Rick Sanchez
Phillip Weiss suggests that Rick Sanchez was fired partly for his sympathetic coverage of Palistinians, citing this clip above. But that was January of 2009. If it's just based on his recent comments on Jews CNN's dumping him is clearly unfair, especially if you use Lou Dobb's years of immigrant baiting as a yardstick.
His comments on Jon Stewart are more problematic. I admit I haven't watched Stewart in a while and I don't know to what extent Stewart went after him, but I'm inclined to think Sanchez was being unfair in calling him a bigot. In the audio clip below it sounded at first as if he was edging towards a broader critique of US oligarchic groupthink which might include unwavering support for wars of empire, but then he threw that "northeast intellectual elite" bit in and seemed to settle into a groove. Of course he would have to take CNN and the news media establishment to task as well if he attacked Stewart for that.Then again, maybe he wanted to be fired. I often wonder that when I hear of a high-profile individual's missteps in an interview.(Gawker,audio clip)
Labels: journalism, video, Zionism
posted by Jonathan Versen @ 1:15 AM
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I really don't know Rick Sanchez from Adam, I rarely watch cable television news because you end up knowing less when you do and your mind is cluttered up with the memes of the ruling class.
What was disturbing was how Sanchez easily settled into right-wing hate memes, the Jews control the world stuff. Reading comments at SF Gate (the San Francisco Chronicle website) you get mouthbreathers claim that the Jews "control" the White House. That is, they control the Kenyan Muslim stealth socialist guy.
I don't dismiss religious organizations from any dabbling in power politics, but I've always found that at the end it's money and power that is what really is worshipped. Blaming Jews is a tried and true scapegoating okeydoke employed by the ruling elite to shift criticism from them. After all, when Jews were blamed for controlling world banking there were a couple of Jews who were international bankers, but mostly it was Protestants and Catholics.
Rick Sanchez, may, in fact, have been auditioning for Fox. After all, he worked for them in Southern Florida around the time he got drunk killed someone.
And, FYI, there's IOZ's interpretation.
I doubt that this had anything to do with any reporting/stances from Sanchez. It is my understanding that his rating were low enough so that he could have been fired for just that.
I’m sure that Sanchez doesn’t fit in perfectly with media elites, most of whom aren’t Jewish, but if his evidence of this is that Jon Stewart made fun of him, he has no evidence.
I believe that Lou Dobbs, on the other hand, had a fairly profitable show. I’m not saying this makes things right…
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