Something about losing sponsers softens a man up! Something about losing sponsers to your nationally syndicated radio show suddenly makes you realize that saying unkind and untrue things about people can be bad for business..
After a media and political firestorm, Rush Limbaugh issued an apology on Saturday for calling student Sandra Fluke a "slut" on his radio show this week.
Sandra Fluke, a law student at Georgetown University who was advocating for health insurance plans to cover the cost of contraception, became the target of a series of attacks by Limbaugh. Besides calling her a "slut," he also called her a "prostitute," said that he wanted her to make sex tapes and post them online, and speculated that she only had a problem paying for contraception because she was having "so much sex."
Rush Limbaugh's outrageous comments caused advertisers to flee from his show, and even prompted President Obama to weigh in. The statements also became an issue in the Republican presidential race.
Rush Limbaugh — who has a long history of making incendiary remarks, and is not known to take them back — issued the rare apology (for him) on Saturday afternoon, saying he was "sincerely" sorry about his "insulting" characterization of Sandra Fluke.(Like I said...Loss of adverti$er dollars tends to do that!) But he maintained that the birth control debate was about "personal sexual recreational activities," not any broader health questions, and compared contraception to sneakers. He suffers from "Foot in the mouth " syndrome.
Even as he walked back on his comment, though, there were signs that poor Rush Limbaugh is not out of the woods yet. Another advertiser, Carbonite, posted a message on Facebook saying that it was ending its sponsorship of his show.
"No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two, could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous and well-intentioned young lady," CEO David Friend wrote. "Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency. Even though Mr. Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show."
And at least one organization wasn't buying Rush Limbaugh's choice of words.
"Rush's apology wasn't actually an apology," said Shaunna Thomas, a co-founder of UltraViolet, an online advocacy organization that does grassroots work on women's issues. "He did little more than continue to expose himself as the anti-woman and offensive media personality that he is. Our campaign to pressure advertisers to drop their sponsorship of his show will continue next week. No radio show that attacks women should be rewarded with advertising dollars. And more than 84,000 of our members who signed a petition in the last day agree."
So Rush...How do you like your crow served???
2 comments:
Limbaugh is full of it.He's stuck in some backward satellite station, with bogus blabbing. Hi, how's it going? I just put up a new site called VoteBeam. http://votebeam.wordpress.com . This site is up to provide information on how to be part of the voting process. Every American should be able to participate in the voting process and contribute to the development of their community. Years after the founding of this country, many communities had to endure horrid obstacles to be able to cast their vote. The main purpose of this site will be to assist people in registering and having the information they need to vote. This is to carry forward the effort of communities in the 60's to allow people to fully participate in their local area and parts of the government. In addition, you'll see info on antics that reduce access to voting. It will discuss approaches and groups attempting to divert everyday people from participating in the voting process. There will also be articles on voter registration drives, people discussing their efforts to promote voting and other things to improve voting. Would appreciate if you could go over any leave any suggestions. Have a great day and enjoy!
Hey, hey; ho, ho; Rush Limbaugh has got to go!! Can it be that reality has begun to sink in with the American listening public? I know Rush has friends in many rural communties where access to information is limited. With the demise of local area information sources, mega-companies, like ClearChannel, have taken responsibility for disemminating news framed from their point of view. Too often that perspective is ultra-conservative or even neo-conservative and we all know that message is not tailored for our communities. I'd like to believe that Rush's own audience will see to his end on the radio. I hope the folks that listen to him spill bile will recognize that he's talking about their daughters, sisters, and wives!! He's making reference to the women who share their lives. If they're insulted then some action will happen.
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