Mother Jones Profile of Lou Dobbs

"Few of us have had the chance to completely remake ourselves, but in the past four years, from this very perch, the still-cherubic-looking Dobbs, who hosts Lou Dobbs Tonight, has done just that: morphing from spokesman for the country's wealthy and powerful — the CEOs' golfing buddy — to Middle America's valiant crusader, waging, according to him, an unending battle against the 'corporate imperialists,' whom he blames for an untenable increase in illegal immigration, a destabilization of the middle class, and an erosion of national sovereignty," Mother Jones writes. "'The United States was once considered the greatest can-do country on the face of the earth,' [Dobbs] told me, 'but this insidious libertarianism suggests we can't change the educational system. We can't control our borders or our ports, but we can send men and women to Iraq to install democracy? When we don't have the wherewithal to preserve it here? Where is the reason? It's a failure of leadership. It's a failure of leadership in so many of our institutions. Someone said to me that the far right hates you and the far left fears you, and that's perfectly fine with me.'"

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