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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 12:53 PM
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Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite - the Nation
But with his relentless diatribes against "illegals" and their employers, Dobbs is casting stones from a house—make that an estate—of glass. Based on a yearlong investigation, including interviews with five immigrants who worked without papers on his properties, The Nation and the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute have 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.

Dobbs lives in a sprawling white mansion on his 300-acre estate in Sussex, New Jersey, where he and his family run a horse farm. In 2005 he acquired another house—a spacious multimillion-dollar winter holiday home in Eagle Isle, the most exclusive enclave of the Ibis Golf and Country Club, a gated community in West Palm Beach, Florida. It offers his daughter a place to stay during her competitions at the Wellington Winter Equestrian Festival, one of the most important events in the horse show world.

http://www.thenation.com/article/155209/lou-dobbs-american-hypocrite?page=full
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IndianaJoe Donating Member (664 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 12:56 PM
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1. My prediction: Dobbs will claim they're independent contractors.
We'll see. If they are all 1099 workers, he can claim they weren't employees. That's the typical dodge.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 03:17 PM
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2. I hope he doesn't wriggle out of this one.
Edited on Thu Oct-07-10 03:19 PM by Swede
Oops.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 03:19 PM
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3. i hope he's hung out to dry as a fraud.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 03:20 PM
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5. I meant doesn't Hannah.
I think Lou is lower than low.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 03:31 PM
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6. gotcha.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 03:19 PM
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4. So ironic
That's effin' hilarious!

Of course he'll claim he had no idea!
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IndianaJoe Donating Member (664 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 03:47 PM
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7. "I'm shocked...shocked to learn that there is gambling
permitted in this place!"
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-10 05:24 PM
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8. Colbert nailed it when he stated,
"We ask them to come here & we ask them to leave."

Fuck Dobbs. Another hypocritical repub asshole. Oops, sorry for the redundancy. Republican = hypocritical asshole.
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