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Even before Rick Sanchez went into full self-destruct mode on the satellite radio show ‘Stand Up With Pete Dominick,’ the former CNN anchor had plenty of reasons to be irritated about his standing in the world of broadcasting.
Sanchez’s fill-in prime-time slot on CNN had recently been pushed aside to make way for the new show ‘Parker Spitzer,’ and his new book, ‘Conventional Idiocy,’ had been roundly labeled a flop.
But perhaps worst of all, Sanchez was swimming in the stark reality that he was probably better known for having his extemporaneous, gaffe-filled on-air demeanor mocked by much more famous television personalities — such as Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Glenn Beck — than for being a television personality in his own right.
All that seething resentment bubbled to the surface during the interview with Dominick, when Sanchez blasted Stewart for having the gall to make fun of him.
In Sanchez’s worldview, Stewart was a “bigot,” part of a group of “elite, Northeast establishments liberals” who “deep down, when they look at a (Cuban-born) guy like me, see a guy automatically who belongs in the second tier, and not the top tier.”
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