美國華人團體“合法移民協會”發起網上連署抗議活動,號召全球華人向CNN抗議,要求CNN道歉,並對該主持采取行動。到昨天為止,已有八千多人在網上聯署。他們還呼籲聯署的華人把聯署信轉發其他華人組織,號召全球華人反擊,讓CNN的傳真機堆積如山,讓CNN的電郵信箱被「抗議Cafferty」的信件擠爆。
CNN的電郵地址:http://www.cnn.com/feedback/ Jack Cafferty本就是一個垃圾人物,其父母熏酒,自己熏酒駕車連闖紅燈被警察截停,判罰款和社區服務。這個備受爭議的家夥,從來就時事問題是語不驚人誓不休(例如就希拉裏和奧巴馬,他的題目就是赤裸裸的“ Easier to elect black man or woman?”),口不遮掩,用詞尖刻,尤其喜歡搬弄是非混淆黑白,其評論節目被許多觀眾斥為“垃圾”。
他的原話如下:
"I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different,"
“我不知道中國是不是有什麽不同。但我們與中國的關係絕對是不同的。”
"We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We are also running hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of trade deficits with them, as 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.
“有一件事可以肯定的是,由於在伊拉克打仗,我們已經把身上幾乎所有的東西都典當給了中國。他們手拿著我們數以千百億的美元。我們手上拿的卻是數以千百億價值的貿易逆差。可我們還在繼續進口他們的垃圾,上麵有超標的鉛,還有寵物食品也毒,另外還有,你知道,我們把就業機會也給出口了,出口到那些地方,你每月隻要付幾個小錢,他們就能把我們在沃爾瑪要買的東西給造出來。”
"So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed, I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years."
“所以,我想,我們與中國的關係真的是改變了。我想,他們基本上還是那群過去50年間一直沒有什麽改變的goons和thugs。”
許多觀眾說他:
“Cafferty is just terrible!!! So blatently biased and evidently in One's corner. Very inappropriate for a news person".
“Can we get rid of Cafferty on CNN ?”
"I agree with CNN losing Mr. Cafferty. I've expressed my opinion in his "blog". Every question of his for the last several weeks has been anti-Chinese. Go figure!"
"Cafferty is in the classification of modern day ignorance. He is a Chinese hater by trade. He should not be on TV because he looks like he's always constipated and he has nothing to offer but hate and negativity toward one people."
"I mean, his book, speaks about his alcoholic mother and father, and then his alcoholism. Now I am not putting down anyones illness, but at this point his anger at 4 oclock well it just seems to me he is hurtin for that drink. He is such a digrace, I dont know why CNN allows him to continue!!! "
" Yeah he's a real piece of shit...Cafferty pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and misdemeanor charges of reckless driving, assault and harassment after striking a cyclist on May 14, 2003. Cafferty was sentenced to a $250 fine and 70 hours of community service. Mr. Cafferty was charged with the traffic infraction, along with misdemeanor charges of reckless driving, assault and harassment, after the police said he knocked a man off a bike with his Cadillac on Ninth Avenue. The bicyclist was slightly injured. A traffic officer and several pedestrians ran after Mr. Cafferty's car, but he ran at least two red lights without stopping, according to a police complaint."
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加拿大[環球郵報]4月12日也發表了反華的時事評論文章,叫囂要抵製北京奧運。
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