{"id":478737,"date":"2021-05-06T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478737"},"modified":"2021-05-06T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:35:56","slug":"the-media-continues-to-let-elizabeth-warren-repeat-her-false-claim-about-being-fired-for-being-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-continues-to-let-elizabeth-warren-repeat-her-false-claim-about-being-fired-for-being-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Continues To Let Elizabeth Warren Repeat Her False Claim About Being Fired For Being Pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-media-continues-to-let-elizabeth-warren-repeat-her-false-claim-about-being-fired-for-being-pregnant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1163406922.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>To promote her new book, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), is telling a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/records-contradict-warrens-claim-she-was-fired-for-being-visibly-pregnant\"><span>familiar lie<\/span><\/a><span> about being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elizabeth-warren-claims-she-was-fired-for-being-visibly-pregnant-thats-not-what-she-said-in-2008\"><span>fired because she was pregnant<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 and the legacy media have let her get away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, while promoting \u201cPersist,\u201d a policy-focused memoir, Warren <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/04\/993173804\/elizabeth-warren-stitches-the-stories-she-says-help-us-learn-to-persist\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Rachel Martin of NPR\u2019s \u201cMorning Edition\u201d:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><i><span>I tell the stories about being fired from my job, because I was pregnant.<\/span><\/i><span> \u2026 <\/span><i><span>I talked about in the book about being a mother. I talked about being fired because I was pregnant. I talked about what it was like when I couldn\u2019t get childcare. What I want to see is change.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Later in the day, Warren <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/theview\/video\/sen-elizabeth-warren-2020-primary-loss-inspired-book-77488353\"><span>repeated<\/span><\/a><span> her talking points to Meghan McCain on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><i><span>I start with what it\u2019s like to be a mother, and how motherhood changes everything and \u2014 sometimes in some really tough ways. I talk about getting fired for being pregnant.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The Massachusetts senator said she used her personal <\/span><span>stories to illustrate that inflexible, top-down government \u201cpolicies are personal. They touch our lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No one on \u201cThe View\u201d or NPR alerted their viewers that the story had been debunked, by Sen. Warren herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The story became a staple of Warren\u2019s failed 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. During one debate, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewarren\/status\/1172339259384057858?s=21\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><i><span>I got to live my dream of being a public school teacher. But by the end of my first school year, I was visibly pregnant. The principal said, \u201cGood luck!\u201d and didn\u2019t ask me back. But I got back up, and I fought back. That\u2019s why I\u2019m standing here today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>But there are several problems with her story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>First, it contradicts the public record, which the<\/span><i><span> Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/county-records-contradict-warrens-claim-she-was-fired-over-pregnancy\/\"><span>made public<\/span><\/a><span>. In 1970-1971, Warren worked two days a week as an elementary school speech pathologist in Riverdale, New Jersey. The Board of Education actually <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/429152169\/Riverdale-Board-of-Education-Meeting-Minutes-Involving-Elizabeth-Warren-1970-1971?campaign=SkimbitLtd&#038;ad_group=66960X1516588X486d4159d92551fea268636874d9aa4a&#038;keyword=660149026&#038;source=hp_affiliate&#038;medium=affiliate\"><span>voted to renew<\/span><\/a><span> Warren\u2019s contract on April 21, 1971, at $3,000 a year (approximately <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/data\/inflation_calculator.htm\"><span>$20,000<\/span><\/a><span> in 2021 dollars). The local newspaper reported the vote <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The_News_Thu__Apr_22__1971_.pdf\"><span>the next day<\/span><\/a><span>. But two months later, the paper <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The_News_Tue__Jun_22__1971_.pdf\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> Warren was \u201cleaving to raise a family\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The_Herald_News_Thu__Jul_8__1971_.pdf\"><span>and<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cresigned for personal reasons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Second, Warren\u2019s account of being fired due to pregnancy contradicts what Warren herself said during an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S1Uk-DwUvJw\"><span>interview<\/span><\/a><span> on March 8, 2007, when she told a college audience:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><i><span>I was married at 19 and graduated from college after I\u2019d married, and my first year post-graduation I worked in a public school system with the children with disabilities. I did that for a year, and then that summer I didn\u2019t have the education courses, so I was on an \u201cemergency certificate.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.acton.org\/archives\/119852-equity-new-bill-could-kick-minority-teachers-out-of-the-classroom.html\"><span>temporary teaching certificate<\/span><\/a><span> gives people the right to teach in public schools while they go back to college to earn the standard certification. She said that, when she began taking education courses, she realized she was not fit to be a schoolteacher:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><i><span>I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, \u201cI don\u2019t think this is going to work out for me.\u201d I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, \u201cWhat am I going to do?\u201d My husband\u2019s view of it was, \u201cStay home. We have children, we\u2019ll have more children, you\u2019ll love this.\u201d And I was very restless about it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elizabeth Warren - Conversations with History\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S1Uk-DwUvJw?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<\/p>\n<p><span>Warren tried to square her story by saying she had lacked the courage to speak her truth as an Ivy League professor. \u201cA<\/span><span>fter becoming a public figure I opened up more about different pieces in my life and this was one of them<\/span><span>,\u201d she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elizabeth-warren-pregnancy-claim-democratic-presidential-candidate-stands-by-being-pushed-out-of-teaching-job\/\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> CBS News.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In other words, Warren claims she shaded the truth in 2007, at the age of 57, in a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/globetrotter.berkeley.edu\/people7\/Warren\/warren-con1.html\"><span>local TV interview<\/span><\/a><span> where she had nothing to gain \u2014 and only found the courage to tell the truth 12 years later, while campaigning as a victim of sexism for the most powerful position in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Warren\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elizabeth-warren-told-a-critic-that-her-son-went-to-public-school-thats-not-true?%3Futm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=cnews\"><span>veracity<\/span><\/a><span> has been called into question on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-the-embarrassing-dna-test-video-warren-scrubbed-from-twitter\"><span>other topics<\/span><\/a><span>, as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Somehow, none of Warren\u2019s interviewers have asked her to explain the discrepancy on the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Only a few interviewers have questioned Warren\u2019s new book indirectly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sara Haines of \u201cThe View\u201d began the segment with the ironic choice of words: \u201cYou \u2026 got fired for being pregnant, which is just hard to believe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWarren was (and is) a storyteller,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/npr\/989525509\/elizabeth-warrens-persist-is-generous-to-her-20-democratic-rivals-except-one\"><span>notes<\/span><\/a><span> a book review posted by WBUR, the Boston affiliate of taxpayer-funded NPR.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The book is \u201ca series of stories, then plans. It\u2019s campaign-trail Warren, in book form.<\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhatever questions her book leaves unanswered, perhaps the most insistent one that <\/span><i><span>Persist<\/span><\/i><span> as a whole poses \u2014 because it <\/span><i><span>is<\/span><\/i><span> a politician\u2019s book \u2014 is: \u2018What are you trying to sell me?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ben Johnson (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRightsWriter\"><i><span>@TheRightsWriter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>) is the Media Reporter at The Daily Wire. He previously worked at the Acton Institute, FrontPage Magazine, and LifeSiteNews. He\u2019s the author of three books, including Party of Defeat (2008, with David Horowitz).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To promote her new book, Sen. 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