babylonsister (142,960 posts)
Limbaugh Is Losing! With Each Hateful Word, More Sponsors Leave. (300 Left Last Month) Total: 2,500+
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.
more...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/17/1187561/-Limbaugh-Is-Losing-With-Each-Hateful-Word-More-Sponsors-Leave-300-Left-Last-Month-Total-2-500?showAll=yes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022389331I bet in 20 years the DUmmies will be right, Rush will be driven off the air and come up with some lame excuse that he's 80 freaking years old and wants to retire.
Mad_Dem_X (8,210 posts)
1. He is repulsive.
I can't believe he is still on the air. Just when you think he can't sink any lower...
I feel the same way about DU, every time we think you fools have sunk as low as you can go, you dig another 30 feet down.
rurallib (30,362 posts)
3. good work - I thought he had already lost most of his sponsors
Well his crapping out may take Clear Channel and Cumulus under.Good in a way, but Bain now owns Clear Channel I believe.
May be someday soon, the radio landscape will be changed dramatically when Rushbo and little Seanny and the wannabes are gone.
I doubt it DUmmy and you know why? When conservative radio shows have sponsors their ads are heard by people who have 2 nickles to rub together and will buy the products and services advertised. When they sponsor things like Air America the ads are being heard by people who can't afford to buy 2 cases of ramen noodles in a single month.
Scuba (24,375 posts)
4. Are you shitting me!!!??? He actually said the quote above?
Yes he did, and I knew you idiots would get all butt hurt, but Shelia Lee Jackson claimed she was a freed slave so Rush was pondering if she was freed who owned her previously, it's a legitimate question when one claims to be a freed slave.
freshwest (26,943 posts)
31. Rush has never been subtle about racism. Always hid behind 'it's just a joke.'
I listened to him in the early 1990's to see what the hullaboo was in media. And it was all there, planting the seeds. The day he goes off Armed Forces Radio is the day I'll cheer. Not until then.
I have never heard him say anything racist, then again I'm not a DUmmy and they think everyone but them are racists.
southernyankeebelle (9,550 posts)
12. Really the sad thing is he is still on the air. He should be taken off the air even if the man
has 3,000 sponsors. It doesn't matter. He creates so much hostility that alone he should be out. Just because we have freedom of speech doesn't mean crazy people have a right to scream hate over the air ways.
I listen to him most days as I'm working and I never get any feelings of hostility from him, now if I read a single thread at DU I see all kinds of hostility especially towards minority members of the GOP.
That is the difference between us DUmmies, your whole system of beliefs are built on anger and hostility and you want to get revenge on those who you feel have wronged you. Even your preezy told you to vote for revenge. Conservatives on the other hand do not have beliefs based on anger and revenge, we simply want to be left alone. We didn't get all pissy when Air America went on the air, we laughed at you but there were no boycotts and no movements to forcibly remove them from the radio dial.
AAO (989 posts)
30. The hatred he spews and multiplies in minds across the nation will finally consume him.
It's just a matter of time. I'm as impatient as anyone, but I really feel he will be gone from our troubles soon. Within a year or two. He will either have a massive stroke or a massive cardiac infarction.
Dear, Lord, why are my prayers never answered?
Doesn't the Bible say something about the prayers of the wicked are not listened to?
