Get "Ugly" with CNN's Jack Cafferty in HuffPost LiveChat

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty will be joining HuffPost for a live chat Wednesday at 1 pm ET to discuss his new book It's Getting Ugly Out There, and offer his in-your-face takes on everything from Bush and Iraq to immigration to the latest celebrity tabloid outrage. To join the discussion, please send your questions to [e-mail] between now and the start of the chat. Then be sure to check out our Media page Wednesday at 1 o'clock Eastern, and watch things get "Ugly."

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Comments

[Waitaminute]

01:40 PM on 09/12/2007

Jack, don't you think its arrogant, for the same people who invaded Iragi, to now suggest we are so concerned about them and we don't want to leave?

If my house was invaded, my family members murdered, raped and humiliated in other perverted ways. Do you think the people who broke into my house, and did these things, cared about the people left in the house?

[Cosmic Logic]

01:30 PM on 09/12/2007

Jack,
Could we agree that the people who believe Bush's announcement is based on a successful surge strategy are either stupid, clueless, gullible, grossly partisan, or maybe all the above? Don't you just know these are the same people who get easily swindled in get rich-quick pitches or don't carry insurance because they think it is too expensive or think cutting taxes applies to them or think we can have a viable culture and civilization without 'government' institutions and regulations and, yes, taxes.

Should we feel sorry for these people or should we fear these people or should we simply require psychological intervention...free, of course, to all those who qualify?

[arrogant1]

01:00 PM on 09/12/2007

first things first,thank you Arianna for The Huffington Post in general but also for the opportunity to speak with Jack, a long time hero.Jack, what are the chances that you and Lou Dobbs (also of hero ranking)could be convinced to run for office.Really if you think about it, your the only two mainsteam voices that speak for those of us who, it seems, no longer have a voice(at least one that is being heard)I am absolutly sure that I am in good company in wishing the two of you were already running things,so tell us, what do you think?

[Meah]

12:58 PM on 09/12/2007

Hey Jack,
Why do you suppose that Bush is saying that 30,000 soldiers will be coming home next summer? Do you suppose it might have anything to do with the Republican Convention?

[BadgersBite]

12:57 PM on 09/12/2007

If Bush was serious about preventing terrorist from getting their hands on fissionable material to prevent a dirty bomb why hasn't he done more, or anything to secure this material?

Why hasn't he done more to secure the loose WMD's possesed by former Soviet Union states?

[MAC2]

12:56 PM on 09/12/2007

If the damn MBA's ever got out of the way. I think a hour of Jack and Micheal would once again bring viewers back to CN. But fat ass chnce of that ever happening, hell first you would have to blow the Harvard MBA's out of there (CNN) then you would have to fight off the White house it would just on it self, O' Really would have an 8.6 on the scale.

Maybe one addtional person to that hour, 9make it two hours) bring L. Flynt on for in depth exposure of our politicians. Wow DC would be sucking Malox by the buckets.................

I am not gay nor have I ever been gay.
I am not gay nor have I ever been gay.
I am not gay nor have I ever been gay.
I am not gay nor have I ever been gay.

GD "Party of the Wide Stance Machine " broke again...................

[Ron]

12:53 PM on 09/12/2007

Jack,
Why couldn't there be a special federal law against "Organized Political Corruption" with penalties of mandatory long term jail time, loss of money and properties, or anything of value, with no presidential pardon available,loss of pension and benifits,etc.. This could cover blackmailing, misuse of goverment agencies and funds, defrauding the American people, and policies used for direct or indirect personel or political gains. Like past RICO laws have been used to go after specific groups, the additional political corruption and the abuse of power should be an accountable crime(s), or our Justice system will continue to be manipulated for the powerful and wealthy people in power.

[hopeless277]

12:43 PM on 09/12/2007

Name 3 things the Bush Admin has been correct on regarding Iraq.

I rest my case.

[aMollyMaguire]

12:43 PM on 09/12/2007

Jack,

How do we convince these neocons that we need to do everything possible to avoid going to war with Iran, and that bombing Iran preemptively should be our LAST option and not our first? I am scared to death they are going to do this without any discussion from us, "for our own good" before they leave office. What can we do to stop this from happening?

aMollyMaguire

[grainger5]

12:40 PM on 09/12/2007

Mr. Cafferty, I'd like to know your opinion on Britney Spears. Is it true that Lindsay Lohan is way cuter and messed up?

[changehorses08]

12:37 PM on 09/12/2007

You would be as popular as Obermann if you had your own show. Why do you think that CNN would rather lose in the ratings race then give you an hour of airtime. I guess we will have to keep calling and writing. CNN should look at the polls however, and see just how many of us Dems are out there looking for something to watch.

[anxious4change]

12:36 PM on 09/12/2007

Hi Jack- I remember you from the pre-cable days and loved you. Congrats on your new book and good for you for coming clean on your past. Speaking of coming clean, after your Situation Room question of the day on Monday, you mentioned to Wolf that you would like to see Colin Powell come back to the political roundtable. Don't you think it's way too late for him and that if he does come back to the table he would need to 'fess up with some details on how we can prosecute bush and cheney for war crimes. Oh that's right, he'd be implicated, nevermind.

[Tinuviel]

12:26 PM on 09/12/2007

Hi Jack, Love to listen to your comments, you are saying on television what many of us are saying out here everyday.

Question: Would you agree that the vast majority of media (with the exception of you, of course) has lost their willingness, and maybe their ability to conduct and present investigative reporting? What do the American people do if they can't get the truth to make informed decisions? We can vote politicians out of office but how do we tell the media, the so called "free press" that they are failing in their responsibility to ask tough questions and provide us accurate information? The "balanced" approach is a farce that allows spin and outright lies to be repeated without correction. What can we do about this? I've already quit watching all news but one (sorry, I watch Countdown) however I do check your stuff on the web almost daily.

[jbcowan]

12:19 PM on 09/12/2007

Hi Jack. Question: How is it posible that ONE man ( Pres. Bush ) can continue to cause the deaths of thousands ( American & Iraqi ) while the majority of the WORLD, not just most Americans, know this war is illegal and Immoral? Congress never "declared" war on Iraq. So WHY can't we as free people put an end to this madness????
Keep up your great work on CNN.

[clarenceswinney]

12:02 PM on 09/12/2007

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