Before Donald Trump took the stage Wednesday at a campaign rally in Maine, Boston talk radio host Howie Carr warmed up the crowd with a schoolyard caricature to mock Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) heritage.
“You know Elizabeth Warren, right?” Carr asked the crowd before pounding his hand over his mouth to make a faux-war whoop.
Carr also used the opportunity to call himself a “rich guy.”
The conservative shock jock was taking a cue from Trump, who has often referred to Warren, who recently began campaigning for Democrat Hillary Clinton, as “Pocahontas,” a nickname he uses to needle the senator about her Native American heritage.
Questions about Warren’s lineage figured prominently in her 2012 Senate race against Scott Brown. Brown, who is now a Trump surrogate, recently called for Warren to take a DNA test to prove she is indeed part Native American.
Watch a clip of Carr’s impression via YouTube:
Sadly my native American ancestors did not have their own immigration policy. And you can see what it led to.
This lame ass could have just held up a sign saying I AM A BIGOT
Trump’s supporters are such interesting and despicable people – bottom feeding losers like this jerk.
How could this kind of approach possibly fail to broaden Trump’s appeal to the general electorate?! Genius! - Please, proceed!
Who cares what Warren’s heritage is? She isn’t using it for identity politics. She isn’t using it to get the affirmative action that gets conservatives’ undies in a twist. She’s from Oklahoma, so the chances are higher that she might have some Native American ancestors. She doesn’t make a big deal about it.
Trump can’t help himself. He had some business conflict with casino-owning Indians, so it’s personal. All Indians are bad people. Same as his stance on Mexico. He had some deals go down in Mexico that didn’t go his way, so, build a wall.
Digby made the case for Trump’s personal grudges being a big motivator for his rants against other ethnicities and nationalities.