What Rick Sanchez said about CNN and Jews
By Greg Sargent, October 1, 2010; 2:16 PM ET
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.
UPDATE, 3:04 p.m.: Let me try to be a bit clearer. The charitable interpretation of what he said — and I mean charitable — is that Sanchez’s mind was on the white liberals he’d been ranting about. In the first half of the offending quote he was referring to them:
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. Then, in the second half, he addressed what his questioner had said about Jews:
And to imply that somehow they — the people in this country who are Jewish — are an oppressed minority? Yeah. The problem is that even if he meant these comments in the less offensive way, he used the word “they” in that second half before saying “the people in this country who are Jewish.” This will be impossible for him to clarify. And, again, he very well have meant the comments in the worst way.
UPDATE, 6:23 p.m.: CNN fires Sanchez in a terse, two-sentence statement.
Today’s theme? Bigotry got nothing to do with it.
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I wasn’t offended and I don’t believe he is anti-Semitic. However, I’m not Jewish.
I agree with Rick in that Hispanics are generally looked upon as hired help in a privileged society. Unless, of course, you can hit home runs for your hometown baseball team.