AP: Elizabeth Warren didn't claim minority status for law school. Will Scott Brown apologize?

Scott Brown and Mitt Romney, BFFs. They even share a hatchet man. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) This AP story should put the non-issue of whether Elizabeth Warren used her heritage to get into school or to get a job to rest.

BOSTON (AP) ' Records show Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the University of Texas and declined to apply for admission to Rutgers Law School under a program for minority students.

The heads of the recruiting panels at both University of Pennsylvania and Harvard have both stated that her hiring had everything to do with her scholarship and her achievements.

Should that be enough for Sen. Scott Brown to call off his hounds (in this case, the Boston Herald)? Of course, it should, but it won't. Because that's not how Scott Brown's team works. Specifically, it's not how Eric Fehrnstrom, the consultant Brown shares with Mitt Romney, works.

Meteor Blades explained earlier how Fehrnstrom operates, and how he learned every bullying trick he knows at the Boston Herald:

"The Herald was like the schoolyard bully," Howie Carr, the legendary Boston brawler who was the paper's top columnist and animating spirit, told me. "We were all about finding people and kicking them when they were down. And then we'd laugh about it."

And as Meteor Blades elaborates,

Carr mentored Fehrnstrom in his first days in the 1980s as a political reporter. Carr was also the author of a May 2 column filled with racist slurs attacking Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat who is challenging Scott Brown for his Senate seat. Brown-Fehrnstrom-Carr.

Maybe it's time enterprising reporters start looking into exactly where this story came from in the first place, and asking Scott Brown when he'll call off his racist attack dogs.

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