Posted on 07/08/2018 3:27:35 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The era of Maury-Povich politics is officially upon us, after President Donald Trump suggested at a rally in Montana last week that Senator Elizabeth Warren be subjected to a DNA test.
“I shouldn’t tell you ’cause I like not to give away secrets… Let’s say I’m debating Pocahontas,” the president said, reviving his favorite racist nickname for the senator. “You know those little kits they sell on television for $2…I’m gonna get one of those little kits and in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she’s of Indian heritage, because her mother says she has high cheekbones…we will take that little kit…but we have to do it gently, because we are in the Me Too generation… I will give you $1 million to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian…I have a feeling she will say no.”
Trump isn’t the first to recommend that Warren take such a test. “All the senator needs to do is spit into a tube, wait a few weeks and get her answer,” the Berkshire Eagle’s editorial board wrote in March. But now the president is daring a potential 2020 challenger take a DNA test. Once again, Trump is setting a dangerous precedent.
Shortly after the 2008 presidential election, the New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective titled “The Genetic Privacy of Presidential Candidates,” which warned politicians running for office about a threat it called “genetic McCarthyism.” Because genetic information is so easily misinterpreted and misrepresented, the authors argued, presidential campaigns should resist calls to release candidates’ genomic information and pledge not to attempt to obtain or release the genomic information of their opponents.
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It’s not an attack, it’s a response.
Genetic McCarthyism AKA “diversity” has been with us for a long time... far too long, if you ask me.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Cherokee? If no, fine. If yes, prove it.
This in no way at all resembles McCarthyism. Trump is not calling her out for her DNA or heritage, but confronting her blatant lies to further her career. Lying about your heritage to gain undeserved preferential treatment in your education, professional and social circles is a huge character issue and Trump is smart to force the issue.
Exactly.
No, he just wants her to prove what she claimed.
laughable. She asserted (falsely or recklessly) to being part Indian to gain favor in the Ivy league school system. Of course she’s going to be held politically accountable.
This is just the daily beast and the actual Author of the piece JAMES D. WALSH trying to lay down cover fire and build resentment for what’s sure to be major issue should she decide to run for President 2020.
Should be interesting to see how all the other candidates for the DNC presidential primary deal with this. Besides, her real big problem is going to be her irritatingly high pitched voice and Eleanor Clift like delivery. Eleanor Clift, for when you positively, absolutely need a lie.
The same dickweed probably thinks we should all be “chipped”.
Really not much different from having candidates release their tax returns.
I don’t think they should feel compelled to do either.
Thank you!
When a white leftist lies about their ethnicity to get preferential treatment then it most definitely needs to be called out, and that person deserves ridicule and scorn. Warren started this crap so Walsh and the rest of the lefties can go stick it!
Kind of ironic that sixty years later the left is accusing someone of collusion with the Russians. They would know about colluding with Russians better than any of us!
Geez! They make such a big effing deal about everything and distort everything on top of it! It’s a game of one upsmanship; he’s calling her bluff - or giving her the opportunity to call his bluff, he’s not instituting some sort of mandatory DNA collection on the entire country.
Warren is a leftwing, pro-murder-by-abortion, traitorous liar. The people who voted for her deliberately gave aid and comfort to the enemy, or else they are drooling, knuckle-dragging idiots.
They are number two behind the Hill and just ahead of the Huffpo.
I guess as long as you are a Commie lib, its OK to lie about your race and get preferential treatment for it..such as money for college and of course that job at the University she received pretending to be an Indian, but hey if you are a leftist, you can say you are anything you want
Liberals are the ones getting bent when a girl wears a “Chinese” dress. Now, they have no problem when someone falsely claims they’re Native American to use for their benefit (& other people’s detriment).
Mueller investigating to tie POTUS to the Russians? That’s not McArthyism?
>She could do the test and take the $1 million and donate it to charity
If she could get the wanted results, she would take it. And then give it to some group like “save the children Trump has in cages” or some such bs. Then the media would say “wow, she sure taught Trump a lesson!!”, every day, for a month.
She wouldn’t pass that chance up. Thus, she’s already KNOWS she has no indian dna.
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