Video: Jack Cafferty compares Gingrich to “train wreck” and “loves” it

posted at 7:50 pm on March 9, 2007 by Ian

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty, blasting Newt Gingrich for his extramarital relationship, remarked that it is like a “carnival” in Washington. The Situation Room guest host Suzanne Malveaux said that it sounds “very, very messy.” Cafferty responded he “love[s] it,” and that “it’s like watching a train wreck.”

Cafferty made similar comments in October of 2005:

Jack Cafferty: Yeah, but I mean, you know, this [Harriet Miers nomination] is going to be like watching those super trains that go from the Tokyo airport into downtown Tokyo, go off the tracks at maximum speed. I mean, you just won’t see anything better than that.

Cafferty loves seeing a man admit, not for the first time, that he made serious mistakes in his life. Behold the loving, tolerant left in full flower.

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In vino embarritas.

Jim Treacher on March 9, 2007 at 7:57 PM

It’s old news Jack~~Off~~

It’s the price of admission.

Were any cigars violated?

Kini on March 9, 2007 at 7:58 PM

We need folks like that to make even the craziest far-right conservatives seem reasonable and suitably medicated.

My biggest fear is that some of the neighborhood kids might choose to dress like Cafferty this Halloween. But hey, that’s why God invented mace, right?

SailorDave on March 9, 2007 at 7:58 PM

very, very messy…I love it…

You mean Hillary having to clumsily play catch-up when Barack regularly preempts her timing?

eeyore on March 9, 2007 at 8:12 PM

Won’t this admission of infidelity get Gingrich the Democratic nomination? Oh wait, you have to cheat AND lie about it to impress the left, I forgot…I guess he’ll have to remain with the GOP until he learns to art of lying through his teeth also.

Metro on March 9, 2007 at 8:20 PM

Cafferty aside – I’m with LaShawn on this one.

(man, I wish I knew how to link. It’s a wonder got this far…)

Tru2my2 on March 9, 2007 at 8:21 PM

You mean Hillary having to clumsily play catch-up when Barack regularly preempts her timing?

eeyore on March 9, 2007 at 8:12 PM

I keep imagining Hill and Obama hooking up and spawning the ultimate Dem-child.

It’s kinda like the Boys from Brazil without the gravitas of Gregory Peck.

SailorDave on March 9, 2007 at 8:24 PM

Is it any wonder that Fox News is the #1 cable news source?

Remind me again why Aaron Brown was let go?!?! Could this wiki entry be true?

Many said Brown’s cerebral “news for grownups” style would be missed, while others found him lacking.[1] [2] [3] Ironically, as of January 2007, Anderson Cooper 360° had yet to achieve an audience as large as NewsNight with Aaron Brown.

Let’s not forget that Jack is the same guy that hit an bicyclist and dragged him through 2 red lights before stopping!

It appears that the “sudden turn” made by Cafferty “knocked Billy” off his bike, which the Caddy then dragged for several blocks as five people attempted to get Cafferty’s attention and stop him, to no avail!

According to NBCSandiego.com, “A traffic officer and about five pedestrians ran after Cafferty’s car to stop him after the accident, but Cafferty drove through at least two red lights and around other vehicles without stopping, according to a police complaint” and it gets better “Cafferty later told police that he had seen a man on a bike who may have been a messenger weaving in and out of traffic as Cafferty drove south along Ninth Avenue around 10:25 a.m. When Cafferty looked in his mirror, he saw the man getting up off the ground but was unaware he had hit the bicyclist, the anchor told police.”

Pam on March 9, 2007 at 8:32 PM

Cranky old man. In fairness, I take him as seriously as John Gibson.

SouthernDem on March 9, 2007 at 8:37 PM

I literally had not thought about Aaron Brown since he left CNN, and now that you bring him up I suddenly feel very drowsy.

Jim Treacher on March 9, 2007 at 9:02 PM

Is A.N.S. still dead? Asks Jack. Now he’s cheerleader
for any trainwreck CNN can produce. Who needs France when
we have the likes of antigue Jack to wish the country
failure and defeat.

Screw you Jack. . . Ass

Texyank on March 9, 2007 at 9:10 PM

Cafferty is living “proof” (pardon the pun) of the destruction alcohol will wreak on a life. He’s bitter, cranky, full of resentment and there’s the problem with criminal DUI.
All in all, not pretty.
Maybe CNN keeps him on as a public message for sobriety because it sure isn’t for his news anal-ysis.

Jen the Neocon on March 9, 2007 at 9:20 PM

You walk into the men’s bathroom at CNN, and see Jack Cafferty and Larry King exiting the stalls….

Do you inhale, leave politely, or run to the nearest fire extinguisher to put out the fire on your face?

PinkyBigglesworth on March 9, 2007 at 9:31 PM

Jack Cafferty:
“I am unaware I was in an accident,” he said. Famous last words!

I guess it depends what the definition of “in” is.

csdeven on March 9, 2007 at 9:57 PM

In vino embarritas.

Jim Treacher on March 9, 2007 at 7:57 PM

What veritas, indeed!!! JT, you are a HA treasure.

Saint Cafferty displays a little too much Schadenfreude, forgetting the broom in front of his abode…

Aaron Brown was the ultimate journalistic conceited ass.

Entelechy on March 10, 2007 at 12:52 AM

I can’t believe this guy. Why don’t you look into your own diseased soul, Cafferty? Aside from the rampant alcoholism, remember that time you did the hit and run? You have zero credibility. You’re the last person I’d look to as a moral compass.

Ass clown.

jaleach on March 10, 2007 at 1:01 AM

Newt’s latest little admission just prooves to me he IS going to run…

He’s getting it out now, so by the time he announces its “old news”….

Very smart

Romeo13 on March 10, 2007 at 11:45 AM

He’s getting it out now, so by the time he announces its “old news”….

Very smart

Agreed. Let’s recall that Bush’s drunk driving incident was also “old news.” The drive-by media pulled it out the weekend before the presidential election and treated it as something “new.” Damn near cost Bush the election. If it weren’t for a couple of thousand Floridians too stupid to use a ballot correctly Bush would have lost.

The trouble is, if people don’t widely know something, then it’s “new” news. Bravo to Newt for doing this now so it’s defused by the time he runs for the Republican nomination.

Gingrich/Giuliani ’08

Mojave Mark on March 10, 2007 at 5:35 PM