CNN’s Rick Sanchez Goes Anti-Semitic (Update: Sanchez Fired)
Update: CNN has fired Rick Sanchez.
CNN released this statement today:
“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.“
They will broadcast CNN Newsroom from 3-5pm for the foreseeable future.
Well, as I mentioned at the end of the post below, CNN had evidently gone into a lockdown mode. Now they’ve done the deed, and on a Friday evening. No need to call me back, fellas.
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Well. In the gallery of CNN hairdo Rick Sanchez’s greatest hits, hits which include killing a man while driving under the influence and saying on-air that Iceland is too cold to have volcanoes (seriously), this is the first one that may cost him his career. During an interview with satellite radio host Pete Dominick, Sanchez called Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart a “bigot” and then upped that into a an anti-Semitic smear (and sounding a bit like a different Sanchez).
I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.
The appeal to “who’s the real oppressed minority” is touching. You’re not oppressed, I’m oppressed! I’m being repressed right here in this chair from which I am paid huge money to read the news to millions thousands of people! Yet both Stewart and Sanchez still manage to eke out a living in this awful, oppressive country.
Sanchez’s real gripe about Stewart is probably Stewart’s calling out Sanchez for being the opposite of brilliant. But the anti-Semitism lacing the remarks?
That’s rank bigotry, period.
CNN has been taking out the trash lately, even letting go of the man most responsible for PJ Media’s own name. It looks like the CNN suits need to break out the broom for one more.
Update: I called up CNN and got their PR arm’s voicemail. Putting my crisis communications hat on for a minute, I bet they’re in a little lockdown mode until they can review what Sanchez said, assess the damage, and formulate a game plan. I left my phone number for them to call me back. I’d say the odds of them actually calling me back are less than 1%. They’ll come up with a plan and roll it out whenever and however is most opportune for the network. Say, isn’t this Friday?
Update: Ed Driscoll has audio of Sanchez’s meltdown moment.
antisemitic rants don’t carry the same implications as other racial tirades
Now that Rick has been fired, there will be a party !!!! His show really was a drag.
The Jews voted overwhelmingly for Obama. I have no sympathy for them now that their choice is in the White House.
Do you have any idea of how disgusting – in exactly the same way as Rick Sanchez – your comment is?? By “the Jews” do you mean every single Jew of voting age in the United States? I happen to be a member-of-tribe and if I had slammed that lever for McCain/Palin any harder, the voting booth would have broken through the floor.
Your comment is as blinkered, philistine and pig-ignorant as Sanchez.
So in what pig-ignorant universe do *you* live in where “overwhelmingly” is synonymous with “every single Jew”?
YOUR comment is the blinkered one, masked in victimhood.
‘The Jews’ and ‘I have no sympathy for them…’
Why don’t you read what you wrote. One other thing, I am weary of conservatives – including Jewish ones – claiming that there is no real anti-Semitism in the US. Jews have succeeded in spite of it, and the Jewish success ‘provokes’ more of the same in certain people. But there is plenty of discrimination and prejudice against Jews…in the US…in 2010.
Yeah, you’re right; there is.
Now, the big question is: are Jews (or let’s just go with you, specifically, as a person who happens to be Jewish) going to let it color their opinions of every non-Jew out there? Color how they act and react? That’s an important question — because how we react to things can change the course of events for better or for worse (and right now, imho, things aren’t looking to good for any of us, so we need to be working together as much as we can).
For the record: I don’t like you Larry…I don’t dislike you either. I don’t know you personally; I don’t know if you have any personal affinity or any personal malice towards me and mine, so I’m neutral. You probably feel the same way about me. If we were to meet face to face we might hate each other’s guts, then again we may decide that the other is one of the best, bloody individuals to walk this little mud ball. Maybe we all need to sit back and keep that option for opinion open huh? After all, we’ve both got people out there who don’t like us and ours because of what group we belong to, right?
As for Sanchez, the creep should have been out of a job when he killed that guy; he’s scum — on one hand I’m glad he’s canned, on the other, it would be nice if the spotlight was fixed on just what kind of scum some of these media shills really are (but likely not going to happen). Small victories I guess.
“…I am weary of conservatives…”
That’s right, we are all (100%) as you describe. Paint everyone with a broad brush. As a conservative, I’m weary of supporting Israel against Hamas and having the Obama administration treat the Israelis as dirt, while the American Jewish lobby (“the Jews”) looks on and does nothing.
“I have no sympathy for THEM” is the statement that speaks for itself. I rest my case.
Sanchez got canned. Freddie Prinze, Geraldo Rivera, Juan Epstein and Thomas Torquemada hit hardest. Jeffrey Smuzinick* is still unavailable for comment. As we say to the dearly departed like herr Sanchez: vayr ge hargit, momzer.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Sanchez#Drunk_driving
Your case would lose. First, he qualified the class he was speaking about with “overwhelmingly”, which means a portion of the class of All Jews – “Some Jews”. Then he referred to “them” in an open way that could mean specifically the entire portion of Jewish people who voted for Obama, which is most likely since the commenter seems to qualify the object in the previous sentence as Particular (as opposed to universal). If the guy says he only meant the portion of Jews that voted for Obama you are inclined to take his word for it, and he did try to clear that up. No reason to add an enemy, is there?
NahnCee, I’m Jewish and not only did I not take offense at your statement, I absolutely agree with you. so don’t let some of these other commenters make you feel bad.
my Jewish brothers and sisters are going to have to make up their minds if they want to be leftists or Jews. so far, leftism is winning.
While I agree that Jewish voting habits are disturbing, I lack sympathy for Evangelicals and other conservatives who pose as Israel’s best friends while doing nothing practically about the Road Map planks in the Republican Partly platform (2004) and generally claiming, falsely, that Bush was a great friend of Israel.
That looks like hypocrisy to me. You also fail to recognize that a lot of Jews are reconsidering their position. Your problem.
It’s more than voting habits. The Jewish politicians, filmmakers and TV personalities are the leaders and flame holders of the extreme left, John Stewart included. The very same extreme left that also wants Israel to sink into the ocean. Personally I find it difficult to defend Jews as a group, when the vast majority of that very same group is doing everything in their power to destroy the Jewish nation and vehemently attack everybody on the right who are actually friends of Israel. I don’t want to be charging up a hill just to be moved down by machine gun fire from the people, I’m trying to help. And Rick Sanchez is wrong. Jews are in more danger than ever. And the danger is coming from themselves.
The thing I don’t understand about all this is why so many people seem to hate Jewish people? I can’t see any reason for it. It’s stupid in my opinion for anyone to hate someone for their “race”, we are all part of the human race, right?
Since when should anyone feel the need to defend a whole group of very diverse people? (outside of their basic rights, freedoms, liberties — which should be a given) For one thing, it is very hypocritical; for another, it’s very stereotypical. At the end of the day, I will stand with Israel — but that doesn’t mean I agree all the time with everything they do or love every person belonging to the tribe — I stand with them because they deserve imho, to be stood beside, because no people deserve to be under threat of extermination and the country itself is of strategic importance. I don’t feel the need to get “brownie points” from God to make my decisions either.
Not every Jew is a raging leftist; just like not every evangelical or conservative is a hypocrite, or every Gentile anti-semitic — yes, there are some that are unfortunately, and entire groups of very diverse people have gotten “tagged” as being so sadly. The dangers of doing such things we need to keep in mind; it will get increasingly hard in the near future to NOT engage in this sort of thinking(thanks to the machinations of some people who would dearly love for us to separate up into little, easily defeated groups). It is after all a very human trait. We need to fight against this — not one specific group can manage this all on its own, let alone overcome it.
“Freedom takes courage” — Oriana Fallaci (there are a lot of different ways courage acts; we have to remember that)
“…Evangelicals and other conservatives…”
That’s right, lump us all into a little ball of wax, and then, as usual, switch the subject to Bush. Bush never treated the Israelis the way the Obama administration treats them. The problem is today, not in 2004, when we were fighting a police action in Iraq. Obama allows the U.N. to ride roughshod over the Israelis, allowing U.N. councils and committees to issue resolutions without challenge. Recently he allowed the Security Council to issue a resolution criticizing Israel for building in East Jerusalem. Another recent resolution was backed by Obama calling for a nuclear-free middle East without a mention of Iran, to get Israel to admit to having nuclear weapons. That’s right, the progressives and Obama love the Israelis, so much so that they finally got rid of that old hag, favorite Jewish-loving correspondent that used to sit at the front row during Obama news conferences.
“….I lack sympathy for Evangelicals and other conservatives who pose as Israel’s best friends….”
You want to know hypocritical? Substitute “Jews” (or Muslims) for Evangelicals, “progressives” for conservatives and “Obama” for Israel and what have you got?
“I lack sympathy for Jews (Muslims) and other progressives who pose as Obama’s best friends, etc. etc.” If I were to post that, how fast before I were accused of being an anti-Semitist or intolerant to someones religious beliefs? Yet you criticize someone for saying “the Jews” and use the word “Evangelicals” as though it were a curse word. Why? Because Evangelicals is a Christian belief, and it’s common practice for Marxists to disrespect them?
You are the one who is hypocritical.
I’ve been reading NahnCee’s comments here for several years. I hope this was one very poorly thought out slip of the fingers on the keyboard. I have been a lifelong registered Republican. Do I need papers to prove it or just wear a yellow star with a big C(for Conservative) on it so you don’t malign me, too?
Would you care to venture a guess at my politics and my religion? As for you NahnCee, go “F” yourself. I’m sure that you are very capable of achieving that.
Moderator asleep at the wheel, or are there special rules for Jewish invective?
I’m on your side, and I am Jewish. But it was not all of us.
Prior to the election I heard a Jewish woman call in to Rush Limbaugh’s show. She was upset because so many in her Jewish community were going to be voting for the pig obama. She told Rush, the reason they were voting for him is because they didn’t want to be known as ‘racists’. Instead of listening to the socialist pig and his many, many lies they chose to vote for him because of his color. I suspect that that is the reason many voted for him. I didn’t vote for him because I actually listened to him. His hope and change were simply code words for divide and conquer. The Jews really should have known better, because Hitler used the same words, hope and change, prior to being elected as Chancellor of Germany.
Really NahnCee? What would it take for us to regain your sympathy?
Well, Cubans arent really “oppressed” either, at least relative to other Latino subgroups. Look how long wet foot/dry foot has lasted. I’m sure there are a lot of non-Cuban anchors and backstage staff cursing out their Cuban overlords under their breath over at Telemundo and Univision.
Dude should just be thankful that the Cubans have some of that same “spark” (Michael Savages’s term, not mine) that Jews have and left it at that.
Maybe he’s suffering from Helsinki Syndrome. As in Helsinki, Sweden.
That’s Helsinki, Finland.
Helsinki is located in Finland.
He meant Stokholm Syndrome IMHO
The Left knows that they have carte blanche to make stupid, ethnic comments and nothing will happen to them. They seem to be above all that is decent and sane. How did we reach this point in time where only conservatives are vilified for any real or imagined racial slight? I am sick and tired of this one-sided world that we live in today. Where can I go to rant??
If Sanchez isn’t fired within 48 hours then this story will go down as one of the most blatant examples of the double standard between conservatives and liberals in the lame stream press.
Imagine if Beck, Hannity, or any television personality remotely right-of-center said something bigoted against Jews like this? They would be fired immediately.
Rick Sanchez is so dumb, he never got the message,” it’s the Christians that are fair game”.
Big suprise. It’s the mother’s milk of the left.
The Joooooo’s did it!
Hey folks:sorry but have you noticed that the dollar is slowly but inevitably collapsing. Think before you buy your next B-mer.
Why would CNN let him go? CNN’s core audience is Muslims and the European left, who share Sanchez’s fanatic Jew-hatred.
He’d likely be moved to CNN International, where he’d be a hero.
The question is what will others do?
Israel should simply throw all CNN staff out of the country, and remove them from cable. The GOP should simply refuse to go on CNN — oops, I forgot, they’re boycotting it already.
As for the ADL, Foxman is so in love with the left that he’ll let this one pass.
I predict he’ll show up at MSNBC, and Charlie Crist will take his spot at CNN.
Anyone else for this game?
I understand that Al-Manar television (the Hezbollah network) is looking for a new anchor.
I think the most damaging thing here is the “everyone who runs CNN” comment — he just said that the people who employ him are all Jews. Now this is either 1) true, in which case he’s alleging that there’s some kind of Jewish conspiracy to control management, or 2) he’s falsely smearing management. Either way, he is talking about the people who sign his paycheck.
Aside from that I can’t really tell what he is saying about Jews. That they’re not oppressed in America? I’ll buy that, actually. But neither are Hispanics, so what’s his point?
Let’s see if Sanchez’s odious remarks ranks as high with the left as their other pet peeves,or at least on par with Islamophobia, which should more accurately be renamed, Shariaphobia.
When anyone says BOO about blacks, gays or Allah forbid, Muslims, the left goes insane. When it comes to the Jews-not so much.They know full well that most Jews will only give them a headache from talking too much,not scare them to death with rioting(think Al Sharpton & his race baiting hustlers)or threaten them with head chopping as the continually aggrieved Allah followers do.
In any case, Sanchez should never have been on the air after his drunken hit and run, something that NO moral person would do regardless of their age.
CNN,can his anti-semitic butt!!
Adina, I always read your comments here and elsewhere with great interest. You knocked it out of the park with Shariaphobia. +1.
If Ted Kennedy could stay in Congress and be buried as a “national” hero after what he did, why can’t Sanchez be allowed to continue working at CNN? After all, CNN doesn’t have the same standing as Congress. Or do they?
Yep, I like “Shariaphobia” too.Nice addition to the increasing vocabulary of Islamic evil.
But the real terms for Islamophobia and Shariaphobia should be “Islam-awareness” and “Sharia-awareness”.
Am I the only one who can’t find the supposed “anti-Semitism” here?
It turns out that Jon Stewart is Jewish. (I didn’t know that until now.) Jews control the media, Jews control the banks, Jews control . . . does it sound familiar?
Apparently one needs to have the special “bigot identification lens” implanted into their psyche in order to correctly identify racist comments. I, sadly, do not have this wonderful new technology so I am relegated to be the proletariat dummy that just don’t “get it”. I guess that any statement about any people group (other than white American males, of course) is now properly construed as bigoted. Fortunately, I almost never watch CNN and have no idea who this Sanchez guy is so to me, pfffft. Nothing.
White males AND Christians.
I’m more inclined to suspect that it isn’t so much that Rick Sanchez is anti-Semitic as it is that he is so ditzy that he shoots off his mouth without activating his brain. He has to be one of the flakiest commentators on TV.
You can’t fault him for that. God created him that way, showing that God has been around for so long that if He hasn’t become senile, He has certainlly acquired a very strange sense of humor or confusion as to how to assemble humans with all components functioning properly.
Dianne, don’t blame God. He created the perfect village idiot. It was the fools at CNN that hired that idiot and took him away from the village. Blame them.
Diane, Yes, yes, my kind of humor. Thank you.
Maybe he already knows?
Whatever happened to freedom of speech in America, anyway? Let the light shine on this cockroach’s mentality and allow the public to tune in or to tune out. Once the light of day has shone the bigotry and racism rampant with CNN, then I’m betting that America will tune out, even more.
For once the light is shone, just like cockroaches, they will scurry and hide.
Just another example of affirmative action infestation of American life. There are others:president Obama,Gen. Powell and PJM’s own token luminary: Ruben Navarette .
Little Ricky Sanchez was always a jerk and I think the only reason CNN had him on was because they can’t afford anyone else. But I guess you will know Sanchez is in trouble when they leave the brown cardboard boxes on his desk. Hey, but in this economy, I’m sure he won’t have any trouble finding a new job. I’m sure MSNBC will scoop him right up. And if he ends up there, even more people won’t know who he is. As it should be.
I believe that Rick Sanchez’s comments were intended to be used against America. “What is he talking about,” you may ask? Well, hear me out, please.
The Democrats have been trying to pass Net Neutrality for some time, now, and certain members and their very able staff members are probably gathering all kinds of information against those whom respond in the affirmative that this person should be removed from the airwaves. The crime? Hateful speech or some other useful pejorative meant to demean speech. What we may find as offensive speech might just be fine for our opponents. What our opponents find as offensive speech might be fine for others. However, in BOTH INSTANCES there will be a number of citizens whom will demand censorship of some kind by our government(s) – federal and state.
Liberal Democrat Progressives wish for Conservative commentary to be further censored from the public airwaves. Especially when referencing talk radio (or even, here, on PJM. Internet neutrality works both ways. Thus, be CAREFUL what it is you wish, because you just might get it. And in the end, the final product will become even more government oppression over our individual freedoms and liberty.
Just say’n
According to Earl Ofari Hutchinson at The Huffington Post, CNN did release a statement which supports Sanchez’s rank antisemitism:
“We stand behind Mr. Sanchez. While the comments may be uncomfortable for some individuals, the truth is paramount. As a world-leading news organization, it is important to maintain journalistic credibility by ensuring opinions do not sway the facts in our reporting. To this end, we firmly believe the comment made by Mr. Sanchez is both accurate and truthful.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/sanchez-must-go-but-will_b_747405.html
CNN forgot two words:
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From the link:
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post included a statement that was allegedly issued by CNN about Rick Sanchez. CNN never issued the statement and it has since been removed from the post. We regret the error.
They didn’t have the guts to leave it up and then disavow it.
I guess since he’s been fired he can blame it on the Jews?
What is this guy’s problem? Does he think that because he has a Spanish surname that he’s not white? Rick Sanchez is a white guy like his Spanish ancestors. Based on his appearance it
s obvious that his Spanish ancestors didn’t mix with the natives of what was to be come Cuba or any of the African slaves that the Spanish settlers brought to Cuba. John Quinones on the other hand is obviously predominantly if not exclusively Native American in his heritage. Sanchez is a JA and good riddance to him.
Sanchez made a comment about Quinones over at DailyCaller.
Jewish people are, pound for pound, the most well off people in the United States. A great percentage are college educated and have professional occupations. They are incredibly disproportionately represented in government and the media. what’s the freaking big whoop? Everybody knows this. At worst, these simple facts tend to suggest high achievement and perhaps a bit of nepotism, not too bad really. But, when you fire someone for pointing it out it looks EVIL and oppressive.
Good post. That’s because all of their mothers want them to become doctors.
I think I last watched a CNN program back during the 1st Gulf War and that was only because they happened to have a camera pointed out of a hotel window in Baghdad and we could see the incoming cruise missiles explode. Rick Sanchez??? Who the heck is Rick Sanchez?
Rick?…
A has been…
To tell the truth, I never heard of him until I heard it on Fox yesterday.
Who is Rick Sanchez? I have heard his name thrown around but my TV will not hook up with Clinton New Network, for those in Lizella, Ga that is CNN. No lose just another slot to be filled with dead space. Maybe they can get Big Ed Schultz for that time slot. I think it is time for CNN to close the door don’t bother to sweep up. Hey who knows maybe an Imom will but it for a getting to know you better place. Of all the Jewish friends I have not a one is a liberal they are kind and caring people who truly believe in helping others. They are silent about how they do it and never ask for anything in return. I have their back when they need me, cause they have had mine on several occasions. God bless everyone of them even if they have a different view than you. As JohnPrine says “That’s the way the world goes round”.
On Drudge the headline this morning is “Latino Host Fired from CNN.” I never thought of him as anything other than an American.
Rick Sanchez – The late CNN spokesperson for the ‘oppressed illegal alien’.
In most areas outside of interior Alaska, CNN is the ONLY news program available on t.v. (Hence the infamous heavy drinking!) The few times I didn’t erad news online, ‘ol ‘Brown Eyes’ was there on CNN playing up one victimhood after another. Followed by Soledad’s ‘Black in America’ series. CNN – ‘The Great Divider’.
Yo Rickster – if anyone’s a ‘bigot’, you, Soledad and a handful of others on the sinking USS Commie News Network are thee epitome of such labels.
FRighteningly, Ruben Navarette is a contributor to CNN. I wouldn’t be surprised if the empathy seeking shrill spot isn’t filled by another race baiter/illegal alien, err, ‘immigrant’ supporter.
Biblically speaking the tribe of Judah was prophesized that they would become ” a hiss and a by-word” throughout the world. Of all peoples they have suffered persecution on a scale un-matched by all. Yet they exist still. Get over it! The Rick Sanchezs’ of the world, those who profess tollerence, are the problem. They put themselves at the table of those they detest because the feast is so tempting, but left in an unguarded situation their true feeling spew-forth. Rick will never admit to his folly being his own bigotry, he will continue to blame others for his mis-fortune. As with most progressive leftists, given enough time they will weave the webb that will eventually ensnare them. Mozoltov!
He was right about the Progressives and ESPECIALLY about Jon Stewart……but I think he was being NICE.
There’s a ‘Chief of Staff’ job open at the White House. This slime ball would fit perfectly.
Sanchez was an idiot when working in S. FLorida and has gotten much better at it over the years. FINALLY he is gone!
Newsflash, Obama is in the White House because ze majority of Americans voted for him, and the voting bloc in America is over 95% non-Jewish, get a grip and a proper perspective.
On Sanchez, Sanchez should have been fired from CNN because he is a moron and revealed it ages ago, who watches CNN anyhow? Stewart ripping apart Sanchez is hilarious (and I cannot stand that self-hating Jew Stewart nee Liebowitz) but he really does a good job showing up Sanchez for the idiot that he is. “nine meters in English is”, sheeeeeeesh.
If you are going to fire a news anchor for anti-Semitism, then you wouldn’t have many news anchors and reporters left anywhere in any remotely leftwing media broadcaster, newspaper, mag in the Western world. They usually don’t out themselves, not in that way, they just use the cover terms, which makes it all ok. Sanchez should have been fired an age ago, just for being so superdumb, but then again there would be very few reporters anywhere in the MSM left, if they were fired for obtuseness..
um doesn’t him getting fired for simply stating a fact rather proves it? think about it he didn’t offend Jews, he simply stated what is a well-known fact that Jews control the media and that they are no longer oppressed and he got fired for it probably by a Jew. to accuse him of being anti-Semitic is just like accusing Galileo of being “anti-earth” for stating that the earth is round.
Ha-ha-ha!
CNN had to give Rick his very own “Dirty Sanchez”
Gotta love it!
If it wasn’t for CNN being broadcast in remote locales, bus/train stations and airport terminals where practically NO ONE pays attention – viewership would be near nil.
Finally! Justice is served to the poor dead soul that Sanchez mowed down in Miami.
While clicking through, I’d only stopped on Sanchez a few times and, even then, briefly. It was clear that he was an arrogant jerk. That he’s off CNN is only good if no other place gives him a place. He won’t go to MSNBC because, as I understand it, they only hire whites.
Firstly, I am not a fan of Sanchez’. But, I am a fan of fairplay, justice and, yes, the American way; imagine that, a Yankee-doodle dandee a-drift in a sea of racism run a-muck. I heard what he said, inflections and all. There was nothing racist—pardon me if the description for this particular group should be anti-semitic—about his opinion. Every red-blooded American should be insisting on his right to speak as we all do to each others’ face without fanfare or firings. It’s called conversation that includes speaking your mind in an amicable manner. Sanchez knows this. But, then, of course, he’s hispanic with a different slant, however slight, of relating to the world, peers, and things worth talking about. It’ll be interesting to see how CNN continues to self-destruct. In the meantime, Sanchez should apply at Univision, the numero uno station; if they haven’t hired him already.
zak – I applaud the Jewish media heads. On a sidenote, research the number of Jewish people living in the M E outside of Israel say, 1947 to present. Excluding the 7 million Jewish, Black, Catholics, allies to the aforementioned etc., who’d been butchered. You’d assume these numbers would expectedly increase, right? Wrong.
No longer oppressed? Other than the tens of thousands of bombs, mortar attacks, kidnappings, go-nowhere negotiations with the late-PLO terrorist/Nobel ‘Peace’ Prize winner and BILLIONAIRE, getting screwed in negotiations on a myriad of matters since being recognized as a state, ad infinitum.
Insult to injury, Ahmedinajad given the floor time and time again in Western countries, UN assemblies to spew fictitious propoganda..
With your sentiment I don’t believe you’ll be taking former ‘Journalist’ Helen Thomas’s spot anytime soon.
Ricky, we love ya.
Rick Sanchez does it again. This guy is great. I stopped watching CNN when Lou Dobbs left but I was channel surfing and ran across another comedy routine with Rick Sanchez. I bet even Sheriff Joe knows the answer to this one. Anyway, Rick interrupts a discussion of the potential size of a tidal wave in Hawaii by asking, “By the way, nine meters in English is?” Either he doesn’t know how long a meter is or he doesn’t know how long a meter is. Most everyone knows a meter is about the same unit of length as a yard. A meter is just the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. There are 39.37 inches in a meter.
So Rick, a meter is a little longer than a yard? I guess the lesson learned here is : Don’t be using non a that fancy international talk around her on CNN. By the way, comparing yourself to Woodward and Bernstein?? That was great, I could not stop laughing. It was like your not bothering to do any checking about the statements that Limbaugh is accused of saying? I love watching you interview anyone and one minute later you have to completely abandon your talking point. Keep up the great comedy, Rick, Hey CNN, I think a drug test is in order.
CNN gets rid of Lou Dobbs over stance on illegals but Rick Sanchez is allowed to call out Sherriff Joe, push pro amnesty agenda, apparently wants to speak spanish on his show, and CNN can’t figure out why their ratings are lower than the spirits in a room full of Democrats?
Lou Dobbs WENT SOFT eventually as well; once he left, he was speed-dialing every Spanish-news lead anchor and trying to backpedal from his “racista” days at CNN. I think he was just a speak-out-loud devil’s advocate that made money off of it. Dobbs was just a caffeinated pre-view of the 2010 election version of Lindsey Graham and John McCain (lets put the Wall and the 14th amendment out there BEFORE the amnesty, this time around).
I’ve been watching R. Sanchez for some months and lately it occurred to me that the man was getting bored with being a news anchor, that he was trying to be a little like an editorialist. I DID like it when there was news in Spanish/cuban and he would translate for us who don’t talk Spanish. Sorry to some of ya, but he’s some of the very little eye candy on CNN. Plus Wolf is boring these days and the news on there is like eating chocolate cake without the chocolate. Meaning like most news on tv these days, it’s so watered down and entertainment-fied that you are always wondering what is trying to be kept hidden.
When is Anderson Cooper getting his just desserts too?
His wannabe ‘Survival Man’ outfit and persona when ‘on assignment’ is a riot!
nothing like a metrosexual albino thinking he’s Indiana Jones when wearing REI-bought clothing for 1-3 days..
Maybe Sanchez will be the next U.N. Chief. It’s fashionable to put idiots in high office. Look at Ahmadinejad; Obama; Chavez; Jung Il; Pelosi; Biden; Frank; etc., etc., etc.
The exposure he’s getting is only enhancing his resume.
Well, that whole brouhaa was about as exciting as listening to what happens when you pour milk into a bowl of Rice Krspies.
Media insider no longer censored re the 9/11 cover-up.
twin towers* building 7* pentagon* shanksville* anthrax*
For non-Yiddish speakers, “vayr ge hargit, momzer” is a traditional Yiddish colloquialism which correctly translated means “drop dead bastard”.
Our grandparents were not doctors, lawyers and accountants in the old country.
I don’t think his position was antisemitic. Having listened to the whole interview a couple of times (most than most commentators have done, I suspect), I think it’s pretty clear that the “people like stewart” that he was talking about were “white establishment liberal elites”, not jews. He repeated that distinction over and over (that’s a tautology, by the way). The interviewer wanted the story to be about jews, but I don’t think that’s where sanchez was coming from at all. He was accusing CNN of promoting racial stereotypes, not of being part of the Global Zionist Conspiracy(tm).
And if it’s a crime to call somebody a bigot (although it seems to me that stewart ISN’T a bigot) then I’m at a loss to understand why glenn beck still has a job. He essentially called the president a bigot. If a “white liberal elite” did that, he’d be out on his ear – see example of bush’s service record and a certain anchorman.
As for his scoffing about jews being an oppressed minority in new york in 2010 – I think he was correct. They definitely HAVE been an oppressed minority, even in the US, and they still are in some parts of the world. But right now, in new york? No, I don’t think so either. That’s not being racist – that’s just being hard nosed about the facts and being honest.
Sanchez might be a twit. He seems to have a major chip on his shoulder. But I don’t see any evidence from that interview that he’s an antisemite. And I don’t think he was fired for that. Heck, he called his employer racist. Is it really necessary to go looking for another reason?
Once again…force conversion to Christianity…this all gets fixed…that’s all I’m saying. Besides…Rick Sanchez is anti-Semitic…is that all that surprising coming from a Cuban?
American Jews make up only 2% of the population of America. Yet: they hold 36% of all post-graduate degrees, 46% make over $100,000 per year, they make up 15% of the U.S. Senate, 13% of the U.S. House of Representatives, 67% of members of the Board of the Federeal reserve, 33% of the U.S. Supreme Court. Media: Just taking CNN only, 55% of corporate officers for TBS, which owns CNN, are Jewish. On air, Larry King, John King, Howard Kurtz, Eliot Slpitzer, Joy Behar, Paula Zahn, etc.. Rick Sanchez has nothing to apologize for.
The ditziness of CNN’s Rick Sanchez paled when compared to the sliminess of CNN’s Paul Bagala.
Well!…I guess I made a major misstep coming on here to express myself! I didn’t realize that this is a site where only folks of the Jewish faith are welcome, and respected. I guess I should claim persecution because of my experiences here. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
How can you folks proclaim objectivity when you censure my benign remarks? Granted, I stumbled here unknowingly, and was foolish to make an objective remark about American and World culture. Result? Censured. My remarks were about the foibles of world culture. They had nothing to do about any ethnic, racial, etherial, or other classification of a “group” on this planet. Post my comments, or admit that you’re bigoted.