CNN 減少(する)s former 上院議員 Rick Santorum after 発言/述べるs on Native American culture

By Kanishka Singh

May 23 (Reuters) - Former 共和国の/共和党の U.S. 上院議員 Rick Santorum has been dropped as a 上級の political commentator by CNN after 発言/述べるs he made about Native American culture drew 批評.

Santorum gave a speech in April at an event of a 保守的な organization 指名するd the Young America's 創立/基礎 where he said:

"We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture."

CNN, which (機の)カム under 圧力 to 減少(する) him as a commentator after the 発言/述べるs, said on Saturday it had parted ways with Santorum.

"When I 調印するd on with CNN, I understood I would be 供給するing commentary that is not 定期的に heard by the typical CNN テレビ視聴者. I 高く評価する/(相場などが)上がる the 適切な時期 CNN 供給するd me over the past 4 years," Santorum said later on Twitter.

The Native American 新聞記者/雑誌記者s 協会 had 勧めるd indigenous 新聞記者/雑誌記者s to 避ける working with CNN and had called for his 解雇/(訴訟の)却下 from the television 網状組織.

When Santorum appeared on the 網状組織 in 早期に May, on "Cuomo Prime Time," CNN 錨,総合司会者 Chris Cuomo asked him about the 支配する, and Santorum 定評のある that his comments were 不確かの. He said that he misspoke.

"I was talking about, and I misspoke in this 尊敬(する)・点, I was talking about the 設立するing, and the 原則s 具体的に表現するd in the 設立するing."

"The way we 扱う/治療するd Native Americans was horrific. It goes against every bone and everything I've ever fought for, as a leader, in the 議会," he told CNN. "I was 簡単に talking about the 設立するing 文書s of the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs, not the 植民地s." (報告(する)/憶測ing by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)

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