What next with regard to Limbaugh?

[Laurian]

After spending the past several days signing petitions and sending emails to sponsors (as well as AFN), things seem eerily quiet today. I worry that the outrage will subside and we'll be back to the same old situation, with Limbaugh continuing his hateful tirades.

What can we do to keep the pressure on?

[el_bryanto]

1. That's sort of the way these things always work

Successfully removing him from the airwaves is not very likely. He's lost a number of sponsors, but most of them only temporarily.

Bryant

[Cosmocat]

2. Agree

He finally has been knocked down a peg, but he STILL is the heartbeat of the hate that drives the party.

He is not going away.

[Erose999]

3. Don't be surprised, we removed Glenn Beck from the Faux News last year. Is Color Of Change

involved with the Limbaugh sponsor boycott efforts? Putting pressure on local advertisers and local stations to drop Rush would also work.

Rush is syndicated so local stations have to buy his program. They make their money on it by selling ads. Pressuring the local businesses to not advertise on Rushbo will force the local stations to drop him because they're losing ad money.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Put Pressure On The Stations...

They're the ones who are waiting/hoping for this shitstorm to blow over and get back to business as usual. They've been through this before with rushbo and know that once the corporate media and blogosphere finds a new shiny toy they'll no longer pay attention to what goes on with hate radio and the bile will spew again.

Some damage has been done but nothing has been heard from his boss, John Hogan, CEO of Clear Channel and Premiere Radio (rushbo's synidator). There are ways small groups of people can create major headaches for local station through visible protests (bad PR for the station) and complaints to the FCC using the public inspection file. There's also targeting local advertisers whose impact is felt far deeper at these stations.

Rushbo's been damaged but far from knocked out. It's going to take focus and perseverence and the corporates have too much "invested" in rushbo...

[DTinAZ]

6. excellent analysis

And I also think that the ongoing campaign by Color of Change is what made the difference in the case of Glenn Beck.

But, if any of you haven't signed the "Signon.org" petition to Clear Channel (it's got over 300K signatures so far), here's an easy-to-remember link:

http://www.CrushRush.org

DT

[tularetom]

5. If he lost ALL his sponsors he'd stay on the air

Some wealthy wing nuts would bankroll his entire program just to keep him on the air.

He serves an important purpose for them, keeping the dumshits angry at minorities, gays and "liberals" while the 1% is robbing them blind right in front of their noses.

God help him if the fools ever figure out how he's been playing them for a sucker for the past 20 years. These are people who react strictly on emotion, fear and hate.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

7. People lose interest after 48 hours

his backers (Americans for Prosperity and Bain) know that. They're counting on it. Unfortunately the American attention span isn't conducive to the type of intense, prolonged activism that could get rid of the guy ie: writing letters to local stations about the situation, copying the FCC, going to the local station to see if the letter and the station's response is in their public file (as per FCC rules it must be) or if they give you any shit about seeing the public file (they are obligated to by law - no questions asked), then filing a "Request to Deny" a renewal of their FCC license because they're not serving the public as they are chartered to do as part of the privilege of using public airwaves (but they often don't because people don't MAKE them).

The FCC ignores the Request to deny, you sue the FCC. Their broadcast licenses are up for renewal I believe every 8 years or so and right now, between 2012 and 2014, is the renewal period I think.

So....no one, or very few - will go to such effort to have the damn AM radio station licenses who broadcast Rush yanked by the FCC. That's what it takes - in addition to extreme and constant pressure on all his advertisers.

Keeping on AFN and Hogan of CC wouldn't hurt either.

Our 'instant gratification' culture just isn't going to do all this and particularly not over a long period of time (weeks, months). That's what it's going to take. Likely, it won't get done and they're counting on that. In a word: complacence.

[Hollywood Hills]

8. Get him off Armed Forces Radio.....

The petition needs more signatures.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

9. Do you have the link for that?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

10. LINK:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/sec-panetta-get-rush-limbaugh-armed-forces-radio-now-no-tax-money-abusive-divisive-insulting/p439GWMm

[UnrepentantLiberal]

11. Thanks.