"Sleep Train chose...poorly"
Posted on 03/09/2012 6:57:28 AM PST by AAABEST
Sleep Train, one of the companies that dropped its ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio program after Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute," asked Limbaugh for another chance.
But Limbaugh denied the company's request.
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The Times added that Limbaugh spokesman Brian Glicklich forwarded an email he said had been sent to Sleep Train President Dale Carlsen. According to that email, Limbaugh himself considered the company's request and denied it.
“Thank you for your requests last week and this week to restart your voiced endorsement in local markets of The Rush Limbaugh Show,” the email began. “Rush received your requests personally.”
“Unfortunately," the email continues, "your public comments were not well received by our audience, and did not accurately portray either Rush Limbaugh's character or the intent of his remarks. Thus, we regret to inform you that Rush will be unable to endorse Sleep Train in the future.”
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Subheader: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit" /USA Today
bumpity bump bump bump...
Do dumb-butt things; expect dumb-butt consequences. Way to go, sleep train - hope your bottom line accurately reflects your business decisions.
Let the conflict-adverse, snot-nosed, 30-somethings who ran for cover learn the hard lesson.
We keep on calling the media either “the elite media” or “the media”.
Why don’t we call them something else. They are no longer the media as they do not report the news, all the truth. They are merely a propaganda machine for liberals.
Time to come up with a name to reflect their actions. They have trashed their credentials as news reporters and no longer are worthy of the title.
The propaganda machine might more accurately reflect their status.
"Sleep Train chose...poorly"
Maybe he can forgive them when Sandra Fluke forgives him.
“I feel Rush should forgive”
No. He said the sponser defections, some of them anyway, offended his audience. Rush has said his audience is his most precious asset.
Nah. It sounds more like she's the type who does it in the back seat of a Corvette, standing in the shower or on the bathroom floor.
Beds are for classy whores.
Perhaps he has, I don't know. But that doesn't mean he needs to reestablish a relationship with them.
I have forgiven people who have wronged me, yet in some cases I have felt it was best to discontinue the relationship with them going forward.
wow...I love it
reminds me of my sadly long gone old crystal blue eyed red haired maternal granny
best woman I ever known by a long shot or ever will just purely as a strong pistol packing deep woods sort but maternal and so kind and do the right thing gal
but if you crossed her bad....you were done
could be worse...some in that branch of my family had blood on their hands on occasion
Rush is right to stay tuff
Just a quote from the reviews. But it is funny!
Andrew Breitbart called them (and their minions in the Democrat party and academia) the "Democrat-Media Complex" (a play on "military-industrial complex").
Is he taking Carbonite back? I have been watching their stock quotes & they are in the tank presently.
it’s hard to tell on this deal if the biz execs are just lefties themselves or if they are just stupid and so paranoid about how their buying public will respond or being targeted by media
I think Carbonite boss is a known lefty.
I call them the American Pravda Network (or APN).
“I must humbly disagree with El Rushbo... unless the ad time has already been sold to another client... I feel Rush should forgive. Sleep Train made a mistake...as did he... time to kiss and make up!”
Did you forget a sarcasm tag? All Rush did was tell the truth. Anybody spending $3K on The Pill IS a slut. The math was done. Asking me to spend it means I’m paying for her to have sex. That’s just stupid.
As for Sleep Train, their CEO should have called Rush BEFORE yanking the ads and got his side of it. Rush built his business, period. He didn’t. He pulled the ads.
What’s to stop this idiot from trying to put Rush out of business again? You don’t harbor threats - you dispatch them.
Pardon me, boy
Is this the Sacramento Sleep Train?
You're on Track Twenty-Nine?
Hey, it's the end o' the line
I'll never board
The Sacramento Sleep Train
Ain't worth the fare
Just to sleep on your hair
You left El Rushbo's station 'cause you got over-sore
Your timing just stinks
You don't matter any more
Dinner in your diner?
No, thanks, you whiner
There are mattresses much finer
And I'd rather take my forty winks
On a La-Z-Boy recliner
CIAO, CIAO, CHOO-CHOO
Leni
>Sleep Train made a mistake...as did he... time to kiss and make up!<
I agree...BUT TRIPLE THE AD RATE to teach them a lesson.
I humbly disagree with YOU. There's nothing to "make up". Sleep Train made a business decision. So did Rush. Rush has advertisers fill the spots for those that left. Those that left may now be losing business because of their rash decisions... well, to freakin' bad. They made their choice, and should live with the consequences of their actions.
Correct.
F*** em. They made a spectacle of Rush while down. If Rush does take them back, I would have added 50% to the original ad rate to teach these backstabbers a lesson.
This was before the slut incident, but I bought a new mattress at Mancini’s primarily because I could not find ANYTHING in Sleep Train for under $900 (full-size, btw).
Now that they don’t have to pay for ad time on Rush’s show, maybe they can drop their prices a bit. Not that it’ll make me shop there.
I must admit I’d always wanted Rush to send me a Sleep Number bed instead of an autographed MacBook. Guess that dream is over.
“Time to come up with a name to reflect their actions. They have trashed their credentials as news reporters and no longer are worthy of the title.
The propaganda machine might more accurately reflect their status.”
I’ve been referring to them as the Ministry of Truth for the last three years or so.
You are undoubtedly without equal! :-D
“It sounds more like she’s the type who does it in the back seat of a Corvette...”
I don’t mean to nitpick, but Corvettes don’t have a back seat. Besides, I’d imagine a supply closet or a dark alley is more her style.
I agree. This is not about Sleep Train, but to send the message that words have consequences.
Other advertisers will be paying attention to who is really buying their products.
sorry to see a long time sponser leaving, but they chose the ground they stand decided to make a stand. They chose poorly.
If they’re a known lefty, then I would not trust my computer files to their care.
Yahoo, Leni’s back to poetry,(#68) at last. Very
singable!
Are Sleep Train and Sleep Number the same thing?
I’d love to see a stock price chart for the last two weeks of these companies that bailed on Rush
Shouldn't you have said ad fluke?
When this kerfluffle started, I was told that they were. I could be wrong. It seems against Rush's MO to endorse two of the same type of product unless their parent company is the same.
“......His boss is the AUDIANCE. He does what he does for them and no one else.....”
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True as far as it goes. However, Rush is a class act who has shown immense loyalty to his various partners. For example, Rush could have had his program also carried on XM-Sirius satellite radio ANY time he would have wanted and it would have immensely benefited him personally.
From a years ago experience I had where I couldn’t get reception of the Rush Limbaugh show while on a vacation trip to Yellowstone national park, I thought him going on satellite would have been wonderful and a service to his audience. But later I heard Rush explain to a caller why he didn’t (and wouldn’t) do that. It was basically loyalty to his long time radio station partners who he would never betray. A loyalty that I realized, while resulting in a cost to him, he continued to hold because IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
But loyalty has to be a two way street. These “sunshine” advertisers have essentially BETRAYED Rush. There is nothing worse than betrayal by a long time friend or loved one. These businesses that have pulled their commercials have FORFEITED the loyalty that Rush felt for them. He should treat them as the disgusting scum that they are, IMHO. And I think that we Rush listeners should do the same.
“HEADLINE: Sleep Train Co Declares Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. Hundreds Out Of Work.
Subheader: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit” /USA Today”
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Sub-subheader: Bush’s Fault!
OK. Maybe the stick shift on a Corvette. :->
You summed it up perfectly.
Love it. One of your best. You go girl
Edith
Sleep Number is a specific model of mattress, made by Select Comfort. IIRC, it can be found at Sleep Train, a chain of mattress stores.
Yes, and that is the best part of all this. Rush is ABSOLUTELY right to not agree to do 'voiced' commercials for them ever again, as he should with Carbonite also. They didn't just stop their ads, they publicly put out statements chastising Rush. However, I don't feel he should black-ball them from buying time on the local affiliates, (even if he can).Just think of the stink that will raise with the lefties!! Not only will the Right continue to boycott them, but now the lefties will also. They are D.O.N.E.
EXACTLY!! And good post!!
good for carbonight
Sleep Train is making ANOTHER mistake by not apologizing to Rush NATIONALLY on the things they said about him.
Pro-flowers, Sherries Berrys and Carbonite must be kicking themselves in the head over the potential millions of customers they have lost after leaving RUSH and telling all of his listeners they are no longer interested in having them as their customers. Sleep Train begged RUSH to take them back. He PERSONALLY looked at their request and TURNED THEM DOWN! I wouldn't want to be the back-stabbing owner who RUSH made a multi-millionaire. Must be something to watch your business go down the toilet because of your own stupidity and unfaithfulness.
I do not remember hearing any ads for “Sleep Train” on his show and I’ve been listening for a long time.
BS you don’t cosy up to traitors...fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me....
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