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Press Release: LULAC Joins Drop Dobbs Campaign Targeting Lou Dobbs Advertisers.
LULAC joins 14 other organizations in holding host’s advertisers accountable.
September 18, 2009
Contact: Lizette Jenness Olmos
(202) 365-4553
Washington, DC – CNN’s Lou Dobbs has taken to attacking the League of
United Latin American Citizens, the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights
organization in the country, and other organizations at events held this
week hosted by an anti-immigrant group the Federation of American
Immigration Reform (FAIR), a group termed by the Southern Poverty Law Center
as a hate group.
“It is time that we put a stop to Lou Dobbs and his lies. He falsified the
name of LULAC during his radio show from the FAIR rally calling LULAC a
“left wing socio-ethnocentric group,” said LULAC National President Rosa
Rosales. “Over the years, Lou Dobbs has consistently used his CNN platform
to spread hate and fear. We are asking his sponsors to stop advertising on
his show.”
LULAC joined the Drop Dobbs coalition. Other partners include Media Matters
for America, National Council of La Raza, Center for Community Change,
Center for New Community, Dolores Huerta Foundation, The Hispanic Institute,
National Hispanic Media Coalition, National Puerto Rican Coalition, NDN,
Southern Poverty Law Center, Reform Immigration for America, Voto Latino,
Netroots Nation, LCLAA and America's Voice. The coalition is calling on
corporations to drop their advertising on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight until CNN
disassociates themselves from Lou Dobbs.
“Words have consequences and much is at stake,” said Rosales. “According to
the FBI statistics there has been an increase on the number of attacks on
Latinos and substantial growth of hate groups targeting Latinos.”
CNN prides itself as the most trusted name in news. We hope CNN
President/CEO Jon Klein would not want to be affiliated with someone
spreading misconceptions about Latinos and increasing hate in the country.
According to a Pew study it says CNN has a relentless search for the truth
if so, why does CNN continue to endorse Dobbs conspiracy theories regarding
immigration.
The Lou Dobbs sponsors are paying for the following:
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Dobbs advanced racially charged conspiracy theories about Obama’s birth
certificate.
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Dobbs has close ties to “hate group” FAIR.
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Dobbs said Sotomayor nomination was “absolute pandering to the Hispanics.”
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Dobbs declared that “Mexico has become our enemy.”
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Dobbs smeared U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce as “interested in the export
of American capital and production to Mexico, and Mexico’s export of drugs
and illegal aliens.”
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Dobbs fear-mongered about Mexican “reconquista” plot.
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Dobbs aired hate group graphic to illustrate “the Vicente Fox Aztlan tour.”
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Dobbs spread leprosy falsehood in claiming “invasion of illegal aliens” is
threatening Americans’ “health.”
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Dobbs asked if Obama is “pandering to ethnocentric special interests again”
by accepting Gov. Bill Richardson’s endorsement.
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Dobbs praised Philadelphia English-only sign ruling as “a defeat for
ethnocentric special interests.”
For more information please visit
www.dropdobbs.com.
The League of United Latin American Citizens advances the economic
condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health and
civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs
operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide.
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