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On Twitter, CNN's Rick Sanchez Retracts Limbaugh Smear
The Weekly Standard ^ | 10-15-09 | John McCormack

Posted on 10/16/2009 5:02:54 PM PDT by kingattax

It looks like CNN has been so busy the past 24 hours running news stories on its website and on air about Meghan McCain's existential Twitter crisis, that Rick Sanchez's own Twitter page was only place where he could find the space to issue a mealy-mouthed apology for falsely attributing a racist quote to Rush Limbaugh.

Sanchez Tweets this evening:

i've know rush. in person,i like him. his rhetoric,however is inexcusably divisive. he's right tho. we didn't confirm quote. our bad.

What courage. It only took three days following his initial report and the Huffington Post to retract the quote first for Sanchez to admit "our bad"--of course, not before slamming Rush as "inexcusably divisive."

Does Sanchez really think it's okay to falsely smear a man as a lover of slavery on national TV and then not issue a full apology and retraction on national TV?


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; dui; duihomicide; hitandrunhomicide; jeffreysmuzinick; murderer; smear; smearcampaign; twitter
one more rat on the run. idiots
1 posted on 10/16/2009 5:02:54 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

Why not on the network? At least twenty or so people will see it.


2 posted on 10/16/2009 5:03:58 PM PDT by Radl
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To: kingattax

On the advise of his lawyer. The weenie thinks tweeting “I like Rush” makes it harder to prove malicious intent.


3 posted on 10/16/2009 5:04:57 PM PDT by skeeter (Pterocarya fraxinifolia)
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To: kingattax

now crawl back under your rock and stay off the streets!


4 posted on 10/16/2009 5:07:38 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: kingattax

If you are going to post something from Mr. Sanchez, you need to include his full name ...

Richard “Hit & Run” Sanchez.

Thank you.


5 posted on 10/16/2009 5:10:54 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: kingattax
I've heard that CNN's Rick Sanchez has sex with squirrels.

If I can't verify that claim, I'll tape a written retraction and apology to the bottom of my nightstand.

6 posted on 10/16/2009 5:11:19 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

You just better hope no neighborhood squirrels read that!


7 posted on 10/16/2009 5:14:08 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Hope you’re prepared for a lawsuit from the National Defamation League for Squirrels, because you may not know it, but even SQUIRRELS have standards!


8 posted on 10/16/2009 5:14:36 PM PDT by mkjessup (0bama?!?!? ********* YOU LIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ************)
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To: kingattax

Sanchez should make his apology at the scene of his crime.


9 posted on 10/16/2009 5:20:51 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: kingattax

Hey Sanchez, was that how you apologized for running that guy over when you were DUI? You worthless liberal PoS...


10 posted on 10/16/2009 5:52:07 PM PDT by RavenATB
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To: mkjessup

I’LL have you know that Richmond Virginia just named the new “AA” Baseball team the “Flying Squirrels”!


11 posted on 10/16/2009 6:08:28 PM PDT by jaz.357 ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." W.Churchill)
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