Ex-CNN host Rick Sanchez says he 'screwed up'

NEW YORK - Rick Sanchez does not mince words. He said it was wrong and he screwed up.

Asked on the ABC "Good Morning America" a week after being sacked from his job hosting the CNN, Sanchez apologized Friday for the slap on CNN and Comedy Central Jon Stewart's called a "bigot".

The comments were broadcast on a radio broadcast on 30 September.

Sanchez said he was tired when he made the emergence of radio, and my daughter had a softball game I desperately wanted to go, and I was a little impatient. I said some things that should not have to say. He was wrong. It was not just bad, it was offensive. "

A day later, he was unemployed.

It has beef with Stewart or CNN », insisted, however, pressed the" GMA "anchor George Stephanopoulos, the Sanchez still seemed to be rubbing against abuse.

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"Is this really fair? Why is it always me?" He said, trying to account for its response in other cases, when Stewart himself chose to deride the "The Daily Show», a satirical news program.

He also mentioned the "landscape" of hosting the prime-time news wire: "There is not a Hispanic, an Asian-American or African American alone," he said.

Sanchez, who was born in Cuba and who worked for CNN since 2004, has hosted two hours' List Rick "afternoon programming CNN. He had the prime time version of this topic in recent months, but lost that slot time for a new spectacle of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and columnist Kathleen Parker. It was released Monday.

"We try to make excuses," says Sanchez.

When Stephanopoulos asked if he could ever return to CNN if given the chance, Sanchez said, "absolutely. The CNN is a wonderful, wonderful organization. CNN did not screw up. Rick Sanchez screwed up."