This blog is insignificant compared to the others that are succeeding in having petitions signed that have created an exodus of advertisers from this human phlegm’s radio show.
Yet, as is to be expected, Walmart continues…no surprise there as the Walton family has long been a supporter of right wing causes and also happens to be one of the worst employers in America.
As of Friday, about 30 sponsors, including AOL, Sears, and Allstate Insurance, said they had pulled out. Locally, Penn Medicine, which had an ad on Limbaugh's show on WPHT (1210 AM), expressed concern, and was reviewing its position. The Philadelphia Orchestra, which also had an ad on the show, says it bought a block of time from CBS3, not a time slot on Limbaugh.
@TrishandDuke asked: "Walmart how long can you support Rush and not be concerned about your customer base?" @DiveGal called for direct action: "Please call Champion Windows. . . & ask them why they support hate speech on @770KTTH" - pressuring a Seattle company and radio station.Websites such as the liberal Media Matters and bloggers such as Krystal Ball of the Huffington Post seized the issue. Media Matters now tracks Limbaugh advertisers.
As in leaderless movements such as the tea party in 2009 and the Egypt uprising and Occupy movement in 2011, Facebook pages popped up to organize the protest. As of Friday, "Boycott Rush Limbaugh's Sponsors to SHUT HIM DOWN" had 32,763 "likes" on Facebook, and "Boycott Rush Limbaugh's Sponsors" had 15,805.
On the social-media site reddit, a user named jaybercrow started a discussion March 2, calling for a national ad boycott. It now has more than 3,100 comments. The next week, he went local: "Here is what I propose, go to Rush Limbaugh's website and find who is broadcasting Rush in your city. Visit that stations website and gather the sponsors contact information....' "
Soon big voices weighed in, almost all in the "con" column. They included Republicans such as House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Sen. John McCain of Arizona. The Canadian prog trio Rush and English musician Peter Gabriel (whose hit "Sledgehammer" played during Limbaugh's Feb. 29 jeremiad) asked the show to stop playing their music.
Most prominent of all was President Obama's phone call to Fluke, and his suavely political remark later that Fluke reminded him of his daughters: "One of the things I want them to do as they get older is to engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on."
("My students may resist feminism," says Knight, "but when they see that statement, or the pictures of Obama and his daughters, which have become an Internet meme, they get the visceral pathos.")
On March 3, in the midst of the ad exodus, Limbaugh posted an apology - one Fluke dismissed - on his website.
"It's another of those media-related celebrity apologies you see almost every day," says Kenneth Wifnewski, chief executive of the online marketing firm Webimax in Mount Laurel.
Ironically, a fellow talk-show host, HBO's Bill Maher, defended Limbaugh's apology (not his comments) on Twitter. "Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout," he tweeted. As well he might. Maher himself faced an ad boycott after his remarks about the 9/11 attacks. That pullout was credited with ending his show Politically Incorrect.
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Get Rush Limbaugh off the air in Florida.
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Dear Follower:
At least 50 advertisers have pulled their support for the Rush Limbaugh show in the wake of his recent misogynistic attacks1, and at least two radio stations have dropped his show entirely2. But thanks to Port St. Lucie's WPHR FM 94.7 and two other radio stations in South Florida, you can still hear Rush Limbaugh's hate-filled rants every day of the week.
If you tuned in to WPHR FM, WPSL AM or WJNO AM last week, you would have heard Rush Limbaugh call Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law School student, a "slut" and a "prostitute" for her Congressional testimony protesting right-wing attacks to limit women's access to birth control.
Sandra Fluke's testimony before Congress included important points about why access to affordable birth control is so crucial, including the story of a friend who had lost an ovary because she couldn't afford the birth control needed to manage her ovarian cysts. Here's what Limbaugh said on his radio show in response:
"What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute ... She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception."3
While Limbaugh certainly has a right to say what he wants, WPHR FM, WPSL AM and WJNO AM don't have to broadcast it. In choosing to do so, they are choosing to amplify Limbaugh's misogynist message — and they contribute to his ongoing attacks on women.
Sandra Fluke called Rush Limbaugh's comments "an attack on all women."4We agree. And more and more people are starting to realize that Limbaugh's vile attacks are too extreme and hateful to be broadcast in Florida.
As advertisers continue to drop the Rush Limbaugh show, now is the time to step up the pressure to get Limbaugh off the air for good. Tell WPHR FM, WPSL AM and WJNO AM: Stop broadcasting Rush Limbaugh's attacks on women.
Click below to automatically sign the petition:
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5540533&id=36392-4219631-is49kKx&t=9
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5540533&id=36392-4219631-is49kKx&t=9
Thank you for fighting back against Rush Limbaugh's misogyny.
Becky Bond, Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets
CREDO Action from Working Assets
1. "Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers Facing Social Media Firestorm," Adam Peck. ThinkProgress.org, 3/2/12.
2. "Stations, advertisers drop Limbaugh," CNN Political Unit, CNN.com, 3/6/12.
3. Rush Limbaugh calls law student a 'slut' for wanting contraception to be covered by health insurance at religious institutions, New York Daily News, March 1, 2012
4. "Sandra Fluke Responds to Limbaugh, 'This Language is an Attack on all Women'," Alex Seitz-Wald, ThinkProgress.org, 3/1/12.
2. "Stations, advertisers drop Limbaugh," CNN Political Unit, CNN.com, 3/6/12.
3. Rush Limbaugh calls law student a 'slut' for wanting contraception to be covered by health insurance at religious institutions, New York Daily News, March 1, 2012
4. "Sandra Fluke Responds to Limbaugh, 'This Language is an Attack on all Women'," Alex Seitz-Wald, ThinkProgress.org, 3/1/12.
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