PALM BEACH, Fla. – Radio giant Rush Limbaugh says advertisers who fled his show after he called a Georgetown graduate student a “slut” are getting “creamed” financially.
“The people who have been hurt on this program are the advertisers who left! They’ve been creamed,” Limbaugh said this afternoon.
“The advertisers who’ve really been hurt are the ones who’ve abandoned here. I just assume everybody understood that. Let me tell you: We have 22 million people here [in our listening audience] who have stopped patronizing these people … . It’s major in many instances, the harm that has been inflicted.”
Among the first major advertisers to drop Limbaugh’s show were ProFlowers, Quicken Loans, mattress retailers Sleep Train and Sleep Number, software maker Citrix Systems, data-backup provider Carbonite and online legal-document company LegalZoom.
He didn’t provide any specific details to quantify how much the fleeing advertisers had been injured, explaining he was “uncomfortable” with the notion of advertising being harmed.
Do you know that Tom Longo guy (who fancies himself an expert on everything) actually called WICO and asked that they remove Rush from their schedule? If he doesn't like a radio show he can turn it off or listen to something else. What gives him the right to decide what I, or anyone else, should listen to? He also claims not to listen to Rush but if that's true, why does he want it removed? Typical liberal.
ReplyDeleteYes and I will be boycotting those companies as well!
ReplyDeletetoday rush said his audience has increased dramatically everyday since this incidence.
ReplyDeletei, for one, am a lifelong student at the "limbaugh institute of conservative studies". rush has more common sense in his little finger than most do in their entire body. go rush...