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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2012 51 Comments

The decline in the price of Carbonite stock since it announced it was dropping its longstanding advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show is not the real story of the damage done to Carbonite. The price of Carbonite stock has been dropping since October for reasons unrelated to this controversy,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2012 51 Comments

I'll post the audio when available, but Rush Limbaugh just stated that the advertiser boycott of his show is vastly overstated and based on inflated numbers. (audio added, via Common Cents) As I have pointed out in response to concerned commenters, many of those listed by Media...

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 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 was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 57 Comments

Ann Althouse gets deep into the weeds on apologies, and finds that some apologies are more equal than others in the eyes of the Democratic Commisariate (emphasis in original): Now, I believe in general principles, and I want to know what the general principle is about accepting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 103 Comments

Rush started off by joking that his phone line was so busy he couldn't cancel advertising on his own show for Two If By Tea, the product he produces and markets. He then addressed his apology, and his motives. I'll post more, but here is a partial...

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, placed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 114 Comments

And I'm not talking about the attempt to get advertisers to stop advertising on Rush Limbaugh's show, or Fox News, although that would be bad enough. I'm talking about the second-tier of the warfare, the attempt to intimidate those removed by one or more degrees of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 70 Comments

on life from Bill Whittle included in the video tribute to Andrew Bretibart I linked to this morning, and from "Jim Treacher" of The Daily Caller: I admired him more than I can say, and my heart goes out to him and his loved  ones. But this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 48 Comments

Good for Newt for pushing back against David Gregory. This segment epitomizes almost everything about how the MSM tries to frame the narrative against conservatives and particularly against religious Christians. It actually got worse. After Newt, Gregory did the same thing to Eric Cantor, and then demanded...

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 March 03, 2012 101 Comments

Carbonite, a company I never heard of except through its advertising on Rush Limbaugh's show, has dropped Rush nothwithstanding Rush's apology. Here is the statement released earlier tonight: A Statement from David Friend, CEO of Carbonite as of 6:45pm ET, March 3: “No one with daughters the age...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 64 Comments

Rush Limbaugh posted this statement (h/t HotAir): For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week.  In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 61 Comments

Two hundred fifty Georgetown University Law Center (the name of the law school) faculty, staff and students signed the following statement: The undersigned faculty members, administrators and students of Georgetown University Law Center and other law schools strongly condemn the recent personal attacks on our student, Sandra...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 89 Comments

JWF has some background on the Georgetown Law student who is challenging Georgetown's contraception policy.  She went to the law school knowing the university's policy, and per JWF, intending to challenge it. Unfortunately, Rush walked into this one without seeing the set up, and now the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2012 125 Comments

When even Rush Limbaugh buys into the "criticising Bain is criticizing capitalism" meme, we have lost as a party.  There is a huge difference between using government powers to impose value judgments (a la Obama) and making value judgments in evaluating a candidate's background. It's over. We've discovered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2011 18 Comments

On Thursday Rush Limbaugh read from my post about the false accusation spread by The Guardian newspaper in Britain that Margaret Thatcher was refusing to meet with Sarah Palin because of a dislike of Palin: ...

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