"Cafferty made the remarks during an appearance on CNN's daily political news program, "The Situation Room," that aired April 9, according to a transcript posted on CNN's Web site.
He was speaking about the U.S. trade deficit with China when he said, according to the transcript, "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," he continued. "I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years."
Network spokeswoman Edie Emery at CNN headquarters in Atlanta pointed out that Cafferty made a clarification Monday on "The Situation Room."
"I was referring to the Chinese government, and not to Chinese people or to Chinese-Americans," Cafferty said, referring to the 'goons and thugs' comment, on Monday's program."
What is this guy, an idiot? And what is this flack at CNN, a moron?
Chinese people are the ones working in the factories for a dollar an hour. Chinese people are the ones running the machines that churn out products with lead paint and pet food poison. Chinese people are the ones working in factories, packaging warehouses, loading docks and so on, sending us inexpensive products so cash-strapped Americans can buy new stuff.
Do Chinese folks really think that Cafferty is talking "only" about the Chinese government - stealing American jobs, poisoning American children and pets? This jingoistic, xenophobic racist idiot is the worst kind of protectionist hypocrite!
We're the ones who demand cheap new stuff! We're the ones who buy their stuff! We're the ones who do business with them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year! We're the ones who feel we're entitled to cushy, high-paying jobs with perks and benefits!
And morons like Cafferty are blaming the Chinese for OUR profligate consumption? Our utterly underserved sense of entitlement? What a sactimonious scumbag!
If I were one of the "goons" at the Chinese government, I'd turn CNN's far east satellite connection off and send their idiot Olympic journalists packing until I had Cafferty's big fat head on a platter.
We may indeed have a trade deficit with China, but American consumers, NOT the Chinese are responsible for it. We want it, we want it cheap, and we want it now. Our dollars are ours, OURS to spend and we spend them on Chinese goods, full stop. If we make our goods so expensive that average Chinese folk can't afford to buy them, that's our fault, not theirs.
Go back to local news, you ignorant, two-faced piece of populist garbage. You're the goon, Jack.
