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THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — UPDATED: In the aftermath of calling a college kid a “slut” on the air, Rush Limbaugh found three four seven nine of his sponsors yanking their ads, including a 25-year association with mattress maker Sleep Train of Sacramento, California.

Sleep Train has been with Limbaugh since his early days in the radio business. Although people have tried to get them to pull support before, a massive tweet campaign over the “slut” incident finally prompted the company to pull support.

Sleep Train: “We are pulling our ads with Rush Limbaugh and appreciate the community’s feedback.”

Sleep Number: Recent comments by Rush Limbaugh do not align w/our values, so we made decision to immediately suspend all advertising on that program.

Quicken Loans:“Due to continued inflammatory comments . . . QL has suspended ads on Rush Limbaugh program.”

Carbonite CEO David Friend: “Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency. Even though Mr. Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show.”

ProFlowers Facebook page: “Mr. Limbaugh’s recent comments went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company. As such, ProFlowers has suspended advertising on the Rush Limbaugh radio program”

LegalZoom: “LegalZoom has decided to terminate all current and future advertising with ‘The Rush Limbaugh Show,’ effective immediately. Our company does not in any way support or endorse the recent comments of Mr. Limbaugh.” (From the NY Times)

Citrix Systems Inc: “We have listened to our customers & have decided to cease our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show immediately..”

America Online has dropped Rush.

TLC has dropped Rush.

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UPDATE-1 March 3, 2012.- Rush apologizes: “My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir,” he wrote. “I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-limbaugh-apology-20120303,0,6854957.stor

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From John McQuaid in Forbes: “The art of the non-apology apology is often crude: a condescending, second insult on top of the first, really. But you’ve got to hand it to Rush Limbaugh. He issued a non-apology apology that was much more finely crafted than what we usually get. But no less insulting to the poor woman he spent several days attacking and defaming, and to the intelligence of anyone who paid attention.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmcquaid/2012/03/03/rush-limbaughs-non-apology-apology/

The latest breaking news on Rush can be found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/03/rush-limbaugh-boycott-reddit-twitter-facebook_n_1317698.html

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STILL HOLDING OUT as of March 4, 2012 : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/rush-limbaugh-sponsor-lifelock_n_1321501.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

American Forces Radio,

Hillsdale College and

Lear Capital

LifeLock tami@lifelock.com

1-800-543-3562

1-480-457-4500

Companies that recently dropped Rush either due to the slut incident, or other reasons:

ProFlowers

Legal Zoom

Sleep Train

Quicken Loans

Sleep Number Bed

Citrix Online

Carbonite

Century 21 Real Estate LLC

Lending Tree

Mission Pharmacal Company

Life Quotes, Inc.

Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners

eharmony

AutoZone Inc.

Dominos Pizza

These sponsors are being checked for current status:

Tax Resolution Services [TRS]

Hillsdale College

Health/Heart and Body

Allstate Insurance



Lear Capital The Precious Metal Leaders

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Rush Limbaugh’s Misogynistic Comments Roundly Condemned: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203020005

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My previous post on the Limbaugh “slut” matter: https://lexiecannes.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-calls-female-contraception-hearing-witness-a-slut/

More older links: Rush Limbaugh draws rebukes from all sides after calling Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” – latimes.com.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/rush-limbaugh-sleep-train-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1315900.html

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/third-limbaugh-advertiser-quits-after-rush-calls-24-year-old-a-slut/politics/2012/03/02/35650

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