Cherokee Liz Speaks with Forked Tongue

Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren has become famous for her claim that she is 1/32 Cherokee. For weeks, Warren (or Cherokee Liz as I like to call her) has claimed that she only listed herself as part Native American in order to meet similar people at events. Cherokee Liz said that it had nothing to do with her being hired as a minority professor at the law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. The mantra was that there was absolutely no impact of her supposed Native American heritage on he being hired as a professor at these prestigious institutions. Indeed, Liz said that she did not know if the law schools even knew about her heritage.

Now, the story has morphed again. Warren now admits that she herself told both schools of her claimed Cherokee heritage. Here is the excerpt from her statement to the Boston Globe:

At some point after I was hired by them, I... provided that information to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard....My Native American heritage is part of who I am, I'm proud of it and I have been open about it.

Warren still claims that her supposed heritage had nothing to do with her being hired, but she also refuses to allow release of her employment documents at either school. So let's recap:

1) Warren first claimed that she had a marriage license application from 1897 that showed her ancestor was a Cherokee. That turned out not to be true.

2) Warren then said that her claim to Cherokee heritage was based upon family "lore" and her high cheekbones "like all the Indians have". So much for the left staying away from stereotypes.

3) Warren said she had not told the law schools about her racial background as part of her hiring. Of course, now she admits that she did tell them of the Cherokee heritage.

4) Warren says that the fuss about all of this is just a ploy by the campaign of her opponent Senator Brown to change the subject of the campaign. That would make the Boston Globe, the subsidiary of the New York Times that is the main liberal outlet in Massachusetts, a dupe for the Brown campaign. The Globe is many things, but a dupe for the Republicans is not one of them.

5) Warren still refuses to release her employment records which could easily put to bed the claim that she benefitted in hiring from a phony claim of being a Cherokee. This refusal speaks more about Warren than all her press conferences combined.

I am becoming more and more convinced that Warren is likely to withdraw from the race in the near future. Her excuse will most likely be that she wants to spend more time with her tribe.