Posted on 10/02/2010 4:56:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez went there. The question now is, what will CNN do about it?
Update: CNN has fired Rick Sanchez.
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.
Well, as I mentioned at the end of the post below, CNN had evidently gone into a lockdown mode. Now they’ve done the deed, and on a Friday evening. No need to call me back, fellas.
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Well. In the gallery of CNN hairdo Rick Sanchez’s greatest hits, hits which include killing a man while driving under the influence and saying on-air that Iceland is too cold to have volcanoes (seriously), this is the first one that may cost him his career. During an interview with satellite radio host Pete Dominick, Sanchez called Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart a “bigot” and then upped that into a an anti-Semitic smear (and sounding a bit like a different Sanchez).
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.
The appeal to “who’s the real oppressed minority” is touching. You’re not oppressed, I’m oppressed! I’m being repressed right here in this chair from which I am paid huge money to read the news to millions thousands of people! Yet both Stewart and Sanchez still manage to eke out a living in this awful, oppressive country.
Sanchez’s real gripe about Stewart is probably Stewart’s calling out Sanchez for being the opposite of brilliant. But the anti-Semitism lacing the remarks?
That’s rank bigotry, period.
CNN has been taking out the trash lately, even letting go of the man most responsible for Pajamas Media’s own name. It looks like the CNN suits need to break out the broom for one more.
Update: I called up CNN and got their PR arm’s voicemail. Putting my crisis communications hat on for a minute, I bet they’re in a little lockdown mode until they can review what Sanchez said, assess the damage, and formulate a game plan. I left my phone number for them to call me back. I’d say the odds of them actually calling me back are less than 1%. They’ll come up with a plan and roll it out whenever and however is most opportune for the network. Say, isn’t this Friday?
Update: Ed Driscoll has audio of Sanchez’s meltdown moment.
I have never understood the reason for antisemitism unless it is just pure envy.
Love it when they feed on each other, or in this case, devour themselves...but this is a joke of a network that’s pimping a pimp in Elliot Spritzer...
You have to wonder if Sanchez has an alcohol problem......sad end to an unremarkable career.
Gee, you would think killing a person while under the influence might be a career killer.
The left keeps on showing its stupidity.
Excellent post! Well done!
The Jon Stewart video ripping Sanchez is hilarious!
Prager wrote a definitive book about the whys of anti-sem.
“Dennis Prager (born August 2, 1948) is an American syndicated radio talk show host, syndicated ... Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism (with Joseph Telushkin) (2003) ISBN 0-7432”
In a nutshell, much of it comes from them being The Chosen People.
Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice — Al Pachino
He will get his next job as the “announcer” on the Daily Show...
I have not watched CNN since the 1st Gulf War. Had no clue who Rick Sanchez was. TV is a worthless pass time in general.
Bye Bye Rick, Bye Bye CNN
Watch the Stewart clip. He jokes that it may be coke feuling Sanchez.
Still surprised that Sanchez got fired....because the liberal media usually supports anti-Semitism....Especially when it comes to Israel and Israel’s defense.
Sanchez’s comments seem mild compared to the outright support of Islamic Terrorists who kill Jews in Israel on a daily basis
You wonder if someone at CNN has a serious man-crush on Jon Stewart...and Killer Sanchez just POed someone off
“I have never understood the reason for antisemitism unless it is just pure envy.”
It turns out you have understood the reason for antisemitism.
Too bad CNN doesn’t feel this way about the Jewish...State.
I might be in a minority, but Al Pachino (as Shylock) was GREAT in that movie!
There will be an opening at MSNBC, he will fit in well there alongside Maddow, Schultz, Matthews and Olbermann.
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