Elizabeth Warren: ‘I Misunderstood the Question’ About Harvard Listing Me as a Minority
- Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:06pm by
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Elizabeth Warren acknowledged Thursday she is concerned about her Senate campaign following weeks of controversy surrounding her Native American heritage.
Warren, who’s looking to oust Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), admitted this week for the first time that she told Harvard University about her ancestry — contrasting her initial claim that she was unaware until recently that the school had listed her as a minority professor.
She told reporters on April 27 she only became aware of Harvard’s listing after reading a report in the Boston Herald. In a new interview with the Boston Globe, she said she “misunderstood the question.”
In the interview, she reiterated again the law schools at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania hired her because of her abilities, not because of her heritage, and said she only told them of her minority status after she was hired.
Admitting for the first time that she’s worried about the impact of the controversy on her campaign, she told the Globe: “Of course I’m concerned.”
“I decided to run for the Senate because the middle class has been hammered and Washington doesn’t get it. I want to talk about Scott Brown’s voting record,” she said. “He has worked hard to make this campaign about anything else, even my heritage, and he’s not spending time on what Massachusetts voters are concerned about.”
Warren has frequently cited family lore as evidence of her Native American heritage, despite a lack of documented evidence. Revealing more details of her family’s background, she said her parents eloped because of tensions their two families over her mother’s ancestry.
“In the 1930s, when my parents got married, these were hard issues,’’ she told the Globe. “My father’s family so objected to my mother’s Native American heritage that my mother told me they had to elope.
“As kids, my brothers and I knew about that. We knew about the differences between our two families. And we knew how important my mother’s heritage was to her. This was real in my life. I can’t deny my heritage. I can’t and I won’t. That would be denying who my mother was, who my family was, how we lived, and I won’t do it.’’
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Comments (139)
dadsrootbeer
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:32pmOh how radical progressives do try to rewrite history.
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 1:27pmThats what happens when you smoke the piece pipe too much.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:04pmIf she can‘t understand a simple question like that she doesn’t belong in Washington D.C. or maybe she does as it is already full of idiots that can’t uderstand question especially once they are proven to be liars.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 3:14pmThis woman has mental health issues. She needs help and shouldn’t be in the Senate!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 3:15pmAs someone pointed out the other day, Warren is the gift that just keeps giving. I now put her in the category of maniacal story telling with Hillary Clinton, and Debbie Wassaman-Schultz.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 5:52pmReading comprehension apparently isn’t a strong trait for her.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:24pmReminds me of a classic episode of South Park on the merits of using the correct lie: “I misinterpreted the rules.”
Report Post »This gal apparently believes its still pre- 1995. Lady, your BS can and will be scrutinized 24/7. She’s just now catching onto the fact she fabricated and owns this story herself. Yeah, elect this wizard. She’s worth it for the potential comedy alone.
ghostsouls
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:30pmShe is digging herself a deeper hole. It stands to reason, if you cannot understand a question on an application that asks you what your ethnicity is, how can you understand ANYTHING as complicated as the senate? She lied to get ahead on minority status, got found out, gave several lame excuses, now she doesn’t understand the question, what is your ethnicity? Her genealogist was wrong, she does not have Cherokee heritage, the Cherokee Nation looked for themselves and found NO Cherokee lineage. Then she made the “high cheekbone” reference, now all this mess about breastfeeding. Is she off her meds or what? By the way, since she said earlier that she was Native American on her application and she did that so maybe one day she could have “luncheons” with people like her, maybe she will honor us with the next date there will be an Annual 1/32 Cherokee Luncheon?
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:39pmI will LIE about it, but i WILL NOT DENY it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:51amThis is so pathetic. When I was growing up, we all claimed to be Indians of one tribe or another. We all knew we weren’t but we had fun with it nevertheless. This is just like black Americans claiming to be African because somewhere back in history there was an African in the mix. Whatever.
Report Post »SUNBURST
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:31pmWell of course.
Report Post »Leftists don’t lie.
Mtroom
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 1:46pm“I want to talk about his voting record”… “he’s not spending time on what voters are concerned about.”… Yeah, voters aren’t concerned about honesty or integrity, only about what Walker voted for in the past… I remember this lady saying rich people wouldn‘t be rich if it wasn’t for the people who built the roads.. She doesn’t even understand what she says herself.. Just so you know, lady…A rich person built the roads, voters only spend time on what they are concerned about, and you should recognize that the voters already know his voting record, and move on to something else… I tell ya, I am quickly changing my views about this Ivy League claim to be the top schools in the nation.
Report Post »lizaz
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:29pmThis woman is a huge phony!!! If MA elects her, they’ll get what they deserve!!
Report Post »desertspeaks
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 1:26pmwell with bawny fwank leaving they have to have a new nutjob to replace him.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:21pm“In the 1930s, when my parents got married, these were hard issues,’’ she told the Globe. “My father’s family so objected to my mother’s Native American heritage that my mother told me they had to elope.”
Honestly. How would her father’s family know about the Native heritage? Seriously. According to Wikipedia
Elizabeth Herring[1] was born June 22, 1949,[2] in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to working class parents Pauline (née Reed) and Donald Jones Herring.[3][4][5] She was the Herrings’ fourth child, with three older brothers.[6] When Warren was twelve, her father, a janitor, had a heart attack, which led to a pay cut, medical bills, and eventually the loss of their car. Her mother answered phones at Sears and Warren worked as a waitress.[6][7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren
There is a whole section devoted to this controversy, but nothing substantial. The last names of Reed and Herring don’t seems particularly Native American. As a matter of fact, Reed goes back to the early English settlers in New England.
Unless her father walked into the family home and said, “Here’s my gal Pauline. Don’t mind the high cheekbones, she has ancestors in the Cherokees and Delaware tribes.”
So, how’d they know? These are unanswered questions.
Report Post »Logic77
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:28pmI don’t know who lies worse, her or Obama.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:26pmThey are liberals, they lie equally well.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:18pmEvery time Lizzie opens her mouth she digs the hole deeper and deeper. She needs to shut up before she paints herself into a corner she can’t get out of.
OMG 2012
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:27pmIt’s ok Liz. Intelligence is not a Democrats strongest trait. We expect that of you…Of course I’m sure you understood it and are just lying about it…but that’s expected of you as well.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:27pmSo, if you can’t understand a simple question, how will Mass. citizens trust you to understand complex issues in the Senate?
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:26pmYou have to love this woman, she’s an instant quote and always for all the wrong reasons.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:24pmShe heard through the family grapevine that she is 1/32nd American Indian. I aslo heard that somewhere in my 100% Irish family’s lineage we once had a descendant with red hair? Nobody in my family can prove it though… all I ever have seen is a sea of black, brown (and gray hair) and some “Just For Men” hair color with my uncle (who has since passed).
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 1:23pmThe old joke was, if there is only one red-headed person in the family tree, it had to be caused by “rust-in-the-pipes”. LOL
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 1:44pmLOL. Amazingly good!
If you want to see a good movie (comedy) with a slew of red headed kids, check out the movie… “Life With Father”… from 1947… William Powel and Irene Dunne.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:23pmScott Brown must be living right, he sure couldn’t get a worse opponent.
Report Post »00gabooga
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 1:09pmIf he REALLY wants to get re-elected he should drown some poor girl in a river and then go take a nap. That’s the key to a long career in Mass.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 3:03pmsoooo true…
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:23pm“I decided to run for the Senate because the middle class has been hammered and Washington doesn’t get it”
Report Post »———————————————-
I call BS on that. She wants the power and the opportunity to make millions from lobbyist, not to mention having the taxpayers pay for everything she gets and does.
Gonzo
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 1:23pmIndians never lie Anon. White man speak with forked toungue.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:22pmI had a good laugh at this story. What a pathetic attempt to worm out of this. I mean this is an excuse a 4 year old would give with their hand caught in the cookie jar. What a joke. Can’t wait to see the trolls here trying to defend her ,well they’ll probably just call everybody racist or sexist ,that will show us.
Report Post »NILAP
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:21pmBefore anyone claims Native American status you might first check with the tribal leadership of the tribe you claim to be a member of. So many white liberals and lefties in the past have done what Warren has done and this has been irking real Native Americans for years.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:31pmIf I were blonde with blue eyes, I wouldn’t even have the audacity to ask. Nor would I claim I was something that I obviously wasn’t.
Report Post »castuslonginus
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 6:16pmDo da name “Ward Churchill strike a familar note .
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:18amHey Cast,
Don’t look now, but I saw a news story the other day that Churchill was suing to get reinstated. As what remains the question, but he’s suing.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:19pmI misspoke, I disremember, I misunderstood, I wouldn’t lie, cheat and steal. It’s a vast right wing conspiracy, I was breastfeeding at the time, I was the first Indian at Harvard, everyone’s picking on me.
It’s not fair!!!
Stuff it Elizabeth.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:28pmLOL You got the left’s excuses down pat, Girl! :-)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:31pm“Oh the tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive” Sir Walter Scott
These people are pathological.
Report Post »bandi9
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 1:06pmfunny
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:19pmMom
got add a qualifier on the breast feeding. She is the first 1/32 Cerokee woman to breast feed during a bar exam.
Report Post »00gabooga
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:18pmOk, so this is even worse. Go ahead and elect a moron who can’t understand a simple question. She’s either a liar, or an idiot, or both.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:18pmIT IS SENATOR SCOTT BROWN
NOT SCOTT WALKER
who in the world does your proof reading blaze ????????
Report Post »nolefan2
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:32pmWho else? Elizabeth Warren
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:17pmThis lunatic doesn’t even have sense enough to bow out of the race and let the Demoncrats select another candidate. Then again, after Bawney’s numerous terms in the House, I’m wondering if the entire state is as ignorant and/or corrupted as his district.
Report Post »jespasinthru
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:30pmMassachusetts gave us Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank and John Kerry. The voters there obviously like flawed candidates. The silly moonbat just might win this one.
Report Post »Liberty1791
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:17pmThis woman is an idiot, a liar and a communist…What else do you need to know to realize she should not be serving as a US Senator. Do us a favor and leave the country.
Report Post »lexington_green
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:20pmyou mean move to california?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:16pmSo now the self proclaimed “intellectual foundation” of OWS “misunderstood the question”.
Report Post »Perhaps Fauxcahontas should stop digging that already deep hole she’s in?
lexington_green
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:22pmoh no. dig baby, dig.
fauxcahontas …. brilliant.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:34pmDig Dig Dig … big enough to bury herself! And the rest of the commies with her …
I sure wish the MSM would cover this stuff!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:14pmLies, lies, lies. That is all that woman knows how to do. She represents liberals very well. And atheism, for that matter. When you don’t believe in God, morality is dependent on every individual’s version of what they want it to be. What an awful society that makes…….Obama and Lizzie are walking examples.
Report Post »lexington_green
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:22pmcomposite jerkwads.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:13pmWow, Scott Walker is a busy man running TWO states. Either that or Elizabeth Warren is a total idiot that doesn’t even know who shes running against. Lol
Report Post »lexington_green
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:12pmwhatever you say lady. whatever, indeed.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:12pmI have a Question….how is this manipulating communist planning to help the middle class?
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:11pmthat is what would most acurately be called a…….BOLD FACE LIE
Report Post »trotula
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:42pmHey, guess what? I have Welsh heritage! My great grandma!
Report Post »atrain
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:10pmTelling the truth is so difficult for liberals.
Report Post »lexington_green
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:25pmdifficult? try impossible.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:08pmRiiiiiggggtttt!! I’m sure you did…….
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