During an interview on Sirius XM's radio show Stand Up With Pete Dominick, on September 30, 2010, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a "bigot." When queried on the issue of whether Stewart likewise belonged to a minority group on account of his Jewish ethnicity, Sanchez responded, "yeah, very powerless people. [laughs] He's such a minority. I mean, you know, please. What are you kidding? I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart. And to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority?"[8][9][10] Sanchez' statements were construed by CBS News and MSNBC as an assertion that Jews controlled CNN and other networks.[8][9] In the day following his remarks,[11] CNN announced that Sanchez was no longer employed with the company.[9] He is alleged to have believed that his previous re-shuffle from CNN's 8:00pm time-slot, which he temporarily anchored, and replacement by the new CNN show Parker Spitzer, was discriminatory based on his ethnicity, on the part of CNN's leadership. His statements during the radio show were made during a discussion concerning the extent to which Jews in the United States faced overtly or covertly discriminatory attitudes, compared to Latinos. Sanchez also vented his negative feelings about Jon Stewart's portrayal of him in Stewart's news-oriented show on Comedy Central, The Daily Show.[12]