Good update on how various Limbaugh sponsors are dealing with the social media firestorm

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/02/436852/rush-limbaugh-advertisers/

Interesting to see how some are being very quiet......and some deny being sponsors at all!

[russspeakeasy]

1. Pro Flowers is "looking into it " ?

[LuckyLib]

9. While they look into it, I sent them this:

"Please relay to your superiors my decision to never use this business as long as it supports and sponsors Rush Limbaugh's radio program. His vile diatribes against women are misogynistic, disturbing, and completely inappropriate for national radio. If you sponsor his work, you endorse his opinions about women. Women in the US need to run the other direction from ANY business that sponsors this kind of hateful speech."

[russspeakeasy]

10. Wow, that is excellent...

[progressoid]

12. Yeah but they still advertise on Hannity etc.

[elleng]

2. GOOD. Kicking him where it will hurt!

[lpbk2713]

3. Carbonite wouldn't be worth having even if it was free.

Let the Shittoheads waste their money on it if they are so inclined.

[janx]

4. This is a standard reply from advertisers when confronted with the Rush problem:

"@stonermc We’ve never paid for ads on Limbaugh show. We’re looking into the matter of “network buys” & will let you know what we discover."

The claim is always that they buy groups of networks and don't know where their ads are going.

[csziggy]

6. Well, then maybe they should start paying attention!

Because if they don't that inattention will cost them customers.

I've never done business with one of the advertisers on Limbaugh's show. Not because of boycotting but somehow I am not in their customer demographics. Of course, they don't know that!

[behrstar]

8. It's their job to know, and we should tell them so.

[Trekologer]

11. I don't buy that claim that they don't know where the ads are going

The company I work for does a bit of advertising and knows exactly which networks and shows the ads run in. In many cases which commercial break during a program is known as well. The reason is simple: metrics, metrics, metrics. How the ad performs is key: how many viewers see the spot, how many call the toll free number in the ad (each channel has a different number in it) and how many of those convert to sales.

If the advertisers don't know where their ads are running, its is because they don't care to know or are lying.

[CAPHAVOC]

5. He will make millions off of this.

I guess we will soon have conservative and liberal companies. The conservatives will only shop at conservative stores and liberals only at liberal stores. Amazing. Are there any rules about discriminating against hiring Liberals or Conservatives?

[bongbong]

7. Don't worry

If that happens, it will be OK. The idiots voting for the Greedy Old Pedophile party are mostly low-income losers living off (low, thanks to their heroes) gov't benefits, as proven in the NY Times county-by-county map of voting vs. gov't payouts.

[itsrobert]

13. keyword in most of those company statements 'SUSPENDED'

Which means as soon as no one is looking they will be back on the air.