Popular actress Stacey Dash, one of the rare Hollywood figures to mock Oscar winner Patricia Arquette’s stage plea Sunday for equal rights for women, plans to reveal how swift and brutal the liberal backlash was when she “came out” as a conservative.
Regnery Publishing told Secrets that the “Clueless” actress is writing her story in a book to be published this summer titled There Goes My Social Life.
In an announcement to be released Wednesday, Dash, now a Fox contributor, first mentioned her political leanings in a 2012 tweet. Regnery said, “Dash shocked the upper echelons of the movie and music industries when she announced that she was sick of being disappointed by the Obama White House and endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Twitter. The backlash was swift and brutal.”
But it clearly hasn’t silenced her. This week, after Arquette overlooked some recent history and called for equal rights for women, Dash went on Fox to say that she was appalled by the remarks.
“I was appalled. I couldn’t believe it,” she said on Fox and Friends. Arquette said in her Oscar acceptance speech that “it is our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America.”
Said Dash, “First of all, Patricia Arquette needs to do her history. In 1963, Kennedy passed an equal pay law. It’s still in effect. I didn’t get the memo that I didn’t have any rights.”
In There Goes My Social Life, Dash plans to explain how she became a conservative and detail her her upbringing in the South Bronx and her Hollywood career “to movingly illustrate her strong opinions about the value of a good education, the importance of family, the inanity of political correctness and the power of personal responsibility,” said Regnery.
Dash is represented by her literary agent Chris Park of Foundry Literary + Media. Her manager is Patrick Millsaps of HBS Management, LLC.
Regnery Publishing, a Salem Media Group Company, is the country’s leading publisher of conservative books with a list of authors that includes Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, David Limbaugh, Mark Steyn, Newt Gingrich, Edward Klein and Dinesh D’Souza.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
