CNN's Jack Cafferty

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Listen to these clips:


Cafferty on the new House Majority Leader, John Boehner

Cafferty on Hurricane Katrina response

Cafferty on scandals plaguing the administration

And here is the email I wrote to CNN's President.
If you would, please take just a second and do the same.

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Jonathan Klein: [email protected]

Dear Mr. Klein,

Would you please consider providing Jack Cafferty with his own show?

Jack would boost CNN's ratings and provide a voice for the over 50% of us, in this country, that don't hear straight talk like he delivers, with any regularity.
He is willing to speak up.

Please consider this request.
Thank you,

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I got the idea here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/how-jack-cafferty-can-sav_b_15501.html

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[father_of_hope]

Boy was I wrong about him!

For a while I thought he was a closet version of O'Reilly.

But I'm afraid if he keeps telling the truth, he'll have the same fate as Aaron Brown and get sacked.

[BuyingThyme]

4. Welcome to DU, father_of_hope!

:hi:

[babylonsister]

8. All the more reason to write CNN! Welcome to DU, and rec'd! nt

[mdmc]

33. Aaron Brown got sacked? Holy shit!

I don't follow any msm, and this is news to me! I'm not a big Cafferty fan, but I guess he is as good as it gets (outside of cpb, bbc, npr, pbs)...:kick:

[philarq]

1. He does a show on Saturdays n-t

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5. "In The Money"

It is a business/money show.
I was thinking more of a broad based political show.
Perhaps I should have been clearer.

[alfredo]

2. Good idea.

Kick

[BuyingThyme]

3. I've never liked him.

Until lately, he's always tried to even out his truthful negative observations about Pukes with nonsense about Dems.

But, yes, lately he's been hitting the mark without providing bogus balance.

[YDogg]

19. I don't care for cafferty, either

[Mr_Spock]

45. I haven't watched him in over a year - seemed like a Freeper to me...

Maybe he has had enough of the BS - surprising actually.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Caffetry is great

I love when Stephanie Miller plays clips of him on her show. I always laugh and cheer with him. I would love if him and Ron Reagan could have a show. Now that would be worth watching!!

[upi402]

7. He used to give Zahn crap, and then she was on her own

the traitorous whore.
He's probably no liberal, but just can't tuck nuts and cluck as America is bled pale.

[scot]

9. Didn't he have issues,

cocaine issues, in the recent past. I'm not personally condemning him, I offer this only as a potential explanation.

[Bozita]

10. link, please

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[scot]

13. Sorry

I don't have a link. It was just my recollection as a NYer where he worked for years. That's why I put it in the form of a question. If that transgresses the etiquette here, I apologize.

[SHRED]

17. understood now

I got a bit snippy there.
Sorry about that.

[Coexist]

21. so did Bush, Rush and Imus

that doesn't matter anymore - as long as you went through rehab and you're white.

[hwmnbn]

12. No......

His only transgression I could find was he had to pay $250 dollars for leaving the scene of an accident in August of 2003.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/people/celeb_brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1957611

Couldn't find anything else. Where did you hear about cocaine? Got a link?

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[alittlelark]

15. ....sigh....

does the Clenis scare/excite you?

[Jane Austin]

16. Are you thinking maybe of Lawrence Kudlow, the urbane-looking right

wing ex-druggy on CNBC?

[MADem]

35. He hit a bike messenger with his car, IIRC

http://cbs2.com/entertainment/entertainment_story_227145124.html

Story at link; happened a few years ago.

[salin]

39. You may be thinking of Larry Kudlow

who is on CSNBC ... laid low for awhile - and during the corporate implosions in 2002 he sometimes made sense; he has gone back to being a total bushbot.

[scot]

41. No, I wasn't thinking of Kudlow...

There was a local nyc newsreader - your basic non-descript 40-something white guy with impecable hair - that checked into rehab, dropped out of sight for a few years, then inched his way back onto tv. I thought it was Jack C., but I guess I'm wrong. This is going to bother me til I figure it out. I'd google it, but what do I use as key words?

[SeveneightyWhoa]

46. Is this a normal DU reaction?

Praise for a cable news commentator for actually having the balls to criticize Republican bullshit -- and a poster offers up "recent past" cocaine use as a "potential explanation"?

Perhaps cocaine can explain any sort of anti-Republican sentiment?

[scot]

47. I offered that

as a potential explaination as to why he would not get a show of his own. In re-reading the thread, I realize that wasn't clear. Color me chastized.

[Coexist]

18. Great idea - will do

:thumbsup:

[Armstead]

20. Be careful what you wish for

Cafferty is an equal-opportunity basher.

CNN should provide something for our half of the country. But it ought to be someone who is more consistently liberal and progfressive, instead of just a malcontent.

[SHRED]

23. Good point

I think Cenk is looking for a start.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/how-jack-cafferty-can-sav_b_15501.html

[Armstead]

29. That'd be great

The Young Turk would raise a ruckus if he were let loose in the bowels of the MSM.

[flyarm]

22. sorry but he was one of the biggest cheerleaders to this war...

so now this leapord wants to change his spots because he see's the wind changing or he had to re-invent himself..??

i despised him before the war..his joy at going to war gagged me;..he was one of the top reasons i shut cnn down in my home..

he was one of *hes top cheerleaders as well...

i will not exonerate him now..nor will i trust him...

he is where he belongs..being cnn's email reader!!

but i wouldn't give you 2 cents for anyone at cnn..

when they took off Arron Brown that was the last straw for me...

Cafferty has the blood of our troops on his hands ..as well as the rest of them on cnn..

he won't get off the hook from me.


fly

[SHRED]

24. Okay...damn it!!!!

If that is the case then I am sorry.
I don't watch much TV.

[Lerkfish]

32. in fairness, BUshCO lied to everyone, and some believed.

I personally was never fooled at all, but I saw around me even diehard liberals buying Colin Powell's dog and pony show at the UN.
I don't completely fault people for being manipulated AT THAT POINT IN HISTORY. And I don't fault them for waking up to reality as more data
comes in.
I will still fault those who continue to believe at this point, because it denote willing suspension of rational analysis from the now available data.

[flyarm]

43. sorry but there is no excuse for journalists..they have too many

resources..it was in all the worlds papers that what Colin Powell dished out was bullshit and was plagerized from a (12 yr old) college kids dissertation paper that old Colin passed off for US Intelligence..!
it was in british papers ,canadian papers asian papers, french papers.....
Canada did a 1 hour no commercial show on PNAC...on CBC..a journalist would have to be stupid and totally ignorant to not have known the truth..besides so many Americans were writing them with this info..all they had to do is look it up..or use Lexus Nexus..

there are no excuses...and retired Cia agents wee trying to do press conferences that no media would cover! deliberately ignored!

that dog doesn't hunt..

fly

[flyarm]

25. this is a letter i wrote to cafferty earlier this week...

i wrote and sent this letter to cafferty last tuesday...

yes i heard he was "now" questioning things...but for me ..its all a day late and a dollar short..as many of us..(my large internet group wrote over and over ) long before the war began, we sent him so much info..we ran media blitzes (on AOL message boards getting people in the thousands to send email with info)..with articles and truth to Jack.,..and many other msm...

so now i am to believe he has had an epihany?..nope, i do not believe it..he is looking at polls and he is seeing the wind change here in the USA..he is seeing his stock in supporting * go down ...

i do not believe or trust Cafferty or any of the war hawks..who knew the truth but ignored it!

because he ignored it..we have dead soldiers..and soldiers with arms and legs missing and many with brain damage...

so call it "my mom" instincts.or my "mom" feelings..but i will never forgive anyone in this MSM for being the cheerleaders of this illegal war of aggression..they knew the truth..they just chose to not tell the American people the truth..because they cared more about the numbers in their checkbooks ..than our kids..our troops...

this was my letter ...

fly

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Dear Jack,

I am certainly glad you have finally put down the Kool aide..I remember over and over my internet group sending you emails and calling you prior to this war starting..and telling you it was all lies..

Yes that was me and many GREAT PATRIOTS I know who did email blitzes to you ..begging you to look at foreign papers, that proved Colin Powell lied to the U.N. and the American people..and you ignored the facts..YOU sir ignored the truth!

The British papers told the truth, the Canadian papers told the truth, the Asian papers told the truth, the Spanish papers told the truth, and yes..oh curses ..Even the FRENCH papers told the truth!
You know the French papers and French people you smeared unmercifully!! ( I do believe you owe those people an apology!)

But you chose to not look at the truth..yes you "chose" to not look at the truth..and you allowed yourself to be used as a puppet.

Well today ..I feel the blood of our soldiers is on your hands..no matter what you believe today..you allowed yourself to be used as a rubber stamp for the lies and deceit to this nation. I hope you live with alot of guilt..I hope you have a hard time sleeping. I hope you have a hard time looking in the mirror each morning.

The deaths of many are your responsibility.
Why when so many of us begged you to read Project of The American Century ( PNAC) and the white paper Rebuilding Americans Defences..why did you ignore us?? It is the blue print for a New World Order..how will you explain to your children and mine how you sold this nation out??

Please read them now..its a little late, but you owe that to Americans if you use our airwaves..and if you give a damn about the constitution and being a real American!

You SIR , do not want my opinion on your job as a journalist!
Welcome to the Project for the New American Century

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

PNAC.info - Exposing the Project for the New American Century » Origins of Regime Change in Iraq

And i will make sure my children and my family hold you and all MSM accountable..forever!

How do you explain when I sent these articles to you over and over again..and thousands of other Americans sent you this information , you ignored, while you cheer leaded this war. You just ignored it all! It was all available to anyone who gave a damn about our troops and about our nation. You could have read this information and known the truth, but I do not believe you gave a damn about the truth!

You see Jack , retired Cia agents were writing to the president saying he was using bogus info to go to war, the same Cia retired agents were calling press conferences that you ignored, as well as all main stream media ignored. They were screaming this information and you all ignored it..just how do you justify that to yourself??

The world was screaming about all the lies this administration passed off..and you ignored it!

UK war dossier a sham, say experts
British 'intelligence' lifted from academic articles

Michael White and Brian Whitaker
Friday February 7, 2003

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4600667-103550,00.html

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Downing St admits blunder on Iraq dossier
Plagiarism row casts shadow over No 10's case against Saddam

Michael White, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday February 8, 2003

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4601552-103690,00.html

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US claims on Iraq called into question
Inspectors pick holes in Powell allegations and call for patience in carefully coded message to council

Saturday February 15, 2003


http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4606426-103550,00.html

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http://www.sundayherald.com/32185

http://www.sundayherald.com/print27735


Well Jack..do you remember these articles being sent to you by thousands of us..I sure remember us sending them to you, when your voice was so full of excitement about going to war..you were a great Bush cheerleader...I remember despising you for it!

So Jack ,were you play acting then ? Or are you play acting now?

Now call me silly, but as a flight attendant, if I could find this information very easily..how do you call yourself a journalist , when you didn't know this information but simple ole me did??

You see Jack I saved all these articles, because I knew this day would come. For my children's sake, I wanted to forever hold you accountable. And for the children of all the lost soldiers in this war of lies, I wanted to keep these articles so.. you, the media could be held accountable as well.

I will never let you off the hook. You may think it is easy to go the other way now..but it is not that easy Jack..too many of our soldiers have been lost , or have lost arms and legs, and had brain damage, or have been exposed to depleted uranium. Too many women and children of Iraq have been killed by our bombs Jack..there is no exoneration for you now.

Now you have to live with what you have done.


Would you please read the Constitution of The United States Of America, and please realize you have a duty to this nation, in your chosen career.
Another words..do your job, but do it right!

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html

I am glad you have finally seen the light and truth, but I am sorry for our troops you didn't do your job when you should have .. Before an illegal war of aggression was started by the corrupt Bush regime!


You are just a little too late for me to accept your new found honesty.

Sincerely,
xxxxxxx

[SHRED]

26. Thanks and...

thanks for all the work you've done, and are doing!

[Oilwellian]

27. Wow...excellent letter flyarm

This letter should be sent to all of the media talking heads who cheered this war on. Just replace Cafferty's name with each of the many lying journalists who failed in their job.

[flyarm]

28. i wish i didn't have to say thanks in fact i wish i didn't have to write

it and mean it..but i do mean it and i will hold these so called journalists accountable and responsible ..for this war and for all the criminal crimes my nation has committed in my name..i am ashamed to say I am American under this current regime..and i am ashamed to say these assholes on my airwaves are "my " media..they have not only failed us..they have deliberately sold our nation out.
and none of them will get exoneration from me..

the only way i see out of this is a new Edward R. Murrow..
willwe see this person in my lifetime..i just wonder ..but i pray we do soon...it is almost too late...

but i also hold Americans responsible for where we are today..

Americans are on a whole either too busy or too lazy to look for truth..it has never been more available as it is today..with the internet..

when i started looking for the truth..i didn't even know how to turn the computer on..i was and am not technical..and i am computer illiterate..but if i could find the truth..others could as well..

after all ..it is all our responsibility to this nation under the Constitution...

we are all.."we the people"

thats me , you and people in Peoria..and Kansas, and Montana, and Marrietta georgia..its all of us..

we have failed the young ones of the future i fear..

and only we can hold those who use our airways accountable..and hold their feet to the fire..

they have an obligation to this nation and her people..

not to just their checkbooks..

even if they put their jobs on the line..there is no compromising democracy..it is to fragile for that..

fly

[Libby2]

40. That was spectacular. Thank you

I agree, the biggest culprits in the decline of this country, after the bush cabal, is the free press.

[Armstead]

31. Awesome letter -- We need to barrage all of the presstitutes like that

Great letter. I just hope he actually reads it and it seeps through his jaded exterior.

It is ironic how the truths that were ignored and the truth-tellers who were ignored and belittled by the MSM and people like Cafferty are now becoming the conventional wisdom. Maybe they'll catch up to where the "loony left" was in 2002 by 2007.

We all ought to call these bastids out relentlessly, and lt them know that we are AT LEAST half the country.

[xultar]

30. Cafferty is a real Republican a conservative. He knows bushco is effin up

so he's calling them on it.

[Nothing Without Hope]

38. The real Republican conservatives were the first to be sidelined by the

neocons. They are fundamentally opposed to the radical fascism of the Bushies.

[oxbow]

34. Man, he really dug into Blitzer on that first clip!

Way to go Jack.

I'm actually glad he's an equal opportunity bs caller. Both sides deserve some straight talk as far as I'm concerned these days.

[progressoid]

36. Love his quick summary of the scandals that nobody cares about

[Nothing Without Hope]

37. He's so much better in EVERY way than ineffectual, Bush ass-kissing Wolfie

Even when he takes a view I disagree with, he has his own logic for it. The man has some integrity and he's also a better showman than Blitzer. He was on fire during Katrina - that's when I noticed he was not acting like a CNN/GOP News Clone.

[flyarm]

42. THATS WHEN HE FIRST WOKE UP..BUT HE WAS MORE NEO CON

than the neo cons in the run up to the war..and after the war was started..
he was the greatest cheerleader for war on cnn!
i don't buy his act now..its just now he lives in NJ where people are getting very vocal about this war and their disenchantment with *...

i don't trust him as far as you can throw him!

fly

[Time for change]

44. This is very important

Getting decent/fair press coverage is essential to the well being of the Democratic Party.

[SuperWonk]

48. Well...

he is where he belongs..being cnn's email reader!!

I agree... this guy doesn't have enough charisma to carry his own show.
Although, CNN is in the habit of makign bad decisions regarding their personalities.