Washington Free Beacon reporter Adam Kredo discussed his story on Democratic Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's campaign tweet urging backers to read an article comparing black Republicans to Jewish Nazis Thursday with radio hosts Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft.
Kredo reported:
Chicago Sun Times readers were stunned last week to find that writer Neil Steinberg has penned a column comparing black supporters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner to Jews who collaborated with the Nazis against their brethren.
"As a general rule, individuals will sell out the interests of their groups in return for personal benefit," Steinberg wrote in his column, which claimed that Rauner is buying off the black community and its leaders. "It isn’t just a black thing. Jews collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, helping them to round up their own people in the hopes they’d be the last to go."
Quinn’s camp praised the piece and tweeted it out to supporters several times. The tweets were deleted after local Jewish community officials quietly communicated their outrage to the governor.
"If Rauner is willing to throw his own money away like this, what’s he going to do when he gets his hands on ours?" read one now-deleted tweet from Quinn’s campaign account.
The campaign also retweeted—and then deleted—a missive from Steinberg promoting his piece.
Both tweets were captured by the website Politwoops, which archives political tweets for posterity.