Posted on 10/25/2017 2:55:39 PM PDT by Zakeet
Boston Globe: "tone of her telling ... appears to be inconsistent" with prior "lighthearted manner in which she described the same incident"
On Meet the Press last Sunday, Elizabeth Warren recounted an incident from her early professor days about a senior professor who allegedly sexually harassed her by lunging after her and chasing her around the desk in his office.
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Because of my extensive dealings reporting on Warren’s false claim to be Native American and misleading statements regarding her law practice representing major corporations, I viewed Warren’s statement with caution. She is the master of taking a kernel of truth (such as that there was some family talk of Native American heritage) and spinning it into a larger life narrative (that she was Native American).
But I have to say, even as a Warren-skeptic, I’m surprised at how quickly Warren’s Me Too story has been cast into doubt.
Jules Crittendon at The Boston Herald, which broke the story in late April 2012 of Warren’s claim to be Native American at Harvard, reports, Liz Warren's 'MeToo' flip-flopped old tale:
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This is classic Warren. There appears to be a kernel of truth - something happened with the old polio-stricken professor, but what Warren once viewed in a light-hearted almost-laughable manner now becomes a major part of her life and political narrative, because it’s politically opportune to portray it that way now.
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Me Cherokee Princess name of Gray Beaver ... me on big warpath ... that because bad pale face say me speak with forked tongue about chase around campfire ... me say old brave try to grab squaw with grasp of crab claw ... ... that story true ... him heap randy old geezer ... him have much lust in heart ... him may have polio but him still try hook to squaw with crutch ... me want to hit brave with tomahawk and hang scalp from belt ... me have brown stain on moccasins and on bottom of loin cloth when me get back to camp fire ... Freeper no make haw haw at squaw story ... Freeper forget story when squaw try to be Big Chief and live in White Teepee ...!
She lies.
A lot.
She omitted the giant butterfly net as she was chased around her desk.
Quelle surprise. Another student of the Hillary school of politics - history is malleable to the needs of the present.
Stand up Chuck...
Name him or it didn’t happen.
Dang. Now I’m starting to doubt her story about her forced marriage to Khal Drogo, warlord of the Dothraki.
Squaw speaks with forked tongue.
If her lips moved, she's lying. If anything moved, she's lying. If nothing moved, she's still lying.
'Nuff said?
...Did Elizabeth Warren exaggerate her “Me Too” story? [about being chased around a desk...
By a pit bull...
Squaw Fauxahontas tellum lots of lies
Her Indian name could be
“Squall Who Lies A Lot”.
I didn’t know Stevie Wonder was a professor.
I once had a boss a lot like Elizabeth Warren (an academic female of the same generation and manner) who would radically transform her anecdotes, so that the same kernel of original fact could have exactly opposite implications depending upon the audience and purpose to which she was deploying the anecdote.
I don’t think she was necessarily aware that she was doing it, but immediate needs of the “narrative” she wanted to spin took complete precedence over the actual details of the anecdote she was claiming to recall.
As my dear mother would have said, "Is she bragging or complaining?"
And considering the source, there's also an Option C: Just making it up.
What did she look like in those years? Worth chasing around a desk?
Likely chased around a teepee.
Pleeze...stopit! I am busting a gut laughing...may have to call 911!
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