Posted on 04/20/2012 5:54:00 AM PDT by IbJensen
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is attempting, once again, to do what no other group has been able to accomplish — get radio giant Rush Limbaugh off the air.
On Thursday, the women’s advocacy group announced a renewed protest campaign —”Enough Rush” — to bring Limbaugh down.
“He is going to be whining and calling us out about his First Amendment rights” Terry O’Neill, president of NOW, told The Daily Caller about how she expects Limbaugh to react to their campaign. “There is nothing in the Constitution that says Rush Limbaugh gets $38 million a year for being on a radio show.”
The group, which Limbaugh often jokingly refers to as the NAGs (“National Organization of Gals”), is rallying their chapters for a day of protest on May 18th.
Brian Glicklich, Limbaugh’s spokesman, told TheDC that his audience will not be driven away by the group’s efforts.
“Every organization that has tried to censor Rush Limbaugh has failed because his audience won’t stand for being told by agenda-driven activists what speech is acceptable,” Glicklich explained. “NOW has been attempting to silence ideas they dislike for a long time; this is nothing new, and has no more integrity or honesty today than ever.”
While Limbaugh has weathered many campaigns to silence him, NOW hopes to accomplish the thus-far Sisyphean task by bringing their frustrations to local stations and advertisers.
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“Different chapters are going to be doing different things. You might see some chapters picketing a local radio station,” O’Neill said. “But I think mostly what the chapters are doing is finding the local advertisers that advertise at the local level during the Rush Limbaugh Show and urging them to think twice about where they put their money.”
Glicklich noted that NOW is using the campaign to raise money.
“It’s instructive and telling that NOW added a ‘donate’ button to their website to ‘support their campaign,’” Glicklich pointed out, adding that “they have a store, too. Selling T-shirts.”
Indeed, many other campaigns against Limbaugh have failed, but O’Neill believes NOW’s effort has the potential for success, especially in the wake of Limbaugh’s comments about Georgetown Law student and contraception advocate Sandra Fluke.
“He spent three days not only attacking [Fluke] personally, but doing so in a way that was actually threatening,” O’Neill explained. “When he demanded to see video tape of her having sex, that crosses the line into fantasizing about pornography and violence. So this latest is very different.
“Now he says he has weathered the storm and we’ll just have to see if he is right. I don’t think he has,” she added. “I think it is definitely a long-term project but his brand of hate, I think, A) Has finally gone too far and B) I think the American people are really just not interested in that anymore.”
Limbaugh has apologized for his comments about Fluke.
O’Neill added that she expects push back from Limbaugh on his show
Don’t these women realize how stupid this makes them look? Even liberals know that a radio has an off switch. Even I know how to turn off the TV when obummer or his mooch wife appear on it. Who do they think they are to deprive the 20 million who want to listen to Rush that opportunity? Are they going to try to take apple jelly (for instance) off the market because they don’t like that? Give me an break.
“He is going to be whining and calling us out about his First Amendment rights” Terry O’Neill, president of NOW, told The Daily Caller about how she expects Limbaugh to react to their campaign. “There is nothing in the Constitution that says Rush Limbaugh gets $38 million a year for being on a radio show.”
There’s nothing in the Constitution that says Rush can’t either Terry, just like there’s nothing in the Constitution that says you can’t be a whiny, bitter, unattractive head of a feminist organization.
How stupid can one get?
Well they are kinda fond of girl on girl sex too.
This gibbering idiot cancels out my vote. Sickening.
Indeed. He will remind the audience of the great orange juice boycott of 1994. NOW would demonstrate in front of a grocer and Rush fans would go in and buy out the entire inventory of OJ. One of the more spectacular boycott failures in history!
The new effort will be just as successful. Every station manager and ad exec knows about the Rush sponsors that pulled their support, were denied reentry and were replaced.
They don’t get it.
Everything they do helps Rush become stronger.
GO RUSH!
The real women hating swine, Stewart, Colbert, Maher etc., don’t
seem to be noticed. Go figure.
They going to beat him to death with their dildoes????????????
“O’Neill added that she expects push back from Limbaugh on his show.”
Since that’s the only way she’ll reach an audience, she can dream on.
What a pack of girly girls! They release their stupid press releases while Rush is on vacation!
Rush cannot be brought down by plucking a weak-kneed advertiser here and there. With close to 20 million listeners, advertisers will always be available to his show.
The libs have to figure out a way to stop us from listening to Rush, and that would probably require a world in which there were no more liberals.
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