Thursday, March 13, 2008

The insular world of the yapping head

Jack Cafferty is a commentator who gives lame analysis on CNN. Essentially, he's the channel's resident curmudgeon. He tries to portray himself as some visionary who sees through b.s. and tells it like it is. But he's little more than a schmuck who has a chair next to Wolf Blitzer.

Like most media pundits, he's tremendously self-important.

For example, he was part of a panel that was yapping about the resignation speech of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. While the other pundits offered bland, but benign commentary, Cafferty whipped out his modus operandi: righteous indignation.

The problem with Spitzer's speech, sniffed Cafferty, was that he didn't seem sincere enough.

Eliot Spitzer's promising political career is in tatters. He lost the governorship. He may lose his family. He may lose his freedom.

Is the CNN yapping head so pompous, so self-referential that he actually thinks Eliot Spitzer gives a rat's behind whether Jack Cafferty thought his speech was sincere?

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