Hicks for Elizabeth.

[Mass]

Pathetic as it comes.

In an interview on a local blog, Elizabeth Warren and the interviewer joked about being hicks and she joked about her getting the hick vote.

Guess what, the MA GOP is taking offense of this and calls her a Harvard elitist looking down on people.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/humor-challenged-mass-gop-demands-explanation-of-elizabeth-warrens-hick-vote-comment/

“Professor Warren’s insulting use of the word ‘hick’ offers a revealing prism into her elitist and arrogant worldview. Massachusetts voters deserve an explanation about just who Professor Warren was referring to when she spoke of winning the ‘hick vote.’”
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http://www.necn.com/pages/video?PID=_t0sfcUlXE3fbOU_m7y0RVCFjRMPpxsF&t=82-177
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http://bluemassgroup.com/2011/10/hicks-parsing-to-the-point-of-crazy-stupid/

[AtomicKitten]

1. In their world, "elitist" means educated. Like that's a bad thing. /nt

[elleng]

2. Right, SMART and educated!

She'll make it clear that she's an Okie, I'm sure!

[Jackpine Radical]

3. In their world, education IS a bad thing.

Education increases the likelihood that you will believe in GW & evolution, and that you will reject fundamentalist religion.

[Mass]

4. They have a hard time defining her, so they both call her elitist and unsophisticated.

This is what she was referring to in the interview, saying the GOP was creating a new category for her, "the elite hick".

Warren’s remarks, made on a local podcast, were in response to attempts by her opponents, including Sen. Scott Brown, to paint her as both a Harvard elitist and an unsophisticated rube. ““I’m a new category, an elite hick,” she told host Mike Ball, paraphrasing the criticism, then went on to explain, at length, that the choice Americans face “transcends being a hick, and “transcends being a fancy-pants professor.”

I listened to the podcast a Sunday, and it was so obvious this was a joke that it is pathetic. They guy has a $700 barn jacket and says he is a regular guy.

[CakeGrrl]

5. Gotta hand it to the GOP when it comes to going on the offensive:

Damn the hypocrisy, claim the 'higher ground' as fast as possible and make the opponent look/sound bad!

[karynnj]

6. Yet the GOP considered it an insult to Senator Brown that the fact

that he posed in Cosmo was mentioned - even though the person actually mentioning it was a Republican activist. There really is a double standard. If Brown were Democratic, how much would this (and his pink leather shorts) would be mentioned as an indication that he did not have good values.

What is silliest here is that Warren really does come from a rural background - and she included herself in the category as she pointed out the obvious incongruity in being hit both as a hick and as a Cambridge elite.

[karynnj]

7. Brown has hired people who smeared McCain for Bush and had links to the SBVT

Amazing for a Senator, whose main assets are is supposed likability and his looks.

Here is the HP article on Brown's hiring them:

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is paying tens of thousands of dollars to campaign consultants and fundraisers with histories of playing hardball, a review of the senator's federal election filing reveals.
<snip>
The biggest payout involved more than $46,000 to the robocall firm FLS Connect. That company was linked to a smear campaign on behalf of George W. Bush against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2000. It was also tied to calls on behalf of McCain connecting Barack Obama to terrorists in 2008.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/scott-brown-elizabeth-warren-bareknuckle-politics_n_1019832.html

Here is a link to their smearing Obama through robocalls that connected him to William Ayres etc. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/report-mccain-using-same_n_135699.html

(The article mentions Eric Fehrnstrom and Rob Willington - though they are normal MA GOP operatives - even if they did get caught with in the CrazyKhazei stuff. One thing I didn't know is the Rob Willington has his own consulting company. I never realized that he was not a low level Brown employee.)


Here is the Center for Public Integrity report on them concerning 2004.

By 2004, Progress for America had become a Republican issue-ad powerhouse, including among its officers and directors a series of DCI lobbyists — Chris LaCivita (who also consulted for the anti-John Kerry 527 committee Swift Boat Veterans for Truth), Brian Kennedy and the group's current president Brian S. McCabe. In 2004, Progress for America paid DCI Group more than $800,000 for consulting services.
< snip - they were also involved in buying the journalists and creating partisan pieces that masqueraded as real news>
At least one client, Avue Technologies Corp., has agreed with Confessore's assessment. In a February lawsuit over a contract disagreement, Avue's lawyer described the goal of the company's sponsorship of Tech Central Station as "to generate favorable publicity about Avue's products and services and to fund the creation of positive 'news' stories that purported to be the work of independent journalists." To clear up any doubt, the brief continues, "This type of 'news' creation is sometimes referred to as 'journo-lobbying.'"

http://projects.publicintegrity.org/consultants/default.aspx?act=profiles&pid=9

[karynnj]

8. Meanwhile Brown's latest publicity stunt!

Seeking supporters - with pick up trucks - to help him move his office from Needham to Southie this Saturday. Complete with an obviously posed picture of Brown - in front of his truck - with the Capital in the background - with snow on the ground and no coat (not even the Barn Jacket) and no gloves. http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/10/scott-brown-all-people-seeks-sturdy-truck/t52xb8hEsXWFSJyIWN4C9O/index.html?comments=all#readerComm

[flpoljunkie]

9. Warren was, of course, referring to herself. R's are plainly desperate about losing this seat.

Time to donate to Elizabeth Warren again.