YES!

Want to make your day? Read these posts and compare them to the Media Matters video made exactly one year ago

Rush Limbaugh deemed BAD FOR BUSINESS!

One Year On and Rush Limbaugh Still Toxic for Advertisers

One year ago:

 

 

Dead Air Replaces Paid Ad Time Slots on El Rushbo’s Radio Show- Updates x2

From Media Matters:

AS OF TODAY, 50 ADVERTISERS HAVE CANCELED THEIR ADS RUNNING DURING THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW.

• A total of 86 ads aired during WABC’s broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show today.
• 77 of those ads were public service announcements donated free of charge by the Ad Council.
• Of the nine paid spots that ran, seven were from companies that have said they have taken steps to ensure their ads no longer air during the program.
• WABC’s online feed included about 5:33 of dead air when ads would normally have run.

Don’t know about you but this is music to my ears  – Oz

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H/T Cracklin Charlie

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Petition Clear Channel to drop Limbaugh’s radio show. Goal is 500k signatures. Currently sitting at 457k.

H/T Nancy

 

Caught on Tape: The 70 insults Limbaugh aimed at Sandra Fluke *Update* Clue to why Romney isn’t in any Rush to criticize Limbaugh!

…and the most idiotic part – is that none of his information (upon which he bases his insults) was true.

!. Ms. Fluke never discussed her own sex life nor did she discuss the availability of birth control for anything other than medical reasons such as the prevention of ovarian cysts.

2. Ms Fluke was not asking for taxpayer funds. She was making a case for female contraception to be provided by employee insurance carriers regardless of an employers religious ideology (religious employers are currently seeking exemption to this congressional ruling).

3. Unlike male medications which address erectile dysfunction and only last a few hours at a time, female birth control pills are taken daily, one per day, regardless of how much sexual activity is encountered.

(Please note most insurance carriers cover at least partial cost of Viagra and the religious groups seeking exemption from covering female contraception have no problem covering erectile dysfunction medications for their male employees.)

Knowing this, Mr. Limbaugh launched this three-day assault on Ms. Fluke – (deliberately?) mispronouncing her name at every turn – a huge insult for someone of Mr. Limbaugh’s age and level of social education. Are we to believe that none of his producers bothered to correct him? Is his staff that stupid? Of course not. The personal slight was purposeful and well-aimed.

From think Progress:

 

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Ahhh… insight!

Clear Channel’s Directors Give Big to Romney, Who Won’t Criticize Limbaugh

The directors of Clear Channel, which hosts Rush Limbaugh’s show, have been big donors to Mitt Romney’s campaigns, which might help explain why Romney has been so reluctant to criticize Rush.

Fourteen directors of Clear Channel, the company that hosts the Rush Limbaugh show, have contributed $726,400 to Mitt Romney since 1994, most of it in the current presidential campaign.

[Click headline for full story at the Daily Beast]

 

43 Advertisers have now Dropped Rush [Update] Media Matters complete list of Limbaugh’s 46 insults aimed at Georgetown Coed

Think Progress has running list.

What’s interesting is how Newt Gingrich (in a show of support?) has made public his instructions to his SuperPAC administration to increase their ad buys on Rush’s show – even though as  a candidate he shouldn’t legally have any control over the PAC distribution of funds at all. hmmm…

UPDATE:

Media Matters has the number at 45 with an interesting breakdown of commercials aired during Limbaugh’s program on March 6th. Good read.

Also at Media Matters Bill Press does a 9+ minute segment interviewing the creator of STOPRUSH.org – great interview! The creator (Angelo Carusone) was responsible for the effort called stop beck dot org. Interesting.

Also at Media Matters:

Limbaugh Launched 46 Personal Attacks On Fluke; He Apologized For Two Words

March 05, 2012 7:08 pm ET — [click title for link to article]

Rush Limbaugh has “sincerely apologize[d]” for using the words “slut” and “prostitute” to describe Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke on two separate days and claimed that he “did not mean a personal attack” on her. These statements fail to account for the other 44 times that Limbaugh personally insulted Fluke over the course of three days.

Scroll down the article to read all 46 insults listed in full and in chronological order.

 

The Rushed Apology – (So angry I could spit…)

I’ve wanted badly to weigh in on the Limbaugh faux-apology, but for the past 24 hours my arm and hand have been painfully swollen and I’m no longer taking the killer pain meds, so even sitting at my desk is a chore. This, then, is just a short rant, sans links or accurate quotes (I’m pretty sure you’ve all read the apology anyway) but I’m too angry to not say anything at all…

The shock-jock shield Mr. Limbaugh cowers behind can only proffer so much cover. He didn’t make a slip of the tongue when calling this young lady a slut and a prostitute on a single episode of his radio show – he flailed a verbal attack on her three days running, each attack escalating in vitriol above the previous one. His war on Ms. Fluke was calculated, pre-meditated and sincere in its premise that women do not deserve healthcare that covers the reproductive system – and the irony? This was never an issue concerning taxpayers in the first place.

The mere fact that this out-dated ferret of a man believes a woman needs to take birth control pills ‘solely for having sex’ and in the same way men require the use of Viagra (each dose only good for 4 hours) spotlights his total lack of education, low intelligence and complete disregard for the well-being of all females, everywhere.

The apology is as fake as his erections and as epic a fail as his failed marriages and I pray Ms. Fluke sues him into pauperdom.

But my biggest sense of shear anger must be directed at his hypocritical comments aimed at the Democrats when he had the unmitigated gall to claim this was a frivolous issue that detracted from the real problems facing congress and the country. For months and months his ‘Grand Old Party’ has flooded congressional floors with anti-abortion, personhood issues which have flatlined all progress on countless other issues facing our injured nation, are far more invasive on women’s rights and would legalize far deeper reaches by the government into a woman’s womb.

To say now, through the issue of not wanting insurance companies to be responsible towards women regarding birth control is in direct contradiction of his political beliefs that the government, his government, should have absolute dictatorshipl over the female reproductive system.

Pick a side you feckless prick – either a woman has the right to control her own body or she doesn’t – but you and your Nazi-publican cronies can’t have it both ways.

Sieg Heil! Mien Kampf…

 

This is the public hearing the Republican Leaders don’t want you to see [Update] [FB link]

Nancy Pelosi begins by thanking the media for organising video coverage of this hearing – after Republican Leadership denied her access to the actual senate forum. What a disgrace. Republicans are crossing a dangerous line and I so hope 2012 election results will reflect real America.

Full story plus video here

and here.

She the People has the best report here.

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Hardball airs Limbaugh’s reaction to hearing of the president’s call to Ms. Fluke.

And of course Rachel Maddow has the most complete coverage of the story in  it’s entirety

Think Progress is tracking the sponsors leaving the Limbaugh radio show, has an excellent article on the economic benefits of easy-access contraception and a show of support page for standing with Sandra Fluke that anyone can sign.

Here’s hoping this young ladies experience open’s the hearts and minds of many more American voters to the real danger of the Republican quest to diminish women”s rights.

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As of this posting, this FB page dedicated to boycotting Rush Limbaugh’s radio show has been up for 20 hours, has more than 6,000 likes, and the combined sections of the page have hundreds of shares and comments. I’s absolutely phenomenal how this vile creature has solidified the nation. The old adage of ‘all we need to unite is a common enemy’ is more true today than ever.

Maybe we should be thanking him, after all.