‘How Dare They’: CNN’s Cafferty Rips Obama for Failed Openness Pledge

"What a far cry from the election, when then-candidate Obama pledged to- quote, ‘broadcast health care negotiations on C-SPAN, so that the American people can see what the choices are,’ unquote. President Obama hasn’t even made a token effort to keep his campaign promises of more openness and transparency in government. It was all just another lie that was told in order to get elected."

January 7, 2010 at 12:02 pm - CNN
Dateline: Washington DC

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temple62   January 7th, 2010 - 12:08 pm

It is time for CNN and others in the lamestream media to stop worshiping this false messiah and see Obama for what he is – a documented liar. Joe the Plumber and Joe Wilson were simply ahead of his time and saw what others are now seeing. It is time for the other 52% of the country who voted for this liar to face the facts, acknowledge the lies, false campaign pledges and make efforts to remove him and his do-nothing RINO’s Dem’s and liberals.

reda   January 7th, 2010 - 12:08 pm

HAD THE “NEWS MEDIA” DONE THEIR JOBS WE WOULDHAVE KNOWN THIS BEFORE THE ELECTION HUH? WHERE IS THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS? NOW.. NOW THE MEDIA ACT LIKE THEY WANT TO DO THEIR JOB?

katy   January 7th, 2010 - 12:09 pm

whoa…

Do I smell mutiny?

TrojanHorseAlerts   January 7th, 2010 - 12:13 pm

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> WARNING! YOUR COUNTRY is being destroyed from within and YOU are being SOLD-OUT to the (U.N.) by barry and his flying monkeys! PROOF> http://www.infowars.com CLICK LISTEN NOW! WHY DID YOU SELL US OUT TO (”INTERPOLE”), barry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????? You are WATCHING the sausage of TYRANNY being made People!!! STAND- UP!

Shedworld   January 7th, 2010 - 12:18 pm

Remember some of this crap… INDEED!
If this doesn’t raise outrage in folks, what will?

Sundowner   January 7th, 2010 - 12:19 pm

Another of the fleeced sheep waking up to reality. Shame he’s such a partisan hack and won’t let any of this really soak into that pea sized brain and next week he’ll be right back on the lemming march.

General Patton   January 7th, 2010 - 12:20 pm

>>> BARRY sold you out to (”interpole”) (The U.N. Police Force) with a stroke of his pen People! WAKE UP TO this and other DECEPTION being PERPETRATED on YOU @ http://www.infowars.com Click Listen Now for LIVE Streaming Audio and Crystal Clear Insights and Understanding of what these vermin are UP TO!!!

skipper99   January 7th, 2010 - 12:22 pm

It would be laughable, this now somewhat “awakening MSM” If it were not for the gravity of the present POTUS. Time and again Obama and his minions have lied, distorted and subverted the governqance of America, in the most bizzare and corrupt manner possible. Surely the 2010 mid term elections will see a real ground swell of Americans of every stripe, rise up at show our Congress and other elected “officials” that we are fed up with the cronyism, lies, out of control spending,government incompetence, and we are not going to take it any more. Good to see Jack Cafferty, and his oft times scarcastic demeanor finally have an awakening. Now what about the rest?

Barry   January 7th, 2010 - 12:23 pm

The media only gets upset when THEY are the ones being shut out of the debate viewing. They feel entitled to have access at all times to both the president and congress. Of course, I feel that they should be there in this case so we can all know what the heck is being decided FOR us, but it’s a shame the media was so beholden to the demonrats during the last election. This is what we all get because of that! Shame on them!

Jim   January 7th, 2010 - 12:24 pm

Dear liberal JACKa__,
What are you complaining about with your incessent rants about the Bush administration, helping to turn public opinion for the demacrats. Now your reaping what you’ve sown, ENJOY the harvest! JACKa__!!!!!!!!!!!!

BigMac   January 7th, 2010 - 12:24 pm

Kudos to CNN for stepping-up to the plate (finally) and calling it what it is. (I never thought I could write that…)
The EIGHT promises have been broken, so Obama shuffles his head press dufus (Gibbs)out to defend the outright LIES we’ve been told.
It all starts this year (Nov.) and ends in 2012 with one FAILED term as Liar-in-Chief.

yo1   January 7th, 2010 - 12:28 pm

Obama is out of office within 6 months. (Quit) When the rats start jumping ship it is only a matter of time before she (Obama) goes down. Just like Mob when one on the inside turns the whole organization runs for the door or jumps off the ship if you will. Never in the history of man has enslaving a working population worked for very long.

fastfacts   January 7th, 2010 - 12:29 pm

How dare they nothings, they were simply stating that he has not kept his promises and that is the truth.

FIND OUT OTHER PROMISES HE BROKE ON: http://www.americanparchment.com

WAITRESS SANDWICH   January 7th, 2010 - 12:29 pm

Yes We Did http://www.DumpChrisDodd.com

YES WE DID!

YES WE DID!

Commieobamie   January 7th, 2010 - 12:33 pm

obaMAO doesn’t LIE! It’s called Taqiyya!!!

Teddy's SEARCH+RESCUE   January 7th, 2010 - 12:34 pm

Put it on C-SPAN! Do it for TED! http://www.FATBOY.cc

OUR FOUNDER would want it that way.

rapidcraft   January 7th, 2010 - 12:35 pm

Hah! Cafferty the Lib has finally awoken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010 & 2012 are gonna be great for us!

Stop the TYRANNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

brad   January 7th, 2010 - 12:36 pm

I have been very critical of Jack’s comments in the past, but we must give him his due on this one!

Way to go Jack!!!

Commieobamie   January 7th, 2010 - 12:38 pm

He doesn’t LIE! It’s called Taqiyya!

MSM+SEIUxACORN = JOKER!   January 7th, 2010 - 12:39 pm

Jack – You don’t know JACK! http://www.M4GW.com

Already Lame Duck   January 7th, 2010 - 12:39 pm

MEMO: Obama IS the token effort.

peter c   January 7th, 2010 - 12:41 pm

This guy HELPED Obama get in! Now he is angry?

He didn’t care about anything wrong with Obama during the campaign at all…He is just jumping on the band wagon now..He can not be trusted. Did he care that Obama had no experience …that he voted four times to deny medical help to babies that survived induced abortions…or his 20 year relationship with a Marxist Wright…or that he was the most liberal in the senate./…or his work work with ACORN and SEIU…or all his radical friends like Bill Ayers…etc…? Nooooooo.

txmike   January 7th, 2010 - 12:42 pm

Strong words from creerleading camp for obama. I will give them credit for stating valid observations vice just giving lip service to the story like Couric did on CBS.

2010 Hope 2012 Change   January 7th, 2010 - 12:42 pm

Better late than never..welcome to the Tea Party!

RKA   January 7th, 2010 - 12:46 pm

Ah… Cafferty, it hurts when you finally wake up, doesn’t it?

Anderson Pooper   January 7th, 2010 - 12:47 pm

Tonight on AC369…YOUR PLACE OR MINE, Jack joins our panel http://www.crewclub.net to discuss his remarks.

Charles   January 7th, 2010 - 12:47 pm

One of the few times these people act like journalists. Too bad they dont do it more often.

MisterMoney   January 7th, 2010 - 12:48 pm

Politicians by nature simply cannot be trusted to keep campaign promises. Remember – Read my lips, no new taxes – but the new taxes came. Only one example. The arrogance of power attained by these political animals never ceases to amaze, yet we keep on sending them back to Washington DC year after year.

Obama has decided we don’t need to know about him, so he simply refuses to release important information such as his health records, his college transcripts, his scholarly works, and others. Clearly there is something to hide, and eventually it will come out, unfortunately most likely not in time for it to affect his presidency.

I am an independent, and right now I think both parties ( or maybe I should say the one party – Republicrats, or Demopulicans) should be tossed out like week-old fish.

Where can we find honest candidates, who will place the interests of the citizens of this country first?

Maybe it is time for a third party as a serious alternative.

Maybe it is the Libertarians, American Conserative Party, the Reform Party, Progressive Labor Party, the Green Party, or even the Tea Party, but do not be surprised when it happens. The Republican should not count on an Obama backlash, because they too are part of what is wrong with our present governing model.

Good luck in the New Year to everyone.

WatchAndGrowRich   January 7th, 2010 - 12:49 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU <WANT to see Americas Future?

CHECKERS   January 7th, 2010 - 12:51 pm

OMG – They must have run out of duct tape to put over this straight shooter’s mouth. How could this happen? What will the Arab Street say?

Harry   January 7th, 2010 - 12:52 pm

You mean I still have to pay for my mortgage and rent, and no free cars???

HANOI JOHN KERRY   January 7th, 2010 - 12:55 pm

Today at 5:10pm I will be doing a http://www.LIVESHOT.cc with Wolf. Please, all you 189 people who watch his show, don’t miss it.

tacamojo, oklahoma   January 7th, 2010 - 1:01 pm

CNN will roll right back over and go to sleep as soon as this atrocious HC bill is passed. For the rest of us who really care about America just remember this, Nov 2010 is just the start, Nov 2012 in the death knoll, then once more in 2014. But that’s not the end, we have to stay awake and alert from now on. Every 2 years we have the oppurtunity to weed out those who defile the halls of Congress. Be ruthless, be relentless…VOTE every chance you can. And for pete’s sake know something about whom you’re voting for.

dmdaughertyColorado   January 7th, 2010 - 1:05 pm

Jackie-boy did’nt realize cameras were on and his mouth was moving….he actually said something negative about the messiah….Obamas campaign lies are right out of the Saul Alinski playbook, say anything popular to get the vote regardless if its a lie, immoral, illegal, or unethical and then do your dirty socialist work…..

General Patton   January 7th, 2010 - 1:15 pm

“EXECUTIVE ORDERS” are illegal!!! What part of illegal DON’T you understand barry!!! WAKE UP TO THIS GUY PEOPLE! http://www.infowars.com

txmike   January 7th, 2010 - 1:18 pm

The day hoped changed to outrage

AWR   January 7th, 2010 - 1:21 pm

The effects of the Kool Aid are beginning to wear off….and some are waking up.

claspur   January 7th, 2010 - 1:26 pm

How DARE THEY NOT !???

Change Monger   January 7th, 2010 - 1:34 pm

“Here’s hoping the voters will remember some of this CRAP come November”

Well said Mr Cafferty.

sallyfarrar   January 7th, 2010 - 1:36 pm

I don’t know who Jack Cafferty is because I avoid CNN but, honestly, I am totally shocked that anyone from that network is actually coming out against the corrupt Obama administration!
One can hear opposing points of view on Fox but I never hear anything but Leftist B.S. whenever I venture over to the other networks so I stick to CSPAN and some Fox.
And, BTW, to hear some bloggers call Brian Lamb “biased” because he has offered to televise health care hearings would be laughable if it weren’t so blatantly, pathetically insane.

H2K   January 7th, 2010 - 1:41 pm

C’mon! Even when you see those clips of BHO (Mmmmm Mmmmmm Mmmmmmm) talking about C-SPAN coverage, I’m thinking to myself “he’s blowing smoke up my a.ZZ”.

And how could this Cafferty, who is supposed to be a trained journalist, have been so blinded to this level of manipulation?

Therefore, I don’t even believe this story. Cafferty is in on it.

Robbya   January 7th, 2010 - 1:43 pm

Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor!!!

Eric B   January 7th, 2010 - 1:45 pm

Good for you Jack

RUFUS LEVIN   January 7th, 2010 - 1:46 pm

SO WHEN DOES CNN PLAN TO APPOLOGIZE TO JOE WILSON FOR CALLING HIS ACTION UNTHINKABLE WHEN HE SPONTANEOUSLY SHOUTED THE TRUTH DURING OBAMA’S SPEECH…”HE LIED”….YES, MAIN STREAM MEDIA….HE LIED…AND LIED…AND KEEPS ON LYING….MAYBE THE LIES ARE WHAT CAUSES THE TINGLE TO RUN UP CHRIS MATHEWS LEG….HE LIKE LIES, HE LIVES LIES, HE PROMOTES LIES, AND HE IS A LIAR TOO.

MSM WERE USED AS PROPAGANDA TOOLS ALL ALONG….THEY ARE GOING TO WATCH THEIR RATINGS AND VIEWERSHIP PLUMMET WITH THE ENTIRE DEMOCRAT PARTY AS AMERICAN CITIZENS DEMONSTRATE THEIR DISGUST, ANGER, AND VENGENCE AGAINST THE OBAMA CHICAGO SOROS THUGS.

4uPatriots   January 7th, 2010 - 1:48 pm

It’s about time these guys (The Lame-Stream Media) wake up! Most of the American people knew how corrupt this guy was as a Senator. Do your homework…

Wake Up America! Ask yourself…What has your representative done to foster Freedom and Stamp Out Cronyism and Corruption! If they haven’t done squat, VOTE THEM OUT!

Country First, Politicians Last…

http://www.zazzle.com/4upatriots*

Tired of it All   January 7th, 2010 - 2:04 pm

Good for you Jack, finally the media is waking up. I’m surprised CNN aired this.

Talen   January 7th, 2010 - 2:17 pm

Bravo Jack. This is beyond Republican or Democrat at this point.

Boogy Man   January 7th, 2010 - 2:21 pm

Thank you jack !!

Heartland Dweller   January 7th, 2010 - 2:22 pm

Hold it… someone…anyone… Am I dreaming, or did Jack McCafferty just throw Obama and Pelosi under the bus?

Daaaang CNN… that was a little carnivorous. Now I wonder if Chris “Mr. Tingle” Matthews and Keith “Bathtub Boy” Obermann of that “other” network will follow suit. Naaah… that would be too much to ask for in their kool-aid induced stupors.

Z06   January 7th, 2010 - 2:25 pm

It’s so funny watching the moonbats become unglued.

b mathews   January 7th, 2010 - 2:33 pm

i am SHOCKED to hear jack cafferty bad mouth obama. who’s next? chris “tingles”mathews? that would make my day!! btw, caffery spewed the most vile things about hillary during the campaign. that was the last time i watched cnn.

myobed   January 7th, 2010 - 2:44 pm

Commieobamie has it right. In Islam, the legal lie, is called Taqiyya and can be used anytime to protect one’s real intentions if harm could result from the truth being told. In the West, we just call it being a lying weasel. Barak Hussein Obama is holding true to his Islamic faith.

Check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya

Voice of Reason   January 7th, 2010 - 2:54 pm

I said this back in October 2008 my Dear Obama supporters – “you were warned”. Now you have to live with your decision.

Switallas   January 7th, 2010 - 2:55 pm

A good start, Jack, but not enough. Much, much more needs to be demonstrated for you, your colleagues and your network, to regain credibility.

Good start!

Donedeed   January 7th, 2010 - 3:05 pm

Go Jack,go. Wow. could the Tea Party air this over and over again on the other networks as a commercial. This would be great. Hope and Change ? Haven’t seen either yet. I’ll bet in 2011 there’ll be a lot more promises and this clip will resurface then in the next presidential election cycle.

LibertyFirst1776   January 7th, 2010 - 3:13 pm

Buck Ofama is The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers

Snailmailtrucker   January 7th, 2010 - 3:21 pm

Did the alarm clock just go off at the liberal camp?
Sounds as if one or two of them are finally waking up!

Ricepaddyrob   January 7th, 2010 - 3:36 pm

Notice – WARNING – This a a fake video – It has to be – CNN ripping Obama – NO way! This guy is going to wake up in the morning with a horse head in is bed! Although I di love his last line!

Buford T Justice   January 7th, 2010 - 3:47 pm

Wow! The worm may be about to turn……

Truth B Forbidden   January 7th, 2010 - 4:04 pm

Uh oh, has Obama ordered Communist News Network (CNN) to fire Cafferty yet? Looks like Cafferty has an IRS audit in his future.

Army of Davids   January 7th, 2010 - 4:35 pm

Killl the Bill.

Elect Scott Brown (R) in the special senate election coming in Massachusetts.

very important.

bill   January 7th, 2010 - 4:41 pm

Holy #@*$. I need a drink.

frankly   January 7th, 2010 - 4:46 pm

If this liberal hack is criticizing Obama this then Healthcare may be Obama’s “Waterloo” after all, at least in terms of it being legal for the media to criticize the chosen one.

Thor   January 7th, 2010 - 4:48 pm

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

ben anderson   January 7th, 2010 - 5:17 pm

could cnn possibly become a media outlet again ??????????????????

OneFedUpAmerican   January 7th, 2010 - 5:28 pm

CNN (Communist News Network) hasn’t had any credibility since the “Scud Stud” days as far as I’m concerned! Only time I ever watched CNN was when Lou Dobbs was on..now he’s gone..so CNN good riddance..don’t let the door hitcha where the Good Lord splitcha!! And Jack you reap what you sow! too bad you couldn’t do your job BEFORE this usurper got elected!

Panz   January 7th, 2010 - 5:42 pm

Shut up Cafferty, I remember your rants against Clinton and then McCain. Obama was your new god. You got what you bought, the unfortunate thing is we got what you dam* liberals bought too and we don’t want it. We don’t want your dam* health bill either but that will be forced on us all too.

KEYBOARD555   January 7th, 2010 - 5:44 pm

JACK–YOU have taken a small step outside of the OBAMA WORLD. BE CAREFUL or

THE tax man is coming.
SIEU thugs are coming
UNIONS will picket your program.
ACORN will fill the hallways
BLACK PANTHERS with nightsticks will meet you in the parking lot.
If non of the above work
HOLDER will try you as a home grown terrorist,an lock you up, forever.

Army of Davids   January 7th, 2010 - 6:25 pm

Jack is a big liberal. Like Olberman and Howard Dean this is about the sellout to the insurance industry.

The left has a big problem with this. Abortion is still a problem too.

Special election in Massachusetts….very important….kill the bill.

Campbell   January 7th, 2010 - 7:10 pm

Well bless my doggies, a newscaster actually said something about Obama that we can believe! I am in shock, what next– Olbermann speaking truth too!

testicular man   January 7th, 2010 - 8:06 pm

So CNN finally gets hip to this fraudulent creepy president…

pepito cojones   January 7th, 2010 - 8:08 pm

Hahahahahahahaaaaaa, What a doofus and dolt to come to this conclusion all of the sudden and realize that the democrats are bumbling crooks!

arw   January 7th, 2010 - 8:36 pm

They’re finally catching on.

pmt   January 7th, 2010 - 9:04 pm

Still don’t trust him-wolf in sheep clothing…they are just ticked that more radical left promises haven’t been kept …yet. He is still a worshiper IMHO…And really, who cares? These are not the people I look to for news.

derrylane   January 7th, 2010 - 9:41 pm

Pmt, I second that!!!

Army of Davids   January 7th, 2010 - 11:59 pm

Tea Party in Massachusetts?

I like that idea.

CNN is nearly broke   January 8th, 2010 - 12:34 am

CNN trying to save their ratings? They are almost broke you know.

Guy Average   January 8th, 2010 - 4:43 am

My guess is that CNN is taking such a ratings hit from being in bed with The Obama Regime that they are employing a CYA strategy.

Buck O'Fama   January 8th, 2010 - 9:10 am

it’s funny how they squall when the Chickens Come Home to Roost.

they knew he was a fraud. they knew he was a Kenyan. They knew he had on experience. They knew his friends were criminals, tax cheats, illegal aliens, domestic terrorists, and common garden-variety low-lifes.

but, his skin color trumped all that. nevermind that he’d never held a real job, or ever collected a paycheck that wasn’t government sponsored. nevermind that the only military experience he had was sitting through the first 15-minutes of ‘Blackhawk Down’ before he wet himself.

we had to have a ‘person of color’ in the oval office, regardless of whether he was Constitutionally qualified to be there.

and now, those Chickens are taking on the appearance of vultures, circling the rotting fetid corpses of the mainstream media’s empty claims of even-handedness.

why are you so surprised that he lied to you? he lied to EVERYBODY! his entire life is either a closely-guarded secret, or a complete and utter fabrication.

you got this royal fool…because you created him…so don’t be surprised when he gives you the same shaft he’s giving the rest of us.

Tim   January 8th, 2010 - 11:12 am

Didn’t know you had it in you Jack. After 8 yrs of daily bashing Bush and having
nothing but praise for the “annointed one”, have you finally awaken?
This WH is nothing but a bunch of amateurs muddling through from day-to-day,
explaining from one day to the next what they thought they said the day before.
This is a 24/7 amateur show that 48% of the voting public knew it was going to be.

Cafferty Does Have Some Ba!!s and Truth in him   January 8th, 2010 - 6:32 pm

It is about time chumpy!

iQuack   January 10th, 2010 - 6:24 pm

Obama & Co. just wanta to jam through a health care legacy for The Messiah Obama before Congress is voted away this November. Obama has lost touch with what Americans want and focuses only on what HE wants. Only a narcissist doofus of a president would do that and that’s the president we have.

lee   January 13th, 2010 - 6:28 pm

If obama finishes his term….we’ll be a third world nation or all
of us will be speaking Chinese.

Tim   January 14th, 2010 - 1:09 am

What do you mean “Here’s hoping the voters remember this” Here’s hoping you remember it Jack you old crap bag. Normally you’ve got your head so far up Obama’s ass he has to undo his belt for you to do you report on CNN.

john   January 18th, 2010 - 6:40 pm

“Obama has lost touch…” He has NEVER been in touch with normal, thinking, rational, patriotic Americans. And neither has the main-stream media!

Greg O   January 23rd, 2010 - 6:07 pm

It is nice to see someone on CNN who finally gets it. However Fox News has been getting it for over 10 years now.

carol   January 25th, 2010 - 11:13 am

It is so refreshing that someone in CNN is dealing with the facts and letting the people know what is going on. I may be watching a little more of what you all have to say from here on out.

Jim Kelly   January 25th, 2010 - 12:36 pm

It is comforting to know that CNN has grown a pair.

Karl Laphong   March 25th, 2010 - 3:25 pm

THANK YOU JACK!
HOW LONG HAS IT TAKEN FOR CNN TO WAKE UP TO THE LIES!?
I LOGGED NANCIE’S LIE ON DAY ONE AND JUST ABOUT SPIT WHEN I KNEW THAT THE “ETHICS” BEING AT THE TOP OF THEIR AGENDA WAS A FLAT OUT LIE!
THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP IS A LIE AND NOTHING BUT A LIE. HOW LONG WILL THE MEDIA BE SPOON FED BY THESE THUGS AND CON ARTISTS?
We, the people, have been on to the lies from day one.
Finally someone at CNN who can and will speak THE TRUTH.
THANK YOU!

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