‘Embarrassing Racist’: Native American Orgs Rip Santorum For Claiming There Was ‘Nothing’ Before Colonizers Arrived

The leaders of organizations for Native Americans are raking CNN commentator Rick Santorum over the coals after he claimed there was white colonizers “birthed a nation from nothing” in America and that “there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1371490

Santorum is getting a raw deal. Did Native Americans have iPhones or TV before Eurpopeans colonized the continent? NO, THEY DIDN’T!! CASE CLOSED!!!

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Their ignorance is amazing, or maybe they’re boldfaced liars.

I vote both.

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Fully half of the 50 States have names that reference Native American names. Sure, rick, there was nothing here. Those names are all made up.

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Speaking of embarrassing racist things, how many here remember the 1985 MOVE bombings when the government blasted an entire city block to oblivion to eliminate a black civil rights group?

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https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/1386774865600937987

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CNN can’t be okay with this. They have to let him go.

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Rick has always been a jerk. Ah the treasured memories of the time he crashed a college party in 1977, tried to pick up a girl and she turned around and slapped him in the face. Didn’t stop that fool from another try where he got smacked down again and we laughed at him! Rick was a real life Navin Johnson in 1977 and he still is.

He never got over Bob Casey giving him the smackdown that he so richly deserved.

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The Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike was an attack by United States military forces on 6 July 2008, in which 47 Afghans were killed. The group was escorting a bride to a wedding ceremony in the groom’s village in Haska Meyna District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

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Not to mention nearly everywhere in PA. You know it as the place this piece of shit is supposedly from.

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I live in Issaquah, on the slope of Squak mountain. I like Native American names so here’s one for Santorum:

“Little Big Mouth”

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Um, Navin came by his awkward social skills honestly.

Sheesh, slagging Navin Johnson. I give up.

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“Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”-Abraham Lincoln

Whatever happened to the party he belonged to? None of them can ever shut up…

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Just a reminder from Eric Boehlert’s Press Run about CNN!

During the 2016 campaign, that same Jeff Zucker privately offered the Trump campaign media advice, and floated the idea of CNN giving the GOP candidate a weekly TV show.

CNN has always had a Republican bias that goes back to it’s very start under Ted Turner.

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Lacking in basic skills, but a decent man.

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I prefer the Google to define Santorum.

Savage announced the winning entry, which defined “santorum” as “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex” .

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To be fair, the same can be said of Rick Santorum’s family after he was born.

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“I’m not sure i know what you mean by that, but we’re not ignorant! We’re white!”

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I live in Wichita Kansas, so it’s a twofer for me!

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“There were no dogs in America before we came here, nor men to be on them.”

–R. Santorum.

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