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Dudesky · #**376** 03-16-2012, 10:38 AM

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Censorship: The pressure on Rush Limbaugh's advertisers is from a group that meets regularly with the White House and runs an Obama Super-PAC funded by unions.
The group Media Matters acts like a lobbyist but is not registered as one. It operates in the shadows, outside congressional oversight and unaccountable to voters.
Targeting Limbaugh, a staunch Republican, is no coincidence. If the Obama campaign can silence him, it can knock out the party's most powerful voice for firing up its base and getting out the vote. Limbaugh has a huge Tea Party following.
The White House's attack dog, Media Matters, has been intimidating private businesses into dropping their ads on Limbaugh's popular radio show. It boasts of scaring off 45 of his advertisers since launching its drive last week, when Limbaugh apologized for using sexist terms to criticize a college coed called by Democrats to testify in support of ObamaCare's coverage of birth control.

Attacks On Limbaugh Advertisers Orchestrated By Group Linked To White House - Investors.com

JollyRoger · #**377** 03-16-2012, 11:50 AM

Starting to hurt, huh?

Struggling Clear Channel And Rush Limbaugh's $400 Million Payday | Media Matters for America

MS Fowler · #**378** 03-16-2012, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by JollyRoger

Starting to hurt, huh?

Struggling Clear Channel And Rush Limbaugh's $400 Million Payday | Media Matters for America

The only reason I can imagine for anyone to cheer this is purely political. Rush is an effective spokesman, and it helps the dems politically to silence him, or reduce his influence.
How do you, a champion of free speech, square the political aims with the virtue of supporting free speech?
Does politics trump Rights?

Dudesky · #**379** 03-16-2012, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by JollyRoger

Starting to hurt, huh?

Struggling Clear Channel And Rush Limbaugh's $400 Million Payday | Media Matters for America

Keep drinking the koolaid Holly Jolly......140 advertisers was BS.....

davidmash · #**380** 03-16-2012, 12:19 PM

I do not think that is a valid comparison. Limbaugh is not having his freedom of speech denied. There are no laws being passed to deny him any rights so far as I am aware. He is being driven out by market demands. The same market demands that made him popular are now turning. He pissed some people off. He stirred up a hornets nest and this time he is getting stung.

Carleton Hughes · #**381** 03-16-2012, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by davidmash

I do not think that is a valid comparison. Limbaugh is not having his freedom of speech denied. There are no laws being passed to deny him any rights so far as I am aware. He is being driven out by market demands. The same market demands that made him popular are now turning. He pissed some people off. He stirred up a hornets nest and this time he is getting stung.

Exactly. How the **** can intelligent-seeming people read more into the hate-filled vaporings of an essentially 2nd rate Vaudeville entertainer...

Except for the half-wits whom he belabors with his toxic bloviations, those self-same functional morons who comprise his audience and look to him as some kind of political thaumaturge.

Dudesky · #**382** 03-16-2012, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by davidmash

I do not think that is a valid comparison. Limbaugh is not having his freedom of speech denied. There are no laws being passed to deny him any rights so far as I am aware. He is being driven out by market demands. The same market demands that made him popular are now turning. He pissed some people off. He stirred up a hornets nest and this time he is getting stung.

Don't get your hopes up.

The Clk Man · #**383** 03-16-2012, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

Exactly. How the **** can intelligent-seeming people read more into the hate-filled vaporings of an essentially 2nd rate Vaudeville entertainer...

Except for the half-wits whom he belabors with his toxic bloviations, those self-same functional morons who comprise his audience and look to him as some kind of political thaumaturge.

DUDE!!! my thesaurus is getting wore out and I just bought it last week.

MS Fowler · #**384** 03-16-2012, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by davidmash

I do not think that is a valid comparison. Limbaugh is not having his freedom of speech denied. There are no laws being passed to deny him any rights so far as I am aware. He is being driven out by market demands. The same market demands that made him popular are now turning. He pissed some people off. He stirred up a hornets nest and this time he is getting stung.

You are right that no law is being passed to infringe his speech.

However, "the Left" is organizing and promoting boycotts. That, too, is THEIR right. The contrast is that the political Right--those demonized as wanting to eliminate all kinds of right---has no track record of doing this. Maybe someone will dig up something in the past, but typically, the Right doesn't try to use its power as a boycott to shut up speech with which they disagree. That is the domain of the Left--the supposed supporters of all our rights.

Just pointing out the difference between their actions and their words.

Honus · #**385** 03-16-2012, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

You are right that no law is being passed to infringe his speech.

However, "the Left" is organizing and promoting boycotts. That, too, is THEIR right. The contrast is that the political Right--those demonized as wanting to eliminate all kinds of right---has no track record of doing this. Maybe someone will dig up something in the past, but typically, the Right doesn't try to use its power as a boycott to shut up speech with which they disagree. That is the domain of the Left--the supposed supporters of all our rights.

Just pointing out the difference between their actions and their words.

I suspect that the distinction between right and left exists only in your mind. It took me about 10 seconds to find three examples: HonestGirlScouts.com | How Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood connect and more! Right-Wing Group Wants to Boycott Toys"R"Us for Selling Gay "Archie" Comic | Complex AFA Launches Old Navy Boycott For Supporting Anti-Bullying Group | rightwingwatch.org

JollyRoger · #**386** 03-16-2012, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

The only reason I can imagine for anyone to cheer this is purely political. Rush is an effective spokesman, and it helps the dems politically to silence him, or reduce his influence.
How do you, a champion of free speech, square the political aims with the virtue of supporting free speech?
Does politics trump Rights?

Free speech? Are you really trying to blow that particular plume of smoke? Limbaugh's problem is with the marketplace, if people don't want to advertise on his show because they don't like what he says, what, do you want them arrested for that? And I hardly think that pretentious windbag is having a hard time getting on a megaphone, do you?

davidmash · #**387** 03-16-2012, 02:40 PM

The AFA also asked "Christains" to not shop at any company that supports te gay agenda (what ever that is).

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Eastman Kodak, Citigroup, PepsiCo., American Airlines, Allstate Insurance, and the Coca-Cola Company. "One company losing five to ten percent of its sales will send a clear message to every company in America," offers Don Wildmon. AFA attacked Kraft Foods (owner of brand names Post, Oscar Meyer, and Maxwell House, among others) for the company's support of the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago.

AFA

They asked for boycotts on Walmart/Sam's, Ford, and PBS.

How about the One Million Mom's boycott of JC Penny and Ellen DeGeneres?

Limbaugh asked for a boycott of GM because it was Obama's company.

Newsbusters wanted a boycott of Lowes for their support of Muslims in America. Not sure how that one turned out but I will not shop at Lowes because they caved....So there!!!!!

USA Christian Ministries boycotts Star Bucks for being tolerant to gays.

Huckabee called for a NPR boycott after his boyfriend Williams got canned.

Think Progress

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Randy Thomasson of the right-wing group Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) has called for a boycott of Google for its opposition to Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California. “There needs to be a response from people who will say, ‘I’m not going to put a dime of my money or time into businesses that are attacking the sacred institution of marriage,’” Thomasson told OneNewsNow. However, Valleywag points out that CCF’s webpage directs users to search Google News for “news related to marriage”:

Do you want more or is this enough?

MS Fowler · #**388** 03-16-2012, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Honus

I suspect that the distinction between right and left exists only in your mind. It took me about 10 seconds to find three examples: HonestGirlScouts.com | How Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood connect and more! Right-Wing Group Wants to Boycott Toys"R"Us for Selling Gay "Archie" Comic | Complex AFA Launches Old Navy Boycott For Supporting Anti-Bullying Group | rightwingwatch.org

OK, but they are all news to me. Must not be very effective.

Dubyagee · #**389** 03-16-2012, 05:26 PM

This will have backlash. This imitation movement utilizing the battle cry of womans rights is going to be exposed.

Rush and talk radio is one of the targets. Forcing insurance companies to cover freeloaders is another.

Progressives failed at direct competition so now resort to threatening proxy companies.

For the record I do not condone boycotts and never will. If its legal then deal with it. Compete or walk.

MS Fowler · #**390** 03-16-2012, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by JollyRoger

Free speech? Are you really trying to blow that particular plume of smoke? Limbaugh's problem is with the marketplace, if people don't want to advertise on his show because they don't like what he says, what, do you want them arrested for that? And I hardly think that pretentious windbag is having a hard time getting on a megaphone, do you?

People have the right to support, or not support anyone they choose.
On an individual basis, there is nothing wrong. When its orchestrated it becomes a little less clear.

In any event, I doubt that it will affect Limbaugh much.

It is interesting to note that after dismissing him as a "comedian" for decades, now suddenly, he is the defacto leader of the republican party.