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The Spectacle Blog
In an extraordinary development reported exclusively by Dan Riehl over at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, the Democrats’ deliberate refusal to accept Rush Limbaugh’s apology, coupled with the President’s attack on Rush, has fueled a stunning surge in death threats against the conservative champion.
The American left, its proclivity for violence well demonstrated over the centuries from riots over race, labor, Vietnam and Occupy Wall Street to specific assassinations such as that of President John F. Kennedy by Communist and pro-Castro activist Lee Harvey Oswald, has now been stirred to talk of violence against Limbaugh.
The threats also comes in the wake of a left-wing drive to intimidate Limbaugh sponsors.
Limbaugh’s audience will doubtless be even further infuriated by the news of the physical threats, captured in screen saves by Riehl. As reported here at the Daily Caller, Carbonite — which officiously withdrew as a Limbaugh sponsor and then was revealed to be headed by MoveOn.org contributor and leftist businessman David Friend — has seen its stock plummet, its infuriated conservative customers dumping the product in droves.
Media Matters has tried, in typical style, to fuel the impression sponsors are abandoning Limbaugh in droves with stories like this.
The story is a deliberate lie. Limbaugh opened his program today explaining the inside baseball of radio advertising. There is a difference between local advertisers, whose dollars do not go to Limbaugh at all, and national advertisers — like Carbonite. Media Matters — and I debated Media Matters’ guy Eric Bohlert yesterday on KQED in San Francisco — deliberately misleads, and knows it, since it surely understands the difference in revenue streams between local and national advertisers.
Limbaugh also announced that new national sponsors are lining up to replace those who left — and notably, that there are at least two who want back in. In fact are “begging” to do so.
Get ready for some surprises.
Doubtless this backlash against Carbonite and others comes from the furious reaction of Rush’s audience.
The Rally for Rush continues. And it’s working.
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9thID| 3.7.12 @ 12:54PM
Wonder how many of these threats came from the Paulestinian contingent as was reported they did with Glenn Beck...
Jimmy| 3.8.12 @ 8:19AM
What does "Paulesstinian" mean? Is it a shot at those of us in the Paul camp as being "Jew Haters"? If so would you please examine your own hate for Muslims, Jews such as my wife and I simply do not want to be a part of nor aid in another Holocaust no matter who they claim to be protecting. I don't like living in the new "Nazi" Germany no matter who the "Hitler" is. Real Ron Paul supporters are peaceful and respect free speech though there are those few idiots that claim to be for freedom as long as you follow Paul blindly. Even Ron would say that is stupid, he likes it when you disagree with him and would never advocate violence against any of his critics. Instead he embraces, engages them, and points out why they are wrong. It's called Patriotism.
jim olson| 3.7.12 @ 2:18PM
Of course it is an exclusive. No actual journalist would want to be associated with this "story".
fubo| 3.7.12 @ 2:35PM
Sit down slut.
Simon Templar| 3.7.12 @ 2:55PM
I have been saying for years, and on this site, that if you want to change this culture and the MSM media, Hollwood sewer, you could change it literally overnight. Cancel the cable, turn it off, and stop going to movies for 6 months and they would be on their knees begging and apologizing.
Conservatives have the numbers, the dollars, and it is with the POWER of the MARKET, capitalist market, to change the world.
Thank you, Mr. Lord
beebop2| 3.8.12 @ 5:21PM
I stumbled onto Gretta when the demobrat primary was casting its female lead in the most unfavorable light -- are her tears "sincere?" was the most glaring example -- and from Gretta moved to Brett and Neil C. Fox is the only station I ever watch. Ever.
Suzanne | 3.7.12 @ 6:10PM
The teabaggers have been fueling death threats for years now with their "lock and load" "second amendment solution" mentality. Did I miss your moral outrage on that?
Koozebane| 3.8.12 @ 2:33AM
Only a liberal would enter a thread covering outrage over the word "slut" and use a sexual slur to smear a wide section of the population.
Here's a big clue, princess:
A reminder one is armed is not a direct threat. It's a warning.....
...a warning to unhinged boobs who make death threats at every opportunity.
Go back to Kos, bigot. You got nuthin'.
beebop2| 3.8.12 @ 5:23PM
What you may have missed Suzy is that 'teabagger' is a gay activity and you are insulting the third leg (pun intended) of the demobrat stool ... and God knows there is a LOT of demobrat stool!
don| 3.8.12 @ 8:49PM
Suz, you are an obama democrat, and so you are a drone who is part of his intentional destruction of this country into a third world kenyan sewer.
shearwater| 3.8.12 @ 8:50PM
The Occupy Wall Street thugs show their real character by the trash they leave for normal citizens to clean up. Tea Party folks aren't scum like that. They believe in the rule of law and the game changer the ballot box.
Evan3457| 3.9.12 @ 2:49AM
Neat fantasy world you're living in.
Bill| 3.9.12 @ 7:51AM
And you Progressive/Socialist Demo-Nazi's have been trying to tear down America for years. As I recall, the death threats started with the Demo-Nazi's and are still exclusive to these Un-American progressive/Socialist. Want to try another Saul Alinsky tactic commy?
Eliot Ness| 3.8.12 @ 11:39AM
Carbonite is now — and always has been — losing money hand-over-fist at the rate of apx. $20 million per year.
Look at its 2011 Annual Report: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/ed.....0d10k.htm.
The company has an “accumulated deficit” (accountant-speak for “cumulative loss”) of $100 million.
Carbonite rescued itself from insolvency by an incestuous desperation IPO last summer.
Losing its Rush-relationship will leave NASDAQ:CARB ever more vulnerable to the surging tsunami of competition.
Carbonite’s kamikaze CEO has effectively cut his own throat to protest Limbaugh’s jokes about Sandra Fluke’s crusade to compel other people to pay for her and Georgetown Law female students’ birth control!
don| 3.8.12 @ 8:54PM
I just had my computer cleaned up, and I was thinking of using Carbonite, but not now!! I will use Mosey, the one on Hannity's web site.
Osamas Pajamas| 3.8.12 @ 4:33PM
If OhBummer's agents foment or commit the murder of Rush Limbaugh, does anyone think that OhBummer should escape justice? And is it possible for a politician to be more important than the people whom he claims to serve --- the American people?
shearwater| 3.8.12 @ 8:46PM
Rush is an American patriot and deserves our respect for revealing what the main stream media will not. His insightful commentary on the political scene are stunningly correct!
Hermeneutica| 3.8.12 @ 9:29PM
Oh, that remind me to cancel LifeLok too...all you have to do is ask who defends the Constitution and who doesn't. Now the big O has blood on his hands after all the citizen assassinations in foreign lands, and he wants Rush's too? (typical of the animals he used to run with including the unrepentant Bill Ayers who (attempted?)bombed the Pentegon)
Victoria DeLacy| 3.8.12 @ 9:35PM
While I did not agree with the way in which it was said, what Rush articulated to the effect that we should not be coerced into subsidizing anyone elses' sex habits is absolutely correct and I do not think it was appropriate for advertisers to abandon him over the way in which it was stated. Rush is basically right...as usual.
Zombie Reagan| 3.9.12 @ 10:18AM
The gist of what’s wrong with Limbaughism is that it’s right-wing Rousseauism. That is, he believes that man is born free, but is put in chains by the government. He believes in living without limits is the essence of conservatism, which is just … crazy. If traditional-minded conservatives know anything, it’s that human nature is fallen, and there are natural limits that must be respected. Conservatism is a form of humility. I see none of that in Limbaugh and what he stands for. - Rod Dreher
Finzi Holst| 3.9.12 @ 1:54PM
Anita Dunn and her company are running Sandra Fluke and they are being run by, who else, the White House.
http://nation.foxnews.com/bill.....ndra-fluke
When O'Reilly is good he is very, very good. You know the rest. In this case, nice work.