Posted on 05/02/2017 4:18:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Donald Trump apparently knows more about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s background than almost all of her left-wing supporters.
Last Thursday, at the NRA convention in Atlanta, Trump again went after the senior senator from Massachusetts, calling her “Pocahontas.”
As usual, the alt-left twitter-verse went crazy, accusing Trump of “racism” for poking fun at her now-abandoned claims of Native-American ancestry.
But the fact is, Warren did for a period of time in her adult life claim to be of Cherokee ancestry, during which time she was hired to tenured faculty positions at two Ivy League law schools, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. Both prestigious schools proudly touted her as a “woman of color.”p>But in 2012, when she first ran for the U.S. Senate, pointed questions were raised about whether or not she actually qualified for affirmative-action status. By all indications, the answer is no, which may be why neither she nor the Ivy League law schools where she was granted tenure have ever released her employment applications, which would finally answer the question of whether or not she “checked the box.”
Instead, Warren has claimed that it was family “lore” during her childhood in Oklahoma that she had Indian blood. One of her grandparents, her “paw-paw,” told her that she must be Indian because of her “high cheekbones.”
Pressed by the media, Warren also cited her contributions to a purported Native-American cookbook, Pow Wow Chow, which was privately printed. But a Google check showed that she apparently plagiarized at least two of her four recipes from Pierre Franey, a haute-cuisine French chef once employed by The New York Times. One of Warren’s alleged Native-American recipes, cold crab omelet, is not commonly associated with the Cherokees’ trek west on the Trail of Tears in the 1840s.
A third of Warren’s “Indian” recipes appeared to have been lifted from an issue of Better Homes & Gardens magazine from 1959.
During the 2012 campaign, Warren also claimed that her parents had to elope because of the anti-Indian prejudice against her mother. But that narrative collapsed after it turned out that her parents had actually “eloped” to get married one Saturday afternoon in the leading Protestant church in the neighboring town in Oklahoma, after which they returned home to a gala wedding reception in their hometown that evening.
Another check of Oklahoma newspapers at the turn of the 20th century indicated that in fact one of her “Okie” ancestors had actually shot an Indian off his horse as he attempted to flee after assaulting another of her Caucasian kinsmen.
After the initial media accounts pointing out the discrepancies in her ever-shifting stories, Warren claimed that she was 1/32nd Cherokee. The New England Genealogical Society found no such evidence. Nor did Cherokee genealogists. But it was all part of a pattern of less-than-truthful behavior by Warren. She initially claimed to have provided the “intellectual foundations” for the Occupy Movement, then later denied saying it until she was confronted with video.
On MSNBC, she denied holding any stocks, saying that all she owned were “mutual funds.” She called for higher taxes, even though it turned out she had been in arrears on her own automobile excise taxes in the City of Cambridge, and that she refused to voluntarily pay a higher income tax rate in Massachusetts, as is allowed under state law.
Despite the attempts of the local broadsheet, the Boston Globe, not to cover the embarrassment of Warren’s “Indian” ancestry, the conservative media has kept it front and center.
Her nicknames include “Lieawatha,” “Chief Spreading Bull,” “the Fake Indian” and “Fauxchahontas.” Trump, however, prefers to call her “Pocahontas.” He never fails to get a hand from his own audiences, and the reference invariably stirs up “the Resistance,” which appears totally oblivious to the tangled web their heroine has woven for herself over the years.
Now she is out promoting her latest book, “This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class,” which contains not a single word about her now-discredited Native-American heritage.
One would have assumed she or her handlers would have developed some snappy comeback to the inevitable questions about her checkered ethnic claims, even though she seldom ventures outside the fawning very-fake-news media precincts. But on Friday night, she showed she is still totally unprepared, even with adorning fan Bill Maher, to deal with even the most-gentle mentions of the controversy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that there are no second acts in American lives. That is obviously no longer true, but sometimes a politician cannot overcome a scandal, for whatever reason. One thinks of Gov. Howard Dean’s scream, or ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandals, or Gov. Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate.”
Increasingly, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s prevarications about her ancestry are looking like her own personal version of Custer’s Last Stand.
Because he forgot to call her ‘Gray Beaver’?
Howie Carr speaks to an audience that is much more familiar with Senator Warren and her history.
Donald Trump is speaking to a national audience. Trump is keeping it simple, which seems like the right approach to me.
Howie Carr is trying to explain the story. President Trump is kicking the hornets’ nest. Different jobs require different tools.
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Try this one..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNESJJQ1jjE
Like the Seminole, Navajo, Kickapoo, Just like Battle Axe, Hatchet Face, Eagle Nose, I have high cheekbones, stringy hair, leather skin. Some Indian Summer's day, And I'll have totem poles, tomahawks, pipes of peace, With my chief in his teepee, Looking like a flour sack, Like the Chippewa, Iroquois, Omaha Just like Rising Moon, Falling Pants, Running Nose Some Indian Summer's day, And I'll wear mocassins, wampum beads, feather hats,
Like those Indians,
I'm an Indian too!
Maybe Cherokee, or Sioux, oo-ooo, oo-ooo...
Like those Indians,
I'm an Indian too!
Maybe Cherokee, or Sioux, oo-ooo, oo-ooo...
Which all go to prove,
I'm an Indian too!
Maybe Cherokee, or Sioux, oo-ooo, oo-ooo...
Without a sound,
I may hide away,
With Big Chief Hole-in-the-Ground.
Which will go to prove,
I'm an Indian too!
Maybe Cherokee, or Sioux, oo-ooo, oo-ooo...
We'll raise an Indian family.
And I'll be busy night and day,
With two papooses on my back,
And three papooses on the way.
Like those Indians
I'm an Indian too!
Maybe Cherokee, or Sioux, oo-ooo, oo-ooo...
Like those Indians
I'm an Indian too!
Maybe Cherokee, or Sioux, oo-ooo, oo-ooo...
Without a care,
I may run away,
With Big Chief Son-Of-A-Bear!
Which will go to prove,
I'm an Indian too!
Oo-ooo, oo-ooo, oo-ooo...
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BTTT
Fauxahontas, Lieawatha, Princess Running Sores, Gray Beaver.....
Lyin’ Lizzie’s accumulating more names than Hillary Clinton’s Bimbo List!
And the antiTrumper pokes his head up again. You’re funny, dude.
Certainly no one takes you seriously, but keep trying. Maybe you can get a comedy show. You can’t be much worse than the Moslem “comedian.”
You nailed it. The time for subtlety is long gone.
The next election where she takes a part will be hilarious due to the number of Memes she has spawned.
Helen was the face that launched a thousand ships, Fauxahontas will be the face that launches a thousand blogs.
My personal fave is Fauxchahontas. I suspect that at some point or other, Trump heard her called "Fauxchahontas", but misunderstood what was said and logically substituted it with the more familar sounding "Pocahontas".
I think "FakeAhontas" would be a more effective jibe.
I disagree. The REAL Pocahontas is always relevant. Neither Trump, the person being mocked, or the listeners probably realize he is disrespecting a real person with real achievements.
Fauxahontas is so much more apropos and relevant to Warren.
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A. He’s not disrespecting her. Just the opposite. If she wasn’t such a well known Indian, he wouldn’t be using her name.
B. “Fauxahontas” is an unnecessary double-pun. And, besides, since “Fauxahontas” is obviously referencing the name Pocahontas, how is it any different than using the name itself (I’ll answer that... it’s not).
The absolute brilliance of Trump is that he encourages people to underestimate him. He WANTS people to think he is simple and stupid, and then runs circles around them and they don’t know what hit them.
“Pocahontas” is excused as simple minded name calling, but is really “Rules for Radicals” turned against them, and they don’t know how to handle it. Trump has not only applied Saul Alinsky’s life work, but he has taken it to a level that the left has never had to deal with before. THEY are in a reactionary mode, back on their heals. “Freeze it”, isolate, demonize, ridicule and make fun of the enemy. Things republicans have no idea of before Trump...
The only “real person” Trump disrespected was Elizabeth Warren. “Fauxcahontas” would be great...if he’s trying to reach the 1 or maybe 2% of the population who hangs around conservative websites online. Everyone else would not know what he’s talking about or simply assume that he misspoke. Trump goes for powerful simplicity. Obscure online memes aren’t his thing. Contrary to what you claim, the entire reason Trump chose Pocahontas was that most people know who she was. That’s why the nickname works.
I have to admit, I find it disappointing to see so much political correctness on this thread.
All he has to say is:
“Fauxcahontas...the fake Indian. She claimed to be an Indian to leverage affirmative action and get elected.
I’d think the Indians would be furious about that.”
It has nothing to do with PC and you should know that. It is taking a historical figure and trashing a good Christian for the sake of a political line.
And I doubt Trump has any idea what he is doing.
You are correct, though. Only 1 or 2% of the population would have any real idea of who Pocahontas really was, not after Disney trashed her in it’s animated film.
“trashing a good Christian”
LOL. Thanks for the laugh. Trump has not even vaguely done that. And yes, what you are doing is a clear case of political correctness run amok. In the modern uber-PC America, fun teasing and funny nicknames are now horrible “insults” for the first time in history. I consider it the victory of the snowflakes.
And by the way Fauxachontas “trashes” her too, because it’s a clear play on Pocahontas...so I guess you’re for “trashing a good Christian” too by your logic.
You really are a jerk, or you just play one on the web.
You can joke about it all you want, but it has nothing to do with PC. Everything they teach in school and in movies about Pocahontas is a huge lie.And I was just trying to set the record straight.
You on the other hand are attacking, me specifically, to get a rise.
Cowards do that when they either think they are in a position of strength, or when they are anonymous.
Haha thanks
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