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Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of 鈥淒emocracy Now,鈥� a serious radio and television news and analysis program, conducted an hour-long with nativist CNN host Lou Dobbs yesterday, and it was a doozie. Dobbs was pounded with questions about the bogus 鈥渇acts鈥� that he regularly trots out to demonize undocumented immigrants, such as his claim that a 鈥渢hird of our prison population鈥� are 鈥渋llegal aliens.鈥� (As 鈥淒emocracy Now鈥� pointed out, the Justice Department says about 6% of state and federal prison populations are non-citizens. The government does not know what percentage of those non-citizens are undocumented.)

Dobbs鈥� chief reaction was to attack the Southern Poverty Law Center (蜜桃传媒), whose Intelligence Report has carried a series of reports on Dobbs' inaccuracies (see , , and ), his promotion of racist conspiracy theories (see ), and the appearance of hate group members and leaders on his program (see ). (鈥淒emocracy Now鈥� relied heavily on that 蜜桃传媒 research to confront Dobbs, who was plugging a new book.) Bizarrely, Dobbs responded to mention of his use of a white supremacist group鈥檚 graphic by noting that he had sent producers and reporters to 蜜桃传媒's Alabama offices in late 2004 鈥渢o make certain this sort of thing doesn鈥檛 happen.鈥� But minutes later, he described the very same 蜜桃传媒 as 鈥渋ndulging in pure BS鈥� in order to raise money. On his own show, he has called the 蜜桃传媒 a 鈥渇ascist鈥� group after 蜜桃传媒 criticized him. The whole thing was reminiscent of the way Dobbs last spring defended his false claim of immigrant-borne leprosy in an on-air debate with 蜜桃传媒 officials (see ).

This morning, 鈥淒emocracy Now鈥� invited Mark Potok, editor of the Center鈥檚 Intelligence Report, to to Dobbs鈥� comments and to discuss the magazine鈥檚 new , which details an apparent surge in violent, anti-Latino hate crime.

Also today, The New York Times that Dobbs was planning to add a three-hour daily radio program to his CNN show, 鈥淟ou Dobbs Tonight,鈥� and his post as a commentator on CBS鈥� 鈥淭he Early Show.鈥� Dobbs characterized his radio show in this eyebrow-raising comment to the Times: 鈥淢y interest is in bringing a voice of reason, rather than the partisan and ideological poles that define talk radio right now.鈥�