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Furious Retailer Pulls All Adverts From Rush Limbaugh's Show After Radio Host Suggests 'Slut' ...
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | March 02, 2012 | MARK DUELL

Posted on 03/02/2012 10:59:08 AM PST by Steelfish

Furious Retailer Pulls All Adverts From Rush Limbaugh's Show After Radio Host Suggests 'Slut' Student Should Make a SEX TAPE

Mattress retailer Sleep Train bows to community pressure on Twitter Conservative radio host slammed Georgetown University's Sandra Fluke 61-year-old said she's basically asking taxpayer to pay for her to have sex.

He criticised Fluke's claim of needing $1,000-a-year for contraception She said on Friday that his comments left her 'very upset and outraged'

MARK DUELL 2nd March 2012

Rush Limbaugh advertiser today revealed it will pull all adverts from his radio show after the host caused widespread outrage by branding a student a ‘slut’ for her views on contraception.

The 61-year-old made fun of her for saying religious institutions should cover birth control in health insurance - and said in a further show that she should have to make sex tapes if this ever happens.

Now mattress retailer Sleep Train, based in Rocklin, California, has bowed to pressure on Twitter and said it will no longer advertise on the show. Other advertisers are being called to do the same.

Rush Limbaugh, 61, left called Sandra Fluke, right, a student at Catholic college Georgetown University, a 'slut' for saying religious institutions should cover birth control under health insurance ‘We don't condone negative comments directed toward any group,’ a Sleep Train spokesman tweeted. ‘Thanks to all of you for your concern and input.’

Meanwhile advertiser ProFlowers said it will 're-evaluate’ its marketing plan and dating site eHarmony insisted it will look into ‘the matter of "network buys"’.

The host said Sandra Fluke, of Catholic college Georgetown University in Washington D.C., was promiscuous for saying woman should get the pill for medical reasons.

And he went even further on his next show, saying: 'If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and.....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycott; contraceptionmandate; fluke; freebirthcontrol; limbaugh; rush; sandrafluke; sandytheslut; sleeptrain; tolerantleft
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Maybe she’s not using theirs.


41 posted on 03/02/2012 11:16:58 AM PST by tayper (Granny told me, Saying it don't make it so)
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To: Jemian
With all the rubbers she goes through, she is likely well acquainted with “pulling a train”, a ‘sleep train’, so to speak.
42 posted on 03/02/2012 11:17:20 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Jemian

Big on radio in Cal. Rush probably has a waiting list.


43 posted on 03/02/2012 11:17:41 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Steelfish

Will Mitt Romney and SuperPac please do the same on local radio stations during Rush’s show?


44 posted on 03/02/2012 11:17:55 AM PST by Kazan (Mitt Romney: The greater of two evils)
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To: tumblindice

Just sent Sleep Train this email ;

Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:17:08 -0800 1 of 1628
From:
Subject: Mattress recommendation
To: customerservice@sleeptrain.com

Hi,
I’m a very sexually active law student at a major national university. Can you recommend a good mattress for me?

Is there any way I can get the government to pay for it?

Thanks

P.S. Have you ever heard of cutting off your nose to spite your face? I didn’t think so.


45 posted on 03/02/2012 11:18:20 AM PST by CarmichaelPatriot
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To: Steelfish
Mattress retailer ...

There's a joke in there somewhere...

46 posted on 03/02/2012 11:18:48 AM PST by GOPJ (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: Steelfish

A mattress retailer? Seriously? This stuff just writes itself.


47 posted on 03/02/2012 11:20:40 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: Keith in Iowa
Not a National Advertiser... probably a local advertiser on one station

No doubt you're right but isn't it interesting how desperate the left is to denigrate Limbaugh that this non-event shows up so quickly in the UK Daily Mail.

A lie circles the globe before the truth gets its boots on.

48 posted on 03/02/2012 11:21:24 AM PST by ProfoundMan (Time to finish the Reagan Revolution! - RightyPics.com)
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To: ReneeLynn

They were making more money with their sister company Sluttrain a company making beds for Mattress-back sluts.
Ms Fluke was endorsing the Slutrain beds and no longer needed Rush’s endorsement.


49 posted on 03/02/2012 11:22:32 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Recall/ Impeachment Day, November 6, 2012. FUBO)
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To: Steelfish

It’s time to put this matter to bed.


50 posted on 03/02/2012 11:27:08 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: dforest

And as Miss Fluke can testify, pulling a train does not allow for much sleep.


51 posted on 03/02/2012 11:30:05 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Steelfish; SevenofNine

52 posted on 03/02/2012 11:30:48 AM PST by monkapotamus
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To: Steelfish
A "fluke" is a parasite Image and video hosting by TinyPic
53 posted on 03/02/2012 11:31:14 AM PST by Kansas58
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To: Steelfish; All

Tell them to grow a pair! :

customerservice@sleeptrain.com


54 posted on 03/02/2012 11:33:39 AM PST by Kansas58
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To: Steelfish

Maybe they can get Sandra Fluke as a bed specialist to advertise their wares.


55 posted on 03/02/2012 11:38:38 AM PST by aruanan
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To: monkapotamus

OMG that good one Monk ROFL

Yeah I thought Sleep train was cool company not anymore LOL!

They bow to Twitter follower I think so I reading UK Daily mail this morning about it


56 posted on 03/02/2012 11:40:56 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
A mattress retailer?

Nice catch. I didn't make the connection until you mentioned it.

57 posted on 03/02/2012 11:41:15 AM PST by Bullish (12-22-2012)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Sleep Train, based in Rocklin, California,

They have 90 little stores in Kalifornicator and re-sell name brand mattresses.

It's a local, not national, sponsor, and Rush didn't know he had them, and won't know they left.

If a national sponsor cancelled because of this crap, the blow back would hurt them, not Rush.

58 posted on 03/02/2012 11:42:14 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorists savages.)
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To: Steelfish

At first,I thought, what bozos. But now I see they are getting themselves lots of free publicity. It may balance out BECAUSE they are a mattress vendor. The jokes write themselves for everyone, not just freepers.


59 posted on 03/02/2012 11:43:42 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Paul Tsongas of 2012.)
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To: Steelfish

Looks like Rush really hit a nerve with all the sluts of the world.


60 posted on 03/02/2012 11:44:00 AM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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