Tammy Bruce

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Tammy Bruce

Born August 19, 1962 (1962-08-19) (age 45)
Flag of the United States Los Angeles, California U.S.
Occupation radio host, writer, political commentator
Website
tammybruce.com, Talk Radio Network

Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is an American radio host, writer, and political commentator. Her nationally-syndicated talk show, The Tammy Bruce Show, airs on stations throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network.[1] She is also an on-air contributor to Fox News Channel.

Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal. The Tammy Bruce Show broadcasts three hours a day, six days a week, including Saturdays. Bruce's Web site describes her as "an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush progressive feminist" and a "lifelong Democrat".[2]

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[edit] Career

For seven years, Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) (1990-1996), 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 1990s, 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.

Bruce 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 Bruce of racism during the O.J. Simpson murder trial.[3] Ireland made the accusation based on the fact that Bruce focused her work exclusively on domestic violence as opposed to defense attorney Johnnie Cochran's "racial issues" trial argument. After months of infighting, 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.[4].

[edit] Personal life

At 17, 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 Benet's residence.[5]

Bruce holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tammy Bruce: Biography. Retrieved on 2007-06-07.
  2. ^ Tammy Bruce: Biography. Retrieved on 2007-06-07.
  3. ^ Gleick, Elizabeth. "Fighting Words", Time, Inc., 1996-01-08. Retrieved on 2007-04-03. 
  4. ^ Gillin, Beth. "Packing heat - and political punch", Philadelphia Inquirer, 2005-11-29. Retrieved on 2007-04-03. 
  5. ^ 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

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