Posts Tagged race-baiting

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Liberal super PAC attacks former labor secretary for being Chinese

To add to the canon of not-only-Republicans-make-stupid-racist-comments, Former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao found herself at the receiving end of a vicious attack by Progress Kentucky, a liberal super PAC in Kentucky. Her sin? Being married to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. Oh, and being Asian.

Here’s one tweet posted (and defended vigorously) by Progress Kentucky:

Despite whatever reservations one may have about Chao or McConnell’s conservative politics, this sort of attack is heinous and pathetic. Never mind that Chao was born in Taiwan, not China, never mind that she has been a U.S. citizen since she was a child, (despite Progress Kentucky’s suggestions that she “bought” her citizenship) and never mind that the allegations of ...

To add to the canon of not-only-Republicans-make-stupid-racist-comments, Former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao found herself at the receiving end of a vicious attack by Progress Kentucky, a liberal super PAC in Kentucky. Her sin? Being ...
By Samhita • 11 years ago

Shorter Priebus: “If Obama wasn’t so black, the GOP wouldn’t have to be so racist.”

OK, maybe not exactly what Reince Priebus, RNC chairman, said over the weekend on CNN–but he did essentially blame the Obama administration for calling out a Super PAC plan proposing race-baiting. According to Priebus, the Obama team wants to focus on this instead of the real questions about his leadership at hand. Well, if that is the focus of your campaign against Obama–why not admit that a plan that seeks to unearth a buried and inaccurate fallacy about Obama’s black nationalist roots is deeply problematic? Oh, because you are using that strategy, you know–where you say one thing, but do something completely different.

via Think Progress, Priebus on Candy Crowley’s State of the Union,

I know how it works. It’s the Democrats and Barack Obama that ...

OK, maybe not exactly what Reince Priebus, RNC chairman, said over the weekend on CNN–but he did essentially blame the Obama administration for calling out a Super PAC plan proposing race-baiting. According to Priebus, the Obama team wants to ...