Posted by Lawrence Auster at 11:06 AM

Bristol Palin in the news

Headline in the Daily Mail:

Bristol Palin sells Arizona home for $175,000 and heads back to Alaska for ‘trial marriage with boyfriend filmed for reality TV’

I’m trying to process that phrase:

“trial marriage with boyfriend filmed for reality TV”

Meanwhile, NYT op-ed columnist Frank Bruni is bitterly attacking Bristol for opposing homosexual marriage. Evidently he sees her as a significant conservative figure.

Brooks, husband, to be charged with concealing evidence

Rebekah Brooks as Hester Prynne,
with scarlet hair instead of scarlet letter

The Guardian reports:

The Crown Prosecution Service says Rebekah Brooks will be charged with perverting the course of justice.

Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged over allegations that she tried to conceal evidence from detectives investigating phone hacking and alleged bribes to public officials.

Brooks, one of the most high-profile figures in the newspaper industry, will be charged later on Tuesday with three counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in July last year at the height of the police investigation, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced.

She is accused of conspiring with others, including her husband, Charlie Brooks, the racehorse trainer and friend of the prime minister, and her personal assistant, to conceal material from detectives. [cont.]

May 14, 2012

Warren insists on her American Indian ancestry

Meanwhile Elizabeth Warren is doubling down, telling a half-naked hostess on CNN, “I’m proud of my Native American heritage,” and accusing Scott Brown of trying to change the subject from Wall Street. See? Brown is racializing the campaign!

New England Genealogical Society refuses to defend or comment on its earlier statement about Warren’s ancestry

Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson, after underscoring that the basis for Warren’s great great great ancestor’s Indian identity is non-existent (as I reported Saturday), writes:

I reached out to Christopher Child, the well-known genealogist who was the source of the claim, and his employer, the prestigious New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), but they have gone silent, refusing to comment on, defend or correct their claim that Warren was 1/32 Cherokee. The e-mail exchange appears at the bottom of this post.

Here is the e-mail exchange:

Jacobson wrote:

Can you provide me with a copy of the 1894 marriage record for the son of O.C. Sarah Smith which you referenced in various media interviews as forming the basis for your conclusion that Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Cherokee?

Do you still stand by that conclusion? Does NEHGS stand behind it?

Consider this a request for comment. Please respond today.

Thomas Champoux of the New England Historic Genealogical Society replied:

Mr. Jacobson, NEHGS is not conducting research on Elizabeth Warren nor are we commenting beyond what has already been covered by the media. Thank you.

Jacobson replied:

Mr. Child stated publicly on or about May 1 that Ms. Warren was 1/32 Cherokee and that he had a document to prove it. That statement has been reported far and wide.

Does Mr. Child and NEHGS stand by that statement anymore? Is there such a document? I would think you would want to comment on that, since NEHGS is perhaps the most prestigious genealogical society and its reputation has been put on the line by a categorical statement as to Ms. Warren’s ancestry. If NEHGS and/or Mr. Child no longer stand by the statement, I would think you would want to correct the record.

Will there still be no comment by NEHGS or Mr. Child either standing by or correcting/clarifying prior commentary?

Jacobson received no further response.

Jacobson concludes:

There is nothing left of the claim that Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Cherokee. The documentary sources have been debunked, and the genealogist and genealogical society which originated the story and upon whom the Warren campaign relies are not talking.

Of course none of this will will be reported in the mainstream media, at least in any factual and definitive way. For liberals, the fraudulence of Warren’s Indian ancestry claim has no more reality than … than … black-on-white mob violence.

In fact, based on what a liberal acquaintance said to me a few weeks ago about the Martin-Zimmerman case (see entry “How I lost it”), I wouldn’t be surprised if liberals now claim that “the Right has racialized Elizabeth Warren.”

Fauxcohantas, cont.

Hard to believe, but the Elizabeth (“This is not class warfare, but just a commonsense expression of the social contract”) Warren camp is now claiming that because a first cousin of Warren’s once gave money to an American Indian museum, that proves that Warren is descended from Indians.

Meanwhile, from a webpage devoted to the purpose, more injun names for the liberal heroine from Harvard:

• Sacajawhiner

• She Will Sioux

• Sackatheeconomy

• Wounded Economy

And this comment:

One time in junior high, a kid gave me the most painful Indian burn. Which gives me as much claim to their heritage as Elizabeth Warren has.

John Edwards set the left’s pulse racing with his talk about the “Two Americas,” and he was the biggest phony anyone’s ever seen. Then Elizabeth Warren set Democratic hearts aflutter with her “social contract” aimed at creating resentment of all productive enterprises, and she turns out to be a gargantuan phony. Is there a proportional relationship between conspicuous leftism, and fakery?

UPDATE: And here’s another, from a commenter at Legal Insurrection:

Everyone seems to have settled on calling her Fauxcahontas, but I still contend that Taxajawea is a far superior in every sense.

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Jonathan S. writes:

Then by this “logic” of the Elizabeth Warren camp, if their candidate has a distant relative who donated to the local aquarium, that could make her a 1/32 Catfish-American.

Those delicate flowers at Powerline

The opening of Paul Mirengoff’s post today on John Edwards:

I have tried to avert my eyes from the John Edwards trial…

Isn’t that just too precious?

(By the way, it should be pointed out that there are subjects that Mirengoff and his associates at Powerline have managed successfully to avert their eyes from over the years, such as their hero G.W. Bush’s betrayal of his solemn 2002 pledge to have nothing to do with the Palestinians unless they renounced terror, such as black-on-white crime in Minneapolis. Indeed, when it comes to black racial violence against whites, the Powerline guys are just like the editor of the Virginian-Pilot: it doesn’t exist, and only a disgusting person, the sort of person from whom one must avert one eyes, would notice that it does exist.)