How can i boycott rush limbaugh

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See Privacy Policy. Share on Facebook Twitter Email. Category corporate. Flag this petition for review. Reasons for signing Fox, Rush, and right wing media have assaulted facts and truth for decades. They are the reason a demagogue was elected president and sedition is now a reality in America. Limbaugh has previously caused controversy for a 'Barack the Magic Negro' joke and, less surprisingly, climate change denial.

The exodus by companies follows the most famous media boycott in recent history, in which the UK phone-hacking scandal triggered a mass pull-out by advertisers thought to have led to the News of the World newspaper's closure after years. Read more stories by Super Admin. Community Engagement. Words by Super Admin.

Super Admin. Words by Leon Kaye Nov Instead, this is a bunch of blue chip brands trying to codger a bit of good press without have to do anything at all. True, maybe they would do the high-minded and censorious thing if they were Rush advertisers; but, in fact, they are not at least, not to any meaningful degree.

What we have is the establishment expressing its ineffectual and opportunistic ire. Rush exists — arguably, much of what is new and successful in the media today exists — in spite of the blue chip establishment. In a world where many people, particularly media people and, I'll bet, particularly liberal media people , find it hard not to use the word "brand" in every sentence they utter, the media revolution has largely happened without the involvement of big brands.

This is an important fact about the future of the media business, and also about the fractiousness of the American conversation. The unbranded revolution is the hidden subtext of so much of the unruly and perverse character of public life — that is, media life.

In the s and 60s, my dad ran a small advertising agency, which, while it would have loved to have had big brand name clients he spent most of his time chasing the big names , had to exist on that much larger part of the US economy: the no-brand companies that flourished not because you thought well of them, but because you bought something from them.

This was called direct selling: not creating desire, not building the allure of the product; just getting you into the store. Radio worked very well for this. It was local — as much of the no-brand economy was, and continues to be. Repetition made you remember the contact info hence the jingle. And it was cheap. My dad, even as he chased the big brands, became something of a savant at selling the no-brands through the remarkably cheesy medium of radio.

As it happened, in , one of the guys my dad worked with, Lee Vanden-Handel, a man without any rabid interest in politics but with a keen sense of the no-brand advertising market, discovered Rush Limbaugh at a station in Sacramento. The rest is history.