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Showing Original Post only (View all)Limbaugh Is Losing! With Each Hateful Word, More Sponsors Leave. (300 Left Last Month) Total: 2,500+ [View all]
Sun Feb 17, 2013 at 04:29 AM PST
Limbaugh Is Losing! With Each Hateful Word, More Sponsors Leave. (300 Left Last Month) Total: 2,500+
by Leslie Salzillo
(Updated)
We wanted to know who her owner was, and we wanted to know how much he got for her.... She might have outlived her usefulness on the plantation, Limbaugh declared. I mean, {you} never know, child-rearing years are over so maybe her value had plummeted. ~Limbaugh, February 14, 2013 in reference to Black US Congresswoman, Shelia Jackson Lee
He thinks he's getting away with comments like these. He's not. Last month I published a diary about his sponsors leaving, http://www.dailykos.com/... and it received over 18k facebook likes/shares. People are hungry - starving to see him go, and thousands of consumers are contacting his sponsors via StopRush.net and signing petitions like the one below. Organizations like Daily Kos, UniteWomen.org, Planned Parenthood, Media Matters and other groups, are exposing Limbaugh for who and what he is: a racist, sexist, gay-hating, lying bigot. This is not me, 'name-calling'. This is truth in media, and backed up by Limbaugh's very own words in audio/video.
The good news? In one month, over 300 more sponsors have pulled ads, now totaling over 2,500. (This does not count the 800 or so who have 'left quietly') Limbaugh now averages a loss of 10 sponsors per day. To make up for these sponsorship losses, it is known he has been subsidized by outside sources including FreedomWorks (backed by the Tea Party). And I'm betting he is having to subsidize himself, to stay on the air.
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Limbaugh Is Losing! With Each Hateful Word, More Sponsors Leave. (300 Left Last Month) Total: 2,500+ [View all]
babylonsister
Feb 2013
OP
Rush has never been subtle about racism. Always hid behind 'it's just a joke.'
freshwest
Feb 2013
#31
He still does it - his listeners simply do not understand sarcasm so they believe it
underpants
Feb 2013
#64
Who is paying for his show at this point? The people who are doing ads have to be getting them at
MADem
Feb 2013
#8
He's not called the head of the GOP for nothing. He has delivered the votes in the past.
freshwest
Feb 2013
#32
He does have talent as a "minion rallyer." That said, he's hemorrhaging money like a stuck pig
MADem
Feb 2013
#34
I've never believed that Rush has been in it for the ad money. I's part of his faux 'folksy' appeal.
freshwest
Feb 2013
#36
Legal zoom - a Tax avoidance/representation website - and flowers/teddy bears as you said
underpants
Feb 2013
#65
I wonder where those 2,000+ sponsors come from, even local companies sponsor the show?
alp227
Feb 2013
#75
He knows he's toast if he ever stops spewing his vile rantings. He's a victim of his own success
lunatica
Feb 2013
#10
Really the sad thing is he is still on the air. He should be taken off the air even if the man
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#12
In equality under the law, one citizen's speech wouldn't be more amplified than another's. nt
EastKYLiberal
Feb 2013
#25
I know. But sometimes just because it can be heard maybe we shouldn't be heard.
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#35
That's a helluva lot of sponsors for a three hour show. What don't I understand?
Buzz Clik
Feb 2013
#20
Rush is on hundreds of local radio stations that have local ads as well as national ads
Fumesucker
Feb 2013
#37
The hatred he spews and multiplies in minds across the nation will finally consume him.
AAO
Feb 2013
#30
And in other news......Fox ratings drop to 12-year low and hate mail at Daily Kos drops off
LongTomH
Feb 2013
#46
You don't even have to hear the words he says. Ever notice how his delivery is almost identical to
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2013
#57
Those Republicans who don't realize how they look, need only look at Limbaugh.
SleeplessinSoCal
Feb 2013
#67
That is so outrageous I can't believe that it hasn't been picked up on MSNBC.
Pirate Smile
Feb 2013
#77