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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2012 30 Comments
Not taking responsibility (h/t reader Tony): More about Arby’s here. If you are on Twitter, you can reach Arby’s at @arbys, or at its Facebook page, or at its Contact page. There’s probably not much we can do to prevent cowardly companies from giving into boycott...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2012 28 Comments
Their War On Women Moe Lane updates on the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s fundraising problems resulting from the left-wing boycott of Komen after Komen dropped sponsorship of Planned Parenthood, but then caved in to pressure and let go a top executive: The first explanation is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2012 23 Comments
Don’t expect Media Matters to boycott the Senate candidate. Because the candidate is a Democrat. And an Israel-hater. She called her male primary opponent a “whore” for AIPAC.  Via Mediaite: “I’m dealing with a whore here who sells his soul to AIPAC [The American Israel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 63 Comments
Earlier this month Media Matters launched its most ferocious boycott effort ever to force Rush Limbaugh off the air by intimidating advertisers. It always was a charade, as documented here many times.  Media Matters coordinated with “independent” groups to make it appear that there was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 62 Comments
From reader Tim, who writes: Was on pump in Wilmington NC earlier this week. Looks like No new oil from anwr, east coast, the gulf. No pipeline from Canada $4 gal Thanks Obama voters I can’t imagine that signs like that aren’t popping up all...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 45 Comments
Herman Cain’s Sick of Stimulus website has released a new web ad. It’s right up there with the “greats” of web ads.  (h/t Robert Costa, who says he is speechless.) Update:  This reaction from one of the people behind the Rush boycott actually is quite...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2012 34 Comments
Starts today. More evidence of the education bubble. On Monday be sure to check out: Positivity: Tips for a Modern World from Good Vibrations:  Join HLSRJ and Good Vibrations for a short discussion of positivity, a demo, then Q&A. Free Food! You had me at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2012 11 Comments
This analysis by Topsy Analytics show the volume of tweets using the two most popular hasttags for the various boycott Rush groups, #StopRush and #BoycottRush. What it shows is that activity peaked from Friday, March 2 – Monday, March 5. There still is activity, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2012 43 Comments
Just as Bill Maher was pleading for an “amnesty” in the political correctness war to silence speech, Media Matters was committing $100,000 to an advertising campaign urging people to call local radio stations to complain about Limbaugh.  Via AP: The liberal Media Matters for America...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2012 8 Comments
I was a guest last night on African-American Conservatives radio show.  The topics included Legal Insurrection blog history, the Rush controversy, boycott tactics, the Republican primaries, and Scott Walker. The segment is embedded below, or you can listen directly at their website.  My segment starts...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2012 21 Comments
Via The Times of Israel: Mohammed Merah, the man suspected of the Toulouse Jewish school massacre, was still holed up in his house in northern Toulouse early Wednesday afternoon after a pre-dawn gun battle. Merah had given up a pistol in exchange for a mobile...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 26 Comments
As posted yesterday, the people still pushing the Limbaugh advertising boycott rely on bombarding advertisers with Twitter messages, and have developed strategies to maximize the apparent number of tweets sent to advertisers, through retweets and multiple tweets by single users. It is not hard to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2012 28 Comments
As detailed yesterday, the Media Matters employee spearheading efforts to pressure advertisers to stop advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show considered the March 3 Saturday night announcement by Carbonite that it was ceasing all advertising on Rush’s show to be a turning point. Just the day...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2012 20 Comments
Via Michelle Malkin, Twitchy.com joins Rush Limbaugh advertisers: I’m putting my money where my conservative, free-market principles are. The full announcement about our new Twitchy.com ad buy with Rush Limbaugh is here. A snippet: “As a small business owner, defender of capitalism, and advocate of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2012 49 Comments
You already know how Media Matters, Think Progress, and other left-wing groups are targeting Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers with threats of secondary boycotts. The Rush secondary boycott is part of a strategy which has been refined by left-wing groups like Color of Change over the past several years...
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