Report: Company who dropped ads from Limbaugh’s show asks to be reinstated (Fair weather friends)

Hotair ^ | posted at 10:09 pm on March 8, 2012 | AllahPundit

[SeekAndFind]

Request denied.

A Limbaugh spokesman said that California mattress company Sleep Train asked to restart a “voiced endorsement” from Limbaugh that it had publicly cut off last week. The company said at the time that it “does not condone such negative comments toward any person.”…

Sleep Train’s departure from the program had been billed by some observers as particularly significant because the mattress retailer had been with Limbaugh show for 25 years. Yet the tone of Sleep Train’s withdrawal statement last Friday hinted it might not be pulling out for the long run…

Limbaugh spokesman Brian Glicklich on Thursday forwarded a copy of an email that he said had been sent to Sleep Train Chief Executive Dale Carlsen. In it, Glicklich wrote that Limbaugh had personally received the company’s requests to resume advertising on his show.

“Unfortunately,” Glicklich wrote, “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.”

Via the Daily Rushbo, he talked about this a bit on yesterday’s show, claiming that two sponsors had already asked to return and that “one of them is practically begging to come back.” I don’t know why Sleep Train would pull ads if the prospect of losing Rush forever made them nervous enough to cave this quickly. They’ve alienated the right by abandoning him and irritated the left by going squishy over it. Have we learned nothing from l’affaire Komen, my friends? Rule one of inserting yourself into a hot-button public debate: Once you pick a side, stick to it. Sheesh.

CLICK ABOVE LINK TO VIEW VIDEO OF RUSH CLARIFYING HIS ADVERTISER SITUATION

[skeeter]

Grovel, money grubbing poltroons.

[Jonty30]

I wouldn’t take them back.

I like what somebody said, on another website, Rush should accept Sleep Train’s competitor’s ASAP.

[left that other site]

I have been having these attacks of Schadenfreude lately.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out WHY! }:-)

[Red Badger]

If it were up to me, I would ban them from advertising on my show forever............

[Red Badger]

Anybody seen Carbonite’s stock price lately?...............

[MrB]

Irony, thy name is “Sleep Train”.

[EyeGuy]

I’d like to know the REAL number of advertisers that bailed on Rush, and are actually staying away.

The lying Left has it at north of 50.

[treetopsandroofs]

No, are they hurting?

Beck was plugging for them hard yesterday.

[MrB]

[television is just wrong]

I heard this kind of thing is a common occurance that sponsors pull ads and return over and over again. My husband used to work in radio...

[Red Badger]

It seems they were already going fast on the downslope well before they decided to trash Rush............

[rawhide]

ABC News, who understands how this works and are purposely misrepresenting it, is out there ballyhooing that we have lost 28 sponsors. Twenty-eight sponsors out of 18,000! That's like losing a couple of french fries in the container when it's delivered to you at the drive-thru. You don't even notice it.

I like Rush's analogy!

[Sudetenland]

I LOVE IT!!!!

I hope each of these whining libtard companies go bankrupt for injecting their personal politics into their business. I especially hope that Carbonite goes belly-up, because they basically owe their existence to Rush. No one had ever heard of them until Rush began advertising them.

El Rushbo wins another one.

[Blue Turtle]

hahahah...love it. I am sure the media will report that advertisers are crawling back to Limbaugh, right?

[treetopsandroofs]

Interesting, thanks.

[Bitsy]

True, he won’t notice the ship jumping rats but it is the fact that they jumped that makes the difference. Cowards cowering to the almighty dollar squeeze by the loony left! Well, we know how to play that game too.

[FunkyZero]

"Rule one of inserting yourself into a hot-button public debate: Once you pick a side, stick to it."

I dunno... I'd say Rule#1 is DON'T go after Rush. For God's sakes... it backfires every dang time. Have they not learned this yet?
It doesn't seem to matter how many times he baits them up, they keep coming back for more, right on Q

[JPG]

Rush explained that the number of local ads sold by his 600+ affiliate stations is north of 18,000. So,’north of 50’ bailing-out is no great shakes. Those weasels will be quickly replaced and the Rush caravan moves on.

[sillsfan]

Sidebar:
I am in the market for beds.
I don't think I'm hard on a bed, but never mind how much I've spent to buy the best, or their guarantee, in 3 years, the matress is shot.
I WAS considering a Sleep Number bed, but forget that now.

Anybody have any recommendations?

[SubMareener]

Down to 8.58 at the close yesterday. Its NASDAQ chart shows steady decline since last August peak of about $17.50. Big drop a few days ago.

[moovova]

too sweet

[SeekAndFind]

How about this:

http://www.simplyrest.com/

[JudgemAll]

Indeed, liberal institutions always parasite and grovel for a while and then dump on people too easy when there is some fear or weakness factor they sense. THese are a bunch of unreliable cowards.

[steve8714]

They’ve included a number of local and regional advertisers Rush never heard of.

[Above My Pay Grade]

Tell them to hire Fluke to pitch their products.

[SubMareener]

“Sleep Number Competitors” is a frequent search string on Bing! :-) I found http://www.dreamnumberbeds.com/ that way. We have had select comfort beds for almost ten years now. Now that their patent has run out, we would look to other manufacturers.

[txrefugee]

Carbonite will be the poster child for failure to understand the purchasing power of Rush’s audience. After all, they are the people with jobs and money to buy things...or not.

[USS Alaska]

“Unfortunately,” Glicklich wrote, “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.”

The CEO, Mr. Carlsen, back in 2006, went on record and said that it was his company's 20 year relationship with Rush, that built his business and a few years later he pisses on Rush's back and tells him it's raining.

Sorry Charlie, "You are stuck on stupid".

[ken in texas]

Maybe I missed something but what does a “Sleep Number” bed have to do with a mattress company called “Sleep Train”?

[steve8714]

They’re maintaining a 10% loss, it looks like.

[steve8714]

The five day chart is probably more appropriate for this one. Striking, isn’t it?

[ElkGroveDan]

I like what somebody said, on another website, Rush should accept Sleep Train’s competitor’s ASAP.

He's not going to do that. Dale Carlsen was one of Rush's original sponsors in Sacramento in the late 80s and then continued as a sponsor locally when Rush went national (also Tom Sullivan). Carlsen and Sleep Train stood by Rush back when he COULD have been forced off the air for smaller controversies. It's why my jaw hit the floor when I heard he dumped Rush last week. It's not like this is the first time they've been faced with this kind of uproar. Of course Rush is hurt and angered however I don't think he's going to proactively go after them. Their business is going to suffer just by their absence on his show. I suspect that Rush who is a better man, may take him back somewhere down the road.

[sillsfan]

Thanks! I'll look into it.

I'm for supporting whoever the other company is. I will never spend my money with the companies that caved to the Alinski tactics of the left and that innocent little “student”. /s

It's too bad Rush is supposedly allowing Carbonite back starting next week, especially given what the CEO said. But, as someone pointed out on another thread yesterday, it's genius: Rush still gets their advertising money, and no one who listens to Rush's show will knowingly buy their product.

[Amntn]

Go with latex foam. Absolutely the most comfortable and never wear out. Plus they are supposed to be good for allergy sufferers.

[Mamzelle]

My question, too. Rush has been endorsing some kind of bed ever since I started listening. I remember buying Snapple tea when he promoted it (I love buying Rush-endorsed products because I know it infuriates some liberal, somewhere), and stopped when he stopped.

I bought one of those tankless water heaters. LOVE IT. But I won't say the name because I don't hear Rush advertising it, anymore. Big ticket item.

Lessee, what else did I buy?

[Mamzelle]

Hot, latex is HOT. I love the feel of memory foam, cannot tolerate how it retains heat.

[sillsfan]

Sorry FRiend, that was my sidebar.
They are two unrelated companies.
But it was under the Rush boycott mattress topic umbrella!

[MissMagnolia]

In the future, having a cowardly knee-jerk reaction to the rabid rantings and complaints of screaming foaming-at-the-mouth Liberals and going bankrupt as a result will be known as "doing a Carbonite'.

[Red Badger]

I guarantee you will not wear this one out!...........

[rawhide]

Carbonite coming back to Rush? Really? Had not heard that.

[Arrowhead1952]

They’ve included a number of local and regional advertisers Rush never heard of.

Rush explained that yesterday. Some local affiliates have sponsors that play during station breaks and some of those dropped his show. He also said that some have been asked to quit the local breaks.

[Iron Munro]

Tell them to hire Fluke to pitch their products.

I'm sure Fluke has many lucrative offers from condum manufacturers to pump their products.

She could become an iconic spokesperson for condums, like the "Where's The Beef" gal was for Wendy's burgers.

"Senator I ask you, Where's The Beef?"

[Amntn]

Memory foam is hot but latex foam is not. I have slept on them for over 25 years and never had a problem with them. I did sleep on memory foam at my son’s house and it was hot.

[Mamzelle]

I see all sorts of stuff advertised for those of us who “sleep hot”—

[TonyInOhio]

I'm sure Fluke has many lucrative offers from condum manufacturers to pump their products.

I'm confident that Fluk's partners have no anatomical need for condoms.

[Soul of the South]

Select Comfort (SCSS), the company producing the Sleep Number bed has seen its stock price fully recover from the dip it took when it dropped Rush.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SCSS+Interactive#chart1:symbol=scss;range=5d;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined

[gov_bean_ counter]

Tell them to hire Fluke to pitch their products.

Snap-On Tools???
I didn't think they advertised with Rush...

[sillsfan]

A Freeper (don't recall who) that works at a radio station stated this. When challenged, he repeated multiple times he saw it for himself.

If his info turns out to be erroneous, I apologize for contributing to the rumor. But he was adamant that Carbonite was returning next week.

[Buckeye McFrog]

On his show this morning Jim Quinn was claiming that Rush felt personally betrayed by the CEO of Sleep Train as they had been friends for 25 yrs.

On the other hand, Carbonite appears to be purely business.