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BeatingRush 3 - 08 Mar 2012 - Main.LizzieGomez
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 I know it's not much, but here's a link to a reddit thread with a list of all the companies (along with contact information) that had ads on his show yesterday:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/qk2u6/do_not_let_up_here_are_the_companies_that/

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 -- JohnBarker - 06 Mar 2012

John, thanks for this list. As we talked about Sandra Fluke in class I couldn't help but feel the irony in advertisers now starting to pull their ads from Limbaugh's show. This clearly isn't the first time Limbaugh has made hateful comments towards women or other minority groups. The recent events following Limbaugh's attack on Fluke are refreshing because it shows that this country can take only so much of someones hate filled messages. But as Limbaugh has been known for years to attack other groups of people, I can't help but ask, what took so long?

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>		-- AbiolaFasehun - 08 Mar 2012

But I wouldn't consider the moves by these advertisers as a game changer, Abby. Corporate America is always really quick to react and disassociate themselves from the whatever the controversy is at the time, but as soon as the smoke clears, they always come back. My view is that Limbaugh will turn out just like Tiger Woods in that Woods lost all these sponsors after his scandal but just last year after he began competing again, he gained back some of his corporate sponsors. I would like to think it would be different since like you said it's not the first time that he's made hateful remarks against minority groups. I'm sorry to be a pessimist, but I don't think Limbaugh is having a hard time sleeping in the wake of this mess.

-- LizzieGomez - 08 Mar 2012


BeatingRush 2 - 08 Mar 2012 - Main.AbiolaFasehun
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 I know it's not much, but here's a link to a reddit thread with a list of all the companies (along with contact information) that had ads on his show yesterday:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/qk2u6/do_not_let_up_here_are_the_companies_that/

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-- JohnBarker - 06 Mar 2012

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>		John, thanks for this list. As we talked about Sandra Fluke in class I couldn't help but feel the irony in advertisers now starting to pull their ads from Limbaugh's show. This clearly isn't the first time Limbaugh has made hateful comments towards women or other minority groups. The recent events following Limbaugh's attack on Fluke are refreshing because it shows that this country can take only so much of someones hate filled messages. But as Limbaugh has been known for years to attack other groups of people, I can't help but ask, what took so long?

BeatingRush 1 - 06 Mar 2012 - Main.JohnBarker
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>		I know it's not much, but here's a link to a reddit thread with a list of all the companies (along with contact information) that had ads on his show yesterday:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/qk2u6/do_not_let_up_here_are_the_companies_that/

After every show, contact information for all of his advertisers for that show is readily available on reddit and all over the internet. A lot of companies have already pulled their ads under a lot of pressure from people complaining publicly, so if we keep filing complaints more and more advertisers will follow and Rush's empire will topple. Again, just posting this list isn't much, but maybe it's a start?

-- JohnBarker - 06 Mar 2012


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