Twitter reacts to CNN hiring anti-LGBT former senator as Senior Political Commentator
Anti-gay former senator Rick Santorum has got a new job with CNN.
The former Republican presidential candidate who ran unsuccessfully in both 2012 and 2016 will be part of a new panel of political experts.
Santorum took to Twitter to announce the news saying: “Excited to announce that I’ve joined the @CNN team as a senior political commentator.”
Excited to announce that I’ve joined the @CNN team as a Senior Political Commentator!
— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) January 17, 2017
Santorum hasn’t held back when it comes to anti-gay views. More than once he has branded homosexuality a curable condition and said that the world would be “disrupted” by same-sex in the US.
After dropping out of the latest presidential race in February last year, the former senator for Pennsylvania was made Donald Trump’s adviser on faith issues.
But the internet isn’t happy with CNN’s appointment:.
Hey, @CNN. Remember when your newly-hired employee @RickSantorum called Barack Obama a “government nigg”?https://t.co/sUirtVJcBm
— Craig Harrington (@Craigipedia) January 18, 2017
@RickSantorum @CNN pic.twitter.com/lr4UwW3BNZ
— Rand Duren (@RandDuren) January 17, 2017
.@ricksantorum another bad hire by @CNN.
— Kathy Sullivan (@NHKathySullivan) January 17, 2017
@RickSantorum Your frothy mix of awful ideas is perfect for @CNN
— Nicolas Ward 📎 (@UltraNurd) January 17, 2017
@RickSantorum @CNN Will your suspicious obsession with gay men be on full display as usual? Or your creepy fixation on fetuses ?
— Joe Pauley (@joepauley) January 17, 2017
Of course, the infamous Santorum definition that Dan Savage coined has been used appropriately. If you don’t remember:
Apparently CNN hired @RickSantorum . Good reason to once again share @fakedansavage ‘s exquisite Google troll of him pic.twitter.com/ALF7bHjjuM
— T. Fisher King (@T_FisherKing) January 17, 2017
However, Trump did refuse to answer a question from a CNN reporter because, as he claimed, the broadcaster spread ‘fake news’.