He Gets Paid to Write This Crap???
If the network news wasn’t as awful as it is, Jack Cafferty would be THE laughinstock of the news industry. As it is, he’s just ONE of the laughingstocks. Imagine my surprise when I read Cafferty’s article claiming that John McCain is intellectually shallow:
Sen. John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day. He made an exception for the religious forum on Saturday at Saddleback Church in Southern California.
I think he made a big mistake. When he was invited last spring to attend a discussion of the role of faith in his life with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, McCain didn’t bother to show up. Now I know why.
It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. “It means I’m saved and forgiven.” Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we’ve all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.
Asked about his greatest moral failure, he cited his first marriage, which ended in divorce. While saying it was his greatest moral failing, he offered nothing in the way of explanation. Why not?
I’d call Mr. Cafferty an idiot but I don’t want to ruin the reputations of idiots.
People can call Sen. McCain alot of things but one thing they can’t call him is intellectually shallow. Sen. McCain has experienced way too many things to be called lacking depth. Lacking depth fits his opponent but it doesn’t fit with Sen. McCain.
Mr. Cafferty is confusing crisp answers with a lack of intellectual heft. President Reagan’s answers were often crisp and concise. People nicknamed him the “Amiable Dunce.” Reagan’s record speaks for itself. All Reagan accomplished in his eight years in office was pull us out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, create 18 million new jobs while defeating the former Soviet empire.
Great men throughout history have been underestimated because their ability to break things down was misunderstood as the machinations of a simple mind. President Bush is ridiculed about being simpleminded. All he got right was freeing 50 million people from the hands of ruthless tyrants. I’ll take that over John Kerry’s nuanced indecision anytime.
I’d bet the proverbial ranch that most people disagree with Cafferty’s assessment of Sen. McCain’s story about the guard drawing the Cross. I’d bet that most Americans found that compelling.
Here’s Cafferty’s most audacious paragraph of all:
He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the “Straight Talk Express” for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes. Unless he’s reciting talking points or reading from notes or a TelePrompTer, John McCain is lost. He can drop bon mots at a bowling alley or diner, short glib responses that get a chuckle, but beyond that McCain gets in over his head very quickly.
Excuse me, Mr. Cafferty but it’s Sen. Hopeandchange that’s lost without his trusty teleprompter. It’s Sen. Hopeandchange that says stupid things like filling our tires and getting regular tuneups will save as much oil as we’d get from drilling. I’d hope that Mr. Cafferty doesn’t think that Sen. Hopeandchange is the embodiment of intellectual depth.
Sen. Hopeandchange is calculating but he isn’t a man of intellectual depth or heft.
Finally, there’s this from Mr. Cafferty’s hate-filled diatribe:
George Bush’s record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself.
All President Bush has done is put in place a strategy that’s protected us from terrorist attacks and liberate 50+ million people from the oppression of brutal tyrants. I’ll take that record of “failure” anytime. As for President Bush’s record as a businessman, his wealth speaks for itself.
Why a news organization would hire Mr. Cafferty is a mystery. I think it’s an indicator of how dumbed down the Agenda Media is.
Technorati Tags: Media Bias, Jack Cafferty, CNN, Agenda Media, Obama, Teleprompter, John McCain, President Bush, Liberation, National Security, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 20th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Gary, you of all people should know that for a liberal, intellectual depth = you agree with me. Shallow = you disagree with anything I say.
August 20th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Of course, anyone who isn’t a liberal is just plain stupid. People like Buckley, Churchill, Clearence Thomas, they are all dumb as a box of rocks. Just ask Obama.
August 20th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
McCafferty honor graduate of the Olberman school of commentary.