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.”

[dforest]

Wow Cafferty, you whore. It broke my heart today when that military Mom called Rush and was in such sorrow because your boy Biden declared all is lost.

She wasn’t a right wing nut you foul POS, she was a mother of the people who defend your right to be an anti American asshole.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Mr. Cafferty is just jealous because Rush HAS an audience.

No one with a functioning brain pays ANY attention to Jack-boy, just another of the Obama butt-boys.

[synbad600]

". . . trying to bring the country out of a horrible recession.”

Yeah, and when they fail to the detriment of millions despite Rush's warnings, "at least they tried".

[LostInBayport]

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty

I deleted CNN from my channel lineup...never heard of this guy. Is he the one that used to front the Beaver Brown Band?

[IrishPennant]

It’s almost like Rush is paying them to be this stupid. If I was an agent, I could not think of a better way to drive up ratings and revenue.

[zerosix]

Caffrey used to be on local TV in Kansas City. I remember him well and to be disparagingly referred to by him as a "right wing nut" is quite a compliment.

Thanks Jack and glad you moved on from our fair city.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Oh! OK! And, Cafferty’s minions are what? I wonder how many heard Cafferty and how many hear Rush every day? Cafferty couldn’t make a pimple on Rush’s a$$!

[Laverne]

And CNN wonders why its ratings are in the pits. Last night, not a single show in prime time got even 1M viewers....NOT ONE. MSNBC had only one show above 1M (the outrageous KO). FNC on the other hand had most shows above 2M viewers.

CNN has decided to compete with MSNBC to try to maintain second place in the ratings game.

They have turned into a real left wing nut job organization.

[wac3rd]

He is a “Left Wing Maggot” who lives in Kenyan fecal matter.

[snoringbear]

“I must be a “right-wing nut” then, in Cafferty’s book.”

Cafferty is just an old has been/never was doing his best to hang on. So, he will say whatever is necessary to keep his job. I believe the technical definition for him would be “whore”...

[G Larry]

Whew!
Great indicator that we’re on the right track!

If Cafferty is ever pleased w us, we’re in big trouble!

[OpusatFR]

Hey, but what should he talk about?

Biden and his moderate Taliban?

The economy that Pres_ent does want to deal with at all because he’s “tired?”

The really crappy unemployment numbers?

The hideously tacky responses of the Bambi Administration to our longstanding ally?

Hillary Clinton’s singularly inept performance as SecState and her hugely embarrassing gaffe with that Red Button.
Where did she think she landed? Staples?

The massive pork projects and coming to a theatre soon, Son of Pork II.

What about that Connecticut move to apply government rules to the Catholic Church?

Or, Bail Out II coming for Citi? Tax revolts in NYC and California?

I mean really, other than Michele Obama’s arms and Rush, what else can these dimwits cover without touching Bambi’s disasterous Admin?

[texasredneck]

Prould member of the “right-wing nut” club here.

[TET1968]

CNN is owned by Time Warner, soon to be traded at around $3 + a share.
Why is it being sourced here?
And as for the Jack Ass, If you Google Jack Cafferty, alcoholic, Hit & Run you will get 44,600 results.

[A_Former_Democrat]

That’s right I forgot. . . people of Cafferty’s ilk are normal.

That makes the rest of us “right wing nuts.”

Funny how these people always want to move into our neighborhoods and send their brats to our schools.

Oh and also want to call on us for protection when their asses are in a a sling.

[freedumb2003]

Prould member of the “right-wing nut” club here.

Me too. I appreciate the way the Left keeps giving us fun slogans. VRWC is so last century...

[Gator113]

I would much rather be thought of as a “right-wing nut”, than a Whack-job Traitor.

[IrishPennant]

Prould member of the “right-wing nut” club here.

Much better then the alternative "wrong-wing nut" club headed by Zer0.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Never even heard of the guy.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Here's what I don't understand. Cafferty and all these liberals whine about how Republicans are being hurt by Rush. They wring their hands about how conservatives are making the GOP lose. If that's the case, then shouldn't they be happy?

Folks, we know why Cafferty is doing this. They are deeply scared of the GOP being taken back by the conservatives. He wants the GOP to remain the listless, gutless, me-too party to keep giving the Dems cover.