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PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:44 AM Mar 2012

Rush Limbaugh Advertiser Sleep Train Pulls Commercials In Wake Of Sandra Fluke 'Slut' Firestorm

Source: Huffington Post

One of Rush Limbaugh's advertisers announced Friday that it was pulling all of its commercials from his radio show in the wake of Limbaugh's incendiary comments about a female law student and contraception.

After being bombarded on Twitter, mattress store Sleep Train said that it would no longer advertise during Limbaugh's top-rated show following days of outrage over Limbaugh's statements about Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown student who was denied a chance to speak at a Congressional hearing about birth control.

"We are pulling our ads with Rush Limbaugh and appreciate the community's feedback," the company wrote in a tweet.

Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute," saying that she was having "so much sex" that she wanted the government to pay for her contraception. Then, he went further, saying, " if we're going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/rush-limbaugh-sleep-train-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1315900.html?ref=media



Women make the majority of household purchase decisions. Advertisers should RUN from such a blatant misogynist.
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Rush Limbaugh Advertiser Sleep Train Pulls Commercials In Wake Of Sandra Fluke 'Slut' Firestorm (Original Post) PA Democrat Mar 2012 OP
GREAT ! pangaia Mar 2012 #1
I don't know, but Beckistan BlueToTheBone Mar 2012 #3
She's a George Town Law student xtraxritical Mar 2012 #40
I would hope she not only condones, but asks BlueToTheBone Mar 2012 #42
Every year Limbaugh Kelvin Mace Mar 2012 #2
I agree with you Ty Templeton Mar 2012 #37
Sorry to be so long answering Kelvin Mace Mar 2012 #51
Long Time DU reader Ty Templeton Mar 2012 #52
Glad to find you on the "good guy's" side! Kelvin Mace Mar 2012 #56
We should acknowledge those advertisers who do respond to input like this. Let them know that gateley Mar 2012 #4
A list of advertisers KansDem Mar 2012 #5
Thanks KansDem. PA Democrat Mar 2012 #7
Thanks for the information. avebury Mar 2012 #14
Thank you, Sleeptrain. JDPriestly Mar 2012 #19
see my post #21 regarding LendingTree UpInArms Mar 2012 #22
Carbonite? nxylas Mar 2012 #27
Some of these Companies are Big SPAMMERS AndyTiedye Mar 2012 #30
I think ProFlowers, usrname Mar 2012 #32
thanks for that list lovemydog Mar 2012 #35
You can cross Auto Zone off this list sarcasmo Mar 2012 #46
Auto Zone is not advertising anymore? Good! wordpix Mar 2012 #54
i wrote to Auto Zone, no reply wordpix Mar 2012 #53
I think that list is old. Carbonite and Proflowers dropped. Incitatus Mar 2012 #59
That's a start, now for the remaining sponsors. n/t Lil Missy Mar 2012 #6
good news OKNancy Mar 2012 #8
That's what happens when you fling feces Mr. Drugee Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2012 #9
Life imitating Art no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #10
Andy Griffith PSPS Mar 2012 #17
My bad. Sorry. no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #47
I can't get the stupid Twitter search to work wryter2000 Mar 2012 #11
Try @TheSleepTrain PA Democrat Mar 2012 #12
They are: @theSleepTrain onehandle Mar 2012 #13
Thank you both wryter2000 Mar 2012 #16
Flush Limpballs is so hungry for new porn video mazzarro Mar 2012 #15
I'm giving this a Rec for getting "Pulls" and "Train" in the subject line slackmaster Mar 2012 #18
He has a big sponsor that will never leave: SHRED Mar 2012 #20
Well, all the more reason to deprive him of all the other sponsors. calimary Mar 2012 #28
Response from LendingTree - UpInArms Mar 2012 #21
Thanks for the update! KansDem Mar 2012 #23
Happy as I am they pulled their FLSurfer Mar 2012 #24
Off Topic But Important Mudville9 Mar 2012 #25
Excellent! Good to know! calimary Mar 2012 #29
My note to Autozone Demonaut Mar 2012 #26
Good for you lunatica Mar 2012 #31
mebbe not, awaiting a reply but I just read on the net' that they've not advertised on Rush's show Demonaut Mar 2012 #33
That's what their auto-response to me said: harris8 Mar 2012 #50
Thank you, SN! iarose Mar 2012 #34
I can't help but note again caseymoz Mar 2012 #36
but don't get complacent, the stoopid will rise again wordpix Mar 2012 #55
I'm just encouraged. nt caseymoz Mar 2012 #57
Sleep Number beds also pulld advertising Fla Dem Mar 2012 #38
Advertiser boycott I made the call to AutoZone - Best # at the Advertising Dept is: 901-495-7123 vkkv Mar 2012 #39
autozone and dominos both say they dont advertise on limpdicks show rdking647 Mar 2012 #41
OOOoooops! MrMickeysMom Mar 2012 #43
Obama joins in denouncing Rush Limbaugh's slur of student-- Wash Post: felix_numinous Mar 2012 #44
Thanks to the Internet, public outrage just might take down this wind bag. sarcasmo Mar 2012 #45
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Mar 2012 #48
Spam deleted by Stinky The Clown (MIR Team) dfgrehe Mar 2012 #49
The Hypocrisy of Premiere/Clear Channel Julian Englis Mar 2012 #58
 

xtraxritical

(3,576 posts)
40. She's a George Town Law student
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 06:46 PM
Mar 2012

and the faculty responded publicly in her defense. I propose that the high powered attorneys on the faculty take up, for her, a law suit against Limpbaug for damages for defamation of character and libel. If, of course, Ms. Fluke condones it.

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
2. Every year Limbaugh
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:50 AM
Mar 2012

lowers the bar of civility, and every year, he is able to find more bottom feeders to sponsor him.

This "I didn't know I was advertising on Limbaugh" excuse is lame.

Ty Templeton

(26 posts)
37. I agree with you
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 06:29 PM
Mar 2012

I just wanted to jump on here and agree with you about what you said about Limbaugh, and more importantly, to agree with your online name and your icon. As the creator of Kelvin Mace, it tickles me no end of pink to see someone using him as an alias. Who are you? How did this happen? Are you someone I actually know in real life, or is this just a character you know about through his extremely rare comic appearances? Kelvin's Daddy is breathless to meet you!

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
51. Sorry to be so long answering
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 03:38 PM
Mar 2012

I was at a local con this weekend with some old friends I hadn't been to a con with in 15+ years, and just checked my posts now.

I am honored to meet you and am a BIG fan of KM when it came out as a comic and I STILL have issues #1 and #2 which I have passed along for reading to my nieces and nephews over the years.

Back in the 80's I worked in a comic store and wrote a review zine called "Snakes Eye View". When I started posting to various boards (I started here in 2002) it was a name I picked to avoid confusion with DU's founder (Skinner, whose real name is David Allen, as is mine). I went back a few years ago and scanned the comic to create the avatar.

I have occasionally ran into folk who recognize the name (as opposed to thinking I just misspelled "Kevin&quot and that has always been a treat, but now this it much cooler!

I notice you just signed on to DU, did someone mention my handle or did you stumble across via me via a Google search (My posts here have been linked to quite a bit. and they were tracking around 4th or 5th for the name last time I looked)?

I was a big fan of Stig's Inferno as well!

Glad to see you are still working in comics. Would love to see KM make a comeback.

David

Ty Templeton

(26 posts)
52. Long Time DU reader
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 11:26 AM
Mar 2012

I stumbled across you because I've been reading Democratic Underground for years and years, it's one of my favourite sites, (along with Crooks and Liars, Talking Points Memo, Smirking Chimp and HuffPo) but I lurk, I don't post. The other day, while scrolling through the responses I saw your avatar and freaked out. Kelvin Mace is one of my more obscure characters and it took me a second to realize it was, in fact, the cover to #2! Glad to hear you're a comic guy. And I'm surprised I hadn't seen this before, as I really do read DU daily (though I have to admit I'm not as thrilled with the new format change. It used to be my primary source for political video clips, now, not so much...).

Nice to meet you electronically.

I'd love to see Mace make a comeback as well, but I'm currently busy as I can be creating some Spider-Man stuff for Marvel and I have a Batman thing coming up. I have four kids and feeding them is a higher priority than publishing the obscure stuff that doesn't have the sales. Though now, apparently, the DU crowd might know who Mace and the Fixer are! Klaus Shoenefeld would have been proud.

Ty the Guy

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
56. Glad to find you on the "good guy's" side!
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 04:46 PM
Mar 2012


I toddle around here, DKos, C&L, TPM, AmericaBlog and my own site where I have been posting since 2002.

If you ever get the time to bring Kelvin back, sign me up as a subscriber. I know he is "obscure" but I actually think he was a bit ahead of his time, and current culture might be more friendly toward him.

You might consider re-working him as an online strip, which means you have about 6-8 weeks of material from the first two issues.

Hell, I'd be willing to take a crack at a script for him in that format. I do have some writing cred, and some humor writing chops to boot (see billanddavesro.com, if you wish).

Kelvin was one of the few strips that made me laugh out loud (the other was Cerebus, before Dave Sim lost his mind).

I am digging around in storage this weekend to find my KM's and give them another read.

David

gateley

(62,683 posts)
4. We should acknowledge those advertisers who do respond to input like this. Let them know that
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:52 AM
Mar 2012

we support their action and will use their services/products in the future if possible.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
5. A list of advertisers
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:55 AM
Mar 2012
http://www.topplebush.com/boycott_rush.shtml

Quicken Loans - confirmed sponsor
1050 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226
Client Relations - (800) 863-4332
and: (800) 251-9080
also: you can chat online

Century 21 Real Estate LLC - confirmed sponsor
International Headquarters
1 Campus Drive
Parsippany, NJ 07054
Web contact form


ProFlowers
Email
Web contact form
Sales or Service: 1-800-580-2913
Phone: 800.580.2913

Sleep Train (Mattress Center)
4350 Warehouse Ct., Ste 100
North Highlands, CA 95660
Phone: (800) 919-2337
Fax: (866) 293-5719
Web contact form



eharmony
300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111
Pasadena, CA 91101
media@eharmony.com
Web contact form
Email
626.795.4814
FAX 626.585.4040


CARBONITE, Inc.
617-587-1100
177 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
carbonite@mailnj.custhelp.com
Direct Dial Office: 617-587-1100 EXT:1115

Sleep Number Bed
Select Comfort Corporation - confirmed and long-time advertiser
6105 Trenton Lane N
Minneapolis, MN 55442
Phone: 763-551-7000
Fax: 763-551-7826
800-438-2233
investorrelations@selectcomfort.com


Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners
Oreck Corporation
100 Plantation Road
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123
Online contact form
800-289-5888

Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee
9151 Grapevine Hwy.
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Phone (800) 733-1110
(web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)

AutoZone Inc.
901-495-7185; Fax: 901-495-8374
P.O. Box 2198, Memphis, TN 38101
investor.relations@autozone.com

LegalZoom.com - confirmed and long-time advertiser
800-773-0888; Fax: 323-962-8300
Site has a Web Form

Citrix Online (GoToMyPC)
6500 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117
Phone: 805-690-6400; Fax: 805-690-6471
info@citrixonline.com

American Forces Network
Contact Us: @MyAFN.net

Mission Pharmacal Company
10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000
P.O. Box 786099
San Antonio, TX 78278-6099
Telephone: (800) 531-3333
Bennett Kennedy - Citracal Product Manager

Life Quotes, Inc.
32045 Castle Court
Evergreen, CO 80439
1-800-670-5433
info@lifequotes.com.au

Lending Tree
(704) 541-5351
Online Contact page

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
7. Thanks KansDem.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 12:01 PM
Mar 2012

I've already contacted ProFlowers and Orreck since I am a past customer of both. Will work on the others.

avebury

(10,946 posts)
14. Thanks for the information.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 12:37 PM
Mar 2012

I am going to email/contact as many as I can. In some instances (home buying, dating, etc.) women are necessary to the continuing success of some of these businesses and I won't hesitate to point that out.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
27. Carbonite?
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:23 PM
Mar 2012

I guess Darth Vader wasn't evil enough for them any more, since Lucas turned him into a whiny emo brat.

AndyTiedye

(23,500 posts)
30. Some of these Companies are Big SPAMMERS
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 04:22 PM
Mar 2012

If you send email to Lending Tree or eharmony, expect to get lots of spam spam spam spam

 

usrname

(398 posts)
32. I think ProFlowers,
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 04:44 PM
Mar 2012

eHarmony and Select Number Bed and LegalZoom should get out soon. They cater to people who may want to have a harmonious love life and one party to the life life ain't going to be offering if the other party uses or used these services or products.

no_hypocrisy

(45,777 posts)
10. Life imitating Art
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 12:16 PM
Mar 2012

In A Face In The Crowd, a sponsor that's a mattress company, pulls its advertising on the TV program that features Lonesome Roads (Andy Griffin) after he unwittingly goes on the air to denigrate his audience with comments that they're stupid enough to eat dog food if he told them to do it.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
16. Thank you both
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 12:45 PM
Mar 2012

Last edited Fri Mar 2, 2012, 01:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Now, I have to find Proflowers. I got an answer from there that they don't agree with Limbaugh's views and will communicate my feelings to Limbaugh's sponsors. Not good enough.

I would normally buy flowers for my s-i-l's birthday from them in May. They just lost my business.

mazzarro

(3,450 posts)
15. Flush Limpballs is so hungry for new porn video
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 12:44 PM
Mar 2012

That he is begging for one at this time? And the right-wing christian nuts still count this depraved MF as one of their own and a leader at that! Shame on the G.O.P. (Greedy Old Perverts).

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
18. I'm giving this a Rec for getting "Pulls" and "Train" in the subject line
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 12:50 PM
Mar 2012

Though not quite in the proper order.

calimary

(80,700 posts)
28. Well, all the more reason to deprive him of all the other sponsors.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:25 PM
Mar 2012

Let's work on all the other ones - that we have a better chance of actually reaching.

UpInArms

(51,253 posts)
21. Response from LendingTree -
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 02:02 PM
Mar 2012

"LendingTree is not a current paid advertiser of the Rush Limbaugh program. We understand the customer feedback and concern regarding comments recently made by Rush Limbaugh on the program. However, we are not a sponsor and have no plans to sponsor the program in the future.

Thank you for your interest and concern."

FLSurfer

(431 posts)
24. Happy as I am they pulled their
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 02:42 PM
Mar 2012

advertising dollars from the show, this is bullshit.
These companies know who Rush is. He is a reprehensible piece
of shit.
Pulling their advertising AFTER he calls a woman a slut? Did they believe
words like that would neve come out of his mouth?
Applaud them all you want. I will never shop at any of his PAST or present
sponsors.

Mudville9

(5 posts)
25. Off Topic But Important
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 02:45 PM
Mar 2012

Folks -

I know this is off topic, but I wanted to share a couple of websites with DU members that do an excellent job of documenting Freeper lunacy on a daily basis. I hope I haven't broken any rules by jumping in on a thread with different subject matter, but I figured if the topic was Limbaugh...the participants are likely to be solid anti-freepers.

Also - As far as Limbaugh is concerned, let's hope that all of his advertisers get "Komenized" via Twitter and Facebook.

http://freep-impact.blogspot.com
http://vikingkitties.blogspot.com

Got these from politisink.com


calimary

(80,700 posts)
29. Excellent! Good to know!
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:27 PM
Mar 2012

Thanks for posting, Mudville9!

Folks -

I know this is off topic, but I wanted to share a couple of websites with DU members that do an excellent job of documenting Freeper lunacy on a daily basis. I hope I haven't broken any rules by jumping in on a thread with different subject matter, but I figured if the topic was Limbaugh...the participants are likely to be solid anti-freepers.

Also - As far as Limbaugh is concerned, let's hope that all of his advertisers get "Komenized" via Twitter and Facebook.

http://freep-impact.blogspot.com
http://vikingkitties.blogspot.com

Got these from politisink.com

Demonaut

(8,909 posts)
26. My note to Autozone
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:06 PM
Mar 2012

Just dropping you a note to say I will not shop at another Autozone until I hear that you no longer advertise on Rush's radio show
and will encourage my other gearhead friends not to shop with you too, O'Reillys will receive our support
I've been a long time customer with your company but guilt by association stands so after his comments about women
and contraception, referring to a student as a "slut" and "prostitute" and asking her to post videos of her having sex goes
far beyond a disagreement in policy

Demonaut

(8,909 posts)
33. mebbe not, awaiting a reply but I just read on the net' that they've not advertised on Rush's show
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 04:58 PM
Mar 2012

in five years......guess I'll find out soon enough

harris8

(179 posts)
50. That's what their auto-response to me said:
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:04 PM
Mar 2012

"AutoZone has recently received several inquiries regarding our advertising policy. It is AutoZone’s policy to not advertise with any politically focused personalities or shows."

Betcha it was more like several thousand!!!

caseymoz

(5,763 posts)
36. I can't help but note again
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 06:11 PM
Mar 2012

What a bad, horrible, melt-down of a year this has been for conservatives. It's marvelous! The entire movement might be collapsing. Among other things, their primaries have shown their now too dumb to count votes. It seems not one day goes by now that one of them doesn't do something crass or dumb, or some scandal doesn't happen, or a key conservative doesn't die . . . or Global Warming isn't demonstrated.

It's beginning to look like a seismic shift. Maybe that Mayan calendar meant something more specific.



 

vkkv

(3,384 posts)
39. Advertiser boycott I made the call to AutoZone - Best # at the Advertising Dept is: 901-495-7123
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 06:43 PM
Mar 2012

View profile

I made the call to AutoZone - Best # at the Advertising Dept is: 901-495-7123 for Tracey Houston in Memphis or 901-435-6126 receptionist.

This is essentially what I said::

This is not about freedom of speech, this is about a radio personality's blatant falsehoods and repeated racist remarks over the years. Haven't we all heard enough to know that Rush Limbaugh is NOT the voice of mainstream America? His voice is of the extreme and his main goal is to get rich by saying anything that will fuel hate and frustration by pointing the finger at innocents. That is not the America we want to live in.

 

rdking647

(5,113 posts)
41. autozone and dominos both say they dont advertise on limpdicks show
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 07:02 PM
Mar 2012

i think if you hear an ad from them on his show its from the local company not national.
now however if his bigger sponsors where to quit like sleep number already has that will hit him hard. also maybe a complaint should be filed with teh FCC against any local stations broadcasting his show and challanging their licenses since the licensee has to operate in the public interest and his actions speak for themselves.

Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
58. The Hypocrisy of Premiere/Clear Channel
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 12:39 AM
Mar 2012
Rush Limbaugh gets 0 days suspension, but KFI's John & Ken got 7

Rush Limbaugh’s continuing battle with his critics over his attack on a Georgetown law student as a “slut” and a “prostitute” has focused largely on several dozen advertisers reported to have pulled away from his radio show.

There has been no serious talk at Premiere Radio Networks — the company that syndicates Limbaugh’s show to more than 600 stations — about suspending or otherwise disciplining America’s most popular talk radio host. That's what Premiere management has said.

But that might seem like an unlikely position for the outfit to stake out so unequivocally, since Premiere is a subsidiary of Clear Channel and Clear Channel just last month suspended KFI-AM (640) radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou for calling the late Whitney Houston a “crack ho.” KFI carries both Limbaugh and John & Ken.

The acerbic duo missed seven programs in late February when the Los Angeles station called them out for what management called “insensitive and inappropriate comments.” Kobylt and Chiampou apologized to their listeners and to Houston's family both before and after their suspension.

Clear Channel-owned KFI also made a series of other pledges to increase sensitivity to minorities at the station, which activists complain features only white hosts. Kobylt and Chiampou agreed to take part in “cultural sensitivity training," the station said, "furthering their awareness of the cultural melting pot that is Southern California.”

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