Democrats’ new secret weapon in pushing amnesty? Lou Dobbs
posted at 8:53 pm on January 28, 2010 by Allahpundit
Explain this to me. He’s not running for office — allegedly — yet still feels the need to reverse course on the one issue above all others that’s made him internationally famous?
What’s next? An amnesty luncheon hosted by Pelosi featuring the boss as guest speaker?
Senate Democrats have reached out to former CNN anchor and prominent illegal-immigration opponent Lou Dobbs in an effort to build broad bipartisan support for immigration reform.
Winning the support of Dobbs, who became a prominent critic of illegal immigration and proposals to grant amnesty to illegal workers, could provide a significant boost to reform efforts…
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is spearheading the Democrats’ effort to put together a comprehensive reform bill, met with Dobbs on Wednesday…
Dobbs was an outspoken critic of waiving penalties against illegal workers but has since said that government officials should consider legalizing illegal immigrants “under certain conditions.”
Schumer noted that Dobbs, who left CNN in November, is “changing his views on immigration.”
For once in his life, Schumer’s not lying. Via TV Newser, skip around to 5:40 below and listen to him tell Terry Moran, flat out, “Hell yes, I’m changing my tune. Absolutely.” Exit question: He’s totally running for something, right?
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Lou who?
unseen on January 28, 2010 at 8:55 PM
F’n bag-o-puke…………
dmann on January 28, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Salacious photos?
Buddahpundit on January 28, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Lou got skeert.
LoneStarGal on January 28, 2010 at 8:57 PM
So, Dobbs, which office are you seeking?
amerpundit on January 28, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Yeah, that pot o’ gold Soros is dangling.
Dusty on January 28, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Sell out. Follow the money. Dobb’s is getting something pretty big for this…
Maybe the first thing he should do is buy a new wardrobe…
katy on January 28, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Dobbs has CJ syndrome. Pulls a 180 without blinking.
Geochelone on January 28, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Apparently gun shots to your house has a way of changing your viewpoints…
ninjapirate on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Well of course it is their secret weapon. Then need more constituents since the pissed off the legal ones here.
Electrongod on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Of course, he still couldn’t win.
He won’t receive enough GOP support and Dems will dig up his old statements in a primary. As an Indy he’ll be painted as a flip-flopper and destroyed.
amerpundit on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Looks like he’s figured out the pathway to getting votes.
Say anything.
tru2tx on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
As much as I despise the Senate DemonRats as the communist, lying, pieces of garbage that they are, I usually don’t think of them as politically stupid. Just cunning and deceitful.
But this batch of morons seem to go looking for the worst possible issues on which to impale themselves, ever since we put O’Bozo in the White House. It’s almost as if they are trying to lose control of congress and the Presidency as fast as possible.
Or maybe they really are this stupid.
Jaibones on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Maybe it was all an act at CNN so they could “counter” O’Reilly’s brand of populism? He’s not really changing his tune, he is just finally admitting that he never believed the garbage he was spewing. I would not put it past CNN. You have to try something like this if your business were getting trounced in the ratings for 10 straight years, right?
alohapundit on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
I’m not familiar with this Dobbs guy.
OmahaConservative on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Please, no Lou Dobbs sex tape.
Yeah, he’s clearly running for something.
SteveMG on January 28, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Dude, tons of Democrats hate this issue, too. I cannot imagine how this is a good move.
Jaibones on January 28, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Yeah, this might not be the best place to call anti-amnesty rhetoric “garbage”.
amerpundit on January 28, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Violence may be the only way to stop these GD Marxists. They have an agenda and simply will not stop until they force every piece of it down our throats.
DerKrieger on January 28, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Goodbye Lou Dobbs.
cubachi on January 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Dobbs is a minor figure on the scene now, and if he doesn’t get a high-profile gig this year he becomes a non-entity. In 2011, it’ll be ‘Lou who?’.
joejm65 on January 28, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Nothing like standing on your principles. Fickle idiot.
carbon_footprint on January 28, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Hey man, wheredijoo get that sweater?
Bishop on January 28, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Given the economy, what jobs are there that Americans won’t do? Field hands, maybe?
The Dems have to get past the unemployment issue. Take the number of illegal aliens and translate that into jobs that could go to Americans. Then let them explain.
Wethal on January 28, 2010 at 9:09 PM
While Lou is pushing amnesty maybe he will run into the thousands of shareholders he scammed with his Space.com – a venture that made him rich with no credible business model.
jjshaka on January 28, 2010 at 9:09 PM
Lou Dobbs’ new secret weapon in pushing amnesty? That sweater.
podank on January 28, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Lou Dobbs…
Meh.
At least he can not spend $800 Trillion dollars in secret, and get away with it.
Seven Percent Solution on January 28, 2010 at 9:13 PM
So, now the birthers are to be taken seriously?
JCred on January 28, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Running FROM something more likely, as in black mail.
If he was running FOR something his old stance was a winner.
TheBigOldDog on January 28, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Lou Dobbs pushing shamnesty will go over about like a FART in a SPACE SUIT.
RealMc on January 28, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Lou Dobb’s wife is hispanic…
d1carter on January 28, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Dobbs has converted, he’s now a progressive. Its easy to spot a progressive as they’ll do a 180 on a dime on any issue of contention.
Progressives of the early 20th, rallies with the KKK, Jim Crow and write hit songs that praise Mussolini.
Progressives of the late 20th/early 21st, claim to be the only ones looking out for AA’s, pass laws that keep them in wretched dependence and call Republicans Fascist/Racists. Despite the fact that Republicans freed the slaves-Lincoln(R)-and fought for the repeal of Jim Crow and equality under the law M.L.King(R).
Gives ‘em away every time, I’m telling ya.
Archimedes on January 28, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Lou Dobbs is ready for
MSNBC
macncheez on January 28, 2010 at 9:18 PM
I don’t understand what they are trying to do but there is plenty of video of Mr. Dobbs expressing himself in terms strong enough to view any supposed change with skepticism.
Cindy Munford on January 28, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Like Huffington and Brock these type of about faces are not to be trusted.
CWforFreedom on January 28, 2010 at 9:18 PM
I hope you bit your tongue pecking on the keyboard writing this.
Rovin on January 28, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Someone’s got something on him.
Photos?
artist on January 28, 2010 at 9:22 PM
We all know how Lou REALLY feels about illegal immigration. If he’s changing his tune to garner more support, we should support him.
Once he’s in office, he can get to work doing what all our “representatives” are too damn scared and weak to do.
Lou, you’ve got my support!
KMC1 on January 28, 2010 at 9:25 PM
After the tenth or so time of finding his hubcaps missing, I think he got the message.
\/snark shark\/
pc on January 28, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Lou Dobbs is as unreliable as Flip Romney, who was a staunch opponent of Shamnesty during the primaries but then became a proponent a very short time later.
FloatingRock on January 28, 2010 at 9:28 PM
Ah yes, Dobbs is a really tough guy . . . if he let that idiot Schumer talk him into changing his position on illegal immigration then he’s nothing but a weak, noisy cream puff.
rplat on January 28, 2010 at 9:28 PM
Lou Dobb’s wife is hispanic…
d1carter on January 28, 2010 at 9:16 PM
She was the whole time he was anti-amnesty.
artist on January 28, 2010 at 9:28 PM
What a sod.
Strategy won’t work.
rrpjr on January 28, 2010 at 9:31 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
maroon
Chubbs65 on January 28, 2010 at 9:34 PM
I meant “garbage” in the context that Dobbs didn’t believe what he was saying.
Better?
alohapundit on January 28, 2010 at 9:36 PM
Double down….
Lou did it all for the nookie
dmann on January 28, 2010 at 9:36 PM
Pretty easy way to earn a retirement package.
darclon on January 28, 2010 at 9:41 PM
I hope he pushed amnesty hard for the Democrats. Just another nail in their coffin.
echosyst on January 28, 2010 at 9:42 PM
Who cares what that melon head NOW thinks about amnesty?
David in ATL on January 28, 2010 at 9:44 PM
When Dobbs realized he didn’t have much of a shot at office as an R….he did a Specter, and went for a D. D as in Democrat, or D as in Dunce? You make the call!
capejasmine on January 28, 2010 at 9:44 PM
I told you people months ago this guy was a phony .Some people thought this guy was some kind of conservative but i knew better. People i know that worked with him told me a lot of things about this jerk also the story about shots being fired at his house true or not true makes you wonder.Thank God the people at Fox knew something was strange about this guy.
thmcbb on January 28, 2010 at 9:45 PM
Whatever dirt the NCLR has on him, it must be pretty good.
The Ugly American on January 28, 2010 at 9:47 PM
10-15% unemployment throughout the country, unsustainable debt and millions of American citizens out of jobs. So Democrat propose amnesty for illegals, giving them benefits WE pay into and taking our jobs AND adding to the debt.
Oh yeah, that one is almost as smart as the Hindenberg made out of cast iron. Dems want to latch onto Dobbs popularity but it sounds more like Dobbs is jerking their chain knowing that, so he proposes the dumbest thing he can think of to make sure the Democratic party wipes themselves out of existance in 2010. Doesn’t really matter whether Lou is serious or not. What matters is Democrats going down this path to extinction
Go to town Dems, shove amnesty down Americas throat, just like you did tried with Obamacare. It will be so much fun for us former Democrats to watch you self destruct
Niteowl45 on January 28, 2010 at 9:47 PM
Won’t work – I never trusted Dobbs and no one really does and … well he was pretty much slaughtered by every liberal organization in the nation – who called him every name up to and including fascist.
So … no – this just doesn’t work. Americans are smarter than to fall for something like this.
HondaV65 on January 28, 2010 at 9:47 PM
and what of all his past conspiracy theories on the NAU?
jp on January 28, 2010 at 9:49 PM
I’m with Lou on this one.
unclesmrgol on January 28, 2010 at 9:53 PM
Let’s see, bribe Nelson, Landrieu and now…Dobbs? What did they promise him? Maybe that he wouldn’t have a horse’s bloody head in his bed?
Christian Conservative on January 28, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Why, when unemployment is 10% (or maybe 20%), is the Obama Administration seriously considering promoting an amnesty bill which would grant citizenship to up to 12 million new Democrats – oops, I mean illegal immigrants?
Syd B. on January 28, 2010 at 10:13 PM
FOOL TOOL
PappyD61 on January 28, 2010 at 10:13 PM
One’s allegiance should always be to principles rather than to men. Principles seldom let you down; men often do.
MB4 on January 28, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Yeah, but it was not as happy a home as it is now…heh
d1carter on January 28, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Ole Dobby is losing it!
sonnyspats1 on January 28, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Why? Just restore the military charges. What kind of game are they playing here?
Buddahpundit on January 28, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Oh, wrong thread that last one
Buddahpundit on January 28, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Dobbs is definitely running scared from something. Stupid scared, at that. I guess getting the boot from CNN really hit him hard. He should go spend 30 years in isolation on a mountain and get his head back together before he shows up in ublic, again.
neurosculptor on January 28, 2010 at 10:47 PM
“Hell, yes, I’m changing my tune…absolutely!”
Finally, an honest hypocrite.
AmericanDad on January 28, 2010 at 10:53 PM
I guess it could work for Schumer…they let Lou Dobbs become the face of amnesty…and then pile in on him too to ride the bandwagon…
Chris_Balsz on January 28, 2010 at 11:01 PM
They are intent on pushing this country to the edge.
True_King on January 28, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Yep!
Caught him a little boy or a wide-stance Mormon.
Good catch.
David2.0 on January 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Dobbs has a terminal disease and is looking for votes from his perceived absolution-bestowing authority. But he wont get it here.
Confidential to Lou: Lou, you are suffering from rectum cerebellum, and yes, it’s terminal. You will never be able to pull your head out. So keep talking that muffled talk from inside your own cavity, farts and fury signifying nothing.
Western_Civ on January 28, 2010 at 11:21 PM
Keep [plucking] that chicken, Barry^H^H^H^H^H Lou
Glenside on January 28, 2010 at 11:41 PM
I like the sweater, it really sets off his acne.
Sharke on January 28, 2010 at 11:42 PM
Has Lou been taking lessons from Charles Johnson?
Kalifornia Kafir on January 28, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Any “conservative” that was fooled by a life-long CNNer like Lou Dobbs huffing and puffing about this one issue ( immigration) deserved to be fooled! HA! HA! HA!
RMR on January 29, 2010 at 12:03 AM
He is probably working for LGF now.
tomas on January 29, 2010 at 12:43 AM
Who is Lou Dobbs??? I’ve never watched CNN…
AmericanPatriot70 on January 29, 2010 at 1:04 AM
Wha…..? This doesn’t meet the smell test. How in the world could Dobbs be this stupid?
The entire country goes right. Dobbs goes left? I’m not buying it.
petunia on January 29, 2010 at 3:13 AM
This comment is a disgrace to humanity. Please ban this person.
petunia on January 29, 2010 at 3:15 AM
Open up 245(i) for a brief period and allow adjustment of status for a hefty fee if anyone has reason to be here (married to an American, or have an offer for an in-demand job). But a blanket amnesty would be ruinous and would encourage more illegal immigration. Reagan’s biggest mistake. Huge.
Greek Fire on January 29, 2010 at 3:17 AM
Night of the Living Dead, XIV
Lou Dobbs runs out of the Green Room
“Arlen Specter just bit me”
Aide: we have to get you antibiotics at once
Dobbs: and a taco supreme with a side of beans
Aide: Michelle Malkin is your next guest, can you handle it?
Dobbs: I don’t speak English
Aide: what do you want to do then?
Dobbs: endorse a pathway to citzenship or my name isn’t Arlen Specter
Aide: It isn’t
Dobbs: Caramba, act like a lady and I will treat you like a lady. La Raza es Todas, los otros, nada
entagor on January 29, 2010 at 3:17 AM
Hey isn’t that one of Al Frankens old sweaters? Just askin’
shov74 on January 29, 2010 at 5:57 AM
If this is what it appears to be, surely there are plenty of recording of Dobbs that can be used to show his hypocrisy on this issue.
rhombus on January 29, 2010 at 5:59 AM
Running for something? Is garbage collector an elective position?
{+_+}
herself on January 29, 2010 at 6:14 AM
It’s not just unemployment. Once tens of millions of poor, unskilled, undereducated illegals become legalized, they’ll have the same right to taxpayer-funded benefits (e.g., food stamps, Medicaid, welfare, Social Security, etc.) as every other American. Our entitlement programs are already trillions of dollars in the hole; adding tens of millions of Third World poor to the rolls just guarantees that we’ll go bankrupt that much sooner. We’ve been pretending for decades that we could afford to allow Mexico and other Third World countries to export their poverty to our shores — but the truth is, we can’t afford it, and we never could.
AZCoyote on January 29, 2010 at 6:35 AM
Had he flipped just a few months earlier, CNN would have kept him on.
Valiant on January 29, 2010 at 7:50 AM
Lou always was, and remains, unelectable. That he’s switching on immigration, his signature issue, makes him an ever more unlikely candidate.
Someone get this guy an extra pair of flip flops.
redfoxbluestate on January 29, 2010 at 8:02 AM
Lou Dobbs needs to change but not on the illegal immigration issue. If Lou Dobbs wants support of the masses, he’ll stay firm on illegal immigration – the area he desperately needs to change/re-evaluate himself is on the issue of Israel. Being critical of Israel for defending herself when katyusha rockets were being lobbed into northern Israel, hurt him considerably. It almost smacked of anti-semitism.
Darvin Dowdy on January 29, 2010 at 8:12 AM
that sweater is enough to convince that Mr. Dobbs has lost it.
JohnBissell on January 29, 2010 at 8:13 AM
Is that sweater from the Stuart Smalley warerobe. Did Lou after the interview look in to the full lenght mirror and say “You’re Good Enough, You’re Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like You”. What a…
USMCDevilDog on January 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM
I ment to say wardrobe, my bad
USMCDevilDog on January 29, 2010 at 8:32 AM
With Dobbs, it’s hard to tell if the meds are wearing off, or kicking in….
rollthedice on January 29, 2010 at 8:59 AM
You owe me a cup of coffee. And a MacBook.
Scott P on January 29, 2010 at 9:28 AM
He maybe running but that doesn’t mean he will get elected. Is Lou Dobbs in competition with Harold Ford Jr., for most disingenuous pundit. Lou Dobbs Alpha Dog? I Don’t Think So.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/262583/january-25-2010/alpha-dog-of-the-week—harold-ford-jr-
Dr Evil on January 29, 2010 at 10:15 AM
I guess everyone has their price.
If this is true, what a complete shame.
I am very angry at the lack of leadership in this country, down to even the basic local levels.
We really need some people with good character & guts to step up to the plate.
*facepalm*
Badger40 on January 29, 2010 at 10:16 AM
HE is changing his tune because he has been intimidated and the safety of his family has been compromised and his house fired at by pro-illegal thugs. That is why he is changing his tune, pure intimidation!
immigrantchick on January 29, 2010 at 10:48 AM
I don’t get it. It seems to me that he’d be better off with his original stance on illegal aliens if he were running for an office given the mood of the country right now. That is, of course, unless he’s running for something in LA or Miami. I’m scratching my head.
orlandocajun on January 29, 2010 at 10:53 AM
I have experience with immigration, both legal and illegal. For example, in CA, when illegals become legal or when you get legal immigrants from south of the border, they expect the same salaries as other legal workers and they generally stop working as hard as their illegal brethren. Thus, businesses that thrive on illegal cheap labor then require more illegals to flood in. Thus, if illegals are granted amnesty, they will demand higher wages, less work and then the business that hired them will want more illegals to come to the US. What then, amnesty for them as well, and the door keeps swinging one way? This country needs to slow immigration significantly and only allow in educated needed folks, otherwise we will have a banana republic.
immigrantchick on January 29, 2010 at 10:56 AM
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