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Rick Sanchez Questions Education Level Of Talk Radio Hosts

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CNN host Rick Sanchez took a stab at the talk radio world yesterday, questioning why many Americans believe in economic conservatism. Attacking “these guys on talk radio” for promoting the lowering of taxes on the wealthy, he later asked guest Georgia Tech Professor Danny Boston whether he was frustrated by radio hosts “who don’t even have a college degree” weighing in on this issue.

“If you listen to these guys on talk radio, some of whom make thousands of dollars if not millions of dollars– you know who I’m talking about– you will have heard this consistent narrative,” he says, as he explains traditional fiscal conservatism and free market economics. Do we know who he’s talking about? Chances are it’s the three most listened-to hosts on the radio: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, all of whom are, as Rick Sanchez points out, fairly wealthy– not that Sanchez’s CNN gig makes him a pittance or anything.

It perplexes him, Sanchez explains, that people listen, because they act in what he perceives to be the opposite of their self interest. He proposes the question of this contradiction to Professor Boston– suggesting that the people that disagree with him would necessarily think of Boston as “overeducated and stupid” on account of his academic pedigree– which seems to imply that Sanchez doesn’t think much of the intelligence levels of the folks on talk radio:

“Is that something that’s frustrating, that you know this stuff and can explain it, but yet the people who are really leading the charge in this country are the guys on the radio, many who don’t even have a college degree?”

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  • MichelleF

    For Rick to question anyones lack of education is truly laughable:

    Rick Sanchez Asks Scientist ‘Nine Meters In English Is?’

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/27/rick-sanchez-so-nine-meters-english-how-much#ixzz0tJKiZqJv

    Rick Sanchez: ‘Too Cold’ in Iceland ‘To Have a Volcano There’

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/04/15/rick-sanchez-too-cold-iceland-have-volcano-there#ixzz0tJKsJQJH

  • BatBoy

    Maybe the cutoff is whether you have ever been involved in a Hit and Run when are drunk….

    http://www.mofopolitics.com/2009/07/22/cnns-rick-sanchez-hit-and-run-dui-leaves-victim-jeffrey-smuzinick-paralyzed/

    Just Saying……………….!

  • dunt

    *Changes channel*

  • Newsjunky

    I guess Snatchez hasn’t done/said something stupid in the past few weeks to keep his name on blogs like this one. So… he just had to open his pie hole and show how ignorant he is… Snatchez has already proven he’s as dumb as a box of rocks and is simply another Ron Burgandy. Douche of the highest order.

  • CaptainAmerica

    Wow, drunk driver murderer Rick Sanchez can mouth off about peoples education levels. How dumb do you have to be to get behind the wheel while drunk out of your mind?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Regardless of their education or lack of education, Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity demonstrate stupid regularly. Beck himself is as dumb as a coal bucket. The other two aren’t far behind.

  • Iris

    And their listeners chant , take away our police, take away our fire departments, let our roads and bridges crumble but please, please don’t tax the rich, let the corporations go offshore so they don’t have to pay taxes. Why, why are you punishing the rich , its us, the middle class that should suffer.
    Now thats intelligence and it don’t take no booklearnin’

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Rick , go home , have a couple of belts , and come back when you are thinking straight .

  • Moderate

    Rich Sanchez pointed to the Galapagos Islands and called it Hawaii. I had no idea Hawaii was so close to South America. Sanchez needs to go back and take elementary school Geography again. He is a moron.

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    I am SICK and TIRED of these anti-capitalist LIB HACKS telling us what THEY think is right!!!!1 YES Limbaugh and Beck and Hannity have LOTS OF MONEY… that means they are SUCCESSFUL and we should LISTEN to what they have to say!!!1 RICH people are SMART people, and they KNOW what’s right for America (and us!!1)!!1 Do we want a bunch of POOR people dictating our policies?!?!1 NO, because it is SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN that rich people are more ETHICAL than anyone!!!!1

    And MichelleF, I will NEVER get tired of PRAISING you for showing the Obamessiah-worshippers at MediaSPITE what REAL news is by constantly posting LINKS to Newsbusters!!!1 Just because these people get PAID to write a BLOG doesn’t mean they’re better than us!!!1 Keep FIGHTING the good FIGHT for us Right-Thinking Americans!!1 You are a HERO!!!!!!!111

  • Rogue-Comic

    Seems a bit naive to judge people based on whether or not they have a piece of paper hanging on a wall, a bit offensive too.

    Can you imagine the reaction a politician (left or right) would get if he/she used that argument in an election campaign?

  • dunt

    How old is Karl Spensen’s shit. Fucking hipsters…

  • Bania

    kArL’s THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2 THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2

  • Moderate

    Karl lives in his mom’s basement and blogs. His claim to fame is a few articles in neighborhood newspamplets.

  • Iris

    Last 3, Jealous much? MEOW!

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    Iris, I’m USED to the haters!!!1 These media blogs are frequented by a bunch of OLD MEDIA DINOSAURS who hate the fact that young, energetic WEB 2.0 people like ME are the true leaders of the New Movement and they are being LEFT in the DUST!!1 I wish they could put their petty jealousies aside and realize that we are ALL here for the same reason – to FIGHT the socialist fascist Chicago-style SEIU union black panther community organizer thugs that have HIJACKED our Once Proud Republic!!!1 Oh and also to constantly POINT OUT the LIB bias of this HORRIBLE website that for some reason we all can’t stop reading!!!!1

  • Bania

    THA’S GOLD kArL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2 GOLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2

  • BowenIsland

    Iris ,

    Could you put up an avatar so that Karl has something to fap fap fap to ? Help the guy out .

  • Iris

    Amen, Karl!

  • Iris

    Hey Bow, re: Avatar….I See You…..

  • ImNotBlue

    Iris says:
    July 10, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Last 3, Jealous much? MEOW!

    Says MichelleF’s stalker.

    Karl Spensen says:
    July 10, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    Oh and also to constantly POINT OUT the LIB bias of this HORRIBLE website that for some reason we all can’t stop reading!!!!1

    Says Christian Larson (Karl’s real name, not the fake personality), who constantly quotes things from rightwing websites, of which he apparently “can’t stop reading.”

  • murf

    Yeah Karl — Mental Illness is alive and well in Jersey ..

  • BowenIsland

    Iris said:
    Hey Bow, re: Avatar….I See You…..

    BOO !!!!!!!!!!!!

  • murf

    I love Muslims who hijack flotilla’s !!’111!!! Screw those Christians !!!11 All that BS they preach !!!11 Barack IS the second coming ’111!!!!!! . F*** ANYONE who questions our DEAR Leader !!!111! We gave Bu$h all the respect in the world !!!1111111

  • Iris

    Aw, look at that Smurf knows his states.

  • murf

    My name is Iris … Karl, tell Murf how special he is !!!

  • Rogue-Comic

    It’s always funny how Bania always seems to know when Karl posts his zingers.

    They must have a psychic link or something. ;-)

  • Iris

    Smurf you are special and don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise, I bet you’re even in the special class at Glenn Beck U.

  • MichelleF

    Iris, you and Karl should get together. I think you make a beautiful intellectual match.

  • Iris

    Why thank you Shelly, thats the nicest thing you’ve ever said, and I may I say ditto regarding you and Glennie

  • murf

    Iris , blind sheep talk … Won’t attract friends . When will you learn little girl ?

  • Paula

    Morons! At CNN and on the airwaves!

    Cutting taxes is a TACTIC in a larger GOAL: To reduce the size of government so that it will not have such a homongous impact on FREEDOM! If the government doesn’t have the MONEY, they can’t PLAY; its that simple.

    REAGAN KNEW THAT. REAGAN PRACTICED THAT. It was only when Democrats KEPT ON SPENDING that Reagan was forced to put forward the largest TAX INCREASE in American history! He knew he could not sustain the huge deficits.

    But the morons on talk radio won’t tell you that. They’ve morphed Reagan’s heroic — but ultimately failed — 1981 tax cut into “any tax cut, any time.”

    If the great man, who was a TRUE conservative and FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE knew what was being done in his name today, he’d be rolling over in his grave.

    Rick Sanchez is just a dumb ex-jock who can put a subject and verb together (barely). He shouldn’t be questioning others (who didn’t have the rigors of a “University of Minnesoa”, er, “education” drummed into them. His degree shows only one thing: at one time in his life, Rick Sanchez played a decent game of football.

  • tws258

    Rogue-Comic said:
    It’s always funny how Bania always seems to know when Karl posts his zingers.
    They must have a psychic link or something. ;-)

    I’m fairly certain that they are not the same person. Karl freaked out and lost his mind one night accusing someone of being Bania.

  • Iris

    Why Smurf, how kind of you to notice my youth.

  • Rogue-Comic

    So, I’ve got two Bachelor’s and will have a Master’s come December; does my opinion become indisputable know-it-all absolute fact now because I got three pieces of paper?

  • murf

    Iris the youthful handicap are like spotting purple dinosaurs in a field of cows.

  • Iris

    Oh Smurf, you’re too kind, BTW, I love Barney too.

  • ImNotBlue

    Rogue-Comic says:
    July 10, 2010 at 6:53 pm

    It’s always funny how Bania always seems to know when Karl posts his zingers.

    They must have a psychic link or something. ;-)

    I’ve been unable to figure out if Bania is someone mocking Karl, or legitimately approving of him (or just another “Karl” personality). I’d like to believe he’s mocking him… but that might have as much to do with my own bias.

    MichelleF says:
    July 10, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    Iris, you and Karl should get together. I think you make a beautiful intellectual match.

    I dunno… could be like a whole “Gatekeeper / Key Master” (if you get the reference) type thing. A black hole of self congratulations, and never ending smugness.

  • Bania

    I’ve been working out . Went from a size 40 to a 42. Yea , I’m huge ! Well I’ll leave you guys alone .

  • Pablo

    MichelleF said:
    For Rick to question anyones lack of education is truly laughable:

    Remember when he thought Hawaii was a few hundred miles off the coast of Chile? Rick isn’t always right (*snicker*), but he’s always entertaining.

  • murf

    Poor Bania , does Larson [ Karl ] text or call you before he’s post .. Or IMO are you Karl [ Christian ] ?

  • BowenIsland

    ImNotBlue said:
    I’ve been unable to figure out if Bania is someone mocking Karl, or legitimately approving of him (or just another “Karl” personality). I’d like to believe he’s mocking him… but that might have as much to do with my own bias.

    I’m going to have to go with mocking, as Seinfeld ( karl ) hates Bania and thinks he’s a hack . Was it you INB that Karl accused of being Bania ?

  • notsofast

    CNN host Rick Sanchez took a stab at the talk radio world yesterday, questioning why many Americans believe in economic conservatism. Attacking “these guys on talk radio” for promoting the lowering of taxes on the wealthy, he later asked guest Georgia Tech Professor Danny Boston whether he was frustrated by radio hosts “who don’t even have a college degree” weighing in on this issue.”

    Well, lets see what a guy with not only a degree but also a law degree knows about economics:

    Obama Presides Over Most Jobs Lost Since 1940
    By Julia A. Seymour
    Business & Media Institute
    1/8/2010 11:03:00 AM

    Unemployment shot up in 2009 from 7.7 percent in January to 10.1 percent in October before settling at 10 percent in December. Behind those percentages were more than 4.1 million people who lost their jobs during the year. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that’s the most job losses in a year since 1940. (BLS could only provide data from 1940-2009)

    The WSJ:

    “As for the deficit, CBO shows that over the first three years of the Obama Presidency, 2009-2011, the federal government will borrow an estimated $3.7 trillion. THAT IS MORE THAN THE ENTIRE ACCUMULATED NATIONAL DEBT FOR THE FIRST 225 YEARS OF U.S. HISTORY. ”

    Deficit climbs to record under Obama’s budget

    $3.8 trillion budget: Jobs take priority; reaction swift
    February 02, 2010|By Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
    Washington — President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget blueprint for next year sets a new deficit record of $1.56 trillion.”

  • notsofast

    BowenIsland said:
    I’m going to have to go with mocking, as Seinfeld ( karl ) hates Bania and thinks he’s a hack . Was it you INB that Karl accused of being Bania ?

    I think they may be one in the same. Bania only shows up after Karl comments. Usually, within minutes.

  • notsofast

    “Is that something that’s frustrating, that you know this stuff and can explain it, but yet the people who are really leading the charge in this country are the guys on the radio, many who don’t even have a college degree?”

    Rick, ya mean like this guys who didn’t get a degree and never made it?

    Bill Gates
    Thomas Edison
    Abe Lincoln
    John D Rockefeller
    Michael Dell
    Paul Allen
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    Richard Branson
    Larry King
    Barry Diller
    Walt Disney
    Henry Ford
    Steve Jobs

    Unsuccessful and uneducated people like that, Rick?

  • ImNotBlue

    BowenIsland says:
    July 10, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    I’m going to have to go with mocking, as Seinfeld ( karl ) hates Bania and thinks he’s a hack . Was it you INB that Karl accused of being Bania ?

    Negative… it was not I. It could be, but I doubt it.

  • Iris

    Wow Karl, these old guys are obsessed with you, its gotta be all that youthful support you give them

  • ImNotBlue

    Iris says:
    July 10, 2010 at 8:54 pm

    Wow Karl, these old guys are obsessed with you, its gotta be all that youthful support you give them

    Says Michelle’s stalker.

  • Bania

    Ohhhh Karl …. You know what just hit me , I was thinking …..What size suit are you ? I just got a brand new Armani suit doesn’t fit me any more . You want it ? Oh come on , why should it just sit in the closet ? You gonna be home later ? I’ll drop it off.

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    WOW you guys have been talking about me all night?!1 That’s SWEET!!!1 And I see ImNotBlue is back on his RIGHTEOUS QUEST to EXPOSE me!!1 Silly old media dinosaurs!!1 Although they are good at one thing – CREEPY INTERNET STALKING!!!1

  • Bania

    Hey ! Here you go . You didn’t think I was really gonna give you a suit did ya ? That’s right and it’s Armani . I don’t even want anything for it . I’ll tell you what you can take me out to dinner sometime. Yea , you buy me a meal , you can’t get a better deal than that .

  • felixw

    Rick, here are the real facts, not bogus ideology. After the Bush tax cuts, federal government revenues rose by $785 billion over the next four years — the largest increase in US history.

    You can go ahead and spout off your class envy. But the fact remains, tax cuts create economic growth and add to the government’s coffers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Lauffer/66303476 Daniel Lauffer

    A degree can get you in the door, but what you do once you are through the door is what matters. Rush and Beck have built their own success without the help of a degree. In many ways it is much more impressive.

    About those tax cuts comments. here’s something to think about if you agree with Rick Sanchez: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282190930932412.html?KEYWORDS=are+you+smarter+than+a+fifth+grader

  • repletus

    Rick Sanchez needs to move back to his native Cuba instead of blathering and making himself look like a fool. In Cuba there is no worry about taxes on rich people because the system made everyone poor. There he will see many educated people with lots of degrees but an economy stuck in the 1950′s. What good does a degree get you, Rick?
    GET A GRIP!

  • brittm9178

    thank god (or whomever) that rick sanchez is saying what a large number of us are thinking on a daily basis.

  • armyvet

    Rick Cheesewiz is a DILDO ! He lost whatever credibility he ever had the day he weaseled out of that DUI in South Florida.

  • Founders_were_Liberal

    Why do you think the right-wing nuts are paid so much: Because they are able to convince arrogantly stupid and ignorant people to vote and act not in their own interests but in the interests of the rich.
    A little research and fact checking would show these ditto-idiot heads that RepubliCONS are tools of the MAN.
    They do NOT act in the interest of the “little guy.”
    Democrats are far from perfect, but they are much closer in ideology and pupose to RepubliCONS.

  • JazzDrummer7

    Sorry idiots but Rick is totally right on this one.

  • DrFunke

    He is pretty much spot on which is why right-wing blogs got so angry

    Hell, 2-3 blogs admitted that they had no college education which made me laugh

  • Alz

    Some of the most idiotic people are those with college degrees – especially in the soft sciences where there is little objective truth.

  • newzmaker

    Poor Rick Sanchez. Rick is concerned that radio shock jocks, only have a high school diploma, yet, he’s all giddy
    over the prospect that Obama hopes to grant amnesty, to 20 million of Mexico’s underclass illiterates. Priorities, Rick. Priorities. Amnesty for 20 million Mexican illiterates, would all but guarantee, that America is steadily on its way to becoming, just another third-world country. Rick’s sense of logic is…..well, actually, his sense of logic doesn’t exist.

  • Nachi

    You got that right, Rick. Ill-bred, ill-educated goose-stepping goons of conformity. Always searching for a cause, a crusade, a crutch to engender their vulger anti-intellectualism.

  • Pablo

    DrFunke said:
    Hell, 2-3 blogs admitted that they had no college education which made me laugh

    My blog has a doctorate.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Helen-Nordo/100000884291530 Helen Nordo

    Hello Rick, y’know I used to like to watch you when you were new & “refreshing” however, now that you are attempting to “up” your ratings, especially with the latinos, you are no longer the “fair” correspondent that I admired; you are knocking the Fox guys, who you are presuming have no “college education”, I don’t know Bill O’Reilly comes off as being “highly intelligent” & his knowledge of the english language makes your small talk sound like a couple of guys at a coffee shop..& as far a Glenn Beck goes, a good part of his earnings is going to helping towards educating the young people about our forefathers…what were yours, or have you forgotten? We want to try to bring americans together, not drive them farther apart, knowledge is essential, especially where American history is concerned, don’t be jealous of the men out there who are opening our minds to the reality of what is really going on in this country..Right after 9/11 what was it Osama Bin Laden said “America will destroy itself from within”..there are an awful lot of muslims out there that hate us..why don’t you get on the good side & stop ridiculing those that can help us prepare for the nightmare that might actually unravel..I have never been so insecure about our country in my life & correspondents like you, that are just after fame & fortune should not betray the very country that helped your Dad & Mom in time of need. Shame on you!! Helen Nordo

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Val-Anderson/100000119994645 Val Anderson

    What a laugh.. Rick Sanchez is so ignorant, he can’t even pronounce places and names correctly.. I have always thought how stupid this man is in his facile remarks, he is good for nothing except for making inane remarks and trying to denigrate anyone who does not agree with his left wing agenda. I would be ashamed to be on the air and act so ridiculously..

  • T REX

    Rick is absolutely correct…Windbaugh…Vannity……and Beckerhead are ignoramouses that thrive on ratings from the WASPS/Kool-aid drinkers they scare.

  • piniella

    Sanchez is only half right. The gasbags also refuse to learn.

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