CNN anchor Rick Sanchez had a meltdown on Friday on Pete Dominick's Sirius XM show to promote his new book, "Conventional Idiocy." While on the air, he called Stewart a "bigot," implied that CNN is controlled by Jews and that the network passed him over for promotion because he's Latino.
Here is the transcript:
RS- It’s not just the right that does this. cause I’ve known a lot of elite Northeast establishment liberals that may not use this as a
business model but deep down when they look at a guy like me they look at a-- they see a guy automatically who belongs in the second tier and not the top tier.
PD- Why do you say that? Give me an example - because you're Cuban-American…
RS- I had a guy who works here at CNN who's a top brass come to me and
say, ‘You know what, I don't want you to --
PD- ‘Will you wash this dish for me, Sanchez?’
RS- No no, see that’s the thing; it’s more subtle. White folks usually don't see it. But we do - those of us who are minorities and women see it sometimes too from men in authority. Here, I’ll give you my example its this 'You know what, I don't want you anchoring anymore, I really don't see you as an anchor, I see you more as a reporter, I see you more as a John Quinones - you know the guy on ABC. That’s what he told me. He told me he saw me as John Quinones. Now, did he not realize that he was telling me, ‘When I see you I think of Hispanic reporters’? Cause in his mind I can’t be an anchor. An anchor is what you give the high-profile white guys, you know. So he knocks me down to that and compares me to that and it happens all the time i think. To a certain extent Jon Stewart and Colbert are the same way. I think Jon Stewart’s a bigot.
PD- You think Jon Stewart is a bigot? Hold on now were going to get into it, Jon Stewart my old boss, my friend.
RS: Yeah I think he's a bigot.
PD: How is he a bigot?
RS: I think he looks at the world through his mom who was a schoolteacher, and his dad who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything that you could ever imagine.
PD: What group is he bigoted towards?
RS: Everybody else who's not like him. Look at his show! What does he surround himself with?
PD: But listen he picks on Jews all the time, he's a Jew. He focuses on them and I think he overcompensates to some extent. I always noticed that he goes after himself and people like him and everybody else… I totally, I disagree with you and I defy you to give me a specific example …
RS: Let me give you an example of what I mean about that by the way.
