Jack Cafferty

Jack Cafferty (born 14 December 1942) is a CNN commentator and a host of the weekend financial show In The Money. In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room, CNN's new weekday afternoon newscast.

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2004

• Given the way these mutants treat women in their societies, the women are probably better off in U.S. custody. They treat women like furniture in those countries. If I was a woman, I think I’d rather be in an American jail cell than I would be living with one of those-whatever they are over there.
  • On the subject of terrorist demands for the release of two female scientists from an Iraqi prison, September 23, 2004.
  • "Jack Cafferty In His Own Words". American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. 18 November 2004. 

• The Arab World is where innocent people are kidnapped, blindfolded, tied up, tortured and beheaded, and then videotape of all of this is released to the world as though they’re somehow proud of their barbarism. Somehow, I wouldn’t be too concerned about the sensitivity of the Arab world. They don’t seem to have very much. It’s going to come down to them or us.
  • "Jack Cafferty In His Own Words". American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. 18 November 2004. 

2006

• I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it?
  • On Brit Hume of Fox News Network interviewing Dick Cheney after he accidentally shooting Harry Whittington.
  • "Caustic Commentator". The Washington Post. 27 February 2006. 

• On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal".
  • "Cafferty Shows His Love For Rumsfeld". Crooks & Liars. 7 November 2006. 

2007

• Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?
  • "CNN's Jack Cafferty Mouths Off". Time Magazine. 15 September 2007. 

2008

• I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.
  • It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America. Wiley. ISBN 9780470144794. .

• Well, I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different. We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We also are running hundred of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart. So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years".
  • On the April 9, 2008 broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room", when asked to comment on the United States' relationship with China, Cafferty responded in reference to the Chinese Government and the Americans Government's political and business relationship.

• On the September 26, 2008 broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room", while sitting next to Wolf Blitzer, Cafferty directly highlighted Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's abysmal interview performance with Katie Couric earlier in the week. Cafferty stated, prior to playing a particularly embarrassing segment of the interview in which Palin stumbles across a murky, confused, ambiguous answer to Couric's query regarding the pending economic bailout package, "There's a reason the McCain campaign keeps Sarah Palin away from the press." After the clip's conclusion, he then went on to say, "...Did you get that? If John McCain wins, this woman will be one 72 year-old's heartbeat away from being president of the United States, and if that doesn't scare the Hell out of you, it should...I'm 65 and have been covering politics as you have [addressing Blitzer] for a long time, and that is one of the most pathetic pieces of tape I have ever seen for someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in this country. That's all I have to say." Blitzer responded in a light-hearted, seemingly forced defense of Palin, stating, "Yeah, but she's cramming a lot of information..." Cafferty interrupted, "There's no excuse for that. She's supposed to know a little bit of this, you know. Don't make excuses for her - that's pathetic." Blitzer replied, "It was not her best answer. I agree with you on that," and the segment came to a close.
  • "Jack Cafferty on Sarah Palin". CNN. 26 September 2008.