When Latinos fail, lose, or get fired we are statistics, stereotypes even. When the losers are white they get to have book tours and run for president?

For the last two weeks, two media figures who should have been done for are showing their faces more than ever and with followers to boot.

First we have Sarah Palin and her nationwide book tour. No, I haven’t read the book but if Palin’s publisher wants to send VivirLatino a review copy to do a Latino perspective, I will. Seems like she could use some help in the Latino issues department.

“She did not feel comfortable speaking about issues regarding Hispanics and Latin America,” GOP consultant Ana Navarro told Univision anchor Jorge Ramos in an interview. “Those are not topics that come up frequently in Alaska. So she asked to cancel the interview and, unfortunately, you were already there.”

Seems like her target readership could use some help in the issues department in general.

And then we have our amigo Lou Dobbs, who has launched his own post-quitting/firing from CNN media tour with a special stop to a Spanish language network.

First, though, Mr. Dobbs is working to repair what a spokesman conceded is a glaring flaw: His reputation for antipathy toward Latino immigrants. In a little-noticed interview Friday, Mr. Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers, a stance he long lambasted as an unfair “amnesty.”

“Whatever you have thought of me in the past, I can tell you right now that I am one of your greatest friends and I mean for us to work together,”

By friend he must mean someone who talks down to Latina television personalities, defends Joe Arpaio, and distorts reality to say that it’s the Latino left wing who equates “illegal immigration” with Latinos, not him or his friends the Minutemen. (p.s. Lou Dobbs, one thing you can do is stop calling people “illegal immigrants” as per YOUR organization the National Association of Hispanic Journalists).

Now this isn’t the first time that Dobbs has threatened to run for public office. Last summer he suggested he would run for governor. Two years ago there were rumors of a presidential run. It is the first time though he tries to actively court Latinos. Well except maybe when he snagged his wife, whom yes, we know is Latina.

Via / Boing Boing, WSJ