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Attack by Limbaugh Awakens a ‘Stop Rush’ Campaign
NYT ^ | 3/2/12 | BRIAN STELTER

Posted on 03/03/2012 10:37:06 PM PST by Nachum

Actually, they are remobilizing. A Twitter account, “Stop Rush,” which has been dormant since late 2010, woke up on Wednesday, when Mr. Limbaugh first called the student, Sandra Fluke, a “slut.”

On Friday, as complaints from “Stop Rush” and others about Mr. Limbaugh’s comments mounted, a handful of companies said that they had halted their advertising on “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” at least temporarily.

One of the companies, Quicken Loans, wrote on Twitter, “Due to continued inflammatory comments — along with valuable feedback from clients and team members — QL has suspended ads on Rush Limbaugh program.”

Two mattress companies, Sleep Train and Sleep Number, made similar statements on Friday. A representative of Sleep Number wrote on Twitter, “Recent comments by Rush Limbaugh do not align w/ our values, so we made decision to immediately suspend all advertising on that program.”

Mr. Limbaugh’s comments on Wednesday about Ms. Fluke, who had testified in support of the Obama administration’s requirement that health insurance plans cover contraceptives for women, were immediately noticed by Media Matters, a liberal media monitoring group that has been raising red flags about Mr. Limbaugh’s language for years.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: achillwind; awakens; campaign; dncbrownshirts; limbaugh; mediamatters; nyt; rushsponsors; sandrafluke; sandytheslut; slut; sorosslut
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To: chris37

“I’m worried that this may be the beginning of the end for Rush.”

I believe he’s survived worse. Would hate to think that a lesbian feminazi would do him in.


61 posted on 03/04/2012 3:48:27 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Don't blame me; I voted for the American.)
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To: kcvl

That is a doctored photo. He is not that fat. Why can’t your argument stand on it’s strengths, without resorting to this sort of misinformation?


62 posted on 03/04/2012 4:11:54 AM PST by Figure11 (There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't know whether he believes in it or not.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The problem with RUSH’s apology is that it deflates his entire argument over the last week. The standing up. The pushing back. The not backing down.

In the end he was forced to apologize by the same “slut” he called absurd.

His apology is absurd ( I know it’s business ) but I always thought RUSH was bigger than that


63 posted on 03/04/2012 4:33:50 AM PST by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: Gene Eric
Let’s get some Bill Maher noise in front of this “journalist”.

Bill Maher Calls Sarah Palin A Very Bad Word (Hint: It Rhymes With Blunt)

64 posted on 03/04/2012 5:07:01 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: All

Wanna fight back. Renew your subscription the the ‘Linbaugh Letter’ and buy one for a friend.


65 posted on 03/04/2012 5:09:22 AM PST by LkRonkguy ((Truth, Justice and the American Way!))
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To: Nachum

The left wants Rush gone.

And since conservatives never fight back, they might get their wish.


66 posted on 03/04/2012 5:13:56 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: wilco200

Don’t underestimate Rush Limbaugh.

The most disturbing fact about this whole thing is how many FReepers are so quick to throw him under the bus.


67 posted on 03/04/2012 5:15:58 AM PST by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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To: panaxanax
The most disturbing fact about this whole thing is how many FReepers are so quick to throw him under the bus.

Didn't you hear? Knee-jerk BS is the proper way to respond to all situations on FR these days. Analysis is for old fogies.

68 posted on 03/04/2012 5:18:22 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Tzimisce; Deb; C. Edmund Wright; nathanbedford
And since conservatives never fight back, they might get their wish.

It is well past time to change that!

                                                "I am Breitbart!"

69 posted on 03/04/2012 5:21:05 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Future Snake Eater

-——Knee-jerk BS-—

It is consensus by another name. It is cool to post that which agrees. It costs no effort or thought. It is feel good


70 posted on 03/04/2012 5:25:39 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Nachum

When will these people start getting violent? Obviously, they learned their tactics from the Islamists.


71 posted on 03/04/2012 5:30:25 AM PST by westmichman ( "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abho)
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To: westmichman

Just changing my tagline cause the Thomas Jefferson quote: “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” — Thomas Jefferson didn’t fit.


72 posted on 03/04/2012 5:41:37 AM PST by westmichman ( To Dems and leftist media, TRUTH is HATE SPEECH)
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To: D-fendr; TigersEye

Both of you got me thinking about back-up, too.

For Windows users, here’s info on backing up files (I wasn’t sure about the process, but you might be):
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/backupdata.aspx?WT.rss_f=At%20Home%20RSS&WT.rss_a=How%20to%20back%20up%20files%20and%20recover%20data&WT.rss_ev=a

Microsoft also has a free online storage and sharing called SkyDrive:
http://explore.live.com/skydrive


73 posted on 03/04/2012 5:48:34 AM PST by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: Nachum

Introduction

Law. Organizer of StopBeck effort. Sassy.

In short: “I am madness maddened!”

Statements expressed here are mine and mine alone.

Bragging rights

See: http://StopBeck.com

Employment

Media Matters for America

Director of Online Strategy, 2011 - present

Media Matters for America

Campaign Director, 2010 - 2011

Education

University of Wisconsin Law School

Fordham University

https://plus.google.com/117168899288776276360#117168899288776276360/about

Gender

Male


74 posted on 03/04/2012 5:50:26 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Obama would not be President if the media did their damn job..this is what we have to fix, the damn media, because even though many say they dont believe a word that comes out of the media’s mouth they do, they say they don't but they do...

The problem goes deeper than that...where does the media get their marxist ideology? Who trained them?

Public schools...it starts in elementary school, and continues right through college. Strike the root.

75 posted on 03/04/2012 5:52:19 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: wilco200
Actually they are not buying the apology Rush is selling...

RT @StopRush: I think this attempt at damage control labelled as an apology actually makes things worse. Retweeted by Angelo Carusone

Which if Rush is reading this thread I hope he is realizing he and his sponsors got propagandized!

76 posted on 03/04/2012 5:56:30 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: kcvl

Brian looks like a fat, sassy Lesbian.


77 posted on 03/04/2012 6:01:22 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: EBH

Rush knows better. Apologizing, in any way, is just putting blood in the water for the liberal sharks. He’ll attack in a different direction starting tomorrow.


78 posted on 03/04/2012 6:02:30 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: I see my hands

BOOM


79 posted on 03/04/2012 6:03:39 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: DemforBush

Rush did not step in it. Rush exposed their lies and did it in an entertaining way. The left is making this all about Rush but the public has now learned the Fluke is a Fraud and a Flake and the Left set this up to help the Red Diaper Commie Muslim Illegal Allien in the White Hut get women’s votes. Don’t forget how that the Saul Alinsky tactice of presenting a false anecodate to advane a cause has failed and failed miserably.


80 posted on 03/04/2012 6:04:29 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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