Sunday Herald column ping
Whiz Elizabeth Warren a little short on Street smarts
By Howie Carr | Sunday, October 30, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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Have you noticed how, for someone who’s supposed to be so smart, Elizabeth Warren surely makes a lot of stupid statements?
She teaches at Harvard Law School, so she must be very intelligent, right? Just like Barack Obama, the Harvard Law grad who thinks there are 57 states, that they speak Austrian in Austria, can’t spell Syracuse and believes that Navy “corpse-men” are very brave.
Of course we all know why Barack Obama was admitted to Harvard Law School. What exactly is Elizabeth Warren’s excuse?
Here was what she said in Western Massachusetts this week:
“You know you’re not as landlocked as some parts of the state.”
Western Mass. is not landlocked. Who knew? No one bothered to correct her, because you can always tell a Harvard man (or woman), but you can’t tell them much.
“Uh, you have real opportunities. You’ve got all the right natural resources but we’ve got to make sure we’ve got the right infrastructure, that the pieces are there so that somebody who’s got a good idea for a business says Western Mass. is a good place to put it.”
Is that supposed to be profound? That’s just moonbat filler, that reference to “infrastructure.” I’m surprised she didn’t mention “investments,” too. The lights are on, but nobody’s home. More evidence: Her statement earlier in the week that she had provided the “intellectual foundation” for Occupy Wall Street.
What intellectual foundation? Riots, rapes, robberies, sexual assaults, naked vagrants armed with knives, ugly anti-Semitism, death threats to the Boston cops ...
“I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,” the $372,000-a-year mouthpiece told the Daily Beast. “I support what they do.”
You don’t say. Of course, that was earlier in the week. By Thursday, in Newton, even Queen Elizabeth had come to the conclusion that perhaps she had put her foot in her mouth again.
“What I meant to say was I’ve been protesting Wall Street for a long time now. ... The Occupy Wall Street movement is organic.”
Organic — what exactly does that word mean, in this context? I do know that where the city fathers have taken away the hippies’ port-a-potties, as in Charlotte, there’s an increasing amount of fragrant organic material on the ground. You don’t want to step in a pile of it.
Then there was her earlier statement about how she was going for the “hick vote.” You can cut her a little slack on that one, since she is a carpetbagger from Oklahoma — a hick herself. But do you think she’d ever make a joke at the expense of any other “community”?
I can hardly wait for Liz’s first Patriots [team stats] tailgating party. It may be the first time she actually meets anybody from Massachusetts.
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“infrastructure,” “organic,,,”
It’s only a matter of time before she’s “speaking truth to power.”
Yeah, like those in Newton, they really care beyond the (D) after a candidate's name.
I know, I know, the sound bite is for the consumption of people that only occasionally, think about the qualifications a candidate might have, not the Barney Frank moon bats, or people that are pretty sure a pet rock as a MA US Senator would do less damage to the country than Q.E.
BTB, I saw on the weekly cooking thread that Nov 1 is National French Fried Clam Day. Will Howie acknowledge it?