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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore Major Sponsors Sail From Limbaugh’s Sinking Ship
Yes, Mam! Big name companies as well as small locals, continue to dump Rush Limbaugh about 2700 sponsors have departed so far. Some of the most loyal Rush Limbaugh sponsors, who have ignored protestors for over a year
are now bolting. Why? The boycott heat is hot, and these Rush Sponsor-Babes are feeling the *BAIN, I mean the pain. We are thrilled to see them go. Do they deserve our praise and glory? Hell, no. They stood by Limbaugh, even after the 3-day attack of Sandra Fluke. They saw him call her a slut and prostitute for advocating insurance coverage for birth control, and they continued to sponsor and support his hateful bigoted rhetoric by throwing advertising dollars his way. No reputable company should have stayed with him after that. Maybe someday, the public will forgive these companies. Right now, we are glad to see them finally doing the right thing. The latest of the larger companies, to flush Rush, is AAMCO. Here is part of their statement, sent to protesting groups:
AAMCO stores are locally owned and operated, and each, therefore make advertising purchasing decisions at their own discretion. However, after many requests online from groups and individuals who have continuously posted about the controversial content on the Rush Limbaugh program, AAMCO investigated where local centers were advertising on Rush Limbaugh programming. The program was not specifically selected by any local AAMCO center, but was part of a broad program rotation in two local markets. Because of this, AAMCO has since requested to those markets that the Limbaugh program be removed from the ad rotation, therefore making an exception to its local policy.
Very good. Pray tell, why didnt they do this before? For over a year they have been contacted by individual consumers and groups. Many of these national chains often say they do not agree with Limbaughs commentary, but they have no control over their franchises. Thats BS, and we all know it. When push comes to shove, its their name and logo on the line and they can call their troops to order. Push also came to shove for Dish Networks, Capstone and Safelite whove not been heard on Limbaughs show for at least 30 days. Angies Lists has gone back and forth, so we dont know what theyll do. (Theyre gone for now.) The protests are clearly working. Limbaughs parent company, Clear Channel, run by CEO Bob Pittman and President John Sykes, has lost hundreds of millions in revenue. Clear Channel is owned by Bain Capitol (yes, of the Mitt Romney flavor). And Clear Channel owns iHeart Radio.
http://samuel-warde.com/2013/07/and-away-they-go-more-major-sponsors-sail-from-limbaughs-sinking-ship/
madokie
(51,076 posts)pedoboy should be in jail not spewing shit on our airwaves. Fact.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)FYI in case anyone wants to know:
Amberen, SweetJack, LegalZoom, Comcast, Ageless Male, Lifelock, Comcast, Blinds.com, Stamps.com, Regus, Lear Capitol, Income At Home/Herbal Life, Hillsdale College, Lunch Dates, iHeart, Wave Home, Gold Bond, Midas, Visiting Angels, MyTV, New Vitality, Keller Williams, Heritage Foundation, 800-Donate Cars, Power Swabs, Idrive, Bank On Yourself, Total Transformations and iHeart
Out of that list, Comcast is the biggest by far. That's the one that pressure needs to be put on.
I just signed the petition to remove him from AFN and I had already signed the other one.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 23, 2013, 08:31 AM - Edit history (1)
Rush was always about Rush but ReTHUGs and RW sponsors rode along with him for decades.
Fuck all of them!!
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...in red ink...to the tune of $20 billion and growing. The company is about to let go of another 600 plus employees to make sure rushbo gets his money. Radio revenues continue to decline; especially with talk radio where the rush boycott has spread to almost every other show...right and left. Radio has lost listeners under 40 and every time an EMT truck goes to the Villages or Sun City, Rushbo loses another coveted listener.
Over the past year Cheap Channel has been moving stations away from talk formats to sports in a vain attempt to try to recapture lost revenues but it's whistling past the graveyard as the "deregulation" of the industry has led to its ruin. Look for Cumulus to dump rush soon...dropping him from some of his biggest stations...and for Bain Capital to try to find a way out of the financial mess they got themselves into in the wasted effort to get their boy Willard elected.