Just added to the blog roll....
Tammy Bruce is a talk radio host and author of:
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I first encountered Tammy Bruce when her show occupied the time slot following the Saturday repeat of Rush Limbaugh. She succeeded Bill Press, former chairman of the California Democratic Party, in that time slot.
In contrast to Bill Press, Tammy was not predictable. She is a lesbian feminist and a former head of the California chapter of NOW. You could make a pretty good guess about her position on a topic, but many times, you'd guess wrong.
Bill Press was utterly predictable, and could be summed up in three words – Rush Is Wrong. If Rush said it, the opposite was true. If Rush did it, the opposite was good and worthy. If any caller offered anything at all in support of Rush's position (such "support" included anything that might argue against Bill's position), the caller was talked over, pummeled with straw-man arguments, or mocked and hung up on.
Tammy, on the other hand, gave ideas serious consideration. Sure, she has a bias, but it's not a prison. As a result, she wrote The New Thought Police, denouncing the ways the Lunatic Left has attacked people who argue against them rather than making a resoned case. With that book, she became an honorary Conservative. (So much for "dissent is patriotic"!)
I don't always agree with her, but I always find her worth listening to.
And reading.
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