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lame54

(35,302 posts)
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 03:19 PM Mar 2012

Limbaugh's New Advertisers?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/03/07/companies_looking_to_separate_fools_from_their_money_see_potential_in_limbaugh_.html

Companies like Ashley Madison, a website for adulterers and wannabe adulterers, and Seeking Arrangements, a website for men who hire younger "girlfriends" or at least like to imagine they could, have signaled that they want a piece of Limbaugh's audience. While previous advertisers like AOL and Netflix appealed to jerks and non-jerks alike, these businesses have a douche-centered business model that really could benefit from reaching out directly to the angry misogynists that have kept Limbaugh's coffers flowing with illegal Viagra and Cuban cigars.

as it turns out the original editorial was an Onion style parody - but that didn't keep Rush from digging his hole deeper

Limbaugh’s Latest Female Target: ‘B-i-itchy’ Washington Post Writer
By Alex Seitz-Wald on Mar 8, 2012 at 1:21 pm
After targeting Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke last week and journalist Tracie McMillan this week, Limbaugh turned his sites on Washington Post comedy writer Alexandra Petri today. Petri wrote a column for the Post’s comedy section yesterday, but Limbaugh apparently had a bit of an Onion problem and assumed Petri was a reporter, not a satirist.
Limbaugh attacks the “so-called reporter” (she’s not actually called that) for inserting her “b-i-itchy opinion” into her “reporting” (which was not actually reporting). Again, Limbaugh apparently can’t help but use gendered slurs to attack his female critics. Listen to the audio via Media Matters: http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/08/440868/limbaugh-washington-post-writer/
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Erose999

(5,624 posts)
1. I bet those companies who make those bedazzled MMA T-shirts, and Axe body spray wre also jumping at
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 03:23 PM
Mar 2012

at the chance to advertise to the all douchebag demographic.
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
5. Just to keep things in perspective...
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 04:32 PM
Mar 2012

...some of the DU ads are 'Date Hot, Sexy Women Now!'. Not that I'm opposed to that.

groundloop

(11,520 posts)
2. Birds of a Feather ......
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 03:24 PM
Mar 2012

It seems that these people are a good fit for Rush, he ought to be very comfortable with them as business associates.

cherish44

(2,566 posts)
6. If I were a radio staton that had to fill up Rush's empty air time
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 05:44 PM
Mar 2012

I'd use birth control pill commercials

Initech

(100,093 posts)
7. I can't wait until the sleazier dating sites start advertising on his show.
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 05:48 PM
Mar 2012

Like the Online Booty Calls of the world, and Trojan vibrators, and the really sleazy diploma mills and shit like that. It'll be douche central.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
8. Like Penis Depot
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 05:56 PM
Mar 2012
http://www.penisdepot.com/electricpenispump.html?gclid=CPT5uLmk2K4CFQJdhwodhCuccg

Yeah, there's actually a store by that name that sells penis pumps; mega electric pumps for guys like Limbaugh who need online porn from ladies like Sandra Fluke and viagra and still can't get it to function.

nolabear

(41,990 posts)
9. Her response to Rush (that master of the satirical) in today's Post is priceless.
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 05:58 PM
Mar 2012

And wouldn't it be nice if I had the brains to link to it.

Somebody?

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