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List of advertisers that have dropped Limbaugh:

UPDATE: " By Saturday morning, Legal Zoom, Citrix Success, Heart and Body Extract, AutoZone, Quicken Loans, Sleep Train, Sleep Number and Oreck said they yanked ads from Limbaugh's show.

Nine companies remain on the list: ProFlowers, CARBONITE, Inc., Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee, American Forces Network, Mission Pharmacal Company, Life Quotes, Inc., Life Lock, Tax Resolution and AOL,..."
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Update: Carbonite has dropped their advertising. See their comment here.

Pro-Flowers has suspended their advertising:

"NEW YORK -- A flower company is the 7th advertiser to pull its ads from conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's radio program in the wake of comments he made about a law student who testified about birth control policy. ProFlowers said Sunday on its Facebook page that it has suspended advertising on Limbaugh's program because his comments about Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke "went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company." LINK

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The college student he slandered:

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Here are the companies we have confirmed that have already pulled their sponsorship from Limbaugh's show.

“Due to continued inflammatory comments– along w/valuable feedback from clients & team members– QL has suspended ads on Rush Limbaugh program
Kelly@ Quicken Loans

“Recent comments by Rush Limbaugh do not align w/our values, so we made decision to immediately suspend all advertising on that program.
SleepNumberSara

“Thanks to all of you for your concern and input. We are currently pulling all ads with Rush Limbaugh
theSleepTrain

“As of today, LegalZoom has suspended all advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show.
LegalZoom

“We have listened to our customers & have decided to cease our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show immediately. facebook.com/Citrix
Citrix Systems

“We have listened to our customers & have decided to cease our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show immediately. t.co/QFq4Y2C5
GoToMeeting
Note: GoToMeeting is a product of Citrix

Online Backup Blog | Carbonite > A Message from Carbonite CEO, David Friend Regarding Ads on Limbaugh
Over the past two days we have received a tremendous amount of feedback on Rush Limbaugh's recent comments. I too am offended and very co...
Carbonite

“ProFlowers statement: facebook.com/ProFlowers
ProFlowers

Oreck, Century 21 and AutoZone have been listed as advertisers by a number of websites, but each company has denied directly advertising on the program."

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Facebook page for Rush boycott.
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A friend on Facebook made this observation. My response below:
I can't stand Limbaugh either, but I can't help notice the double standard. Is it okay to say all of those hateful sexual remarks
made by liberal entertainers towards Palin and Bachmann? Or is it only bad when Rush Limbaugh does it?
That's the republican spin. Here are the many reasons why it is entirely bogus. First the background.

Republicans put together a panel to testify before congress on contraception, hilariously, full of guys. Later, Demos arranged for this one college student to testify on the topic, mostly regarding her friend who lost an ovary because she couldn't afford the *medicine* she needed to save it, in this case, the pill.

So Rush comes in, lacking any cogent argument against her position and resorts to calling her a "prostitute" and a "slut" based upon the fact that like about 98% of American women, she uses the pill for either contraception or other medical reasons. He implies that having her medication being included in insurance is the equivalent of him paying for her to have sex and he should be able to watch the videos on the internet. So his claim is stupid and insulting. But I've been listening to him for nearly a quarter century so I know stupid and insulting is foundation of his show. If I only had a dime for every ditto head I've roasted.

The differences:

Palin and Bachmann and very public political figures, so for comedy, it's open season. Actually, by law. See Flynt vs. Falwell or the movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt." Larry Flynt did a comedy bit in Penthouse about how Jerry Fawell's mother was a whore working out of an outhouse (something like that). It was pretty hardcore. But it held up in court because it was parody and it was going after a very publicly outspoken person who could defend themselves and being so public, is more open to ridicule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_vs._Larry_Flynt

This woman isn't a public figure or a person with a media show where she has an equal forum to fight back against this lie. Not comparable.

The notion that Limbaugh is an entertainer is a ruse. He is a political commentator like Bill O'Lielly or Ed Shultz. He's a political player and honorary member of Congress. Republican leaders line up to kiss his ass. He's not even a comedian like Bill Maher. But even Bill Maher lost his HBO show for certain comments (called the troops cowards as I remember). If Maher had done this he would be in big shit.

You don't provide these supposed same "hateful sexual remarks" aimed at Palin and Bachmann but I am sure some can be found, mostly by minor players. But they won't compare to this. When the musicians working for Jimmy Fallon, a comedian, did a prank of playing a 20 second refrain from "Lyin Ass Bitch" (those words weren't played) when Bachmann came on, they apologized. The drummer who did it said:

"The performance was a tongue-in-cheek and spur of the moment decision. The show was not aware of it and I feel bad if her feelings were hurt. That was not my intention."

Fallon wasn't in on it but he also took responsibility and apologized. But this is still no comparison to a major commentator calling a college student a "prostitute" and a "slut" because she testified before congress about female medical needs.

The most comparable example might be Ed Shultz calling Laura Ingram a "right-wing slut" and a "talk slut." But she has her own talk shows and can fight back. She's an equal. What did Ed Shultz do? He apologized profusely, promptly and voluntarily took himself on unpaid leave for a week.

So where's your double standard? Where's a liberal commentator doing something comparable to this and getting away with it?

I will just add that Rush reveals himself to be an idiot here because he is so ignorant of the issue he thinks that a woman has to take a pill every time she has sex. He associates more sex with a higher bill for birth control pills. He thinks it's like his Viagra, which is not medically necessary for anything outside of sex and is covered in insurance programs. So we all pay for Rush to be able to get a boner.

Good to see Quicken Loans, Sleep Train Mattress Centers and Sleep Number beds have so far dropped their advertising with Limbaugh.

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After a day of playing tough and refusing to back down, Limbaugh folds under the pressure of lost revenue and fleeing advertisers. Here is his carefully worded response with my comments included:
"For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation."
It wasn't an analogy, asshole. You called her a slut and a prostitute.
I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
BULL SHIT. What a pathetic liar you are.
I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress.
Only a Dittohead could fall his this kind of transparent rhetoric. Translation without the completely dishonest framing: discussing the right of woman to receive medical care as a part of their medical insurance, before members of Congress.
I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities.
No one gives a shit what you personally don't agree with. Women have the right to be treated fairly and equally as they go about obtaining healthcare. Asshole.
What happened to personal responsibility and accountability?
A slogan that has never gotten anything but lip service from hypocrites like you and your conservative ditto-heads.
Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow?
Just imagine, if we let women have full access to healthcare products in their health insurance, then the children and minorities will want it next. Idiot.
Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit?
Transparent, bat to the face stupid, slippery slope fallacy. This passes for deep logic in ditto-head circles.
In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone's bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.
Wrong, you are all about imposing your completely phony moral values upon the health rights of women. As usual, Rush is nothing but spin.
My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices."
I hope you have once again sincerely damaged your brand as you descend obscurity and irrelevance. Go fuck yourself you phony sack of shit.

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Carbonite has dropped Limbaugh too, and they aren't falling for his bullshit apology:
David Friend, who runs the online backup company Carbonite, issued a statement on his company's website saying that Carbonite would no longer advertise with Limbaugh despite the host's rare admission of regret. From the website:

“No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two, could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous and well-intentioned young lady. Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency. Even though Mr. Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show. We hope that our action, along with the other advertisers who have already withdrawn their ads, will ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.” --Huff Po
Also this from Boycottrush.org:
"Rush Limbaugh issued an apology today for calling Sandra Fluke a prostitute and a slut after she testified before Congress on women’s health care. This apology occurs after three days of Limbaugh slut shaming Ms. Fluke, insulting her parents and saying that Fluke should make a pornographic movie for his titillation."

"On the fourth day, after a public outcry and the loss of at least six national sponsorships due to BoycottRush.org and similar efforts, Mr. Limbaugh now regrets his choice of words. This was too little, way too late. Especially since Mr. Limbaugh has a long history of offensive and vulgar comments."

"No business should associate itself with such a pattern of repeated, reckless, personal abuse. If Rush wants to continue to have the opportunity to demean women in the future, that is his right. Good companies have many opportunities to promote their businesses without having to subsidize the denigration of women. Sandra Fluke wasn’t the first woman to be smeared by Rush Limbaugh, but she needs to be the last."
--Krystal Ball, BoycottRush.org
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Michael Moore tweets:

"Or after losing 6 sponsors yesterday Rush decided he loved $ more than he loved calling women prostitutes. Musta been a tough call, eh Rush?

Ayn Rand would be very pleased with how the free market bitch-slapped Limbaugh today.

Don't give up, Rush! It's a WAR ON WOMEN & you're the Supreme Leader. Keep reminding voters how hate & violence drives the Republican agenda

Rush - As soon as u started losing the big $$ from your hate speech, you caved & obeyed the men who pay u. Who's the prostitute now, bitch?"
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Now Gingrich steps in with some bullshit:

"Nobody's blocking anyone from having access to contraception. No one," he added. "The young lady who testified can get access to
contraception -- nobody said she couldn't. The question is should a Catholic institution, or the Ohio Christian University, which is a
protestant institution and a very pro-life institution, be told it will have to pay for abortion pills?" --Gingrich

In fact, "abortion pills" are not included under President Barack Obama's contraception mandate, and faith-based institutions such as
Ohio Christian University will be exempt under the new rule from having to pay for contraception coverage. Proposed legislation that
Gingrich supported and that Senate Democrats defeated last week would have allowed any employer to refuse to cover contraception
or any other health service for "moral reasons." --LINK

Republicans want to make this election about a war on women and their right for fair and equal access to healthcare via the healthcare insurance they pay for? Bring it on.

Neanderthal Santorum believes contraception is a "grievous moral wrong."

[quote]“The Blunt amendment was broader than that,” Santorum told Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday. “It was a conscience clause exception
that existed prior to when President Obama decided that he could impose his values on people of faith, when people of faith believe that this is a grievous moral wrong.”
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Please republicans, keep making this election about how the 99% of women who use contraception in the country are sluts, whores and committing a "grievous moral wrong."
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Large excerpt of Ms. Fluke's testimony before congress:

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In sixty-five percent of cases, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed these prescriptions and whether they were lying about their symptoms. For my friend, and 20% of women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription, despite verification of her illness from her doctor. Her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted the birth control to prevent pregnancy. She’s gay, so clearly polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy. After months of paying over $100 out of pocket, she just couldn’t afford her medication anymore and had to stop taking it. I learned about all of this when I walked out of a test and got a message from her that in the middle of her final exam period she’d been in the emergency room all night in excruciating pain. She wrote, “It was so painful, I woke up thinking I’d been shot.” Without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis ball had grown on her ovary. She had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary. On the morning I was originally scheduled to give this testimony, she sat in a doctor’s office. Since last year’s surgery, she’s been experiencing night sweats, weight gain, and other symptoms of early menopause as a result of the removal of her ovary. She’s 32 years old. As she put it: “If my body indeed does enter early menopause, no fertility specialist in the world will be able to help me have my own children. I will have no chance at giving my mother her desperately desired grandbabies, simply because the insurance policy that I paid for totally unsubsidized by my school wouldn’t cover my prescription for birth control when I needed it.” Now, in addition to potentially facing the health complications that come with having menopause at an early age– increased risk of cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis, she may never be able to conceive a child.

Perhaps you think my friend’s tragic story is rare. It’s not. One woman told us doctors believe she has endometriosis, but it can’t be proven without surgery, so the insurance hasn’t been willing to cover her medication. Recently, another friend of mine told me that she also has polycystic ovarian syndrome. She’s struggling to pay for her medication and is terrified to not have access to it. Due to the barriers erected by Georgetown’s policy, she hasn’t been reimbursed for her medication since last August. I sincerely pray that we don’t have to wait until she loses an ovary or is diagnosed with cancer before her needs and the needs of all of these women are taken seriously.

This is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends. A woman’s reproductive healthcare isn’t a necessity, isn’t a priority. One student told us that she knew birth control wasn’t covered, and she assumed that’s how Georgetown’s insurance handled all of women’s sexual healthcare, so when she was raped, she didn’t go to the doctor even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections because she thought insurance wasn’t going to cover something like that, something that was related to a woman’s reproductive health. As one student put it, “this policy communicates to female students that our school doesn’t understand our needs.” These are not feelings that male fellow students experience. And they’re not burdens that male students must shoulder.

In the media lately, conservative Catholic organizations have been asking: what did we expect when we enrolled at a Catholic school? We can only answer that we expected women to be treated equally, to not have our school create untenable burdens that impede our academic success. We expected that our schools would live up to the Jesuit creed of cura personalis, to care for the whole person, by meeting all of our medical needs. We expected that when we told our universities of the problems this policy created for students, they would help us. We expected that when 94% of students opposed the policy, the university would respect our choices regarding insurance students pay for completely unsubsidized by the university. We did not expect that women would be told in the national media that if we wanted comprehensive insurance that met our needs, not just those of men, we should have gone to school elsewhere, even if that meant a less prestigious university. We refuse to pick between a quality education and our health, and we resent that, in the 21 st century, anyone thinks it’s acceptable to ask us to make this choice simply because we are women.

Many of the women whose stories I’ve shared are Catholic women, so ours is not a war against the church. It is a struggle for access to the healthcare we need. The President of the Association of Jesuit Colleges has shared that Jesuit colleges and universities appreciate the modification to the rule announced last week. Religious concerns are addressed and women get the healthcare they need. That is something we can all agree on. Thank you."

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Big surprise, women are being gouged when buying birth control:
It has been a number of years since I took oral contraceptives for birth control, but when I did, these were the facts:

Oral contraceptives for women were not covered under any insurance plan and had to be paid for out-of-pocket.

The cost averaged between $20 and $30 per month if you were buying your contraceptives in the United States.

I was fortunate. I had an Ob-Gyn who gave me the free samples the pharmaceutical reps gave to him, so I rarely had to pay for them. Only occasionally was his office out of stock when my supply ran out, necessitating a month or two prescription to be filled at my local pharmacy until they replenished their inventory.

Then I moved to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where I no longer had access to my doctor or my free birth control. Lo and behold, this is what I discovered:

The same name-brand oral contraceptives, from the same manufacturers, in the same strengths (in other words, the identical products) were available in drug stores over-the-counter without any prescription required at all.
A three-month supply of the identical oral contraceptives I took in the United States cost $3.00.
Yes, the decimal point is in the right place. Birth control pills sold to consumers in Mexico, by the same pharmaceutical manufacturers who sold them to American consumers for upwards of $30 a month, cost $1.00 a month. One dollar.

In one of the most Catholic countries in existence.

If the American consumer were treated fairly or equitably by the drug manufacturers, we would most likely not even be having this debate at all. Who would be arguing that women couldn't afford $12 a year for contraceptives? That would be absurd.

It follows, then, that the only reason this is a debate at all is because American women are being ripped off by the pharmaceutical giants, and our representatives in government don't seem to actually care. Big Pharma is still able to wield their power to force us to see a doctor before being allowed access to hormonal birth control, and they keep the price prohibitively high, effectively denying any access to millions of women across this country."
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To the wankers complaining that *they* will have to pay for Ms. Fluke's birthcontrol:
No taxpayers are covering Georgetown University student's health care coverage. Just to be clear...health insurance at Georgetown is NOT free. The student pays almost $1,900 a year for their health plan. If they waive the college offered plan, they need to provide documentation of their own plan with at least $100,000 worth of coverage (per illness or injury). I am attaching the link if you want to check it out.

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/finaff/st ... n.html#new
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[Those defending Rush are defending] each of these comments made over the span of three days by Rush Limbaugh.
Each comment has a corresponding link to the transcripts made available on Limbaugh's own website.

This is what Premiere Network says they respect.

Feb. 29, 2012:

1) “she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills”
2) “they're having so much sex they can't afford the birth control pills!”
3) “essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”
4) “Sandra Fluke. So much sex going on, they can't afford birth control pills.”

March 1, 2012:

5) “You'd call 'em a slut, a prostitute”
6) “she's having so much sex”
7) “are having so much sex that they’re going broke”
8) “they want to have sex any time, as many times and as often as they want, with as many partners as they want”
9) “the sexual habits of female law students at Georgetown”
10) “are having so much sex that they’re going broke”
11) “having so much sex that it's hard to make ends meet”
12) “four out of every ten co-eds are having so much sex that it's hard to make ends meet”
13) “Now, what does that make her? She wants us to buy her sex.”
14) “to pay for these co-eds to have sex”
15) “she and her co-ed classmates are having sex nearly three times a day for three years straight, apparently these deadbeat boyfriends or random hookups that these babes are encountering here, having sex with nearly three times a day”
16) “Therefore we are paying her to have sex. Therefore we are paying her for having sex.”
17) “Have you ever heard of not having sex so often?”
18) “Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. And I'll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
19) “we want something in return, Ms. Fluke: And that would be the videos of all this sex posted online so we can see what we are getting for our money.”
20) “'If we're paying for this, it makes these women sluts, prostitutes.' And what else could it be?”
21) “essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right?”
22) “I'm having sex so damn much, I'm going broke.”
23) “She's having so much sex that she's going broke! There's no question about her virtue.”
24) “having so much sex she's going broke at Georgetown Law.”
25) “Here's a woman exercising no self-control. The fact that she wants to have repeated, never-ending, as often as she wants it sex -- given.”
26) “She's having so much sex it's amazing she can still walk, but she made it up there.”
27) “Maybe they're sex addicts.”
28) “to pay for her to have sex all the time.”
29) “she wants the rest of us to pay for her sex.”
30) “She wants all the sex that she wants all the time paid for by the rest of us.”
31) “Here this babe goes before Congress and wants thousands of dollars to pay for her sex.”
32) “a woman who is happily presenting herself as an immoral, baseless, no-purpose-to-her-life woman.”
33) “She wants all the sex in the world, whenever she wants it, all the time.”
34) “If this woman wants to have sex ten times a day for three years, fine and dandy.”
35) “to provide women from Georgetown Law unlimited, no-consequences sex.”
36) “so she can have unlimited, no-consequences sex.”
37) “You want to have all the sex you want all day long, no consequences, no responsibility for your behavior”
38) “The woman wants unlimited, no-responsibility, no-consequences sex, and she wants it with contraceptives paid for by us.”

March 2, 2012:

39) "she's having so much sex, she can't afford her birth control pills anymore.”
40) “she's having so much sex, she can't pay for it -- and we should.”
41) “She's having so much sex, she can't afford it.”
42) “this, frankly hilarious claim that she's having so much sex (and her buddies with her) that she can't afford it.”
43) “And not one person says, 'Well, did you ever think about maybe backing off the amount of sex that you have?'”
44) “Does she have more boyfriends? Ha! They're lined up around the block.”
45) "It was Sandra Fluke who said that she was having so much sex, she can't afford it.”
46) “By her own admission, in her own words, Sandra Fluke is having so much sex that she can't afford it.”
47) “they're having a lot of sex for which they need a lot of contraception.”
48) “Her sex life is active and she's having sex so frequently that she can't afford all the birth control pills that she needs.”
49) “who admits to having so much sex that she can't afford it anymore.”
50) “she's having so much sex, she can't pay for it.”
51) “As frequently as she has sex and to not be pregnant, she's obviously succeeding in contraception.”
52) “Ms. Fluke, asserts her right to free contraceptive, to handle her sex life -- and it's, by her own admission, quite active.”
53) "Ms. Fluke, who bought your condoms in junior high? Who bought your condoms in the sixth grade, or your contraception?"

Now, to the fathers, husbands, brothers, uncles and grandfathers reading this. What would you say or do to someone who said these things about your daughter, wife, sister, neice or granddaughter? Would any one of these comments, not to mention all 53, be enough to move you into taking some kind of action?

To the mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers and same-sex domestic partners reading this. What do comments like these make you want to say or do to the person who said them?

Which is the greater surprise to you? That nine sponsors have dropped this sexist, misogynist, bloviating bag of foul gas as a platform for their commercial messages? Or that any one with a conscience, a sense of decency or -- even at the lowest level -- a desire to sell products to fathers, mothers, uncles, neices, nephews, brothers, cousins, domestic partners or anyone who even knows a young woman, would still associate with comments like these by allowing them on his or her radio station?"

Continue reading on Examiner.com (Updated) 53 separate insults cost Limbaugh 13 sponsors (Video) - Baltimore liberal

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“God said to Rush... "you have one wish".
Limbaugh showed him a map of the middle east and said "I want peace in the region".
God said "Impossibl­­­­­­­­­­e­, I've been trying for years, absolutely impossible­­­­­­­­­­! Can never happen, mak­­­­­­­­­e a different wish".
"OK, make me a respected radio host"­­­­­­­­­­, said Rush.

God replied...­­­­­­­­­­.­.­.­.­"­l­­e­­t me see that map again”


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"Fox News and Limbaugh are on the same page" they're also wallowing in the same lying slime pit.

Papantonio:
"This is going to happen again. This a man who has so many doubts about
his own virility, about his own masculinity that it manifests itself by attacking women."

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Don't miss Jon Stewart ripping Limbaugh last night:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/0 ... 23455.html

And advertisers dropping like flies. Eight more leave on Monday and Tuesday:

@BareEscentuals
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We've taken steps to ensure that our radio ads do not air on this program.

@SensaWeightLoss
Sensa Team
Rush Limbaugh’s comments are not in line with SENSA values so we are pulling our ads indefinitely which shud be down in the next couple days

@Vitacost
Vitacost.com
Mr. Limbaugh's unsettling comments are not in line with our values, and we've decided to remove our advertising from the program.

Think Progress listed five additional companies who have vacated the show: AccuQuote, ServiceMagic, Polycom, Hadeed Carpet and Thompson Creek Windows.
The eight businesses join at least nine others (including AOL, parent company of The Huffington Post) in ending their association with Limbaugh's show. Two radio stations have also dropped the program in the wake of Limbaugh's comments about Fluke.

LINK

Huge wall of the companies no longer advertising with Limbaugh.
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From Media Matters for America:
--A total of 86 ads aired during WABC's broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show today.
--77 of those ads were public service announcements donated free of charge by the Ad Council.
--Of the nine paid spots that ran, seven were from companies that have said they have taken steps to ensure their ads no longer air during the program."
--WABC's online feed included about 5:33 of dead air when ads would normally have run.
But they're even gonna pull some of those:
The American Heart Association, and the Ad Council [Note: A March 8 Bloomberg News article reported that according to the organization's executive
vice president of communications, the AHA "will be asking WABC to no longer utilize these unpaid PSAs."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203080010
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Get Rush Limbaugh Off Armed Forces Radio NOW!

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Get Rush Limbaugh Off Armed Forces Radio NOW!
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EXCLUSIVE: 140 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh


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ThinkProgress has obtained an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks listing 96 national companies that have “specifically asked” their advertisments not be played during the Rush Limbaugh Show. Premiere is the distributor of Limbaugh’s program. The advertisers have also requested to be excluded from other right-wing hosts including Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. According to the memo, the listed companies’ advertisements should be excluded from these programs because they have been “deemed to be offensive.”

THINK PROGRESS HERE

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L.Wood wrote:
Get Rush Limbaugh Off Armed Forces Radio NOW!
DONE! Here
Well, not quite:
Raw Story article wrote:Even Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, was leaned on by activists calling for Limbaugh to be taken off the Armed Forces Network. Levin said he would like to see Limbaugh off the network as well, but the Pentagon has not yet initiated a review. Levin added that Congress should not get involved, saying that he hopes the administrators of the Armed Forces Network will see just how offensive Limbaugh’s is and take it off the air.
But the U.S. Army has asked to have ads removed from his program.

And it's a pity. If anybody has shown himself to be more than he can be, it's Rush Limbaugh. Of course, he's had a lot of help.
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Thank You, Affordable Care Act!

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By Sandra Fluke

Over the past few weeks, I have had the opportunity to meet and speak with several media outlets in an effort to tell the stories of women who would be helped by comprehensive reproductive healthcare, particularly affordable access to contraception through insurance. While this experience has been emotionally and physically exhausting, I have been repeatedly moved by the hundreds of women and men who have contacted me to show support. Lest we forget where this conversation started, I would like to take this opportunity to take a step back to exactly two years ago and acknowledge the tremendous difference that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is making and will continue to make in women's lives everywhere.

This law, also known as health reform, will benefit over 45 million women in our country through increased access to preventive care services without copays and deductibles. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act's new requirements that private insurance and Medicare cover these services without cost-sharing, by the time the law is fully implemented in 2014, women will benefit from, among other services: mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, pre and post natal care, flu shots, regular well-baby, well-child and well-woman visits, domestic violence screening, and the full range of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives.

If this seems too good to be true, think again. This is the product of women in action - this is what happens when women stand up for what they and their families need to be healthy and are finally heard by people at the highest ranks of our government. This is what it looks like when government works for us and prioritizes our health.

And just as we will not be silenced when we are verbally attacked for speaking out, we will not go back to a society without this care. My colleagues and friends at my university who struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, unintended pregnancy, and even the terrible consequences of sexual assault understand what it's like for someone else to make their health care decisions for them. New moms who need to space their children, young women who are starting their careers, and low income women who struggle to afford basic necessities understand the need to control their reproduction. I have tried to represent them by talking about their experiences - but any influence I might have is only due to their courage in coming forward.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, that courage is reaping as yet untold benefits. I look forward to the day when students at my university finally have the comprehensive reproductive health coverage they need to stay healthy. I look forward to never again hearing about a friend who lost her ovary to a tennis ball-sized cyst because she couldn't afford to keep paying for contraception out of pocket. I look forward to the unintended pregnancy rate in our country, which is stuck at half of all pregnancies, finally declining. I look forward to more women surviving breast and cervical cancer because they were diagnosed early. I look forward to the end of gender rating in insurance, which can inflate premiums for young women by 150% compared to their male counterparts, and which costs women of all ages an extra $1 billion per year. And I look forward to knowing that when my friends choose to start their families, they will not be faced with the 87% of individual insurance plans that do not currently cover maternity care, and they will not be labeled as having a "preexisting condition" if it turns out they need a C-section.

I know that when women have the opportunity, they will take care of their health, which in the end benefits both our families and our country. On this second anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, I express my gratitude and celebrate the new opportunity for healthy lives, before, during and after our reproductive years.

Sandra Fluke is a third-year law student at Georgetown University Law Center
and has served as President of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice.
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