CNN Fires Sanchez After Critique of Stewart

I'd like to know what Sanchez's contract would have paid him if CNN wanted to can the guy without cause.

There's much more to this than what you hear and see. Much worse has been said by many without this type of response.

Originally posted by Misoir
He was blaming all Jews and that is a BIG mistake, it's the Zionist Jews that must be called out and destroyed.

When and where did he blame all Jews?
Please point it out.

I never heard him blame the Jews.

- Lee

Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic

And I'll have to catch Jon's Monday show on the Internet. Should be interesting. I wonder how he'll couch this story.

edit on 10/2/2010 by Benevolent Heretic because: (no reason given)

Me too.

I bet he'll of course handle it with class.
I am almost positive he didn't mean to harm Sanchez personally to the point where the guy gets himself fired.

I don't think John is a vicious man, just a viciously funny one.

I feel bad that Sanchez lost his job over this.

No one should get fired for alleging John is a bigot (John calls bigots out all the time) or saying Jews run CNN if they actually do.

- Lee

Either A.... This is all a ploy, to get people to tune into Jon Stewart, cause he has his "march" comming up and this dirty sanchez guy(CNN) is getting paid to make these comments to rile up the 'left base" on stewarts side(CC)...

Or B... This is just another example of how much the left is starting to eat each other because they refused to tell it how it REALLY was/is over the past two years, and are now feeling the reprocussions of that.

I will go with C... WHO CARES?
More finger pointed racism/bigoted crap comming from the left base like usual.


People annoy me to the point now I am starting to not even care.

Its also funny seeing the dems attacking Dirty Sanchez now saying they never liked him, when before, I barely heard of his name(inhate), especially from people on the 'left' who were "criticizing and hating him the whole time".


RIIIGHT.ya, Ima buy this whole "drama" bs. Why doesnt CNN/MSNBC and the likes just make Daily Soap Operas with liberal politicians as the actors? it would be no different, and I am sure they would probably draw a larger crowd.

I'll go ahead and nominate Nancy Grace as the next talking head on the chopping block if CNN is cleaning house. Wishful thinking at best I know. Seriously though, do you think Sanchez was really as dumb as he seemed to be at times, or was he playing the dumb inquisitive advocate to appease or appeal to a particular daytime audience?

Sanchez was a fool. You never ever criticize the guys that write your pay check for anything. Anyone that has ever worked in a corporate environment picks this info up the first day on the job. He knew this but he chose to disregard one of the prime tenets of corporate structure. I think he was drunk or high; something clouded his reason or.....


His ideology got in the way of his common sense.

Well I am on the majority side for this one,
I thought rick was an idiot.
He has proven it on many occasions
just another opinionated knothead in the news corporation

Like a number of others on the network, Sanchez came off as being far from the sharpest knife in the drawer, made kooky comments on a regular basis, and displayed that he was just a little bit off in certain ways. The main reporter on Headline News is even worse.

Within the last ten years, the cable news networks have changed their style to allow for constant editorializing, proselytizing and informal goofiness by reporters.

Few reporters these days show seriousness, high intelligence, professionalism, maturity, and sophistication as used to be expected. Now, they seem to look more towards the more informal, loose-lipped types, perhaps inspired by the atmosphere of the local news type format.

The type of old school, serious reporting you used to see from people like Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Brokaw and others is quickly becoming a thing of the past and is being replaced with people who like to giggle and joke with each other on screen as they report in pairs, and who make dimwitted comments with regard to things that the average intelligent person should know about. It's almost insulting to some extent, it's like producers are trying to find reporters who will relate better and have more in common with what the producers would term the "common folk", and they'll leave the small segment who listens to NPR with PBS news.

Not that I like Wolf Blitzer very much, but he no longer fits in with the network. His 'relatively' serious demeanor and presentation style makes him stick out like a sore thumb. Apparently they have him in the "Situation Room" just in case something important happens in the world and they actually need a professional present to deal with it.

Some of us don't really appreciate the dumbing down of the news, the psychologizing, the ridiculous and politically polarized reporting, etc. If you find that you have to visit three different networks or websites to get some idea of the truth because of political bias, then it indicates a problem. The liberal networks wouldn't even mention climategate when it came out, aside from passing comments to make it sound like something silly to be ignored. It just goes to show how much everything is being controlled and the methods they use to psychologize and manipulate the public.

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Good.

Sanchez was a loud mouthed fool anyway. He probably would be better as a commentator for the NFL or something.

He won't be missed

Originally posted by The Undertaker
I'll go ahead and nominate Nancy Grace as the next talking head on the chopping block if CNN is cleaning house. Wishful thinking at best I know. Seriously though, do you think Sanchez was really as dumb as he seemed to be at times, or was he playing the dumb inquisitive advocate to appease or appeal to a particular daytime audience?

Yes. He was dumb. He was the meathead that probably picked on the nerds in the high school locker room. He was also probably the guy that took his shirt off at football games to expose his stomach which is painted the colors of his school and screamed profanity at the opposing team's families across the field. Before the game, he chugged at least 12 beers in the back of his pick up truck with his redneck buddies discussing how much they love women and who'd they bang while throwing empty beer cans at the band kids.

He's that guy.

Originally posted by whaaa
Sanchez was a fool. You never ever criticize the guys that write your pay check for anything.

He didn't criticize the people that write his checks.
He criticized John Stewart as an elitist liberal snob and a bigot.

Listen to the recordings again.

When the Radio Host said John can relate to being a struggling minority, Sanchez pointed out that Jews run the media and are powerful.

That isn't criticism.
It could very well be considered a compliment.

It's possible for John Stewart to mock Sanchez and not have that be an attack on all Cuban-Americans.
It's also possible to criticize John Stewart and not have that represent all Jews.

He got fired for no real reason other than expressing his opinion about John through weak accussations of bigotry because he got his feelings hurt. He did it over the radio.

Meanwhile CNN has always had a few hotheads that yell, scream, and insult people WHILE ON CNN.

- Lee

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He criticized Stewart and then claimed those who work at CNN are just like him.

Never criticize your workplace, you'll end up getting the boot

Originally posted by SeventhSeal
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He criticized Stewart and then claimed those who work at CNN are just like him.

No he didn't.

You missed the context.

He was responding to the point about John Stewart being a minority that relates to Sanchez' alleged racial anguish. He disagreed, and pointed out that Jews are powerful and run the media.

That's what he meant when he said a lot of people that run CNN and other networks are like Stewart.

They are Jewish.

He didn't mean that they behave like Stewart.
The subject changed, and he mentioned that fact later.

Listen to the last half again, when the Host brings up the fact that Stewart is a minority.
From that point forward they are talking about Jews in general.

- Lee

If this was a plan he hatched to get onto Fox News at a higher salary, then he grossly miscalculated. First, Fox News does not hire Hispanics. Second, unless a person has had some connection to the former Bush administration, you ain't gettin' in. Just kidding. I do believe Fox News hires Hispanics, but I'm sure they don't really want to because Glenn Beck doesn't approve of minorities holding positions of importance within the network. I believe Sarah Palin said that she would approve of hiring Russians, but only if they "came from dat parta Russia that we can see from 'maverick' Alaska."

Originally posted by SeventhSeal
Never criticize your workplace, you'll end up getting the boot

Listen carefully to this short clip.

The subject shifts to John Stewart, as a Jew, being a minority that can relate to what Sanchez is claiming.

He scoffs at the notion, sarcastically says they're "not a powerful people", and then says the people that run CNN and the other Networks are like Stewart. They are talking about Jews, not Johns behavior. Later Sanchez tries to switch the subject back to what he was really mad about; John Stewart.

It's the whole reason why articles are claiming he said Jews run the media.
That is what he meant.

He didn't insult CNN, they overreacted to his statement of Jewish ownership of the media.



- Lee

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If you listen to the audio tape he says that he is Puerto Rican. I keep wondering why the keep calling him Cuban. I heard the entire tape through which is what everyone should do. It is at mediaite.com so anyone who did not hear it on Sirius can hear it here. Takes only twenty minutes, but he does correct his "bigot" word himself, and uses an euphemism. He does take on the brass at CNN which is very interesting to consider, as he does not like being treated as a second class citizen, but complains that someone at CNN does not think that he should be an anchor. I guess for sure he shot himself in the foot and has seen to it that he is not an anchor, and will probably use any faulty reason as the cause for his firing. It is almost comical as I like the comments about his problems in Miami that viewers gave upon learning of this...a case of good riddance to Rick Sanchez! Now I always thought that CNN had hired him for just his good looks and dimples! Not for his journalistic style! and high ratings!

Originally posted by LiteraryOneTwo
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If you listen to the audio tape he says that he is Puerto Rican. I keep wondering why the keep calling him Cuban

His biography/profile page at CNN lists him as originally from Cuba:
www.cnn.com...

Originally posted by LiteraryOneTwo
If you listen to the audio tape he says that he is Puerto Rican. I keep wondering why the keep calling him Cuban. I heard the entire tape through which is what everyone should do.

The Radio Host calls him Puerto Rican, and mentions John called him Peurto Rican, he doesn't call himself that. Or to be more specific, the host says "but I'm not Puerto Rican" which seems to imply he thinks Sanchez is one.

Sanchez was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba.

but complains that someone at CNN does not think that he should be an anchor.

He never said that was at CNN. He said an administrator told him that.
We had no real context for where and when, he just used it as an example of racism hes faced.

Sounds like it was something that happened to him early in his career.
Clearly he is already an anchor and I doubt someone recently said to him.

- Lee.

I don't care for Rick Sanchez, and I don't really care for any of the others.... John Stewart, Colbert, Rachel Maddow, etc. Including anyone on fox news. To me, they are all tools and they are puppets for the media.

I've seen countless remarks made by that fool Sanchez to blacks and whites with very little whiplash, but the second he makes a remark about a Jewish man, he gets fired? No warning? No forced apology on television? Just an immediate firing? Are they even prepared to fill the time slot of his show, or will they just be showing reruns or extending the time of other shows? I never really liked the guy, but I never envisioned that this was the way that he would end up going.

On a side note, does anybody have a link to the final Rick's List?