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Rick Sanchez Out at CNN After Bashing Jon Stewart

By Jeralyn

CNN wasted no time in firing Rick Sanchez after he ran his mouth on Pete Dominick's Sirius radio show, calling Jon Stewart a "bigot" and suggesting CNN is run by Jews.

Dominick pointed out that as a Jew, Stewart was also a minority - to which Sanchez responded, snickering, "Please, what are you kidding?.. Yeah, a very powerless people."

"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," Sanchez said. "To imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah."

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WaterTiger at Firedoglake weighs in.

My take: Sanchez's daytime talk show host manner always irked me. And he talks too much. He was never a good fit for a news station. I always changed channels if he was on. But I am surprised at the size of the chip on his shoulder.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).