Black Box Report

Some New York state lawmakers are back in Albany to block Governor Eliot Spitzer's plan to make it possible for illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses.

Assembly Republican leader James Tedisco is calling on assembly Democrats to allow a vote on legislation to negate the plan.

Meanwhile, the Rensselaer County Clerk filed a lawsuit today against the state to prevent implementation of the policy.

Spitzer said his plan would get hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants already in New York and presumably on the roads, into the state database, making streets safer for drivers and reducing auto insurance rates.

Opponents say it's dangerous to give illegal immigrants licenses.

Spitzer's plan has gotten national attention - especially from anti-immigrant host Lou Dobbs who has made it his crusade to attack the plan and the governor.

Hey Lou, who asked you? Who exactly anointed you, a pompous windbag, to be the voice of the New York? You never bothered to learn the facts, but since when did that get in the way of a good story? Last week you called the governor a spoiled rich-kid brat and a coward for not coming to your studio - as if your approval was required to make policy.

I appreciate that the licensing plan is controversial, but too much of this debate is overheated rhetoric from the likes of a plump blowhard who's either delusional or worse. Really Lou, you calling others "rich", "spoiled" and "out of touch" - I’m sure you're struggling to get by as you keep it real with the common man. Dobbs, you see, doesn't have any answers other than deport them all, and no responsible adult thinks that’s possible. So while he waits for 12 million illegals to voluntarily head for the border, he demonizes every town and state that tries to live in the real world.

Osama bin Laden isn't going to get a license at the DMV, don't believe Lou. Instead, security experts believe his plan will actually make us safer. You see Dobbs, knowledge is power, as much as you tell your audience otherwise.

I'm many things people, but a phony is not one of them. You deserve the facts and on this show, unlike his, we believe you can handle them and make up your own mind.

[UPDATE]

After last nights show a viewer asked me what I had against Lou Dobbs. I told him, Dobbs is the kind of talking head who gives guys like me a bad name. We all bring our agendas to a debate, myself included, but this pompous windbag is both a phony and a coward. He twists or ignores facts when it suits him, and lies outright without pause.

He also talks tough when it's just him and a camera, but trust me the macho act would disappear if Spitzer lost his senses and actually showed up on his set. I also told this viewer, I can disagree with someone and still respect them, but only if that person is genuine. Dobbs doesn't even know the word.

Pretending to be an everyman, the faux New Yorker has as much in common with working class America as our president. And the two deserve each other. By pandering fear and selling untruths, he's the worst kind of fraud - the dangerous kind.

So to answer that viewer’s question - I can't stand the jerk because he pretends to care about New York when all he really gives a damn about is his ego.