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Reaction from the WGAN facebook:
—Thanks for standing by your conservative fans!
—Please stop enabling Rush Limbaugh. Thank you.
—Where where the far left dingbats when Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a c*nt? The day of reckoning will come.
—Thanks for NOT submitting to the cyber bullies who are trying to censor free speech. Rush Limbaugh may not be my cup of tea but we need to have an open discussion of issues, not just those that are politically correct. He brings up topics that those on the far left do not want people to know about, let alone talk about. If for that reason alone, he needs to stay on the air.
—Your sponsors are on notice, WGAN. Dump Rush Limbaugh or I will e-mail and boycott any company that pays your station for advertising. Rush Limbaugh is drug addict who has no business judging others when his life is such a mess!

http://www.facebook.com/560WGAN

Another post is from someone who likes Stephen King’s prog talk station

(The author of the post above owns WJTO in Bath, ME
and WJIB in Cambridge MA. I believe both are commercially licensed but he prefers to do fundraising drives to support his easy listening music. He’s on the left to be sure,
and on his stations you will actually hear his voice saying things like, “Cut up your credit cards. Most of the companies are evil.” Anyway, note that WGAN which runs
Rush—and also Howie Carr—is standing by him, despite this petition.)

Howie Carr list ping

For some strange reason, a lot of people incorrectly think the First Amendment protects their right to say whatever they want. If they believe that, they should test it by yelling in their boss’s face. We do have the right to say whatever we want, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be repercussions.

More reaction from WGAN facebook

—Keep Rush on your station! Liberals will stoop to all levels to dismiss the words of truth and justice. Wake up, Mainers.... Our state doesn’t need to follow the rhetoric of the rest of the countries media hype......let Maine lead!

—Freedom of speech. Remember these groups insisting you take Rush off the air are as anti American as you can get. Their ultimate goal is destruction of everything in our society. Never give in to the bullies who are so intolerant of others opinions.

(I will add, freedom of choice. Those who don’t like it can turn to—oh wait, their prog. talk station flopped and is playing oldies now. OK, don’t like Rush I guess you can tune to taxpayer funded NPR...—rr)

—As long as your radio station continues to support Rush Limbaugh,
I will no longer tune to WGAN...This is not about free speech, this is about supporting an ignorant bully who has a public forum from which to spew his venom...If you condem bullying in schools, why do you allow it on your station?

(Um, did you hear what libtalker Randi Rhodes said?
Conservative women shouldn’t be allowed to have ovaries?)