'I Told the Truth': Santorum Decries 'Intolerance of the Left'

[CatWoman]

‘I Told the Truth’: Santorum Decries ‘Intolerance of the Left’ and ‘Cancel Culture’ to Hannity in First Interview Since Firing from CNN


Rick Santorum appeared on Fox News Monday night in his first TV appearance since being let go by CNN.

To recap: Santorum came under fire several weeks ago for the following comments he made about Native Americans:

You know, if you think of other countries like Italy and Greece and China and Turkey and places like that, they’ve all sort of changed over time. I mean, they’ve been there for millennia in many cases. And their culture has sort of evolved over time, but not us. We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly that — there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture. It was born of the people who came here, pursuing religious liberty to practice their faith.

Santorum was widely condemned for those remarks, and Native American organizations called for his firing. A few days later Chris Cuomo confronted Santorum on air over it, and Santorum said that he “misspoke.”

Santorum started Monday night by telling Hannity that he gives CNN some credit for keeping him on as a contributor for a few years, saying there was pressure to fire him for a while, but said the network dropping him is “disappointing.”

He defended his earlier and insisted, “What I said was not at all disparaging towards Native Americans. What I was talking about is the founding of the United States of America, and that Native Americans did not have a role in the founding of our country.”

“One of the things I’m concerned about is you get savaged by telling the truth and I told the truth here,” Santorum added.

At one point he said, “The intolerance of the left is really the issue here and the cancel culture that is flowing from it.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/i-told-the-truth-santorum-decries-intolerance-of-the-left-and-cancel-culture-to-hannity-in-first-interview-since-firing-from-cnn/

[Blue Owl]

1. When you're Santorum, the truth squirts

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2. Once again, this Ojibwe says fuck you.

[Doc Sportello]

5. Is there a similar Ojibwe saying?

I'd like to hear it.

[catbyte]

21. The closest I can think of is: Hegiinuk

Roughly translated: Fucking dumbshit.

My favorite: Moosh Koosh which translates into "dumbass."

[Doc Sportello]

24. I love it!!!

Would it be ok if this old white guy used those sometimes on unsuspecting Moosh Kooshes and Hegiinuks?

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25. Absolutely!

[Cobalt Violet]

11. I'd love to see him replace with an Ojibwe or another Indigenous American.

With this and the "something else" graphic, it's clear CNN needs something else. A Native voice for starters.

[TwilightZone]

3. He might be the least self-aware public figure alive.

And that's saying something. He is utterly clueless and out-of-touch with reality, yet has not the slightest inkling that that's the case.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Didn't see that coming ...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. I'm sure Sean played back the original statement and asked Rick to defend it line by line.

Right?

[NewHendoLib]

7. it is so hard to choose the biggest republican fucking asshole. changes daily

if not hourly.

Lowest of the low

[madaboutharry]

8. Remember the time when he started to make

A racist comment about Black people and caught himself in mid sentence? He tried to convince everyone that he was talking about “Blah” people.

Well I do not know who these “Blah” people are, but I know who Rick Santorum is. He is a racist asshole and I’m glad CNN fired him.

[Cobalt Violet]

9. "I mean, there was nothing here."

How is he saying that not cancel culture?


I clearly understand that when they whine about "cancel culture" they're whining about canceling racism. Racism is their culture.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

10. Sometimes 'telling the truth' for no apparent reason isn't taken well by others

There was no need to make these comments, and it's also really not even 'true' in the first place.

I don't necessarily support firing the guy for saying this ... it's not HORRIBLE ... but I don't object to it either.

Corporations are people too, after all.

[Shaddox]

12. "You get savaged" JFC - this MF is really worst of the worst

[gratuitous]

16. For a privileged white guy, that was a savaging

Losing his sinecure like that is worse than anything that happened to George Floyd or Breonna Taylor. Luckily, Santorum will probably catch on with some privileged white guy welfare agency like the Heritage Foundation or some more obscure dark money portal. But he won't get to be on the teevee anymore! Weep, America, for the plight of Rick Santorum, held responsible for something he said.

[Buns_of_Fire]

22. Well, it *was* Dan Savage who defined "santorum" for the world.

So he's been "savaged" at least twice now. Good thing he hasn't provoked the Savage Wiener.

[Solly Mack]

13. Oh, fuck him. Shame we can't expunge him as casually as he dismisses Native peoples and others.

Conservatives whingeing about "cancel culture" have some fucking nerve when they have tried, from the beginning, to erase Native peoples, black Americans, Asian-Americans, GLBTQ Americans, Arab-Americans, women - and everyone else not part of their dominant culture narrative - from America's history.

[CatWoman]

17. lol -- you've been hanging around with The Hound

[Solly Mack]

18. Not bad company, really. lol

[Johonny]

14. Republicans used to be the party of personal responsibility

Now when one of them screws their own cozy gig, all we hear is blame and victimhood. They never own up to their stupid insensitive behavior.

Like everything else GOP, personal responsibility was just another BS talking point they never meant.

[Effete Snob]

15. Fuck that literal shit stain

[Beartracks]

19. "Cancel culture" is Republicans stealing the vote from their fellow Americans.

Not this stuff that Carlson and Hannity whine about.

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[Yavin4]

20. "that Native Americans did not have a role in the founding of our country". The ignorance is strong.

Simple Google search yields:

What evidence exists that the delegates studied Native governments? Descriptions of them appear in the three-volume handbook John Adams wrote for the convention surveying different types of governments and ideas about government. It included European philosophers like John Locke and Montesquieu, whom U.S. history textbooks have long identified as constitutional influences; but it also included the Iroquois Confederacy and other Indigenous governments, which many of the delegates knew through personal experience.

“You had the Cherokee chiefs having dinner with [Thomas] Jefferson’s father in Williamsburg, and then in the northern area of course you had this Philadelphia interaction with the Delaware and the Iroquois,” says Kirke Kickingbird, a lawyer, member of the Kiowa Tribe and coauthor with Lynn Kickingbird of Indians and the United States Constitution: A Forgotten Legacy.

https://www.history.com/news/iroquois-confederacy-influence-us-constitution

The Iroquois Confederacy, founded by the Great Peacemaker in 11421, is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth2. In 1988, the U.S. Senate paid tribute with a resolution3 that said, "The confederation of the original 13 colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the constitution itself."

https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy/

For Republicans like Santorum, the power of White supremacy means that their fact-free narratives define history simply because they're White. What they say goes regardless of the facts.

[hatrack]

23. Waaahh!! I'm a Bible-beating clown past my expiration date who can't get paid by the word anymore!!

STFU, Frothy. Good fucking riddance.