Cnn anchor fired after jon stewart rants

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Rick Sanchez fired from CNN after radio rant against 'Northeast liberals,' Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart helped host Comedy Central's "Night Of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert For Autism Education," in New York City over the weekend. During the event, he mocked former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez several times, according to USA Today.

Sanchez was fired Friday after calling Stewart a bigot and questioning whether Jews should be considered a minority.

Stewart suggested that donors feeling guilty about something should donate for the benefit's good cause:

"If you dented a car, $50. If you cheated on something to get ahead, $500. And if you went on radio and said Jews run the media, in that case you better hold onto your money," Stewart said.

The Sanchez topic came up again when David Letterman made a surprise guest appearance at the fundraiser. Letterman told Stewart that he was just in the city "helping Rick Sanchez clean out his office."

Even former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw joked that he and Stewart had something in common:

"In junior high I didn't want to sit next to Rick Sanchez either," said Brokaw.

American journalist

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is de Reinaldo.

Ricardo León Sánchez de Reinaldo (born July 3, 1958) is a Cuban-American journalist, radio host, and author. After working as the lead local anchor on Miami's WSVN, Sánchez moved to cable news, first as a daytime anchor at MSNBC, later at CNN, where he began as a correspondent and ultimately rose to become an anchor. On CNN, he hosted a show Rick's List and served as a contributor to Anderson Cooper 360° and CNN International, where he frequently reported and translated between English and Spanish. Sánchez was fired from CNN on October 1, 2010, following controversial remarks he made on a radio program. In July 2011, Sánchez was hired by Florida International University, to serve as a color commentator for radio broadcasts of the school's football team. He worked as a columnist for Fox News and Fox News Latino, and a former correspondent for Spanish language network Mundo Fox. He hosted The News with Rick Sanchez on RT America for several years.

Early life

Sánchez was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba, a township of Havana, and emigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of two. He grew up in Hialeah, Florida, a suburb of Miami, and attended Mae M. Walters Elementary School, Henry H. Filer Middle School, and Hialeah High School, graduating in 1977. Sánchez accepted a football scholarship to Minnesota State University Moorhead and transferred to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on a CBS/WCCO Journalism Scholarship in 1979.

Of his childhood, Sánchez has said: "I grew up not speaking English, dealing with real prejudice every day as a kid; watching my dad work in a factory, wash dishes, drive a truck, get spit on. I've been told that I can't do certain thi

CNN has fired anchor

Rick Sanchez

a day after he called

Jon Stewart

a bigot while on a radio show.

Sanchez said on a satellite radio program Thursday that Stewart was bigoted toward "everybody else that's not like him." The Daily Show host has frequently poked fun at Sanchez on the air.

When radio host Peter Dominick pointed out that Stewart is Jewish, Sanchez said: "Just because someone's Jewish, they're not capable of being prejudicial?"

He added: "I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority?"

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J.K. Rowling

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The celebrated author, whose Harry Potter books have sold more than 400 mil copies, told Oprah on Friday that she may, one day, possibly dust off her fave hero for three more books. Maybe.

"I could definitely write an eighth, ninth, 10th," she told the Big O. "I feel I am done, but you never know."

Rock, force for freedom

Bruce Springsteen

, whose seminal 1978 work will be celebrated Thursday on HBO's

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, tells USA Today that rock-and-roll is "a natural freedom promoter. You listened to

Elvis

' records or

Woody Guthrie

's or

Hank Williams

' and suddenly you had . . . more license to be who you wanted to be."

Tony Curtis Memorial

CNN says a memorial service is due to be held Monday in Las Vegas to honor Hollywood legend

Tony Curtis

, who died Wednesday at 85.

Curtis' daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, 51, tells People "my relationship with him, although nonexistent for much of my life, in the end was good and based on mutual respect."