CNN Fires Host Rick Sanchez Over Jews Remarks
02. Oct, 2010
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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
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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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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rami khalaf Reply:
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:22 am
i agree
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Gina Klemen Reply:
November 2nd, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I agree strongly, the problem is that CNN just doesn’t want to hear the truth. Although i personally have nothing against jews, we all know that the media is owned by jews, who have money and power. (I have never known a poor jew) It wasn’t fair to fire Rick Sanchez over a truthfull comment. I no longer watch CNN, without Rick, it just ain’t the same, i have since switched to MSNBC, which i have discovered that is so much better than CNN in every way.
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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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robertsgt40 Reply:
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:42 am
Hate to tell you, Sanchez is toast. Remember the saying “you’ll never work in this town again”? Well Rick will never work again in anything the Jews control. Remember Helen Thomas? Sixty years in the business. She asked the wrong question about Israel. Done. My advice to Sanchez is to stay out of small planes.
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pete Reply:
October 26th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
robert, i hope your wrong but in my heart i know you are right. we have become a nation pussies & lackies to Israel & their control of the media. Whatever happened to freedom of speech.
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Americans, learn something new today – American Jews are a wealthy and privileged ELITE minority in this country.
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isn’t sad that we call our society a free one yet amazingly when a jew is criticized the world turns up and down and heads roll down on side of the road. why helen thomas [ an arab american ] and rick sanchez [a hispanic american ] get fired for making certain comments yet amazingly FOX CRAB, 24/7 attack muslims and whoever calls for a humane solution to the middle east and nothing happened to them. is it because FOX CRAB attacks aliens from a different planet? it is really sad
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Rick Sanchez was a breath of fresh air in the CNN Host area. He was able to explain and show very clearly the behind-the-scene situations of any news item he handled. I do not hate Jews or Palentinains, Arabs or Muslims. My questions here is whether Rick Sanchez can be reached either through the internet or a Web Site. I would dearly love to Congratulate him on his previous job and wish him the best of luck on any other endeavor he pursues. CNN is boring without him.
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how come we cant pull up the video of Rick Sanchez saying its a violation of you tubes community guidelines. Dont tell me the tentacles of israel reach that far.
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