It's Getting Ugly Out There

Is the title of Jack Cafferty's book, but that's an apt description that works on many levels about Cafferty himself.

Protesters target CNN after Jack Cafferty's remarks on China

I'm not going to disparage his remarks, because in this instance he's fairly right on and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I remember watching Cafferty when he was a co-anchor at WHO TV, with I believe Phil Thomas who once was a KIOA radio "Good Guy" DJ.

Cafferty let his terrier defecate in the station lobby.

That might have been the first time there, but not the last.

Larry Cotlar used to let his mutt go on the carpet when he worked at WHO radio (in the same building).

It was after Cafferty left Des Moines for New York that he started getting in trouble.

He said on air that the weather sucks.

When he got in hot water he stated that they say that all the time in Des Moines.

Yes, just not on the air in the mid '70s.

There also was a time when coming out of a commercial break, Cafferty had his feet propped up on the anchor desk wondering what a Burger King franchise costs.