Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:57 pm
Elizabeth Warren’s devastating series of election night tweets about Donald Trump has brought former Massachusetts senator and carpetbagger Scott Brown out of the woodwork.
According to Brown in a Wednesday interview with Boston Herald Radio, Warren was “drunk tweeting.†Probably because the only way a Republican can tell the truth is if they’re drunk. They can’t conceive of somebody actually doing it intentionally.
Brown was aided and abetted in this stupidity by Herald Radio host Jaclyn Cashman, who agreed with Brown:
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“I envision her with a glass of Chardonnay in Cambridge,†she quipped to Brown’s laughter. “I guarantee that she was half in the bag tweeting last night.â€
Speaking of drunk tweeting, Boston Herald Radio reminds us of a little incident Brown might prefer to forget:
Brown has addressed questions about his own tweeting in the past. In 2013, the former Republican senator posted a series of misspelled, dismissive tweets on a late night. “bqhatevwr,†he infamously wrote. Critics at the time questioned whether Brown was drunk when he sent the mangled tweet.
In response, Brown claims he hasn’t been drunk since his bachelor party. I’m sure he just put his fingers on the wrong keys of his keyboard. Right?
He has never come across as the GOP’s best and brightest, like the time he didn’t know what state he was campaigning in during an interview with the same Boston Herald Radio, back in 2014. And it wasn’t just a matter of him forgetting what state he was in, but for which state he was campaigning to be senator: New Hampshire, not Massachusetts.
And then there was the time he ‘forgot’ he wasn’t actually serving in Afghanistan like he claimed, but just training to be a lawyer in the Guard. Suffice it to say, Brown isn’t his own best character witness.
It might seem like Brown is holding a grudge from back when a triumphant Elizabeth Warren kicked his Tea Partying a** to the curb – er, um…Fox News in 2013, but there might actually be a bit more to it than sour grapes, as Tyler Cherry writes at Media Matters for America:
Scott Brown, a former Republican Senator for Massachusetts, was hired by Fox News in 2013 after a failed Senate campaign, and left the network soon thereafter to run for office in New Hampshire. During his 2014 Senate bid, Brown received widespread support and praise from Fox, often with no disclosure of his prior affiliation with the network. Following his Senate loss in 2014, Brown re-joined as a contributor. Fox hosts have regularly hyped Brown, who is still a Fox News contributor, as a potential running mate for Trump during the 2016 presidential primary.
Oh…well, running mate for Donald Trump. That means Brown figures he better start sounding like Trump. If Brown has paid any attention to Trump’s twitter history, you have to wonder how he could come to the conclusion that Warren, and not Trump, was “drunk tweeting.”
Brown, who accomplished nothing of note while senator, claimed Warren hasn’t accomplished anything of note while in office. You might remember, as previously noted here, “during his time in the Senate, Brown missed all six hearings that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held, even though Brown was a committee member.”
But he says Warren isn’t doing her job.
The conclusion of the former senator is that the current senator can’t possibly have anything important to say and criticizes her for being critical. “What she said is completely irrelevant. It doesn’t matter,†he says.
“She had her chance to make a difference. She hasn’t even bothered to endorse anybody, so it just is a continuation of her phoniness and her inability to make decisions that really have her stand on her own two feet.â€
According to Brown – and keep in mind Brown has endorsed Donald Trump – Warren does nothing but say bad things about people:
“All she does is yell and criticize and demean and belittle people instead of working for the people of Massachusetts. If it’s the new norm to go down there and yell and scream at people and divide people, she’s doing a great job at that.â€
Judging by his own record, Brown’s biggest endorsement seems to be of hypocrisy.
Brown seems to believe it’s better to be saying a bunch of stuff just to be saying it because that’s what Republican men do. That’s what Trump does. Just talks and talks and talks and never really says anything of substance. Sort of like Scott Brown here.
Notice his entire attack on Warren has nothing to do with issues or policy positions. He does not address the individual charges Warren brought against Trump. Instead, his response is one giant ad hominem attack – he ignores the issues in favor of attacking the person.
Brown could have responded in kind, could have made a cogent refutation of Warren’s tweets, could have taken issue with her positions, but that would imply that Brown actually has the intellectual chops to understand those issues and go toe to toe with somebody of Warren’s caliber, and he has just proven he does not.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
