With the news that Elizabeth Warren is the last white woman on the short list of VP options for Biden, I figured it was a good time to go to the vault for that time when the media/left insisted that Warren was not, in fact, white.

Remember the Native American debate? thread

As a refresh, @ewarren released a DNA test in 2018 saying she was AT LEAST 1/1,024th Native American to - I kid you not - prove her Native American heritage.

The media took this as proof - their word, not mine - validating the claim she’d be making for years. Here’s @nytimes.

You’ll be as surprised as I am that @CNN/ @CNNPolitics bought this utterly ridiculous “proof” hook, line and sinker.

It is amazing that one of the “5 things we learned” from @ewarren’s test isn’t “Elizabeth Warren is not actually Native American.”

Astute observations as always, @CillizzaCNN

Your tax dollars hard at work over at @NPR.

I let outlets and individuals off the hook if they hedged this one even a little, or said that Warren ‘claimed’ versus ‘proved’ her “ancestry” claim.

@thedailybeast, well, they didn’t do that. Four-pic entry.

Where would we be without fact checkers? And this second one might be my favorite tweet ever. Thank you for this gem, @NBCNews

Also, @factcheckdotorg got in on the fun here, using the classic double negative to claim that it’s false to say Warren isn’t a Native American.

@USATODAY really went the extra mile here. Promoting a lie or otherwise, you really love to see the effort.

@johntpm called me a “comical spud” earlier today. It’s a good insult, I’ll grant him, but it is a little rich coming from someone whose outlet said that an analysis finding someone is 1/1024th Native American “proves she does have Native American heritage” IMO. @TPM

Back to the usual suspects. Gotta add more per tweet to save space.

Here’s @ap with more of the same.

Ditto @yahoonews.

Apparently @BuzzFeedNews got the talking points too.

And @people? Sure. Why not.

No, @vanityfair, I don’t think that she did.

And the apology tour was well-covered too. Somehow the cognitive dissonance of covering her apology while still mentioning that she used “a DNA test to prove she’s part Native American” didn’t tear apart the galaxy or at least @LATimes. Or @business, who used all the same words.

And we had plenty of places reminding us that @realdonaldtrump agreed to pay $1 million if Warren took a DNA test and it proved she was Native American.

A lot of folks forgot about that second part, including hometown paper @BostonGlobe.

More of the same from @washingtonpost.

And I suppose I wouldn’t have expected better from @nowthisnews.

And individual reporters got in on the action. Here’s @jmartNYT.

What to make indeed, @JudyWoodruff. What to make.

And it wasn’t just media. Many of the usual galaxy brain twitter users weighed in on behalf of Warren’s laughable test results. Here’s @tonyposnanski

And fan favorite @DeanObeidallah.

And long-suffering Trump Derangement Syndrome patient @StephenKing.

Apparently this was proof enough for @adamcbest. And the funny man @danagould, who I would imagine may wish he had that joke back.

And for some, @ewarren’s willful cultural appropriation wasn’t the real story. For @abc, it wasn’t Warren who was the problem, but those pesky geneticists.

At @voxdotcom, Warren’s lies play second fiddle to the new plan - her longest yet! she “went all out”! - that was a “meticulous way” to address the “misfire” of...requesting, hyping up, and publishing a DNA test that claims she was less than 1/1000th Native American.

Apparently “the point” of @ewarren releasing a DNA test showing she was less than 1/1000th Native American was beside the point, to @NYMag.

And even if - gasp! - she isn’t Native American, the real culprit, as always, remains Donald Trump. Right, @NYMag?

It would be great to report that, after this harrowing lesson in the dangers of taking a political candidate at face value when it comes to personal claims, the media has grown from the experience but...

Well, I can’t confidently claim that now can I.