Rush Limbaugh has finally jumped the shark - advertisers abandoning him

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Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

Clear Channel is owned by Bain Capital; guess that's why Mitt Romney issued a "non-denouncing denouncement" of Rush.


Ocala Mike

I know. Funny nobody has picked up on that one

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Originally Posted by Riot

I know. Funny nobody has picked up on that one

Stewart last nite...comments from the big 3 repuke contenders about Rush, what you might expect...and does a roast of Rush...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-epi...-shaun-donovan

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ABout time.

The steady stream of advertisers fleeing Rush Limbaugh's radio show continued on Monday and Tuesday, as a barrage of new companies announced they would no longer run commercials on the program in the wake of Limbaugh's offensive comments about Sandra Fluke.

On Monday night, makeup company Bare Escentuals told its Twitter followers that it was pulling its ads:

So did the Sensa Weight Loss company:

And, earlier on Monday, vitamin site Vitacost made the same announcement:

On Tuesday, Think Progress listed five additional companies who have vacated the show: AccuQuote, ServiceMagic, Polycom, Hadeed Carpet and Thompson Creek Windows.

The businesses join many others (including AOL, parent company of The Huffington Post) in ending their association with Limbaugh's show.

Two radio stations have also dropped the program in the wake of Limbaugh's comments about Fluke.

UPDATE: On Tuesday afternoon, ThinkProgress listed nine other companies that have pulled out from Limbaugh's show, or moved to make sure that their ads do not air during the program. Those companies are stamps.com, Deere & Co., Geico, St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Connecticut, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Cascades Dental, Allstate, Sears and men's retailer Bonobos.

Geico issued a very strong statement on Tuesday, emphasizing that it has repeatedly instructed partners not to run its ads during Limbaugh's program. It threatened to completely withdraw from the radio network unless its ads are removed from the show [one of it's ads ran Monday on Rush's show]

JC Penney also announced on Twitter that it would ensure that its commercials were not aired on Limbaugh's show.

All the above at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1323358.html

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Gene Weingarten :

Greetings, update readers.

Were you as gratified as I was when Rush Limbaugh finally admitted on the air yesterday that he has gotten rich and famous by “pandering to the prejudices and insecurities of marginally literate, unfathomably ignorant jackasses who have to be told what to hate”?

Etc.... it gets better!

http://live.washingtonpost.com/gene-...6.html?hpid=z5

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Originally Posted by Riot

Gene Weingarten :



Etc.... it gets better!

http://live.washingtonpost.com/gene-...6.html?hpid=z5

ROR..

.” That final reference was to a 2006 contretemps in which he was detained at an airport for carrying 29 100-mg Viagra pills in a mislabeled bottle. Yesterday, Limbaugh admitted this was enough Viagra “to arouse a corpse” but noted that he needs the extra stimulation since “the only woman I ever found truly sexy was my mommy, circa 1978.”

Can't really fault Rush for calling that girl a slut. He was told she was a Georgetown "Hoya" and, as we all know, he's a little hard of hearing.
(Plus, with all that Viagra, a little hard - period.)




Ocala Mike

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Is Ms. Fluke Catholic?

I heard a nasty rumor she attended Georgetown for no other reason than to change their policy regarding contraception.