Warren's Position is unraveling

Democratic senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is falling off a cliff. Warren, or as I like to call her Cherokee Liz, has been dealing with a firestorm that resulted from the disclosure that she put forward a claim of Native American ancestry at both the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School on the basis of statements that her aunt made about having high cheekbones. Obviously, the real issue is whether or not Warren used her claim to be 1/32 Cherokee to get hired at the two universities on the basis of her claim of "minority" status. The Boston Herald was all over the story and many other web based media sites gave it major coverage. The story progressed with disclosure that Warren copied French recipes and passed them off as Native American cooking for a cookbook to which she contributed. Warren also told a ridiculous sounding story that she only made the claim to Indian heritage in order to meet people at events.

For quite some time, the main stream media has been protecting Warren. That now seems to be ending. Today, the Boston Globe ran a long story on Warren's position. True, today is the Friday before Memorial Day, so it is a good day to run stories that the paper wants to bury. Nevertheless, the nub of the Globe's story is that Warren claimed Native American status and she did not even deserve to do so.

The Harvard document defines Native American as “a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.’’ It notes that this definition is consistent with federal regulations.

It is not a definition Warren appears to fit. She has not proven she has a Native American ancestor, instead saying she based her belief on family lore, and she has no official tribal affiliation. The current executive director of Harvard’s Native American program has said she has no memory of Warren participating in any of its activities.


For those who do not know, the Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times company. For a Times owned outlet to print articles pointing out that Warren, in essence, lied about her claim to Native American status and also that Warren's phony claim improved her chances of being employed at Harvard is a game-changer. When a liberal like Warren loses the main stream media it is the beginning of the end. We may soon see Warren withdrawing from the race to spend more time at home in her wigwam.