Lou Dobbs Makes “Fibs of 2007” List

Michael Dobbs of Fact Checker lists this doozy — which was the subject of a number of stories on this blog — among the “Best of the Rest” “Fibs of 2007“:

“If we reported it, it’s a fact.”

—  Lou Dobbs of CNN, interviewed by CBS’s 60 Minutes, May 6, standing by a false claim that there had been 7,000 new cases of leprosy in the United States between 2002 and 2004, as a result of illegal immigration. His source: “medical expert” Madeleine Cosman.

KJ