Cafferty on why Obama’s right: Economic frustration leads to bad things, like Al Qaeda training camps
posted at 5:30 pm on April 12, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Ben Smith’s trying to turn this — I think — into some dark insinuation by Happy Jack that the gun-totin’, Bible-thumpin’ knuckle-draggers of Pennsylvania might yet be driven to more sinister depths of despair. I think that’s a bad rap. Put aside the fact that he’s flatly wrong about what causes terrorism; neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night shall keep the conscientious liberal from applying a Marxist matrix to jihadism, so let’s just accept it for argument’s sake. The point is, he’s not necessarily suggesting anything beyond the idea that people in dire economic straits sometimes resort to desperate measures. In the U.S., per Obama’s remarks, it means voting Republican. In the Middle East, per Cafferty’s gloss, it means joining AQ. An intriguing choice of analogy, which I’m happy to believe is innocent but which my intellectual superiors at MSNBC would surely say denotes at least an unconscious bad faith motive. Oh well.
Keep talking, though, Caff. You, Obama, all the various liberals who just can’t see the goshdarned problem with what he said, keep on talking. The Messiah himself has finally expressed “deep regret” for his choice of words, but if anything deserves the patented Obama “time for an honest national conversation on this subject” treatment, the dogmatic liberal read on the root causes of values-voter yahooism surely does. You could make it a theme of the convention: “What’s The Matter With Rednecks (And Any Other Prole Who Votes Republican)?” TNR seems less interested in that than in shrieking at Hillary for daring to acknowledge the halogen-bright condescension of what Obama said, but they shouldn’t be so hard on her: If it’s any consolation, I’m sure privately she doesn’t see what all the fuss is about either.
Update: Ace notes a point I missed: Cafferty actually dismisses the conservative read on Obama’s comments — before embracing and agreeing with it.
Actually, Jack Cafferty and Jeffrey Toobin both get doubleplus bonus points for first claiming that Obama never meant to imply that economic privation drives people to Jesus, firearms and xenophobia, and then immediately adding “But Obama’s right, economic privation does drive people to Jesus, firearms, and xenophobia.”
Ummm…. Jack and Jeffey, I know you’re really super-smart guys, being on TV and all, but I’m afraid if this is as “simple” and “obvious” as you assert, you’re going to have to choose between the defenses 1) he didn’t mean anything so patently offensive and absurd and 2) but by the way he’s 100% dead-bang balls-on right.
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Proud to be a dropout? Winding up pulling in some actual cash for being a ( insert appropriate snarkiness) on TV?
God I love this country.
bbz123 on April 12, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Some of those ball cap wearin’, truck driving gun owners might just hijack a plane and fly it into Obama’s church.
Is that what he’s saying?
Hening on April 12, 2008 at 5:35 PM
You guys are going to keep trying with this story and complain if it doesn’t stick after a week, aren’t you?
Typhonsentra on April 12, 2008 at 5:40 PM
It’s time we get past these distractions and concentrate on Hope and Change and bringing people together.
abinitioadinfinitum on April 12, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Cafferty: the dumb person’s Neil Boortz.
VolMagic on April 12, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Typhonsentra on April 12, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Your Messiah is going down, baby. Wave bye-bye.
VolMagic on April 12, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Well, I’ll say it again: It’s not 1979 anymore.
Things just aren’t that bad in most Pennsylvania - especially the areas that Obama targetted with his insults.
These morons probably still think there’s a pollution problem in Pittsburgh too.
forest on April 12, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Jack Cafferty is wrong. There is no factual basis for Obama’s claim. People in the rural Midwest went to church and owned guns long before heavy manufacturing left the area. To claim they do this out of economic bitterness is absurd. To oppose uncontrolled imigration during times of rising unemployment has other explanations other than just bigotry born of bitterness: it is commonsense application of supply and demand balancing in the labor market.
In addition, I do not see any historical support for the idea that the public turns to the Republican Party in times of economic despair. They turn to whatever party is not in power.
KW64 on April 12, 2008 at 5:45 PM
I love how CNN always tries to make Christians out to be just like Radical Muslims. The fact that we have the type of media we do in the US, flies in the face of their logic.
TroubledMonkey on April 12, 2008 at 5:45 PM
I’m offended.
RedWinged Blackbird on April 12, 2008 at 5:46 PM
I was young, but I never remember Cafferty being such an outspoken lefty liberal when he was on the local NYC news. When he started with CNN, it almost seemed like an act.
I guess not, tho.
JetBoy on April 12, 2008 at 5:47 PM
No, I’m going to let it drop entirely after this post. Just like the left would do if McCain said something this offensive.
What can I say? You’re my role models.
Allahpundit on April 12, 2008 at 5:48 PM
There is: too many Democrats.
mred on April 12, 2008 at 5:49 PM
What a country! All the stupidest people are on TV.
Akzed on April 12, 2008 at 5:53 PM
I was mistaken. I thought fundamentalist Islamic ideology was OBL’s motivator, when all along it was his poverty. Who knew?
shaken on April 12, 2008 at 5:53 PM
And its so fun to scroll through the comments on Ben’s site. Seeing Clintonites yelling at Obamaniacs and vice versa just does something for the old four-valve.
VolMagic on April 12, 2008 at 5:53 PM
If we’re honest it’s all a big game. Obama says something that most liberals think anyway so we pick him up for thinking like a liberal…which he is. Then the fantasist-in-chief Hillary, who thinks exactly the same way as all the other liberals, jumps at the chance to salvage her forlorn campaign by pretending she doesn’t share all those liberal views that she secretly does. It all boils down to who do you least want as president. And for me that’s Hillary by a country mile. I’d vote Putin before I’d want Hillary within a two hundred-mile radius of the Whitehouse.
schiehallion on April 12, 2008 at 5:57 PM
You Sir have a wonderful way with words, and loads of courage.
You Sir/Madam, just don’t get it. Kudos on your blind elitism. Fortunately there are still so many fewer of you than the ones Obama talked about. And, they are not bitter, and they faithfully vote.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 5:57 PM
“They ship the jobs overseas” because of the 2nd highest corporate tax burden in the galaxy. Barack Hussein O’Jesus’ plan is to raise corporate taxes. Those disgruntled Typical White People in PA will benefit from this - how? As soon as Hussein got in office (God forbid - LORD, he’s your enemy!) they’re going to give up their guns and renounce religion?!
Akzed on April 12, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Hmm, I’m a college dropout too, and a rust belt resident. If I was more edumacated, maybe I could figure out why Dallas is growing at breakneck speed under the same international trade agreements that must be causing Buffalo to shrink. Gawrsh, that’s a real stumper. Hmm, couldn’t have anything to do with state and local economic policies, could it? Couldn’t be that Buffalo (compare your own rust belt city, mileage may vary) has an ungodly combination of state income taxes, state and local sales taxes, excise taxes, and property taxes that’d make your nuts squirm back up into your abdomin. Couldn’t be that the shrinking population left a critical mass of unionized government workers voting for a merry-go-round of Democrats for a few decades. Clearly, NAFTA is driving people I grew up with to move to Phoenix, and Connecticut, and San Diego, and Dallas, and Port Collins, Colorado, and Las Vegas and Anywherebuthere, USA.
trubble on April 12, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Or politicians
Wade on April 12, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Wow, Jack was animated and seemed completely sober, whats he on now? Meth?
I like turning the volume off when Jacks on screen and just observe his twitches.
BL@KBIRD on April 12, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Jack Cafferty is just another cranky lib who`s stuck on his own supposed genius. I made people like him to be funny/frustrating.
ThePrez on April 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Cafferty is purely and simply a CNN shill and a moron.
rplat on April 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM
No, I’m going to let it drop entirely after this post. Just like the left would do if McCain said something this offensive.
What can I say? You’re my role models.
Allahpundit on April 12, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Ha ! At the rate B.Hussein is going you’ll have new
and better material each week for a long time.
Texyank on April 12, 2008 at 6:01 PM
I
madefind people like him to be funny/frustrating.ThePrez on April 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM
This guy might just be a GENIUS /sarc!!!
We might just be on the verge of THE ENTIRE MIDWEST JOINING AL QAEDA!!!
Honk Honk Blaaat Blaaaaaaaat (whoopee cushion)!!!
Oh yeah…. Makes sense to me /sarc.
Lockstein13 on April 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Cafferty is a moron. He doesn’t understand the American mind. Americans see adversity and celebrate stories of individual will overcoming obstacles…here, I’ll use movies as examples: Rocky, Seabiscuit, Cinderella Man. These movies are popular because they tap into the American value system. Americans don’t turn into terrorists sucking the blood out of their fellow citizens.
Spirit of 1776 on April 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM
A week? I wish we could get a week between Obama gaffes so we could really enjoy them. He’ll step on his crank two or three more times within a week, and we’ll be forced to leave this one behind.
Bugler on April 12, 2008 at 6:04 PM
He’s just another elitist dork who doesn’t have a clue. Keep talking Cafferty.
darwin on April 12, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Nothing gets me to grab my remote faster than…
MSNBC
Jack Lafferty
Larry King
saved on April 12, 2008 at 6:05 PM
To quote Frasier Crane:
“calling Dr. Daniels, Dr. Jack Daniels!”
Cafferty is a silly, bitter little man. And his “network” is a joke, as evidenced by the numerous REAL journalistic scandals they have had to weather-think “Tailwind”, CNN CEO Eason Jordan’s admitting that he lobbied Saddam and let his “news organization” give a pass to Saddam torturing and killing his own people for a decade, the Iraq sniper videos, running a promo calling one of their own female anchors “sexy”, blatantly going into the tank for Bill Clinton during Monica-gate, the disgraceful advocacy journalism of former CNN secretary Christiane Amanpour, running a photo of Dick Cheney with a black “X” over his face, and their planting of a Hillary shill at a debate.
Not to mention they tossed their longtime polling partner, the respected Gallup Organization, and replaced them with…an outfit run by a longtime Clinton friend and donor?
If any other network had as many examples of disgraceful “journalism” and “ethics”, they would be long gone. CBS canned their head anchor for much less.
Del Dolemonte on April 12, 2008 at 6:08 PM
http://i28.tinypic.com/e8r23n.jpg
Here you go this about sums up some of the hypocrisy.
Chakra Hammer on April 12, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Get this man some prune juice.
RobCon on April 12, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Jack must have a deep inferiority complex with all those blow dried “real” journalists around. Don’t laugh at him, he will run somebody over in his car and not stop.
RobCon on April 12, 2008 at 6:16 PM
It’s understandable that you don’t want Obama’s remarks criticized. You agree with those remarks. The reason you agree with them is because you know first-hand that they’re true because you’re a loser, you’re bitter at being a loser, and your bitter reaction to being a loser is to hate people who are different, take refuge in religion, buy a gun, etc. Typical liberal, but we completely understand.
jaime on April 12, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Islam leads to Al Q training camps.
That’s about it the long and the short of it.
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 6:24 PM
You’d think all these really smart liberals would know to apply the First Law of Holes here.
Instead, they’re all trying to explain how of COURSE Obama is right that the ignorant rednecks are victims of false consciousness.
Keep talking,
moronspeople who are smarter than the rest of us.misterpeasea on April 12, 2008 at 6:25 PM
They just keep digging and digging their holes. Just wait till people outside of city limits get newspapers and lectrisity.
oakpack on April 12, 2008 at 6:25 PM
I’ve been out of work for almost two years since I made the decision to take care of my elderly Dad. I am frustrated, SO… I will start my own Al Qaeda camp for kids at my Southern Baptist church. I will train them with super soaker’s and work up to the big guns. Of course there will be a potluck dinner and hymn singing afterwards.
GoodBoy on April 12, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Does frustration also lead to hit-and-run driving?
drjohn on April 12, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Well I’m glad you finally saw the light.
Typhonsentra on April 12, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Bwahahahahaha!
GoodBoy on April 12, 2008 at 6:33 PM
But you never will, because your idealism has you enslaved. I wish it upon you.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 6:34 PM
I don’t buy this one bit. Hilary’s policy positions may be socialist. Her claim that all problems have solutions is deeply preposterous to a philosophical conservative like myself. Still, he statements about herself and her place in society have been the most intelligent and self-reflective of anyone who ran including the four or so Republicans whom I preferred to her.
thuja on April 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Farkin Icehole
second digit on April 12, 2008 at 6:45 PM
If it looks good,
And it taste good,
And it feels good,
There has got to be something wrong somewhere,
So be careful.
Murphy9 on April 12, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Sheesh, Cafferty, trying to set a record for vacuous stupities?
SPQR on April 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM
When Cafferty saw his upcoming academic schedule included Econ 101, he said, “That’s it! I’m dropping out! There must be a place for me on a cable network somewhere that appreciates a great sucking sound.”
onlineanalyst on April 12, 2008 at 6:52 PM
You can trace Happy Jack’s Wingnuttery back to the early Days when he got his first attaboy from the Kos Kidz. He’d been a nobody for years and finally he got some kudos. He’s kept it up for years now culminating in that kind of idiotic analysis aimed at his moonbat audience.
AYNBLAND on April 12, 2008 at 7:11 PM
In 2004, on election night, Larry King kept staring forlorn at the screens with the returns. He was almost speechless, and lost. This time it’s going to be the likes of Cafferty and Matthews.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 7:14 PM
No, he’s saying that those people are the ones will want to assasinate Obama because he’s a black man. I’m surprised no one in the media has said it yet.
SouthernGent on April 12, 2008 at 7:25 PM
As a rural Pennsylvanian, I’m warning you city folks! I’m armed with guns and a Bible. All I have to say to Cleveland, Ohio is; “Aloha Snackbar, Buckeye!”
MCPO Airdale on April 12, 2008 at 7:28 PM
To claim they do this out of economic bitterness is absurd.
Grow Fins on April 12, 2008 at 7:41 PM
oops
Grow Fins on April 12, 2008 at 7:41 PM
Ha ha ha. Are you serious? You’re using movies as examples?
Grow Fins on April 12, 2008 at 7:43 PM
An Obama activist just knocked on my door looking for me, seeing as I’m a registered Democrat. He was from Annapolis Maryland and was driving a convertible BMW.
We had a nice chat about the Messiah’s latest comments. He told me I needed to “understand the context” of the situation. I told him the context was that he was talking to San Francisco millionaires, and he thought no little people were listening…
I think he got the idea I wasn’t really a Democrat pretty quickly.
forest on April 12, 2008 at 7:43 PM
Lots of Iraqi soldiers killed by AQ will tell you differently.
Hell, the chief victims of AQ are Muslims.
Hate to spoil your little world with facts.
SteveMG on April 12, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Typhonsentra on April 12, 2008 at 5:40 PM
And you see nothing wrong with what Obama said?
Johan Klaus on April 12, 2008 at 7:46 PM
Grow Fins on April 12, 2008 at 7:41 PM
And what did he claim?
Johan Klaus on April 12, 2008 at 7:48 PM
I like the look of disbelief and desparation as they try and spin their heroes latest gaffe.
Lonetown on April 12, 2008 at 7:48 PM
SteveMG on April 12, 2008 at 7:44 PM
The terrorist are not Islamic.
Johan Klaus on April 12, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Cafferty and Blitzer are two peas in a pod.
Travis1 on April 12, 2008 at 7:52 PM
.
Someone is certainly employing the teachings of Islam - as they interpret it and present it - to encourage others to commit violence in the name of Islam.
Qatb -> Egyptian Brotherhood -> Zawahiri -> Wahhabism -> Bin Laden -> 9/11.
Very crude, true; but it (roughly) makes my point.
Besides, who can make the judgment that one person is a Muslim and another not? Or one person is a Christian and another not?
SteveMG on April 12, 2008 at 7:56 PM
I did in this case because Americans speak with their wallet (it’s called the free market). Somethings become integral into American pop culture and others are soon forgotten (Stop Loss, that Cuban movie, etc), dependent on resonance.
Spirit of 1776 on April 12, 2008 at 7:58 PM
Well I’ll admit that I’m not religious anymore and I don’t any guns. Not that I have a problem with either, I just am not a part of either club. As for Obama’s comments, I think he worded it very poorly but he wasn’t really criticizing people for being religious or owning guns (Hasn’t he actually been trying to court gun owners?), but criticizing politicians who play on people’s fears of loosing their guns or religion to scare people into not voting for “The Other Guy”. Clumsily said, he probably would’ve done better saying cynical rather than bitter and not mentioning guns and religion specifically at all.
Typhonsentra on April 12, 2008 at 8:00 PM
It seems to me that in the very best case scenario, he believes in God and country and the 2nd Amendment, but that he thought his audience in SF didn’t'…so he pandered to them. That, of course, takes a leap of faith beyond reason.
If he wanted to make a political point that people have lost belief in government, he needed to do nothing more than say that. But he went miles past that and used ‘failed promises’ to explain adherence to faith, the 2nd amendment, and concern for rule of law (ill imm). That’s not an accident.
Spirit of 1776 on April 12, 2008 at 8:05 PM
Why not take Obama’s words at face value? Are you saying he’s a crappy orator, not to be taken seriously?
jaime on April 12, 2008 at 8:09 PM
SteveMG on April 12, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Which conflict in the world is not caused by Muslims?
Johan Klaus on April 12, 2008 at 8:10 PM
This blowhard is obstinately ignorant. Very few have been proven to be so consistently wrong, yet maintain such a degree of certainty.
pat on April 12, 2008 at 8:11 PM
This guy’s just sick.
The sickest thing about it is that this waste of oxygen believes evey word he says.
I wish the whole country could understand that THIS, what he’s saying, what Toobin said yesterday, what Obama said that touched this firestorm off: they weren’t misstating ANYTHING, it is how they really view the rest of us who aren’t part of their wealthy, white, liberal, elitist circles: With abject fear, the utmost contempt, and deep seated loathing for our rejection of their sacred cows.
SuperCool on April 12, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Moderate Muslims will not be able to wrest control of the agenda for several reasons. First of all, Mohammed, the Messenger of Allah’s eternal word, was not moderate. No moderate can legitimately tell another Muslim to stop doing the extremist things Mohammed himself did. Also, the Koran condones violence and coercion to further the Islamic agenda. People whom we call moderates are labeled hypocrites by Allah Himself in the Koran. Moderates will always lose the argument because, as ex-Muslim author Ibn Warraq says, “There may be moderates in Islam but Islam itself is not moderate.”
Islamic expert Daniel Pipes and others estimate ten percent of the Islamic world to be militant. In 1933 when the Nazi party took control of Germany it had 2 million members, comprising only three percent of Germany’s sixty-six million citizens. A tiny minority of extremists can control a vast number of moderates, making them irrelevant.
- Jihadwatch
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Indonesia, Bali, Israel, Spain, England, Holland, The Phillipines, Pakistan, France, Russia, India, China, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Algeria, Morroco, Alfghanistan, Turkey or the U.S.A.? Just wondering.
Johan Klaus on April 12, 2008 at 8:30 PM
Cafferty has an incredibly strong argument: if you don’t agree with me you’re stupid. Logicians would characterize it as fallacious but Cafferty would win by calling them stupid.
snaggletoothie on April 12, 2008 at 8:32 PM
People still pay attention to Cafferty?
Wow.
irishspy on April 12, 2008 at 8:32 PM
snaggletoothie on April 12, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Sounds like the Global warming activist.
Johan Klaus on April 12, 2008 at 8:36 PM
What a simplistic, offensive thing to say.
Dr. Manhattan on April 12, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Get back up in the attic where you belong Uncle Jack. And put that helmet back on.
V15J on April 12, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Cafferty is laughing stock.
revolution on April 12, 2008 at 8:48 PM
I’ve had to suffer through Cafferty since the early 80s in New York. He was a pompous ass then, and it seems time has only accelerated his disdain for the average man. He is the Alan Alda model, mark 2000, (newest upgrade) Full of outrage and disdain for the world’s condition. While people like him lament and drone on endlessly about the inequities in life, the free market develops products that save millions of lives every year. And free and democratic countries produce not only miracle drugs and economic might, they produce happiness in humans, Because humans are happiest when there free
jojostan on April 12, 2008 at 9:00 PM
You don’t get it do you?
What your Messiah just said inspired me to actively support a man I was initially going to let lose. I was content to watch McCain lose. Not any more.
Your idiot of a candidate just galvanized his opposition in a pathetic unforced error worthy of the most incompetent of local politicians. I wonder why that is…
Oh yeah, he’s spent his whole life having people kiss his butt and coddle him.
spmat on April 12, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Little by little…Dear gawd I’ve been trying to drive home the importance of supporting McCain…be him your first choice, or your last choice. Unless you really want to help Obama (or Clinton) become President of the United States.
Just repeat that a few times out loud…”President Obama”…scary, isn’t it?
JetBoy on April 12, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Yes, I know. My original agnostic/ambivalent position was predicated on much the same assumption that Allah had made pre-Wright; to wit, that Obama was on the whole a well-intentioned lefty that could be, at best, worked with or, at worst, stymied. Now I know that he’s not only a cynical pragmatist capable of any level of triangulation for his own gain but also a European-style socialist with all the anti-democratic baggage that comes with it.
In short, before very recently, I thought that Obama was a mostly lateral step towards the dissolution of the American soul. Now I know that he’s an even more strident one than the Shrew.
Obama believes his own press. He’s a demagogue of the Chavez/Mugabe school. He’s a threat. I want to see him politically crippled. Permanently, if possible.
spmat on April 12, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Jack Cafferty is nothing more than Keith Olbermann with a fiber deficiency.
SoulGlo on April 12, 2008 at 10:13 PM
As an ardent supporter of McCain, I respect you for that. And you’re absolutely right about your revelations on Obama. Straight out of European Socialism.
A threat? That’s an understatement. An Obama presidency will be a disaster for America.
JetBoy on April 12, 2008 at 11:11 PM
I think Barry O has made a rookie mistake, as the Captain has pointed out. However, this is very much to the benefit of this country.
Barry and his fellow travelers hate America. They are ignorant snobs who do not have to confront the results of their ideas. Dianne Feinstein and Mike Bloomberg, advocating gun bans, are classic examples. So are Barry and Michelle.
Both are in recession-proof jobs. Both are catered to, and resent the average American, who likely does more work and earns their pay honestly in jobs Barry and Michelle could not do. Both clearly share the great liberal hubris of a self-approval rating over 100%. And it is more pernicious as their race, which they cannot leave behind or ignore, makes them entitled to at least another 20% on the self-approval rating…since they are not living in a ghetto.
Barry revealed himself to people like him (he thinks) to generate more money. What could be more capitalist or pandering to an interest group? Hilarious, if it was not so sad that we are now in this state.
I think the swells in SF who heard the initial pronouncement are looking at Barry as a servant to carry forth their agenda. He is not their equal, he is a hired hand, expendable, in making their agenda happen. Still a loser, even with the right limo, Barry. And you just don’t get it, do you?
Harry Schell on April 12, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Obtuse
Babbling
Anal
Moronic
Amateur
profitsbeard on April 12, 2008 at 11:39 PM
macaca
F15Mech on April 13, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Is Cafferty even real? I mean seriously, he’s like a throwback character from an old tv show. I love the whole grumpy, rumpled shirt and tie facade thing. He’s a tool, but he’s amusing.
gator70 on April 13, 2008 at 12:53 AM
Ace nails it. Both of these butt-sniffing liberals laugh out loud about the absurd suggestion that he could ever have meant something condescending, and in the same sentence declare — on the other hand! — that he is, of course, 100% correct.
Video of their comments should become required watching at Dipshit Liberal Pundit school.
Jaibones on April 13, 2008 at 1:00 AM
MCCAIN ‘08: AT LEAST HE DOESN’T HATE AMERICA!
MCCAIN ‘08: THE LEAST BAD CHOICE
MCCAIN ‘08: YEAH, HE’S A LIBERAL, BUT AT LEAST HE’S NOT A COMMUNIST
MCCAIN ‘08: SLIGHTLY LESS CONDENSCENDING THAN THE ALTERNATIVES
MCCAIN ‘08: HE STILL BELIEVES IN PRIVATE PROPERTY
MCCAIN ‘08: HE DOESN’T HATE RELIGION
misterpeasea on April 13, 2008 at 1:16 AM
McCaffrey’s trying to out-Olberdouceh Olberdouche.
And it’s EPIC FAIL all around.
Good Lt on April 13, 2008 at 1:39 AM
WTF are we going to do with grampa???!?!
Claypigeon on April 13, 2008 at 2:42 AM
The fact that an invited “billionaire for Hillary” operative went to the billionaire row party, had the speech recorded in secret, then gave it to the HuffPoo, normally Obama’s playground, to give Hillary the opportunity to get back on top, at the most critical time, is Shakespearean.
She’s so full of caca, and in the same billionaires’ laps, and might get away with it because Obama’s naivite made him say such stupid things in San Francisco, in the bossom of idealistic, rich, elitist, billionaire filth.
If she does, imagine the wrath, the hell Pelosi, Reid, Richardson, the Kennedys, and a slu of others will pay.
Entelechy on April 13, 2008 at 2:56 AM
Did Cafferty get his marching orders from his colleagues that he’s to spin this story? Or does it just come natural? Apparently he’s not the only one at CNN who thinks it’s his job to cover for Barack.
From Friday’s LOU DOBBS TONIGHT, guest host Kiddy Pilgrim talked about the Obama “bitter” gaffe with among others, Roland Martin, a CNN contributor and a radio talk show host. Here’s a partial transcript.
coffee260 on April 13, 2008 at 7:25 AM
Win.
spmat on April 13, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Mister Cafferty, please stop huffing glue before going on television.
Kini on April 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM
AP nails it all the way…”he’s flatly wrong about what causes terrorism”…
“You could make it a theme of the convention: “What’s The Matter With Rednecks (And Any Other Prole Who Votes Republican)?” LOL!
“TNR seems less interested in that than in shrieking at Hillary for daring to acknowledge the halogen-bright condescension (A+) of what Obama said, but they shouldn’t be so hard on her: If it’s any consolation, I’m sure privately she doesn’t see what all the fuss is about either.”
Yep, she’s just sucking it dry to save her candidacy. Hilly is the Pander Queen of Triangulation.
Christine on April 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM
wtf it just came out friday its only sunday it hasnt been a week yet and its time somebody hammered the messiah to his own cross and see if he can bear it .
Mojack420 on April 13, 2008 at 2:37 PM
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