Updated: Rush Limbaugh Loses Two Stations Over Sandra Fluke Smears

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Since Rush Limbaugh began his misogynistic attacks on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, several companies have announced that they have pulled advertising from program -- a flow that has not ceased since his supposed "apology" on Saturday.

Now Limbaugh appears to have lost his first radio station over those smears, with the Hilo, Hawaii-based KPUA AM 670 announcing that they will no longer air his show. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that Chris Leonard, President and General Manager of New West Broadcasting Corp., today released the following statement:

"We have always encouraged spirited discussion about national and local issues on KPUA and from time to time those discussions may be deemed by some to be objectionable. We are strong believers in the first amendment and have recognized Mr. Limbaugh's right to express opinions that often times differ from our own, but
it has never been our goal to allow our station to be used for personal attacks and intolerance. The most recent incident has crossed a line of decency and a standard that we expect of programming on KPUA whether it is locally produced or a syndicated program like the Rush Limbaugh show.

While much of the national debate regarding this issue is now being framed in political terms, the decision for us is one of decency and responsibility. Regardless of one's political views on the issue being discussed, we feel the delivery was degrading and the continued comments over several days to be egregious. As a result, we are discontinuing the Rush Limbaugh program on KPUA effective immediately."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203050016

[Speck Tater]

1. The fool got enough rope to hang himself.

The more outrageous he got, without consequences, the more outrageous he thought he could get away with being. In the end he threw all sense of decency to the wind and hung himself. I think we are seeing the beginning of Limbaugh's self-destruct sequence.

[2ndAmForComputers]

2. No wonder it took this long, then.

That's a hell of a lot of rope. So much neck.

[unionworks]

3. thanks Rush

... I've been waiting so long for this...

[Booster]

4. Where the Hell is Larry Flynt? If ever a scumbag needed to be brought down it's this one. He's had

4 wives and no children so he either isn't having sex or shoots blanks or they use birth control, apparently was sexually involved with another man, he's a drug addict who was caught coming back from the Dominican Republic with a half bottle of Viagra that was prescribed for someone else, and this is stuff I've read about. Think what a private investigator could find. We all know he should be doing time for his drug addiction - no doctor prescribes 40 Oxicotin A DAY.

[Pachamama]

5. Mahalo KPUA!!!!!

[mucifer]

6. 598 to go

[Motown_Johnny]

7. Kicking