This Week in Lou

August 12th, 2008

Lou Dobbs was in the media quite a bit this week, but we're guessing that this time he's probably not the least bit happy about it.

First up, Academy Award-winning composer and singer Randy Newman has a song on his new album that takes on Dobbs and other anti-immigrant types. USA Today notes, "He doesn't mind offending Lou Dobbs in the pro-immigration Laugh and Be Happy."

Check out the rest of his interview here:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2008-08-05-newman-main_N.htm

Next, PODER magazine's August issue features a profile of Dobbs, called "Lou Doubts," by acclaimed writer Judy Bachrach.

Some choice quotes:

"Since the words ‘Lou' and ‘mad' so often go together, it should come as no surprise that last November an even more explosive rumor had it that Lou was angry enough to run for president. This rumor was promulgated on Lou's website-by Lou, who wrote: ‘More Americans than ever before are now identifying themselves as independents... I believe that next election's surprise will be the election of a man or woman of great character, vision and accomplishment, a candidate who has not yet entered the race.'

Naturally, everyone assumed that this independent but tragically invisible presidential candidate described by Lou was... Lou."

"Of course I don't really mean to compare the ratings engendered by Lou last year with those garnered by Lou this year. That would be somewhat misleading since for most of 2007, Lou's show started one hour earlier at 6 p.m., when the audience is traditionally smaller. But then misleading, as Lou knows, is the name of the game."

"At night Lou viewers couldn't help noticing that the host had also acquired a flashy new set of on-air adjectives. ‘Sickening,' ‘disgusting,' ‘incredible,' and ‘outrageous' were among his favorites whenever the subject of illegal immigration came around. And it came around a lot: ‘Broken Borders' was the title of Lou's initial salvo against illegal-Mexican-immigration. This was followed by ‘War On the Middle Class,' a generic catch-all for any story on free trade, corporate malfeasance, or illegal-Mexican-immigration."

For the rest of this most entertaining piece, go to:

http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=549

And finally, for those of you wondering what the rewards of immigrant bashing are these days, check out a post on this week's Gawker.com:

http://gawker.com/5033212/lou-dobbs-country-estate