Media Matters, NOW unite to force Limbaugh off the air

The Daily Caller ^ | 5/4/12 | Caroline May

[bigbob]

“Start listening to Rush Limbaugh.” That was the message representatives from Media Matters for America and the National Organization for Women delivered to NOW chapter leaders in a secret, narrowly focused strategy session Wednesday night.

In audio of the NOW/MMFA strategy webinar obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, the liberal organizations plotted the best ways to get the radio giant and veritable burr in their collective saddles off the air.

Go after the local advertisers

The key, according to Media Matters online outreach director Jay Carmona, is to target Limbaugh at the local level — specifically advertisers in local radio markets — but with an eye on his national sponsors.

“I will say, just going by the numbers, getting local stations to drop Limbaugh is actually a hard, more long-term campaign than just looking at getting local sponsors to drop,” she explained, adding that they do not need to get the conservative talker off every local station to make an impact.

The catch, however, is that women who are active with NOW and the men who support them — whom Limbaugh often needles as the NAGs (National Association of Gals) and the “new castrati” — are actually going to have to listen to his radio show in order to identify and target those local advertisers.

“The first thing you want to do is, I say, start listening to Rush Limbaugh,” Carmona advised.

[jmaroneps37]

Who?

[WashingtonSource]

Media Matters and NOW should be forced out of business. One is run by a pschopathic sociopathic humanity-hating homosexual — and the other is run by David Brock. comedy club routine/

[popdonnelly]

It’s time for those who care about free speech to get after groups like NOW and Media Matters. Bunch of petty dictators.

[VRW Conspirator]

It won't work, and will probably only increase Rush's ratings, but they're getting a little smarter.

Rush just said the other day that the advertisers that left due to the Sandra Fluke flap are asking to come back!

[NTegraT]

I know one avid LOOONNG-TIME Rush follower who has stopped ordering from a previous advertiser of his show, a certain prosessional flower hawker and another female strawberry concern. They may continue to advertise on other conservative radio programs but I don't feel like sending my dwindling money to companies who will bend so easily when the hot air blows their way.

[NTegraT]

That was supposed to be professional. Something about the auto-correct that keeps poking its nose in my business.

[Sudetenland]

That was my reaction as well. If they actually do what they are being told to do, some of them my wake up and discover that Rush actually IS right.

He has a number of converts who became so, because they discovered the truth after listening to him.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The world will be a much better place when freedom has been abolished and state apparatchiks decided what goes out on the airwaves.

We'll have to shut that Interwebs thingie down, though, and make it a one-way "pipe."

[WKUHilltopper]

Yes. They have proven, time and time again, they’re agenda driven frauds.