Who the hell is this Tammy Bruce? She was filling in for Ingraham

[TheCowsCameHome]

last evening. Boy, what a bitch she sounds like. Really ripping into the mayor of NO and the Gov., too.

Who is she and where did she come from? I've never heard of her, and really don't want to hear from her again.

[Doctor_J]

1. There are three links to sane talk radio on the Front Page

why are you listening to hate radio? :shrug:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. She is a Repub shill, SUPPOSED to be a Dem/Lesbian talk show

host, but she is nothing different than the usual Rush/Hannity fare with that label. Totally fake.

[MSgt213]

3. Scoobie Davis has the scoop on Ms. Fake Democrat Bruce

The Awful Truth about Tammy Bruce
I'm posting the transcript of a brief but revealing on-air conversation with Fox News Democrat Tammy Bruce who was guest-hosting for Larry Elder’s talk radio show last Friday. I’ll use that conversation to discuss a broader and more important issue: People posing as progressives and Democrats whom we need to turn our backs to (My short list of pseudo-Democrats includes Bruce, Alan Colmes, Zell Miller, and Susan Estrich).

Here’s the back story on Bruce: I first heard of Bruce when she was promoting her first book, The New Thought Police on Dennis Prager’s radio show. She portrayed herself as a lesbian Democrat who was upset about the intolerance on the left (no disagreement there—much of the left that professes to be tolerant is tolerant only on its own terms). She then defended Dr. Laura against the supposed lynch mob on the left which opposed her homophobic views. I thought this was strange and I thought it was even more odd when I found out that Bruce’s column was carried by two members of the Scaife Internet Network (more on this later). I wrote an open letter to Bruce because I wanted to know what her deal was (the open letter elaborates on the preceding points).

Later, I found out that Bruce was a news analyst for the Roger Ailes’ Fox Propaganda Network. Then I read the recent series on Bruce in the Daily Howler (click here and read between 12/16 to 12/19). I concluded that it’s time for someone to tell Bruce to get her raggedy ass out of the Democratic Party. I felt it was up to me to step up and be the one to tell her where she can go—but I wanted to do it in a polite way and give salient reasons for my wish. I’ll discuss these reasons more after the transcript.

Before I go any further, let me answer potential objections about telling someone to leave a political party. I believe that the Democratic Party should be a big tent full of divergent views on issues. However, when a person purporting to be a Democrat, 1) devotes her energies largely to slamming the Democratic Party in unconstructive ways; and 2) gives credibility to people who want to destroy the Democratic Party through any means necessary, then it’s appropriate to tell that person to get bent.



http://scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_scoobiedavis_archive.html

[JHB]

4. She's a professional faux Liberal

She goes on television claiming to be a liberal, then recites conservative talking points right down the line.

She is (was?) a radio host in California (LA?), and (very breifly) was the local NOW president.

[davidinalameda]

5. she used to be president of the Los Angeles NOW chapter

http://www.now.org/press/12-95/tb-3.html

PROBLEMATIC STATEMENTS AND ANGRY RESPONSES STATEMENTS MADE BY OR ATTRIBUTED TO TAMMY BRUCE

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In a chaotic Nightline segment Oct. 4, the day after the verdict, transcripts show Bruce said, "What we need to teach our children is ... not about racism, but is about violence against women."
In an Oct. 11 statement carried by wire services and major TV networks, Bruce said her message to O.J. Simpson was, "You are not welcome here, you are not welcome in this country, you are not welcome on our airwaves, you are not welcome in our culture."
In an Oct. 18 profile in the L.A. Times, Bruce was quoted as saying that her domestic violence message provided "a needed break from all that talk of racism."
In a Nov. 17 story the Associated Press reported that, in refusing to appear on a TV talk show devoted to the Simpson case, Bruce told a producer she did not want to "argue with a bunch of Black women" and made other inflammatory comments that Bruce told the AP were inaccurate or taken out of context.
RESPONSES
Leading national civil rights leaders contacted NOW leaders expressing anger and betrayal about how these statements were being received by people of color.
Local coalition partners, particularly in the fight against the anti-affirmative action ballot measure in California, took NOW to task publicly for the statements.
Chapters in rural areas of one state reported receiving calls from Aryan Nation groups saying, "Way to go!"
An African American state legislator who had been a strong ally refused to attend a NOW event because it might jeopardize her bid for Congress.
One regional coordinator said all six states in her area received complaints that NOW was racist over the statements.
One state leader said the coordinator of their hotline quit over the deluge of hostile phone calls protesting the statements.
A chapter leader in a major city diffused a planned picket of NOW's offices over the statements.

[bananas]

6. She used to be nice and sweet

the OJ trial drove her insane.

[Canuckistanian]

7. A flaming racist

She actually was on the air criticizing and blaming Camille Cosby (Bill Cosby's wife) for the murder of their son.

In another instance in her book "The New Thought Police", she said Rosa Parks and MLK "pushed us into the maze of Thought Police totalitarianism that we face today."

Nice.

[AlCzervik]

8. She a female version of Zell Miller, well i think she's female

i'm not even sure if she's human.