Today on CNN, Rick's List host Rick Sanchez was, as he likes to say, all over and drilling down on a story of major import. No, nothing about the dismal unemployment numbers we're seeing this recovery summer. Despite repeated teases on the topic, he didn't get around to it.
Sanchez was all over and drilling down on the latest Mel Gibson antics, despite pushback from his audience:
SANCHEZ: Some of you are tweeting me, in fact I'm reading these as I go telling me, why are you covering the Mel Gibson story? That's not really news. I'm thinking, it's not? Mel Gibson, one of the most renowned actors, who is very politically involved, caught on tape in the past saying things about Jews and about women?
When did Mel Gibson become very politically involved? In a 2006 Entertainment Weekly interview Gibson said, "Everyone always presumes I'm a Republican. I'm not." A check of Federal Election Commission records shows no political contributions from Mel Gibson. Years ago, he wrote a letter endorsing a candidate in the California GOP lieutenant gubernatorial race, but even then noted: "I don't often support political candidates."
Does Sanchez automatically presume that someone who says nasty things about women and minorities must be very politically involved? Or does he assume that a Hollywood personality not routinely spouting liberal lunacies has to be a Republican?
Viewers might be interested in seeing the evidence Rick has that Gibson is very politically involved. At any rate, his devoting so much time to the story kept Sanchez from reporting on the most recent Obama economic failures.
