Immigration Law

DOBBS: "WE'VE NEVER OPPOSED LEGAL IMMIGRATION"

By Greg Siskind

Are you kidding me?

Dobbs was airing an incredible report last night actually insinuating that the people complaining about hate speech emanating from his show are actually the real bigots when he made this little doosy of a statement. I knew this was a lie, but how to convince readers that I'm not just being mean to old Lou? Then I remembered that CNN makes transcripts of all of its shows available online. So after two nights of pouring through transcripts (with some help from Google Advanced Search), I found the following:

Total number of stories discussing legal immigration topics (non-immigrant visas, immigrant visas, asylum): 95

Total stories with a positive statement about legal immigration: 2

Total stories with negative statements about legal immigration by Dobbs or one of his show's "reporters": 93

You can judge for yourself. I've prepared a memorandum linking to each one of these stories so people can make there own determination. Does the coverage look pro-legal-immigration to you?

[UPDATE: I've reorganized the list in alphabetical order. Originally, I grouped the stories by visa category, but some people were not reading past the first few sheets and assumed all the stories were about H-1Bs. Now you can more easily see that Mr. Dobbs is equal opportunity when it comes to bashing legal immigration programs]

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Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).