Posted on 04/19/2012 11:47:11 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
NOW Launches "Enough Rush" Campaign Directed at Local Advertisers, Radio Stations
April 19, 2012
Today, the National Organization for Women is launching the "Enough Rush" campaign, which aims to deliver the powerful message to Rush Limbaugh and his apologists that bullying is no longer profitable.
Since Limbaugh's three-day attack on law student Sandra Fluke, scores of advertisers have left the show and two radio stations have dropped Limbaugh's show. Now, through the "Enough Rush" campaign, grassroots activists across the U.S. will reach out to local businesses that continue to advertise on The Rush Limbaugh Show and local radio stations that broadcast it.
"For more than two decades, Rush Limbaugh has degraded women, people of color and anyone who doesn't look or think like him," said NOW President Terry O'Neill. "Like bullies everywhere, Limbaugh uses the age-old tactic of savaging one woman for the purpose of intimidating all women away from the public square. Rush's hostile, hateful speech is destructive to our public discourse, our communities and our democracy."
The Rush Limbaugh Show is broadcast on over 600 radio stations nationwide, syndicated by Clear Channel's Premiere Networks. Clear Channel pays Limbaugh an astounding $38 million a year to spew his hate across the airwaves, and its CEO has, thus far, refused to terminate his contract. NOW activists across the country will picket at some of the local radio affiliates that broadcast the show.
The National Organization for Women first took on Rush Limbaugh with its Flush Rush campaign in the mid-1990s, when NOW succeeded in convincing the Florida Citrus Commission not to renew its million-dollar contract with the radio host. Founded in 1966, NOW is the largest group of feminist activists in the country, with hundreds of chapters nationwide, many of which are taking part in this latest Enough Rush campaign.
"NOW is proud to stand with Sandra Fluke and everyone Limbaugh has degraded and insulted over the years," O'Neill added. "We hope that women's rights and social justice supporters around the country will join us in this campaign."
Some of the cities where protests will be held include Washington, D.C., New York City, Phoenix, Ariz., Indianapolis, Ind., Columbia, Mo., Toledo, Ohio, Grand Rapids, Mich. and West Palm Beach, Fla.
What is wrong with your u & c keys?
I’ve had enough NOW
NAGS.
I am quite sure that this will delight Rush to no end. He's in the heads of the NAGS.
According to NOW, “bullying is no longer profitable.” So what we’re going to do is bully small businesses into stop advertising with Rush. Pardon me while I choke on the irony.
According to NOW, “bullying is no longer profitable.” So what we’re going to do is bully small businesses into stopping advertising with Rush. Pardon me while I choke on the irony.
They won’t do that. Mooselims fight back. It’s easier to attack those who aren’t a real threat as any cowardly bully knows.
I remember back in the ‘80s, a major league baseball player called NOW a “bunch of lesbians” and was forced to apologize. Why should he have had to apologize? Was it not an accurate description? Was NOW not “proud” to be lesbians? Today, the lesbonazi though police crowd would sue NOW for finding the ball player’s statement an “insult.”
And let’s remember, making fun of a newborn Down’s syndrome kid is NOT BULLYING as long as his mother is a conservative Republican.
It’s great that they want to add to Rush’s promotion.
Ohhh, they are fun to play with. Let them alone. They perform a great service.
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Get over it, NOW. You’re only making yourself look more foolish.
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