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Other April 16, 2008 10:33 PM Missouri Time

What Jack Cafferty really said and where are conservatives?

There has been a lot of fuss about what Cafferty of CNN said.  Even some Americans I think are reading this wrong. Cafferty did not insult the Chinese people.  he was answering a specific question about the Chinese Communist regime.

WOLF BLITZER: One of the arguments that some of the pro-China elements is making, Jack, is that this is a very different China today than existed 10 years ago, certainly 20 or 30 years ago. This communist regime(Emphasis mine) today is almost like a capitalist regime. They're a huge economic superpower and that we have a lot at stake in maintaining this economic relationship with China.

JACK CAFFERTY: Well, I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different. We're in hawk 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.

Is clear he is talking about the government and not the people.  Let me show you how this quote appeared in Chinese news papers.

"I think they're(Chinese people) basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years."

Notice how they added the Chinese people part.  They did not mention that they added it.  They printed as if he had actually said this.  I don't like Cafferty but he has no reason to apologize and on this one he is right.  The bigger question is where are all the conservatives.  Why is it that as a conservative I have to go to liberals to find almost any comments about this.  Why are prominent conservatives not speaking up.  In fairness I am in China and only get print and internet news. It is possible that the pundits on the radio are talking about it. Please give me some information if you have any. 

Posted by: Smellyfish at 10:33 PM

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