Social Media Firestorm Causes Limbaugh's Advertisers to Continue to Bail

In yet another example of how social media pressure can change the equation, the exodus of advertisers from Rush Limbaugh's show continues to swell with the count currently at 45 as of this afternoon according to Think Progress. I wish similar pressure could be brought against the Virginia GOP and its anti-gay and anti-woman agenda. The attitude expressed by Rush Limbaugh is actually little different from the members of the Virginia GOP who want to return women to the days of being kept in the home bare foot and pregnant. Limbaugh mere said what many in the far right think. Just ask Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell who today signed legislation that forces women seeking an abortion to submit to a non-medically necessary ultrasound simply to put women in their place and to intimidate women into submission to the GOP/Christianist agenda. Here are highlights from Think Progress on the continuing exodus of advertisers from Rush Limbaugh's show:

Rush Limbaugh’s latest misogynistic tirade against Georgetown University Law Student Sandra Fluke may be the last straw for many of the shock jock’s corporate sponsors. Thousands of angry customers have been inundating dozens of Limbaugh’s corporate sponsors, demanding that they cut ties with the program.

So far, Sleep Number, The Sleep Train, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Carbonite, ProFlowers, Tax Resolution, AOL, Bonobos, Sears, Allstate Insurance, Sensa, Bare Escentuals, Vitacost, Hadeed Carpet, Thompson Creek Windows, PolyCom, Service Magic, AccuQuote Life Insurance, Geico, John Deere, Stamps.com, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Cascades Dental, Philadelphia Orchestra, Goodwill Industries, Heart & Body Extract, Netflix, Downeast Energy, Capitol One, JCPenney, Matrix Direct, Reputation Rhino, Consolidated Credit, Constant Contact, RSVP Discount Beverage, Cunningham Security, Regal Assets, Freedom Debt Relief, Norway Savings Bank, Portland Ovations, The Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington and O’Reilly Auto Parts have pulled ads from the program.

Current tally as of March 7 at 3:30pm: 45

Have you noticed how its generally the far right that's constantly trashing and slandering others while always claiming that they are being persecuted?