Posted on 08/05/2013 9:15:50 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Remember the 'Flush Rush' boycott attempted by David Brock and Media Matters which called for advertisers to drop their sponsorships of Rush Limbaugh's radio show? How did that work out in the long run? According to liberal radio talk host Thom Hartmann on CNN's Reliable Sources yesterday it completely backfired because it ended up hurting liberal shows:
David Brock and Media Matters were leading the boycott Limbaugh crusade, which did presumably some damage to the Limbaugh show. I can tell you it did a lot of damage to progressive talk radio, because a lot of advertisers right across the board said just pull me out of all talk radio.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
“Boycott Backfires, Bites Bolshevik Butt.”...boinking bloviated ‘Bama’s b*tt blithely.
When was that boycott? I remember the phrase.
I think it was after he correctly called a slut a slut.
Muzak is primed to make a comeback.
I tune into Rush occasionally and the only ads I hear are from vitamin companies, debt restructurers, etc.
There are no ads for McDonalds or Walmart or Apple or any big name products or services.
Major corporations have minor cojones when it comes to any type of political commentary.
I hope they love the fascist state they are contributing to with their support of illegal immigration, deficit spending, convoluted tax laws that help the connected, and turning a blind eye to anything that smells too Constitutional.
Looks like you are right, Google says the same,
When liberals presume, beware.
I believe most of the companies that boycotted Rush’s show eventually asked to come back and Rush declined their request. A major over reaction by clueless pc sympathizers.
The Law of Unintended Consequences.
LibTards believe that if they deny its existence in the universe, it won’t have an effect on them.
I know one lib that goes apesh1t whenever I say it. Like Pavlov’s dog. It’s great fun.
None of them have much presence on local radio anyway. The local McDonald's franchise may decide to advertise locally, but most McD's advertising appears to be done on TV. And I've never heard a WalMart ad on the radio - no matter the format.
““A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have...wrap it round your head to ... avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you)” [note: therefore, it forgets about you and goes on its way.]
More proof that liberalism’s greatest enemy is ... the liberal.
No such ads on Rush.
One more thing about the supposedly brave entrepreneurs that run our "free market" system: They are only too quick to limit our 2nd Amendment rights. Most major corporations consider it a violation of their policies to bring a gun onto their property even if it is an unloaded gun in the locked trunk of a car in a parking lot. So forget about going to that shooting range after work if you don't live near where you work.
It's only a minor hassle, but it is a major limitation on 2nd Amendment rights.
Dave and the guys were cheered on by lefties in faculty lounges relaxing with a joint in leatherette recliners.
There are no ads for McDonalds or Walmart or Apple or any big name products or services.If you haven't heard a promotion for Apple on Rush, you aren't listening...He might be their biggest advertiser.
When people who don’t beleive in the voluntary free exchange of goods as a principle of freedom come up with ANY economic policy such as a boycott, you can always expect the fools to fail miserably...
“If you turn to any music station you will hear ads for famous name clothes, beverages, cruises, etc.
No such ads on Rush.”
Good I don’t typically buy their junk anyway.
David Brock and Media Matters were leading the boycott Limbaugh crusade, which did presumably some damage to the Limbaugh show. I can tell you it did a lot of damage to progressive talk radio, because a lot of advertisers right across the board said just pull me out of all talk radio.
So they shot themselves in the foot, no wonder they want gun crontrol, to keep themselves safe from themselves!!!!!!
There are no ads for McDonalds or Walmart or Apple or any big name products or services. None of them have much presence on local radio anyway.
Consider the demographics of their customers. A large percentage of talk radio listeners do so while working. It makes more sense to advertise on a medium which reaches people who are sitting on their butts doing nothing.
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