An editorial in The Hill from Monday heaps praise on Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren for her Native American heritage. But it is not her background in the traditional sense, but her upbringing in Oklahoma that qualifies her to be close to and reverential of Native American heritage. So, “Warren’s claim to be ‘part Indian’ is correct in mythical terms,” according to the editorial.

Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has been fending off fallout from a campaign gaffe recently after it came to light that she had listed her heritage as Native American for nearly a decade. After studious hours of genealogical study, the Warren campaign declared that her great, great, great grandmother was in fact a Cherokee making Warren 1/32nd Cherokee. Well, Legal Insurrection’s William A. Jacobsen writes that he genealogical knife cuts both ways – Warren is also related to a militia member who participated in the roundup of Native Americans ahead of the Trail of Tears. If Warren is 1/32nd Native American, she is also 1/32nd atrocity committer – try getting an educational grant for that.

On Thursday, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin appeared on Fox & Friends to weigh in on the scandal surrounding Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who was hiding in the U.S. embassy in China, seeking extradition.

Guangcheng was recently released back to Chinese custody after reports surfaced that Chinese officials were making threats against his family and friends.

Well, we don’t think Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski found it at all hilarious. Here’s what happened: After showing Massachusetts’ Democratic senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren‘s new political ad featuring President Barack Obama, fellow host Joe Scarborough had a laugh over Warren’s inclusion of the man who fired her.

Republican Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) has apparently joined his opponent Elizabeth Warren by featuring President Obama in a campaign ad, albeit not quite as prominently. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell noticed this new Scott Brown radio ad in which he burnishes his bipartisan credentials, and calls “Standing with President Obama on the day he signed (Brown’s Veterans Jobs Bill) into law” as one of many “great experiences” he’s had as a freshman Senator.

While many Democrats stood back, or even ran away, from President Obama during the 2010 midterm elections (how’d that work out for ya?), a new ad from Elizabeth Warren‘s (D-MA) US Senate campaign signals a return of the President’s political mojo. The ad, entitled “Rose Garden,” features President Obama’s Rose Garden announcement of the formation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and demonstrates that Warren, at least, thinks the President can help tip the balance in her tight, seesaw race with Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA).

Scott Brown, the Republican Senator from Massachusetts, made it clear that he was against President Barack Obama‘s health care plan when he voted to repeal it. However, it seems the Senator has a soft spot for the bill after all. In an interview with the Boston Globe, he admitted to taking advantage of the Affordable Care Act. Brown’s daughter, 23-year-old singer Ayla Brown, is covered under the same bill that her father opposes.

One of the most contentious Senate races in the country right now is the Scott Brown-Elizabeth Warren Massachusetts showdown, and one of the most important voting blocs for any politician running right now is young people. So perhaps it’s no surprise that as he’s touring the state, he’s doing what he can to connect with young people. At a recent stop at a community center, Brown showed off his basketball skills to the children by successfully making a shot from the half-court line.

On Friday, the folks at Morning Joe — reporting live from Fenway Park in celebration of its 100th anniversary — sat down with both Massachusetts’ Democratic candidate for its state senate election, Elizabeth Warren, and the state’s incumbent senator Scott Brown. Host Joe Scarborough apologized to Brown for having solely given Warren a kiss.

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin appeared on Fox & Friends on Thursday, sharing that she believed the “war on women” rhetoric was backfiring on Democrats.

“The President has made some gains in battleground states with women. But the ‘war on women’ overall, how effective do you think it’s been?” host Brian Kilmeade asked Malkin.

Appearing on MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner, former White House advisor Van Jones said that embracing gay marriage, or even being gay himself, would not lose President Obama any support among African Americans.

Many, including his supporters, have been frustrated with President Obama‘s lack of initiative when it comes to gay marriage. He’s stated, rather diplomatically, that his views are “evolving,” but hasn’t appeased those advocating for equal rights. Now, even Elizabeth Warren — consumer protection agency advocate and Massachusetts Senate candidate — is openly saying it’s about time that evolution took place.

On Monday, the Morning Joe team welcomed financial guru Suze Orman onto the show to discuss Elizabeth Warren‘s ideas regarding debt.

During a speech in Shaker Heights, Ohio this afternoon, President Obama announced the resolution of a long-running battle with Senate Republicans over the blocked confirmation of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As part of a campaign to roll out a series of executive actions, the President announced that he is bypassing the Senate, and installing Cordray via a recess appointment.

On Thursday, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell brought on Massachusetts senatorial candidate and Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren to discuss reaction to her ongoing campaign.

O’Donnell kicked things off by pointing out a recent attack ad against Warren that attempted to cast a negative light on her role as an Ivy League professor. “You know, all I can say is ‘yeah, I have a job at Harvard,’” she responded. “But I ‘wasn’t’ born at Harvard.”

Outgoing Congressman Barney Frank appeared on Morning Joe Monday and gushed about Elizabeth Warren‘s senatorial prospects in Massachusetts. “She’s the ultimate outsider, but she’s the outsider who has been very effective inside,” Frank observed, noting the latest poll has shown her ahead in the state.

“She showed a shrewdness,” Frank added. “She was a kind of a pragmatic ideologue, and that’s the best combination.”

Karl Rove‘s Crossroads GPS PAC has released a new ad, backed by a huge ad buy, attacking Massachusetts candidate for US Senate Elizabeth Warren by tying her to the Occupy Wall Street movement’s most extreme elements. In an interview with a Boston ABC affiliate, Warren responded to the attack by refusing to disavow the movement, or to buy into the notion that support for its principles means support for the actions of all participants.

Massachusetts candidate for US Senate Elizabeth Warren continues to pioneer the art of grassroots publicity, as another one of her volunteer meetings has spawned a viral sensation. This time, it wasn’t the size of the crowd, but rather, the candidate’s calm handling of a profane heckler that’s making the viral internet rounds. As Warren tries to engage the man, he calls her a “socialist whore,” before attempting a comically flubbed storm-out.

For someone running in her first-ever election, Democratic candidate for US Senate Elizabeth Warren certainly has a knack for attracting attention. From her viral video rebuke of dismissive “class warfare” rhetoric, to her feudlet with incumbent Scott Brown over his modeling career, her fledgling candidacy is gathering momentum at the polls, and in the war chest. [...]

Massachusetts candidate for US Senate Elizabeth Warren has, once again, been unwittingly drawn into a silly nontroversy, with another innocuous attempt at self-effacement. This time, she referenced her Oklahoma roots by telling an interviewer that she’s “going for the hick vote, here.”

The remark prompted Mass. GOP spokesman Tim Buckley to demand “an explanation about just who Professor Warren was referring to when she spoke of winning the ‘hick vote.’”

In a somewhat scary development for first-term Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren‘s campaign has just released its first fundraising numbers since she joined the race, and the trend is stark. Warren raised $3.15 million since August 30, while Scott Brown, who already had a substantial fundraising lead on Warren, took in only $1.55 million. Warren’s haul and her performance in early polls have at least one conservative wondering if Republican fundraising committees should cut bait on Brown.

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has been taking heavy criticism over a joking reference to Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren‘s physical appearance, including from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The cast of ABC’s The View weighed in on the controversy today, and took Brown’s side. The discussion included a loose grasp of the facts, and an interpretation of Brown’s comment, from Whoopi Goldberg, that even the most imaginative press flack couldn’t have thought up.

“The more things change, the more they stay the same” is a refrain that’s comforting to turn to, because it tells us that there’s a pattern and a precedent to all things; there exists some sort of blueprint for us if only we take a moment to look at history. That’s an idea Elizabeth Warren, who served as Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, seemed to echo when speaking to Dan Rather back in 2009. Now, her words take on additional relevance as the Occupy Wall Street protests continue to spread across different U.S. cities.

In an exclusive interview on This Week today, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the minor controversy between Massachusetts senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren over what can only be described as “No-Clothes-Gate,” and criticized the senator for being “clueless” about how he may have disrespected Warren with his commends.

You’d think that, with the sheer amount of advice and media training candidates are given, they’d have learned, by now, to think just a little bit more before they offer sound bites that will then be repeated over and over, particularly as they gear up for a campaign or election.

First, some background: During the Massachusetts Senate debate earlier this week, the moderator referenced the fact that Republican Senator Scott Brown had posed nude in college in order to pay for his education. The debate participants were then asked they had done to help pay for their respective schools. Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren reacted to the moderator’s comments by joking that “I kept my clothes on” while in college.