{"id":13265,"date":"2012-03-08T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2012-03-08T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:51:36","slug":"limbaugh-advertisers-keep-heading-for-the-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13265","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh Advertisers Keep Heading For The Exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More of <strong>Rush Limbaugh&#8217;<\/strong>s advertisers say they are dropping his program after the conservative talk show host&#8217;s derogatory comments about a Georgetown law student.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, AOL Inc. and Tax Resolution Services Co. were the eighth and ninth companies to say that they will suspend advertising on <strong>Limbaugh&#8217;s<\/strong> program, one of the most popular radio shows in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Limbaugh<\/strong> last week called student <strong>Sandra Fluke<\/strong> a &#8220;slut&#8221; and &#8220;prostitute&#8221; after she testified to congressional Democrats in support of their national health care policy that would compel her Jesuit college&#8217;s health plan to cover her birth control.<\/p>\n<p>He apologized over the weekend after several advertisers pulled out of his program. On Monday, he joked that he got a busy signal when he called his show because of the advertisers who are abandoning it.<\/p>\n<p>Clear Channel&#8217;s Premiere Radio Networks Inc. hosts <strong>Limbaugh&#8217;s<\/strong> show. The company is supporting <strong>Limbaugh<\/strong>, whose on-air contract runs through 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fluke<\/strong> said Monday that <strong>Limbaugh&#8217;s<\/strong> apology changes nothing and that Americans have to decide whether to support companies that continue to advertise on his program.<\/p>\n<p>The advertisers that have backed away from<strong> Limbaugh&#8217;s<\/strong> program represent a broad range of industries, from technology to financial services to retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More of Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s advertisers say they are dropping his program after the conservative talk show host&#8217;s derogatory comments about a Georgetown law student. On Monday, AOL Inc. and Tax Resolution Services Co. were the eighth and ninth companies to say that they will suspend advertising on Limbaugh&#8217;s program, one of the most popular radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}