Those were the first words out of Rick Sanchez’s mouth in his first interview since getting fired by CNN for calling Stewart a “bigot” and implying that his CNN bosses were part of a Jewish cabal controlling the media.
“First of all that is not what I meant,” he told me. “Second of all I apologize and it was wrong for me to be so careless and so inartful,” Sanchez said. “But it happened and I can’t take it back and, you know what, now I have to stand up and be responsible.”