It’s way too late. I should have written this earlier. However, the whole Rush Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut on national radio was more than I could stand. I started looking at the Twitter feed to get information and saw the boycott of his advertisers brewing.
By Thursday afternoon there was an official list of advertisers to boycott. The Twitter community had quickly identified that 9 of the 14 advertisers had Twitter accounts and went into action.
Three of the companies were actually responding to twitter requests to boycott the Rush Limbaugh show by Thursday evening: @ProFlowers,@theSleepTrain, @eHarmony
@ProFlowers at 7:01 pm tweeted: We would like to assure you that we do not endorse the views expressed by Rush LImbaugh. We understand your concerns and value your feedback
@theSleepTrain at 9:22 pm tweeted: Thanks for your concern. We are currently pulling all of our ads from Rush Limbaugh.
@eHarmony at 7:04 pm tweeted: We’ve never paid for ads on Limbaugh show. We’re looking into the matter of “network buys” & will let you know what we discover.
As I was watching this unfold I had to blog about it: Rush Slut Rant Backlash Social Media.
When you distill all of this down, there is an assault on women and their reproductive rights. Or to borrow a twitter handle War_On_Women. The flash point being whether contraceptives should be made available at no cost through health insurance plans. The whole issue of improving a person’s quality of life is one of the reasons I gravitated toward health insurance in the first place. Then when I have to suffer through illogical and irrational arguments against healthcare policy in America, I just lose it.
Of course, all I can do is blog about it. I can’t change anything.
On the progress side of Day 9 of the 21 Day Challenge, I was able to increase Twitter followers and research one of the life insurance companies I am looking at. I guess I’ll save the research for another post.
