"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."Yeah ... and did'ya hear 'those people' also control the banks and are always wanting another 'pound of flesh?'
"You may not have noticed this, but Rick Sanchez is not on his own CNN show this afternoon."posted by ericb at 2:40 PM on October 1, 2010 [5 favorites]
He doesn't even strike me as someone who is ONLY where he is because of white privilege.Think about the world before the ADA where buildings didn't need to have wheelchair ramps. There were lots of people who worked hard at their jobs and were successful - no one would say that they were successful only because they were not handicapped, or in other words only because they were 'abled privileged'. But for most jobs handicapped people literally couldn't get their feet in the door.
"Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well."posted by ericb at 3:27 PM on October 1, 2010 [1 favorite]
And you're angry ... at Jon Stewart???To be fair, that was before he got fired.
So did his statements about Stewart have anything to do with this or is it just a hilarious coincidence?Probably more the stuff about Jews in general.
I'm starting to think that Sanchez knew he was done on CNN. So he took the opportunity to let off some steam - as implied above, bashing Jon Stewart can only help his chances with Fox News.Uh yeah, except if you listen to the entire thing, he calls fox news racebaters who deliberately tilt the news to make minorities look bad. So I don't think he'll be working there any time soon.
Ted Turner is Jewish?Ted Turner hasn't run CNN for quite a while.
and now Sanchez is fired for crossing him.It's hard to imagine that Stewart would even want Sanchez fired over this -- I certainly wouldn't if I was in his position. I think it had a lot more to do with his comments on the higher ups at CNN.
Shirley Sherrod doesn't count, but that's what it looks like when it happens today.Huh? Sherrod was slandered. What has that got to do with anything?
And of course it happens on a Friday, when The Daily Show won't be on until Monday.Olberman might be pretty entertaining (Note: I hardly ever watch the show, but I imagine he'll be covering this)
I just saw this guy Sanchez on CNN for the first time yesterday at the nail salon (bugs me that they have CNN on, but whatever). I didn't identify him as Cuban at all. In fact there was so much make up on him, I identified him as creepy-looking-corpse-make-up-guy.Yeah. I had no idea he even considered himself very "Hispanic" when I first saw him on TV.
Yes because otherwise it assumes that people SHOULD be listening to TV 24 hours a day and making decisions based on it. It's like day in, day out being critical of WWF wrestling because it's not "pure" or something. It's ALL shlock people, including TDS. I'll pay more attention to Stewart when he gets back into actual entertainment and not daytime news' Messiah.I... don't even know what this is supposed to be about. While everyone knows the WWF is fake, lots of people think what's on the news is real, and the daily show does a good job of illustrating how that's not the case.
"When Pete suggested Jews (such as Stewart) have at least some sense of what it’s like to be an oppressed minority, Sanchez seemed to make the claim that Jews run CNN and the news business in general and that Stewart thus did not in fact know what it was like to feel the sting of prejudice.Wow.
“Yeah,” Sanchez snickered sarcastically at the idea that Jews are as much minorities as Latinos in the US.
Very powerless people… [snickers] He’s such a minority, I mean, you know [sarcastically]… 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? Yeah. [sarcastically]"
Hey delmio. You always write John Stewart. Like, every single time. What's up with that?uh, oops
What the fuck is this supposed to mean? "He's not very brown, so he can't possibly identify with his ethnicity."No, it's that I wouldn't have expected him to suffer much discrimination because of it.
I'm pretty sure Wyatt Cenac is in there too. (It started as N-word vs. R-word, no?)I think it started with "Team Muhammad" (Mandvi) vs "Team Jesus" (Cenac)
Ok, I'm a fan of Stewart's and I think it's fine and completely appropriate that he's picked on Sanchez, but when I listen to this, it's the dominic guy who brought up Stewart's being Jewish and brought that into the conversation. "Bigot" is completely the wrong word to use and the anti Semitic stuff is insane, but I do think there's a point he's trying to make here that's legitimate, but it's really diminished by his inability to articulate his thoughts and because he's really incensed by Jon Stewart's picking on him on TDS.Here's the thing. If he'd just said Stewart was a bigot, that would be one thing. People would be talking about it. It would have ginned up some controversy and ratings for both shows.
delmoi, I think you should research what the 'P' in WASP stands for.I know what "WASP" stands for.
Having an Hispanic white guy and a Jewish white guy engaged in a public dispute over who is the more underprivileged minority is pretty freaking stupid.Jon didn't engage in anything, the interviewer brought it up to make a point about
It's frightening how large the totally ignorant, racist percentage of this country that's reared up since November 2008 actually is. I know I've been living in NYC, but really, flyover states?Excuse me but Carl Paladino? The guy's polling 40% in the NY govoners race after emailing image macros of black people getting run down by an airplane with the caption "Run Niggers Run." Last I checked your town was the one that was flipping it's shit over a mosque. And Christie O'Donnel is running in Conneticut, not Minnesota.
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