Posted on 03/03/2012 8:43:31 PM PST by gaijin
Dale Carlsen was about 24 years old and had been merely selling mattresses, but finally Dale got frustrated and went into the biz for himself. He was coming up on having to make a payment on the loan for his new, tiny mattress company.
He didn't have much money, and this loan was at over 20% interest, ok?
Worse was that Dale had chosen the location of his first mattress store in gritty South Sacramento, near Sac State, alongside some train tracks, next to a flea market. He'd thought the flea market foot traffic would bring customers, but in fact flea market afficianados are not huge mattress spenders, right?
And in fact that first Sleep Train location had lots of drug dealers and SLUTS nearby --I'm serious.
So in fact young Dale was looking at a major business failure for his little struggling company. But next door to his little disheveled mattress dump was a pizza place, and that's where Dale, the CEO of the erstwhile tiny Sleep Train, Inc. would eat:
A drummer had taken time off from touring with his band to sell radio ads for KFBK, a Sacramento radio station, simply cuz his buddy worked there. So this drummer had gotten this gig as an, "Account Exec" and he would eat at the pizza place next to Dale's tiny, dumpy mattress store:
One day Dejected Dale is staring off into space over an oily pool in a piece of pepperoni, muttering about not being able to sell mattresses to sluts (a bit like that Georgetown feminazi from hell, except that these really were pro sluts). Meanwhile sitting next to him was Mr. Radio Account Exec, drumming his hands on the table, and he chirps back to Dale's, to cheer him up a bit, "Well there's a new guy at KFBK who just moved into town, and he needs a mattress..."
Dale goes, "OK well send him by..."
Maybe you have figured out that this guy who needed a mattress was Rush Limbaugh...?
OK well, poor fat Rush (who by that time had been fired 7 times and was 42 or so) waddles into Dale's place to buy his mattress for his tiny and empty apartment in none other than Rio Linda (which was the only place poor Rush could afford to live in Sacramento, at the time).
Rush bought a mattress, and being a natural salesman also convinced Dale to consider advertising on his show, on KFBK.
And Dale did exactly that, he took out ads on the show of fat, poor Rush Limbaugh, the unknown whose career would shoot skyward like a P51, and completely transform AM radio from an empty backwater for kooks and weather afficianados into a hotbed of politics and a, "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy".
And Rush turned on the charm, and talked up Dale's mattresses so much that they drove from miles and miles around, saying, "I want the same mattress Rush sleeps on..."
And so with that thunderclap of Rush-mediated publicity it turned out that Dale could make the payment on his +20% interest loan --he survived. And soon after he opened up a branch adjoining the parking lot of Rush's station, so intimate was the link between the growing success of each man.
And now Dale Carlsen has over 250 stores, in Sleep Train, making 1/3 of a billion dollars yearly.
But then something happened:
Dale fired Rush, the saleman extraordinaire, who'd saved Dale decades before.
Why?
--> Because Rush insulted dishonest feminist who thinks the government should pay for contraceptives. < --
>> IBTZ!!
An impressive achievement.
>> Rush had better not retreat on Monday.
Agreed. A few dimensions to this story and will probably take the week to sort out.
Easily the most rational and savvy post on the thread Jim.
He's protecting his life's work by throwing his defender of the American Dream under the bus and running him over several times? He deserves to lose it all if he is not willing to understand what is at stake here.
Rush Limbaugh for President in 2012!
The slut will be a perfect spokesperson for them. “When I pull a train, it’s on a sleep train” will go over well
That’s the kind of post we need. Action fellow FReepers. Man the phones this weekend.
Wow, that's harsh, MGM.
First, I'm a Rush supporter from waaayyyy, back, and I still am, and I somehow suspect (but do not know) that Carlsen still is, as well.
Rush erred, there is no other explanation; and, we conservatives know that we are responsible for our actions.
Rush is a tough guy, he'll get through this (especially now that he's not defending the remark.)
I predict that many, if not all of Rush's major advertisers will return to the fold, once the dust settles.
Nicely stated and seconded
If Rush had a record label behind him, calling women “sluts” would be encouraged.
>> I’d be much more sympathetic if Rush hadn’t thrown US under the bus today.
Rush did no such thing.
Limbaugh diffused an unessential component of the debate which is now unquestionably visible to every conscious citizen.
Also, understand the insult levied by someone who is willing to apologize is more meaningful than one issued by the habitual degenerate.
I have a feeling that Rush will be attending a:
BEER SUMMIT
Honorary Guests to include “DICK Van DYKE” and the Saul Alinsky Train Orchestra. Yikes - Would LOVE to be there with you Rushbo, but I have Sledge work to do with a load of boulders that day!
The MSM and leftists were backing “slutwalks” less than a year ago!!
Libs light up the phone lines any chance they get.
primary destroyers
He could change his name to BRushB and rap for a living
Didn’t even wait for Rush to “clarify”?
Oh good grief.
Nope. He betrayed everyone who supported his comments BEFORE he apologized
I agree, this can only help Rush’s credibility. If it had been me I might have been even more to the point and said sorry for calling Fluke personally a “slut” (as there is no data to support a conclusion that her own personal love life was conducted like an alley cat) — but made it plain that at the same time I still stood on my belief that Fluke is a sympathizer to sluts and a cheerleader for taxpayer funding of sluts.
Well, those people who supported the pre-apology comments were as far out on a limb as Rush. Shame on them for idolizing Rush.
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