Advertisers Fleeing Rush Limbaugh Show Over “Slut” Comments

Rush Limbaugh is the next victim of the contraception battle being waged between the Democrats and Republicans. Several of his advertisers have announced they are pulling their ads on his show over comments he made where he called a Georgetown student a “Slut” and a “Prostitute”

Mattress Store Sleep Train has said they were bombarded on Twitter with people who were outraged at the comments Limbaugh made to Sarah Fluke when she was denied the right to testify at a congressional hearing about contraception.

Sleep Train said in response to the Twitter campaign,

“We are pulling our ads with Rush Limbaugh and appreciate the community’s feedback,”

Before the weekend Sleep Train was joined by fellow mattress company Sleep Number. Legal Zoom, Citrix and Quicken Loans also all announced they would be pulling their ads. They all cited the same reason being Limbaugh’s comments and the outrage of their customers.

Limbaugh, in addition to calling Fluke a “Slut” and a “Prostitute”, said if she was having so much sex that the government needed to pay for her birth control then he said,

“if we’re going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”

Almost immediately Limbaugh was universally condemned by politicians and by the general public. While it is unlikely that most of his listeners would complain about what he said it seems that the general population was not very happy.

Limbaugh’s advertisers regularly get targeted for advertising on his show but this is the first time it has worked.

Do you think Rush Limbaugh went way too far in his comments?