Jack, you dont tell people that a career in the performing arts disqualifies them from seeking elected office, and I wont say publicly that your being convicted of leaving the scene of an accident in which you struck a cyclist and then ran two red lights while you were pursued by the police and were subsequently ordered to serve 70 hours of community service back in May of 2003 disqualifies you from posing as a Man of the People on a major cable news network. I don't know that we'll ever return to the days of unlimited prosperity that we've seen in the past. Who else made the list? U.S. real estate might be a mess, but in other parts of the world, home prices are jumping. We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. But most of the attention is going to the economy, and that's as it should be. Both former prisoners live in England. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax The Project also tracks the most popular news video on YouTube each week. Cable News Network. I tried looking in google and didn't come up with anything. By attracting an audience. Besides calling it as he sees it politically, he tells the story of growing up in a turbulent family in Reno, Nevada, in the 1950s. Apparently, what happened was our correspondent at the Pentagon started getting these phone calls from people in the Pentagon, saying, "Cafferty just called Rumsfeld a war criminal." PEJ measures the topics that are of most interest to bloggers by compiling the quantitative information on links and analyzing the results. Of course they overdid it. Jack Cafferty on None off us have any votes on what house we're born into. Do Obama & Co. have their priorities right? George Bush doubled the national debt in the eight years he was in office. Many Twitterers, for example, linked to MSNBCs list of charitable organizations that were active in the relief effort. In this week's Behind Closed Doors, Cafferty talks more about his struggle with alcoholism and his political observations, as chronicled in his new book, It's Getting WebJOHN CAFFERTY & THE BEAVER BROWN BAND An Introduction After a decade-long run on the Northeast music scene during which they became recognized as one of the best and most popular unsigned acts in the country, Beaver Brown finally broke through nationally with leader John Caffertys score to the motion picture, Eddie & The Cruisers. WebJack Cafferty was born on the 14th of December, 1942. Email us. If he was as tough to get along with for his wives as he was for his children, then it's pretty easy to understand. Yeah, good thing he didnt say that publicly. That's part of why they're there. 4. In his new book, Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our Dream, CNN's irascible commentator takes on the economy, foreign policy, education, health care, immigration, energy, the Bush legacy and Obama's opportunity--nothing less than the future of the country. [2] [3] Her father Joseph W. Landers Jr. is a lawyer who worked as an environmental adviser in the Governor's Office during Reubin Askew 's term as Florida governor. But the fundraising element here is something new-giving people fast, direct access to action. Family Cafferty has stayed sober since the death of his wife and has avoided extramarital affairs since then. Perhaps New York University should print on its undergraduate drama degrees Warning: the bestowing of this degree precludes you from seeking any public office per Jack Cafferty of CNN.'. 4.3M views 14 years ago. WebHe made considerable managerial changes, and started a push to recovery with the help of his first assistant, Jack Ferguson. A controversy ensued later in the week as some watchdog groups questioned the relationship between Jeans private businesses and his charity, although the singer denied any wrongdoing. Blogs and Twitter have played critical roles in spreading information and awareness during other international events, such as the June 2009 protests in Iran, according to PEJs data. What he is doing is he's leading, unlike the predecessor, who walked around muttering incoherent sentences a good part of the time. All Rights Reserved.Terms What role do you think Republicans can play in fixing these problems? Cafferty also contributed to CNNs weekday morning show. TPM TV. Other charities used similar methods to raise funds. All rights reserved. Well, take a look around. So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. Surveillance video of a Kansas City woman going on a rampage at McDonalds, 5. I think the party has got to try to be a little more cooperative. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 The early exposure to alcohol helped set the stage for an adulthood plagued with addiction. Even many of these links were about ways people could help. He went to high school and university but information about his education has not been updated but will be updated soon. He was married to his girlfriend Carol Cafferty in 1973, and after thirty-five years of married life, his wife died of unknown causes in 2008. Before she died in 2008 they have four children and five grandchildren. Age, Height, Bio, Movies, Series, Net worth, Facts, Who is Chichi Morah? Carol [his second wife] is an extraordinary woman. Fourth, again at 9%, was a profile of a former Guantanamo Bay prison guard who reunited with two of the men he held captive to express his regret about how the prisoners were abused. Cafferty later served as a business reporter and anchor for WPIX-News TVs at 10 in New York in the 1990s. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it. WebJack Cafferty was born on December 14, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. For example, Alex Howard of the Web site digiphile used search technology to relay posts on Twitter feeds coming from people within 50 miles of the earthquake. And, the event did not even occur until the middle of the week. No one has ever accused CNN commentator Jack Cafferty of being a shrinking violet. On Twitter, two different levels of activity emerged. The driver recently pled guilty to 37 counts of reckless endangerment and was sentenced to 90 days in jail. It's like, who cares? For the entire week of January 11-15, 43% of the news links in blogs were about the tragedy in Haiti according to the New Media Index produced by PEJ. Celebrities were another element of the campaign as many passed along requests for donations to their Twitter followers. That's all I have to say." "Alcohol was as much a part of my daily living as brushing my teeth was," says Cafferty. So I was able to consume quantities of alcohol without it affecting [me] I didn't slur my speech, I didn't fall down. A more than 20-year veteran of New York nightly news, Cafferty has distinguished himself as a reporter covering the world's financial capital as well as A lesson for all of us - what starts as a Maria Elvira Salazar is the newest name to join the list of journalists who have, Given the strain and responsibility that comes with the job, becoming a journalist isnt for, Facts of Natalia Andrea Rodriguez Carrillo Full Name Natalia Andrea Rodriguez Carrillo Height 163cm Nationality, Francia James Net Worth, Height, Weight, Bio, Age and More, Who is Michele Hicks Married To? I'm not sure that's helpful. He routinely sounds off in his own tart, curmudgeon-like way on CNN's popular news show The Situation Room. But many news sites made use of information initially posted by social media. It was what it was. "I was actually taught to drink, without even realizing what was going on, by my dad," recalls Cafferty of frequent father-and-son visits throughout childhood to the neighborhood saloon in Reno, Nev. It's part of the Constitution. After the clip's conclusion, he then went on to say, "Did you get that? In terms of posts that linked to other reports, Haiti was the second largest topic, receiving 15% of the news links for the entire week (and 36% for the two days of Wednesday and Thursday). Cranky CNN commentator Jack Cafferty lit into Republican superstars Sarah Palin (R-FNC), Gov. On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal". The target=_blank rel=noopener noreferrer>fourth video was unedited surveillance video of a woman at a Kansas City McDonalds who went on a rampage after being disappointed with her order. That being said, I will go to my grave as Jack Cafferty, Private Citizen, believing that these people committed war crimes. Was there a quid pro quo? Other active celebrities included cyclist Lance Armstrong and actor Ben Stiller. The other thing that concerns me is all this money that's being printed in Washington and being thrown at these problems. under which this service is provided to you. "Its times like these that Im amazed and in awe of how the world community can come together to help those in desperate need," added Maries Blog Caf. Jeff Immelt says the U.S. is a cost competitive market for advanced manufacturing and that GE is bringing jobs back from Mexico. According to Sysomos, 59% of the tweets about Haiti were re-tweets. And fifth (at 8%) was a video of a reporter who broke a phone at a Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that was marketed as being "unbreakable.". Cafferty worked for San Diego Gas and Electric and was driving in his company truck near a Black Lives Matter protest in Poway, California, earlier this month, according to KNSD-TV. 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You pissed off the president of east coast television and microwave oven programming on NBC. I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me. I think, is the By the time I was mid-teens, I was having a beer in these joints or I was having a beer at home. 16K. I think they do. He also discovered pictures that had been posted on sites like Twitpic that illustrated the extent of the damage. Actress Lindsay Lohan, for example, tweeted "Yele Haiti now for the disasterPlease do all that you can. Obama talked about it in the campaign, you got to be involved, you got to participate, that whole clich that freedom ain't free. WebCNN's Jack Cafferty asks if Congress should give up trying to pass health care reform. That's the checks and balances. https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Cafferty&oldid=2867454, Political commentators from the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. "I have a compulsive distrust of authority figures," explains the journalist. PEJ originally captured both Technoratis and Icerockets daily aggregation. It's just paper. "If anyone ever doubted that blogging and tweeting could go beyond navel gazing, I guess today we have evidence of the contrary.". So we're adding to the debt, which will have to be addressed [at] some point. Well who the hell is she to take it off the table? The expansion of online blogs and other social media sites has allowed news-consumers and others outside the mainstream press to have more of a role in agenda setting, dissemination and interpretation. Commentary: Prosecute sins of Bush-Cheney era updated May 19, 2009 It doesn't go Washington politics is a nasty game, and the guys that are out are always complaining about the guys that are in. Impeachment was put into the Constitution for a reason. Cafferty married his fiance Carol Cafferty in 1973, and his wife died in 2008 after thirty-five years of marriage. Jack Ma was about to become the richest man in China. 'Circling My Mother,' A Memoir of Love and Pain, Medication Shows Promise in Treating Alcoholism. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Blogs and other new media are an important part of creating todays news information narrative and in shaping the way Americans interact with the news. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. We've got a war going on in Iraq, we've got budget deficits, we've got yadda-yadda-yadda. So I don't know that this is ever going to be completely over. Bush was kind of a myopic fellow, I think, by comparison. He was paid $275 thousand at WNBC and $230 thousand at Live at Five. Everything's shut down, there's no jobs, there's no nothing. My father used to take me into bars and saloons around Reno when I was a kid, 11, 12, 13 years old. If John McCain wins, this woman will be one 72 year-old's heartbeat away from being president of the United States, and if that doesn't scare the Hell out of you, it shouldI'm 65 and have been covering politics as you have [addressing Blitzer] for a long time, and that is one of the most pathetic pieces of tape I have ever seen for someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in this country. After Cafferty dared to question the merits of Alec Baldwins potential political run, Baldwin unleashed a sarcastic blog response on The Huffington Post. That was really the impetus for me to quit.