CNN Rick Sanchez Fired

CNN Rick Sanchez, who was fired by a controversial radio tirade, joins an infamous list of broadcasters who spoke before the creation - or at least thought about the implications of what they were saying - and paid the consequences of career.

On Thursday, Sanchez called Jon Stewart on Comedy Central "fanatic" and suggested that Jews run CNN and "all other" networks. He was speaking on the satellite radio show "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick." Within 24 hours, CNN had shot Sanchez.
Sanchez, who was host of CNN's afternoon "Rick List," has had a running battle with Stewart, who often mocked Sanchez.
In the radio interview Thursday, Sanchez suggested that his career had been very limited because he is Cuban-American. He attacked the "liberal elite, the establishment of the Northeast", he said, are prejudiced against "a guy like me." He linked this view to Stewart and his own bosses at CNN.
That might have raised eyebrows and earned him a private reprimand, but then took his comments further.
Singling out Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in a Jewish family), Sanchez said: "I'm telling everyone who runs the CNN is a lot like Stewart and a lot of people who drive all the other networks are very similar to Stewart. And to imply that somehow, people in this country who are Jews are an oppressed minority? "
That was too much for the CNN executive, who dismissed him with a curt "Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company." CNN declined to comment further, and Sanchez has not been heard from since leaving the organization.
The episode highlights a time when not only "shock athletes, but a wide range of broadcasters feel increasing pressure to incite an emotional response from listeners and viewers and to start fighting rhetoric. But for most retail outlets, there is still not cross line of a race and religion.
Rush Limbaugh was forced to resign as football commentator for ESPN for comments he made about black quarterback Donovan McNabb. Don Imus caused a stir with his comments racist, derogatory about women's basketball team at Rutgers University. More recently, Laura Schlessinger, apologized for using the word "nigger" several times in a conversation with a black woman on Race in his radio program - which has since announced, end in December.
Rick Sanchez was ever broadcast another job? CBS Radio canceled "Imus in the Morning", but Don Imus is back on the air.
Meanwhile, Sanchez has a new book to promote. Its title. "Conventional Idiocy"
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