Quicken Loans pulls ads from Rush Limbaugh show
Source: Detroit News
Snip < "Due to Rush Limbaugh's continued inflammatory comments along with the valuable feedback we have received from our clients and team members Quicken Loans has suspended all advertising on The Rush Limbaugh radio program," a Quicken Loans spokeswoman said Friday in an email.
Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120302/NATION/203020437/Quicken-Loans-pulls-ads-from-Rush-Limbaugh-show?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
Please let this story have legs.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)Gee, that just breaks my heart!!!!! Do I need a sarcasm thingee here?
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)habu1968
(15 posts)Thank YOu Quicken loans.....I'd like to refer to Limbaugh as a "steaming pile of dogshit" But that's really an insult to all the dogs on the planet.
JoyN62
(14 posts)Does anyone know any of the other sponsors he has? I want to call them all.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)MACARD
(105 posts)like calling people and things gay, instead of saying its gay say you arn't worthy of me calling you gay cause all the gays look better in comparison. if you are homophobic that is the upmost of insults if you arn't homophobic then not so insulting either which way not as insulting to gay people.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)No great shock. Of the 3 choices (walk it back, change the subject and double down) he went for the only one his ginormous ego would allow.
Good on Quicken and the Mattress company and all others who are taking this stance.
Maybe, just maybe, he will become as much of a pariah as Glenn Beckkk.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)no doubt he has no such requirement of men who get their boner pills via insurance - Rush is just the usual misogynistic piece of shit
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Saw where someone dug up a link where he was detained by customs returning to the US from a Caribbean holiday with a boatload of Viagra on him.
He probably needs all the help (chemical and visual) he can get. I can see how he could be 'frustrated'.
peace frog
(5,609 posts)We were polite and professional in our address, and I reminded her in both emails that my patronage and that of countless others will be directed to her competitors forever unless her company removed all support from Limbaugh. She replied later with the message above. I'm proud to have done my part, and I have to say that Kelly was a pleasure to correspond with.
yardwork
(61,533 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Next stop main street America.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)boycott this place.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)alp227
(32,002 posts)Good to see Quicken take a stand. I might've heard those ads on KGO and Norman Goldman too.
Gus2525
(68 posts)shamelessly bills itself as Rush radio 94.5. See Rushradio94.5.com. They proudly ride the coattails of their pathetic hero. It might be fun to contact them now that the heat is on, and let them know how they too are associated with this perversion. I did.
Chakaconcarne
(2,429 posts)Sent out emails to lots of his advertisers. Nice to know they may have had an impact.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)twitter, facebook, etc.
I'm hoping this time he has really 'done it'...but good.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)chitowngal08
(7 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,237 posts)The Last Democrat
(73 posts)"SO KEEP IT UP" he's on his way down...down....down.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Wow this is so fun watching these companies drop that oxy pill addict like a hot rock!
Please God can rush limpballs finally be destroyed by his own vile evil hatred??
That scum brebart finally committed suicide by hate, can rush be next???
Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)This is how Glenn Beck achieved irrelevance.
Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)Another term for laying low til this blows over.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)His presence is an insult to our women and men in uniform.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)Herlong
(649 posts)I wish that anyone but Rush Limbaugh were a part of our government dialog concerning women's health but it is not, for that reason, I am no longer in support of your company. Thank You.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Rush Limbaugh.
Uncle Joe
(58,264 posts)Thanks for the thread, sarcasmo.
dfgrehe
(20 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)Also , take a radio ratings study. Nowadays the survey company (ambatron) nielson ,Others , used paper and many folk would chalk up their fave station. Now ambitron uses a sort of digital recorder that has a automatic mic pickup. when ambatron started this , many radio station ratings went down! including a big radio station in the sanfransisco bay area. callsigns knbr .Ratings are the life blood of radio and tv stations too. The numbers show advertisors how well or not well the radio/tv station is doing This to will hit them where it hurts
Beartracks
(12,793 posts)"The PPM is a wearable portable device much like a pager or cell phone, that electronically gathers inaudible codes that identify the source of a broadcast, such as a radio station. Arbitron recruits and compensates a cross section of consumers to wear the meter for an average of one year and up to two years. The audience estimates generated from each monthly survey is used as the buy/sell currency for radio stations and advertisers/agencies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitron
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Fearless
(18,421 posts)wordpix
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Smilo
(1,944 posts)for listening and acting.
BuddhaGirl
(3,599 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)IndyJones
(1,068 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)beac
(9,992 posts)Is this a temporary "until it blows over" move or a permanent commitment not to advertise on Limbaugh's show?
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Response to sarcasmo (Original post)
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