Factchecking Cafferty.

From a transcript of yesterday's Situation Room:

Wolf Blitzer: The president, Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana, speaking to reporters after touring this area, the president, at least, for the seventh time since the start of Katrina. That's now more than a month ago.

Let's check in with our Jack Cafferty. He's watching all of this, as he does every day.

Hi, Jack.

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: How you doing?

Is that what they call a photo-op, that thing we just saw, Wolf?

BLITZER: That's correct.

CAFFERTY: OK. I just wanted to make sure.

BLITZER: They have people standing behind him that they want to stand behind him.

CAFFERTY: And all of -- and it's all politicians. They're all...

(CROSSTALK)

BLITZER: Well, some real -- real people, too.

CAFFERTY: Oh, they have a real person or two?

BLITZER: Yes, they have real people. They always have real people there, too.

CAFFERTY: But they're -- it's probably by invitation only, I mean, a real person, but only if you're invited.

Cafferty has no evidence to support this assumption. He has done no investigation into who was and was not at the event.

He continues:

Former FEMA director Michael Brown did say in his testimony today that he is not -- quote -- "a superhero," which is something that I had already figured out all by myself. What I didn't know was, according to Brown, the whole Katrina fiasco was the fault of local lawmakers.

Jack Cafferty here is lying. Brown made no such statement. He did suggest, however, that he is not solely responsible for the events following Katrina, and that Nagin and Blanco share some of the responsibility. Mr. Cafferty needs to learn the difference between PARTIAL responsibility and ENTIRE responsibility.

He continues:

I also didn't know Brown is still on the payroll. Brown said yesterday that he's being paid for about a month as a consultant to FEMA.

So, help me out here. The guy who resigned in disgrace after bungling the response to Katrina is being paid taxpayer money by the government to be a consultant. Yes, that makes sense, right?

Oh, the horror of it -- someone who was actually there being hired to help determine what went wrong.

Later, he moves on to a new bitch:

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Well, before we get to the next e- mail question, I've gotten a lot of mail, as you said you have, from viewers on that very subject. The president wants us to conserve energy, and yet he's made seven trips in Air Force One, you mentioned the SUVs and let's not forget, too, he flies in a helicopter from the White House out to Andrews where he gets on Air Force One, and those things don't run on jelly. You have got to put some kind of fuel in those, too. So, I don't know, turning off the White House computer overnight compared to what did Suzanne say, $6,000 an hour to fly Air Force One around?

This is the same Jack Cafferty who bitched snidely about President Bush NOT showing up in the Katrina Zone following the hurricane.

So, Cafferty is against Bush going to New Orleans. And he is against Bush NOT going to New Orleans. No matter what Bush does, Jack Cafferty is going to gripe about it. Is he secretly a member of the Congressional Democratic Caucus?

A couple of paragraphs later, Cafferty exposes himself as a self-hating male:

Here's the question, is this country ready for a woman president? Caffertyfile@cnn.com. I mean, the answer, as far as I'm concerned is absolutely. They couldn't do any worse job than some of the men who have had the office. And I've had two wives and four daughters, and I'm convinced they're smarter than we are, Wolf.

Smarter than Cafferty, perhaps, but Cafferty doesn't have the authority to speak for all mankind. He has bought into the feminist dogma that men are evil, inferior, or both.

A quick aside here. Wolf, in response to this, has a Freudian slip:

BLITZER: I totally agree. If women can lead India and Israel and Britain, why can't they leave the United States?

Later, Jack Cafferty reveals he has a mancrush on Donald Trump:

CAFFERTY: I know he was. He actually -- you know, back -- I'm not a huge fan of him, but some of the things he does I admire. One of them is years ago the city was trying to rebuild a skating rink in Central Park, and, of course, like, you know, usual city projects, cost overruns, delays, reason -- 84 reasons why we couldn't get it done.

Trump says I'll fix the skating rink. He did it in six weeks, came in under budget, it was done, bang it was done. So he is good at building stuff.

What Cafferty does not inform the viewers is that when "building stuff," Trump often uses the power of the government to steal the land via eminent domain.

Later, Cafferty bemoans the hyping of the body count in New Orleans:

JACK CAFFERTY, ANCHOR: Wolf, like every story, there are two sides to the media coverage that occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Reporters brought to life the dire situation in New Orleans. Some say they actually pressured the government to step into action by exposing the horrid conditions there.

But when it came to other darker side of the story, the media missed the mark. Various news outlets, broadcast and newspapers, reported on inflated body counts, unconfirmed rapes and sniper attacks and roving gangs of armed bandits.

The mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, didn't help. He went on Oprah Winfrey's national TV show and talked about the people in the Superdome, quote, "watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people and raping people," unquote.

Some officials say the inaccurate reporting was due to a break down of communications. Others suggest race could have been a factor.

Note that he MAKES NO MENTION of CNN's part in it. CNN was taking every horror story as gospel and reporting it as fact. But I guess Cafferty just forgot to mention that part of it.

Later, he has another opportunity to point out CNN's part in the disaster hype, but fails to do so:

CAFFERTY: Wolf, on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, various media outlets reported on inflated body counts, unconfirmed rapes, sniper attacks and roaming gangs of armed thugs. Some officials say the inaccurate reporting was due to a breakdown in communications. There was anarchy in the couple of days immediately following Katrina.

But other suggested race could have been a factor, so the question is this. Why did the media exaggerate what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?

One viewer calls Cafferty out:

And one for the other side. Jim in Oxford, Ohio writes "with all of the TVs in THE SITUATION ROOM, you had to make up situations to fill them all. I don't know, Cafferty. You're the media, you tell us."

I'll tell you this, we didn't make up anything in THE SITUATION ROOM, did we, Wolf?

BLITZER: We try to just report the facts, only the facts and nothing but the facts.

CAFFERTY: There you go.

And CNN has no responsibility to verify the horror stories themselves before going to air with them? Lapping up lies and reporting them as truth is imperceptibly better than making up the lies yourself.

Perhaps Mr. Cafferty is dyslexic and thinks the CNN, which stands for Cable NEWS Network, is actually CCN, the Cable COMMENTARY Network.

Jack Cafferty can be reached at: caffertyfile@cnn.com .

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