Rush's Elizabeth Warren fail

I think it's bogus for a person with 1/32nd Indian blood to call herself an Indian, and to get preferential treatment for being an Indian, but that doesn't change the fact that Rush fails on his claim that Warren is racist because of what - she - did not say, but what she quoted.

He actually shares exactly what Warren says - and yet doesn't see it, or doesn't want to see it.

RUSH: Do you know how Elizabeth Warren knows that she's one-thirty-second Indian? High cheekbones. (interruption) No, no! I kid you not. Her grand pappy, her grandmom, whatever, "had high cheekbones, like all the Indians do." (interruption) Damn right it's profiling. It's stereotyping, too. (interruption) How the hell can she do it? She's a woman! She's a woman; she's a minority. She can say this stuff. (interruption) You don't believe me? All right, let me get it. Grab audio sound bite number ten. Grab ten and 11. You know, I don't just make claims here. We got the backup.

This is yesterday in Braintree, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Warren held a press conference. This is what she said about her Native American heritage...

WARREN: My Aunt Bee has walked by that picture at least a thousand times, remarked that he -- that her father, my papaw -- had high cheekbones, like all of the Indians do! Because that's how she saw it, and she said, "And your mother got those same great cheekbones and I didn't." She thought this was the bad deal she had gotten in life.

RUSH: What have I always told you about liberals?

In other words, Warren is quoting her aunt and her grandmother, who said that. She didn't say it.

What is up with Warren anyway?

From Boston Herald: Warren: I used minority listing to share heritage

Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots.

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,” said Warren.

The Harvard Law professor argued she didn’t use her minority status to get her teaching jobs, and slammed her Republican rival U.S. Sen.Scott Brown for suggesting otherwise.

“The only one as I understand it who’s raising any question about whether or not I was qualified for my job is Scott Brown and I think I am qualified and frankly I’m a little shocked to hear anybody raise a question about whether or not I’m qualified to hold a job teaching,” she said, pushing to put Brown on defense. “What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?”

Warren is looking to shake off the story of her Native American background, which has hounded her since the Herald first reported that Harvard Law School has touted Warren as a minority hire. She also listed herself as a minority in a law school directory for nine years between 1986 and 1995.

“Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born,” said Warren, who never mentioned her Native American heritage on the campaign trail even as she detailed much of her personal history to voters in speeches, statements and a video. “These are my family stories, I have lived in a family that has talked about Native American and talked about tribes since I was a little girl.”

Warren’s statements come as genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society were unable to back up earlier accounts that her great great great grandmother is Cherokee. While Warren’s great great great grandmother, named O.C. Sarah Smith, is listed on a electronic transcript of a 1894 marriage application as Cherokee, the genealogists are unable to find the actual record or a photograhic copy of it, Society spokesman Tom Champoux said. A copy of the marriage license itself has been located, but unlike the application, it does not list Smith’s ethnicity.