[Las Vegas Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2856794/posts

[ansel12]

I’m not pure business, but I know that some are.

To a true, detached businessman, losing the advertising on, and the resulting sales of the Rush show must be destroying some of them.

They aren’t principal driven, the sales losses must seem totally insane to them.

[WildWeasel]

Good for Rush.

Why should he take any advertiser back that left him? I hope all of the deserters pay dearly with lost sales and losses while the advertisers that stayed with Rush profit tremendously.

[veritas2002]

Her name is spelled Fucke...not Fluke

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Yet another company suffers the pains of incompetent leadership.

[trebb]

Mess with the bull - get the horns...

[atc23]

I did a little bt. I cancelled Netflix with a hand written letter mailed to customer service at their corporate HQ

[JPG]

Media Matters and the advertisers who bailed now know that it’s not a good idea to tug on Superman’s cape.

[stormhill]

The one overwhelming fact is that Limbaugh commands many millions of listeners. There is no evidence that any of them have stopped listening because of the kerfuffle with Sandra Fluke. Indeed, one suspects that Limbaugh has gained listeners

Get off it!
The audience has verifiably swelled.

We are the power they need to reckon with.

[6SJ7]

I guess this gambit by the Whitehouse Plumbers Group, aka Media Matters, didn’t quite play out the way they wanted. FUBO!

[WinOne4TheGipper]

One tends to prosper when one advertises on Limbaugh's show. But cross him, and one will suffer

This is key. I called the whole kerfuffle "stupid liberal tricks". Some hack researched Rush's sponsors and sent the list out to various left wing websites.
Members of those websites pretended to be customers or potential customers, upset that the companies advertised with Rush. In actuality, these people probably had never heard of the company until they saw the lists.
The companies, eager to please, but a little slow to pick up on stupid liberal tricks, promptly pulled their advertisements, to many hosannas from the very people whose only dealings with the company had been Facebook posts or individual tweets. There were many of us, though, that warned these companies that to back out of Rush's show was to permanently turn 20 million listeners, many of whom had actually used their services (or might have in the future) against them. Now they can't get back in the good graces of the conservatives that they spurned, and liberals don't really give a rat's ass about them. It kind of reminds me of the Dixie Chicks controversy.

[bboop]

My husband’s conjecture: there is some new Diversity Queen at Sleep (Whatever -— I’ve forgotten the brand already) who did this and who will soon be run out of town when the CEO finds out who it was.

[demkicker]

The list of companies that officially announced on Twitter, Facebook or in statements to other media outlets that they would stop advertising on the radio show include:

AccuQuote Life Insurance, Allstate Insurance, American Heart Association, AOL, Aquarium of the Pacific, Bare Escentuals, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Bonobos, Capital One, Carbonite, Cascades Dental, Citrix, Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, Constant Contact, Cunningham Security, Freedom Debt Relief, Geico, Girl Scouts, Goodwill Industries, Hadeed Carpet, JCPenney, Legal Zoom, Matrix Direct, Netflix, New York Lottery, Norway Savings Bank, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Philadelphia Orchestra, PolyCom, Portland Ovations, ProFlowers, Quicken Loans, Regal Assets, Reputation Rhino, RSVP Discount Beverage, Sears, Sensa, Service Magic, Sleep Train, Sleep Number, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Tax Resolution, Thompson Creek Windows, TurboTax and Vitacost.

And I was about to buy Carbonite. I will enjoy letting them know why I won’t.

[sirchtruth]

"Spurns"

These reporters are such prix! Limbaugh has done no such thing. In fact Rush wished ST "Good Luck" in his reply. It was a very cordial response. People who hate "good" even when they don't like something will never truly be happy in their lives because they can not be intellectually honest with themselves about reality!

Losers!

[reagan_fanatic]

Stupid, stupid move on the part of these companies. Spurning an audience that large makes no business sense at all.

[driftless2]

It would be interesting to know how many of Rush’s listeners quit him over the remarks. Anyone, like me, who has been listening to Rush for a long time knows that he occasionally strays and says something he regrets. He apologized for his unfortunate remarks concerning the sl....er female law student Ms. Flaky er... Sandra Fluke. I can’t believe Rush would lose that many students due some stupid b...er... woman who admitted that she’s promiscuous.

[Alberta's Child]

It would be overly generous to say that the companies that bailed on Rush Limbaugh were penny-wise and pound-foolish. At the end of the day, it turns out they weren't even penny-wise.

Dollar-for-dollar, radio advertising is probably the most effective advertising format for reaching prospective customers. Canceling your own ads over some kind of perceived "outrage" only works if the people who are allegedly outraged are actually your customers. With many of these so-called "right-wing radio" shows, the listeners tend to comprise the kind of demographic groups (middle-aged, high-income earners) advertisers covet. What kind of fool would tamper with that?

[Realman30]

Goodwill name is in the mix.??

They don't want items donated by Conservatives?

Gee.

What is their mission statement?

[Mad Dawgg]

"The dust up over Sleep Train, along with the blowback suffered by Carbonite over that company's public denunciation of Limbaugh, demonstrates that the iconic radio talk show host is dealing from a position of strength in the campaign to deprive him of advertisers. One tends to prosper when one advertises on Limbaugh's show. But cross him, and one will suffer.

Bottom Line: "Don't F**K With the DittoHeads, they are very loyal to Rush!"

Try to hurt Rush and "THEY" will gut you and watch you bleed-out!