CNN's Jack Cafferty Bashes Limbaugh's Audience as 'Right-Wing Nuts'

NewsBusters.org ^ | 3/10/2009 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty returned to his routine of bashing conservatives and Republicans in a column published on CNN.com on Tuesday titled “GOP becoming a cartoon.” He accused the Republican Party of “pandering to the right wing nuts that comprise Rush Limbaugh’s radio audience,” and listed this as the primary reason that the GOP lost the 2008 presidential election. Cafferty also bashed Republicans for being too busy “obstructing Obama's programs and criticizing the Democrats’ spending plans that are aimed at trying to bring the country out of a horrible recession.”

The commentator began by criticizing three notable Republicans -- Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, and Michael Steele. He labeled the Louisiana governor “embarrassing” for a small grammatical error. Cafferty denounced Palin (a regular target of his ire during the presidential campaign), accusing her of performing a “tawdry grab at a few dollars that didn’t belong to her,” after the Alaska governor decided to reimburse the taxpayer dollars she used to pay for the travel expenses of her children. But he saved the most stinging language for the Republican Party chairman, simultaneously jabbing Limbaugh in the process: “Michael Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, down on his knees apologizing to the helium-filled poster boy of the conservative right? Pathetic.”

[Pyro7480]

I must be a "right-wing nut" then, in Cafferty's book.

[BossLady]

Calling a bunch of right wing nuts......right wing nuts....is probably kinda nuts...... ;)

[exist]

I like it when Jack Cafferty says anti-American outrageous things and then says “back to you Wolf (or Campbell or Anderson or whoever)” and they have to pretend like they’re a legitimate news organization.

[vladimir998]

Me too. Uh, I mean, ditto.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

What else would a left-wing nut say?

[AreaMan]

Jack who?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Sounds like an effort to court their audience of left-wing nuts that CNN has lost to MSNBC.

[gorush]

Joseph Stalin would be so proud...

[frankiep]

He accused the Republican Party of “pandering to the right wing nuts that comprise Rush Limbaugh’s radio audience,” and listed this as the primary reason that the GOP lost the 2008 presidential election.

Hey, Jack. The Republicans lost because they didn't listen to Rush Limbaugh and instead nominated a democrat. If they had listened to Rush there would be a conservative in the White House today.

[freekitty]

Like who cares what he calls people that believe in the truth. Their claims are bogus and shams.

[ducdriver]

Folks, they are not afraid of the RINO party - they are afraid of conservatives.

[Dustbunny]

Thank you for the compliment Jack.

[LibWhacker]

[icwhatudo]

LOL, so true.

They keep pushing this mcCain was too conservative stuff. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[tractorman]

Methinks he doest protest too much.

[pissant]

All 49 people who watch Cafferty jumped up from their sofas and cheered.

[roses of sharon]

I think he’s the guy that got drunk and ran over somebody on a bike in NYC, then took off.

[FreedBird]

Better to be a right wing nut. This guy is an extreme left wing kook.

[fight_truth_decay]

CNN Scoreboard March 6. 2009 Neilsen Media ratings

[chainsaw]

As usual another left wing nut that has no reasoning power.