Dobbs Calls Himself Latinos’ ‘Greatest Friend,’ Denies Tying Leprosy To Undocumented Immigrants
Dobbs Calls Himself Latinos’ ‘Greatest Friend,’ Denies Tying Leprosy To Undocumented Immigrants
Today in an interview with Maria Celeste on Telemundo’s Al Rojo Vivo, ousted CNN anchor Lou Dobbs denied ever erroneously claiming that undocumented immigrants are bringing leprosy to the United States. Instead he attacked Celeste for bringing up reports that he aired on his show in the past. From interview (translated from Spanish):
DOBBS: Let’s be very clear: I did not support that report, in fact we corrected that report. And secondly, in fairness to me, I never said a word about leprosy and undocumented immigrants as you call them. My correspondent on our broadcast ad-libbed…obviously she was wrong. My only declaration in response to that report was one word: “incredible.”
CELESTE: You were also confronted with this erroneous information by Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes and you said that you supported 100% of what you had said on the show, and that you were the managing editor of the program, and in your show, everything that was said was factual….
DOBBS: Maria, in the interest of fairness, would you like to tell your audience how long ago that report was?
CELESTE:That was a few years ago…
DOBBS: No, Maria, that was four years ago…
CELESTE: It doesn’t matter how many years ago, you never retracted…This is your opportunity to clarify that and once and for all put it to rest doing whatever you choose to do — an apology, a retraction — whatever you feel most comfortable with.
Watch it:
Despite the fact that Dobbs did in fact state that “the invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans,” he refused to issue a retraction or apology on Telemundo.
However, Dobbs did tell the Latino community that he is one of its “greatest friends,” and he wants to work with them. He defended himself on the show by explaining that he is not “an enemy of Latinos,” but rather that the far-left has characterized him as such with its propaganda. The CBS website shows the 60 Minutes segment that aired in 2007.
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November 20th, 2009 at 8:33 pm“Dobbs Calls Himself Latinos’ ‘Greatest Friend,’ Denies Tying Leprosy To Undocumented Immigrants”
– - In related news: “Lou Dobbs Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.”
November 20th, 2009 at 8:36 pmDobbs: “You know, I have friends who are Latinos”.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:37 pmYeah Lou, I’m sure the Latinos will forgive you and move on. After all, what is a couple years of immigrant bashing, racism and racial profiling? You have called them everything from parasites to leporcy carrying drug runners. I’m SURE they will forget all about it. By the way, there’s a bridge I would like to sell you….
November 20th, 2009 at 8:42 pmSquirm, worm!
November 20th, 2009 at 8:42 pmDobbs was feeding his disenfranchise feeling viewers raw meat for profits. Its a ignorant and inciteful thing to do for ratings [profits]
November 20th, 2009 at 8:42 pmwith friends like lou “mumble mouth” dobbs…
November 20th, 2009 at 8:42 pmShorter Dobbs: All the pundits do it for ratings!!
November 20th, 2009 at 8:43 pmPoliticians do the same thing as Dobbs, except for campaign dollars.
We, as a country, I think, need to get as far away as possible from this type of national tabloidal controversy creation.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:46 pmDonate some of your millions to impoverished and sickly children in Mexico, not as punishment to you, but to show that you actually care about humanity,
November 20th, 2009 at 8:48 pmLooks like Dobbs is auditioning for his Fox show.
Fox Rule #1: Never tell the truth. Lies all the time.
Fox Rule #2: Never tell the truth. Lies all the time.
Fox Rule #3: Never tell the truth. Lies all the time.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:50 pmIs this the Onion? My browser must’ve gotten redirected..
November 20th, 2009 at 8:51 pmOT…
palin said the president has it “back-ass-wards”…
after that obama said she’s just “uckin-fun-qualified.”
-jimmy fallon
paraphrased from hearing that on countdown just now…
funniest thing i’ve heard from fallon in a while – but i don’t watch him much
and odonnell even gave him credit for having possibly making
network television history…
…
also – i posted some info at the mammogram thread…
November 20th, 2009 at 9:11 pmcheck it out and tell me what you think, if you want…
The villain will never, ever admit as much. that’s the way it is. Dobbs is just complying with the role of the true villain, though and though, and that’s a lot of though.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:17 pmI’m watching rachel right now and the Righties use of the word ‘Rape’ is disgusting
November 20th, 2009 at 9:17 pmPOX Views is going to pop soon like an experiment gone terribly wrong.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:19 pmWow. Someone already said it, but all I can think is – with friends like Dobbsy – who needs enemies??
November 20th, 2009 at 9:27 pmCELESTE:That was a few years ago…
DOBBS: No, Maria, that was four years ago…
CELESTE: It doesn’t matter how many years ago, you never retracted…
kinda funny… he dug that hole pretty fast…
November 20th, 2009 at 9:28 pmLOL! I wonder if you guys heard, McCain is getting challenger, a rightie Norquist is backing AND our favorite whack-job Michelle Bachman? Her too. I tells you something about the mind set of the ‘Tea-Baggers’. If Michelle isn’t ‘pure’ enough, who is?
November 20th, 2009 at 9:28 pmWow. It’s quiet tonight. I guess everybody is at the bar getting hammered.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:30 pmWow, it’s lonely in here. I guess I’ll have to clean or pay bills. Oh Hell, I’m grabbing a beer.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:38 pmThat’s the funny thing about illegal immigrants for all we know one of them could have a clone of the outbreak monkey in their backpack.
How would we know before it was to late?
Then again using the same logic the same illegal could have a backpack filled with candy.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:39 pmIm having a white russian, was at thread below =)
How are you tonite PD?
November 20th, 2009 at 9:45 pmSpeaking of monkeys did you know that H1N1 is mfgd, in part, from infected monkeys?
November 20th, 2009 at 9:46 pm“Dobbs Calls Himself Latinos’ ‘Greatest Friend,’ Denies Tying Leprosy To Undocumented Immigrants”
Senior Louie had too many margaritas and he is full of it. Pass the popcorn please…
November 20th, 2009 at 9:50 pmIf Lou Dobbs is Latinos ‘Greatest Friend’ as he claims,then John Bolton can say he is the ‘Best Friend’ of Iranians.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:52 pmThe anti-flu shots I meant
November 20th, 2009 at 9:56 pmXis@23, Ok. I got to admit. Sarah ditching her fans was a high point and totally expected.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:57 pmIf Lou Dobbs is Latinos ‘Greatest Friend’ as he claims,then John Bolton can say he is the ‘Best Friend’ of Iranians
Or the top50 floors of the UN
November 20th, 2009 at 9:57 pmSure. She didnt write the book anyway. Shes interested in the profits from it a few leftovers standing in the cold when she had another stop.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:00 pm.
… Why of course it never came out of Lou Dobbs mouth when he said it, YES?
.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:00 pmSalud Barrack
November 20th, 2009 at 10:01 pmSuch as being governor of Alaska?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:05 pmXis@31, One thing I learned about the Barracuda. Sarah LIVES for Sarah. In her wake, she has burned bridges, alienated friends AND family, and trashes EVERYONE who ‘crosses’ her. Former Politicians, formers staffers, family…. The list goes on and on. Those people waiting in the rain should have known better. Sarah is a user.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:06 pm@35, Obama did you dip-sh*t!
November 20th, 2009 at 10:07 pm@39, What a comeback! LOL! Can’t we get a INTELLIGENT troll?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:09 pmCmon Barracks, she quit office so she could sell books and she is not making speeches to gain office here.
I agree that schedules get mucked up, but the comparison you seem to be making is, well, iffy.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:10 pmName one book by any politician or crowing cranium I have read.
Hint: It rhymes with Nero
November 20th, 2009 at 10:12 pmBarrackBelow50 says:
obama ditched thousands of people when he was on tour.
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Link please!!!
November 20th, 2009 at 10:15 pmPerhaps. I would say that her sincere belief is her worst enemy. She is being used precisely for her usurism.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:17 pmLatinos “greatest friend”??? Dobbs is certifiably deluded, with apparently no memory whatsoever. Does he think none of his shows were recorded? Granted, they never should have been, since they are crap, but– surprise!! – they were!
November 20th, 2009 at 10:19 pmThat is, Palins belief, will be used in such a manner that it will undermine her ideology while appearing to promote it.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:19 pm#35- easy: Obama
November 20th, 2009 at 10:20 pmAnd this method, before you go lefty righty, Barrack, is used im may ways and many forms, by many groups, and often they do not know they are doing it.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:21 pm@44, Oh, please. Ayers? That was so 2008. Move on genius.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:21 pmThats true, I was just saying cheers. No bankshots here, okay, thanxx
November 20th, 2009 at 10:22 pm@53, Now you are being pathetic. You know what i meant as*hole. Clinging to Ayers means you have no rebuttal or facts.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:26 pmBarraks, lets make a deal, I wont use ANY pundits words when discussing politics with you.
What I think and what you think. Parties aside.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:27 pmSo, what I think, is my thoughts, not TV, not radio, not polls, not what Dobbs says, all that EM wave stuff inconsequntial. Wisdom comes from between us.
I will let you begin, Barrack, on any subject.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:30 pmI think rumors are pointless, why ponder them?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:36 pmBarrackBelow50 says:
The rumor that ayers wrote his book has never been disproved.
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Neither has the rumor that you’re a child molester… what’s your point?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:36 pmAyers is like some galaxy spinning millions of light years off into the distance. Its visible but has nothing to do with me or you.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:41 pmThey are rumors, why concern yourself with them? Isnt it like fighing ghosts? Why keep them alive by finger pointing?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:43 pmIn relation to what?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:44 pmBarrackBelow50 says:
Well, too bad the far left chose to float hundreds of false rumors about Palin and her family.
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‘the far left’???
You are kidding, right? What a broad, pointless generalization…
November 20th, 2009 at 10:47 pmWho are you a victim of?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:47 pmI am made of the same basic atoms as you Barracks. How so can you or I victimize another? Is your atoms less worthy than mine? Why would I victimize another?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:50 pmIf you didn’t want to blame others, you wouldn’t be here, Below 50.
You keep accusing Obama of having affiliations that might discredit him, so you can feel better about your own prejudice.
Pretty much the same as Dobbs.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:54 pmDo you care what ayers ideology is? I dont
November 20th, 2009 at 10:56 pmGN Barrack
November 20th, 2009 at 10:56 pm‘You people’ with ‘play the victim card’…
Not one but TWO meaningless generalizations in one statement… cool…
And this somehow justifies acting abusively towards strangers…
Double cool…
November 20th, 2009 at 10:58 pmShame is only an issue with people with personality disorders, like Palin, Limbaugh, and maybe Dobbs, since he’s trying to reinvent himself.
Why do you bring up shame?
November 20th, 2009 at 11:01 pmYou made it my business when you came here,
trying to invalidate Obama.
Invalidation is also typical of people with personality disorders.
People don’t do what you do without some kind of motivation.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:17 pmMy party hates health care, and when we officially lose that, we will get up off the house/senate floor, wipe away our tears, change our diapers, and officially restart the 2006-2007 engine of hating on brown people. You can bet on it.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:25 pmFellow GOP pal “Barackblahblah50″,
You should embrace the namejacker. He’s adding to your non-existent luster.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:29 pmYou created a new moniker just to talk to me. How sweet.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:30 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
After HealthCare, my party is going to stock up on tear gas so they can have just as much fun at those amnesty rallies as they did in ‘07.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:34 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
You’re welcome. You can wash my balls anytime.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:41 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
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does the cowmuncher somehow think we TPers are not aware of
dobb’s mexican wife?
whyyy, that’s a big piece of the puzzle… everybody knows that…
November 20th, 2009 at 11:54 pmAll right we got a 6, can I get a 7? Come on you juvenile little vote down monkeys, make it go away, cover your eyes!!
November 20th, 2009 at 11:56 pmkaty says:
does the cowmuncher somehow think we TPers are not aware of
dobb’s mexican wife?
whyyy, that’s a big piece of the puzzle… everybody knows that…
Ya sure do now! But nice spin anyway.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:04 amLouLou is, and always has been, a phony…. Everything he has ever put on the air has been a lie. When he got interviewed earlier this week on The Daily Show, he got DESTROYED, especially on the segments shown on the DailyShow.Com web site.
Dobbs is in this game for one reason only – MONEY…. If you can’t make him more of it – you don’t matter to him in any context – period…. what a jerk.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:28 amYou got over your pizza face, beefeater . . .
or your humiliation?
I doubt that you will come to terms with that by trolling here.
Try therapy.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:37 amstewart earns every penny and is worth 10 times that much…
thank the gods for the TRUTH TELLERS!
g’nite all…
November 21st, 2009 at 12:45 amNo dates for the piss-soaked trolls tonight?
Losers.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:54 amWell, I got here late and the racists have been busy I see.
OSTL couldn’t get a date either I see.
November 21st, 2009 at 3:27 amOnly an idiot would deduce that those were the only options.
November 21st, 2009 at 3:30 amOSTL
I dont get you ignorant punkass trolls. What kind of thrill do you get proving to everyone how stupid you are? We all get it. You are a moron. Why not just STFU until you find a brain somewhere?
November 21st, 2009 at 4:09 amIf the tables turned, and Lou Dobbs had to sneak into Mexico to feed his family, would he do it, or would he let his family go hungry because he respected Mexico’s immigration laws so much?
1-Termer
November 21st, 2009 at 5:53 amWOW!… just…
WOW!
Another Friday night and Jeffy Bovine was getting drunk, talking to himself and responding to his imaginary boyfriends, exposing his shame including his fantasies about Keith Olbermann and arguing with those guys that rejected his homo advances, just like Jeffy has been doing for years.
The poor closet homo Jeffy Bovine has some serious issues.
Seek help, Bovine. Stop hating and hurting yourself. Seek help, and a nice boyfriend to bareback you, soon.
November 21st, 2009 at 8:01 amAdolph Hitler: I’m the Jews greatest friend.
November 21st, 2009 at 8:53 amWhat the scumbag calls “propaganda” from the “far left” is the truth whether you are on the right, center, or left. CNN fired him for good reason, all the lies in the world can’t change the facts and countless youtube videos that prove how much this dirtbag hates his fellow man.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:33 amGood ol’ Lou Dobbs. A Great Man. Standin’ up for a home grown all-American Leprosy. None of that danged foreigner illegal alien Mexican Leprosy for us, by gollies; nothin’ but genuine USA American Leprosy will do. (nano-snark)
Dobbs isn’t fit to empty bed pans for terminal Hansen’s Disease patients.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:05 pmLou Dobbs Lies.
November 21st, 2009 at 1:14 pmolby sucks,
can we pin other idiocies on you?
just so you know, we’re gonna need lots of pins.
you might pop.
:<
November 21st, 2009 at 2:03 pmBeefswallower you are the most ignorant pile of dogshit the world has ever seen. You have established how incredibly STUPID you are so you can STFU now.
November 21st, 2009 at 4:49 pmOSTL
No, YOUR unique idiocy and crippling stupidity is ALL YOURS. No one else is trying to pin it anywhere or take responsility for it. You have EARNED the contempt you get. You had to work HARD to be THIS stupid and brainwashed. We can all see how it is working out for you
November 21st, 2009 at 4:50 pmI see beefswallower and OSTL are comitted to proving they are the STUPIDEST most BRAINWASHED morons on the block
November 21st, 2009 at 4:51 pmWith friends like Lou Dobbs, who needs enemies, especially the Latinos who already have more enemies than they can deal with.
Lou seems to be having a Bachmann moment where he is denying saying what the tapes clearly show him as saying.
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 amThe only way Dobbs is a “friend” to Latinos is that he married one and has two half Latino children.
I can’t imagine how Dobb’s wife can tolerate him. She must have very low self esteem to put up with his bigotry against her people.
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 pmLou Dobbs once told me he was my best friend. Then he stole my wallet.
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:36 pmHow fun, I just did “garbage cleanup” on 10 posts (pushing them all to the banned state.
You folks sure did have an infestation of trolls last night.
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm