Archive for the ‘May-1-immigration-rally’ Category

Lou Dobbs: 2nd Worst Person in the World?

May 8, 2007

Lou Dobbs and ratings-challenged CNN (I still miss Soledad O’Brian) have finished second again, as Lou Dobbs is only the runner-up (to Fox’s Bill O’Reilly) on Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World. 

One of the few tough questions Lesley Stahl asked in a softball 60 Minutes interview  with her new CBS colleague Dobb was about why his CNN show reported 7000 cases of leprosy in the last 3 years, with the implication that immigrants had brought leprosy with them. 

Olberman gave Dobbs his “worst person” nod for saying,  “If we reported it, it’s a fact.” Apparently, 7000 cases of leprosy have been reported in the past 30 years.

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Quotes to Consider

May 2, 2007

“‘Why did you hit me? I’m a reporter,’” said KPCC radio reporter Patricia Nazario, hit in the back and ribs with a baton. “And he hit me again, harder that time, and I fell on the dirt and my phone flew like 12 feet in front of me.”

“Quite frankly, I was disturbed at what I saw,” LA Police Chief William Bratton told KNX-AM. “Some of the officers’ action … were inappropriate in terms of use of batons and possible use of nonlethal rounds fired.”

“We’ve got boys here who should be working in the stockyards,” policeman to Phillip Marlowe, The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler.

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LA Riots: Deja Vu All Over Again?

May 2, 2007

A tip of the hat to both LAObserved and Alert the Bear, who mentioned our LA Riots Remembered post.  As K.M. Johnson notes, there hasn’t been much ‘anniversary’ coverage of the Riots, but unfortunately, I’m thinking that what’s old is new again. 

This unnerving Fox footage of the LAPD firing rubber bullets at the May Day immigration demonstrators in MacArthur Park brings up the spectre of Rodney King like the ghost of Christmas past.  Local Fox 11 news reporter Christina Gonzalez who was roughed up along with her camerawoman, quoted the police as saying “Doubletime it’s tussle time.”

Our house is in the flight path from Van Nuys Airport.  The police ‘ghetto birds’ immortalized by an earlier Ice Cube kept flying overhead last night.  I couldn’t sleep and flicked the channels, looking for news.  Only infomercials, so I was left wondering if it was on again.

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