Rick Sanchez, that drunk killer is the anchor on CNN!

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http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2003-01-09/news/norman.html

Jan 2003

Now Sanchez chums it up on national cable television every weekday morning with other not-ready-for-prime-time players. His regular cohort is a rather severe brunette named Christy Musumeci, but sometimes a rather severe blond, Alex "Not a Hint Of" Witt, takes her place. And there's usually a redheaded, bespectacled guy named John Elliott standing around with them in the studio trying to inject a kind of geekish humanity into the somewhat saccharine proceedings.

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.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Wooo hoo hooo....

Scathing article.

As Dorothy Parker would say, "If you haven't got anything nice to say about somebody... come sit beside me."

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2. Sanchez

Left a Miami Dolphins Game. Hit a man while driving home. The man later died.

Sanchez walked away from his car. Therefore, no way to prove DUI.

Still trying to find the news articles. There are many. I'm shocked this man is employed by CNN. MSNBC let him go, as did the local stations.

[geomon666]

3. Shhhh...you're not supposed to know that

Sanchez is a dirt bag, no question about it. Please don't anyone try to lecture me to the contrary, I grew up watching this man on local Miami television. He is scum.

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7. Yeah, well you and I know this

And this man should be in jail. Not getting a six figure salary and on the telly!

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[Tyranny_R_US]

4. I think he's doing a pretty good job tonight

I'm actually watching him unlike Blitzer and Zauhn (sp?) I can't stand them.

[OrlandoGator]

5. He hasn't been the same since he stopped squatting over that Cuba map.

People who lived in Miami in the 90's know exactly what I'm talking about.

[geomon666]

6. lol, yeah

I know exactly what you're talking about.

[Scurrilous]

8. Ah yes...

...the Rick Sanchez Show.

http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/031201_prince/printable

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"The Miami Herald reported today that, "It hasn't been a happy homecoming for Rick Sanchez, at least in terms of viewers. His highly promoted WTVJ-NBC 6 afternoon talk show was hammered in Nielsen ratings released Friday, finishing even behind Japanese monster cartoons.

"The Rick Sanchez Show barely registered at all in the ratings, pulling in just 2 percent of the viewers in its weekday 4 p.m. time slot. It was clobbered not only by rival talk shows like Oprah (on WFOR-CBS 4) and Judge Judy (WSVN-Fox 7), which both outdrew Sanchez by about 7 to 1 margins, but the Japanese cartoon Pokémon (WBZL-WB 39), which had double the audience," wrote Glenn Garvin. Sanchez spent two years as an anchor at MSNBC before returning to South Florida in October."