Scattered Showers of Journalism: Reporters Band Together to Get Straight Answer on ‘Cherokee’ Question from Flustered Warren
- Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:30am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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If you’re a regular listen of the Glenn Beck radio program, you’re familiar with the soundbite that plays every so often featuring a booming voice and the sound of thunderstorms in the background: “Scattered showers of journalism.” It’s meant to point out the rare instances when the media fulfills its journalistic duty. Well, you’re about to get rained on.
During a session with reporters on Thursday, a local Boston reporter tried to get a straight answer from Elizabeth Warren on the question of her alleged “Cherokee” heritage. Warren went into politician mode: she refused to answer while launching into a bloviation on “middle class families.” She then turned away from the reporter and tried to take another question. That’s when the second reporter piped up:
“I can’t stop her [my fellow reporter] when she’s in the sequence [of questions].”
Did that really just happen?
Watch it below:
But here’s the kicker: according to a separate report regarding the exchange, Warren is still sticking to claims of American Indian heritage because — her mother told her so:
Warren’s comments came after nearly four minutes of tense back and forth between Warren and Fox 25 reporter Sharman Sacchetti and 7News reporter Andy Hiller. As both reporters questioned Warren about why she listed herself as a minority in law directories, Warren refused to answer, saying she had already answered questions about her background.
Finally, Warren said, “I am proud of my family and I am proud of my heritage.”
Hiller followed up: “Does it include an Indian background?”
Warren replied, “Yes.”
“How do you know that?” Hiller asked.
Warren responded, “Because my mother told me so. This is how I live. My mother, my grandmother, my family. This is my family. Scott Brown has launched attacks on my family. I am not backing off from my family.”
Based on that report, the journalist who refused to give Warren an out and forced her back into answering questions seems to be Andy Hiller.
Kudos, Andy.
This comes as the Boston Globe released another curious report on Warren being promoted by Harvard, saying that Harvard used her Cherokee heritage claim in federally mandated diversity statistics:
US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until she read about it in a newspaper several weeks ago.
But for at least six straight years during Warren’s tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harvard officials and federal guidelines, those statistics are almost always based on the way employees describe themselves.
In addition, both Harvard’s guidelines and federal regulations for the statistics lay out a specific definition of Native American that Warren does not meet.
The documents suggest for the first time that either Warren or a Harvard administrator classified her repeatedly as Native American in papers prepared for the government in a way that apparently did not adhere to federal diversity guidelines. They raise further questions about Warren’s statements that she was unaware Harvard was promoting her as Native American.
By the way, Warren’s opponent –Scott Brown — released a statement in the wake of the exchange:
“In the absence of any facts, Elizabeth Warren continues to claim she is a Native American minority. She needs to stop stonewalling and finally produce the records from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard that will show whether or not she or these schools benefited in any way from this false information about her ancestry.”
“Better than a document, better even than DNA: Family lore. Give her credit for staying on message here, though,” Hot Air’s Allahpundit writes. But he notes that the Cherokee questions could end up swinging in her favor as she starts to play the victim (”note the emphasis on Scott Brown “attacking her family’”).
“Don’t you feel ashamed for doubting her and her grandma?” He concludes. “You brutes, you.”
UPDATE:
There’s also a new report that says Harvard may have been referencing Warren as a person of color as far back as 1993. See that story here.
This story has been updated.
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Comments (141)
Tri-ox
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:06amElizabeth Warren: 0.32% Cherokee, 99.68% POS
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:16amWow, the journalists actually forgot that they are Marxists there to promote a socialist agenda…..ooops.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:32amThe sick thing is, that those Commies in Massachusetts will probably elect her…….
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:07amSenator Blumenthal… also attended the Liberial… Liar U.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:49am“media fulfills its journalistic duty” As though GB and his “professional” staff are in a position to either judge or critic this construct.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:02amDid you pout and stamp your foot as you typed that bilefest of yours JROOK?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:43am@AVENGERK
Yes he did, and then he stuck his binky back in his mouth and continued to ride his dog around the house as if it were a horse.
Didn’t you mister day-trader.
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:51amHey, rook ………….. we all know only you are able to judge.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:11pmA native American in a bar–can’t believe anything she says.
Report Post »dblaess
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:47pm@JRook
Report Post »Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:49am
“media fulfills its journalistic duty” As though GB and his “professional” staff are in a position to either judge or critic this construct.
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Why yes, yes they are!
drbage
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:55pm@ DETROIT PAPERBOY
Unfortunately, you are 100% correct. Look how many times they re-elected Bawney Fwank and the late Senator Kennedy.
Report Post »dblaess
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:57pm@JRook
Report Post »Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:49am
“media fulfills its journalistic duty” As though GB and his “professional” staff are in a position to either judge or critic this construct.
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Yes, why yes they are!
Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:29pmJust to clarify the statement in my previous post…………….
JROOK has let it be known that he is a day-trader.
Report Post »toto
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:33pmWhere is the Cherokee Nation to put an end to the insult that is Elisabeth Warren? She has effectively stolen positions to which she is likely not entitled and it should be exposed. The Cherokee Nation should do it post haste, they have the records. No records equals fraud.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:36pmHi Billy,
Didn’t understand what you were talking about the other day. Yes, I’ve now have seen the new eye.
He’s playing tricks and fishing for something.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:38pmStudy closely and count how many times Warren uses the word “ Hammer ” …sometimes even making an accompanying blow arm gesture towards the reporter. You all need to freshen up on communist “ doublespeak ” . Warren is intimidating the reporter through effigy of her voilant vocabulary…which included use of the phrase “ hammering my own family ” which in communist doublespeak translates “ my people will take a baseball bat to your children if you keep asking me this question ”
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:39pmHi Billy
“JROOK has let it be known that he is a day-trader.”
More like a day tripper, one way ticket yeah….
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:47pmCould of sworn Warren said she was black.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:55pmHi MONK,
Yes, that eye is kind of creepy isn’t it?
I see some family resemblance to the rest of the clan, do you?
Report Post »wo12b1
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:31pmInteresting and all, but why was she allowed to get away with saying that Senator Scott Brown voted to double the student loan interest rate. My understanding was that the vote was not to double or not double the student loan payment rate, but to prevent it from doubling by funding through other sources. As I recall, it was the democrats that produced the bill that causes the interest rate to double. It also seems to me that she was allowed to spin the vote against the source of alternative funding as a vote to affirm doubling the student loan interest rate. Shame on this reporter for apparently only having a one-track mind and not calling Ms. Warren out on that.
Report Post »Rijkstra
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 4:48pmActually Warren claims to be 1/32 Cherokee or 2.7%. I’m 1/16 Cherokee, BTW and have never claimed minority status.
Report Post »judymac10
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 5:41pmNewest DNA Melungeon Study
Report Post »DNA study in the Journal of Genetic Genealogy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/melungeon-dna-study-origin_n_1544489.html?1337916462&icid=maing-grid10%7Clegacy%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D164187
The-Monk
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 6:32pmHi Billy,
Yeah, creepy but, the message is clear and having issues seeing any clan resemblance at present.
Report Post »Ask Uncle JZS
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 7:55pm@Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:55pm
Hi MONK,
Yes, that eye is kind of creepy isn’t it?
U guys are idiots. 2 eyes are better than one. I poked my nephew in the eye and now he only has one. HaHaHaHaHaHaHa
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:01pmYou’re crazy Uncle….
Report Post »Ask Uncle JZS
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:01pmShut up Monk!
Report Post »csbaby
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:02pmJust a minor correction. Warren says she is 1/32 Cherokee, not .32% Cherokee. If she were .32%, that would make her almost 1/3 Cherokee.
Report Post »onondowagaman
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:44pmI am a real American Indian. I would like to know why it is that whenever non Indians claim to be of Indian heritage, they always claim their grandmother was a Cherokee? Not only a Cherokee, but, a Cherokee princess. Even the black people will claim Cherokee lineage. Why don’t they ever claim their ancestors were slaves?
We as real Indians, do not accept these 1/32nd or 1/16th people as Indians and they should not be going around claiming to be Indians. It is an insult to us real Indians. There are not many of us left who can proof real Indian lineage.
Perhaps, one day I will unite all of these people and form a “Wanabee tribe” and myself, a real Indian, can be their chief. We can then claim some land as ours, open up a large casino, and hopefully become rich. LOL Better yet, maybe I’ll run for the U S Senate. ROFLMAO!
Report Post »cmi
Posted on May 26, 2012 at 3:43pmOne thing in her favor,……she’s lied her skanky ass through life this far,……& the stupid liberal;s LOVE to be lied to!! I’m just wondering if Mass. has enough sensible voters to boot her lying ass clear out of politics! She’s nothing but a fraud, that probably should be in jail!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:59amShe got her jobs by pretending to be American Indian! Remember Ward Churchill from Colorado University? He got his job as a professor by claiming to be an American Indian. The Board of Regents went after him and after several years in court, he lost. He came back and again tried to get his job back and lost again. This should happen to Mz. Warren (the liar)
Report Post »EP46
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:06amHi…I’m Scott Brown ………..and I drive a jeep CHEROKEE.
Report Post »bry
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:18amWarren drives a Tee Pee Cruiser.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:07pmTee Heee heee …
Report Post »BIgWheeler
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 12:40pmYou guys should be more sensitive. Back in 1838 her people had to drive the Chevy Trailblazer-of-tears.
Report Post »junkmaninohio
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:01amTypical liberal Democrat gaming the system at the expense of of the truth.
Report Post »behonest
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:04pmthey put these laws into place to benifit themselves. Not the real minorities
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:00amShe is as Indian as I am black. Well, not exactly.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:10amShe’s as nutty as you, that’ for sure. LOL.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:21amWouldn’t the idiots who would still vote for this liar be the problem?
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:53amWow Warren, my Mom told me that even though you can’t see God, he does exist. So I guess you do believe in my right to believe.
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:53amBut if you would lie about your family history, what else would you lie about? You need to be hammered about your character.
Libs are disgusting…
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:37pmShe should have pulled herself from the race for the Senate seat if she had any self respect. That fact that she is perfectly willing to continue this fiction is proof positive she has ZERO scruples. I do believe Brown has a sizable lead over this con artist……her continued defense of the lie should convince enough voters to reject her but then again it’s MA so anything is possible.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:53amShe wil be coming out in full Indian headdress at her next campaign event…
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:53amGreat one!!
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:52amTell a big lie, tell it often enough, and pretty soon people will believe it (courtesy of the Hitler propaganda dept.)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:09amLook at Obama, he either lied to his publisher about being born in Kenya, or he lied to the American people about being born in Hawaii.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:40pmIn either case Gonzo , Reich Furer Obongo lied.
Report Post »sandlakebob
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:52am“What you mean WE, Kimosabe ??”
Report Post »80mesh
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:51amok dems ….circle the wagons and shoot inward
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:51amOceans of snorting laughter. Snicker-huff-chortle-wheeze.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:50amThat is deflecting with a bulldozer. I hope the few journalists now with their heads removed from the sand will keep this up and finally expose her for what she is.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:50amLooks like these liberals all have some sort of issue with who they are. Maybe that’s why their all lost in liberal land.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:07amMaybe she feels that because she claims to be 1/32 indian that makes her 1/32 Indian. Much like a man in a dress claims he‘s a woman and inspite of penis liberals claim he’s a woman as well.
Report Post »What a lying douch’e Warren is. And even when confronted with the fact that she has no eveidence and the fact the great great great grandmother she claimed was indian has been proven false she still sticks to the same lie.
She could have done herself a huge favor by simply saying I was told this by my grandparents and apparently they were misinformed sorry if I hurt anyone feelings. I was wrong.
But Warren as BHOD an can’t admit any wrong doing.
Bum thrower
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:50am‘Slappaho’ Warren just keeps it up. She found a ‘low key’ way to get “minority status” and thereby giving her a leg up in the ‘game’ and she has been caught; Just like the dirt bag Senator from CN who claimed to be a Viet Nam vet….and if the truth be known, I bet BHO used the ‘African’ label to get scholarships, and special treatment to get into prestegious schools….ALL DEMS lie like rugs!!!
Report Post »Mike Benton
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:49amIs “obfuscate” a Cherokee word?
Report Post »EP46
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:25amThe Cherokees were farmers…did Elizabeth get any of the money was paid in retribution to the farmers ? Maybe we need to check on that….or was that only for blacks like Shirley Sherrod who got heap big $$$ ?
Report Post »POdVet
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:47amIf only one of them had asked her if it was her or her mother who plagiarized those recipes.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:46amMomentary lapse of progressive butt kissiing?
Report Post »flatdaddio
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:45amElizabeth (Slinging Bull) Warren is another person who thinks she’s entitled to something which she is not..The sad thing is the sheeple in MA are supporting her…makes me sick..
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:44amI like whoever coined the term, “Chief Spreading Bull”, I think it was on Beck’s radio show where I heard that?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:00amWarren is a certified nut job but the sad part is she‘ll get lots of votes because let’s face it that state is filled with left wing whack jobs.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:08amProbably so brother, sad.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:24amI would’ve pegged her for a “Ute”.
Not the Indian tribe. Just “Ute”.
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:44amWhat a JOKE of a so-called “minority”! All she can talk about is “middle class, middle class, middle class”..that’s COMMIE talk! I’m sick of it!
Report Post »rdk
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:27pmShe is a multi-millionaire Cherokee commie.
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:44amI guess she doesn‘t think it is important to ’the families’ to know if she is a liar, fraud or opportunist working the system.
Report Post »cvs334
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:43amhttp://www.ancestry.com and figure it out … lazy reporters. She has technically answered the question, now it’s their jobs to investigate and find the truth … otherwise, unless you have proof, it’s working in her favor. It looks like a witch hunt.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:43amShe‘s got about as much American Indian in her as one of those old wooden Indian figures standing up outside of an old cigar shop I’m betting.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:38amWarren speaks with forked tongue.and limousine liberals like her are vile disgusting people cashing in on their ‘minority’ lmao status.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:45pmShe’s dipping into the fire water a little too much of late…. “woman with pickled head” strikes again.
Report Post »gbfreak
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:37ampsycho socialist puke! Let her keep sticking to her story. She will hang herself.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on May 25, 2012 at 8:49amI doubt that…I have a feeling that the people of MA will still back her. Look at how many people still back people like Maxine Walters, Charlie Rangel, Shelia Jackson. For some reason these liberals keep winning even when the truth is shown about them. Most of the public has been brainwashed at this point, I only hope that people start waking up and seeing it.
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