Wow! That didn't take long.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43025.html
Rick Sanchez lost his job at CNN on Friday, just 24 hours after giving a satellite radio interview in which he called Jon Stewart a "bigot"Â and suggested that Jews run CNN and other media companies.
"Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company,"Â CNN said in a statement. "We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well."
CNN said it would broadcast CNN Newsroom from 3-5pm for the foreseeable future.
The CNN host has been the frequent butt of "Daily Show" jokes, which may have contributed to his ill-considered comments yesterday on Pete Dominick's satellite radio show.
First, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a "bigot,"Â though he walked the comments back a bit later.
Dominick: "How is he a bigot?"
Sanchez: "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."
Dominick: "What group is he bigoted towards?"
Sanchez: "Everybody else who's not like him. Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with?"
Then he suggested that CNN is run by Jews.
"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," Sanchez said.
CNN fired Octavia Nasr this summer for a tweet expressing respect for a Lebanese cleric tied to Hezbollah who had died.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43025.html
Rick Sanchez lost his job at CNN on Friday, just 24 hours after giving a satellite radio interview in which he called Jon Stewart a "bigot"Â and suggested that Jews run CNN and other media companies.
"Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company,"Â CNN said in a statement. "We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well."
CNN said it would broadcast CNN Newsroom from 3-5pm for the foreseeable future.
The CNN host has been the frequent butt of "Daily Show" jokes, which may have contributed to his ill-considered comments yesterday on Pete Dominick's satellite radio show.
First, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a "bigot,"Â though he walked the comments back a bit later.
Dominick: "How is he a bigot?"
Sanchez: "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."
Dominick: "What group is he bigoted towards?"
Sanchez: "Everybody else who's not like him. Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with?"
Then he suggested that CNN is run by Jews.
"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," Sanchez said.
CNN fired Octavia Nasr this summer for a tweet expressing respect for a Lebanese cleric tied to Hezbollah who had died.
