Fri column ping
If moccasin were on the other foot...
By Howie Carr | Friday, May 18, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
You can almost feel sorry for the moonbat community of Massachusetts as they contemplate the rubble of the Elizabeth Warren campaign.
They thought they were putting up a modern-day Joan of Arc.
Instead, it turns out they’ve found the Rosie Ruiz of politics.
Of course they’re conceding nothing — any day now, the Globe will be publishing an editorial exhorting the voters to elect her as the first female Native American member of the U.S. Senate.
But aren’t the rich Trustafarians who want to pretend there’s no story here the very same liberals who supposedly believe so fervently in affirmative action? Remember the outrage over that kid from Delaware who faked his academic credentials to get into Harvard? The pointy-heads who can’t park a bicycle straight were so outraged they had him thrown into the Billerica House of Correction. Yet when some Mexican illegal did the same thing, the Politically Correct had demonstrations for him in Harvard Yard.
I understand the new reality. White American bad, illegal alien good. But dammit, Granny Warren isn’t a Mexican, although she does have a recipe for Mexican oatmeal soup, which I guess by her standards makes her at least 1/32nd Mexican.
The Beautiful People call illegal aliens “undocumented workers.” Granny Warren is an undocumented Indian.
A few nights ago, a local Republican appeared on TV with a Democrat to discuss the Warren scandal. The GOP pol asked the obvious question, “What would happen to a Republican who did this?”
To which the Democrat responded, “But she’s not a Republican.”
Exactly. Remember the pre-2009 chant: “Bush lied, people died.”
Now it is, or should be: “Granny lied, and got a set-aside.”
The moonbats always bristle when it’s suggested that sometimes the racial spoils system results in harder-working, more qualified individuals being passed over for jobs. The elites invariably dismiss this argument as racism. Yet now, whenever Granny’s campaign is asked whether she played the race card to get her career off the launching pad, they huffily say, “She worked hard.”
So it couldn’t have been affirmative action because ... she worked hard? Exactly how is that different from what Republicans say? Oh yeah, I forgot, she’s a Democrat.
Still, this is great fun, watching Harvard, the Democrats and the insufferably smug pseudo-squaw twisting slowly, slowly in the wind.
And the jokes — somebody on the Internet yesterday asked whether she had a recipe for a dessert. You know, like, “Occu-pie.”
And “Macaroni and Cochise.”
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When I was in grad school, one Christmas break I got a little job (for extra money) for the English department, going through all the faculty applications for the year and counting by white or various minorities, a count demanded by the feds. This would have been late 70s or very early 80s. At the time it was illegal to ask for race, so there was a certain amount of guesswork, but the feds were tracking the numbers for applicants and hires. Maybe someone (the federal agency that requires the count?) should look into how Harvard (not to mention UPenn) tracked these things.