Caustic Commentator ("Jack Cafferty, CNN's resident curmudgeon, is drawing some flak..."

Wash Post ^ | 2/26/06 | Howard Kurtz

[ER Doc]

"Who cares if the Patriot Act gets renewed? Want to abuse our civil liberties -- just do it! Who cares about the Geneva conventions? Want to torture prisoners -- just do it!

Actually, he's probably got a point here. This is basically what Attorney General Gonzales argued, both before and during the Judiciary Committee hearings on the NSA. He interprets the Constitution to say that, in time of war, the role of Commander-in-Chief gives the President the power to do whatever is necessary to combat our enemies, including ignoring, when necessary, laws passed by Congress, and international laws and treaties. Or did I misunderstand what the Attorney General said?

[printhead]

What's CNN?

[longtermmemmory]

CNN? If he is on CNN he is irrelevant.

[EricT.]

ER Doc
Since Jan 28, 2006

IBTZ!

Hello, and goodbye troll!

[april15Bendovr]

Ran through 2 sets of lights with the Bike underneath his car and people yelling at him.

[KenmcG414]

CNN's answer to O'Reilly.

[Galveston Grl]

It is not nice to make fun of the mentaly ill. I hope CNN keeps him because he gets his ideas from the lunatic rants he hears behind the scenes at CNN/DU.

I love seeing Blitzer sit with a straight news face as this nut rants on his show. It is like pantsing Blitzer while he is putting on an air of professional unbiased news presentation. Keep it up, CNN!

[ncountylee]

Thanks, what a turd and a drunk.

[Little John]

.... Actually, he's probably got a point here. This is basically what Attorney General Gonzales argued, both before and during the Judiciary Committee hearings on the NSA. He interprets the Constitution to say that, in time of war, the role of Commander-in-Chief gives the President the power to do whatever is necessary to combat our enemies, including ignoring, when necessary, laws passed by Congress, and international laws and treaties. Or did I misunderstand what the Attorney General said?....

Imo, you understand the AG correctly ..... and the AG correctly understands the President's powers when the country is at war.

Regards
Little John

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Sniff, sniff... IB4TZ.

[ER Doc]

Thanks, I appreciate a civil response.

[LIConFem]

No!!! Leave him right where he is so he can continue to hasten CNN's decline.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Somebody said he'd dried out recently. He's still a turd, tho.

[JayNorth]

About five people tried to stop Cafferty by running after the car, according to the complaint, but the newsman continued through at least two red lights, while dragging the bicycle underneath the vehicle.

It's the arrogance of these folks. In their "minds" they are above all the little people. A number of high profile democrats socialists (George Stephanopoulos comes to mind) have done the exact same thing.

[JayNorth]

Nobody but trapped airport passengers watch CNN!

On a flight through the midwest recently I was pleasantly surprised to see the Fox News Channel in the terminal instead of The Indoctrination Channel.

[torchthemummy]

"Bald, dumb and irrelevant!"

Bald, dumb and irrelevant is no way to go through life.

(Hat tip - Animal House)

[operation clinton cleanup]

Cafferty later told police that he had seen a man on a bike who may have been a messenger weaving in and out of traffic as Cafferty drove south along Ninth Avenue around 10:25 a.m. When Cafferty looked in his mirror, he saw the man getting up off the ground but was unaware he had hit the bicyclist, the anchor told police.

Not only a boozer, but a before lunch boozer!

[operation clinton cleanup]

This is basically what Attorney General Gonzales argued, both before and during the Judiciary Committee hearings on the NSA.

Do you want to "basically" provide the quote of the A.G.?

[nopardons]

He hit someone on a bike and didn't realize it?

ON NINTH AVENUE?

For those who don't know that area of Manhattan, is is usually traffic clogged and if you hit something, YOU KNOW IT!