Lou Dobbs on On the Media

On November 17, Bob Garfield of the radio show “On the Media” interviewed Lou Dobbs, focusing on his coverage of illegal immigration.

Here’s an excerpt from the transcript:

BOB GARFIELD: You do polls on your show.

LOU DOBBS: All the time.

BOB GARFIELD: But they aren’t really polls.

LOU DOBBS: Of course they are.

BOB GARFIELD: They’re –

LOU DOBBS: No, they really are.

BOB GARFIELD: They’re leading questions, Lou. They’re more like the push polls that you hear about in political campaigns. Is this research?

LOU DOBBS: It is. It’s a fair reading, I believe, of what our audience is thinking. Yes.

BOB GARFIELD: Here’s a poll question from Tuesday’s broadcast. It was about [LAUGHS] the Vatican declaring that –

LOU DOBBS: Oh, yes.

BOB GARFIELD: – the border wall is

LOU DOBBS: Oh, I, I plead –

BOB GARFIELD: – inhuman.

LOU DOBBS: Absolutely.

BOB GARFIELD: Do you believe, as the Vatican asserts in a statement from within its walled city, that building a fence on the U.S. border with Mexico is inhuman? Now, oddly enough, Lou, that got a 90 percent no vote. That must have shocked you.

LOU DOBBS: Was it only 90? {BOB LAUGHS} It was only 90?

BOB GARFIELD: Here’s a –

LOU DOBBS: I’m disappointed, because I thought it would be much higher than that.

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Links to the audio program and the transcript can be found here:

http://www.onthemedia.org/

-jmc