Sponsors Pulling Ads From Limbaugh's Show

Dragonfly · Mar 5, 2012

Sponsors Pull Ads From Rush Limbaugh's Radio Show Over 'Slut' Comments - Yahoo! News <-- source

ProFlowers became the seventh sponsor to pull its advertising from Rush Limbaugh's radio program Sunday following continued pressure from their customers over Limbaugh's "slut" comments.

"Mr. Limbaugh's recent comments went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company," the Internet-based flower delivery company wrote in a statement on its Facebook page Sunday afternoon. "As such, ProFlowers has suspended advertising on The Rush Limbaugh radio program."

More than 7,000 people commented on the ProFlowers Facebook page about Limbaugh's tirade against Georgetown University Law School student Sandra Fluke, who testified in support of the Obama administration's requirement that all employers must include co-pay-free birth control under their health insurance coverage for employees.

On his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" for telling Congress that her employee health plan should cover the cost of birth control.

Quicken Loans, Sleep Train Mattresses, Sleep Number, LegalZoom, Carbonite and Citrix have also said they will pull their advertisements from Limbaugh's program.

Now this is the kind of activism I like to see.

Making Rush back-peddle like a circus clown is just icing on the cake.

Samhain · Mar 5, 2012

Not sure why he would backpeddle. He's paid to say over-the-top things, just like other radio show hosts. His listeners aren't going anywhere, and everything will go back to normal until he says something over-the-top again, which should be sometime today.

And more to the point, if anyone actually pays $3,000 a year on contraceptives, they've got real problems.

jonny5 · Mar 5, 2012

And some advertising spots to 20 million listeners who support rush just opened up. I bet some businesses are salivating.

TheNextEra · Mar 5, 2012

Oh darn, Rush "Limp dick" Limbauh is losing advertising spots. Damn if I just can't feel sorry for the old loudmouth. He learned that while there is freedom of speech, there are also consequences of that speech.

Meathead · Mar 5, 2012

TheNextEra said:
Oh darn, Rush "Limp dick" Limbauh is losing advertising spots. Damn if I just can't feel sorry for the old loudmouth. He learned that while there is freedom of speech, there are also consequences of that speech.

Doubt he's worried, 20 million listeners after all.

roughdraft274 · Mar 5, 2012

Samhain said:
And more to the point, if anyone actually pays $3,000 a year on contraceptives, they've got real problems.

The girl never said she spent 3000 a year on contraceptives. She said you could spend 3000 over the course of law school, which I believe normally takes three years.

CriticalThought · Mar 5, 2012

jonny5 said:
And some advertising spots to 20 million listeners who support rush just opened up. I bet some businesses are salivating.

It's radio, not the Superbowl. It's not like his ad spots are highly coveted or exclusive. If you could drum up enough money they would make room during his program for your ad.

Tigger · Mar 5, 2012

Limbaugh will be fine. His show will go on. The fact that he is backtracking is part of the reason I haven't listened to his program in years.... He doesn't actually believe in anything. Neither do most of the talking heads on the radio and tv.

CriticalThought · Mar 5, 2012

Tigger said:
Limbaugh will be fine. His show will go on. The fact that he is backtracking is part of the reason I haven't listened to his program in years.... He doesn't actually believe in anything. Neither do most of the talking heads on the radio and tv.

They believe in money. That seems to be the only worth believing in when it comes to this country.

Samhain · Mar 5, 2012

roughdraft274 said:
The girl never said she spent 3000 a year on contraceptives. She said you could spend 3000 over the course of law school, which I believe normally takes three years.

At that price, that's 2,400 condoms a year.

Or 100 morning after pills.

Or 66 years worth of the pill.

Meathead · Mar 5, 2012

Samhain said:
At that price, that's 2,400 condoms a year.

No wonder he called her a slut. Let' face it, it would take a few of studs for that.

jonny5 · Mar 5, 2012

CriticalThought said:
It's radio, not the Superbowl. It's not like his ad spots are highly coveted or exclusive. If you could drum up enough money they would make room during his program for your ad.

Limbaugh gets paid millions of dollars a year. That means Clear Channel is making more than millions off his show.

roughdraft274 · Mar 5, 2012

Samhain said:
At that price, that's 2,400 condoms a year.

Or 100 morning after pills.

Or 66 years worth of the pill.

Depending on the price of the pill depending on the needs. My wife can't take the cheapest pill that they make for women so she's on one that doesn't come in generic, costs more but our health insurance covers the overwhelming majority of it. Birth control pills can cost from 10-15 a month all the way up to 100 a month for certain kinds. Many of them also are used for purposes other than actual birth control.

AdamT · Mar 5, 2012

Meathead said:
No wonder he called her a slut. Let' face it, it would take a few of studs for that.

The debate was over birth control PILLS -- not condoms. Amusingly, Limbaugh seems to have no idea how birth control pills work. He called the girls a slut because, since she was spending so much on birth control spills, she must be having tons of sex! As if a woman has to take a pill every time she has sex! :lol: Obviously the cost is the same if you have sex 500 times a day or five times a year.

Samhain · Mar 5, 2012

AdamT said:
The debate was over birth control PILLS -- not condoms. Amusingly, Limbaugh seems to have no idea how birth control pills work. He called the girls a slut because, since she was spending so much on birth control spills, she must be having tons of sex! As if a woman has to take a pill every time she has sex! :lol: Obviously the cost is the same if you have sex 500 times a day or five times a year.

Exactly. Birth control pills don't cost 1,000 a year, they cost about a 100 bucks a year, which means he should have just called her a liar.

jonny5 · Mar 5, 2012

AdamT said:
The debate was over birth control PILLS -- not condoms. Amusingly, Limbaugh seems to have no idea how birth control pills work. He called the girls a slut because, since she was spending so much on birth control spills, she must be having tons of sex! As if a woman has to take a pill every time she has sex! :lol: Obviously the cost is the same if you have sex 500 times a day or five times a year.

Actually, Flukes argument was over contraception. She did not specify. She mentioned both medical and sexual uses, using a married couple who had to stop using it as one example. Limbaugh latched on to one form of contraception, and one use, which is the primary use.

Sandra Fluke said:
Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. 40% of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggle financially as a result of this policy.

“One told us about how embarrassed and just powerless she felt when she was standing at the pharmacy counter and learned for the first time that contraception was not covered on her insurance and she had to turn and walk away because she couldn’t afford that prescription. Women like her have no choice but to go without contraception.

“Just last week, a married female student told me that she had to stop using contraception because she and her husband just couldn’t fit it into their budget anymore. Women employed in low-wage jobs without contraceptive coverage face the same choice.

“And some might respond that contraception is accessible in lots of other ways. Unfortunately, that’s just not true.

Tucker Case · Mar 5, 2012

Samhain said:
Exactly. Birth control pills don't cost 1,000 a year, they cost about a 100 bucks a year, which means he should have just called her a liar.

Do you really think that birth control pill cost about $8.33 per month when they aren't covered by health insurance?

jonny5 · Mar 5, 2012

Tucker Case said:
Do you really think that birth control pill cost about $8.33 per month when they aren't covered by health insurance?

Those are the facts:

But Fluke's testimony was very misleading. Birth control pills can be purchased for as low as $9 per month at a pharmacy near Georgetown's campus. According to an employee at the pharmacy in Washington, D.C.'s Target store, the pharmacy sells birth control pills—the generic versions of Ortho Tri-Cyclen and Ortho-Cyclen—for $9 per month. "That's the price without insurance," the Target employee said. Nine dollars is less than the price of two beers at a Georgetown bar

Weekly Standard: Target Sells Pills For $9 A Month : NPR

And heres an opposing view which expands on those facts:

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-co...standard-birth-control-pills-target-9-dollars

None of this was mentioned by Fluke.

Hikertrash · Mar 5, 2012

roughdraft274 said:
Birth control pills can cost from 10-15 a month all the way up to 100 a month for certain kinds. Many of them also are used for purposes other than actual birth control.

That's what most fail to fathom. I guess that's the reason they're call dittoheads.

Tucker Case · Mar 5, 2012

jonny5 said:
Those are the facts:

Weekly Standard: Target Sells Pills For $9 A Month : NPR

And heres an opposing view which expands on those facts:

Some Conservative Critics Of Obama Policy On Insurance Coverage Of Birth Control Don't Understand Reproductive Health | The New Republic

None of this was mentioned by Fluke.

OK, so if a woman is on that specific type of birth control near the specific target you talk about she can manage to spend a little over $100 a year.

Why do you think that means Fluke lied, though?

Blue_State · Mar 5, 2012

I remember a funny guy once got fired for saying "Nappy Headed Hoes". Doubt the same will happen to rush, and I don't care for the censorship either.

AdamT · Mar 5, 2012

jonny5 said:
Those are the facts:

Weekly Standard: Target Sells Pills For $9 A Month : NPR

And heres an opposing view which expands on those facts:

Some Conservative Critics Of Obama Policy On Insurance Coverage Of Birth Control Don't Understand Reproductive Health | The New Republic

None of this was mentioned by Fluke.

What Fluke said was that birth control could cost as much as $3000 over three years, which apparently is true. Obviously Limbaugh could have taken issue with her testimony without calling her a slut and a prostitute. :roll:

jonny5 · Mar 5, 2012

Tucker Case said:
OK, so if a woman is on that specific type of birth control near the specific target you talk about she can manage to spend a little over $100 a year.

Why do you think that means Fluke lied, though?

I didnt say she lied. Perhaps she was simply ignorant of the alternatives. Or chose to ignore them. Im just putting her argument in context.

Tucker Case · Mar 5, 2012

jonny5 said:
I didnt say she lied.

I stand corrected. It was Samhain who called her a liar.

Perhaps she was simply ignorant of the alternatives. Or chose to ignore them. Im just putting her argument in context.

If you want to put her argument in context, then you should use her actual argument and the actual context in which she made it, instead of making up a new context and a new argument and attributing that argument to her because she wasn't making the claim that it always costs 1,000 per year. Only that it can cost that much. Which it can.

jonny5 · Mar 5, 2012

Tucker Case said:
I stand corrected. It was Samhain who called her a liar.

If you want to put her argument in context, then you should use her actual argument and the actual context in which she made it, instead of making up a new context and a new argument and attributing that argument to her because she wasn't making the claim that it always costs 1,000 per year. Only that it can cost that much. Which it can.

Perhaps you missed where i quoted her 'actual argument'. Read post 16. You are doing to me exactly what you claim Im doing to her.

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