NEW YORK — A flower company is the seventh advertiser to pull its ads from conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s radio program in reaction to his derogatory comments about a law student who testified about birth control policy.
ProFlowers said Sunday on its Facebook page that it has suspended advertising on Limbaugh’s program because his comments about Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke “went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company.”
The six other advertisers that say they have pulled ads from his show are mortgage lender Quicken Loans, mattress retailers Sleep Train and Sleep Number, software maker Citrix Systems Inc., online data backup service provider Carbonite and online legal document services company LegalZoom.
ProFlowers had said on Twitter that posts it received about Limbaugh’s remarks affected its advertising strategy. ProFlowers is an online flower delivery service.
Limbaugh called the 30-year-old Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” last week after she testified to congressional Democrats in support of national health care policies that would compel employers and other organizations, including her university, to offer group health insurance that covers birth control for women.
He apologized to Fluke on Saturday after being criticized by Republican and Democratic politicians and after several advertisers left the show.
Clear Channel’s Premiere Radio Networks Inc. hosts Limbaugh’s program, one of the country’s most popular talk radio shows. The company is supporting Limbaugh, whose on-air contract with Premiere runs through 2016.
“The contraception debate is one that sparks strong emotion and opinions on both sides of the issue,” Premiere Networks said in a statement emailed Sunday by spokeswoman Rachel Nelson. “We respect the right of Mr. Limbaugh, as well as the rights of those who disagree with him, to express those opinions.”
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment operates more than 850 radio stations in the U.S., and Premiere says it’s the largest radio content provider in the country, syndicating programs to more than 5,000 affiliate stations.
When asked which companies or organizations were the largest advertisers on Limbaugh’s show, Nelson said that that information was “proprietary.” Nelson declined to say how much revenue the company will lose with the advertiser defections or how much revenue Limbaugh’s show brings in.
Clear Channel’s parent company was taken private in 2008 by private equity firms Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital.
Better late than never.
Now i hope a law suit in next agence him
Use your pell check.
?????
You can’t spell (“agence” when you tried to say “against”), Harry’s statement was done ironicly… I’m guessing you missed that too.
ironically
-Damn glass houses.
I have seen people miss spell words in here all the time but if i say something im told to keep quiet but its ok for people to get after me about miss spelled words ? See i like spelling words like they sound .
I enjoy your posts and I don’t like it when people correct other people’s spelling either. (Unless it’s to correct the spelling of someone who has just corrected someone else’s spelling, which is what just happened here.)
You mean my check to go back to school?Oh wait…
trying to figure out if you did that on purpose or not….lol
not one red cent of my money will go to any advertiser of his “show”.
I hope this includes the advertisers who buy ads on WVOM. On another note, I was happy to see that RH Foster has dropped Ric Tyler from their ads. He is just as arrogant and conducts personal attacks on people who disagree with him.
“Ric” Tyler has spelling issues too.
I saw that tool in action one day in S.W. Harbor. He was down there with a couple of technicians to do a spot on the hospice regatta that was coming to town. The way he talked to those technicians was disgusting, unless the camera was rolling, then he was all smiles. I was all ready to throw him in to give him a lesson in civility and manners, when my brother reminded me that he probably wasn’t worth going to jail over. That was ten years ago and I hear he is still a buffoon.
Too bad, you should have followed your instincts…..could have claimed you stumbled.
Ric hosted a game at Washington Academy as well…man talk about manners. HE was
Ric Tyler is a complete tool. He hosted Jello Wrestling at washington academy and was absolutely rude to everyone. Ruined the whole fundraising event for everyone and everyone was disgusted. Horrible, horrible man he is.
I’m sure that will be a big blow.
Every drop adds up to a flood. I’m with you schmidlap.
in this economy, every customer counts. and I am one to spread the word to my friends and family, whether it be good or bad.
Under capitalism dollars are oxygen, every dollar you spend pumps a little air into some companies lungs. And they know it …. Which is why the word “boycott” is never spoken on television …. The 1%ers know where the real power lies, … It’s not voting, you only get one …. But dollars …. I say kill all the companies that advertised with Rush as warning to any that might consider taking up his crappy show …. Send him packing…..
The invisible hand of the market has just given Rush a raised middle finger. This is capitalism at its finest.
Actually, capitalism at it’s finest is watching an ‘I’ll say anything for a buck” jerk like Limbaugh try to apologize when he realizes that he needs to beg for forgiveness in order to keep his money and fame. Were it not for his advertisers, this creep would be huddled under a highway overpass sharing his needle and Viagra with other run-of-the-mill-junkies. I’ve had a good time watching this creep sell himself out over the past few days. It’s entertaining if nothing else.
Rush Limbaugh is nothing but a highly paid entertainer. I would hate to think, we as a country, choose our candidates for president because of what some Vaudeville funny man says. I take Rush as a joke. I bet he says to himself every day “Why am I getting paid 50 million a year for my opinion?” If you don’t like Rush and what he says DON”T LISTEN TO HIM.
And furthermore don’t assume Rush Limbaugh is an official spokesman for the GOP (or conservatives in general)
Because the extreme right seem to give him some credence.
yes he is he’s god he knows more than any one else dose if you don’t believe me just ask him. He is the USA cult leader an there’s no room for independent thinkers in the USA he tells you how to think an that’s what his ditto heads do
he is
The GOP doesn’t denounce him, so they must agree with what hew says…
I don’t.
me either
And yet you know his every move, that’s called obsession. He must be doing something right.
Huh? I know he got away with doctor shopping. Something that his money bought him out of. I know he turned me off about 15 years ago and I have basically ignored him. I feel that this was a publicity stunt on his part to get himself noticed again. I feel that this is blowing up in his face. Other than that, umm, I think that’s all I know about him and all that I really ever want to know. Is there anything else I’m missing?
Last year, he got 68 milliom…58MILLION, for telling folks what they wanted to hear. He’s suckin em off worse than the government and they love it.
And paying way less in income tax than you or I.
He pays more in a year then you will make in a life time.
And he should, 55 million a year to behave like this ? Give me a freakin’ break.
Joseph Goebbels was also a highly paid enteretainer too. Both, Party Hacks.
Finally someone who understands the real situation. Limbaugh is an intertainer! He slips and used the “s” word which is why his is in deep with the public. Otherwise he isn’t far off the mark as it turns out. The whole point was why should we be paying for “anyone” to have recreational sex? Some will argue that it’s not recreational but if you aren’t doing it for propagation…why else would you do it?
I used to listen to Rush and Beck but they both began saying things I didn’t agree with and I stopped listening. I don’t see a reason to be carrying on with this nonsense. Furthermore Ms. Fluke didn’t give testamony, the democrats informally got together to listen to her and make this a political issue.
Personally I think it’s rather demeaning to go before Congress and complain about not having the money to pay for birth control so that she could have all the sex she wants. I wonder if any of our elected leaders asked her out for a drink afterwards.
So he slipped and used the “s” word?
Did he then slip a second later when he called her a prostitute?
Have you even watched the video of Limbaugh as he was on air? He was not “slipping” at all.
But he is now. What a shameful excuse for a human being.
He is slipping all right, slipping in his own crap while he tries to run from what he said! lol.
You must not have listened to Ms. Fluke’s statement.
She testified about a friend who needed to take birth control pills to treat polycystic ovarian disease. Georgetown refused to allow birth control pills for ANY reason and she could not afford to purchase them herself. The PCS grew worse and she lost an ovary. Incidentally, a birth control prescription is used at the rate of one pill per day, regardless of the number of times an individual has sexual intercourse. Thus, using the Pill for contraception does not imply using multiple pills due to having sex multiple times with multiple individuals.
Oh, those pesky facts! lol.
And generic BC pills are available for under $10 a month.
The aim of the Blunt amendment was to open the door for ANY employer to be able to slice ANY sort of coverage off YOUR health insurance policy, on spurious grounds.
They could claim to believe that cigarette smoking is evil, so they won’t cover lung cancer treatment just in case it was caused by smoking.
They could claim to belong to a certain religion that tells its adherents never to have a blood transfusion (even if they die as a result), so YOU would have to pay for a transfusion out of pocket.
They started off with contraception because it’s something that can easily be made fun of (at least by media folks with minds stuck at age 12 or so), and gets certain conservatives’ knickers in a twist, so to speak.
It’s not YOUR health insurance policy as long an employer is paying for all or even part of it. Leave your job and you will find that out.
If you do not like the insurance coverage provided by your employer then either gat a different job or BUY YOUR OWN health insurance.
And do you even realize that even now different insurance policies from different companies cover different lists of conditions, medications, and treatments?
I disagree. It is actually your own health insurance policy. The part of it that the employer pays in part of your benefits package, which is part of your salary agreement.
“…either get a different job or buy your own health insurance…” Is that what you yourself prefer to have to do? You want your employer to be able to slice away whatever coverage it wants to, and you have to just either passively accept it or else (in today’s horrific job market) try to find a differnt job, or else pay thousands of dollars per year out of pocket?
Yes, different policies cover different things. That’s a sad fact in the current situation, where for-profit insurance corporations get to offer minimal coverage at high cost to a select few they cherry-pick (e.g., those without pre-existing conditions). They make huge profits by doing this–which gives their CEOs multi-million dollar salaries at the policy-holder’s expense.
And your employer should be allowed to decide what is included in that health insurance policy that he is including as part of your salary. Or how about if the employer told you outright what your TOTAL compensation package is and gave you the option to include as many additions to your health insurance policy as you would like. But the actual cost of those additions would be paid for out of that total compensation and your resulting weekly paycheck would be reduced accordingly.
“”…either get a different job or buy your own health insurance…” Is
that what you yourself prefer to have to do? You want your employer to
be able to slice away whatever coverage it wants to, and you have to
just either passively accept it or else (in today’s horrific job market)
try to find a different job, or else pay thousands of dollars per year
out of pocket?”
Yes. That is the price of true freedom. Actually, i want employer provided insurance and the government subsidies of that insurance to end. Most of the problems people are blaming insurance companies for can be shown to be directly or indirectly caused by the employer provided system.
I do want different policies to cover different things. It’s called “freedom”. Freedom of choice. I want a high deductible plan that does not cover basic preventative care. That preventative care is my personal responsibility just as keeping my car in good repair is my responsibility. I want a policy that does not cover pregnancy, mental health, acupuncture, massage therapy, or transplants along with a host of other needless and alternative therapies. And if i could buy such a policy, one that is actually insurance rather than what is really a prepaid health plan, it would be far less expensive than the present system of mandated coverages.
I’m trying to grasp your worldview. To you, it seems, the “price of true freedom” is to have to go it entirely alone.
Thus, if you need a transplant, you will die, since your choice is an abbreviated policy that doesn’t cover transplants.
And if and when you lose your job in this hellacious economy, and perhaps can’t find another that will pay for food+ housing + insurance, you may be stuck with zero insurance. If in the meantime Republican politicians have managed to destroy the social safety net, there will be no MaineCare to help you get either preventive or emergency medical care, so if you get sick you’ll suffer and die.
To me, that’s not a very good definition of freedom.
The price of freedom is accepting both risk and responsibility. You seem to believe that depending on government is better.
Yes, if I need a transplant I will die. I am against most transplants on principal. They are a dead end procedure. Expensive, (Yes, I do not believe anyone should have millions of dollars spent on them to keep them alive. Unless they can afford those millions themselves.), poor quality of life, and a waste of health resources. And should we even get into the huge percentage of transplants that are needed because of poor life choices made by the people needing them?
I have been stuck with zero insurance many times. Sometimes life isn’t fair. I have the choice to ASK others for help and even charity. I do not believe I have the right to force anyone to pay for something that benefits me. Period. Pretty simple concept.
I’m in favor of a safety NET. Not a safety Hammock.
Exactly, it is YOUR health insurance policy. WE are not paying for anyone’s birth control, the health insurance company is, just like WE are not paying for anyone’s Chicken Pox vaccine, the health insurance company is, I am not paying for anyone’s triple by-passs at 80 years old, the health insurance company is. I honestly can’t even imagine what the debate is about. Your employer should never be able to pick and choose what types of coverage they will cover based on their personal opinions!! I understand there are different policies and coverage based on price, but not based on the fact that I don’t believe in blood transfusions, so pay for that yourself! That’s crazy. So I guess if we go with this theory, if I disagree with vaccinations due to religious or philosophical reasons, than I shouldn’t allow that to be covered for my employees?????? People are just out of control pushing there beliefs on others, I’m so tired of it. Obviously we have the right to seek other employment if we do not like the benefit package, but really, should we be forced to have our employers religious (or other) beliefs interfere with our health???
Birth Control Pills aren’t just for sex, Viagra is though…
Unfortunately, he isn’t just an entertainer. He has a following that votes, and the rest of us have to suffer the effects of those votes.
And how do you think they would vote if Rush wasn’t on the air. People normally listen to people they basically agree with.
You are correct. Unfortunately this episode got aired to just about anyone who watches the news or reads a news paper. Therefore it has reached the largest audience that Limbaugh has had in years. There are people in this country that are not Limbaugh ‘Ditto Heads’. They also vote.
Not if activism and financial boycotts can cancel his clowns out.If every woman across the country and every man who cares about women puts in the effort between now through Nov. and beyond,Rush and the TPers have no chance.D’s have picked up 18 points among women in a week.
Scary thought.More people voted for the winner of American Idol in 2008 than voted for President.
to be fair, ANYONE can vote on American Idol (i.e. under 18’s, felons, non-citizens, etc).
That’s true,but still…When you think about people all over the world that are literally giving up their lives for the right to vote,Americans should be ashamed.
In Maine, felons can vote.
It looks to me like we are actually choosing vaudeville funny men in the Republic race for president.
Sad ain’t it Buzz…………..
This loss of advertisers should give the UME System a golden opportunity to advertise its educational offerings at reduced rates.
I agree. Lots of folks who listen to Rush could use an education. Reduced rates is just a bonus. I hope this doesn’t go over your head.
The people who listen to Rush Limbaugh quit learning when they were five and have known EVERYTHING since.
While I may disagree with what Mr Limbaugh said regarding Ms FLuke and the advertisers had every right to withdraw from his show . There are plenty of companies who would love to advertise on his show and I bet there will be people who may never buy from the companies who withdrew from his show again. It works both ways.
And you have every right to base your purchasing decisions that way.BUT I’m sure any new advertiser will be publicized and scrutinized at least in the short term.I don’t use all of the advertisers listed above but those I do use will know that is where I spend my money.
Sounds like this girl is one. Her myriad of boyfriends are coming out of the woodwork. All so she can have free pills..forsooth!
Limbaugh is in their heads…everyday.
Silly liberals.
Not in my head. I believe this is the first time I’ve heard a full sentence of anything Limbaugh has said in well over 15 years. It will probably be the last I hear him say.
If he didn’t have money he would be behind bars for Doctor shopping for drugs.
“Doctor shopping for drugs.” Do you mean his maid heading out to get him oxy’s off the street?
when limballs fart you smell and say its fine
If you had any source of information apart from Limbaugh, you would be aware that Ms. Fluke testified about a friend who needed to take birth control pills to treat polycystic ovarian disease. Georgetown refused to allow birth control pills for ANY reason and she could not afford to purchase them herself. The PCS grew worse and she lost an ovary.
If you had any familiarity with human anatomy you would realize that a birth control prescription is used at the rate of one pill per day, regardless of the number of times an individual has sexual intercourse. Thus, using the Pill for contraception does not imply using multiple pills due to having sex multiple times with multiple individuals.
But it sounds as if you automatically say nasty things when sex is mentioned, without thought.
The pills are not “free,” incidentally. They are part of a health insurance policy that an individual pays for.
And generic BC pills are available for under $10 a month.
Ms fluke also testified about how 40% of students found paying for contraception a burden. $50,000 plus a year and they have trouble with less than $10 a month.
As for medical necessity, are you trying to tell me that all of those students, 40% have “other conditions” that BC pills are being used for.
You forget that many students are on scholarships.
“Medical necessity” includes contraception. I mentioned the example Ms. Fluke provided (polycystic ovarian syndrome) because Limbaugh is fixated on sexuality (calling Ms. Fluke a whore for advocating for a friend who needed birth control pills for a non-contraceptive use).
It amazes me how many people don’t regard pregnancy and childbirth as having anything to do with one’s medical condition. Consider that pregnant women must be monitored for conditions such as toxemia of pregnancy, gestational diabetes, Rh incompatibility, and placenta previa, to name just a few. I myself had placental abruption with one pregnancy. The placenta started to tear away from the uterine lining, causing internal and external bleeding–painful and life-threatening. It could have killed me and did kill my twins.
Contraceptives, by preventing pregnancy, prevent the sometimes quite dangerous medical conditions that pregnancy can include.
Guess I’d rather see birth control included as add-on then welfare.
I gotta say I’ve heard more men brag about having sex with women who said no thanks, so does that make men sluts too? I really can’t think of any women claiming mass fornication when they didn’t.
Oh no, don’t tell me that there are men out there having sex too! What is this world coming to?
It looks like Paulie’s not the only one who can engage his mouth before he puts his brain in gear.
Let’s hope the loss of advertisers will have the same effect as stuffing Limbaugh’s mouth with a dirty gym sock and sealing the deal with duct tape.
Too bad you can’t say it eloquently.
Listening to Limbaugh talk about a woman taking medically prescribed pills is about as valuable a use of your time as listening to Bishop Malone “educate” us about marriage.
can’t let your hatred of the Catholic Church penetrate every subject?
There’s a difference between “hatred” and “irony.” Sorry if it is lost on you.
oh,arent we clever…..
what church that protects molesters
Mormons and Baptists always protect their own molesters.
Knightcross that’s not true! I love how idiots can take an isolated incident that is only remotely related to a larger realm and make a comment that applies to the general population. It’s is sort of like Howie Carr’s statement about 1/2 the Maine people being drunk while the other 1/2 is stone.
it would be more like 75% are a drunk and stoned, the other 25% are on bath salts
That is just about the most ignorant comment I’ve seen. As an evangelical Christian, I resent it. You can’t discredit a religious faith because of the behavior of an individual paractitioner. I cringed when I heard Limbaugh’s comment and it was ignorant of him to make it. Having said that, if you people bothered to do a little research you’d discover, as I did, that Ms. Fluke isn’t quite the maligned damsel she seems to be. She told the Washington Post she knew that George
Washington University’s insurance did not cover contraception when she applied for acceptance. Furthermore, she has spent the last 3 years lobbying to have the policy changed. What better way to further her cause than to offer up a sob story in view of a sympathetic national media. She claims she’s spent $3000 on contraception, yet birth control pills cost about $5 a month at Wal Mart. That fact, more than any other, leads me to think she has rabid extracurricular activities which would, by definition, make her exactly what Limbaugh so injudiciously called her and I, as a taxpayer, shouldn’t have to pay for it. Gosh, her parents must be so proud of her. Finally, where was all this righteous indignation when Sarah Palin’s daughter was being called a slut because she had an out of wedlock child? Or when Bill Mahr, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, et.al. joked about her father, Todd, being the father of her child? Or how about the jokes about Trig Palin’s Downs’ Syndrome being splashed all over the internet? That was really funny as h*ll, wasn’t it. Yup, the double standard is alive and well in the BDN forum!
What, we should take seriously the pompass declarations of sexually repressed old men who willingly chose to avoid the responsibilities of real life — you know, raising a family, including feeding, clothing, housing, and educating children as well as protecting them from perverted and sexually frustrated Catholic priests? Sexually repressed old men who knowingly harbor and protect child molestors, merely moving them from parish to parish to aid and abet their “service to Christ”?
wow…..Lucy…..take a breath…this is not the subject at hand…you are really hung up on “suxually” today, arent you?
I don’t…the only way Rush Limbaugh can feel good about himself is when he is calling other people disgutsting names and lies. Rush cares about one thing and one thing only…money…that’s it. Yeah! I always wanted a ex-drug addict, adultress man to lecture me on home values….Just like hiring Newt to lecture woman on home values and moral ethic’s. You have got to love these hipocrites….
Who says he’s an ex-drug user?? Didn’t you ever see him when he’s giving talks? He jumps around like he needs a fix. He’s an hypocrite.
Rush is almost gone…….
Limbaugh looks really fat and old in that picture.
And he supposedly lost over 100 pounds a few years back
No. That was merely the pills he emptied out of his pocket.
The Hillbilly Heroin diet
This will not effect his pay or income at all. While I do nto think he chose the best way to express his opnion on the matter he was not far off. If you want to engauge in sexual activity with those of the other sex then why the hell should the public have to fund your protection! We pay for the ones who did nto use it already and look how much we are spending on that. You paly YOU pay. His point was and I agree it is YOUR choice to engauge in those pratices and that is your right. It is not your right to force others to PAY for you to do it.
Are you REALLY this stupid? Based on your comments, why should any insurer pay to cover obstetric coverage? WHY pay to deliver someone’s baby simply because they CHOSE to engage in sexual activity–isn’t that what you are saying?/ BECAUSE IT’S CALLED HEALTH insurance.
That’s not what her testimony was about at all. It wasn’t about having sex. It was about the medical necessity of prescribed contraceptives. Do health insurance premium count for nothing? These people are paying for insurance, they want the necessities to be covered.
You do not understand the point. The point is that “these people” are NOT PAYING! WE ARE PAYING FOR THEM! It is logical that the more health care items that are covered, the more expensive the policy will be! If contraception is included, and if there is no way to opt out of it, I will end up paying for somebody else!
PS WHY IS THIS A WOMAN’S ISSUE? Why don’t men start agitating for health insurance to cover condoms and vasectomies? What’s fair is fair. (Maybe because nowadays too many men and women do not demand that fathers help out with their offspring?)
Health insurance already covers vasectomies–also Viagra.
It is far less expensive for an insurer to cover a yearly prescription for birth control pills than to pay for prenatal care and childbirth. Not to mention that pregnancy can be life-threatening (think about gestational diabetes, toxemia of pregnancy, placenta previa–where the placenta rips away from the wall of the uterus, causing severe bleeding, and so on).
So if you want your insurance premiums to go UP, then go ahead and demand that they don’t cover contraception.
No Billie, YOU ARE NOT PAYING,,,,REPEAT: YOU ARE NOT PAYING, REPEAT: YOU ARE NOT PAYING. There, does the all caps make it sink in? Many states require and many insurance companies ALREADY cover the birth control pill.
And last I knew, insurance companies did pay for vasectomies. They don’t pay for condoms or any other OVER THE COUNTER contraception.
I don’t want to pay for your Viagra so you can overcome what is bascially a natural decline in sexual function due to the aging process.
Why don’t men start agitating for a 99.9% effective form of reversible contraception they can take, pay for and put up with the side effects?
And in answer to Rush, keep it in your pants…problem solved.
You are paying for her health insurance? I did not know that! Would you pay for mine, too?
And in case you didn’t notice, “it takes two to tango” — contraception IS a man’s issue — unless you like reproducing yourself with no thought whatsoever to the care and feeding of multiple little yous. PLEASE use birth control — your genes are NOT that great; really, they’re not! We have more than enough stupid people in the world.
Slam dunk. You really should feel bad. Next time take your brains out and play on an even field. LOL
vasectomies ARE covered
Nobody in my family has had leprocy or the treatments for it, yet it’s covered by insurance. Why should I pay for it?
First of all vasectomies are covered in most cases.Second,I’d much rather pay a small amount for contraception than pay for careless breeders who get loads of tax breaks.What do you think people like the Duggars REALLY cost all of us?
As it turned out, the insurance company decided to provide birth control without contributions from the Catholic church, since it is far less expensive to pay for contraception than for prenatal care and childbirth.
The “public” was not asked to pay anything. Ms. Fluke simply pointed out that her friend, who needed to take the Pill to treat polycystic ovarian disease, was denied this coverage by Georgetown University, because they’re so opposed to contraception that they won’t agree to it as part of their health insurance policy even for non-contraceptive uses.
Bain Capital ? Hi Mitt !
Never liked this guy. He’s bad for the brain.
George Will, long time verbal assassin for the right wing, and Matthew Dowd, ABC’s go-to Republican, probably said it best today: “The Republicans are afraid of Limbaugh. They want to bomb Iran and they are afraid of him “, says Will. “the Republican leaders, Mitt Romney and the other candidates, don’t have the courage to say what they say in quiet, which, they think Rush Limbaugh is a buffoon,” Dowd said. ”They think he is like a clown coming out of a small car at a circus. It’s great he is entertaining and all that. But nobody takes him seriously.” Amen
George Will remembers when the Republican Party was about true conservatism.
Now he, like most of us old timers, doesn’t recognize the GOP anymore.
clear channel is owned by murdoch
…..”Went beyond political discourse”…..nothing this fat, loud mouthed fool ever said has ever had anything to do with political discourse.
I do wish you would refrain from picking on those of us who are a tad over weight;)
Although I don’t care or like or even listen to
Limbaugh, this is just more hypocrisy. This will
be BIG news for a month but where were all of you
when the MSNBC cheerleaders when they come out
with their wonderful statements?
Wow, Limbaugh has been on the front page of the BDN online issue for 3 days now. Where is the front page reporting on Ed Shultz, or Bill Maher vile comments about conservatives? Or any reporting in the BDN about Shultz or Maher…..Perfect example of yellow media!
Compleatly unrelated.
Only to those who choose not to see it.
The reason a story makes it there for three days is that is what people are talking about.I would rather not see a word about this but see D’s, R’s and I’s at the Statehouse side by side helping out other Americans who just lost everything in the tornadoes.Will we see that?
Maher lost his job and went to a pay network(smaller audience)Schultz was suspended.So they paid as well.
That is not a good comparison. You are grasping at straws.
Schultz got suspended for a week for his comments about a conservative commentator. When does Rush’s suspension start?
Talking heads that are too far to the right AND too far to the left should all lose their advertisers. Sad state of affairs when these people actually make good money to spew BS and rant like nutcases and get paid VERY WELL for doing so. How many posters do the same thing here on BDN threads?…and all for free.
The thing is people believe him .
Not if their IQ is equal or greater than their shoe size.
A lot of that has to do with the number of channels available.Remember less than two decades ago we had only the Big 3 TV networks and the political campaigns were covered gavel to gavel on all three.Like Bruce says”57 channels and nothin’ on”Same with the Internet.
Bye Bye Rushy…keep boot licking and backtracking in a desperate attempt to apologize (to your sponsors)…And I suppose the “liberal media” is responsible…Go away pill head….
Sounds like lapage back tracking
Couldn’t be happening to a better slimeball. Would be so nice to this complete jerk reduced to complete irrelevance and taken entirely off the air. This guy is not only a hypocrite multi-marriaged druggie racist college dropout with zero political credentials, he’s a weirdo, plain and simple. The GOP TeaNut dittoheads who actually listen to his pure lying propaganda ultra-crud must be so proud. This is just part of the reason why the idiotic TeaNut Party is going get crushed at the ballot box in November. Only three women in this country will vote for these whackos: Ann Coulter, Michelle Bachman, and Sarah Palin. Three total nuts in their own right.
HEAR HEAR!1000 likes if I could!
Boy talk about calling the kettle black ?
I suppose your rants are OK
People write longer stuff than that an no one says it’s a rant .
Clear Channel and its parent companies allow Mr. Limbaugh to flaunt his extreme views with his spew of thoughtless, hateful words. This amounts to nothing less than an endorsement of Limbaugh’s mindset. Cudos to the advertisers who have suspended/canceled their support in light of Limbaugh’s poisonous and derogatory personal attack of Ms. Fluke’s character and integrity. Although no doubt there is more than enough money in the parent companies’ bank accounts to cover any advertising revenue gaps (as well as settlement terms of a slander lawsuit), it does speak well of the companies that have taken a stand against Limbaugh; they are saving advertising dollars AND getting free positive advertising as this controversy continues to unfold. I hope more advertisers will follow suit, for Limbaugh’s comments were no fluke!
Do you feel the same outrage over Ed Shultz? Randy Rhodes? Bill Maher? I listen to these tools regularly and they often say equally vile and outrageous things.
Give us an example of a time when any of these guys attacked a private citizen and university student.
Rush Limbaugh is a private citizen. Listen to their shows and almost daily they attack conservatives who also happen to be private citizens.
Rush is a public figure; he puts himself out there daily. I wouldn’t really call him private in any way. And please, give me examples about all these private citizen conservatives that are being attacked.
Are you denying that Rush is a private citizen?
For examples:
1 Turn on your radio.
2 Tune your radio to 101.9 FM, “The Pulse”.
3 Unplug your ears and Listen….
By your definition Sandra Fluke is also a public figure. she has repeatedly put herself in the public eye over the past 8 to 10 years.
Fluke is not a private citizen. She has been a “women’s rights” activist for a decade. She sacrificed her private citizen status when she participated in the Democratic Party sham in Congress. Her sex life and public comments are all fair game for anybody to question or expose.
Right now Right Wing extremism is the problem. Isn’t Rush a tool ???
The problem is with the hypocrisy of group think leftists. Better fix it now before bullets fly like in any other third world country.
I just googled “group think leftists” and came up empty. I am afraid you will have to tell me what they are ? One more thing….. every time it looks like the neo-cons are going to lose an election thay threaten “bullets flying” ! What is the matter with you guys ? Don’t you like living in a Democracy ? Maybe you could move to a “Theocracy” like what Santorum has proposed. I hear they have some real good ones in the Middle East.
I came up with all kinds of stuff ..
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMO_enUS406US406&ix=seb&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=group+think+leftist
I searched your Google link and still could not find a correlation to anyone or any group involved in American politics. Just who or what group in the current American poitical arena are you talking about ?
No you didn’t. The first page puts a lie to your claim.
I won’t get in any senseless arguments with you. I know what I searched. You still have not answered my question…..so I will ask it again. Just who or what group in the current American poitical arena are you talking about ? Maybe you don’t have an answer ?
I would draw a circle to include a variety of leftist groups and sympathizers to include Media Matters, Kos, Politico, Mother Jones and the OWS movement. The group think mentality of these groups followers is well illustrated by the excitement and herding that occurs when certain words are used such as “Murdoch” or “Koch” or “Fox”. The herd really begins to move when we combine words such as “rich” and “Fair share”.
The “circle” you describe are simply groups that don’t share your neo-con views . I see no “bullets flying” my friend.
All this rambling is very nice, but the real questions is, will we ever get to see the videos?
The videos of Rush taking drugs? Destroyed, I’m sure.
You want to watch Rush’s sex videos ?
Let me see if I’ve got this right…
Rush calls the lady a whatever, because she testified to congress that a friend of hers had a legitimate medical need for contraception drugs for a non-contraceptive issue.
And now the extremist right wingers here are rushing to his defense ?
Wow. Have people no shame ?
Some people just love to be lied to I suppose.
If he serves any purpose, it’s to let us all know who among us are so profoundly deficient in their reasoning skills as to be a total waste of time to interact with.
Note the nicks and ignore them. Don’t reward bad behaviore.
That’s how Rush is he turns the tables to make people look bad no matter how right they are
But it was OK not a word from anyone when Bill Maher called Sarah Palin the C wors.
It’s okay for advertisers to advertiser where they want.
Bill Maher is on HBO and HBO shows do not have advertising. Maybe Rush should try to get a show on HBO.
He tried TV twice, didn’t work because he is made for AM Radio
He works well in talk radio and his audience size is evidence of that.
Last I checked Rush had 20 million listeners per week (that is how radio ratings are done, per week not per show) which means he has 4 million listeners (20 / 5 = 4) or 1.25 % of Americans (4 million / 320 million) per show.
Not as large an audience as you would be led to believe.
Who on talk radio has a larger audience?
Even better, please identify the liberal talk show personality who makes even the top ten??
A liberal is more likely to think for themselves. A conservative is more likely to be led to the ‘truth’.
The evidence of public discourse tends to indicate otherwise.
Conservative talking points…… Ms Fluke is a 23 yo sl*t who wants people to pay for her birth control thus she is a prostitute whom Rush wants to watch having sex on the internet.
Liberal talking points…. Ms Fluke is a 30 yo Georgetown student who testified on Capital Hill about another student who lost an ovary because Georgetown University would not cover her prescription for contraception that would have saved her ovary.
Which it the correct set of facts?
BS. The 23 year old claim was made by the Democrats to the media and did not get corrected until challenged on it.
The rest of your unhinged BS is not worth responding to and is a good evidence confirming what I stated.
what “unhinged BS”?
One set of talking points is completely false and made up, the other is based on facts that can be easily verified.
The first set of “talking points” is false. It was the Democratic Party controlled conference that presented Fluke as a 23 year old coed, not Republicans.
The second talking point is also false because it was the Republicans who noted that Fluke was actually a 30 year old liberal activist. Fluke also testified that Georgetown law school students spend up to $3,000 over their 3 year careers on birth control which was by far the more pertinent point of her false narrative rather than the anecdotal story of a poor woman with a medical need that could have been satisfied with a $4/month fill at Target.
I just used Rushes own words to show the conservative views.
No you didn’t.
So…… Rush did not say that Sandra Fluke was a sl*t, prostitute or that he wanted her to post videos of her having sex on the internet “because we were paying for her free contraceptives”?
I think you need to provide the actual quote without your spin.
Again, who are the liberal lights of talk radio?
Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann and others
LOL …. and who listens to them?
You know, Cenk Uygur is offering Rush $10,000 to prove that “20 milli0n” figure, which somebody pulled out of their rear end TWENTY YEARS AGO with no proof whatsoever.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/rush-limbaugh-ratings_b_1320144.html
It’s a made-up number! Just like all of Limbaugh”s “facts”!
HUGE difference – Sarah Palin gets paid to spew her right wing hate. She gives as good as she gets. Sandra Fluke is a private citizen.
Fluke is a professional activist and has been for the past decade.
Says Fox News.
One of the few places you will hear the actual news and truth.
That comment explains a LOT.
Fox News, propaganda wing of the Republican Party, less informed than those that do not watch news.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-11-22/news/30431182_1_fox-news-results-show-viewers
http://entertainment.time.com/2011/11/22/poll-fox-news-viewers-less-informed-except-about-the-nutritional-value-of-pepper-spray/
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/21/news/la-pn-fox-news-poll-20111121
i included a right wing source (NY Daily News) and two neutral sources (Time and the LA Times). I know anything that is not Fox News is liberal media (puts on aluminum foil hat).
They are all using the same questionable poll. I recommend you catch an edition of Waters Reports on O’Reilly’s show for an example of the person on the street and their “extant” knowledge of current events.
The truth about Fox News viewers is the opposite of what your poll suggests.
The Fox News viewers I talk to reinforce the fact that they are badly misinformed by Fox News.
I can do a man on the street and show either brilliant answers or stupid answers, it is called editing. Which do you think I would show if it was for entertainment purposes, the right answers or the stupid answers?
Are you sure see is a “professional activist” ? That would mean she makes a living from activism. I am not so sure about that.
She is not having to cover much of her educational costs and she targeted Georgetown’s policy before ever enrolling. She has been an activist for the past decade. Whether she has earned a living at it is irrelevant.
Proof, please. And don’t post a link to Fox News. And FYI – using the word “professional” indicates she gets paid for it. Hardly irrelevant.
Listen to her own testimony. If you will not read or listen to Fox News, remain ignorant.
Still waiting for the proof.
If you wont read sources and instead stick your head in the snowbank, keep waiting.
Do your own work.
I take this to mean you have no proof? Nice defection, though.
Fox News?
Fox News less informed than people who don’t watch news.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-11-22/news/30431182_1_fox-news-results-show-viewers
http://entertainment.time.com/2011/11/22/poll-fox-news-viewers-less-informed-except-about-the-nutritional-value-of-pepper-spray/
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/21/news/la-pn-fox-news-poll-20111121
Not private when you go on national TV and put yourself in the lime light, she wanted her 15 she got it.
Maher was on pay per view cable, Rush was on 600 free over the air broadcast stations.
Rush is an Alien
Admittedly this guy is a tool. But, why does this only go one way. Charlie Sheen says that the US orchestrated 9/11 including putting bombs in the towers, Tom Hanks says that Roosevelt allowed Pearl Harbor to happen so that we could commit genocide on the Japanese. Don’t see anyone ever called for boycots of these clowns by disgracing war dead.
What does that have to do with Rush calling a young women a s*#* and saying he wants her to post sex videos on line so he can watch them. You can’t possibly be trying to compare Hanks and Sheen to Rush ?
Guess I need to be more explicit.
Rush says something wrong and people cry that they will vote with their wallet and not buy stuff advertised on his show.
Hanks and Sheen say something just as (or more) wrong, no call for boycott there.
From Websters:
double standard
noun1.any code or set of principles containing different provisionsfor one group of people than for another, especially anunwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men morefreedom than women. Compare single standard ( def. 1 ) .
It is only your opinion that Hanks and Sheen are “wrong,” and apparently many people don’t share your opinion.
I still don’t get your rationale. Hanks and Sheen don’t even have any advertisers. I would think that if the Conservatives still wanted to start a boycott against Hanks or Sheen they could try. What would be stopping them from trying to boycott either one of them ? I think the problem for the Conservatives is that boycotts seldom work unless you have the vast majority of people on your side.
I think Rush is back on drugs. He could have made the same comments without the repercussions if what he said made sense. That’s why Bill Maher and others get away with it. It’s all in the delivery.
Rush is laughing all the way to the bank.
Some of the finest edutainment on radio.
Edutainment for the learning impaired
Boycott everyone using Clear Channel.
You don’t listen to any of them to begin with and we outnumber you 2 to 1. That is why none of this matters.
Whether or not you agree or disagree with Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh was way out of line when he squandered his celebrity to defile Ms. Fluke. Limbaugh’s lame attempt to brush it away as “a poor choice of words” doesn’t cut it. I say, let him go the way of another windbag, Don Imus. They’ve both lost their way. I salute the advertisers who dumped them. And, I am among the throngs of those who do not need to hear their bulls**it any longer.
Funny how Imus got fired but this windbag gets to keep his job
You can not fire someone that own his own company. All thats is going to happen, is raido stations will drop his show. I do not listen to Rush, but sure wish this was a two sidded street, go listen to bill maher, and see how much hate he spreads, where is all the outrage about his show???? still waiting for those outraged people. As normal Conservative says something beat that person, liberal says something its called funny.
He is nothing but a fat, blow hard who likes his pain meds!
Let me break the bad news to you. Rush isn’t going anywhere. He is not going to lose anything. His base of support is only disappointed that he apologized.
That’s pretty much what they said about Don Imus. He, too apologized. And, where is he now?
He’s still on the air nationally.
http://www.imus.com/station-list/category/maine
Synicated only.
All the national programs are syndicated including Rush. That is a good thing.
Back on as before.
I find that sad, yet true. Every one of us makes mistakes, but they say, “Never apologize.” . Am of the old school and glad that my parents taught me some manners.
I’m thankful you were taught to not be progressive liberal.
If his sponsors are anti free speech who needs them? I will never use proflowers,sleep time, quicken, legalzoom or any other Anti-American product or company. I will spread the word about these companys. Thier arogance is overwhelming. to the rest of you hypocrytes, you will be the first to scream freedom of speech unless someone says something you do not agree with.
Sounds like you’re the one who is anti-free speech. Are the advertisers not free to advertise and associate where they wish?
The sponsors are free to contract with whomever they wish. Consumers are also free to not purchase their products and publicly oppose their businesses. Is that a problem for you?
That was exactly my point. You don’t get to claim “anti free speech” and then engage in the exact same behavior your complain about. To call it arrogant and hypocritical for a business to determine where they want to advertise? That’s ridiculous.
Arrogance!!!? You don’t call saying those who don’t agree with you are hypocrites is arrogance?? hoohohohohohohho. Probably you don’t. :) Have a great day; and I mean it.
I agree. I’ve already written to Carbonite informing them that I and my company will not utilize their products and services. I am doing the same to the other sponsors.
Our economy is on the verge of collapse and this is what liberals care about.
Because it’s impossible to be concerned with more than one thing at once?
Funny, my take is that “our economy is on the verge of collapse and all conservatives can think about is reducing women’s access to contraception.”
No, this was a Democratic Party scheme beginning with George Stufalotagoose. I recommend the Republican Party just ignore it and let leftist lips flap.
Can’t seen to locate Sheen’s or Hanks syndicated radio talk shows…are they on the air daily spreading hate & discontent? I plan to complain to their parent companies also. Maybe a better analogy would make your point worth reading.(won’t let me respond to Bill, who wrote about this)
His own show and he is his own boss so he can call his own shots and is responsible only to himself.
There is a bit of serendipity at work in having Linbaugh and Sen. Snow in the news the same week. If you wish to understand how this country has deteriorated into the current polarized out of balanced mess that has prompted Sen. Snow to view the Senate as an unworkable institution, (and by extension all of our government) you can trace the beginning of this disease to the day Rush first opened his mouth to a national audience. He was labeled back then by one prescient commentator as “the most dangerous man in America”.
To bad more “good” people were not paying attention back then.
For the good of our country it is time for him to go.
Just as it was good for the dialog of the Country that MSNBC can Pat Buchanan on trumped up racism charges.
Negative comments that are so commonplace for some come out of fear and insecurity. It seems that Rush and those that share this negative perspective best take a look inside more often and search for why they are so angry; why they need to put down others; and why they need to attack those they disagree with. Fear and insecurity resonate with so much of the population, or the sheeples (sheep + people), that such personalities achieve a kind of mob mentality following of hate of anything different than themselves. It is good to see that advertisers are pulling away from Rush, but his contract is good until 2016 and Clear Channel still has a cash cow for all those that are addicted to hate and negativity. There is way too much of that and it is toxic to everyone it touches. Peace
Every thign you said is heard more from the left then the right, you better take a closer look your self, madow, maher, spread more hate, and anger then any other person I have ever listened too.
Congress Woman Waters, can be added to the list, it is the left that is angry, and always blames the right for being angey, classic by the book post by a sheep liberal.
Keep following that money trail: Lush – Clear Channel – Bain Capital – MITT !!!!
Check your facts Bain Capitial gives more money to obama then to miltt.
Clear Channel is a subsidiary of Bain capitol
So Bain still gives more money to the dems fact is fact.
Jed, I think Jethro needs a hand with the obtuse out by the cement pond
I never realized how much hatred existed on the left.
C’mon brother, celebrate diversity.
It is not hatred to shine the light on Rush. He did it all by himself.
What has happened to womens lib? I thought women fought for equality and the ability to take care of themselves? Now they are demanding to be taken care of and blaming men for not doing enough? Perhaps, like dinner and mortgage payments, these women should ask their sexual partners to pay for their contraception instead of demanding from the government.
Ah, yes, demanding to be taken care of. As in, demanding that an employer not slice away basic health needs from their insurance policy.
Birth control pills are basic health needs? If so, they can buy them for $4/month at Target. which is already less than most co-pays.
The real aim of the Republicans pushing the Blunt amendment was not contraception, per se. That was a neat divisive tactic they came up with.
What they are trying to make happen is for employers to have the right to slice away whatever portion of your health insurance coverage they happen to want to get rid of, as long as they can justify it on supposedly moral/religious grounds.
Thus, you might one day find that you would have to pay extra if you wanted blood transfusions covered, if your employer belonged to a religion that forbids blood transfusions even to save your life.
You could find that treatment for lung cancer isn’t covered, since your employer has decided (inaccurately) that all lung cancer comes from smoking cigarettes, which is against their religion.
Republican leaders aren’t concerned about anyone’s health–they want to derail health insurance reform, for the benefit of the for-profit insurance companies they’re in league with.
Establishing religious and moral precedents doesn’t work as you assume. As for the profit motive insurance companies, they are the ones that worked with the Democrats and Obama to fashion Obamacare in the first place. You have your narrative wrong.
You did not address the fact that birth control pills can already be purchased by Georgetown University law school “coeds” for $4/month. Are you suggesting that somebody is trying to prevent that?
Can we stop with the fiction that MSNBC is for liberals?The longest program they have (3 hours/day)is run by a failed R who wouldn’t get any job if he wasn’t telegenic.He’d fit great on Fox.Also they got rid of KO who was the only one to speak truth to power.Phil Griffin does what he pleases.Plus they pay Michael Steele.
Even if MSNBC has a liberal slant, it compares in no way to the massive slant of Fox News.
I liken Limbaugh’s recent transgression to the once magnificent Italian Cruise ship, Costa Concordia. Limbaugh’s ship has run aground because he obviously engaged his mouth before he engaged his brain. And, I salute the growing number of advertisers that are abandoning the U.S.S. Limbaugh. I have no idea how manyconservative Republicans abide by Rush’s recent comments. But, I would bet that number of Republican men might not be having much sex tonight if they stand in defense of Rush Limbaugh.
Who says he’s an ex-drug user. The way he acts when on TV or his talk you’d thing that he’s crazy. Keep an eye on him next time he’s on TV.
AOL just dropped him, LMAO !!!!
BDN needs to update the story, AOl just pulled their ad sponsorship bringing the total to 8. This may be the end for Slimebaugh.
LOL Rush isn’t going anywhere. Those sponsors that dropped him will be replaced and still lose business. Carbonite as an example is already under water and likely could not survive if conservative talk show hosts decide to pull their plug. AOL has become an arm of HuffnPuff.
Sit back and watch the adults ruin your fantasy. Bookmark it.
LOL, like what happened with Glenn Beck’s television show? Oh wait…
Beck is still going strong on radio. How come those sponsors did not leave him? Beck’s format was not working well at Fox and his contract was up. Sponsorship had nothing to do with.
He is sponsored by Gold Sellers and they like his type of doomsday listeners.
If Beck had been pulling in enough viewers Fox would have figured out a way to keep him, plus he was losing sponsors on Fox.
While I am not big on gold at this point, it is pretty clear that Beck was right on target with gold investments going back to when it was in the $300 range.
Fox wanted to do something different with the 5 PM time slot because Beck’s format was not working.
The man who coined the term “Femi-Nazi” is in trouble again with women. Rush steps in his own hurl … again. After spending three days attacking a young woman from the private sector who was trying to bring her story the congress, Rush has finally issued a lame apology. My only hope and wish is that this will be the last episode of a hateful mean spirited man. Bu-Buy Rush, face it, your departure from public life is long overdue.
AOL becomes the 8th sponsor to drop Rush
I would not be surprised to see Rush’s rating go up based on all this free publicity that the leftists are giving him.
Everyone who is going tolisten to the likes of Rush Limbaugh are already listening to him. Those with any decency will stop listening to him.
You are making a false equivalency between decency and progressive liberals.
Hey give Rush a break. He’s only trying to make up for his little penis.