CNN’s Rick Sanchez Pokes At Fox News, Fox News Smacks Him Away (UPDATE)

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by Steve Krakauer | 5:56 pm, July 25th, 2009

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sanchez_7-25 CNN anchor Rick Sanchez is big on Twitter. One thing he’s not big on – holding back.

Last night he began a series of tweets aimed at Fox News, knocking their credibility as a network (and also, in a way, making a statement about his own network). Well he asked for it: we have the response from FNC – a classic Fox smackdown of the “hack.”

Before we get to Fox News’ response, here’s what Sanchez tweeted. First:

if i didn’t believe in doing right thing, i’d be rich anchoring at fox news

And:

do u know how much money i’d make if i’d sold out as hispanic and worked at fox news, r u kidding, one problem, looking in mirror

A Fox News spokesperson tells Mediaite: “Everyone knows that Rick is an industry joke, he shows that he’s a hack everyday. And he doesn’t have to worry about working at FOX because we only hire talent who have the ability to generate ratings.”

What is Sanchez even implying? Is he saying he’s not getting paid enough at CNN? That a Hispanic would be ‘selling out’ by working at FNC?

Sanchez is known for attention-grabbing comments and actions. But in the Twitter world, these types of comments are only exacerbated by the complete lack of network oversight. It’s doubtful CNN would have cleared these statements, but on Twitter, an oversharer like Sanchez can let his uncensored thoughts get disseminated to the public, and picked up immediately (we saw this first on Inside Cable News). A headache for CNN, but great for us.

On a side note, we know via Sanchez’ Twitter feed he’s currently celebrating his 20th wedding anniversary tonight in New York – so congrats Rick!

• ICN noticed a response on Twitter from FNC’s Julie Banderas.

• Johnny Dollar notes the response from FNC pundit Marc Lamont Hill.

• Sunday AM Update: Here’s what’s happening in the Twitterverse. Early this morning, Sanchez began backtracking from what he originally wrote. “wow, really getting heat from neocons and far right wing fox viewers for saying truth. must have hit nerve,” he wrote, and later, “just like on a personal level i like most of the guys on fox, shep is old freind.” He referenced the HuffPost story‘s headline (“Sanchez: Hispanics Working For Fox Have ‘Sold Out’”), writing, “good story but headline wrong! i say i couldn’t work there, im not criticizing those who do. never said that.”

Also, Banderas has now deleted what she originally wrote on Twitter about Sanchez.

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hepwa

Not a big Sanchez fan, but it’s rich for Fox News to call him an industry joke.
getreal

‘it’s rich for fox news to call him an industry joke.’

ok, how about calling him a scumbag?

sanchez is a guy who went to a dolphins game, got drunk, got behind the wheel, ran over a pedestrian and fled the scene of his crime. his victim was left paralyzed and eventually died from his injuries.

sanchez wonders how he’d look himself in the mirror if he worked at fox.

i wonder how you look in the mirror now, you lowlife.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Murphy/603484509 Mike Murphy

Sanchez is desperate for attention. As a prior post noted Sanches had no problem with a hit and run accident where he fled the scene. Get this, Sanchez was drunk and paralyzed a man and was a coward and left the man for dead. But what do you expect wfrom a guy whiter than me and jumps on the minority bandwagon.

Anyway, I had to sit back and watch all the Obama hype for the past year, just like I endured the hype a decade ago with Y2k. Obama, the “genius” who went from Occidental College to Columbia to Harvard without ever achieving an academic honor save for the appointmet as presdent of the Harvard Law Review the same year Black faculty at Harvard protested about a lack or minorities academic positions. So what we see, tripling of the deficit despite the spending bill, more foreclosure despite the mortgage act, and a health care reform bill that is being wiritten by lobbyists as the president occupies his time with an arrogant asshole professor and an idot of a cop.

Yo Ricardo…I dig the diversity thing Amigo. I want the US to become what Mexico is, or maybe Puerto Rico. Then we can deal drungs and watch dog and bull fights all day!
StewartIII

ChickaBOOMer — Rick Sanchez: A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/07/rick-sanchez-mind-is-terrible-thing-to.html
http://rockmycar.net Tom Chambers

Sanchez’s biggest problem, beyond the fact that he really isn’t that great of an anchor, is that he views his job through a racial lens. That certainly puts a taint on his “objectivity.”

If, as a reporter/editor I approached my work as trying to stay true to my white roots, I would be throwing out all my credibility.

Additionally, if someone is that devoted to their racial identity, should not ethics force them to “recuse” themselves from covering anything related to race?
BuzzCrutcher

If you work for a guy (Ted Turner) who befriends and constantly praises the dictator your parents fled when you were a baby (Castro), you probably shouldn’t call anyone a “sellout”.
Puter Boi

In 1985…wiretaps recorded Rick Sanchez trading favors with his friend, Alberto San Pedro, a self-proclaimed political fixer and described by police as “the great corrupter” …San Pedro was sent to prison….Rick Sanchez lost his job in Miami and was banished to Houston for a few years.

Miami viewers gave Sanchez another bite at the apple….he rewarded them by getting drunk at a Dolphin game and later fled the scene of an accident after he had hit a man….leaving him for dead.

Yep…that Rick Sanchez is a prince.