Rush Brought To You As A Public Service
By Ed Kilgore, March 09, 2012
Although Rush Limbaugh’s official line is that everything’s cool with his sponsorship base, and that the boycott involves only local sponsors or companies that don’t even sponsor him at all, the circumstantial evidence that he’s hurting bad continues to mount.
Here’s an AmericaBlog report (based on Media Matters data) from late yesterday (amplifying earlier reports of “dead air”) about the strange doings on his flagship radio station:
Rush Limbaugh is in trouble. Two days ago he didn’t have a single unpaid public service announcement on his flagship show on WABC in NYC. Yesterday, 56% of his ads in NYC were unpaid PSAs. Today, 90% were unpaid PSAs, and the show included three occurrences of ‘dead air’.
Nice as it is that Rush’s ravings are being accompanied by PSAs, they don’t pay the bills. And those bills are substantial, since the old bully-boy is currently under an eight-year, $400 miilion contract signed in 2008.
All’s not bleak for Rush. He is signing up a few new sponsors, most recently Twitchy.com, a new twitter feed digest launched by that paragon of decency and objectivity, Michelle Malkin.
Good to see so many public-spirited folk are filling Limbaugh’s dead air, if not the hungry maw of his budget.
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3 comments:
Last night, Bill Maher spoke out against any sort of silencing of Limbaugh. His philosophy is that freedom of speech isn't always comfortable.
I agree with Maher, but you can't stop people from disassociating themselves with that which is offense to them
Nor should they be stopped from disassociating themselves from assholes like Limbaugh.
Limbaugh's speech isn't free, someone pays him for it. It would be a specious argument to make that anyone is silencing Rush by deciding to discontinue those payments.
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