Lou Dobbs has a new award named after him. It is well deserved.

[Kerrytravelers]

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/dobbsy-awards/

Some exaggerations and falsehoods are so outrageous that they deserve special recognition. The Dobbsy will be awarded to "mainstream" figures – those not normally regarded as extremists – who make false or misleading statements that denigrate or defame an entire group of people.

The award is named in honor of CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, who has repeatedly stretched the truth and peddled discredited propaganda during his nightly rants about immigrants.

Please send us your nomination for a Dobbsy. Include any links or other supporting evidence that debunks your nominee’s statements. We will periodically pick a nominee to receive a Dobbsy, and at some point, we'll ask readers to select a Dobbsy of the Year.


:evilgrin: Good for SPLC.

[myrna minx]

1. Perfect. He deserves this infamous award. n/t

[maseman]

2. Oh...I thought it was the "Shit-Stain" award. My bad.

[EFerrari]

3. I love it. K&R

[HughMoran]

4. Dobbs has morphed into a massive racist

Not sure what happened to him, but he's just plain vulgar now.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Goody..I nominate McCain for all the lies he has told about Republicans,

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

6. Heh, I thought Brass Ass was appropriate n/t

[UTUSN]

7. I'm too late for Rec-ing, but here's for KICKING!1

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/03/60minutes/main2758082_page2.shtml

.... The farm is sort of a compound. He lives there with 25 horses, four dogs, a cat, his wife, his 97-year-old mother, and his wife’s parents, the in-laws.

Dobbs met his wife Debi at CNN when she was a sportscaster; they've been married 25 years. "He’s a small-town boy, country boy. He used to say he was a country boy who's been to the big city," she says.

Dobbs' wife acknowledges her husband is an incredibly tough debater. Asked if she ever wins arguments with her husband, she tells Stahl, "Do I ever win? Of course, Lesley. … Most of ‘em."

But she says she tends to agree with what Lou says on his show.

"You never watch him and call him on the phone or wait till he gets home and say, 'Now Lou, tonight you just went too far?'" Stahl asks.

"We do discuss the show. But in terms of going too far, no. Usually, I'll say, 'You didn't go far enough,'" Debi Dobbs says. ....




http://www.aztlan.net/dobbs_married_to_mexican.htm

SHOCKER : Lou Dobb's wife is Mexican-American

.... Lou Dobbs has twin daughters with Debi whose maiden name is Segura. Mexican blood runs in the veins of his daughters, Hillary and Heather, yet he never mentions this on his anti-immigration CNN shows.

Lou and Debi Dobbs resides on a 300-acre horse farm in Sussex County, New Jersey with her Mexican parents and his mother. Leslie Stahl showed the parents of his wife and they looked totally Mexican.

About 4 years ago Debi Dobbs was arrested at the Newark Liberty International Airport after airport security found a loaded gun she was carrying in her handbag. She was charged with criminal possession of a weapon. After being fingerprinted and photographed by Port Authority Police, Debi Dobbs was released without bail. Mrs. Dobbs faced arraignment in a Newark court but the outcome of the case is not generally known. ....






http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/dobbs.h...

"'Illegal immigrant'?" Dobbs said, with his wife, Debi, a former sportscaster who is herself of Hispanic origin and who refers to Dobbs as "Husband" — he calls her "Momma" — not far away. ....



http://www.tvfanforums.net/lofiversion/index.php?t2467-50.html
.... Dobbs, who received a standing ovation during the ceremony at Bloomberg Corporate Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, was presented with the award by his wife, Debi Dobbs, a former CNN sportscaster. She said that he was the "same principled, strong-willed man" that he was when they were anchoring the late shift together on CNN in 1980.

For his part, Dobbs thanked his wife for helping make his career possible and told the audience it was important to "build a life" as well as a career. To his colleagues, he said: "Go out and raise hell and have fun. The country needs you." ...

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[samsingh]

8. good

[ladjf]

9. "PissAnt of the year"?

[nichomachus]

10. They were going to go with "Douchebag of Liberty"

but Robert Novak already had that.