Quicken Loans pulls ads from Rush Limbaugh show

[sarcasmo]

Source: Detroit News

Snip < "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," a Quicken Loans spokeswoman said Friday in an email.





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Please let this story have legs.

[Bohunk68]

1. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww,

Gee, that just breaks my heart!!!!! Do I need a sarcasm thingee here?

[MrMickeysMom]

2. Uh-OH..... I fucked up!

[habu1968]

3. Thanks Quicken

Thank YOu Quicken loans.....I'd like to refer to Limbaugh as a "steaming pile of dogshit" But that's really an insult to all the dogs on the planet.

[JoyN62]

14. Call all his sponsors

Does anyone know any of the other sponsors he has? I want to call them all.

[Amonester]

49. Here's a DU permalink to that effect (to a FB page):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=64992

[MACARD]

32. i always wanted to teach a phrase just like that to guys who i am friends with and unfortunately

like calling people and things gay, instead of saying its gay say you arn't worthy of me calling you gay cause all the gays look better in comparison. if you are homophobic that is the upmost of insults if you arn't homophobic then not so insulting either which way not as insulting to gay people.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. I saw in GD where he doubled down today

No great shock. Of the 3 choices (walk it back, change the subject and double down) he went for the only one his ginormous ego would allow.

Good on Quicken and the Mattress company and all others who are taking this stance.

Maybe, just maybe, he will become as much of a pariah as Glenn Beckkk.

[Skittles]

6. he wants gals who get financial assistance with birth control to post online sex videos

no doubt he has no such requirement of men who get their boner pills via insurance - Rush is just the usual misogynistic piece of shit

[Ruby the Liberal]

17. And that is an understatement.

Saw where someone dug up a link where he was detained by customs returning to the US from a Caribbean holiday with a boatload of Viagra on him.

He probably needs all the help (chemical and visual) he can get. I can see how he could be 'frustrated'.

[peace frog]

5. I exchanged emails with Kelly today

We were polite and professional in our address, and I reminded her in both emails that my patronage and that of countless others will be directed to her competitors forever unless her company removed all support from Limbaugh. She replied later with the message above. I'm proud to have done my part, and I have to say that Kelly was a pleasure to correspond with.

[yardwork]

16. Good work! Thank you.

[Ruby the Liberal]

18. Great job!

[Purveyor]

7. This Limbaugh story is hitting the network news. NBC with Williams is about to cover the issue. nt

[Herlong]

9. Good

Next stop main street America.

[Purveyor]

13. NBC just reported that Autozone is also pulling ads. I love Autozone so I'm glad I don't have to

boycott this place.

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. Is there a @StopBeck type group who is tracking this?

[wordpix]

39. Facebook site with Drugrush sponsors, see my post #38

[Ruby the Liberal]

48. There is an LBN thread now too. @StopRush has been reactivated.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101466593

[Auggie]

8. YES!

[alp227]

10. I've heard those Jay Farner "Yourgage" ads on Mike Malloy

Good to see Quicken take a stand. I might've heard those ads on KGO and Norman Goldman too.

[Gus2525]

11. Peace frog and others, there is a talk radio station called Rushradio in the Winston/Greensboro,

shamelessly bills itself as Rush radio 94.5. See Rushradio94.5.com. They proudly ride the coattails of their pathetic hero. It might be fun to contact them now that the heat is on, and let them know how they too are associated with this perversion. I did.

[Chakaconcarne]

12. awesome!

Sent out emails to lots of his advertisers. Nice to know they may have had an impact.

[Purveyor]

15. Good job on the emails. I don't think limbaugh has step in it such as this since to popularity of

twitter, facebook, etc.

I'm hoping this time he has really 'done it'...but good.

[sarcasmo]

26. I sent one to Dominos. Is there a full list of his sponsors?

[wordpix]

40. See Post #38

[wordpix]

37. do you have a list of advertisers? I'd love to contact them

[chitowngal08]

19. Thank you, thank you. Now I want to see Proflowers change their tune!

[AnotherMother4Peace]

21. Legal Zoom needs to do the same. nt

[The Last Democrat]

22. This is all good news

"SO KEEP IT UP" he's on his way down...down....down.

[workinclasszero]

23. buhHAHAHAHAHA! Crash and burn you fat nazi bastard!

Wow this is so fun watching these companies drop that oxy pill addict like a hot rock!

Please God can rush limpballs finally be destroyed by his own vile evil hatred??

That scum brebart finally committed suicide by hate, can rush be next???

[Pab Sungenis]

24. Two down.

This is how Glenn Beck achieved irrelevance.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

25. Suspended?!?

Another term for laying low til this blows over.

[Politicub]

27. He should be taken off the armed forces radio network

His presence is an insult to our women and men in uniform.

[sarcasmo]

28. +1

[me b zola]

29. This is the third advertiser to pull its support for Limbaugh

[Herlong]

30. Walk softly and carry lipstick

I wish that anyone but Rush Limbaugh were a part of our government dialog concerning women's health but it is not, for that reason, I am no longer in support of your company. Thank You.

[McCamy Taylor]

31. If they pay Rush to regurgitate right wing shit, what does that make him?

Rush Limbaugh.

[Uncle Joe]

33. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, sarcasmo.

[dfgrehe]

34. Spam deleted by Stinky The Clown (MIR Team)

[allan01]

35. re:Quicken Loans pulls ads from Rush Limbaugh show

Also , take a radio ratings study. Nowadays the survey company (ambatron) nielson ,Others , used paper and many folk would chalk up their fave station. Now ambitron uses a sort of digital recorder that has a automatic mic pickup. when ambatron started this , many radio station ratings went down! including a big radio station in the sanfransisco bay area. callsigns knbr .Ratings are the life blood of radio and tv stations too. The numbers show advertisors how well or not well the radio/tv station is doing This to will hit them where it hurts

[Beartracks]

44. Cool, had to go look it up. The "Portable People Meter."

"The PPM is a wearable portable device much like a pager or cell phone, that electronically gathers inaudible codes that identify the source of a broadcast, such as a radio station. Arbitron recruits and compensates a cross section of consumers to wear the meter for an average of one year and up to two years. The audience estimates generated from each monthly survey is used as the buy/sell currency for radio stations and advertisers/agencies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitron


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[Fearless]

36. Who wants my business next?

[wordpix]

38. List of advertisers here, with contact info

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Rush-Limbaughs-Sponsors-to-SHUT-HIM-DOWN/253645602134?sk=info

LIMBAUGH'S SPONSORS

Pro Flowers
Bill Straus, CEO(858) 638-4900 [email protected].

Sleep Train

Domino's Pizza
Dominos J. Patrick Doyle, CEO 734-930-3030
Dominos Lynn Liddle, Investor Rel. [phone]

Lending Tree: 704-541-5351
Web Form Email: http://www.lendingtree.com/

Life Quotes: 800-670-5433

e-Harmony: 626-795-4814; Fax: [phone]
[email protected]

OnStar: 800-947-AUTO
(GEICO)

Hotwire Corporate Headquarters: 877-468-9473
333 Market Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94105
[email protected]

CARBONITE, Inc.: 617-587-1100
177 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
[email protected]
Direct Dial Office: 617-587-1100 EXT:1115

Select Comfort: 763-551-7460
d/b/a Sleep Number Bed: 800-438-2233

The Neptune Society of Northern California
Stewart Enterprises
12070 Telegraph Road, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

Oreck Corporation: 800-289-5888
100 Plantation Road, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123

Mid-West Life Insurance Co. Tennessee: 800-733-1110
9151 Grapevine Hwy, North Richland Hills, TX 76180
(Web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)

AutoZone Inc.: 901-495-7185; Fax: [phone]
P.O. Box 2198, Memphis, TN 38101
[email protected]

Mission Pharmacal (Citrical): 800-531-3333
P.O. Box 786099, San Antonio, TX 78278-6099

LegalZoom
800-773-0888; Fax: [phone]
Site has a Web Form

Blue-Emu: 800-432-9334

Citrix Online (GoToMyPC)
6500 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117
Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
[email protected]

American Forces Network
Contact Us: @MyAFN.net
http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/...

ADDITIONAL:

Miss America Pageant:
Scheduled for January 30, 2010. He is to be one of the judges.
Contact person is Sharon Pearce: [email protected]

Show Your Support to stopping Rush.

List of Radio Staions that Air Him
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/rush.guest.all.html

FCC Consumer Complaint:
http://esupport.fcc.gov/...
Includes "Obscene or indecent programs" and "unfair/biased" broadcasts.

Syndicated By:
1) Premier Radio Networks: 818-377-5300
http://www.premiereradio.com/
Corporate office: 15260 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Syndicated By: 2) Clear Channel: 210-822-2828
http://www.clearchannel.com/
Corporate Office: 200 East Basse Road, San Antonio, TX 78209

[Smilo]

41. Thank you Quicken Loans

for listening and acting.

[BuddhaGirl]

42. Citrix Online has pulled their ads, according to their FB page!!!

[sarcasmo]

51. The Internet is showing it's power.

[IndyJones]

43. This is such awesome news. Hopefully this will be the beginning of his end on the air.

[grahamhgreen]

45. You all rock!

[beac]

46. I'm troubled by the use of "suspended" rather than "cancelled" in their statement.

Is this a temporary "until it blows over" move or a permanent commitment not to advertise on Limbaugh's show?

[hedgehog]

47. K&R