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FourScore

(9,704 posts)
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:20 PM Mar 2012

Check out these tweets

We don't condone negative comments directed toward any group. In response, we are currently pulling our ads from Rush
with Rush Limbaugh.
— @theSleepTrain via Twuffer


Recent comments by Rush Limbaugh do not align w/our values, so we made decision to immediately suspend all advertising on that program.
— @SleepNumberSara via web


Due to continued inflammatory comments– along w/valuable feedback from clients & team members– QL has suspended ads on Rush Limbaugh program
— @quickenloans via web


@utbrp We would like to assure you that we do not endorse the views expressed by Rush Limbaugh and we appreciate your feedback.
— @ProFlowers via web


We have listened to our customers & have decided to cease our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show immediately. https://t.co/...


@drpfox As of today, LegalZoom has suspended all advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show.
— @LegalZoom via HootSuite


Three more:

@SleepNumberSara Tweeted this afternoon: "Recent comments by Rush Limbaugh do not align w/our values, so we made decision to immediately suspend all advertising on that program."

Kelly@QuickenLoans Tweeted: "Due to continued inflammatory comments– along w/valuable feedback from clients & team members– QL has suspended ads on Rush Limbaugh program."

"The Cleveland Cavaliers have decided to suspend any and all on-air advertising with the Rush Limbaugh radio program, citing 'inflammatory comments' coupled with valuable feedback from both clients and team employees. This news comes from the team’s majority owner Dan Gilbert." via Think Progress, and Waitingfornextyear.com.


Knotlookin from DK posted this email from her husband to ProFlowers:

"I have bought flowers for my wife, my mother, my sister in law and my cousins all women. They all support the rights of women and the right of women to have and use contraception and, according to Rush Limbaugh, all sluts and prostitutes. I wont be buying flowers through you again, because you say you don't support his views but you do, with your advertising dollars. Please cancel my account"
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Check out these tweets (Original Post) FourScore Mar 2012 OP
This is turning into an anti-Rush tsunami! csziggy Mar 2012 #1
gotomeeting also. I don't think ProFlowers has pulled theirs yet...more pressure needed! NRaleighLiberal Mar 2012 #2
ProFlowers mercuryblues Mar 2012 #10
Thanks for that- I added my voice to the crowd (nt) Tumbulu Mar 2012 #17
Kind of a snowball effect happening too. Old and In the Way Mar 2012 #3
k&r... spanone Mar 2012 #4
So ProFlowers is still whimping out? DURHAM D Mar 2012 #5
Yep, they need more pressure nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #8
they must mercuryblues Mar 2012 #12
Not wimping out but playing with fire. HubertHeaver Mar 2012 #15
people need to go back and thanks these companies because ditto-heads will be flooding them with Liberal_in_LA Mar 2012 #6
That's a good point, but obxhead Mar 2012 #9
Hey Rushbo, what do you think of that hidden hand of the free market Old and In the Way Mar 2012 #7
This makes me so happy Mojorabbit Mar 2012 #11
Send thanks and place an order where you can. nolabear Mar 2012 #13
Proflowers needs to hear from more of us me b zola Mar 2012 #14
http://www.facebook.com/ProFlowers?sk=wall&filter=1 wilsonbooks Mar 2012 #18
The Komen blow-up scared the crap out of these companies Lex Mar 2012 #16
Doubtful. If it really had, they'd have jumped mid-week, without being pushed. KEEP pushing: calimary Mar 2012 #24
As soon as they saw women were paying attention, they jumped. Lex Mar 2012 #25
Fantastic amuse bouche Mar 2012 #19
K&R!! SunsetDreams Mar 2012 #20
They is encoaching on his second amenty rights to free speechifying. nt DCKit Mar 2012 #21
never thought I'd be smiling at anything containing the name rash limpbag!!!! BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #22
Fantastic thread! Keep the updates coming! nt SusanaMontana41 Mar 2012 #23

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)
3. Kind of a snowball effect happening too.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:24 PM
Mar 2012

All advertisers are seeing how everyone else is reacting. No one wants to be the last company to turn off the switch. As more and more dump Rush, those left will get a lot more focus and it's going to be harder for them to justify advertising with this racist/misogynist/overall scumbag.

nobodyspecial

(2,286 posts)
8. Yep, they need more pressure
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:33 PM
Mar 2012

I guess they think men who send women flowers would condone such vile remarks directed at their loved ones.

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
12. they must
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:43 PM
Mar 2012


ProFlowers must think men only send flowers to their prostitutes and sleep with their wives/girlfriends.

HubertHeaver

(2,522 posts)
15. Not wimping out but playing with fire.
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 12:19 AM
Mar 2012

Men order flowers for women. The woman in my life would be extremely P.O.ed if I bought from ProFlowers.

 

obxhead

(8,434 posts)
9. That's a good point, but
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:34 PM
Mar 2012

These companies have already done the math. They can piss of the majority of the US or they can piss off "15 million" Rush listeners.

Once you do the grammar school level math it's not a hard choice to make regardless of what the gas bag supporters say.

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)
7. Hey Rushbo, what do you think of that hidden hand of the free market
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:28 PM
Mar 2012

smacking you up on the side of your head? Bet your hunkered down in the estate prison watching your career and livelihood go poof.....in real time.

me b zola

(19,053 posts)
14. Proflowers needs to hear from more of us
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:45 PM
Mar 2012

They haven't yet said that they are pulling out from his show.

Lex

(34,108 posts)
16. The Komen blow-up scared the crap out of these companies
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 12:23 AM
Mar 2012

and rightfully so. No doubt they've at least thought about it.

calimary

(81,283 posts)
24. Doubtful. If it really had, they'd have jumped mid-week, without being pushed. KEEP pushing:
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 08:59 PM
Mar 2012

Check out this thread - for ways to keep the pressure on, at the local radio level.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002374653

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
22. never thought I'd be smiling at anything containing the name rash limpbag!!!!
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 06:47 PM
Mar 2012

ugh, I can't bring myself to type out his proper name. He's too IMproper.


DROWN, you scumbag, DROWNNNNNNNNNNNNN

and take your fat and greasy citizens with you.

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