You do NOT, repeat do NOT, insult Jon Stewart! Isn't that right Rick Sanchez?

From TPM:

CNN spokesman Bridget Leininger confirmed to TPM that Rick Sanchez has been fired from CNN. "Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well."

Sanchez's departure comes after he said yesterday that "The Daily Show" host "Jon Stewart is a bigot" against "anybody who doesn't agree with his point of view, which is very much a white liberal establishment point of view."

"They minimize you, and treat you like you don't matter," Sanchez said of Stewart's show, also adding: "I am a complex human being. I am not some moron."

I hate to call people names, but I have to disagree with that last statement.  Dude is DEFINITELY a moron!

I could not help but think that Sarah Palin only WISHES she had Jon Stewart's clout. 

Yeah her supporters can fill a person's e-mail box with misspelled insults all day long, but Stewart does not even have to say anything and the guy that insulted him gets fired.

Now see THAT kind of clout is why I have a special announcement on Monday.

Rick Sanchez calls Jon Stewart a bigot. WTF?

Rick Sanchez is clearly a tool.



Okay I was alerted to this story by a visitor who suggested that we contact Rick Sanchez and tell him off on behalf of Jon,  However I am going to request that we NOT do that.

That kind of a response is exactly the kind of overreaction that the followers of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck engage in.  And we are better than that.

Jon Stewart's rally is named the "Rally to Restore Sanity" and I just cannot imagine that he would want, or condone, an e-mail attack on Rick Sanchez.

Besides don't we KNOW that Jon will have some fun with this on Monday, and will perhaps even have Sanchez on his show for a televised mea culpa?  Let's honor our favorite faux journalist's example and take the high road.  What do you say?

P.S. By the way that does NOT mean you have to treat Sanchez with kid gloves on THIS blog.  Hell no! The guy is an asshole, and I have no problem with all of you making that point in the comments section as well.

And if he does not like it, he can choose not to come here.