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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 52 Comments

As we move into 2013 and the legal insurrections, we should learn from history. As Thomas Lifson at American Thinker points out, now that the major institutions have been surrendered, it's time to emulate the left, Here comes the Alinskyite Right: David Gregory and Piers Morgan have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2012 89 Comments

Carbonite famously dropped Rush Limbaugh on a Saturday Night at the height of the Sandra Fluke controversy.  Carbonite became the poster child for the Rush boycott movement organized by Media Matters, which coordinated the effort with so-called independent groups. At the time I examined Carbonite's SEC...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2012 96 Comments

Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day has proven something I've noticed before. Conservatives are very good at buycotts, but very bad at boycotts. There have been attempts by some conservative and religious groups to boycott various businesses over political issues. But I can't think of one, at least not recently,...

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 a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 75 Comments

Kohler, based in Wisconsin, has joined the Rush Limbaugh boycott, according to tweets it sent out yesterday from its Twitter account, @Kohler: It is not clear that Kohler actually ever advertised on the Limbaugh show, almost certainly not nationally.  This may be another of the pre-emptive...

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 nothing...

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 is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2012 47 Comments

We live in a world where groups like Media Matters and Think Progress monitor and record every word uttered by any conservative of prominence in the media, hoping to find something "insensitive" with which to mount a campaign to silence the speaker through intimidation of advertisers. So...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2012 74 Comments

I have been covering political boycotts frequently since the inception of this blog, including the Prop 8 boycotts, the Mormon Boycott, the DNC boycott, the Beck boycott, the King & Spalding boycott, boycotts of various states for various reasons, the anti-Israel boycotts, and so on. So when...

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 see...

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 before,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2012 68 Comments

The secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers is portrayed in the media as a reaction to a groundswell of public outrage.  In fact, the secondary boycott was initiated by and driven by Media Matters, which had a "Stop Limbaugh" campaign on the shelf waiting to be...

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 to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2012 80 Comments

If you only read Media Matters and Think Progress, you'd think Rush Limbaugh was on the verge of losing his radio empire because 50 or more advertisers "dropped" him. While Limbaugh has lost some important advertisers, it appears that many of the advertisers dropping him never...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2012 71 Comments

There's something Bill Maher understands. What goes around comes around. Media Matters and Think Progress can organize a campaign to attack Rush Limbaugh's advertisers as a means -- they hope -- of forcing him off the air.  But what goes around comes around. And it will. So Maher has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 251 Comments

Liberal groups have seized on a strategy I didn't think would be effective, but has had some success, to go after advertisers of prominent conservative media personalities. Media Matters explicitly seeks to bring down Fox News and investigate its executives, and Fox News advertisers have been...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2012 19 Comments

The latest installment of The Daily Caller's exposé on Media Matters concerns an e-mail regarding an action plan against Fox News which included hiring private investigators to go after Fox News executives, lawfare, and other acts of disruption: A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2009,...

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