My Overstock.com letter in response to my complaint about Rush Limbaugh

[graywarrior]

Dear Graywarrior,

Thank you for contacting Overstock.com. I understand that you do not intend to shop on our website until we pull our advertising from the Rush Limbaugh radio show. I appreciate the opportunity to assist you.

GW, please be assured that due to the recent remark's Rush made toward Michael J. Fox, we have decided to cease any support/advertising of Rush's radio show. I hope this information is helpful to you and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused to you.

Thank you for the opportunity to assist you. If you have any further questions, please click the following link and an Overstock.com Live Chat Customer Service agent will assist you.

http://livechat.overstock.com

Sincerely,

Derek R.
Customer Care

[DefenseLawyer]

1. Wasn't it Overstock.com

that sent free copies of "Fahrenhype 9/11", some anti-Michael Moore hitpiece, to the troops in Iraq?

[graywarrior]

2. Probably. But someone had them listed here as a sponsor of Limbaugh's

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. YES it was and did they get an earful from me at that time. They didn't give a crap.

Their reply was..."oh well, we're sorry to lose you as a customer.":eyes:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. RW Outfit. They were pushing some fake-ass swiftboat book in 2004 n/t

[dansolo]

4. Michael J. Fox??

When did you write to them? Was it concerning Rush's recent insult against our troops? If this was a recent email, then it sounds like they are just blowing smoke, because if they are still advertising on Rush's show, then they apparently didn't pull their advertising after the Michael J. Fox comments, which was a year ago.

[graywarrior]

5. I wrote to them about 2 days ago.

[gateley]

6. And here I was about to jump to their defense for taking right action. Glad

you caught that. :thumbsup:

[DefenseLawyer]

7. There is something slightly disjointed about that "response",

like it is probably a computer generated "fill in the blank" e-mail, sent to anyone who complains.

[Lint Head]

8. Here is an email I sent to a radio station in Nashville Tn.

Because you have said nothing about Rush Limbaugh’s comments about our soldiers I am contacting every local sponsor and national sponsor of his show to complain.
I am also contacting the FCC.

How dare this coward that has never served in the military say that freedom of thought makes someone a ‘poor soldier’.
He is no judge of a soldier. My family served in WWII some died some survived. My Uncle was at Pearl Harbor and won the
Silver Star for valor. My cousins and best friends died in Vietnam.

Shame on WLAC for carrying this drug addicted coward’s radio show.

WLAC IS SHOWING THAT IT DOES NOT SUPPORT THE TROUPS BECAUSE OF THIS!

WLAC obviously hates the troops and loves money more.
:dem:

[gratuitous]

9. Limbaugh didn't call them "poor" soldiers

He called them "phony" soldiers. Something tells me old Rush would have been very much at home in Stalin's Soviet Union. Red Army soldiers who retreated from superior enemy fire or who were captured by the Nazis and escaped were branded as traitors to the Motherland, and often executed by rear echelon chickenhawks who had never even heard hostile fire.

[KharmaTrain]

10. I Hope You Thanked Them

People who pull their ads need to be thanked for doing the right thing (even though they usually don't know it).

What would be fun is to target ONE Rushbo advertiser...Just one and make a lot of noise about it. Then when they go running for cover, find another. Eventually all Rushbo will have left are peenie stiffie ads.

[Beausoir]

11. The Overstock thing puzzles me. I wrote to them at least a year ago and they said they quit Pigman.

I didn't know they were back advertising with him. It's unclear.

I certainly will no longer do business with them if they are back advertising on Limbaugh's show.

[CitizenLeft]

12. That's when I unsubscribed to them (M.J. Fox)

They won't get any money from me, especially not if they crawled back and are now sponsoring that cesspool of a show again.