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Disgraced journalist Rick Sanchez can’t seem to stop falsely-accusing people of racism on his daily CNN show. How do you follow up trying to destroy Rush Limbaugh with a fake quote about slavery having merit? You accuse Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio of being another Bull Connor. Arpaio has become a man of controversy recently as some in the Obama administration do not care for his tactics in arresting illegal aliens. (This controversy was featured and detailed in another NewsReal blog here.) Arpaio has been elected five times in his county. He is famous for his frugality in taking care of...

Eight months after he got hit by Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez's Volvo, Jeffrey Smuzinick is doing poorly. His family is just plain doing poor. ...Minutes after midnight on the morning of December 10, 1990, an intoxicated Smuzinick darted out in front of a Volvo on a residential street near Joe Robbie Stadium. The driver of the car, WSVN-TV Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez, became the subject of a subsequent January 16 New Times story that described the odd circumstances of the accident. Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said "smelled strongly of alcohol," first stopped his car but then...

It looks like CNN has been so busy the past 24 hours running news stories on its website and on air about Meghan McCain's existential Twitter crisis, that Rick Sanchez's own Twitter page was only place where he could find the space to issue a mealy-mouthed apology for falsely attributing a racist quote to Rush Limbaugh. Sanchez Tweets this evening: i've know rush. in person,i like him. his rhetoric,however is inexcusably divisive. he's right tho. we didn't confirm quote. our bad. What courage. It only took three days following his initial report and the Huffington Post to retract the quote...

A day lot and millions of dollars short.