Defending Jack Cafferty
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.
15 comments April 20th, 2008
