Cafferty Insults Alaska: 'State That Has 13 People and Some Caribou'

Cafferty Insults Alaska: 'State That Has 13 People and Some Caribou'

By P.J. Gladnick (Bio | Archive)
August 30, 2008 - 10:55 ET

In an effort to run down Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, a snarling Jack Cafferty managed to insult the entire state of Alaska on CNN's Situation Room: "Sarah Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, that's a state that has 13 people and some caribou." This was one small part of an acid-laced harangue by Cafferty on the subject of Sarah Palin, (emphasis mine):

All we have heard from John McCain is, "Barack Obama is too young. Barack Obama is too inexperienced, he can't be the commander-in-chief. Who do you want answering the phone in the White House at three in the morning? Blah, blah, blah, blah."

So what does he do? He picks someone to be his running mate who is younger than Barack Obama. Has less experience than Barack Obama. Sara Palin is 44 -- Obama is 47. Sarah Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, that's a state that has 13 people and some caribou. Obama is a member of the United States Senate from Illinois.

It's not a big deal, except for this: If McCain wins, he will be the oldest person ever inaugurated for a first term at 72. He's got a history of health problems including bouts with melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer. It is reasonable to at least consider that McCain's running mate could be called upon to be our president.

Meanwhile, some may see this as a move for McCain to attract disaffected women who voted for Hillary Clinton and aren't yet behind Obama. Others might see it as pandering. It might not work for a few reasons: Palin, like McCain, is pro-life. Also, she might be a woman, but she's no Hillary Clinton -- when it comes to her experience or her ideology.

At some point, voters are going to have to ask themselves who they would want running the country if it ever became necessary: Joe Biden or Sarah Palin?

Here's the question: Does John McCain undercut his own message by naming someone even younger and less experienced than Barack Obama to be his running mate?

Cafferty then concludes the segment on what he thinks is a hopeful note: "This could be ballgame over."

Really Jack? And which of the people you mentioned has the most actual executive experience? It turns out that it is none other than Sarah Palin. And Cafferty might have to use the line about "ballgame over" when a certain Joe Biden meltdown video is made available to the public. But about that, your humble correspondent is keeping his mouth zipped...for now.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.

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Hey Caff

August 30, 2008 - 10:57 ET by Warner Todd Huston

Hey Cafferty... what is Delaware suddenly the largest state in the union???

Moron.

Left Embarrassing Themselves

August 30, 2008 - 11:08 ET by dbo

This "Alaska is a small state" argument is just garbage. Why don't we play the Survivor game. American's get to vote to boot one state out of the union. Which state do you think would go sooner? Alaska or Delaware?(No offence to any residents of Delaware)

Cafferty is a Genius

August 30, 2008 - 16:45 ET by allamericandude

Besides Keith Olbermann, Jack Cafferty is the only guy on television who speaks truth to power. The guy's a genius. I just love the way he calls out the Rethugs for what they are. He is the only reason I still watch CNN. I tune in to the Situation Room daily just to hear him hand it to the right wing lunatic fringe. He is totally right about Palin. McCain might have well gone on the streets and pick any random stranger. She is basically a nobody from nowhere. Americans are not inclined to trust a candidate who would make such a gamble on the second highest office in the land. This is a disaster in the making for the GOP. God Bless America. We have hope again.

lol

August 30, 2008 - 16:59 ET by well99

You can call yourself apple pie.KOed and Cafferty wouldnt know the truth if it bit them in the a**.They are just shills for the DNC and have a bad case of man love for Obama.As far as Palin being a nobody well with 80% approval by the people she represents I put that against Obama and the only one he represents.Tony Rezco.Is Obama sending him smokes?I heard that is a handy item for prison.

You have the right to your opinion even if it is just a Dem talking point.

As has been said on this

August 30, 2008 - 18:31 ET by winston smith

As has been said on this board numerous times already, Obama was an unknown quantity from a corrupt political machine with not even a full year completed of his first term. Before that he was a community activist. Not exactly Presidential timber and he's your Democratic **Presidential** nominee. He got no bounce in the national polls after the convention, big hype speech and shameless fawning by the establishment media, in fact McCain's numbers actually shot up a few points. Hardly what I would call a disaster for the GOP. I think it's you guys with the problem.

High school mentality replete with snobbery

August 30, 2008 - 19:48 ET by Unsane

A nobody from nowhere? You may actually graduate mentally from high school any time now.

Such total snobbery. I liked Juneau a hell of a lot more than Dover (and I have been to both).

Please keep up your provincial attitude (and you too Mr. Cafferty). I suspect this will come back to haunt soon enough. Besides, you snobs don't just say that about AK; I have heard it enough about TX. (And I have lived in both.)

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief. Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

The complete arrogance from

August 30, 2008 - 20:02 ET by bigtimer

The complete arrogance from the left elitists in the msm about Alaska and the people that live there burn me royal...

They know not what they speak...the champagne loving live in a bubble arseholes couldn't live a day in the winter time there...let alone handle the mosquitoes in the summer...unless of course they lived in a Holiday Inn and play journalists like they do everyday on TV....lmao!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Cafferty

August 30, 2008 - 10:59 ET by billb

We should not forget.....He is the resident JACKASS and is entiteled to some respect

From an objective standpoint.

August 30, 2008 - 11:03 ET by Foolican

Have you noticed that as a result of the Sarah Palin pick, all of the leftwing bloggers are saying "This election is over! Obama has won!" and all of the rightwing bloggers are saying "This election is over! McCain has won!" I have a feeling this election will be no less than a dead heat.

Dead heat

August 30, 2008 - 11:16 ET by P.J. Gladnick

Dead heat? Read the last line of the story. Something very entertaining is headed our way. Hee! Hee!

Palin is VP pick. Obama's running for P.

August 30, 2008 - 11:05 ET by Mrltavern

Well, I guess you could say that Palin has less experience than Biden. But she is not running for president. McCain is. Never before have I seen such fear mongering and the concern with McCain dropping dead and leaving us with Palin as Pres. It's absurd.

Sure, she doesn't know about national security issues. But McCain does. Obama doesn't. He's running for President. And as Cafferty makes his Caribou comments we can easily say that all Obama did was be a Senator for a year then ran for Pres. Before that he was handing out flyers working in the community.

again, looking at the democratic ticket, it's clear that the dems could use a flip flop of their own. Perhaps Obama should've been someones VP before Pres. The GOP doesn't need flipping.

Please Jack start drinking again.

Mr.L

Sara Palin is in her first

August 30, 2008 - 11:06 ET by fitzfong

Sara Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, that's a state that has 13 people and some caribou.

With that in mind, perhaps the perenially pickled curmudgeon Jack Cafferty should move there...I doubt that caribou ride bicycles. And it will keep the streets of New York a lot safer.

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Delaware has 800,000 + and Joe Biden...

August 30, 2008 - 11:12 ET by Thalpy

Delaware has 800,000 + and Joe Biden. What's the bitter old fart's point?

How many people live in Vermont ?

August 30, 2008 - 11:16 ET by Free Stinker

How many people live in Vermont ? (Less than live in Alaska) But in 2004 Howard Dean was supposed to be such a great candidate for President . . .

Sarah Palin - This is what a Conservative looks like !

VERMONT IS A NOT REALLY A STATE...

August 30, 2008 - 15:31 ET by danybhoy

Vermont is a county that happens to have a star on our flag if you think about it.

As for Howard Dean, he was Governor of that hippie colony, but he was really more of a county supervisor.

BTW, the same anti-capitalist, high-tax, Howard Dean, the man of the little people, comes from BIG money. Anybody ever heard of DEAN-WITTER? Yea, he's for you, little people.

Vermont is a hippie social experment in progress, & there are faction is VT who want out of the union, so I have a plan...Let them leave, screw em', however, this would mean we would have 1 too many stars on our flag. We have options...

1.We give the people of the U.P. in Michigan to make a run for it on their own. I gotta believe that many in the U.P. would jump at the chance to get rid of paying for the mistakes of Detroit.

2.Overthrow Cuba & bring them into the union. That could get messy, but cigar smokers in America would be all for it.

3. Bring western Canada into the mix & connect Alsaka to the USA that way. Lots of Oil, lots of beef, hell, Alberta is like Texas, except hockey is the sport instead of football.

4. Purto Rico could be brought in to the union.

5. Or finally, we could keep Vermont, but add the U.P, Cuba, Purto Rico, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchawn, & the Yukon. Then that would add up to...57 STATES.

Of course, none of this will happen in my lifetime, whatever.

"...it's still We The People, Right?" Megadeth

Great Point

August 30, 2008 - 15:45 ET by Del Dolemonte

And Vernont has also given us 2 Presidents, Chester Arthur and Cal Coolidge

Alaska has 683,478 citizens (wikipedia)

August 30, 2008 - 15:18 ET by timrfrench61

http://en.wikipedia....

Delaware: 864,764

The populations are comparible.

Another Democratic elitist (they are oxy-morons) argument.

gigling like tickled hillbillies

August 30, 2008 - 15:22 ET by Free Stinker

The democrats are loading their guns, then gigling like tickled hillbillies as they point the guns at their own feet and pull the trigger.

DE is WAY more sophisticated than AK!!!

August 30, 2008 - 21:10 ET by Unsane

No, they are not. DE, being on the East Coast, is FAR more sophisticated and full of people of "good breeding" than that flyover state, AK. AND you fly over AK when going to Japan, or China, or Korea!!! What do those hayseed moose-hunting hicks in that frozen icebox know about running the country? Those people need to leave the running of the country to the smart people in DE who know best...

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief. Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

Wow. Ran into a similar

August 30, 2008 - 11:46 ET by soulpile

Wow. Ran into a similar argument at my workplace. Someone was saying McCain's lost the race by picking a woman from a "small, insignificant state." They said that McCain should have picked a woman from California or New York because those states have the most people. EH? I think they were forgetting that CA and NY are also breeding grounds for LIBERAL politicians.

By this population size logic, all small states should lose the right to vote, yeah? They don't matter anyway. (on a similar strain, I'm with Michigan and Florida - all states should not have to follow Iowa and New Hampshire in picking political candidates. We should rotate out so everyone gets a chance to hold a primary first)

She may know more than we suspect

August 30, 2008 - 11:48 ET by Seabeach4348

She may not be an well versed in national security experience, but her state is awfully close to Siberia (Russia). So I suspect that she knows at least as much as the Messiah who had nothing but community organizer to put on his resume.

But she's got chutzpah, spirit, and she'll make Biden look like the witless, big-mouth babboon he is when she debates him.

What a jerk.

August 30, 2008 - 12:09 ET by supercon

He starts of by insulting a whole state right on the air and has the gall to say that Barack's half term as a Senator which he has spent campaigning somehow outweighs her experience.

It was a clip job.

This shows how much they fear her.

I liked the part where he read the comment of a life long Republican who was sitting with all her Republican friends who agrees with Jack and watch his show all the time.

It was very believable.

Victory in Iraq.

Liberals suck.

McCain for Preznint.

fuzzy math

August 30, 2008 - 12:52 ET by acumen

Yeah Jack, we hear ya' and your fuzzy math. And Biden is the precursor for the messiah of all 57 States.

Bring on the meltdown vid PJ...Prepare ye the way of the lord, make his maths straight.

Cafferty Insults Alaska:

August 30, 2008 - 13:03 ET by Jack Bauer

Cafferty Insults Alaska: 'State That Has 13 People and Some Caribou',

Even were that true, they still add up to more braincells than exist in Cafferty's empty cavernous bonce.

And may I just add, once again the technical malfunctions of the Newsbusters' website make it one the flakiest most annoying websites around. A real pain.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Yep, and thats just the

August 30, 2008 - 20:38 ET by Eileen Right

Yep, and thats just the Caribou...

Yea jack, you know

August 30, 2008 - 13:40 ET by Blazer

Yea jack, you know Delaware maybe the first state, but it is basically a suberb of South Philly. I'd rather govern over 13 sane people and some Caribou that have more morals and intellect than the average liberal tahn be the zookeeper of a bunch of moronic moonbats that run a supposed un-biased news outfit. I'll bet the guano gets right deep over at the CNN building.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."

Cafferty probably didn't do any research to back up his idiocy

August 30, 2008 - 13:34 ET by nkviking75

I suspect the amount of time Cafferty spent researching Sarah Palin and Alaska could be measured in seconds. And that's giving him the benefit of the doubt that he did any research at all.

Barry has barely dained to show up in the US Senate because he was only using it as a stepping stone to the White House. Gov. Palin's accomplishments dwarf anything Obama has done.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

That's it?

August 30, 2008 - 13:38 ET by Tyromac

13 people and some caribou? Sounds like a hell of a place to start drilling for oil.

You would think

August 30, 2008 - 13:52 ET by general company

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

LOL!

August 30, 2008 - 14:15 ET by Free Stinker

LOL!

First Term vs. First Term

August 30, 2008 - 14:03 ET by CobraMan

I think it's rather hilarious that Cafferty would use the description of "first term" when describing Palin, but omit that same designation for FIRST TERM Senator, Obama. I also think it’s hilarious that Cafferty believes that a First Term Senator is more qualified to become President than a First Term Governor is for the VP slot. Hay, Cafferty , a Governor beats a Senator any time

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

Jack

August 30, 2008 - 14:32 ET by well99

Here is your sign

http://signs.cafepress.com/item/seven-pillars-of-liberalism-jackass-yard-sign/208881596

13 People and Some Caribou?

August 30, 2008 - 15:48 ET by Del Dolemonte

That's about the same number of people in Hack Cafferty's audience.

Also, she might be a woman,

August 30, 2008 - 16:31 ET by bigtimer

Also, she might be a woman, but she's no Hillary Clinton -- when it comes to her experience or her ideology.

She's not Hillary Clinton indeed...that is a great part of the reason the leftists clock is going to get cleaned...which it hasn't been in a very long time, and well past needed.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Gafferty

August 30, 2008 - 17:37 ET by boozy

I would expect nothing less from this left wing communist dickweed...Obama...has no experience in governing anything other than maybe the welfare stamp windows in chicago..Obama has only gained international experience by playing Bball in afganistan, and a rock concert with free weiners and beer in Germany...I will put my support behind a 85 percent approval rating governor of a state who cleaned out all the corrupt legislators over a 17.3 percent , 127 days on the job senator who hangs with the likes of Ayers and Rezko.......gee..is there anything else I can say to state my position..oh yah....Go Vice President Sarah Palin...you are my kind of gal.....