Ads Rushing Out Of Limbaugh Show?

CBS MarketWatch.com ^ | 01/29/2003 | William Spain

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I say we send polite emails with the subject line
"I SUPPORT RUSH LIMBAUGH" to

Radio Shack
media.relations@radioshack.com

Bose
https://secure-www.bose.com/cgi-bin/contact_us/message_in?country=none

Red Lobster
http://www.redlobster.com/contact.asp

Pfizer
equiserve@equiserve.com

Autozone
investor.relations@autozone.com

Overstock.com
corporateinfo@overstock.com

[Mamzelle]

Here's how I sent it...

Subject line....Rush Limbaugh rocks

Short message....I understand you've been the target of an email campaign designed to discourage sponsorship of Rush Limbaugh's radio show. A business should only use its sales numbers in deciding on how to budget and manage advertising. If Rush sells for you, that ought to be the criteria.

I'd like to point out that Rush's audience is made up of more than conservatives, but it is the conservatives that "make America work" and thus have a little disposable income due to thrift, ambition and a fondness for the capitalist freedoms.

I hope you'll continue to sponsor him. I listen to him regularly, as do twenty million other Americans.

Thanks for your time...

[Destructor]

"He just went too far," said Stinson. "Don't call me anti-American. I served this country."

So? Benedict Arnold served this country Mr. Stinson even before it was a country. Does that make him any less of a traitor?

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[jackbill]

"Don't call me anti-American. I served this country."

Notice that the article called him a "Vietnam-era" veteran. That typically means that he served elsewhere, perhaps just in the USA.

[martin gibson]

Progressive? Call them what they are, socialists.

Howlin, I get real tired of posting this...

Ms. Spain and her fellow-traveling, lick-spittle lackey comrades are not 'Socialists'. Neither are they 'leftists', or 'progressives' or 'liberals' or any other such newspeak bullshit.

They are hard-core, unrepentant 'neo-Stalinists' and nothing but.

Geeze, I could really use some help down here in the language war.

[SERE_DOC]

"Micheal Stinson, a Vietnam-era veteran,"

Funny his name doesn't sound Vietnamese..

I guess maybe he changed it after he immigrated from North Vietnam.

[mathluv]

That was her TV program. She is still on the radio.

[mathluv]

Use the email at the bottom of the page to send a response to CBS.

[Media Insurgent]

If I were CBS, I'd be very careful about instructing the public on how to conduct a boycott of a media outlet. I certainly wouldn't want to make the people doing so out to be heroes. They're really playing with fire on this.

[leprechaun9]

Remember the other Kerry, Bob that is, the Senator from Nebraska. Before casting his deciding vote that created the tie (allowed AlBore to cast the deciding vote)on the 1993 Huge Tax Increases, He said, "This budget is bad for the American People, but I will not allow the other side (Reps) to bring down my President (Billy Clintoon)!"

His also served his country and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but over time sold out his soul to become another pimp of the election industry!

[ez]

So, can a few scrappy liberals really hurt him?

The "Christian" right's attack on "NYPD Blue" in the early 1990s, on the other hand, was a complete failure. It initially scared off some marketers but the program's ratings and demographics were so good that it attracted business from sectors that don't sell to religious nuts anyway -- including movies, beer, cosmetics, designer clothing, etc.

Boycotters of Rush ar scrappy liberals...boycotters of NYPD Blue are religious nuts.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Thanks for the links.

Bose has been with Rush for years. He's done a lot for that company.

[smith288]

Plenty of Corps out there that dont care as long as the listeners are in large numbers.

[Guillermo]

I'm sure your questions already been answered, but, they've been trying for years to do just that.

[Constitutional Patriot]

"Kicked off last week on the website of a group called Take Back The Media, the effort is generating a growing buzz among online progressives (or, if you prefer, "liberals") "

...or how about cultural marxists and socialists who hate America!!?!?

[Space Wrangler]

Somebody better remind these advertisers that Rush Limbaugh's audience are all people who have jobs, and therefore disposable income to spend on their products. The people boycotting them are much more likely to be jobless, and anti-capitalism, and certainly would be much less likely to be their customers in the first place. These companies that take such a strong stance about not advertising on Limbaugh's show better realize that that particular blade cuts both ways.

[Colonel_Flagg]

progressives typically eschew ad boycotts

Amen to your comments re: the above. Maybe someone should run this past the Augusta National people and when they stop laughing, we could ask their opinion.

[rintense]

Make no mistake. This is all being managed and organized by the DNC.