Well... it was bound to happen -- Rick Sanchez, who regularly shoves his foot down his throat on CNN, lost his job today after he called Jon Stewart a bigot and said that Jews run CNN and other media companies...
Just damn, indeed.... >From >Politico<http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1010/Sanchez_out_at_CNN.html> : Sanchez out at CNN<http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1010/Sanchez_out_at_CNN.html#> Rick Sanchez lost his job at CNN on Friday, just 24 hours after giving a satellite radio interview in which he called Jon Stewart a “bigot” and suggested that Jews run CNN and other media companies. “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company,” CNN said in a statement. “We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.“ CNN said it would broadcast CNN Newsroom from 3-5pm for the foreseeable future. The CNN host has been the frequent butt of "Daily Show" jokes, which may have contributed to his ill-considered comments yesterday on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show<http://standupwithpetedominick.com/blog/cnns-rick-sanchez-jews-like-bigot-jon-stewart-run-cnn-the-networks/> . First, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a “bigot,” though he walked the comments back a bit later. Dominick: How is he a bigot? Sanchez: I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine. Dominick: What group is he bigoted towards? Sanchez: Everybody else who’s not like him. Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with? Then, he suggested that CNN is run by Jews. 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. CNN fired Octavia Nasr this summer for a tweet expressing respect for a Lebanese cleric tied to Hezbollah who had died. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
