we have told, you know, -- we have told mr. dobbs that we think he is wrong to cover it however, he does have freedom of speech and if he wants to cover it, it's up to him. he was attacked along with his wife and children, bernie, on nbc news airwaves. his wife and children brutally, personally attacked. lou dobbs. how long do you think jeffrey immelt, ceo of g.e. and jeff zucker, nbc boss, are going to allow this barbaric display under the nbc news banner? how long is that going to be? >> first, let me explain that what the people, some people at nbc said was that here is lou dobbs crew sagd against immigration. not true he is crew sagd against illegal immigration he is married to hispanic woman. can't you be against illegal immigration and be married to hispanic woman at the same time? this is just blame dumb. as your your question how long can it this dumbness go on, the media in the past 20, 30 years has really not reflected the values of the american people. we know that. but when you are so out-of-touch with the values of the a

." >> announcer: this is "lou dobbs tonight" news, debate and analysis for thursday, august 20th. live from new york, mr. independence, lou dobbs. >> good evening, everybody. president obama today insisted the fight over health care is not about politics or ideology but you he says it's about necessity. the president appealing to his most loyal supporters to help him sell that message in the weeks and perhaps the months ahead. the latest push comes just a day after president obama urged religious leaders to help him. the president saying "we're god's partners." the president also firing at his critics accusing them of spreading lies or as he put it bearing false witness. but exactly seven months into his term, president obama is now struggling to sell his top priority, a health care overhaul

and given that mr. dobbsllegal immigration it pays the bills for his kids to participate in the horse show circuit which is the second leading employer of the illegal immigrants in this country. he is a hypocrite. as geraldo rivera said on o'reilly, quote, lou dobbs has done more to slander latin people in this country than any other single human being. he has made the image of a young latino man climbing the border wall into this profoundly negative icon that has totally perverted the discussion over immigration reform. "the washington post" reporting today that roger ales attended a lunch in this building in hopes of brokering a deal in which he would muzzle his own commentators from talking about particular subjects. quote, he could control his nut cases, he said, wrote howard kirtz and later announced the war was over. negotiating the people his nut cases might cover about whether or not the nut cases might cover them might seem like journalism to mr. ales but clearly no active journalist would agree. our

cornyn, mr. dobbs, mr. scott, or the others. this is a job to them.d a price tag on everything in this country, there is no soul searching involved. you have a job, if it involves stirring up frightened people to defend the corporation against the citizen, well, you have a salary to earn and a family to feed. the same rationalization that enables mob hit men to sleep at night. but somewhere in those crowds are generally angry and scared people. people who listen to cornyn or dobbs or fantasize with beck about poisoning their way to a democrat-free world or who salivate like pavlovian does about the whistle from sarah "death panel" palin. somewhere in those crowds are actual people with actual brains still working and thinking and evaluating. for god sakes, trust your instinct to think. there are no death panels. there could never be.

you look at the real devastation, mr. dobbs, in his disapproval, on key issues on taxes on the def of, on the economy and now according to cnn polls we poll officers call it negative on issues. >> look at the come polls that kelly ann referred to cnn poll of polls, how obama is handling health care, approval, 43%, disapproval, 45%. your sense of how significant this is? >> whatth is what he is talk about putting all his political capital different than personal appeal on the line. different than town hall meetings. he has his economic team out there fundamentally, americans are looking at health care reform as an economic issue. that is where he is not faring well. they should also be worried because he ran on hope, change, opportunity and specifics are not his friend. every time he unveils specifics about a particular plan, like the stimulus, like the national energy tax and now like health care, you see a nexus in the dip in his approval ratings on this specific issue. >> the rasmussen reports, geoff, how would you rate the h

mr. independent, lou dobbs. >> good evening it seems inevitable tonight that president obama will try toass his health care plans with democratic vote as lone. top democrats are focused on a go it alone strategy trying to repair deep divisions within their own party rather than negotiate with republicans, a top white house adviser told cnn, quote, at the end of the day. they will remember we got health care reform done, a win is a win. the obama administration says it has full public support. >> i think there are millions of people out there, that know, that are quite frankly part of our political base, and others that are independents or republicans that believe it's time the health care system changed, that we need reform and can't continue to do what we're doing now. recent polls contradict the white house claims especially when it comes to independents. a quinnipiac university policy said two-thirds of dependents disapprove of the president's handling of health care. and 70% disagree with the go it alone strategy and puts the president's approval rating at an all-time low at 51%. jun

i agree with cnn's lou dobbs -- okay, mr. this is where your argument falls to the ground -- and also the president did release his birth certificate. even worldnet daily vetted it and found it legit. the most amazing part of this is mr. norris goes on in his letter to note, i must admit i find it a bit of a groundless stretch not to believe in the birth announcements of two major hawaiian newspapers in 1961 in which hawaii's health department would have been required to post information it received directly from hospitals, mr. and mrs. barack h. obama, 4085 highway, son, august 4. see, that's the essence of the thing. to pass a foreign-born baby as the president of the united states began with birth announcements in the newspapers of hawaii 48 years ago this week. is the baby also mentioned in "the da vinci code"? was he named damian? >>> speaking of which, today's winner, lou dobbs. bit off more than he could chew by aligning himself with the birthers at cnn. the last place they do real journalism, as his ratings implosion

mr. limbaugh had problems with reality and logic but this misunderstanding of anatomy is news. the runner-up? lou dobbsur. former dnc chairman howard dean, he said, was guilty of advancing liberal facism. then dobbs added i thought we had gotten rid of this left wing pest. he's a blood sucking leftist. i mean, you got to put a stake through his heart to stop this guy. he then issued one of those apologies in which he denies the murderous imagery was his responsibility. i'm sorry if a bram stoker illusion is too literary for some and for those who could not make what was seemingly an obvious connection my deepest apologies and i gladly withdraw the latter part of my remark. >> howard dean's broeg jim chairman of the americans for democracy activist group issued a statement calling on his radio syndicator and cnn to fire lou dobbs. and tonight's worst, bill o'reilly who stepped in it this time. after trying to blackmail people for two months with some story about the involvement of the parent company of this network, ge, in roadside bombs, ieds found in iraq, billo made one gigantic mistake. he said last

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