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"Don't Worry, Folks: Advertisers Who Don't Want Your Business Will Be Replaced"
From transcript on his page, you can find it, I'm not linking it here.
"RUSH: The left, folks -- the media -- are giddy that some advertisers have said they're leaving the program. And I'm sorry to see 'em go. They have profited handsomely from you. These advertisers who have split the scene have done very well due to their access to you, my audience, from this program. To offer their products and services to you through this venue is the best opportunity that they have ever had to advertise their wares. Now they've chosen to deny themselves that access, and that's a business decision, and it's theirs alone to make.
They've decided they don't want you or your business anymore.
So be it.
For me, this program is always about you. You talk to anybody that knows me who asks me about this program, and I always say, "It's all for the audience," because if you're not there, all the rest of this is academic. This show is about you. It's not about the advertisers. I knew the political inclinations of these people. They didn't care when they were profiting -- and I didn't, either. Everybody's able to put these things aside for the sake of mutual beneficial business activity. No radio broadcast will succeed by putting business ahead of the needs of its loyal audience, and that audience is you. My success has come from you. My focus has always been, and always will be, on you".
(more ass kissing, and then this):
I have no adequate way to express my gratitude to you. Just doesn't exist. It's how great my gratitude for all of you is. Without you, advertisers would have no need to participate in this program. So what we're gonna do is replace those that leave, those that no longer want access to you, those advertisers who no longer want your business, fine. We'll replace them. It's simple, really.
Advertising's a business decision. It's not a social one. Only the leftists try to use extortion, pressure, threats to silence opposing voices. We don't do that".
I realize that it is a fool's errand to try to find consistency in this man's opinions, but this really strikes me as impossible to overlook. Within a few paragraphs, he's exhorting his listeners to boycott is former advertisers, and then moments later, asserting that he never would use pressure or threats to silence opposing voices.
What is a call to boycott former advertisers, if not a threat to current ones? If you were responsible for advertising buys for a brand considering his program, wouldn't that chill your roll, that he may do the same to your company?
I need a bath... and some Hawaiian salt.
Edited to restate the headline as a question, for your consideration.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)it won't really matter.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)to get advertisers to pull out of a program or get one cancelled.
He's toxic. Those advertisers will NOT be replaced.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)those small market am-fm stations across the hinterland do`t pay crap.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)Not gonna happen.
all american girl
(1,788 posts)It's called the Free market...see this is how it works. I, as the consumer, thought you were outline and disgusting that I contacted your sponsors and just let them know how I felt. For me, it felt good. If they decided that having a large number of people upset with being associated with a woman hater was not in their best interest, well, that was their was there decisions to make to drop you like a hot potato. Maybe, even a few of your sponsors were highly offended by your just awful rhetoric...
Thanks the Free Market, Baby
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)The ones that know how to write might pick up their crayons and tell those advertisers they will
stop buying their products when they have never used said product in their entire miserable life.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)He's on Beck Road.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)Those advertisers no longer want your listeners as customers. If they did they would still advertise on your Lard-ass show.
Good luck with this one you bloviating POS.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)He just says he will replace his advertisers.
I don't see any explicit call for a boycott, and it's a stretch to infer it from what he said.
Now I need to take a shower. Defending Rush! WTF am I thinking...
mahina
(17,696 posts)"They've decided they don't want you or your business anymore".
That is a call to action, and a reframing of the actions of the former advertisers that he is interpreting for them as an insult to them.
mahina
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mahina
(17,696 posts)I hear the message as a call to action, but perhaps it is not.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)Then I went back over it to see what I could interpret as a call to boycott.
"They don't want your business" self-pitiful as it is, is not calling for a boycott.
Yeck!
--imm
mahina
(17,696 posts)"They don't want your business".
Not quite, but the dog whistle is heard and understood as a call to boycott.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)And thinking about it, I realize, even he is not crazy enough to say, "Boycott these businesses!"
It would be suicidal.
--imm
mahina
(17,696 posts)and hope to hear what DU thinks.
Message processing broken down can be a bore to read, but may be of use here.
Kber
(5,043 posts)Except Ellen and JC Penny
The Muppets
NPR
Spongebob
General Motors
But I'm sure that's it, right?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)mahina
(17,696 posts)I had forgotten. They were so strong!
monmouth
(21,078 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)Think back on how El Rushbo got his ass canned from football broadcasts.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... a bunch of liberal tools?
-- Mal
NightOwwl
(5,453 posts)I am so enjoying watching his free-fall.
ladywnch
(2,672 posts)I just read a post here on DU today about how even amongst republicans his approval/listening/popularity had dropped double digits in all of the Super Tuesday states. he may well have finally jumped the shark on this one. (not holding my breath mind you)
I get a little giddy, and then I remember that this "paragon of traditional values" had to go to rehab after getting busting buying drugs out of the trunk of a car...and his sheeple still drool over his every word.
R.Blue
(35 posts)We will soon see how "simple" this process is. If it was such a simple thing, I wonder why he would flip flop and apologize for what he said. Maybe it is not so simple after all
maxrandb
(15,353 posts)I always suspected that Repukes knew absolutely nothing about business...this confirms it.
I'm sure there are tons of advertisers looking for that "anti-contraception, women are whores" demographic.
I quote to you the best Freeperism I ever read..."in any way I am someones Atlas, I will now shrug"
that freeper quote has me in tears.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)He can tell us what he really thinks without having pesky advertisers getting in the way! I think he'd still be given airtime for his political messaging; they need a professional propagandist who can get people to spread the misinformation that Rush delivers daily.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)maybe he never had that many listeners. Or they were forced to listen but where not fans.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Keep on insulting those advertisers, Bub. The new ones will be every bit as loyal as the old.
spanone
(135,874 posts)agentS
(1,325 posts)The Taliban? Sleazy pick-up-artist book pushers? Survivalist material manufacturers?
He's gonna wind up with only the crooked companies and weirdo companies backing him, and eventually lose them too.
Finally, no more Rush on the radio! The Internet- well that's a different story.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)A toilet bowl with a plump Limbaugh going down into the hole while wagons are higher up on the bowl circling around. The caption: "Republicans circling the wagons."
pa28
(6,145 posts)Really ironic how he says only the left uses pressure to silence opposing viewpoints.
His pressure campaign against Fluke is the reason Rush is in this mess to begin with.
The message I got from his attack on her was, don't you people dare think that Congress is for you. She had no right to testify, as she was just a citizen.
How far we've fallen, with these cretins!
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Now he's trying to kiss ass with his listeners?