Bingo. Scratch a progressive, find a racist. It’s a little something called projection. Want to know what a liberal thinks? Just look at what they accuse others of thinking. It’s also a case of the ignorant belief that all people who bitterly cling to living in the South are as racist as they are. Hey, Progress Kentucky, if you want to see an actual racist, you need only look in the mirror.
https://twitter.com/ProgressKy/status/302178205870215168
Wow. Absolutely disgraceful. “Senator McConnell? He’s married to one of those Chinese women.” Despicable and, yet, there’s more. The article they link to is from a conspiracy site, as WFPL reports. Hey, nothing like adding a little cuckoo pants to the race-baiting mix, huh? That wasn’t the only contemptible tweet.
https://twitter.com/ProgressKy/status/306398946530562048
https://twitter.com/ProgressKy/status/303979916276428800
Regress Progress Kentucky retweeted this disgusting remark, then swiftly deleted.
@Astra543 @ProgressKy She is married to Mitch McConell is't she? It stands to reason why she wld be down on american workers, her husband
— leona barrow (@jenekool) February 26, 2013
Alas, the Internet does progress. And it is forever.
There was even more.
https://twitter.com/progressky/status/306433645986594816
https://twitter.com/ProgressKy/status/306219020670083072
https://twitter.com/ProgressKy/status/305337514565189632
https://twitter.com/ProgressKy/status/305871825282420736
The executive director tweeted this today:
https://twitter.com/smarkreilly/status/306251373299785729
The tagline should actually be Progress Kentucky: the campaign of racists. Mr. Reilly evidently stands by Progress Kentucky tweets, because he retweets them proudly.
When you’ve lost even other liberals …
https://twitter.com/dpleasant/status/306482468695994369
https://twitter.com/BlueDownstate/status/306511534673252352
Non-racists are disgusted, and rightly so.
#Racist as hell===> MT @ProgressKy This woman has the ear of @mcconnellpress–she's his #wife. May explain why your job moved to #China!
— J.G. Petruna (@jgpetruna) February 26, 2013
I'm glad Progress Kentucky is around to tell us who's married to Asian-Americans.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) February 26, 2013
https://twitter.com/anniebaxendale/status/306480551475412992
Wait until @ProgressKy discovers that the president of the United States is married to a black woman. http://t.co/sVyKQnx4U6
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) February 26, 2013
I think @ProgressKy is bigot scum. But then, they'd probably point out my daughter was born in China. http://t.co/Glv7TWMMYE
— IWantNothingHat (@Popehat) February 26, 2013
FYI… Progress Kentucky is also a big backer of @AshleyJudd. Will she renounce them? http://t.co/kvDffVrnP0 #tcot #p2
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 26, 2013
Huh. What say you, Ms. Judd?
Elaine Chao is a wonderful woman who served in three administrations. Progress Kentucky should apologize for their racist attack against her
— Kyle Raccio (@kyleraccio) February 26, 2013
@bethanyshondark The clueless nature of the Progress Kentucky spokesperson's statements is astounding. "It's a fine line…."
— JamesNolan (@JamesNolan) February 26, 2013
That’s right. A spokesman also said the following:
Chris Morrison, a spokesman for Progress Kentucky, acknowledged that some of their tweets may “have crossed the line” and offended some Kentuckians, but he insisted that “it’s fair to question whether or not there’s a conflict of interest.”
Sorry if they offended some Kentuckians. You know, the non-racist ones whom they think don’t really exist. It’s a fine line … wink wink, nudge nudge.
McConnell camp: "It is unconscionable that anyone would use blatant race-baiting for political gain… Progress Kentucky should be ashamed"
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 26, 2013
More from #McConnell campaign's @JesseRBenton: "Progress Kentucky should be ashamed of themselves."
— Mike Emanuel ?? (@MikeEmanuelFox) February 26, 2013
They should be, but they aren’t. It’s hard to be ashamed when one has no shame.
Progress Kentucky doubles down on claims McConnell is unduly influenced on China because of his wife's ethnicity http://t.co/OEjF9DJBVo
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) February 26, 2013
Progress Kentucky better fire someone immediate. Absolutely unacceptable.
— GOP is a Ghoul Cult (@chelicerata) February 26, 2013
Update: Ashley Judd responded on Twitter.
Whatever the intention, whatever the venue, whomever the person, attacks or comments on anyone's ethnicity are wrong & patently unacceptable
— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) February 26, 2013
Update: Progress Kentucky has issued an apology to Elaine Chao.
Progress Kentucky issues apology to Elaine Chao. http://t.co/9wNbK8KdSq
— Progress Kentucky (@ProgressKy) February 27, 2013
@ProgressKy How about apology to people of Kentucky for assuming they're dumb racists who will turn on Mitch when they learn about his wife!
— ?rockmom ? (@rockmom) February 27, 2013
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