Scott Brown Plays the Tomahawk Chop Card

     While Brown has a very high level of personal likability in Massachusetts, you wonder if he oughtn't be a little more careful about playing the Cherokee card so much.

      He really played up this issue at the debate basically pointing at her and saying, Look at her! She says she's Cherokee but clearly she's not. Look at her!

      When did it become possible to know what someone' ethnic makeup is purely on sight? As Josh Marshall points out, many notable Cherokee's and even Chiefs have looked what might strike us as "white."

      Like for instance, Will Rogers.

      http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/09/really_scott_brown.php?ref=fpblg

      Now we hear that high ranking staff members of Brown were taunting Brown supporters by doing "Tomahawk chops."

      "Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) reportedly participated in war-whoop sounds and “tomahawk chop” gestures at supporters of Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, mocking Warren’s claimed Native American ancestry."

      "The incident occurred this past Saturday in Boston, at a rally for Brown featuring former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, and at which a group of Warren supporters also showed up with signs. The video was posted Tuesday by the state liberal blog Blue Mass Group."

      "According to the local ABC affiliate in Boston, it has been confirmed that among the participants were Brown’s deputy Chief of Staff Greg Casey, Constituent Service Counsel Jack Richard, plus state GOP operative Brad Garrett."

      “It is certainly something that I don’t condone,” Brown himself told the station. “The real offense is that (Warren) said she was white and then checked the box saying she is Native American, and then she changed her profile in the law directory once she made her tenure.”

      http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/brown-staffers-tomahawk-chop.php

      While Brown says he doesn't condone it, he doesn't apologize for it and tries to minimize it saying that the "real offense" is this argument about a form she filled out years ago. He seems to be saying that if his charge is true, that makes what his staff members-including his Chief of Staff-did, acceptable.

      Rachel Maddow had commented that Brown's strange pointing at Warren as if to say, Look at her! Look at her!! She's no Cherokee, she's white was really borderline racism.

     The more recent antics of Casey and friends, seems to confirm this.