and tracy mcmillan, author of the american war of eating. she was also attacked by rush this week. thanks to all of you for joining me tonight. >> thanks for having us on. >> let me start with you, congressman bass. congressman bass, what do you say about the gop leadership refusing to denounce rush limbaugh? >> well, i think it's absolutely inappropriate and absurd. they need to be on the floor. they need to be holding press conferences. they need to say that this type of speech which in my opinion is hate speech needs to stop or he need to be off the air. i think that this is the type of thing that leads to violence against women. this is international women's day. and so the way he acknowledges it is by using the "b" word in reference to a woman? what i'm very glad about, though is that there's 50 sponsors that have pulled out. i think there needs to be triple that. and i think the stations need to begin to throw him off the air. that is the only solution to rush limbaugh because he's clearly out of control. >> alexandra, he used the "b" word in referring to your work calling it

now we have a book by the tracie mcmillan, has as the premise that only the fancy and snobs get goodd. what is it with all these young single white women over educated, doesn't mean intelligent. >> joining us now is tracie mcmillan for her first interview after being attacked by rush limbaugh for doing nothing wrong, the author of the new book "american way of eating, under cover of walmart, apple bees, farmfields and dinner table" thank you for joining us tonight, nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> in the wake of the sandra fluke controversy, i imagine you had no clue that he would spend today on his show going after you for hours. >> i had no clue and i almost missed it i'm on deadline for a reported piece and so yesterday, i was about to shut off the internet for the day to get work done, and then a few e-mails and tweets sort of came in and i said i need to look at this, and it was an hour before we figured out he spent i think it was half an hour, 45 minutes talking about my book, and reading the new york times interview on air. it was very interesting surprise.

[applause] and then of course on the end is tracie mcmillan. tracie mcmillan is a senior fellow at the shuster institute for investigative journalism and author of the american way of eating, undercover at walmart, applebee's, farm fields and the dinner table which just went on sale today. although she has written on food in "the new york times" and harper she just closed her food stamp case last month and was of all things, i'm sorry, that was crossed out, she is most pleased by greg garner's comment are owed from the book -- code that girl can work. [applause] before we start with questions i thought we would open up for a minute just to give us a quick synopsis overview of the book and it just came out so everybody may not have ready at, and we'll take it from there. >> thanks everybody for coming and i'm excited to have a discussion which was inspired by some reporting i did for the american way of eating. increasingly when i was going around the country working as a farmer during california, as a produce clerk at walmart in michigan and co

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now we have a book by the tracie mcmillan, has as the premise that only the fancy and snobs get good young single white women over educated, doesn't mean intelligent. >> joining us now is tracie mcmillan for her first interview after being attacked by rush limbaugh for doing nothing wrong, the author of the new book "american way of eating, under cover of walmart, apple bees, farmfields and dinner table" thank you for joining us tonight, nice to have hour befod out he spent i think it was half an hour, 45 minutes talking about my book, and reading the new york times interview on air. it was very interesting surprise. >> it is an interesting detail about this, mr. limbaugh does not seem to be angry about the book, when he did this on his show yesterday, he seemed to be angry about a positive "new york times" article about your book and article that came out two weeks ago, is that right? >> yes, so the book came out two weeks ago, the times review came out the same day as it was published, february 21st, i think rush said in his broadcast i have been holding on this a couple weeks. so

as he made another disparaging remark about women today on his radio show referring to author tracy mcmillan who recently wrote a book on the american food system. what is it with all of these young single white women over educated doesn't mean intelligent just get help and meanwhile during a press conference today president obama was asked to weigh in on rush's attacks against us as it is and here's what he said. i thought about malia and sasha and one of the things i want them to do as they get older is to engage in. issues they care about even ones i may not agree with them on i want them to be able to speak their mind in a civil and thoughtful way. and i don't want them attacked. or called. horrible names because they're being good citizens now media watchdog groups like media matters as well as several other words asians are calling for a boycott of the rush limbaugh show doesn't look like this is going away any time soon in fact it may just be getting started joining me now is peter williams in iraq war veteran who is calling for the american forces network to join the boycott and drop