Rick Sanchez fired from CNN
Rick Sanchez Fired – Is Jon Stewart The Definition Of A Bigot? Late last night it was announced that Rick Sanchez had been fired from CNN’s ‘Rick List,’ after making comments about Jon Stewart and Jews while appearing on Pete Dominick’s radio show.
Rick who also blasted Stephen Colbert and Keith Olbermann said during the interview: “I think to some extent Jon Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert are the same way. I think Jon Stewart’s a bigot.”
The comment prompted millions of people who heard the news to search for the definition of the word bigot. A bigot is a person who is intolerant to another group’s religious, racial, or political views.
Is Jon Stewart a bigot? Is Rick Sanchez a racist, since he also called Obama the cotton picking president few weeks ago?
- Rick Sanchez.
CNN fired Rick Sanchez on Friday afternoon in response to a radio interview on a SiriusXM radio show during which Sanchez called Comedy Central late-night host Jon Stewart a ‘bigot’ and implied that the media as a whole are controlled by Jews. Appearing on ‘Stand Up! With Pete Dominick’ to promote his new book, ‘Conventional Idiocy,’ Sanchez went on to assert that he has been the victim of discrimination at the cable news network.
“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company,” – the cable news network said in a statement. “We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.”
CNN, which changed its leadership last weekend, said it will telecast ‘CNN Newsroom’ in Sanchez’s 3 to 5 p.m. time slot ‘for the foreseeable future.’ The provocative anchor had been with CNN since September 2004.
Sanchez, who was born in Cuba and had worked at CNN since 2004, was host of the two-hour ‘Rick’s List’ on CNN’s afternoon lineup. He did a prime-time version of that show in recent months, but that ended this week because the time slot is being filled by a new show featuring former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and columnist Kathleen Parker.
Stewart had frequently poked fun of Sanchez on Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show,’ most recently for saying on the air that his show had received a tweet from House Republican leader John Boehner. Stewart called it a case of ‘send a twit a tweet.’
“He’s upset that someone of my ilk is almost at his level,” – Sanchez said during a satellite radio interview with Pete Dominick. Details of the interview were posted on the Mediaite website Friday and quickly became a topic of conversation in the media world.