Lou Dobbs

I don't watch conservative television, so I can;t actually give you miuch insight into how I feel about people like Brit Hume, Chris Wallace, Tucker Carlson or Anne Coulter. I do watch CNN and I can tell you that Lou Dobbs is an interesting character.

Today, as everyday, he had some segment touching on illegal immigration. This particular piece was alluding to some health care cutbacks -- reportedly putting uninsured children at risk -- to help fund an initiative that gives drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. Heading this initiative in NYS governor Eliot Spitzer. Dobbs called him a bunch of different names, among them (if my memory serves me correct), "weakling", "pu$$yface", "yellowbelly" "disgraceful bish" and "unAmerican, blowhard lout."

Let's just say that Dobbs thinks very lowly of Spitzer and very strongly about anyone that, either directly or indirectly, aids the continued influx of illegal immigrants.

Dobbs is basically a populist. He rides and dies for the average american citizen. One of his segments is entitled "The War on the American Middle Class". Dude seems genuinely and stikingly concerned with the recent trend of average Americans becoming more and more disadvantaged. I think he, and many others, are terrofied now that a great deal of whites are experiencing the plight that has long plagued minorities. Dobbs seems to think that illegal immigration is largely responsible. They take jobs, indirectly lower wages, and drain tax funds as they flood schools, jails and hospitals. That's how he's telling it and he has some points.

But, at the end of the day, I gotta say that this, seemingly stately, empathetic and good-willed old man is straight up and down xenophobic. You can;t tell me that Dobbs doesnt go ape-ish when he sees a Mexican working on an interstate, or a Haitian in an emergency room or an El Salvadorian effin up my (I mean his) burrito at a Chipolte.

( As an aside, I love how he's such a curmodgeon that has absolutely NO QUALMS about not only assasinating politicians/pundits character, but downright challenging the way the brains function or if they function at all.)

If Dobbs was a conservative republican that opposed abortion and gay marriage he'd be viewed as a straight up racist. count on that.

I'm just sayin....