CNN's Rick Sanchez fired after explosive interview on satellite radio

I think it's beautiful. CNN's collective IQ just went up 47 points.

 

Nice to see him promoting his book.

 

"Stand Up! With Pete Dominick." Well, at least he went out on a high note.

 

In his defense, Stewart attacks him almost mercilessly.

But he does suck and indeed sucks TWICE as much now.

 

Sanchez is a moron. I think he was coked up every time he was on air.

 

I know nothing about this guy, but based on his quotes I don't think its fair to say that he implied this.

 

Later in the interview, Dominick noted Stewart is Jewish, which he said is "a minority as much as you are."

"Very powerless people," Sanchez said, with a laugh. "He's such a minority, I mean, you know. . . . Please, what are you kidding? . . . 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."

 

I really liked Rick Sanchez. He was my favorite newscaster. He had more substance than others. I like Stewart too. Its too bad Rick said those things.

 

That's a genuinely unfortunate error. Was certainly telegenic enough to be in line for a big-three anchor job down the road. He might want to brush up un his Civil Rights history, I'm thinking just about every social/racial advocacy group in this country was partially founded or well-staffed by Jewish American lawyers.

 

Stewart attacks everyone mercilessly. His interview a few weeks ago with O'Reilly was excellent. As far as Rick Sanchez goes, it was pretty ballsy to make blatant anti-semitic comments on the air. I wonder what in the world was going through his head...

 

"to imply that somehow they -- the people in this country who are Jewish -- are an oppressed minority"

^Is anyone naïve enough to think Jewish people are oppressed in America?

Although I highly disagree with his claim that Jon Stewart is a "bigot", I agree with the overall notion that certain minorities like Jewish people are well educated, ambitious, and tightly knit so as far as job occupations in the Northeast/NYC-centric region, the government, financial sector, universities, and media have a higher ratio of Jews working in them despite them comprising less than 2% of the US population. I have no statistical evidence for the aforementioned, just personal observations.

"implied that the media as a whole are controlled by Jews"

Where did he say that in the interview?

 

Is it anti-Semitic to note that a good portion of Hollywood and the media is indeed Jewish?

 

Is it anti-Semitic to note that Larry King has endured years of senility on CNN, and Rick Sanchez can't make one stupid statement without being fired?

 

There are certain images that are returned to in the history of specific manifestations racism. Poking these buttons will result in a swift backlash. Failing to understand this or complaining that it is unfair makes you look idiotic. It is like the redneck who gets upset that we can call a white person a monkey, but it is inappropriate to do so to a black person, and keeps going back to how unfair that "double standard" is.

I have an original copy of Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhundert and several other original copies of original Nazi antisemitic literature. They all start on the premise that all good Ayrians have been deceived by the Jews, through the systematic manipulation of media, banking, and culture. All the medieval anti-Semitic memes were built on the same lines as well.

That is the historic tact that antisemitism takes. Complaining that Jews are too sensitive to that, is like complaining that blacks are too sensitive to the word "boy", or asians are too sensitive when they are portrayed as shifty, manipulative, calculating, and without human emotion, in the style of Fu Manchu.

 

Ouch a single comment about who's controlling the media gets you sacked?

Good thing Asians and Latinos are still free to be made fun of with no consequences

 

What? No one is implying the "they control the strings"/Jewish cabal/conspiracy style ideas here. There is not hint of starting the process of anti-Semitic rants: just observations. Jewish people, because they're relatively affluent, educated, and well connected, are holed up in high places in American society. That's what any group of people should strive for. It's not anti-Semitic, it's people being jealous of seeing a successful minority group. Everyone has bias, so if I were Jewish, it would be reasonable to assume I'd always support my people before others.

Why is that so wrong to say? Why are so few allowed to talk about this without being labeled an anti-Semite?

I think there's a disproportionate amount of Indians/Pakistanis/Persians in health care versus their percentage of the US population but that's not as bad as what Rick implied some would say.

 

For a person working in news? I don't see the problem. That is the type of business where you don't want to get the stigma of being biased.

Also, not sure what this has to do with anti-Asian/Latino sentiments. If there is some sort of angle here, and I'm not saying there is, it would be how Jews are "protected" due to their connections to the holocaust. Not how one can make hispanic/asian jokes without repercussions.

 

As others have noted, there is no way those comments were anti-semitic. There are a disproportionately high number of Jewish people in entertainment and media. Jewish people are doing very well financially in this country compared to any other minority group. They are not oppressed, but are actually often sheltered from criticism more than any other group because most people are sensitive to the kind of things Ottomaton was talking about. Everything he said was true.

 

I should add to my last post, that I do disagree with his assessment of Jon Stewart.