On Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show on Sirius yesterday, CNN’s Rick Sanchez made some comments which he likely wishes he could take back. In short Sanchez called Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart a bigot, and in his own words said the people who run CNN as well as, “a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart”. It is rather unclear what he means by, “a lot like Stewart,” however when taken in context it was made out to seem as though he was talking about Jon Stewart being a Jew, as well as affluent, and white.

Below is the full back and forth discussion so that you can get the entire context of what Rick Sanchez may have been trying to say:

SANCHEZ: He is one of the left wing elite northeast establishment guys who says, I like black people and Mexicans as long as they’re, “here, let me tap you on the head. Way to go, Ricky, you’re doing a good job.” But as soon as you do or say something or develop any kind of character, they push you down. Just like the administrator who said he didn’t want me to be an anchor, he wanted me to be a reporter, because when he looks at me he thinks of other Hispanic reporters like John Quinones.

QUESTIONER: Do you think that’s a conscious thing, that Stewart or left wing liberals or whatever do?

SANCHEZ: No, I don’t.

QUESTIONER: Because he’s on the same side as you on immigration.

SANCHEZ: I don’t think it’s a conscious thing. I just think it’s important that people who are not minorities understand that those of us who are — and very few of us will say the things that I just said — are actually more complex than they think we are.

QUESTIONER: Stewart’s a minority as much as you are. He’s Jewish.

SANCHEZ: Yeah. Yeah. Very powerless people. Please. What are you, kidding?

QUESTIONER: You’re telling me that –

SANCHEZ: 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.

I will leave it to you as the reader to decide on his full intentions, however it has certainly got the attention of many on the internet who feel he was basically saying that the media is run by Jews.

Sanchez has been known to say other controversial things in the past. On his show on CNN he once called Barack Obama the cotton picking president, however it was clear that he didn’t mean it in the racial context that many could have took it if they didn’t listen to the few sentences before the phrase was used.