Rick Sanchez on GMA: Takes “Full Responsibility,” Brings Up Lack Of Diversity In Prime Time

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by Steve Krakauer | 9:11 am, October 8th, 2010

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Rick Sanchez appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America this morning in an interview with George Stephanopoulos – his first interview since being fired one week ago.

While he appeared remorseful, it is clear he is still bitter about the Daily Show ribbing and still feels there is something behind the lack of diversity in prime time cable news.

“I know this has not been the easiest week for you, but you’re still smiling,” said Stephanopoulos to start the interview. “It’s tough. I screwed up, George,” said Sanchez.

Here’s his first explanation:

I was tired. I’d been working 14 hour days for like two and a half months. I was doing three shows, I was exhausted. It was right off the air. My daughter had a softball game I desperately wanted to go to and I was a little impatient.

He said the comments he made were “offensive.” “It was my mistake, I screwed up, I take full responsibility. It’s not CNN, it’s Rick Sanchez,” he said.

It took him about two minutes before he, unprovoked, picked up and said the name of his book, Conventional Idiocy (he did it one more time in the interview as well). Sanchez also brought up the lack of diversity on cable news, and pointed to that as a reason he was “feeling a little sensitive.” But he kept bringing it back to Jon Stewart – it would have been interesting to hear his response if Stephanopoulos changed the line of questioning to Sanchez’ own bosses at CNN, who he called out in the radio interview as well (and, most likely, let to his eventual firing).

Then, this happened: Sanchez asked Stephanopoulos, “How many feet and how many inches are there in 10 meters?” You probably know where this is going. Stephanopoulos said 330 feet. Sanchez said it was “11 or something.” (It’s 33.) Sanchez thought Stewart was making fun of him for the fact that he didn’t know how many feet were in a meter – but that misses the point. Sanchez asked his guest to tell him what meters were “in English.” And it was the way he said it. You can check that out here.

Also, there has to be some ironic punishment to the fact that Sanchez shared the GMA spotlight this morning with… Lou Dobbs.

Here’s the full interview – including Sanchez’ third-person-filled closing:

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Big Eddie

How tall is Steffi , in meters ?
ImJustThatDamnGood

Only if you were on Fox News than you can make outrageous comments without the fear of being fired.
dummy123

Race-card Rick…….meant everything he said to Pete on Sirius!!
dumb as a wall….is the rickster!!
Azarkhan

“there is something behind the lack of diversity”

That “something” is that the white liberals who control the mainstream media and websites like HuffHoe and Mediaite and who push reverse discrimination, quota’s and white guilt, don’t practice what they preach. Does that qualify as ironic?
Puter Boi

OK….was he tired from working hard and wanted to see his daughter’s baseball game…..or did he have a chip on his shoulder? He claims both although I doubt that he meant to say both……the first sounds like an excuse…the second sounds like the truth…

So…..

Let’s ask Jeffrey Smuzinick…..oh wait…..
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

I may be a bit naive but why is it so bad to say that Jews are not powerless. Isn’t it just another way to say that Jews are doing well?

Rick Sanchez does not seem very credible, though.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

ImJustThatDamnGood said:
Only if you were on Fox News than you can make outrageous comments without the fear of being fired.

Can’t you talk about anything other than Fox News?

You know your ideas are in trouble when all you do is attack the opponent instead of offering an alternative. That is all the Democrats are doing. Even though they are in power!!
Some_Dude

“Please buy my book. I’m sorry. I’ll let you tase me.”
dfgergerg

dsfgwegew
Puter Boi

dfgergerg said:
Dear friends, please temporarily stop your footsteps To our website Walk around

How can I stop my footsteps and THEN walk around?
dummy123

Thorkil Kowalski Værge said:
I may be a bit naive but why is it so bad to say that Jews are not powerless. Isn’t it just another way to say that Jews are doing well?

Rick Sanchez does not seem very credible, though.

Rick is the full package idiot.
I’m sure it was the sum of stupid….and not just one thing.
NORBIT

CNN is replacing Parker-Spitzer with a new show analyzing the true cause of problems in the Middle East.

It’s a roundtable discussion with Sanchez, Helen Thomas, Mel Gibson & Rev. Wright!

They’re using the same broad depth of opinion that msnbc uses on their primetime shows!!

Sanchez will have a closing segment each night called: “Forget about the media, what about Hollywood & the Finance Industry?”
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It’s just so much fun watching CNN & msnbc battle it out over FOX’s sloppy seconds!!!
LOL!!
sarainitaly

i can not believe he asked how many feet were in 10 meters and then was unable to provide the answer. *face palm*

he also looked very silly plugging his book the way he did, but considering he is now out of work, I guess the guy’s gotta try and sell another copy or two.

he should have laid low a bit longer…
Some_Dude

NORBIT said:
CNN is replacing Parker-Spitzer with a new show analyzing the true cause of problems in the Middle East.

It’s a roundtable discussion with Sanchez, Helen Thomas, Mel Gibson & Rev. Wright!

You jest, but that would likely be one of the highest rated first episodes of a news cast ever.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

You’ll also notice Sanchez claims there are no blacks, Asians or Hispanics in “our media”. Stephanopoulos interrupted throughout Sanchez’s rambling to give examples of black, Asian and Hispanic people in the media. Sanchez had no response, but to continually change his standards for where the diversity needed to be in his opinion.
Big Eddie

” I take full responsibility and here are my excuses “.
Some_Dude

Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge said:
You’ll also notice Sanchez claims there are no blacks, Asians or Hispanics in “our media”. Stephanopoulos interrupted throughout Sanchez’s rambling to give examples of black, Asian and Hispanic people in the media. Sanchez had no response, but to continually change his standards for where the diversity needed to be in his opinion.

That was funny watch. He eventually distilled the criteria down to current cable news hosts, in which there is one person at a desk, or something. By then his point was lost. Stephanopoulos conducted a strong interview.
VRWC Destruction Machine

Lack of diversity in cable news? There’s CNN – Left of Center, MSNBC – Far Left, HLN – Hard Left , FNC – Rightwing. There’s your diversity. If you’re looking for ethnic diversity, who cares. It’s either a Liberal or a Conservative P.O.V.
Some_Dude

VRWC Destruction Machine said:
Lack of diversity in cable news? There’s CNN – Left of Center, MSNBC – Far Left, HLN – Hard Left , FNC – Rightwing. There’s your diversity. If you’re looking for ethnic diversity, who cares. It’s either a Liberal or a Conservative P.O.V.

There’s also BBC if you’re looking for truly honest and objective news.
Puter Boi

dfgergerg said:
please temporarily stop your footsteps To our website Walk around

How many times to I have to tell you???? I can’t stop and….oh never mind….
I am a very sensitive person and you hurt my feet….my footsteps…and my feelings….
The 3 F’s……shame on you!
I could say F-you…but that would be wrong…..
notsofast

“How many feet and how many inches are there in 10 meters?” You probably know where this is going. Stephanopoulos said 330 feet.”

330 feet?

LMAO- These two are idiots.
Some_Dude

notsofast said:
“How many feet and how many inches are there in 10 meters?” You probably know where this is going. Stephanopoulos said 330 feet.”

330 feet?

LMAO- These two are idiots.

I can’t fault two Americans for not having a grasp of the metric system. If either were a scientist or physician, sure – but they’re not.
newzmaker

Why does Rick sit around and whine about diversity, as well as expect whites to make him a success? Rick should ask Gloria Estefan, George Lopez, Jessica Alba, and numerous others, to help create a Hispanic-American, English-speaking, TV network. Seems to have worked out fairly well for BET. For that matter, Rick can ask Oprah Winfrey to assist, in starting up a Hispanic-American network. Rick needs to take charge of his own destiny and stop with the affirmative action type thinking. Personally, I’d be interested in checking out such a channel, if it became reality. Rick needs to put on his big boy boxers and take this approach, which I have suggested. I predict that a Hispanic-American, English-speaking, network, would draw in even more viewers than BET. Get off it, Rick, and stop whining and feeling sorry for yourself.
ChrisNH

“My daughter had a softball game I desperately wanted to go to.” Obama’s excuse-making is touching all Libs, everywhere.
Cecelia

I say that some cabler should forgive and forget and rehire Sanchez simply because he is one sexy dude!
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Cecelia said:
I say that some cabler should forgive and forget and rehire Sanchez simply because he is one sexy dude!

Cecelia, I’m highly offended by that comment. It’s not right to objectify the opposite sex that way. If men thought that way, you’d have a whole network filled with nothing but blonde-haired, blue-eyed anchors . . .

Nevermind.
BatBoy

How about trying this for a change Rick.

Shut your mouth, do your job, be professional and you could play ball with the big boys and girls.

But you didn’t, you are a wise guy, you said stupid things, your ratings were in the tank because you were trying to be just like MSNBC…your programming was created by juveniles and delivered by juveniles. You bought into it…You Got fired! Oh Well!

Now you have learned what we instilled in our kids. “Your actions have consequences”

So man up for a change…go get a job and quit whining.

Oh ya, I forgot, your hero has the reported unemployment pegged at right under 10%, plus god only knows how many people have given up looking.

Welcome to our world!

“My job as CCO (Chief Community Organizer is over). I have changed America….My Way!

“Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
In a speech to be delivered by Barack Obama on or before March 31, 2012, Original quote from LBJ’s, 3/31/68 speech to the nation!
Cecelia

AnonymousFinch said:
Cecelia, I’m highly offended by that comment. It’s not right to objectify the opposite sex that way. If men thought that way, you’d have a whole network filled with nothing but blonde-haired, blue-eyed anchors . . .

Nevermind.

Hey, I’m an equal opportunity admirer!

I also think that Bill Kristol and Nadine Strossen deserve their own cable shows because they have very sexy minds.
notsofast

Some_Dude said:
I can’t fault two Americans for not having a grasp of the metric system. If either were a scientist or physician, sure – but they’re not.

LMAO!

Yeah, right!

Keep spinning it, child!
Papa Smear

Sanchez should leave the media and enter politics. He is well suited. Stupid, has a minority built in base to abuse, a tremendous ego. He is congressional material if I ever saw it.
(and he can work 14 hour days).
disenlightened

There’s nothing more dangerous on the road than a recently fired Rick Sanchez coming home from a long night of drowning his sorrows at a local yuppie pub.
D REX

why do the tea baggers and GOP PUBICs- blame everything on the “media”…. the media has no vested interest in either party..they just report the news- Fair and balanced…….you know kinda like what FUX News claims they are doing.
As soon as the GOP Baggers start losing at sumthing -yes sir -its the medias fault. Clusterfuk Bush had nothing to do with the GOP Baggers being thrown out of Congress-it was the media’s fault !!!! lololol
greg454

There’s lack of diversity in basketball where 99% of the players are black, yet do we hear complains about that? No. In a free society each individual is free to pursue opportunities and succeed or fail, there’s no need for quotas, affirmative action, and diversity crap. If you’re good enough you’ll succeed, if not you’ll do something else.
right-is-wrong

greg454 said:
There’s lack of diversity in basketball where 99% of the players are black, yet do we hear complains about that? No.

sorry

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/19/nba_563760.shtml
http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2010/01/21/All-white-basketball-league-proposed/UPI-93851264111412/
greg454

Look right is wrong, that all-white basketball league doesn’t exist, and if it did it would mean nothing, I was talking about the NBA anyway. My point is that certain people are drawn to certain professions, how many Jewish mountain climbers or Jewish country singers do you know?

The NBA doesn’t need white, black, hispanic or asian players, they need the BEST players, and if they all happen to be black, so be it.

The same goes for every other profession. If two people are competing for a job race and diversity should never be taken into account. I don’t remember Martin Luther King, Jr. dreaming of affirmative action, did you?

So stop it with the social justice bullshit, if Rick Sanchez failed to deliver ratings is not because he was Hispanic it’s because he was BORING. In fact, maybe the next time CNN needs an anchor they should look for one with a great personality instead of some minority for the sake of diversity.
felixw

Certainly the lack of diversity issue is obvious at CNN and MSNBC….But apparently they just don’t want to hire Republicans.
axel360

“I’m talking straight news casts, not magazine shows”
Then what the hell was your show, Rick? And how about you do some research before you spew your rhetoric and make excuses. Then again he never did research. God he should have been fired a long time ago.
And you would think by now he would have known what meters were in English.
Michael Santomauro

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish. Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is “nothing more than a screen to present chosen views.” The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually “think outside of the (Jewish) box.”

What happened to Oliver Stone is a good case study. The Wall Street Journal reported this past summer that Stone said that “public opinion was focused on the Holocaust because of ‘Jewish domination of the media.’” Stone also said that the Jews “stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f—– up United States foreign policy for years.”

Like so many others before him, Stone groveled: “In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry.”

Joe Sobran who died this past week had this to say about Jewish media power:

“Jewish control of the major media in the media age makes the enforced silence both paradoxical and paralyzing. Survival in public life requires that you know all about it, but never refer to it. A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don’t respect their victimhood, they’ll destroy you. It’s a phenomenal display not of wickedness, really, but of fierce ethnocentrism, a sort of furtive racial superpatriotism.”

In 1996, reprinted in the May 27th issue of the New York Times, by Ari Shavit, an Israeli columnist describing his feelings on the killings of a hundred civilians in a military skirmish in southern Lebanon. Shavit wrote:

“We killed them out of a certain naive hubris. Believing with absolute certitude that now, with the White House, the Senate, and much of the American media in our hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own.”

Peace.
Michael Santomauro
ReporterNotebook@gmail.com

PS: An antisemite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an antisemite.
greg454

“Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish”

—-Oh really? So you think people are too stupid to think for themselves? If that was the case Fox News would be a failure and MSNBC and CNN would be a success.

Mentally trapped my ass, you remind me of the Obama-lovers who think we don’t like Obamacare because he hasn’t explained it well. Guess what, we don’t like it because we’ve done our own research, seen part of what’s in the bill, and we don’t want government to get bigger than it already is.

“An antisemite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an antisemite.”

—What about Mel Gibson? If Jews dominate Hollywood how come he was allowed to make “The Passion of the Christ,” a movie that portrays Jews as devils and responsible for the crucifixion of Christ?

As for Oliver Stone, I don’t see his career suffering either.

Maybe you should check out the Anti-Defamation League website to see hundreds of examples of anti-Israel bias in the media, academia and other places.

Either way, your thesis of Jewish control is silly when you look at how the media is in love with Islam.
njoy-d-ride

Well folks, back when I was going to school, the Metric system was for sure going to take over the United States and replace the old english system (I think that’s what we called it…), for a bunch of reasons, If you asked, it was a wonder we were still able to trade with the rest of the world.
These guys would have been going to school about that time too… I see they got less of it than I did.

Here’s a hint for the next time you are asked to convert feet to meters, or vice versa,
A meter is about a yard, so if your asked “How long is 10 meters” Think “How long is 10 yards”. First down! Something every American knows! Granted your answer won’t be exact, but it will be a lot closer than either 11 feet or 330 feet!
VRWC Destruction Machine

Some_Dude said:
There’s also BBC if you’re looking for truly honest and objective news.

The BBC is just MSNBC with an accent.

BBC chief Mark Thompson admits ‘Left-wing bias’
02.09.10

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23873043-bbc-chief-mark-thompson-admits-left-wing-bias.do