Does Rick Sanchez Have A Valid Point?
 

CNN host Rick Sanchez came under fire Friday after making controversial remarks the previous day on a satellite radio show.

Sanchez called out Comedy Central host Jon Stewart as a "bigot" for mocking him, and complained that Jews — like Stewart — don't face discrimination. He also suggested that CNN, and perhaps the media industry more broadly, is run by Jews and elitists who look down on Hispanics like himself.


Is there any truth at all to his rant?

Surely no one would really believe that Northeastern elitists and Jews could be liberal and bigotted.

Or would they?


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"Very powerless people," Sanchez said, laughing. "I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they -- the people in this country who are Jewish -- are an oppressed minority?"



Kind of reminds me of f-khan, a constant criticizer of Jewish influence in the government, hollywood and news media in America.

However, I don't think Sanchez and f-boy are on the same level.

One is calling it like he sees it, one is a race-baiter and full of hate.

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So liberal-minded and hopelessly doomed to sabotage America with its bias, CNN, is overrun with, controlled and dominated by Jews who don't know what it is like to face discrimination.

Could he possibly be telling the truth?


But hey, Jews are God's chosen people. We love the Jews right? They can't be evil, baby-killing, homosexual sex loving, mindless Democrat talking heads, and still be the darling of Conservative America, can they?


Let someone criticize Israel or Jews in general-- heaven forbid we ever diasgree with Israeli policy on anything. If a Democrat does that, their leading America straight to destruction for not honoring God's people.


Or maybe someone wants to argue that American Jews are a completely different breed of Jew than from the Israeli Jews.

Our undying devotion to the preservation of the Jewish state without ever acknowldging their wrong doings is a hallmark of a Conservative. Maybe our over zealous posture towards Israel does not apply to the American Jews who control American media outlets....


For the record, I love all people and I actually do pray for God's mercy and protection over Israel more than any other country except America.


I'm just allowing my mind to wander as I ponder the statements by Sanchez-- the implications and his subsequent firing.

I find it all interesting, very interesting.

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Sanchez was fired?

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Wow...he was like their big day time dude.
And NO he does not have a point. He might as well be a skin head for his comments about jews.

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He had a nasty streak.

Sanchez can get plastered tonight. He doesn't have to work Monday.

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Yeah, I got to agree that Sanchez was off base with his remarks. I was not a fan of his, but I can see how Stewart would have gotten under his skin. Stewart has done a couple of funny bits on him in the past, but they didn't seem overly harsh.

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Un n unh Another one bites the dust !

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I would not be surprised if his next job is with Fox News in some capacity.

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You wish!

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lol, not really. I am fine with Shepard Smith most of the time and Bill O'Reilly some of the time. No need for Sanchez.

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So Sanchez was just flat wrong about his assessment of the media conglomerates?

Is CNN free of Jewish influence?


Is Hollywood free of Jewish influence?


Does anyone really think that Northeastern American Jews face discrimination on any level?

Growing up in MD (which is Mid-Atlantic) I'd have to say that I don't remember hearing about or witnessing anything that would let me think that Jews were being discriminated against.

I did hear some blacks who would say things about Jews-- but they were in no position to affect Jews. They just spewing hatred (The Final Call newspapers and radio broadcasts).



Is there anyone that can see where Sanchez is coming from or is his frustration all in his head?

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No, Cnn isnt controlled by the jews, maybe the Clintons:) (Clinton news network) every race faces some discrimination from some other race on some level,Jewish people are some of the most racist people ,even given what they have gone through.I know bevcause i worked for one (he was raised in Bayonne)and the stories he would tell me of the things they would do to blacks for entertainment purposes only, were crazy. They would take a long athletic sock put a rock in it and swing it someone as they were walking down the sidewalk,they called it, n word knockin, (this was in the sixties) NO race is free from racisim,received or given.Sanchez is an idiot ,he just finally exposed himself to the core.

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"I can't see someone not getting a job these days because they're Jewish," he said.

Was Sanchez wrong here?

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Ok.

I really don't think that Sanchez is just out of his mind. I think there is at the bare minimum, some reality to his perspective.


Is Rick Sanchez a bitter, race-baiting imbecille?

Is Sanchez racist, or maybe he's just prejudiced against elitist Northeasterners and Jews?


Is there anyone on AFF who can come to the defense of Sanchez?

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He can join Helen Thomas in the unemployment line.

Marxists are always up for a good purge. The blood of innocents and guilty feed the roots of tyrrany.

Purges are the V8 cocktail of totalitarianism.

CNN will do some more purges.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staf...#ixzz11DhbCF38

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You can defend him. I never could.

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Why couldn't you?

Is it because of what he said or who he used to work for-- I've never seen Rick as much of an idealogue.

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Ok, let's start with this question.


Has anyone else heard about or maybe even interacted with the "elitist Northeasterner"?

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I first heard the term "n... knocking" at a UPC Bible School in 1956/1957. A young man mentioned something about being bored and continued on with "At least if we were home (in Louisiana) we could go n.... knockin'. When pressed for an explanation of what that meant he explained that they would drive around in a car, see a person of color riding a bike, pull the car up next to him, slow down, and someone would reach through the open car window and hit the bicycle rider with a baseball bat. I was from Wisconsin and was appalled that people down south were doing something like that for fun. I was really appalled that it was being done by Apostolic/Pentecostal youth and they did not see anything wrong with it. I guess I was just naive.

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Jewish influence? What the heck is that? If there are Mexicans working at CNN does that mean we can ask "Is CNN free of Mexican influence"?

Apparently you aren't one and never dealt with seeing a swastika painted on the wall

I don't know that there are a lot of Jews in Maryland. That doesn't make Rick Sanchez's bigoted statements correct. No, the skinhead zionists conspiracy hate trash is not true. Jews really are NOT running the world, nor Hollywood. Compared to the number of non Jews in Hollywood, they constitute a very very small minority. Listening to these bigots you'd expect to walk into a CNN board room and find a bunch of Jews running around.

BTW Rick Sanchez...how did he get his job if he isn't a Jew and CNN is run by a bunch of bigoted jews huh? Rick Sanchez just portrayed a lot of what is wrong with America...the race card.

oh no,no position. Right. Just leave it up to the skinheads and the jew haters like Rick Sanchez and his buddy from down under Mel Gibson...

Frustration? He had a high profile, high paying job that most Americans, even Jews, would envy to have! Good grief and as for John Stewart, he hits on everyone not just everyone but Jews.

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Rick Sanchez, with a smile on his face, hit John Stewart back on his CNN show like it was all good.

And Stewart is an equal opportunity offender. He ripped Bush to shreds and other conservatives

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Funny because he railed against fox news on his show. I didn't love the man, didn't hate him, but I would not want him to be fired. However I find it kind of odd

If Rick had said what he said of any other race, except whites, this would have exploded and all over the nation people would be calling for his job.

In this case he railed on Jews and nobody seems to be up in arms, yet he got fired anyways.

I wonder if he was given an opportunity to talk to the CNN guys and offer to make an apology and keep his job? Our nation is so jaded, the more and more it claims to be fighting racism the more it becomes racially polarized and the less forgiving our nation becomes

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Shep is a crack up :-)

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Yes he is and you are in agreement with him. How long have you felt this way about jews?

So it seems everyone has their pet prejudiced. Blacks hate jews, whites and hispanics. Hispanics hate whites,blacks and Jews and whites hate everyone else. Lovely world we live in

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Yeah especially the time he tried to do a lead in on J LO, its online if ya wanna see it.Talk about a red face !

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Rick Sanchez is an interesting guy but clearly he hates jews and you agree with him. He bemoans how his father was treated back in the day, yet he had one of the highest profile jobs at one of the highest profile news networks despite being hispanic.

It's Rick Sanchez's careless words and yours that fuels anti-Semitism in Europe back hundreds of years ago today and during Nazi Germany....really through out history. That is how the Jews were persecuted in Europe...yours and Ricks careless words

Blame the Jews.

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All it takes is one offended Jew that spends on advertising and the companies fire a bigot. CNN fired the CEO this week. It is time to drain the swamp and try to recover some market share from Fox.
A Jewish heiress to the Hearst corporation made a phone call and took Helen Thomas and Helen's bigoted remarks as nasty. Helen was allowed to split before a Monday morning.
The rabid claims from the leftist media are getting old and people are starting to speak up.
I would have thought Helen Thomas would get by with her rudeness but it took only one call.

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That's not what N....knocking was here when I was a kid. We would go around and knock on someone's door then run. One time a friend got busted and the person that answered the door was black. They asked her what she was doing and she said "whitey knocking" lol. I haven't heard that term in a long long time

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Amazing Sam and Prax. I guess im really sheltered !But then my state is probably less than 1 percent, other than white

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Taking the element of perceived hate out of Sanchez's remarks;


"...the media industry more broadly, is run by Jews and elitists who look down on Hispanics like himself."

Do you, or anyone else think that there is any truth to this statement?



So I guess I am the only one who has ever heard of "northeastern elitism"?

I just don't believe that.

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In my own defense, I don't hate Jews, I am glad Israel exists and hope for a peaceful middle east where the Jews can exist without fear of being wiped out by hateful extremists.

I love my country and all of the races of people that help to make America the melting pot we used to be.

Lately it seems were more of a seething stew. I think one of the ways to fix this is open discussion where people are free to express themselves (without being offensive) and without the fear of being labeled racist.

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I've only had somebody white throw a bottle at me once growing up in MD. It happened on Route 5 in Waldorf, MD.

I've had several altercations with people of other races and I honestly found the circumstances of those experiences more rattling than the bottle throw.

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Really? So if some white guy made the same statements about blacks we can just take the "perceived hate" out of such statements?

This anti-antisemitism of yours makes me sick

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Prax, I am not an anti-Semite.

Neither do I think that what Sanchez said in his frustration was completely void of any truth whatsoever.


It's easy to write the person off as a hater who tries to get you to question why things are the way they are.



Sanchez's frustration: completely groundless or did he over react to a part of life in America that many are just unwilling to confront?

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Rick's comments are typical antisemitic stereo types and you are repeating them. His frustration was aimed at a man, John Stewart and like Mel Gibson on booze his true feelings came out and made the issue about being JEWISH. His comments are bigoted and typical antisemitic stereotypes Id expect to hear from skin heads.

What I saw so far were just accusations and stereotypes aimed at Jews.

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Furthermore, Sanchez's remarks were not just about Jews.

His frustration encompassed the elitism he perceived, the Northeasterners who smiled in your face, but really don't mean you any good.

You know, the kind of racism that is far more damaging-- the hidden stuff that doesn't exist because you can't see it or prove it right away.



It would be FAR TOO EASY to write Sanchez off as an Anti-Semite.

I don't think that Sanchez is an Anti-Semite.

He expressed, maybe in a very costly fashion, his frustration.

I don't think that his frustration is seated completely in his imagination.

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"He's upset that someone of my ilk is almost at his level,"

Sanchez said that Stewart is bigoted toward "everybody else that's not like him." He said Stewart "can't relate to what I grew up with," saying his [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]family[/COLOR][/COLOR] had been poor and he had seen prejudice directed at his father.

"I'm telling you that everyone who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority?" Sanchez said, adding a sarcastic "yeah."

He married “elite, Northeast establishment liberals,”

With the comments about Jews.

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Oh, give the man credit, it wasn't JUST about Jews