Posted by
Mike Bates on Friday, July 02, 2010 8:26:55 PM
Today on CNN, Rick's List host Rick Sanchez was, as he likes to say,
all over and drilling down on a story of major import. No, nothing
about the dismal unemployment numbers we're seeing this recovery
summer. Despite repeated teases on the topic, he didn't get around to
it.
Sanchez was
all over and drilling down on the latest Mel Gibson antics, despite
pushback from his audience:
SANCHEZ: Some of you are tweeting me, in fact I'm
reading these as I go telling me, why are you covering the Mel Gibson
story? That's not really news. I'm thinking, it's not? Mel Gibson, one
of the most renowned actors, who is very politically involved, caught on
tape in the past saying things about Jews and about women?
When did Mel Gibson become very politically involved? In a 2006
Entertainment Weekly interview Gibson said,
"Everyone always presumes I'm a Republican. I'm not." A check of Federal
Election Commission records shows
no political contributions from Mel Gibson. Years ago, he wrote a
letter endorsing a candidate in the California GOP lieutenant
gubernatorial race, but even then noted:
"I don't often support political candidates."
Does Sanchez automatically presume that someone who says nasty things
about women and minorities must be very politically involved? Or does
he assume that a Hollywood personality not routinely spouting liberal
lunacies has to be a Republican?
Viewers might be interested in seeing the evidence Rick has that
Gibson is very politically involved. At any rate, his devoting so much
time to the story kept Sanchez from reporting on the most recent Obama
economic failures.