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.”

[autumnraine]

You know, I really don’t think they realize how much they are going to turn people off with this crap. They might consider themselves an army against Rush Limbaugh, but even people that don’t listen to him will be irritated.

I don’t think people who are conservative minded in the first place really give a damn what other people think. That’s the fallacy of this “plot”. Just because they are all about what other people think of THEM, they assume everyone else is that way too.

[Rastus]

Sticks and stones, Jack. I am rubber, you are glue. Na na boo boo!

[rbbeachkid]

Rush has always said that when they insult him, they are really insulting all of us.

As a proud member of the vast right wing conspiracy I am happy to be put in the catagory of Rush’ listeners.

[Charles Martel]

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty returned to his routine of bashing conservatives and Republicans...

To a resident of the fever swamps of the extreme left, everyone else looks like a "right-wing nut". Yawn.

[Finalapproach29er]

He’s nothing but a leftie corporate lacky.

[GeronL]

Let’s take advice from leftists.... NOT

[DTogo]

He’s also got the hots for Michelle Obama, so...

[GeronL]

conservatives did not lose the 2008 election. Conservatives lost the 2008 Republican Primary

[Beaten Valve]

Old “Hit and Run Jack” should have been put out to pasture after he mowed down that bicycle rider in New York City...

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yeah, reminds me of that song “Sunshine”

“They can’t even run their own lives
I’ll be damned if they run mine”

Get off the bottle, Jack

[Right Cal Gal]

Isn’t he the one who was so upset he did a rant about the quality of sandwiches at some function?

And he calls ME a nut?

[RegulatorCountry]

What do you want to bet that this dolt is in favor of the Fairness Doctrine?

[peggybac]

These right wings nuts the Republican party are pandering to is their base, hopefully. Many have fallen on the wayside but Rush and his audience are the real conservatives. Cafferty has no clue.

[Jim Scott]

Jack Cafferty is another nobody on a low-rated cable network with a minuscule audience doing the leftist dance with no impact on anyone. Rush Limbaugh is a 20-year syndicated radio star making millions and commanding a vast audience. No doubt Cafferty is a tad jealous.

He hates everyone to the right of Hugo Chavez - and he probably thinks Hugo is a bit suspect on his leftist credentials. Cafferty is hardly effective in swaying anyone but those long since convinced that communism is preferable to freedom.

[halfright]

Lets see...Top 5 programs on cable news are on Fox.
Don't see J*rkoff Jack anywhere on the list.

Makes Jack Mr. Irrelevant.

What a looooozer....

[Always Independent]

“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.”

Wonder how Jack feels about nancy pelosi’s not reimbursing the gov’t for her using Air Force aircraft to fly her family around.

[kcvl]

CNN’s Jack Cafferty Confesses ‘Crush’ On Michelle Obama

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty flat out admitted in a CNN.com commentary on Tuesday that he is “developing a crush on America’s first lady,” Michelle Obama: “Michelle Obama is more compelling than her husband. He’s good, but she’s utterly fascinating....Mrs. Obama has blown away the stale air in a White House musty from eight years of the Bushes. It’s like the sun came out and a fresh spring breeze began wafting through the open windows.”

http://tinyurl.com/bmq5d5

[Mr. Jazzy]

I think you are right!

They always have been .. “On The Dark Side”.

[luvie]

The more the MSM weep and wail about Rush....the stronger he gets!

They will never learn!

[sourcery]

CNN: Run by left-wing nuts, for the entertainment of clueless left-wing nuts...