This is the official Howie Carr/ Jeff Kuhner Election Day thread. Due to heavy traffic on FR it may take awhile for your posts to show up, etc.
Details on what this thread is all about below. First today’s Howie Carr Boston Herald column
Anchor homes in on Warren wigwam
By Howie Carr | Monday, November 5, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
It may have been the question of the Senate campaign, posed by Ch. 7 anchor Kim Khazei as she sat in the palatial $1.7 million Cambridge mansion of Granny Warren, the fake Indian.
Khazei: “I asked Warren if she had anything in the house that reflects her Native American heritage.”
On the videotape, you can see Granny’s smile freeze on her face. After all, Kim Khazei’s cousin is Alan Khazei — muscled out of the Democratic primary to clear the field for the carpetbagging fake Indian. Was this question payback from Clan Khazei?
Finally, Granny replies, the smile still unmoving. Her voice is frosty.
“I have plenty of pictures. They’re not for you.”
Shades of John Silber with Natalie Jacobson in 1990. Actually, Kim asked the wrong question. She should have asked Granny whether she had anything in the house that reflects her fake Native American heritage.
What made it even more uncomfortable is that, as much as she claims to like middle-class people, in reality Granny doesn’t want them seeing her one-percenter’s Harvard lifestyle up close and personal.
The problem is, interviews with the candidates at their homes are a TV staple at the end of campaigns.
This mansion of hers is yet another inconvenient truth, upsetting her invented narrative about beginning life on the middle class’ “ragged edge.”
Last year, before giving an interview to New York magazine, her campaign insisted that the house be “off the record.” Last week on NECN, the posh estate was described as a “Victorian fixer-upper.”
Really? According to records, she and her professor husband picked it up for $447,000 in September 1995. The statewide average price in Massachusetts for a home that month was $181,816.
Some fixer-upper. As usual, when Granny gets caught stretching the truth, she stretches it a little further. Here’s what she told Kim Khazei: “You know the phrase ‘a rescue dog?’ This was sort of a rescue house.”
I thought a “rescue dog” was one in danger of being put down. I’m pretty certain Granny’s Linnaean Street mansion, almost 4,000 square feet, was not in such danger. You know her M.O. If you don’t like her current explanation, wait five minutes.
First she said she didn’t know Harvard had claimed her as an Indian, then she said she’d never used her fake ethnic identity to get into college and law school. That wasn’t the question, Granny. The question was, did you claim to be an Indian when you applied for your Ivy League jobs?
She got caught plagiarizing recipes from The New York Times [NYT] for a Cherokee cookbook. Her husband blamed it on a conveniently dead cousin.
She bragged how she provided the “intellectual foundations” of the Occupy movement until it went bad, after which ... nothing to see here folks, move along.
For many moons now, paleface speaks with forked tongue. With any luck, tomorrow her campaign goes to the Happy Hunting Ground.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061172441