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Memo to Rick Sanchez, you're white FYI, blasts Stewart, Colbert, audio

By April MacIntyre Oct 1, 2010, 18:29 GMT

Comedian Stephen Colbert, not liked by Rick EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

Rick Sanchez, the Cuban-born and Florida raised white guy on CNN thinks he is not white.

Or that Jews can feel the pain his fellow Hispanics suffer in "prejudiced" America.

Or that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are very funny, either.

Sanchez, the self-tasering CNN anchor appeared on comedian Pete Dominick's Sirius radio show, and the CNN personality got lost in his point of Stewart being prejudicial versus bigoted, perhaps just "uninformed," and how hard it was to grow up as a White Cuban in South Florida!

Sanchez is regular whipping boy for Stewart, who mines the gaffes of Sanchez regularly.  He implies that Stewart denigrates him because he might be "a dumb Cuban" who can't pronounce words like "arithmetic."

Gawker.com transcribed the audio from Dominick's interview:

    "I think to some extent Jon Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert are the same way. I think Jon Stewart's a bigot," he said. "I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I'm so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine."

Sanchez thinks Stewart makes fun of him because he is Cuban, not because he is allegedly dim-witted.

On Stewart's Jewishness and the fact that Jews are not minorities in Sanchez's opinion, who "grew up in Miami" and counted many Jews as friends:

"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]

Have a listen: