Huffington Post reports that CNN has finally cancelled Rick (Frothy) Santorum for racist comments he made about Native Americans in April:
“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.”
After making the ignorant, racist comments, Frothy thought it would be a good idea to go on Chris Cuomo’s show and try to ‘whitesplain’ them; an executive who asked for anonymity thought differently:
“I think after that appearance, it was pretty clear we couldn’t use him again,” said the executive.
The network has been taking heat from Native advocacy groups and allies for weeks amid its silence on the situation. Their anger at Santorum has been shifting from him to CNN itself.
“Rick Santorum is an unhinged and embarrassing racist who disgraces CNN and any other media company that provides him a platform,” NCAI president Fawn Sharp said in a fiery statement last month that went viral. “Televising someone with his views on Native American genocide is fundamentally no different than putting an outright Nazi on television to justify the Holocaust. Any mainstream media organization should fire him or face a boycott from more than 500 tribal nations and our allies from across the country and worldwide.”
