After Going Off the Deep End, CNN’s Lou Dobbs Forced to Apologize
March 25th, 2009

On the March 11, 2009 edition of Lou Dobbs, Lou went off the deep end and attacked the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) and President Obama, saying, "I don't know what's happened to this White House, but the wheels appear to have come completely off here over the last several days. Making a decision to talk about a national initiative on education from the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which is effectively an organization that is interested in the export of American capital and production to Mexico and Mexico's export of drugs and illegal aliens to the United States.  This is crazy stuff."

USHCC represents the types of businesses that fuel economic growth and entrepreneurship, and many advocacy organizations lobbied against this latest rant.  They called for an apology from CNN and Lou Dobbs and they got one, sort of.

According to the CNN transcript, this is his apology:

"I want to make a correction to something I said last week.  I made a mistake while talking with correspondent Lisa Sylvester after her report on President Obama's unveiling of his education initiative in front of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.  In my conversation with Lisa, I said the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is ‘interested in the export of American capital and American production to Mexico and Mexico's export of drugs and illegal aliens into the United States.'  While I believe any opens borders policy does facilitate not only illegal immigration but also the trafficking of massive amounts of illicit drugs, I of course do not believe that the Chamber supports or condones either drug or human trafficking.  My apologies to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce-and I hope that they will forgive me for that misspeaking."

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