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YouTube Tuesday: Rick Sanchez and Charlize Theron

In general traffic numbers are avoided on this site.  When it becomes evident that for whatever reason "Nicole Richie headscarf" drives more traffic here than "Miss Understood wax fetish" there is naught but disappointment. 

There have been two strange blips though in retrieval of pages related to Rick Sanchez, Charlize Theron, and Tatum O'Neal.  The O'Neal is a blind-side.  She's apparently on a new UPN show.

The case of Sanchez and Theron is a bit more interesting.  In a recent interview, Theron showed her awesomeness while Sanchez, yet again, showed his man-twatiness.

Why it is so evident across the globe that freedoms in the United States are eroding and why a so-called journalist must partake in jingoistic puffery is just beyond reason.  Hopefully in time this nation's population will take a second to step away from American Idol and reconsider what were once American Ideas.  (Anybody need a stump speech writer?)

MOrtuary:

• Rick Sanchez, too?
• Rick Sanchez: Thanksgiving turkey

Rick Sanchez too?

Could Anderson Cooper have company at CNN?  A comment came through to an old post over the weekend:

There is one vital piece of information that the World has yet to discover: Rick Sanchez is bisexual. I am not making this up. i know someone (a man) who had an affair with him. In fact, I know of another reporter (also a man) who had an affair with him when he worked down here in Miami.

--an anonymous coward

Granted, it is an anonymous posting made at 3 in the morning, but the IP address does actually seem to come from Miami.  Again, as is the case with all "is he/isn't he" stories, the take here is "whever" as closet cases are boring.  At least he's not lying about his age.

CNN's Rick Sanchez: Thanksgiving Turkey

A segment on the meals being served to the troops in Iraq mentions that the dessert options include assorted pies, ice cream, and fruitcake. A weather segment follows during which the squirrels on the little wheels of substitute anchor Rick Sanchez's little mind run furiously. Following the segment, Sanchez has what he thinks is a classic; turning to the weather reporter, he asks, "Hey, Jackie, do you know the official military policy on fruitcake? ... Don't ask, don't tell!" Sanchez guffaws while Soledad O'Brien grants him a disapproving stare.

Now this joke would be mildly funny if delivered by, say, Coco Peru. Perhaps an analogy will be more illustrative though: Sanchez poking fun at discrimination of gays is like me telling jokes about the Mariella boat lift to Cuban-heritaged Sanchez, or hurricane-victim jokes to former Miami-native Sanchez, or jokes about substitute anchors to just-not-ready-to-helm-a-show Rick Sanchez.