News With Nezua | Goodbye to Lou!

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Transcript for News With Nezua Video “Goodbye to Lou” by Nezua

SPOKEN:
Hola Gente, and welcome to News With Nezua! (Translation from Spanish, “What’s up, people, and welcome to News With Nezua!”

[Flamenco/Latin style music. Rhythmic accordian, strings, shakers, handclaps, bass, catchy.]

SUNG:
“Guerrero!” (translation from Spanish: “Warrior!” or “Soldier” or “Fighter!”) “Ole!”

[Latin music fades into acoustic song, with voice: "Goodbye to Lou....Goodbye to Lou" to the tune of Patti Smythe's Goodbye to You and OVER TEXT: "GOODBYE TO LOU"]

SOUND OF Applause and Cheers, from an audience

SOUND OF Acoustic Song faint and fading

SOUND OF a WHOOOOSH, as Lower Third graphic zooms Screen Right

Lower Third Graphic: “nezua, theunapologeticmexican.org”

SPOKEN (in a somewhat low/soft tone):
And perhaps now it’s only proper to observe a moment of silence.

SOUND OF CHEERS and CLAPPING and HOOTS OF DELIGHT

SOUND OF 20TH Century Fox Production company music sting. Brass, snare drum rolls, cymbals, strings: very anticipatory and military and triumphant sound.

SPOKEN: (LOU DOBBS)
This will be my last broadcast here on CNN, where I have worked for most of the past 30 years and where I have many friends and colleagues whom I admire deeply and respect greatly.

SOUND OF CHEERING and APPLAUSE FROM AUDIENCE rises as Lou Dobbs speaks. COUGHING as the audience quiets down again.

SPOKEN: (LOU DOBBS)
Over the past six months, it’s become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country—

SOUND OF MUTED LAUGHTER from somewhere in audience

SPOKEN: (LOU DOBBS)
…and affecting all of us.

SOUND OF WIND RUSHING

SPOKEN: (LOU DOBBS)
…and some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN…

SOUND OF TRUMPET PLAYING SPARE MOURNFUL NOTES (from “TAPS”)

SPOKEN: (LOU DOBBS)
…and to engage in constructive problem-solving, as well as to contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day.

Movie screen begins showing luminescent holes as

SOUND OF flames licking and burning

BOUNCY BASS RIFF begins as scene FADES TO BLACK.

-END SKIT-

BOUNCY BASS RIFF lowers as Nezua speaks

SPOKEN: [NEZUA]
Lou Dobbs has finally come to his senses and left CNN. You do have to give Lou credit. Ah, acknowledging that he’s not part of the solution; that he’s saturating the airwaves with negativity.

He says his colleagues and many people have urged him to be part of the solution and not the problem, and begin contributing positively. And Lou understands, ah, that the best way to do that is to take his voice, to take himself off of CNN. And you can feel it! You can feel the positivity; it has increased in the world!

Feel it. [said quickly and with dramatic flair as Nezua looks to air and sky about him]

SOUND OF SCI-FI/DIVINE HUM

SPOKEN: [NEZUA]
See? So we have to thank Lou for that.

And of course now everybody’s speculating “What’s next for Lou Dobbs? Will it be politics? Will it be radio? Or will he return to his wildly successful Space.Com venture?”

-END STANDUP, BEGIN SKIT-

SOUND OF DRAMATIC DRUM pound and RISING ALIEN MECHANICAL WHIRRING TONE and PINGS as text on screen reads “BROKEN STRATOSPHERES” and “MOON WATER TAINTED BY TEQUILA???”. SOUND continues under entire segment

SPOKEN in COMICAL GARBLE-VOICE as if cross between Charlie Brown’s Teacher and FAKE LOU DOBBS: [NEZUA]
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SOUND OF RUSHING/ZOOMING as image of NEZUA comes together from many shattered pieces, ending with a muted bell’s echo fading out

SOUND OF NEWSROOM and PAPER BEING PULLED OUT OF TYPEWRITER as man in video background pulls paper from typewriter on desk

SPOKEN: [NEZUA]
You do sort of wonder what happened to Lou Dobbs, don’t you? The Lou Dobbs Reports used to be purely financial News. What happened to Lou? What set him off?

SOUND OF EERIE BELLS FAINTLY RINGING

SPOKEN: [NEZUA]
We don’t really have to wonder because Lou told Larry King when being interviewed what the pivot was for him, and he said it was September 11. It was September Eleventh, and then he talked about people having to compete with cheap labor. So…9/11 happened and before ya know it, Lou Dobbs finds himself obsessed with “furreners” sneaking across the border.

It’s not really an unfathomable reaction, and he wasnt the only one to have it. In fact, our immigration laws themselves went through this same change, this same reaction. They became extremely punitive, fearful, paranoid, and prison-oriented after 9/11.

Catch and Release became Detain and Deport; we got 287(g) which brought that intensity of the border guard situation and the borderlands to every city, and a general terrorizing of the Latino and the Immigrant communities is what happened. Yes, a terrorizing. People terrified, living with PTSD symptoms now…aware that any moment someone could stop them, could hassle them, split up their family, barge down their door….

And if you wonder when the SWAT style raids, and the focusing upon the immigrant community as a source of danger within started, that was under Jeb Bush, in Florida, after 9/11 and the Cuban immigrant community was the first ones to suffer this. And from there, that spread. Until now, when we almost take it for granted that the United States approach toward immigrants is aggressive, hostile, punitive…it wasn’t always that way.

September 11th spun everybody’s head. Some people are still spinning. I think Lou Dobbs is one of those people. This reaction after 9/11 to ‘root out the danger within.’ These people can’t question an entire body of facts because they can’t question the things that retain their power. Lou Dobbs, Rupert Murdoch, many members of the GOP…all these people that are freaking out about the BROWN PEOPLE; the Dangerous Brown People Slipping Through the Cracks; check ‘em on the plane, check ‘em on the border, check ‘em on the streets….they are incapable at looking at the actions of the United States of America as being part and parcel of why blowback comes to the nation.

So these people are off on this tirade, they’re off on this mission to root out the Dangerous Brown people. And when you view it like that, Lou Dobbs…he makes sense. His arc makes sense. He hasn’t stopped, he hasn’t slowed down, we definitely have to enjoy what has happened here, to an extent. But not to lose sight of the larger picture. Lou Dobbs is just another pawn in the game.

-BEGIN FINAL (MOVIE THEATER) SKIT-

SPOKEN: [NEZUA]
People on the Left…people who believe in human rights above profits, people who believe in The People, we are unifying more than ever.

SOUND OF HORN and LATIN MUSIC kicking up

SPOKEN: [NEZUA]
There’s really nothing to do but keep fighting, keep struggling, keep loving and of course, always: keep dancing

SOUND OF spare and polite clapping as MUSIC takes us out to final credits

SOUND of RUSHING OF AIR and IMPACTS as if ARROWS flying into wood

SPOKEN:
Xolagrafik

SOUND OF field or jungle insect and bird life. Whoops and Trills.

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