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Courtesy Flush

(4,558 posts)
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 11:20 AM Sep 2012

Scott Brown Staffers Mock Warren With ‘Tomahawk Chop’ And ‘War Whoop’

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/25/904581/warren-brown-tomahawk-chop/

As part of his re-election campaign, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) has attacked his opponent for mischaracterizing herself as Native American. Elizabeth Warren does have Cherokee ancestry, but Brown claims she abused that to gain a professional advantage by listing herself as a minority.
Perhaps Brown’s sensitivity to the issue ends there. On Tuesday, a video surfaced of Brown staffers doing a ‘tomahawk chop’ and making ‘war whoop’ sounds at Warren supporters, an apparent allusion to the dust up over Warren’s heritage. The incident occurred outside of a pub in Boston on Friday.
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Scott Brown Staffers Mock Warren With ‘Tomahawk Chop’ And ‘War Whoop’ (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Sep 2012 OP
Drunk guys with sticks...what could go wrong? FailureToCommunicate Sep 2012 #1
What can one say about such inane yesphan Sep 2012 #2
Correction: Robb Sep 2012 #3
Is this his macaca moment? n/t wryter2000 Sep 2012 #4
The behavior of losers. earthside Sep 2012 #5
Curiously... Plucketeer Sep 2012 #6
Whatever milage Brown hoped to get from his attack on Warren's Heritage.... Moonwalk Sep 2012 #7
Know-nothing jerks in full panic. byronius Sep 2012 #8
Brown later sez: "I ask everybody to show real class and decorum...on both sides..." !!! FailureToCommunicate Sep 2012 #9
People care about issues. When he opened the debate with a petty, personal attack sabrina 1 Sep 2012 #10
I can tell ya this would not go over well on the West Coast Generic Other Sep 2012 #11

Robb

(39,665 posts)
3. Correction:
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 11:27 AM
Sep 2012

...that should read, "...soon to be out of work and as a result of this video remain politically radioactive and unemployable forever Scott Brown staffers".

earthside

(6,960 posts)
5. The behavior of losers.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 11:40 AM
Sep 2012

Really.

Advocates for a candidate don't engage in this kind of boorish behavior unless they are feeling dispirited.

Forget the polls .... Brown knows he is on a downward trajectory.

Moonwalk

(2,322 posts)
7. Whatever milage Brown hoped to get from his attack on Warren's Heritage....
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 12:13 PM
Sep 2012

...it's just gone down the toilet. His staffers have turned his attempted attack on Warren pretending to be an entitled minority into anti-Native American racism. (Of course, all such attacks are racist, but the aim is to disguise it as anger against unfairness so that you at least seem to have a valid point).

And given that Americans used to name their sports teams after Native American tribes, mocking them is a double-edged sword; if voters identify as much with the Indians as the Cowboys then any mockery of them is going to hurt Brown.

FailureToCommunicate

(13,989 posts)
9. Brown later sez: "I ask everybody to show real class and decorum...on both sides..." !!!
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 08:04 PM
Sep 2012

No big deal...both sides do it. Right Scotty boy?

Numbskull.

Ah, but then while he is surrounded by news media he throws out more random accusations...

Was that the plan all along?

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
10. People care about issues. When he opened the debate with a petty, personal attack
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 08:35 PM
Sep 2012

he made it clear he was not the one in the debate who wanted to talk about issues that affect the voters. It made him look childish, and it was obviously prepared. What people want are candidates who are prepared to address the serious issues people are facing, NOT who are only prepared to personally attack their opponents.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
11. I can tell ya this would not go over well on the West Coast
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 10:02 PM
Sep 2012

Those Brown supporters may think that picking on one woman's Indian ancestry when she is the only Indian in the crowd makes them look like big brave white guys, but if they tried that out where I lived, I think they might be shocked to discover how many tribal members with white ancestry would be ready to shove those tomahawk gestures right up their asses.

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