Posted on 03/03/2012 6:13:19 PM PST by Qbert
Four sponsors have severed ties with Rush Limbaugh’s radio show after the outspoken host called law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
National advertisers LegalZoom, Quicken Loans and Sleep Number along with West Coast ad buyer The Sleep Train announced this week they were pulling all advertisements.
“We don’t condone negative comments directed toward any group. In response, we are currently pulling our ads from Rush with Rush Limbaugh,” Sleep Train wrote on Twitter.
Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law Student, was thrust into the spotlight this week after Limbaugh called her a “slut” for her stance on a new insurance mandate that requires employers to cover the cost of contraception.
“What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute,” Limbaugh said Wednesday.
The radio host’s comments caused customers to lobby advertisers to pull their money from the show or risk losing business.
The California-based Sleep Train has enjoyed a relationship with Limbaugh since it opened its first store in 1985.
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I’ll bet this will be a wind-fall for Rush.
The coward in chief endorses Rush by dissing him.
Ridiculous. I am canceling carbonite tomorrow.
Already moving my data to Justcloud. I don’t care if they support Rush or not. I would never call this 30 year old woman “courageous” for speaking for sluts everywhere.
I just wish OUR side could be this effective when we need to call attention to something
We need to keep a running list of these people who drop conservatives at the drop of a hat. Maybe Rush needs to do the Stern and Beck thing and go their own route.
Just saw this: Carbonite is still advertising with Ed Schultz... the man who called Laura Ingraham a “slut”:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/03/carbonite-drops-rush/
WHat group did Limbaugh make a negative comment about??
sluts and prostitutes?
An apology doesn’t save conservatives.
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Apparently Carbonite is also dropping Rush. All these companies deserve to be dropped by conservatives.
One skanky Rat operative has managed to become an instant national celebrity. I predict a run for the House of Representatives in her future. She will have considerable appeal to urban degenerates. She is electable in Manhattan or Boston or Chicago or San Francisco. Her bedroom frolics have indeed been quite profitable! Sickening.
But Fluke's vicious remarks about the Jesuits and the Catholic Church don't count.
Typical two-faced behavior by liberals. They can dish it out, but sure are thin-skinned when on the receiving end.
I also just deleted 3 manginas from my Facebook who were urging me to boycott Rush. Facebook is for fun, not for feminized men to politic me.
His ratings will go through the roof next week.
The man knows what he is doing.
Mondays program should be a gem. So many directions he could go with this.
The worst thing you can do with the Left is to capitulate. If you bend to political correctness you’ll have to do it over and over and over. It just enboldens them. Next time Rush put a bee in their bonnet, they’ll come after him again....and he’ll have to do the same thing again. He should have given the same type of apology that Paul Newman gave as Roy Bean in “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean” when his deputies insisted that he apologize to their wives, who were former prostitutes. Same game, different faces.
No longer discussing the substantive issues the Left turned to making their opponents the issue.
I guess that's the influence of Alinsky. At this hour it's Rush Limbaugh.
It became an appalling dialectic -- with the Right attempting to escape the verbal assaults yielding 90 percent and the Left yielding at most 10 percent and the result is -- that the enemy within is close to putting an end to America the "shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere."
Let's get it over with before there is another country strong enough to take advantage of our turmoil.
I just hope that patriots already in position to handle the turmoil (military and LEO) do step up, take charge, and put an end to the enemies within before it's too late to do it orderly. It should have been done when the spoiled brats of the "Greatest Generation" were running wild on campuses in the 1960s and 70s. Now they are arguably "the Establishment." Get it over with was my opinion back then in fact.
This to me is the issue. RUSH apology. He talks about the "chickifycation" of the country & he goes out and apologies for what wasto me exactly correct. I lost VERY much respect for him. There are others to listen to & I will now make it a point to hear less of him. Not just over this issue but others that have continually been built up. RUSH you are becoming the same as all of those you used to criticize many yrs ago. RUSH you are becoming a pussie. Let's see if his viewership declines over this.
I was outraged by Rush calling Fluke a slut. The Slut Anti-Defamation League must not let this rest. All sluts were offended by this comparison. Meanwhile left wingers can accuse conservatives of wanting to play with dead babies. They can get away calling Sarah Palin the vilest names.
“LegalZoom, Quicken Loans and Sleep Number along with West Coast ad buyer The Sleep Train announced this week they were pulling all advertisements.”
Good to know who won’t be getting any of my business in the future. I’ll write them a note to let them know.
It’s a small sacrifice for free speech.
Yes, I believe that Rush did build The Sleep Train.
I recall hearing the founder on Rush’s program talking
about struggling with one store in Sacto until he
hooked up w/Limbaugh on KFBK. I also believe the
original Snapple went viral once the original owners
hooked up w/Rush not long after he went national.
Amazing how libtards are so selective with their
indignation. This Fluke woman IS a SLUT. That’s
my story and I’m sticking to it.
This was a coordinated hit job on Rush by various left bloggers. Read about it all here (sorry for the fact that it’s from the Huffington Post):
“TO BE CLEAR,... this is about taking Rush Limbaugh down through a boycott of his sponsors...”
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