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Advertisers fleeing Rush Limbaugh's show

Sponsors pull advertising from Rush Limbaugh ShowBy Victor Balta / current.com

Advertisers are fleeing from Rush Limbaugh's radio program a day after he took his abhorrent remarks about college student Sandra Fluke to a new low.

Limbaugh on Wednesday had called Fluke a "slut" because he said she was "having so much sex" that she wanted the government to pay for her contraceptives.

On Thursday, he ramped up his rhetoric by saying, "If we're going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."

On Thursday night's installment of "The War Room," Jennifer Granholm called Limbaugh out for his inane remarks and challenged his syndication company, Republican leaders and his sponsors to speak out.

Sleep Train was the first of the advertisers to drop Limbaugh.

Sleep Number followed with this tweet:

Citrix announced in a Facebook post that it, too, was dropping its sponsorship.

Citrix drops advertising on Rush Limbaugh's show

Pro Flowers continues to draw fire, having yet to confirm that its advertising is being or has been removed while stating that it does not endorse Limbaugh's comments.

eHarmony, also connected to Limbaugh's program by people on Twitter, says:

More sponsors who are still silent include Quicken Loans and LegalZoom.

QuickenLoans tweeted back to someone who said she was going to do a streamline loan with them but won't because of the company's sponsorship of Rush Limbaugh:

LegalZoom has not replied to thousands of tweets regarding Limbaugh's statement. The company actively tweets updates to its own blog and has posted no less than 10 tweets today, but none regarding Limbaugh.

Century21, another target on Twitter, posted this:

UPDATE: Quicken Loans has notified people via Twitter that they have pulled their advertising from Limbaugh's show.

UPDATE, March 3: Friday evening, Legal Zoom posted a tweet confirming it, too, has pulled its advertising from Limbaugh's show.

UPDATE, March 4: Carbonite on Saturday joined the growing listof companies pulling their ads from Limbaugh's show.

And, after a silence of a couple of days, Pro Flowers announced on its Facebook page that is is "suspending" its advertising on Limbaugh's show.

UPDATE, March 5: AOL now joins the ranks of advertisers who are dropping Limbaugh's show, via a Facebook post Monday morning.

See what Limbaugh had to say Monday morning about all the advertisers ditching his show.

AOL drops advertising from Rush Limbaugh show

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37 comments // Advertisers fleeing Rush Limbaugh's show

  • ozarkcajuns
  • cqsallie
    • 0
      cqsallie  
    • Well, now comes the hard part. It appears that someone is going to have to volunteer to listen to a three-hour Rush Limbaugh radio show in order to take down the names of the local sponsors.
      We need one person to sacrifice his/her sanity in every city Rush spews his venom. Can I see a show of hands? Please? Pretty Please?
      If Rush's local sponsors are people you would normally patronize (and there's a non-sponsor who offers the same products and services)....
      But, truth be known, Rush doesn't need sponsors; if they all quit, he'll get the money elsewhere, but at least you've made a statement, eh?

    • 1 year ago
  • Susan_Bowman
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      Susan_Bowman  
    • Obviously failureinchief you do no know know about the uses of contraceptives. Unlike Viagra you do not take one every time you want sex you have to take one everyday for 3 weeks and then off for 1 week. There are also other medical uses Doctors put women on contraceptives for besides unwanted pregnancies such as Menorrhagia, polyps, etc. I would bet that most medical plans cover Viagra for men and there really is only one reason for that. As far as Sarah Palin I love how every argument by a conservative always ends up back at Sarah Palin and her family which is a very good argument for the use of birth control.

    • 1 year ago
  • FailureNChief
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      FailureNChief  
    • One sponsor left, yet the article gives the perception it was more.
      What about how the media treated Sarah plain and her family? There is such a double-standard among your liberals.
      If she wants gov't sponsored contraception because she can't keep her panties on then she can go to a public law school

    • 1 year ago
  • Lee_Butler
  • dkl165
    • +1
      dkl165  
    • What a douche. He said some absolutely horrid things. Limbaugh should be taken off the air. Plain and simple.

    • 1 year ago
  • SecretJeff2284
    • +2
      SecretJeff2284  
    • Well my prospects on this, Rush is Violating Women's Rights, the same way Santorum and Gingrich are paying, and right now it is a matter of time before they see themselves being connected to Rush, then their poll numbers will drop HARD, messing with Women's Rights is one of 8 things that are currently tryiung to make the United States be like the 1900s to 1940s time line, I say right now this officially places the GOP in Racist Category now.

    • 1 year ago
  • GutReactionPod
    • +2
      GutReactionPod  
    • SecretJeff2284:

      Don't ignore the fact that these companies don't only cater to conservatives. They have liberal customers too and they don't want a lot of people mad at them for buying time on Limbaugh's show. They knew what LImbaugh was like long before the pulled their ads and had no problem with him them.
      Limbaugh's FANS are another matter, however. They are more than likely going to be even more supportive of him because they will see Limbaugh being picked on here.

      And these GOP candidates are only pandering to people just like the ones who make up Limbaugh's audience, so any connection to Limbaugh NOW won't hurt them a bit. Then, after they pick one of these schmucks to run against Obama (Romney), the chosen candidate (Romney) will suddenly turn into a moderate and woo the independents who are likely to not even remember all this. They aren't worrying about anyone left of center.

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
  • chew_chew
  • Kirien
  • Abbynrml
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      Abbynrml  
    • Well it is time for people to make the advertisers who are afraid of Limbaugh pay for it through their profits. I for one will not be giving any of them my business and Clear Channel needs to fire him yesterday. No republican will say he was wrong either as Cantor, Boehnor, and McConnell are leading by their silent approval of Limbaugh. Speak up everyone for the women in our country are under attack by the GOP.

    • 1 year ago
  • Edward_Tilton
  • meeagain
  • meeagain
    • +2
      meeagain  
    • So who pays for Rush's Viagra and Oxycontin, this guy is wacko!
      He makes money to pay for his pills by degrading women...
      Please Keith, roll that Jump Footage! Jump Rush, Jump!
      What a pig he is!

    • 1 year ago
  • CoboWowbo
  • kennymotown
    • +1
      kennymotown  
    • It's about time, only in America can a major drug addict become rich and famous. I think the guy has really blown up his own show this time!

    • 1 year ago
  • BoiledSmartFrog
    • +1
      BoiledSmartFrog  
    • Jesus was not a catholic, was friends with anyone willing to sit at his table, spoke words of love not hate, and would never condone the unforgiving rhetoric of many of the self proclaimed Christians.

    • 1 year ago
  • GutReactionPod
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      GutReactionPod  
    • That's the free market at work. Nobody has to do business with these companies and it's nice to see some companies understand the value of their customer base.

    • 1 year ago
  • Blackwednesday
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      Blackwednesday  
    • @John_Hathaway_Ocds I guess every website needs at least one jerk-off thread troll, right?

      Shouldn't you be in church right now? Not much of a Catholic, are you? Question: Are children safe around you?

    • 1 year ago
  • John_Hathaway_Ocds
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      John_Hathaway_Ocds  
    • Blackwednesday:

      Saying something you disagree with makes me a thread troll? This woman claims to be a student at a Catholic university. If she doesn't agree with the Catholic Church, she shouldn't be there.
      As for children, children are far safer around me than they are around baby-killing Democrats like Sandra Fluke.
      And if you're talking about the small minority of liberal homosexual priests who were molesting teenaged boys, try researching the large number of Democratic Politicians who are pedophiles.

    • 1 year ago
  • Blackwednesday
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      Blackwednesday  
    • John_Hathaway_Ocds:

      Well Mr. Troglodyte, since you have the accusations, I'd say it's up to you to provide links or proof of some kind. I seem to remember about 6000 stories of child rape in the Catholic church from godly priests, and then there's Larry Craig, and several others who basically render your propaganda and BS moot.

      I have my sources ready to go, do you? I suspect this is "Rectal Knowledge". (In case you're not smart enough to get that, it means "pulling something out of your ass"...and hopefully it's not a little boy.)

      Cheers!

    • 1 year ago
  • John_Hathaway_Ocds
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      John_Hathaway_Ocds  
    • If Sandra Fluke doesn't know she's a prostitute, it shows how poor a Catholic education she's getting at Georgetown. St. Augustine says any woman who uses birth control is a prostitute. And how is giving a guy sex for a free dinner and a movie any different than doing it for a few hundred in cash? It's like the story about G.B. Shaw asking the woman to sleep with him for a million dollars. "Yes I would." "Would you sleep with me for $10?" "What kind of woman do you think I am?" "We've already established what kind of woman you are. Now we're just haggling about the price."

    • 1 year ago
  • Hardytoo
    • +6
      Hardytoo  
    • John_Hathaway_Ocds:

      Let us attempt to drag you out of the 14th Century. Or are you a priest? Or a Santorum supporter?
      I haven't spoken with St. Augustine lately. I doubt he would have labeled a "dinner date" a "prostitute" unless he was forewarned (happily probably).

    • 1 year ago
  • Blackwednesday
    • +5
      Blackwednesday  
    • John_Hathaway_Ocds:

      @John_Hathaway_Ocds: Funny you cite a "Saint", which is a false idol that some folks pray too, right? Clay feet, all that? I seem to remember a very specific commandment about that.

      Any idea what Jesus said about...oh..wait...birth control wouldn't be invented for another 1500 years! That's like saying Jesus is against the internet.

      I am amazed Catholics are even allowed to call themselves "Christian". If Catholics are "Christians" then so are Mormons. Jesus didn't say anything about having a full-on palace in Italy of all places, right? If so, please show us all the chapter/verse.

      How many times did Christ visit Italy?

      Cheers!

    • 1 year ago
  • John_Hathaway_Ocds
  • John_Hathaway_Ocds
    • -4
      John_Hathaway_Ocds  
    • Blackwednesday:

      Your post is so full of ignorance it's laughable.
      1. Saints are not idols. They are friends of Christ who are in Heaven, and you cannot be friends with Christ without being friends with His friends
      2. The Church is based out of Rome because Peter, whom Jesus chose as head of the Apostles, died there. The fact that the Bishop of Rome was head of the Church was attested by letters written by the Apostolic fathers as early as 90 AD.
      3. Catholics and Orthodox are the only ones who can claim to be Christians, since we have Apostolic Succession and adhere to all the teachings of the early Ecumenical Councils that defined what it means to be a Christian. Protestants deny, among other things, the Council of Ephesus that said Jesus is God.
      4. The first condoms were invented by the ancient Egyptians ca. 3,000 BC. Reread Exodus and consider how the main controversy between Pharoah and Israel was "overpopulation": the Egyptians practiced birth control, and the Israelites did not.
      5. Ancient societies understood that certain herbs and fruits impeded fertility and induced contraception and abortion. This knowledge was known as "pharmakeia" or witchcraft--that what the Bible condemns as "witchcraft" was actually contraception is recognized by both Catholic and radical feminist scholars. Many passages in the early Church fathers, as well as some passages in the Bible, list "witchcraft" among sexual sins. Some passages in the ECFs even refer to the making of potions that make women infertile. Most of the women historically condemned as witches were condemned for making women who were pregnant no longer pregnant or for making women infertile.
      6. The latex condom was invented in the 1500s--which is still only 1100 years after St. Augustine.
      7. All Christians unequivocally condemned birth control until the 1920s, when the Anglicans voted at their Lambeth Conference that birth control was OK for married couples.
      8. C. S. Lewis condemned birth control in _The Abolition of Man_.
      9. Margaret Sanger, foundress of Planned Parenthood, despised Christianity and Catholicism in particular, and was a racist eugenicist who shared mutual admiration with Adolf Hitler.

    • 1 year ago
  • John_Hathaway_Ocds
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      John_Hathaway_Ocds  
    • John_Hathaway_Ocds:

      10. Gen 31, the story of Onan, is the historical proof text against birth control and was accepted as such until Protestants and Jews decided to start practicing birth control in the 1900's.
      11. Psalm 127 says that the sons of youth are like arrows in the hands of a warrior, and happy is the man who has filled his quiver with these arrows. "He will have no cause for shame when he disputes with his foes in the gateways." Of course, the historical interpretation of "foes" in the Psalms by Christians is that it refers to demons. Those who use birth control will have cause for shame when they are confronted by the demons at their death.
      12. Jesus Himself says that anyone who welcomes a child welcomes Him, and anyone who fails to welcome a child does not welcome him.
      Therefore, no one who uses birth control can claim to be a Christian.

    • 1 year ago
  • GutReactionPod
  • Blackwednesday
  • Blackwednesday
  • Hardytoo
    • +2
      Hardytoo  
    • John_Hathaway_Ocds:

      T'was not the 14th Century re St. Augustine to which I referred - I meant you. Perhaps we could drag YOU out of the 14th.
      As for the Saints, I only know of the N'Orleans Saints. I do not hold sway to even acknowledging the "pretend sky people" whom the Romans invented to keep guys like you "faithful" - "friends of friends of Jebus."
      If you're gonna hang here, better get a sense of humor and leave your cult at the door, along with the preaching. (Oh, and the words you learned from Limpbag - e.g. "feminazis" - so very childish - not used here). Other than that, welcome to Current.

    • 1 year ago
  • jimstoner
  • Blackwednesday
  • GutReactionPod
    • +2
      GutReactionPod  
    • Blackwednesday:

      That happens online a lot. I just have problems with people who make everything a religious issue. This is clearly political theater by the politicians aimed at pandering to the religious people in this. But people have short memories. Back about 15 years ago the Republicans pandered to the so-called "Christian Right" to get votes. And once they had those votes they all but ignored that group.

      I guess it's a case of "Well, maybe they won't lie to me and use me THIS time".

    • 1 year ago
  • cqsallie
    • 0
      cqsallie  
    • John_Hathaway_Ocds:

      The latex condom was invented in the 1500s?! Was Monsanto involved?
      Let's not quote "St." Augustine here. He was a profligate - a famous profligate - who found Jesus at the bottom of a wine jug. Once he decided to go straight, he blamed all his sins on women.
      Now you're blaming your nonsense on feminazis who think all disabled men should die. Who sez? I'm sorry you're disabled, but I hope you don't think that your disability excuses your bigotry and hatred of women.
      Are we now supposed to give you a free pass, lest we be seen as picking on a disabled man? Nah! Doesn't fly with me. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. No slack!

    • 1 year ago
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