lou dobbs is a pressure release valve by which the msm can pretend to address pertinent issues and be a "voice for the people" while simultaneously diverting them from viable options and leading them into predetermined paradigms. Through him, nativist resentment of immigrants (yes, i know they're illegal, but if our system wasn't so bloated, they wouldn't have to be) is getting kicked up so that americans will demand a border fence, a national id card, and a massive national surveillance/security bureaucracy. That's why the government has let the illegal immigration problem get so out of hand. Because they know they can milk this thing so thoroughly that americans will beg for their own enslavement as long as their families are safe and their jobs are protected, which they won't be, because protectionism, far from keeping wages high, only drives prices up and employment down.
Don't be fooled by all his "standing up for the working class" sophistry. If you analyze his actual positions on the issues, he's a keynesian through-and-through. Not only that, but he loves the drug war and has devoted numerous segments of his show to positing ridiculous claims about marijuana leading to crime and terrorism. All of his populist bluster and righteous indignation is about as genuine as a three-dollar bill.
If lou dobbs posed nearly as big a threat to the new world order as some believe, why on earth would cnn (the cia news network) give him an hour a day to rail against a system that they help to prop up? We already know that they don't value their charge to be objective journalists (the way they treated ron paul is proof enough of this).