get jack cafferty the hell off my cnn.

i generally like cnn. in fact, i'm happy to get a lot of my internet and television news from them. they do good work. but i cannot understand why they continue to have jack cafferty, an absolute racist and loud-mouthed fool, on their station.

cafferty has his own cnn program, but also makes appearances on other shows, including the lou dobbs anti-immigrant show and wolf blitzer's situation room. now i don't like dobbs or blitzer, but i'm prepared to bite my tongue on their antics. cafferty yesterday crossed the line. here's an exchange between cafferty and blitzer that nearly had me in tears:

BLITZER: Let's check in with Jack Cafferty. He's standing by with "The Cafferty File" -- Jack.

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, Wolf. Once again, the streets of our country were taken over today by people who don't belong here.

In the wake of Congress failing to pass immigration legislation last week, America's cities once again were clogged with protesters today. Taxpayers who have surrendered highways, parks, sidewalks and a lot of television news time on all these cable news networks to mobs of illegal aliens are not happy about it.

With every concession by the Bush administration, and the ever- growing demands of Mexican president Vicente Fox, America's illegal aliens are becoming ever bolder. March through our streets and demand your rights. Excuse me? You have no rights here, and that includes the right to tie up our towns and cities and block our streets. At some point this could all turn very violent as Americans become fed up with the failure of their government to address the most pressing domestic issue of our time.

Here's the question: What effect will the immigration protests have?

E-mail your thoughts to caffertyfile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/caffertyfile -- Wolf.

BLITZER: A lot of these demonstrators, you know, Jack, are legal. And many of them are citizens of the United States. They're not all illegal immigrants, the people protesting.

CAFFERTY: How do you know?

BLITZER: Because I as out on the streets. I saw.

CAFFERTY: Well, where's the immigration service? Why don't they pull the buses up and start asking these people to show their green cards? And the ones that don't have them, put them on the buses and send them home. BLITZER: There's a -- well, that's an expensive proposition, as you know -- 12 million -- 12 million of them.

CAFFERTY: As opposed to the cost we're enduring by having 12 million of these people running around the country.

BLITZER: Jack, much more coming up. We have a debate. Lou Dobbs is standing by as well.

CAFFERTY: Yes.

BLITZER: Jack Cafferty, thank you very much.

how outrageous is that? cafferty suggested that every single person attending the rally, latino or not, is an illegal immigrant. cafferty blamed the rally, and america's immigration problems, on vicente fox. cafferty threatened immigrants with violence if they don't shut up. and cafferty tells the ins to go to the rally and start checking green cards. yes, jack, arresting people at enormous protest rallies is a great idea. it's worked so well for the us govt in the past. why even bother asking for green cards? if they're all 'illegals' anyway, why not just firehose them all the way back to mexico?

i know that cafferty, despite his conservative tendencies, is often described as a maverick. he did go on a pretty awesome rant about bush and fema during hurricane katrina. but that will only take you so far. yesterday's bigoted spiel was too much. it's time for cafferty to go. he has no place on a legitimate news station... if cnn purports to still be one.