Mediaite, HotAir.com, and Politico on Friday all highlighted Sanchez’s anti-Stewart remarks and his questionable statements about Jews. Dominick, on his own website, gave additional details about how the CNN anchor not only targeted apparent prejudice against him from “top brass” at CNN: “Sanchez’s example was an illustration that the problem of racism in the media business goes further than many expect, enveloping ‘not just the Right,’ but also ‘elite, Northeast establishment liberals’ that ‘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.’” This isn’t a surprising characterization from Sanchez, who sees himself as in the “middle” or “not ideological.”
Dominick, who once worked with Stewart on The Daily Show, posted three clips from the interview on his website, and 10 minutes into the second clip, the standup comedian tried to explain his trade to the anchor, that comics don’t think about people’s feelings when they make fun of them, but only think about being funny. Sanchez didn’t buy this, and made a claim about how he operates [audio clip available here]:
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