Gunga Din has just issued a statement that from now on he would like to be referred to as a "hydration technician".
Posted on 05/01/2007 6:22:01 AM PDT by Republican Red
While trouble may be brewing for U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, a statement to consider comes from the District-based Latino Coalition, which is taking CNN host Jack Cafferty to task for calling Mr. Gonzales "the president's water boy" during a telecast of "The Situation Room" on March 12.
"This kind of rhetoric from a journalist is simply unacceptable and racist," said the nonprofit's president, Robert G. Deposada. "We cannot be hypocritical when it comes to racist statements in our national media. If the attorney general was an African American, and Mr. Cafferty would have called him a water boy, the entire media establishment and civil rights organizations from across the country would be calling for Mr. Cafferty's firing."
Mr. Deposada continued, "Attorney General Gonzales is a highly qualified and very accomplished professional. For anyone to call this highly respected Latino a water boy is simply outrageous and shows enormous amounts of prejudice." The group, which first aired its concerns April 20, suggests Mr. Cafferty be fired.
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I wish this would become an Imus moment for that CNN clown.
What could they have called Janet Reno???
The President’s zombie impersonator?
Jack,
Not to worry.
Based on a recent report that NBC is thinking of hiring Rosie for their morning gig, I’m sure they’ll make a spot for you hosting the Nightly News.
Bad luck getting the job,
An increasingly dismayed GE shareholder.
Gunga Din has just issued a statement that from now on he would like to be referred to as a "hydration technician".
CNN's Cafferty Calls Alberto Gonzales 'Glorified Waterboy' and 'Weasel'
Ho Ho Ho!
H2O.......Gatorade......H2O.......Gatorade
Bobby Bouche, water boy.
“Some guy named Cafferty....”
Brit Hume, describing this clown a year or so ago.
A New York Times editorial says the Attorney General, quote, 'has never stopped being consigliere to Mr. Bush's imperial presidency,' unquote.
Consigliere? Gee, doesn't this mean the NYT should be in trouble, too?
I was wondering when the Hispanics would wake up and smell the coffee. The MSM has treated Gonzalez dreadfully, with a total lack of respect, and he is the most powerful Hispanic in the country. They feel free to do this, one journalist I know told me, because he is “Bush’s Mexican.”
Cafferty needs to remain there. He is indisputable proof that CNN cares not a wit about news. His absurd rantings are bad enough. Then they allow him to pick the most vile e-mails on any given topic and publicize them to bash conservatives, Republicans and/or the President. As long as Cafferty is around, so is CNN’s obvious tilt.
I'm no fan of Cafferty's , but jeez louise this is silly.
Cafferty’s a jerk but, when did “water boy” become a reference to Mexicans?
“Water boy” has no racial overtones. It merely refers to an underling who does the bidding of someone of greater importance. If anything, the “boy” part is a word offensive to blacks, and “water boy” might also be offensive to Indians (from India, not from one of the gambling casinos) because of the whole “Gunga Din” thing. Latinos are apparently only offended by water references when the water is on their backs (generally from the Rio Grande) and not when it is being carried in a canteen.
Speaking about being offended for no good reason, I was waiting for the Revs. Sharpton and Jackson to complain that Randy Moss, recently acquired by the Patriots, has been referred to as an “enigma.” Can’t allow that, now can we?
No they wouldn't! Because everyone knows it's okay to call Republicans water boys, house n _ _ _ ers, and whatever else they want to call them. Now if the attorney general was a DEMOCRAT African American and was referred to as a water boy, well then, look out! JJ and AS would be all over them like bees on honey. You can bet your bottom dollar on that one! Then, and only then, would bloviators like Cafferty be fired.
Not sure and they totally misunderstand what context water boy is being used. It’s carrying the president’s water, sort of like doing the president’s dirty work. There is nothing racist about the reference. But leave it to minority coalitions to always take odd references out of context and to see prejudice where there is none.
Yes. Whores and pimps. The lot of them can go to hell, as far as I’m concerned.
I agree, unfortunately. As much as I’d like to see Cafferty go down in a blaze of his own sleaze (the best term someone used to describe him), I can’t get behind this being the thing that does it. It’s simply not racial. It’s disrespectful, but it’s not racial, and apparently Cafferty’s only value in life is being as ignorantly disrespectful as possible. I still boggle at what it is this man is supposed to be doing on a top-run news broadcast. He’s like a mean, drunk sidekick or something.
CNN’s liberal DRUNK, who gets valuable airtime to smear, slander, agitate, and incite hatred for a sitting President.
Sick.
This country is sick for allowing it.
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