Over the weekend, two of the most famous liars in America sat down for a meeting.
No, not Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who advanced her career by falsely claiming she had Native American heritage, met with Deray McKesson, the Black Lives Matter activist who has advanced his career by promulgating false narratives about blacks killed by police.
As Aaron Bandler of The Daily Wire has noted, McKesson’s career is replete with nastiness; he has “helped organize riots and protests in Ferguson, Mo. and Baltimore, Md. that resulted in almost half of 500 businesses in Ferguson suffering ‘property damage or lost revenue.’” He has tweeted support for cop-killers:
Bandler explains, “Assata and Mumia refer to Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal, both of whom have murdered cops in cold blood.” He has romanticized the death of Michael Brown, who tried to kill officer Darren Wilson.
Warren has a nastiness all her own; she recently said this of the Republican Party, which has every right to hold up judicial nominees as the Democratic Party has also done: “First, tearing down our centuries-old process for appointing judges. Second, viciously attacking judicial nominees, potential nominees, and even sitting federal judges, at the first sign that they might put the rule of law above devotion to the rich and powerful.”
Last September Warren pandered to the Black Lives Matter movement, blustering, “None of us can ignore what is happening in this country. Not when our black friends, family, neighbors literally fear dying in the streets. This is the reality all of us must confront, as uncomfortable and ugly as that reality may be. It comes to us to once again affirm that black lives matter, that black citizens matter, that black families matter.”
McKesson returned the love the next day, writing, “Senator Warren’s speech clearly and powerfully calls into question America’s commitment to black lives by highlighting the role that structural racism has played and continues to play with regard to housing discrimination and voting rights. And Warren, better than any political leader I’ve yet heard, understands the protests as a matter of life or death — that the American dream has been sustained by an intentional violence and that the uprisings have been the result of years of lived trauma.”
The two liars deserve each other.