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Rick Sanchez’s Poignant Last Behind The Scenes Video Before Fateful Interview

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Here’s something for the morbid out there. During his brief time as the host of Rick’s List, Rick Sanchez released a series of behind the scenes videos on Twitter that showed he and his team putting together the program. The last video, put together hours before the fateful interview that caused him to get fired, is a poignant reminder that, at the bottom of all of this, is the sad story of a man who said some stupid things and lost a job he clearly loved.

In the video we see Sanchez tinkering on the day’s episode, taking happily with his wife over the phone, working on a segment with Brooke Baldwin (who’s now taken over the time slot this week), and discussing how well the show’s been going. Watching it now, one gets the same feeling you get watching a supporting character in an 80s action movie talk about how happy he is to be one day away from retirement and knowing he’s about to get killed by a drug lord or something.

Sanchez’s Twitvids used to be great for showing the human side of a flashy TV show. Now they show the human side of the week’s biggest enormous media scandal.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Soya/1088592828 Shawn Soya

    The way you write this it sounds like Rick Sanchez passed away or something. It’s really not THAT tragic.

    On the other hand, I do agree with the point of your piece. Although I found him to be embarrassing, I could tell that he really did enjoy his job a lot and brought a lot of energy and passion to his program each day. Too bad that he sealed his coffin by HIMSELF – it’s completely his fault for losing his job.

  • Michael Santomauro

    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.”

    How Jewish is Hollywood? That’s the question Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein asked two years ago just before Christmas. In answer, he wrote:

    When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

    Needless to say, Stein was not fired for writing this, nor was he rebuked in the least. As we have seen time and again, there is a glaring double standard about alluding to Jewish power in the media. Jews are free to reference it, but woe unto the non-Jew who wades into those shark-infested waters.

    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

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    In context, the video was sad. I’m all verklempt after viewing it.

  • cmdrgmh

    This is exactly why I hate private industry. You give someone 8 years with no problems, and one fuck up and your done. Bullshit. Instead of firing someone, susspend them, or have them see a shrink about anger management. or both. Loyal employee for 8 years and then Fuck You. Real good. I have seen alot worse from other people on CNN and other so called News Outlets (Fox). Hell, they don’t even blink an eye. This was just wrong. people on Fox called the President a Racist Hitler. Nothing happend to them. Sanchez went after Stewart because Stewart makes fun of all news media. So What. He went after Jews, Stewart go’s after Jews all of the time. He made a comparison between how many Jews run major Co.’s in this Country. Most of them in the entertainment field. That is very true. Spielberg, MGM, Stewart, and hundreds of others. Did he go overboard, Yes, But not that much. Not enough to get fired. Thats my take. So let the shitstorm begin.

  • Cecelia

    It’s so sad that such a good looking man could be so foolish.

  • Michael_T

    Shawn Soya said:
    Although I found him to be embarrassing, I could tell that he really did enjoy his job a lot and brought a lot of energy and passion to his program each day. Too bad that he sealed his coffin by HIMSELF – it’s completely his fault for losing his job.

    I agree he embarrassed himself at times, but I am also convinced he is probably just as decent and loves and cares about his family just as much as other media types who embarrass themselves – take Glenn Beck for example.

    In fact, if he had Glenn Beck’s ratings I am convinced he would have been suspended instead of being fired.

  • Nachi

    The results of RayGun’s & the 2 BushDrunks’ Murcuh. Ugliness & destruction of intellectuasl/moral/ethical values.

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