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SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 04:50 PM Mar 2012

LMFAO... PSA's want off of Rush too...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-08/limbaugh-s-awol-sponsors-open-way-for-negro-college-fund.html

...The American Heart Association said it would ask WABC to stop running the unpaid announcements.
“It is our practice to be a content-sensitive advertiser, and in light of the current controversy, we will be asking WABC to no longer utilize these unpaid PSAs,” Matthew Bannister, executive vice president of communications at the Dallas-based heart association, said in an e-mail....

snip

...Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is working with the council to pull its spots from stations that carry the Limbaugh show, Jill Godsey, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia-based organization, said in an e-mail.
“We made this decision at the request of national and local donors, some of whom made their concerns known via Facebook and Twitter posts,” Godsey said....

and then there is Rush's response:

“Everything is fine on the business side,” Limbaugh said. “Everything’s cool. There is not a thing to worry about.”



Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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LMFAO... PSA's want off of Rush too... (Original Post) SomethingFishy Mar 2012 OP
Brought to you by safeinOhio Mar 2012 #1
or TMAA... SomethingFishy Mar 2012 #2
Pretty soon he's gonna be reduced to "paid commercial programming" status. kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #3
The Bloated Sack has been holed hifiguy Mar 2012 #4
they can't even play music, cause no one wants to let him play their music rurallib Mar 2012 #5
OH thank you for that laugh. These spots are free! PSAs normally would got nuts to be heard Justice wanted Mar 2012 #6
“Everything’s cool. There is not a thing to worry about.” Politicalboi Mar 2012 #7
"Limbaugh the Pariah" lpbk2713 Mar 2012 #8
 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
3. Pretty soon he's gonna be reduced to "paid commercial programming" status.
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 04:56 PM
Mar 2012

He's rich. He can afford to pay for the luxury of bloviating all over the airwaves.

This could work. He'll eventually run out of money.......

rurallib

(62,414 posts)
5. they can't even play music, cause no one wants to let him play their music
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:07 PM
Mar 2012

maybe they can fill in with car horns and farm animal sounds.

Justice wanted

(2,657 posts)
6. OH thank you for that laugh. These spots are free! PSAs normally would got nuts to be heard
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:13 PM
Mar 2012

in the day and they are running from Rush.

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