Posted on 10/01/2010 3:26:51 PM PDT by tsmith130
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.
Here’s more from the story earlier today: CNN’s Rick Sanchez is not happy with being made fun of constantly on The Daily Show and Colbert Report. It is from this jumping off point that he absolutely unleashed on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and at times his own network, on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show yesterday.
The big takeaway – Sanchez calls Stewart “a bigot,” then walks it back a bit, and he implies CNN is run by Jews.
Whatever! Don’t like Rick Sanchez — Puerto Rican or Cuban.
On another board I read an interesting thread that three top reporters at CNN had all been involved in proven hit and run accidents and yet were still kept on at CNN. This included Jack Cafferty, Sanchez, and Robert Novak. Apparently one can run over an old man crossing the street and flee without calling an ambulance while they’re potentially suffering and need help, but if someone suggests that Jews aren’t underrepresented they get immediately canned.
“Can’t believe he was so stupid. I don’t think he’s going to find another job.”
Yeah, there’s some irony in it. The Jews are the last group a person can say anything about, no matter how minor or substantial the criticism, and no matter how right or wrong the observation. If it’s even remotely conceivable that your remarks could be construed as anti-semitic you can kiss your career good-bye. In his case, his remarks actually proved his point while getting him fired. He said Jews ran the network, and by golly they sure demonstrated it. Apparently CNN was earlier okay with the fact that he and two other fellow CNN reporters (Cafferty and Novak) had been involved with hit and runs, and ran over pedestrians and fled. Running over people and letting writhe in pain while you flee without helping them is nothing compared to making a mild remark that some people find to be anti-semitic. Everyone knows that.
While I agree with you, you have to consider the environment that he was criticizing.
I didn’t think his comments were anti-semitic, either, but those he criticized are libs.
You simply look at them cross-eyed and they cry “prejudice”.
Buncha wusses...
I actually have heard of him before. But it was only a couple weeks ago. Some article mentioned a show called “Rick’s list” comparing it to Jon Stewart’s show. I had never heard of it before then.
Neil...oh, Neil!
Rogers was a piece of work. Is he still on the air?
Paul
He retired a year or two ago.
Part of what makes his SO amusing is that he kinda assumed his hispanic background early in his career.
WIkipedia:
Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, New York, the son of Lillian (née Lillie Friedman[4]), a waitress, and the late Cruz "Allen" Rivera (October 1, 1915 - November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver.[6][7] Rivera's father was Puerto Rican of Spanish ancestry and his mother is of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent; he was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a Bar Mitzvah.[8][9][10]He grew up in Manhattan and West Babylon, New York. He is an alumnus of University of Arizona, where he played varsity lacrosse as goalie. From September 1961 to May 1963, he attended the State University of New York Maritime College, where he was a member of the rowing team.[11][12] He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1969, did postgraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania that same year,[13] and briefly attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism during the summer of 1970.
After a brief career in law enforcement where he served the NYPD as an investigator, he returned to law and became a lawyer for a New York Puerto Rican activist group, the Young Lords and attracted the attention of news producer Al Primo when he was interviewed about the group's occupation of a East Harlem church in 1969. Primo offered Rivera a job as a reporter but was unhappy with the first name "Gerald" (he wanted something more identifiably Latin) so they agreed to go with the pronunciation used by the Puerto Rican side of Rivera's family: Geraldo
Neil Rogers was vile...truly vile.
Your quote is so short that it borders on being out of context. To be accurate Rich did not bring up the topic of Stewart being Jewish, the interviewer did. Rick was making a point with which I agree: that Jon Stewart is a liberal elitists who looks down his nose at everyone different than him. His comedy is not evenhanded (as he and his supporters claim endlessly), instead it has a very specific target. To use the terms of the recent essay in human events he is of the ruling class, and endlessly spoofs those of the country class. (Think: Palin).
The interviewer brought up one of the most tired liberal defenses of other liberals who are accused of being racist or prejudiced. "Oh, he can't be racists he is ".
In this case the assertion of the interviewer was that Stewart could not be prejudiced against the country class, because he is Jewish.
Sanchez scoffed at the idea that Stewart has been the victim of prejudice on account of his Jewish background.
I don't think the small quote you've given gives an accurate portrail of what he said.
I listened to the entire interview last night.
I just find it funny that many here call Sanchez...who is a turd anyhow....an anti semite for generalizing about Jews as though that is forbidden and then turn right around and do it themselves...”Jews could run the world....” said one
it’s just like with blacks...many FReepers are so programmed by the culture about anything protected minority and I reckon Jews get that card too...that they kneejerkedly rush out to condemn immediately to show how tolerant or non prejudiced they are
but they really aren’t....in the next breath they will often call someone a hick or sister kisser like nothing
Is this the same Rick Sanchez that killed a pedestrian while driving drunk and then went home to sleep it off before turning himself into police?
I couldn’t agree with you more...
It reminds me of the OBL, too.
And, us Southerners are supposed to be prejudiced, and racist.
Not true...
“I believe he’s also convinced that they can’t have volcanoes in Iceland because it’s too cold.”
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And the moon is more important than the sun because the moon shines at night when you really need the light and the sun only shines in the daytime when there is plenty of light anyway.
Thank you for the Exellent Bio on “ Geraldo “, and it’s interesting that we clearly know so much more about his records than we do of Obama’s records.
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