Flush Rush! Limpballs losing advertisers like crazy!

[Bennyboy]

“We wanted to know who her owner was, and we wanted to know how much he got for her.... She might have outlived her usefulness on the plantation,” Limbaugh declared. “I mean, [you] never know, child-rearing years are over so maybe her value had plummeted.” ~Limbaugh, February 14, 2013 in reference to Black US Congresswoman, Shelia Jackson Lee

He thinks he's getting away with comments like this. He's not. Last month I published a diary about his sponsors leaving, http://www.dailykos.com/... and it received over 18k facebook likes/shares. People are hungry - starving to see him go, and thousands of consumers are contacting his sponsors via StopRush.net and signing petitions like the one below. Organizations like Daily Kos, UniteWomen.org, Planned Parenthood, Media Matters and other groups, are exposing Limbaugh for who and what he is. His behavior is that of a racist, sexist, gay-hating, lying bigot. This is not me, 'name-calling'. This is truth in media, and backed up by Limbaugh's very own words in audio/video.

The good news? In one month, over 300 more sponsors have pulled ads, now totaling over 2,500.



More at link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/17/1187561/-Limbaugh-Is-Losing-With-Each-Hateful-Word-More-Sponsors-Leave-300-Left-Last-Month-Total-2-500?showAll=yes

[Initech]

1. Rush has admitted to reading/trolling DU so I will say something:

Hey Rush!!! The Reagan era is officially over!! You lost. Reagan's anti woman and anti worker policies are going to die with him. Shut the fuck up and get off the airwaves. KTHXBYE.

Now you probably want to kick back and go on a Caribbean Oxycontin and Viagra sex trade bender or something.

[BillF]

2. Whoa! He said THAT?! Years ago he was a...

guilty pleasure and occasionally hilarious. Yeah, he was rightwing, but he was funny and we could live with it.

What sent him down this horrific road of outright hatred and misery? Haven't listened in years and never knew he was heading this far down into the depths of depravity.

Is he so desperate to be heard he has to resort to this sort of Aryan Nations filth to make an impact?

Keep it up and lose all your advertisers. Then rattle around in that mansion all by yourself muttering madly.

See if you can get Donald Trump to move in with you if you need company.

[louis-t]

3. What sent him down this road?

Guys like Glenn Beck and a couple hundred other wannabes. They have to out-crazy each other.

[BillF]

5. Good point. I vaguely remember a tipping point...

when Bush the First had him share a pedestal and he started hanging with GOP bigwigs, like he was a part of the action. He changed from a comic to a pundit about then, and gained a huge audience although he was no longer funny and still wrong about everything.

Now he has to compete not only with Beck, but with asshole congresscritters who announce that women have a way cure themselves of pregnancy. And governors who claim our problem is that the rich have too little money while the poor have too much-- a problem they are working mightily to solve.

The good news is that the lowered ratings of Limpy, Hannity, and others show the country is waking up after its dalliance with conservative bullshit, but the bad news is that it took so long.

[rustydog]

4. He was never a guilty pleasure, he has remained the same since day one

A nasty, highly-paid piece of right-wing dung who is/was addicted to pain killers and apparently likes gigantic supplies of viagra while visiting questionable "vacation" spots.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Cheap Channel Still Has 40 Million Reasons To Keep Him...

You are right, rushbo has become toxic for many advertisers and its hurting not just hate radio but Progressive radio as well. Cash-strapped corporates are dumping the format for "safer" sports talk formats across the country. But that doesn't mean rushbo's going anywhere. He's like the "franchise" player who goes south...the A Rod of radio. He's being paid too much money to be pulled off the air...Cheap Channel and Premiere can't afford to keep him but they can't afford to buy him out either. So there he'll sit...continuing to ruin the rushpublican brand for anyone who isn't an angry old white guy.

The interesting fact is that since rushbo began his bile spewing in '88 the rushpublicans have only won the popular vote twice and a plurality only once. Most rushpublican politicians are too scared of rushbo and the hate mail he can generate...I'm fine with him continuing to wag the dog...it keeps meaning rushpublican losses.

Cheers...

[Bake]

7. He actually does a great deal of good ... FOR OUR SIDE!!

But honestly, how many advertisers does he have to lose before he gets pulled from the airwaves?

Bake