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2008 campaign, huffpolitics, anti-immigration rhetoric, campaign, cnn, Glenn Beck, hispanic americans, immigration policy, Lou Dobbs, Mike Huckabee, msnbc, National Council of La Raza

Major Hispanic Group Launches 'Hate Speech' Campaign Targeting Dobbs, Beck

January 30, 2008 03:33 PM


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The country's leading Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization is set to begin a campaign targeting several newscasters and presidential candidates for what it deems "rhetoric that demonizes immigrants and Hispanic Americans."

The National Council of La Raza, which includes nearly 300 affiliated organizations, will launch a new initiative on Thursday titled "We Can Stop The Hate," aimed at curtailing the influence of CNN's Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck as well as MSNBC political commentator Pat Buchanan. In addition, the organization is petitioning for Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to renounce the endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, a cofounder of the Minuteman Project, an anti-immigration group.

"There's a bully in the room," said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CE, "and each of these candidates has a choice. They can stand up to the bully or they can cater to him. It is a question of courage or cowardice. To date, we have seen far too little courage."

The NCLR campaign, which will likely last through the presidential election, will catalogue the use of code words that paint immigrants as threats. The website accompanying the launch will included fact sheets and video samples documenting examples of inflammatory immigration-policy rhetoric.

The organization has requested a meeting with senior executives at CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, to discuss the philosophical viewpoints of their respective anchors and commentators. The ultimate goal of the campaign, officials say, will be to stem the "surge in hate speech and violence" that has emerged in the immigration debate.

"The immigration issue deserves serious debate and serious solutions," said Murguía. "We cannot have that debate as long as hate has the floor."

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Glenn Beck is a moron.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:07 AM on 02/02/2008

Hispanic pro-illegal Mexican groups have started a war with the American people!
Watch for it coming to a state near you.

Form Immigration groups in your area to fight back!
We are fed up with the attacks on our American citizens!
Lou Dobbs is married to a Mexican/American woman
he is such a big racist!

http://www.saveourstate.org
go to forums!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:46 AM on 02/01/2008

If controlling your southern border is racist, then Mexico must be the most racist country in the world. They have armed troops patrolling their southern border and prison camps to send those caught entering illegal, who are then quickly sent back.

Guess they just don't want any of those DARKER people coming up from Central and South America.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:48 PM on 01/31/2008

A great video of Graham Nash's 'Immigration Man':

http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwvideos/immigrationman_qt-hi.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:20 PM on 01/31/2008

In my humble opinion Lou Dobbs is not a racist and it is disingenuous to conflate him with such a racist neanderthal as Glenn Beck! I do not always agree with Dobbs, but for the most part he is spot on concerning illegal immigration and its affects on the middle class and working poor. Before you attack me, let me say that I am a first generation Irish American who lives in a neighborhood consisting of four immigrant fammilies, two first generation immigrant families, three Afro-American families and five white American families!
Let me review Lou Dobbs:
1. He is against illegal immigration and promotes legal immigration.
2. He calls for securing our borders and ports, not done 6+ years since 9/11. This is the duty and responsibility of a sovereign nation. There is nothing racist about this.
3. He is the only media person advocating for the working poor and middle-class against Corporate America and our anti- worker government.
4. He has called for the arrest and fining of employees and corporate officers who violate the law and hire illegal immigrants.
5. He also points out that only 40% of illegal immigrants cross over from our southern border.
6. He always has as guests on his show, people of differing views and backgrounds. Chief amongst them is Rep. Luis Gutierrez from Illinois. This gentleman's views are diametrically to Dobbs', yet he calls him a friend and states that Lou is not a racist. Gee, a Hispanic American saying that Dobbs is not a racist, but most whites on this site know better.
Lastly, I wonder where all the compassion, caring and understanting is for the workers who lose their jobs to illegals!!! When they come to this country, they DO NOT bring jobs with them, they steal jobs of working Americans. Guess who make up the vast majority of those workers who lose their jobs? Afro-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. Who gives a f--k about these people? Oh, I forgot, how racist of me!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:27 PM on 01/31/2008

Why a hate campaign?

Have they no legitimate arguments they can make?

Why resort to hate?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:51 PM on 01/31/2008

If this effort by NCLR helps marginalize the folks who are standing in the way of realistic immigration reform that gets those here in the system and creates ways for people to come legally in the first place, putting immigration back on a legal pedestal, then great. The 20-25% percent of the electorate most in a boil over illegal immigration are blocking solutions to the very problem they say they want to solve. The majority of us are getting pretty uncomfortable with all the rhetoric and this persistent fantasy that these 12 million people are going to leave. They aren't and we don't want them to. Let's move on already.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:46 PM on 01/31/2008

Once we regain control of who is and is not in our country I am sure this percieved hate will dissolve. We have every right (and responsibility) to control who is in and/or working in our country. This problem has only gone on this long due to political sell-outs and proffitiers. It is going to have to stop and the sooner the better. I did not fight for this country, only to turn it over to anyone who sneaks in.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 PM on 01/31/2008

funny how all the racist come out to defend dobbs and beck. mexicans are the ones under attack and the klan comes out to call them racist. next they will blame the mexicans because they cook the food that makes them fat.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:39 AM on 01/31/2008

And hispanic's won't vote for a Black Man!!!Welcome to America

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:06 AM on 01/31/2008

Hate speech is exactly what most of the rhetoric surrounding immigration issue is contaminated with; whether it be Dobbs or Huckabee the hate and racism and scapegoating of immigrants is coming predominantly form white males.

Im glad the Hispanic Group is standing up to the bullies and the racists because this is a nation of immigrants and each group contributes immensly to our society,economy and culture.

Blaming border crossing on just the poor of Mexico and absolving the American corporations and American employers of any responsibility is counter productive. Not to mention the active racist campaign to keep Iraqi immigrants out and other groups. It's deplorable and it's about time this hate speech is challenged.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:54 AM on 01/31/2008

"Hate Speech" is a good term to describe the wrangling over immigration. Some folks act like these are burglars in the night, here to rob us and run laughing into the night. The reality is something much different.
Ohg
http://thefiresidepost.com/2007/10/03/immigration-underground-railroad/

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:51 AM on 01/31/2008

Most of the so called political analysts on the CNN are intellectual MORONS, except for the older African American woman. The others are just posing and posturing armchair quarterbacks.

They lie about where they have never been.
Paying lip service aand eye service to their paymasters.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:06 AM on 01/31/2008

It's about time somebody stood up to the haters who get invited onto the shoutfest shows as if they were "experts." I'm shocked by what I see on the airwaves, and appalled at how much it has shaped what people in this country think about immigration.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:38 AM on 01/31/2008

You folks can banter all you want about this, but the US is never going to seal the borders and the current batch of illegals will get citizenship.

Both political parties want them here. The Democrats see them as the next African Americans they can farm for votes. The Republicans what them here because business interest want them here.

The Republicans and Democrats also see them as providing extra tax monies to put off the day Americans will have to be told Social Security, Medicare and the coming National Heath Care can no longer make currently promised payments.

Even under the best estimates, by 2040, they all start to fail and that is before you factor in the coming National Health Care.

My suggestion, accept it psychologically ( still fight it at the ballot box as long as you can) and drop the anxiety, then plan your future , financial and where you plan to live, accordingly.

The cities will be over run with them ( so move out) and income taxes on the middle class HAVE be raised significantly, because if you take ALL the income of the wealthy it will not be enough.

Facts: The top 25% pay 86% of all income taxes, , the top 1% pay 39% of all income taxes.

The top 50% pay 97% of all income taxes-now let that sink in. Making the top 50% pay 100% of income taxes will not generate the needed money. So where are the politicians going to get the extra needed money-from the working class. Yo have been warned, get ready.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:05 AM on 01/31/2008

ever picked cherries?. ever picked apples?, ever picked asparagus? how about baling hay? no you say . well i have, it is dangerous filthy nasty work in the hot sun bees are constantly buzzing you .hornets , the ground burrowing type, theres snakes widow backs, fiddle backs you name it is there for your pleasure to play with

I did all this while attending colledge its how I paid for some of my books and clothes during summer breaks, for four years, in all that time I never saw a black man in the fields I saw asians chicano, indians NO OTHER WHITEs, Ive watched then get ripped for their wages, get beaten for their wages by blacks, and other whites, but me they left alone along with the other crew members, seems as though nine mills has an impact on anybodys stupidity,

My point is this the american youth doesent knoow what work is and dosent want to know, as long as it comes from a credit card they could care less as to the origins of their pleasuer.

I can recall signs that used to say framers wanted and the carpenters literally begging the schools to let them post their needed help signs on the bullent boards, they never got responses, but yet when the work was finished the big mouths always managed to assert themselfs on why did you let the illeagals help you build it, at 23.00 ph for no one who has ever swung a hammer a bit much, let alone train him to cut rafters, expensive if he fucks up, and just how dependable are these high schoolers , wait and find out after the first beer party and they injure the melfs , VERY EXPENSTVE now you staET All over again with another newbie, naw we brought this on ourselfs and we deseve what we get,

mEANWHILE THOSE WHO ARE BUSY THROWING STONES IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD'T LET A SHARD OF GLASS HIT EM IN THE EYE, THEY MAY SEED A HYPOCRITE RESLECTED BEFORE THEY ARE BLINDED BY THEIR OWN STUPIDITY,

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:48 AM on 01/31/2008

i have an idea that will solve the "illegal alien" problem. arrest and give hard time to the c e o's and business owners who hire undocumented workers and force these same people to pay american citizens a living wage. it pisses me off when i hear that illegal aliens do work americans won't do. we won't do it because they pay criminal wages. these lazy ass american women can either pay decent salaries or clean their own houses and raise their own children

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:22 AM on 01/31/2008

IT IS ABOUT TIME!!!

Lou Dobbs is a very dangerous man!

Reminds me of the Nazis complaining about the Jews.

People like Lou who scapegoat groups are most definately racist!!

They don't come more racist than LOU DOBBS!



    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:48 AM on 01/31/2008

All you smug yuppies living in your comfortable suburbanite homes have it so very very wrong. Mexicans don't come here to "get benefits," "go on welfare," or however you imagine it. They come here to do what fewer and fewer Americans are willing to do, and thats to do the back-breaking, unforgiving, thankless grunt work that is "the" foundation for our economy. The fact is, they don't complain or waste their money on the frivolous, commercialized, "mall" lifestyles of the spoiled and lazy american populace. Most Americans cant even mantain a sizable savings account, and these guys are sending money back to their starving and desperately poor relatives living in Mexico. "Welll duhhhhh, what dont dey fix der own country duhhh. Why? Because Mexico aint a democracy, its controlled by a wealthy elite who manage to work out "free" trade deals that only benefit the themselves while forcing hundreds of farmers under when cheap american agriculture is shipped down there (funny how that worked out?) The rest is drug cartels. Mexicans are a resourceful, hard-working, and responsible people. Is that what really threatens our way of life?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:46 AM on 01/31/2008

MESSY- sounds like you know a good bit about hate

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:59 PM on 01/30/2008

PESOJOE- are obama's friends like reagans friends who bought him and his wife skeletor a 2.3 million dollar house in los angeles? what nice people they were. no one ever bought me a house. i wonder why they did it? do you know?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:40 PM on 01/30/2008

i congratulate "la raza". it is about time these racists were called out. by the way,OHIOMARK, why don't you go back to o'reilly's hate filled blog and wallow in it. get over yourself, we are all equals, and unless you are a full blooded native american, your family came here from some where else and they were exploited and abused, too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:30 PM on 01/30/2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kmTLk2Fgas
Listen for yourself. Lou Dobbs doesn't come off like a screaming zealot. It's LaRaza's way or no way.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:16 PM on 01/30/2008

And how many of the responders to this blog wash dishes, do landscaping, do the grunt-work for geo-seismic exploration for oil (you know the stuff you need for your SUV and to make the plastic for your PC), and a host of other things these people who want to seal off our borders wouldn't be caught dead doing.

If these jobs weren't done by 'illegal aliens', our economy wouldn't work right, because it would cost more to do these things and the corporate CEOs and proprietary business-owners aren't going to lose THEIR fat share of the pie. So, what are you left with? The need for your illegal immigrants willing to work for less-than-livable (for mainstream Americans) wages.

So yeah, go seal those borders off, and help GWB finish destroying our economy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:03 PM on 01/30/2008

La Raza is by definition a racist organization. It translates to "The Race".

They've got some balls calling Dobbs and Beck racists.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:40 PM on 01/30/2008
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