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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2012 43 Comments
One week agao, on Saturday night, March 3, 2012, Carbonite announced its decision to break off relations with its key radio endorser.  It appears to have been a fateful decision. From Chuck Jaffe at MarketWatch, Don’t ‘rush’ to Carbonite shares (h/t commenter Eliot Ness): When Carbonite Inc....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2012 37 Comments
Probably not a good idea to make decisions which could alter the course of company history on a Saturday night. Will Carbonite become the next Sleep Train, and attempt to regain access to Limbaugh’s audience? Via Instapundit, Rush said no to Sleep Train and probably...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2012 71 Comments
On Saturday, March 3, 2012, Carbonite announced that it was dropping its advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show even after Limbaugh had apologized to Sandra Fluke for certain comments made regarding Ms. Fluke. When the controversy originally broke, Carbonite took a principled stand that its advertising...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 26 Comments
Jeffrey Lord (via Instapundit) addresses the attempt to drive away Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers, focusing particularly on Carbonite: In other words, to put it politely, Mr. Friend’s woe-is-me I’m-withdrawing-my-company’s sponsorship-from-Rush Limbaugh-because of-my-lovely-daughters is as close to certifiable BS as one can imagine. Mr. Friend, one can only suspect,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 42 Comments
Tolerance.  The concept could be a bumper sticker. But if so, it would not be welcome on the campus of Northeastern University, which just banned Chick-fil-A from campus. From The Boston Glove via TaxProf (h/t Instapundit): Northeastern University said yesterday that a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2012 23 Comments
Some of my renowned “quick, newsy bits and links” of which I am so proud: Supreme Court ready to throw out affirmative action?  NY Times is worried, and at least one conservative thinks it’s lining up as a distinct possibility. Prop. 8 backers seek 9th...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 22 Comments
Glenn Greenwald had a post Friday titled Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics. The post concerns Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho businessman who Greenwald alleges bullies political opponents by threatening frivolous defamation and copyright suits.  I don’t know if VanderSloot is guilty as charged by...
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