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Cafferty Files
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Jack Cafferty, host and commentator on CNN, former New York local news anchor, and the author of It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America (Wiley, 2007), gives his take on national and international politics.
It's Getting Ugly Out There is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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The courts have long held that property owners are not obliged to permit free expression within their property's limits. This is fine as far as it goes for small holders, but in an era where the ideologically-driven drumbeat has been to privatise more and more of the world in which we move, it concerns me that public freedom of expression may be mooted. Even the Intarwebs' vaunted freedom is highly contingent, as every single piece of hardware, cable, and fibre is owned by someone, usually a fictitious corporate person that will permit as much free expression as it finds convenient and useful to its own bad "self".
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Here, as in so many other places, we (myself included) are easily hypnotised by the way the word "property" can refer to the keys in your pocket and the State-enforced monopoly on a resource held by someone who isn't there at all.
I wanted to ask Mr. Cafferty why more journalists/news anchors do not point out blatant inconsistencies made by politicians during their broadcasts? I the reason the "Daily Show" is so succesful is precisely because it does do this-even though we all know the "Daily Show" is not "real news" (despite it actually being so for many).
Is it simply because the shows' directors/producers won't let it happen out of fear of exposing some powerful politicians as being the frauds/hypocrites that they are?
Jack Cafferty is great!
Malveaux has got to go!
Give her job to Cafferty.
CNN does not need to allow Wolf to take any vacations anymore.
Does Mr. Cafferty believe OJ's recent arrest is "news"? It's all over CNN!
Barack Obama and Colin Powell?...hasn't CP lost some luster after his ankle grabbing for the current administration?
This guy is a jerk! What's the purpose of having this angry opinionated talking head on?
brian can i write a book and come on your show and pimp it out?
If everyone in the Media were to ask themselves "Are they being honest to themselves" if yes then and then go about presenting the news, if no then one would have a lot of people walking out of the newsroom. Most folks including Mr.Caffferty would probably be in a bind if he had to ask himself the question of being honest to himself.
Lets see if CNN can deliver on that.
Thanks for bring on the show Mr.Caferty-a right
wing media idiot.
Did Rupert Murdoch buy wnyc?
JacK-
How is Obama a breath of fresh air? does he have ANY ideas? what are they? does any of this matter to you, or is it all about image. actually it seems like Obama is in bed with corporations on several different levels i.e. he's not innocent like you say. do the details concern you at all?
what is offering different than Hillary. I am still waiting for answers. it's all rhetoric.
Ok, ok.....
Is Brian biased or what?
this is ridiculous...talk about beating a DEAD horse.
WHAT is the inconsistency in Obama's position???? All
he said was that HE wouldn't invite him to
Columbia...but as the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
he would meet him in that context.
I mean come on...Columbia is NOT the presidency! LET
IT GO, BRIAN! It's getting to the level of
muckraking...there's no contradiction there..stop
TRYING to make one! Geeeesh!
Oh, and to Mr. Cafferty--I for one was NEVER with Bush and NEVER believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction OR was a threat to us..NEVER at any point...so we weren't "ALL" behind him. I find that assesment insulting because I was never that stupid!
That might have been one of the funniest things I've heard on your show Brian: "Fine.... No...."
Additional to your argument about Columbia and Iran: If Columbia doesn't invite wacko figure heads like him, then we the people have to trust the Bush administration to give us an accurate description of his rhetoric, which happens because the media of Murrow is gone and the new media or CNN etc allows the government to "play" us, quoting Cafferty.
Charlie Rose interviewed Ahmadinejad last nite - all this talk about Columbia U - did anyone see Charlie's interview? I'd be interested in responses to that one hour conversation.
I HATE CNN it's almost the same as FOX. It's garbage!
I'm disgusted with WNYC! Brian is so pathetic today. Let the Amedimjab thing GO! Dead HORSE!
Brian, can't you ask real serious questions?
You are killing us with this trite pandering to Obama, to the Colombia president and to this guy.
Why no mention of oil?
Brian couldn't you have filled the time better than this guy...dead air might be better...
Cable news is not "news". It's noise, Jack.
I like this conversation. Jack Cafferty actually sounds objective, which is refreshing. Jack Cafferty is not a right winger at all. Nor is he a left winger. How can a guy who hates Bush be a right winger, as that term is used today?
good call ab...i never bought into the terror hysteria...
What is your feeling on the comedy news shows that seem to be the biggest news source for some many people
Remember when Letterman used to play Cafferty blinking his eyes like a psychotic in between commercial breaks, because he had access to the WNBC feed; they were neighbors??????????
Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who else is sick of Brian?
Maybe we should question WNYC incessantly why they allow him on the air.
Why didn’t he just ask Obama about Terry Shiavo or Betrayus? He seems to be into pandering.
Whats the difference between "regime" and "government." Ask Amedinejab the difference between the two. I'm sure that would be acceptable. He didn't even answer the question and Brian let it.
I'm writing to WNYC.
Well excuse me to the last caller
"Bush regime" is apt...how else would you describe an administration who tried to take apart magna carta, disrespect democratic institutions, invades a country that wasn't attacking/at war/or a threat to us, tried to get around the Geneva conventions to employ torture tactics, institutes mass spying on it's citizens,etc,etc,etc
Yeah "regime" is QUITE apt!
This guy is excoriating Republicans. Further evidence that he's no right winger, a la Bush.
Crime was down nation wide Jack...Rudy is a punk
Brian, is it possible to have a show where we get to meet the people who actually shell out $23 for a book by this guy? I want to meet those people. For entertainment purposes, of course.
My e-mail to Brian:
Brian,
Um let the Ahmadinejad thing GO! It is so pathetic you keep beating a dead horse.
What is with you Brian? You ask why this keeps coming up, it's BECAUSE you bring it up.
Arrgghhh I'm about done with WNYC. You don't even read the comment board on the site. People have views you know?
You didn't ask Obama ANYTHING. Nothing he hasn't repeated thus far. Then you didn't even have another opinion on to counter his..
Then this CNN guy is on and you don't once mention OIL.
Do you understand a lot of us turn to WNYC for an altnerative to so-called real news.... you just spout the same rhetoric.
Arrgh.
Chad
Yo, "ab". Chill out.
Right on Joe
Crime began going down in NYC under DINKINS (yeah that's right, look it up people!)
and crime went down nation-wide under Ghouliani
Just like with 9-11, he tries to take credit where it is not deserved
and unfortunately those in the media like Jack and Brian continue to repeat the LIE
The events in IOWA this last month has been a bunch of crap. I lived in Omaha Ne for about six years and I thought the people had good sense, now I find a bunch are plain stupid. The Republicans that voted for Mike Huckabee must really like George Bush, because if Huckabee gets elected your gonna get four more years of him, If Bush would have turned a corner quick Huckabee would have broke his nose because it was stuck so far up Bush's rear. He is a liar, beggar con man just like Bush. We don't need him.
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