Rick Sanchez Fired by CNN
Anchor Rick Sanchez was fired by CNN Friday evening, a day after making inflammatory comments about Jews and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. Sanchez spoke with Sirius XM satellite radio host Pete Dominick (a former warm-up comic for Stewart’s show).
The terse statement from the cable network where Sanchez worked since 2004 read:
“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.”
At one point in the interview, Sanchez told Dominick that Stewart is a “bigot” and added that he [Stewart] was bigoted against “everybody else who’s not like him.
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