In an interview with Esquire magazine, Lou Dobbs once again defends his repeated requests for President Obama’s birth certificate, calling it a “commonsense question” that has “been used in the extreme left to create a toxicity that is just unbelievable.”
In an interview headlined “What I’ve Learned,” Dobbs once again lashes out at people who have criticized his insistence that Obama’s birth certificate is unsatisfactory:
I ask a question, and I am attacked from the extreme left as a quote-unquote birther. I mean, what the hell is that? When you can create a controversy by asking what seems to me still a perfectly commonsense question? It has been used in the extreme left to create a toxicity that is just unbelievable.
He also addresses his stance on immigration: “There aren’t 20 million illegal immigrants because of a choice made by the voting electorate of the country. There are 20 million illegal immigrants in this country because a good part of the establishment made a decision to exploit labor.”
He continues: “I’m actually pro-immigrant. There’s not a restrictionist bone in my body.”
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Dobbs also offered some other helpful gems: “When you’ve got a 120-pound bale of hay hitting your knee as you buck it onto a flatbed wagon or trailer, your jeans have got to hold up.”
He concluded: “On any given day, I’m a horse’s ass. On another day, I think I can apply for at least … honorary good citizenship.”
