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Anti-Defamation League Sponsors Israel Trip for Rick Sanchez…Former CNN Anchor Who Was Fired for Anti-Semitic Remarks

ADL Sends Rick Sanchez to Israel

Remember Rick Sanchez?

He was the hotheaded television ancor who lost his job at CNN for comments he made last year that Daily Show Host Jon Stewart was a bigot, and that Jewish people like Stewart “run” all the news networks.

One year later, Sanchez was one of 17 Latino journalists in Israel last week on a trip sponsored by The Anti-Defamation League, one of the country’s most well known advocacy groups to fight anti-Semitism. The Jerusalem Post reports that the trip was funded by the ADL as a way to reach out to the growing population of Latin Americans and US Hispanic communities, a group that the ADL perceives to have a less favorable view of Israel and a higher level of anti-Semitic views when compared to the population at large.

Sanchez apologized for his anti-Semitic remarks, once again, to the Jerusalem Post Friday. The 53-year-old Cuban-born journalist insisted he wasn’t trying to imply anything about Jewish influence, “but  the liberal, Northeast elite’s dominance in the media.”

The editorial writer in the Jerusalem Post Friday asked if Sanchez’s trip to Israel culminating “a number of months of self-imposed anti- Semitism rehab under the auspices of ADL” was necessary?

“It seems much more likely that instead of holding the kind of insidious, villainous anti-Jewish prejudices that he was accused of,” wrote Jeremy Sharon. “Sanchez is simply extremely prone to putting his foot in his mouth.”

One year later, do you think Sanchez’s explanation for his remarks and apology is genuine? Do you think it was appropriate for the ADL to sponsor his trip?

Comments (46)

  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:47pm

    Are they not too smart. What a dumba** thing to do.

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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    • Anamah
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:32pm

      Time will say if it was a good idea. I believe some of the anti Israel bias respond more to the ignorance and irresponsibility of each journalist seeking approval in the context of leftist editorials than an intentional distortion. Maybe this was the Sanchez case with an uneducated man inside a Progressive and anti Israel organization.

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  • k53lh
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 4:15pm

    Maybe a trip to Auschwitz, Birkenau and Bergen Belsen would have been a better trip for Rick.

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  • LeoMMcCormick
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 12:01pm

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn said or wrote that The United States was a “Province of Israel.” Does that make this now deceased writer an anti-semite?………….wwwSilvertonGold.org…………

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    • NoRoomForSocialismHere
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 4:57pm

      Foreign National Illegal Aliens have found that OUR politicians do not allow the “Rule of Law” to be enforced. Now they bring all of their 3rd world baggage and pride of their country. The do not intend to melt in or be Americans they just want the citizenship to promote THEIR COUNTRY AND TRADITIONS and that goes for the JEW as well.

      The parents of Cuban born Sanchez took him to another country that had better quotas to enter AMERICA and took advantage of us in that way. His family is ILLEGAL ALIENS and has unconstitutional citizenship thanks to OUR idiot politicians and their mass immigration to overthrow American citizens in the effort to force multiculturalism on us unconstitutionally.

      I faxed and emailed CNN constantly over his racial and hate of Americans.

      Jews do have anymore than any foreign national in the United States. They have always wanted to control America and have spit on Protestant Christians longer than I am willing to put up with. To hell with ADL this has been my country since 1609.

      If you don’t have about 10 generations in America I don’t have much use for you.

      Many of our biggest problems have come from the Russian Jew such as Steve Lerner and OCCUPY. One of hundreds.

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    • Warrior4Zion
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:04pm

      America is under a divine mission to protect Israel and the Jew. If we are to be blessed we must stand for Israel. Beck says it and everybody knows it. Especially Christians.. Have you never watched John Hagee?

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    • NoRoomForSocialismHere
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:30pm

      Warrior4Zion
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:04pm

      It is not Americas devine mission to let the Jew take over America. The Judeo-Christian logo began in about 1947 which is when the politicians (UN) blindfolded us into their care. Israel is GODS problem and we have helped them more than anyone. It is not OUR mission, they should have some loyalty to America and its Protestant Christians who have provided them a place in the sun.

      Scripture says they will hardend against GOD until toward the end. We cannot undo what GOD has done to them until he has fullfilled other promises. They were scattered from Israel because of thier disobedience. I will protect them but America is not theirs it is mine

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    • Warrior4Zion
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 6:07pm

      NoRoomForSocialismHere: You are just an anti-Semite. America has always fought for Israel. It’s in the Constitution that we must defend all religion.

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    • Libertarian Metalhead
      Posted on November 27, 2011 at 1:41pm

      @Noroomforsocialismhere, I realize more than likely you probably are a socialist yourself purposely trying to paint Conservatives as racist, ignorant nazis. Fidel Castro and his cronies did the same thing in Cuba, as Lenin said “repeat a lie often enough it becomes truth”. But let myself, a Cuban-American shoot down your ignorant rantings with cold hard facts. No Cuban in the United States is an illegal alien, whether you like it or not…and I do realize most liberals would love to throw out the Cuban-Americans who are overwhelmingly Conservative and vote Republican, in fact we gladly gave you 8 years of “W”. As Ann Coutler said regarding Elian Gonzalez, “the only immigrant liberals wanted to deport”. Cuban Americans are political exiles given amnesty. The laws were changed during the Clinton Administration with the so-called “wet foot/dry foot” policy where a Cuban caught at sea was deported but given amnesty if making it to shore. Another thing regarding your third world comments, Cuba pre-Castro had a standard of living 3rd after the U.S. and Canada. The Cuban Peso pre-Castro was equal to the U.S. dollar. Since you‘re so against socialism you might want to check out Humberto Fontova’s “Exposing the Real Che Guevara”. Rick Sanchez is not typical of the majority of Cuban-Americans.

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  • PATRIOTGRUNT
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 11:52am

    I think that “ ALL JEWS are BIGOTS ”. Hey ADL can I have my free trip to Israel now ?. I have not have a vacation in 7 years. Morons.

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    • NoRoomForSocialismHere
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:35pm

      They are racists/bigots and want control of America and without Christians. Jews hate Christians though we have card for them. ADL, ACLU, La RAZA whats the difference

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  • Embrace Liberty
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 11:14am

    Everyone has the right to make a mistake and everyone has the chance to apologize for their bad judgment. He has apologized, so I think people should let it go. If he had a long history of this sort of commentary, then I could understand people being cynical about his mea culpa. But as far as I know, this was his first flirtation with Anti-Semitic babble and hopefully he is sincerely repentant about this particular episode. May he learn from this painful lesson in civil discourse.

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  • Look4DBigPicture
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 10:50am

    Sachez was always making offensive remarks, so his firing was probably over something entirely different. His bigoted comment was probably the last straw. To his credit, he admitted he was wrong almost immediately after he was fired. And yet … he’s still putting down American Jews, so he obviously didn’t learn anything.

    Sanchez … you live in America, so no one’s stopping you from starting your own network. Oh silly me … you‘re a liberal and would prefer to whine that it’s not handed to you on a silver platter.

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    • Warrior4Zion
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:06pm

      You can not speak that way and get away with it. He must apologize at the Western Wall. Only then will he receive forgiveness for his sins.

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  • georgeisn6
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:43am

    I think that in this day and age with our failed education system, all liberals need to go through a real life experiance at age 53 to get them selves an education. They are all like 2yr. old children untill they do.

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  • MMSands
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:24am

    Now if they could take Al Sharpton along too …

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    • Agnes
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 1:08pm

      Along with the clown in Washington, Pelosi, Reid, Rivera, Colmes, Biden etc…

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    • rs9
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 4:10pm

      Push em out the door on the way over like in Nam

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  • Ceefour
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:29am

    Anti defamation league…………..anti second amendment……pro barry sutaro

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  • ShamanWorld
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:08am

    Sanchez fired for saying “Jews run the media”? The Jews proved it by firing Sanchez and others.

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  • Miami
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:39am

    Sanchez is and has always been a self centered idiot. to the point when he ran over a man while driving drunk. He used his position as a anchorman for wsvn ch.7 in Miami to skate around the charges. He left the sheen of the crime to sober up.

    He’s a king size looser

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  • WireWizard
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 4:25am

    I remember reading the transcript of the words Sanchez spoke that got him into trouble. He used the term “bigot” in describing some people and everybody took it to mean racist. That was bullcrap.
    The context he used the term was correct.
    I don’t Sanchez from Adam, but his comments were not what they were construed to be.
    This incident was exactly like when Limbaugh made his comments about the media propping up that quarterback on the Eagles because they wanted to see a black quarterback do well in the NFL. Everybody raise hell as if he made racist comments about McNab when he was talking about the media hype.
    Sanchez clearly stated that Jon Stewart was “prejudiced against anybody who didn’t agree with his point of view, which is very much a white, liberal, establishment point of view”. Is that not the truth? We call out Stewart all the time for prejudicial remarks he makes about the right!
    That is the definition of a bigot: “a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.”
    If Sanchez was truly fired for the comments on that interview, that was wrong. Listen for yourself to the interview, and try to remember that bigot does not mean racist.
    I’m sorry, but this gets me fired up. There may be plenty to criticize this guy for, but that radio interview is not it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOkqrmSVEDE&feature=player_embedded#!

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    • MrMagoo
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:39am

      Got it.TY WireWizard!

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:02am

      I visited your link and listened to the interview again. I think I have to agree with you.

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:22am

      Yeah, but it was still funny to watch one self centered liberal attacking another self centered liberal through the media. The outcome did not bother me, and at least Stewart can be humorous….occasionally. Oh yeah, read the definition of bigotry. You will find racism in the list of descriptions. All that Sanchez will get out of this trip is the knowledge to watch his language more and to try not to slip up. That is if he doesn’t kill himself or somebody else in a DUI related traffic accident before hand.

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  • jmsdysart
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 4:16am

    CANTON TRUTH: Global Thought Police Decree Passages In The New Testament Are ‘Classical Anti-Semitism’
    cantontruth.blogspot.com

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:17am

      I’ve got to agree with wire wizard. Nothing there to get their panties in a twist…..they got all wee-weed-up for no good reason.

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  • riseandshine
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 3:51am

    I don’t care

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  • Woodenteeth
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 3:42am

    Rehab for vile peopleTop down, bottom up, inside out, right is wrong and ‘WRONG IS RIGHT’ …. To those with shakable foundation will fall for what is crazy. Sanchez in Israel is laughable!

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  • Findalis
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 2:41am

    I’m surprised the Israelis let him into the country. Big mistake on their part.

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    • MR_ANDERSON
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 2:56am

      Yea, because no one should ever get a second chance. We should just get rid of appeals in the justice system as well.

      (Do I need to mention this was sarcastic?)

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 2:28am

    I think the ADL in general and Sanchez personally are weak,PC bent and phony.Just my opinion.

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  • Chuck Stein
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 2:13am

    Didn’t he kill someone? While driving drunk, right? How sorry has he been for that, I wonder.

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 10:53am

      WOW … didn’t know that. He should be in prison! What a slime!

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on November 27, 2011 at 12:27am

      It’s true according to Wikipedia:

      On December 10, 1990, Sanchez was in a neighborhood in the vicinity of Joe Robbie Stadium, driving home from a Dolphins football game when he struck Jeffrey Smuzinick, a pedestrian. Smuzinick, who had been drinking heavily, was returning to his Pembroke Pines home with friends. He suddenly decided they were driving in the wrong direction, jumped from the car and ran into the path of a 1991 silver Volvo, driven by Sanchez.[6] Smuzinick was paralyzed, and five years later on November 2, 1995, died in an assisted living facility at the age of 36. [7] A blood test by police determined that Sanchez’s blood alcohol level was .15, above the legal limit of .10. Sanchez was charged with driving under the influence (DUI) and pleaded No Contest.[8] Sanchez was not charged with hitting Smuzinick

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  • OGUI
    Posted on November 26, 2011 at 2:05am

    RICK SANCHEZ!!!!!! CHANEL 7 NEWS!!!!!!
    Today from Liberty City, we have a FAtal shooting!!!!!
    Here we have THE VICTIM!!!!! DEAD, on the Street!!!

    I’m RICK SANCHEZ!!!!!! CHANEL 7 NEWS!!!!!!

    (Sorry, If any of you remember Rick from Chanel 7 in Miami, his inflections were classic.
    I’m American, Cuban Family, and was damn proud of Rick Sanchez. Local kid done good, you know?
    I was sad to see he’s left slant once he went to PMSNBC and the Commie News Network. It was like finding out your favorite ball player cheating. I wish him well. I also wish he’d get his head out of his arce. Rick, please, remember where you came from. Don’t follow the pack. )

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:37am

      That must have been before the time I spent in the area. My company was billeted at the Cutler Ridge Holiday Inn during the follow up time of the Mariel Boat Lift. After the Arthur McDuffy murder trial’s exoneration of the Homestead cops we watched Liberty City burn from the 6th floor balconies at night. Better than watching “Who Shot JR?”

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    • Libertarian Metalhead
      Posted on November 27, 2011 at 1:28pm

      @Ogui, brother…Sanchez was always left. I don’t know how old you are but do you remember Neil Rogers? Rogers was a lame shock jock in South FL for decades, extreme leftist, he would on-air read Michael Moore books over the airwaves, like Sanchez Rogers was a convicted criminal who was caught making himself feel good in an adult theater, the big one on Biscayne Blvd if it’s still there, I left South FL years ago I don’t know. Sanchez was friends with and frequently appeared on Rogers program, despite the fact Rogers used to viciously slander the Cuban American community, much like the trailer trash in South Dade were doing after the Elian thing who were Clinton supporters and led by 3x convicted pedophile James Cross of the Red Rooster Lounce in Cutler Ridge, it’s among those people that Rogers gets the bulk of his audience. Rogers has been replaced Jorge, another Cuban American leftist…there are Cuban exiles who are left wingers and even communist that left because Castro was too extreme for them, fortunately they’re the minority.

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