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Citrix drops Rush sponsorship
Citrix Facebook ^ | March 2, 2012 | Brett Caine SVP GM

Posted on 03/03/2012 9:00:22 AM PST by Leroy S. Mort

Over the past day, we’ve heard from many great Citrix customers about our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show. These customers have expressed their growing concern that some of his recent comments seem inconsistent with the core values Citrix has always stood for – humility, integrity and respect.

While Citrix obviously does not control any show’s content or endorse opinions of their hosts, we do take the concerns of our customers seriously. When they are upset about something, we listen. After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show.

Sincerely,

Brett Caine

SVP and GM, Online Services Division

Citrix


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: citrix; freespeech; gotomypc; rushlimbaugh; rushsponsors; sandrafluke; sandytheslut; sponsorsdroprush; talkradio
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To: Leroy S. Mort; Matchett-PI; mickie; flaglady47; Chigirl 26; surfer; Bob Ireland; oswegodeee; ...
Evidently the sponsors jumping the USS Maharushie in panic are not informed of Air America, the wildly-far left radio network.

After a couple of years of shaky revenue flow, it went off the air after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in January of 2010....and liquidated itself.

Radio listeners prefer conservative talk radio, not radical garbage. How many far Left talk show hosts of national renown are there?

Err American could not attract enough advertisers to be viable....even financial assistance from wealthy commies couldn't keep it from going down the sewer from whence it sprang.

Radio is a great outlet for commercial advertising by smaller corporations and entrepeneurial companies. TV is too expensive.

These weasles that have quit Rush are going to find they made the biggest mistakes of their business lives. I will bet that more than one of them will take such a negative hit in consumer income that they, too, will go under.

Good riddance....most of them have products that aren't exactly high on anyone's "must have" list, anyhow. They need a good, believable salesman like Rush who has a vast audience to turn them into contenders in today's business markets.

This is what business is all about....i.e., the bottom line.....and it has little to do with some Georgetown slut's bottom line.

Leni

81 posted on 03/03/2012 9:58:15 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Nice to see Rush is cleaning out his dirty underware drawer and getting rid of useless, old, tired, wornout a##hats


82 posted on 03/03/2012 9:59:17 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V us)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

There are 100s of sponsers waiting in the wings to sponser Rush. This will have no affect on rush Limbaugh!!!


83 posted on 03/03/2012 10:01:55 AM PST by ontap
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To: Leroy S. Mort; All

Please go to the Facebook page and voice your opinion. It’s overwhelmingly in support of Citrix right now.


84 posted on 03/03/2012 10:02:33 AM PST by Krankor (eenie meenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak.)
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To: Lx

Most people who use Citrix because of the Rush ads aren’t using the products you’re talkiing about. They’re using GoToMyPC for remote PC access, with a few using GoToMeeting for conferencing. Citrix doesn’t advertise XenApp on Rush Limbaugh :P


85 posted on 03/03/2012 10:03:24 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Sponsors can drop all they want. I have a feeling that Rush’s numbers are going to skyrocket in the next few weeks.


86 posted on 03/03/2012 10:04:25 AM PST by chemicalman (The more support I see,the harder I want to work,and the more determined I am not to let folks down.)
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To: Boogieman
If that is the case and I have no reason to doubt you, then Citrix is stupid if they're cutting off ads that reach a large audience for a consumer product.

I don't remember any ads like that on rush but I tend to tune out ads if at all possible.

Maybe they can make up the difference by buying ad time on Current TV. I'm sure their viewership is in the tens of tens.

87 posted on 03/03/2012 10:09:19 AM PST by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“I use GoToMyPC every day. Is there an alternative application I can subscribe to?”
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WebEx http://www.webex.com/ and yuuguu https://www.yuuguu.com/s/home are a couple that would be good. There are others including free ones. Once you switch and have just a little experience, I’m sure you’ll be very happy — both with the software and to have escaped another bastion of political correctness and a home of “useful idiots” and will never want to go back.


88 posted on 03/03/2012 10:13:35 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Apparently the folks at Citrix are idiots. As they said today, their “ core values Citrix has always stood for – humility, integrity and respect.”

Ok, humility and respect. Yeah, that’s a good match for an irreverently humorous political show like Rush’s. Great decision making Citrix.

What a croc...


89 posted on 03/03/2012 10:13:39 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: SunkenCiv
Everyone here needs to go to these websites and post the facts about Ms. Fluke and the fact that she intentionally ignored the Georgetown policies after she had fully informed herself of them, because she wanted to create this issue.

Conservatives need to fight back just as the Democrats are doing0--except by telling the truth rather than lies and personal attacks. Flood the internet with the truth!!!!
90 posted on 03/03/2012 10:16:12 AM PST by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Fine, I’ll focus solely on ESXi then. Screw citrix. ;)


91 posted on 03/03/2012 10:21:07 AM PST by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Google “concert oh!”. That’s their public product, but they also have one for businesses (forget the name of that right now....)


92 posted on 03/03/2012 10:22:24 AM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Looks like Carbonite is getting nervous also...

http://www.carbonite.com/en/blog/A-Message-from-Carbonite-CEO-David-Friend-Regarding-Ads-on-Limbaugh


93 posted on 03/03/2012 10:24:12 AM PST by 2ndamendmentpa
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To: fish hawk
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"Go To Meeting" is a great product ...


Several of us at Free Republic (including me) have criticized Rush over the last few months about being a "Slave to Greed" ...

Rush needs to begin his Monday show with a "Surrender ? We Haven't Yet begun to Fight" ... or a simple yet elegant "NUTS !!!"



Show those Liberal SOBs that you "still" have that "Gladiator Spirit" Rush ... including the silver-spooned GOP E-RINO carpet baggers ...

Post a huge "NUTS !!!" message at the EIB Website ...

Stength and Honor !



Patton-at-Bastogne



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94 posted on 03/03/2012 10:28:24 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: rarestia
Citrix has gone downhill. Their bloated software doesn’t help anyone anymore. VPN rules the roost.

In "the enterprise," Citrix still rules: At least where MS Terminal Services are used. However that may be changing in the future, especially with VMware's View PCoverIP virtualization. We're in the process of moving in that direction. We still have 120 terminal services servers, but we're moving our corporate HQ to a fully virtualized architecture to start, and possibly replace all 5500 or so workstations in the field as well.

Mark

95 posted on 03/03/2012 10:35:37 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: All; Matchett-PI; mickie; flaglady47
Read the linked letter in comment # 93. Have a barf bag (a pink one) at the ready.

We are really progressing to a nation of wussified, feminized men. And they're supposed to be "captains of industry".

More like junior-grade camp followers.

Leni

96 posted on 03/03/2012 10:38:12 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: mupcat
Not sure about the others, but I haven't heard Snapple advertise on his program for years.

Snapple gained a huge market while advertising on Rush's show. However, sometime after they were bought out by a mega-corp (Quaker Oats, I believe) they dropped Rush. And the quality of their drinks really dropped. Quit using real sugar, and I stopped drinking their products (I used to really LOVE their peach iced tea). I now see them touting how they use "real sugar" now, and use "the best stuff on earth," but I don't know if I'll ever go back to their products. I just buy 52oz fresh brewed iced tea at Quik Trip.

Mark

97 posted on 03/03/2012 10:48:13 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Lx

Heehee. Too bad their target audience there uses Macs, which I’m pretty sure has built-in VPN support.


98 posted on 03/03/2012 10:48:46 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Las Vegas Ron; Matchett-PI; Sudetenland

Thanks!


99 posted on 03/03/2012 10:54:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: ronnie raygun
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Rush ...

Strength and Honor ...


Gen. Patton's Greatest Speech

General McAuliffe's "NUTS !" reply to the Germans at Bastogne



Waterloo -- Netflix Classic Version


Waterloo -- Netflix Classic Version -- Trailer


Napoleon and Wellington review their Troops


Wellington's Disasterous Calvary Charge against Napoleon's Massed Artillery


Napoleon's Final Calvary Charge against the English Infantry Squares




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100 posted on 03/03/2012 11:04:59 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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