Posted on 03/04/2012 11:30:44 AM PST by EveningStar
Beginning Thursday, March 1st, I began receiving a series of complaints from both listeners to The Kim Komando Show and other non-listeners, concerning on-air comments made by Rush Limbaugh about Georgetown University Law Student Sandra Fluke and Ms. Fluke’s comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at komando.com ...
I don’t think Kim Kommando is pimping anything.
She gets it.
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Kim Komando is hardly a ‘blog pimp’. She has a very successful computer help radio show with millions of listeners. and a computer news /help website with millions of hits.
No doubt about that but what Kim has revealed is how entrenched these attack groups are as well as organized and funded.
They have us sorely whipped in that arena.
We've been out done and unfortunately it leaves us with few alternatives.
Try to pick better excerpts in the future. This tells us nothing, nor why we should care enough to click through to find out what she had to say.
Kim Komando is a blog pimp?
How embarrassing....for you.
Is she on the excerpt only list? If not post the full article. If so post the 300 word limit.
This is like buying a book based solely on the cover’s color.
Personally I’ll pass.
Thank you for your courteous explanation.
We met her once right after having a business meeting with Dr. Phil’s people. Very professional and affable demeanor..
A comment from a mind numbed robot. You are the type of listener that the LSM thinks all Rush listeners are.
Excellent. I always liked her program, but I haven’t heard it since we moved further west.
“Fluke has lived her life as a slut but now wants congress to pay her to have sex. I believe this would make her a whore. Rush was wrong to call her a slut under these circumstances. “
I’m sure some members of Congress would.
For all you Barney Fife blog police,I will take a chance on a reprimand from Jim and post the whole thing for you pathetic whiners.Happy now?
Statement from Kim Komando regarding Rush Limbaugh comments
Beginning Thursday, March 1st, I began receiving a series of complaints from both listeners to The Kim Komando Show and other non-listeners, concerning on-air comments made by Rush Limbaugh about Georgetown University Law Student Sandra Fluke and Ms. Fluke’s comments.
News stories of these comments and the ensuing fallout are readily available. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a synopsis within this Statement.
The majority of the comments directed toward me were critical that:
Certain sponsors of The Kim Komando Show were also sponsors of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
To that end, I had not brought pressure on those sponsors to discontinue their advertising schedules with The Rush Limbaugh Show.
Therefore, I must, in some way agree with Mr. Limbaugh’s positions.
Further, as a woman, I should be especially sensitive to his comments and should have been among the first to denounce him.
Over the years, it has been my decision and policy to refrain from the insertion of general politics, candidate endorsements and criticisms of public officials in my program. This has not always been possible for me because, from time to time, our government will set about passing laws and policies which have a direct impact on your lives and my program’s focus: Consumer Electronics, the Internet, privacy issues, and the economy as it relates to all of the foregoing. To that end, I have made no secret of the fact that I am a free market capitalist.
It is also within my sole discretion whether I will endorse any particular advertising client or not. If and when I do provide a personal endorsement, it is because I believe in the product or service on a number of levels, which includes the advertisers overall conduct from a public relations standpoint.
Should a spokesman for a product or service violate various laws, and/or the public conscious so as to bring himself or his broadcast partners into public ridicule, it falls to the judgment of the advertiser as how they wish to proceed.
All of this brings me back to Rush Limbaugh.
The old saying that, “Hindsight is 20/20,” is especially true for those of us in media who speak extemporaneously and perform our work without a script. And yes, I believe that Mr. Limbaugh could have phrased his opinions in this matter differently and should have acted much soon to diffuse the entire situation (if that is possible at all).
However, I also firmly believe in the First Amendment.
Rush Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants.
The public has the right to champion those comments or reject them.
The public also has the right to bring any of the comments that we, as radio talk show hosts make either on or off the air, to the attention of advertisers.
Advertisers have a right to spend or not spend their advertising dollars as they see fit.
Finally, you have the right to patronize those advertisers or not.
A good number of Rush Limbaugh advertisers have already withdrawn their business from the program with more to come.
As I mentioned previously, in this case, everyone is clearly within his or her Constitutional rights.
It’s all a part of the First Amendment and sometimes, it’s not pretty.
What all this said, I know that some of the comments directed at me have come from long time listeners to my program. I appreciate them all.
But many others are not my listeners. Rather, they are individuals who have been motivated by commentators, bloggers and others with a particular political agenda. It is therefore clear that there is an on-going attempt to use me and my program as leverage to bring further pressure upon Rush Limbaugh.
I also do not believe that, “as a woman,” I should be particularly offended at Mr. Limbaugh’s comments. If you perceive a situation as tasteless or offensive, it matters not who or what you are.
It is regrettable that this situation has occurred. Nevertheless, above all else, The Kim Komando Show values its advertisers, its listeners and the loyalty and trust they have shown to me over the years.
We are not a part of the Rush Limbaugh controversy and we will continue to make the best decisions for our program and for whom we advertise regardless of the politics involved.
Wow, she’s not just right on the issue she is articulate, and clear-thinking. Wow. I like listening to her when I happen to stumble across her show, I’m going to make a concerted effort now to tune her in more often.
Anyone that doesn’t understand what you so nicely explained to them
still don’t get it are trouble makers.
You are correct. Evening Star is the one who’s too damn lazy to post a decent excerpt.
I dig her comments. Good lady.
It's not a blog.
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