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I don’t know whether to fall out laugh or cry at the prospect of another major election cycle with this blowhard on the campaign trail followed by his Teabaggers, Birthers, and Brown MenaceTM-fearing fans. (Reuters):
A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or U.S. Senate.“Right now I feel exhilaration at the wide range of choices before me as to what I do next,” Dobbs, whose outspoken views on immigration and other topics often angered liberals, told Reuters in a telephone interview from New York on Thursday.
…A Texas native, Dobbs has drawn fire from Latino leaders and civil rights groups for frequent on-air remarks about U.S. border control and immigration that critics saw as demonizing illegal immigrants.
He was also seen as lending credence to the “birther” conspiracy theory, whose adherents believe President Barack Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate was faked to hide a Kenyan birthplace that would make the first black U.S. president ineligible for his office.
Dobbs goes on to say that he will “seek to represent and champion the middle class in this country and those who aspire to it.”
Watch Dobbs’s appearance on The Daily Show (via C&L):
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Let me fix that for you, LouDobbs goes on to say that he will “seek to represent and champion the
middle classwhite people in this country and those who aspire toitbash brown people.”I always thought politics was the next logical step for himHe may have looked at how Arnold and Sarah became massively successful in politics with no experience or intelligence, and realized he’s at least as smart and media-savvy as them.
Kathy, your post is racistI am sure that it is cutting edge progressive thinking to equate “illegal alien” with brown skin and “middle class” with white skin, but in fact it is as racist as anything that the KKK believes. I would have thought that watching Buffy would have taught you some basic decency.
What? I was channeling Lou Dobbs there, not my own opinionSorry if that wasn’t clear. I certainly don’t equate brown people with “illegal aliens” (not a term I’d use), but Dobbs’ constant bashing certainly encourages the more ignorant among us to make that assumption.
Watching Buffy and Angel taught methat some people think that southern California is over 90% white. And pointing out that a) Dobbs’ “anti-immigrant” schtick is an excuse for veiled racism, and that b) white people are immensely over-represented in the middle class is only “racist” in some of those weird reactionary Orwellian redefinitions of the term.
He has a feeling of exhilaration…It’s probably just the prunes kicking in.