WEAU 13 Nerws in Eau Claire aired a graphic depicting a Republican elephant logo with Ku Klux Klan hoods hidden in the space between the elephant’s legs during a newscast this week, the Heartland Post has learned exclusively.
The graphic, which aired during WEAU’s 10:00 pm newscast Monday night, was featured in a story on the Republican Governor’s Association making a multimillion dollar ad buy in Wisconsin aimed at boosting socialist candidate Francesca Hong ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.
Hong narrowly lost the election to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.
The Republican KKK logo is relatively well known in online leftist circles and is used to present the GOP as racist. The Ku Klux Klan was in fact a militant arm of the Democratic Party and committed acts of violence and intimidation against Republican voters. Democrats used the KKK extensively to prevent newly freed slaves from voting Republican and breaking Democratic electoral dominance across the South during Reconstruction.
WEAU has not yet responded to a request for comment on how the graphic ended up on its newscast.
