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The Media Fell for Elizabeth Warren’s Spin
National Review ^ | October 15, 2018 | David French

Posted on 10/15/2018 2:26:00 PM PDT by reaganaut1

She’s the Richard Blumenthal of intersectionality, minus the apology.

Do you want to know what media bias looks like?

Earlier today, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren released DNA test results that confirmed that she misled employers, students, and the public about her Native American heritage for years. Bizarrely, all too many members of the media treated the results as vindicating her. Down is up. Black is white. The imperatives of the resistance apparently dictate propping up a liar — as long as she might be able to beat President Trump in 2020.

Here are the facts. For an extended period of time — at a key point in her professional life — Warren identified herself as a Native American woman. She listed herself as Native American on a key legal directory reviewed by deans and hiring committees. Former employers — such as the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School — listed Warren as a minority faculty member. Harvard Law School even trumpeted her as the school’s first tenured “woman of color.”

Warren contributed to a Native American recipe book called — I kid you not — “Pow Wow Chow.” She has told people that her parents eloped because her father’s parents said he couldn’t marry her mother “because she is part Cherokee and part Delaware.”

In the progressive academy, misrepresenting your heritage is no small thing. In the early 1990s Harvard was under immense pressure to diversify its faculty. I know. I was there. I remember the sit-ins, the demonstrations, and the tension that pervaded campus. I remember Warren when she came to campus as a visiting professor.

The best comparison to Warren’s misrepresentations — especially in the identity-obsessed academic environment — is to a politician misrepresenting his military experience.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: cherokee; crockajawea; dna; elizabethwarren; fakeindian; fauxahontas; fauxcahontas; lieawatha; massachusetts; media; msm; pocahontas; slingingbull; warren
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To: Covenantor

I’m posting a different pic now...


21 posted on 10/15/2018 2:45:42 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Vendome

LOL!


22 posted on 10/15/2018 2:46:56 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Vendome

23 posted on 10/15/2018 2:48:16 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

OMG

That’s actually gross...


24 posted on 10/15/2018 2:48:52 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: reaganaut1

How soon before they start addressing the issue as “her truth”?


25 posted on 10/15/2018 2:52:13 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Flick Lives

Love that.

Have you got one for CO2 in atmosphere? [.04]


26 posted on 10/15/2018 2:52:30 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Covenantor

That’s her feminine side.


27 posted on 10/15/2018 2:53:41 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: jdsteel; Zakeet

She-um thinkum too much fire in lodge. Medicine man thinkum she-um getting old. Feel-um fire bolt like-um other old squaw. Feel-um sun under skin.

Soon squaw Crockajawea need-um walking stick.


28 posted on 10/15/2018 2:56:44 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine)
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To: sauropod

Ugh. Me think Gray Beaver not get ENOUGH “walking stick”. Make her look like she eating cactus juice.


29 posted on 10/15/2018 3:04:11 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!)
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To: reaganaut1

Yes, the lap dogs MSM thought it was true and rushed to get an apology from Trump.


30 posted on 10/15/2018 3:05:50 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: reaganaut1
The media is spinning false fractions and percentages concerning Warren's Native American DNA. The only thing they're reporting correctly is the "6 to 10 generations ago" that ancestor reportedly lived. Here's a simple table of generations and their correct fractions & percentages of DNA:

1 ancestor 1 generation ago = 50% or 1/2 (parent)
1 ancestor 2 generation ago = 25% or 1/4 (grandparent)
1 ancestor 3 generation ago = 12.5% or 1/8 (etc..)
1 ancestor 4 generation ago = 6.25% or 1/16
1 ancestor 5 generation ago = 3.12% or 1/32
1 ancestor 6 generation ago = 1.6% or 1/64
1 ancestor 10 generation ago = 0.1% or 1/1,024

That means that Fauxcahontas at best has 1/64 and just as possibly as little as 1/1,024 Indian DNA. The minimum required to officially claim to be a Native American anywhere is 1/32... and she FAILS under her best case.

And that's without getting into the shortcomings of the DNA test she finally found to suit her purposes and release:

Elizabeth Warren DNA test does NOT prove she’s Native American, contrary to the hype - legalinsurection.com:

"Detecting DNA for Native Americans is particularly tricky because there is an absence of Native American DNA available for comparison. This is in part because Native American leaders have asked tribal members not to participate in genetic databases..."

"To make up for the dearth of Native American DNA, Bustamante used samples from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia to stand in for Native American."

TRUMP SHOULD DEMAND PAYMENT ON THEIR BET!
31 posted on 10/15/2018 3:07:42 PM PDT by drpix
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To: ColdOne
Why does this matter so much to her?

Because she scammed the system.
32 posted on 10/15/2018 3:15:42 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: plain talk

All that’s presuming the Stanford cat isn’t in on her scam

After Obama’s, Feinstein-Ford I’ll bet he’s in on it

I mean, the guy dismissed obtaining Cherokee comparisons, which is ridiculous.

That aspect of the “ testing” isn’t getting enough scrutiny


33 posted on 10/15/2018 3:18:03 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Indies/Dems/Non-voters" Are the CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Vendome; Covenantor

I just threw up....


34 posted on 10/15/2018 3:18:49 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Back around the time my daughters were applying to colleges, I tried to validate the legend in my ex’s family that there was Cherokee blood coursing through their veins. The closest I came to achieving that goal was a claim by one of their ancestors who took the family through the Gap in about 1820 that he was half Cherokee, a claim that was hotly disputed by known descendants of the Cherokee in question. If true, my daughters would be either 1/128 or 1/256 Cherokee depending on a number of factors. Needless to say, they did not claim that they were Native Americans on their applications. However, the point here is that I took the time and expended the effort to do real research to validate the claim and identify an actual human being in their family tree - something that Ms. Warren has apparently not done,


35 posted on 10/15/2018 3:21:26 PM PDT by p. henry
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To: A_Former_Democrat

It doesn’t matter. There is no autosomal DNA results that can absolutely confirm that someone one had a single ethnic ancestry from 6-10 generations back. It is a myth.

If we are talking about one cherokee from 6-10 generations back those genetic traits are extremely watered down plus the amount of specific DNA traits passed down varies from generation to generation and person to person.

Again — all autosomal DNA tests can really do is match you with distant cousins. It is extremely useful for genealogical research but take any so-called ethnic ancestry results with a grain of salt.


36 posted on 10/15/2018 3:35:14 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Vendome

Elizabeth Rachel Dolezal Warren.


37 posted on 10/15/2018 3:54:55 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: plain talk

BUT..... Oprah had a DNA test done, and it said she was the direct descendant of a ZULU WARRIOR PRINCESS named CHICO.


38 posted on 10/15/2018 3:59:28 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: plain talk

But apparently, Warren’s test was done by a private ‘entity’ not a well-known agency that would have a list of her cousins.


39 posted on 10/15/2018 4:17:44 PM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: reaganaut1

I heard a woman in the press ask the President if now that Warren had the test results, he was going to pay her. I so wanted him to reply, “I’ll pay her 1/1000th of it.”


40 posted on 10/15/2018 4:28:17 PM PDT by alnick
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