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Sun Mar-23-08 06:43 PM
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He is really coming across as a racist hiding behind not being a racist to me.
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:44 PM
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If it's not blue where you are, you can contact Lou Dobbs for an explanation of how illegal immigrants are somehow responsible for ruining the color of America's skies.
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:45 PM
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2. A lot of people don't like him, but I think he's courageous. |
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Edited on Sun Mar-23-08 06:45 PM by ryanmuegge
I'd like to think he isn't a racist.
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:47 PM
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6. Do you have a border fence around your house? |
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Hell yes he is racist. Courageous....how exactly????
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:49 PM
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10. The same way Rush Limpballs is "courageous"--plays to fear and suspicion |
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Edited on Sun Mar-23-08 06:49 PM by wienerdoggie
and has to trump up an us-vs-them sentiment for ratings.
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Mon Mar-24-08 12:14 PM
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29. Fear and suspicion of globalization is warranted. |
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Edited on Mon Mar-24-08 12:21 PM by ryanmuegge
He's courageous because of the way he covers economic issues, which is radically different from anybody else I can think of in the mainstream media. Focusing on issues of race and gender is so 1990s. There are bigger problems now. Much bigger problems. While I can't peek inside the guy's mind to tell whether he really is a racist against illegal Hispanic immigrants, I respect him a lot for the way he covers economic issues.
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:46 PM
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3. he does have legitimate concerns about illegal immigration |
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however, I feel that too often he fails to distinguish between people as illegal aliens and HUMAN BEINGS
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:47 PM
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:46 PM
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4. If I wanted someone in charge of improving race relations in my country, |
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Lou Dobbs' phone would not ring.
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:46 PM
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5. Does a bear....? Is the Pope....? n/t |
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:47 PM
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8. He is. Everyone will point to his Mexican wife, but he's got a real problem. |
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:55 PM
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16. In spit of his Spanish speaking wife, I think he does also. |
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:48 PM
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9. Does Bill O'Reilly like Falafels? |
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:50 PM
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12. He's so shrill about immigration, I have to think so, yes. |
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:51 PM
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who claims they aren't racist. that's the most insidious kind of racist.
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:53 PM
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:54 PM
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15. Before Olbermann, he was one of the few people on Cable news who |
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would call out and criticize Bush.
Still I agree he seems a bit racist.
I think he should focus more on the reasons why so many immigrants came here.
Minnesota companies advertised for labor in Mexican newspapers, for example, 4 years ago, it was in the news here.
We can't ignore businesses who take advantage of people for cheap labor.
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:59 PM
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17. Um, he's never hidden it. |
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Sun Mar-23-08 06:59 PM
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Glad to know it's just not me who has this perception.
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Sun Mar-23-08 07:08 PM
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19. To call someone racist when they aren't is to lessen the impact of the word |
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Dobbs is likely not a racist. I think his views on immigration are awful, deplorable, xenophobic, despicable ...... but not racist.
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Sun Mar-23-08 07:11 PM
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20. He Is Worse And More Dangerous Than A Simple Racist |
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Sun Mar-23-08 07:17 PM
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22. I have mixed feelings about Lou Dobbs. |
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He is obsessed with illegal immigration, which gets tiresome. I don't think most Americans are as disproportionately upset about illegal immigration as Dobbs is. But sometimes he has good points on other issues.
But the last time I saw him, he was complaining about Obama and his pastor, sounding just like everyone on FAUX.
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Sun Mar-23-08 08:58 PM
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he's not against immigration, just illegal immigration.
Only the Shadow knows.........
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Sun Mar-23-08 09:01 PM
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26. He's an unabashed Bigot |
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Edited on Sun Mar-23-08 09:01 PM by Ichingcarpenter
but I don't know about Racist, although he does display those tendencies. I heard he is married to a hispanic.
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Sun Mar-23-08 09:13 PM
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27. Are "racist" and "asshole" co-equal? He's married to a Mexican-American |
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He and reporter Casey Wian had the audacity to report on Reconquista a few years ago, including a map on how us Latinos were going to retake the Southwest United States from Mexico.
Fuck Lou Dobbs.
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