Lou Dobbs: 'many' illegal immigrants voted in midterms and had 'immense impact

[left-of-center2012]

Since the midterm elections, no evidence has emerged suggesting results were tainted by illegal votes, from illegal immigrants or anyone else.

“You know,” the Fox Business Network host said on his show Thursday, “millions of illegal immigrants cross our borders, and many of them [were] voting in the past election that’s what, just a couple weeks ago, and having an immense impact.”

Dobbs later asked, “Are we just sitting here, helpless against anyone who wants to cross that border, and to have their way with the American way?”

Dobbs didn’t even pretend to have evidence of the illegal voting Thursday night. He just said it, apropos of nothing, during his show, “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”

The statement was par for the course for Dobbs, who was bashing immigrants before it was fashionable, citing misleading evidence or none at all. Last month, he invoked the word “invasion” dozens of times on his program when talking about the migrant caravan, according to NPR, parroting the same language used by President Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/16/lou-dobbs-casually-makes-up-story-that-many-illegal-immigrants-voted-midterms-had-immense-impact/?utm_term=.5bfb3722cb0f

[dalton99a]

1. Damn liar.

[flibbitygiblets]

2. "Dobbs didn't even pretend to have evidence of the illegal voting"

Facts? Evidence? Proof? Documentation? WTF are those?

[DBoon]

9. "bellyfeel" in newspeak

The word bellyfeel refers to a blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea.

"Consider, for example, such a typical sentence from a Times leading article as Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc. The shortest rendering one could make of this in Oldspeak would be: 'Those whose ideas were formed before the Revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the principles of English Socialism.' But this is not an adequate translation. [...] [O]nly a person thoroughly grounded in Ingsoc could appreciate the full force of the word bellyfeel, which implied a blind, enthusiastic and casual acceptance difficult to imagine today." — Orwell's 1984 appendix[12]

- Wikipedia

[flibbitygiblets]

13. Stephen Colbert referred to the phenomenon as "truthiness"

truthiness

noun

informal

The quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.


Origin
Early 19th century (in the sense ‘truthfulness’): coined in the modern sense by the US humorist Stephen Colbert.

[bluestarone]

3. IF anybody could be worst than RUMP

IT WOULD BE THIS ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Someone can only believe this if they themselves never actually vote.

Even though you generally don't have to show ID (and shouldn't, in my opinion), they do need to check you off against who you say you are on the voters rolls. And, please correct me if I'm wrong, if you show up to vote without already having been registered in any one of the 17 states that have same day registration, I suspect you definitely must show some proof of where you live.

The nonsense that illegal immigrants simply show up and vote, or that people vote over and over again is firmly rooted in a complete lack of understanding of how the system actually works.

[flibbitygiblets]

16. One can only believe this if they never actually THINK. If 12M unauthorized immigrants could vote,

Hillary R Clinton would be our current president.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. This sort of shit is inciteful. It is the political equivalent of shouting fire in a theater.

Yes. First amendment.

Yes. There need to be standards imposed by the conduits of such shit.

Yes. Pushback of serious weight needs to be applied.

[RainCaster]

6. Pushback is called a boycott

When you make it a practice to pull "facts" out of your backside like DFT does, you deserve to have your show boycotted. Let the sponsors know.

[C_U_L8R]

7. No one single bit of evidence.

You are a liar, Lou Dobbs. And a bad one.

[davekriss]

8. We need a Fairness Doctrine for cable news

[DBoon]

10. I'd settle for a Facts Doctrine

statements made without reference to facts would be sanction-able if uttered during the course of a news program

[TwistOneUp]

11. The Ton Of Fun Dobbs is full of bs, and he's an *amateur*. nt

[struggle4progress]

12. Mentor has high praise for Dobbs!

Joseph Goebbels, who has long served as mentor to Lou Dobbs at Fox, today offered high praise for his student

"I've always encouraged people to tell big brazen damnable lies instead of little harmless ones," said Mr Goebbels, "and Lou does that!"

[nmgaucho]

14. Shut up you senile, old racist asshole

[Buckeyeblue]

15. Somehow we need to sue him for proof

Where is your proof, Lou?

[Hugin]

17. He threw in a right wing dog whistle, too.

"American way" is up there with MAGA and America First.

[onenote]

18. Maybe he should be called as a witness to a House hearing

where he can be asked to provide evidence supporting his allegations of widespread criminal activity.