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Radio campaign next step against Rush Limbaugh
Yahoo via AP ^ | 22 Mar 2012 | DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 03/22/2012 7:29:39 AM PDT by shove_it

NEW YORK (AP) — Rush Limbaugh's opponents are starting a radio campaign against him Thursday, seizing upon the radio star's attack of a Georgetown law student as a "slut" to make a long-term effort aimed at weakening his business.

The liberal Media Matters for America is using a past campaign against Glenn Beck as a template. In Limbaugh, however, they're going after bigger game. He's already fighting back and the group's stance has provoked concerns that an effort to silence someone for objectionable talk is in itself objectionable.

Media Matters is spending at least $100,000 for two advertisements that will run in eight cities.

The ads use Limbaugh's own words about student Sandra Fluke, who testified at a congressional hearing that contraception should be paid for in health plans. Limbaugh, on his radio programs, suggested Fluke wanted to be paid to have sex, which made her a "slut" and a "prostitute." In return for the money, he said Fluke should post videos of herself having sex. Under sharp criticism, Limbaugh later apologized.

In one of the anti-Limbaugh ads, listeners are urged to call the local station that carries Limbaugh to say "we don't talk to women like that" in our city.

Ad time was purchased in Boston; Chicago; Detroit; Seattle; Milwaukee; St. Louis; Macon, Ga.; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The cities were selected to support active local campaigns against Limbaugh or because of perceptions Limbaugh may be vulnerable in that market, said Angelo Carusone of Media Matters.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia; US: Illinois; US: Iowa; US: Massachusetts; US: Michigan; US: Missouri; US: Washington; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: antilimbaugh; antirush; mediamatters; rushlimbaugh; rushsponsors
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Lotsa luck MM.
1 posted on 03/22/2012 7:29:45 AM PDT by shove_it
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David Brock

2 posted on 03/22/2012 7:32:29 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Conservative patriots, Rise up!)
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Maybe someone should run some ads on how obama took "payola" from Bill Maher to conveniently overlook his calling several conservative women names much more vile than "slut".

FLUKE NEXT, FLUKE NUMBER PLEASE
3 posted on 03/22/2012 7:33:41 AM PDT by FrankR
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..."we don't talk to women like that" in our city.

Except for rappers whose music is played on their radio in their city 9000 times a day for all the kiddies to hear.

4 posted on 03/22/2012 7:34:43 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke)
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In one of the anti-Limbaugh ads, listeners are urged to call the local station that carries Limbaugh to say "we don't talk to women like that" in our city.

I guess they've never been to the part of the city where the black youth hang out...

5 posted on 03/22/2012 7:34:58 AM PDT by apillar
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Dumb....just dumb. This will go nowhere.


6 posted on 03/22/2012 7:36:03 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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"we don't talk to women like that" in our city.

Nope. We call them "c*nt" or "t*at" or "b*tch" here in our city, Detroit (or Chicago or New York).

7 posted on 03/22/2012 7:36:35 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Conservative patriots, Rise up!)
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How is a 501(c)(3) allowed to engage in such politically based activities? .....I know, stupid question.


8 posted on 03/22/2012 7:37:05 AM PDT by Corporate Law
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WOW! A $100K campaign against Limbaugh! I’m sure Rush is TERRIFIED of Brock and all his other fag friends.


9 posted on 03/22/2012 7:37:11 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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"we don't talk to women like that" in our city.

But your city is filled with women like that. Oh well, some one else will always be willing to talk to women like that.

10 posted on 03/22/2012 7:37:44 AM PDT by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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Dear Media Matters, Didn’t your mommy ever tell you to never bring a knife to a gun fight?


11 posted on 03/22/2012 7:38:52 AM PDT by taillightchaser (Third party=four more years of marxism)
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Angelo Carusone

12 posted on 03/22/2012 7:39:07 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Conservative patriots, Rise up!)
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How is a 501(c)(3) allowed to engage in such politically based activities?

George Soros. That's how.

13 posted on 03/22/2012 7:40:52 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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“using a past campaign against Glenn Beck as a template”.

Yeah, because that campaign was such a huge success. Wait...Glenn is still on the radio. Never mind.


14 posted on 03/22/2012 7:43:24 AM PDT by texaschick
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...yet another ‘student’ from the cesspit known as Madison, Wisconsin...


15 posted on 03/22/2012 7:43:26 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Brock and his Gayboys in Brokeback Boycott.


16 posted on 03/22/2012 7:43:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to WEAN the government off of our money.)
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It is hilarious how libs are so afraid of Rush. They are all about freedom of this or that yet freedom to listen to Rush is anathema to them. What a bunch of nut jobs! They think we conservatives are off the reservation anyway so what do they care if we listed to him? Is it because they are afraid that one of there own might happen to tune him in one day?


17 posted on 03/22/2012 7:44:09 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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The earthworm of Media Matters would like to engage the elephant of Rush Limbaugh in a fight?

Wellllll... OK!! Cool!


18 posted on 03/22/2012 7:46:03 AM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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This will go nowhere indeed. One thing about the radio, you can always change the station. I suggest that they exercise that right and leave the rest of us the hell alone.


19 posted on 03/22/2012 7:46:27 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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Media Matters has overstepped once again and the backlash is coming. If they think that Rush and his listeners will just ‘roll over’, then they’ve miscalculated BIG TIME.


20 posted on 03/22/2012 7:46:35 AM PDT by JPG (Hold on tight; rough road ahead.)
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