You should watch more CNN.

Ted Turner sold CNN more than 15 years ago.

Yeah, I just remembered that after my post. Oops. He probably sold it to the Elders of Zion.

Maybe I'd watch CNN if it hadn't filled up with yammering mush-heads.

Ted Turner is Lutheran, not Jewish.

Sanchez is an idiot and has no sense of humor, but should not have been fired.

Really? An idiot with no sense of humor would be your choice for a TV news host?

+1

That pretty much sums it up.

I'm sure CNN probably wanted to get rid of him anyway and used this as an excuse. I wonder if firing him under these pretenses still makes them liable for the rest of his contract or if this is considered a breach of contract on HIS end and negates the rest of the contract, and that is why they fired him now.

I agree, as I said a couple of days ago here, that they probably already were looking to move him out. This just provided the trigger.

But, he said a lot of things besides the "Jews control the media" implication. I'd expect that anyone who went on a nationally-broadcast program and said their boss is discriminating against them, promoting other people over them because of race, might find themselves out of a job soon.

I'd expect to hear something like this: "Really? That's what you think we do? Then why are you even working for us at all?"

Honest request: could someone please explain to me how his remarks were "anti-semitic" or offensive enough to be considered a reason to be fired? I just can't wrap my head around it.

I'm not sympathizing with Rick Sanchez. In fact, all I know of him is what Jon Stewart includes on his show! But this just seems rather stupid, yet a lot of people keep saying that. Am I missing something? If I say " rich white people control the economy", does that mean am I racist?

the way I see it. this is another case of a media bomb or character assasination...

it happened to me, Helen Thomas (i'm not really Helen, btw)...it happened to that NACCP lady that Obama fired...

you have a news story come out with a sensationalist POV, it doesnt matter what the reality is, what matters is how its presented...the blogs pick it up, the news aggregators pick it up, people start commenting, influential people join the fray and make statements, they show it on tv..before you know it, in just a few hours time, its a storm...and somebody goes under...

I imagine it was always possible to sway the public like this, but now with the new media...maybe its more common or easier..to create a crisis or conterversary, to sway the public.

people are hopelessly dumb. A large % of people decide what they believe soely by what the news tells them. they dont question. they arent skeptical. They want to believe what their peers believe, even if its fantasy, even if its not true. So you get stories like this, where you have endless discussions about what Sanchez said without anyone even listening to what he said...oh well...thats what happened imo.

Sanchez was right when he said that Jews control the media. The Jews who control CNN were insulted by him stating facts out loud and fired him for it.

If CNN is supposed to be the most trusted news source then why didn't they fire Sanchez for bigger, more embarrassing mistakes, such as this one?

Rick Sanchez from CNN needs a geography lesson to learn where Hawaii is.

Suzanne Sanchez make sure to watch jon stewarts show tonight. the dolphins are playing, so we will have to tivo it.

18 hours ago

What? You watch football where the teams bash the crap out of each other and are named after animals? Isn't that some form of animal abuse?

At the same time, don't act like discrimination doesn't exist.

While he act like a retard on the radio, I'm positive that dirty Sanchez's experiences are true.

Try being called ricardo Sanchez at a Westchester Country Club

Jon Stewart is an overrated comedian. Don't make it look like he's serious journalism.

Stewart is a smarmy a-hole who didn't get slapped enough as a child.

i think that applies to most Gothamist commenters but especially you with your neo-nazi think tank posts (aka Institute for Historical Review).

gross.

George Orwell said that "anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself being silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing." So you're more "1984" than you ever thought.

I do it for sport, sport.

For real son. I mean even though Sanchez has a ethnic name his caucasian features are so white he makes stewart look like a mexican pool boy. He must be Iberian spanish or something. It takes a real small man to whine about pity parties when he's making beacoup bucks at CNN. "Oh Jon Stewart is picking on me even though I'm on national tv and making over six figures a year". Fame and fortune and hiding behind an ethnic skirt? Good Riddance.

[apologies in advance if this post appears twice, which I have a feeling it will do...]

@Patrick Bateman

I agree 100% that this guy IS white. I think his claims of discrimination are probably ridiculous.

Meanwhile, I don't agree with your use of the term "ethnic name" - what does this even mean in the USA? Is a Spanish name any more "ethnic" than an Italian, German, Irish or African name? His name simply means that he's from (or is descended from) a Spanish-speaking cultural background.

Also, your use of the term "Iberian Spanish" is redundant - all of Spain is on the Iberian peninsula, thus ALL Spanish people are Iberian (with the exceptions of the Spanish islands like Mallorca, Tenerife, etc). I empathize with why you used it though - presumably to avoid confusion in this country, where people frequently (and illogically) refer to ALL people from Spanish-speaking countries as being "Spanish". It's one of those random linguistical things that bugs me.