Rick Sanchez APOLOGIZES To Jon Stewart: Wife

[babsbunny]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/05/rick-sanchez-jon-stewart-apology_n_750656.html

Rick Sanchez has reportedly apologized to Jon Stewart for his comments last week, which resulted in his firing from CNN.

Breaking News Hound reported that Sanchez's wife, Suzanne, had updated her Facebook page late Monday afternoon. The message read:

rick apologized to jon stewart today.they had a good talk. jon was gracious and called rick, "thin-skinned." he's right. rick feels horrible that in an effort to make a broader point about the media, his exhaustion from working 14 hr days for 2 mo. straight, caused him to mangle his thought process inartfully. he got caught up in the banter and deeply apologizes to anyone who was offended by his unintended comments.

[Rex]

1. Leave Rich Sanchez alllooooonneeee!

:snot running down face and tears flowing like rain:

[comtec]

43. You're lucky he shills for you BASTARDS!

etc etc etc

[Uzybone]

2. Sanchez: I work a lot of hours so excuse my stupidity

If you used those long hours to mostly educate your audience and give us the truth then maybe you'd be excused. Instead you read off twitter feeds.

[napi21]

3. when you're overly tiredyou tend to slip up and say things that

are REALLY in your subconcious. I don't doubt he was over tired, but that means to me that he simply said what he really thinks because all his guards were down.

[Rex]

4. Yeah the msg is a failure at launch. His wife must be just like him.

Now leave him alone! He works 80 hours a week just to hide his hatred for other people! :sarcasm:

[Dappleganger]

14. Rick's always had a chip on his shoulder.

[CrispyQ]

28. IIRC, Sanchez was a contender for prime time slot after Paula Zhan was let go.

He was suddenly replaced by Campbell Brown & booted to the afternoon slot. Can't remember if it was before or after Blitzer, but does it matter? They're both so in over their heads! Three hours of blathering every afternoon & CNN dares to call themselves the most trusted name in news?



:rofl:

[DAMANgoldberg]

41. He never had a shot...

at the current position. When Campbell Brown was released, his show was a placeholder only until Parker|Spitzer. During Ms. Brown's maternity leave, he got his chances along with Roland Martin. The needle was not moved. As for pre-Campbell Brown, he may have been pissed about that one as he was overlooked. If anyone should be upset about being overlooked, its Don Lemon.

[comtec]

44. whats sad about that picture is that it's (again) the COMEDIAN who knows whats going on

and NOT the two news readers.... sad AND pathetic

[WeekendWarrior]

34. I think you're absolutely right, but

Isn't that something everyone struggles with every day? Fighting against your own prejudices and dislikes? A big part our lives are devoted to pushing back against the things we dislike about ourselves, in hopes that they'll eventually go away. As human beings we have likes and dislikes, fears, joys, annoyances -- and not all of them are necessarily politically correct. I don't believe there's one person here who has never had a bigoted thought in their life. I'm sure there are many who would claim they haven't, but that's bullshit. And when you're very tired or drunk or whatever, it's harder to put up those filters that help make you a civil human being.

A lot of what we think and believe has to do with how we're raised and by whom. And from our very early years we're indoctrinated into certain beliefs. It's like Richard Dawkins once said to a young Christian girl: "If you were born in India, you'd identify yourself as a muslim." Well, if you're born into a family that harbors prejudices, you're bound to struggle with those prejudices yourself, even when you know they're wrong.

Yes, Sanchez let his guard down and some of his true colors came out. But as demonstrated on Stewart's show last night, he also fights against those who hate Jews and is obviously concerned about bigotry. As Stewart said, he probably didn't really believe what he said. And the truth is, it may have simply been a piece of him that he fights against every day.

I'm sorry, but I can't bring myself to be as intolerant as some of you seem to be. So you can call me crazy and keep piling on Sanchez, but I hope you're never in a position where your own bullshit has gotten the best of you and you need to be forgiven. Or maybe I DO hope it happens and THEN you'll understand.

[napi21]

35. Of course we all fight things within ourselves. I have never

condemned Sanchez and I won't start now. Unfortunately there are some jobs where you are NEVER permitted to drop your guard and TV is one of them. Hopefully Rick will gt a job somewhre else nd hve learned a very expensive lesson.

[Botany]

5. If Jon accepted the apology then that is good enough for me.

[still_one]

8. Actually on Jon's show last night he said as much. He believed that Rick probably didn't even mean

what he said.

[petronius]

19. I thought Stewart seemed a bit surprised that Sanchez got fired

It wasn't nearly the lambasting that he would have delivered if he'd been really pissed...

[Motown_Johnny]

6. Sanchez: "I'm gonna need some Jew to give me a job, so I guess I'm sorry"

[WeekendWarrior]

18. I think you need to put your own name after those quotes

Since Sanchez never said that and your attempt a humor, or whatever the hell it is, is pretty sad.

[virgogal]

27. Extraordinarily deceptive post. eom

[Binka]

42. Really?

lol. Still here?

[PeaceNikki]

7. lol, his wife went on to plug Jon's show yesterday

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000209904432&v=wall&ref=search

[TonyMontana]

9. Prediction: Sanchez will be a guest on The Daily Show

It must happen. It will be epic.

[WeekendWarrior]

29. I'd really like to see that happen

And I don't even particularly LIKE Sanchez.

[WeekendWarrior]

10. Wow, some of you people are fucking cruel

If this story is true, it sounds like a sincere apology to me. Give the guy a fucking break.

I mean, honestly, do you need to be so heartless? I once again have a hard time believing this is coming from people on DU.

[TonyMontana]

11. See: Every thread about the house burning down

[whathehell]

21. Welcome to DU.

:eyes:

[WeekendWarrior]

22. Been here for a few years and have never seen it this vicious

What the hell are these people drinking?

[whathehell]

26. Yes, me too..

and I heartily agree with your observation...Whatever they are drinking, it must be VERY sour.

[me b zola]

12. I was hoping Rick would reach out to Jon

Good on him and on Jon for being gracious.

[prolesunited]

15. He was actually gracious in his bit last night

I don't think he wanted him fired for it.

I think it was more criticism on his employers than the comment that got him canned. First rule of business is to never publicly criticize the people who sign your check.

[unblock]

23. unless your employer is nbc.

just ask david letterman or howard stern

[WeekendWarrior]

24. This kind of a sad rule, actually

If they're assholes in some way, you should be able to publicly call them out without fear of firing. But I guess that's too much to ask.

[prolesunited]

31. If I owned a business and an employee was trashing

me/it in the public sphere, I would fire that employee. You run a business to make a profit and if your own employee is criticizing it, that certainly isn't good PR.

Think of it this way: If their criticism hurts your profit, are you going to take a pay cut or are you going to fire the person that's bad for business?

I would start by not running the business by being an asshole, but, as we often see here, some people are unhappy no matter what you do.

[WeekendWarrior]

33. Honestly, I think CNN just used this as an excuse

to get rid of a guy under contract who had a lousy show and was full of himself.

What he said was pretty pathetic, but worth firing over? I don't buy it.

[me b zola]

40. I thought the same thing when I watched the show last night

I don't think that Jon is taking any joy from how everything unfolded.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. If Jon accepted the apology...

end of story for me.

[PeaceNikki]

16. It's pretty clear he did...t o anyone who watched Jon's show last night

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-4-2010/hurty-sanchez

[awoke_in_2003]

17. I missed it...

busy working on the wife's car :(

[PeaceNikki]

20. Bummer. Take 10 and watch it. Jon's a good guy.

:)

[JI7]

25. when Jon made fun of Sanchez it was always in a teasing non vicious way

it was different from when he goes after fox news and other whores where he exposes their phony reporting.

with Sanchez he mostly made fun of his style. and how can kind of get crazy .

[BrklynLiberal]

30. Was his mother unavailable to speak for him???????

[WeekendWarrior]

32. Wow. Just wow.

Even the vicious attempts at humor here are lame. How old are you people? Seriously. I feel as if I'm witnessing Junior High all over again.

[cynatnite]

36. I'd like to see Rick Sanchez go on Daily Show...

That would change my mind about him.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

37. "inartfully" "deeply apologizes to anyone who was offended..."

Where I have heard that before?

[Rex]

38. Maybe he can hide behind his mommy next time.

How disingenuous sending your wife out to speak for you. Sad little man.

[PeaceNikki]

45. He didn't. She mentioned it on her FB page. She has 130 friends

and probably doesn't even realize her wall is open to all.

[Quantess]

39. That was the right thing to do.