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The Spectacle Blog
Isn’t this interesting?
CNN’s Rick Sanchez has been fired by CNN. Depending on the news account, it was either because Sanchez spent some time in a radio interview calling Comedy Central’s liberal champion Jon Stewart a “bigot.” (Stewart has been mocking Sanchez periodically on his show.) Some versions of the Sanchez firing attribute it to alleged anti-Semitism expressed in the same interview.
If the latter, then c’est la vie. There is no room for anti-Semitism in this world, much less spewing forth from a prominent CNN anchor.
But there’s enough press out there saying the real reason for the Sanchez dismissal was that he called liberal icon Stewart a “bigot.”
Now think about this.
If that’s true, here’s a curious fact.
Rick Sanchez gets fired in a blink because he calls the liberal Jon Stewart a bigot. But not all that long ago Sanchez said on the air that Rush Limbaugh had “once declared that had ‘Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.’”
This was during the major media-induced assault on Rush when he was being considered for an ownership stake in an NFL team, the St. Louis Rams.
There was not a single word of truth to what Sanchez said. Not one. It was a total, complete untruth. Retraction? Eventually — after El Rushbo’s lawyer’s raised a more than justified stink.
The point? CNN didn’t fire Sanchez for maligning the conservative Rush. Nope. No problemo there. It was only when he said the liberal Jon Stewart was a bigot that he lost his job.
Huh. As they use to say on the old Laugh-In TV show: “Verrrrrrrrrrrry interesting.”
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Booger| 10.4.10 @ 12:20PM
Poor little Ricky. Could of had a lifetime gig, all he had to do was refrain from biting the hand that fed him. Well, "he who digs a pit shall fall into it". Looks like Ricky will be the one with some 'splainin' to do this time when he has to tell Lucy he's out of work. Whatever will the neighbors think?
Texas Mom 2010| 10.4.10 @ 12:29PM
This isn't interesting... It is the status quo for the liberal media. Attacks, lies and demonization of conservatives is A-OK! Just never malign a lib or progressive or a protected group and you are top of the heap!
Tim*| 10.4.10 @ 12:39PM
Jon Stewart is An Anti-Catholic Bigot .
" On “The Daily Show” on June 17, fake correspondent Samantha Bee interviewed two priests and two nuns who are watchdogging Goldman Sachs for a liberal interfaith group.
Jon Stewart started the Catholic-bashing in his introduction: “Sometimes it’s easy to spot the villain in a story. Sometimes it’s not.”
Bee joked to the priests and nuns: “Jesus wants us all to be rich. The Pope gets it. Have you even seen his ceiling?” Later, she joked that these “churchies” are “maybe not the best messengers.” When they suggested Goldman Sachs needed more transparency, Bee stressed with a laugh track: “Hold on. The Catholic Church wants more transparency.” Referring to this spring’s round of media investigations and church statements on priest sexual abuse, she said “Wouldn’t it be better to just lay low for a little while?” She narrowed her eyes and lectured a financial analyst: “Goldman Sachs is losing a P.R. war to the Catholic Church. That is not easy to do.”
" In an interview on the National Public Radio show “Fresh Air” on June 2, Bee revealed that she loves the church-mocking as a “terribly lapsed” Catholic. “So it is joyful for me to do that. That is pure pleasure for me, I will say.”
ANTI-SEMITISM| 10.4.10 @ 12:45PM
How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.
The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)
The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19
Blakjack| 10.4.10 @ 1:06PM
The Jews have been creating stereotypes in the media about everyone for year, but the minute you say a word about them your toast. It happen to: Phil Donahue, Sally Jesse, Montel Williams, Arsenio Hall, and now Rick Sanchez. All minorities. Is this a coincidence
Flee| 10.4.10 @ 4:37PM
Phil Donahue is a minority? Hmmm I guess I missed that one. There is definitely a Jewish power base in entertainment. In that Sanchez is correct. Stewart a bigot? Likely is some sense although not in a raging manner. He likes to make fun of all things religious and maybe some minorities. I suspect he picks on Sanchez because of the inane statements he makes rather than because of his Spanish surname.
Bob K| 10.5.10 @ 9:40AM
The internet has made the ability to bring us the news, control it (if you will), entertain us, influence opinion and, as it now is becoming evident, to make a profit in those businesses than it was in the recent past.
Marc| 10.4.10 @ 1:22PM
We live in a world of Hypocrisy. It is, "Do as I say not as I do". This country is a joke, and yes I am sure all the other countries are the same. They have all learned from each other. Citizens get screwed by all types of injustices and favoritism. Yet we continue to tolerate this bull crap. Government and Public employees getting special treatment, life long pensions, etc. While the private sector people get nothing in comparison. If you live in California and get a traffic ticket watch out because it will be hundreds of dollars. Police hiding in bushes to give bogus tickets, try fighting a ticket in court, what a joke. The courts do not care what you have to say. Everything is about MONEY.
Occam's Tool| 10.4.10 @ 1:24PM
Hey Blakjack:
Let me know when I have to show up for my role in the conspiracy.
Schmuck.
Brenda| 10.4.10 @ 1:44PM
He got fired because of what he said about his bosses at CNN. Jon Stewart and liberal media had nothing to do with the fact that you can bite the hand that feeds you. The same would happen to any of us that said those things about our employer. Everything does not have to have a liberal message behind it. Some things are just as simple as being an idiot.
CJohnson| 10.5.10 @ 12:02AM
Ed Shultz tells his little rally that big corporations are the enemy; Sanchez trashes a powerful libtard; powerful libtard gets Sanchez shut up; another day in the alternate universe of the LSM. We should check on them occasionally so they don't blow each other up.
vtwin| 10.4.10 @ 1:56PM
Was it because of that Youtube video he produced for the teabaggers?
http://www.redtube.com/27130
Tim*| 10.4.10 @ 2:02PM
Hey that's vtwin's daughter .
Aaaaand the dude's vtwin himself .
Don't scare the horses .
bluecollarbytes| 10.4.10 @ 10:02PM
Jon Stewart is a bigot of another kind, towards quite a number of fellow citizens who just decided they've had enough of the trends that will have us all living for govt.
CJohnson| 10.4.10 @ 11:51PM
I think the Media has more control than the government; and it's Progressives who churn out media. Ever heard of a Media Temperance Society?
NadePaulKuciGravMcKi| 10.5.10 @ 3:07AM
Support the federal reserve
Follow your AIPAC orders
Trust the government
Trust that 9/11 story
Trust the media
David Frum| 10.5.10 @ 4:22PM
Jerrrey, God you are such an ignorant tool. I thought the Sherrod article was a one off with your ignorance but then this comes along. The Sanchez firing had ZERO to do with calling Stewart a bigot and 100% to do with AntiSemitism.
Just look at the comment in here. Even your most ignorant Right Wing hack can't focus on the Stewart bigot issue, instead they need to go for the Jew angle.
Hard to disguise your racism huh boys?
Sam| 10.9.10 @ 2:17PM
I think Sanchez was fired because he was incompetent. The rant on Jon Stewart and the bigoted media was clearly an excuse for CNN to finally get rid of Sanchez. It had nothing to do with religion or being a minority. Sanchez did a crappy job.
Michael Santomauro| 10.14.10 @ 2:51AM
What happened to Oliver Stone is a good case study. The Wall Street Journal reported this past summer that Stone said that “public opinion was focused on the Holocaust because of ‘Jewish domination of the media.’” Stone also said that the Jews “stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f—– up United States foreign policy for years.”
Like so many others before him, Stone groveled: “In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry.”
How Jewish is Hollywood? That’s the question Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein asked two years ago just before Christmas. In answer, he wrote:
When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.
Needless to say, Stein was not fired for writing this, nor was he rebuked in the least. As we have seen time and again, there is a glaring double standard about alluding to Jewish power in the media. Jews are free to reference it, but woe unto the non-Jew who wades into those shark-infested waters.
Joe Sobran who died this past week had this to say about Jewish media power:
“Jewish control of the major media in the media age makes the enforced silence both paradoxical and paralyzing. Survival in public life requires that you know all about it, but never refer to it. A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don’t respect their victimhood, they’ll destroy you. It’s a phenomenal display not of wickedness, really, but of fierce ethnocentrism, a sort of furtive racial superpatriotism.”
In 1996, reprinted in the May 27th issue of the New York Times, by Ari Shavit, an Israeli columnist describing his feelings on the killings of a hundred civilians in a military skirmish in southern Lebanon. Shavit wrote, “We killed them out of a certain naive hubris. Believing with absolute certitude that now, with the White House, the Senate, and much of the American media in our hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own.”
Jerry Lundegaard | 10.18.10 @ 10:55AM
See, this is why crap like this article is just that - crap. It is a beacon for Holocaust Deniers like Michael Santomauro to spout off their off the wall theories. I googled your name Michael and it made my skin crawl. This is the kind of element drawn to Far Right Wing extremism and luckily is the reason the Tea Party and it's Rigt Wing ilk are seen as such a joke in the rest of the political world.
Keep it up American Spectator - you do your country proud
Documental | 8.30.11 @ 3:11AM
This isn't interesting... It is the status quo for the liberal media. Attacks, lies and demonization of conservatives is A-OK! Just never malign a lib or progressive or a protected group and you are top of the heap!