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Rush is in trouble and what are we doing about it?

By: Ender (Diary)  |  March 4th, 2012 at 02:51 PM  | 

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There is a coordinated effort happening as we speak to destroy Rush Limbaugh. The Left is working overtime, contacting all of Rush’s advertisers, and is actually having considerable success. Proflowers and Carbonite are just the latest in this battle. But what are doing to help defend Rush???

I understood the point that Rush was trying to make, but thought it was not a good move overall. That doesn’t matter. We can all agree or disagree on the wisdom or the optics of the Fluke incident. It is NOT important. What is important is that Rush, who has been on our side for decades, and has helped the conservative cause immensely through this time is in a fight of his life against the organized Leftists hordes going after his income now, and no doubt his job. So whether we think it was a mistake or not, Rush does not deserve for us to just stand on the sidelines and do nothing as he is being assaulted non-stop.

These advertisers are only hearing from ONE side! The LEFT. That is the reason they are cutting and running. When you are suddenly swamped with angry, frothing at the mouth, Leftist mob, making thousands upon thousands of calls and disrupting your customer service, you tend to believe that the whole country is out to get you. Leftist nutcases are now even going after Armed Forces Radio, trying to get Rush off of there.

If the Left is the only side fighting this thing, there is a chance they will succeed. This drummed up false outrage is threatening one of the best friends the Conservative Movement has. And what are we doing about it? Why are we not coordinating efforts to contact these advertisers in support of Rush??? Let’s do it. Twitter and Facebook the information to your friends and relatives. Let’s fight back!

Here is where you can start and remember do not be angry, be polite, but try to make the case that Rush deserves their business as he’d been promoting them and giving them good business through his program for years upon years. We are outraged that at the first hint of pressure they dropped like cowards. Make the case that the people who are calling them against Rush were never really their customers, but are being egged on by a manufactured campaign from the Left – link them to diaries if you wish that buttresses your case

BREAKING-ER!!!: Second [THIRD...SIXTH/now SEVENTH!] sponsors drop Rush! Umpteen updates & Cee Lo!

Look what I just got from the president of Carbonite (Rush sponsor)

How to take action against Limbaugh at the local level

We’re not done yet: My letter to Proflowers.com about their support of Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh losing advertisers, keep up the good work!

Proflowers: Contact Form / Feedback email

Carbonite: 877-665-4466 (toll free) Corporate Headquarters

Sleep Train Mattresses: Email them at: customerservice@sleeptrain.com
Select Comfort Corporation, makers of the Sleep Number Bed – email them here or here is their contact page
Quicken Loans: Client Relations Phone # (800) 863-4332. Their contact page is here.
The Cleveland Cavaliers, NBA Basketball team on Twitter or Facebook
Citrix, makers of GoToMyPC: email address or customer service phone: 800-424-8749 (Mon-Fri)
LegalZoom.com : here is their contact page

Also, like I mentioned, there is a campaign directed at Secretary Panetta - Secretary Panetta, pull Limbaugh from Armed Forces Radio now - that should be answered as well. If you have any good ideas, please contribute them here.

 

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  • kowalski

    And I would also leave his advertisers alone, and just keep listening to his program and reporting in surveys that you listen to his program.

    Every so often someone on the radio says something they regret and have to apologize. It’s the listener base that determines the advertising. Some advertisers will walk away now, but maybe they’ll come back. He made a mistake and apologized for it.

    There’s no need to defend Rush Limbaugh in any other way than accepting that he made the mistake, made the apology, and just keep listening to his program. The share of listeners he has is ultimately more important. So just keep tuning in!

    If you want to support him, in other words, let him fight his own battles and don’t take it out on any skittish advertisers. Just keep listening to the program and accept the apology. Other advertisers will emerge.

    Those companies made their choices and they will decide again in a while. In the meantime there will be new companies that take their place.

    As far as my single objective comment on what he said goes, here it is. It was a regrettable statement and frankly a rare thing on his part. It was a self-induced error, a self-inflicted wound, and the President picked it right up. He won’t make that mistake again.

    • kowalski

      (As though he already didn’t) That the President’s people listen to every word he says. They’re in on every call. But protesting or boycotting his advertisers for having cold feet isn’t helpful. We don’t need any boycotts here. Just accept it take it for what it was and let it be.

      • Ender

        I am talking about supporting him. Sorry, I am not interested in accepting it. One can’t always stand alone. Those who support Rush should support him however they want, whether it is through action or through continued listening.We abandon our own to Left’s assaults too easily.

        • kowalski

          The decisions have been made. The way these things work is everyone goes away for a while, licks their wounds, waits until the controversy dies down, and then they make a decision again six months from now.

          People calling in from Redstate to beg advertisers not to leave the show will have NO effect whatsoever. They’ve made up their minds and they’re getting away from the controversy, and a few call-ins from people on the most Conservative blog in the United States aren’t going to change those decisions.

          They’ll change their minds in six months to a year, or maybe not. What is done is DONE. Limbaugh has felt the Claw. It’s a big Claw, and it cuts flesh very well.

      • Jack_Savage

        It friggin’ works both ways, and if those cowards still advertise on MSNBC, or Ed Schultz, and want to try and have it both ways it is absolutely our duty to pull our business from them

        • kowalski

          Every time someone ruffles their feathers or says something that crosses a line on Bill Maher’s radar, the Left organizes a boycott or a protest.

          We have to be bigger than that. Limbaugh isn’t calling for any and I’m not going to start one.

          These advertisers decided to pull their advertising. Some of it is temporary and maybe for a few of them it will be permanent, and new advertisers will take their place. But boycotting people who the day before were good vendors doesn’t help Rush Limbaugh, it doesn’t help the advertisers, and it doesn’t change the fact that Limbaugh made a regrettable statement that he’s apologized profusely for.

          I don’t do boycotts of good companies based on media kerfuffles that are fed by the Left and picked up by the President.

          “Oh, let’s not only penalize Limbaugh, let’s now make a big impact in the bottom line of the companies who got caught up in the crossfire.”

          No. That’s wrong! It’s extremely shortsighted! What you do is let them walk away, and then let them be replaced by others and/or come back according to their own judgment. You don’t penalize them for making what they have judged to be a sound decision.

          • kowalski

            Think about what it says to other advertisers who might take their place:

            “OK, Occasionally Limbaugh makes a statement that’s so inflammatory it’s picked up by the President and it leads us as a corporate entity to have to reconsider our advertising. It’s happened in the past. It just happened last week! It could happen again.

            And look at what happens when that takes place! The Conservatives join in the Leftists in boycotting those companies for advertising in the first place, even though they didn’t say the words or have anything to do with it.”

            Do you understand why the talk of any kinds of boycotts are stupid? It signals to future advertisers: “Well, you go here at your own risk. If you have to make a corporate decision to pull the advertising because of an unfortunate statement and the political climate, then you’ll get hammered twice. Better not advertise AT ALL with this guy.”

            Just say NO.

          • kowalski

            If you think you can convince a company to SPEND money on advertising on a controversial program with a contrversial host in the middle of a controversy by THREATENING them…

            …I don’t know what planet YOU live on but…

            …It is not the Earth…

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …and I will replace Carbonite with the first online replacement entity that advertises on Rush’s show!

  • http://MichaelHarrington.org creinstein

    He has the LARGEST radio audience in the world.

    I am going to boycott any companies that drop him for political purposes, and let them know… which will kill any thoughts of dropping him.

    Trust me, they will be back BEGGING Rush to take them back. BEGGING

    Liberals have tried for pretty much decades now to shut Rush down. Good luck with that Libs!

    • Ender

      But I certainly hope you are right. This is how it started with Beck, and of course Rush is in a far different league, but still. You give the Left an inch and they’ll try to steal the whole thing.

  • jazzycmk

    …and now he must slumber in it.

    Yes, we all know there is a double standard. We can point to the long list of insults hurled at Republican / Conservative women by the likes of Ed Schulz, Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, Keith O., etc. and rightly point out that there was a definite lack of righteous indignation by those in the media.

    But we can’t justify Rush’s bad behavior with other bad behavior.

    What Rush said was stupid. If nothing else, it was dumb simply from a strategic standpoint.

    Until Rush said what he said, no one was talking about Ms. Fluke from Georgetown. You know why? Her testimony in front of Pelosi’s committee was a loser for Dems. I think the majority of people listening to her whine about her $3,000 contraception bill were not going to give her much sympathy. I think most people were going to start questioning why we as John and Jane Q taxpayer are having to pick up this tab at all, much less whether religious institutions should have to do it if they object on moral grounds.

    But Rush snatched defeat from the jaws of victory (or at least a no-decision). He called the girl a slut. You’ve now turned her into Joan of Arc. She’s a martyr for the cause. We’ll probably see her at the Dem convention over the summer. And no one is talking about what she said. It’s all about what Rush called her.

    Already, Republicans were having to contend with the outright lies by the Dems and the media in this whole phony contraception debate. To listen to the media you would think that Republican and Catholic bogeymen are sneaking into women’s medicine cabinets and stealing their contraception. But it’s never been about the right to general access to contraception. It’s about whether a religious organization should be compelled to pay for it if it conflicts with their religious teaching.

    But thanks to Rush, the story has been given new life for at least another news cycle. Good going.

    Rush should have been smarter and known better. If he loses advertisers, it’s his own fault.

  • nocontest

    My god why do you think we are going to lose another election. Rush like it or not speaks for Republicans and the voters are listening.
    Look at the words he uses he sounds really angry which is not what the voters are looking for.

    Don’t blame this on the democrats, blame Rush. lol
    Does anyone really believe Rush is really sorry. Come on

    Rush and politicians please leave religion and sex to others

    • Jack_Savage

      In every aspect of your comment. You haven’t listened to Rush more than the highlights MSNBC have allowed you to, so please spare us your foolish analysis which is more suited to graffiti above a urinal than anywhere else, especially here.

  • earlgrey

    Thank you for contacting Sleep Number. My name is Jim. I?m sorry that you feel that you cannot do business with us due to our decision to suspend our advertising with the Rush Limbaugh show. While I understand you’re upset about this situation, we’ve found that the recent comments made on this program don’t align with the values of our company. I appreciate your viewpoint and I?m happy you took the time to bring your concerns to our attention. We?ve set up a phone line for you to call regarding Rush’s comments. This line is available for you to leave your thoughts or concerns on the matter. We’ve also forwarded your comments to our Public Relations Department for further consideration.
    Local Number: 763-694-8332
    Toll Free Line: 800-640-0651