Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Tolerance for Elizabeth Warren's Fake News
Townhall.com ^ | November 29, 2017 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 11/29/2017 5:55:54 AM PST by Kaslin

The network news divisions boast about how much they care about the truth and then rage against President Trump when he calls them makers of "fake news." But when it comes to the politicians they adore, especially those they wish would run for president, the truth takes a back seat.

Exhibit A right now is Elizabeth Warren, who falsely claimed in a professional directory to be descended from Cherokee Indians, so as to be listed as a minority when she was hired as a professor. When Trump makes fun of her by calling her "Pocahontas," the networks get oh so upset and call it a "racial slur." But they don't seem to care one iota about how American Indians feel regarding white people who take on a fake minority identity.

The story broke during Warren's 2012 campaign against then-Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts. In May, liberal writer Garance Franke-Ruta summarized for The Atlantic: "the progressive consumer advocate has been unable to point to evidence of Native heritage except for an unsubstantiated thirdhand report that she might be 1/32 Cherokee. Even if it could be proven, it wouldn't qualify her to be a member of a tribe." So a Senate candidate was committed a race-based fraud. CBS broadcast programs touched the story once.

In June, Nancy Cordes reported that Warren said her relatives told her of her Cherokee background. Then, Cordes aired this double-lie sound bite from Warren: "I know my family's heritage. It's also been clear from the very beginning that I never got any special breaks from it." If she knew her family heritage, why couldn't she document it? Why invent the heritage if not to derive advantages from it?

Cordes then neatly bundled and threw away the entire controversy: "Recent polls show most voters in Massachusetts don't think Warren's heritage is a big deal," she said. Those "truth" tellers implied that we shouldn't get too disturbed by a little lie to get hired at an Ivy League.

NBC also touched it just once that year, on the "Today" show on Oct. 2, after David Gregory moderated a Brown-Warren debate. He asked Warren, "Do you consider yourself a minority?" She replied: "I listed myself as Native American. ... It's part of who I am." Gregory later asked her: "Are you hiding something?" Again, Warren lied: "No, I'm not. I never used it for college, for law school or to get a job."

Over and out.

Just try to put those sentences together: "I listed myself as Native American in a professional directory ... and I never used it to get a job."

In response, the "facts first" media simply walked away. To address this honestly was to call her a liar. PolitiFact has only seven rulings on Warren, four "Mostly True" and three "Half True." The site has never addressed this lie.

By the way, ABC never covered this controversy in 2012.

When Trump called her Pocahontas in 2016, the networks brought out the weasel words. ABC's Mary Bruce reported, "Friday night, Trump hitting hard, attacking her for once claiming she was Native American." Once claiming? She has claimed it for years. She claimed it throughout the 2012 campaign. She claimed it in five recipes she submitted to a "Pow Wow Chow" cookbook.

The same routine continued this week when Trump called her Pocahontas while honoring Navajo code talkers from World War II. Nancy Cordes at CBS breezily recounted, "It's a reference to the Massachusetts senator's past claims of Cherokee ancestry." But she added: "Democrats called it a racial slur. Warren called it disturbing."

It's disturbing, all right. It's disturbing that Warren routinely gets a pass on her lies. These are the benefits the liberal media hand out to their favorites.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: fauxtahonta; lamestreammedia

1 posted on 11/29/2017 5:55:54 AM PST by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Just for fun I plugged her into Ancestry.com and started looking for those elusive Native American ancestors. A few were born in Oklahoma, but I haven’t found anybody yet and I’ve gone back several generations.

Still looking. Being born in Indian Territory doesn’t make you one.


2 posted on 11/29/2017 6:09:51 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Ancestry.Com DNA would put this to bed. I’m sure she is aware of this.


3 posted on 11/29/2017 6:14:24 AM PST by umgud
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin


4 posted on 11/29/2017 6:14:40 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand - Divided We Fall. Remember: Diversity is the opposite of unity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Fauxchahontas helps put the CON into Congress.


5 posted on 11/29/2017 6:20:01 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vlad The Inhaler
Excellent!

BTTT

6 posted on 11/29/2017 6:28:25 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Trump’s mistake was not calling her “Fauxcahontus”. If the MSM then wanted to excoriate him for being racially insensitive, that term would have been front and center, along with the reason for the “Faux”.


7 posted on 11/29/2017 6:29:22 AM PST by Wolfie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
...he calls them makers of "fake news."

Always remember, fake news is not just reporting things that are not true, it is also NOT reporting things that are true.

8 posted on 11/29/2017 6:30:33 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

“Cordes then neatly bundled and threw away the entire controversy: “Recent polls show most voters in Massachusetts don’t think Warren’s heritage is a big deal,” she said. Those “truth” tellers implied that we shouldn’t get too disturbed by a little lie to get hired at an Ivy League.”

Most Gov workers in MA don’t care so long as she keeps the Gravy Train rollin’.

She’s the butt of jokes daily, on Howie Carr radio.


9 posted on 11/29/2017 6:36:49 AM PST by JPJones (Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Self identifying as Native American, Indian, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, First Nations Peoples with a 1/32 pedigree is about the same as me identifying with the same with a zero pedigree.

I’m gunna open a casino.


10 posted on 11/29/2017 6:38:07 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SandyInSeattle; Kaslin

Someone who has a very thorough knowledge of Cherokee genealogy has already put the issue to bed: http://www.pollysgranddaughter.com/p/elizabeth-warren-information.html

This blogger is a very good genealogist, and is a Cherokee herself. Bottom line: Warren is no Indian.

FYI, her maiden name is Herring. I shall henceforth refer to her as “Red Herring” both to remind everyone of her politics, and also as a reminder that she isn’t a squaw (i.e. red).


11 posted on 11/29/2017 7:35:27 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Wolfie

Trump’s mistake was not calling her “Fauxcahontus”


I agree 100%. He could also call her “Red Herring,” to allude to both her politics and also her lies about her heritage.


12 posted on 11/29/2017 7:36:43 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: super7man

“Self identifying as Native American, Indian, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, First Nations Peoples with a 1/32 pedigree is about the same as me identifying with the same with a zero pedigree.

I’m gunna open a casino.”


You know, I saw in “Blazing Saddles” how the Indians spoke Yiddish. Being Jewish myself, and having grandparents and great grandparents that spoke Yiddish, I’m now pretty sure that I’m a Native American.

Let’s partner up on that casino - 2 heads are better than 1, after all.


13 posted on 11/29/2017 7:38:51 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Ancesthntr
FYI, her maiden name is Herring.

Yes, I saw that. Red Herring is a great nickname!

14 posted on 11/29/2017 7:42:27 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The left is capable only of false outrage, directed against normal people. It never utters a word in criticism of one of their own, no matter what he/she does.


15 posted on 11/29/2017 7:59:53 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin; Elsie
Utah Tribes

I have been living in the middle of the Paiute Nation in Southern Utah for twenty years. Does osmosis work? If so, I'm Paiute.

16 posted on 11/29/2017 8:07:59 AM PST by Utah Binger (At The Maynard Dixon Home and Studio)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Utah Binger

Kanab: just a short skip into town for supplies for you.


17 posted on 11/29/2017 12:16:20 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Ancesthntr
You're on.

AND as I recall, the blacks do a pretty good rendition of “I Don't Get a Kick From Champagne”. Maybe we could them for the Lounge. ;o)

18 posted on 11/29/2017 1:48:15 PM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson