FINAL UPDATE: HERE'S THE VIDEO! (video embedded below)
UDATE - Sanchez was interviewing Ben Ferguson (remember this?)
A couple of days ago, the McCain campaign charged that Obama shares or is influenced by "anti-Israeli" sentiments of Rashid Khalidi"
With this segment, CNN first broke this with interviews with John McCain, quotes from the Los Angeles Times, quotes from Rashid Khalidi, and quotes from the Obama campaign. Tom Foreman of CNN concludes at the end of this segment that the assertion from McCain is
misleading and "flat-out false".
Yesterday, Rick Sanchez had a bizarre interview with Michael Goldfarb of the McCain campaign (diaried by Prosediva) in which Sanchez tries to extract from Goldfarb one single example of Obama palling around with anti-semites. Goldfarb stuttered that there was one-who-must-not-be-named but that "everybody knows who that is" and "I think we know who we're talking about".
Despite repeated queries from Sanchez, Goldfarb refused to name that name...(This segment went viral in a BIG way, with Jimmy Kimmel, the Daily Show and a host of others weighing in.
Just now (12:20pm PST) Sanchez announced on CNN that he finally had THE NAME (cut to commercial) and that the NAME is.......
Jeremiah Wright.
And then the fun started...
Sanchez then interviewed one of Republican talk radio's famed wingnuts, Ben Ferguson (remember Ben?) who (since he's not bound by the McCain campaign's pledge not to use Wright's name) had no hesitation at saying the NAME and spewing more charges that Obama pals around with anti-Semites.
Much to my delight, Sanchez was pre-armed with quote after quote and document after document, and refuted EVERY SINGLE CHARGE with facts and quotes that exposed the charges for the false smears that they are. Sanchez wrapped with the most devastating quote of all: a formal statement from the Anti Defamation League that the ADL does not now or has ever considered the Reverend Jeremiah Wright an anti-semite.
(more stuttering from the wing-nut to the effect that the ADL only had "12 hours to do research")
Here's the video clip link: "Sanchez schools another Republican".
Here's the link to the Rick Sanchez Twitter page which Rick says is about to be
updated with this latest interview. I have a new-found respect for Sanchez. He is on fire
this week!