Lou Dobbs Spreading Unfounded Fear Of Immigrants

AlterNet is reporting on Dobbs' false claims about leprosy. They go into detail about how wrong the numbers are - his lie of 7,000 in the last 3 years versus the verifiable 7,000 in the last 30 years. But they don't go into how he takes this one greatly distorted fact and uses it to vilify immigrants and frighten the public. From the May 7 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight (transcript from Alternet): "It's remarkable that this -- whatever, confusion or confoundment over 7,000 cases. They actually keep a registry of cases of leprosy. And the fact that it rose was because of -- one assumes because we don't know for sure -- but two basic influences: unscreened illegal immigrants coming into this country primarily from South Asia, and the -- secondly, far better reporting."

We don't know for sure, but go ahead and report it Lou.