Advertisers bail from Rush Limbaugh show (Carbonite)

politico ^ | 3/2/12

[Nachum]

Three advertisers on Rush Limbaugh’s popular radio show Friday announced that they are pulling their ads, and other companies are expressing concern over customer outrage in the wake of the conservative host’s controversial “slut” comments this week.

“We don’t condone negative comments directed toward any group. In response, we are currently pulling our ads from Rush with Rush Limbaugh,” the company Sleep Train Mattress Centers announced on its Twitter account early Friday.

The company began tweeting at some of its followers starting around midnight, telling multiple Twitter users, “Thank you for your concern. We are currently pulling all of our ads with Rush Limbaugh.”

All of the company’s tweets announcing its decision met grateful responses from the Twitter world.

“I have to buy a frame this weekend. Now I know where to go. Thank you for refusing to support Rush’s hatred,” @djimenez9 tweeted.

“Thank you @theSleepTrain for not supporting misogyny. You’re a good egg,” said @FlightyWendy.

[HereInTheHeartland]

So where is the organized boycott against these companies for their actions against Rush?

[Mr Rogers]

I looked at Carbonite, and then bought a cheap external hard drive. I back up data files 1/month. If I lose whatever music or pictures I added in the last 20 days, for example...oh well.

At $90 for a 1,000 Gigabyte hard drive (http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-External-WDBAAU0010HBK-NESN/dp/B002QEBMB4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1330879454&sr=8-3), I see no reason to pay Carbonite to keep files for me.

[Nachum]

Well, via Rush site I purchased Carbonite several months ago. What do I do now? Will not renew when subscription ends is all I can think to do.

That, and your comments here have more power than you know. :)

[knarf]

Yeah, I've lost in a fire also.

Don't want, nor meean to get into a pissing match with you ... jus' sayin'

I don't use any back up.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Isn’t it great being old fashioned?! You still have control of your stuff.

It just creeps me out that Conservatives complain about the gov controlling everything meanwhile they use the products that allows the gov to control and track them. Just because something is easy and quick to use doesn’t make it safe.

I recall when Rush used to laugh at facebook... and now he’s using it.

[gnawbone]

I’m not that disappointed that he apologized - for a couple of reasons. One: he does not need to fan the flames of a fake distraction, which is all that this is. The left would be more than glad for this to go on and on and on. And two: I don’t call people sluts in private, polite company, or in public and he didn’t need to either. The minute it came out of his mouth he should have pulled it back and apologized for “getting a little too intense”. It just wasn’t necessary.

As a matter of fact this whole thing about her being a slut and having a lot of recreational sex was hyperbole to begin with. I heard some number that was something like she would have had to have sex 2.74 (or whatever) times a day, and while that might truly make someone a “slut”, she never said she used condoms - I think everyone, including Rush, knew she meant birth control pills which, depending on where you get them and whether you have insurance, etc. could cost $30, $40, $80 - I don’t know - a month.

I just wished he would have been more selective with his words. I hate seeing our side defending something like this. And just because Bill Maher (sic) calls Sarah Palin something doesn’t mean we get a free one - that just makes us the same. Stay on the economy, gas prices, crony capitalism, Iran, etc.

[gnawbone]

I have a similar approach except I take it to an obsessive / compulsive level (I have no choice - its who I am).

I have an iMac and MacBook Pro and I use Time Machine to back them up to an Apple “Time Capsule”, that is step one. Step two, I copy all of my Pictures, Music, and Documents folders to 3 different USB drives. One is connect at all times to the iMac, the second one is sitting if my den not connected to anything so that a power surge doesn’t take it out, and the 3rd one is at work. I bring it home every couple of months and copy stuff to it and take it back the next day - that way if my house burns down I still have all the pics of my grand kids and my 60s music.

The last thing I do is copy all my music and pictures to DVDs - just in case some big magnet mysteriously follows me around. OK, obviously I don’t know exactly why I do the DVDs but you can never be sure ....... sigh ....

[annieokie]

Yes, I saw that last night, while scrolling the other threads. This has become a nightmare. One true word and he's is being crushed.

[proudpapa]

This is probably the best time EVER to start a fresh advertising campaign with Rush.

[DH]

I called Carbonite and they had restored everything in about 36 hours.

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You could have restored your files in 20 minutes with a backup hard drive and kept your confidentiality forever.