Posted on 10/17/2018 6:11:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
This week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in preparation for a 2020 presidential run, decided to fight back against President Trump's brutal nickname for her: Pocahontas. Trump, you'll recall, labeled her Pocahontas because for years, she has claimed Native American ancestry. Not only that, she claimed repeatedly that her mother's Native American ancestry drove her parents to elope after her father's family refused to welcome her mother with open arms thanks to their bigotry. As it turns out, Warren could never provide any evidence of Native American ancestry -- even though she spent years labeling herself Native American while at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as well as Harvard Law School.
On Monday, Warren decided she'd had enough. She released a video of her family members discussing her claims of Native American background. "Native communities have faced discrimination, neglect and violence for generations," Warren intoned. "And Trump can say whatever he wants about me, but mocking Native Americans or any group in order to try to get at me? That's not what America stands for."
She accompanied that video with her supposed proof of Native American background: an analysis by professor Carlos Bustamante of Stanford University in which he explains that it is possible that Warren had a Native American ancestor anywhere from six to 10 generations ago. That would have made her anywhere from 1/64 to 1/1,024 Native American. The study was based not on Native American DNA but on Mexican, Peruvian and Colombian DNA.
In fact, not even Cherokees were happy with Warren. In a stunning rebuke, the Cherokee Nation released a statement saying, "Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage," and that Warren's DNA test "makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven."
All of this should have been foreseeable by anyone with half a brain. Falsely claiming you are Native American for years is bad enough. But releasing a study demonstrating that you are 99.9 percent white -- and then claiming that such a study justifies your false claims? What made Warren, an intelligent human being, think such a thing?
Only one simple fact: Warren knows, as everyone in politics knows, that the media will cover for nearly any instance of leftist political manipulation. They'll cover for Warren fibbing about her ancestry. They'll cover for Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke driving drunk, plowing into a truck and then attempting to flee the scene of the crime. They'll cover for Arizona Senate candidate Rep. Krysten Sinema saying that she didn't care if Americans joined the Taliban (CNN's headline: "Krysten Sinema's Anti-War Activist Past Under Scrutiny as She Runs for Senate"). Democrats have the enviable advantage of being able to trot out nearly any story and be given credibility by most of the mainstream media.
Non-Democrats, however, see this game. And every time the media simply parrot Democratic talking points on issues like Warren's ancestry, they undercut their credibility. Large media institutions have done more than anyone, including President Trump, to destroy their reputations with the American people. Their pathetic behavior over the past few weeks, in the approach to the 2018 elections, shows that they're doubling down on stupid.
No doubt, watched CBS “This Morning” with NorDUH O’Donnell, Gayle Opera’s friend and John the effeminate interview a Dem this morning. Slobbering all over him, begging him to share his feeling s ho he can help other Democrats and the party, the kid gloves were out.
The genuine Indians know they have a lot to lose (their preferred status as “wards of the state”) if everyone claims their heritage - and having less than 1/1000 qualifies one as a “native”. Smart of them to come out against her.
You said it. BTW I laugh every time when someone claims that they have Indian Heritage.
Ben Shapiro destroyed his own credibility with his own pathetic behavior in 2016.
BTW my father's ancestor came during the Thirty year war 1618-1638 to Germany from Sweden (Malmoe). I have never claimed that I was Swedish.
“And every time the media simply parrot Democratic talking points on issues like Warren's ancestry, they undercut their credibility. Large media institutions have done more than anyone, including President Trump, to destroy their reputations with the American people.”
When we talk about “the media,” I suggest we use communist terms they will understand. They are the running dogs of the DemocRat propaganda organ.
I don’t blame you (just kidding).
I’m a few hours from the “Indian casinos” in Connecticut, and I’ve never seen an Indian there - except the Asian ones working there...
FAUXTAHONA WARREN IS. STAY ON SUBJECT OR GET THE HELL OFF IF YOU CAN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I understand that her ‘high cheekbones’ are most clearly observable when she is walking away.
There was one exception that I can recall and that it was when HRC used the term Abuela, referring to herself as an “Abuela too.” The press covered the Mexican blowback quite a bit & was probably in a quandary. On one hand it was HRC on the other hand it was a minority population that was ramping up - two stories in one - maybe their minds were blown by the dialectics of it all...
In its 1964 NY Times v. Sullivan decision, SCOTUS made it difficult for “public figures” to sue for libel, on grounds that competition among journalists would sort it out.This rule applies to Democrat as well as Republican politicians - in precisely the same sense that laws against sleeping under bridges apply to rich people as well poor ones.
YOU DON’T OWN FREE REPUBLIC!
So true. The natives are disgusted with her and speaking out against her. By Trump calling her out and making it an issue she is being mocked and discounted at the same time. As she should be. I love that she pushed this forward as it makes her look even more ridiculous and bizarre than she looked before.
Good point.
Sounds like she borrowed from Otter's speech before Dean Wormer's double secrete probation board in Animal House:
But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick perverted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg: isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do what you you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!
I believe Obama’s chief goal (which he achieved) was to preserve the “special status” of blacks despite lack of constitutional grounds (for affirmative action and such). At this point, they are angling for the same “wards of the state” designation (de facto reparations), and so far it looks like they’ve gotten it. The main obstacle seems to be the number of non-whites living in this country who won’t stand for it; the Asians challenging Harvard are a case in point. When white women are removed from the “preferred victims” list (as many blacks vocally demand), then that preferred status may just collapse at the ballot box.
Kaslin, my friend, since when is the author of an article NOT part of the topic authored? It does have a bearing on how an article is viewed based upon the credibility of the person who wrote it. Doesn’t it? BTW, I am not aware of that which has been said about this particular author. I am just saying that, in my opinion, if you write something, your credibility is open for discussion and thus part of the topic of which you wrote.
Now when the press and democrats mock any Republican staff photos with most, or all white people, showing in them, it will be easy enough to claim that actually most of them are minority qualified, seeing that the average white European lineage person has twice the native DNA that Warren has.
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