Elizabeth Warren’s soi disant Native American heritage has drawn fire not just from incumbent Sen. Scott Brown, but also from Native Americans.
Except it’s hard to know that from the Boston Globe coverage.
Cherokee chief rips Brown campaign
The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation denounced Senator Scott Brown’s campaign staffers on Wednesday for what he called offensive and racist behavior against Native Americans, and he called on Brown to apologize.
A day earlier, Democrats released a video filmed outside a Brown campaign event showing Republican staff members, including an aide in Brown’s Senate office, performing tomahawk chops and shouting war whoops amid a crowd of boisterous supporters of both candidates.
The gestures appeared to mock Elizabeth Warren’s professed Native American ancestry.
“The conduct of these individuals goes far beyond what is appropriate and proper in political discourse,” the chief, Bill John Baker, said in a statement. “The use of stereotypical ‘war whoop chants’ and ‘tomahawk chops’ are offensive and downright racist. It is those types of actions that perpetuate negative stereotypes and continue to minimize and degrade all native peoples.”
But . . .
Buried deep in the piece was this:
[Sen. Brown’s] campaign also released a comment from a member of the Pequot tribe calling Warren a fraud for her undocumented claims of Native American ancestry.
Cut to . . . the Boston Herald’s coverage:
Native Americans rip Scott and Liz
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown delivered his “one and only warning” to staffers about their behavior after a video captured tomahawk-chopping supporters, but while a top Cherokee official demanded Brown apologize, other Native Americans said they’re still waiting for Elizabeth Warren to admit she’s no Cherokee.
“For the most part, I saw it as stupid behavior,” Twila Barnes said of the clip featuring Brown supporters doing war whoops and toma-hawk chops. “But Elizabeth Warren has stolen our entire identity. If she had been a real Cherokee, they wouldn’t have behaved like that. They were doing it because she’s fake.”
Fake heritage, fake issue, fake outrage – take your pick.
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All boils down to how it plays with voters, and it’s hard to see how it helps Brown. Can’t imagine anyone who’d be influenced by it who wasn’t going to vote for him anyway. Puzzling game plan, in that regard.
Yeah, Mick, but he seems to be all in – especially given his new ad today:
http://bit.ly/TN5uh6
The whole issue doesn’t help Warren very much.
I baffles me as to why she just doesn’t admit the mistake, say it was stupid on her part and move on. She is making her dodging of the true answer the issue.