Showing posts with label Tammy Bruce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tammy Bruce. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Pot Meet Kettle … More Craziness From Tammy Bruce

Media Matters for America has audio of Tammy Bruce trashing President Obama and Michelle Obama. This is the same Tammy Bruce who said “we have trash in the White House” in reference to Barack and Michelle Obama. So, bashing the president on personal and political levels is nothing new to her.

Here is an excerpt from a Huffington Post story to help put Bruce’s stunning hatred of the Obamas in some perspective.

Discussing the first lady’s visit to a Washington D.C. classroom last week, Bruce incredulously recalled Obama’s story about wanting to get A’s in school and called out her use of a “weird, fake accent.”

“That’s what he’s married to,” Bruce said. “…You know what we’ve got? We’ve got trash in the White House. Trash is a thing that is colorblind, it can cross all eco-socionomic…categories. You can work on Wall Street, or you can work at the Wal-Mart. Trash, are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy…”

That brings me to one of the latest comments of hate from Bruce toward the Obamas.

Here is the Media Matters headline:

Bruce: Michelle and Barack Obama are “unhappy people” who project their “hostility and bitterness” onto country.

Bitterness and hostility are two of the attacks so often used against black people. That’s quite the sad comment from Bruce. Wow, talk about the pot calling the kettle black … oops … maybe the pot did call the kettle black, but using different language.

I suspect Tammy Bruce was speaking more about herself than about President Obama and Michelle Obama.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Dear Tammy Bruce: We Didn’t Start The Fire …

Right-wing talk show nut Tammy Bruce, who has a history of making nasty and disparaging comments (I don’t remember Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity hosting segments saying BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA UNDER SIEGE) about President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, sounded angry in this clip captured by Media Matters for America.

BRUCE: (Barack Obama) wants to prove himself indispensable by destroying everything. It’s like setting fire to a house, running through and rescuing everybody and then trying to be a hero when you’re the one who started the damned fire. That’s what he is … the crazy fireman.

Oh, what anger coming from Tammy Bruce.

Well, Tammy, I would refer you to a song by Billy Joel: “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China’s under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on…