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Caustic Commentator ("Jack Cafferty, CNN's resident curmudgeon, is drawing some flak..."
Wash Post ^
| 2/26/06
| Howard Kurtz
Posted on 02/27/2006 8:47:18 AM PST by Cableguy
Jack Cafferty, CNN's resident curmudgeon, is drawing some flak for his rhetorical bombshells.
In a typical rant, Cafferty, a New York local anchor for two decades who now delivers his short bursts on "The Situation Room," said of the Bush administration: "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! Who cares about rules concerning the identity of CIA agents? Want to reveal the name of a covert operative -- just do it!"
Before any legal charges were brought against Tom DeLay, Cafferty said of the Texas congressman: "Has he been indicted yet?" He told Wolf Blitzer that if presidential adviser Karl Rove is indicted, "he might want to get measured for one of those extra large orange jumpsuits, Wolf, 'cause looking at old Karl, I'm not sure that they'd be able to zip him into the regular size one."
And when Dick Cheney, after his hunting accident, granted an interview to Fox's Brit Hume, Cafferty said it "didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network." ("Get your mind out of the gutter," he says now. "The F-word is Fox.")
Responds Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti: "Jack is about as unstable as CNN's programming lineup -- nobody pays much attention to his incoherent ramblings."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; jackcafferty; mentaleunuch
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:47:21 AM PST
by
Cableguy
To: Cableguy
Who cares about Jack Cafferty's rantings? Just dump him from CNN!
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:48:34 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Cafferty is a stumbling drunk who exhibits serious brain damage.
To: Cableguy
Like a small child, Cafferty just wants attention and he's not intelligent enough to get it via rational dialog.
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:52:02 AM PST
by
jigsaw
(David Gregory, star of the Kindergarten media.)
To: Cableguy
Jack is emulating Stewart of the Daily Show... or at least he thinks he is. Everything out of his mouth is a flat, smarmy quip... it's snide commentary... NOT news.
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:57:05 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Other than his behavior, is there evidence that Jack Cafferty is a boozer?
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:57:27 AM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: jigsaw
Isn't he the crazy uncle in CNN's attic. The one they let out when they want a real nasty anti-Bush rant, but want to distance their more respectable anchors for the real nonsense.
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To: Cableguy
And when Dick Cheney, after his hunting accident, granted an interview to Fox's Brit Hume, Cafferty said it "didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network." Bald, dumb and irrelevant! Nobody but trapped airport passengers watch CNN!
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:14:24 AM PST
by
Bommer
(Have you insulted a prophet today? http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bommer/mofactor.html)
To: Cableguy
"Responds Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti: "Jack is about as unstable as CNN's programming lineup -- nobody pays much attention to his incoherent ramblings."
Oh, that'll leave a mark.
Cafferty is yet another Dumb Dildock in a long line of Dumb Dildocks from the whiney MSM. Another incoherent liberal moonbat.
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:14:34 AM PST
by
headstamp
(Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
Hit and Run Cafferty couldn't find his a$$ with both hands if you spotted him nine fingers.
To: ncountylee
He was fired for drunkenness at previous broadcast jobs. He was arrested for running over someone on a bicycle and driving several miles with the bike stuck under his car.
To: A.A. Cunningham
I think he is trying to be a real life "Howard Beale".
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:19:09 AM PST
by
headstamp
(Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
To: Cableguy
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:21:25 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Cableguy
"It doesn't matter what you say," he insists, "you're going to [tick] someone off." Only if you're a loud-mouthed jerk who is prone to spouting nonsense, Jack...
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:22:35 AM PST
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: Cableguy
CNN's drive by lefty.
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:26:02 AM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: Cableguy
Cafferty is a hate America, I hate Republicans democrat. I actually did not think he started out in CNN this way, but he has been increasingly worse.
To: headstamp
Evey quote I have read by Irena Briganti is a classic. She takes no prisoners.
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:28:36 AM PST
by
babaloo
To: Cableguy
Total tool. He has bashed this Administration on every level possible (even making some crap up as well as he goes along), he always chooses the viewer mail that rips apart the GOP or President in general. He is a shill for MoveOn.org,and people wonder what the situation is at the situation room? He is certainly a big part of it. Wolf gives him a total of 15 mins a day to spew his b.s. and venom at the world via a camera and microphone.
Both need to be taken from him and put him at the Former Broadcasters Rest Home.
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:29:42 AM PST
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I find those baggy pouches under his eyes especially attractive.
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posted on
02/27/2006 9:33:01 AM PST
by
Salvey
(ancest)
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