Rick Sanchez’s unfortunate rant a week and a half ago on satellite radio is proof that stupidity and lack of knowledge form a dangerous cocktail. Add in some good ol’ fashioned bigotry, and you have a potent mixture sure to make those who digest it babble incoherently, without clarity, and if it was ever present, without wisdom.
Fired shortly afterward by CNN, I am sure that Mr. Sanchez’s intention was not to lose his job. Add his name to the long list of “sound bite” casualties after he accused Jon Stewart of being what ultimately he will always be seen as.
Who are the “they” Mr. Sanchez kept mentioning? If there are “they,” then there has to be a “them”?
That got me thinking. When people are being racist, why do they talk in code?
Who Are ‘They’ and ‘Them’?
Something I find hard to comprehend
When people make a point of using “they”
When they talk about “them”
If they do to them what they said was done to them
Isn’t that a vicious circle they are caught in with them?
Who are they?
And why do they?
And do they really exist?
If they can’t be seen
How do we know it is them?
Obviously this is confusing
All these “theys” and all these “thems”
Can somebody please tell me what “they” did to “him” again?
Listening to the audio version and then reading the transcript, it is obvious that Mr. Sanchez is not intellectually evolved enough to form a cohesive argument. His lack of forethought led to the quickest digestion of foot in mouth in “Mass Media History”. Mr. Sanchez will be right up there with the sports oddsmaker Jimmy the Greek and former Los Angeles Dodger executive Al Campanis in the Sound Bite Hall of Fame.
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