Slanderous Sanchez and CNN To Rue Rush's Legal Wrath

 Charles Krauthammer on Fox's Special Report Thursday:  "He's been libeled." [by CNN and Rick Sanchez]. Sanchez has not apologized.  And should for cherry-picking out-of-context racist quotes from Rush Limbaugh.

RUSH: Rick Sanchez, CNN Newsroom yesterday afternoon...

SANCHEZ: One of the quotes that's been attributed to Rush Limbaugh, is "Slavery built the South. I'm not saying that we should bring it back. I'm just saying that it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark." Among the news organizations that reported that yesterday was our show at three o'clock. Limbaugh's response to this is -- and we want to be fair to Rush -- he says, "We've gone back, we've looked at everything else, and there is not even an inkling that any of the words in that quote are accurate. It is outrageous." So Rush Limbaugh is denying that that quote has come from him. Uh, obviously that does not take away the fact that there are other quotes [that] have been attributed to Rush Limbaugh which many people in the African-American community and many other minority communities do find offensive.

RUSH: Okay. So Rick Sanchez repeats the slavery quote, notes that I deny it, and then says it doesn't matter. Do you know who Rick Sanchez is? Do you know he's got two middle names? Rick "DUI" Sanchez, Rick "Leaving-the-Scene" Sanchez. Rick Sanchez was a hit-and-run driver when he lived in Miami, and he is a hit-and-run reporter. From the New York Observer, October 9th, 2007: "Mr. Sanchez had already survived what would ordinarily be a career-killer. While leaving a Miami Dolphins game with his father in 1990, Mr. Sanchez struck a drunken pedestrian, who later died of his injuries. According to police, Mr. Sanchez's own blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit, and he left the scene before returning. He ultimately pleaded no contest to a DUI charge, but avoided jail time, and even remained on the air.

TVNewser's Chris Ariens wonders if this time "the media went too far" in bashing Rush.

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