Subject: [big campaign] Stossel: 'I Don't Subscribe To Lou Dobbs-Kind Of Rants About Immigrants Wrecking America'
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:06:46 -0400
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More conflict on the right...

John Stossel: 'I Don't Subscribe To Lou Dobbs-Kind Of Rants About Immigrants Wrecking America'<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/21/john-stossel-lou-dobbs/>

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/21/john-stossel-lou-dobbs/

Latino and pro-immigrant activists have launched two campaigns, Drop Dobbs<http://www.dropdobbs.com/> and Basta Dobbs<http://bastadobbs.com/>, which are aimed at pressuring CNN to "to hold Mr. Dobbs to journalistic standards<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/1243674.html>" or dump him altogether. Perhaps sensing an opportunity, Fox News' senior vice president for programming, Bill Shine, is trying to court Dobbs<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/12/dobbs-fox-business/> over to Fox's business channel.

However, it seems not everyone at Fox News will be welcoming Dobbs with open arms. The network's newest addition, John Stossel, issued some scathing criticisms of Dobbs in a radio interview<http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/32213/> today with fellow Fox colleague Glenn Beck. Stossel indicated that he doesn't support conservatives like Dobbs who rail on immigrants. Beck asked Stossel whether he is willing to "throw his vote away" and not vote for a Republican. Stossel firmly held that if "conservative means stop all immigration and some other things that conservatives say," then he will not vote Republican:

STOSSEL: If it means the Lou Dobbs-kind of rants about immigrants wrecking America, I don't subscribe to that. I think immigrants by and large do good things for America.

BECK: I think immigrants I think we need more immigrants, ones that want to be Americans because those immigrants are the only ones that are reminding us that we better get off our ass, we've got liberty here and we forget about it all the time.

Listen:

Lou Dobbs' rants include promoting the "Aztlan" conspiracy theory<http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/07/31/lou-dobbs-citing-extremists-again/> about Mexican immigrants trying to reconquer portions of the American southwest, falsely claiming that immigrants are bringing leprosy to the US<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/30leonhardt.html>, and musing about whether President Obama himself is an "undocumented"<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/21/dobbs-obama-birth-certificate/> immigrant.

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Adam Jentleson
Communications Director, Progressive Media
Center for American Progress Action Fund
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ajentleson (AIM)
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