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[recessiontime]

Firing from CNN

During an interview on Sirius XM's radio show Stand Up With Pete Dominick, on September 30, 2010, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a "bigot"; after questioning, Sanchez backed down from using the term and refereed to Stewart as "prejudicial" and "uninformed". When queried on the issue of whether Stewart likewise belonged to a minority group on account of his Jewish ethnicity, Sanchez responded,

"Yeah, very powerless people. [laughs] 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?"

Sanchez's comments were interpreted by CBS News and MSNBC as an assertion that Jews controlled CNN and other networks His statements during the radio show were made during a discussion concerning the extent to which Jews in the United States faced overtly or covertly discriminatory attitudes, compared to Latinos. Sanchez also vented his negative feelings about Jon Stewart's portrayal of him in Stewart's news-oriented show on Comedy Central, The Daily Show.

Sanchez described his percieved experiences with prejudice at news networks when he said, "It's not just the right that does this. 'Cause I've known a lot of elite, Northeast establishment liberals that may not use this as a business model, but deep down, when they look at a guy like me, they look at a ... they see a guy automatically who belongs in the second tier and not the top tier ... White folks usually don't see it, but we do, those of us who are minorities ... Here, I'll give you my example, it's this, 'You know what, I don't want you anchoring anymore. I really don't see you as an anchor, I see you more as a reporter. I see you more as a Jon Quinones.' You know, the guy on ABC. That's what he told me, he told me he saw me as John Quinones. Now, did he not realize that he was telling me, 'when I see you I think of Hispanic reporters?' 'Cause in his mind, I can't be an anchor, an anchor's what you give the high profile white guys."

In the day following his remarks, CNN announced that Sanchez was no longer employed with the company

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



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[catman]

Jews are not visible minorites. They're white. Just like Sanchez.
Don't like Sanchez. He was CNN's lame attempt to be like Fox with O'Reilly and Beck. He was nothing but a clown.

Wish he wasn't fired though. He'll now be a martyr for the "Jew-Conspiracy" theorists.

[Adventurer]

First of all, I think Rick Sanchez has a chip on his shoulder. I mean people could say that Mexican Americans have it worse than Cuban Americans. I agree with him that Jews do not have it bad in America. They are treated definitely on par with WASPs. This was not the case in the past, some decades ago. As far as there being Jews in the media, that's most definitely true, but to say that everyone who is Jewish and in the media is like John Stewart is simply ignorance. John Stewart is Jewish and so is Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer defends Israel very heavily in private at talks. John Stewart publicly criticizes Israel through comedy by using his show, though he is Jewish like Blitzer. Imagine if we said all Cuban Americans are Rick Sanchez.
John Stewart isn't Wolf Blitzer or Mortimer Zuckerman anymore than Tedd Koppel is like Blitzer or Zuckerman. Also, Klein from the New York Times defended Muslims building an Islamic center 2 blocks from
"Ground Zero". I am not sorry to see Rick go after that.

[catman]

[mises]

Joel Stein

[mises]

Oh, and the FT named Loyd Blankfien "person of the year".

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/12/lloyd_blankfein_1.html

And the Rothschilds own a minority interest in The Economist. So the Brits are just as screwed as us.

[The Happy Warrior]

Ha, I knew mises would come out swinging on this one. Do you sympathize with Sanchez's class resentment?

There's a middle ground between Pat Buchanan and Bill Kristol.

Anyway, to the actual point of the thread: Sanchez is wrong, at worst Jon Stewart is a self-important funny man. The resentment coming from Sanchez is really weird, but somewhat symptomatic of baby boomer elites.

[catman]

[mises]

[mises]

[The Happy Warrior]

[recessiontime]

[The Happy Warrior]

[mises]

There is no question that he is right.

The question is what is the impact? To what end?

I went and saw this leftist Jewish professor speak about the wars and such a month ago. He went on and on about how Americans are war mongers. It's part of European imperialism and Christian expansionism. Red neck this, tea bagger that.

You see, this is what we get. One the one hand the hoards of sub-100 IQ whites watch the idiot box all day and absorb the propaganda and then when they act and believe as told they get shouted down as being immoral pigs. Middle America is so stupid right? They don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. Yeah, that's true. They all believe stupid things. Because they're immoral? Or because the people with a direct line into their minds are immoral. Where's the blame? That pisses me off just about as much as the wars themselves. I see Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and Jeremy Schahill and Glenn Greenwald etc etc etc giving lectures that are essentially "Americans are dumb war mongers" and all I can think of is how apropos it is that chutzpa is a Hebrew word.

[The Happy Warrior]

Its hard for me to say voting for war is immoral in the first place. Wrong? In many cases, yes. But wrong as in error, a mistake, misguided at most.

But actually going to war, as an Executive, or voting for war as a Representative, that's different. Its more weighty.

And the pundits? Well . . .