Did anyone else see Rick Sanchez threaten Broussard yesterday?

[barbaraann]

Yesterday evening, with Anderson Cooper as the anchor, Rick Sanchez did something incredible. Pres. Broussard of Jefferson Parish has been speaking the truth about what FEMA and Homeland Security are doing in LA. Paraphrasing from memory, Sanchez said WE ARE MONITORING THIS MAN and he said it with very, very angry and threatening facial language. He then said THIS MAN HAS SUGGESTED MAKING HIS PARISH A SEPARATE COUNTRY SO THEY WOULD GET AID (JEFFERSONIA).

Background:
Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard's frustration and anger boiled over on radio. "Red Cross, where are you?" he asked on WWL-Radio. He directed an open appeal to the governor, federal emergency officials and the president to not overlook his parish. At one point, he declared, "I am announcing that Jefferson Parish has seceded from the United States and is now the country of Jeffersonia," going on to say, "Now I know we will receive the aid a foreign country receives."
http://www.lapolitics.com/

I don' think Rick Sanchez is just a reporter.

[still_one]

1. excuse me isn't Sanchez MSNBC, and Cooper CNN?

[barbaraann]

6. I believe it was CNN.

I think Sanchez moved from MSNBC.

[blonndee]

2. Are you sure he was threatening? Maybe he meant

"monitoring" in a different way?!? I can't imagine someone being so blatant otherwise (in this case), especially if he or she might have associations that could be dug up.

I dunno.

[barbaraann]

7. It was definitely threatening.

n/t

[ChowChowChow]

3. Sanchez is a Bush WH stenographer and Daryn Kagan buddy!

He is a disgusting BushBOT!

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. Someone on DU posted a few weeks ago, that Daryn Kagan was

fired from CNN, and I keep waiting...I hate her ugly mug. One more of a long list of MSM 'reporters' since 2004. What happened to her 'firing?' Also read a similar thread about Kyra Phillips.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Rick Sanchez is well-known for his dickheadedness:

http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2003-01-09/news/norman.html


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Within the next few segments, Sanchez demonstrated that he is a media post-9/11 wonder. He's quick to editorialize, smugly supportive of the Purported War on Terror, and always interrupting what little information trickles in from other MSNBC staffers and guests. Cable news has become a word-association test for dopes like Sanchez.

Holding up a headline from a New York tabloid about violence in Bethlehem, he expressed outrage by bellowing, "BETHLEHEM -- WHERE JESUS WAS BORN!" Now there was something we needed in a story about the Middle East -- religious zealotry from a news anchor.

Another editorial comment came during a story about wide-scale regional protests against Sharon's assault on Palestinians. A camera cut to Mu'ammar Gadhafi at a Libyan demonstration and Sanchez scoffed something to the effect of "no surprise he's there." This courageous journalist isn't one to miss a chance to demonize someone his audience already reviles.

The capper comes when Sanchez endorses the use of torture on U.S.-held prisoners. "But then again it's torture watching Rick Sanchez and you get pretty bad information," Crimmins wrote. "... I turned off the TV but remembered the name, 'Rick Sanchez.' This new breed of news anchor candidly expresses his reactionary ignorance and, because of it, his days with MSNBC are numbered. FOX News is bound to steal him away very, very soon."

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...and then there's this (frmo same article):

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I mean, it's not like Sanchez ever killed anybody. At least not intentionally. In 1990, he accidentally (and, yes, drunkenly) ran his brand-new Volvo into a fan after a Dolphins' football game in the parking lot of what was then called Joe Robbie Stadium. The victim, Jeffrey Smuzinick, was paralyzed and later died at the age of 35 of complications related to his injuries. Sanchez was never charged with causing the accident (Smuzinick was also drunk) and ultimately pleaded no contest to DUI.

But haven't a lot of highly ambitious, career-oriented people killed at least one person while driving drunk? South Florida's own David Farrall, the former FBI agent who was involved in the accident that killed those two Jamaican brothers, is a good example. And look at Ted Kennedy. Chappaquiddick might have cost him the White House -- he's still a senator.
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[ellenfl]

10. not to mention scarborough . . . eom

[itzamirakul]

5. I saw this and yes, Sanchez did have a strange look on his face...

the way he reported what Broussard said, Sanchez made it sound like the man might be a little off his rocker.

He said that Broussard had said he was thinking about making his Parish Jeffersonia, a foreighn country, because then he might get some aid a little faster. (In the end, I could see Broussard's sarcasm in this even if some of BushCo want to see it differently)

[neweurope]

9. One more reason for DU to "adopt" Jefferson County.

It might actually be protection for Broussard.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4638931


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