Let's set this straight, put it in perspecive - in a short number of words directly from Rush today..
"Now, let me put this in further perspective for you, this number of 28 or 32, and then we're gonna move on to other things. Sponsors of our program are both nationwide companies, like Two If By Tea (my tea company), and local companies, like "Mike's Auto Body Repair" or a local bank. If we added up all of our affiliates (let's choose the number 600) and we assumed that each of those affiliates had 30 such sponsors in the course of our three-hour program, there might be -- all across this country -- as many as 18,000 different sponsors of this program. Let me put it another way: There might be 18,000 different people buying advertising within this program alone."
"That is a conservative number: 600 stations, 18 commercial minutes an hour. We take whatever we take to sell ourselves and the local station keeps the rest. They have local advertisers. You add up all those over the course of 600 stations, over three hours a day, five days a week, and we're talking 18,000 different sponsors, okay? ABC News, who understands how this works and are purposely misrepresenting it, is out there ballyhooing that we have lost 28 sponsors. Twenty-eight sponsors out of 18,000! That's like losing a couple of french fries in the container when it's delivered to you at the drive-thru. You don't even notice it. If we lose 28 of those sponsors, the majority of them being in one city or another out of 18 thousand, it's a sad occurrence."
Rush also said advertisers that did leave are trying to get back on! One, 'desperately.'
That “one” is very probably carbonite. Have you looked at their stock ticker for the last four or five days?
I hope to heaven he tells both to pound sand. They made a public big-deal out of leaving. They participated in a planned attack on his show and his business...why should he let them back in now and give them another crack at it sometime down the road?
NO! They have shown the business and moral idiocy to deserve a Darwinian death - let them die!
Bingo!