{"id":72697,"date":"2019-11-26T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72697"},"modified":"2019-11-23T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T21:14:17","slug":"some-pathological-liars-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72697","title":{"rendered":"Some Pathological Liars Are More Equal Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Famous not-actual-Native American Elizabeth Warren, who was not fired from a job for being pregnant, didn&#8217;t actually send her kid to public school.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it took other people, in every case, to make that info public.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school thing?  <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/video-warren-confronted-by-school-choice-activist-over-sending-son-to-private-school\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true&amp;fbclid=IwAR0h93_TzhdIlJbNRpVI1qRkFURowwINxEbdVcTgTX-uJM-robk0b9XtV-o\">Oh, yeah<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Warren Denies Sending Son to Private School\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3APZmTE6kNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Sarah Carpenter, a pro-school choice activist who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/warren-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-school-choice-protesters\/\">organized a protest<\/a>\u00a0of  Warren&#8217;s Thursday speech in Atlanta, told Warren that she had read news  reports indicating the candidate had sent her kids to private school.  Though Warren once favored school choice and was an advocate for charter  schools, she changed her views while seeking the Democratic  presidential nomination.<br> &#8220;We are going to have the same choice  that you had for your kids because I read that your children went to  private schools,&#8221; Carpenter told Warren when the two met, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=2695764567135755&amp;id=100001067137860&amp;_rdr\">video posted<\/a> to social media, which was first identified by Corey DeAngelis,\u00a0director of school choice at Reason Foundation.<br> Warren denied the claim, telling Carpenter, &#8220;My children went to public schools.&#8221;<br> A school yearbook obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0indicates,  however, that Warren&#8217;s son, Alex Warren, attended the Kirby Hall School  for at least the 1986-1987 school year,\u00a0Warren&#8217;s final year as a  professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The college preparatory  school is known for its &#8220;academically advanced curriculum&#8221; and offers  small class sizes for students in grades K-12. The yearbook indicates  that Alex Warren attended as a fifth grader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Running as she is for the nomination by party for which an outsized share of delegates work for the Teachers Unions, it makes good sense to throw black families under the bus (and promising &#8220;historic investments&#8221; is exactly that). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except within the Democrat party. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous not-actual-Native American Elizabeth Warren, who was not fired from a job for being pregnant, didn&#8217;t actually send her kid to public school. But it took other people, in every case, to make that info public. The school thing? Oh, yeah: Sarah Carpenter, a pro-school choice activist who organized a protest\u00a0of Warren&#8217;s Thursday speech in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,321,369,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-big-left","category-campaign-20","category-democrats","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72698,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72697\/revisions\/72698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}