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After being fired by CNN over the weekend for making admittedly clumsy remarks about Native Americans and the founding of the United States, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum appeared with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity Monday night to discuss what happened. And according to Santorum, he had talked with liberals at CNN who were “concerned” about the network’s adoption of “cancel culture.”
Over the course of the interview, Santorum admitted that he misspoke and explained what he meant. And Hannity lamented how that wasn’t enough anymore. “I said people can make mistakes and move on. But not anymore, now it's, Oh, if you say something, you can even revise and extend your remarks, apologize, explain in more detail what you meant, nobody wants to hear it,” he decried.
Apparently, there were people at CNN who agreed with Hannity in private. “And I hear from a lot of liberals, in fact, many CNN contributors who talk to me afterwards who were very, very concerned about the cancel culture that’s now hitting them at CNN,” Santorum shared.
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