To be clear, we don’t fit into any template here, Democratic or Republican or otherwise. I play it down the middle. – February 13, 2009
Very powerless people… [snickers] He’s such a minority, I mean, you know [sarcastically]… Please, what are you kidding? … I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they — the people in this country who are Jewish — are an oppressed minority? Yeah.[sarcastically] – September 30, 2010 interview on SiriusXM talk show Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Anybody who’s different than you are, anybody who’s not form your frame of reference; anybody who doesn’t look and sound exactly like the people that you sound [like] and grew up with. The people that you put on your show, who always reflect somebody who’s, “I’m bringing in to sit around me,” you know, who’s very different from me. I’m sorry, but I just don’t buy this thing that the only people out there who are prejudiced… are the Right. There’s people that are prejudiced on both sides. – discussing how Jon Stewart is prejudiced, September 30, 2010 interview on SiriusXM talk show Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, 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 you could ever imagine. – regarding Jon Stewart, September 30, 2010 interview on SiriusXM talk show Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
He can’t relate to a guy like me. He can’t relate to a guy whose dad worked all his life. He can’t relate to somebody who grew up poor. – regarding Jon Stewart, September 30, 2010 interview on SiriusXM talk show Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Rick Sanchez during his broadcast on CNN, September 2010
[I]n an effort to praise them, Burton has actually revealed MSNBC’s bias, or at least what the White House perceives as their bias. It’s right there. I mean, that’s what he is saying- pushing and prodding progressive values is ‘an invaluable service’? What if, as an American, I don’t agree with all progressive values, Mr. President? And by the way, since when is news supposed to have a limited point of view- only progressive? Oh, that’s right. I just remembered. Ever since Fox decided to give mostly the conservative Republican side, and then MSNBC followed suit with mostly the liberal Democratic side- I guess I forgot. Look, from what I can tell, I wasn’t necessarily liked by the Bush White House, and I don’t think I’m particularly liked by the Obama White House as well. And you know what? That’s the way I like it. – September 30, 2010, CNN broadcast, discussing White House deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton’s comments on the media bias
Video: “We (CNN) happen to be in the middle, that’s the way we do things”
That’s interesting. And, of course, the argument would be Fox News obviously tends to lean way, way, way to the right. – August 19, 2010 discussing Democratic Governors Association call to FOX to have a disclaimer stating how much money FOX gives to which party
I’m just sitting here just shaking my head. He is the cotton-picking president of the United States! If the president of the United States doesn’t have enough of a bully pulpit to convince people of a lie- that a lie is a lie, I should say, then- you know, where are we? What kind of planet are we living on? What the hell is going on here? – August 30, 2010 CNN Broadcast
‘ve was just saying ‘cotton picking’ because it’s a term that I’ve used because I grew up in the South. It’s a point that’s often used to illustrate frustration- not in any way shown to use- used to show any kind of disrespect. However, I apologize nonetheless for using it, in case it was taken by anyone as an act of disrespect. So, there you go. – during his apology later in the show for his ‘cotton picking remark’ August 30, 2010 CNN Broadcast
You know, a lot of the folks who would criticize someone like you- they would criticize you, first of all, because you’re a college professor, which, in their mind, makes you overeducated, and thus, stupid. But is that something that’s frustrating as well, that you know this stuff and can explain it as easily as you just did to us, but yet, the people who are really leading the charge in this country are the guys on the radio and- many of which don’t even have a college degree. – July 9 CNN Broadcast, referring to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity
Below is video and some transcript of Rick Sanchez discussing his “lack of bias” – July 23, 2010
SANCHEZ: Actually, I think there are many in the country today who would disagree with you, and many are saying. In fact….I just talked to one this afternoon, Dan, who told me that ideologically-driven newscasts are hurting America, and here’s why. When you decide who you’re talk- let me ask you the question this way, in fact. Let me do this. What is similar about Fox News’ extensive coverage of some of the stories that most in the other media didn’t give much attention to? And I’ll take them to you right now. I’ll spell them out for you, Dan: Van Jones, the New Black Panther story, ACORN, Shirley Sherrod. What’s similar about those stories, Dan?
ABRAMS: Well, look, Rick, you can make an argument, and you’re making a case. You’re doing an opinion-based program right here, which I think is great. I think-
SANCHEZ: No, no- actually, I am- no- well, hold on. I’m asking you a legitimate- I have a person that I’m asking you-
ABRAMS: I’m not saying you’re ideological.
SANCHEZ: Well, I’m not.
Is there a possibility that that message isn’t getting out to the American people because these crazy talk show hosts that are so right-wing are out there using the most heated language and the most heated rhetoric that does, in fact, incite people to hate? – March 24, 2010 CNN Broadcast with Jessica Yellin discussing how Congressmen have requested more security
Limbaugh’s perceived racist diatribes are too many to name. Here’s a sample- he once declared that ‘slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back. I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark. – October 12, 2009 CNN Broadcast , Sanchez had to later apologize for using an unverified quote as Rush Limbaugh never said this.
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Rick Sanchez and Roland Martin Sept 2009
TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK PERRY (from April 15, 2009): “It gives me that thrill up my leg when I see all the people standing out here on the city hall of Austin, Texas, with liberty in their hearts and independence on their mind. I’m talking about states’ rights. (Crowd cheers and applause) States’ rights! States’ rights!”
MARTIN: “…You… have to be very careful when you start talking about state’s rights. As an African-American, state’s rights has a whole different meaning. Because you start thinking about Ross Barnett in Mississippi, you start thinking about what happened when it came to segregation, when it came to ‘Brown versus Board of Education.’ So he has to be very careful using that kind of language by saying state’s rights.”
SANCHEZ: “State’s rights has racist overtones, I’ll say it for you.”
- Exchange with CNN contributor Roland Martin, September 2, 2009. Barnett was the segregationist governor of Mississippi during the 1960s.
WAYNE SLATER: “Right now, Rick Perry, double-digit lead over Kay Bailey Hutchison- this was a collapse by the senior senator from Texas.”
SANCHEZ: “Why? I mean- you know, when he came out with his comment. Remember, you and I talked about it when he said it. I mean, he was all about secession from the union. He was talking about states’ rights. States’ rights is, to most people of color, a racist term-”
SLATER: “Yeah.”
SANCHEZ: “And I thought he had hurt himself. Why wasn’t she able to, kind of, jump on that and use it?” – March 2, 2010 referring to the discussion above
Rick Sanchez with Jim Wallis on anti-ObamaCare protesters at tea parties and congressional town hall meetings
When you do see some of this wild behavior that we’ve seen in some of these health care forums- when you hear, for example, some of the misrepresentations, and flat out lies in some cases, like calling things death panels and saying that people are going to be- old people are going to be killed, including some of them spread by people who profess to be Christians….I just saw a poll that says something like 75 percent of the people who watch exclusively right-wing media and right-wing television channels, for example, actually believe that there are death panels….They’re not really being dishonest, but their messenger may be. What do you think of that? – August 19, 2009 CNN Broadcast, discussing healthcare
Discussing "hateful speech" June 2009 CNN Broadcast
Was there a tone in this country that was actually started with the election of our first black president that is bringing the crazies out of the woodwork, and are they being motivated to move by right-wing pronouncements, like he’s dangerous- he’ a socialist- he’s a Muslim, and he isn’t even a U.S. citizen? This is what we hear on some TV and radio outlets, which, by the way, according to our Constitution, they are entitled to what they believe and even propagate. – June 11, 2009
That weekend tragedy involves a man who allegedly shot and killed three police officers in cold blood. Why? Because he was convinced, after no doubt watching Fox News and listening to right-wing radio, that quote, ‘Our rights were being infringed upon.’ -From CNN Newsroom, April 8, 2009.
Here’s the real issue here: Poplawski [the murderer of the Pittsburgh police officers] may not be alone in this crazy, “they’re coming to get us” mindset. There is evidence of a gun buying panic. According to the FBI, there have been 1.2 million more requests for background checks of potential gun buyers from November to February than there in the same four months last year….Who is stirring the pot?…Who is trying to use this to get people to not trust President Obama, and more importantly, is there any truth to the fear of more restrictive gun ban? That’s what I’m going to tackle when I come back. (con’t) The failing economy; the election of Barack Obama, the nation’s first minority — minority president; and then there’s the garden-variety fear and hate mongering provided compliments of Fox News night in and night out. That’s where Glenn Beck is seen night after night, talking about doomsday, about the country coming apart, while his counterpart Sean Hannity calls the president a socialist, and worse, implying day in and night out that he’s trying to destroy America. Here’s an apparent result. Americans are scarfing up guns and ammunition at an alarming rate. Growing numbers of people appear to believe that the government wants their weapons. – April 8, 2009 blaming FOX, right wing commentators for shooting
DR. KURT FRANKEL: “I think that’s a sign of that. I don’t think you can translate that nine meters into any specific wave height that will hit Hawaii. So, may be careful about that. It doesn’t necessarily mean there’s going to be nine meters of runup in Hawaii. But it is showing that you the tsunami in fact did pass by-”
SANCHEZ: “Nine meters- by the way, nine meters in English is?”
FRANKEL: “Oh, about 27 feet.”
SANCHEZ: “27 Feet.”
-Exchange with Dr. Kurt Frankel of the Georgia Institute of Technology on a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean after a 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile, February 27, 2010, during CNN’s breaking news coverage.
JACQUI JERAS: “Look at how huge this [Pacific] ocean basin is, right?”
SANCHEZ: “And this is Hawaii.”
JERAS: “And that is Hawaii out there. No, Hawaii is a little bit farther to the west of our map.”
SANCHEZ: “So, it’s not on this map.”
-Exchange with CNN on-air meteorologist Jacqui Jeras, during the same hour as the “nine meters” remark above. Sanchez wasn’t pointing at Hawaii on the map, but the Galapagos Islands.
SANCHEZ: “I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn’t it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don’t think of Iceland….You think it’s too cold to have a volcano there.” -Comment to CNN on-air meteorologist Chad Myers, April 15, 2010, on the volcanic eruption in Iceland which disrupted air traffic over Europe and across the Atlantic Ocean. Sanchez later claimed on Twitter that he was “joking.”
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