Surprise -- Rush finds a backer in The Middle

I think if anyone tries to start a thread with Limbaugh or Whitlock in the title the thread should automatically lock itself.

 

If Rush has lost the Orange County in Exile market, he's lost America.

 

He's lost a lot* of advertisers.

Updated as of Wednesday afternoon.

www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/03/all-ads-pulled-rush-limbaughs-show/49552/




* by "a lot" I mean "50."

 

To be fair, some of those were advertisers clarifying that a) they had never advertised on his show or b) explaining that one of their ads had appeared in error and they had taken steps to make sure they wouldn't air during the show again.

 

Rush has a standing offer from AshleyMadison.com -- tagline "Life is short. Have an affair." -- to buy up all excess inventory. Should play well in the conservative wing.

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/03/07/dozens-of-advertisers-leaving-rush-limbaugh-industry-scaredvideo/?tsp=1

 

Has ANY mainstream media written that Sandra Fluke has NEVER EVER talked publicly about her sex life?

For all we know she's celibate and doesn't swing from trees at Georgetown orgies, using up all her birth control pills in one night.
Geez, maybe this should belong on the Journalism Board, because the mainstream media really seems to be dropping the ball when it comes to reporting on her testimony.

Even Jon Stewart, in this epic smack, fails to acknowledge the basic premise, and it's that she has NEVER spoken about her own sex life.
http://gawker.com/5890752/jon-stewart-smacks-down-rush-limbaugh-over-his-sandra-fluke-comments

 

Scrubs transcript?

www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/03/rush-scrubs-demand-for-fluke-sex-tapes/49643/

 

http://defendrush.org/

 

When you've lost the Berkshires you've lost America.

 

Who the hell cares if Jimmy Eat World thinks Rush should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

 

Quite odd and as-yet-unexplained circumstance of yesterday's show -- five minutes of dead air where commercials would normally be expected:

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/03/08/five-minutes-of-dead-ad-free-air-on-rush-today-video/

And the blog cited a number that 77 of the 86 ads on the show yesterday were free ads from the Ad Council.

 

Posted this on a now locked Mitt Romney thread:

Listen for a few minutes the other day. The one commercial block I heard had four ads: workfromhome.com, Newt's SuperPAC, and two ads partially funded by the Ad Council, which are obviously not paying full rate, and usually run overnight.