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Limbaugh Will Not Forgive Or Negotiate With Companies That Pulled Advertising
business insider ^ | 3/14/12 | Laura Stampler

Posted on 03/14/2012 9:36:17 AM PDT by Nachum

As advertisers keep joining in on the Rush Limbaugh boycott, one company only lasted a week before it went back to the conservative talk show host with its tail between its legs. But Limbaugh is not ready to forgive and forget.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Sleep Train, which had advertised with Limbaugh for 25 years, asked to relaunch a "voiced endorsement" on Limbaugh's show on Thursday ... and they were turned down.

The funny thing is, Sleep Train was the first advertiser to pull its ads from Limbaugh's show. After receiving a slew of angry messages for advertising on Limbaugh's show after he called a Georgetown law student a "prostitute" for advocating for inclusion of birth control in insurance plans, the mattress company Tweeted:

We don't condone negative comments directed toward any group. In response, we are currently pulling our ads from Rush with Rush Limbaugh.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: advertising; fluke; limbaugh; pulled; rushsponsors; sandrafluke; sleeptrain; waronrush
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To: M. Thatcher

Heard a lifelock ad on his show yesterday. Could be confusion?


41 posted on 03/14/2012 10:19:32 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." - Franklin)
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To: trailhkr1

Rush is “on his way up”?!!? LOL!!!


42 posted on 03/14/2012 10:20:33 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: trailhkr1

Wrong. The advertisers burned the bridges, not Limbaugh. They were the cheating spouse...now kicked out of the house and will not be let back in.


43 posted on 03/14/2012 10:21:28 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Quit poking holes in the life raft!)
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To: trailhkr1

Please call the multimillionaire number one talk show host for over 20 years Rush Limbaugh right now and warn him! I’m sure he’ll appreciate your advice.


44 posted on 03/14/2012 10:22:08 AM PDT by free me (heartless)
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To: trailhkr1

BZZZZ! Wrong answer!

New advertizers know who we are and what we’re about and likely have the same values. (P.S. Hey Liberals, our values doesn’t include racism, either!)

Rush isn’t going anywhere and will be fine.


45 posted on 03/14/2012 10:24:17 AM PDT by Ladysmith (The evil that's happening in this country is the cancer of socialism...It kills the human spirit.)
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To: SW6906
Rush is “on his way up”?!!? LOL!!!

I know he is on the top.

46 posted on 03/14/2012 10:24:33 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: trailhkr1

Rush is not the product of the mainstream media, therefore they have no power over him.

If they build you up, they can tear you down.

Rush has a very long waiting list of advertisers. A friend has been trying for years to get an ad on his show.


47 posted on 03/14/2012 10:25:01 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." - Franklin)
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To: trailhkr1

“Future advertisers will keep this mind.”

I hope they do keep it in mind: Don’t screw over your host through liberal knee-jerk reactionary business decisions or else you may find yourself left out in the cold.


48 posted on 03/14/2012 10:26:37 AM PDT by CodeToad (I'm so right-wing if I lifted my left leg I'd go into a spin.)
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To: RC2
Companies like Sleep Train are fools. Yes, they may have gotten complaints but those complaints will go away. Now, however, people will remember what Sleep Train did, for a long time.

More importantly, those doing the complaining are not Limbaugh listeners, nor Sleep Train customers.

49 posted on 03/14/2012 10:28:02 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: trailhkr1
Future advertisers will keep this mind.

That's the point. He's able to pick and choose his sponsors, and leftist prima donnas are excess baggage.

50 posted on 03/14/2012 10:30:57 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: trailhkr1
I presume that your multi-million dollar business is doing just fine, following your process.

If so, great for you, but I suspect that Rush will do just fine with his process.

51 posted on 03/14/2012 10:32:33 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: beefree
You are right that future advertisers will keep this fiasco of bad PR in mind.

Which, IMO, is the main reason Rush said no to the advertisers who wanted to return. It's not about revenge, it's about telling future advertisers what will happen if they try to pull the same childish crap. Companies may now take a breath and think things over rather than have a kneejerk reaction to leftist propaganda.


52 posted on 03/14/2012 10:34:42 AM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: Ladysmith
New advertizers know who we are and what we’re about and likely have the same values

Yes, they know Rush's audience but other than a few, most advertisers on Rush's program do not care about values and do not have your same values as their basis. They only want to sell you their product or service and they know Rush's audience is loyal.

53 posted on 03/14/2012 10:35:34 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: trailhkr1

Rush is right 99% of the time and this is no exception.

There are more advertisers out there that will be glad to be on Rush.

If they do the thing with Rush where he personally advertises for them, it’s amazing how much business is generated.

They dropped him to cater to a liberal touchy feely base that mostly doesn’t buy anything, preferring it be given to them.

The irritating thing is that he essentially ‘made’ these companies.

I would never forgive them and if any foot kissing occurs, it will be companies who see their sales drop trying to kiss Rush’s foot.


54 posted on 03/14/2012 10:36:01 AM PDT by altura
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To: Nachum

Good for Rush. Make ‘em pay for their posturing!


55 posted on 03/14/2012 10:36:48 AM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I think we ought to listen to Alinsky." - Governor G. Romney, father of Bishop Willard M. Romney.)
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To: Nachum

what is the list of actual advertisers who left Rush?


56 posted on 03/14/2012 10:37:27 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: trailhkr1

“Don’t step on feet on your way up as you may have to kiss them on your way down.” (to quote your statement)

Uh . . your statement above goes for all those liberal butt kissing sponsors as well. They went off half cocked. They were wrong on this. - Rush has got to give his attention to those sponsors that appreciate him and don’t go off half cocked at every liberal threat. Too unstable.


57 posted on 03/14/2012 10:40:07 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Redleg Duke
I presume that your multi-million dollar business is doing just fine, following your process.

I work for one of the top 3 accounting firms in the country. Nothing will get an employee in our company fired quicker than bad mouthing our competition ( We are trained to say.. "This is what we can do for you") or telling an ex client to go pound sand.

58 posted on 03/14/2012 10:40:12 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: trailhkr1

Congratulations.

Your posts have placed you among the finalists in the FR “Recently Registered Concern Troll of the Year” award.


59 posted on 03/14/2012 10:41:04 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: agere_contra

And Whine Train.


60 posted on 03/14/2012 10:44:58 AM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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