Jack Cafferty is one harsh bitch: After the CNN commenter made some vaguely racist remarks towards the Chinese during the Olympics, he is now prepping for a comeback by launching not-so-vague insults in Sarah Palin's direction.

Here's Cafferty on the Palin/Couric interviews:

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Remember when CNN's Jack Cafferty calling the Chinese "thugs" and "goons," spent a week clarifying his statements — he was talking about the government, not the Chinese people — and then, like Sharon Stone, got slapped with a lawsuit wanting more than $1 billion in damages? It was an incident that the cable network hoped would live and die in April. And it should have. But then the Olympics happened, and CNN had to send correspondents to Beijing to, like, cover it and stuff. But while the media may have moved on to more substantial scandals, the Chinese have not. Which is why it sucks to work for CNN while working in China right now.

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And so it has come to this. And off-handed comment by CNN's Jack Cafferty, where he criticized the Chinese, calling them "goons" who produced "junk," have finally leaped into the world of crazy. The throngs of Chinese-American protesters outside CNN's Los Angeles offices weren't enough — now two people are suing CNN in New York court for $1.3 billion, or about $1 per Chinese citizen. Cafferty's comments (that the U.S. was importing Chinese "junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food") have supposedly "intentionally caused mental harm" to the plaintiffs, Liang Shubing, a beautician, and Li Lilan, a Beijing-based elementary school instructor. As for the Chinese government's position on the lawsuit? They're taking a wait-and-see approach; says a spokesperson, "We hope CNN will take this seriously, because what CNN said and did has not only hurt China's feelings, but also CNN's own image." In the meantime, they're going to hack the hell out of the network.

We've been the victim of more than one hacking attempt, so we know what it's like to have your website taken offline against your will. So does CNN. Facing uproar over anchor Jack Cafferty's "goons" and "thugs" comments about China, various groups, including one aptly named HackCNN, have made it their priority to take the cable net's homepage offline. (They also managed to deface The Sports Network's site, swapping out sports scores for lines like, "Tibet was, is, and always will be a part of China!.") It's called a "denial of service" attack, where hackers dispatch botnets, or networks of thousands and thousands of computer they illicitly control, to flood a specific site with erroneous traffic, causing it to sputter out and become unreachable by normal visitors.

But the Time Warner outfit isn't the only big media company involved in scheme involving rogue technology. Five years later into a civil lawsuit, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is standing in front of a jury on accusations that it was the bully, hiring hackers to fend off rivals in the pay-TV market. "The charges stem from 1997 when NDS is accused of cracking the encryption of rival NagraStar, which makes access cards and systems for EchoStar's Dish Network and other pay-TV services. Further, it's alleged NDS then hired hackers to manufacture and distribute counterfeit NagraStar cards to pirates to steal Dish Network's programming for free."

With nothing to do on a Saturday morning but exercise their right to free speech that would've been suppressed in their motherland, "throngs" of Chinese-Americans stormed Sunset Boulevard, outside CNN's offices there, calling for the ouster of anchor Jack Cafferty, who called China's exports "junk" that was made by "goons." Cafferty and CNN maintain he was referring to the Chinese government, not its people.

"The protesters lined Sunset Boulevard from Cahuenga Boulevard to Wilcox Avenue chanting 'Fire Cafferty' and 'CNN liar' and singing the Chinese national anthem and other patriotic songs. They waved Chinese, American and Taiwanese flags and directed their anger at the news channel's dark glass tower.

"'It's really unacceptable,' said John He, an organizer of the event. 'It maliciously attacks all Chinese. This would not be accepted if it was directed at any other ethnic group.'"

Oh, if only that were the case.

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Lou Dobbs isn't the only anchor CNN has to apologize for. That secondary honor goes to Jack Cafferty, who made the globalization mistake of calling Chinese consumer goods "junk" that were made by "goons" during April 9's Situation Room.

The Chinese, who have more pressing matters to attend to, complained to the network; the country's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, called the segment an "evil attack" on her people.

"We are shocked at, and strongly condemn, the vicious remarks … against the Chinese people," Yu said in a news briefing. "We solemnly demand that CNN and Cafferty retract his vicious remarks and apologize to the whole Chinese people."

So what did CNN do? They had Cafferty "clarify" his statements.

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More to chew on from our most quotable nightly news spewers, courtesy of Intern Wendy. Happy Friday lunch hour.

• "It's terrifying. It makes me rethink my life." —Tucker Carlson (on how agreeing with Chris Matthews scares him shitless), Hardball, March 3.

• "FOX security. Hannity and Colmes come to your house with billy clubs." —Keith Olbermann, on FOX hunting down crank callers for Bill O'Reilly, Countdown, March 3.

• "That does not mean, though, that I want to go see movies that claim that the CIA is in bed with fat, ugly Texas oilmen." — Joe Scarborough, Scarborough Country, March 6.

• "After all the things, the Nazi uniform — you think that was just a style thing?" —Rita Cosby (playing fashionista for Darryl Littlejohn) Live and Direct, March 8.

• "There's a difference between organized religion and a belief that — for example, I know you look at — just if you look at universes within universes, the planets, the stars, gravity, and Howard Stern, and people in the animal kingdom." — Sean Hannity trying to convince Howard Stern there is a God, Hannity and Colmes, March 8.

• "Well, everybody's taller than you are. You're not very tall." Jack Cafferty to Wolf Blitzer, The Situation Room, March 8.

• "And then there's Internet porn. That will keep you watching." — Keith Olbermann, Countdown, March 9.

• "Was there sperm? That`s what I'm asking." Nancy Grace, Nancy Grace, March 9.