CNN political commentator Rick Santorum under fire for saying "there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"

USA Today

“We came here and created a blank slate," said the former Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania in a video for a conservative youth organization. "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." Responses to the clip varied from diving deeper into why Native American culture is missing to calls for CNN to terminate him. "But I'm the one who got fired by CNN," tweeted Kathy Griffin. Meanwhile, Michael Schur, whose Native American-themed Peacock comedy Rutherford Falls recently premiered on Peacock, tweeted in response to Santorum: "I'm not big into twitter promotion of projects I've worked on, but: watch Rutherford Falls, now airing on @peacockTV!" In a statement, Santorum said: “I had no intention of minimizing or in any way devaluing Native American culture.”