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No takers in Lou Dobbs baby name contest

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LOS ANGELES, May 8 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles radio station is offering hundreds of dollars in prizes to any illegal immigrants willing to name their child after CNN's Lou Dobbs.

The hosts of the "Pocho Hour of Power" on KPFK-FM told the New York Daily News their contest is in response to Dobbs' "soft bigotry in a three-piece suit."

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"He used to have a business show, and now it's all-immigrant, all the time," co-host Lalo Alcaraz told the Daily News. "Call me crazy, but if I had a TV show, I'd do different topics. And what he's doing is a kind of cultural bigotry that (immigrants) are inferior in some way. In reality, they're working their asses off. It leads viewers to think, 'Now I can discriminate against Panchito.'"

The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has described Dobbs' "tone on immigration consistently alarmist," the newspaper said.

Despite a prize cache worth hundreds of dollars in baby stuff, no perspective parents have yet agreed to name their impending bundle of joy Lou Dobbs.

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