MUMBAI: Anchor Rick Sanchez was fired from CNN on 1 October, a day after he made offensive comments about Jews on a radio talk show.

Sanchez reportedly claimed that political satirist Jon Stewart, who is Jewish, "is a bigot" and that American television is "ruled by people like Stewart".   
     
  From various sources who quoted Sanchez verbatim, this is what Sanchez said, amidst talks on Pete Dominick‘s XM Sirius radio show: "He [Jon Stewart] is such a minority! I mean, you know [sarcastically]... 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 [sarcastically] to imply that somehow they — the people in this country who are Jewish — are an oppressed minority? Yeah."
"Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company," a CNN spokesperson said. "We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well."

Sanchez‘s programme on CNN, called Rick‘s List, was aimed at bringing their viewers into a "national conversation" by means of social networking sites such as Twitter.

CNN said another programme, CNN Newsroom, will replace Sanchez‘s 3-5 pm local time slot.