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Vitacost (dropped Limbaugh sponsor) backpedaling already?
my commentary (plus link to Vitacost Blog) ^ | 3/6/2012 | self

Posted on 03/06/2012 3:32:38 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe

Vitacost dropped Rush Limbaugh as a sponsor yesterday. Seems that the company is already trying to backpedal after receiving tons of negative feedback.

Yesterday's message:

We’d like to address an issue with our radio ads -- one of which aired on the Rush Limbaugh radio show. To put it frankly, Mr. Limbaugh's recent comments have been unsettling, and many of our fans have voiced concern that Vitacost endorses these views. These comments are definitely not in line with our brand values, and in listening to our fans we've decided to remove our advertising from the program.

And today's soft reinterpretation:

Here at Vitacost.com, our goal is to take the cost out of healthy living by offering thousands of healthy products at affordable prices. To promote this mission, we launched a national radio advertising campaign in January that airs on many different programs, including the Rush Limbaugh show. As a result of the derogatory comments Mr. Limbaugh made on his program, we decided to remove our advertising. We appreciate and support Mr. Limbaugh’s right to voice his opinion, just not how he delivered his message. Our decision was in no way a statement about Mr. Limbaugh’s or his listeners’ political views, but rather his lack of respect for another human being. Vitacost.com takes healthy living very seriously, and we believe that respect for others is a huge part of that healthy lifestyle.

Thank you,

David Zucker, CMO

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PS: If you're on Facebook, "Like" Vitacost. I have been dropping bombs every time they post a new entry on their Facebook page!

PPS: see the last message I posted to yesterday's thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2854873/posts) -- I did some comparisons between Vitacost and other vendors who were mentioned. Swanson and iHerb came out on top; Puritan, close second.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fluke; limbaugh; rushlimbaugh; sandrafluke; sandytheslut; sponsor; vitacost
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To: cblue55

Yeah, and part of a whale’s tail. Literally, a piece of tail....(Go on, pull your ads...)


21 posted on 03/06/2012 4:04:20 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: redangus

Get a Bissinger’s or Merb’s catalog, or go to the tribal chocolatiers in OK.


22 posted on 03/06/2012 4:07:04 PM PST by steve8714 (Thank you, Andrew. I miss you already.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

my post at your blog:

Guess who is working feverishly to put the supplement companies out of business and to keep those of us that depend on supplements from getting them through onerous legislation? That’s right, liberals. The same liberals that Rush fights every day. The same liberals that feign insult when they put a FRAUD of a woman up as their spokesperson and have her claim that tax payers need to buy her rubbers and pills. OMG. I will switch ALL of my supp business to Swanson’s. Good job vitacost. You kneejerked and lost.


23 posted on 03/06/2012 4:07:27 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: nickcarraway

He also sincerely apologized...three times. something libtards are incapable of but they sure do excell at insulting us.


24 posted on 03/06/2012 4:08:41 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: nickcarraway
What Limbaugh did was not gentlemanly, and an Freeper who adheres to traditional manners had to be disappointed with what he did.

You obviously don't listen to Rush, or if you do..you don't understand him. No one who listened to him believed that HE believed Fluke was a slut....he was satirically coming to an absurd but logical conclusion based solely on her absurd and ridiculous "testimony" which was very long on emotion and very very very short on facts and reality.

25 posted on 03/06/2012 4:11:00 PM PST by Mygirlsmom
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To: NewJerseyJoe

I am a long time customer of Vitacost. I order a LOT from them. I just went on their chat and had them pull up my account. Then I told them I had to fire them. They gave me the usual nonsense that you already posted and then she got a little upset. I told her that my decision to fire them was purely a business decision just like their decison to pull advertising. They don’t care. They really do not even understand that Congress is trying to pass a law to make vitamins illegal. They will be gone in a minute when that happens.


26 posted on 03/06/2012 4:15:04 PM PST by Shire
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To: Osage Orange

“Well when a single women comes before Congress and basically tells the world she needs more free contraceptive ideas... ...she’s one of three things.”

Was it even a valid session of Congress or some sideshow hosted by Pelosi?


27 posted on 03/06/2012 4:16:51 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Mygirlsmom

He should be more sophisticated. He changed the debate from religious freedom to a bunch of nonsense.


28 posted on 03/06/2012 4:17:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Rebelbase

It was a sideshow set up by the Democrats!


29 posted on 03/06/2012 4:18:45 PM PST by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: NewJerseyJoe

Sending your ad out to 15 million Less people in this economy is a seriously stupid mistake. Then top that off with thousands of letters and phones calls telling you they are done with your product. I expect more will back peddle before this is over.


30 posted on 03/06/2012 4:18:56 PM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Our decision was in no way a statement about Mr. Limbaugh’s or his listeners’ political views

Oh, but it is! You are participating in a concerted effort by foes of Limbaugh to force him off the air by eliminating his revenue. Own it, coward.....and the consequences.

I've done a lot of shopping with Vitacost in the past - usually when I place an order it's in the $150 range. No More! I've been transitioning to Swanson - they now get all of my business.

31 posted on 03/06/2012 4:19:37 PM PST by Mygirlsmom
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To: NewJerseyJoe

I decided not to buy from them anymore so when I got an email from them today, I decided to unsubscribe from their email list. At the bottom it asks why and I checked other and wrote...You decided to drop Rush Limbaugh so I decided to DROP you!!


32 posted on 03/06/2012 4:19:38 PM PST by Cricket24 (Proud to be a CONSERVATIVE WOMAN!!!!!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

He never outright called her anything. He asked what would a person be called who wants someone to buy their contraceptives? What would you call someone who wants you and me to pay for their sex? Only after asking did he suggest that she was a slut. I support Rush all the way and will not and did not think he was out of line. She is a slut of the left.


33 posted on 03/06/2012 4:24:44 PM PST by Bronzy (Send a NEWTron to Obama!)
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Thanks for the update.
I sent them a couple of emails (one a general comment in their 'Contact Us' section, and a second when I asked to get removed from the email list and I responded to their standard exit questions). I didn't bare any venom. I just pointed out that although I don't listen to Mr. Limbaugh, Vitacost should not have been motivated by leftist agitators that routinely assail conservative broadcasters. Vitacost should stick to business and not get whipped around by petty politics lest they lose half of their customers - and I was now an ex-Customer.
34 posted on 03/06/2012 4:26:00 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: redangus

Sharies berries, proflowers and several others that dropped Rush also advertist on TV...they probably figured there won’t be much of a drag on their business with the TV advertising getting their message out....I am sure they weighted the results before they made the business decision. I don’t use their products anyway so I cannot quit using their products..


35 posted on 03/06/2012 4:26:33 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Osage Orange
Well when a single women comes before Congress and basically tells the world she needs more free contraceptive ideas... ...she's one of three things.

A plant.

A nympho

Or nuts.

May I add: utter disgrace, shameful, trollop, floozy,jezebel,whore,scum,skank,shameless,harlot,heathen

That's my list (for now)

36 posted on 03/06/2012 4:29:03 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (When does the shooting start?)
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To: forbushalltheway

click report abuse, ask question, they adm. or mod will respond..I usually start out with I am not reporting abuse on this post but have a question.....


37 posted on 03/06/2012 4:29:45 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Rebelbase

Don’t know...Just what I saw.


38 posted on 03/06/2012 4:30:05 PM PST by Osage Orange (Why do we eat Soylindra Green?)
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To: nickcarraway
He should be more sophisticated. He changed the debate from religious freedom to a bunch of nonsense.

I like his nonsense. To bad you do not have the capacity to understand.

39 posted on 03/06/2012 4:31:54 PM PST by Logical me
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To: cblue55

Damnit. I have meant to do that for a couple of days.

LOL


40 posted on 03/06/2012 4:32:21 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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