Posted on 10/25/2009 1:51:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Geraldo Rivera on Thursday lambasted Lou Dobbs for the outspoken CNN host's views concerning illegal immigration.
Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by El Diario La Prensa NY, Rivera disgracefully said, "Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country."
Rivera also told the audience that he had spoken to his boss, and was assured Dobbs was not coming to Fox (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript):
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"One of the aspects of our reality in the United States now is the defamatory tone of the immigration debate and how that immigration debate has slandered an entire race of people. It has been reckless beyond imagining, it has been reckless in a way that is beyond precedent."
Wait a minute. Beyond precedent? Does Rivera have no recollection of slavery in America or the Holocaust in Germany? But I digress:
"Lou Dobbs, a man who was an accomplished journalist, and who left to go and start his own venture in the digital media, having to do with space, I believe, and then came back to CNN, and nobody was watching his program. He discovered that one of the way to get people to watch was to make of the image of a young Latino trying to get into this country a profoundly negative icon. Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country. [...]
It has been one of the most frustrating experiences of my professional life to watch as a good portion of the American people began to listen and believe that immigrants were responsible for crime in this country, responsible for bringing terror to this country, responsible for stealing jobs, responsible for effecting in a very negative way the American way of life. [...]
It is something that we absolutely said, "No mas" during the election of 2008...It's why Obama is elected now. He is the first, I maintain, Latino president. He's the first brown president. Why? He could be, and he looks Puerto Rican. And the, and the, the point is he would not be president but for the Latino vote and the Latino vote was for the first time in my lifetime an expression of a community understanding its responsibilities, getting up, going to the polling place, and saying, 'No mas.' "
Wow! Geraldo thinks Latinos got Obama elected. Unfortunately, the numbers dictate otherwise.
After all, Obama beat McCain by 8.5 million votes, but he "only" got about 4 million more Latino votes. By contrast, Obama got almost 15 million more African-American votes than McCain.
As such, claiming Latinos got Obama elected is absurd. But once again, I digress:
No more of these lies, no more of this slander, no more of this stereotyping. I can tell you proudly, when this man [Dobbs] was widely rumored to be coming to my network, I called my boss couple of weeks ago, and he said it's absolutely untrue. Lou Dobbs is not coming to Fox News. He belongs at CNN if they can justify his presence there that's their problem.
Wow!
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
Jerry AKA Geraldo is from West Babylon, on the south shore of Long Island, New York. He was born in Manhattan.
My late uncle was on West Babylon’s school board in the early 1960’s and he (my uncle) handed Geraldo his high school diploma when Geraldo graduated from high school.
Geraldo’s mother is Jewish....his father Puerto Rican.
thanks for the info I will pass it on to my friends
What you said is 100% right-it cuts right to the chase.
It’s been said before-if diversity is so great, then why do they need to tell us that endlessly, and force it down our throats? And if it is so great, show us the evidence of how much better things are with it.
He is the Puerto Rican version of Al Sharpton, the question should be how much more did FNC pay him to leave liberal MSNBC to come over to the hated FNC?
He had his own show over there 5 days a week whereas at FNC he's only on the weekend. Guess Fox doesn't care about weekend ratings, who the hell watches his show and to add insult to injury they repeat it like 3-4 times at that just to make sure you don't turn them on.
Well then I think that makes him a Puerto Rican Jew.
I can do that myself.
Actually I think Whorealdo is a Puerto Rican Jew
HISPANIC is not a race
We can always hope, but I doubt if anyone else would have him. I have never been able to figure out how Fox got stuck with him.
Hey Whorealdo, F U. Take your happy ass back to Mexico with all your illegal buddies.
Dobbs isn’t anti-Hispanic, Dobbs is anti illegal alien. But I guess Geraldo doesn’t know the difference.
Dear Geraldo,
You want to blame someone for Anti- Hispanic Sentiment in America?
See link below to find who and what to blame:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/01/18408153.php
I have to laugh. Lou Dobb’s wife is Mexican American.
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