Rick Sanchez gets fired for calling Jon Stewart a bigot(voices.washingtonpost.com)
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Rick Sanchez gets fired for calling Jon Stewart a bigot
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/tvblog/2010/10/cnn-fires-rick-sanchez-after-r.html?sid=ST2010100107295
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Dominick brought up Jews, not Sanchez. I find it odd that Stewart can insult anyone and anything and keep his job. Sanchez insults Prince John and loses his head.
For the record, I can't stand any of the talking heads on TV, including Colbert and Stewart.
For the record, I can't stand any of the talking heads on TV, including Colbert and Stewart.
TL;DR? Sanchez said he doesn't get ahead because Jewish network executives are prejudiced against minorities. Dominick noted that Jews are minorities too. Sanchez didn't agree.
I bet Sanchez also thinks that Stewart received a phone call from the Mussad on 9/11, not to come near the World Trade Center that day. When someone starts explaining anti-semitic conspiracy theories on the air, it's time to let him go.
I bet Sanchez also thinks that Stewart received a phone call from the Mussad on 9/11, not to come near the World Trade Center that day. When someone starts explaining anti-semitic conspiracy theories on the air, it's time to let him go.
In my reading, he was talking about privileged white liberals. Dominick brought up Jews.
I always find it odd that talking heads are "allowed" to discuss conspiracy theories involving Christians or Muslims but are verboten from discussing Jewish ones. For the record, I'm Jewish.
I always find it odd that talking heads are "allowed" to discuss conspiracy theories involving Christians or Muslims but are verboten from discussing Jewish ones. For the record, I'm Jewish.
Flagged, sorrowfully. There's probably something socially profound in this story, but online fora are far too coarse in granularity to get at it. Driving through a minefield in a Range Rover does nobody any good.
Dominick noted Stewart is Jewish, which he said is "a minority as much as you are."
"Very powerless people," Sanchez laughed. "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." In the audio, which was circulated online Friday, Sanchez's sarcasm was evident.