Rick Sanchez Had 'Agenda' Against Jon Stewart Says Host Whose Interview Led To Firing
Posted on Oct 04, 2010 @ 06:40PM
CNN host Rick Sanchez had a “live grenade in his mouth and he pulled the pin” when he gave the radio interview that led to his firing.
That’s according to Pete Dominick, the host who conducted the now infamous satellite radio interview where Sanchez called Jon Stewart a bigot and made anti-Semitic remarks.
“I didn’t really want him to do the radio show,” Dominick said, noting that Sanchez is not the type of guest he normally works with.
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“I didn’t really want to say no.
“But Rick Sanchez came in the studio on Thursday with a live grenade in his mouth and pulled the pin. I tried to put it back for him but he wasn’t having it. He apparently had an agenda to unleash on Jon Stewart not knowing that I worked at The Daily Show and I know Jon and that I know his bosses and quite a few Jewish people.”
Dominick spoke for approximately seven minutes about why he didn’t want to talk about Sanchez and how he didn’t expect the interview to become a big story despite the fact that his brother put it on a blog, which got picked up by the national media.
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The Sirius host also said Stewart and Colbert complimented him on how he handled the interview, which was “extremely flattering.”
Dominick noted his belief that Sanchez would have self destructed elsewhere if not on Dominick’s show. Oddly, the radio host apologized to Sanchez’s family.
“Rick Sanchez is supposed to be a news reporter not a newsmaker,” Dominick said on Thursday. “The analysis he conveyed on this show .,..claiming my friend and former bosses Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are bigoted and that everyone who runs CNN are Jewish aren’t even accurate, led alone insightful.
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“I don’t find that newsworthy.”
Apparently Sanchez’s bosses at CNN disagreed and terminated the anchor after he called Stewart a bigot, took it back and then asserted it again, in the interview.
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Posted Tue, 10/05/2010 - 1:50pm
Just taking CNN only, 55% of corporate officers for TBS, which owns CNN, are Jewish. On air, Larry King, John King, Sam Kurtz, Eliot Slpitzer, Paula Zahn, Dana Bash, etc
Posted Tue, 10/05/2010 - 12:56am
See below.
Posted Mon, 10/04/2010 - 9:45pm
Rick Sanchez is now, and always will be, an IDIOT. Watching this blowhard caused me to tune out CNN altogether. He is SO STUPID that he was given an out during the interview and blew it.
Posted Mon, 10/04/2010 - 8:26pm
Aniti-Semitic remarks? Gasp!!!. Didn't he know it is only politically correct to make Anti-Christian remarks?
Posted Mon, 10/04/2010 - 7:56pm
You sound like another right-wing "victim" I think you have that wrong.....in this far right environment we live in, it's politically correct to say "pro-Christian" because if you don't you'll get attacked by the tea baggers/ GOP
Posted Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:45pm
I do find it amusing though, everytime someone has an opinion that differs from yours, you start calling them tea baggers or republicans. This suggests a small mind and ignorance of the various political parties that exist.
Posted Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:52pm
and in fact, someone with so little knowledge as to the existence of something either than 2 parties and "teabaggers (aka disgrunted repubs and dems) should probably not be eligible to vote.
Posted Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:56pm
Nope. Not a teabagger /"right winger." I'm Libertarian, which you have shown yourself to be totally IGNORANT of previously, are too small-minded to actually look it up. Am also agnostic, but I DO see the hypocrisy and double standard.
Posted Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:59pm
Great observation. On another note, I saw "Easy A" this weekend. The moral of the story is one of tolerance...of everyone but Christians, jocks, cheerleaders, etc. The hypocracy was bothersome. (con't)
Posted Mon, 10/04/2010 - 9:34pm