David Brock says he got famous for calling Anita Hill “a slut.”
That is his own description of how he became famous.
Compounding the irony, David Brock says Rush Limbaugh made him famous. That’s right folks, the head of Media Matters…
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Rumors of Rush Limbaugh’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
In what Rush himself called a “random act of journalism” on his radio show today, even the Washington Post has written a story admitting that Limbaugh’s show has apparently survived the orchestrated “advertiser boycott” on the part of Media Matters for America. The story, entitled “Limbaugh Sees Heat Over Comments Turn Down to a Simmer,” includes some very discouraging passages for liberal opponents of the controversial talk show host. Highlights follow:
Exactly one month after the conservative radio host sparked outrage by calling Georgetown law-school student Sandra Fluke “a slut” and “a prostitute” in a three-day diatribe, stations are standing by him, advertisers are trickling back to his program and the news media have moved on.[...]
Limbaugh’s advertising losses may have been less than media accounts suggested. While more than 100 advertisers told Premiere that they didn’t want to be associated with “controversial” radio programs of any kind in the wake of the flap, some of these companies weren’t regular Limbaugh sponsors in the first place.[...]
Limbaugh’s recovering fortunes may be best exemplified by what hasn’t happened. At the peak of the controversy in early March, two small stations — in western Massachusetts and Hilo, Hawaii — said that they would drop his program. Since then, no other station has said it will take him off the air, dashing the hopes of MoveOn.org, a liberal group whose ongoing petition drive seeks Limbaugh’s removal from 180 stations.
Limbaugh was stunned by the story, taking to his radio station to promote it and personally praise the Post for getting the story right:
I do not know how this happened and I don’t know what caused it, but there is an absolutely accurate — correct factually — and fair story on the last month of this program in the Washington Post. It was put up last night. I don’t know if it’s in the printed version or if it’s just a website piece, but I am…
I read it. I had to read it two or three times. I cannot believe it! This program, me, is never accorded this kind of treatment in the mainstream media. The truth about how few advertisers have been lost. The truth about how few stations left. The truth about how little damage was done to this program. It was stunning. It’s in the Washington Post. I just told Koko to put a link to it up at RushLimbaugh.com in the red section, the red bar at RushLimbaugh.com when you go there. He’ll have it up there soon. I don’t even think Koko knew about it. When I sent him just a note here, “I want you to put that link up. I’m gonna be talking about,” he wrote back, “Okay.” I’m sure he was thinking, “What the hell is he talking about?” We might tweet that out, too, as well.
Media Matters has tried to spin the attack as less than a total loss, claiming that Limbaugh may be on a tighter leash following the boycott. Given Limbaugh’s ability to rebound from previous controversies, however, this may be overly optimistic.
Limbaugh Advertiser Accuses Protesters of ‘Terrorism’ for Targeting His Company: ‘Hissyfitters’
In a dramatic segment on Megyn Kelley’s show, Rush Limbaugh advertiser Mark Stevens blasted protesters of Limbaugh’s show for effectively committing acts of “internal American terrorism” against his employees and company. Despite not agreeing with Limbaugh’s comments about Sandra Fluke, Stevens says he and his employees have been targeted with threats, possibly even including death threats, as well as harassment and abuse via phone and email.
“They’ve called my people and my company, they’ve called the women at my company, and told them they’re women haters, the most horrible terms,” Stevens said. “They’ve told me — these are tens of thousands of emails, by the way, most of them are positive but the small group — they’ve told us that we’re under surveillance. The email subject line says ‘citizen of the internet,’ ‘police of the Internet,’ ‘Mark, you’re in danger,’ ‘your house is going to be surrounded by buses,’ ‘your business is going to be destroyed,’ ‘your people are in trouble.’ This is terrorism. Why don’t we start calling it what it is?”
Limbaugh himself recently lent support to Stevens on his show, fingering the group Media Matters as the one responsible for the “boycott” on his show, which has spilt over onto Stevens’ business.
(Related: Media Matters Operative Behind Limbaugh Advertiser Boycott)
While Stevens himself hasn’t named names regarding who his critics are, neither did he dispute Rush’s account. Nor did Stevens say he was frightened of the prospect of protests, even outside his house.
“Let them come,” Stevens said. “Something is going on here that has to be addressed because the country’s at risk. If I can’t advertise where I want to advertise, my business, because of a small group of people who – you can tell, because the vast majority of the emails are in support of us, Rush, the constitution, the American way – a small portion of people, that I call the hissyfitters, who are like children. When my kids were little, they used to go on a screaming fit, and they lay down on the floor and slapped their hands on the floor. My wife and I had a choice, whether to give them an ice cream cone or make them go to their room. Too much of what’s going on in America right now is we’re giving these hissyfitters an ice cream cone. We have to stop it, and I’m not afraid, and bring on the buses.”
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Stevens says he plans to advertise more heavily, stand his ground, and give no quarter to his opponents.
H/T Mediaite
The Left No Longer Finds Dissent Patriotic
Workforce Fairness is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families. We’re pleased to debut the first of the videos here at RedState. The video…