Posted on 03/05/2012 9:04:47 AM PST by tulloss
It's time to fight back.
To take on Sleep Mattress, Sleep Number, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Quicken Loans, Carbonite and, now that they've caved, Pro-Flowers. And anybody else who wants to play this disgraceful blacklisting game with their customers.
To expose the hypocrisy and double standards. To make it crystal clear that that those who sell out our First Amendment rights to far left radicals are in fact going to be actively perceived as collaborating in a deliberate attack on their customers, real and potential.
It's time to stand up for free speech. To draw a line in the sand. And let these companies know that the blacklisting line stops with Rush.
It's time -- way past time -- to stand up to the blacklisting free speech bullies. By phone. By e-mail. Twitter, snail mail or whatever.
But however you do it?
It's time to Rally for Rush.
And yes, by all means: Pass it on!
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Since TWO IF BY TEA is Rush’s only sponsor, guess we’d better be buying lots of his tea !!
Breitbart Warriors UNITE !
Rush could ask for private donations to fund his show. “This segment was paid for by FReeper Tax-chick, who says, ‘Adopt a retired greyhound: they’re the perfect pet.’ “
I might listen to him, if it weren’t for the stupid ads.
Rush is on.
He said his show is being sponsored by his Twoifbuytea.
He is explaining his apology.
Rush is unwise. Every time the right gets “nice”, the left steamrolls them and continues their anti-Catholic (Christian) agenda.
Now pronounced Sandra FLUCK.
Be careful on spelling.
You must have a lot of girlfriends!!!
Rush is cowardly sniveling now on the air because he is bleeding advertisers. This is pathetic. I wrote to several advertisers stating I will never use their services again.
Stop it Rush! You’re being humiliated by the Left. Ask your listeners to step up to the plate. Everyone knows you were speaking tongue-in-cheek about Ms. Fluke. We now know that she was no 23-year old innocent student but a 30-year old seasoned leftist activist.
This makes me sick. Call the Left for what they are: pathetic liars who twisted this issue as they do every issue.
I became a ProFlowers customer when I first heard your ads on Rush Limbaughs show a few years ago. Like the other 25+ million weekly listeners to his show, I value what he says, and what he recommends.
I dont know how much business Rush has brought your company, but Ill guess its substantial. This being the case, I was beyond disappointed that ProFlowers decided to be politically correct and drop their sponsorship to Rushs show simply because Rush expressed a valid opinion about this fraud Ms. Fluke.
Just as you have made a decision that will affect Mr. Limbaugh, many more of us are also making a decision that will indeed affect you. I have made my LAST purchase from ProFlowers. Please remove my name from your database and stop the solicitation emails.
Im certainly not alone in my feelings for the politically motivated decision you have made to drop sponsorship of Rushs show over this phony outrage by people who are neither listeners to his show or your likely customers, past or future.
You might want to take a look around the blogosphere this day; outrage at your decision will have the opposite effect you had intended. Do you really think that dropping sponsorship to Rushs show in such a politically motivated way will not have financial consequences for your business?
Perhaps you believe that the Occupy Wall Street and MoveOn.org crowd who have astro-turfed this phony outrage are a better demographic for your product.
I believe that you are mistaken
G G
Key West, FL
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What would Breitbart do?
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Emailing works. The last thing any company wants is to get a bunch of “Never buy again” messages from current or prospective customers. It costs twice as much to get a customer back, after stepping in it, that it cost to get the customer the first time. Word of mouth is their best or worst advertising.
You make a good point, but be careful. Dadgummit, nearly every time I’ve disagreed with the guy...he HAS wound up proving me wrong!
Just heard Rush slobber all over himself.
We’ve lost him.
Rush violated his own sense of ethics with what he said, and now he is doing the MANLY thing and apologizing.
Nothing cowardly about it.
Guess there won’t be a whole lot of commercial breaks today, but new advertisers will soon fill up the empty spaces.
None of the companies that dropped their advertizing with Rush will ever see a dime from me, and whenever I can steer business in another direction, I will.
That's not what my ears are hearing. He's acknowledging the fact that he was out of bounds in calling Fluke a 'slut', but he's taking it to the left as usual.
There is sniveling and then there is apologizing. He is calling them liars. He was accurate at the time in calling her a _______, but he is also correct in saying he should not have stooped down to being a commie-leftist like Maher, David Letterman. or even Obama, for that matter.
Calling her a name wasn’t the thing to do. It’s one of those speaking in the moment without thinking things we all do. IMO there’s no cowardice involved.
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