When Elizabeth Warren forced Scott Brown to come out with this gem, “I want to protect the job creators who are getting up in the middle of the night and creating jobs ...” I began to think Mickey Ward’s trainer, Art Ramalho, got it right.
I mean, who’s getting up in the middle of the night and creating jobs? The guy who makes the doughnuts? Those “kings and queens” Scott’s been on the phone with? The State Department honchos who allegedly showed Scott the bin Laden death photos?
The petite “professor,” as Brown likes to call her, showed last night that she can certainly go toe-to-toe with Sen. Barn Jacket. She knows how to punch and counter punch.
How many times did Scott Brown let us know that “I live in a house full of women.” Ah, too many times, as Warren calmly stood there and peppered Brown with his vote for the Blunt amendment and against equal pay for women.
At times, Brown seemed to lose himself in his own autobiography, or the constant recycling of his TV spots, before looking down at his papers and saying that he had run out of time and would try to come back.
On the other hand, I don’t believe I heard Warren use the word “hammered” once.
One of the big tactical problems for Brown, of course, was that he could not stretch out the opening salvos on Warren’s claims of Cherokee heritage beyond the first five minutes. But he tried. God knows he tried.
To paraphrase the high priest of TV, Marshall McLuhan, Elizabeth Warren was cool, as opposed to a simmering, way too hot Scott Brown. Clearly, the Harvard professor got under our colonel’s skin.
Scottie wasn’t simply trying to beat Elizabeth Warren. At times, it looked as if he wanted to flog her to death with his stack of papers. “She’s obsessed with taxes.” As if he isn’t.
So much of his performance last night seemed to be an extension of his latest “Don’t believe Elizabeth Warren, folks, she’s lying about me” TV spot.
For just about all of the night, a composed Warren defended her positions in clear sentences while looking straight into the camera, without falling back with a TV huckster pitch like, “ I hope all you union guys out there ...”
Personally, I think the one subject Warren left on the table unanswered was Brown’s charges about the role she played as a lawyer for Travelers Insurance.
Otherwise, I give her the decision on points.
I mean, who’s getting up in the middle of the night and creating jobs? The guy who makes the doughnuts? Those “kings and queens” Scott’s been on the phone with? The State Department honchos who allegedly showed Scott the bin Laden death photos?
The petite “professor,” as Brown likes to call her, showed last night that she can certainly go toe-to-toe with Sen. Barn Jacket. She knows how to punch and counter punch.
How many times did Scott Brown let us know that “I live in a house full of women.” Ah, too many times, as Warren calmly stood there and peppered Brown with his vote for the Blunt amendment and against equal pay for women.
At times, Brown seemed to lose himself in his own autobiography, or the constant recycling of his TV spots, before looking down at his papers and saying that he had run out of time and would try to come back.
On the other hand, I don’t believe I heard Warren use the word “hammered” once.
One of the big tactical problems for Brown, of course, was that he could not stretch out the opening salvos on Warren’s claims of Cherokee heritage beyond the first five minutes. But he tried. God knows he tried.
To paraphrase the high priest of TV, Marshall McLuhan, Elizabeth Warren was cool, as opposed to a simmering, way too hot Scott Brown. Clearly, the Harvard professor got under our colonel’s skin.
Scottie wasn’t simply trying to beat Elizabeth Warren. At times, it looked as if he wanted to flog her to death with his stack of papers. “She’s obsessed with taxes.” As if he isn’t.
So much of his performance last night seemed to be an extension of his latest “Don’t believe Elizabeth Warren, folks, she’s lying about me” TV spot.
For just about all of the night, a composed Warren defended her positions in clear sentences while looking straight into the camera, without falling back with a TV huckster pitch like, “ I hope all you union guys out there ...”
Personally, I think the one subject Warren left on the table unanswered was Brown’s charges about the role she played as a lawyer for Travelers Insurance.
Otherwise, I give her the decision on points.