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November 22, 2006
Lou Dobbs on On the Media
On November 17, Bob Garfield of the radio show "On the Media" interviewed Lou Dobbs, focusing on his coverage of illegal immigration.
Here's an excerpt from the transcript:
BOB GARFIELD: You do polls on your show.
LOU DOBBS: All the time.
BOB GARFIELD: But they aren't really polls.
LOU DOBBS: Of course they are.
BOB GARFIELD: They’re -
LOU DOBBS: No, they really are.
BOB GARFIELD: They're leading questions, Lou. They're more like the push polls that you hear about in political campaigns. Is this research?
LOU DOBBS: It is. It's a fair reading, I believe, of what our audience is thinking. Yes.
BOB GARFIELD: Here's a poll question from Tuesday's broadcast. It was about [LAUGHS] the Vatican declaring that -
LOU DOBBS: Oh, yes.
BOB GARFIELD: - the border wall is
LOU DOBBS: Oh, I, I plead -
BOB GARFIELD: - inhuman.
LOU DOBBS: Absolutely.
BOB GARFIELD: Do you believe, as the Vatican asserts in a statement from within its walled city, that building a fence on the U.S. border with Mexico is inhuman? Now, oddly enough, Lou, that got a 90 percent no vote. That must have shocked you.
LOU DOBBS: Was it only 90? {BOB LAUGHS} It was only 90?
BOB GARFIELD: Here's a –
LOU DOBBS: I'm disappointed, because I thought it would be much higher than that.
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Links to the audio program and the transcript can be found here:
http://www.onthemedia.org/
-jmc
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We use fences to exclude people from real estate all the time. Many of my neighbors have fences around their back yards. I don't have one, but I am not offended. Our military installations and other government facilities have fences to control visitors. Is that inhuman? I think not, nor do most Americans. Our immigration laws declare that those who do not follow certain procedures to enter our country are not welcome here. Why are we morally wrong to build a fence to enforce this policy? We use the Border Patrol, in effect a human fence to do the same thing. Is anyone going to argue that that's immoral. I think not. It is only those who would thwart our immigration law, illegal alien advocates and open border advocates, and their illegal alien clients that truly object to efforts to control our borders. Are we to let this noisy bunch of lawless rabble govern our immigration policy. I think not. It is the persistence of Latin Americans in breaking our LAWS that has forced us to build fences. The shame of a fence lies with the nations that fail to provide for their people, as the U.S. is only protecting the interests of those for which its government was founded.
The Vatican doesn't speak for me or the majority of Americans. The Vatican is just another interferring soverign entity as far as I, and many others are concerned. Lou was right about the Vatican wall, it was constructed to control visitors, a right that the Church would deny our country and a position that is manifesty hypocritical.
The Pope and his cadre of Cardinals have never publicly taken a position on the policies of Mexican and other corrupt Latin American governments that are sole root cause of the U.S. illegal immigrant crisis, but have been satisfied to lay the burden solely on the American people. As a church that has experienced countless accusations as a hotbed of pedifiles, it has forfeited whatever moral high ground that it ever possessed. The Catholic Church is in its death throws in this country, and it knows it, and it is for this reason that it doesn't make objections concerning the policies of the governments of Latin American that force migration. Its only hope is to import parishners from south of the border and it will do so with the ruthless not seen since the days of the Spanish Inquisition.
Posted by: George | Nov 22, 2006 1:43:40 PM
