I was watching Lou Dobbs because I am waiting for the VP announcement, and heard about this funny story:
U.S. authorities are vowing to track down illegal immigrants at home and at work after only eight people volunteered for a self-deportation program.
The nearly three-week trial program for illegal immigrants who have ignored court orders to leave the country ends later Friday in five cities.
No one could have predicted self-deportation would fail.
Speaking of Lou Dobbs, aside from the fact that he has devolved into a bitter and delusional old nutball, how is he still on the air. I can barely tolerate to listen to him sucking in his dentures every other word (if it isn’t dentures, he must suffer from excessive saliva or something, although technically I guess the viewers are the ones suffering), and he can barely get through a sentence on the teleprompter anymore. I guess it is kind of a cheap shot to point out he is almost ten years younger than McCain, but I couldn’t control myself.
Mary
Back when I still had CNN, I would lunge to turn off the tv whenever Dobbs came on because I despise that vile old goat so much.
If I want to watch an old dude suck his teeth, I choose Jacques Pepin, who is the awesome to Dobbs’ shitosity.
nightjar
Used to watch Dobbs every night,. Now I can’t stand the sound of his voice. He’s now a bloviating jackass and Xenophobe of the first order. He’s also a control freak who expects all the other CNN reporters to echo his nutbaggery.
He’s on in another room right now only because I’m lazy to get up and turn him off.
matt
Hey, did you ever get caught up on Generation Kill?
tomjones
Can American citizens volunteer for deportation? If so, deport me to Spain, por favor.
tomjones
Lou Dobbs is a tool of the highest order, but like other tools I hate – I mean, fuck rakes – Dobbs has a couple redeeming qualities. He has a nice, soothing, gravelly voice. It’s a shame he uses his one gift in the service of evil.
t jasper parnell
This is a great aside.
KRK
Wait, Dobbs still walks (and sucks his dentures) among the living? Surely this is a medical miracle. Didn’t this make his head explode already?
Michael D.
I used to enjoy Lou Dobbs. I can’t stand to even listen to him anymore. I do watch CNN regularly. I switch to Cartoon Network when he’s on. I really think he is embarrassing. Completely.
demkat620
I can’t watch Lou Dobbs Racist Hour anymore. The stink from his fear of brown people is starting leak throught the tv screen.
Keith
Add another to the “can’t stand 2 minutes of Lou Dobbs” column. When he starts going off on illegal immigration (or tainted food) he’s got this faux outrage where he’s channeling the absolute worst of the Bill O’Reilly sound bites and tries to even exceed O’Reilly. He’s kinda like that O’Reilly-esque TV host in V for Vendetta. I can actually stand O’Reilly for longer (5 minutes sometimes)
Ella in NM
What happened to the old “War on the Middle Class” Lou Dobbs, anyway? Really, there WAS a time when he wasn’t so out in left field and ragin’ on the browns.
I decided that he must have had some kind of mild stroke or something that altered his personality. Maybe that’s got something to do with the drooling?
Just Some Fuckhead
Syphillis is rotting his brain. Prolly got it from a Mexican, not necessarily the one he’s married to.
NoahC
Meh, houses are fine… But rich guys *always* have great car collections.
Jonnie obviously has some bucks. Let’s see your ride, old man.
Dennis - SGMM
Cindy McCain is the rich guy in the family so Johnny doesn’t have a car collection. But, you should see the car collection of the McCain’s poolboy. Leno would be consumed with envy.
John S.
If CNN is going to give an hour to a cranky old fucker, it might as well be Jack Cafferty.
At least he has something intelligent to say every now and then.
ched
I never miss an opportunity to point out that Lou’s denture smack nicely compliments his twice monthly hair darkening.
SpotWeld
It’s kinda weird. The US has a pretty bad record on enforcing the time limits on work and student visas.
So, the answer to that would be better enforcement. But there is such a backlog of extension requests, renewal request, etc. etc. etc that it’s impossible to tell who is really here illegally or who is just stuck here until the US can tell them if they have to leave or not.
So instead of spending money on personnel (a flexible resource that can be scaled up or down as needed) It’s all about walls walls walls. A rigid resource that is a huge capital investment and cannot be scaled down once built.
And that’s my rant for the day.
J. Michael Neal
You’re just afraid that Dobbs would have you deported.
b-psycho
+1
My mother watches Lou Dobbs a lot. No idea why, since she’s black, but whatever. I just end up silently giggling, thinking to myself how much his fear-mongering resembles what used to be directed at those exotic, filthy, diseased ruffians the Irish.
b-psycho
Sad thing about it is that I personally don’t understand why illegals accept the arrangement they live here under in the first place. They’re being used as something one step above slaves, and if it weren’t for their willingness to work cheap they’d be deported by noon tomorrow, I’d think that’d be seen as an insult, no?
Eh, maybe it’s just desperation. All I know is I’d be inclined to stir demonstrations that asked “is picking your fruit and washing your fucking dishes all you think we’re good for?” to the types that use them. Dobbs is never going to get his strict enforcement because the result would be a bunch of rich white people going to jail, period.
jake
How can you tell the difference?
The S.O. watches Dobbs. For the sake of the cats we have an unspoken agreement not talk about it.
wasabi gasp
You know Dobbs must have blurted to his wife sometime during sex, “Who’s your minuteman, baby!”