Female Journalist Attacked By Limbaugh Responds: He ‘Just Doesn’t Think Women Count’
Female Journalist Attacked By Limbaugh Responds: He ‘Just Doesn’t Think Women Count’
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Mar 7, 2012 at 11:00 am
Tracie McMillan
Having offered a quasi-apology for his sexist smears against Sandra Fluke, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh has moved on to another female target: investigative journalist Tracie McMillan, who wrote a book on the American food system called The American Way of Eating. Ripping into McMillan yesterday on his radio show, Limbaugh mused, “What is it with all of these young, single, white women, overeducated — doesn’t mean intelligent.”
McMillan is now pushing back against Rush’s continuing campaign of hate against prominent female progressive advocates. In an interview with the Atlantic Wire published today, McMillan said she thought Limbaugh was attacking her solely for her being a woman:
“It’s been really interesting to have somebody be that openly dismissive of my work strictly based on the fact that I’m female,” McMillan told The Atlantic Wire. “There’s no other way to think about it except that Rush Limbaugh just doesn’t think women count.” McMillan went on to explain how her book approaches some difficult issues about the food that feeds America and the conditions for the workers that produce it, however Limbaugh didn’t seem willing to engage in that debate. Instead, he focused on her being a woman.
MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/07/439527/tracie-mcmillan-responds/
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Good.
So I 'wikipedia-ed" him. This explains a lot:
Limbaugh was not drafted during the Vietnam War draft lottery, as his birth date's high rank (152) was well above the 125 rank below which service members were drafted. He was classified as "1-Y" (later reclassified "4-F"
due to a Pilonidal cyst.[4][8]
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SO-o, Rush most certainly disappointed his mother....ummm....OTOH, didn't he say that S. Fluke was a disappointment, or should be, to her parents! He didn't complete his post secondary education and he was classified 4-F for possibly sitting too much! I had to wiki Pilonidal cyst!
His targets seem to embody accomplishments he didn't attain....ummm....food for thought. Maybe I shouldn't be adding fuel to the fire but I think Rush is a sick pup and should seek help while at the same time leave the airways to spare us his spew.
