Rick Sanchez fired after anti-semitic rant against The Daily Show

...and since his show airs on CNN, this is probably the first time most people are hearing the name Rick Sanchez. MSNBC viewers, imagine a passive-aggressive, even-more-uncharismatic Ed Schultz.



Initially, Sanchez - in an interview with the Sirius Radio show "Standup! With Pete Dominick" - was evidently upset about the mockery his hyperbolic on-air "persona" frequently came in for on "The Daily Show." His explanation? Jon Stewart is "bigoted," presumably against Latinos and minorities in general...



And then it got better: Finding Sanchez unable to cite evidence of bigotry on Stewart's behalf, Dominick - whom you can just hear panting in excitement realizing how much attention his show is about to get for capturing a semi-noteworthy figure melting down live - opted to point out that Jon Stewart is, in fact, a minority himself. Sanchez response? To laugh heartily at the very idea of Jews as an oppressed minority... because, apparently, they "control the media." And CNN.

The only video I could find with that specific part on it was itself being hosted on an anti-Jewish YouTube channel, so I'm not linking to it. Instead, here's the Young Turks on the whole situation: