Lou Dobbs

Just recently, I've been watching Wolf Blitzer on CNN in the afternoon instead of my formerly favored, Charmed. The most basic reason is because they've been showing repeats that I've literally seen - literally - like 3-4 times already this week! Now, I'm relatively healthy for a 32-year old, but I've been suffering from general fatigue and dehydration and about a week ago, I started bumping into things and running into walls. Ahem. And I have to shave my hands now - a lot. (The palms.)

So, this guy, Lou Dobbs, answers mail during Blitzer's show, and I liked the e-mails he chose and really appreciated his exasperated cynicism toward the issues. He speaks something I like to call Common Sense, and Common Sense just ain't so common. I was actually shocked, because I thought CNN focused more on personalities like Anderson Cooper and whomever that guy is who filmed all those bombs with his shirt off (the SCUD Stud or whatever) and damn Nancy Grace. Dobbs is outraged at the current administration's ineffectiveness, ineptitude, and overall incompetence; he is offended by the continued advancement of policies and subjects which are financially prosperous but bad for the people; and he is anti-illegal immigration.

Today, he had two weaselly, little bastards from the Southern Poverty Law Center on there, who have been claiming that he is "anti-immigrant" and has been making outlandish claims about the percentage of those who are criminals or incarcerated in this country; the numbers of cases of Leprosy and how it is most notably found in those born in foreign countries (specifically Brazil and Mexico); and a whole host of other, blatantly libelous claims which painted Dobbs out to be nothing if not racist, cruel, and malicious, with a specific focus on immigrants - both illegal and otherwise.

As he started laying into them, I started posting this, and after he busted them out within 20 seconds of the start of the interview, their very next claim was that Lou Dobbs showed up most often on white-supremacist sites - and I froze. I thought about all the posts I've been making lately, illustrating the damning double-standards white Americans face, and thought, "Great - that's all I need!" But Lou just laughed it off and busted them out on yet another blatant lie, then another, and another. It was hilarious! And the best thing about it is that I never once felt bad for those little assholes.

I felt bad for me. See, this is how these people work:

They are the ones who started this campaign of misinformation, designed to discredit Dobbs. The very minute he started whipping their little butts, they turned around and indirectly accused everyone who is going to blog about this interview of being white-supremacists! That way, they cover their own asses by insinuating that, since Lou Dobbs is obviously racist and is allegedly mentioned most often on white-supremacist sites, anyone who mentions him is a white-supremacist.

This, for those outside of America, is the going brand of "Freedom of Speech" for whites and pretty much anyone who speaks positively about decidedly traditional values (called "Conservative" - with a capital C, so as to dismiss the definition of the word and negatively associate it with the American Republican political party) nowadays. It isn't true and it isn't just.

I'm as much an easy-going party guy as any other sometime musician and artist, but I do happen to believe that the current state of our world is out of control for a very basic reason: that "culture of permissiveness" Les Moonves talked about when he decided to first suspend, then fire, those two doofuses on The Doghouse radio program.

As I've stated before, I'm no "extreme Right-wing" so-and-so. I watch porn and see nothing wrong with that, but I think the fact that it's mainstream to the point where To Catch a Predator has become pop-culture and Joe Francis is legally and openly allowed to film underage girls and make millions of dollars by peddling their images across the world... well, I think that's the difference between a campfire and a bonfire.

I sometimes get drunk and make a total fool of myself and while I regret having done so later, I truly don't find it that big of a deal that someone - anyone - can actually succumb to the effects of alcohol and make a fool of themselves. Hell, that's why you drink in the first place. But I don't believe that hard drug users should be given a free pass to rob, steal, lie, and and do even worse under the assumption that they are "sick," while those with bonafide mental issues are just plain "Evil."

I don't appreciate the fact that minorities are allowed to say whatever the hell they want and demean, disgrace, ridicule, and lampoon white people and our history, but we are taken to task the minute we make the slightest oversight in judgment.

Lou Dobbs is not an extremist, nor is he a racist; Lou Dobbs is a Man. He speaks his mind and, most Evil of all, he has convictions - principles - most of which are based on Common Sense and morals. These are things the modern American majority simply abhor! Sure, it makes sense that allowing just anyone from any country to wander in and out as they please is probably a dangerous idea, but don't they have a right just because they are human beings? Because obviously, anyone who says otherwise is saying that all immigrants and visitors from foreign lands are dangerous and not even human beings! And so on and so forth.

This actually started off to be nothing more than a humorous "Hey now! Check out this guy, Lou Dobbs, and how he made these two jerks shrink in their suits!" (actually, I have a pretty good idea they bought them oversized, being all about "Poverty" and shit), and before I could even start, I was accused of being a racist - a white-supremacist, no less! - for doing so.

This is Censorship. This is America.