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Rick Sanchez of CNN Ran Over a Man Then Fled the Scene. Two Hours Later, Sanchez Was Still Drunk.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 13th, 2009 at 08:34 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Here is what is phony.

Rick Sanchez quoted Rush Limbaugh on CNN and the quote was fabricated. The racially insensitive quote attributed to Limbaugh was made up on the internet and not uttered by Rush.

Sanchez has refused to apologize for using the quote in a hit job on Limbaugh designed to destroy Limbaugh’s bid for the St. Louis Rams.

Here is what is real.

Rick Sanchez ran over a man and left the guy for dead.

It was December 10, 1990. Sanchez was leaving a Miami Dolphins game when he ran over a man. Sanchez fled the scene for two hours.

Finally, Sanchez came back. Two hours after the incident, Sanchez was still drunk — well above the legal limit. But Sanchez was a well known Miami reporter with lots of friends on the police force. He was never charged with the hit and run. He just pled no contest to DUI.

The man Sanchez hit and ran away from? He died in 1995, paralyzed and in a nursing home.

This is the guy who decided to take to television this week and moralize against Rush.

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  • Lelouch

    little sympathy for a hit-and-run. My mother and sister almost died because of that nearly 6 months ago, and have given me nightmares since. Snachez has no room to be moralizin anywhere.

  • revivefederalism

    Is there really much of a difference between hitting someone who is outside the car before leaving the scene in the car and leaving the car and the passenger in a lake? I wonder if this idiot drove his blood splattered car back to the scene of the crime while he was still drunk.

  • http://www.meetup.com/dcworksforus Kenny Solomon

    I always wondered where ‘Ted Kennedy Lite’ went after he got run out of town down here.

    Maybe I should put on CNN once in a while and see what’s what there……………………. Naaaaaaaaaah.

  • WarEagle01

    He killed that poor man. It’s as simple as that. That despicable drunk deserves to be sitting in a jail cell, not an anchor chair.

  • mfarmer

    is a punk.

  • konstantine

    Really?

    Seems like that’s one of the requirements to work at CNN. At least, the two of them have their little club going on, and only smarmy liberal d**ches who are involved in hit and runs are allowed in their club.

  • rrlandis

    Maybe he is still drunk.

  • roscopico

    After all, Google returned 9,310 results for “Rick Sanchez is a pedophile”, and it only took 0.23 seconds!

    Guilty, Guilty, GUILTY!

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Gas bag too. Malodorous lying jackass too. What a hypocrite!

    I was just curious.

    Q. What were the top 13 rated cable shows today?
    A. Nothing from CNN.

    I wonder why.

  • Richard Mullins

    So no wonder they work together. They are malcontents and can’t work at good news stations like FNC. They are major blowhards.

  • http://aposematic.wordpress.com aposematic

    The liberals seek out the worst in America and put them upon pedestals to be idealized.

    What a nasty/evil bunch they are!

  • bk

    After all, Shep Smith got in trouble fighting over a parking space in Florida, so that excuses all vehicular lawbreaking of all CNN employees.

  • rangerwife

    Self-righteous:confident of one’s own righteousness, esp. when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others. SEE ALSO: LIBERAL.

    Where is the press on this? Where is law enforcement? Where is the justice? That poor man, where was his family to press charges? It is so infuriating when liberals get away with everything illegal because of their all inclusive elite club of corruption they all belong too! GET RID!

  • fayers

    They forget that because of the internet the ordinary man and woman can be heard. Before the internet the reporters were the only ones that could be heard.
    Fred, Nashville, N.C.

  • sbugmom

    Google “Rick Sanchez is a lying murderer”….274,000 hits.

  • texasjay

    Al Gore invented it!

  • wilfranc

    Will CNN:
    1. ignore this
    2. Make a “it was a long time ago argument” (past the statute of lim)
    3. Mea Culpa
    4. in about two weeks quietly announces a new assignment for Sanchez where we won’t see him again, ala, the tea party pooper earlier this year.

    I am betting a combination of #1 and 2

  • sharonmcp

    “Though Sanchez says he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and flag down motorists, eyewitnesses claim the anchorman ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image.”

    “Although he initially thrived at WSVN, Sanchez originally left the station when it was discovered that 1985 wiretaps recorded him trading favors with Alberto San Pedro, a self-proclaimed political fixer described by police as “a major corrupter in Hialeah” and who following a federal grand jury indictment for bribery of a federal public official and conspiracy to commit bribery, pled guilty to the conspiracy charge.”

  • horsesense

    Jason Whitlock is in no position to complain about Rush–check out this link where he disses Serena Willimas for being fat–it’s real.

    http://deeplyproblematic.blogspot.com/2009/07/jason-whitlock-serena-williams-is-fat.html

  • horsesense

    Jason Whitlock is in no position to complain about Rush–check out this link where he disses Serena Willimas for being fat–it’s real.

    http://deeplyproblematic.blogspot.com/2009/07/jason-whitlock-serena-williams-is-fat.html

    Oops wrong blog, sorry…

  • redpens

    Sanchez should be wearing an orange jump suit instead of a 3-piece suit

  • sharonmcp

    If people randomly started tweeting and blogging…

    “Rick Sanchez & cousin involved in Florida Turnpike murders”

    “Attorney Michael Cohen, who represents Sanchez, pointed to Varela ? Sanchez?s cousin ? as a drug dealer who ‘recruited’ Sanchez, but as a drug runner, not a killer.

    ‘Danny Varela was a predator and he lured Rick Sanchez into his lair,’ he said.”

    Of course it’s not CNN’s Rick Sanchez, but we all know how Rick feels about fact checking.

    (Source: TCPalm.com http://bit.ly/2y0726)