names and slander, hate but as long as we have free speach you cant shut up people like Lou Dobbs. There are plenty of people who believe in his opinions. You want to discuss issues then discuss them, if you have a losing point you call names and slander people.

[Steven Schwartz]

It is a shame that Lou Dobbs is in a position of power and that he has the trust and admiration of so many people because he is using it to waste everyone's time and incite more anger without making positive suggestions or finding real solutions to important problems which deserve national attention.

He showed his true colors when he agreed with John McCain about the Supreme Court decision on Habeas Corpus.

Hey Lou, I thought that you respected the Constitution and the rule of Law. What about human rights?

I guess the rule of law means that he who rules, makes the law.

Get off the air and let someone real step up to the plate.

But it must be too tempting for him to give it up.

Too bad he has nothing to say.

[Margaux Milchen]

It is amazing to me, that CNN would allow a "Rush Limbaugh" mentality to have a national show. CNN has really gone to the tabloid side of "news", pandering to fear tactics and ignoring real facts. Immigrants, with or without documents are not our enemy as he would like you to believe. Nor are the majority criminals and drug dealers, but families making a life here in the face of racists like Mr. Dobbs.

Shame on CNN, and shame on the American public for allowing this shyster to say he represents all Americans - what an enormous lie.

[Carlos]

I realize Mr. Sharry is intending to smear Mr. Dobbs but based on his fake web site and press release he's not going to do his own reputation much good .

[NoMoreBlatherDotCom]

1. This article was submitted to Digg by the author of the piece. That's not objectionable, but the inflammatory headline ("Group to Lou Dobbs: You're a Loser!") shows her bias.
2. Who profits (i.e., makes money) as a result of Dobbs-bashing?
3. Here's some questions that the founder of AV didn't answer, even though he had plenty of time. The first one is something worth thinking about for anyone who thinks their site is funny:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007677.html