The Limbaugh "Slut" Firestorm
On February 23, 2012, Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee regarding the impact of new health care regulations on expanding contraception coverage. Her point - that a prescription medication used to treat a wide variety of women's health issues should be covered by health insurance - was lost on Rush Limbaugh, who took the opportunity to use his radio platform to viciously and personally attack her repeatedly over several days. Since those attacks, dozens of advertisers have left his show and more than one hundred others have refused future association. But even in the face of this public outcry, Limbaugh has not changed his behavior and continues with his standard misogynistic and hateful language.
"Slut": Limbaugh Lashes Out At Law School Student
Limbaugh's Vicious Attacks On Fluke Resulted In Public Outcry And Advertiser Exodus
The Exodus Is Having An Impact On Limbaugh...
...That He Refuses To Acknowledge
His Conservative Buddies Just Don't Know What To Do
Limbaugh's Power In The GOP Has Been Threatened
The "Apology" Issued By Limbaugh Wasn't Nearly Enough
And The "Apology" Didn't Result In A Change In Behavior
But That's No Surprise, Given His Long History Of Anti-Woman Rhetoric
Women Haven't Been The Only Target For Limbaugh's Attacks...
... And Those Attacks Aren't The Only Reasons Advertisers Should Spurn Him
"Slut": Limbaugh Lashes Out At Law School Student
February 29
March 1
RUSH LIMBAUGH: "I will buy all of the women at Georgetown university as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want" ... contraception coverage is "flat-out thievery" because taxpayers will pay for "personal sexual desires and habits" ... mocking Sandra Fluke with baby voice, crying: "I'm going broke having sex. ... It's not fair" ... women with contraceptive coverage must post sex videos online "so we can all watch" ... "Who bought your condoms in the sixth grade?" ... Sandra Fluke is "having so much sex, it's amazing she can still walk" ... five dollars for a month of birth control? "that makes PMS almost worth it" ... Fluke went to Georgetown as "an anti-Catholic plant from the get-go" ... contraceptive coverage is "welfare disguised as women's health" or "reproductive rights"
March 2
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Nobody's asking Fluke about "backing off the amount of sex" she has ... contraceptive coverage is like a woman "knocking on my door" and asking for money because she has to have sex tonight ... the definition of "misogynist" is "a man who hates women almost as much as women hate women" ... Fluke said she's "having sex so frequently that she can't afford all the birth control pills that she needs" ... Fluke has boyfriends "lined up around the block. They would have been in my day"
Limbaugh's Vicious Attacks On Fluke Resulted In Public Outcry And Advertiser Exodus
Advertisers big and small are fleeing from their association with Limbaugh - 45 within a week of his first vicious attack on Sandra Fluke.
Even companies whose ads haven't been airing during The Rush Limbaugh Show are publicly distancing themselves from the association.
The Exodus Is Having An Impact On Limbaugh...
Bloomberg News Highlights The Power Of Social Media In Accountability Campaign For Limbaugh
CNN's John Avlon On Advertiser Exodus From Limbaugh's Show: "This Is The Free Market Working Out"
Limbaugh's Advertiser Exodus Expands Exponentially
MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes Discusses Limbaugh Advertiser Exodus
...That He Refuses To Acknowledge
Limbaugh: "Only The Leftists Try To Use Extortion, Pressure, Threats To Silence Opposing Voices"
Limbaugh: "This Show Is About You. It's Not About The Advertisers"
His Conservative Buddies Just Don't Know What To Do
Limbaugh's Misogynistic Attacks Defended By Right-Wing Media
Limbaugh's Power In The GOP Has Been Threatened
The "Apology" Issued By Limbaugh Wasn't Nearly Enough
Limbaugh Launched 46 Personal Attacks On Fluke; He Apologized For Two Words
Limbaugh "Sincerely Apologize[s]" To Fluke For "Using Those Two Words To Describe Her"
Limbaugh: "I Acted Too Much Like The Leftists Who Despise Me"
Limbaugh Receives Criticism Over His So-Called "Apology" For Misogynistic Attacks On Fluke
Rush Limbaugh Issues Statement Regarding His 3-Day Misogynistic Attack On Sandra Fluke
And The "Apology" Didn't Result In A Change In Behavior
Meet The Three Women Rush Limbaugh Has Degraded Since Sandra Fluke
Rush Says He's "God's Gift To Women" According To The Logic Of The "Feminazis"
Referring to "NAGs," Limbaugh Asks: "How Can I Be Anti-Woman? I Even Judged A Miss America Pageant"
Limbaugh's Latest Effort To Deflect Attention From His Misogyny
But That's No Surprise, Given His Long History Of Anti-Woman Rhetoric
"Feminazi": The History Of Limbaugh's Trademark Slur Against Women
FLASHBACK: Limbaugh To "Feminazi[s]": Love Your Body, "Because Nobody Else Does"
Rush Limbaugh's Decades Of Sexism And Misogyny
Rush On Tour: AIDS, Misogyny, And Suicide Used As Punchlines
Women Haven't Been The Only Target For Limbaugh's Attacks...
The 20 Worst Racial Attacks Limbaugh's Advertisers Have Sponsored
15 Of Limbaugh's Most Offensive And Controversial Comments Targeting Immigrants
Rush Limbaugh's Worst Advertiser-Sponsored Attacks On The LGBT Community
The 10 Worst Advertiser-Sponsored Moments Limbaugh Laughed At Human Suffering
Limbaugh's Advertisers Sponsored These 10 Attacks On Unions
10 Of Limbaugh's Worst Advertiser-Sponsored Attacks On The Poor
... And Those Attacks Aren't The Only Reasons Advertisers Should Spurn Him
15 Of The Worst Comments Limbaugh's Advertisers Have Sponsored Since 2004
The Habitual Dishonesty Of Rush Limbaugh
FLASHBACK: When Rush Limbaugh's Hate Was Televised
Limbaugh Once Thought Jokes About Race, Ethnicity, And Religion Were Off-Limits
Limbaugh On Obama Campaign Documentary: "Goebbels Would Have Not Allowed This One Out"
Limbaugh Once Thought Jokes About Race, Ethnicity, And Religion Were Off-Limits
Five Insane Conspiracy Theories Limbaugh's Advertisers Have Sponsored
90 Minutes. 51 spots. 14 Promo 3 PSA. 3 Lobbyist. 0 New. 20 Repeated. 34 Paid.
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($) Lobbyist.
= Repeat.
PSA. Freebie.
(IDs are counted as promos. Because some ads are just as short.)
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1200 WABC Promo
1202 Blue Science
1202 National Guard - PSA =
1203 Bronx VA Hospital =
1204 Equity Now =
1205 Conservative Tours
1206 Toyota =
1220 WABC Promo
1220 Tax Resolution Services
1221 Grasshopper Mowers
1222 Robert Steinberg, Law Firm =
1222 WABC Promo
1222 American Bullion =
1223 Americans For Prosperity - ($) =
1232 Paul Miller Auto Group =
1232 Osteo Relief Institute =
1233 WABC Promo
1233 Sparr & Bernstein
1247 WABC Promo
1248 LifeLock =
1249 Chuck Wollery / Generation America
1250 WABC Promo
1250 Cooperstown Village
1255 WABC Promo
1244 Robert Steinberg Law Firm =
1255 Ted Bell
1256 Hoover's
1257 WABC Promo
1257 Paragon Honda
1259 Feeding America - PSA
100 WABC Promo
102 iContact
102 Citi Harvest
103 Bronx VA Hospital =
104 Equity Now =
105 Realtors - ($)
105 National Guard - PSA =
106 Toyota =
106 RTK Environmental
118 WABC Promo
118 LifeLock =
119 Lear Capital
120 WABC Promo
120 Innerthrive Neutraceuticals
122 American Bullion =
123 WABC Promo
131 Osteo Relief Institute =
132 WABC Promo
133 Paul Miller Auto Group =
134 Americans For Prosperity - ($) =
134 WABC Promo
Do you think that Rush Limbaugh will actually be driven off the air by any of this? It's a political program and we expect it to be polarized so why is eveyone in arms about it? If you really want to hurt the show, then don't listen, don't comment, don't anything......BUT we keep giving it press and that keeps people goping to check it out...
Next.
Of that group, I sampled 200 names. I found a duplication rate of 41%.
He wants to claim a follower list of 300,000 (the approximate number of both lists together.) That would be invalid. The real figure can be shown to be closer to 40% if not higher.
The more I read about Limbaugh's kingdom crumbling the more warm, fuzzy feeling I get about life. People are recognizing what a knuckle dragging, drooling, verbal terrorist Limbaugh is. His history sickens me. He incites hatred, bigotry, disrespect and mistreatment of women, disrepect for all races, for Liberal values, for decent human compassion and laughs all the way to his bank.
Thaks for your insite on his bogus claims (doesn't surprise me) of his loyal followers.
the older address had fewer followers all along. but it picked up after the ipad contest.
the newer address exists because of sandra fluke, media matters and the ipad contest.
most of the newer addresses on both lists are duplicates. that's where the higher percentage were found. I sampled five hundred names down from the bottom up. so it's very likely there are many more duplicates than the 41% figure shows.
We get facts correct.
What obviously bothers you is most people feel public airwaves allow civil discourse rather than incivility. And when hate speech is called out as such, no one is surprised that its supporters cannot handle a response based on the same free market and free speech supposedly so beloved.
Have a daisy.
Be sure to include actual quotes from MMFA where they demand the shut-downs. The current reporting here about Limbaugh's attacks on Fluke don't count, since nowhere have they asked for a shut-down, in case you hadn't noticed.
egb is the typical conservative - blames others for the self-inflicted wounds of the right. What happened to that vaunted personal responsibility your ilk are so fond of prattling on about?
COME ON DOWN to "CRAZY DAVE'S" for BLOW-OUT PRICES on the HOTTEST CONSERVATIVE LIES!
LIMBAUGH! HANNITY! O'REILLY! All the top BRAND NAMES at GREAT SAVINGS! We're literally GIVING AWAY these top-of-the-line DOCUMENTED LIES!*
*Sorry, no refunds: If you actually BUY these lies, it's your own damn fault for watching Fox.
That last sentence is quite ironic considering where you are posting and the fact that your post will remain on this site for as long as the side exists.
This effort by Media Matters against Limbaugh may well backfire, we shall see.
Media Matters didn't have to. Limbaugh said all this stuff and they reported it. If he doesn't like criticism or opponents exercising their right to free speech by asking advertisers not to support misogyny, homophobia, and race-baiting, then he should retire!
Limbaugh is still losing advertisers, hasn't regained even one, and hasn't disclosed the supposedly new ones he's gained. Otherwise, you're spot on with that prediction. Anyone who supports Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke or justifies them in any way is an un-American idiot and a bigot, period.
I haven't read that in their mission statement.
Highlighting Rush Limbaugh's statements as a detriment to civil discourse is one thing, but I am not a fan of boycotts or "weakening" one's business. I find combating foul speech with honesty and the truth to be more preferable.
But that is my opinion.
Thanks for the exchanges.
providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions." Part of MMFA mission statement
Me: So you want MMFA to stop being MMFA! Show where I am twisting your words!
Then by all means do not participate in them.
And then you use the debunked - it's only my opinion crap, as though one can legitimately hold an opinion that's unsupported by the facts.
In one of the anti-Limbaugh ads, listeners are urged to call the local station that carries Limbaugh to say "we don't talk to women like that" in our city.---from your linked article
One person said MMFA was trying to silence comments it didn't agree with.
again fom MMFA mission statemnt:
"...providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions."
I see you call it whatever the right wants you too!