# Rick Sanchez takes on Jon Stewart... and immediately gets fired by CNN **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791 "2010-10-01T23:43:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/61 "2010-10-02T07:13:28Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > > > 1. Stewart constantly criticizes Obama. If you actually watch the show, you should know that. > > 2. Stewart has never said being Jewish makes him a victim or tried to claim “minority” staus, so when you accuse him of “grasping at straws,” you’ll have to explain what the hell you’re talking about. He was not even part of the conversation about his own Jewishness that got Sanchez fired. That happened on a radio show that Stewart had nothing to do with. > > 1. He mocks Obama, but nowhere near as hard as he should. You’re moving the goal posts and setting yourself up as the judge of what constitutes “enough.” He mocks Obama plenty. It was factually wrong for you to say that Stewart “doesn’t call out Obama’s BS.” > [@](#): > > 1. Of course he’s never said “Being Jewish is my trump card” :rolleyes:. I also never said he was a part of the interview directly. When you said, “Stewart is grasping at straws,” what were you referring to? What specific claim or statement by Jon Stewart amounts to “grasping at straws,” in your opinion, and they are grasping at straws in what regard? In defense of what? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/62 "2010-10-02T07:16:34Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > He ain’t getting a job at Fox. If you listen got the interview, he says pretty horrible things about them. Ah, well then. I just looked at the article. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/63 "2010-10-02T07:27:24Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if the firing of Jonathan Klein has more to do with Sanchez’s axing than this Jon Stewart thing does. But it looks like sped up the process and kicked himself out the door. Good job there. > [@arseNal](#): > > I don’t know how much it matters, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Rick Sanchez who was the “Are you listening” guy; that was Rick Santelli, a trader. Right you are. I’ve probably done that before. I’m not sure which of them I should apologize to. 😛 > [@lindsaybluth](#): > > He’s always throwing on supposed New Jersey Jewish accents and making fun of himself, when really he’s just drawing attention to the fact he’s _different_, and by being different and unique that somehow makes him _cool_. I’d bet the farm that his kids go to a school where they don’t have class over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It’s a tired game he plays. Are you talking about that old New York Jewish accent he does, which is really a Jackie Mason imitation? Or are you talking about the dumb guy Jersey accent he does sometimes? Regardless, you’re making some unsupported assertions about his intent the same way **smiling bandit** is. This actually does get into an interesting area because Stewart does make a lot of jokes about being Jewish, and I think he does it more than most other comedians these days. It’s traditional Jewish humor. Jews have been making jokes about that for ages. It’s not a “we’re cool because we’re different” thing. Usually it’s a reflection of the fact that Jews are outsiders to some extent even if they are integrated in a society and very successful in it. > [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > What is there to get, exactly? That he doesn’t have to make a choice between doing comedy about the media and politics, and being a “political commentator” ( **lindsaybluth** ’s words) or “about as much news as anything” (yours). > [@](#): > > I also watch South Park but I don’t pretend they’re being fair and neither do Parker and Stone. I don’t think Stewart pretends to be more fair than he is, and he’s upfront about coming at things from a liberal point of view. They are sometimes not fair to their targets, I agree, although it’s usually minor stuff like stupid-sounding quotes that bring about this treatment. > [@](#): > > He said that Stewart is bigoted, which is is. Still waiting on that evidence! > [@](#): > > The other speaker then mentioned Stewart’s jewishness, as if that somehow meant Stewart was lily-pure or couldn’t be prejudiced. He pointed out that Stewart is also part of a minority group, which does not mean he’s pure or could not be prejudiced (ludicrous strawmen nobody has proposed, by the way), but does mean he also might have experience with discrimination. That’s the context. Sanchez laughed it off. > [@](#): > > One of the co-hosts of the radio show brought up the fact that Mr. Stewart was a Jew, saying to Mr. Sanchez that he was a minority “as much as you are.” > > Mr. Sanchez answered sarcastically, “Yeah. Yeah. Very powerless people.” He let out a high-pitched laugh. [QUOTE=smiling bandit;12979382I’d rather be governed by almost anyone other than someone from Stewart’s class, who tend to be very well educated and know not a damn thing about the world.[/QUOTE] Tell us more about this bigot while you continue to make uninformed generalizations about him based on what you’ve assumed is his background. 😉 This is not a class thing. Rick Sanchez was born in Cuba, his parents came to the U.S. when he was a year or two old, and after going to college he worked his way through various small news outlets to get a job as an anchor/tasering dummy on CNN. Stewart was born in New Jersey, grew up in a single parent household, went to college, worked his way up through comedy clubs and got the Daily Show. One’s Latino and one’s Jewish but I see more similarities than differences there. Neither of these people appear to be children of privilege. And regardless, this is not a class issue. The Daily Show did not treat Rick Sanchez any different than it has treated many, many other anchors, reporters, and talk show hosts over the years. It’s Sanchez’s intellectual failing that he can only see that as discrimination against him based on ethnicity or class. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/64 "2010-10-02T07:55:42Z")
Is Jon Stewart being a “grossly unfair bigot” because he mocks those who defend “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”? Without some specific examples, these complaints ring pretty hollow. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/65 "2010-10-02T09:38:18Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Tell that to the apostles, Mary and Joseph, John the Baptist, etc. I may be mistaken as I’m a protester and we don’t have saints, but Jewishness has never been a barrier to Sainthood as far as I know. You’re kidding me with this, right? This is some sort of whoosh? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/66 "2010-10-02T10:21:25Z")
Here’s a _much_ better (and longer) clip of the “Stewart” link in the OP: > **[The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Comedy Central](https://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah)** > > The Daily Show is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning program that looks at the day’s top headlines through a sharp, reality-based lens. I’ll bet Stewart invites Sanchez to his show. He might just come on so he can plug his hysterically titled book, Conventional Idiocy. LOL! BTW, if Stewart wanted to really smear Sanchez, he could have mentioned that he once committed a DUI hit and run that paralyzed a man who died 5 years later in a nursing home, and he only got a relative slap on the wrist for it. (Yeah, he used to be an anchor on my local sensationalist “if it bleeds it leads” news channel, and was widely despised even before then.) ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/67 "2010-10-02T10:43:49Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > RI read Sanchez;s statement. Unless you are a mind reader I do not see it. He said that Stewart is bigoted, which is is. The other speaker then mentioned Stewart’s jewishness, as if that somehow meant Stewart was lily-pure or couldn’t be prejudiced. \*\*Sanchez never claimed that jews run the media - he said that people like Stewart run the media, which is not the same, and I find it intersting that so many people immediately assumed Stewart’s Jewishness was the topic. \*\* > > In fact, Sanchez was making a point about _class_, not race. And he’s right. I’d rather be governed by almost anyone other than someone from Stewart’s class, who tend to be very well educated and know not a damn thing about the world. Come on. > [@Rick Sanchez](#): > > “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.” [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/01/arts/AP-US-TV-CNN-Sanchez.html?\_r=1&hp](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/01/arts/AP-US-TV-CNN-Sanchez.html?_r=1&hp) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/68 "2010-10-02T12:42:58Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > I watched Jon Stewart faithfully throughout high school (when he started getting big in 2001 or so) and into college. But the last two years have been…not so good. I find him angrier, taking cheaper and cheaper shots, attacking _anyone_ who disagrees with him. When Maureen Dowd calls out Obama’s BS and Stewart doesn’t, that’s just incredible to me. Because Stewart is supposed to be at the edge, but now I feel he speaks more to the Democratic establishment in place than leading the pack. I was no fan of Sanchez, and he lost his job when started saying what the people who run CNN are like. But Stewart masquerades as a comedian when he’s _really_ a political commentator. He used to make fun of all sorts of things; but the last 2-3 years it’s been politics his whole friggin’ show. He’s like a nonprofit church advocating people vote for certain candidates and agendas while claiming “we’re a religious institution, we mean no harm!” when called out on it. “I’m just a comedian!” You know he wants to be taken seriously. It’s disgusting. Colbert doing “Better Know a District” is doing unique freaking stuff - lots of members of Congress are forbidden from going on his show he’s so good! Stewart sits on his ass and doesn’t even read the books his guests write. He _used_ to read every book, and would comment specifically on various salient points. He’s washed up. > > As for people pointing out Stewart is a “minority” because he’s Jewish - I mean _really_? Maybe in 60’s it was “bad” to be Jewish, but on the coasts in 2010 and for the past 30 some years, it hasn’t been a bad thing. In my very backwards hometown (there are many youtube videos of political rallies in my hometown where people call Obama a Kenyan Muslim) it was _cool_ to be Jewish. And that was something I experienced on two separate college campuses. Jews are the second wealthiest minority in America; I think it’s safe to say they’re not at the bottom of the totem pole. Stewart is grasping at straws, and I’m disappointed. I am sorry but on both points you have no idea what you are talking about. The Daily show mocks liberals nearly as much as it mocks conservatives and it has often (this week even) made fun of Obama. I admit, this rally he is planning may possibly make him cross a line he didn’t intend to (There was an interesting article about it in Entertainment Weekly this week that was very thought provoking) but I think most of what you write above is off base. Regarding antisemitism, as I alluded to in my companion pit thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=580415), both my family and I have personally experienced antisemitism in the '70s, '80s and '90s so, as I said, you don’t know what you are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/69 "2010-10-02T12:56:57Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > I watched Jon Stewart faithfully throughout high school (when he started getting big in 2001 or so) and into college. But the last two years have been…not so good. I find him angrier, taking cheaper and cheaper shots, attacking _anyone_ who disagrees with him. When Maureen Dowd calls out Obama’s BS and Stewart doesn’t, that’s just incredible to me. Because Stewart is supposed to be at the edge, but now I feel he speaks more to the Democratic establishment in place than leading the pack. I was no fan of Sanchez, and he lost his job when started saying what the people who run CNN are like. But Stewart masquerades as a comedian when he’s _really_ a political commentator. He used to make fun of all sorts of things; but the last 2-3 years it’s been politics his whole friggin’ show. He’s like a nonprofit church advocating people vote for certain candidates and agendas while claiming “we’re a religious institution, we mean no harm!” when called out on it. “I’m just a comedian!” You know he wants to be taken seriously. It’s disgusting. Colbert doing “Better Know a District” is doing unique freaking stuff - lots of members of Congress are forbidden from going on his show he’s so good! Stewart sits on his ass and doesn’t even read the books his guests write. He _used_ to read every book, and would comment specifically on various salient points. He’s washed up. > > As for people pointing out Stewart is a “minority” because he’s Jewish - I mean _really_? Maybe in 60’s it was “bad” to be Jewish, but on the coasts in 2010 and for the past 30 some years, it hasn’t been a bad thing. In my very backwards hometown (there are many youtube videos of political rallies in my hometown where people call Obama a Kenyan Muslim) it was _cool_ to be Jewish. And that was something I experienced on two separate college campuses. Jews are the second wealthiest minority in America; I think it’s safe to say they’re not at the bottom of the totem pole. Stewart is grasping at straws, and I’m disappointed. We’re talking about the Daily Show here. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The show that slams the Obama administration and Democrats daily. Repubs more but, they provide much more entertainment. Recently, Stewart has really been making fun of Obama himself. On the Daily Show. And your comments on Jews. I don’t know what to say. I forgot to say what I originally came in to say. Anyone notice that Jon seems particularly contemptuous of Sanchez. More than some of the other pundits. Maybe Sanchez’s antisemitism is well-known? ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/70 "2010-10-02T13:03:48Z")
My feeling is that it’s just that Sanchez has a lot of air time, and does some weird things that are easy to comment on. In fact I don’t think the clips are particularly harsh. Except for “twit a twat” or what it was, and that was an inescapable pun, which he actually apologised for. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/71 "2010-10-02T13:29:17Z")
I have learned here that suggesting (or asking if it is true) that Jews run the media is a type of hate speech, akin to suggesting that black people like fried chicken and are good dancers. I’m not joking, that was the analogy. People feel strongly about this topic. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/72 "2010-10-02T13:56:48Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > Not kowing Sanchez myself, I don’t judge. Dude, you know Jon Stewart? Can you hook me up? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/73 "2010-10-02T14:12:05Z")
Rick Sanchez wasn’t fired for “taking on” Jon Stewart. I’m 99.99% sure that Sanchez could have said, “Stewart is a smug asshole” or “Stewart is a cowardly bullshit artist who acts like Edward R. Murrow one minute then tries to pretend he’s just a comedian the next,” and he wouldn’t have been fired for that. SOME people would have applauded him, some would have condemned him, Stewart would have responded in kind, and then this would all have blown over. But Sanchez didn’t do that. He had to bring up Judaism! In the process, he insulted millions of Jews, including the one who runs his network! EVen those of us who think Stewart is a douchebag know that Sanchez got what he deserved. He was probably on thin ice already, and insulting an employer who’s already shown you some mercy is stupid. Sanchez was BEGGING to be fired. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/74 "2010-10-02T14:16:44Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > > > 1. Stewart constantly criticizes Obama. If you actually watch the show, you should know that. > > 2. Stewart has never said being Jewish makes him a victim or tried to claim “minority” staus, so when you accuse him of “grasping at straws,” you’ll have to explain what the hell you’re talking about. He was not even part of the conversation about his own Jewishness that got Sanchez fired. That happened on a radio show that Stewart had nothing to do with. > > 1. He mocks Obama, but nowhere near as hard as he should. It’s the sort of mocking that’s done everywhere else. I expect more from him; I expect what he was doing 3-7 years ago. That was great stuff. I didn’t think he’d turn out to be such a partisan hack. He cared a few years back. Now he phones it in, which was the more salient point of my post. He doesn’t read the books his guests write, not even skimming them. He asks blowhard questions, and he doesn’t do justice to his conservative guests and even the quality of the correspondents have gone drastically down. > > 2. Of course he’s never said “Being Jewish is my trump card” :rolleyes:. I also never said he was a part of the interview directly. I’m talking about his show; he just jokes about being Jewish all the time passively; about being nerdy and unliked and different, how Jews are unathletic (a favorite of his). He played soccer at William and Mary for christsakes! He’s always throwing on supposed New Jersey Jewish accents and making fun of himself, when really he’s just drawing attention to the fact he’s _different_, and by being different and unique that somehow makes him _cool_. I’d bet the farm that his kids go to a school where they don’t have class over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It’s a tired game he plays. > > > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > > > Stewart is an asshole. He is funny, and he goes for people I don’t like, but he’s an asshole. 🙂 > > This is spot on. It’s like the joke he made (years back now…) about [moveon.org](http://moveon.org). Something like “[Moveon.org](http://Moveon.org) is a bunch of people you agree with…but that you hate.” Funny, i am always impressed about how often he does read the books. You are watching through a right wing filter. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/75 "2010-10-02T14:17:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The New York Times [article](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/business/media/02cnn.html) on Sanchez’s firing says, “He was a polarizing figure within CNN, but under the channel’s former president, Jonathan Klein, he was rewarded with more air time, most recently a two-hour block in the afternoons. Mr. Klein was fired last week.” So perhaps his firing was as much a result of the loss of his patron as his comments about Jon Stewart? And that, my friends, is the biggest fucking irony of all. Sanchez’s protector and champion, the aforementioned Mr. Klien … is Jewish. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/76 "2010-10-02T14:21:02Z")
Stewart does not Fox his guests, that is yell over them and cut them off. If they have a salient point going on, they continue with the discussion and post it on line. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/77 "2010-10-02T14:30:34Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Are you talking about that old New York Jewish accent he does, which is really a Jackie Mason imitation? Or are you talking about the dumb guy Jersey accent he does sometimes? Regardless, you’re making some unsupported assertions about his intent the same way **smiling bandit** is. > > This actually does get into an interesting area because Stewart does make a lot of jokes about being Jewish, and I think he does it more than most other comedians these days. It’s traditional Jewish humor. Jews have been making jokes about that for ages. It’s not a “we’re cool because we’re different” thing. Usually it’s a reflection of the fact that Jews are outsiders to some extent even if they are integrated in a society and very successful in it. \ > This is not a class thing. Rick Sanchez was born in Cuba, his parents came to the U.S. when he was a year or two old, and after going to college he worked his way through various small news outlets to get a job as an anchor/tasering dummy on CNN. Stewart was born in New Jersey, grew up in a single parent household, went to college, worked his way up through comedy clubs and got the Daily Show. One’s Latino and one’s Jewish but I see more similarities than differences there. Neither of these people appear to be children of privilege. And regardless, this is not a class issue. The Daily Show did not treat Rick Sanchez any different than it has treated many, many other anchors, reporters, and talk show hosts over the years. It’s Sanchez’s intellectual failing that he can only see that as discrimination against him based on ethnicity or class. Aren’t we all making assertions about his intent? And I was talking about his first accent. The regular NJ guy one is decent. I love traditional Jewish humor, but when my friends’ banter is funnier than a guy who makes $1million/appearance, there’s a problem. How can you compare an immigrant’s family with zero or limited English whose family worked menial jobs to eat with a guy whose professor dad left at 12? We have no idea if his mother got child support, either, so Stewart was pretty much middle-class. On the surface they did _not_ have similar lifestyles at _all_. I’m no fan of Sanchez’s, but the defenses coming forth for Stewart are absurd. > [@Quimby](#): > > Regarding antisemitism, as I alluded to in my companion pit thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=580415), both my family and I have personally experienced antisemitism in the '70s, '80s and '90s so, as I said, you don’t know what you are talking about. Oh, wait do you mean the thread in which people post the following in the first few handful of replies? Also, 30 years ago is the 80’s, not the 70’s. > [@Memo to Rick Sanchez](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-rick-sanchez/555807/5): > > I think Sanchez is a total douche, but I can’t help but think firing him is a bit of an overreaction. > [@Memo to Rick Sanchez](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-rick-sanchez/555807/7): > > I’m a Jew and I don’t think anything he said was particularly antisemitic. > [@Memo to Rick Sanchez](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-rick-sanchez/555807/8): > > > [@Memo to Rick Sanchez](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-rick-sanchez/555807/7): > > > > I’m a Jew and I don’t think anything he said was particularly antisemitic. > > Ditto. I’d cautiously conclude that he was on the edge already with CNN and this was just the last straw. I am clearly alone in my beliefs. Thanks for pointing that out, **Quimby**. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > IMO, Stewart had very little to do with Sanchez, other than providing a conveniently timed excuse. Here’s an [NY Times story](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/business/media/02cnn.html), that contains the following: > > > [@](#): > > > > Mr. Stewart was far from the only person known to mock Mr. Sanchez, who was once tasered on camera for a segment. He was a polarizing figure within CNN, but under the channel’s former president, Jonathan Klein, he was rewarded with more air time, most recently a two-hour block in the afternoons. Mr. Klein was fired last week. > > Sanchez’s sponsor and protector got canned, and Sanchez may already have been doomed. He had already lost his anchor spot earlier in the week, before these comments. Perhaps the stress of that contributed to his reckless comments. I saw this late last night. The title of the thread should be “Rick Sanchez gets canned after his sponsor and protector on CNN gets canned” ETA: > [@gonzomax](#): > > Funny, i am always impressed about how often he does read the books. You are watching through a right wing filter. My stupid right wing filter, always pressing the button to vote for Obama! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/78 "2010-10-02T14:51:01Z")
> [@heatmiserfl](#): > > I forgot to say what I originally came in to say. Anyone notice that Jon seems particularly contemptuous of Sanchez. More than some of the other pundits. Maybe Sanchez’s antisemitism is well-known? I don’t know. Have you ever seen him go after Megyn Kelly or the Fox and Friends crew? It’s brutal. As far as I can recall, he’s only gone after Rick Sanchez a handful of times, and none of those instances seemed especially rough, at least compared to some of the other mocking Stewart regularly dishes out. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/79 "2010-10-02T15:17:02Z")
I just wish he’d take down Nancy Grace while he’s on his purge. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791/80 "2010-10-02T15:42:57Z")
I tend to see this the way Bosstone described it. “Dirty” Sanchez is just being a whiny little bitch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sanchez-takes-on-jon-stewart-and-immediately-gets-fired-by-cnn/555791.md?page=5)