Lou Dobbs the Demagogue

Lou Dobbs’ spewing of anti-immigrant falsehoods is attracting attacks from mainstream media. Joe Klein writes for Time:

Now, I know that Dobbs brings in some serious ratings. And he is certainly entitled to his own opinion. But he is not entitled to his own facts–especially not on a network that makes a real effort to separate truth from falsehood and represent all sides of the political debate. Shouldn’t someone be editing this swill? Doesn’t CNN have a responsibility to tell its viewers that, in this case, one of their presenters is engaged in flat-out anti-immigrant fearmongering? Perhaps the network could employ a simple superimposed title–THIS IS NOT TRUE…or LOU HAS JUMPED THE SHARK ON THIS ONE–whenever Dobbs pretends that there is such a thing as the NAFTA Superhighway. This sort of thing diminishes the credibility and hard work of the other journalists on the network. (And no, I do not count the execrable Glenn Beck as a journalist.)

Here is his latest confrontation with Paul Waldman of Media Mattersabout the fictional NAFTA superhighway. Indeed, the Washington Post’sFact Checker gave the NAFTA Superhighway myth four Pinocchios.

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