More than 50 Companies Have Stopped Sponsoring Limbaugh

Media Matters for America reported on Thursday, March 9, 2012, that more than  50 companies had cancelled their sponsorship of Rush Limbaugh's fascist, racist and mysogynist ravings:

On March 8, WABC's online feed aired Rush Limbaugh's radio show almost exclusively with unpaid public service announcements and included significant amounts of dead air space, as only nine paid advertisements were broadcast during three hours of programming.

Those ad spaces are increasingly going to free public service announcements for organizations ranging from the New York Office of Emergency Management, the United Negro College Fund, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- 77 such PSAs aired on March 8, after a week of advertisers fleeing Limbaugh's show. Source: http://bit.ly/ygXlZs

And Melissa McEwan reported on the feminist blog Shakesville that 89.5% of the commercials during Rush Limbaugh's show yesterday were public service announcements donated free of charge by the Ad Council.

— A total of 86 ads aired during WABC's broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show [on March 7, 2012]

— 77 of those ads were public service announcements donated free of charge by the Ad Council.

— Of the nine paid spots that ran, seven were from companies that have said they have taken steps to ensure their ads no longer air during the program.

— WABC's online feed included about 5:33 of dead air when ads would normally have run. Source: http://bit.ly/xsRKa4

By my calculations, that leaves only two companies still sponsoring Rush Limbaugh and paying his $38 million-per year salary

Let's pull the plug on Rush Limbaugh once and for all: cut off the money and cut Rush Limbaugh off the air permanently.

Jagor