What It’s Like to Get Attacked by Rush Limbaugh for Food Reporting

The Atlantic • March 9, 2012

It’s every author’s wish that a major media figure will discuss her or his work on air. So when Rush Limbaugh spent 40 minutes lambasting both me and my first book, The American Way of Eating, during his radio broadcast to 15 million listeners on Tuesday, I was mostly elated. By the time I finished listening to the show, though, I had a question: What exactly does he think I did wrong?

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Press Advisory: Rush Limbaugh Attacks “Overeducated” Woman: Tracie McMillan

March 7, 2012 Contact: The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism • schusterinstitute@brandeis.edu Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh yesterday attacked another woman,, this time an award-winning reporter and best-selling author, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism Senior Fellow Tracie McMillan. His attack on McMillan came after he scoffed at the idea of a ‘war on women,’ and in … Read more

One-stop Rush&Me Shop: Complete Links

Wondering what all of Rush Limbaugh’s fuss about “single, white women, overeducated”  is about? Or who on earth calls published writers “authorette” and “babe”?

Yeah, me too.

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