Lou Dobbs, the New Target of the Activist Old Media

Lou Dobbs committed the ultimate sin—he made a stand on principle.

For years Dobbs has fought against illegal immigration. He did it on CNN, he does it on his radio show.

Now, the most leftist magazine out there, The Nation has attacked Dobbs because they say a contractor that he used to run his property might have hired illegals. Dobbs makes is clear that he expects this kind of treatment from the libs at The Nation, but he is a little surprise that the activist old (mainstream) media has joined their chorus. Certainly he can’t be all that surprised.

The charges made by The Nation may be accurate on the surface, but they are without context. With illegal immigration as rampant as it is, to think that anybody who stands on principle against illegal immigration must check two, three or four sources removed to make sure that people hired by somebody hired who somebody hired might be here illegally is absolutely preposterous and the activist old media should say that, but, of course, they do not.

Case in point involving my personal experience. I worked with a political candidate recently who wanted to put an initiative on the Nevada ballot similar to Arizona’s SB 1070. We just wanted the people to have a chance to decide this issue at the ballot box. You’d thought that I had gone out and done something horrible, like call Jon Steward a bigot, or something. I was sued by no less than six different liberal groups in Nevada until it got to the point that we could not fight all the lawsuits and still meet the deadline for signatures to get the issue on the ballot. Mission accomplished by the left. The lawsuits were later dropped, but the problems with illegal immigration, especially in the desert southwest, are still there.

So, since I took a stand on the illegal immigration issue should I be concerned that the contractor that built my house used illegals? Under the standard of supposed hypocrisy used by The Nation, I should be. What about my homeowners association? Should I be concerned about whom they hire? My homeowners association is the largest in the country, and they hire a lot of people.

Perhaps both Lou Dobbs and I should racially profile and ask those who we think may be here illegally for their papers and make sure that anybody we hire who may be using an outside contractor are not using an employment agency that may let somebody sneak through the cracks.

Hey—isn’t that what the left says is the problem with SB 1070? Asking for papers? Suppose Dobbs had asked everybody who was ever on his property for papers? Would that make The Nation happier? Meg Whitman, who is running for California governor is going through a similar issue.

The activist old media works forever trying to find hypocrisy from those on the right who may actually stand for principle and they end up twisting themselves into a pretzel to the point where they end up demanding that the conservative actually do the thing that we all hate the most, and that’s to racially profile. No win.

I have a thought for The Nation and the rest of the activist old media if they would like to find hypocrisy, look at the White House. Do a story on hypocrisy with the First Family. You have a President who sneaks from meeting to meeting trying to find a place to smoke a cigarette (anybody wonder why he’s always late?) while the First Lady is trying to tell us all what we should eat so that we are healthy. Take your hypocrisy theme straight to the top—then maybe you can work on credibility when you go after talk show hosts.