Don`t Let Dobbs` Departure Spoil Your Thanksgiving Weekend!

Joe Guzzardi
November 26, 2009, 9:00 am
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I
believe that Lou Dobbs`

exchange with Telemundo`s

Maria Celeste proves only one thing: Celeste is an idiot. [Video]

For 20
of their 25 minutes session, Celeste berated Dobbs for

misconstruing the
statistics on immigrants with leprosy (he told her he made on
an-air correction); his defense of

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Dobbs pointed out that
Sheriff Joe
had not been convicted of 
“civil rights abuses”,
as suggested by Celeste); and his references to percentages of
incarcerated illegal aliens. 

As for
the interpretation widely circulating throughout the internet
that Dobbs now favors amnesty, that would be the most extreme
conclusion any viewer could come to.

Dobbs
said, without elaborating on his remark, that under certain
circumstances he would favor amnesty. My interpretation: Dobbs
means that if the border
were
successfully secured, he might support amnesty, depending on
how the legislation were written.

That is
what Dobbs has been saying for years: there can`t be meaningful
“Comprehensive
Immigration Reform” without
secure
borders.

I do
admit that Dobbs was foolishly apologetic about
not
speaking Spanish. But he`s been

soft on the language issue before.

So don`t
ruin your

Thanksgiving weekend by worrying about what Dobbs says or
whether he`s changed his mind. Remember my recent advice:
Accentuate
the positive; eliminate the negative!

Simply
by reporting the facts, Dobbs` served the cause of patriotic
immigration reform well, if not ideally, for many years.

But he
was never as tough or as radical as his opponents claimed. And
now he`s passed his peak. In future, he won`t be any more
influential than, say, La Raza`s Janet Murguia. Specifically, I
don`t believe he`s going to run for office—or bother to find a
new TV perch. The real story: the

Treason Lobby`s
ululations about Lou Dobbs`

recent departure from CNN
proves how desperate they are.

Consider
the entirety of the

Dobbs saga: A gang of
ethnic identity pressure groups like the

Southern Poverty Law Center
(known to VDARE.COM
as the
$PLC), the

National Council of La Raza and
LULAC joined forces with another dozen or so

groups of immigration lawyers.
Their

aggregate bankroll is
somewhere in the range of $500 million.

Then,

the immigration anarchists
approached another liberal organization, CNN, which is a
prominent part of the Main Stream Media, yet which is really
just one more left-wing sub-group.

Finally—“after
years”, to use

the exact words spoken by
La Raza`s chief comrade

Janet Murguia—they
succeeded in browbeating CNN into giving Dobbs an ultimatum: to
tone down his illegal immigration criticism or to leave.

Dobbs
took

his $8 million and left.

This is
what
the other side describes
as a victory?

Dozens of
deep-pocket groups in tandem with anti-free speech agitators and
defenders of criminal behavior like La Raza, the

Anti-Defamation League
and the

$PLC took “years”
to convince its ally CNN that Dobbs needed a good talking to?
(Check the interesting organizations that wanted Dobbs out

here.)

And to
seal this deal, CNN had to shell out $8 million?

I wonder:
if Murguia (who has

not advanced her amnesty agenda one inch during her tenure
as president and chief executive officer) were offered $8
million to leave La Raza, would she take it? [The
2010 Agenda Shifts,
The Hill, November 17,
2009]

Short
answer: yes.

Since our
opponents have been unable
“for years” to get an
amnesty bill through Congress, and, with conventional wisdom now
projecting that

2011 is the earliest date
that so-called
“Comprehensive Immigration Reform” might be brought up for
debate, they have little else to crow about—except beating up on
Dobbs.

Their
transparent trumpeting (aka fund-raising ploy), in absence of a
more a substantive achievement, reveals their weakness.

Here`s
why I`m not devastated by Dobbs` departure:


Dobbs did a heroic job in raising awareness about illegal
immigration. No doubt about it, Dobbs brought the consequences
of illegal immigration to the forefront for millions of
previously unaware viewers.

But is
there anyone left to sway? The immigration debate is now solidly
divided into two camps: those of us who favor enforcement and an

immigration moratorium
versus the
Open
Borders crowd.


Dobbs, even if he had unrestricted television time to speak as
honestly as he wishes to, can`t influence the other camp.
They`re too entrenched.


In fairness to Dobbs, I`m sure CNN
really muzzled him on
these verboten
subjects.

Over the
last several years, I drifted away from watching Dobbs`
telecast. When I

lived in California, it
aired twice nightly, at 5:00 and 8:00 PM, Pacific. I made a
point to catch one or the other.


Then, when Dobbs` show changed to once a night (7:00 PM) I
TiVo-ed it. Sometimes, I watched the taped versions. But usually
I deleted more than I watched.


Why?


Since I`m a
VDARE.COM editor, most of Dobbs` material was already known
to me. In fact, I often felt that many of his story lines
originated, uncredited, from articles

my colleagues wrote. Some
segments, in fact, looked suspiciously familiar—as if they had
their genesis in

my very own columns!

Of
course, we don`t mind this at VDARE.COM. We think our role is to
get ideas into the intellectual food chain regardless of
credit—it`s why we`re
a
charity! But, for me, it didn`t make compelling viewing.


What will be the fall-out from the Dobbs-CNN clash?

CNN
already has

egg on its face. While
its excuse for squeezing Dobbs is that it wants to go more
middle of the road, their most biased illegal aliens shills

Soledad O`Brien and

Rick Sanchez remain
untouched.

Obviously, CNN`s

ratings will fall further
into the pit. As controversial as Dobbs was, people watched.
Suddenly, there`s no audience. Too bad!

Speculation is that Dobbs will consider a run for the U.S.
Senate or possibly enter the 2012 presidential race as a third
party Independent. Some think Dobbs will join

Fox News. 


Dobbs himself remains evasive:

“I am ruling nothing out. …
I have come to no conclusions and no decisions. Do I seek to
have some influence on public policy? Absolutely. Do I seek to
represent and champion the middle class in this country and
those who aspire to it? Absolutely. And I will."
[Newsman
Lou Dobbs Mulls  Run for
White House, Senate, by Steve Gorman and Todd
Eastham,  Reuters,
November 19, 2009]


My prediction: Dobbs will not seek elective office or go back to
TV. He just put $8 million in the bank. He can now sit back to
enjoy

his country estate and
write

more books.

Why
should Dobbs sacrifice his comfortable life for a bruising,

multimillion dollar Senate campaign
or an even more grueling

presidential bid?

More
importantly, elective office is not where Dobbs could do the
most good. A

junior Senator from New
Jersey has one vote only.

Dobbs
would be more effective as a roving free agent, who could appear
at various nationwide

2010 House and Senate campaigns
to support candidates who embrace

the same principles he`s
always espoused: enforcing federal immigration laws, securing
America`s borders, ending outsourcing and restoring the middle
class through job creation.


Dobbs on the road could make the difference in dozens of
elections.


And maybe along the way, Dobbs will feel liberated enough from
his CNN censors to call for

an immigration moratorium—something,

despite record unemployment, that he, along with (in this
case)

the rest of the media elite, has mysteriously failed to do.

Joe Guzzardi
[email
him] is a California native
who recently fled the state because of over-immigration,
over-population and a rapidly deteriorating quality of life. He
has moved to Pittsburgh, PA where the air is clean and the
growth rate stable. A
long-time instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School,
Guzzardi has been writing a weekly column since 1988. It
currently appears in the

Lodi News-Sentinel.