OOOPS.... Report: Lou Dobbs employed illegal immigrants

[DJ13]

Thu Oct 7, 9:04 am ET

Lou Dobbs has long railed against illegal immigration and the employers who hire undocumented workers. Dobbs generated controversy — and faced boycotts — for attacking "illegal aliens" as host of a nightly CNN show. And since leaving the network in December, Dobbs has kept talking about the issue in interviews, in which he's also left open the possibility of running for senator or president.

But Dobbs might want to pause before making illegal immigration a signature campaign issue: At least five illegal immigrants have reportedly worked on his properties.

The liberal Nation magazine, in a yearlong investigation conducted with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, found that "Dobbs has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estates and the horses he keeps for his 22-year-old daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper."

The Nation's Isabel Macdonald writes that while Dobbs has bashed employers for hiring immigrants without papers, he "has been far from vigilant about the status of workers laboring on his own properties." (The Nation has long editorialized against Dobbs and those who agree with him on immigration.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101007/cm_yblog_upshot/report-lou-dobbs-employed-undocumented-immigrants

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[TwilightGardener]

1. I mean, really...that is MOST ironic.

[Luciferous]

2. Wow.

:spray:

[renegade000]

3. I'm surprised it took this long to come out

People familiar with the competitive-riding scene in NJ knew this was the case for years.

[southmost]

4. its all about projection

hypocrites as usual

[pampango]

5. "ou Dobbs, Anti-Immigration Nut-in-Chief, Used Illegal Labor At South Florida Mansion"

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/10/lou_dobbs_anti-immigration_nut.php

We'll call it the Law of Hypocrisy: Just as every virulently homophobic preacher and expert will someday be caught with their pants down and a hot young rent boy, anyone who makes a living by spewing intolerance will eventually be exposed as a humongous hypocrite. It's science!

So welcome to the club, Lou Dobbs. A staggering expose in The Nation today shows that the chief voice of insane anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric has for years relied on undocumented workers right here in South Florida to care for his mansion and his daughter's horses. GAG!

Dobbs has made a handsome living in recent years by bloviating on any xenophobic rumor at hand, from the fake story that illegal immigrants were spreading leprosy to rants that Mexican immigrants were responsible for basically every problem in the U.S. today.

If there was justice in this world, Lou would now be forced to smuggle himself across the Canadian border to eke out a living cleaning horse shit in Calgary.

Look out, Calgary! Lou is used to shoveling the shit but not in the literal sense. He may fling actual shit in a haphazard manner. Be careful!

[Booster]

6. Lou, go sit in the corner with Meg Whitman.

[MajorChode]

7. But, but, but, he's a POPULIST

So it doesn't really matter if he's a hypocrite. He's just saying what his listeners want to hear. It doesn't matter if he walks the talk.

[Hello_Kitty]

8. Typical right wing hypocrite.

Bashing immigrant workers while exploiting them for cheap labor.

[bullwinkle428]

9. KO hinted this was the case several months ago on "Countdown"!!