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During the height of the Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke controversy in March, software company Carbonite announced it would no longer sponsor the conservative radio host. As CEO David Friend said at the time:
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No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two, could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous and well-intentioned young lady. 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. We hope that our action, along with the other advertisers who have already withdrawn their ads, will ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.
Yeah .. slutty Fluke was s-o-o courageous and Really, Really upstanding.
That politically-motivated tool (of the Lefties) was anything but “well-intentioned”
She was nothing more than a Useful Idiot, and an embarrassment to herself and family.
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Liberals touted the action as proof that Limbaugh was becoming toxic and his show was in danger.
So how has dumping Limbaugh worked out for Carbonite?
Not so well.
Turns out alienating Rush’s fans may have been more damaging than alienating his critics. As the blog Legal Insurrection noted today:
On August 1 Carbonite released its 2d Quarter 2012 results, the first full quarter after dropping Limbaugh in March. The results shocked Wall Street, as Carbonite did not meet its growth targets, causing multiple analysts to drop the target price. The stock dropped 15% in a day.
What’s more, in a conference call, Friend linked the decline to the Limbaugh action:
Yeah, I’d say it turned out to be a bigger issue than we had anticipated.
... there was so much noise around the website that we had no idea what the ultimate impact was going to be. It turned out to be a bigger hole in our revenue than we had thought when we initially did this.
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Friend added that he was “not regretful of the decision. I think things would have been worse had we not done that.”
The logic of this guy astounds me.
2% of the public and their friends, (lefties, liberals, communists, et al) would cause more of a negative impact than nearly 98% of the public.
Double down then @ $ $hole, donate $2 million dollars to the same-sex marriage campaign and lets see what miracles that sparks.
While you’re at it, issue a public statement against Chick-Fil-A.
I mean if you actually believe what your drooling out on the press room floor, do these things. They would make perfect sense to you.
liar.
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Legal Insurrection’s William Jacobson calls it all “laughable” adding: “It’s too convenient now to say things would have been worse, when Friend completely misjudged the impact of dropping Limbaugh.”
Seems the Liberals don't step up to the plate and support their "own people" Where Conservatives get out and let "their people" know they got their backs.
One can only read about Cindy Sheehan to see no support from those that used her..........seems the left is a use and dispose kind of crowd.
I think what Limbaugh said was blown way out of proportion. Certainly it was less hateful than Spike Lee saying he 'looks daggers' at inter-racial couples, or trying to gin up mob violence against George Zimmerman (albeit the wrong address). Or what Letterman said about Sarah Palin's young daughter.
If a 30 year old woman demands that others pay for her birth control, is it really that over the top to ridicule her as being possibly a 's**t?' I'm still waiting for the marches and protests from the left against Spike Lee, Bill Maher, and David Letterman, not to mention the personal phone call from the President..
Basically the people who went berzerko over Limbaugh's remark were people like Mr. Free Water at the Chick FiL A. It's never going to be good business strategy to align yourself with people like that.
Liberals are perennially enraged that Republicans are allowed to talk back.
For years, this wasn’t a problem, because, in Lenin’s immortal words, they had seized the telegraph office.
There were only three TV stations, three major newspapers, and a handful of national magazines, all run by liberals.
But since Rush Limbaugh got a microphone, liberals haven’t been able to make arguments in a vacuum.
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