CNN's Rick Sanchez, where do they find these assholes?

[spanone]

this man would be embarassing on a game show, let alone a news program.

[Bluebear]

1. He has been giving a tweaking performance since yesterday, what is he on?

Praising people for "GUTTING IT OUT" and riding out the hurricane in vacation zones, spinning around from map to map, Kiran Chetry looks at him likes he is going to explode any minute.

[xultar]

4. He wants his own show. Right now he's on Sunday night late. Have you seen it

it makes insomniacs tired.

[Dulcinea]

24. He sucks.

Please, John Roberts, come back!

Rick Sanchez needs Quaaludes or something! Watching him in the morning is like someone throwing ice water on you to wake you up.

[xultar]

2. Rick and Tony are the biggest over the top losers I've ever seen.

They make Jerry Springer seem mild.

[maddezmom]

3. I just sent CNN a nasty gram

did you see his comment about lake front property re: the sink hole where people had to desert their home and others were worried it would spread to their property?

[Vinca]

5. Wasn't he a military commentator at some point - a retired officer

or something? He's a major jerk.

[Bluebear]

Oh he couldn't be, could he? Total airhead. nt

[Vinca]

23. My mistake. I found a photo of General Sanchez, not the same guy. nt

[Beausoir]

6. He came from a small station in rural Minnesota.

[spanone]

7. Why?

[Bluebear]

8. Oh my...

On December 10, 1990, Sanchez accidentally hit Jeffrey Smuzinick with his car on a residential street near Dolphin Stadium after Smuzinick darted into the road. Smuzinick, who was inebriated at the time of the incident, was paralyzed and later died from his injuries. Sanchez, who had just left an NFL football game, was not charged with causing the accident, but was charged with and pleaded no contest to DUI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Sanchez

[geomon666]

16. It gets worse...

http://movies.miaminewtimes.com/1991-08-07/news/the-forgotten-man/

[City Lights]

9. He sickened me when he was on MSNBC. I was glad to see him go.

:puke:

[spanone]

10. now we'll go from rick sanchez to tony harris.....air to air

[leftchick]

11. his bio

http://www.answers.com/topic/rickonjob-jpg

Rick Sanchez

Rick Sanchez anchors the weekend prime-time edition of CNN Newsroom and serves as a contributor to Anderson Cooper 360° and CNN en Español, where he frequently reports while simultaneously translating in English and Spanish. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Sanchez joined the network in September 2004.

Throughout his career, Sanchez has reported on major events across the United States and around the world, including on-the-scene coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Sanchez has also reported in war zones in Nicaragua, the invasion of Grenada and the fall of the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime in Haiti. Additionally, Sanchez has reported live from Havana, Cuba, numerous times. In 2006, Sanchez contributed to the network’s comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina that won a George Foster Peabody Award.

Sanchez has also interviewed several prominent newsmakers, including Laura Bush, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Michael Gorbachev and Manuel Noriega behind bars, among others.

Before joining CNN, Sanchez was an anchor for WTVJ/Channel 6 and an interim anchor for WBZL/Channel 39 in Miami. Prior to his tenure with the NBC affiliate, he worked for two years as a correspondent and anchor for MSNBC. Sanchez joined MSNBC in 2001 as a correspondent and also delivered breaking news for CNBC and filed radio updates for NBC National radio.

He also briefly worked as an anchor at KHOU-TV in Houston. Sanchez started his career as a television journalist at WSVN-TV Miami in 1982. In Miami, he became the first person to both anchor a television news program and host a talk show on Spanish-language radio, El Show de Rick Sanchez.

http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/sanchez.rick.html

[Beausoir]

13. That's redacted. Lol. He started out at KCCO in Alexandria, MN. What a liar.

[Lance_Boyle]

22. Who the hell is Michael Gorbachev?

Someone who shares the airwaves with Woof Blitzkrieg and Puta Zahn?

[AusTexDem]

12. So glad I'm not alone.

I have sent CNN e-mails about Rick Sanchez and Tony Harris. Someone over there has an uncanny ability to find the most annoying on air personalities. I guess in Wolf Blitzers case it would be non-personality.

[geomon666]

14. In this case, Florida.

He was an anchorman for the local Fox affiliate down here in Miami for years before he moved. We're glad to be rid of him.

[pingzing58]

15. Quirky but entertaining. I like Rick Sanchez who stood up to Lou Dobbs' ethnic elitism.

[KharmaTrain]

17. He Makes Jon Stewart's Job Easy

Sanchez reminds me of the guy who lived in my college dorm...we called him Mr. Bullshit. This dude was always trying to impress...social climb...be noticed. He'd name drop, or try to blow sunshine up your ass to get you to like them. Most times you'd just ignore them and they'd get even more obnoxious.

My viewing of CNN has fallen drastically over recent years. Thanks to the blogs, they're no longer the "most trusted name in News", and they've dumbed down and cheapened their product as profits supercede journalism, personality trumps all. Too much of our "news" now is a popularity contest where the reporters and stenographers feel they're a part of the story or the focus of it.

I have to admit I get amused by the stupidity Tony Balogna, Sanchez, Kyra Phillips and Wolfie display. It what makes me really appreciate all the good work folks like Keith Olbermann and the many quality bloggers provide. You can't appreciate what's good without an "appreciation" for what's bad.

[Mutineer]

18. As much as Sanchez sucks, he's still 100X better than Tony Harris

How that guy got a job remains a mystery to me. Sanchez is at least entertaining. Harris is just annoying.

[AllexxisF1]

19. LOL

I have been saying the exact same things for the past couple of days LOl. The guy is the most annoying asshole I have ever heard on the air. He is not funny, his voice is grating and if he talks with his hands one more time I am shooting him with an elephant gun.

Good God who the hell hired this linebacker of a news anchor.

[UTUSN]

20. Rick has been a top a-hole commodity for years & on ALL the outlets

He has NO trouble getting hired, despite all of our mystification as to WHY? WHAT makes him so appealing to ALL of the outlets that have hired him. He is such a SAP. He's gotten himself TASERed on air and performed other idiot stunts. There used to be good put-down stuff on him, but somehow Google doesn't show it anymore.

[stillcool]

21. an entertaining read..

about slick Rick...

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2003-01-09/news/slick-rick/full
Slick Rick
Why won't those mean, old, sniping critics just quiet down?
By Bob Norman
Published: January 9, 2003

Wake Up and Smile!
------------------------
Sanchez, thank goodness, hasn't changed much since he left Channel 7. His talk is still happier than everyone else's, and like a good company man, he plugs his station at every turn, as in "More on the death and destruction in Bali, here on MSNBC," or "We'll return to the sensational story about the AIDS epidemic in Africa, here on MSNBC." He hasn't lost that signature assertiveness either. Sanchez doesn't interview; he interrupts.

Most important, he still shares his politics, which run just to the right of Pinochet, every eight seconds or so. As a Cuban-born refugee who came to South Florida as a child, he still burns with expatriate passion -- something that corporate cable news apparently can't steal away.

All these little quirks make him a perfect fit for the Bill Gates/General Electric news channel. He also seems an apt underling for the reigning Jabba the Hutt of cable news, "Editor-in-Chief" Jerry Nachman. A former editor of the New York Post, Big Jer brings an Everyman's common sense to an exciting mix of television journalism that runs the spectrum from generic to shallow. On a station with plenty of anti-Iraq war voices (Buchanan, Donahue, Matthews), Sanchez is Nachman's unquestioning bulldog when it comes to taking out Saddam Hussein. I hear, though this is only a rumor, that Nachman is about to change the name of the daily hourlong show Countdown: Iraq to C'mon: Invade Iraq Already!

So how, after completing his first calendar year on the job, is Sanchez really faring on the national stage? Starting with good news: He was nominated in 2002 for a national Alma Award for Hispanic journalists. The bad news is that he didn't win it, and some of his stiffest competition was Geraldo Rivera. (The winner was Elizabeth Vargas of 20/20.) Sanchez did take home a prize recently, though, something called the "Ted Baxter Award for Phoniest Voice," which was presented by TVNow.com, a website that provides entertainment news.