Are Latino advocates trying to control free speech in this country Latino advocates CNN to drop Lou Dobbs?
Posted Thursday, April 15, 2010 by admin
Latino organizations in 25 U.S. cities are joining forces through a national technology-based campaign demanding that CNN drop Lou Dobbs from its program offerings.
Their leaders are citing Dobbs’ links to immigration hard-line groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which some consider an anti-immigrant organization, and his ongoing promotion of dangerous anti-Latino and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“Enough is enough. CNN has allowed Dobbs to spout **** on its network for too long, and his alignment with a **** group like FAIR should be the last straw,” said Roberto Lovato of Presente.org, the national online group that is organizing the effort.
FAIR was founded by John Tanton, decried by the Southern Poverty Law Center for his connection to white supremacist organizations.
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, there are 46.9 million Latinos in the U.S., making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or race minority. Recent studies tie anti-immigrant **** speech to increased violence against Latinos.
Dobbs is joining FAIR’s annual “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” event, which is taking place in Washington D.C. today and tomorrow. The conference topics include “How Best to Close Illegal Alien Loophole in House Health Care Bill,” even though it’s been widely reported that undocumented immigrants are forbidden from receiving health care benefits under proposed plans.
Dobbs’ involvement in the FAIR event is the most recent action upsetting Hispanic activists nationwide.
Back in March, he criticized President Barack Obama for speaking about education reform to members of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a group in Washington, D.C. that advocates on behalf of Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S., calling it “crazy stuff.” He apologized days later.
“We are calling on CNN President Jon Klein to drop Dobbs if he and his network are to maintain any semblance of credibility in the fast-growing Latino media market,” Lovato said.
Organizers are asking supporters to join the campaign by visiting www.DropDobbs.com.
The groups involved in the campaign are based in the 25 U.S. cities with the largest Latino populations, which account for more than 75 percent of the entire Hispanic television audience in the country.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_hispanicaffairs/2009/09/latino-advocates-ask-cnn-to-drop-lou-dobbs.html
like most liberal groups, they cant stand to be told no
Dobbs’ shakespearean like faces make me laugh. He’s hot air powered by electricity. He makes the most ridiculous faces. Plus he’s a pseudo Democratic with his thoughts favoring the Republicans.
Battling speech with speech is how the first amendment works. They are free to use their economic power to voice their opinion on how CNN should run their private corporation. CNN is free to agree or not. Lou Dobbs is free to say what he likes and CNN can decide whether or not they want to broadcast it.
And you are free to voice your annoyance by making this post while I am free to respond to it. It’s free speech great!
Not so much an attempt to censure free speech (they are not trying to have him arrested for **** speech) rather than acting as coalition to remove him from a seat of influence based on his rhetoric, which they find racist, abusive and irresponsible.
dobbs ain’t going anywhere and the hispanic mouth pieces are finished. the reform they are trying so hard to get will never come and they know that. in the near future there will be some insincere push for amnesty but it will die in the senate and that will be it as far as this issue goes. laws already on the books will be enforced and jobs the illegals have been doing will be given to our citizens.
No way really? Now who the heck am I gonna laugh at? I guess I’ll continue to entertain myself with the YA lou dobbs.
I feel that anyone should be allowed to say what they want (yeah, even Kanye West), doesn’t mean everyone will like it. If you don’t, just deal with it.
yes they are, la raza and splc have been trying to stop anyone who educates the public with info on the travesties of illegal aliens. go Lou.
“FAIR was founded by John Tanton, decried by the Southern Poverty Law Center for his connection to white supremacist organizations.”
So? Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford, a notorious anti-Semite who used to write a newspaper article (later turned book), titled “The International Jew”, but I don’t hear the SPLC sqwaking…