CNN has ousted anchor Rick Sanchez after he called Jon Stewart a "bigot" and implied that Jews control the media.

Sanchez appeared on Pete Dominick's Sirius radio show last week where the conversation turned to the topic of Jon Stewart, who frequently makes fun of Sanchez on The Daily Show. "I think Jon Stewart's a bigot," Sanchez said. A few minutes later Sanchez discussed what it's like to be an oppressed minority, at which point Dominick mentioned that Stewart, as a Jew, is a minority himself. In response "Sanchez seemed to make the claim that Jews run CNN and the news business in general and that Stewart thus did not in fact know what it was like to feel the sting of prejudice." From Dominick's blog:

Very powerless people... [snickers] He's such a minority, I mean, you know [sarcastically]... 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? Yeah. [sarcastically]

That's right, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez basically suggested that Jews have run the media.

Pete asked, "They can't relate to that? A Jewish person doesn't have a constant fear in the back of their head that we could [inaudible] the Holocaust?"

"I think his father could," Sanchez replied, referring to Stewart.

"I think every Jewish person feels that way," Pete said.

"I hope so," Sanchez responded.

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If you've ever wondered whether the waters really could have parted when Moses and the Israelites left Egypt, you're not alone. Curious as to whether the Exodus story could have happened, researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder decided to study the science behind the parting of the sea.

After analyzing maps of the region, archaeological records and satellite imagery, the researchers determined that an area south of the Mediterranean Sea would have been a coastal lagoon 3,000 years ago. It also would have been an ideal location for the biblical story, winds permitting. From the Telegraph:

The scientists found that an east wind of 63 mph blowing for 12 hours would have driven the shallow waters back, both into the lake and the river channel.

For a period of four hours, this would have created a land bridge about two miles long and three miles wide.

The waters really would have been parted, with barriers of water raised on both sides of the newly exposed mud flats.

As soon as the winds dropped, the waters would have rushed back, much like a tidal bore.

CNN adds that as the waters flowed back into the area anyone on the exposed mud flat would have drowned. "The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus," said Carl Drews of NCAR, the lead author of the study.

Biblical parting of the Red Sea 'could have happened' [Telegraph]
Where did waters part for Moses? Not where you think [CNN]
Via Science behind the parting of the Red Sea [BoingBoing]     

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