Rush Limbaugh has finally jumped the shark - advertisers abandoning him

[Riot]

Advertisers have stuck by Rush through some of his previous inflammatory comments, but this time they are not.

In the past 24 hours:

2:13 PM PT: UPDATE: All hail the Men Who Get It: "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.

1:37 PM PT: Think Progress is reporting that Quicken Loans is out, too! Kelly@QuickenLoans Tweeted: "Due to continued inflammatory comments– along w/valuable feedback from clients & team members– QL has suspended ads on Rush Limbaugh program."

1:15 PM PT: UPDATE: SleepNumber Beds is out: @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."

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On Rush's radio show today, Rushbo complained (sorry, hold on while I ROFLMAO here .... okay ... ) about the following:

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RUSH: "A Missouri House member frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health is proposing to restrict vasectomies. Legislation sponsored by Democrat Stacey Newman would allow vasectomies only when necessary to protect a man from serious injury or death." You will not find the name "Rush Limbaugh" anywhere on this legislation. Nor do I know Ms. Newman. I'm not in cahoots with her. In the state of Missouri, a woman "frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health" has proposed legislation that would deny men the right to have a vasectomy whenever and for whatever reason they wanted.

Men would have to get that approved. "Vasectomies would have to be performed in a hospital, ambulatory surgery center or health facility licensed by the state Department of Health and Senior Services." What, is this? Are there back-alley vasectomies going on that we don't know about? Have you heard this, Snerdley? Are there back-alley vasectomies taking place? "The Missouri House last week approved a resolution objecting to the federal health care law and a requirement that most employers or insurers cover contraceptives. Newman, who's from St. Louis County, says that such issues affect women the most." Really? Affect women the most?

"She says men also must make family planning decisions." So here you have it, folks. Now we're going to restrict vasectomies? A legislator, state representative in Missouri wants to regulate and restrict vasectomies.

www.rushlimbaugh.com

[mclem0822]

Originally Posted by Riot

Advertisers have stuck by Rush through some of his previous inflammatory comments, but this time they are not.

In the past 24 hours:

2:13 PM PT: UPDATE: All hail the Men Who Get It: "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.

1:37 PM PT: Think Progress is reporting that Quicken Loans is out, too! Kelly@QuickenLoans Tweeted: "Due to continued inflammatory comments– along w/valuable feedback from clients & team members– QL has suspended ads on Rush Limbaugh program."

1:15 PM PT: UPDATE: SleepNumber Beds is out: @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."

www.dailykos.com

On Rush's radio show today, Rushbo complained (sorry, hold on while I ROFLMAO here .... okay ... ) about the following:

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: "A Missouri House member frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health is proposing to restrict vasectomies. Legislation sponsored by Democrat Stacey Newman would allow vasectomies only when necessary to protect a man from serious injury or death." You will not find the name "Rush Limbaugh" anywhere on this legislation. Nor do I know Ms. Newman. I'm not in cahoots with her. In the state of Missouri, a woman "frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health" has proposed legislation that would deny men the right to have a vasectomy whenever and for whatever reason they wanted.

Men would have to get that approved. "Vasectomies would have to be performed in a hospital, ambulatory surgery center or health facility licensed by the state Department of Health and Senior Services." What, is this? Are there back-alley vasectomies going on that we don't know about? Have you heard this, Snerdley? Are there back-alley vasectomies taking place? "The Missouri House last week approved a resolution objecting to the federal health care law and a requirement that most employers or insurers cover contraceptives. Newman, who's from St. Louis County, says that such issues affect women the most." Really? Affect women the most?

"She says men also must make family planning decisions." So here you have it, folks. Now we're going to restrict vasectomies? A legislator, state representative in Missouri wants to regulate and restrict vasectomies.

www.rushlimbaugh.com

Long overdue to say the least!

[bigrun]

Just watched his rant on ABC eve news....what a jackass...but his fans love that crap....also ABC pulled a Stewart on Mitt...showed a recent clip of him saying one thing about big gov't and a 10 year old clip of him saying opposite...

[Danzig]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...ra_fluke_.html

Has Rush Limbaugh Finally Gone Too Far in Slut-Shaming Sandra Fluke?
By J. Bryan Lowder
| Posted Friday, March 2, 2012, at 3:43 PM ET


"So Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."

Obviously, feminists, liberals and really anyone who has a modicum of respect of women—including President Obama, who called Fluke today to offer his support—was disgusted by this statement. As Krystal Ball writes in the Huffington Post, this is classic slut-shaming with the added bonus of creepy voyeurism. And considering that the content of Fluke’s actual testimony wasn’t about sex (though it would have been fine if it had been), Limbaugh’s lurid, peeping-tom reaction is all the weirder. In this case, I think we see another example of Amanda’s observation (made earlier this week) that the contraception debate is really bringing out conservatism’s “prurient prude” double-standard.

[Riot]

BTW, Flukes testimony - which was denied at the original hearing by Republican Committee Chair Darryl Issa (when all they had was male church figures testifying about women's health and contraceptive needs), and was spoken to the Dems in a different hearing later: was about what happened to a fellow student, who could not afford birth control to treat her ovarian cysts, thus eventually lost that ovary, forever decreasing by half her chances of starting a family.

Yeah, Rush - that makes Fluke a "slut". You misogynistic idiot fat drug addict.

[bigrun]

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