Posted on 03/05/2012 6:46:44 AM PST by mandaladon
Emboldened by Rush Limbaugh’s public apology over the weekend to a law school student whom he had called a “slut” and a “prostitute,” critics of the radio talk show host are intensifying their online campaign against his advertisers. he apology, they said, was a signal that the campaign was working. On Sunday, a seventh company, ProFlowers, said that it was suspending all of its advertising on “The Rush Limbaugh Show” despite his apologetic statement a day earlier.
For now, the ad boycott is uncomfortable but not crippling for Mr. Limbaugh, who is estimated to make $50 million a year and whose program is a profit center for Premiere Radio Networks, the company that syndicates it. The program makes money both through ads and through fees paid by local radio stations, and while it often has sparked outrage during more than two decades on the air, efforts at ad boycotts in the past have had no measurable effect. Liberal groups and activists, however, hope that this time is different.
Mr. Limbaugh has been roundly criticized for talking at length about the sex life of Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who testified in support of the Obama administration’s requirement that health insurance plans cover contraceptives for women. For three straight days he lambasted her, before saying in a statement Saturday afternoon that he did not intend to attack her personally. “I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation,” he said.
By the time he apologized, online protesters had been organizing for days on social networking Web sites and liberal hubs like Daily Kos. They called on companies like ProFlowers to remove their ads from “The Rush Limbaugh Show” and appeared to be having some success, as companies like Sleep Train said they had suspended advertising.
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do they still advertise with him???
I will not purchase any of the products from any company doing this. Besides, it’s a double edged sword for them.
They need revenue
Advertisers on a show like Rush realize a 2-3 times return on their investment over other shows.
In particular, Rush listeners are extremely loyal and have two certain “sickness” that results in not just a first but spend but additional buys from Rush advertisers.
Win- win for everyone
Or
Lose-Lose for Rush and the advertisers as the consumer has choices. the advertisers half to penetrate market share and steer potential customers to them or find their market share eroded by other choices and their revenue reduced.
Many disturbing current events. Breitbart’s strange death, strange mail at Limbaugh house, etc. It looks like an action plan is in the works.
Suhks to b u huh?
Another thing:
I don’t think the advertisers realize that while advertising is played across a 9 hour span, much of that listener ship begins their radio time with Rush, continues to Hannity and ends with Levin.
The listener doesn’t have to forget the advertisers as they continue with the other programs.
She’s studying law, so she carefully weasel-worded her comments, as many lawyers do. But she’s no saint, and when you stick up for her, you do the left’s work for them. When the left begins to care as much about what people call Laura Ingraham and Sarah Palin (among others) as they do about this trollop, then I might look at things differently.
“Rush screwed up big time...this may bring him down and he has no one to blame but himself”
Exactly. He created this controversy to gin up his ratings and it backfired. He is turning out to be the better for Obama than the MSM. Republicans need someone on the left to help us the way Rush is helping Obama.
One guy that must be smiling is Mitch Daniels. Rush issued a slash and burn attack on this good man when he dared to say that Republicans need to focus on the economy and not be distracted to social issues by “talk radio hosts”. Well we now know he was right.
Fluke is just Dem prop ,how long before stories start coming out that she’s gay
I never said Rush didn’t make a mistake. In fact, I agree he did, but I think apologizing is a mistake in that it has made it worse.
But again, you miss the big picture. You are technically correct on the free speech issue, but you are missing the point of gangster government and their Soros led businesses using their influence to have a chilling effect on free speech.
And the other issue is PC and the double standard, shown here by Carbonite advertising on The Ed Show months after he called Laura Ingraham a right wing slut.
Now last time I checked, Laura was not asking me to pay for her rubbers because she was screwing so many men.
And the last issue is that by jumping on to the “yes Rush should have apologized” you are probably piling on. I don’t think even Rush wants his fans to “agree” with the apology.
Funny. When her photo was posted, lots of FR members immediately jumped to that conclusion.
Check her educational and volunteer background: Cornell? Degree was in Policy Analysis & Management and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She was active in abortion protests and "efforts to recruit other womens’ rights activists to campus."
She started showing up at pro-choice rallies to protest as a member/officer of Cornell's Students Acting for Gender Equality. At one event, she was quoted in the Cornell newspaper as saying: “[w]e feel that the information [Cornell Coalition for Life] has out is reactionary, and it’s not based on giving people information about their choices, but manipulating their emotions."
At Georgetown, she's on the Journal of Gender and the Law, Students for Reproductive Justice (abortion!), and the Women's Legal Alliance.
That public-service summer internship she spoke about before the Democrats in Congress was as the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.
Most of the time on FR, if you saw all of that heavily feminist stuff, and being on all of the women's groups, people would shout "lesbian!"
And they did, until Rush Limbaugh got in trouble for making up these things about Fluke claiming she was having lots of sex.
Now everyone is convinced Fluke is heterosexual and a slut because Rush said so, or it supports Rush.
I think the jury on whether Sandra Fluke is a lesbian is out. Way out.
I haven't listened to Rush much since Bill Clinton left the White House (nor have I been frequenting FreeRepublic much). But I have spent virtually every Tuesday and Thursday night since Oct 2007 listening to and participating in what has become the town hall-style meetings of a new political party.
The flurry of activity to support Rush reminds me of the conservative support that poured in for Republican candidate Scott Brown. My fellow FReepers, I urge you to stop supporting 'the lesser of two evils', and instead raise up a much better standard. Obama was a disastrous choice for President. But he is not the problem. The problem is us. Why did we allow the Republican Party to accompany the Democratic Party into growing the big government in so many blatant unconstitutional ways?
There is plenty of time to raise up a better choice for President, better choices for every House seat, and for the many open Senate seats in 2012. To do so will require millions of God-fearing, truth-loving, Constitution-defending Americans to be a bit more engaged than they've become comfortable doing up to this point, but it can be done. We can bypass the big money/big media influence by waging a multitude of 'front porch campaigns', with neighbors influencing neighbors.
The GOP points to Obama's plan to raise over a billion dollars for his campaign, and want you to send your money to them to counter that. My friends, if money was the answer, the billions of dollars that conservatives have already contributed would have solved the problem long ago. For a different approach, look at America's Party webpage -- "No Donations". The reason is that we want the national party to be the home of America's Principles, and we want a party structure that keeps those principles at the fore.
* America's Party link: selfgovernment.us
* Presidential candidate link: TomHoefling.com
That’s why I said it includes if you have to count on Clear Channel to exclusively distribute your product.
I’m sure that Clear Channel was one of the radio companies that was threatened if they report on the eligibility issue. Those threats went to both TV and radio, and Clear Channel is the big radio company. If Rush has a contract with Clear Channel that is tight enough that they CAN’T tell him what he can’t say, then it makes all the more sense that they’re going after Rush right now. With Breitbart dead just hours after he spoke with Sheriff Arpaio about Obama’ documents being forged, Rush is the big threat for them - the one big personality who could still report on what has been found by the law enforcement posse. All the others have been threatened into silence - as we can all observe readily. And that includes Glenn Beck if he’s basically an employee of Clear Channel (and I’m not sure what that arrangement is - if it differs from Rush because Rush is his own company, whereas Beck’s company is actually for TV rather than radio so the radio contract is an employee situation for Beck. Hopefully somebody can clarify that situation for me.)
What we’ve got here is truly a situation of “If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it does it still make a sound?” A great big tree has just fallen in Obama’s world, but as long as the media doesn’t let anybody hear about it, it may as well not have happened. Unless law enforcement hauls Obama away in handcuffs, but that’s what people like Reggie Love are there to stop...
For more info on how the Soros regime is dealing with the media and the media’s resultant fear, see the last post I just posted on this thread.
Yep. His remarks were indefensible, unless you really want to turn this country into some sort of gutter society.
Sure, the lib's have said worse, much worse. But two wrongs don't make a right. We conservatives are supposed to be the folks that defend and uphold traditional values.
this may bring him down
Only if Rush lets it happen. And I'm guessing that he won't. Rush is human, he made a mistake, and he recognizes that. Take the lumps, then move on. If Rush doesn't fold completely, this will all be forgotten in a month.
Too long and too unfocused, sorry. Just tell them what you’re doing and why.
Would you prefer a “gutter society” or one that has become so tied up in political correctness that free speech is almost completely stifled? Also please note that the civility rules are only applied to conservatives. Are you going to stand for this?
No it won't.
Rush is human, IF and I say if he made a mistake he is big enough to say he was wrong.
When Rush worked for the Kansas City Royal he was in charge of the opening ceremony. He walked to the pitchers mound with the dignitary who was going to throw out the first pitch. When he reached the mound he realized he did not have a baseball for the first pitch.
At that point he looked to the Royals dugout hopping that one of the players recognized his problem. The Royal's players did realize his problem, but baseball players being baseball players do have their own specail sense of humor.
As Rush told the story none of the 30 + Royals in the dugout would throw him a ball. Instead they threw bats, gloves, helmets, towels, masks, jackets, caps, water cups even the water cooler on the the field. They emptied the dugout, but not one baseball.
Rush knew that he would have to be the one to make the long walk to the Royal's dugout with 45,000 people in the stands looking on to retrieve a baseball.
I am not sure if Rush said it was his most embarrassing moment, but I would think it had to rank high on the list.
As I said Rush is not perfect, but he is right 98.6% of the time.
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