Sanchez stays out of sight

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[Scanian]

Shoot-from-the-lip CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was laying low yesterday -- but the man who did the interview that got Sanchez fired is talking about his "career suicide."

Pete Dominick, host of the Sirius XM radio show "Stand Up!" and CNN contributor, said that he was pressured into having Sanchez on as a guest.

"Frankly, I didn't really want him to do the radio show," he told his audience. "He's not the type of guest we have on this show -- we generally have experts on issues.

"But I work there at CNN, I didn't want to say no."

Sanchez was fired abruptly on Friday after recordings of the interview -- in which he called Jon Stewart "a bigot" and suggested Jews ran CNN -- began circulating on the Web.

"I figured we'd do 10 minutes with him," said Dominick. "We'd talk about his book, it would certainly be an interesting conversation."

Instead, Sanchez "came into the studio on Thursday with a live grenade in his mouth, and he pulled the pin," Dominick added. "I tried to put it back for him, but he wasn't having it.

"He apparently had an agenda to unleash on Jon Stewart . . . The way I see it, if Rick didn't do it on my show, he would've done it somewhere else.

[Beaten Valve]

Anyone who talks negatively about their bosses is just asking to get canned...

[wardaddy]

that is a fact...no question

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Scanian for both:

• It's Spitz in socks & the city [snip] Once-hooker-happy Eliot Spitzer made his TV talk-show debut last night -- interviewing a guest who, like him, allegedly patronized prostitutes... Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin -- who allegedly once shared Spitzer's infamous passion for call girls. Sorkin -- who penned the TV series "The West Wing," the flick "A Few Good Men" and the new movie "The Social Network" -- was named as a john in "Secret Confessions of a High-Priced Call Girl," a 2006 memoir by Dimitra Ekmektsis... they and Parker did talk about women, one in particular: Sarah Palin. Sorkin ripped the former vice-presidential candidate as a "stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and mean woman." [/snip]

[The Comedian]

He's on a kibbutz in Israel, learning media management.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[bigheadfred]

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