CNN's Rick Sanchez: Nixon/Kennedy Debate Took Place in 1962?
Published: 7/19/2010 5:56 PM ET
Rick Sanchez stumbled again on-air on his CNN program on Monday, getting
the year of the famous Kennedy-Nixon television debate wrong by a
margin of two years. Sanchez, who was trying to describe South Carolina
Democratic senatorial candidate Alvin Greene's first public speech as
the "converse" of the debate, initially guessed 1962 as the year of
the debate, but then broadened his answer to "early '60s"
[audio available
here].
The anchor, who misidentified the Galapagos Islands as Hawaii during CNN's live coverage of the February 27, 2010 Chilean earthquake, and "joked" that it was too cold in Iceland for volcanoes on April 15, brought on correspondent Jessica Yellin to discuss Greene's speech. Twenty-one minutes into the 4 pm Eastern hour, Yellin mentioned how she had "talked to the audience [at the speech] beforehand....Every single person I spoke to was a skeptic before, and almost all of them said they'd vote for him afterwards or support him."
The anchor, who misidentified the Galapagos Islands as Hawaii during CNN's live coverage of the February 27, 2010 Chilean earthquake, and "joked" that it was too cold in Iceland for volcanoes on April 15, brought on correspondent Jessica Yellin to discuss Greene's speech. Twenty-one minutes into the 4 pm Eastern hour, Yellin mentioned how she had "talked to the audience [at the speech] beforehand....Every single person I spoke to was a skeptic before, and almost all of them said they'd vote for him afterwards or support him."
