I've just seen her new book. I've read the dust jacket (which was hilarious) and skimmed the first 50 pages or so, and I gotta ask.... Is she taken seriously in right wing circles, or maybe better, is she respected?
Too bad, she seems like your type of woman...the right can put out stuff like this yet we keep being told that its the left that hates America. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...104-0894770-5349514?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 From Publishers Weekly Self-proclaimed lesbian pro-choice feminist Bruce, ex-president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW and author of The New Thought Police, blames the decline of civilization on other lesbian pro-choice feminists in this lurid right-wing screed. Bruce argues that multiculturalism, identity politics and "relativism" have turned American society into a "moral vacuum" incapable of distinguishing right from wrong, a reflection of the "malignant narcissism" of an all-powerful "Left Elite." With an apostate's zeal, she pillories the Feminist Elite's hatred of men, marriage and motherhood, the Black Elite's championing of violent rap, the Gay Elite's "grab for children" by insinuating let-it-all-hang-out sex-ed programs into schools, the Academic Elite's nihilism and anti-Americanism, and the Entertainment Elite's "moral depravity beyond measure." Bruce revels in trashing radical excess (performance artists are a favorite) and does point out, crudely, some of the contradictory currents of left ideology. But her own critique lacks coherence. She lumps together such disparate figures as Bill Clinton, Mumia Abu-Jamal and the "moral terrorist" Ozzy Osbourne as emblems of a monolithic Left. She decries academics' rejection of all moral values, but when they do express a moral judgment-by condemning America's "ethnic cleansing" of Indians, or the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans-they are guilty of "morally killing" America's "heroes." She complains of being "demonized" by leftists, then describes said leftists as a "diseased seed" who "hate themselves and hate this country." "I now realize that conservatives who disagree with me also have good points," she avers. Too bad she won't extend that courtesy to her opponents on the left.
"My type of woman" being...certifiable nutcases? I think you'd better steer clear of my wife; she doesn't care much for being called a loon. I don't know why (well, actually I guess I really do) you want to tie this woman around my neck. Associating her with "the right" is as fair as saying that Ty-Grace Atkinson represents "the left". Is that OK with you? People like her and Pat Buchanon and Vanessa Redgrave trascend any indentifiable credo. They're just out there somewhere. Nobody pays any attention or takes them seriously, and neither should you.
i was being a bit sarcastic... What's the guess why I wanna tie this fine example of right political idealogy around your neck? Nonetheless, if you get a chance and see it in a bookstore read the dust jacket...some of the best comedy you'll ever see.
Hey, hang deserves a lot of credit. He's a leftie who's not afraid to look at two sides, even change his mind sometimes. Not often enough I grant you. BS is full of putrid little bags of smegma like superdave and similar peices of useless bowlfloaters who know nothing, prove it regularly, and annoy the adults. I'll take hang any day. Besides, he drinks good gin.