Newshoggers Archive: Maria Celeste interviews Lou Dobbs

Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Maria Celeste interviews Lou Dobbs

By John Ballard

Lou Dobbs is betraying his base, backpeddling on past statements, in an appearance on Telemundo.
He's trying hard to stuff a big pile of poop back into an elephant, or as the Wall Street Journal said "reaching out to Latinos with politics in mind."
The comments thread is already filled with pissed off former supporters feeling betrayed.
Teehee...

Lots of ALIPAC boxers are in a wad...

Shocking Lou Dobbs Video! Opinions Needed ASAP

==>He is backing down from things he said in the past. Pretending he did not say those things. Or pretending he was misunderstood.

19:32 into the video (William said 19:40, so the timing on mine could be off) he says that illegals should be legalized "under certain conditions."

Lou now advocates amnesty. That is my take. But this is such a turnaround as to be unbelievable. It is a sudden turnaround. Maybe he is laying the foundation to go into politics? I dont know. But this is very disturbing.

==>Just watched the video.......i'm dumbfounded and shocked, i don't know what to think

==>This is NOT GOOD!!!! He is either developing ALZEHEIMERS or he is back peddling on his stances and what he has stated on his show.................

==>I just watched it for a second time and now I am down right angry! It seemed to me that he was sympathizing with the illegal aliens. I also thought he should have stood up for Sheriff Joe more that he did.I never once heard him say that the illegals are breaking the law by jumping the border on a daily basis. I no longer trust him.