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Trying to create a scandal over Republican presidential candidate John McCain's failure to rebuke a woman supporter who called Hillary Clinton a “bitch,” CNN's Rick Sanchez led Tuesday night's Out in the Open with what he insisted was the “relevant and newsworthy” topic as he seriously asked: “Is John McCain done as a result of this?” He later speculated: “Is his campaign dead in the water?” Betraying the skew of those at CNN, Sanchez told guest Amy Holmes: “He could be in trouble for this from women, especially the ones that've been talking to me today in our newsroom who...

Let me begin with this. If the National Enquirer wrote a story about me cheating on my wife with five women, I had better be extremely definitive in my response; because if I’m not, my wife –smelling the guilt – would kick my ass. OK, let me also tell you that I wouldn’t be angry; in fact, I’d be ecstatic. It’s fun to count money from guaranteed punitive and compensatory damages in a multimillion dollar lawsuit. But that’s me. I can’t speak for Senator Ted Cruz except to say that so far his reaction seems —well, not exactly definitive. He...

Let me begin with this. If the National Enquirer wrote a story about me cheating on my wife with five women, I had better be extremely definitive in my response; because if I’m not, my wife –smelling the guilt – would kick my ass. OK, let me also tell you that I wouldn’t be angry; in fact, I’d be ecstatic. It’s fun to count money from guaranteed punitive and compensatory damages in a multimillion dollar lawsuit. But that’s me. I can’t speak for Senator Ted Cruz except to say that so far his reaction seems —well, not exactly definitive. He...

The most recent move in the broadcast career of former Channel 7 and CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez looks like an open field zig-zag: radio color analyst on Florida International’s 12 college football games this season. It looks that way if you didn’t know that Sanchez lettered three years at Hialeah High and, according to him, received a partial scholarship to play at Moorehead State. Or, if you didn’t know that after his firing from CNN, he spent last fall hopping around to FIU road games from his Atlanta home with his FIU student son, Ricky. “I played college football. I...

The common wisdom is that CNN's Rick Sanchez was fired because he made anti-Semitic remarks. That's an understandable assumption, but it's also untrue. Sanchez was fired because he attacked a celebrity more liberal and more popular than he is. That he did it with racial overtones made it easy for CNN to pull the plug on him. But his real crime was that he had become an embarrassment, from a liberal perspective, and that's the only perspective in the media that counts. Let's imagine that Sanchez was a trendy liberal comedian with his own influential show and Jon Stewart, the...

Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, who once declared on-air “My Twitterboard’s about to explode,” is back Tweeting this morning. Sanchez has brought his 145,702 followers from his @RickSanchezCNN to a new account: @RickSanchezNews. The account was moved Wednesday and this morning Sanchez began using it: (Snip to TWITTER graphic) In a Media Beat interview a few weeks before he was let go from CNN, Sanchez told us about Twitter, “It’s going to be the wave of the future, but not just in our business. I think it’s going to be a very important part of what business people do. Whether...

Detroit, Mich.: How has the last couple of weeks changed you? Rick Sanchez: Thank you for the question. It has made me understand that words matter, even more so than what I thought. These are very tough times for me and my family. It's very painful to go through what I'm going through and I wake up at night seemingly anxiety-ridden over prospects for my future. But I know in my heart that I am not the person who some are describing or perceiving. I simply made a mistake which I now must atone for. I will say this. My...

Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has apologized for calling comedian Jon Stewart a bigot on a radio program last week, Sanchez's wife revealed Monday. Sanchez's wife, Suzanne, revealed the news on her Facebook page Monday, writing "Rick apolog

Shoot-from-the-lip CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was laying low yesterday -- but the man who did the interview that got Sanchez fired is talking about his "career suicide." Pete Dominick, host of the Sirius XM radio show "Stand Up!" and CNN contributor, said that he was pressured into having Sanchez on as a guest. "Frankly, I didn't really want him to do the radio show," he told his audience. "He's not the type of guest we have on this show -- we generally have experts on issues. "But I work there at CNN, I didn't want to say no." Sanchez was...

Paging Rick Sanchez! The recently-canned CNNer could be perfectly placed to mediate the incipient feud between two media types who, as Sanchez might say, are "a lot like Jon Stewart" . . . Mark Halperin has called Bill Kristol's theory that Rahm Emanuel's run for mayor of Chicago is a pretext to get him out of the White House "misguided, insane and absurd." The Time editor and MSNBC analyst was reacting to a clip aired at the top of today's Morning Joe of Kristol expounding his notion. Halperin knew he was about to stir things up, rhetorically asking "is it...

Howard Kurtz tweeted yesterday that he was gonna deal with the firing. Today he had a large segment on Sanchez...Howards's guest is Jamie McIntyre who says that things Sanchez did were "silly." Carol Simpson says "he went too far." Howard Kurtz says his firing was "probably the right decision"....(Video)

I never liked Rick Sanchez when he was with CNN. But I never thought I would feel sorry for him. Did you all hear the things he said, that caused him to be fired from CNN? Mel Gibson said some crazy things to a cop a few years ago, when he was arrested for DUI. The fact that he was drunk, was not accepted as an excuse, and his career suffered. Sanchez was sober when he made his comments. There are certain things in modern American popular culture that are considered to be so offensive, that anyone who talks about...

25-54 demographic (Live +SD) Total day: FNC: 354 | MSNBC: 130 | CNN: 120 | HLN: 142 Primetime: FNC: 558 | MSNBC: 262 | CNN: 162 | HLN: 152

Let me preface this by saying no tears are being shed here for Rick Sanchez. If CNN canned him for bigoted remarks, if anything they were years late on this one. After all, this is the same CNN that never even considered firing Rick Sanchez prior to the 2008 presidential election when he called three black men sellouts because they dared come on his show and say they were going to vote for John McCain instead of the Barack Obama HE concluded they should support. This is the same CNN that never even considered firing Rick Sanchez for slandering a...

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From Mediaite: "CNN’s Rick Sanchez is not happy with being made fun of constantly on The Daily Show and Colbert Report. It is from this jumping off point that he absolutely unleashed on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and at times his own network, on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show yesterday."

CNN released this statement today: “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.“ They will broadcast CNN Newsroom from 3-5pm for the foreseeable future. Here’s more from the story earlier today: CNN’s Rick Sanchez is not happy with being made fun of constantly on The Daily Show and Colbert Report. It is from this jumping off point that he absolutely unleashed on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and at times his own network, on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show yesterday. The big takeaway – Sanchez calls Stewart...

Well.  In the gallery of CNN hairdo Rick Sanchez’s greatest hits, hits which include killing a man while driving under the influence and saying on-air that Iceland is too cold to have volcanoes (seriously), this is the first one that may cost him his career.  During an interview with satellite radio host Pete Dominick, Sanchez called Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart a “bigot” and then upped that into a an anti-Semitic smear (and sounding a bit like a different Sanchez). I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run...

This is going to be a tough day for Rick Sanchez. The CNN host, as Mediaite notes, is the frequent butt of Daily Show jokes, which may have contributed to his ill-considered comments yesterday on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show. First, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a “bigot,” though he walked the comments back a bit later. Dominick: How is he a bigot? Sanchez: I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew up in a suburban...

CNN just overhauled its executive roster. Their on-air lineup may be about to change again, too. Mediaite reports on what looks like a career flameout by host Rick Sanchez, who claims that his network is run by people who are a lot like Jon Stewart, and by that he doesn’t mean hip comedians with subtle facial nuances. Sanchez made the remarks in an interview with Pete Dominick on his satellite radio show yesterday, starting off by alleging that Stewart was, in fact, a bigot: Dominick: How is he a bigot? Sanchez: I think he looks at the world through, his...