Monday, October 04, 2010

CNN cans Rick Sanchez

Over the weekend CNN fired Rick Sanchez for his comments about Jews in general, and specifically Jon Stewart. (Full details are here)

He called Jon Stewart "a bigot" (which, let's face it, is ridiculous), and then when the interviewer told him that Jon Stewart was a minority too, Sanchez joked about the Jews running the media.

The slam against Jon Stewart, in my opinion, seems inspired purely by Stewart constantly making fun of Sanchez. And the Jews running the media crack has an unmistakable anti-Semitic smell to it. Whenever someone suggests the Jews run this industry, or that industry, or any industry, or imply there is some sort of a Jewish agenda being pushed, it inevitably reminds people of the ridiculous claims by Hitler and his ilk, and wow, do you not want to go there.

When Sanchez said that Jews are not an oppressed minority in the media, he was right of course. But the way he said it was incredibly creepy. The Washington Post writer (Lisa de Moraes) in the linked piece above describes it perfectly when she calls it "gasp inducing."