The Naive American – sorry, Native American – heritage of Elizabeth Warren continues to be batted around in the local dailies today. Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan tells Warren running for office means always having to say you’re sorry.
Elizabeth Warren, it’s not too late to say ‘sorry’
Here’s what might help Elizabeth Warren in this oh-so-close U.S. Senate race: some apologies, some mea culpas.
Yesterday during an interview with Jim Braude and me on News Talk 96.9, Warren was asked — yet again — about the issue that just won’t go away.
“Do you feel that guilt that you checked the box?” asked a caller from Wellesley, who admitted that she, too, had checked the Native American box when pursuing a government job in the ’80s, and still feels bad about it.
Had Warren said what she should have said when the Herald first broke the Native American story months ago, it wouldn’t be a big story anymore. That is, that she regretted checking her own Native American box. That it was a mistake. That she was sorry.
Far from apologizing, Warren has doubled down on her dual heritage, as the Globe reports today:
In ads, Warren defends heritage after Brown attacks
US Senator Scott Brown and his Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren launched dueling ads Monday over her claims of Native American heritage, an issue that has provoked the most serious personal attacks in their race.
The sniping began when Brown launched a 30-second spot, entitled “Who knows?” The ad features grainy clips of television reporters talking about Warren “identifying herself as Native American to employers. . . . Something genealogists said they have zero evidence of.”
At the conclusion, a reporter asks Warren: “Is there anything else that’s going to come out about you that we don’t already know?” The Democrat laughs in response. “You know, I don’t think so, but who knows,” she says . . .
By late afternoon, Warren unveiled a 30-second spot that struck back at Brown’s, defending her heritage. “As a kid I never asked my mom for documentation when she talked about our Native American heritage. What kid would?’’ Warren asks, looking directly into the camera. “But I knew my father’s family didn’t like that she was part Cherokee and part Delaware. So my parents had to elope.’’
“Let me be clear,” she adds, “I never asked for, never got any benefit because of my heritage. The people who hired me have all said they didn’t even know about it.”
Well, we all know about it now. And it’s not going away anytime soon.
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So it seems that the Herald is saying that all of Warren’s previous employers (who have all said they didn’t hire her because of a Native American heritage) are liars?
Has the Herald bothered to ask them about it? Has the Herald asked Scott Brown to publish all of his employment records? Bet not.