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Tally Of Advertisers In Rush Limbaugh Exodus Climbs To 20
Business Insider ^ | 03/06/2012 | Laura Stampler

Posted on 03/06/2012 12:28:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind

According to a series of advertisers' Twitter and Facebook statements, at least 20 different sponsors have now pulled their spots from Rush Limbaugh's radio show.

In case you're new to the kerfuffle—welcome out of hibernation!—advertisers began dropping like flies after Limbaugh called a Georgetown law student and women's rights activist a "slut" and a "prostitute" for supporting healthcare coverage for contraception.

Sleep Number and The Sleep Train, both mattress suppliers, were the first two advertisers to pull their ads Friday, and the numbers have grown tenfold since then.

Media Matters has been regularly updating a list of advertisers that have been dropped (or aired) ads on Limbaugh's show.

On Tuesday, Bare Escentuals, Sensa Weight Loss program, Hadeed Carpet, Thompson Creek Windows, Vitacost, AccuQuote Life insurance, and Polycom all joined the Exodus.

Two local radio stations have also stopped running Limbaugh's show.

But some advertisers are finding it difficult to pull their ads, even if they disagree with Limbaugh's statements, because they bought package deals with the network. This means that their ads aren't specifically intended to air during Limbaugh's show.

Amberen, a menopause medication, explained the difficulty on its Facebook page:

"We understand that some of our customers are concerned that Amberen ads are still airing on the Rush Limbaugh show. Lunada Biomedical assures you that we take these concerns to heart! Most of our employees, including the CEO, are female. And like millions of other Americans we were outraged by Rush Limbaugh's incendiary and offensive comments. However, we are a small company that buys remnant (leftover) media time and, as such, we cannot, by definition, be considered the ‘sponsors’ of Mr. Limbaugh's show.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: advertisers; limbaugh; rush; rushsponsors; sandrafluke; sandytheslut
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1 posted on 03/06/2012 12:28:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Soon this will be like the Beck advertiser boycott that most of the advertisers that supposedly fled never actually advertised on Beck’s shows.


2 posted on 03/06/2012 12:31:37 PM PST by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Amberen ran commercials on here during Rush on my local station. Now I superscribe to Rush’s website. So I sometimes watch the live feed. But I also ran thee feed from the local today.


3 posted on 03/06/2012 12:32:04 PM PST by Mozilla (Defeat Romney first then defeat Obama)
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To: SeekAndFind

Amberen ran commercials on here during Rush on my local station. Now I subscribe to Rush’s website. So I sometimes watch the live feed. But I also ran the feed from the local today.


4 posted on 03/06/2012 12:32:29 PM PST by Mozilla (Defeat Romney first then defeat Obama)
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To: SeekAndFind

any way to get the list of 20 without exposing my computer to MediaMatters.org?


5 posted on 03/06/2012 12:34:07 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

FOAD anti-first amendment cowards. I’m watching ya.


6 posted on 03/06/2012 12:34:24 PM PST by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

I heard a Sensa ad today.


7 posted on 03/06/2012 12:34:35 PM PST by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind

And people wondered why Beck started his own subscriber-based network.

Overall, the trend is very ominous.


8 posted on 03/06/2012 12:35:59 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: SeekAndFind

First Vitacost and now BareEssentuals. Super pissed right now!


9 posted on 03/06/2012 12:36:30 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: SeekAndFind

ironically, two MATtRESS companies were the first to pul ltheir advertising over the flap over a slut? How ironic


10 posted on 03/06/2012 12:37:09 PM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: SeekAndFind

All of these corporate guys have liberal wives.


11 posted on 03/06/2012 12:37:55 PM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: SeekAndFind

(or Aired) is key to this. Some of these losers haven’t advertised on Rush for ages.

They are trying to jimmy up the numbers by using companies that have been long gone.


12 posted on 03/06/2012 12:38:04 PM PST by dforest
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Silencing the opposition is critical to the establishment of a totalitarian society. Lessee, the DSCC has requested the FFC remove Rush from the airwaves and the IRS is coming down on Tea Party groups. FNN and GBTV people are getting the same treatment. All big name conservative celebrities must hire private security. Breitbarticus drops dead.

The noose tightens.

13 posted on 03/06/2012 12:38:15 PM PST by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Here are the list of advertisers who have dropped out according to Media Matters :

Netflix

Deere & Co. (John Deere)

Stamps.com

PolyCom

St. Vincent’s Medical Center

Philadelphia Orchestra

Bethesda Sedation Dentistry

Cascades Dental

Goodwill

Hadeed Carpet

Service Magic

AccuQuote Life Insurance

Bare Escentuals

Vitacost

AOL

Tax Resolution Services

Heart & Body Extract

Bonobos

Sears

Allstate

Sensa (NOTE: a poster on this thread heard their ad today so they might have changed their mind )

Thompson Creek

ProFlowers

Carbonite

Geico

Sleep Train

Sleep Number

LegalZoom

Citrix

Quicken Loans


14 posted on 03/06/2012 12:38:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind (question)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rush should have called her a t*** and a c*** since no one reacted when Governor Palin was called those names...


15 posted on 03/06/2012 12:39:29 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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[[”We understand that some of our customers are concerned that Amberen ads are still airing on the Rush Limbaugh show. Lunada Biomedical assures you that we take these concerns to heart!]]

But yet they’d no such ‘heartfelt’ symapthy for people who voice concerns over amberen advertsiing on sites that encourage immoral behavior I’m assuming?


16 posted on 03/06/2012 12:39:49 PM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: goodwithagun

I’m annoyed as well.

Hypocrits, all.

Wish I used their products so I could cancel.

Only Pro Flowers and my daughter uses them. Maybe I can influence her to stop.

It’s spit in the ocean anyway. Rush will get plenty of sponsors to take their place, I remember when Orange Juice and Snapple bailed. Did anyone miss them?


17 posted on 03/06/2012 12:40:01 PM PST by altura
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To: SeekAndFind

Haven’t heard any commercials lately from any of these fools.


18 posted on 03/06/2012 12:40:37 PM PST by rep-always
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To: SeekAndFind

Haven’t heard any commercials lately from any of these fools.


19 posted on 03/06/2012 12:41:05 PM PST by rep-always
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s time to become a bulldog like Breitbart.

So . . .

— get busy letting advertisers who have dropped the show know that you have dropped them.

— start pressuring conservative-leaning companies to pick up the slack.

The only reason these boycotts work is because one side is noisier than the other.

Conservatives are, quite simply, nicer than liberals. So they aren’t as effective.


20 posted on 03/06/2012 12:42:08 PM PST by Jedidah
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