How much bullshit is it that RS can't have an opinion outside of his job at CNN. Don't get me wrong, I love Jon Stewart, and generally think RS is a joke, but him getting fired is crazy. Seems I'm the only one that has this reaction as all my friends are telling me RS deserved it. But I think it's crap.
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No, you can't be an anchor (or any kind of professional, really) on a major network and go around and tell people that Jews run the networks. If anything, he should have been fired for being dumb enough to think that he could get away with that kind of shit.
Yeah, you cannot bring attention to the obvious anymore in this country. Guy was a retard and I think Stewart thinks he is a lot smarter than he really is. Pretty sad that Comedy Central is the intellectual thought leader of the youth in this country.
Hey, it's a step up from the 90's when MTV was the thought leader of the youth in the country. How else do you explain Bill Clinton?
Gee, I want to pull the lever for this exciting, straight-talking, viable 3rd-party candidate, but my buddy just told me that the dope-smoking, draft-dodging hick from Arkansas plays the saxophone! I loves me some sax!
fuck comedy central mtw has JERSEY SHORE!!!1
RS got what he had coming, his high and mighty BS on CNN was annoying as hell, so fake, and this just proved it.
RS was a dumbass who was paranoid about his minority-status. But he was at least half-right about his implication of many Jews in powerful positions. I mean, is CNN or any TV network even reporting that a UN commission report found overwhelming evidence that the May 31 Israeli soldier attack on an aid flotilla included the execution of a US citizen? Yeah, the US would castrate (almost) any other country for this but Israel is an exception. Not even a comment.
You're Fired!
"US Citizen" - He was born in the US, left to Turkey at age 2, and had never been back to this country since. Faisal Shahzad was also a US citizen.
I think Jon Stewart is funny, but I think its wrong he can act like a news guy when he wants and then be a comedian when he wants.
You just have to be smart. IMO was what Sanchez said wrong? No. Should he have known better? Yes. I think that John Stewart does have an advantage as far as tip toeing the line of safety because his show is news & comedy, but that's the purpose of the show and that's why he works there. If your Sanchez, you have to know that you don't work at one of those stations, but you work at one that is touting itself as THE unbiased premier source for news. Your not going to be able to say some of the stuff John Stewart says, even though you want to, and even if it's not something that bad.
So no it doesn't surprise me, he should have known better. But no what he said was not bad at all.
No sympathy for Sanchez or any minority person who gets fired over PC issue. The amount of times I heard this fool equating illegal aliens to U.S. citizens, he got what he had coming to him.
Now as to the veracity of his comments or better yet, the validity of being able to make them...there's no doubt that 1st amendment rights are no longer functional. This is why the 2nd amendment remains the only true equalizer.
Sanchez was an idiot. We all agree with it. What he said reminds me of the story about a pitcher that retired from Baseball that used to play for the Atlanta Braves. Unlike Sanchez, whose comments were relatively begin and mild when you look at them, this schmuck basically insulted all of New York City despite targeting Mets Fans by discussing his immense fear of riding the 7 Train and walking through Times Square. He was asked in an interview whether he would ever play for the Yankees or Mets and the guy said that:
That was 10 years ago. That pick caused himself more trouble because he offended an entire city. When he came to pitch at Shea after making that quote, the city of New York had 700 police on site for the game instead of their usual ~60. They curbed alcohol sales and even had pregame restrictions about where you could be in the stadium. All of that was done because some jackass named John Rocker decided to say something he shouldn't have said in response to a simple question.
While I know that Sanchez's comments are not as bad as Rocker's, and they really are extremely mild in the grand scheme of things, he is a public figure and has the ability to influence a wide audience. Forgetting the whole fair and balanced bullshit, since the mainstream media is anything but, Sanchez's position as an anchor for CNN with his own show forces him to bite his tongue from saying his true feelings and personal opinions. It's called common sense, and our country clearly has a dearth of it.
I don't have much sympathy for Sanchez. I can try and shed a tear for his loss of employment, but he brought it on himself. He killed his own career. Not John Stewart. Not CNN. While he is entitled under the first amendment's provision of the freedom of speech to say what he wants, there are just things you should not say because of the ramifications they would have. The ramification of Rocker was him being permanently hated by the city of New York. The ramification for Sanchez is his loss of job at CNN. He may have the right to say it, but having the right to say something does not mean that he would be protected from anything that comes of saying it.
On a side note, I just realized tonight that Eastbound & Down is pretty much entirely based on the life of John Rocker. Have no idea how I didn't pick up on that since I'm from Atlanta.
Rick Sanchez killed a man back when he lived in Miami and didn't do any time for it so he still wins on the karma scale.
Also, if he was bringing in ratings CNN would have given him the opportunity to at least eat his hat and apologize on-air. Instead, it sounds like when he returned to the office that day his desk was waiting for him in a box down by reception. His show simply vanished from the line up.
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