CNN Fires Host Rick Sanchez Over Jews Remarks

CNN Fires Host Rick Sanchez Over Jews Remarks
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UPDATE: Rick Sanchez has been fired from CNN.
“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of 
service and we wish him well,’ a CNN statement said.
UPDATE: Rick Sanchez did not appear on Friday’s  “Rick List,” the afternoon 
after his controversial comments about Jon  Stewart and Jews surfaced. Sanchez’s 
regular substitute Brooke Baldwin  filled in for him.
ORIGINAL POST: CNN’s Rick Sanchez made controversial comments on a Sirius radio 
show Thursday, calling Jon Stewart a “bigot” and saying that CNN and the other 
networks are all run by Jewish people.
Discussing Stewart with radio host Pete Dominick, Sanchez said that  the “Daily 
Show” host has a limited worldview, and called him a “bigot.”
The conversation began with Sanchez decrying “elite, Northeast  establishment 
liberals” who “deep down, when they look at a guy like me,  they see a guy 
automatically who belongs in the second tier, and not  the top tier.
“I think to some extent Jon Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert are the  same way. I 
think Jon Stewart’s a bigot,” he said. “I think he looks at  the world through, 
his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who  was a physicist or 
something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew  up in a suburban middle 
class New Jersey home with everything you could  ever imagine.”
When asked who Stewart is bigoted against, Sanchez said “everybody else who’s 
not like him.”
Sanchez would eventually retract the “bigot” claim, settling instead on calling 
Stewart “prejudicial” and “uninformed.”
But he made a larger point when Dominick suggested that Stewart could  
understand being part of an oppressed minority group because he is  Jewish.
Sanchez scoffed at the claim, snickering and suggesting that CNN and the rest of 
the media is run by Jewish people (from the “Stand Up with Pete Dominick” blog):
Very powerless people… [snickers] He’s such a minority, I mean, you  know 
[sarcastically]… Please, what are you kidding? … 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. [sarcastically]
Listen to Sanchez call Stewart a “bigot”:

Listen to Sanchez talk about Stewart, Jews and the media:

Source:Huffington Post
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CNN fires host Rick Sanchez over Jews remarks
Tehran Times

CNN host Rick Sanchez came under fire Friday after making  remarks that the 
western media is run by Jews and bigots who hate  Hispanics the previous day on 
a satellite radio show. 

Sanchez called out Comedy Central host Jon Stewart as a  “bigot” for mocking 
him, and complained that Jews — like Stewart — don’t  face discrimination. He 
also suggested that CNN, and perhaps the media  industry more broadly, is run by 
Jews and elitists who look down on  Hispanics like himself.
Clearly, those comments didn’t sit well with the network, which put out a terse 
statement around 6 p.m. Friday.
“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company,” the CNN  statement read. “We thank 
Rick for his years of service and we wish him  well.”
So far, Sanchez hasn’t spoken out about the explosive  interview Thursday on 
“Stand Up! with Pete Dominick.” On the radio show,  the now-former CNN star 
didn’t just make a single impolitic statement,  but spoke at length — for 
roughly 20 minutes — about Stewart and a media  world he believes to be filled 
with “elite Northeast liberals” who  consider Hispanic journalists “second 
tier.” Sanchez is a  Cuban-American.
He specifically called out Stewart as someone with “a white  liberal 
establishment point-of-view” who “can’t relate to a guy like  me.” Also, Sanchez 
claimed that Stewart is “upset that someone of my ilk  is at, almost, his 
level.”
Sanchez also has yet to address the controversy via Twitter,  where he is a 
frequent user. He even made the social media platform a  signature part of his 
afternoon show, “Rick’s List.” Sanchez didn’t  appear on his 3 p.m. show on 
Friday, but CNN’s public relations  department put out word that he was going to 
be at a book signing at the  CNN Center in Atlanta. It’s unclear whether he 
attended it.
Sanchez joined CNN in 2004 after working as an anchor in  Miami. Prior to that, 
Sanchez worked as a correspondent at MSNBC,  providing breaking news updates at 
CNBC, and at other local stations.
CNN plans to air “CNN Newsroom” in the “Rick’s List” time slot, weekdays from 3 
to 5 p.m. 

Source: Tehran Times
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3 Responses to “CNN Fires Host Rick Sanchez Over Jews Remarks”
	1.  
pete 02. Oct, 2010 at 11:39 pm  
Congratulations Rick Sanchez. It takes a man with  giant brass balls to 
knowingly put his job on the line like you did.  You had to know you would get 
fired for saying something like that but  you had the guts & honesty to do it. 
If you were running for office i  would vote for you, you will prabably be 
harassed now as some kind of  subversive but i hope you land a hell of a better 
job.
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	2.  
Kristin 03. Oct, 2010 at 4:45 am  
MSNBC Are you listening?  Please consider hiring  Rick Sanchez. Of course you 
may expect him to alter his slant somewhat  from emphasis on a list. However, 
his  perspective as a Cuban American  and his refreshing candor would be an 
excellent addition to the already  outstanding MSNBC with Rachel Maddow and 
Keith Olbermann. 

Wikipedia gives this statistic: Hispanics and Latinos constitute  16.0% of the 
total United States population, or 48.4 million  people,forming the second 
largest ethnic group, after non-Hispanic White  Americans. My impression is that 
this group is underrepresented in the  upper echelon of the MSM.
As I get my news online, including frequent clips of Maddow,  Olbermann and 
Stewart, I am not familiar with Rick Sanchez. I  heard of  him only from this 
news item and I am in the non-Hispanic ethnic group  (albeit, subset woman). So 
I am not in any way making this  recommendation because of personal bias toward 
Sanchez but because of  the wider interest in seeing increasing diversity in the 
MSM in line  with increasing diversity in the US.
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	3.  
Sunny 03. Oct, 2010 at 7:56 am  
Americans, learn something new today – American Jews are a wealthy and 
privileged ELITE minority in this country.