Rick Sanchez And The Showbiz Third Rail

Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 10/2/10 | Bob Parks

[bocopar]

Let me preface this by saying no tears are being shed here for Rick Sanchez. If CNN canned him for bigoted remarks, if anything they were years late on this one.

After all, this is the same CNN that never even considered firing Rick Sanchez prior to the 2008 presidential election when he called three black men sellouts because they dared come on his show and say they were going to vote for John McCain instead of the Barack Obama HE concluded they should support. This is the same CNN that never even considered firing Rick Sanchez for slandering a talk show host by repeating an unsubstantiated, fictitious racial slur he falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh.

But let Rick Sanchez speak ill of a Northeast liberal elite or imply that Jews run CNN (or the entertainment business in general) and that's an instantly terminable offense.

[Mr. K]

could it be he is getting to conservative for CNN?

as Churchhill said “If you are not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if you are not a conservative at 40 you havw no brain”

This oughta advance his conversion a bit faster

[ripley]

I didn’t hear him mention “Jews” in his tirade.

What’s all the turmoil about?

Just asking.

[bocopar]

You may need to read it again...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-cnn-sanchez-20101002,0,7072209.story

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I didn’t hear him mention “Jews” in his tirade.

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.

Admittedly, the syntax is strained, the diction contoured, but that is about as clear as Sanchez ever gets.

[flaglady47]

Boy, am I delighted that this jackass got canned. Rick Sanchez is a total idiot, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

[cripplecreek]

I would have gotten rid of him years ago based on his simple incompetence. Unfortunately there would be few reporters left if we fired all of those who don’t research and gain basic understandings before reporting.

The ignorance of today’s reporters is astounding. I’m a high school dropout and know that surface temperatures in Iceland have nothing to do with the ability to form a volcano.

Back when Kiran Chetry worked for FOX, I heard her state as fact that it’s illegal to hunt with semi automatic rifles. No one questioned her because all the other on camera personalities were just as ignorant.

[November 2010]

Snickerful situation. Didn’t know that about Telemundo and Univision.

[Dr. Ursus]

I hope this doesn’t drive Rick to drink and drive!

[screaminsunshine]

Next!

[bert]

......But let Rick Sanchez speak ill of a Northeast liberal elite or imply that Jews run CNN (or the entertainment business in general) and that’s an instantly terminable offense.......

Albeit, the truth

[highpockets]

From the article at the link above:

The late Marlon Brando took a lot of heat for crudely pointing out (again on Larry King Live) that every ethnic group is caricatured negatively at some point in the entertainment industry except Jews

I can not think one instance proving that statement false. Having wasted a significant portion of life glued to the boob tube I am drawing a blank.

Can anyone else think of an example?

[skintight buffoonery]

He is a bit of a fool, but...he is more or less right here. It’s hard not to suspect that he was fired because, well, his bosses ARE disproportionately Jews.

[cripplecreek]

I think its a matter of perception. As conservatives we tend to have a favorable opinion of success. Jews in the media are almost exclusively portrayed as successful urban businessmen.

While conservatives may see that success as a positive, from the standpoint of the left its a negative.

[skintight buffoonery]

I’m sure you could find one or two examples, but in general Brando was obviously right. There are a lot of jews in the media - I have no problem with that, it mainly has to do with the fact that Jews are generally pretty good at entertainment! Among many other things. They are an ethnicity with many virtues and their success is largely deserved.

I just wish the Jews would develop a sense of noblesse oblige, as the previously dominant WASPs did. They can afford it now, the ghetto mentality is unnecessary.

[Spok]

CNN seems to be in a state of confusion. Its ratings are saying that leftist extremism turns off the viewers, but the dogma is so ingrained that its rejection may induce fatal anaphylactic shock. If it is to survive, a total purge may be its only option.

[skintight buffoonery]

Jews in the media are almost exclusively portrayed as successful urban businessmen.

Do you think? Care to back that up? No hostility intended - you might be right; I don't have any statistics at my disposal, but I don't think I've gotten that impression personally. Apart from the urban bit.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Fox News is run by the Irish mob: O’Reilly, Hannity. Come on.

[cripplecreek]

Care to back that up?

Turn on a TV and pay attention to Jewish characters. Offhand I can't think of a single series that doesn't portray Jewish men as successful businessmen. I can't think of a single show that portrayed a Jewish mechanic, farmer, factory worker, deliveryman etc. The Portrayal of Seth in the HBO miniseries "Deadwood" was interesting but he was still a successful businessman with an insinuation that he was greedy.

Jewish women are a different story. They're often portrayed as whiny Jewish princesses.

[13Sisters76]

The left will use everyone- Jews, Hispanics and blacks- to achieve power. For any in these groups to imagine, for a moment, that the left LIKES them? is naive.

Jews that vote demonRAT really should remember that the left hates them as much now, as they did when they were killing them in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany.