Wouldn't it be more appropriate to hit him where it hurts - at his pharmacy?

Boycott Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers and Sponsors :

http://www.topplebush.com/boycott_rush.shtml

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002369972

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/rushbusted.html

Email them with this message :

" I know you are a sponsor / advertiser of the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show. If you continue to do so, I will no longer do business with you. "

The Limbaugh supports will boycott the sponsors who pull their support.

I guess that is why they call our Democratic Republic a Democracy because everyone can be heard.

I just spent the morning emailing all of his sponsors and everyone at Clear Channel. It feels great !

while you spent the morning emailing his sponsors, all of the people that support his sponsors were out working. Thus, his sponsors will actually have an increase in revenues due to their demographic being reached.

I find it hilarious how the libs think of free speech as " shut anybody up that thinks different than we do." and definatily by all mean don't let the truth come out.

Rush is so funny and the best thing about him is he know how to push the libs buttons.

I know that the libs are trying to say that conservative are trying to deny birth control, BUT the real argument is : go have all the sex you want just DON"T MAKE ME PAY FOR IT. Pay for your own recreation.

I beg your pardon but I am at home because I work from home. I find it hilarious how threatened right-wingers get when others are exercising their right to free speech and busy boycotting a misogynistic, racist pig like Limbaugh. The time has come for him to go. I hope you don't like it.

chemdmd,

No. See many of us sitting at home, or other places have our own businesses and are the ones hiring folks such as yourself.

Of course since you're here, at this time, obviously everything you've said about working must be a lie because you wouldn't be able to do that unless you were cheating your boss.

Good one !

Here is just one of the replies I have received about boycotting Limbaugh within 30 minutes of sending the initial email to them :

Discussion:

Agent Reply Via Email (Tracee G.)
03/02/2012 12:29 PM

Thank you for contacting Overstock.com regarding Rush Limbaugh. I appreciate the opportunity to assist you today.

We have not advertised on the Rush Limbaugh show for more than 5 years.

We appreciate your business. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Tracee G.

They don't advertise with him him any longer and are very interested in keeping our business ! They must have seen the light about what a pig he is a long time ago.

Would someone please emphasize the fact that

birth control ≠ sex

These ignorant people (mostly men) commenting about women's reproductive health, and healthcare are raising my blood pressure!

Oh no JD. Chem- who we all believe is a high school student for various reasons- claims that he has saved hundreds of children from the tyranny of abortion and that not only does he have a masters in chemistry but he also has a PhD in medicine. So chem, of all people, should know what birth control is for! The fact that he doesn't is completely irrelevant.

I find it hilarious how the libs think of free speech as " shut anybody up that thinks different than we do." and definatily by all mean don't let the truth come out.

I find it hilarious that by you saying this you don't realize that you are telling liberals to shut up and think like you. Hypocrisy much? What is even funnier is that you claim to love the free market. Yet in order for there to be a free market consumers must be able to go out and protest the companies that don't give them adequate services. This way the company is forced to change it's behavior or lose the business. That's the whole anti-regulation theory that you, chem, have personally advocated for so many times in the past. Yet here we have an instance in which the free market is doing just that and you get angry about it. How dare they use the free market exactly as it's intended to be used and as I, chem, have personally advocated it be used!

I also especially love this argument because it is, as I've said before, the Tracy Jordan defense. In the voice of Tracy Jordan (ala 30 Rock) "But you all know I'm a idiot! It's not my fault when I say something stupid! You all are supposed to know that I don't know better and then look the other way when I say something grossly offensive!" Yes that's right everyone- when the bully makes a mistake it isn't the BULLY's mistake it's YOURS. Yet chem beautifully follows up w/ his hypocrisy by making the statement that he doesn't want to pay for what he perceives to be someone else's mistake. So see you must do as chem says, but not as he actually does.

Yet it's the liberals who are anti-freedom.

Also, just FYI chem, you aren't being forced to pay for anything. 80 cents of every dollar that an individual pays into their insurance premium must be spent on health care and included in that premium coverage is preventative care. Preventative care must be provided w/ no additional co-pay. So if you purchase insurance then your insurance has to provide you w/ things like birth control w/o charging you extra since it is already included in your plan. If you don't have health insurance then you aren't getting coverage. The government has absolutely nothing to do w/ this equation other than telling the insurance company that it must include preventative care in it's policy. But of course since you have a law degree you already knew this.

Also yay more people who work at home like I do ;-)! Huzzah!

LOL. Here is a survey I just got from Overstock Dot Com after the email they sent me above:

Dear Valued Customer,

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This is how effective boycotts really are. You are done like dinner Rush Limbaugh !

Have to ask where was Maddows womanly out rage when Fat Eddie called a woman a slut and Mahr called another one a @!$%#? Seems like it is Ok in her mind if your a Liberal its ok to disgrace women and call them things. Hypocrisy much Rachel?

Now Rush is a Puke but if we go after him what ever happens to him should happen to Fat eddie and Mahr as well and everyone else that uses ignorant words Dem or Rep.

Ugh MyLife Rachel did speak out about it when it happened. She said that she thought Ed had learned his lesson and asked that he be brought back. They even had a post about it here on Maddowblog....

So if Limbaugh says he's sorry this will all go away? I hate rush but I hate double standards.

I don't know you'd have to ask her. You just said that she didn't make a comment about Ed and she did. For all we know she had to keep quiet or felt that being quiet was necessary since it was her colleague. There's a slightly different set of ethics between the two. W/ that said they did talk about it openly here on Maddowblog. I don't know what to tell you. People had pretty much the same reaction to Ed as they are having to Rush except less curse words.

Ed also got time off to contemplate the error of his ways, and he had to make an apology on the air. It wasn't one of those lame "if I insulted anyone" kind of apologies either. It was humble and a genuine apology. Sincere? Only he knows, but it didn't come off as insincere, or "Gee, I gotta do this to keep my job, so I'll mumble my way through it."

Yes, I'd like to see Rush do that. It'll be interesting to see if he does, although I won't be holding my breath till it happens.

@Hope: thanks for list of Limbaugh sponsor sites. I just emailed them all, and you're right: it feels good!

@Hope; Received an immediate response from Quicken Loans. It said:

"We appreciate the feedback we have received regarding Rush Limbaugh’s comments.

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. "

The difference between Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher, who was also mentioned, is that Maher does satirical comedy injected with his political views, so you can't take everything he says too seriously. Limbaugh's show is his anger-management diary, where he can vent all day long about his resentment and ignorance, and after a while, you realize that he's being dead serious.

Gives me great pleasure to think I might be a feminazi. (I am a mother and grandmother, a moderate. I also pay attention...and vote.)

This morning I emailed each of Limbaugh's advertising sponsors, explaining my concerns.

They have, in short, a very long and very close relationship.

Ewwwww.

UPDATE: 2;24 pm ET Friday

Sleep Number Beds has pulled the plug on Boss. Boss likes to brag how he sleeps on a Sleep Number Bed.

Ya think these bed companies might be hauling butt big qwik since, ya know, like, because of the kind of stuff what goes on in beds?

Naww. Not possible. No connection.

Oh, that's brilliant. Let's make the story all about how liberals are violent and unhinged! Make Limbaugh sympathetic! Good job, morons.

I know violence is the wrong sentiment to make a point, but proposing it sure feels good. For example, I've had a cyst on my ovary that I had to go to the emergency room for, because I was in so much pain. I love the idea of someone shooting his testicles, and calling him a slut for trying to get away from that.

Tell OWS that violence is the wrong sedtiment.

How do you know it was a liberal that sent it?

Maybe, there is a moderate conversative who thinks he is disgusting.

Maybe there are MILLIONS of people who think he is a woman-hating, racist pig !

That "fake bomb" was actually a gift from a fan. When ask about it, the fan appologized.

chemdmd

Tell the police their violent actions prompted a violent response. Same as the civil rights protests, violence started by "authority", Viet Nam protests, violence started by "authority" OWS protests, violence started by "authority".

As funny as it sounds, even I, who dislikes the man, can't really enjoy the idea of a bomb, even a fake one, to scare him off. I'm not interested in stooping that low to prove a point. I'd rather scare him with my words.

It was not a fake bomb, a fan sent an invention of some sort with wires that Limbaugh freaked over...somewhat justifiably, I have to add. The fan later apologized and explained what it was.

No bomb, no liberals, no bad intentions, nothing.

Correction. There was no burning of witches in Salem. The ones found guilty were all hanged and they weren't all women. There was one pressed to death, but that was torture to get him to confess.

@whaddya

Those four men will run and hide...all of them supported the Blunt Amendment. Well, actually three said they did when first asked. Mitt on the other hand had to check with his handlers to find out what his/their position was.

Sleep Number Bed pulled their sponsorship!

YES !!! That is one that I emailed this morning !! Awesome !!

Boycotts do work !!

Boycott Rush Limbaugh, His Radio Broadcast Company Clear Channel, and ALL of his sponsors !

OMG ! Here is yet another response to my emails about boycotting Rush Limbaugh you just have to read ! This is from one of their biggest sponsors " Carbonite " :

A Message from Carbonite CEO, David Friend :

Hello,

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 concerned about his comments. Limbaugh’s remarks have us rethinking our future use of talk radio.

We use more than 40 talk show hosts to help get the Carbonite message out to the public. The nature of talk radio is that from time to time listeners are offended by a host and ask that we pull our advertising. This goes for conservatives like Limbaugh and progressives like Stephanie Miller and Ed Shultz. We even get customers who demand that we pull the plug on NPR. As an advertiser, we do not have control over a show’s editorial content or what they say on air. Carbonite does not endorse the opinions of the shows or their hosts.

However, the outcry over Limbaugh is the worst we’ve ever seen. I have scheduled a face-to-face meeting next week with Limbaugh during which I will impress upon him that his comments were offensive to many of our customers and employees alike.

Please know your voice has been heard and that we are taking this matter very seriously.

Regards,
Dave

Wow, that is pretty explicit, and pretty brave, considering it's Rush, God of All Things Conservative.

You know he will work out a "It's the Liberals Fault I Said That" defense.

slanderous hate speech is NOT free speech

As I emailed Sleep Number this morning, I said I support Rush's right to free speech, and I also support the consequences of it, and thanked them for pulling their ads with him.

Support Free Speech, and it's Consequences!

Anybody who spends more than a minute a month listening to this idiot should already been embarrassed. It's questionable whether the word "shame" exists in the vocabularies of members of his audience.

nah, ratings don't mean popular opinions. liberals have better things to do than hang around listening to blowhards all day.

If that is the case, why are you trolling here? Also the word is accept not except.

There are too many spelling and grammatical errors to even bother counting. Which makes perfect sense for a Rush devotee, ill-educated and ignorant.

First, before you decided to insult other people's intelligence, learn to spell.

Second, ratings do not determine intelligence. Indeed, an inverse correlation can be seen.

lmfao!!!! I was TEN MINUTES too early! OMG! You can't make this stuff up!!!!

Referring, of course, to post #8

For the record, mike, you are insulting the intelligence of liberals while simultaneously making an appeal to the population argument. The irony? That to make such an argument means you have to lack the basic tenants of logic and reasoning (i.e. intelligence).

On a more serious note: You cannot conclude that because someone has more ratings that means more people agree w/ their view point. How do you know that the majority of listeners to Rush Limbaugh's show don't think he's a a comedian? I did for a long time. Beck too. Although to be fair Beck actually is a comedian. How do you know that people aren't listening to him simply because they like to mock him? Or that the majority of his listeners aren't turning on his broadcast because it makes their kids go to sleep w/ all the white noise in the background? I mean the list could go on and on. Additionally the majority of people used to think that the Earth was flat, that integration was wrong, and that we'd be living on moon bases by the year 2000. C'mon now.

Mike you are right about one thing.Foxsnooze is all about opinions,while MSNBC is all about facts.

So Mike, are you a paid troll for the right-wingers, or is this just your hobby? You need to get a life, dude... your comments are laughable.

Mike, No one hates Rush Limbaugh nor Fox News nor you or the Republican Party, I believe "Hate" is a dangerous word. We only dislike their ideals. Losers are the ones who "degrade or belittle" women because of their courage to speak their mind. And do not worry we will keep watching MSNBC and you are correct, it is "5" out of 6 people that watch MSNBC daily!

Dude, you need to get laid. But good luck with that, is my guess.

I reckon the fact clear channel has taken over a large portion of the airways and that most people who listen to talk radio are right leaning neanderthals who have trouble following PBS and get upset when the host leaves them to make their own decisions and draw their own conclusions might have a little something to do with his ratings. Then there is also the way ratings are tracked. But I reckon somebody else will have to clue us in on that.

Just goes to show how well lies sell. That's all Fox, I refuse to attach news with their name, and the drugster know. Lies and hate.

The reason so many people listen to Rush and other Right-Wingers is because they have a monopoly on the market! Big Business wants you to listen to these guys so they can convince you to vote against your own self-interest. It's in their best interest to get you to listen to Rush brainwashing you into believing that cutting taxes for the rich will somehow make YOUR life better.

Why should Republican House and Senate members denounce Rush? Rush is a private citizen and has nothing to do with government.

Possibly because they make a habit of denouncing liberals who also happen to be private citizens.

Why should Republican House and Senate members denounce Rush? Rush is a private citizen and has nothing to do with government.

because they bow to him and allow him to be their hit man...

Fiddlesticks. Viagra is paid for by these very same insurance policies and no one is complaining about that.

Also, learn proper grammar. Really, why should anyone take you seriously when you lack an 8th grader's ability to construct sentences.

Wrong, GMAN. Santorum, among others, has stated quite explicitly that contraception in any form, at any time, is wrong. That's the Catholic Church's official position, as well. (After all, if couples use contraceptives, how can they maximize the number of Catholics?)

Maybe I don't want to pay for treatments for alcoholism, smoking cessation programs, or trips to fat farms/special diets for people who lack self-control. Maybe I don't want to pay for Viagra, testosterone, or other drugs to help men improve their "performance."

Singling out one insurance benefit puts the right wing in an iffy place.

Just one more reason why we need to transition to single-payer national health insurance.

I am so sick of this argument! So many of us do not use contraceptives for this purpose which is what right wing men do want to hear. There is so much more to this than just SEX for crying out loud! Much much more. I am celibate but still need to be on it because of possible life-threatening physical issues that only are helped with contraceptives. I have paid upwards of $110 a month for this product, IN ADDITION to my own premiums etc. So yes it nice to have something thay many of us NEED be covered by health insurance!

Vote with your money. Vote in Novemeber Democrat. In the states, counties, house and senate. Then wwe can get the banks under control, stop the assault on health. Stop the war on women. No more moderates in the GOP. Off the chart extremism, it's terroristic to discuss women this way, VOTE

Women need men to buy them contraception? What? Even in your attempt to say that Republicans aren't trying to control women you still end up advocating the control of women. Seriously?

For the record no one is being asked to pay anything for anything. Your insurance company has to provide you w/ basic coverage as part of your policy and that basic coverage must include preventative care. That preventative care must include contraception. If you don't have insurance you don't get the coverage. The federal government has nothing to do w/ this aside from making the insurance company comply w/ the regulation. You aren't paying for anything that you didn't personally sign up for

Wake up, GMan! Birth control is not all about procreation!

My partner has to take birth control pills to manage her cycles because she has severe migraines that are hormone-related. I can assure you she has no need for the birth control effects, nor a man to pay for anything! Birth control pills happen to be the most effective way to provide the hormones many women need for certain health problems.

Once again the right wing is trying to control women's bodies and lives, and once again, we're NOT gonna take it!

I am so sorry for my little rant @16.3. It included many typos but I think you can tell that this issue in particular makes me furious!

Please explain how buying an insurance policy and expecting service is asking some one else to pay.

I agree w/ larry's comment. I'd like it if someone could explain that to me.

I have a friend whose mother has health issues and needs to take birth control pills to level things out. She's happily married with children, so he's been with Birth control before. I'd love for Rush to take on this angle of the subject.

Birth control can be a treatment for sickness and therefore should be covered by HEALTH insurance.

Excellent post, thank you.

Which is exactly why and how I have my one and only child. Thank you dale for articulating something that I was unable to.

Viagra and Cialis are not covered free. That's the whole point- FREE. NOTHING IS FREE IN THE WORLD. Somebody has to pay for it.

@GMAN Did you not listen to a word I said earlier? Nobody is looking for some stupid handout. This is something we pay into. All of us. From the people protesting it to the people who need it. I could understand if this argument was being made by people who were not paying into the insurance plans ALONG with their employer but they are. Give it a rest.

Gman- Viagra, under these new policies, would also be included as part of your medical coverage. If you believe that birth control is free you believe that Viagra is free. If you believe that there is a difference then you do not understand the policy.

@Dale,

Thank you! I am one of those women who suffered for years with endometriosis. When I was forty-six, 1992, my GYN said that the endometriosis was indeed causing serious health problems and a complete hysterectomy was indicated. My insurance coverage required confirmation of his diagnosis prior surgery. Unfortunately, only way to do that was via laparoscopic surgery. Thus, I had one procedure that the doctor stated was only for “insurance approval” before he was “allowed” to perform the hysterectomy.

Buddy, please! I'm listening to Rush right now.

GMAN- You are a willing participant in your own brain-washing. I pity your sad life filled with lies and untruths. The worst part is that you don't even realize that Rush is bought and paid for by Big Business in order to convince you to be on the side of Big Business. The whole debate between right vs left is: whose side are you on? Big Business or The Individual? Unfortunately, you were gullible enough to be convinced to be on the side of Big Business. It's a shame. and a sham.

Thank you for this comment. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Name ONE person asking you to pay for a damn thing. It's called insurance. We pay monthly, very high, premiums. Please explain to us how that is asking you to pay. I've ask others that use the same BS argument and not one has had the nerve, or information, to answer.

larry - I think Rusty was being sarcastic.

It seems that those who yell the loudest and complain the most are often the ones who have the skeletons in their closets that they are trying to keep you from finding out about. (Just an unproven theory I have. Maybe I'm not the only one with that theory?)