{"id":4655,"date":"2010-01-08T19:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cnns-jack-cafferty-has-his-own-joe-wilson-moment-another-lie-mr-obama\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T19:09:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:09:02","slug":"cnns-jack-cafferty-has-his-own-joe-wilson-moment-another-lie-mr-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/cnns-jack-cafferty-has-his-own-joe-wilson-moment-another-lie-mr-obama.php","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Jack Cafferty has his own Joe Wilson moment: &quot;Another lie&quot; Mr. Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S0U9kNtYDZI\/AAAAAAAAJJI\/OilARzf49JU\/s1600-h\/Jack+Cafferty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6f06e_Jack+Cafferty.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>CNN's longtime crumudgeon commentator one year ago (via <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/scott-whitlock\/2009\/03\/26\/cnns-jack-cafferty-rooting-terrific-bright-obama\">Newsbusters<\/a>):<\/p><blockquote><p>\"I like him a lot. I think he's a bright guy...<\/p><p>...I'm pulling for the guy. I like him. I think he's terrific.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Jack Cafferty today (also from <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/matthew-balan\/2010\/01\/06\/cnns-cafferty-slams-democrats-closed-door-negotiations-health-care\">NB<\/a>), commenting on Obama's decision not to allow C-SPAN cameras to cover the behind closed doors health care deliberations:<\/p><blockquote><p>\"President Obama hasn&rsquo;t even made a token effort to keep his campaign promises of more openness and transparency in government. It was all just another lie...\"<\/p><p>[I hope] \"the voters remember some of this crap when the midterm elections roll around later this year.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Ironically, Cafferty ranted against the \"decline of civil discourse in this country,\" back in September when Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out \"You lie,\" to Obama during a Presidential address in the House chambers, on health care.  <\/p><p>Wrote Cafferty in a <a href=\"http:\/\/caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/09\/10\/apology-enough-for-congressman-wilson-who-yelled-you-lie-at-pres-obama\/\">Cafferty File column<\/a>, Sept. 10:<\/p><blockquote><p>A Republican congressman from South Carolina made a complete fool of himself during a presidential address to a joint session of Congress last night, and in the process confirmed a lot of what the American public can't stand about politicians...this was pretty low - even with our reduced expectations for our lawmakers.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Though, Cafferty did concede that Wilson might have had a point on coverage for illegal aliens.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ed508_7828681836623105417-3736178668592744744?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN's longtime crumudgeon commentator one year ago (via Newsbusters):\"I like him a lot. I think he's a bright guy......I'm pulling for the guy. I like him. I think he's terrific.\"Jack Cafferty today (also from NB), commenting on Obama's decision not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/cnns-jack-cafferty-has-his-own-joe-wilson-moment-another-lie-mr-obama.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}