Elizabeth Warren's "Pocahontas" Problem?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

BOSTON -- Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the University of Texas and declined to apply for admission to Rutgers Law School under a program for minority students.

The records on Elizabeth Warren were obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday. Warren's heritage has been under scrutiny after it surfaced that she had listed herself as having Native American heritage in law school directories.

[...]

On the Rutgers application, Warren wrote "No" in response to the question: "Are you interested in applying for admission under the Program for Minority Group Students?"

Warren graduated from Rutgers in 1976.

On a personnel file from the University of Texas, Warren checked the box "White" when asked to select "the racial category or categories with which you most closely identify."

The categories included a box for "American Indian or Alaska Native," which Warren did not check.

Well, that pretty much settles it. Scott Brown is looking even stupider than before.

[shua]

BOSTON -- Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the University of Texas and declined to apply for admission to Rutgers Law School under a program for minority students.

The records on Elizabeth Warren were obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday. Warren's heritage has been under scrutiny after it surfaced that she had listed herself as having Native American heritage in law school directories.

[...]

On the Rutgers application, Warren wrote "No" in response to the question: "Are you interested in applying for admission under the Program for Minority Group Students?"

Warren graduated from Rutgers in 1976.

On a personnel file from the University of Texas, Warren checked the box "White" when asked to select "the racial category or categories with which you most closely identify."

The categories included a box for "American Indian or Alaska Native," which Warren did not check.

Well, that pretty much settles it. Scott Brown is looking even stupider than before.

What does it settle? That she only became an American Indian after law school?

[Bacon King]

It means that she didn't use Native American heritage to get ahead in her career, so even though it's stupid her "cultural opportunities" explanation actually fits. I'm willing to bet that around that time, someone important to her on her mom's side had died so she began exploring that part of her heritage (and it seems from family stories that they thought it was a lot more prominent than it actually is).

The only other explanation would be if Harvard's administration pressured her to put it down so it'd look like they had more minority faculty, but only making her do it would be pointless and if they did it on a bigger scale it would have been easily detectable so a scandal would have probaby come out years ago.   

[zorkpolitics]

Warren contributed recipes to something called the Pow Wow Chow cookbook that were obviously copied from other sources, apparently violating copyright laws.  Wonder if the statute of limitations has expired?  At the very least she has a serious ethics problem.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Can't believe krazy wasn't the one to post about cookbookgate.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Warren contributed recipes to something called the Pow Wow Chow cookbook that were obviously copied from other sources, apparently violating copyright laws.  Wonder if the statute of limitations has expired?  At the very least she has a serious ethics problem.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes

The Scott Brown camp is really grasping.

[Pacific Councillor Big Wiggly Style]

Warren contributed recipes to something called the Pow Wow Chow cookbook that were obviously copied from other sources, apparently violating copyright laws.  Wonder if the statute of limitations has expired?  At the very least she has a serious ethics problem.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes

Welp, Warren's sunk. Safe Brown.

[shua]

Warren contributed recipes to something called the Pow Wow Chow cookbook that were obviously copied from other sources, apparently violating copyright laws.  Wonder if the statute of limitations has expired?  At the very least she has a serious ethics problem.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes

Lol, is crab meat even a common traditional food in the interior south?

[Minnesota Mike]

Recipes? We are worried about recipes? Shows how desperate and pathetic the Brown camp is.

BTW I had to laugh at yesterdays hit piece by that National Review that accused Warren of plagiarizing a book that was published after her book. Ooops.

[Invisible Obama]

Somehow, I don't think debate over recipes will carry over until November. At this point, it looks like Republicans are just throwing a bunch of stuff out there and seeing what sticks, which says to me Brown doesn't have a chance of winning on the issues, so he needs a gotcha.

[Sibboleth]

How can anyone take this election at all seriously?

[Nichlemn]

I think this is more useful as an indicator of Warren's possible future campaigning problems than a scandal in and of itself.

[Wrecking Ball and Chain]

Recipe plagiarism the best the Brown camp can come up with? Well I guess they can't attack her on the issues so...

[Former Moderate]

Recipe plagiarism the best the Brown camp can come up with? Well I guess they can't attack her on the issues so...

Well, they actually have, you know. I mean, she's being called a borderline communist up here.

[Joe Republic]

How can anyone take this election at all seriously?

It's no more ridiculous than the last Senate election in MA...

[asexual trans victimologist]

Recipe plagiarism the best the Brown camp can come up with? Well I guess they can't attack her on the issues so...

Well, they actually have, you know. I mean, she's being called a borderline communist up here.

They can and have been attacking her on the issues but they clearly don't seem to feel it's been working to their satisfaction.

[The Professor]

Recipes? We are worried about recipes?

Not all of us are like you and shovel McDonalds down our throat every day. Some of us like to cook our own meals using recipes and we prefer it if the recipes weren't plagiarized.

[asexual trans victimologist]

Recipes? We are worried about recipes?

Not all of us are like you and shovel McDonalds down our throat every day. Some of us like to cook our own meals using recipes and we prefer it if the recipes weren't plagiarized.

Honestly, the concept of 'plagiarizing recipes' reminds me of nothing so much as the more bafflingly nostalgic elements of growing up in a small town with an aging, disproportionately white, disproportionately female population.

[The Professor]

Recipes? We are worried about recipes?

Not all of us are like you and shovel McDonalds down our throat every day. Some of us like to cook our own meals using recipes and we prefer it if the recipes weren't plagiarized.

Honestly, the concept of 'plagiarizing recipes' reminds me of nothing so much as the more bafflingly nostalgic elements of growing up in a small town with an aging, disproportionately white, disproportionately female population.

I don't see the problem here

[asexual trans victimologist]

Recipes? We are worried about recipes?

Not all of us are like you and shovel McDonalds down our throat every day. Some of us like to cook our own meals using recipes and we prefer it if the recipes weren't plagiarized.

Honestly, the concept of 'plagiarizing recipes' reminds me of nothing so much as the more bafflingly nostalgic elements of growing up in a small town with an aging, disproportionately white, disproportionately female population.

I don't see the problem here

It wasn't a problem. It's just that old white women in rural New England have historically been stereotyped as having certain attitudes towards agricultural production.

[Gravis Marketing]

Naturally, RecipeGate was all over the first three pages of the Herald on Weds. or Thurs.

[zorkpolitics]

Naturally, RecipeGate was all over the first three pages of the Herald on Weds. or Thurs.

Somehow the Globe missed the entire story!

[豚FLY]

Naturally, RecipeGate was all over the first three pages of the Herald on Weds. or Thurs.

Somehow the Globe missed the entire story!

That's because it's a non-story.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Somehow the Globe missed the entire story!

Maybe the Globe is respectable.

[Sibboleth]

Naturally, RecipeGate was all over the first three pages of the Herald on Weds. or Thurs.

Do you feel like shaking your head in disbelief or...?