Warren, who had no public events yesterday, again refused an interview request from the Herald, responding to questions instead through a spokeswoman by email. Meanwhile, campaign officials scrambled to address another claim Warren’s made about her life’s story.
“I was the first nursing mother to take a bar exam in the state of New Jersey,” Warren told an audience at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2011, in a video posted on the CHF website. When asked how Warren knows that, her campaign said:
“Elizabeth was making a point about the very serious challenges she faced as a working mom — from taking an all-day bar exam when she was still breast-feeding, to finding work as a lawyer that would accommodate a mom with two small children.”
Is this the bare breast of Elizabeth Warren, providing milk during the NJ bar exam? Could be...just look at the cheekbones on that baby!
Seems to me as if the Warren campaign is tactfully admitting that when it comes to certain accomplishments that Elizabeth needs to burnish her liberal bona fides, the candidate just makes shit up, and awards herself "groundbreaking" credit.
Much like her claim to Cherokee heritage, it is fundamentally impossible to confirm or deny Warren's latest wacky claim to fame:
Winnie Comfort of the New Jersey Judiciary, which administers that state’s bar exam, said there’s no way to verify Warren’s claim. Comfort said women have been taking the New Jersey bar exam since 1895, but she’s not aware their nursing habits were ever tracked.
Now we know where Time Magazine got the inspiration for their recent infamous cover:
But if, as is most likely, Warren was not the first woman to breastfeed while taking the bar exam in New Jersey, than once again she has appropriated the bravery, guts, and identity of another in order to further her own career by claiming the mantle of liberal heroine.
Somewhere, there is a woman reading this with a tear falling from their eye (much like the iconic Indian), knowing that she actually paved the trail for Ms. Warren, not the other way round, and has been robbed of her honor, such as it is. Much like a certain proud Indian tribe...
But we'll be fair to Running Joke here. I'm still calling her out for lying about her Cherokee heritage and about whipping it out in Jersey. But there's another, equally unprovable boast that she mentions less often these days:
Elizabeth Warren is running for office in the most high-profile race in the country not involving Barack Obama. It’s a position that calls for some tact. So what does she think about the Occupy Wall Street protests that are roiling the country?
“I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,” she says. “I support what they do.”
Warren’s boast isn’t bluster..
We'll rate this claim "true". No need to be shy, Ms. Warren, go ahead...brag on it!
Ms. Warren? Why the sudden silence?
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