Maybe — just maybe — Rush Limbaugh has jumped the shark

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Today was the third consecutive day of Rush Limbaugh’s vicious, misogynist attacks on Sandra Fluke, the college student who had the temerity to want to testify before a Congressional panel on the importance of birth-control coverage in health insurance.

I won’t include any details here, because I’d need to dip myself in Lysol afterward. Follow the link if you must know.

The good news is, he’s finally getting some blowback in the most harmful possible way — his advertisers. Three national advertisers have already pulled out, and there’s growing pressure on others, including ProFlowers, Oreck, Citrix, and eHarmony*. This is, as far as I know, the first time that Limbaugh has lost advertisers due to his excesses. Let’s hope the momentum keeps up.

*Late add: eHarmony says it doesn’t advertise on Rush, but is looking into whether “network buys” might include his show. Apparently there’s at least one list of Rush advertisers that is partially incorrect. (A “network buy” is where you purchase advertising time on a slate of programs, and your ads are assigned to different shows based on availability of time. So an advertiser might unknowingly be scheduled on Rush’s show.)

After the jump: Taking it local?

It’s fairly simple to join the pressure campaign nationally. But we could also do some good locally, by identifying local businesses that advertise on Limbaugh’s show. Which, unfortunately, means listening to Rush and taking down the names of local advertisers.

If anyone can stomach the task, please contact the advertisers and also list their names in the Comments below.

p.s. This is my own idea and does not reflect the opinions of the other GMD front pagers. I hope they don’t mind. If this gains enough traction, maybe we can assemble a list of Rushvertisers on this page somewhere.  

Limbaugh’s show is broadcast on WVMT (620 AM) in Burlington, WSNO (1450 AM) in Barre, and WSYB (1380 AM) in Rutland.

6 thoughts on “Maybe — just maybe — Rush Limbaugh has jumped the shark”

  1. Click here for the online petition (via Left Action) to be sent to Limbaugh’s remaining advertisers urging them to pull their ads.

    And here is what I wrote in the “comment” section:

    There are political opinions, and there is hate speech/bullying. Your ad dollars should be spent only on those who know the difference and choose to make rational arguments rather than ad feminem attacks.

    I will not buy your products and will recommend to my many friends and blog readers that they also bypass your products for as long as you buy airtime on any Rush Limbaugh program.

    NanuqFC

    I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long  enough. ~ Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial  candidate

  2. “What took you so long?”  Does he even have more than three advertisers?

    This guy has been clear off the margins of civility for years! In fact, he’s rapidly approaching the level of those loonies from the Westboro Baptist Church!

  3. News Corp hacked the phones of politicians and celebrities for years. They got sued now and then. But then they hacked the phone of a murdered girl and that was that.

    Stomp a snake and people shrug. Kick a puppy and you are a pariah.

    Maybe a young female law student talking about a friend with cancer is Rush’s puppy. People will tolerate the savaging of politicians, but Sandra Fluke, not so much.

    One can hope he follows Glenn Beck.

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