CNN Scrubs Dobbs’ Racially Charged Comment From Transcript

thinkprogress.org — When asked to respond to Rice’s remarks on the Situation Room last Friday, CNN host Lou Dobbs became agitated. TPM’s Josh Marshall noted that Dobbs explained “how he’s sick of ‘cotton pickin’ black leaders telling him how he can and can’t talk about race (he catches himself at the last minute — sorta).” Mar 31, 2008 View in Crawl 4

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lastvisibledog Apr 1, 2008

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ThinkProgress - home of the mental midgets.Cotton-picking is a figure of speak and is only racially charged if one is already a racist - this is just stupid. First off, he did not say "cotton-picking". Second, my father (a white man) picked cotton when he was growing up and he used the term "cotton-picking" and it was not a racially charged statement (just a reference to a job that is a large pain-in-the-back).The left is full over-sensitive mental-midgets

blacklabelsar Apr 1, 2008

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This is a great example of what is wrong with the U.S. right now. Look at how people react in a knee-jerk fashion and form a judgement without actually giving the issue some thought. It's almost a mob mentality.I agree with most of what Dobbs says, but not 100%, so I watched the video. He was simply looking fora phrase to express the emphasis he wanted to use to make his point and express his level of disgust with political correctness and race baiting.Anyone can see that he would have liked to have said "god damn", what most people in reality would say. But he is on tv, so his rediculous choices are "dag nabbin", "frickin", and "dog gone". Isn't this laughable? Like an earlier comment said, this makes his point.The reality is that the illegal aliens coming across the Mexican Border have no legal basis for being in the U.S. and they know it, so they cry "Rascism!". It's laughable. I personally feel that the people of Mexico should overthrow thier corrupt government, instead of feeling entitled to dual citizenship. Who else gets dual citizenship as a matter of course. I'll take mine in Canada thank you.So most of those that would rail against Dobbs are hispanic, because mostly, their allegiance is to their own ethno-centric group, not the laws of the U.S. Any country other than you were born in owes us nothing. I would much rather live in Canada than the U.S, but can I demand citizenship and social services? Of course not. This is why Hispanics call Dobbs "rascist". They won't even acknowledge that a law has been broken. Did Dobbs write the laws? Obviously not. Are our immigration laws rascist because we don't have open borders? Hardly.

pb3623 Apr 2, 2008

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Wrong... maybe 16 results, but in only six does Dobbs use the phrase "cotton-picking..." A viewer email quoted the phrase once, and the other results happened to have the words "cotton" and "picking" in the same document.