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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums77 of 86 ads on the Rush Limbaugh show were public service announcements!
It's official! Rush Limbaugh is now radioactive!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The boil on the ass of humanity is about to be lanced!!!
LAUGH WITH ME!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203080010
March 08, 2012 2:19 pm ET by Media Matters staff
At least 50 advertisers have reportedly dropped their ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio show in the wake of his misogynistic attacks on Sandra Fluke.
Here are his March 8 advertisers, in the order they appeared on WABC, the flagship station for Limbaugh's show. Audio clips of the ads have been provided to help make advertisers aware of the placement of their ads on the program. According to our coverage:
- A total of 86 ads aired during WABC's broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show today
- 77 of those ads were public service announcements donated free of charge by the Ad Council
- Of the nine paid spots that ran, seven were from companies that have said they have taken steps to ensure their ads no longer air during the program
- WABC's online feed included about 5:33 of dead air when ads would normally have run.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)but this is a great start!
edit: spelling correction, add "t" in "this'
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)They're only going to be able to endure a few days of this before their accountants commit seppuku.
Rush is doomed!
eridani
(51,907 posts)He is too useful to the 1%. His show could bleed money for years and they's still keep him on. You don't really think is 20 million salary is paid for by ads, do you?
INdemo
(6,994 posts)When there are so many ways to hide the origin of the money paid to him radical donors like the Koch Bros could write a 20mill check daily.
Warpy
(111,338 posts)to fill that air time. When they do, he'll be off the air and probably heading over to Sirius if they let him out of his contract.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)At this point they would probably just put 3 hours of elevator music on and not care.
The important thing to them is how to get out of that contract as cheaply as possible at this point.
sudopod
(5,019 posts)But I think a strong case can be made that it is actually a vertically-integrated propaganda distribution system, and thus would be run at a loss for quite a while before the plug was pulled.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)And just maybe, our long national nightmare is finally over.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)Rush =
I want a good dream & the end of this nightmare!
You nailed it!
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Not MY tax dollars, I trust.
Sink on, SS Rushbo
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)And Clear Channel makes zero money from them - all you have to do to air Ad Council spots is register for an account and download the audio files.
shcrane71
(1,721 posts)Just saying.
Smedley_3
(8 posts)for big corporations.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
American Heart Association
Autism Speaks
Bedsider
Give Kids The World Village
Keep America Beautiful
National Crime Prevention Council
Save the Children
United Negro College Fund
United States Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Transportation
United States Olympic Committee
WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children)
If these public service announcement are being made on Rush's show it is a benefit to the common good and not a capitalistic or political use of public air waves. It's better than Rush's sick misogynistic hate speech.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Business is booming, everything is fine, It's so good he doesn't need AshleyMadison.com.
He says so himself!
progress2k12nbynd
(221 posts)I don't think I've ever seen so much math in a DU post.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)They pore through that shit so you don't have to!
groundloop
(11,522 posts)I've been hearing "Instant Karma's gonna' get you....." in my head all day. I guess I was thinking of Rush without realizing it.
77 PSA announcements, and 5 1/2 minutes of dead air. WOW !!!!!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)SunSeeker
(51,691 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)but I just sent Oreck a tweet on the subject.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)he could urge everyone to buy Girl Scout cookies!!!
golfguru
(4,987 posts)then the 22 million (he claims) dittoheads remain a danger. He needs to be
driven off the air completely. 2 decades of his hate is already more than the country
can withstand.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Let's see how long they nurse this.
Wow! Just wow
SunSeeker
(51,691 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts). . to be the most despised man in America.
Cass
(2,600 posts)Reap the whirlwind, Rush.
Botany
(70,581 posts)I listened to the first 2 to 3 minutes of Rush's show yesterday and he was scared and lying because he was
saying that he still had plenty of advertisers, that he had 18,000 national advertisers, any glitches in his
show that day might be the result of problems @ the local station's level, several new advertisers wanted
to get on his show but it would take weeks to "work them in," and that many of the sponsors that had dropped
him wanted to come back on board and be on his show again. Behind the bluster you could tell that he was
really scared and was doing his best to keep his ditto heads from knowing that he was in a world of hurt. It
was beautiful. Call me heartless but I will always remember hearing the joy in his voice when the House of
Representatives was impeaching Bill Clinton for a blow job and the right wing was dragging the country
through a sewer just because they wanted to do so so I have zero compassion for Rush right now.
You know if Rep. Issa had just let Ms. Fluke testify or if Limbaugh had done a real apology none of this would be
happening right now but they got caught up in their own hubris of living in their own "right wing worlds" and that
what they used to think as funny when they pissed people off could really become a firestorm that could also leave
them burned. I hope the democrats run a strong women against Rep. Issa this fall because he has a lot to answer
about too.
My guess is that a lot of products made by Koch Industries will start getting spots on Rush ASAP.
Evasporque
(2,133 posts)No broadcaster will keep a show with 20 minutes of dead air
usrname
(398 posts)Wanted to get back on Limbaugh's show but was rejected by Limbaugh. Now's the time to punish Sleep Train for trying to back-door their way in after publicly announcing their suspension of ads on Limbaugh.
Nothing's worse than being two-faced about it. If you don't like what the person said, then cancel ads. If you want the benefit of his programming, then don't cancel ads, but don't say one thing and do the other.