Lou Dobbs the Paleocon -- we watch his show at some times chuckling as he rails Bush Administration incompetence, at other times throwing stuff at the screen as he pushes the ridiculous "Democrats are just as bad" meme. Unlike the rest of the media, he never forgets Iraq, and stuck it to BushCo over the Dubia Ports thing. But then there's his edge-walking rhetoric on immigration.
He rants about E-voting, but then goes on to advocate to putting hurdles in front of the polls for the many elderly and poor who no longer have their birth certificate and never had a passport, and he loves him that totalitarian federal national ID card idea.
I'm not going to talk about any of that. Let's talk instead about the story that Lou Dobbs Won't Cover because he's afraid to.
Lou Dobbs has several regular segments, other than the "Broken Borders" immigration section that seems to dominate the show. "The War on The Middle Class" and "Exporting America" which talk about jobs and economic pressures. Another, "Red Storm" talks about the economic power plays between China and the U.S. Lou hates globalism, outsourcing, H1-Bs, trade deficits, and crony contracting.
So a story that involved Chinese workers being imported into U.S. territory in order to attach a "Made in USA" label to their product and sell it in competition to clothing actually produced by Americans might get his attention, ya think?
Moreover, if the story led to a web of corrupt congresscritters filtering money into and out of crony companies/nonprofits, involved numerous human rights abuses on U.S. soil, not to mention sex slavery, that would be a natural for Lou's show, one would expect -- especially with several ongoing prosecutorial investigations and proposed legislation to put a stop to it.
But it's been on the radar for two years now, and not a peep.
What's the matter Lou? We know you like to buck the talking points from time to time. We see you occasionally insert the ommitted context from the day's footage CNN makes you run. Is this just too much for you to stomach? Someone got you by the short hairs?
Come on Lou. Say the word. Four short syllables:
"Marianas"
Say it! I dare you!