In an article for Reason magazine, Cathy Young does a nice job of exposing how little Tammy Bruce has changed in her transition from left wing feminist blowhard to right wing blowhard.
Young does an especially good job exposing Bruce’s blatant hypocrisies,
Probably the biggest contradiction is Bruce’s outrage at the left’s attempts to suppress politically incorrect speech and her long history of action that, to the untrained eye, might look like attempts to suppress politically incorrect speech. Bruce rails at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for its boycott of sponsors of Schlessinger’s television show; yet in 1990, she led NOW’s boycott against Knopf over Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho. In her 2001 book The New Thought Police, Bruce explains that this was different because she never asked Knopf to cancel publication of the book and only wanted to raise public awareness of its violent content. (Actually, GLAAD did not demand the cancellation of Schlessinger’s show, to the dismay of some gay activists.) Yet Bruce also boasts that partly due to her protest — which included such strong-arm tactics as encouraging people to flood Knopf’s inside phone numbers with phone calls — no similar books have been published since, and the editor of Ellis’ next novel censored a particularly violent scene.
Young also notes that Bruce was one of the feminist activists who targeted Holly Dunn’s hit song “Maybe I Mean Yes” and that Bruce congratulated Dunn when she self-censored herself by removing the show from her live set and asked radio stations to stop playing it.
Bruce occasionally comes up with some good observations, but for the most part she’s just another member of the Club of Blowhards from Anne Coulter to Al Franken who substitute bombastic extremist pronouncements for serious debate.
Source:
Tammy Bruce’s Journey. Cathy Young, Reason, August-September 2003.