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Rick Sanchez’s Wife Gives Lame Excuse For ‘Bigot’ Rant
Is Jon Stewart and Rick Sanchez's feud finally over after apology?
Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s wife blames her husband’s “exhaustion” when he called Comedy Central funnyman Jon Stewart a “bigot.”
Sure, we all heard by now the juicy gossip of Sanchez’s now famous radio interview
CBS News article on Pete Dominick's SiriusXM radio show, where he called Stewart a bigot and trashed his (former) employer by saying that they’re all secretly liberal racists and/or Jews.
Well, now Suzanne Sanchez is helping her husband. Sort of. On her Facebook page, she wrote the following:
“rick apologized to jon stewart today.they had a good talk. jon was gracious and called rick, ‘thin-skinned.’ he’s right. rick feels horrible that in an effort to make a broader point about the media, his exhaustion from working 14 hr days for 2 mo. straight, caused him to mangle his thought process inartfully. he got ...caught up in the banter and deeply apologizes to anyone who was offended by his unintended comments,” she wrote on her Facebook wall
Suzanne Sanchez Facebook wall, as reported by CBS News
CBS News article. (Facebook account is required to view her wall.)
So what did we learn from all of this? That Sanchez is deeply sorry for the whole thing, only because he got fired from his great job at CNN. After all, CNN can’t have someone who when exhausted starts calling everyone he sees a bigot.
Now I’m not sure how you get “caught up in the banter” when you start really going all out and saying how people like Stewart and some people at CNN are liberal racists and Jews aren’t a minority.
And yes, I think Sanchez was saying that Stewart and some folks at CNN are liberal racists when he said last Thursday:
“(Stewart) is one of the left wing elite northeast establishment guys who says, I like black people and Mexicans as long as they’re, “here, let me tap you on the head. Way to go, Ricky, you’re doing a good job.’ But as soon as you do or say something or develop any kind of character, they push you down. Just like the administrator who said he didn’t want me to be an anchor, he wanted me to be a reporter, because when he looks at me he thinks of other Hispanic reporters like John Quinones. …
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,” Sanchez said
CBS News article.
Of course, according to his wife, that’s 14 hours of pure exhaustion talking. But you know most people work 14-hour days (including yours truly) and most of us don’t have some type of exhausted-nervous breakdown and start ranting on the radio.
But maybe there’s an app for that.
But if Don “Nappy Headed Hoes” Imus is any indication of Sanchez’s career, he’ll be back in broadcasting in no time.
As a journalist, like him or hate him, he’s done a pretty good job and some network will snatch him up within a couple of months and he’ll continue his on-air love affair with the camera.
Assuming he doesn’t go back on the radio and start ranting how racist the new network is of course.
"RS: Well, I'll take the word bigot back. I'll say prejudicial."
Sanchez apologized to Stewart.
As for Stewart, he "declared his belief that Sanchez was not himself a bigot. The real target of Stewart's wrath seemed to be the sensationalistic media that blew up the whole story in the first place
As for Sanchez's comments, I find what he said kind of silly. Both groups, Jews and Latinos, are discriminated against -- especially if you're talking about Jews living in Europe. As for Sanchez and Stewart, they're both essentially white and both millionaires, so that's like Warren Buffet saying his Swedish heritage held him back -- stupid. If Sanchez was living in the gutter and a brown Muslim, I could understand it more. But here? Dumb, dumb, dumb,dumb.
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