Rick Sanchez and John Stewart

The WaPo covers CNN's firing of Rick Sanchez.

"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." Sanchez paraphrased what he said a CNN executive had once said to him: "I really don't see you as an anchor, I see you more as a reporter. I see you more as a John Quiñones -- you know, the guy on ABC. . . . Now, did he not realize that he was telling me. . . . An anchor is what you give the high-profile white guys, you know. . . . To a certain extent Jon Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert are the same way. I think Jon Stewart's a bigot."

Later in the interview, Dominick noted Stewart is Jewish, which he said is "a minority as much as you are."

"Very powerless people," Sanchez said, with a laugh. "He's such a minority, I mean, you know. . . . 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." In the audio, which circulated online Friday, Sanchez's sarcasm was evident.

Now nobody at CNN cares if Rick disses Stewart, who has made something of a crusade of mocking Sanchez for years. But he hit the death rail when he, in response to a question, implied that Jews are not an oppressed minority in the TV business. Mocking your bosses has been a business no no for a while.

I've been a fan of the Daily Show for years, but Jon Stewart is starting to evolve into one of the sanctimonius types he mocks. O'Reilly was on the other day and Stewart made a big thing of O'Reilly greeting him with less than gentlemanly hospitality. I mean come on, Jon, you make a living (a damn good living) mocking people and tryingto crush, burn, and destroy them, and you expected to be treated like a longlost brother? You've been trying to kill Sanchez for years. You succeeded - he's dead for TV. Congratulations or whatever.

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