DC: CNN host David Axelrod confronted Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday over her claims to Native American ancestry.
Axelrod noted during an interview on his show, “The Axe Files,” that Warren only has a minuscule amount of Native American DNA and demanded to know why the 2020 hopeful ever identified herself as an American Indian.
A recent report from The Washington Post indicated that Warren wrote that she was “American Indian” on her registration form for the Texas Bar exam in the 1980s.
“The question that I’ve never understood is why? Why did you in 1986 fill out on your — I guess it was your law license or something — an exam application, ‘American Indian’? Why did you check those boxes?” Axelrod questioned. “Because obviously that’s a very small part of your lineage, you know, 1/32nd or something. So why did you do it?” more here
Note that she didn’t actually answer the question. Typical pol.
Uncle Al,
“To take advantage of Affirmative Action and grab a slot for myself, rather than for some undeserving slug of a drunken frikken Indian!” wouldn’t have sounded too much gooder.
So, prattle on about some other bullshit and Axelrod will pretend she answered – it’s “All in the Family.”
izlamo delenda est …
David Axelrod and Elizabeth Warren, now there are two people our country could do without and be better off for it.
Obviously, it was because she was drinking a beer in the kitchen at the time.
Uncle Al, she did say something about “trying to help her native American friends.” I guess she did it for them?
How difficult was for that guy to make the question. He was terrified that he’d hurt her feelings. Pathetic!
She didn’t check the box she wrote it in! Spelled it out! BIG DIFFERENCE!!! She knew it was lie!
Maybe it was because she could enjoy a cold one in the kitchen while preparing one of their fantastic dishes from her Indian recipe books.
Warren and Her Thighness, Clinton, honestly believe that the way to win Deplorables’ hearts and minds is by slugging back a beer — or a beer and shot. That’s what they think of us. That’s a huge distinction between pols like them and our POTUS. He’s really one of us because he understands what Americans really want. We’d have a beer and shot with Trump for enjoyment. We’d drink a beer and shot in order to cope with Fauxcahontas.
Because the African American thing would have been more difficult.
She’s a swine. Axelrod is a traitor.
1/32nd. Or 1/1024th. Whatever.
“…I sometimes identified as Native American.”
“But only when I get valuable benefits and preferential treatment.”
There, fixed for her.
I thought she would just claim that famous “white privilege” we hear so much about…
Why is she chugging a beer when alcohol is clearly a scourge on the Native American?
Honesty would have been refreshing. Had she said that she had heard enough stories to believe that they might be true, and why not take advantage of it — and come out against affirmative action — she probably would have done better for herself.
As someone of the same generation, I can remember sitting around with a college friend with less-than-perfect grades when he was working on his grad school application. In those days (I don’t know about now) the “box” said that the question was “optional”. His father was Bavarian nobility and his mother was French Canadian with one (real) native American grandparent. Should he check “mixed”? Or something else… In the end, we decided that neither of us believed that “race” was a real thing, and the choices certainly weren’t “race”… (“Asian-Pacific Islander”? What’s that?) In the end, he decided to leave it blank. (He got into grad school. Who knows if he would have today.)
Because she was a little too light to claim negrohood?