Patters

All we know is that Elizabeth Warren continues to believe in family lore, and that geneologists have documented that her great-great-great grandmother was part Cherokee. Is this really any different that Brits who take pride in distant associations to Kings and Queens? But, I digress.

Scott Brown apparently really did lie about his ancestry to get some media attention, and the lie resulted in the New York Times issuing a retraction. Let's hope the liberal media picks up this story that is sure to scandalize the holier-than-thou segment of the right wing. ...b-b-but this is different LOL.

Scott Brown, Arthur Prentice Rugg, and misrepresentation of ancestry... - Weston, MA Patch

...In the 1980's, after Scott Brown appeared in Cosmo, he was interviewed by the New York Times. In that interview, he claimed to be the great-grandson of Arthur Prentice Rugg, a chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in the 19th century, and he said he found it amusing to be reading cases in which his great-grandfather was involved. Here's a snip from the original article:

"Until a few weeks ago, Scott Brown was a 22-year-old first-year law student at Boston College Law School who frequently ran across opinions written by his great-grandfather, Arthur Prentice Rugg, former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

"'I read many of his cases this year," he said, "which I found amusing.'"

The problem for Scott? He was not Rugg's great-grandson, they were only distantly related. The Times had to print a retraction a few days later.

cupofjoe1962

The Weston Patch?
Sounds like something that may need to be waxed.



Was there a box to check for being a relative of Arthur Prentice Rugg that gave Scott Brown minority status?

No......Well then...... he never benefited.
He also was a relative.

Did it help him take a job away from a qualified minority?

Funny how you have a problem with Scott Brown, but support
Elizabeth Warren.

I guess that is why we consider you a hypocrite.

Patters

(As far as the link goes, apparently you didn't click on the links to pdf image files of the actual sources in the New York Times.)

Brown did benefit. He got written up in the New York Times, which is useful to a model, in a story that covered children and grandchildren of prominent people, not distant relatives.

And, it has been established that Warren is part Cherokee.

Also, I don't have a problem with either one. It's the Brown campaign that is raising this issue, so I'm just pointing out his hypocrisy and exposing the hypocrisy of those who make ancestry claiims a big deal.

Both Warren and Brown are guilty of the same thing--exaggeration about their ancestry, but not complete lies.

cupofjoe1962

Show me a job he took away from a minority?

Really..... Please provide the link.



Take a look at this.....

Boston Globe unintentionally proves Elizabeth Warren’s ethnic fraud
by
William A Jacobson
Associate Clinical Professor,
Cornell Law School

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09...-ethnic-fraud/

Patters

As your link, which has more info than the link I was going to show, quotes the Globe retraction:

"The document, alluded to in a family newsletter found by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, was an application for a marriage license, not the license itself. Neither the society nor the Globe has seen the primary document, whose existence has not been proven."

Thus, it's possible her great-great-great grandmother lied on her application. But, doesn't that seem unlikely?

Now, show me a link that Warren took a job from a minority.

And again, Brown lied about his ancestry in order to get free publicity from the New York Times, to help him with his modeling career. Like Warren, he lied about his ancestry.

cupofjoe1962

Well.... You were unable to prove that Warren was a Cherokee.

It someone lied on their application to the post office by saying they
were a minority, I am sure you would say they took a job away from a
minority.

PatriotsReign

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Hey Patters!

Stop objectifying men in you sig! It's misomasculinist (yes, that's a real word possibly) and I, for one, am deeply offended at your lack of respect for the not-opposite sex!

Outrageous! And you call yourself a mod!

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Patters

As are the threads about Warren''s ancestry.

patsfan13

Wake me up when Brown uses his 'royal' status to scam his way into a job and screw a minority applicant as Warren has on multiple occasions.

Wake me up when Brown refuses to met with Royals the way Warren has with the Cerokee people whom she insulted by trying to steal their identity (their words).

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