Lou Dobbs casually makes up story that 'many' illegal immigrants voted in midterms and had 'immen

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Lou Dobbs casually makes up story that ‘many’ illegal immigrants voted in midterms and had ‘immense impact’


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/16/lou-dobbs-casually-makes-up-story-that-many-illegal-immigrants-voted-midterms-had-immense-impact/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6d6b9750559c

November 16 at 7:07 AM

Lou Dobbs said it so casually that it sounded like common knowledge.

“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?”

He was chatting with David N. Bossie, a former deputy Trump campaign manager.

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

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.


Dobbs, according to Forbes, is “the most-watched host in business television.” He has a following of hundreds of thousands of viewers and 1.85 million Twitter followers.

Before joining Fox Business Network, Dobbs built his career at CNN by blaming illegal immigrants for everything from deadly disease to a significant portion of the nation’s crime. His take on border security once led the New Yorker’s satirist Andy Borowitz to jokingly write that former president George W. Bush, “in his toughest stand yet against illegal immigration,” sent Dobbs to the border to fend off border crossers in lieu of 10,000 troops from the National Guard...........................................................

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[Nitram]

1. Repeating the same lies over and over seems too work on Trump supports and conservatives in general.

Largely because the lies support the beliefs that already have.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Unfortunately, old Lou's hair coloring has penetrated his brain.

[rgbecker]

3. Everyone is all over Facebook and Zuckerberg about allowing fake news on line....

But Fox News continues to cover the whole world with lies and crap and there is not a peep from FCC or anyone else.

If the Democrats in Congress can't do anything about that in the next two years I say its time to call them out.

[SunSeeker]

4. Lou Dobbs is a lying sack of shit. nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. Someone needs to ask him for proof to validate his remarks.

If no one challenges him on this, then his viewers will believe this garbage and regurgitate it.