ABC snags first post-firing interview with Rick Sanchez

Rick Sanchez will appear on ABC's "Good Morning America" Friday in his first interview since being fired from CNN a week earlier, a network spokeswoman confirmed.

Sanchez apologized Wednesday in a statement to anyone offended by his radio meltdown last week, which included blasting Jon Stewart as a "bigot" and suggesting that Jews run the networks, including CNN.

In the statement, Sanchez referred to his comments on a satellite radio show as "inartful" and insisted that he's "very much opposed to hate and intolerance, in any form, and I have frequently spoken out against prejudice." (MSNBC host Keith Olbermann took issue with Sanchez's apology and said the comments weren't "inartful" but "anti-Semitic.")

Stewart was fairly kind to Sanchez when he responded to the incident Monday on "The Daily Show."

[Political gaffe: Campaign casts for "hicky" type]

Sure, Stewart played a video his staff had been working on that compared Sanchez to Steve Carell's character on "The Office." But he also aired a CNN clip of Sanchez calling out a neo-Nazi for bigotry and said that Sanchez had a "good heart." The two men spoke by phone earlier that day.

Sanchez said in the statement that he has "no hard feelings" toward the CNN brass and is excited "about a new future of opportunities." He's currently promoting his first book, "Conventional Idiocy."

Other popular stories on Yahoo!:
• Johnny Depp dons pirate gear, surprises classroom
• Facebook founder target of new prank
• Outcry over Gap's odd new logo