CNN's Cafferty Sees Conspiracy Helpful to Bush Behind Timing of Osama Tape

NewsBusters ^ | 1/20/06 | Brent Baker

[teddyballgame]

Just before reading e-mailed responses to his “Cafferty Files” question of the 4pm EST hour on Thursday afternoon's The Situation Room on CNN, “How important is the new Osama bin Laden tape?", Jack Cafferty proposed a conspiracy existed in the timing, one meant to help Bush justify his NSA wiretapping: “The last time we got a tape from Osama bin Laden was right before the 2004 presidential election. Now here we are, four days away from hearings starting in Washington into the wiretapping of America's telephones without bothering to get a court order or a warrant, and up pops another tape from Osama bin Laden. Coincidence? Who knows.” One viewer endorsed Cafferty's conspiracy theory: “It seems suspicious. Every time the Republicans get into trouble, bin Laden sends a tape. Is it possible bin Laden's working out of the White House?” Earlier, Cafferty took a shot at President Bush's decision to invade Iraq: “The thought of this mutant hanging out in a cave somewhere and sending taped threats to the American people makes me angry. Why wasn't this guy taken care of before we went wandering off into Iraq?” (Transcripts follow.)

[bigbob]

Worse yet - - they VOTE.

[popdonnelly]

Droopy is pathetic. Bin Laden produced the tape, Al Jazeera broadcast it. Is he telling us they both work for Bush?

[OKIEDOC]

Must be.

I (accidentally) came across Air America yesterday.

Guess What! They were talking about the same thing.

Got to get those inane talking points across to the stoopid Dimocrat Kool Aid drinkers.

[VOA]

How do these people get loose?

(Part humor, part truth follows)
I'm afraid that Ronald Reagan did have a part in this. He did
broker a deal to empty out a lot of the insane asylums.

You'd think that Reagan would have understood that the new psychoactive
drugs were insufficient to make some Democrats behave like sane people.

[newnhdad]

The democrats are perpetually playing a version of the "six degrees" game when it comes to any GWOT news.
No matter what happens, it can be traced and turned in "Bush's fault".

"The truck that dropped the nail that flattened my tire was burning fuel made by an oil company that is run by a person that once worked at Halliburton and once spoke to Cheney, who is VP to BUSH.. It's all Bush's fault!!!!"

[clarissaexplainsitall]

If memory serves me correctly, Jack Cafferty was one of the long time anchors of the six o'clock news for one of the local NYC tv stations. I was surprised that he managed to get a swishier gig at a cable news station after so long in his career.

[teddyballgame]

If there is any coincidence to talk about it's the fact that half of what Bin Laden says in his diatribe is regurgitation from Democratic Senators.

[maggief]

[RayChuang88]

Hugh Hewitt on his radio show yesterday ripped Cafferty to pieces over what Cafferty said on CNN. Cafferty is definitely a nutter, that's to be sure.

[teddyballgame]

What is it with these wacky Libs and their tinfoil hat theories?!?

Karl Rove owns a wind machine that can targets blacks.
Bush & Co. duped Dan Rather into reporting false documents.
Bin Laden's tapes were released by the White House for effect.

I know I'm leaving some out here...any help????

[sgtbono2002]

Yes: Dont forget George Bush blew up the Levees.

How about the House of Representatives being a plantation? Ya know what I mean?

[F.J. Mitchell]

If the President has such cooperation from Bin Laden, wouldn't it have made more sense for him to call in his chits a few months back, when the liberals were so ecstatic about his aleged falling approval ratings?

[RayChuang88]

I have news for you: the Left definitely thrives on conspiracy theories. That does explain why the UFO conspiracy crowd has a lot of Lefties on it, too.

[Dilbert56]

Karl Rove produced the tape to distract from the Alito hearings which he staged to distract from the NSA hearings which were designed to shift the focus off Congressional corruption which was manufactured to distract us from the post-election violence in Iraq which he created to deflect attention from the President's poll numbers which Rove made the lead story to squash interest in "Body Armor-Gate" which was a sham to cover up the Downing Street memo on bombing Al Jazeera which was only being done to prevent us from investigating the Ohio elections which were a mask for the WMD not being found.

I don't know how you "people" can miss these obvious connects. Sheesh!.

[chiller]

Cafferty is a communist.

Cafferty is a drunken communist.

Cafferty is a lying drunken communist.

Let's see how far we can take this

[Bommer]

LOL. I love it: these people see evidence supporting the President and they say it is planted...if no evidence comes up, they say the President "lied".

Its even better than that! When Clinton had all his scandals, they saw nothing wrong. His girlfriend testifies in front of a grand jusry and he suddenly attaks Iraq. "Hey no weird timing there!" Bin Laudin crawls out of his rock and now theres a working relationship between Bush and Al Jezzera?

[teddyballgame]

Listen, Bush is either a mastermind for contriving all these grand conspiracies or he's a incoherant, moronic cowboy. Come on DUMMIES make up your mind!!!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jack loved his booze at WHO TV in Des Moines.

[Christian4Bush]

"Why wasn't this guy taken care of before we went wandering off into Iraq?”

Better ask your buddy Clinton that, Cafferty...he had (at least) three documented chances.

[Katya]

sounds like the guy is channeling DU through his keyboard...