Battle of the Network Stars (1 Viewer)

[HellToupee]

Yay or Nay

Yay or Nay

Yay or Nay

I've been thinking with all the reality programming why not bring back the original reality show

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nikon

canon

punk

upton

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finless

apple

 

[timschochet]

Never gonna happen. Actually, Hillary or no Hillary , I would be surprised if Warren ever runs for President .

 

[squistion]

You can tell this is a serious poll by referring to her as "Granny".

 

[Fennis]

why isnt it Granny Clinton?

 

[Fennis]

You can tell this is a serious poll by referring to her as "Granny".

shes not even a granny.

 

[HellToupee]

"Warren could have been a voice for change. Now she's just one of the Washington crowd".

Battenfeld: Harry Reid plays Elizabeth Warren like a chump

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IN THE FOLD: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks on Capitol Hill yesterday after Senate Democrats voted on leadership positions for the 114th Congress.
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Thursday, November 13, 2014PrintEmail61 Comments
By:Joe Battenfeld





It’s an offer she couldn’t refuse — but should have.

Harry Reid and his loser Democratic colleagues dangled a meaningless leadership post in front of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and she took the bait.

Hillary Clinton must be getting a big, loud laugh out of this one. Warren is the biggest threat to her path to the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and now the Massachusetts senator is on the party’s leadership team. The same team that just got smoked by the voters.

How can Warren lead a liberal insurgency against Clinton when she’s no longer an insurgent? A few weeks ago she was getting headlines calling out the Senate for being sexist. Now the headline is, “Warren takes Senate leadership post.”

Taking Reid’s offer is a risky move for the freshman senator’s future. If Democrats lose big again in two years, she will get part of the blame. After all, she is the “strategic policy adviser for the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.”

This “job” is beneath Warren’s standing. It’s like Tom Brady taking a position as Saturday morning fill-in host on The Sports Hub. Warren is a national star who gets invited to be on David Letterman and “The View.” Couldn’t she at least negotiate a better job title than adviser to a committee no one knew existed? Even Ed Markey would have been, like, thanks Harry, but I’ve got things to do in Malden.

Warren excels at being the outsider, railing against big banks, Wall Street fat cats and Washington lobbyists who have “rigged” the game against ordinary people. It’s a great, simplistic message that is resonating out there among a lot of voters, and not just in liberal Massachusetts.

But the populist hell-raiser fighting for the “hammered” middle class got snookered by Reid. Now that the Cambridge Democrat’s been co-opted by the ultimate Beltway blowhard, it’s going to make it difficult for her to be too tough on the party or the Obama administration.

Guess who is totally fine with being tough on Congress and the Obama administration now? Hillary Clinton. She’s happy to be far removed from her old Senate pals. Reid only brought in Warren to appease discontented liberals. But giving her a sketchy post just shows that the soon-to-be minority party still doesn’t get it.

Senate Democrats suffered an embarrassing shellacking, and what do the remaining Senate Democrats do? Re-elect Reid and the rest of his leaders.

“When you have an election like this, common sense says we need to change things,” said one of the few Democrats to survive last week, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Elizabeth Warren could have been the voice for change. Now she’s become just one of the Washington crowd.








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[cstu]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

 

[HellToupee]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

Warren lied her way through life, like when she lied about her alleged Native American heritage. Warren condemned predatory bank practices, Wall Street fortunes and "heartless foreclosures" but that didn’t stop her from using the same tactics to generate her own fortune. And though she has railed against predatory bank practices it still didn't keep her from using such tactics to flip foreclosed homes herself and make lucrative real estate deals that could have only happened using the very means she now condemns.

She's a real consumer advocate as well

shuke

doctor who

 

[mcintyre1]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

I have no idea what I'm talking about. Listen to me! I need attention!

FTFY GB

 

[Tom Servo]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

There's a reason some people call her Fauxcahontas, chief.

 

[HellToupee]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

I have no idea what I'm talking about. Listen to me! I need attention!

FTFY GB

keep blindly following the rhetoric

 

[Fennis]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

There's a reason some people call her Fauxcahontas, chief.

mega dittos rush

 

[saintfool]

Warren is a national star who gets invited to be on David Letterman and “The View.” Couldn’t she at least negotiate a better job title than adviser to a committee no one knew existed?

if you she was a national star then you'd think she would be invited to better tv programs than Letterman and The View. does this observer think she has Bill Cosby's public relations team?

 

[cstu]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

Warren lied her way through life, like when she lied about her alleged Native American heritage. Warren condemned predatory bank practices, Wall Street fortunes and "heartless foreclosures" but that didn’t stop her from using the same tactics to generate her own fortune. And though she has railed against predatory bank practices it still didn't keep her from using such tactics to flip foreclosed homes herself and make lucrative real estate deals that could have only happened using the very means she now condemns.

She's a real consumer advocate as well

I've been told my whole life that I'm part Cherokee (apparently my father was 1/8) so I believe I am. If I found out I wasn't then it wouldn't have been lying, just given incorrect information by my family. I believe the same thing happened to Warren.

Her issues with banking industry practices shouldn't preclude her from buying and selling real estate. That's a ridiculous argument.

 

[cstu]

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.”

Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”

 

[Tom Servo]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

Warren lied her way through life, like when she lied about her alleged Native American heritage. Warren condemned predatory bank practices, Wall Street fortunes and "heartless foreclosures" but that didn’t stop her from using the same tactics to generate her own fortune. And though she has railed against predatory bank practices it still didn't keep her from using such tactics to flip foreclosed homes herself and make lucrative real estate deals that could have only happened using the very means she now condemns.

She's a real consumer advocate as well

I've been told my whole life that I'm part Cherokee (apparently my father was 1/8) so I believe I am. If I found out I wasn't then it wouldn't have been lying, just given incorrect information by my family. I believe the same thing happened to Warren.

Her issues with banking industry practices shouldn't preclude her from buying and selling real estate. That's a ridiculous argument.

Really? Now imagine GWB was flipping houses...

 

[TobiasFunke]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

I have no idea what I'm talking about. Listen to me! I need attention!

FTFY GB

keep blindly following the rhetoric

Really surprised this thread took a turn for the worse. That initial post indicated that we were heading for a respectful and productive political discussion.

 

[Tom Servo]

You know its coming. The do-gooder elites are shining up Warren while ignoring she has lied her way through life. I think they'll snub Clinton to burn the party down with Warren

I have no idea what I'm talking about. Listen to me! I need attention!

FTFY GB

keep blindly following the rhetoric

Really surprised this thread took a turn for the worse. That initial post indicated that we were heading for a respectful and productive political discussion.

This was the MH370 of threads, my friend...

 

[Aerial Assault]

Oof. Epic thread fail.

 

[rockaction]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.”

Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”

 

[TobiasFunke]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.”

Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”

I know, right? How can anyone support a politician if her siblings call her Betsy? This is surely the worst thing that's ever happened in American politics, and I salute you for bringing it to our attention.

 

[HellToupee]

Oof. Epic thread fail.

what the hell are you talking about. Oof

 

[Aerial Assault]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.”

Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”

I know, right? How can anyone support a politician if her siblings call her Betsy? This is surely the worst thing that's ever happened in American politics, and I salute you for bringing it to our attention.

I think you missed out here. The clear implication is that "Betsy" is a made-up name by Senator Warren's brothers for their sister, designed purely for campaign effect, rather than something that they've been calling her since she was a child. My source for this information is Sean Hannity and/or Glen Beck, so I have a high degree of confidence in its accuracy.

 

[Aerial Assault]

Oof. Epic thread fail.

what the hell are you talking about. Oof

Sorry - I was talking about your utter failure of a thread. My bust for the ambiguity.

 

[mcintyre1]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.”

Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”

A full third of the people I personally know named Elizabeth go by Betsy and I'm 27, liberal, and live in a city. What's weird about Betsy as a name?

 

[Henry Ford]

Moonbats? Is that a racial slur?

 

[Aerial Assault]

And the thread gets way better with that edit.

 

[HellToupee]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warrens three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the familys Native American heritage because it was not popular in my family. Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.

Warrens brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. The people attacking Betsy and our family dont know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our familys Cherokee and Delaware heritage. Theyve passed away now, but theyd be angry if they were around today listening to all this.

A full third of the people I personally know named Elizabeth go by Betsy and I'm 27, liberal, and live in a city. What's weird about Betsy as a name?

this has got to be unless you are in a 65+ crowd

 

[HellToupee]

And the thread gets way better with that edit.

 

[mcintyre1]

New Poll: Does HellToupee realize the world has passed him by?

2nd Poll: When will those darn kids get off HellToupee's lawn?

 

[mcintyre1]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warrens three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the familys Native American heritage because it was not popular in my family. Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.

Warrens brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. The people attacking Betsy and our family dont know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our familys Cherokee and Delaware heritage. Theyve passed away now, but theyd be angry if they were around today listening to all this.

A full third of the people I personally know named Elizabeth go by Betsy and I'm 27, liberal, and live in a city. What's weird about Betsy as a name?

this has got to be unless you are in a 65+ crowd

I take it you know this from your extensive interaction with mid-late 20's liberal women?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Moonbats? Is that a racial slur?

Decide for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk-ok-Qfs70

 

[HellToupee]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warrens three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the familys Native American heritage because it was not popular in my family. Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.

Warrens brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. The people attacking Betsy and our family dont know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our familys Cherokee and Delaware heritage. Theyve passed away now, but theyd be angry if they were around today listening to all this.

A full third of the people I personally know named Elizabeth go by Betsy and I'm 27, liberal, and live in a city. What's weird about Betsy as a name?

this has got to be unless you are in a 65+ crowd

I take it you know this from your extensive interaction with mid-late 20's liberal women?

I know a totally made up statement when I see it

 

[mcintyre1]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warrens three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the familys Native American heritage because it was not popular in my family. Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.

Warrens brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. The people attacking Betsy and our family dont know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our familys Cherokee and Delaware heritage. Theyve passed away now, but theyd be angry if they were around today listening to all this.

A full third of the people I personally know named Elizabeth go by Betsy and I'm 27, liberal, and live in a city. What's weird about Betsy as a name?

this has got to be unless you are in a 65+ crowd

I take it you know this from your extensive interaction with mid-late 20's liberal women?

I know a totally made up statement when I see it

Hint: look at the popularity of Elizabeth as a name for girls from 1980-1990. Those girls had to pick some kind of shorthand and they can't all go by "Liz".

 

[rockaction]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.”

Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”

I know, right? How can anyone support a politician if her siblings call her Betsy? This is surely the worst thing that's ever happened in American politics, and I salute you for bringing it to our attention.

I think you missed out here. The clear implication is that "Betsy" is a made-up name by Senator Warren's brothers for their sister, designed purely for campaign effect, rather than something that they've been calling her since she was a child. My source for this information is Sean Hannity and/or Glen Beck, so I have a high degree of confidence in its accuracy.

Oh, c'mon. Because every statement issued by a senatorial candidate's family isn't run straight through the PR guy hired at triple figures to handle it?

Look, I just found it funny. Can't things be so cynical (and yes, innocuous) as to be funny anymore? Or does St. Warren not handle blasphemy well?

eta* By the way, I'd never seen nor heard of that statement, nor even guessed that "Betsy" was a good ol' nickname until now.

 

[rockaction]

It's like when an Illinois-born, Wellesley-educated Hillary adopted a Southern accent and started quoting Tammy Wynette.

TAMMY WYNETTE!

 

[HellToupee]

It's like when an Illinois-born, Wellesley-educated Hillary adopted a Southern accent and started quoting Tammy Wynette.

TAMMY WYNETTE!

kind of like how Obama uses different accents in different settings

 

[Fennis]

This thread brought to you by:

Physical 401 (K). Convert your 401(k) to gold. Or you'll be screwed when the dollar collapses. Thanks Obama.

And MREs for your shelter. Because not stockpiling 2 years of food for the Apocalypse is just silly. Thanks for the Apocalypse Obama. Your Apocalypse will only save Muslims.

 

[HellToupee]

As an independent voter Warren does nothing for me. Brings nothing to the table.

 

[timschochet]

Why do you always change thread titles?

 

[rockaction]

C'mon. Anyone remember when the Gores played touch football during the 2000 election crisis and Cheney, Bush, and Powell all walked out (almost strutted with a grass stalk in the mouth) in essentially matching leather jackets up to the fence at Bush's ranch?

Nobody finds this funny?

 

[urbanhack]

As an independent voter Warren does nothing for me. Brings nothing to the table.

 

[TobiasFunke]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.”

Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”

I know, right? How can anyone support a politician if her siblings call her Betsy? This is surely the worst thing that's ever happened in American politics, and I salute you for bringing it to our attention.

I think you missed out here. The clear implication is that "Betsy" is a made-up name by Senator Warren's brothers for their sister, designed purely for campaign effect, rather than something that they've been calling her since she was a child. My source for this information is Sean Hannity and/or Glen Beck, so I have a high degree of confidence in its accuracy.

Oh, c'mon. Because every statement issued by a senatorial candidate's family isn't run straight through the PR guy hired at triple figures to handle it?

Look, I just found it funny. Can't things be so cynical (and yes, innocuous) as to be funny anymore? Or does St. Warren not handle blasphemy well?

eta* By the way, I'd never seen nor heard of that statement, nor even guessed that "Betsy" was a good ol' nickname until now.

So your right to find humor in unfunny things should be protected from other people finding humor in that?

 

[mcintyre1]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warrens three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the familys Native American heritage because it was not popular in my family. Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.

Warrens brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. The people attacking Betsy and our family dont know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our familys Cherokee and Delaware heritage. Theyve passed away now, but theyd be angry if they were around today listening to all this.

A full third of the people I personally know named Elizabeth go by Betsy and I'm 27, liberal, and live in a city. What's weird about Betsy as a name?

this has got to be unless you are in a 65+ crowd

I take it you know this from your extensive interaction with mid-late 20's liberal women?

I know a totally made up statement when I see it

Hint: look at the popularity of Elizabeth as a name for girls from 1980-1990. Those girls had to pick some kind of shorthand and they can't all go by "Liz".

Followup with stats:

I'm connected with 6 people named Elizabeth through various forms of social media. One goes by Elizabeth, 3 go by Liz, 2 go by Betsy, all within +-3 of my own age. You do the math.

 

[joffer]

As an independent voter Warren does nothing for me. Brings nothing to the table.

 

[rockaction]

I love that statement.

Betsy? Just one of the ole Beverly Hillbillies, right?

Oh, c'mon...

David Herring of Norman, Okla., one of Warren’s three brothers, said in an interview that even when he was a child his relatives were reluctant to talk about the family’s Native American heritage because “it was not popular in my family.” Only when he begged his grandparents, said Herring, did they finally explain to him: “Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee. It was not the most popular thing to do in Oklahoma. [indians] were degraded, looked down on.”

Warren’s brothers, Don, John, and David Herring, also issued a joint statement supporting their sister. “The people attacking Betsy and our family don’t know much about either. We grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family’s Cherokee and Delaware heritage. They’ve passed away now, but they’d be angry if they were around today listening to all this.”

I know, right? How can anyone support a politician if her siblings call her Betsy? This is surely the worst thing that's ever happened in American politics, and I salute you for bringing it to our attention.

I think you missed out here. The clear implication is that "Betsy" is a made-up name by Senator Warren's brothers for their sister, designed purely for campaign effect, rather than something that they've been calling her since she was a child. My source for this information is Sean Hannity and/or Glen Beck, so I have a high degree of confidence in its accuracy.

Oh, c'mon. Because every statement issued by a senatorial candidate's family isn't run straight through the PR guy hired at triple figures to handle it?

Look, I just found it funny. Can't things be so cynical (and yes, innocuous) as to be funny anymore? Or does St. Warren not handle blasphemy well?

eta* By the way, I'd never seen nor heard of that statement, nor even guessed that "Betsy" was a good ol' nickname until now.

So your right to find humor in unfunny things should be protected from other people finding humor in that?

Who said anything about protection? Flame away. I explained my own opinion of the ludicrousness of the statement.

Ah, good old Betsy.

 

[mcintyre1]

So I take it HellToupee didn't like the clear lead Betsy had in the poll?

 

[johnnycakes]

You still talking about Granny Warren here?

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

Betsy; Cherokee warrior.

 

[Mr. Ected]

You can tell this is a serious poll by referring to her as "Granny".

shes not even a granny.

Do your homework, young man!