TYT Classic: CNN commentator warned us about Boehner back in 2006!

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The subscription fee-based "TYTPlus" channel by The Young Turks highlighted (Youtube(dot)com/watch?v=x54TOk5d_Sg) this Feb. 9, 2006 segment (below) on a Jack Cafferty commentary about John Boehner (as Cafferty calls him, John "Tobacco Checks" Boehner). A rare time when Cenk praises mainstream "conservative cable" TV news. Crooks and Liars and Down With Tyranny highlighted that segment too.

With Cenk Uygur are Ben Mankiewicz and Jill Pike.

Transcript of Cafferty:

John Boehner, elected to replace Tom DeLay in the House, just as the report suggested. DeLay, remember, is under criminal indictment in Texas, so Boehner has trotted out, and he's being touted as the Republicans' answer to reform.

The second thing we find out about Boehner is he rents his apartment from a lobbyist whose clients have a vested interest in legislation that has come before Boehner. The first thing we found out is that he accepted more than $157,000 worth of free trips to places like Scotland -- he's an avid golfer -- since the year 2000. The trip is paid for by lobbyists.

And Boehner thinks that that's a practice that should be allowed to continue. Am I missing something here? Where is reform part? I wonder how long this guy is going to last.

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1. Wolf (Leslie) Blitzer has always been

a Republican propagandist. He's from the Republican think tank American Enterprise Institute. Some have said he could be a CIA mole dispensing false information to sway public opinion.

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2. What makes anyone think he's not?

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5. First of all, cut it out with the Leslie joke that Al Franken did.

Second, "citation needed" for Wolf being associated with the AEI.

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3. good stuff

The Young Turks when they were young.

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4. Cafferty was very wrong

unfortunately

"how long this guy is going to last"
What he didn't realize is how most of the republican party thrives in the basement!