Lou Dobbs: "Thank God the Dems won and can check BushCo's arrogance."

[kerry-is-my-prez]

Did anyone catch that. I just turned CNN on and heard that. Does anyone know what he was referring to?

[katsy]

1. Yep.

Referring to selling off of airlines to international interests.

[cspanlovr]

2. Yes, I happened to catch it. It was about the sale of our commercial airlines

to foreign entities. Of course, bush thinks the idea is fine.

[Donnachaidh]

3. bush would sell his soul for his legacy

grrrrr....:rant:

[HockeyMom]

5. Ports deal isn't dead either

I just read that in the paper the other day. Are they trying to slip this too under the radar?

Obviously, this past election taught the Shrub NOTHING. It's still my way or the highway, business as usual, for EVERYTHING he wants do do. Is this man INSANE? I sure hope the Dems develop a backbone.

[Hekate]

"Insane" is the word that has come to mind repeatedly over the past 6 years

He and his cronies singlehandedly brought back nuclear proliferation and obliterated any credibility our nation ever had as an honest broker when they started nattering about developing "tactical usable nuclear weapons" and "bunker busters."

That was stunning enough, but the examples just go on and on. He lives in a bubble, he can't put together a compound sentence in his native tongue, and when asked a question he will repeat the same two or three phrases over and over in different combinations using a tone of voice that indicates he (a) thinks the questioner has no right to ask, and (b) thinks the questioner is an idiot.

The examples are endless. He is a scary little man and a poor excuse for a human being.

Hekate

[AlamoDemoc]

4. mention the word 'foreign'...and Lou comes to the resque...what an isolationist douchebag

[Grebrook]

6. At least he's balanced, he's right half the time, which is preferrable to more partisans

in the media.

[Hippo_Tron]

18. I wouldn't say he's right half the time, more like a stopped clock

Right twice a day. Just because somebody doesn't embrace the neo-liberal bullshit of the Bush administration doesn't mean that they are right.

[kysrsoze]

31. Might help if he stuck with an argument too. 2 months ago, he said Dems were no different

what an @ss.

[QuestionAll...]

33. haha. I like that. Describes what I think of Lou.

when he's good, he's blazingly sharptongued good.
when he's bad, I groan and want to cringe.

but I won't stop watching him - he's like most people I know, actually. Rarely in full agreement on anything.

[Berserker]

7. Nope not

isolationist try Patriot.

[Leftist78]

12. Absolutely

He's one of the last people in the mainstream media willing to challenge the corporate status quo. He stands up for American workers at a time when most others shrug their shoulders and say "It's the global economy. If people who lose their good jobs have to work at Wal-Mart for 1/3 of what they used to make that's just growing pains and the best thing we can do is keep shopping and not think too much about them." The man is as close to a saint for working people as we could possibly have in the media.

[napi21]

9. That's just not true. Lou is against the ports deals, selling off our airlines, and

ILLEGAL immigration. I'm with him on all of those positions, and I would think most DUers are as well.

[AlamoDemoc]

13. you claim "most DUers" agree with you on this...I gather you have taken a poll on this?

[napi21]

15. No, ut I've been reading DU for a number of years. It doesn't take

a photographic memory to get the feel for many positions that are generally accepted around here.

[AlamoDemoc]

16. No, I truly don't recall most Duers agreeing with Lou's racist rhetorics

[mondo joe]

17. Of course not -- there was no "racist rhetorics".

Hence none to agree with.

[Shakespeare]

19. Not true.

Read the article I posted from The Nation in the link just below your post.

Dobbs most certainly uses racist rhetoric.

[Shakespeare]

14. Dobbs is a vicious racist.

I cringe every time I see DUers defending him just because he occasionally says something we might agree with. On the whole, he's as despicable as they come:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/eviatar

[kysrsoze]

32. His picture is next to "xenophobe" in the dictionary

n/t

[mondo joe]

11. That's simply untrue.

But if it makes you feel better, keep repeating it.

[QuestionAll...]

35. that 'douchebag' has been challenging outsourcing and the threat

to american citisens for quite some time now. I don't hear anyone else sticking to the subject for as long as Lou has.

by your remark, do you think it's quite fine for corporations to not have any allegiance but to their profits and get cheap labour from wherever they can at the best price, pay unfair low taxes compared to the middle class, have more influence on policies than the voters?.

sure sounds so to me.

you want a borderless world? Yes, I do as well, would be grand - for The People. Corps want it for their fancy 'globalization' bastardized ugly orwellian word. Global net for cheap labour and most profits - that's what it is.

[MANative]

8. He and Kitty Pilgrim also did a piece on the FL-13 voting

problems and another one on the "North American Union" crap that BushCo is trying to shove through. Saying it was unbelievable that Congress could do nothing about it.

[KharmaTrain]

10. Then Doobies Tries to Tie Ameenajhad With The Democrats

Just like as if he'd gotten the talking point right from Rove. Fortunately the generally weak-kneed Democratic "consultant" pushed it back in Lou's smug face.

BTW...anyone want to conjecture why Lou Doobies still calls the People's Republic Of China as "Red China"? Old habits die hard?

[katsy]

20. Red China.

China is a communist country... hence the label "red China".

Lots of innocent Chinese people being tried as criminals for freedoms we take for granted.

[Shakespeare]

21. No, China is no longer a communist country.

While China certainly still has grave human rights issues in some areas, it hasn't been a communist country for years. It's a "socialist market economy," by their definition (basically a heavily regulated and burgeoning capitalist society).

[katsy]

25. China is still a communist country

...albeit one that is loved by capitalist/corporate apologists. Change will come but in what form is too early to say.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1287798.stm

" The rate of economic change hasn't been matched by political reform, with the Communist Party - the world's biggest political party - retaining its monopoly on power and maintaining strict control over the people. The authorities still crack down on any signs of opposition and send outspoken dissidents to labour camps."



http://www.nytimes.com/ref/college/coll-china-politics-002.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5351792

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/college/collegespecial10/coll-china-politics.html

[Shakespeare]

26. I am neither a corporate nor a capitalist "apologist."

And China is no longer a communist country. Are their still certain aspects of communism present in its governance? Yes, but that does not make it a communist country. The first major steps away from communism--and they are major--have been the encouragement of free enterprise, local/individual control of land, and the rejection of the cultural revolution's suppression of art and craftsmanship. Do they still have a LONG way to go? Yes, and I said as much in my initial post. But to refer to it reflexively as a communist country is to grossly oversimplify what China is today.

It's a tad more complicated than that, whether you understand that or not.

[katsy]

27. Admittedly there's much I don't understand about their politics.

And I didn't mean to imply you were the apologist... I just think China's cheap labor and lack of human rights is a corporatist's wet dream.

China is ruled by one party, the communist party.

[Shakespeare]

28. Well, like I said, it's rather more complicated than that.

China's labor isn't as cheap as it used to be--it's no longer a place most companies look to for cheap labor (so they've moved on to prey on other countries). They have made some improvements on human rights, and aren't quite the evil-incarnate we were taught to see them as.

I'm moving there within the year to teach, and have been doing pretty intensive research on the country and its government. For all its flaws, it's a wonderful, exciting place to be right now.

[katsy]

29. WOW!

Will you share your experiences with us at DU when you finally get there?

Maybe you should start a thread to inform some of us about what really is going on in China. I'd read it.

What will you be teaching?

[Shakespeare]

34. I'll be teaching English, hopefully in Xi'an.

I intend to post as much as I can, but with the requisite discretion. I want to reiterate one more time that I don't see China as a problem-free country, and any comments I make about the government there will have to be very carefully worded. I'm sure the censors won't have a problem with my criticizing the Bush administration, but my comments about China will be....measured.

I'm going over there to experience the culture and travel around the country as much as possible, so although I recognize China's problems, and am sure I'll experience many of them close-up, my goal is not to criticize the country while I'm there. That can wait until I get back.

[katsy]

36. Congrats Shakespeare.

I do hope the human rights conditions are improving there. Have a wonderful adventure.

[Marie26]

22. Probably them foreigners taking over. nt

[symbolman]

23. Now if we can just check HIS Arrogance

I used to think I liked the guy, then I realized he's just a dork who thinks he's now a bigshot. Lots of Pontificating, puffery, really thinks he's a BRAIN, when all he is is a talking Head as usual..

Watched him on Mahr show and noticed that he was playing to the crowd, his opinions would turn on a dime, and he is what you might call a "Pleaser" in a family of alcoholics..

So now I think he's an idiot. sorry :)

[EmmitFitzhume]

24. I couldn't agree more

Dobbs used to have credibility however, arrogant is an accurate term to describe the tone of his broadcasts recently.

If anyone has read the recent profiles on Dobbs it's obvious that CNN is encouraging this kind of behavior in an attempt to catch up to Fox News in the ratings.

[lovuian]

30. Lou Dobbs has been defending US jobs from fleeing this

country and destroying the middle class and Doesn't like BUSH

and has been one of the few against him

So I love LOU he is an American

last time I checked immigrants who sneak into America without going through the legal process were NOT Americans

They can't vote