CNN host Rick Sanchez fired after Jon Stewart rant

New York Post ^ | October 01, 2010 | NEWSCORE

[RobinMasters]

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired Friday by the news network after he went on a tirade during a radio interview calling Jon Stewart a “bigot” and accusing the "elite, Northeast establishment liberals” of labeling him as “second-tier” because of his Cuban-American background, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company," the statement from CNN said. "We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well," it added.

The TV host, who was born in Cuba and raised outside Miami, said that racism in the media comes "not just [from] the right," but also at the hands of the "elite, Northeast establishment liberals," during a Thursday interview on the "Stand Up! with Pete Dominick" SiriusXM radio show.

[RobinMasters]

[kbennkc]

They didn't care that he was an incompetent, embarrassment to electronic journalism.

[Salvey]

My Cuban friends do not want to be labelled as Latinos.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Now we can work on getting Stewart’s dumb ass fired.

[danamco]

Wow, couldn’t happen to a better guy, we had him every night on local channel 7 for years pesting the airways. He reminds me very much of Grayson from Orlando!!!

[samadams2000]

I think when he said some think “he’s just a dumb mexican reading the news” that sealed the deal. He left out ratingless in his rant which left him exposed.

[cripplecreek]

Lets hope he uses his “vacation time” productively and takes a geography class.

[ElPatriota]

This is a Cuban of the “homo” variety and as a Social Conservative “Latino” I’m glad the SOB is gone!...

Although I am not a Cubano, I can’t imagine what pride this lefty could bring on the conservative Cuban community in the US, rather the opposite.

[BigSkyFreeper]

He finally made it to the front page of Drudge.

[South40]

CNN flushed the toilet and one turd went down.

Their newsroom still stinks which means they need to flush again.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Guess he found out how much power the “oppressed Jew” has in the media.

[anton]

Rush will be heartbroken. Sanchez was whipped by him a dozen times for his idiotic left wing nonsense.

[I see my hands]

To: Sanchez

"racism in the media comes not just from the right"

Hope you starve.

[DGHoodini]

LOL! The “Jewish Bigot Mafia” fired him!

How ever will Behar, the author of:
‘The Joy of Broomsticking, and
‘NYC or Burbank on Only 10 Broomstickings a Day’.
top *that* ???!!

>BoD

[dancusa]

I can see MSNBC giving this turd a show now. SGT. Shultz should be watching his back now.

[Personal Responsibility]

How could he get fired from CNN for being incompetent embarrassment to electronic journalism? They’d have to fire...well....everyone at CNN.

[fso301]

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired Friday by the news network after he went on a tirade

Yeah, well it was CNN that hired him after a DUI manslaughter.

[SevenofNine]

I got question what did Jon Stewart say that Rick found offensive

[nuconvert]

I wonder if he was drunk?

[BigSkyFreeper]

There are plenty of incompetent and incoherent liberals to smack around. Sanchez isn’t the only incompetent liberal hack pretending to be a journalist. There’s a bushel of them over at MSBHO.