Rush Limbaugh’s latest misogynistic tirade against Georgetown University Law Student Sandra Fluke may be the last straw for many of the shock jock’s corporate sponsors. Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh’s corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program.
So far, Sleep Number, The Sleep Train, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Carbonite, ProFlowers, Tax Resolution, AOL, Bonobos, Sears, Allstate Insurance, Sensa, Bare Escentuals, Vitacost, Hadeed Carpet, Thompson Creek Windows, PolyCom, Service Magic, AccuQuote Life Insurance, Geico, John Deere, Stamps.com, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Cascades Dental, Philadelphia Orchestra, Goodwill Industries, Heart & Body Extract, Netflix, Downeast Energy, and Capitol One have pulled ads from the program, and several others are considering following their lead.
Like him or hate him, Mr. Limbaugh is about to find out how true the adage, biblical verse, or maxim is that states, "Evil carries the seed of its own destruction."
They call it "shock" journalism, some even call it "freedom of speech," but yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, when there is no fire, is also freedom of speech. Most people, however, are smart enough not to do so because they realize that saying those words could cause undue harm to many innocent people. Limbaugh has been yelling "fire" for quite sometime now. It now looks like the "chicken's are about to come home to roost."
Sure, Rush has survived many a stupid comment but this time he's gone a tad bit too far. Good-bye Rush, can't say you'll be missed.
In order to stay on the air, after the smoke clears, he'll need to take his show underground, where it belongs.
Like him or hate him, Mr. Limbaugh is about to find out how true the adage, biblical verse, or maxim is that states, "Evil carries the seed of its own destruction."
They call it "shock" journalism, some even call it "freedom of speech," but yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, when there is no fire, is also freedom of speech. Most people, however, are smart enough not to do so because they realize that saying those words could cause undue harm to many innocent people. Limbaugh has been yelling "fire" for quite sometime now. It now looks like the "chicken's are about to come home to roost."
Sure, Rush has survived many a stupid comment but this time he's gone a tad bit too far. Good-bye Rush, can't say you'll be missed.
In order to stay on the air, after the smoke clears, he'll need to take his show underground, where it belongs.
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