Lou Dobbs leads pitchfork-wielding mob after Alex Tabarrok

I'm contiually amazed that people take Lou Dobbs seriously. The man doesn't know anything about the issues he covers, can't comprehend the people that disagree with him. Lou Dobbs is angry, Lou Dobbs is loud and Lou Dobbs is pompous. Therefore Lou Dobbs is on cable news.

So, some economists sign an innocous letter pointing out that immigration is not only not the disasterous catastrophe that Lou Dobbs says it is, but that most of it is quite beneficial.

So Lou Dobbs, careful and well research journalistic response? Call them "Jackasses."

He gets paid for this.

My favorite parts of this clip is the most dishonest parts, and that's most of it.

The Highlight Reel:

• Failing to address the main argument of those who advocate a more liberal border policy, "legitimate concerns about the impact on the poorest of Americans should no be addressed by penalizing even poorer immigrants."
• Emphasizing a few words in a phrase to make an uncontroversial stance sound like a controversial one, with respect to Professor Tabarrok, "He advocates unlimited immigration of skilled workers."
• Letting someone both unfamiliar and unsympathetic to an argument make the case for it. There are lots of reasons why economists believe that immigration is a good thing, I've never heard anyone claim that it was so that people would run from country to country during business cycles.
• Focusing on irrelevancies. Yes, an apple is not a person, how very astute. No analogy is ever correct, unless you make an analogy between two things that are each other. For example, you can only say he's as fast as a racehorse unless "he" is actually a racehorse, or at minimum, a horse. It may seem silly, but it won't annoy the blowhardy pseudo-journalistic yelly guy. That's important.