The sponsors have just begun to pay for their bad judgement, or should I say lose from it. This is still a game that two should play, and the game requires that sponsors of leftist media shows get boycotted. Maybe Bill Maher has already felt some heat. Sounds like he is trying to head off trouble at the pass.
“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?