Limbaugh Doubles Down Sexist Attack Against Sandra Fluke, Demands She Post Sex Tape

[lurkur]

I'm not a fan of Maher either, but to draw comparisons between Maher and Limbaugh is inappropriate. Maher doesn't have the influence of Limbaugh.

What's inappropriate is the way both Maher and Limbaugh treat women. And, yes, I just compared the two. If you still don't think they can be compared, try this: One pig is in a pig pen. Another pig is in another pig pen. The End.

As long as people can use the tired and false argument that "they did it worse, so there," it won't get at the root of the problem, which is that it shouldn't be happening at all. They should all be held accountable, and "the media" should stop acting like "we" haven't been criticizing sexism allllllllllll along! They're just being forced to hear now.

Now is the time to get him out. Put him to pasture with Dr. Laura and the other hoof-in-mouth addicts.

[olivia]

Great site for tracking Rush's advertisers -

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...c&toomany=true

Armed Forces Radio (which spends our tax dollars to broadcast Rush) the comment page-

myAFN - Feedback

[Brookie]

Clear Channel petition signed and shared on FB.

[louiswinthorpe111]

I got this email today:

Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for contacting LendingTree. I understand that you have some concerns regarding LendingTree's affiliation with Rush Limbaugh. LendingTree does not have an affiliation with Rush Limbaugh. LendingTree has partnered with various media partners to advertise our product and has not advertised with Rush Limbaugh's show in years. I will forward your concerns to our marketing department for their review.


It was my pleasure to assist you.



It is possible for someone to advertise in a program and not know ahead of time. You have to know how media buys work. Since this was my past life, I can actually provide insight here.

There are Syndicated advertisers. Those are companies that choose to advertise with Rush. They purchase ads in Rush's program to air on every station Rush is on. Rush and his syndicators get that money, the local stations don't. Usually big companies like P&G do this. So example, there are advertisers who have ads in every episode of the Big Bang Theory, in syndicated re-runs, and their ads will run on every stations that purchases the Big Bang Theory in syndication, whether it's TBS or your local Fox station. Those companies, in general, should know which programs they are buying.

There are National advertisers, who purchase media on nationwide level. There is usually an agency who works directly with ABC, NBC, etc.... For example, Sprint and Verizon purchase this way in say NFL, Nascar, specific programming. The networks profit from this money, and those companies, in general, should know which programs they are buying.

There are regional advertisers who purchase media on a local level. for example, your local Ford car dealers pool their money into a bucket and an agency places their buys. Subway and McDonalds, or companies which have local franchises, such as Subway, McDonalds or Domino's are purchased the same way. The individual stations benefit from this money. Corp, such as Domino's, may not know if any of their franchisee's are purchasing what program.

There are your local mom and pop advertisers, who are usually local small businesses. They know which programs they are buying, and the local station benefits from that money.

There are "fill in" buys. This is generally for a nationwide company that does not have a large budget, such as Netflix or Lending Tree (just pure speculation on my part). They can choose to be a "fill in" buyer, which means they commit to X commericals in a certain time frame that will run M-S 6a-12a. Those commericals then get placed wherever there is unsold inventory, which usually means they generally get stuck in crappy shows/time slots that haven't sold out, but can occassionally hit something higher profile, like Rush's show. These advertisers have absolutely no idea what programs their commercials will run in. These advertisers are generally 800 numbers or someone that wants you to call and visit a website for more information. Individual, local stations, networks and syndicators may benefit from that money, depending on how it was purchased.

Obviously, I can't watch TV like a normal person. I can tell by watching what kind of ratings they are getting, revenue, etc... It used to be quite distracting. So there are advertisers who may not know they are buying Rush's show. Totally plausible.

[Lobelia]

Interesting. Thanks for that explanation.

[WhoAmI]

Please sign this petition to get this pig's show off AFN. It's despicable that our Armed Forces have to listen to this shitbag insult them and their families. He seems to forget that a good number of active military personnel are women who use birth control (aka "feminazis" and "sluts").

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition...lting/p439GWMm

[Brookie]

Signed and shared on Facebook.

[Kat Scorp]

Thankyou Laynes; I'm now reminded of something Maher said about Salma Hayek's breasts while she was breastfeeding her daughter that bothered me.

The double (quadruple?) standards against women have angered and frustrated me since the 1990s. For example, it really REALLY pisses me off that rappers use sexual violence towards women - and violence towards gays - in their lyrics and can get away with it by using "artistic merit" as an excuse. It's built up a level of resentment within me since I was 11 and came across my brother's Ice Cube and Dre CDs.

Then since the late 1990s I've watched this misogynist wave that insists women/feminists control the world and are oppressing men - this whole "feminazi" shit. It's the central belief here among mens' groups like the Men's Confraternity. After ten years all I learnt was that you can't reason with sexist men, and that sexism will be the last prejudice standing when all others have finally fallen.

Rush Limbaugh wont back down, and the conservatives will perform backbends to find a way to justify their predictable right-wing inability to grasp the very simple fact that Fluke was referring medical problems oestogen supplements can treat, and not to birth control. Just as Laynes article points out, the problem can be seen as a lack of across-the-board outrage when sexism occurs. Limbaugh has been calling non-conservative women "sluts" and "whores" for years and his advertisers haven't thought it "crossed a line" before. So what is required in a society to make people not able to get away with antisemitism, nor allow a white person to use the "n-word", that can be applied to stop misogynist pigs (and rappers) from going on sexist rants (promoting sexual violence)?


... TL;DR? I'll understand.

[McJag]

At least two stations have dropped his show. I hope that starts an avalanche of stations .

[sluce]

Limbaugh Radio Show Faces New-Media Backlash as Advertisers Flee - Businessweek

Bloomberg News
Limbaugh Radio Show Faces New-Media Backlash as Advertisers Flee

By Christopher Palmeri on March 06, 2012

Rush Limbaugh faced rising pressure from critics who are using new media to keep advertisers away from his long-running radio show.

At least 10 companies, including online publisher AOL Inc. (AOL), have dropped the most-popular U.S. talk-radio show after Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “prostitute” and a “slut.” Fluke appeared before Congress on Feb. 23 to speak in favor of President Barack Obama’s policy requiring insurers to provide birth control to women.

Much of the pressure on advertisers has come from online activists using Twitter and Facebook to mobilize against Limbaugh. They see undermining the program’s economic viability as the way to force distributor Clear Channel Communications Inc. (CCMO)’s Premiere Radio Networks (3069Q) to stop syndicating the show.

“The tactic of just asking advertisers has been a very successful one,” said Krystal Ball, a 30-year-old MSNBC commentator who started a website called boycottrush.org. “So as long as that is successful, we’ll continue.”

Ball, a Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2010. The campaign targeting Limbaugh is led by groups like Media Matters for America and the Ohio Democratic Party.

“The social media world has really exploded,” said Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. “I think Rush Limbaugh is going to go down over this.”

More big companies, including Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD), owner of the namesake retailer and discounter Kmart, insurer Geico Corp. (156714Q) and tractor maker Deere & Co. (DE), are taking steps to ensure their advertisements stop appearing on Limbaugh’s show.

Ads were placed on the program by Deere dealers through a network and not by the manufacturer, said Kenneth Golden, director of global public relations for the Moline, Illinois- based company.

“Deere is reviewing the placement of these advertisements, as the company has not chosen to be a current advertiser,” Golden said.

Instructions to keep Sears and Kmart ads off of Limbaugh’s show weren’t followed, according to Chris Brathwaite, a spokesman for their Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based parent. The company doesn’t buy media based on political affiliations, Brathwaite said.

“Sears and Kmart did not intentionally advertise on the Rush Limbaugh show,” according to a company statement. “Sears Holdings has taken actions to ensure our ads do not run on this show.”

Geico has banned advertising on Limbaugh’s programs since 2004, according to a customer-service e-mail.

“On occasion, a local station may mistakenly run a GEICO ad in the wrong time slot,” the e-mail said. “We are directing our ad buyers to make sure that does not happen.”

Clear Channel, based in San Antonio, didn’t respond to phone calls and e-mails seeking comment. The company was taken private in a buyout led by Bain Capital Partners LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in July 2008.

A small number of shares of its parent, CC Media Holdings Inc., are traded publicly. CC Media lost 7.1 percent yesterday to $6.04 and has climbed 38 percent so far this year.

Limbaugh, 61, apologized to Fluke on his website on March 3 and on his radio program yesterday, saying he “acted too much like the leftists who despise me.”

He addressed the advertiser flight, telling listeners: “What we’re gonna do is replace those that leave, those that no longer want access to you, those advertisers who no longer want your business, fine. We’ll replace them. It’s simple, really.”

Besides AOL, companies that have suspended advertising on the show include retailer Stamps.com Inc. (STMP) and online service LegalZoom.com Inc. Hawaii’s KPUA radio station also dropped the program.

Limbaugh averaged 13.2 million listeners a week as of spring 2011, according to ratings supplied by Horizon Media Inc., an ad planning and placement company.

Robert Thompson, a professor of television, radio and media studies at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, said he expects the Limbaugh controversy to blow over as new scandals overshadow this one.

“It only becomes a problem if there aren’t other advertisers to take their place,” Thompson said. “American culture has an uncanny ability to dissolve this kind of stuff, especially with Limbaugh.”

The controversy flared from a debate over the Obama administration’s decision to require health insurers to provide birth control to women. Fluke, a past president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, wasn’t allowed to testify at the Republican-controlled committee meeting. She addressed a panel put together by Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

As long as the controversy burns, advertisers may be reluctant to associate with Limbaugh’s program, said Steve Piluso, head of strategic planning at PHD Media, a unit of advertising agency Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC)

“Some clients will think twice about being in that environment,” Piluso said in a telephone interview. “If you’re a packaged goods company targeting women, using derogatory language, that makes brands uncomfortable.”

[Kat Scorp]

Limbaugh, 61, apologized to Fluke on his website on March 3 and on his radio program yesterday, saying he “acted too much like the leftists who despise me.”

This is a man who never learned about humility - and the sin of pride - in bible school, right?

[twitchy2.0]

He's found a new woman to attack.

Here's The Woman Rush Limbaugh Is Attacking Today; 'Totally Bizarre,' She Says

Say you’re a conservative radio host who’s losing advertisers left and right for saying some deeply misinformed and misogynistic things about the lifestyle of a highly-educated single woman, and now you need to change the conversation. How do you do that? If you’re Rush Limbaugh, you do it by attacking a different woman on the basis of her singleness, youth and education.

Limbaugh spent the entire first hour of his program today discussing “The American Way of Eating,” a new book by journalist Tracie McMillan, who logged almost a year working low-paying jobs at Wal-Mart, Applebee’s and other places to learn about the food industry. Despite the backlash he’s faced for branding law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute,” Limbaugh didn’t shy away from the matter of McMillan’s sex. On the contrary, he referred to her as an “authorette” and attempted to tie her to a broader trend of “all these young single white women” who are threatening Americans’ freedoms.

Here’s the context of that latter quote, according to the show’s official transcript:

What is it with all of these young single white women, overeducated — doesn’t mean intelligent.* For example, Tracie McMillan, the author of this book, seems to be just out of college and already she has been showered with awards, including the 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.* Social justice journalism.* This woman who wrote the book on food inequality, food justice, got an award for social justice journalism.

McMillan was in San Francisco on her book tour when Limbaugh set her in his crosshairs. She had no advance warning that her book was going to be featured on “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” and only became aware, she tells me, when someone tweeted at her to say he was talking about it. “It’s totally bizarre,” she says. “I had no idea that Rush Limbaugh knew that I existed. My grandmother would be thrilled, because she’s a fan of his.”

Less thrilling to her was Limbaugh attacking her for being female, single and educated. “It just didn’t really occur to me that my being single would have any bearing on whether whether my book was valid,” she says. “It seems to be a way to dismiss my intelligence or capacity to do the work.”

McMillan grew up working class in a rural area outside Flint, Michigan. It was Limbaugh country, she says.

“It’s interesting — I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and we actually watched his talk show in my high school [back when it was televised] for a class on current events. So I’m familiar with the politics. I certainly don’t think they’re foreign or alien or weird.

“But this really intense dismissal of women by someone like Rush Limbaugh, who’s considered an authority by a lot of people — that, to me, is distressing. I just wasn’t expecting anybody to say flat out that my work wasn’t valid because I’m a single woman.”

She also takes exception to Limbaugh’s calling her “over-educated.” “I only have a B.A. I don’t have an advanced degree,” she says. “Maybe he thinks women shouldn’t go to college at all?”

Here's The Woman Rush Limbaugh Is Attacking Today; 'Totally Bizarre,' She Says - Forbes

[MohandasKGanja]

God, what an *sshole he is......

[Brookie]

He doesn't learn "lessons" very well. I hope this is a sign that he's imploding for good.

[McJag]

He is dumb as a box of rocks. And making 58 million a year! PLEASE let him get dropped from every station.
He must be scared of educated women, especially those single vamps.