Imagine this: A prominent Democrat running for office is married to a Hispanic woman and touts her on the campaign trail as his "greatest asset". A perennial Republican candidate goes on social media and actually says that the wife is not really an American since she is Hispanic. When questioned about that message, the Republican says that the Democrat brought his wife into the campaign because he mentioned her on the campaign trail. What do you think would be the response?
My guess is that no matter what else happened in the world for the next ten days, there would be wall to wall coverage of the terrible racist attack by the entire Republican party on this poor Hispanic woman. MSNBC would run special shows to cover the attack and its aftermath. The mainstream media would do story after story on the subject. On PBS, they would hold some sort of academic discussion about how it is American society that has failed when our political leaders resort to such blatant racism.
Of course, none of this happened.
What actually happened is that in Kentucky, a Democrat who has run for the state senate as the endorsed Democrat candidate multiple times and who now heads a political action group designed to elect more Democrat women to office denounced the wife of Republican senator Mitch McConnell as "not being from Kentucky" since she is "Asian". The Democrat, Kathy Groob, did not do this just one time; she did it repeatedly. And when Groob was questioned about why she would attack McConnell's wife, she tweeted "If Mitch McConnell is going to bring his wife in the race, then her lack of KY status is fair game." I should add also that Groob is working to support McConnell Democrat opponent for the senate in this year's election; she is not a free agent.
Groob has since deleted her messages but not before they were copied by others. If you want to read them all, you can do so here.
For anyone who does not know, McConnell is married to Elaine Chao. Indeed, Chao is of Asian descent, but she is an American citizen. In fact, Chao came to America as a small child, grew up on Long Island in New York State and has had a distinguished career. She was Secretary of Labor in the Bush administration. When McConnell calls her his greatest asset, it is not just because she is his wife.
I checked to see who has been covering this story, so that I could compare the size of the firestorm when a Democrat makes a racist comment with what would have happened had the parties been reversed. Guess what? There is almost no coverage of the entire matter. None of the mainstream media even have a single mention of the matter. In the Kentucky media, there is coverage. Groob's statements are described as "unfortunate" by some Democrat consultants. That's it.
I wish I could say that I am surprised by the lack of coverage of a racist attack by this Democrat in Kentucky against a prominent Republican woman, but I am not.
My guess is that no matter what else happened in the world for the next ten days, there would be wall to wall coverage of the terrible racist attack by the entire Republican party on this poor Hispanic woman. MSNBC would run special shows to cover the attack and its aftermath. The mainstream media would do story after story on the subject. On PBS, they would hold some sort of academic discussion about how it is American society that has failed when our political leaders resort to such blatant racism.
Of course, none of this happened.
What actually happened is that in Kentucky, a Democrat who has run for the state senate as the endorsed Democrat candidate multiple times and who now heads a political action group designed to elect more Democrat women to office denounced the wife of Republican senator Mitch McConnell as "not being from Kentucky" since she is "Asian". The Democrat, Kathy Groob, did not do this just one time; she did it repeatedly. And when Groob was questioned about why she would attack McConnell's wife, she tweeted "If Mitch McConnell is going to bring his wife in the race, then her lack of KY status is fair game." I should add also that Groob is working to support McConnell Democrat opponent for the senate in this year's election; she is not a free agent.
Groob has since deleted her messages but not before they were copied by others. If you want to read them all, you can do so here.
For anyone who does not know, McConnell is married to Elaine Chao. Indeed, Chao is of Asian descent, but she is an American citizen. In fact, Chao came to America as a small child, grew up on Long Island in New York State and has had a distinguished career. She was Secretary of Labor in the Bush administration. When McConnell calls her his greatest asset, it is not just because she is his wife.
I checked to see who has been covering this story, so that I could compare the size of the firestorm when a Democrat makes a racist comment with what would have happened had the parties been reversed. Guess what? There is almost no coverage of the entire matter. None of the mainstream media even have a single mention of the matter. In the Kentucky media, there is coverage. Groob's statements are described as "unfortunate" by some Democrat consultants. That's it.
I wish I could say that I am surprised by the lack of coverage of a racist attack by this Democrat in Kentucky against a prominent Republican woman, but I am not.
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