Last week, the Reform Immigration FOR America campaign joined 14 other organizations in the launch of the Drop Dobbs campaign. DropDobbs.org will provide an up-to-date list of Dobbs’ sponsors and ways for concerned viewers to hold them accountable.
“CNN has become an impediment to having a serious, rational dialogue about immigration and what we should do to reform the immigration system in America,” said Rich Stolz, the Campaign Manager of the Reform Immigration FOR America campaign. “Misinformation, fear-mongering, and stirring up anger makes it harder to create an enforceable system of legal immigration, end illegal immigration, and get millions of immigrants currently living in the country illegally into the system and assimilated into society. Lou Dobbs has gone from journalist to talk-radio shock jock with immigrants and immigration in his cross-hairs and that doesn’t help the country move forward on the issue.”
Over the years, Dobbs has used his CNN platform to drum up opposition to specific reform proposals and fixing our broken immigration system and border security problems in general. He has received a number of awards from key organizations in the anti-immigration movement, has headlined their anti-immigration and anti-reform events, and served as a megaphone for disseminating their information, most of it factually doubtful and some of it demonstrably false. Now as a talk radio personality, he has added the “birther” conspiracy to his already sizeable repertoire of conspiracy theories that animate the anti-immigration movement and delay serious progress towards reform.
But there is a price to pay when a TV network goes on a nightly expedition to sow animosity towards a particular ethnic group or immigrants in general and this effort will force advertisers to make a conscious choice: Do you stand with the fastest growing group of consumers in America or do you stand with Lou Dobbs?
Visit Dropp Dobbs today to sign the petition for CNN to drop Dobbs and share with others.
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