Posted on 05/23/2010 9:32:06 PM PDT by Neocon11
The Sad State of a Conservative Organization
Young America’s Foundation (YAF), a supposedly conservative organization, assists student groups at colleges nationwide in hosting conservative speakers. YAF has a list of speakers that they offer on their website, and if a student group decides to host one of the speakers, the students will pay—often thousands of dollars—to bring a conservative figure to their campus.
To fund this operation, YAF seeks donations from generous donors who are under the impression that the money they give to YAF will go toward bringing conservative ideals to academia. The problem is, however, that this impression is not entirely accurate.
One speaker that YAF assists in bringing to college campuses is Tammy Bruce, a pro-choice, pro-homosexual, feminist activist. If the donors of YAF knew this, it would be unlikely that they would give money to the organization.
YAF advertises Bruce on its website (http://www.yaf.org/SpeakerDetails.aspx?id=260) and charges between $3,000 and $5,000 for each of her appearances.
If YAF’s conservative donors read Bruce’s biography on her personal website (http://tammybruce.com/biography) and found out that their money was being used to host her as a speaker, they would be aghast. According to Bruce’s biography, she is “openly gay, pro-choice,” a “lifelong Democrat,” and “worked to help elect Senators Feinstein and Boxer, and aided the Clinton for President campaign.” If that is not leftist enough, Bruce served as the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and was even a member of the NOW Board of Directors. NOW is a radical feminist organization that states on its website that it wants to amend the U.S. Constitution so that “economic equality” is mandated by law—B. Hussein Obama isn’t even crazy enough to say that! Affirmative action and the “championing [of] abortion rights” are also central to NOW’s mission.
Bruce lists on her personal website George Orwell as one of her favorite authors, who was such a socialist nut that he actually traveled to Spain during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to assist the communists in persecuting and slaughtering Christians. Had Gen. Francisco Franco and the Catholics not successfully fought off the forces of evil—including Bruce’s favorite author—, the Christians of Spain would have suffered a dark age not seen since the Islamic Moors colonized the Iberian Peninsula.
YAF should be ashamed for sponsoring Bruce as a speaker, and YAF’s conservative donors should either cease giving money to YAF or YAF should cease offering Bruce as a speaker for hire.
Agree...she wrote the book The Thought Police after her conversion. Her stint with the Calf. chapter of NOW opened her eyes to the hypocrisy of the left. She is a pro-gun advocate and though she remains homosexual and pro-choice, she loves Ronald Reagan and often is brought in on Fox to argue against the left. Tammy Bruce ‘gets it’.....I would pay to see her.
I probably wouldn’t be able to convert her, but might be willing to give it a try.
Why does a neocon oppose a mugged-liberal as a speaker?
Not even a good try, you jackass troll.
Tammy’s a great American.
Wonder what she thinks of the Kagan stuff?
Thanks for reminding me to read her latest and pray for her.
P.S. obviously you wouldn’t understand my personal FR tagline either.
Haven’t read ANIMAL FARM yet, have you? Tammy Bruce would get the joke.
Why are you knocking Tammy Bruce? Would you prefer Rachel Madcow?
I like her too. I don't care who she has sex with, and though I wish she was pro-life, she has come one hell of a long way in the right direction to get where she is. She is a valuable ally. We're lucky to have her.
You’re being seduced by the beautiful side of evil.
Wrong forum buddy... Tammy’s got lot’s of fans here.
IBTZ
Disagree. Tammy Bruce is a good conservative and offers interesting insights. Also, Orwell is a great author and one of my favorites. 1984 is the definitive novel on totalitarian socialism/communism.
Ahhh, so that’s why we all had/have to read Animal Farm in middle school. I should have said I refuse to read a book written by a man who wanted me dead. U.S. communist agenda at work. I have to be sure to tell my kid.
I have two...
I’ve listened to Tammy Bruce and while I do not agree with her on every subject, there is no denying her conservative bent. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
You sign up with THAT date to post this?
I do hope that I am IBTZ.
“I’m imagining a group of 5 DUmmies in a dorm room, reading this thread wondering how they were discovered.”
They assume that all conservatives “hate gays” when we actually just hate to be told what we have to toler...no, accep...nope, not that.....CELEBRATE. We HATE being told that we have to celebrate something that goes against God and nature. Hating someone for being gay is like hating a brunette for dying her hair blonde. It’s not the dye that is the problem, it’s when the bitch tries to MAKE everyone else say that it looks great when most of us think it looks stupid.
Welcome.. to FR.
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