Rush Limbaugh's 'Slut' Attack Costs Him Advertisers [View all]

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Source: New York Magazine

Call him what you will — shock jock, blowhard, gross sexist monster — but Rush Limbaugh is sticking by his decision to call Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" for her congressional testimony supporting contraception coverage. This much was clear on Thursday when, instead of apologizing for his remarks, Limbaugh channeled Santorum sugar daddy Foster Friess and promised to "buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want." Now, advertisers are pulling out of his radio show, including, somewhat ironically, mattress manufacturers Sleep Train and Sleep Number. (Quicken Loans, a mortgage refinancing company, also suspended its ads after reviewing "feedback" from their clients and staff.)

And it's likely that more of Limbaugh's sponsors will make for the exits, now that a full-scale boycott effort is underway on Twitter (spearheaded by @StopRush, an online activist who led a boycott of Glenn Beck's Fox News show in 2009) and with the Daily Kos circulating a petition urging advertisers to join the protest.

Limbaugh may also soon face a lawsuit. Fluke herself has not ruled out the possibility and, even if she doesn't take legal action, it seems the Democrats will: New York's own Representative Carolyn Maloney yesterday told an audience in the city that "we will be filing a slander suit against Rush Limbaugh."

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