CNN issued a statement today saying: “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.’ That sounds final. Rick did not appear on the Rick’s List show today. It was hosted by his fill in, Brooke Baldwin. So, what happened?
According to Huffington Post, Sanchez had what can best be equated to hoof in mouth disease:
[He called] Jon Stewart a “bigot” and saying that CNN and the other networks are all run by Jewish people.
Discussing Stewart with radio host Pete Dominick, Sanchez said that the “Daily Show” host has a limited worldview, and called him a “bigot.”
The conversation began with Sanchez decrying “elite, Northeast establishment liberals” who “deep down, when they look at a guy like me, they see a guy automatically who belongs in the second tier, and not the top tier.
“I think to some extent Jon Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert are the same way. I think Jon Stewart’s a bigot,” he said. “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.”
Rick Sanchez was not the most loved CNN correspondent. Who knows what set off his rant on Stewart. It sounds like it might have had something to do with the Jon Stewart rally on the mall.
Pete Dominick once worked for Stewart on the Daily Show. To date, Stewart has not made public comment. I am sure a good spoof is to come. Jon Stewart often makes self- deprecating ethnic remarks.
Will other networks pick up Rick Sanchez or will he go the way of the dinosaur?
Thanks to El Guapo for providing this audio.
