Sep 28, 2009: Organizaciones hispanas piden la renuncia de Lou Dobbs, de CNN (www.cubaperiodistas.cu)
El diario hispano-neoyorquino La Prensa fue el primero en lanzar, en su editorial, un “Ya basta” a nombre de latinos y latinas, inmigrantes indocumentados e indocumentadas, que piden destituir al presentador de la cadena de televisión CNN, Lou Dobbs, que ha emprendido una campaña despectiva contra “extranjeros ilegales”, a quienes acusa, entre otras cosas, de ser los responsables de que la lepra haya aumentado en Estados Unidos.
Sep 25, 2009: Weekly Immigration Wire: These Are American Stories (Huffington Post)
As the immigration debate grows increasingly tense and intertwined with economic worries, cultural anxiety, and deep-seated racism and xenophobia, it is important to be clear about what's at stake. This debate is about our humanity; about our most fundamental legal precepts concerning a human rights; about refusing to exploit the weak. Put simply: Human beings have rights that cannot be taken away by the stroke of a pen, rap of a gavel, or by angry pundits who demonize the disadvantaged.
Sep 25, 2009: Anti-Lou Dobbs Campaign Shows Facebook Spending Disconnect (ClickZ)
Facebook has become a hotbed of targeted political advertising. Advocacy groups and political campaigns can deliver ads to people based on political persuasion, demographics, and words they include in messages they post on the site. However, a current Facebook campaign from pro-immigration reform group America's Voices is indicative of the hurdles the social network faces when it comes to generating ad revenue from political advertisers that's comparable to what they spend on TV or even other sites.
Sep 25, 2009: “Drop Lou Dobbs” – Online Campaign by Pro-Immigrant Forces Puts Pressure on CNN (Feet in 2 Worlds)
Hispanic and pro-immigrant activists are becoming increasingly vocal in their demand that CNN drop host Lou Dobbs. Dobbs has a history of supporting fringe conspiracy theories –like the so-called “birther” movement that questions whether President Obama was born in the U.S, and one that claimed immigrants were spreading leprosy in America.
Sep 24, 2009: Why do we let racism thrive on CNN? It's time for Lou Dobbs to go. (OpEdNews)
CNN News anchor Lou Dobbs is using his position to promote rightwing hate movements, including the clearly discredited "birther" movement which spreads destructive lies about President Barack Obama's citizenship. CNN president Jonathan Klein emailed staffers at "Lou Dobbs Tonight" informing them that the story had been thoroughly debunked. And yet Dobbs continues to highlight voices questioning the validity of the president's birth certificate on his program. Why is Klein accepting this behavior?
Sep 23, 2009: Dropping Lou Dobbs: Unrepentant wingnuttery means CNN needs to choose between its credibility and its pride (crooksandliars.com)
Lou Dobbs has always been unrepentant in the face of proof of his many journalistic misdeeds. So it is not surprising that, in the face of a concerted campaign to have CNN remove him as one of its major news anchors, Dobbs defiantly embraces conspiracy theorists who argue, among other things, that President Obama is planning to round up conservatives and incarcerate them in concentration camps, and who feature pro-secession articles on their websites.
Sep 23, 2009: DropDobbs, BastaDobbs, Is Enough, Enough! Is momentum building on CNN to reign in Dobbs? (http://tonyherrera.com/)
Democracia AHORA launched a new campaign to oust Lou Dobbs from his post at CNN. The new campaign builds on a growing momentum aimed at holding CNN responsible for airing an estimated 260 hours per year of hate filled programming via the Lou Dobbs Tonight show.
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