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Tally Of Advertisers In Rush Limbaugh Exodus Climbs To 20
Business Insider ^ | 03/06/2012 | Laura Stampler

Posted on 03/06/2012 12:28:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: rimtop56

Sears and Netflix said they don’t advertise on Rushs’ show.....why are people cancelling service with them?


121 posted on 03/06/2012 2:25:09 PM PST by Jrabbit
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To: Domandred
You would think that a high-profile show such as Rush's would require iron-clad, long-term contracts from its advertisers.

How can an advertiser just "up and quit?"

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, unless they're pulling their advertising but are still legally obligated to pay for the balance of their contractual period.

BTW, I can't even cancel my Carbonite service until November; I'm "under contract."

122 posted on 03/06/2012 2:26:33 PM PST by daler
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To: Jrabbit

Spray and pray...woo-hoo! s/


123 posted on 03/06/2012 2:27:44 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Jrabbit

RE: Sears and Netflix said they don’t advertise on Rush’s show.....why are people cancelling service with them?

Well, if Sears and Netflix start to lose significant business because conservatives are cancelling service with them, can they SUE MEDIA MATTERS for putting their names on their list when they don’t in fact advertise on Rush’s show?


124 posted on 03/06/2012 2:28:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind (question)
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To: JediJones
Yeah, to me this is a sign that the left is very organized and was ready to mobilize quick to campaign to those advertisers. Why does it not seem like our side is organized enough to respond in kind?

Because they've been sitting on ready to pounce on Limbaugh the first chance they got. I believe the MSM has been working with the Obama administration for months on this, to be ready when Obama came out with the HHS mandate, and picked his fight with the Catholic Church.

And this is something to mention, if we contact any of these companies. The woman who made her statements to the Democrats, because it wasn't a Congressional hearing, began attending Georgetown only a couple of months ago, and went to the school expressly to start agitating against their policy NOT to provide contraception to students through their health insurance plan. She is a Reproductive Rights Activist, and that is the group for which she was making her statement the other day. She is trying to force Georgetown to provide contraceptives, and so is thrilled about the HHS mandate.

125 posted on 03/06/2012 2:28:39 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: itssme
I don't know the numbers count on the enemy out there, but they are organized and they work like beavers.

Sandra Fluke and her friends are certainly working like beavers. Or just working their beavers. Or....whatever.
126 posted on 03/06/2012 2:34:25 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: fullchroma

I called Netflix. The representative indicated that they were receiving customer feedback before making a decision. I indicated that if Netflix did cancel their adverts on Rush, I would cancel Netflix.
Seriously, I have never heard a Netflix ad during Rush, but I listen to Rush while in and out of the car.


127 posted on 03/06/2012 2:34:45 PM PST by texteacher
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To: texteacher; All

Companies like Netflix and Sears are in a no-win situation here.

With both sides threatening companies who either advertise or pull their advertisement, I am not sure how companies like these should react.

All I can say is the solution to speech you don’t like is not to stifle the other side with threats but to AIR MORE SPEECH.

In a free country, you fight speech with more speech, not threats.


128 posted on 03/06/2012 2:39:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind (question)
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To: SeekAndFind

I received an email from Shari’s Berries today. Below is my reply.

Dear Shari’s Berries-

Thank you for the offer to purchase your berries at a reduced price. However, rather than buying things for myself, I now demand companies provide me their products at no cost. Please send me one dozen of your gormet fancy berries each month free of charge. You can simply have your other customers foot the bill.

Since you ended your advertising relationship with the Excellence in Broadcasting Network to show your support for a woman making similar demands, I’m certain you’ll jump at the chance to provide me with this free benefit.

Warmest regards,

mt. shavano


129 posted on 03/06/2012 2:51:43 PM PST by mt. shavano
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The nicest thing to see is the price of stock for all publicly traded companies prior to dropping Rush and after dropping Rush.

Weekly updates would be nice too.

The same thing goes for the radio stations - per share of the listening market before and after.

IMHO the resulting numbers would clearly make the case that any company wanting to succeed must advertise on conservative shows to achieve and maintain any kind of market share.

130 posted on 03/06/2012 2:53:50 PM PST by Nip (TANSTAAFL and BOHICA)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then we should support him!!


131 posted on 03/06/2012 3:01:38 PM PST by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: Jedidah

It is time to take a stand for Rush, conservatism, America and free speech. Mostly what is ticking off is all the crap the left spews and the same losers attack Rush for one comments. Hypocritical idiots.
Mike Malloy just insulted tornado victims. So I send some of his advertisers a word about it.


132 posted on 03/06/2012 3:06:47 PM PST by Mozilla (Defeat Romney first then defeat Obama)
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To: dforest

I just had a long conversation with a Netflix customer service rep. Her initial canned response was that Netflix doesn’t advertise with Rush in the first place, because their policy is to stay politically neutral in all things (including ad placements). I told her I was looking right at a Media Matters webpage which claimed that Netflix had dropped Rush just today - and shouldn’t they be concerned about such blatant misstatements about their company? I further told her that it was starting to go viral all over the internet that Netflix has dropped Rush, and that 20 million Rush listeners would be canceling the instant they heard this. She told me they’d been blasted with calls since yesterday (mostly asking them to “stand with women,”) and that their PR people were working up an answer to make public. She repeated that Netflix was very neutral politically and I responded that if they keep it that way in their response to the public this would all blow over for them. If not...have a look at Carbonite’s stock price today for a glimpse of the future.

Conversation over, right? Wrong. She then said that as a woman she really had a problem with what Rush had said! I explained how this whole thing was a set-up and I walked her through every bit of the timeline, starting with Obama’s dictatorial “healthcare” mandate to religious organizations, followed by the fake “hearing” featuring the Leftist activist, Ms. Fluke, and concluding with the manufactured “firestorm” with which we’re all now embroiled. She argued with me (nicely - and I was nice too) every step of the way that this was all about women’s health. I took the last word by pointing out that for a huge bulk of their customers, the issue was First Amendment freedoms and the (still) largely conservative principals of this country - which means, for Netflix...this is really about customer retention.

In the course of our conversation, she gave me the email to their PR department: pr@netflix.com. Contact them.

It’s surreal to be having conversations like this with vendors. It really is...


133 posted on 03/06/2012 3:18:17 PM PST by SicktoDeathofLibs
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To: SeekAndFind

And the tally of lost money spent on those avertisers probably exceeds $200 million.


134 posted on 03/06/2012 3:25:38 PM PST by CodeToad (NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!)
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To: SicktoDeathofLibs
Sent an e-mail.....

Probably useless....

135 posted on 03/06/2012 3:28:28 PM PST by Osage Orange (Why do we eat Soylindra Green?)
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To: mt. shavano

Ha!!


136 posted on 03/06/2012 3:30:37 PM PST by Osage Orange (Why do we eat Soylindra Green?)
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To: mtnwmn

Like DropSponsorsWhoDroppedRushLimbaugh on facebook


137 posted on 03/06/2012 3:34:24 PM PST by JTHomes (Free markets now!)
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To: mt. shavano

Just e-mailed them..................


138 posted on 03/06/2012 3:35:51 PM PST by Osage Orange (Why do we eat Soylindra Green?)
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To: SeekAndFind

BTTT


139 posted on 03/06/2012 3:37:11 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
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To: SicktoDeathofLibs

Here’s my letter to Netflix...

Subject: Stand with Rush

Dear Netflix,

It is disgraceful to hear about companies abandoning their advertising to Rush Limbaugh customers over one incident of him using language that was offensive to some, which he later apologized for. Rush was trying to use exaggeration to illustrate an important point. He was not trying to directly insult anyone. I am not even a regular Rush listener, but he is one person among many who is trying to fight to preserve our constitutional rights and freedoms against an increasingly oppressive and power-hungry government. Politicians in Washington D.C. have for far too long been nurturing an “entitlement culture” based on giving “free stuff” to people, especially to specific demographic groups that they want to get votes from. This cycle of corruption is driving our country deeply into debt and leading us closer to a grave economic collapse, the kind that Europe has recently proven modern, Western countries are not immune to.

If your company was going to be proactive about something, I wish it would be about a vital issue our country is facing that can affect all of our daily lives, not about one broadcaster making a clumsy verbal gaffe. The “entitlement culture” that is now being expanded into the realm of contraception is one of those vital issues. There is no legitimate reason that my money should have to go to support someone else’s contraception if I don’t use it or believe in it, whether is is through my taxes or my insurance premiums. There is likewise no legitimate reason that if I own a company or organization that I should be required to provide contraception free of charge to my customers. The government should not have the right to force companies to provide whatever benefits they demand, particularly when the item in question is used as part of a lifestyle that some of us choose not to participate in at all. This is a clear-cut case of the government trying to take away my right to buy the kind of insurance that I want. And I am far more concerned about my rights and my money being taken away by the government then by one man using a word that I never would have heard in the first place if I didn’t listen to his show and no one mentioned it.

I am currently seeking information as to which companies have stopped advertising on Rush’s show over this incident. I will not do business with any companies that have done so unless and until they reinstate the advertising.

Thank you.


140 posted on 03/06/2012 3:52:06 PM PST by JediJones (The Divided States of Obama's Declaration of Dependence: Death, Taxes and the Pursuit of Crappiness)
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