I filled this in at the Media Matters website. They are a media watchdog organization. I like them because they are equal opportunity: They call shenanigans when there are shenanigans, whether it’s a left winger or right winger, and I like that. One of their current actions is trying to keep CNN’s Lou Dobbs from broadcasting his show from an annual conference being held by an actively anti-immigration group. More info from them here. I found it interesting and I wrote a letter to CNN to try to help. Here is what I said:
I am writing to express my concerns about Lou Dobbs being scheduled to broadcast the “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” conference. They are considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and it concerns me that someone from CNN would be part of an event held by this organization. Lou Dobbs broadcasting from this event lends this group a certain measure of unwarranted credibility. Would you be happy to broadcast The Situation Room from a Ku Klux Klan event? Would you expend the resources to send 360 to the Westboro Baptist Church Labor Day picnic? I hope the answer is “Of course not”, and I wish the answer to sending Lou Dobbs to this sort of conference was the same. Please stop this from happening.
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