Why Did CNN Take Too Long To Fire Rick Santorum?

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readJun 8, 2021

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Rick Santorum, a former GOP senator and the main source of my most viral tweets advocating for his immediate removal as CNN’s most notorious #MAGA commentator, who also happens to be the dumbest ex-politician alive, has just been permanently removed from CNN’s infuriating rotation of overpaid and overexposed faces.

It’s the same raging machine that provided high-visibility to a slew of up and coming superstars of conservative media like Megyn Kelly, Kayleigh McEnany and Meghan McCain to name a few, who all projected the more digestible version of Trump’s emerging America with the anchor of white feminism that catapulted their mainstream appeal.

NBC couldn’t wait to get hands on former Fox News staple Megyn Kelly, so much so that by 2017, the network successfully nabbed the “golden girl” who famously stood her ground against the bullish tactics of the same sexist and racist pig she voted for. Kelly scored an epic deal that paid her a shitload of money to host her own morning show.

Almost a year later in 2018, Kelly and her employer abruptly parted ways, due to the unsalvageable scandal ignited by the case made for wearing blackface as a choice for Halloween, by a former employee of a major hub for conspiracy theories and derogatory messaging, who weirdly seemed like a great fit by misguided and gluttonous NBC executives.

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who has unsurprisingly been recruited by Trump TV otherwise known as Fox News, to continue her robotic delivery of packaged untruths spiced up by her smug allegiance to the disruptiveness of #MAGA, was previously groomed at the roundtable of CNN’s best and brightest.

McEnany found fame through the viewership of CNN’s most loyal, who eagerly watched her passionate and sometimes heated debates with frequent sparring partner and fellow political commentator Van Jones, who once predicted the imminent big break that would make Kayleigh McEnany a household name.

Well, Mr. Jones was right on the money, which isn’t shocking since he helped play a vital role in normalizing the hateful rhetoric employed by #MAGA subscribers and avid Trumpsters, who are strategically showcases on massive platforms, where they gain a following and lucrative attention for…

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