CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez Is Assembling a Pile of Retractions

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Rich Noyes noted earlier that CNN's Rick Sanchez stated via Twitter what he couldn't say on the air because of the overdone "Balloon Boy" fracas. He was sorry he aired fabricated Rush Limbaugh quotes:

i've know rush. in person,i like him. his rhetoric,however is inexcusably divisive. he's right tho. we didn't confirm quote. our bad.

Our bad? How about "I was inexcusably reckless in airing fabricated quotes?" But this is at least the third time in the last year that Sanchez has required a retraction when attacking a conservative or Republican.

Two months ago, Matthew Balan of NewsBusters forced Sanchez to retract his claim that Sen. John McCain said Republicans needed to recruit "competent" Hispanics, which inflamed CNN analyst Roland Martin. McCain never used that word.

It might go without saying, but "competent" Hispanic anchors don't require regular retractions.

(That came days after Sanchez suggested on Twitter that he couldn't be a sellout and work 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". Fox's Julie Banderas fought back: "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.")

Noel Sheppard reported last November that CNN reporter Jeanne Moos was assigned to correct Sanchez, who showed a video of President Bush not shaking hands at a G-20 summit: "And he seems like the most unpopular kid in high school that nobody liked. You know, the one with cooties."

Moos corrected: "It turns out the president had already shaken everybody's hand earlier that same day. In fact, he had shaken most of their hands twice starting the day before."

After all this unfairness, here's another claim Sanchez ought to retract: "I play it down the middle."

PS: Sanchez loves bringing on pundits from the liberal group Media Matters for America, the one Hillary boasted she created. In a story on Fox's Special Report tonight (a story I appeared in briefly), reporter Molly Henneberg said liberal author Jack Huberman claimed he got fabricated Limbaugh quotes from Media Matters, including Limbaugh's alleged praise for assassin James Earl Ray. Henneberg solicited this comment in reply:

"We are unsure where that quote came from, as well. We have never posted them." -- Doug Stauffer, Media Matters, 10/15/09.

Let's hope Media Matters wasn't claiming they never posted the "Slavery had its merits" quote -- because they did, on their "County Fair" blog. They jumped on it early, on October 7. Karl Frisch hailed Bryan Burwell for "one hell of a column" -- which included the fake slavery quote.

So much for the foes of "misinformation."

MMFA later updated the item with Burwell's cocky so-what response when confronted with the fake quote, as well as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's announcement that they will "continue to research the origin" of the quote, and not yet admit it was a fake.  

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.


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Ricky's Tricky Tweets

Sanchez also wrote these Tweets today:

# @tweetmunky i did. [intend to retract.] it was prominently written in my newscast today, but got blown out by breaking news on balloon story, did u watch?  

# @KatyinIndy no, his quotes, many of them, implied he is racist and divisive. not me.

That is rich. Rush is divisive. I'm not divisive for making stuff up about how racist the Republicans are...

Our Bad??? Are you kidding

Our Bad???

Are you kidding me??

 I hope Rush sues the hell out of you.

 

This is from the man who has killed as many people as Kennedy, with is car..

 

Did you tell the poor dead guy that.. “my bad..”

 

What a total POS.

 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

USA

Yes, my jaw dropped, too, when I saw this.... "our bad".....

Your BAD journalistic ethics and integrity. Do the right thing and hand in your resignation, hack. 

 

AMEN USA

i couldn't care less about "retractions" from these outlaws - its just for show - legal cover - they're not sorry for any of this

I WANT THEIR IMMEDIATE UNEMPLOYMENT ON A PLATTER RIGHT NOW

DEMAND TO STATE MEDIA: TERMINATE YOUR IRRESPONSIBLE SLANDERING "JOURNALISTS" AND CULPABLE UPLINES IMMEDIATELY

YOU DROPPED RUSH IN A SPINELESS HEARTBEAT - FOR A RADICALLY LESSER TRANSGRESSION- IF THEIR WAS ANY TO BEGIN WITH

Yeah,  just a little

Yeah,  just a little 'oops!" you know, like mispronouncing someone's name.....

If Sanchez had made the same "mistake" about a liberal, he would still be on the floor grovelling!

 

DWI

I dont think the guy he hit actually died. With that said, his typing skills are as good as his investigative skills.

Maybe Sanchez will get that

Maybe Sanchez will get that speed-talking guy who does the "fine print" spiel in those commercials, to read his pile of retractions all at once.

That way, no one will actually understand any of it.

LMAO..."our bad"...how mature...how heartfelt....

Rick...words of advice...

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

"...his (Rush) rhetoric,

"...his (Rush) rhetoric, however is inexcusably divisive."

And Sanchez's constant blathering and word mongering  is not in the least divisive, is it?

CNN must be proud of him. They pay him big money, after all, to say this stuff.

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

OMG-Rick Sanchez a Racist!

Maybe if I repeat it enough it will be true

http://sites.google....

Of course it's divisive!!

"...his (Rush) rhetoric, however is inexcusably divisive."


And Sanchez's constant blathering and word mongering  is not in the least divisive, is it?

Of course it's divisive; but it's "justly" divisive!

They are separating the sheep from the goats, you know!

\sarc

CNN is the equivalent

Of bad tabloid news, and their reporters prove it daily. Nice going Rick, so worried about Rush, that you are letting Obama drive us over a cliff, thanks for nothing fool.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

"Our bad"??

Can'this twit bring himself to say the "w" word? W-R-O-N-G...These idiots just can't say it, can they?

"Our Bad"? That's pitiful. Try again, Ricky, and this time have the cojones to say it on the air.

That'd be nice, wouldn't it??  

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

They are all backing down but it is too late

The time to correct th story is when it was first brought to your attention that the quotes were fabricated. Certainly there was someone at CNN who knows how to fact check? This only proves that facts do not matter only ideology. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, and Public Telivision all ran some aspect of the story but did not fact check it. They only ran that Rush Denied the quotes which is loaded language and they know it.

What further proof do the American People need? The sad thing is too many Americans have already drunk the Koolaid and once you drink it you are thiers for life.

Delete

Delete, double post gremlin

My bad? Really?

"My bad"? My, how passé. Get with it, Hipster Rick. Sounds like you stuck back in the Nineties or Early Aughts. Not good for a frontline journalist on a major network and a driving force behind investi ... 'scuse me. I was channeling your DUI manslaughter thingie.

Tell you what, Rick and friends, why don't you "apologize it forward"? You know, tweet out a bunch of "my bads"--sort of like a prepaid cell phone--so you can mistwitter for a week or two without having to text a few "mea culpa" twits.

Pronoun problems

It wasn’t “my bad” it was “our bad”. Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan. Unless you work in the media then any mistakes become “our mistake”.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

"What I think is fair to

"What I think is fair to say about Fox -- and certainly it's the way we view it -- is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party," said Anita Dunn, White House communications director, on CNN. "They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is." 

Robert Gibbs: "I have watched many stories on that network (FoxNews) that I have found not to be true."

Care to revise those statements Anita and Robert? The simplest response appears to be "my bad."

If Mr. Gibbs Knows which Stories

If Mr. Gibbs knows which stories are not true why not share that information with the rest of us. I am sure that all of us here would be glad to know. I am not being sarcastic (well maybe just a little) but really Mr. Gibbs I want to know. I do not being lied to by anybody, even people that I like or love. If there is proof that Fox got the story wrong then tell us. The time has come Mr. Gibbs to put up or shut up, at least where demonizing and marginalizing Fox News is concerned.

Like gossip in the school halls.

This is how collectivist propaganda takes hold despite all reason. Put the false quotes and lies out there and watch them spread like a virus. They taint every young mind with the lies.

When the subtle "my bad" eventually comes, it actually sounds to their followers like a magnanimous gesture. Like they're giving an undeserved gift to those they've maligned.

The truth doesn't matter from then on. The damage has already been done. Forever after, those young minds will search for reasons to be outraged and offended. They will always harbor a hate and distrust for anyone espousing personal liberty and responsibility. The lies are planted so viscerally that emotions overcome them when they're faced with conservative ideas. Their minds become impervious to reason.

This is how collectivism wins over young minds generation after generation despite its history of failure.

More apologies are due..

.. from some of the resident leftists here that also slandered Rush with their lies. 

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

The goal was

to get Rush. They succeeded on this one, for the time being. These hacks know they can throw out lies and the sheeple will believe. retractions printed on page 94 or 3:30 am if retracted at all. Let the lawsuits begin!!!

So the NFL is so concerned

So the NFL is so concerned with keeping "divisive" individuals away from the game.  Then I suggest we petition them to have Keith Olberman removed from doing the broadcasts for NBC.  Olberman is demonstrably divisive, wishing harm on George Bush and making crude jokes about people who went to the Tea Parties.  Most recently he made incredibly crude remarks about Michelle Malkin that could be construed as racist.  So let's really clean house and get rid of Olberman.

Olbermann, the consumate professional...

...too bad jackass isn't an actual profession. 

Nothing wrong with turning a comment on a game play into a Palin insult.

"Our bad"?! Epic

"Our bad"?!

Epic FAIL! 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Not a retraction, a qualification

 After all this unfairness, here's another claim Sanchez ought to retract: "I play it down the middle."

Not a retraction, a qualification: "When I'm drunk, I drive down the middle."

I watched this clown

I watched this clown Sanchez for the 1st during the bubble boy hoax.What an idiot. The female anchor was politely telling dummy Sanchez that there was no kid in the balloon upon landing.Sanchez kept babbling with hope even after it became obvious the balloon contained no kiddy cargo.

 

 

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

 

I wonder

 if Sanchez had to go home for a couple of drinks to settle his nerves before his "my bad?"  Maybe he stopped along the way after hitting and killing a pedestrian too?  Just "axin."

 

Gun Control - The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

Can you imagine the outcry?

If this was a republican sitting in the white house talking about a liberal?  The double standard in this country is out of hand.  The people are going to rise up...I really sense we are sitting on a tinder box and the american people are going to rise up soon against these flat our LIARS.  ]

I don't know how or when, but soon enough is enough is going to get real ugly.

I am not surprised that Rich

I am not surprised that Rich Sanchez is unable to take responsibility for the aftermath of his bad reporting.  That is the essence of CNN's denial culture.  Rip, tear and bleed and then put a band-aid on  a major wound to cover for stupidity. That is their credo, and he is the type of sociopath they hire precisely to fill that mission.

              

              Tell it to the judge, Sanchez.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Damage Assesment

Cheif: "Sir, we have water coming in as we fired the first torpedo."

Capt: "Are you trying to say this fish is ours and came back at us?"

Cheif: "Aye Sir, We released within seconds of your "Rig for Red". There is no way they had a chance to fire back that fast. I was certain this was a good weapon."

Capt: "Let's signal a surender at scope depth and hope no one notices before they blow us out of the water."

backing down and sniveling?

I think the idiot is backing down and apologizing because he got wind they are going to sue the bovine excretions out of him LOL...I sure hope so!!!

Well I’m a Redskin fan (I

Well I’m a Redskin fan (I know they suck..) and a fan of anyone playing the Coyboys.. and now the Rams..

 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

Ouch.  Redskins fan? 

Ouch.  Redskins fan?  That's a tough row to hoe.  Having a fun season?

And now you want to support the Rams?  Why not throw Tampa Bay on your list and you can spend your time cheering for the three worst teams in the league.  Sounds like a blast!