Rick Sanchez: Jon Stewart A 'Bigot,' Jews Run CNN & All Media

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rick Sanchez: Jon Stewart A 'Bigot,' Jews Run CNN & All Media

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/rick-sanchez-jon-stewart-_n_746764.html



CNN's Rick Sanchez made controversial comments on a Sirius radio show Thursday, calling 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 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."

When asked who Stewart is bigoted against, Sanchez said "everybody else who's not like him."

Sanchez would eventually retract the "bigot" claim, settling instead on calling Stewart "prejudicial" and "uninformed."

But he made a larger point when Dominick suggested that Stewart could understand being part of an oppressed minority group because he is Jewish.

Sanchez scoffed at the claim, snickering and suggesting that CNN and the rest of the media is run by Jewish people (from the "Stand Up with Pete Dominick" blog):

Very powerless people... (snickers) He's such a minority, I mean, you know (sarcastically)... 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. (sarcastically)

[Mass]

1. Rick Sanchez is an idiot.

[arbusto_baboso]

3. No. Sanchez is a MONUMENTAL FUCKWAD of an idiot.

Please, we must be precise.

[butterfly77]

17. No....

an OVER DRAMATIC IDIOT! He thinks everything is about him.

[Whisp]

84. he sure does! the enormous ego he has is pathetic.

I know you have to have some sort of confidence to do that media thing, but he is something extra special in that way.

hey guys? (so many times he talks directly to men and excludes women, I want to slap his frying pan face)

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

74. rick sanches

is a pompous egomaniac

[TwilightGardener]

2. Oh well. Ricky had a good run.

[Aramchek]

4. Rick has been added to the List you don't want to be on

[digitaln3rd]

5. Wait, what?

How do you call someone else a bigot and, in the same breath, go on about how "all the networks are run by Jewish people"? o.O

[Celeborn Skywalker]

6. White Cubans aren't exactly "oppressed" either.

[Supersedeas]

18. but bigotry stretched to include any other with whom there is a disagreement

When Stewart points out a disagreement with anyone, he is acting bigoted toward them.

Or so goes, Sanchez's thinking when asked what 'groups' Stewart is bigoted toward.

[MattBaggins]

28. Sanchez does have a more open mind then Stewart does.

Hell you can hear the wind whistling through his head.

[Supersedeas]

77. Stewart is doing comedy and satire--Sanchez is supposed to be doing

serious substantive news--so his use of the word bigot in so much as it is left dangling so as to apply to anyone who has a disagreement sounds pretty windy to me.

Comedy is supposed to be a little windy, no?

[Whisp]

86. it's so open everything fell out

[whathehell]

38. True, that. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

71. and this one in particular thinks he has it all coming to him. Typical repuke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Sanchez

On December 10, 1990, Sanchez struck a drunken pedestrian, Jeffrey Smuzinick, with his car on a residential street near Dolphin Stadium, then known as Joe Robbie Stadium, and left the scene, returning two hours later.<3> Smuzinick was paralyzed and eventually died in an assisted living facility on November 2, 1995.<1><3> Sanchez had just left an NFL football game with his father when the accident occurred, and a police breathalyzer exam determined that Sanchez' own blood alcohol level was above the legal limit for driving. He was not charged with causing the accident, but was charged with and pleaded no contest to DUI.<3>

[Nuclear Unicorn]

97. How does DUI manslaughter equate to political affiliation?

:shrug:

This is the sort of non-sense that makes progressives look unhinged.

[BrklynLiberal]

100. Leaving the scene is what makes him look "entitled", not the DUI...

unhinged........

[Nuclear Unicorn]

110. Even that doesn't pass the smell test

Leaving the scene of an accident says nothing about political affiliation.

[SoCalDem]

90. White Cubans "like" Ricky DID grow up (in Miami) FEELING oppressed

I know this from personal experiences with my own Cuban family.

They had a unique experience as "new" Americans.

My own family represented what Ricky meant.

My grandparents had two jewelry stores in downtown Havana..they had a "country home"..a city home.. a beach home and a farm where they had race horses.

My father & my aunt were raised with governesses and private schooling abroad. They lived a very "elite" lifestyle... When my aunt , cousin & grandparents came to the us in the early 60's they had NOTHING....They lived in subsidized housing, were on welfare for a short time, and DID feel very "oppressed", BUT they CHOSE to come here and were at the same time, GRATEFUL to be here, and were willing to start over in a new place, in exchange for freedom.

What they HAD in Cuba was TAKEN from them...IN CUBA.. They were offered refuge here, and they gladly accepted it, KNOWING that their lifestyle would be greatly diminished.

[BrklynLiberal]

101. Those that fled Cuba when Castro took power were not the lower class folk.

but by and large the upper middle class and upper class landowners and wealthy business people.
They got rich under Batista, and knew they were doomed under Castro. The fate of the aristocracy after the
French Revolution comes to mind. Those that fled, wanted to keep their heads.

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. I think it is correct to now describe Sanchez as an anti-Semite.

I mean, this is straight and outspoken bigotry against Jewish people. It's not an "I misspoke" moment. This will not be covered with an "I apologize if anyone was disturbed by my comments" non-apology.

I think this guy just killed his career.

[matt819]

37. I kind of liked Sanchez

I don't watch TV, so I pick up links to clips here on DU, and I've found him to be fairly reasonable. I don't know his politics, but he seemed to come down squarely on the side opposed to stuipidity.

But he stepped in it with these remarks. You almost have to wonder whether he was paid for this, since it comes so far out there.

He's not struck me as a Fox-type, but you can be pretty sure that he's going to be leaving CNN, and the only other option is Fox.

[laundry_queen]

42. Me too.

I always took what he said with a grain of salt though, because I was well aware of his anti-castro views. He also seems like a bit of a show boater. Still, I never would have thought he would say something so unbelieveably stupid. Ah, the more hubris, the harder they fall.

[Spazito]

52. I agree...

His comments are clear and cannot, imo, be interpreted as anything but anti-Semitic.

[Billy Burnett]

8. FYI, the guy Ric ran down while DUI is still dead.

Miami: Ric left the scene to go home to slug down a couple more drinks.
The cops had to go to his house and return him to the scene ... too late to use a breathalyser cuz he'd gone home to drink after he ran the guy down.
No arrest. (Ric used to do a segment on the local Faux affiliate WSVN called "Crime Check", a VERY police friendly on-the-scene live segment covering local busts, robberies, assaults, etc.)

Ric has always been a shill for the extremist RW Cuban exiles and their minions.

Ricardo added the "k" to Ric --> Rick, to be more (his words) "anglo acceptable".

[dmr]

62. And public pressure made them stop his 'Crime Check' segment

because he seemed to only report black crime. Rick & the cameraman would go to the nighttime crime scene, with all the flashing lights of police cars (makes a dramatic effect for TV news), & show the victims talking with the police in the distance, or the covered body lying in the street.

Viewers didn't like it because it was either too morbidly gory or because he reported no other crime except black crime which the viewers thought was bigoted, especially this being when Miami was the coke capital & the cartels employed the Marielitos (1980 Cuban refugees) as pushers & enforcers.

Then he had some involvement with a woman with ties to a cartel. That's when they sent him to the Houston Fox affiliate.

I watch his show at 3 during the week. He tries to be fair - as he points out to the viewer - and though he's not as bad as he use to be, he still does have a big ego. No one can stroke his ego as well as himself.

But this thing with Stewart. Stewart was joking! I watched the show. I think Rick is just jealous, and feels diss'd by Stewart & Colbert. When he said on his show that he was going to help promote Colbert - well, Colbert made fun of Sanchez for being someone who might help bring an extra couple of people (or something to that effect) to the rally. That was pretty insulting to Sanchez, & I remember thinking at the time that Sanchez' ego wouldn't handle that diss very well.

:hi:

[whathehell]

103. Not promoting Sanchez, but

it DOES seem very nasty and frankly, "elitist" of Colbert to put Sanchez down after he offered to help...very shitty.

I don't blame Sanchez for hitting back at that.

[Patsy Stone]

98. That was upon his return WSVN.

He was sent to Houston for a few years before he was able to return to Miami because he was wiretapped chatting with Alberto San Pedro, a local gangster/politcal figure who was sent to jail for his actions.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/alberto-san-pedro/suicidal-rick-sanchez-was-once-sick-pansy-reporters%E2%80%9D

Oh, Rick... Go squat over a giant map.

[tularetom]

9. Who the fuck is this clown Rick Sanchez?

Seriously, I never heard of him until a couple days ago when he spouted off about Stewart.

Then earlier today I saw that he tried to take on Keith Olbermann:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/rick-sanchez-and-keith-ol_n_746607.html

Has he been around all along or did he just appear recently? It appears that he is trying to make a name for himself by picking fights with the big boys. It also appears that he is way out of his league.

[Mass]

11. Another one here. He called Obama "cotton picking president"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/30/rick-sanchez-calls-obama-_n_699616.html

He also asked to be tazed to show it did not hut.

[Kelvin Mace]

55. I think this now puts

that comment in its truthful context.

[butterfly77]

106. He has been around for..

a while a while back he got angry at two metoreologists as they were discussing a hurricane,he went over to the map and started raising his voice trying to tell them how to describe the weather pattern.

There are many more examples I have been emailing him lately telling him what an asshole he is..

[Swamp Rat]

107. You forgot 'stupid'

Not only is he an asshole, but he is quite stupid too. Over the past few months he tried to (incorrectly) 'correct' petroleum engineers and geologists several times.

Rick Sanchez is probably as stupid as Glenn Beck, the latter of whom he will probably replace at FUX Noise after November elections.

[lightningandsnow]

10. What a dickwad.

:mad:

Although I am highly amused by the fact that because I'm Jewish, I apparently can control the media now! I had no idea I had that much power!

[BonnieJW]

13. I know!

I'm Jewish too, and I started going down the list of network owners and was amazed to learn they are all Jewish! I wonder if Ted Turner is Jewish since he started CNN?

[Wickerman]

16. Robert Murdoch is Jewish?

Wow~!

[still_one]

19. Rupert Murdoch. I can hardly wait for the next Jon Stewart show /nt

[Wickerman]

22. I knew that

:blush:

[still_one]

26. sorry, I get it now /nt

[Kelvin Mace]

56. Hey, can I come work for you

when you take over the world? I am ex-Catholic (now atheist), and Catholics and Jews have that whole guilt thing going with our mothers, so we are practically identical (well, except for that whole "inquisition gig". Sorry about that, not my idea. Come to think of it, neither was pedophilia, sexism, homophobia, the Crusades, hiding Nazis after the war, and most other Catholic doctrine).

[nadinbrzezinski]

49. You are still looking for that guv'ment job that apparently

you should have? Me too.

[Whisp]

87. seeing as you can control the media, I want Mary Tyler Moore shows on again!

stat!

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

94. In that case, I respectfully request that the entire MTM Production lineup return

to prime-time TV as well as the Carl Burnett and Sonny and Cher shows.

Thanks! ;)

[Swede]

12. Uh-oh!

Rick has just moved to 3rd tier,maybe 4th.

[JoDog]

14. Oy vey

Hey, Rick, you try getting Yom Kippur off work. Or explaining to your very Catholic boss why you don't want Christmas decorations on your desk.

CNN needs to fire him. And if they don't we need to organize a boycott.

[Dappleganger]

15. Let the spankings begin!

This is an ass-whooping we'll not want to miss.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[rocktivity]

20. He must still be feeling the after-effects of allowing himself to be tasered

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-8-2005/moment-of-zen---sanchez-taser

:eyes:
rocktivity

[flamingdem]

21. Send this gusano back to a local news station in Miami nt

[ecstatic]

23. Sanchez was cool for a split second

He put on a good front for a while, but every now and then, I'd notice his authoritarian/anti-minority streak when he'd stick up for cops who killed unarmed people for no reason. And once he got his two hour show, he became unwatchable.

[WinkyDink]

33. Given his speech impediment, he should thank Liberals for his quota-hiring.

[Whisp]

88. he's said more than once that his brother is a cop.

maybe his bro had something to do with the DUI.

[ecstatic]

24. I just want to note that Helen Thomas made basically the same comments

and was praised all over the blogosphere for it. Just some food for thought. Both Sanchez AND Thomas were/are wrong!

[still_one]

27. When people get personal, about ANY groups, they expose their own prejudice /nt

[WinkyDink]

34. Ahem. Not by me, she wasn't. An old bigot isn't different from a middle-aged one.

[Kelvin Mace]

59. No, the comments are not similar

Thomas told Israel to "get the Hell out of Palestine". I don't recall any remarks about "Jews running the media".

[ecstatic]

68. Both comments were anti-Semitic

unless you consider someone saying Jews should go back to Germany a good thing? :shrug:

[superduperfarleft]

81. “go home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else.”

You missed a few words in your dishonest attempt to twist Helen Thomas's quote into something it wasn't.

[Kelvin Mace]

93. No, I don't for the record,

but having followed Thomas' reporting over the years, she was pretty fair to Israel and allowed a moment of anger to get the better of her. (If you read the remarks in context, she was quite frustrated at Israel's intransigence). This in no way excuses her remarks, but I do not think she is a bigot at heart, though people can argue that the remark was "revealing". This is simply my opinion based on what I have seen, heard and read of her over the years.

Thomas' remark was also stupid from the bigots point of view, since the Jews in 1948 were trying to "go back where they came from". (For the humor impaired, this is not an endorsement of such views, merely an ironical observation).

A review of her career doesn't show any overt anti-Semitism (unless one considers any criticism of Israel to be anti-Semitic) and she was also quite critical of PLO terrorism and other violence against Israel.

I am NOT apologizing or making excuses for her remarks. They were wrong, and you must admit she was harshly punished. However, was the punishment just? To me a just punishment is applied the same in every circumstance, in this case it was not. Statements against Palestinians far harsher have been made repeatedly by various pundits, reporters and politicians over the years and no similar punishment was meted out.

Please understand, in my opinion what happened to Thomas is what SHOULD happen to EVERY pundit, reporter or POLITICIAN who utters such sentiments. But since the punishment is NOT evenly inflicted, the punishment becomes unjust. Jesse Jackson's career suffered badly because of his vile and bigoted "Hymie Town" remarks, yet Rush Limbaugh is still on the air, despite having said things just as bad, or worse, almost every day for going on two decades.

Sanchez should lose his job. I'm betting he won't, but would be very happy to be wrong.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

67. Whch comments are you talking about?

The ones that Helen made before her exit? If so, she wasn't saying the same thing at all, sorry. :shrug:

[ecstatic]

69. Jews should go back to Germany...

according to Helen. DU's response was to send her roses.

[superduperfarleft]

82. “go home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else.”

Just wanted to make sure you saw it.

[Iggo]

25. Rick Sanchez calls out Jews owning the media...

...but Jon Stewart's a bigot.

Um, ooooooo-kay...

[yodermon]

29. Bigots usually presume that the objects of their bigotry are themselves bigots. n/t

[blondeatlast]

96. You must be an elite, white, Northeastern male to say that.

Except that I'm only one of those and I agree with you. Hmmm...

[jgraz]

30. Gotta say, I did not see that coming.

:wow:

[Javaman]

31. and sanchez is dirty. nt

[whathehell]

39. Sanchez is "dirty"???

[Javaman]

40. Think about it.

it will hit you.

[Iggo]

44. tee-heeeeee

[whathehell]

48. Will someone let me in on this apparent "in joke"?

or will I have to keep "thinking" about it?:think:

[Iggo]

51. Dirty Sanchez is a nick-name...

...for a particularly unsanitary sexual maneuver.

[whathehell]

57. Ooooooh......Thanks for sharing!

..I'll have to look it up.:evilgrin:

[whathehell]

65. ewwwwwww.

..Sorry I did.:puke:

[Iggo]

66. Heheheh...

B-)

[whathehell]

73. Urban Dictionary is wrong on the definition, though

Several entries cite the woman as the recipient of this gross act and, since we all have, um, "anuses", it's dumb.

I attribute that rather egregious "oversight" to an ugly drive many males have to demean women, as it could clearly apply to anyone.

[whathehell]

46. I'm not sure it will

but Whatever!

[WinkyDink]

32. It's called the "Nixon-Dubya Self-Loathing Projection Against the Yankee/Jew/Ivy League" affliction.

[TlalocW]

35. Sounds to me like Rick wants to move to FOX

And maybe is giving CNN a reason to help get him out of his current contract.

TlalocW

[cemaphonic]

36. Stewart, praising the diversity of his writing staff when they won an Emmy:

(paraphrasing)

"One of them had a beard when he started. And that one's not Jewish."

[otohara]

41. Sorry Rick - This is a BIG FAIL

pulling this psycho-babble shit out of your ass is a huge disappointment. I used to find Sanchez mildly amusing, but this is crazy, like a FOX crazy.

[leeroysphitz]

43. Sanchez must love the taste of his own foot since he puts it in his mouth on an almost daily basis.

[K8-EEE]

45. Wow I didn't know Rick was such an idiot!

JEALOUS MUCH???

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. Hey Rick did you perhaps read this?

Nice books I am told, that fits your word view...

(Classic Cover of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a nice Tsarist propaganda piece that's become an article of faith in certain places)

[KamaAina]

50. They should title his show "Dirty Sanchez"

:evilgrin:

[Kelvin Mace]

53. It will be interesting to see if this gets him fired

If Helen Thomas had to go, this dick has to go.

[uncommon]

54. Sanchez is a hack and should be fired immediately.

Frankly he never should have been given a microphone in the first place.

[City Lights]

58. I hope this over-paid nooze reader finds himself in the unemployment line soon.

And I hope he stays there for a very long time.

What a douche bag.

[librechik]

60. Taze him again! (video)

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-8-2005/moment-of-zen---sanchez-taser

[asdjrocky]

61. He is the single dumbest news anchor I've ever seen.

Hands down, no contest.

[Mass]

63. It may be a tie with Steve Doocy.

[Swamp Rat]

108. That's a misunderestatement

:D

Of course, FUX Noise does not count, as it was never a 'news' station.

[BoneDaddy]

64. Wow, wait until the Jews who run everything

hear about this. JK )

[BrklynLiberal]

70. WOW! What a total waste of ectoplasm!!! Is there anything at all between those ears????

[EstimatedProphet]

72. ENOUGH OF THESE ASSHOLES!

[Viking12]

75. Dont ferget, them jooz run all the banks too

[CrownPrinceBandar]

76. What a soupuss dumbass.......

Rick takes all the jabs Stewart gives him personally and again and again shows he's just a big baby. I'm sure Jon will have some choice commentary about this. In fact, he should invite him on The Daily Show to explain himself. That would be good TV.

[Bill McBlueState]

78. Stewart's dad was a physicist?

Cool.

But what does Sanchez think that has to do with anything?

[cynatnite]

79. I'm done with you, Rick...

I used to like you, but over the last several months you have become increasingly intolerable. So long, asshole.

[TexasObserver]

80. He's just mad because Stewart shows that tasing video a lot.

Rick Sanchez is a dumb ass. That's his problem. It's not cultural or ethnic. He's stupid and annoying in any language, in any culture.

His "Jews run CNN" theme ought to go over well. What an ass.

[Behind the Aegis]

83. Good thing he doesn't have a Jew in his family tree.

If he did, I wonder if we would be hearing how what he said wasn't anti-Semitic, but "the truth" as was the case here with Oliver Stone's similar statement. We'd also be treated to "Jewish" DU'ers who are proud of the fact that 'we' really do run (own) the media.

[Uzybone]

85. heckuva job Sanchez....how will the fools at CNN react

[WCGreen]

89. Jon was playing off the hoary old canard that Jews controlled the media...

My eastern european family thought that till the end...

God, you have to have a brain to understand satire...

I imagine Ricky, being a hot blooded latin type of guy, doesn't take the time to think before he speaks...

(JSYK, Rick, I am referring to the hoary old canard that was played out brilliantly by Ricky Ricardo on the old Lucy Show...*wink*)

[Ramulux]

91. His careers over

This guy is a fucking racist and I think its very likely he will be fired.

[PCIntern]

92. Gee, what a 'creative' way to get fired...

all I ever did was say to my supervisor: "That is the most ridiculous thing you've said...except for everything else you've ever said."

It worked...quickly.

but this takes things to a whole new level...

[Radical Activist]

95. Everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart.

His comment is true IF he's not talking about everyone being Jewish. It means they come from an urban area on the east or west coast, and they come from a much more privileged background than those of us who grew up in working class families in the midwest or south. Most of them grew up in families who could afford to send them to the best private colleges. The class and regional biases in the corporate media are pervasive.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

99. So Rick Sanchez is down on Jon Stewart *for having smart parents?*

Yikes, what crazy times we live in.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

102. Go ahead and bash Rick, but you'll miss his insightful thoughts

like Iceland being too cold to have volcanoes.

[TK421]

105. Or Greenland not actually being green!

:D

[Swamp Rat]

109. Or oil rig blowout preventers that float at 10,000 ft in the troposphere

:rofl:

[TK421]

104. The big light has been shone upon this particular cockroach...I'm sure there will be more to follow

They all slip up, eventually....they all float down here...THEY ALL FLOAT