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Elizabeth Warren, poster girl for liberal hypocrisy
American Thinker ^ | 04/30/2012 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 04/30/2012 6:26:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

No novelist could concoct a believable character to match Elizabeth Warren, the strategist behind the scarily-powerful and unaccountable Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Democratic candidate for Senate. Professor Warren (she is a professor at Harvard Law School) cannot bear close scrutiny without revealing multi-layered hypocrisy and self-serving behavior. Oh, and a tendency to make herself look worse by taking far too long to confirm embarrassing truths, and looking like a weasel.

Warren is outraising incumbent Scott Brown, and is ahead in the polls. But Massachusetts voters have not yet savored the character of Warren, which embodies many local prejudices against Harvard types, the rich liberals who look down on everybody else. I hope that she continues to be herself and let voters get a sense of who she really is.

Fortunately for connoisseurs of liberal double standards, Howie Carr, Boston Herald columnist and talk radio host, is chronicling Warren's campaign. The entire column is a gem, but here is an excerpt:

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It's turning out that she's not quite the working-class heroine her worshipers in the limousine-liberal crowd thought she was.

Last week, news broke that Harvard Law had cited Warren as a minority hire - a Native American - when it was under criticism for lack of faculty diversity in 1996.

Asked Friday for proof of her Indian ancestry, Warren's said it's part of her family "lore."

She also said she couldn't "recall" if she'd ever claimed minority status when applying for a job and that she'd never known of Harvard's 1996 boast until Friday. When Brown's campaign demanded that Warren apologize for taking part in a "diversity sham," she said her campaign is searching for "evidence" of her Native American lineage.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: cherokee; elizabethwarren; greatgreatgreatgrand; massachusetts; scottbrown
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To: Oratam

Shouldn’t that be the other way around? What did you need him for?


21 posted on 04/30/2012 12:49:34 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Remember, Obama said he's only 60% done with his agenda.)
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To: Thebaddog

You’re absolutely right. It was the sting of elitism that smarted. Smarts a lot less now.


22 posted on 04/30/2012 1:45:54 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: SeekAndFind

She speaks with forked tongue, but then she’s a Dim so what else should we expect?

Both the lies and use of the affirmative action racket for their own benefit are standard fare for uber-leftists—the commie ends justify the means.


23 posted on 04/30/2012 1:55:56 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They will find a way to tell you whether you asked or not.


24 posted on 05/02/2012 12:06:11 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Remember, Obama said he's only 60% done with his agenda.)
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