Some Rush Limbaugh sponsors

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Rush Limbaugh is an infamous gasbag. A number of parties are calling for us to either boycott his sponsors, or to have them boycott him and his show.  Personally, I never watch/listen to Mr. Limbaugh, except when he shows up, excerpted, on The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Rachel Maddow Show, Countdown or other more legitimate news source (more legitimate than whatever format Limbaugh is appearing initially on; these are all fine shows, ironically two on Comedy Central are more faithful to journalistic ethics than … you know what I’m talking about) so I cannot be certain that this list below is completely accurate.  Any of these could be included by mistake, or having been advertisers supporting Limbaugh’s hate speech, they may have already dropped Mr. Hot Potato already.

I present this here for informational purposes only.  Personally, I have no reason to do business with any of these, and intend to keep it that way.

I hope you will check your own accounts and then decide what action, if any, to take.  Should you decide you want to boycott an advertiser, I would ask that you first verify that they still advertise with Limbaugh’s show, prior to dropping them from your universe, but then, do it completely.

There’s enough real hate in the world, w/o any need of promoting one’s own tired celebrity by exploiting it for the sheer thrill of creating outrage.

Join me in drop kicking Rush Limbaugh out of the park.

Thanks.

Century 21 Real Estate LLC – confirmed sponsor
International Headquarters
1 Campus Drive
Parsippany, NJ 07054

eharmony
300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111
Pasadena, CA 91101
media@eharmony.com
626.795.4814
FAX 626.585.4040

Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners
Oreck Corporation
100 Plantation Road
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123
800-289-5888

Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee
9151 Grapevine Hwy.
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Phone (800) 733-1110
(web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)

AutoZone Inc.
901-495-7185; Fax: 901-495-8374
P.O. Box 2198, Memphis, TN 38101
investor.relations@autozone.com

American Forces Network
Contact Us: @MyAFN.net

Mission Pharmacal Company
10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000
P.O. Box 786099
San Antonio, TX 78278-6099
Telephone: (800) 531-3333
Bennett Kennedy – Citracal Product Manager

Life Quotes, Inc.
32045 Castle Court
Evergreen, CO 80439
1-800-670-5433
info@lifequotes.com.au

– update 6:47 pm –

Per NBC Nightly News, apparently Sleep Train (not in my first list), sleep number and Quicken Loans all dropped sponsorship of this vitriolic and onanistic self promotion fest.

– updated again 09 March 2012 –

More advertisers bail, and are moved from above this to below.

CARBONITE, Inc.
617-587-1100
177 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
carbonite@mailnj.custhelp.com
Direct Dial Office: 617-587-1100 EXT:1115

Sleep Number Bed
Select Comfort Corporation – confirmed and long-time advertiser
6105 Trenton Lane N
Minneapolis, MN 55442
Phone: 763-551-7000
Fax: 763-551-7826
800-438-2233
investorrelations@selectcomfort.com

Quicken Loans – confirmed sponsor
1050 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226
Client Relations – (800) 863-4332
and: (800) 251-9080

Citrix Online (GoToMyPC)
6500 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117
Phone: 805-690-6400; Fax: 805-690-6471
info@citrixonline.com

ProFlowers
Web contact form
Sales or Service: 1-800-580-2913
Phone: 800.580.2913

LegalZoom.com – confirmed and long-time advertiser
800-773-0888; Fax: 323-962-8300

Eastwood Ankles Malpaso

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Souces Say:

“Clint is considering a GoP Presidential bid.”

This story is pure fabrication. But, what if it weren’t?

The recent Superbowl ad got me started to thinking. The GoP needs a decent candidate if they want a chance at taking the White House back. Romney hasn’t exactly lit any fires in the hearts of the party faithful, despite winning more of the contests so far than the other clowns on the campaign trail.

What if Clint Eastwood were interested? He has some of the same problems that Romney has, with regards his views on social programs – they’re both less insane than the rest of the crackpots running. The only really important problem he doesn’t have is that people don’t dislike him.

Halftime in America may just be the nudge the Republicans need to approach their only decent option and try to talk him into the race. Chances are, they’ve already failed at that, which may be a good thing. We’ve already had one look at an ex-mayor with little other relevant experience (Sorry, not meaning to draw ANY other comparisons there Mr. Eastwood)

Would Clint Eastwood really be such a bad choice, if Obama weren’t the nation’s first choice? I hope it doesn’t happen, and I don’t really believe he’d leave the life he has for what has been described as the crappiest job in the world.  Still, he’d be a big improvement over what they’ve offered us so far, including the choices from 2008.

I am much more interested in seeing what Obama will do in his second term than what Clint might try during his first, and as the economy continues to improve gradually over these next ten months, I expect to see that first priority.  Perhaps a 90 year old Eastwood could make a run for it after the country is fat and happy again.  But I don’t think he’s crazy enough to want that.

SOPA/PIPA Why’d We Black Out?

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So, the day of the big Internet Blackout is ended, but that is not the end of it. This threat to the Internet’s ability to function will not go away of it’s own accord, until the entities using the fear of some very real threats are educated or outed for the ignoramuses or scoundrels they are.

This site joined thousands of web sites the world over, in going dark for 24 hours though it was approximately 33 hours here, iirc.

The reason for this is simple.  There are two bills in the United States Congress which are being talked about as if they can help to subvert Piracy of Intellectual Property in the world.  They cannot.  They will instead make the internet unstable, and actually work against the stated goals.  Explaining how and why is beyond the scope of this article, but I can point you to some good sources of information. My friend Maria from my days at ICANN wrote this piece at Crooked Timber which gives a bit more of the info on this. It is a good read, and brief enough. It is brilliant.

Another good source for info on this and related subjects is always the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  The EFF site is a bit information dense, but if you are a bit obsessive (I am a bit obsessive) it’s a good place to get lost reading about a host of subjects related to Freedom.

A more “User Friendly” or generally accessible site would be the Facebook take on this proposed legislation. Or, for a bit more pure info on the bills themselves, you may already realize the Wikipedia SOPA – Stop Online Piracy - and PIPA – Protect IP - pages are a good stop along the way to understanding why you really should get involved in this fight.

Which is of course the real reason for writing about this. This particular legislation may not ever get out of committee, but it may.  If it doesn’t, it may be replaced with something else equally horrendous, but not if you and your neighbors get involved.  Get informed and write or call your representatives. Tell them to fight Piracy and Protect IP, but not by putting power over the internet in the hands of anyone who may feel like messing with a legitimate content creator they don’t like, and not in a way that is going to destabilize the internet and stifle innovation.

Here are a few more sites to check out:

In the UK, there is the Open Rights Group

Also there is the European Digital Rights organization.

Finally, for a bit more about what happened yesterday, there is this great piece in the Cristian Science Monitor on how five web sites went about protesting this proposed destruction of the internet.

Many thanks to Maria for most of these links :p They are used here without permission, but in the spirit of the internet, and I think she’ll forgive me.