For months now, a running joke of mine has been to refer to CNN’s Rick’s List as Rick’s Lost (as in what Rick Sanchez always is on air: Lost). You may have seen me make that crack and go off about the latest buffoonery from Sanchez in a comment section or two before. So even though the Klown has already covered the details of Rick’s immediate dismissal from CNN, I just wanted to add my own two briefly.
Rick’s firing brings me back to August 2009 and the BS media meme that Hillary had “snapped” in the Congo. Charmless as ever, Sanchez (in a follow-up segment on Hillary in the Congo) made a mockery of reporting that Hillary had actually been trying to address the widespread and horrific oppression of women in the region when she made her remarks about not being her husband’s mouthpiece. After that segment, I was so annoyed by the media’s tabloid coverage of Hillary’s important work that I wrote a long rant , including this:
Ok, first of all, Rick Sanchez is a brainfart newscaster extraordinaire. Let me explain this terminology. Here‘s Sanchez on-air in April 2008 enjoying crazy uncle Jeremiah Wright’s theatrics at the NAACP, and here he is on-air in July 2009 wondering out loud whether Palin resigning means she’s pregnant again. Brainfart. Newscaster. Extraordinaire. He is not quite in Tweety Tingle’s league of obnoxiousness, but that’s only because Ricky Renob is a newsdesk creature at CNN and not a full-out political “pundit.” Given the extra latitude of a personality-based show, Rick Sanchez would probably be just as much of a live trainwreck as Chris Matthews.
Now that he’s been let go by CNN, I hope the Home of CNN Rejects (Fox News) never gives him that extra latitude. /snarkfont for the snark-impaired
Update: Since Rick got fired for his remarks about Jon Stewart, I just remembered that Stewart himself couldn’t help but “come off a little bit like a dick” in his sketch about Hillary in the Congo (the quotes are because those are the exact words Jon used to describe Hillary.)
Please consider this an Open Thread and add your Friday Night Music. Here’s mine:
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Incidentally, Jon Stewart himself couldn’t help but “come off a little bit like a dick” in his sketch about Hillary in the Congo (the quotes are because those are the exact words he used to describe Hillary.)
added that as an update to the frontpage post.
What the hell was Hillary supposed to do?
Giggle?
She wasn’t even that mean to the student, she just handed his deranged question back to him assertively . But according to the juvenile delinquents that report the newz, assertiveness in women = has she lost her mind?
Giggle, simper, bat her eyes, and pull out the fan, cover all the bases.
Lol. O. and W. had 99 problems, but being asked to be a husband’s mouthpiece ain’t one.
Lol Yeah, and that would really help in both cases. Hey, your wife’s clearly smarter than you, can you go find out what she thinks because this really just isn’t cutting it.
Hell, I would rather know what the Bush twins or Malia and Sasha think about most anything (in their own words, not the canned stories that the Obama permanent campaign puts out about them.)
These guys look like some of James Wolcott’s” juicy roasters” …pullet grade
I heart Hill.
And I applaud Bill Press in that Big Blowhard Eddy show.
I almost didn’t look at it because I can not bear Ed’s nonsense.
The Misogynist Monkey Brigade couldn’t resist their digs at Madam secretary!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Paula! I don’t even like half the kind of food she cooks, Lol, but I love Paula. Oh, and her lime chicken and shrimp kabobs are easy to make and yummy, even grilled on a panini press.
Spicy chicken empanadas
Veggie Empanadas are great…also the film is a must see.
Everytime I see her now I’m reminded of Obots gleefully passing around that video of her getting hit in the face. It’s a reminder that however much you help them out and try to be nice, they still fundamentally hate you. 😉
Anything that makes Obots gleeful is more than likely immature and sexist.
Sadly, that is so true.
Paula…the earlier years! Thanks! Damn, that looks good! I love how she goes into orgasm when she tastes her dishes at the end lol! … hey that part was cut out!
speaking of foodgasm, Lol:
Food porn!
Oh yeah!
Yeah, I liked watching her show better when she had a normal Southern drawl – she has sort of a crazy over-the-top drawl now.
The enhanced accent is a bit over the top now 😉
I was thinking about what the 08 Pres. election would look like in an 8th grade history book in 25 years.
Slogans and snips digested for the 8th grader.
I predict that
“3 AM phone call” will make the history books.
It will be one that will get discussion in that 8th grade American history class.
Hillary sees the big picture and then solves problems by focusing on the minutiae.
Here’s a song for Jane Hamsher:
Singing telegram to Joan Walsh and Rebecca Traister:
Song dedication to Obama Girls:
For Donna Brazile:
Hillary Hellraising Holdout Anthem:
He’s not the brightest bulb in the pack, but I listened to all of Sanchez ‘s remarks and heard nothing that was anti-Semetic or racyist.
I think that he’s been trying to be middle of the road since he got his own show on CNN. He’s artless but I don’t think he’s a bigot.
He doesn’t like Beck and he doesn’t like Olbermann-dont’ a lot of feel the same?
I think he’s for the lunch bucket brigade.
I think Rick has tried to fashion himself as some kind of middle ground between the Becks and Olbermanns, but I dunno.. he seems like an Obot in that he’s really uninformed and doesn’t do his research before editorializing. And, he’s really bad with breaking news.
I still need new glasses, y’all.
aww. I didn’t even notice any typos It’s Friday night. 🙂
This reminds me of 2008:
BTW – CMT is hosting a Dukes of Hazzard marathon this weekend.
every weekend, I think.
Sorry if this is old news…
Rahm Emanuel’s WH colleages gave him a dead carp wrapped in newspaper as a going away gift.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/us-politics/8037985/Rahm-Emanuel-given-dead-carp-as-farewell-gift.html
I saw that on our news tonight.
I had to laugh at the term “cut-throat” one station’s crawl used to describe Emanuel.
Appropriate, on more than one level. Hope’s rotting…
Maybe CNN could replace him with the Fruitcake Lady.
CNN is so stuck on stupid, I really wouldn’t be surprised to see them replace Sanchez with Shuster.
Color me old-fashioned and uptight, but I don’t think goofiness has a place in news. And Mr. Sanchez certainly brought the goof to CNN.
Well, they gave Spitzer and Parker a show so it wouldn’t surprise me. CNN’s head guy was recently let go so it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
oops, my last comment was meant as a reply to Wonk’s post about Shuster.
Patty Griffin — “Rain”
Emiliana Torrini — “Sunny Road”
The really sad thing is, there isn’t that much difference between Rick and the rest of the idiot anchors on any of the three cable clusterf&*ck “new” channels.
True, but I’d still rather listen to say MSNBC’s Tamron Hall (just picking the first name that popped in my head) than CNN’s former Sanchez for breaking news.
I think listening for fish farting is more informative than any of them. 😉
Lol, if some gilled ones start a Fart the News network, let me know… 🙂
Night.
true if you put them all in a bag..hey!!! thats a good idea 😉
my Bollywood fluff for the night:
Heh
Haha. Glad I caught that first. It’s a Hope so historic, Al Gore can’t speak its name. An Inconvenient Hope. An Inconvenient Barack.
ok, g’night for real this time
Its Friday so I am doing the usual – still at work clearing off my desk. I have just opened an invitation to a seminar on bedbugs. The seminar is for property managers, health care professionals and maintenance tehnicians.
Who woulda thunk that bedbugs would be such a problem in the 21st century.
Think I will go. Should be fun. I want to find out about the dogs that sniff them out. Maybe handling those sniffers will be my retirement hobby/career.
You may want to read the Business Week article (see post below) before you go.
Are you in NYC? It’s a huge problem here.
DDT got rid of them. Then we got rid of DDT.
Who woulda thunk that bedbugs would be such a problem in the 21st century.
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http://bedbugregistry.com/
This Business Week article had several remedies. I like the cornstarch the best.
How to Keep the Bed Bugs from Biting
Every time I stay at a hotel, I leave my luggage in the basement after I return and wash everything. I inspect the luggage carefully for bed bugs and then put a plastic bag to enclose just in case. Those things are scary.
Hillary Clinton: Mad As Hell/Bitch
I wish video was updated to exclude the song used in the video to restore the audio.
I agree.
I want to hear this tune playing at the 2012 DNC convention:
Hated it. I knew when Hillary and Bill would give their speech. I turned the TV turned off after each of their speeches. I never read anything about the convention, except about those who were demonstrating to have the votes counted.
Me too.
A former friend went to the convention and kept emailing me stuff from there. That sealed the end of our friendship.
I’m sick of hearing the term “bitch” –
Good morning and your Saturday tabloids
Wild Card
Does Clown protective services extend to families?
As much as I love Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert they both shamelessly jumped on the Obamabot band wagon. Both being middle aged white guys, like myself, they are always working to bolster their image as being, “cool and hip.” The Obama campaign sold their candidate as the “cool and hip” choice and insecure, egocentric, “Creative class,” members bought it without thinking.
As smart as Stewart and Colbert are they couldn’t overcome their own emotional insecurities when it came to Obama.
I never had any respect for Rick Sanchez, but I also stopped watching Jon Stewart during the 2008 primaries. Both are aye-holes. I can’t stand either of them.
I listened to the whole radio interview and frankly think the firing, while inevitable, was an overreaction. If Sanchez is really the buffoon that Jon Stewart portrays him to be (btw, when do we get to see the video mash-up of Stewart’s assholery?), then fire him for that. But it makes me crazy that daring to air one’s views, even biased, self-serving views, about race in America is automatically grounds for dismissal. There’s nothing that Sanchez said that is so horrible, or that isn’t common (unspoken) perception. He made the mistake of speaking it out loud on tape. How much better it would have been to put together a panel to discuss how ALL HUMANS find more connection to OUR TRIBE’S suffering than to others’, and ways to bridge that gap? Instead, the guy gets canned, and the subject is swept back under the rug.
One message this thing reinforces is if you’re unlucky enough to get in Stewart’s cross-hairs, you’re toast. That’s too much power for any man.
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