There’s nothing better than watching a rich, pharisaical politician struggle to pretend they’re not like those other one-percenters. This time it was Fauxcahontas herself, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in the hot seat trying to defend her vast wealth even though she’s a leader of multiple attacks on the “evil” rich.

Doing the confronting was WRKO Boston radio host Jeff Kuhner who quickly turned a photo-op into a squirm-fest as Warren tried her best to wriggle out of an uncomfortable reality.

“Can I ask you one quick question?” Kuhner began, holding nothing back. “You often say — and I agree with you — that the 99 percent are getting shafted by the one percent. Let me ask you this: a lot of people, especially my listeners, say you live in Cambridge, you’ve got a $2 million mansion, plus you’re a multimillionaire yourself. How can you rail against the one percent, when in a sense, you are and live like the one percent?”

Warren couldn’t deny the truth of her financial portfolio, but she had an answer chambered for such a moment, which included her lowly upbringing and her family’s struggle to “make it into the middle class.” Increasingly irritated, she rattled off the low costs of her education, her getting married “early” and having a baby (as if that held her back from achieving her dreams), and her eventual attendance to a low-cost state law school.

“That’s how I had opportunity and I am deeply grateful to an America that made those opportunities possible,” added Warren. “Those opportunities are not available in America today.” 

Warren ignored Kuhner’s insistence that she answer his original question, but instead, she spoke over him: “I had opportunities because America invested in kids like me, and that’s the reason I’m in public office.”

“But you’re part of the one percent and you rail against the one percent,” Kuhner said. “You don’t see the hypocrisy there?”

“It’s not hypocrisy,” Warren proclaimed. “What this is about is whether you believe in opportunity. I believe in opportunity, and it’s what I fight for.”

And with that, she walked away. But not without one final jab from Kuhner, who reminded her that she received $350,000 to teach a single course at Harvard Law. Who wouldn’t fight for opportunities like that?