CNN's Rick Sanchez: Hispanics Working for Fox News are Sellouts

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UPDATE AT END OF POST: FNC's Julie Banderas responds as do others.

Did you know that if you're Hispanic and work for the Fox News Channel, you're a sellout?

Well, that's what CNN's Rick Sanchez amazingly believes.

Inside Cable News discovered a few rather interesting tweets by Sanchez on Friday which are sure to raise a few eyebrows -- especially from Hispanics working at Fox (h/t NBer Thomas Stewart):

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if i didn't believe in doing right thing, i'd be rich anchoring at fox news

do u know how much money i'd make if i'd sold out as hispanic and worked at fox news, r u kidding, one problem, looking in mirror

me? what? i live in burbs, wife, four kids, dog, turtle.. two jobs... yeah... i'm a real rich guy, right?

@lomeinie fox in prime time is not news, not even close. i'm a newsman. where's the paradox?

@Garfug he asked if fox gave me a million. i say no where near enough

Readers should be advised that this is the same man who blamed Fox News and conservative talkers for the cop killings in Pittsburgh back in April, and earlier this month asked if Sarah Palin was resigning as Alaska governor because she was pregnant again.

Yeah, Rick...you're a "newsman."

Exit question: regardless what he's making, who thinks Sanchez is WAY overpaid?

*****Update: FNC's Julie Banderas responds via Twitter (h/t Hot Air) -- 

As a wise Latina woman, I have no comment other than to say... 

...if I were Rick Sanchez, I wouldn't look in the mirror, period. 

*****Update II: Steve Krakauer reports (also via Hot Air) --

A Fox News spokesperson tells Mediaite: “Everyone knows that Rick is an industry joke, he shows that he’s a hack everyday. And he doesn’t have to worry about working at FOX because we only hire talent who have the ability to generate ratings.”

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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Well

He's slumming for the sake of truth?

Apparently, CNN doesn't pay well. That's what I got out of it.

 

You see because skin

You see because skin color and ancestry are supposed to determine your politics.

"I dream of a day when people will be judged by the color of their skin, NOT by the content of their character." - Rufus Luther King III (illegitimate half-brother of MLK) - you probably never heard of him before because he was overshadowed my Martin.

Sanchez wants all Hispanics

Sanchez wants all Hispanics to be manipulated and used by the left the same way he is. The left calls it being enlightened.

"DumbAssity of Dope"

Never crosses his mind that

Never crosses his mind that Fox might turn him down.

 

If stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can't it get us out?
--Will Rogers

I'll bet

that they already have, that's why he's so bitter. If he thought he stood a chance of being hired there, he'd keep his mouth shut.

Chai

“When all government...in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided...” Thomas Jefferson

A FAN OF MAY TYLER MOORE

The hispanic Ted Baxter strikes again.

Good one Sgt..

Ted Knight was one funny dude!

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Very funny line

I have not heard that before. Funny line.

Sanchez is not a newsman

He is a gutless hack who shills for CNN's leftist bosses. He doesn't believe anything he says. I can just see what happens when he goes off the air each day. He excitedly runs up to his News Director's office for a pat on the head and a quick "nice job, little bo-bo".

Does believe

I really think that the trouble is that he DOES believe all the crap he spews

 

 

VOTE REPUBLICAN 

Sanchez dissin'

all latino uncles named Tomas?

AsTthough A Legitimate News Organization Would Hire Sanchez

This man is a low keyed Keith Olbermann. He should be fired, the same way Susan Roesgen was fired for her idiocy at the Chicago tea party.

No, Rick. You're not anything close to being a "Newsman"....

In fact, you're a murderer.

Hit and run accident while Sanchez was drunk, Miami, 1990.  Sanchez' victim later died.  Sanchez never so much as offered an apology to the family.  Love to see that scroll across hit twitter feed at the bottom of the screen.

 

Killed a woman in a car crash

He could be a US Senator from Massachusetts...

Yeah...the Fox Guys Aren't As Honorable As Sanchez

As explained here

http://www.bartcop.c...

 

Fox wouldn't hire him...

... at least that's the impression I get from his so called reporting.  Sounds like sour grapes on steriods.  Fox seems to appreciate balanced reporting (though they do have some off the wall commentators).  anneftx

Amazing these so called

Amazing these so called opened minded idiots of the left.

So, if you are a Latino, much like myself, who is a Conservative, then I am a sell out?

So, I guess they want Latinos to be part of the mass thinking.

Latinos like Rick Sanchez are an embarrasment.

Truly sad that CNN would higher a man that murdered someone back in 1990.

I DON'T GET LEFTIST LATINOS...

 Liberallies,

It goes beyond him being a Latino, he was born in Cuba, & he's a big lib. It does'nt make sense to me, supporting people who seem to want to kiss the ass of of thugs like the Castro brothers in Cuba, the Ortega brothers in Nicaragua, Chevez in Venezuela, & Morales in Bolivia. These are the leftist thugs who have been oppessing the Spanish speaking peoples of Latin America. Throw in the FARC in Columbia & the PRI in Mexico as well. There is a very sad history involving leftists in Latin America, & being born in Cuba, you would think Sanchez would get it.

I view liberal/progressive Cubans the same way I view liberal/progressive Jews, as idiots. Usefull idiots actually. When you support those who are against your own kind, you are a moron. The worst part is these folks don't even understand what they are up against, & they don't understand why they have the freedoms they have that make their lives as they are possible.

Rick Sanchez is a piss-poor newsman, he looks the part, but that's about it. He is lucky to not have gone to prison when he killed a guy in hit n' run DUI in Dec10,1990, if the victim Jeff Smuzinick had died that night, instead of 5 years later...jailtime. Count your blessings Ricky, you got away with killing another man, you have a gravy gig at a cablenews channel, & you suck at it, & left a communist craphole because your parrents had the sense to leave Cuba. You have everything & more then you ever would have in Castro's Cuba, it saddens me to see that you don't understand that.

 

 

"It's still "We the people", right?"   megadeth

Re Left Latinos

This is one of my frustrations as well. In my opinion, Mexicans are leaving Mexico because of many decades of left-wing and socialist governments there. So why do they vote for the left when they come here?

Mexico should be as affluent and civilized as Texas is. Mexico is rich in natural resources and populated with hard-working people, and is in fact older than the USA in many ways. The reason they are not is bad left-wing government. 

This is the Same Rick Sanchez

Is this the same Rick Sanchez that killed a man because he chose to drive while drunk?

YeahIt is.

Reality Check:  Hey, Rick.  You ARE a sellout.

Sanchez interned under Hack Cafferty

Sanchez interned under Hack Cafferty, where he learned the finer points of mowing down people while driving drunk.

I HATE TO BREAK THIS TO YA...

 Sanchez had his hit n'run in 1990, Cafferty in 2003. Very cowardly acts in my opinion.

 

"It's still "We the people", right?"   megadeth

And in Sanchez's fantasy

And in Sanchez's fantasy media world, Hispanics who work for CNN are not sellouts. Ok, I get it now.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

I think Fox News and CNN

I think Fox News and CNN might have different hiring qualifications. Clearly CNN's includes racists...drunks...and people who are as sharp as an 8-ball. Riiiccckkk Sanchezzzzzz --- Come On Down!

___________________________________ 

An optimist thinks that the glass is 1/2 full; a pessimist 1/2 empty; a realist thinks the glass is twice a big as it needs to be

RICKIE

They are so busy blaming others. He really does need to take a long hard look in that mirror.

   Why is it that I feel

   Why is it that I feel the only thing on his resume that got him his job was that his name is Sanchez?  Would he have his job if his name was Smith?

MidAmerica

Great point.

Sanchez, like Sotomayor, is an Affirmative Action baby.

@lomeinie, @Garfug

Must be a couple of @Frank's buddies. 

"Beware the fury of the patient man." - John Dryden

if i didn't believe in

if i didn't believe in doing right thing, i'd be rich anchoring at fox news

do u know how much money i'd make if i'd sold out as hispanic and worked at fox news, r u kidding, one problem, looking in mirror

What gives this fat, incompetent drunken clown the idea that Fox News would hire him in the first place...even for free, forget making him "rich"?  CNN must scrape their "journalists" from the s*** cling-ons in the toilet...the scrap heap, they're all that's left after FNC takes all the good ones (and Geraldo).  And by the way, if I was as physically repulsive as Rick Sanchez, I'd have trouble looking in the mirror, too.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

So little Ricky.....

thinks that Hispanics that work for Fox News are sell outs?  Does that mean he plays color politics?  Why of course it does.  

I'm sure that little Ricky believes that every Hispanic should be dancing round in colorful costumes, eating beans, rice, and Tamales, and singing La Cucaracha.  Grow up Ricky, some people generally want more in thier lives than just the status quo. They are willing to work hard to rise above the others. Willing to put in the hard work and sweat it takes to get the best for thier families.  On the other hand, there are those that are willing to just sit back let the others do the work while they wait for the check every month. 

Which one are you Ricky?  Are you the type who will work hard for what you have and fight vigorously to keep as much of it as possible, or are you the type who wants to take from them to give to the slackers?  If you're the later Ricky, then step right up and sign your house away to the government so they can give it to someone who isn't willing to work for what they get.  Why not?  You're obviously smart enough to make enough money to buy another one.  Then you can open up your savings and retirement accounts to be emptied to pay for the health care of up to 15 million Illegal Aliens that are here.

If this is the America you want Ricky, then step right up, you first.  You, George Soros, Ted Turner and all other of your ilk (bleeding hearts).  Empty your wallets and accounts before the rest of us and then tell us how you like it.  Then you might be able to convince the rest of us how glorious it is to work for the common good.

 Gecks

Hispanics at Fox

Julie Banderas should b*tch-slap this retard.  And Fox wouldn't have him.

I have a feeling he'd be no

I have a feeling he'd be no match for Julie B.

GregE--

Dang it, you beat me to it...I was just going to say the same thing! Sanchez would probably cry like a girl, "Don't hit the face! Don't hit the face!"

   Then Slim Pickens

 

 Then Slim Pickens would come in and say " piss on you I'm workin' for Mel Brooks" and sock him right in the gut

 

FINALY A REAL CANDIATE FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!

http://zod2008.com/index.htm

Question.............hispani

Question.............hispanics working for Fox have sold out how?

Of course there'd be no answer to that.  It's one of those molotov cocktail statements.  Throw it and run away.

This from a guy who got drunk and mowed down a pedestrian

Fox wouldn't hire this loser if he paid them.

-Dave

              

                      This guy ( Sanchez) is brain dead. Somebody pull the plug.

Sanchez!

It's obvious that CNN  would hire a drunk as a news person.  Sanchez is a full proof IDIOT!

Stupidity?

This guy is so obsessed about Gov.Palin..Can I say once again,She is a Gov..This guy is a drunk..Please look it up..Dui guy..Let me tell you If you ever watch fox you see Geraldo on all the time..Please.. he is liberal...juan williams is too..Can Cnn ever tell us ONE Journalist on full time that is CONSERVATIVE..Never. Ever.. It has Been that way since you have began your stupid station began..Please remember the tool and Idiot who started this station, Ted Turner is a big huge idiot and Bigot..Please Mr. Sanchez look at your own life and get real with God, before you start pointing  fingers at any other stations..You can twitter your left wing viewers all the time.However ,we are all smarter than you will ever be..I seen your twitters..You write like the President without his POTUS..Your stupid..Plain and Simple..How you got your Job is  just a miracle..

I did look Sanchez's DUI. 

I did look Sanchez's DUI.  It's reprehensible based on that alone that he's in such a high profile job.  But based on his performance as a journalist, ugh.  He always seems to be yelling at the tv.

Everyone with a Twitter Account...

Tweet the following...

 @ricksanchezcnn RT i'm a newsman. Sure, just like Jon Stewart, but NOT funny!

 Let's have some fun!

 Flying Flynn

Wikipedia cleared it up for me...

A Twit is an insignificant, foolish, or annoying person in British slang. I knew I heard Terry Thomas call someone a 'twit' in a movie one time.  Do you have to be a twit to twitter?

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

CNN?

CNN is still trying to figure out what journalism is all about.  It's obvious that Sanchez doesn't know.  It's obvious Anderson Cooper doesn't know.  They got rid of Susan Roesgen (?) the CNN reporter that doesn't know how to interview people at tea party events.  So where does anyone at CNN get to point a finger at Fox News?

The new credentials CNN claims to have all came when they were the only game in town.  Since they've had competition, they've gone downhill.  Now they're just another of the Alphabet Networks, which gives them zero credibility.  

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

This is humorous coming

This is humorous coming from Sanchez...he made what he thought was a big move from msnbc to CNN, whose ratings are now below msnbc...and he talks about looking in the mirror.

LMAO!

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

big move from msnbc to CNN

Yeah, he blew it - he could've been bigger than Shyster.

And another Pearl of wisdom

 from "Lil Ricky" 

just because i think prez is brilliant doesnt mean i won't call him on it when he does something wrong. it's my job.

Damn near peed me pants when I read that one.

Gecks

twit

Good grief Sanchez, What is it with Dems, they take a short stick, stick into a hive of anything that stings, jiggle it around and then wonder why they get stung. sheesh

Are you saying? Constanley Nagging Nuts (cnn) pays you shit!!!!

Can't wait till fox throws their 2 cents in about this.

As the anchor drags
Ps My reference to twit, is an aussie/pomm sayig politely, bloody idiot, not a twit tweeter twit, and just for the record I called baz a twit yesterday, its great swear word when your not swearing out loud LOL

 

 

And in this Corner Geraldo Rivera

Hey , No big fan of Gerry Rivers but I think Sanchez calling him a sellout would be a good cause for the boys to strap on the gloves.  You know and give the gate to charity .  Like MADD.

Just a thought.

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

Red

Gerry and Ricky?

In a fight? I'd rather see two 'real' girls in the ring.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Oh yea I forgot bout

Oh yea I forgot bout Geraldo.  Maybe he could throw a chair Sanchez's way.  LOL

CNN

CNN, like Obama, is having an identity crisis. White, black,  Muslim, Marxist, (Gee who am I gonna be today? Let's check the prompter.) I think CNN is seeking a niche market, somewhere in that gray area between being black in America and a San Francisco transgendered pothead.

Noel, I think you should

Noel, I think you should show a little appreciation for the sacrifice this man is making in sticking to his principles and “doing the right thing”. As he twitted ( or is it twit? In his case I believe it's the latter): “do u know how much money i'd make if i'd sold out as hispanic and worked at fox news, r u kidding, one problem, looking in mirror". That statement tells us alot about the stuff this man is made of, true grit and sewer sludge. 

So instead of “hating” on good ole Rick Noel, you should be imploring Brent Bozell to hold a telethon for this man. Let him know that there are still some righteous amigos out here who appreciate his "noble gesture" in standing in solidarity with his Hispanic brethren and resisting the temptation of Foxs' bountiful, but yet, bloody money. 

I for one salute senior Rick Sanchez. Ole!

her tweets are gone...

her tweets are gone...

Sanchez - sand in the face.

Simply priceless. Noel..  your post tells the tale. The update from Julie Banderas puts the sand in his face. It's really time for Sanchez to go away. (;~> gary

The only sell out is Rick

He sold out for the truth, traded it in for anomosity. 

Rick, if you want to make money, tell the truth, might help with your jealousy as well.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Win - Win?

If were lucky he'll lure Heraldo over to CNN.

You are crule

I like it!! : ]

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

ChickaBOOMer -- Sanchez: A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

ChickaBOOMer -- Rick Sanchez: A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/07/rick-sanchez-mind-is-terrible-thing-to.html

CNN Snooze!

If CNN had any integrity, they would fire  Rick Sanchez, for being a racist! The comments he made are racial.  Once again, Sanchez proves that he is brainless.

All I have to say is...

"A Fox News spokesperson tells Mediaite: “Everyone knows that Rick is an
industry joke, he shows that he’s a hack everyday. And he doesn’t have
to worry about working at FOX because we only hire talent who have the
ability to generate ratings.”"

Oooh, that's gotta hurt!

 

Why choose the lesser of two evils?

Yeah, poor Rick Sanchez

Yeah, poor Rick Sanchez sure teed up Julie Banderas and the Fox News spokesperson. And they certainly blasted him into the fairway.  Fore!

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

look in the mirror

Hey Rick, you are already a sell out. You choose to be a far left loon over supporting your own country.  You don't want what is best for America, and thus have no moral ground to stand on.  And Bashing a more popular , higher rated, news channel, will not change this. Plus Fox would never hire you, they choose talented people.

 Maybe he is trying to get street cred with illegals, who knows? Or maybe it is just more liberal diarrhea spewing out of his mouth.  I am shocked that a liberal would use race to pat himself on the back with. After all, I thought liberals were color blind. Another race card hustler. And he still won't get a raise. His mirror must be broke.

talkin' smack

Loved Julie Banderas' response.  In a contest of wits with her, Sanchez is obscenely out-gunned.

Nothing substantiates his assertion that Hispanics on FNC are sellouts.  On the other hand, there's plenty of evidence that only sellouts qualify as reporters, anchors, or editors at CNN.

Sanchez probably spends his free time measuring and re-measuring his 'manhood', hoping that one of these times it'll be bigger'n a paper clip...

Kono LOL sanchez can

Kono

LOL sanchez can check his paperclip against obies thumb tack.!!  We won't think little of them, roflmao

I thought we couldn't

I thought we couldn't stereotype?  Sanchez is stereotyping hispanics as all being liberal-thinking left-wingers that want a socialist form of government full of handouts and who want to stick it to 'whitey'.  In other words, Sanchez is under the false impression that ALL hispanics believe the repugnant beliefs someone like Sotomeyer possesses.  This man is surely mistaken.  I know plenty of hispanics that love Fox news, love America, hate welfare, hate illegal immigration, detest affirmative action and don't support Obama.

Why am I not surprised?

Why am I not surprised? These semi-crazy guys, like Sanchez, who are constantly trying to get attention with outrageous comments, eventually do become completely unhinged when no one pays much attention to them and they realize that they just don't matter. Next up: Cafferty.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

It is people like Rick

It is people like Rick Sanchez who will prevent Hispanics from joining the Republican party, support amnesty for illegals, and keep us divided. I'm not sure it makes much difference...how many people watch CNN nowadays...five or six? Rick you are and will always be a race card carrying liberal hack.

It is far better to be three hours early than one minute late.

Speak English

A week or so ago, Sanchez used his mom’s house in Miami (a former US city) as the backdrop for his interview of three “wise Latina women”.  Luckily, Sanchez was able to translate for his mother because she spoke NO ENGLISH.  Did she just arrive from Cuba recently? What a wonderful country we live in where you can reach an unimpeded level of success and even become a citizen without ever uttering a single word in the language of your new country.  When I hear Sanchez’s mother (and others) speak no English, I hear a woman who has no interest in communicating with the citizens of the country that has opened its doors to her and her children. 

The left needs this isolation to keep Hispanics in the dark since the only source of information comes from Spanish-speaking news outlets or the hearsay stemming from them.  Last time I voted in Miami the registration was in three languages.  If you cannot understand English well enough to negotiate a voter’s registration application, how can you intelligently understand the politics of the country?  The left needs this and therefore do not want to make English our national language or require immigrants to attain a proficient level of English before becoming a citizen.

 As a true Hispanic (I did not have to take Salsa/Merengue lesson on my 50th birthday like Sonia did), I am proud of my heritage.  I am not saying that immigrants should reject and forget their roots, on the contrary, but learn the language and assimilate the culture of the country that just saved you ass/future. The majority of Hispanics have a conservative mentality, until they come to the US, thanks to people like Sanchez, who is indeed the real sellout. 

As expatriots from Cuba, I

As expatriots from Cuba, I can't believe his parents are proud of his politics... I'm sure they love the $$$, tho.

And they've been in the US since the late 50s. What, his mother has had earplugs and blinders on for the last 60 years? Or are they closet muslims where the women aren't ever allowed out of the house? Seems incomprehensible.

tired of liberal lies Was

tired of liberal lies

Was at a family reunion not long ago and my husband's cousin and her husband were there along with his parents.  I had a long discussion with them about Cuba and discovered that when they fled Cuba she was 5 months pregnant with my cousin's husband along with his older sister they arrived here with 1 suitcase and $50 and spoke almost no english.  They told funny and sad stories about family left behind and proudly of the life they made here for their 5 kids and 14 grandchildren.  They are retired, own two homes and both worked most of their lives according to their son. The have no use for Obama.  They spoke english with only a slight accent and from what I seen of the Cuban community Sanchez's wise latinas do not represent that community. 

Do you see what happens when

Do you see what happens when minorities leave the liberal plantation?

Free speech and independent thought are not welcome from the liberal plantation.