Posted on 05/18/2012 4:03:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
Allahpundit is incredulous. I mean, what else can you be at this point? Quick recap: Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) listed herself as a Native American in a professional law directory for at least nine years, and still maintains that she is being truthful about her "identity." Documents show that two of the Ivy League law schools that hired her excitedly touted her as a minority or faculty member -- though she now insists that her "ethnicity" played no role whatsoever in her hiring process. Sure. Much searing scrutiny, and several hilarious explanations later, we now know that there is zero evidence that Warren has any Native American lineage. The only proof she's been able to offer is an anecdote about her grandfather having high cheekbones -- "like all the Indians do"(!) -- and the fact that she once contributed five recipes to a cookbook entitled, "Pow Wow Chow," in which she's listed as Cherokee. I'm not kidding. But here's the unreal shark jump...
Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the Pow Wow Chow cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan. The dishes were said to be particular favorites of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter.
The two recipes, “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat” and “Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing,” appear in an article titled “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat,” written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News, a copy of which can be seen here. Ms. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing is a word-for-word copy of Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe.
Mrs. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Cold Omelets with Crab Meat contains all four of the ingredients listed in Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe in the exact same portion but lists five additional ingredients. More significantly, her instructions are virtually a word for word copy of Mr. Franey’s instructions from this 1979 article.
So this 0/32 "Native American" is even cribbing "family" recipes from the New York Times (!) news service and trying to pass them off as passed-down-through-the-years, authentic Cherokee fare? The word 'pathetic' doesn't even begin to cover this material. Questions: (1) What isn't she ripping off or lying about? (2) At what point do we discover that her real name is Nicole or something? AP adds to the fun:
Among the ingredients for Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing: “Imported mustard,” Worcestershire sauce, cognac, and of course crab, all presumably readily available to a, er, 19th-century agrarian Cherokee settlement in Oklahoma.
Remember, she pointed the media to 'Pow Wow Chow' to, um, "substantiate" her heritage. For the second time during this saga, I'm rendered speechless. This is a full-fledged trainwreck, and Scotty Brown's camp is starting to solicit donations over it. Go for it, man. Two parting items, via our bud Mary Katharine Ham. First, an inquiry for our legal beagle readers: If proven, is plagiarizing anything -- even recipes -- considered a serious academic violation? Second, just enjoy this masterful piece of satire:
Ken Burns Presents: Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Trail of Tears
Care to guess how many bits edgy, brave, truth-to-power comedian Jon Stewart has done on this circus? None. I guess this whole thing just isn't funny.
Hilarious reviews of “Pow Wow Chow” on Amazon.
I hope she knows some good Crow recipes...or maybe Cree? Scott Brown should claim that he is Latino because his last name is Brown!
Copying Le Pavilion’s crab dish favorite of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and pretending it is proof of Cherokee Indian tribal membership?
You can’t make this up. It is beyond satire.
And check out Warren’s utter disdain for a Congressional oversight sub-committeee investigating her misbehavior:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RET2Z5AVJ8A
Has anyone actually checked to see if Elizabeth Warren (D) is actually a woman? At this rate, I’m starting to wonder if she is some kind of MIB space alien.
When Warren takes her seat in the Senate - she has the D after her name, that’s all she needs to get elected in Massachusetts - she can form a new Liars Caucus with the guy from Connecticut who made a big deal about serving in Vietnam when he didn’t, plus Kerry with his three Purple Hearts, and the rest of the BullSlingers.
Wait until Howie Carr gets ahold of this.
“That would make her a wap-a-ho!!!”
Good one.Well worthy of being plagarized for later use.
I am Italian American too and can testify as your grandmother probably can that Olive Garden is to Italian food as Elizabeth Warren is to the Cherokee nation. Both are missing all the ingredients!
I promise I’ll quit after this next one:
Warren is so white albinos are considered people of color in her world.
And they acquired said crabs in some body of salt water.....or in their skivvies? Er...did they even WEAR skivvies?
” Warren is so white albinos are considered people of color in her world”
PERFECT!
That Amazon page is too much!
She never claimed that she was born in Kenya.
I offer acknowledgement to a grandmaster of wordsmithing and punditry.
But, on a serious note:
I wish all this stuff would just go away.
HONEST, in an earlier census I show two ancestors living in the Cherokee nation ("bear hunters") with an unidentified indian woman. They weren't included in the official Cherokee census but I was planning to claim firstnation-ness anyway.
AND, I had an aunt who wrote a really good cook book for some fairly famous people who had to reduce their salt intake...that's got to be good for a handicapped parking sticker.
Right?
“Recipe UnWarrented
I'm confused; each recipe calls for 0/32 measurements of ingredients — that doesn't add up to anything. I have serious reservations about these recipes.”
Thanks for that. They're hysterical.
And when you think about it, what a patronizing title for a book. Only liberals could get away with it. Imagine if a conservative tried to market a book with that title. Maybe something like Papoose Cous-Cous?
I think she shared a teepee at Summer Camp with Julia Childs. explains it all.
At least a Parking Sticker!! Hell, just about everyone has one!! Say hello to Maria Angelica and welcome her into the FR Tribe!
It’s comedy gold. Certainly lil Jon and that hilarious Colbert will be all over it soon. Maher and Letterman as well.
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