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BadtotheboneBob

(413 posts)
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 07:59 PM Mar 2012

Another Rush Limbaugh gaffe? Holly writer stung by radio host's 'authorette' taunt

Source: Detroit Free Press

Tracie McMillan’s first inkling that she had become Rush Limbaugh’s latest target came in a tweet this afternoon.

“I had planned on shutting off the Internet today, but some random person just tweeted me, saying he had heard about me from Rush Limbaugh,” said McMillan, 35, of Holly, who spoke from San Francisco, the first stop on a book tour for her first book “The American Way of Eating.”

Today, Limbaugh referred to McMillan, among other things, as an “authorette,” “overeducated” and critized her as another “young single white woman” posing a threat to freedom.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20120306/ENT07/120306058/Rush-Limbaugh-Tracie-McMillan-authorette-remark?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE



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Another Rush Limbaugh gaffe? Holly writer stung by radio host's 'authorette' taunt (Original Post) BadtotheboneBob Mar 2012 OP
Why does Rush hate women? Frances Mar 2012 #1
Shhhhhh! (He's a plant) The Doctor. Mar 2012 #2
Because no sentient being would bed him without being well paid. freshwest Mar 2012 #3
Why is he on his 4th wife? vssmith Mar 2012 #8
Thanks. THAT's an image I didn't need. Beartracks Mar 2012 #10
It's ever so much softer - that's why. Mira Mar 2012 #11
beard. he sheds them at ten year intervals yurbud Mar 2012 #14
The poor thing--he should get off her posthaste! nt MADem Mar 2012 #51
beard plcdude Mar 2012 #53
Rush is SCARED of women Skittles Mar 2012 #9
+1 sarcasmo Mar 2012 #55
Because no matter how many Viagras he pops, no one wants to touch *it* DRoseDARs Mar 2012 #31
he stopped taking Viarga... The only made him taller. olddad56 Mar 2012 #44
Because he hates himself and it was a woman that gave birth to him. n/t Uncle Joe Mar 2012 #50
He also just sold her a whole lot of books! The Doctor. Mar 2012 #4
I heard her on NPR and she was fantastic grantcart Mar 2012 #52
Oh no!!! Not another young single white woman threatening my freedom!!! BigAnth Mar 2012 #5
Managed to not spew on the keyboard! LMAO! nt Turn CO Blue Mar 2012 #6
Yep, them and teh gays and blah people!1!1!! deutsey Mar 2012 #40
yeah, well I'm wondering what type of freedom he's talking about newspeak Mar 2012 #45
"Gaffe" implies unintentional Richardo Mar 2012 #7
Next to Rush Limbaugh rocktivity Mar 2012 #12
Rush is suffering from vagina envy JJW Mar 2012 #13
I think you are right. JDPriestly Mar 2012 #33
More below Tx4obama Mar 2012 #15
Now young single women are a threat? The right has lost it's freaking mind. sarcasmo Mar 2012 #16
The Right is now a threat in the sense that they are promoting the degradation glinda Mar 2012 #26
Your right. It gives abusers the right and the precedent to abuse even more. It creates bullies. appleannie1 Mar 2012 #27
Heard some on the MSNBC last night call the right the ARP sarcasmo Mar 2012 #39
fight back people! bora13 Mar 2012 #17
now that psychotherapy indicates a real problem here, how widespread is male insecurity in America? SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2012 #18
How widespread are "traditional values"conservatives? JHB Mar 2012 #36
indeed. SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2012 #56
Over-educated? drm604 Mar 2012 #19
Any woman who would never sleep with him is "over-educated" Lex Mar 2012 #20
Ding! Ding! Ding! colorado_ufo Mar 2012 #21
LOL! Kber Mar 2012 #47
Any woman attending high school but not xxqqqzme Mar 2012 #22
I had to drop out and work to support my brothers. I do NOT listen to Rush. I am over educated and appleannie1 Mar 2012 #28
An acceptable amount of education nxylas Mar 2012 #43
Is it possible for one to become a charicature of oneself? Marie Marie Mar 2012 #23
Actually, if this is what he said... Skelly Mar 2012 #24
But do you think your daughter is a threat to freedom because of her intelligence? appleannie1 Mar 2012 #29
Absolutely not Skelly Mar 2012 #30
If your daughter had written a book I think she'd prefer to be called an author, like everyone else Demit Mar 2012 #34
Yip, he gas bagged two hours with just a call or two UTUSN Mar 2012 #25
Goodness gracious Kber Mar 2012 #48
Repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result? Granny M Mar 2012 #32
wait... what??? Why? agentS Mar 2012 #35
but he thought he was flattering her! lunatica Mar 2012 #37
She's 35, and he thinks she's "just out of college"? kag Mar 2012 #38
This guy needs to go the way of Glenn Beck, ASAP. sarcasmo Mar 2012 #41
Gas gas gas! X lonestarnot Mar 2012 #42
I just started that book... Jankyn Mar 2012 #46
Was thinking of buying it, but could not remenber the author or exact title. Kber Mar 2012 #49
Is he back on the pills? sarcasmo Mar 2012 #54
Has anyone noticed Aerows Mar 2012 #57
Well, I'll buy that book, too, then. Major Hogwash Mar 2012 #58

Frances

(8,546 posts)
1. Why does Rush hate women?
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 08:14 PM
Mar 2012

It seems he must also hate the GOP because the more Rush demeans women the fewer women's votes the GOP gets.

 

The Doctor.

(17,266 posts)
2. Shhhhhh! (He's a plant)
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 08:17 PM
Mar 2012

Like a tomato or pumpkin... also, he's furthering our cause by making people disgusted with Republicans and seeing just what kind of garbage his audience falls for.

Mira

(22,380 posts)
11. It's ever so much softer - that's why.
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 10:30 PM
Mar 2012

The one with the most bribe money gets to be on the bottom.

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
14. beard. he sheds them at ten year intervals
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 10:49 PM
Mar 2012

they sign up just long enough for community property to kick in then they move on to real relationships.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
52. I heard her on NPR and she was fantastic
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 05:10 PM
Mar 2012

She becomes a farmworker, restaurant worker, etc to see how food is made and delivered in the US.

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
40. Yep, them and teh gays and blah people!1!1!!
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 10:24 AM
Mar 2012

I sometimes think I'm stuck in a really bad Twilight Zone episode..

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
45. yeah, well I'm wondering what type of freedom he's talking about
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 11:05 AM
Mar 2012

because I don't think he sat on his arse blathering about the patriot act when it was passed. The only freedom they think they need is guns. Yeah, you can take away everything in the bill of rights and constitution as long as you let me keep my guns.

MM was right, the media in this country pushes fear 24/7. And, at the time, it was the difference between the us and the canadians who have guns.

didn't cambodia's little prince despise the intelligentsia? Didn't he murder those he thought were intelligent, even people with glasses? Now we have a bunch of fabricating, bigots preaching to their drones that education is bad, colleges are indoctrination centers. Well, I admit, I did take logic 101 in college. After that, it was kind of hard to preach that limbaugh bullshite to me.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
33. I think you are right.
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 04:34 AM
Mar 2012

All that soft flesh that he has accumulated on his body? Do you suppose it makes him feel like a really sensuous, curvy kinda' guy?

I mean, a normal person might find that much surplus fatty tissue to be repulsive, but does Rush??? Maybe not.

I wonder what kind of relationship he has with his body.

Watch his videos some time. Watch his hands, how they wander around his corpulent figure. See how he gently moves them across his chest, swaying as if to convey a message of "I'm here. Touch me."?

Notice how he kind of wiggles his voluptuous hips around on his seat. Hmmmm! I had never put those twos and twos together before with regard to him. And then all the sex-chatter, like a twittering teenaged nymph.

I hope I'm not grossing people out with this post. The images are pretty frightening at times. But, it's just my opinion. I'm entitled to free speech, am I not?

And, I add, on edit, just in case you missed it, I'm JUST JOKING. OK. JUST JOKING.

glinda

(14,807 posts)
26. The Right is now a threat in the sense that they are promoting the degradation
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:13 AM
Mar 2012

of women. They are encouraging by their actions, abuse in many forms. The question is how does this stop? Courts? People rising up against them? What will it take? They have lots of money to buy the outlets to do this. This is dangerous now. Not later. But now.

bora13

(860 posts)
17. fight back people!
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 11:20 PM
Mar 2012

This type of onslaught is only a continuation of something that will get bigger and
more dangerous. Single women and unmarried people everywhere are becoming
another crime in the minds of those who think like limflaw.

show your freedom ringing in their ears!

JHB

(37,161 posts)
36. How widespread are "traditional values"conservatives?
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 08:13 AM
Mar 2012

And as for "fiscal conservatives", who do you think coined the term "nanny state"?

drm604

(16,230 posts)
19. Over-educated?
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 11:45 PM
Mar 2012

She has a BA from New York University.

http://www.traciemcmillan.com/pages.php?content=resume.php&navGallID=Resume

Rush considers that over-educated? What, in his mind, is an acceptable amount of education? A high school diploma? An Associates Degree? Maybe two semesters and one summer, (the amount of time Rush spent at Southeast Missouri State University)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Education_and_Vietnam_draft

What the hell does "over-educated" even mean? Is it like being too healthy, too rich, too virtuous, too successful? Education is a good thing. You can't have too much of it.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
22. Any woman attending high school but not
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 12:24 AM
Mar 2012

graduating (because she had to drop out) is probably just the audience Mr Viagra Dufflebag is hoping listens.

appleannie1

(5,068 posts)
28. I had to drop out and work to support my brothers. I do NOT listen to Rush. I am over educated and
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:26 AM
Mar 2012

know better.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
43. An acceptable amount of education
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 10:44 AM
Mar 2012

The less the better, I'd imagine, since the more educated you are, the less likely you are to listen to his show.

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
23. Is it possible for one to become a charicature of oneself?
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 12:41 AM
Mar 2012

He sure seems headed in that direction. His bullying of women who obviously intimidate him is turning him into a national joke.

Skelly

(238 posts)
24. Actually, if this is what he said...
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:01 AM
Mar 2012

"Today, Limbaugh referred to McMillan, among other things, as an “authorette,” “overeducated” and critized her as another “young single white woman” posing a threat to freedom."
If this had been said about MY daughter, I would be so proud of her!!! (NOT that I am not already so very proud of her).

Skelly

(238 posts)
30. Absolutely not
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:32 AM
Mar 2012

But if Rush thinks so, then she is doing something right. OK, so that was my first response, but upon thinking about your question, my answer would be...
Yes! She is definitely a threat to freedom...freedom of hatred, freedom of bigotry, freedom of greed.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
34. If your daughter had written a book I think she'd prefer to be called an author, like everyone else
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 06:39 AM
Mar 2012

who writes books is called.

UTUSN

(70,720 posts)
25. Yip, he gas bagged two hours with just a call or two
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:09 AM
Mar 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002391386

LIMBOsevic floundering for a topic, one hour and counting

He has been phony raving against the "assault on freedom" on the topic of "food justice." Yes, flailing to tie it into the "war on women" that, he says, the Rethug party is accused of waging.

It's not unusual for him to go for an hour and a half without calls. But this has been numbing. (I'm recovering from something, so it was a matter of poison chasing poison to cure it.)

The few of us (me) whose antennae sensed danger from Day 1 that he went national, when no other Dems/Libs were aware of him, we know when he is in his self-pity mode, with the gurgle of restrained weeping behind the false bravado. Like when he was being investigated for his drug thing and he blubbered, "LET them frog march me" or when he blubbered, "I'm DEAF!1"

He hasn't gone to that level, but the self-pity is there. He is now 20 minutes into the second hour and made a reference to playing sound bytes of "the many times" he has gotten in trouble offending.

Kber

(5,043 posts)
48. Goodness gracious
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:24 PM
Mar 2012

you have a stronger constitution than I. I was trapped in the car last Wednesday with a Limbaugh fan and we listened to about 30 minutes of his show (actually the 30 minutes where he first discussed Ms. Fluke) and I finally had to insist we change the station.

My associate was actually embarassed, I think.

Anyway, 30 minutes every 10 years or so is my upper limit. I can't imagine sitting through 3 hours of that crap.

Granny M

(1,395 posts)
32. Repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result?
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 04:22 AM
Mar 2012

He can't seem to stop himself. Flaming nut case.

agentS

(1,325 posts)
35. wait... what??? Why?
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 07:19 AM
Mar 2012

The author wrote a book about American diets, a controversial but not earth-shattering issue, and he's MAD about that???

What did she write? Something about Cheetos? WTF, Rush?

If that doesn't convince the other advertisers to drop his ass, then I don't know what will.

kag

(4,079 posts)
38. She's 35, and he thinks she's "just out of college"?
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 10:03 AM
Mar 2012

He doesn't know a thing about birth control, and obviously doesn't know a thing about...well, anything.

Jankyn

(253 posts)
46. I just started that book...
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 12:58 PM
Mar 2012

...and it's excellent. Like Barbara Ehrenreich in Nickle and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America, she actually lived with the people who produce our food and did the same work. It's fascinating, and it's an outright indictment of the corporate food business.

That would probably be why Rush needed to slam it--wouldn't want the sheeple to get any ideas, you know!

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
57. Has anyone noticed
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 09:33 PM
Mar 2012

How many conservative comments state "I don't listen to Rush" but then they go on to defend him? I'm amazed he's got an audience at all because so many people are afraid to admit they listen to him. You know they do otherwise they wouldn't defend him.

He's their conservative leader, but none of them will claim him. LOL. Says a lot doesn't it?

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
58. Well, I'll buy that book, too, then.
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 02:11 AM
Mar 2012

Oprah had a book club, but if pigman is going to single out Holly, then I will support her and maybe even get to see her at a book signing.

Yippee!

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