Posted on 10/09/2014 4:16:21 AM PDT by lowbridge
Discovering the saga of one Angelo Carusone, then the “Director of Online Strategy for Media Matters for America.” Media Matters, of course, the far-left extremist media guard dog. At the time the story, the push to get Rush Limbaugh off the air was presented as some sort of spontaneous combustion of rage ignited by his discussion of Fluke and her demands that the rest of us pay for her birth control. Rush’s advertisers were suddenly swamped with demands that they stop sponsoring his show - or so it seemed. Rush’s fans fought back and the whole thing was a bust. But the discovery of importance at the time was that there were no millions of the outraged out there pressuring Rush’s sponsors. In fact, this was all the skillful manipulation of Mr. Carusone, who in fact had been trying to get Rush and other conservatives off the air for years. As I wrote at the time, a full two-years before the Fluke business Carusone had been "hatching the plot to ‘Stop Rush.’ In the world of Internet domains, Carusone even had it registered as ‘Stop rush.org.’”
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In the world of the Stop Rush campaign, what the Limbaugh show’s investigation uncovered was, as it were, a cyber war modeled on the idea of a Potemkin Village. What was presented to Rush’s advertisers was a fraud -- the idea that massive numbers of their customers were demanding that they stop advertising on the Limbaugh show. In fact, exactly as the dictionary defines Potemkin Village, the ‘Stop Rush” effort was presented as “impressive” - when in fact it was all fake. A fraud. Reports the investigation:
“The Stop Rush group claims to be made up of ordinary consumers unhappy with Rush Limbaugh’s comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
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I believe some of these companies who left Rush wanted to come back, but he said no. Good for him!
If Limbaugh does not sue Media Matters popcorn producers everywhere will cry themselves to sleep at night.
Rush Limbaugh and Fox News
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It was tried before with Rush and failed, however, Fox News will be easy...all they have to do target is Nutrisystems and the whole network goes down.
all they have to do target is>> all they have to do is target...
You are correct, why would Rush sue media matters, such assaults on Rush only serve to increase his bottom line, he knows media matters does not matter, besides a law suit would only bring more unneeded attention to the group, the MSM will want to hold them up as hero’s and popcorn producers would back them up, resulting in a win win, I prefer we/Rush win, they lose.
Corrupt gov’t, corrupt media and corrupt popcorn producers be damned, foolish to play a game where liberals make the rules and change the rules when they perceive you might win.
Sounds like we’ve heard this before?
“Obama WH Secret Phone Conferences Bear Fruit With TV Media’s Limbaugh Attack”.
.” Politico reported that Emanuel has a daily phone conference call with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, and CNN’s James Carville and Paul Begala.”
“As soon as the sun rose on the day after Limbaugh’s CPAC appearance, three of the four of the phone call participants attacked Limbaugh with the same talking points.”
I changed my computer backup company from Carbonite when it stopped advertising on Rush.
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