email from ElderSon:
You know how Rush Limbaugh has lost more than 50 advertisers after
saying a vile, hateful thing that happily made a bigger splash than
all the previous vile, hateful things he's said?
(This is after all a guy who said:
"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals
resemble Jesse Jackson?”
“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like
a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I
said it.”
[To an African American female caller]: “Take that bone out of your
nose and call me back.”)
It's gotten to the point that today (now technically yesterday), the
commercial break at the end of the first hour of his show was a minute
of dead silence:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203080008
Anyway, what sort of a company would choose right now as the best time
to start buying ad time from Rush Limbaugh? What sort of company
would think that Rush Limbaugh's listeners are a good market for what
they sell? Ashleymadison.com, the dating site for married people who
wanna cheat on their spouses, that's who. Since this all started with
Limbaugh slut shaming, I think that's kinda priceless. Now Limbaugh
refused to run their ads, but they responded by saying,
"We are in the business of selling affairs...And our audience is
absolutely his audience."
