Don't Worry, Folks: Advertisers Who Don't Want Your Business Will Be Replaced

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | March 5, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

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The left, folks -- the media -- are giddy that some advertisers have said they're leaving the program. And I'm sorry to see 'em go. They have profited handsomely from you. These advertisers who have split the scene have done very well due to their access to you, my audience, from this program. To offer their products and services to you through this venue is the best opportunity that they have ever had to advertise their wares. Now they've been chosen to deny themselves that access, and that's a business decision, and it's theirs alone to make.

They've decided they don't want you or your business anymore.

So be it.

For me, this program is always about you. You talk to anybody that knows me who asks me about this program, and I always say, "It's all for the audience," because if you're not there, all the rest of this is academic. This show is about you. It's not about the advertisers. I knew the political inclinations of these people. They didn't care when they were profiting -- and I didn't, either. Everybody's able to put these things aside for the sake of mutual beneficial business activity. No radio broadcast will succeed by putting business ahead of the needs of its loyal audience, and that audience is you. My success has come from you. My focus has always and always will be on you.

And I'm still not through.

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RUSH: As I was saying, ladies and gentlemen, this show has always been about you. It has always been about meeting and surpassing your expectations as an audience on any level that I can imagine, on any level for which I have empathy. If this program were about the advertising... (laughing) you don't know the kind of commercials you'd be treated to. I reject millions of dollars of advertising a year, much to the chagrin of my hardworking sales staff. Millions, folks, including, I might add, General Motors. What would you have thought, if, after the government took over General Motors, I started advertising General Motors? I made the decision not to accept that because you, the audience, come first. Because no successful program puts the audience second or third.

See, I understand my successes come from you. During the year many of you regale me with how much the program has meant to you personally, your family, over the years. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas I take time out to tell you that no matter what this program's meant to you, it can't compare to what you have meant to me and my family. In fact, I have no adequate way to express my gratitude to you. Just doesn't exist. It's how great my gratitude for all of you is. Without you, advertisers would have no need to participate in this program. So what we're gonna do is replace those that leave, those that no longer want access to you, those advertisers who no longer want your business, fine. We'll replace them. It's simple, really.

Advertising's a business decision. It's not a social one. Only the leftists try to use extortion, pressure, threats to silence opposing voices. We don't do that. Never, ever do any of us on our side of the aisle try to suppress the speech or the voices of those with whom we disagree, and we never will. So as you've always done, you make your own business decisions about the products and services you buy. But don't be like the opposition. That was my mistake last week. Don't make it yours.

So let me do this one more, and then we're not gonna do it again. I should not have used the language I did about Sandra Fluke. It was wrong and, despite all the theories, my apology to her was for simply using inappropriate words. I'm not going to wait for apologies from the left ever. And you shouldn't, either. They won't come. You won't get apologies from people like Bill Maher or all the other leftists who have said some of the most horrible, despicable things about us, and people like Sarah Palin. They get rewarded for those despicable things. They get to make movies out of their despicable things and amplify them. But all of the other leftists that call me and other conservatives the most rude and explicit names, never an apology. In fact, they get patted on the back. Don't expect apologies. They are never going to apologize to you or me or any of us. That's the difference between them and us, and it's one more reason why ultimately we will prevail over them.

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[Upstate NY Guy]

Mega Ditto's to Rush and all the faithful EIB listeners. I heard the opening monologue. Outstanding!!

Thanks for posting Kaslin.

[allmost]

The new advertisers are far more than their money’s worth.

[CainConservative]

Amen, Rush.

[Buckeye McFrog]

To start with, how about Today’s Sponge?

“Maybe Sandra Fluke doesn’t know anybody who’s spongeworthy. But you do.”

[FrankR]

[hope]

Wooohooo!

I bought a Sleep Number a few years ago because the bed was personally promoted by Rush...I hate it! Before all this I was considering putting it up for sale on Craigslist, where Sandra Fluke probably frequents..Any way
for the same price as a new Sleep Number, I can purchase a
Tempur-Pedic with the same warranty, but the construction is far, far better...bye, bye Sleep Number, I know I'll sleep better now..

[Retired Greyhound]

The left is the one that used this woman to make their point.

Rush simply made a joke about it. It got blown out of proportion. That, I believe, is what he is sorry for. I don’t think he wanted to see this happen to Sandra Fluke.

I support Rush in his apology, and I have no doubt that he will have new advertisers.

[unique1]

It is ironic that it’s not really about the advertisers, it’s about the listeners at the end of the day. Advertisers are the real sl#ts and that, in this case, isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a fact that they go with the listening volume, period.

[Marathoner]

I’m more and more convinced this is the year that we either take our country back or lose it permanently to the Marxists.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Onward!

[MrB]

New evidence shows that she shouldn’t be in much pain,
but she has impeccably clean carpets.

[Uncle Slayton]

Rush should sue Sandra Fluke due to the fact that her testimony before Congress caused Rush to lose advertisers and income.

[etabeta]

OMG, I love this picture! May I use it on my Facebook to irritate my liberal friends?

[Responsibility2nd]

Can someone explain to me how semi-scam companies like Carbonite and Life-lock ever made it as advertizers in the first place?

Pro Flowers? Really? Are these Fortune 500 companies?

[Calusa]

Howard Stern - “All women are whores!” (1990-12-13)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFo0ojvl62U

[laweeks]

I wonder is the $lut has ever used that contraceptive foam called Absorbine-Junior?

[MissMagnolia]

I think he’d lose because ...... his Two if By Tea sales & Rush 24/7 memberships are probably through the roof & I’ll bet he’s got a line around the block of folks wanting to be new advertisers. He probably set a new record for listeners today - 1st hour, anyway.

He doesn’t need to sue Ms. Fluck ..... she’s inadvertently done him a lot of “good”. She’s also exposed the vicousness of the left & the coordinated campaign that has been out there to damage and silence him. Truth (& Rush) win again.

[ontap]

Same here, it’s is a cheaply made piece of crap. Ours lasted two years before starting to leak which meant every five minutes that stupid pump would come on. Save your money folks this POS is a scam!!!

[Dr. Thorne]

Rush did what every politician does - cave and then try to make it sound like he's not caving. Besides the "we're all in this together" meme that he is pushing lies this bottom line truth: Rush grovelled and then pulled the rug out from under all of us who have been supporting him in this mess, like a general who deployed his troops and then ran.

I'm not willing to fund his Palm Beach home if he's not willing to tough it out against the anti-American Left. Even Hank Haney can't help him with this whiff.