Tammy Bruce
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| Born: | August 19, 1962 (age 44) Los Angeles, CA USA |
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| Occupation: | Author, syndicated columnist, television personality and blogger |
| Website: | tammybruce.com, Talk Radio Network |
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts The Tammy Bruce Show, a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States.[1] Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. The The Tammy Bruce Show broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel.
She is described on her website as "an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush progressive feminist".
For seven years, Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1990 to 1996, the longest continuous tenure in the chapter's 30-year history. She mobilized activists locally and nationally on a whole range of issues, including women's image in media, child care, health care, violence against women, economics, and domestic violence. She also served two years on the board of directors for NOW, which she heavily criticizes in her last book. During the early '90s she spearheaded the campaign to bring awareness to the sexualized violence in the book American Psycho by calling for a boycott of all other books published by Knopf for one year.
She resigned from her position as president of Los Angeles NOW in June 1996 a few months after then-National NOW president Patricia Ireland held a press conference in Washington, DC accusing Ms. Bruce of racism during the O.J. Simpson murder trial.[2] Ms. Ireland made the accusation based on the fact that Ms. Bruce focused her work exclusively on the domestic violence issue as opposed to defense attorney Johnny Cochran's "racial issues" trial argument. After months of infighting, Ms. Bruce resigned, and in the decade-plus that has transpired has written extensively on what she sees as the failings of NOW and the leftist movement in general, and the abandonment of authentic feminism by the American feminist establishment.[3]
At 17 years old, Bruce was romantically involved with Days of our Lives star Brenda Benet. In an interview on C-SPAN's BookTV, Bruce revealed that Benet shot herself in the head while in the bathroom of Bruce's residence.[4]
Bruce holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
[edit] References
- ^ http://tammybruce.com/biography.php
- ^ Gleick, Elizabeth. "Fighting Words", Time, Inc., 1996-01-08. Retrieved on April 3, 2007.
- ^ Gillin, Beth. "Packing heat - and political punch", Philadelphia Inquirer, 2005-11-29. Retrieved on April 3, 2007.
- ^ In Depth. C-SPAN2. 2006 September 3. http://www.booktv.org/indepth/archive_2006.asp
[edit] Books
- The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds (Prima, 2001) ISBN 0-7615-6373-3
- The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values (Random House, 2003) ISBN 0-7615-1663-8
- The New American Revolution: Using the Power of the Individual to Save Our Nation from Extremists (Morrow, 2005) ISBN 0-06-072620-2
