Wow! This Epic StopRush Response will Make Your Day
Mon Jan 06, 2014 at 02:42 PM PST
Wow! This Epic StopRush Response will Make Your Day
by ProgLegs
The "Rush" for the exits at Rush Limbaugh's new home in New York City--Clear Channel's WOR AM--continues, as advertisers who have long run ads on this radio station object to their brands suddenly being hitched to Limbaugh's hate wagon.
On Friday a Mexican-American StopRush volunteer contacted a WOR advertiser called Page Publishing to politely request that they not advertise on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
She specifically objected to Limbaugh's characterization of Mexicans as being lazy by nature.
The response she received will make your day:
I am the president of Page Publishing, and I could not agree with you more. He is a disgusting, misogynistic racist. We have been advertising with WOR for quite a while, but they only recently added this moron’s program to their lineup, and we were assured that our ads would not inadvertently run during his show. Thanks for pointing out that it did (I don’t have the stomach to listen to his show to verify if our ads do run). I will insist that our ads never run during his bigoted show. It amazes me that his show has any audience at all here in New York City- a progressive and liberal place if ever there was one (the place where I was born and raised, and a place that is amazing in its diversity).
Your email reached me because the staff here universally despises Limbaugh and everything he stands for, and they know of my feelings as well. The ironic things about most of the nonsense that he spews, in particular his references to Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, is that there probably isn’t a harder working group of people in the nation right now.
He has the right to say what he wants, and we have the right to refuse to support him with our corporate advertising dollars.
Thanks for the email,
Stephen
Stephen Matthews
President and CEO
Page Publishing, Inc.
Decent folks who believe in tolerance and equality are no longer powerless against Rush Limbaugh's efforts to spread intolerance on the radio. StopRush is making a major impact by convincing advertisers on this show to withdraw their ads--and with your help we can do even more. Just a few emails, tweets, or Facebook messages a week to Limbaugh's advertisers can go a long way toward making hatred less profitable. It is our collective voice that makes us strong.
Want to do something hold Limbaugh accountable?
Join StopRush! We can use your help in the following ways:
Join: The Flush Rush Facebook community
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Great business model Rush has going there: piss off everyone who has money to spend or ads that need airing.
I've been here awhile, and sometimes have a lot to say? 
I would like to point out that, carried through, your suggestion would lead to censorship.
Stations have to be able to carry a diversity of viewpoints.
Cher
Welcome to DU! I hope that you enjoy being here.
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No they don't. My mother is 83 and has been listening to WOR for >30 years (we pick it up here in Philly pretty good) and I think this will backfire for the demographic who listened to the station for years and years (they bragged that they had been the last independently-owned station in the NYC market). Joan has been moved to weekends 10 - 12.
I figured this was coming when they completely booted their Sunday garden show lSt year (hosted for years by Ralph Snodsmith and then by Mark Viette when Snodsmith passed). They started s phase out by eliminating the 2nd hour and replacing with simulcast of MTP with idiot Gregory. They ran the whole garden show on their stream though but eventually ditched that too - completely. And now they have also added Savage Weiner in the drive-time slot. It was bad enough when they took Bob Grant after he had been fired from WABC (and he is no longer on this Earth now after the brief return to WABC) and Lou Dobbs after he left CNN, but now they have officially become a cesspool station. 
Bernard Meltzer -a name I haven't heard in a long time. LOL I don't know if they are booting Frommer (and his daughter) or what... Am afraid to look at their schedule now.They had a travel show, car show, real estate... But now... ugh. I caught a bit of Savage yesterday afternoon (his debut at the drive-time slot) and he was off and running... ranting and raving against the First Lady and how dare she stay in Hawaii a few more days at Oprah's house (although a caller mentioned something about Kennebunkport and suddenly the conversation changed from the "Obamas" to "all these politicians"
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The odd part about all of this is that WOR had generally focused on "local" hosts (like Gambling and his father) and was your "over the back fence" talk station, while WABC slowly got rid of their locals and became a flagship for the syndicated stuff. Now the 2 stations have reversed roles with WABC supposedly going back to "local" jocks and WOR doing "syndicated".
But in any case, the listeners still lose as long as these stations continue to avoid things that locals want to talk about - what is happening in their own backyards and not what Limpballs fantasizes about from inside his Florida mansion.