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CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Racist Comments About Native Americans
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:03 pm
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CNN has terminated its contract with senior political commentator Rick Santorum after racist, inaccurate remarks he made about Native Americans, HuffPost has learned.
Santorum, a former Republican senator and two-time failed GOP presidential candidate, sparked outrage last month after claiming there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native people haven’t contributed much to American culture, anyway.
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“We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here,” Santorum told students during remarks at a Young America’s Foundation event. “I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”
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National civil rights groups have also called for his firing. CNN has stayed silent on the matter.
But on Saturday, a CNN senior executive told HuffPost that the network quietly ended its contract with Santorum this week. This executive, who requested anonymity to speak openly, said the decision to cut ties with Santorum came after he went on one of the network’s shows, “Cuomo Prime Time,” to explain himself shortly after he made his racist comments. He blew it, said this executive, and after that, nobody at the network wanted to keep him around.
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During his appearance on Chris Cuomo’s show, Santorum said he “misspoke” and that his comments were “out of context.” But the context of his remarks was simply that he said them, and he did not apologize during the segment.
“I think after that appearance, it was pretty clear we couldn’t use him again,” said the executive.
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Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:05 pm to Cs
Kinda makes you wonder why he was doing business with them in the first place
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:05 pm to Cs
Pretty silly thing to say on the air Rick
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:07 pm to Cs
The truth hurts man
Make it go away
Make it go away
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:07 pm to Cs
quote:
“We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here,” Santorum told students during remarks at a Young America’s Foundation event. “I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”
Well...
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:10 pm to Cs
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there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture
Well we have a lot of sports teams that are named after...oh wait..
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:11 pm to Cs
He’s a putz, but he’s kinda not wrong either. Nothing the early settlers built was based on the Native American culture.
Rail, roads, cities... we built that!
Rail, roads, cities... we built that!
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:11 pm to Cs
quote:Well that is a woefully ignorant statement.
We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:13 pm to Cs
This was like a month ago, surely you can find a more recent outrage.
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:13 pm to Cs
He was right. That means evil in today’s world. The red man had done nothing for centuries time to give it up.
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:14 pm to Seldom Seen
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Well we have a lot of sports teams that are named after...oh wait..
Cant even use them on a box of butter. The lady of which was drawn by a native american.
He is right. The left erased Native Americans from US culture
The only thing anyone needs to know about Native Americans now is that they own shitty dirty casinos where you can drive by people chugging bottles of XXX marked liquor while beating each other up
Thats the only culture there is
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:15 pm to Cs
Yet Fredo continues to work there after helping his almost literal mob boss of a brother chop up 15,000 bodies and dispose of the people he murdered. Seriously, it’s at the point where the Constable is actively a member of the mob and has bullied all of his colleagues, subordinates, and superiors into submission into doing his will. Chris Cuomo save for his intellect is no different than Matt Damon in “The Departed”, except the entire department are now his accomplices.
This post was edited on 5/22/21 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:16 pm to KiwiHead
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This was like a month ago, surely you can find a more recent outrage.
Santorum's comments were made a month ago, his termination with CNN was revealed today.
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:18 pm to Cs
Post the racist part. I didn’t see it in the link.
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:21 pm to Cs
He's absolutely correct.
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:22 pm to Padme
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Kinda makes you wonder why he was doing business with them in the first place
I know exactly why he was doing business with them: because he’s stupid. Rick Santorum is a fricking idiot. He’s a well meaning idiot looking to cross party lines, but an idiot nonetheless. They’d never, ever hire a right winger who is as intelligent as Van Jones. That should be the bar to Van Jones’ right wing contemporary: is he as intelligent as their openly liberal commentator? If not, don’t hire him. I’m convinced at this point his replacement will Todd Aiken to paint all people to the right as dumb as he is. Van should speak out against this since he’s a huge opponent against cancel culture and properly understands it unlike his idiot colleagues.
This post was edited on 5/22/21 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:23 pm to Cs
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but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”
Hell, there isn't much American culture in America anymore if we're being truthful here. Vast majority of immigrants coming to America want to keep the culture of their homeland instead of adopting the American culture that most of us were raised in. American culture is on the decline sadly.
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:34 pm to Homesick Tiger
Seriously, bring on Thomas Sowell as Santorum’s replacement. Not that Van Jones would do this at this point (he completely apologized for the whitelash comment with a $20K piece on why he was clearly wrong on election night), but couldn’t do the racism angle against him and he has a similar and likely superior IQ to Jones. Van is a smart guy that I respect, but Rick Santorum is an idiot and I don’t respect him. That’s by design. Get someone intelligent to replace him that can play well off of Van. Santorum should be fired, but for different reasons.
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:41 pm to Cs
LOL
Posted on 5/22/21 at 2:47 pm to Cs
Indian tribes were savages and they did horrible things to one another. The Comanches were the worst. They were up there with the Aztecs in their brutality. Its all documented but there exists this narrative that indians were peace-loving maze growers. They were brutal. Even the Shoshonian Nez Pierce and Ute Tribes were bad, but not like the Comanches. That is attributed more to the topography of the land here (less accessable) rather than a more peaceful culture in those tribes. They couldn't peel the skin of one another because they often couldn't get to one another.
I also think Santorum is the worst type of politician and political pundit. Good riddance.
I also think Santorum is the worst type of politician and political pundit. Good riddance.
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