THIS DOESN’T LOOK GOOD FOR ELIZABETH WARREN:
And neither does this critique of her bankruptcy study.
Sen. Lying Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., claimed this week that a school principal fired her from a teaching job after she became "visibly pregnant," but a resurfaced video shows that wasn't the actual reason she left the
job.
"I was married at nineteen and then graduated from college [at the University of Houston] after I’d married," Warren, then a Harvard Law School professor, said in an interview
posted to YouTube in 2008. "My first year post-graduation, I worked -- it was in a public school system but I worked with the children with disabilities. I did that for a year, and then that summer I actually didn’t have the education courses, so I was on an 'emergency certificate,' it was called.
"By the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant, and the principal did what principals did in those days," she said. "Wish me luck and hire someone else for the job."
Warren has repeated the story at campaign appearances throughout the summer, each time repeating the "principal did what principals did" line to describe her departure from teaching.
The senator's campaign did not respond to a request for comment to clarify the apparent discrepancy.
This isn't the first time that Warren's past has raised questions about her credibility. She has been
widely criticized for identifying herself as a Native American in legal directories before applying to work at Harvard Law School. Last year, Warren
released the results of a DNA test showing she is only 1/1,024th Native American -- and apologized for identifying as Native American on past forms.
Other Fauxcohontus Lies:
Misdiagnosis: A Comment on 'Illness and Injury as Contributors to Bankruptcy' and the Media Publicity Surrounding It
In early February 2005, a barrage of media publicity accompanied Health Affairs’ publication of "Illness and Injury as Contributors to Bankruptcy" — just a few weeks before the U.S. Senate was scheduled to take up bankruptcy reform legislation. Headlines like “Medical Bills Blamed in Half of Bankruptcies: and “Medical Bills Cause About Half of Bankruptcies, Study Finds” ran in major newspapers all over the country. For a while, the publicity made bankruptcy policy seem almost glamorous.
The problem with these headlines is that they were false. The study made no finding that medical bills were involved in half of all bankruptcies. Nor did it find that illness or injury, at least as those terms are ordinarily used, were major (or even minor) contributors to half of all bankruptcies. Stripped of its rhetorical excess, the study’s actual findings were far more modest — to the point that the media might not have been interested at all if they had understood it better. This article critiques the study and the publicity surrounding it.