"Slut" Firestorm Sends Limbaugh Into Crisis Management Mode

[kpete]

"Slut" Firestorm Sends Limbaugh Into Crisis Management Mode
March 22, 2012 5:00 pm ET by Oliver Willis

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Brian Glicklich has been acting on Limbaugh's behalf since at least March 8. Glicklich is a former vice president at Premiere Radio Networks, and currently heads the firm How Handy Is That, which specializes in reputation and crisis management and "gadfly defense." He previously worked as counsel to a firm that provides crisis management to clients like David Copperfield and Paris Hilton. Glicklich also has an extensive relationship with Glenn Beck, and is thanked in the acknowledgements of several of Beck's books.

The website for Glicklich's firm, How Handy Is That, describes his work:

My clients often find themselves under attack from outside advocacies or pressure groups. Sometimes these groups are little more than an individual Gadfly with strong digital organizing knowledge. Often, my client has previously underestimated their opposition, to their detriment, before calling me.

Effective management of these situation is based on a multiplex analysis of the opposition's business and reputational influence power, the strength of our position vis a vis our opposition, opposition research for motivation and weak spots, and a number of other factors.

Glicklich's Twitter account, which had been unused for a month, came back to life on March 15 and began promoting defenses of Limbaugh. Coincidentally, Limbaugh began using his official Twitter account on the same day. Politico noted, "Rush Limbaugh is mobilizing his army of dittoheads: on Twitter."

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more:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203220020

[noamnety]

1. Something about this is hitting me badly.

The crisis should be that as a filthy rich person he is abusing his power to promote bigotry.

It's pissing me off that he perceives the crisis to be that people are fed up with his bigotry.

[Aerows]

3. You are acting like you expect

these types of people to have ethics that extend beyond "I'll tell any lie and defend anything that makes me money."

They don't.

[tanyev]

2. But, but, Rush said everything was cool.

Limbaugh told his listeners today that “everything’s cool,” noting that many of the advertisers that have yanked their support are local and thus have little if any impact on the show’s revenues.

“Nobody is losing money here, including us, in all this,” Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday. “[The advertisers] are not canceling the business on our stations. They’re just saying they don’t want their spots to appear in my show. We don’t get any revenue from ‘em anyway. The whole effort is to dispirit you.”

“None of what’s happening is out of the ordinary,” Limbaugh said. “It’s just part of an onslaught to try to convince you that this show’s history and our days are numbered. And I’m happy to tell you nothing could be further from the truth.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-over-40-advertisers-flee-host-says-everythings-cool/

[Bennyboy]

4. Twitter....

okay, you tell em Rush. Al one of the people that listen to your show and even know what twitter is......

[corkhead]

5. Twittoheads

[felix_numinous]

6. Sociopathic network

--bunch of vampires, supporting each other so they can suck the life out of everyone else.