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Tammy Bruce Was Censured By NOW For Racism

While Tammy Bruce was weaving her right-wing conspiracy theories last week, I had no idea about this incident in her past back when she was at tammy bruce NOW. From 1996:

Bruce claims that in the two months since the Simpson verdict, membership in the L.A. chapter, NOW’s largest, has jumped 10%, to 3,300, though no comparable figures are available for the national organization. But Bruce’s aggressive stand on domestic violence, to the exclusion of any other issues in the trial, has also offended many both in and out of NOW. Bruce told the Los Angeles Times, for instance, that her message about spousal abuse offered “a needed break from all that talk of racism.” During a protest outside NBC studios in Burbank, just before Simpson canceled his interview with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, she said of Simpson: “You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome in our culture”–a statement that some listeners interpreted as “Go back to Africa.”

Last month, during an emotional executive meeting held by NOW’s national board at which Bruce was not present, the members voted almost unanimously to censure Bruce for what president Patricia Ireland called “racially insensitive comments.” This week, in a move NOW veterans say is unprecedented in the organization’s 30-year history, a hearing will be held by a grievance committee of California NOW in Fresno to strip Bruce of her NOW membership.

No wonder she feels so comfortable on the right. (via)

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10 Responses to “Tammy Bruce Was Censured By NOW For Racism”

  1. pedromd07 says:

    ROFLMAO!

    “Some interpreted…..!”

    Bwahahahahahahahahahahah……

    I.E. “: We have been trying to find a way to run this republican out of our liberal organization and I think we found it…

    Hey, did she say niggardly?”
    bwahahahaha

  2. It’s kind of funny that a “doctor” (LOL) spends more time on this site than I do. Anywho, Bruce continues to identify herself as Democrat, for what it’s worth but its funny that based on factual information you’ve still gotta weave a conspiracy theory. The paranoid style, indeed.

  3. pedromd07 says:

    you identify yourself as a svelte, debonair man that will soon have jessica alba wrapped around you….

    so, now we have determined that people sometime “interpret” themselves wrong eh?

  4. Hollywood_Freaks says:

    I don’t know any background on this but from the quote you provided, it seems like she was more referring to the murderer attribute of Simpson when she said “You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome in our culture”, because, you know, murder is something frowned upon in our culture.

  5. TucoRamirerTheRat says:

    For a minute, I thought I’d stumbled upon some Oliver Willis parody site. You couldn’t have written a better parody of yourself if you’d tried.

    Saying that O.J. Simpson isn’t welcome is racist now? Welcome to the Church of the Perpetually Aggrieved.

    Did I miss something? Is Al Sharpton rehabilitating Simpson now?

  6. Pedro, now you’re projecting. Nobody believes your stuff about being a “doctor” but is your defense now boiling down to my jokes about Jessica Alba? LOL.

  7. Dugger says:

    No matter what, OW, you took a non racist statement from a Democrat, that NOW, a leftist group, described as ‘racially insensitive” and raised the ante to outright ‘racism’.

    AHD – Racism: ‘The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. ‘

  8. SpiderJ says:

    I don’t buy the NOW position. She could have as easily said the same thing about any number of white murderers and it wouldn’t have been racist. Unless she actually used the words “Go Back to Africa,” this is just weak.

  9. VRWC drone says:

    With O-Dub, it’s ALL about race. Don’t like what someone’s said or done? Well if that person is anything other than caucasian AND you’re a conservative, that makes you a racist. Now if you’re a “progressive”, it’s OK, because you’re just speaking “truth to power” or something.

    But remember, if you’re a conservative O-Dub will automatically upgrade you to “racist” status at no extra charge. Regardless of what you say or do. Because, you know, conservatives are racist. Because O-Dub says so, that’s why.

  10. Plantsman1 says:

    I don’t know any background on this but from the quote you provided, it seems like she was more referring to the murderer attribute of Simpson when she said “You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome in our culture”, because, you know, murder is something frowned upon in our culture.

    Hollywood_Freaks, who in the hell do you think you’re bullshitting? Not us. I’m glad you would go that far to deny reality, though. It makes you, and people like you much less formidable enemies.