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Rally for Rush
The American Spectator ^ | March 5, 2012 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 03/05/2012 9:04:47 AM PST by tulloss

It's time to fight back.

To take on Sleep Mattress, Sleep Number, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Quicken Loans, Carbonite and, now that they've caved, Pro-Flowers. And anybody else who wants to play this disgraceful blacklisting game with their customers.

To expose the hypocrisy and double standards. To make it crystal clear that that those who sell out our First Amendment rights to far left radicals are in fact going to be actively perceived as collaborating in a deliberate attack on their customers, real and potential.

It's time to stand up for free speech. To draw a line in the sand. And let these companies know that the blacklisting line stops with Rush.

It's time -- way past time -- to stand up to the blacklisting free speech bullies. By phone. By e-mail. Twitter, snail mail or whatever.

But however you do it?

It's time to Rally for Rush.

And yes, by all means: Pass it on!

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: advertisers; carbonite; duplicate; fluke; rush; rushlimbaugh; sandrafluke; sandytheslut
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The piece's crux: ties between the companies and the left; and Fluke's record of trying to shut down free speech. But my main interest is the above. Here's a product testimony: I've used ProFlowers. Only because they were Rush sponsers, and it seemed an implicit statement to use them. The first Valentines Day: the flowers arrived in a vase UN-ARRANGED! That's right. They weren't arranged. Apparently, that's a given with long-distance orders. The second Valentines Day, I thought my wife was getting tulips (as shown in their picture). It turned out they sent two bulbs. It's RIDICULOUSLY easy to use another flower co. I can't believe their CEO was this stupid. 20 million listeners. I doubt the company survives. For the record, I checked and all seven companies are private--so there's no divesting. Oh well. There's no buying either. Some of these guys will go belly up.
1 posted on 03/05/2012 9:04:54 AM PST by tulloss
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To: tulloss

Since TWO IF BY TEA is Rush’s only sponsor, guess we’d better be buying lots of his tea !!

Breitbart Warriors UNITE !


2 posted on 03/05/2012 9:09:02 AM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: tulloss

Rush could ask for private donations to fund his show. “This segment was paid for by FReeper Tax-chick, who says, ‘Adopt a retired greyhound: they’re the perfect pet.’ “

I might listen to him, if it weren’t for the stupid ads.


3 posted on 03/05/2012 9:09:16 AM PST by Tax-chick (Maybe it IS about contraception. Read "Planned Parenthood v. Casey" decision, 1992.)
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To: tulloss

Rush is on.

He said his show is being sponsored by his Twoifbuytea.
He is explaining his apology.


4 posted on 03/05/2012 9:10:53 AM PST by mardi59 (I'm not looking for MTV, I'm looking for MVP. Newt 2012!)
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To: tulloss
I probably spend about $300 a year at Proflowers...not any more. I emailed them Sunday and told them they will never get another dime of my business!
Not all sponsors believe the same thing Rush does, I suspect we have weeded those folks out here. I am done with businesses that send money to the left or support them in anyway....I work too hard to earn every damned dollar I make to spend it at a company that supports the destruction of this country!
5 posted on 03/05/2012 9:12:56 AM PST by 4everontheRight (And the story began with..."Once there was a great nation......")
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To: tulloss

Rush is unwise. Every time the right gets “nice”, the left steamrolls them and continues their anti-Catholic (Christian) agenda.


6 posted on 03/05/2012 9:13:31 AM PST by steve86 (I have Schizoid Personality Disorder and am exercising the privileges thereof)
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To: tulloss

Now pronounced Sandra FLUCK.

Be careful on spelling.


7 posted on 03/05/2012 9:15:36 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: 4everontheRight
I probably spend about $300 a year at Proflowers.

You must have a lot of girlfriends!!!

8 posted on 03/05/2012 9:16:09 AM PST by steve86 (I have Schizoid Personality Disorder and am exercising the privileges thereof)
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To: tulloss

Rush is cowardly sniveling now on the air because he is bleeding advertisers. This is pathetic. I wrote to several advertisers stating I will never use their services again.

Stop it Rush! You’re being humiliated by the Left. Ask your listeners to step up to the plate. Everyone knows you were speaking tongue-in-cheek about Ms. Fluke. We now know that she was no 23-year old innocent student but a 30-year old seasoned leftist activist.

This makes me sick. Call the Left for what they are: pathetic liars who twisted this issue as they do every issue.


9 posted on 03/05/2012 9:16:12 AM PST by datakcy (Declaring our love for God, country, and family ISN'T hate speech - it's common sense!)
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I’m ashamed to say that I was a ProFlowers customer

I became a ProFlowers customer when I first heard your ads on Rush Limbaugh’s show a few years ago. Like the other 25+ million weekly listeners to his show, I value what he says, and what he recommends.

I don’t know how much business Rush has brought your company, but I’ll guess it’s substantial. This being the case, I was beyond disappointed that ProFlowers decided to be politically correct and drop their sponsorship to Rush’s show simply because Rush expressed a valid opinion about this fraud…Ms. Fluke.

Just as you have made a decision that will affect Mr. Limbaugh, many more of us are also making a decision that will indeed affect you. I have made my LAST purchase from ProFlowers. Please remove my name from your database and stop the solicitation emails.

I’m certainly not alone in my feelings for the politically motivated decision you have made to drop sponsorship of Rush’s show over this phony outrage by people who are neither listeners to his show or your likely customers, past or future.

You might want to take a look around the blogosphere this day; outrage at your decision will have the opposite effect you had intended. Do you really think that dropping sponsorship to Rush’s show in such a politically motivated way will not have financial consequences for your business?

Perhaps you believe that the Occupy Wall Street and MoveOn.org crowd who have astro-turfed this phony outrage are a better demographic for your product.

I believe that you are mistaken

G G

Key West, FL

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Sleep Number, The Sleep Train, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Carbonite, and ProFlowers

Select Comfort
1-888-411-2188 http://www.sleepnumber.com/eng/aboutUs/redirect.cfm?sectionID=contact/contact.cfm

Citrix
Toll Free:800-424-8749
Phone:954-267-3000

Legalzoom
http://legalzoom.force.com/LZWTC
Corporate Headquarters
101 N. Brand Blvd., 11th Floor
Glendale, CA 91203
(323) 962-8600
Customer Support
(800) 773-0888
LegalAdvantage Attorney Consultation
(877) 818-8787
Fax (323) 962-8300

QUICKEN LOANS
http://www.quickenloans.com/about/contact
1-800-863-4332
http://www.contacthelp.com/contact_us.php

Sleep Train
Phone: (800) 919-2337 http://www.sleeptrain.com/contact-customer-service.aspx
Phone: 800-378-BEDS (2337)
2204 Plaza Drive
Rocklin, CA 95765
Phone: (800) 919-2337
Fax: (866) 293-5719
Email: customerservice@sleeptrain.com

Carbonite
Main Office: 617-587-1100
Toll Free: 877-665-4466
http://carbonite.custhelp.com/app/ask/contact_method/email/partner/carbonite

http://www.carbonite.com/en/about/contact-us

Pro Flowers
http://www.proflowers.com/Contactus.aspx?ref=organicyahbrand_Pro+Flowers+customer+service&prid=pfseoyb

http://www.proflowers.com/ContactUs.aspx?REF=SRCHgoogskwd_Brand

wecare@customercare.ProFlowers.com

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What would Breitbart do?

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10 posted on 03/05/2012 9:16:55 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: 4everontheRight

Emailing works. The last thing any company wants is to get a bunch of “Never buy again” messages from current or prospective customers. It costs twice as much to get a customer back, after stepping in it, that it cost to get the customer the first time. Word of mouth is their best or worst advertising.


11 posted on 03/05/2012 9:17:48 AM PST by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: tulloss
My City Was Gone
12 posted on 03/05/2012 9:19:12 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Cometh the hour, cometh the man. NEWT GINGRICH 2012)
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To: datakcy

You make a good point, but be careful. Dadgummit, nearly every time I’ve disagreed with the guy...he HAS wound up proving me wrong!


13 posted on 03/05/2012 9:20:16 AM PST by tulloss
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To: tulloss

Just heard Rush slobber all over himself.
We’ve lost him.


14 posted on 03/05/2012 9:21:14 AM PST by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: datakcy
Rush is cowardly sniveling now on the air because he is bleeding advertisers.

Rush violated his own sense of ethics with what he said, and now he is doing the MANLY thing and apologizing.

Nothing cowardly about it.

15 posted on 03/05/2012 9:21:40 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface)
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To: tulloss

Guess there won’t be a whole lot of commercial breaks today, but new advertisers will soon fill up the empty spaces.


16 posted on 03/05/2012 9:23:08 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: tulloss

None of the companies that dropped their advertizing with Rush will ever see a dime from me, and whenever I can steer business in another direction, I will.


17 posted on 03/05/2012 9:25:31 AM PST by pallis
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To: datakcy
Rush is cowardly sniveling now on the air because he is bleeding advertisers.

That's not what my ears are hearing. He's acknowledging the fact that he was out of bounds in calling Fluke a 'slut', but he's taking it to the left as usual.

18 posted on 03/05/2012 9:25:47 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: datakcy

There is sniveling and then there is apologizing. He is calling them liars. He was accurate at the time in calling her a _______, but he is also correct in saying he should not have stooped down to being a commie-leftist like Maher, David Letterman. or even Obama, for that matter.

Calling her a name wasn’t the thing to do. It’s one of those speaking in the moment without thinking things we all do. IMO there’s no cowardice involved.


19 posted on 03/05/2012 9:26:30 AM PST by madison10
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To: tulloss
Sandra Fluke Says Rush Limbaugh's Apology Doesn't Change Anything
20 posted on 03/05/2012 9:27:09 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Cometh the hour, cometh the man. NEWT GINGRICH 2012)
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