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Blue_State_Elitist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:04 PM
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Who is Jack Cafferty and why is he allowed on television?
Sitting here watching CNN's new "in your face" attempt at Fox News style journalism and they keep giving some idiot named Jack Cafferty face time to share his forced cynical opinions on the issues.

Who is this jerk?
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:05 PM
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1. He used to be on in the mornings...
Peddling his same cynicism. Been at CNN for years and years.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:07 PM
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3. he started out on local news stations in New York
and was an anchor for the WB 10:00 news
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mnmoderatedem Donating Member (599 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:11 PM
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6. even earlier than that
he was an anchor at the NBC affiliate in my home town of Des Moines Iowa, believe it or not.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:12 PM
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7. huh? i didn't know that
in nyc he wasn't as much of an ass. he was a bit gruff, but at the time news anchors were still pretty much just reporting not editorializing
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:06 PM
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2. He's O'Lielly's understudy from the Grumpy Uncle Acting School
:D
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Blue_State_Elitist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:08 PM
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4. haha, well that explains it.
It seems like he's on the brink of laughing at his own uselessness every time Wolf the whore asks him to chime in.
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:39 PM
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11. "Dern kids, always on my lawn, wearing them bell bottoms..."
I love flashbacks... ;)
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:10 PM
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5. Looks like Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street?
Cafferty drives me nuts.

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Citizen Jane Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:29 PM
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10. How dare you!
Please don't insult Oscar the Grouch like that!

j/k! :evilgrin:
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:17 PM
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8. How to feel disgusted with mankind in five seconds after Cafferty. A
court jester whose job it is to bring a person down down down.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:22 PM
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9. Jack Cafferty hit a guy on a bicycle with his car
dragged the guy's bike for two blocks, and went through 2 red lights with a cop a numerous pedestrians screaming at him to stop. He's a real peach of a guy.:scared:

http://www.cabletvtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-653.html
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marylanddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 04:57 PM
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12. I used to watch CNN and

It was a "blast from the past" to be reminded of Jack Cafferty -
and it reminded me how happy I am to have not to mentally deal with those a-holes anymore.
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Bumblebee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 05:20 PM
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13. His morning program was dissolved, and he is still under contract...
once it's up, I am pretty sure he'll be gone.
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