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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLMFAO... 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....
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...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. Everythings 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
OH thank you for that laugh. These spots are free! PSAs normally would got nuts to be heard
Justice wanted
Mar 2012
#6
safeinOhio
(32,676 posts)1. Brought to you by
Crickets
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)2. or TMAA...
The Mime Association Of America.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)3. Pretty soon he's gonna be reduced to "paid commercial programming" status.
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.......
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. The Bloated Sack has been holed
beneath the waterline. Repeatedly.
rurallib
(62,414 posts)5. they can't even play music, cause no one wants to let him play their music
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
in the day and they are running from Rush.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)7. “Everything’s cool. There is not a thing to worry about.”
Said Captain of the Italian cruise ship.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)8. "Limbaugh the Pariah"
It's a great day. LMAO.