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西藏暴亂髮生以來，包括有線新聞網路（CNN）在內的多個著名西方媒體，因被指歪曲報道而遭內地網民炮轟。近日CNN再次惹禍，其中一個時事評論節目的主持人Jack Cafferty，日前談及奧運聖火在美國三藩市的傳遞情況時，竟形容中國的「聖火護衛隊」行為粗暴，又指華人在過去五十年間，「基本上是一幫暴民和惡棍」。其言論引起美國華人強烈不滿，當地華人隨即發動網上聯署行動，除抗議CNN辱華，又要求CNN道歉，並對該名主持人採取行動。
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Jack Cafferty (born December 14, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a CNN commentator and occasional host of specials. In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room, CNN's weekday afternoon newscast and In the money, a weekend show about financial markets and economics, though he was replaced from the latter soon after. Cafferty also formerly co-anchored CNN's weekday morning broadcast, American Morning.
Early career
He began his journalism career in Reno, Nevada in 1960. In the 1970s, he was anchor of the local television news on WHO-TV, the local NBC affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa and hosted a popular segment "Cafferty Is" whereby he would perform various tasks and occupations. He would go on to be a weatherman at WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri, before moving to work at several New York television stations from 1977 to 1998.
News anchor
In 1977 he joined WNBC-TV where he anchored several news programs, such as Live at Five and the Scarborough-Cafferty Report. He was one of Sue Simmons' co-anchors on Live at Five. Around the same time, Cafferty anchored Strictly Business, a nationally syndicated business program. From 1989-1992, Cafferty anchored Newsline New York, a nightly news and interview format program on WNYW, as well as co-anchoring the evening broadcast for Fox 5 News at 7. Then he anchored WPIX's News at Ten with Kaity Tong from 1992-1998.
Bicycle incident
Cafferty pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and misdemeanor charges of reckless driving, assault and harassment after striking a cyclist on May 14, 2003. Cafferty was sentenced to a $250 fine and 70 hours of community service. Mr. Cafferty was charged with the traffic infraction, along with misdemeanor charges of reckless driving, assault and harassment, after the police said he knocked a man off a bike with his Cadillac on Ninth Avenue. The bicyclist was slightly injured. A traffic officer and several pedestrians ran after Mr. Cafferty's car, but he ran at least two red lights without stopping, according to a police complaint.
Controversial remarks
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: "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 March 18, 2008 broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room", when asked to describe a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation polls that came out that day asking people "Who has the right experience to be president?" The poll showed McCain on top with 68 percent, 61 percent for Clinton and 40 percent for Obama and another poll asking people, "Who can bring the kind of change the country needs?" with the poll showing 56 percent for Obama, 49 percent for Clinton, and 39 percent for McCain. "Well, the dissatisfaction of the public at large over the way things are going in this country and have been going for the last seven years indicates that they want something different. They want change. All of the polls are indicating that. And I suppose the candidate of the three remaining in the race who represents the greatest capacity for something besides business as usual in Washington is Barack Obama. John McCain and Hillary Clinton are poster children for the Washington establishment. And if either of them is elected president, my guess is things aren't going to change a whole lot".
On January 19, 2006, Cafferty implied that the George W. Bush administration was behind the timing of the release of a new tape from Osama bin Laden: "The last time we got a tape from Osama bin Laden was right before the 2004 presidential election. Now here we are four days away from hearings starting in Washington into the wire tapping of America's telephones without bothering to get a court order or a warrant, and up pops another tape from Osama bin Laden. Coincidence? Who knows?"
On May 18, 2006, Cafferty charged US Republican Congressional leaders with pandering to social conservatives with a backroom approval of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. "This is all being done by the Republican majority in an effort to appeal to right-wing nuts in the Republican Party ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections. Ignore all of the pressing issues facing the country, and instead go grovel at the feet of the lunatic fringe."
Following the death of Yassir Arafat, Cafferty said in his November 12, 2004 on-air editorial: 「Plans call currently for Yasser Arafat to be buried in his compound in Ramallah, which will eventually be turned into some kind of shrine. Maybe they'll put a sign out front for the Palestinian people, that read "here lies the body of the thief who robbed you blind,」 [end; comma as written] |
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1) Date of Program: April 09, 2008 (2) Time of Program: 6PM US EST (3) Network: CNN (4) Call Sign, Channel OR Frequency of the station on which you viewed/heard the material: CNN (5) City and State Where Program Was Viewed/Heard: fill in whatever city& state you live in (6) Name of Program or DJ/Personality/Song/Film: The Situation Room / Jack Cafferty Please include below as many details about the program as possible in order to help the FCC determine whether the material was obscene, profane, and/or indecent (such as specific words, language, images, etc.): On April 9th, 2008, CNN commentator Jack Cafferty made a racist remark on Chinese people. He said "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." This racist remark is despicable and disturbing. Chinese communities around the country are deeply offended and outraged by this remark. I strongly urge the FCC to take action on Jack Cafferty. References: Youtube video of the show: 
