Defending Jack Cafferty
April 20th, 2008 at 01:41am Mark Noonan
Not too often you’ll find me defending a CNN person - but one must do the right thing:
Throngs of Chinese Americans protested outside CNN’s offices in Hollywood on Saturday morning, calling for the dismissal of commentator Jack Cafferty, whose recent remarks about Chinese goods and China inflamed a community already angry about international condemnations directed at the host country of the upcoming Olympic Games…
…On the April 9 airing of “The Situation Room,” Cafferty said of America’s relationship with China: “We continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export . . . 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.”
CNN later said Cafferty’s comments were directed at the Beijing government.
“In this occasion Jack was offering his strongly held opinion of the Chinese government, not the Chinese people,” a CNN spokesman said in a statement. “It should be noted that over many years, Jack Cafferty has expressed critical comments on many governments, including the U.S. government and its leaders.”
I’ll up the ante - not only are the people in the Chinese government the same goons and thugs for the past 50 years, but the Chinese people have proven themselves again and again to be no better that truckling slaves to their communist masters. What is really disgusting is the way these Chinese in the United States are out there shouting in a demonstration - while if they were to do the same sort of demonstration in Beijing directed against China’s State-run media, they’d be lucky if they wound up merely in a slave labor camp.
As I’ve said before, I’ve just had enough of China - from their unfair trade practices, to their ruthless supression of anyone in China with a backbone, to their support for some of the world’s worst regimes, the Chinese are making their name stink in the nostrils of all decent men and women in the world. If the people of China don’t like what we say about them and their government, then there is a simple solution: free yourselves, and take your place in the world - cease being the fawning slaves of the corrupt oligarchs who run China.
Entry Filed under: Foreign Affairs, Media
15 Comments
1. Freedom1 | April 20th, 2008 at 1:53 am
If these Chinese Americans don’t like America’s- and Jack Cafferty’s-1st Amendment Freedom of Speech, they can leave America and go live in China. Later!
2. Timothy Horrigan | April 20th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Hmm, Mark I am totally confused… what exactly is your point here? My take on your posting was that you were saying that Chinese-Americans shouldn’t be protesting (even though they have the right to do so) because Chinese in China aren’t free to do the same thing… but that makes no sense. So I must be misconstruing… maybe you need to clarify
3. Mark Noonan | April 20th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Timothy,
Rather ironic that Chinese in the United States are out there demonstrating against CNN when Chinese in China can’t say a word out of step without being arrested/tortured/shot/what have you…
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5. my father | April 20th, 2008 at 5:04 am
fuck you asshole! you are so big coward, and buster! go to hell, china is none of your business!
6. congressive | April 20th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Legions of Walmart greeters in blue vests asking to help Cafferty find the nearest exit…
I gotta give Cafferty credit, too. He was all “support the president in time of war bla bla bla” but he finally caught on and is now “we were lied into war bla bla bla.”
I guess you won’t see deadly Chinese pharmaceuticals and lead-tainted Thomas the Trains sets being advertised on CNN anytime soon.
Maybe Fox will push their toxic toothpaste for them…
7. NeoClown | April 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am
The Chinese economy is growing at 10% per year. The Chinese school system is cranking out mathematicians, scientists, and engineers by the thousands. They are reverse engineering, or outright stealing our technology for computers, communications, tanks, ships, aircraft, satellites, and other space platforms.
To combat this menace to world peace and the American way of life conservatives want to teach intelligent design as science. While the Chinese learn about chemistry and chemical weapons, Americans learn about Jesus. While the Chinese learn about aeronautics, we Americans learn about Angels and Unicorns.
Jack Cafferty is right. The Chinese are a bunch of goons and thugs and they are hell-bent on world domination. It is a shame that Bushco and conservatives everywhere are helping them achieve their goal.
8. bagni | April 20th, 2008 at 10:28 am
markfferty
blackhole buddies have a joke….
what’s the difference between the u.s. and china?
in the u.s. you only arrest protestors
in china they first beat them and then arrest them
9. Timothy Horrigan | April 20th, 2008 at 10:29 am
It is ironic, Mark… but not necessarily wrong. Of course we liberals have a different view of things.
#1. Most of us (though not the Obama & Clinton campaigns… * sigh*) think that WE have the right to set our own agenda. We think that rightwingers (like Mark) only have the right to set THEIR own agenda.
#2. Even Obama and Clinton agree that protesting is not just a symbolic act: it can actually have an effect. Hence, it is justifiable (and even wise) to protest something minor while leaving a larger issue aside, IF the “something minor” can actually be fixed. Racist remarks by a CNN commentator is something small which can be fixed… even if he has the right to say what he said, you can still do some good by embarrassing him a little. The brutal nature of the Chinese regime is something which can’t be fixed as easily.
BTW, there HAVE been many anti-Red Chinese demos, mostly by leaft-leaning groups.
10. OhioOrrin | April 20th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
all hogwash…
we the people allow US corporations to conduct business w the Chinese communist govt.
we the people buy chinese manufactured goods.
we the people allow the US govt to continue financing the deficit by selling treasury notes to the chinese communists.
actions speak louder than words…
11. phnx | April 20th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
The irony in the chinese-american protests is that they are using free speech rights to protest against free speech. Apparently “MF” above doesn’t understand the concept of free speech.
Drudge has a very ironic photo of two chinese wearing face mask with the letters CNN circled and crossed out. I guess the concept of free speech is unknown, and apparently unwanted in China, as well as the middle east. Just ask the Danes.
12. ViralNexus | April 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
NeoClown and Ohio have it correct- instead of competing with China we are funding their rise as a relevant world power. As it stands now our interest payments alone are $4.6 billion. While other countries have demanded that China sell them safe products (and which have been obliged) we still accept their lead tainted toys and poisened dog food. The irony of it is that Mark et all are in full support of this “war on terror” yet we could not fund it without China. If we were to stop accepting aid from China we would have to significantly scale back our operations in Iraq and Afghanistan thus we walk on egg shells to keep from pissing them off.
13. John | April 22nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
slaves to their communist masters? what’s wrong with you? can i say u r the slave of monore doctorine or captitalsim?how about Imperism? u know nothing about China and her history, culture… U r certainly not qualified to assult the Chinese people. As a person who grew up In China, I am certainly oppose ur comments. Man, I feel sorry for ya, u r the victim of the western media. western medias are not telling u the true stories. Negativity sells, especially on China. So plz no more bullshit and read more about the chinese history and culture. Plz respect the people! Go Beijing, Go olympics!!!!!!!!!!!!!
14. bbjsmith | April 28th, 2008 at 12:00 am
People like Cafferty is a bunch of redneck, white trash.
I’d like to offer my sincere apology for what I said that “People like Cafferty is a bunch of redneck, white trash.”
I’d like to clarify what I said “People like Cafferty is a bunch of redneck, white trash.” is toward the government not to the people of America.
15. Ralph | April 28th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
if democratise China means in the future a few million people else where in the globe will suffer and die just as the same way as millions of Iraqi did under America’s “war” on terror, I would rather keep China untouched. At least China does not have a long history of intervening other country’s business in the name of national security.
Oh, btw didn’t Chinese people deserve a period of peace after 200 years of unrest, which is largely due to Western Imperialism?
And don’t blame China for the leaded toy and poisoned food, shouldn’t the US importers check up the goods themselves before they put up on selves?