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Rick Sanchez has been fired from CNN following his controversial comments on a radio show Thursday.
"Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well,' a CNN statement said.
Sanchez did not appear on the air Friday.
Update: For those unaware of what caused this, Rick Sanchez yesterday started by calling Jon Stewart a bigot, and went downhill from there:
Sanchez scoffed at the claim, snickering and suggesting that CNN and the rest of the media is run by Jewish people (from the "Stand Up with Pete Dominick" blog):
Very powerless people... [snickers] He's such a minority, I mean, you know [sarcastically]... Please, what are you kidding? ... 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? Yeah. [sarcastically]
Update 2: For the full back-story, read this.
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