Rick Baxter Smails Sanchez Good night and a good tomorrow

If you want to hear a bigger pompous preening jackass than Keith Olbermann go here. The new definition of a complete douche bag now is - Rick Sanchez. Whoa tough guy Rick talking about experiencing Fidel Castro from the safety of his CNN studio. Wow what a tough guy. The new American Alpha male in the styling of Bill Mahr, Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann.

Sanchez is like two Ted Knight characters in one. First a perfect fit for Ted Baxter the pompous dope news anchor who would read his stage directions like – “take off glasses look concerned” – into the news story, from the Mary Tyler Moore show. The problem with all these news readers is that they seem to think that they are at least as important as the story they reading. They aren’t. Nearly anyone who can read a teleprompter can do what Rick Baxter Sanchez does.

They read the news. Yet Sanchez somehow thinks that his sissy @ss job entitles him to be thrown in with the Ernie Pyle’s of the world who actually go out into the war zone exposing themselves to danger and in many cases losing their lives. Hey Rick, get a clue. If you looked like Sam aka Joe the plumber, you wouldn’t be reading the news on CNN. Given your boorish manner, you’d be working a cash register at a local dollar store.

But there’s an even better Ted Knight character that Sanchez reminds me of Judge Smails from Caddy Shack. Smails like Baxter and Sanchez is a pompous loser that few people can stand to be around. Given CNN’s ratings maybe they should call the show the Baxter, Samils, Sanchez show. Then Sanchez could do a Frank Caliendo thing where he reads the news – his job description – in the styling of Baxter – "take off glasses look concerned," or Samils – "shut up Joe, you’ll get nothing" or himself, "this is Rick Pancho Sanchez someone totally qualified to read the news into a camera. And that’s why I’m better than you."

In the words of the late great Rodney Dangerfield aka Al Cervick: Hey Rick, CNN has become a third rate network. What, when you watch CNN, I bet you get a free bowl of soup. Huh but hey Rick, it looks good on you.