Why the NFL and corporate America reject Limbaugh and Beck | Media Matters for America

by Melanie on 19/10/09 at 9:38 pm

“Limbaugh last week learned the overdue lesson that there are real-world consequences for trafficking in hate speech. That there are free-market penalties, including the fact that the NFL decided for itself that it can’t, and won’t, be connected with Limbaugh.

It’s the same lesson Glenn Beck learned this year when he discovered that his niche, on-air rants Obama is a communist-racist-fascist-Nazi don’t speak to the masses. Instead, they freaked out nearly 100 former Glenn Beck advertisers who have gone on record as refusing to be associated with his show. These are blue-chip, small-”c” conservative advertisers who’ve dropped Beck quicker than a wobbly JaMarcus Russell pass.”

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