CNN’s Jack Cafferty Again Derides Palin, Calls Her 'Lame'

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Jack Cafferty, CNN Commentator | NewsBusters.orgCNN commentator Jack Cafferty revisited his favorite punching bag on Monday’s Situation Room: Sarah Palin. After referring to one of Palin’s reasons for her resignation, that she wanted to avoid becoming a lame duck, Cafferty cracked: “She was already lame.” He also predicted that she would become a mere “thumbsucker” if she’s no longer considered a contender for the 2012 presidential race.

Cafferty began his 4 pm Eastern hour “Cafferty File” segment by recounting the decision of the Alaska governor to resign at the end of July. He continued by briefly mentioning how Palin became famous after being named as John McCain’s running mate, listed the “lame duck” reason for resignation, and then made his crack: “Palin, who was thrust on to the national stage as John McCain’s running mate against President Obama, defended her decision as a move to avoid becoming a lame duck. Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin’s able to -- she was already lame -- Sarah Palin’s able to electrify the conservative base of the party like no other Republican in the country.”

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Before asking his “Question of the Hour,” the commentator predicted that “it’s time for the spin doctors, once again, to try to come to the rescue and explain why what Sarah Palin did was a good idea- good luck with that. It’s like what they were called on to do after the interviews with Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News. That was another good idea. The deal is this: real conservatives don’t quit.” His question: “How does Governor Sarah Palin’s resignation affect her chances for 2012?” He followed this with a semi-lament: “I will miss Governor Palin for a purely selfish reason- she generates more e-mail than any other single subject on ‘The Cafferty File.’”

Anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Cafferty whether or not the Republican was “going away.” He replied, “Well, I don’t know what she’s going to do, but won’t have the same impact if she doesn’t carry the- the mantle of governor of Alaska, and if she’s not considered any longer a serious contender for presidential nomination, she becomes, in the vernacular, a thumbsucker” (for those of you in Rio Linda, to use one of Rush Limbaugh’s phrases, a “thumbsucker” in this context is a whiner who appears childish). The CNN anchor laughed at this label.

At the end of the July 6 hour, the CNN commentator read nothing but negative responses against Governor Palin:

CAFFERTY: Question this hour is, how does Governor Sarah Palin’s resignation affect her chances for 2012?

David in Texas says, ‘If I quit my job at a smaller company, wait until 2012, and then go down the street to the larger company, I’m not going to get the job, either as an hourly worker,  a manager, or a CEO. Palin has ended her political career.’

Larry in Texas: ‘I was always taught when the going gets tough, the tough get going, in all areas of life. It’s when things are tough that the true character is exposed, and in her case, she’s a quitter and always will be. Regardless of her political aspirations, her goose is cooked now. Maybe people will realize- those who supported her- how fortunate we are she isn’t one heartbeat away from being president.’   

David in Virginia says, ‘It depends on who you ask. I don’t think it drastically hurts her chances of being the Republican nominee, especially among the rapidly thinning field, but it makes being a viable national candidate nearly impossible.’

Diane in Pennsylvania has a theory: ‘Something’s very wrong with this picture, Jack. She’s not finishing her current term, not going to run again. Somebody got something on her, and I don’t think it’s going to be pretty. Think about it- if these guys aren’t resigning after playing footsies in bathroom stalls, or having a friend in Argentina, what the heck could she have done?’

Jeff in Hawaii says, ‘Who cares? Caribou Barbie has shown consistently she’s not only unaware of the nuances of global and domestic policy, she’s unwilling to learn. To end her term early because the job’s too hard or too demanding just shows she’s in over her head.’

And David in California: ‘Her chances in 2012 for president are negative numbers. Her chances in 2012 for a show competing with yours are pretty good.’

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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So this is what passes for professional journalism

these days.  If this doesn't put all those nasty lib bias myths to bed I don't know what would.  Really, why don't they just hire a 9-year-old for the rebuttal:  "I know you are, but what am I?!"

Does anyone know who at cnn

Does anyone know who at cnn is delegated to changing Jack's depends between commercials?

pah.... ....that would be

pah....

....that would be Wolfie.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

That would be a great job for Wolf : )

I mean, just look at Jacks face...it's like always in the perpetual oops stage. 

and freshening his double bourbon.

or maybe it's a triple.

 

swing hard in case you hit it.

Notice how there aren't any

Notice how there aren't any arguments here?  Just invective and smear.

Cafferty is simply an angry old coot with nothing left to live for except bashing conservatives, and a conservative woman no less.

 

jack ass cafferty - bitter

jack ass cafferty - bitter leftist

CNN is the bottom of the

CNN is the bottom of the barrel....and Jack is a perfect example of why that is.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Another

Fine example of Obamamedia at it's best....this 'journalist" is a disgrace, KEEP YOUR CHILDISH OPINIONS TO YOURSELF

Cafferty reminds me of....

that creepy guy sitting at the bar always talking dirty about the cute bartender. I bet all the female interns at CNN think he is the biggest jerk around and  I can picture him always trying to get his nieces to sit on his lap at family gatherings.

What a loozer.  I suspect that Wolf is as much a dud with the ladies as well.   That is of course assuming he likes girls.  Cafferty is angry because he knows that a good woman like Sarah Palin wouldn't give him the time of day....just like in high school.  He never got over it.

Hey Janet Napolitano...I'm proud to be a Right-winger.

CNN's Incredible Shrinking Audience

Don't be too hard on McCafferty. He has to speak to what's left of CNN's rapidly shrinking audience, and this is the only kind of insipid analysis that "audience" is capable of absorbing.

Pretty soon the pundits and commentators will simply be speaking to each other.

metaphorsbwithu

   Don't be too hard on

   Don't be too hard on these old coots.  There's a lot of spinning around and around just before you disappear down the drain.

cnn news

cnn  no longer reports news, their a liberal propaganda network.if its not pro obama they won"t report it. just another msnbc

CAFFERTY is a loser

I'm glad I read all of the comments, lest I step on the comments of supercon. Every time I hear about Cafferty, all I can think is the lyrics to the song"sitting on a park bench, eying little girls with bad intent" That is Cafferty. Has to be a closet perv.

Again another CNN program with no ratings, but capable of saying hurtful things about the subject.

I believe what the right needs is a great comedy writer who can be downright nasty and ridicule the left, but get's away with it by saying I am only a comedian.

Journalist?

These people are suppose to be journalist? Then they should know that resigning is the highest form of dissension. Maybe these idiots should go back to the schools they graduated from and get at least get a partial refund.

http://www.youtube.c...

Member, Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

Ah, yes, yet another pearl of wisdom from Jackass Cafferty

How would we ever survive without them?

-Dave

"Obama's health care 'reform' plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof." - Herman Cain

Riddle

Q: What is the difference between Mr. Potter from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" and Jack Cafferty from real life?

A: One is an angry, bitter, demented, balding, old man, hated by nearly everyone in town, and the other is Mr. Potter from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life"

Hol' up, hol' up a sec. 

Hol' up, hol' up a sec.  Let me read again.........

ok ok, I read it right.  Ok, let's see......Jack Cafferty called Palin lame.  Jack.....Cafferty, called someone lame.  Umm.....yea, uh.......Jaaack, umm Caaaffer-tee......Jack....Ca' who?

Angry Old Drunk

Unlike Joke Cafferty, Sarah Palin isn't a drunk and has never been convicted of hit and run driving.

BW222

How many people even heard

How many people even heard him say that?

I'm beginning to wonder if this site will have any relevance much longer?

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

Is anyone pretty tired of the lame ass MSM?

I mean if some homicidal maniac told the world he just beheaded Katie Couric, this limp dick numbnuts and all the rest of the nutbags in the MSM, I'd have to throw a party to celebrate.

"Let him who would move the world, first move himself." -Socrates

"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." -Li Po

Lame!

Didn't Cafferty really say, that indeed it was Jack whom is lame! CNN is very lame these days. When PMSNBC beats them, you know it is time to panic!

Ode de Cafferty

Every time I see Cafferty I sense the smell of an old sweaty shirt and an old fart.

BTW, the loons in Alaska

BTW, the loons in Alaska have filed another "ethics complaint!"

Even better, they are now recycling! This one has already been thrown out once! 

http://www.conservat...

I am firmly convinced that if someone in the media doesn't go up there and expose these people the way 60 minutes and Mike Wallace used to, and starts doing it nationwide to the crazies, we are going to end up in a shooting war!

Not that I condone that, but with all of the safegaurds of society breaking down, something is going to give. You can only push things to the breaking point and hold them there for so long.  And we have been there for some time.

I weep for our once great nation. 

With tort reform we could make that ZIT pay, for filing this POS

Not to mention how much we could save the eco system, with Deposit bottles, that want back to the bottler, over and over again.

Drilling would spring up all over where there was oil.

Atomic power plants would drive electrical costs below a penny/KWH..

However we have Rainbows and unicorns instead.

Nice that your home is a 100 years old, However it needs weather stripping, Oh It's shovel ready ,Well I meant... it's a scrape off...

Reagan VS Liberalism

let's get some truth into the mix

Just spent an hour on the Alaska state web site downloading news articles about Palin's ethics challenges.  In each one, someone mentions the cost of money and time stolen from the citizens of Alaska and the personal cost to Palin.  She is not as rich as other governors.  She gave up her raise this year.  The challenges are just plain ridiculous. 

She - and the state of Alaska - are being harassed by Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #4:  make someone walk their talk. Palin has made her name from the ethics reforms she brought forth in the state so she is being harassed with phony ethics violations. 

Once filed, they are supposed to be private until resolved.  The bloggers who file them - paid for by DNC - then make them public contrary to the law.

I can see the concern of Palin and those who have to deal with the charges - 15 silly ones so far - with more on the horizon.  If only the State could sue those bloggers who file them but they can't.  Ironically, Palin runs a transparent government.  Her web site reflects her ability to govern.  Take some time to review her newsletters and the photo section to see why she was a successful governor with higher positive numbers than Pelosi and Obama.

 

It also contains her speech.  She didn't use a teleprompter and I remind everyone to go to the You Tube sites with Obama losing it when his teleprompter broke down.  He couldn't even continue.  I think there are 3 or 4 examples.  Having read the transcripts of many of his speeches - I've concluded he is not very articulate.  I can see why he uses a teleprompter.  Of course, I also realize that public speaking is the one thing people fear the most - more than death.  They are not actors on the stage so I expect human sounding speeches and don't mind a few gaffes.

popularity comparisons

I like Palin.

But touting her positive numbers as 'higher than Pelosi' is like calling someone 'more mild-mannered than Rosie O'Donnell'.  Heck, Carter's numbers were higher than Pelosi's.

JACK CAFFERTY - "ALCOHOLIC OF THE YEAR"

He gets my vote. No single media type has been able to harness more from his alcoholism than "Mad" Jack.

I'm drinking tonight in his honor.

expert witness

If there's one subject on which Cafferty has firsthand expertise, it's being lame.

His show should be called "The Cafferty Pile"

See “Jack Cafferty”

doo·fus

NOUN:
Slang pl. doo·fus·es An incompetent, foolish, or stupid person. See “Jack Cafferty”

CNN's Andy Rooney

Cafferty is symbolic of all that is wrong with CNN. Some loon a few years ago at CNN said -"hey, you know what we need? Our own Andy Rooney-type grouchy old bastard." So they dredged a few bars in midtown and came up with Cafferty.

I like to imagine

I like to imagine Cafferty's head as a watermelon and Sarah Palin as Gallagher.

“Sledge-O-Matic”

 
Perfect anology.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Lol...That is a funny

Lol...That is a funny thought..and she could use the same fishing gear she has on today to do so as the seeds/juice splatter.

I loved Sledge-O-Matic.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I don't watch this guy, so...

I am not an expert.  All I know is, everytime he shows up on NewsBusters it is for something he said that makes me very glad I don't watch him.  I can't decide if he is a jerk or a creep.  Maybe a combination of the two...a "creepy jerk"!  Jim Webster

Thumbsucker

So what if she helps win back many seats back in the 2010 elections? Is that a thumbsucker? What if I consider her a serious 2012 contender (millions along with me) and skip donating to the RNC? What if SarahPac.com raises more than any other Republican Pac? Is that a thumbsucker? Or should we let liberal democrats and Beltway RINO's decide who's a thumbsucker? Pundits should stop sticking themselves in the eye with the thumbs that they are sucking on.

This both sucks and blows.