蜜桃传媒 Asks CNN to Remove Dobbs
As regular readers of this blog know, we鈥檝e had a tangle or two with CNN鈥檚 in-house immigrant-basher, . In 2007, we had a major with the host of 鈥淟ou Dobbs Tonight鈥� over his wholly false claim that 7,000 new cases of leprosy had appeared in a recent three-year period in the United States, due at least in part to immigrants. (The reality was that about 400 new cases appeared during the period, and it鈥檚 not known if any of them were linked to immigrants.) The battle subjected Dobbs a series of humiliations, including being by The New York Times as a man with 鈥渁 somewhat flexible relationship with reality.鈥�
To the surprise of very few familiar with Dobbs, the CNN host is . Now, he鈥檚 joined with the pushing the wholly unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and therefore cannot legally hold the office of president. The fact that this claim has been disproved by CNN鈥檚 own reporters seems to mean nothing at all to Dobbs, who has come in for criticism in recent days from all kinds of quarters for joining hands with the 鈥渂irthers.鈥�
Today, Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, sent a to CNN President Jonathan Klein asking for action. 鈥淩espectable news organizations should not employ reporters willing to peddle racist conspiracy theories and false propaganda,鈥� Cohen concludes in his letter. 鈥淚t鈥檚 time for CNN to remove Mr. Dobbs from the airwaves.鈥�
Cohen also Klein in 2007 about Dobbs' leprosy claims, but CNN took no action. Dobbs has also promoted a series of about immigrants.
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