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Rick Sanchez CNN firing due to his own stupidity, not a Jewish conspiracy

Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 at 06:46 PM

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CNN anchor Rick Sanchez could not have expected that his book 'Conventional Idiocy' could serve as a description of himself after he lost his job because of anti-Semitic remarks on a radio show.

Rick, a Cuban Hispanic with an annoying bombastic style, said that Jews run CNN and many news media outlets and considers this somehow threatening to him.

He clearly freaked because Jon Stewart has been poking fun at him -- not because he is Hispanic but because his show, is quite frankly, hard to take, as he is clearly filled with his own self-importance.

The Jewish media control comment is a common one. It is one you will hear many times in my profession, that Jews control the media therefore the world.

Funny I haven't seen a Jewish president lately or Prime Minister of a major country either..

It so happens most of the doctors I have seen in recent years have been Jewish too -- and I'm not going to chalk that up to a conspiracy, rather to the fact that they seem pretty smart people.

We need to get comfortable with the true reality of stereotypes. They are stereotypes because there is some truth in the depiction.

I mean most bar owners are Irish so are many of America's greatest writers, Eugene O'Neill, William Kennedy etc. In the advertising and sales business I also notice a lot of Irish names.

It is because we have the gift of the gab and expression, it is in our DNA.

Should we be horrified by noticing that?

Of course not.

There are few Jewish basketballers players, lots of African Americans ones, there are lots of Hispanic baseball players, not so many Irish any more. Italian Americans appear to be very good at soccer

Ergo, I can state that African Americans are disproportionately good at baskeball, Hispanic Americans at baseball and Italians good at soccer.

Any my point is? Let a million stereotypes bloom because much of it is what makes America great, the competing talents that different tribes have.

Barack Obama pretty much blew up the all African Americans are dumb stereotype all by himself.

It happened to the Irish too, The Irish were once depicted as apes by cartoonist Thomas Nast.

Then John F.Kennedy became president.

Sanchez mentioned Stephen Colbert in his rant, the same Colbert who joked about his Irish great- grandfather a few weeks back when testifying on immigration.

The truth is his great-grandfather was fleeing persecution and hunger when he came to America.

Jews fled the Nazis, Blacks came in slave ships.

Together we have created, not a perfect country, but one that is certainly the envy of the world.

This is a country that does not tolerate a Rick Sanchez, blaming his downfall on Jewish prejudice, when it is clearly about him and his presenting style, not his race.

He, of course, will go to his grave denouncing the Semitic conspiracy that brought him low.

But he needs to look in the mirror at the very embodiment of the arrogant 'conventional idiot" who brought him down.

Himself.

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seanomelbourne | Oct 04, 2010, 06:05 PM EDT

It appears one cannot have a right to their opinion in the so called land of the free.Jewish commentators can deride with impunity. Is there a double standard here?

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MarkMary73 | Oct 04, 2010, 05:33 PM EDT

Now this bloviating, self-aggrandizing bigot can go where he belongs. To Fox News!

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Searlit | Oct 04, 2010, 01:26 PM EDT

If your boss thinks you're being offensive, or bad for business you're probably going to get fired.

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DennisQ | Oct 04, 2010, 01:21 PM EDT

Firing Rick Sanchez was uncalled for. He has the right to his belief that Jews aren't underprivileged - and that's really all he said.

The Jews are forever harping on the notion that everybody hates them, and it's just not true. Jews are indeed a minority, but I don't believe that doors get slammed in their faces for that reason alone.

There aren't a lot of issues here. Jews carry on as though contemporary America is 1930's Germany. You don't have to like Rick Sanchez to see the injustice done to him.

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Parents | Oct 04, 2010, 10:10 AM EDT

It does seem to be just the excuse needed. Far worse has been said and they get away with it, attacking the current president and not on issues but personal attacks and still nothing happens because we have "free speech" yet Rick says something about jewish control at CNN and he is gone, just like that. Something not right there.

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downinthebasement | Oct 04, 2010, 10:01 AM EDT

Big Daddy...the irish media is pro-Hamas/Hummus...because the Vatican loves the fact that Israel may be destroyed by Muslims. The Vatican policy is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Irish policy and media is dictated by the Roman Catholic Church...

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downinthebasement | Oct 04, 2010, 09:58 AM EDT

phlutie phan... Should the USA become like Ireland? Ireland...let's face it...is controlled by the Vatican... The Vatican runs your schools...runs your newspapers and runs your foreign policy... Irish foreign policy is dictated by men in Rome who wear frocks and are never married... Go figure...

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downinthebasement | Oct 04, 2010, 09:57 AM EDT

killoween...you need to tell us...do you hate Stewart because he is a Jew...or because he is a Jew and Jews support...tend to support Israel... Do you hate Israel or Jews or both? Who killed your God? Do you think Jews poison your well and put green dye in it and make you incredibly stupid...or is that just your nature?

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downinthebasement | Oct 04, 2010, 09:54 AM EDT

Dublinjas...do you hate Jews because the parish priest said they killed your Savior?

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BallinaLass | Oct 04, 2010, 09:33 AM EDT

Wait, Ted Turner is Jewish?! I had no idea. :)

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Starlet | Oct 04, 2010, 03:18 AM EDT

Who is more well known nationwide? Sanchez or Stewart? Who is the more intelligent of the two gentlemen. Sanchez feels professional jealousy. If there wasn't Anti-Semitism still in America, would Stewart have had changed his surname? Just see below. Jews are OK - so long as they're not successful.

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GeorgeDillon | Oct 04, 2010, 02:16 AM EDT

chrisa83: This is arrant nonsense. The Spanish were among your ancestors, yet you say "Our lands was taken from us from the Spaniards". And you utterly fail to distinguish (as does the Federal Government) between different kinds of Hispanics. A Hispanic can be an impoverished Indian in rural Mexico or Bolivia. But a Hispanic can also be an Argentinian neurosurgeon, or a Colombian property magnate. It's a meaningless catch-all, and highly discriminatory. The daughter of a poor white from Wheeling West Virginia gets no break, while the son of a surgeon from Buenos Aires is favored in college admission, scholarships etc. And how about folks from Spain? Are they Hispanics? Should they get favored treatment if they come to the US? It's madness.

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Dublinjas | Oct 04, 2010, 01:17 AM EDT

As a matter of fact Why do they not call it JNN Since practically every contributor is a Jew.

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Dublinjas | Oct 04, 2010, 12:54 AM EDT

Can you say "Yes Masa" Niall hahahaha you are one paddy who knows who butters your bread..

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IrishEddy | Oct 03, 2010, 10:40 PM EDT

Don't worry Fox will hire him soon. Then he can complain about the "Aussie Conspiracy"

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