If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like
a duck… well… the chances are excellent you are looking at a
duck.
Or a liberal.
By now the news that CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was briskly
fired by CNN for calling the liberal champion Jon Stewart a “bigot”
because of various Stewart mockings is old news. Right?
Not so fast.
As
noted here the other day, the news reports that CNN had quickly
fired Sanchez for calling Stewart a bigot contrasted sharply with
the CNN response after Sanchez had aired a 100% bogus report that
Rush Limbaugh had once spoken out in favor of slavery. The Limbaugh
episode arose when Rush was part of a deal to buy an interest in
the NFL St. Louis Rams. Because of flat-out untruths such as the
one uttered by Sanchez on CNN, the deal fell through. Under legal
pressure, Sanchez retracted on-air. But the damage to Rush Limbaugh
— real-time, serious damage to a personal business deal — was
done.
Now comes a small, but telling detail that illuminates the
real behind-the-scenes relationship of those in the mainstream
media with their fellow liberals.
The New York Post
reported yesterday that… get this… Rick Sanchez’s wife Suzanne…
his wife… has manned up to go on the Sanchez Facebook page
to say… what? Here’s the first line of the Post
story:
Embarrassed Rick Sanchez is wisely letting his wife do the
talking for him.
And what talking might that be? Well, it appears that
while there is a nod to reports Sanchez harbored some anti-Semitic
feelings, and his wife apologizes for that to “anyone who was
offended by his unintended comments” — there was another, much
more specific apology made by the ex-CNN anchor.
That’s right. You guessed it. Let’s quote directly from
Mrs. Sanchez as reported by the New York Post:
“Rick apologized to Jon Stewart (on Monday.) They had a good
talk. Jon was gracious and called Rick ‘thin-skinned.’ He’s right.
Rick feels horrible that in an effort to make a broader point about
the media, his exhaustion from working 14 (hour) days for 2
(months) straight, caused him to mangle his thought process
inartfully.”
Are we getting this? Of course we are.
Jon Stewart is the quarterback of Team Liberal when it
comes to television entertainment. Rick Sanchez was a
block-and-tackle liberal for Team Liberal, CNN News Division. In
his “inartful” moment Sanchez mistakenly sacked Stewart, his
liberal media teammate, with the bigot comment.
What would any sensible teammate do if he had just screwed
up in such a fashion by sacking his own teammate? Why apologize, of
course! And in this very revealing little flash of a media story,
the curtain is pulled back just long enough for the rest of us to
know that’s exactly what Sanchez did. He called up Jon Stewart and
apologized. Stewart graciously accepted.
Why would he not? Sanchez is a teammate. They both spend
their time before the cameras wearing the jersey with the big “L”
on it. Although Jon Stewart does so unashamedly, Sanchez — and
more importantly CNN — has to see if they can do this while still
insisting they are about just-the-facts-ma’am straight
news.
But what about an apology from Sanchez to Rush Limbaugh
back when CNN was airing Sanchez’s flat-out untruth about Rush
supporting slavery? We’re not talking here about any
legally-induced on-air retraction. We’re talking about the simple,
respectful gesture like the one Rick Sanchez made to Jon Stewart. A
personal phone-call. An e-mail, even. A snail mail. Did any of
these take place?
Let’s remember that Jon Stewart lost not a thing in this
dust-up. He didn’t lose his show because Sanchez contributed to
some stark, untruth that helped fuel an anti-Jon Stewart jihad. Nor
did Stewart lose out on a business deal that meant something to him
because of Rick Sanchez. On the contrary, Sanchez did add fuel to
the bonfire that eventually burned Rush’s opportunity to be an
owner of an NFL team — a chance that for any serious football fan
is a dream come true.
Did Sanchez pick up the phone somewhere along the line and
say what any person who had made such a serious
mistake would say? Did he call Rush? Did he e-mail him? Snail
mail? Did he have his wife go to Facebook to inform the world that
he had made a terrible mistake, that he had called Rush to
apologize — and maybe even offered to call the NFL Commissioner
personally to correct the record?
Of course not. Is there anyone who thinks Rush — at this
point in his life — expected to be treated any
differently?
This small, seemingly insignificant incident of the
Sanchez apology-call to Jon Stewart casts a spotlight yet again on
what millions of Americans know to be the reality of the so-called
mainstream media today.
Remember what Mrs. Sanchez said her husband was really
trying to do? She said he was engaged “in an effort to make a
broader point about the media.”
Not to worry, Mrs. Sanchez. By calling Jon Stewart and
stiffing Rush Limbaugh, Rick Sanchez has indeed made his “broader
point about the media.”
Which is exactly why Rush Limbaugh has an audience of
twenty million people, Rick Sanchez is out of a job — and CNN has
no audience.
