Rick Sanchez Fired by CNN for "Bigot" Comments; Said Jon Stewart Is a Bigot, CNN Is Run by Jews

On a radio program on September 30, 2010, Rick Sanchez -- the Cable News Network (CNN) anchor and host of Rick's List -- said he thought Comedy Central's Jon Stewart was a "bigot" and suggested that "everybody who runs CNN" is Jewish. CNN fired Sanchez for his comments, according to the CBS News website.

Sanchez -- in a 20-minute interview on comedian and CNN contributor Pete Dominick's Sirius XM radio show-- spoke about the discrimination he has felt as a Cuban-American over the course of his career. He denounced what he called "elite, Northeast establishment liberals" like Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Sanchez said Stewart "grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine."

When asked by Pete Dominick against whom he thought Stewart was bigoted, Sanchez answered, "everybody else who's not like him."