Geraldo says Lou Dobbs is too much of a bigot for ..... FOX NEWS !!!!

[marmar]

:rofl: :crazy: Just when you think the world can't get anymore nonsensical.....



from thinkprogress:



Geraldo Rips Lou Dobbs For Latino-Bashing Rhetoric, Says He ‘Is Not Coming To Fox News’

Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by the Spanish newspaper El Diario La Prensa on Thursday, Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said, “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.” Rivera proceeded to lay much of the blame at the feet of CNN’s Lou Dobbs:

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.

Rivera’s criticism echoes that of his Fox colleague John Stossel, who said he doesn’t “subscribe to Lou Dobbs-kind of rants about immigrants wrecking America.” (Dobbs subsequently called Stossel a “self-important ass” with “myopic idiocy.”

The New York Times reported recently that Dobbs met with Fox News chief Roger Ailes to discuss possibly joining the Fox Business network. Rivera said in his speech that he was so opposed to Dobbs joining Fox News that he called his boss and received assurance that the network was not going to hire the CNN host:

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.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/25/rivera-vs-lou-dobbs/


Latino and pro-immigrant activists have launched two campaigns, Drop Dobbs and Basta Dobbs, which are aimed at pressuring CNN to “hold Mr. Dobbs to journalistic standards” or dump him altogether.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/25/rivera-vs-lou-dobbs/

[tularetom]

1. Dead man broadcasting

It appears to me that the campaign to force CNN to get rid of Dobbs has reached critical mass, and I don't think he'll be able to hold on much longer there.

As far as I'm concerned Rivera has zilch credibility but I have to agree with his assessment of Dobbs. I hope he is right about Dobbs being too nutty even for Fox. The man has gone off the deep end.

[tsuki]

2. Food Fight. Food Fight. Stossel, Dobbs, Rivera. Whose next?

:rofl:

[Stevenmarc]

3. Doesn't Geraldo have a big empty safe he can stick Dobbs in?