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Immigration reporting
has largely disappeared from television, except for
occasional updates on
the impending amnesty attempt,
since Lou Dobbs
Tonight abruptly
departed from the CNN network on November 11
with a dramatic speech by its eponymous host.
The lesson that Big Media seems to have gotten from the
noisy Dobbs take-down
by a coalition of far-left and Raza types: even factual
reporting about
immigration anarchy
is no longer safe.
For all its faults,
Lou Dobbs Tonight (aka LDT) had normalized immigration
as a subject to be investigated like any other. But Dobbs'
ego (or ambition) played into the hands of his critics.
The Open Borders squawk squad had
complained furiously about Dobbs,
and management demanded he cool it on
"commentary". But, in addition, for several months prior to his swan
song, straight news reporting on immigration disappeared
entirely from Lou
Dobbs Tonight.
If Dobbs had toned down his commentary and let the
top-notch reporting of his staff
stand alone, would that have satisfied CNN management?
There's no way to know. But his post-resignation valentine
to illegal aliens has been a climb-down of epic proportions.
Maybe he could have saved his reporters had he done it
earlier.
Dobbs’ groveling was
epitomized by an interview
with the
Spanish-language network
Telemundo in which he
recommended legalization
for some unspecified number of
lawbreaking aliens.
[Watch
(Hint: he apologizes for
not speaking Spanish
in his first sentence.)]
The Wall Street Journal hit the major points of how
the worm turned on November 12, 2009:
" ‘Whatever you have thought of me in the past, I can tell
you right now that I am one of your greatest friends and I
mean for us to work together,’ he said in a live interview
with Telemundo's Maria Celeste. ‘I hope that will begin with
Maria and me and Telemundo and other media organizations and
others in this national debate that we should turn into a
solution rather than a continuing debate and factional
contest.’
“Mr. Dobbs twice mentioned a possible legalization plan for
the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.,
saying at one point that ‘we need the ability to legalize
illegal immigrants under certain conditions.’ “[Dobbs
Reaches Out to Latinos, With Politics in Mind,
By Peter Wallsten]
Then the
late January panderfest with Bill O'Reilly
demonstrated that Telemundo was not just an emotional
episode. Dobbs recommended a
"compromise, centrist
piece of legislation that will meet the demands of most of
the people
who are in this country illegally."
How generous of him. If only
La Raza
had known!
More recently, Dobbs announced during a radio broadcast (Feb
2;
Part 1
and
Part 2)
that he was bringing together a diverse group to discuss the
immigration issue—from
restrictionists
to
open-borders enthusiasts—with
the underlying principle being
“Compromise”. He
went to far as to blame the American people for not
demanding
border security.
Thinking like a politician apparently leads to bizarre
twists.
It can get messy when media celebs think they can parlay
their fame into a
Senate seat or beyond, as Dobbs is rumored to
believe.
They often believe that cleverness on television or in the
movies makes them brilliant public policy analysts who can
solve the country's thorny problems. But star quality is not
quite the same thing as having political chops. For example,
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's job performance
recently rated a pathetic
27 percent approval,
despite his portraying
Conan
the Barbarian and
The Terminator
in films. Senator Al Franken, a former
Saturday Night Live
comedian, earned a so-so
50 percent okay
from his constituents. Perhaps he was too funny in a suit.
Peter Brimelow
suspects that Dobbs has hired a conventional Beltway-type
political consultant who has advised him to move to the
mushy middle of the brave new borderless world. It sure
looks that way, although the strategy is a sure loser. Dobbs
has alienated his pro-sovereignty supporters and no Mexican
will ever trust him anyway.
He might better have hired a behavioral psychologist who
could have told him that when you reward an action, you get
more of it—which is why an enforcement-only policy is the
one true path to end immigration anarchy.
Dobbs' call for "compromise" is completely ahistorical. It ignores the long
series of pardons,
beginning with the
1986 Reagan Amnesty.
Reversing decades of permissiveness requires
tough measures.
Millions of illegals must be encouraged home via
attrition
(removal of the jobs and benefits magnets) and outright
repatriation.
The Dobbs drama has been a long strange trip, propelled
along by the personality of the man with his ambitions and
curious misunderstanding of immigration. But however the
unusual saga came to be, the American public is the big
loser. We now have less information about the most pressing
issues threatening our values and future. We don't know what
we don't know. And the
dinosaur media
can't be trusted to
tell us.
Immigration is a big subject, far more complex than the mere
legal/illegal dichotomy. Television viewers now see merely
the occasional immigration stories that are easy to explain
and non-controversial—Mexico narco-violence, border
corruption and such. And there is not even much of that,
although the amnesty flurry has created a minor uptick.
Lou Dobbs Tonight
news reporters also explored important sub-topics including
the
usefulness of 287(g)
for crime prevention, the
various failures
of the Bush administration, NAFTA
trucking,
Catholic bishops
meddling
and California's
instructive demography.
Reporter Kitty Pilgrim even criticized the Southern Poverty
Law Center ($PLC) for
misreporting hate crimes.
That segment surely added to the $PLC’s commitment to the
Raza version
of the Long Knives.
Beyond immigration, LDT featured other under-reported
subjects, such as
Second Amendment rights,
globalist
trade,
Red Chinese
espionage,
country-of-origin
food labeling,
free
speech on campus
and the shrinking
middle class.
In suppressing LDT,
the enemies of the American nation have won a round. Keeping
honest immigration reporting off television must tend to
lower public awareness of the issue, since
71 percent of the public get most of their news from TV.
Let me be clear: LDT was far from perfect. It did top-notch
coverage on the topics it chose to investigate. But it
avoided large areas of the immigration issue, in particular
the environment and cultural differences. Reporting of those
issues tended to be occasional and peripheral.
My misgivings were the subject of the June 2008 article,
"Triple" Legal Immigration? Say It Ain't So, Lou Dobbs.
For someone so identified with the subject, Dobbs'
indifference toward the consequences of rapid population
growth was very troubling indeed.
Nevertheless, inquiring Americans now don't even have the
flawed LDT because of network cowardice about criticism.
Diversity may be strength, but it is not conducive to free
speech. Since the beginning of the year, two Scandinavian
cartoonists (Lars
Vilks
and
Kurt Westergaard)
were physically attacked in their homes for
drawing pictures
of
Mohammed.
American network executives suffer no such threats. But they
cower in fear in the face of complaints, no matter how
spurious.
Patriotic citizens would be in a terrible fix—if not for the
internet,
and alternative publications like VDARE.COM. Brenda Walker (email her) lives in Northern California and publishes two websites, LimitsToGrowth.org and ImmigrationsHumanCost.org. She fears we haven't seen the last of Lou Dobbs. If you want to email or
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