Posted on 03/06/2012 7:54:45 PM PST by Ballygrl
Here's something you probably thought you'd never see.
Vulgarian Bill Maher Tuesday actually came out on Twitter in defense of - wait for it! - conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh:
Bill Maher @billmaher
Hate to defend #RushLimbaugh but he apologized, liberals looking bad not accepting. Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout
So, why do you think he did this?
In the wake of the Limbaugh-Sandra Fluke controversy, Maher's coming under a lot of pressure from conservative groups for his vulgar attacks on women.
Despite his claim Friday that he's different from Limbaugh because he doesn't have any sponsors, he knows this is nonsense.
HBO makes money from subscriptions, and it's far easier for such patrons to directly make their negative opinions known to a company than in a traditional boycott. You call up your cable provider and drop the channel. Simple.
As such, one gets the feeling there may have been a lot of that lately in response to advertisers dropping Rush.
Just as Limbaugh likely started getting pressure from stations and his advisers before his apology Saturday, you can bet Maher has been told by people inside HBO and business managers that he needs to put his finger in this dike before it explodes all over him.
Maher's probably beginning to realize that if Limbaugh continues to lose sponsors and stations, he'll come under even more pressure which could force HBO to dump him.
Take it from someone that watches Maher almost every time he's on television - this man hates Rush Limbaugh. He'd only be defending him to prevent financial loss. Period!
And, if this tweet doesn't stop the bleeding, there might be something more closely resembling a real mea culpa in the days to come.
Stay tuned.
Inside Bill Maher's mouth.
“The sponsors have just begun to pay for their bad judgement, or should I say lose from it.”
Many of the sponsors announced they were “suspending”, not ending their advertising on Rush’s program. It may be they planned to temporarily stop advertising until the storm blew over and then quietly resume. No doubt many of these advertisers are now experiencing sales losses due to the lower level of messaging to an important target audience as well as the backlash effect from angry Rush listeners.
If any of these companies are publicly traded, and experience a sales decline so significant it has to be declared in their public SEC filings, management could be vulnerable to shareholder lawsuits claiming management was not acting in the interest of shareholders when it decided to stop the advertising. If conservatives want to play hard ball, the best way would be tangling these companies up in expensive shareholder lawsuits. Are there any conservative tort attorneys willing to go the class action route on this?
The apology was the only way to reload the trap and the libs fell right in. Kicking it back in Rush’s face let even stupid people know that this was a setup from the get-go. Besides, calling her a “slut” was a reach anyway, as sluthood implies that there are males that would have sex with this harpy in the first place.
Which is exactly why he will never apologize to Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, or any other Conservative woman he has trashed. He knows he will lose the far left whack job drones who watch him
No thank you. Rush doesn’t need dirtbag like Maher sticking up for him. He can step off..long ago. Nobody carries his water, except his listeners and supporters.
Niet try, Maher...it won’t work.
I’m not sure if Landmark Legal Foundation (Mark Levin’s group) does tort...but it would be an interesting question...
Mark, would LLF be interested in this?
For some reason I thought it was next door to Bulgaria. LOL!
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