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."

www.dailykos.com

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]

Rush Limbaugh’s Maid to get Raise...

http://notentertainmentnews.wordpres...-to-get-raise/

[hi_im_god]

romney will look dead another six or seven times before november. he'll keep drifting back because the country fundamentally doesn't want change and the administration's core economic policies (health care, stimulus) remain unpopular. growth will be slow and you'll have $5 gas in november.

but it's hard not to enjoy how far off message the republicans keep getting themselves.

contraception? seriously?

it's like a bad lieutenant governor race. the professionals have to be pissing themselves watching this.

god bless rush limbaugh and rick santorum.

[mclem0822]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

romney will look dead another six or seven times before november. he'll keep drifting back because the country fundamentally doesn't want change and the administration's core economic policies (health care, stimulus) remain unpopular. growth will be slow and you'll have $5 gas in november.

but it's hard not to enjoy how far off message the republicans keep getting themselves.

contraception? seriously?

it's like a bad lieutenant governor race. the professionals have to be pissing themselves watching this.

god bless rush limbaugh and rick santorum.

Let's hope what i read in terms of a prediction will be true. I read that prices with peak at around $4.25 in late spring, before drifting back down to around $3 a gallon in the 2nd half of the year. The price has been trending upward for a decade due to demand from China and other places in the world. It crashed when the economy did right around the same time Obama took office, and this recent spike is just the resumption of that upward trend. Hope they do level off again.

[GenuineRisk]

So, Rush has been married 4 times, has no kids, and doesn't seem to understand how prescription contraception works. And his preferred vacation place is the Dominican Republic.

Even if Ms. Fluke and other women posted videos, does it seem like he'd actually be interested in watching them?

[GenuineRisk]

Here's a link to Fluke's letter to Congress:

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politic...%20hearing.pdf

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

So, Rush has been married 4 times, has no kids, and doesn't seem to understand how prescription contraception works. And his preferred vacation place is the Dominican Republic.

Even if Ms. Fluke and other women posted videos, does it seem like he'd actually be interested in watching them?

[somerfrost]

Whenever Rush comes to mind, I think of Shakespeare's quote from Macbeth...."out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

[bigrun]

Rush apologizes....tell him to shove it...wants his sponsors back..


http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/261848...19093#46619093

[AlreadyHome]

Rush Limbaugh is #1 Idiot of the USA... is crazy how some people with so much education say dumb thing

[bigrun]

[Danzig]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46620985/from/RSS/


7 advertisers out...and counting.

[geeker2]

fluke-pathetic-woman-tpc.jpg

[bigrun]

The big cigar and little “junk” in this Rush Limbaugh portrait made me laugh. I told Taylor Jones that it was a great cartoon, even though there won’t be many newspapers that will print it.

A Revealing Portrait of Rush

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by geeker2

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except that when she testified, it was about a student's need for birth control due to an ovarian cyst. not about sex. altho one has to wonder why it would matter if it was about sex. one also wonder's how this turned into 'taxpayers paying' when all along it was about health insurance providers, not tax payers. people wish to claim that their religions preclude them from paying for care like that. so where would it end? some don't agree with blood transfusions, others with organ donation, etc, etc. seems to me that insurers would rather have bc paid for then the thousands of dollars for pre-natal and maternity care, pediatric care, and so on.
and if the argument is 'but it's not a medical necessity'-well, neither is viagra. been paid for all along. there goes that line of reasoning.

[Danzig]

and now it's nine advertisers who have pulled the plug. who would have thought, after all the sheer stupidity and hatred coming out of that persons mouth, that something would finally resonate with advertisers.