This week, Dobbs ranted about President Barack Obama having the audacity to deliver a speech on educational reform to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He accused Obama of pandering to Hispanics.
Dobb's tone insulting to all Hispanic-Americans but he then went on to slur the Chamber in a truly hatefull manner.
Dobbs said: “Making a decision to talk about a national initiative on education from the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which is effectively an organization that is interested in the export of American capital and production to Mexico and Mexico's export of drugs and illegal aliens to the United States. This is crazy stuff."
What is Looney Toons is Dobbs’ claim. Hispanic Americans are proud citizens who love their country and care about all the same issues that non-Hispanic Americans do. To impute that Hispanic American businessmen are working against American interests is demagoguery of the most vile sort. To associate them with the drug trade is slander.
How long will CNN allow Dobbs to masquerade as a journalist and to dress his political opinions, ethnic slurs, and outright lies in the guise news?
Prior to this latest rant, Dobbs has claimed that immigrants had triggered a supposed increase in leprosy. The watchdog group Media Matters pointed out that this was totally false.
Dobbs then posted a fundraising link for the town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania on his CNN Web page. Hazleton is famous for punitive anti-immigrant ordinances. After public prodding, CNN nudged Dobbs to remove the link.
Opinions are opinions. But basing them on biased “experts,” distortion and outright lies doesn’t serve any audience—only a hatemonger’s career and a cynical network’s ratings.
