Rick Sanchez fired by CNN after comments about Jews and Jon
Stewart  CNN anchor Rick Sanchez leaves the network after
sneering comments about Jon Stewart and Jews running US
television US TV presenter Jon Stewart The Daily Show's Jon
Stewart: called a 'bigot' and 'prejudiced' by CNN anchor Rick
Sanchez. Photograph: Peter Kramer/Getty Images  In a terse
statement, the US cable network CNN announced that daytime
anchor Rick Sanchez was no longer employed, only a day after
Sanchez made a string of controversial remarks, accusing Daily
Show host Jon Stewart of being a "bigot" and made sneering
comments about American Jews as "an oppressed minority".  The
brief statement from CNN this evening reads in full:   On
Thursday, Sanchez gave an interview on XM Radio in which he
called Stewart – who has frequently poked fun at Sanchez on the
Daily Show – a bigot before correcting himself and describing
Stewart as "prejudiced" after being challenged by the
interviewer, Pete Dominick.  But what set off a storm of
controvers