Debating Against Lies - More on Lou Dobbs

Why do people continue to make a program the 2nd most popular on CNN when the program's reporters state out and out lies to the viewers? What does it mean that most Americans easily accept this type of mis-representation?

I question myself whether I should even write about L.D. because all this does is give the guy more attention... which he certainly does not deserve.

Yet, the main reason I do this is that its supremely important to correct the misinformation he is giving out. He insults Gov. Spitzer by saying the Gov. is not man enough to debate Dobbs. Yet his reporters literally lied with two very strong statements -saying that immigrants could obtain a drivers license with a foreign passport and that the NY drivers license bill was issued by executive order

1. Immigrants will NOT be able to get a license with a foreign passport
2. That the driver's license law will NOT be instituted by executive order.




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October 17, 2007
Lou Dobbs Crusades Against Spitzer’s Driver’s License Plan for Illegal Immigrants
New York Times

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
ALBANY, Oct. 16 — The CNN anchor Lou Dobbs calls Gov. Eliot Spitzer “a genius.” But not in a nice way.

“I was being about as facetious as one could be,” Mr. Dobbs said in an interview Tuesday as he prepared for his nightly broadcast, “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” For the last nine days, the show has included discussion of Mr. Spitzer’s plan to allow illegal immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses.

...José M. Serrano, a Democratic state senator who represents parts of Manhattan and the Bronx, appeared with Mr. Golden to defend Mr. Spitzer’s policy, but found himself under a verbal barrage from both the host and his fellow guest. “Oh my goodness, that was something else,” Mr. Serrano said. “I think it was my first time on national television. I wound up debating both of them — Lou paid very little attention to Marty Golden and instead just kind of dug in on me.”

This next morning, Mr. Serrano said, his office was bombarded with angry e-mail messages from around the country.

“One guy wrote, ‘We will derail the illegal gravy train from within,’” he said. “I don’t really know what that means. Another person said, ‘Go back to Mexico, you’re obviously Mexican.’” (Mr. Serrano is from Puerto Rico.) “I’m not naïve, but I was still surprised at the level of ignorance,” Mr. Serrano said.

(Mr. Dobbs’s correspondents have also stated on the air that illegal immigrants will need only a foreign passport to obtain a driver’s license, and that Mr. Spitzer’s policy was instituted through executive order, neither of which is true.)...




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