{"id":538876,"date":"2021-05-24T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538876"},"modified":"2021-05-24T17:21:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:21:04","slug":"opinion-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: CNN Doesn\u2019t Want To Hear Anyone Who Sounds Like You"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopinion-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-498133654-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN quietly let the word leak that it had fired conservative commentator Rick Santorum over the weekend, but its personnel decision sent another message loud and clear: The network doesn\u2019t want to hear from anyone who doesn\u2019t share its anchors\u2019 elitist worldview.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum represented one of the last remaining voices of divergence and dissent at the nation\u2019s third-most-popular cable news network \u2014 and that was one too many.<\/p>\n<p>To those with eyes to see, the former U.S. senator\u2019s firing looked inevitable. CNN\u2019s viewers had long targeted the conservative Catholic for his outspoken defense of life, marriage, strong borders, and faith. \u201cSantorum was long a lightning rod at CNN,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/22\/media\/rick-santorum-cnn-departure-native-american-criticism\/index.html\">admitted<\/a>&nbsp;Brian Stelter, the host of CNN\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources,\u201d when the network finally reported the termination.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum\u2019s firing represents the legacy media\u2019s decision to renege on their brief, shining moment of clarity: They\u2019re completely out of touch with the average American.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2016 election shocked the media \u2014 who are based almost exclusively in Washington and New York \u2014 its executives promised to go on reconnaissance in the heartland. A series of pundits and prognosticators said they had become estranged from everyone outside their bubble and vowed to get to know the people again. \u201cIf I have a <em>mea culpa<\/em> for journalists and journalism, it\u2019s that we\u2019ve got to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than the people we talk to \u2026 and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/10\/business\/media\/news-outlets-wonder-where-the-predictions-went-wrong.html\">said<\/a> Dean Baquet, an editor at the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, a few outlets promised to feature more conservative voices on the air. In 2017, Rick Santorum joined CNN. Who better to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cheats\/2017\/01\/17\/rick-santorum-hired-by-cnn\">interpret<\/a> Outside-the-Beltway America to the media than Rick Santorum, a two-time U.S. senator from the swing state of Pennsylvania, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blue-Collar-Conservatives-Recommitting-America\/dp\/1482997452\">blue-collar brand of conservatism<\/a> provided much of the policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/11\/25\/donald-trump-presidential-campaign-521145.html\">embraced<\/a> by Donald Trump in 2016?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this would be the first stage of those \u201cnational conversations\u201d the Left are always inviting us to have?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the legacy media embraced its role as the PR engine of the #Resistance. That meant wall-to-wall coverage of the Russian dossier, baseless insistence that the election had been stolen through \u201ccollusion\u201d with a foreign power, and vapid assurances that \u201cthe walls are closing in\u201d on Donald Trump. Anyone who disagreed with their agenda likely took his walking orders from the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>After making a commitment to understand grassroots voters, CNN progressively&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/22\/media\/rick-santorum-cnn-departure-native-american-criticism\/index.html\">shed<\/a>&nbsp;conservative commentators Jeffrey Lord, Paris Dennard, and Jason Miller. Ed Martin lasted just <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/media\/369685-trump-supporter-ed-martin-out-at-cnn-after-4-month-stint\">four months<\/a>. Upon hearing the news, his fellow Republican CNN pundit, Ana Navarro, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ananavarro\/status\/954159634612412416\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cBye. Fe-Li-Cia.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5433070866142\">\n<p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">Bye. Fe-Li-Cia.<br \/>\ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ttw24R04p1\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ttw24R04p1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ana Navarro-C\u00e1rdenas (@ananavarro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ananavarro\/status\/954159634612412416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Santorum\u2019s real sin was that he made the network look as elitist, misguided, and fact-challenged as it is. He regularly won the debate while outnumbered three-to-one as the network\u2019s token conservative. He once made Chris Cuomo <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/05\/07\/pro-abortion-cnn-contributor-insanely-claims-unborn-babies-arent-even-human\/\">disagree<\/a> with the notion that an unborn child in the womb \u201cis human and alive.\u201d The network tried to settle the score by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2019\/11\/20\/rick-santorum-carrie-cordero-trump-impeachment-hearings-ac360-vpx.cnn\">posting<\/a> his fellow panelists\u2019 angry retorts and personal insults. Viewers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/liberal-cnn-viewers-complain-network-allowed-rick-santorum-to-compliment-trump-on-coronavirus\">blanched<\/a> if he gave President Trump credit for any of his achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum\u2019s success so infuriated viewers that even token representation of dissent proved too much. Punishing him for his off-the-cuff remarks at a speech, while letting its own guests and hosts indict 74 million Americans as potential domestic terrorists, should give up the game: From now on, CNN purges dissenting voices.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum\u2019s ouster leaves CNN with significantly less intellectual diversity. \u201cCNN has scores of paid contributors who bring point of view and insight in many different fields,\u201d wrote Stelter.<\/p>\n<p>But CNN\u2019s guests all repeat the exact same talking points.<\/p>\n<p>Many of CNN\u2019s remaining Republican commentators&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nearly-half-of-cnns-republican-commentators-are-voting-for-biden\/\">endorsed<\/a>&nbsp;Joe Biden before the 2020 election, including Ana Navarro, John Kasich, Charlie Dent, Amanda Carpenter, S.E. Cupp, and Miles Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Getting rid of Rick Santorum shows that CNN plans to traverse the full expanse of the ideological spectrum between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/13\/how_could_obama_have_hired_van_jones_98293.html\">former Maoists<\/a> (like the aforementioned <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2009\/09\/conspiracy-czar\/\">Van Jones<\/a>) to Republicans willing to agree that the current GOP is the <a href=\"https:\/\/voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu\/reagan-evil-empire-speech-text\/\">focus<\/a> of evil in the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, CNN fired Santorum for his political beliefs after it spent the last three weeks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-talked-about-liz-cheney-four-times-more-than-the-israel-hamas-conflict\">obsessing<\/a>&nbsp;over Liz Cheney\u2019s removal from her House Republican leadership post, a move its anchors equated with a near-fascist aversion to ideological dissent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that the current Republican Party seems to have no room at this point for anyone who speaks out,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2105\/03\/nday.03.html\">groused <\/a>John Berman on May 3, just hours before Santorum\u2019s final appearance on the network. A week later, Erin Burnett <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2105\/10\/ebo.01.html\">asked <\/a>Van Jones, \u201cIs there room in the Republican Party for anyone who\u2019s against former President Trump?\u201d As far back as February, CNN correspondent Abby Phillip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2102\/05\/sitroom.01.html\">told<\/a> Wolf Blitzer, that \u201cthere is no room in the Republican Party right now for people who are not willing to back Donald Trump up on virtually anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooking dissent is for thee, but not for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was [at] CNN I heard [c]ommentators call ICE agents \u2018slave traders\u2019 &amp; all Trump supporters \u2018racists,\u2019 and nobody on the Left was ever disciplined,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonMillerinDC\/status\/1396271511099617280\">tweeted<\/a> Jason Miller, who is now at Newsmax. \u201cEver.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.624242424242\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very disappointed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickSantorum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RickSantorum<\/a> made inartful comment &amp; apologized. He\u2019s a proven good guy.<\/p>\n<p>When I was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> I heard Commentators call ICE agents \u201cslave traders\u201d &amp; all Trump supporters \u201cracists,\u201d and nobody on the Left was ever disciplined.<\/p>\n<p>Ever.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/49xyJxduhb\">https:\/\/t.co\/49xyJxduhb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonMillerinDC\/status\/1396271511099617280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In CNN\u2019s alternate reality, there\u2019s room for people of all party labels, as long as they\u2019re willing to hew to the network\u2019s party line.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Andrew Cuomo once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jan\/19\/gov-cuomo-pro-life-conservatives-have-no-place-new\/\">said<\/a> that pro-life, pro-family, pro-Second Amendment conservatives have \u201cno place in the state of New York.\u201d Now, CNN is taking the same line in Atlanta. Maybe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chris-cuomo-advised-andrew-cuomo-on-sexual-harassment-allegations-cnn-wont-punish-him\">advice<\/a> on his calls with Chris Cuomo goes both ways.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN quietly let the word leak that it had fired conservative commentator Rick Santorum over the weekend, but its personnel decision sent another message loud and clear: The network doesn\u2019t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312857,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-498133654-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"OPINION: CNN Doesn\u2019t Want To Hear Anyone Who Sounds Like You","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-498133654-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"OPINION: CNN Doesn\u2019t Want To Hear Anyone Who Sounds Like You","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}