Boston Globe Columnist Steps Up Warren Criticism
The Boston Herald has routinely attacked Elizabeth Warren in columns and op-eds since the paper first reported in April that she listed herself as Native American in a Harvard directory while teaching there. But the Boston Globe has not hit Warren nearly as hard.
The Globe even editorialized in early May that "Unless evidence emerges to suggest otherwise, Warren doesn't need to explain herself any further."
But on Wednesday, Globe Metro columnist Brian McGrory unleashed what appears to be the harshest critique of Warren and the controversy yet to be appear in the paper, writing that the controversy "matters a great deal." McGrory:
Of course, the stubbornly mediocre economy, fair taxes, the partisan rift that is swallowing Washington whole, these are all critical issues that should be discussed and debated almost every day in this US Senate campaign.
But let's not ever lose sight of one true thing in this or any other political race: The most important issues are the candidates themselves, and more specifically, their integrity, credibility, and authenticity.
Which is why Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee ancestry, almost certainly declared on federal forms by Warren herself and used by a pair of Ivy League universities to tout their diversity efforts, all without an ounce of proof that she has a drop of Indian blood flowing through her veins, matters. It matters a great deal.
Speaking as adults here, the elephant in the room is whether Warren wrongly claimed minority status to improve her prospects for being hired to teach at Harvard Law School, and before that, the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The more obvious question might even be, why else would she have done it?
The public utterances of this uncommonly accomplished and otherwise eloquent candidate have so far ranged from lunacy to comedy, highlighted by her explanation about wanting to "meet others like me" and her recollection of an aunt describing her grandfather's "high cheekbones."
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The ultimate answer over whether she used her questionable heritage to gain undue advantage may say more about Warren than she probably wants us to know. Continued silence and roadblocks on hiring records will prove just as bad.
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