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30 advertisers now.

I think they need to start tracking who remains.

I think this is part of it. Good ol' Rush just stepped forward at the exact wrong moment and picked the exact wrong target to attack, and made himself a lightning rod for the ire of, well, just about everyone. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.

It was also a sustained attack over the course of days where he just kept doubling down.

The only thing I'll give Patricia Heaton is that however insincere, her apology is actually basically an apology. Unlike other parties.

"I apologized to Ms Fluke last week. I may not agree with her views but I didn't treat her with respect and I'm sorry. I was wrong. Mea Culpa,"

I am not Fluke, but I don't accept her apology!

brenda, your point is well taken. I am being mean about it.

You're not obliged to accept an apology.

Sometimes you need to use The Cut Direct.

ION ...My new coffee mug.

Those photos are fantastic.

The Cut Direct

I had to look that shit up. I have done it to someone!

I had to look that shit up. I have done it to someone!

Note also...

The cut indirect, is to look another way, and pass without appearing to observe him. The cut sublime, is to admire the top of King’s College Chapel, or the beauty of the passing clouds, till he is out of sight. The cut infernal, is to analyze the arrangement of your shoe-strings, for the same purpose.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

But I think (despite their catchy names) The Cut Direct is the most brutal.

I think that Limbaugh walked right into the perfect storm. People are still raw from the Komen debacle. And then the personhood bills. Then the ultrasounds. And then the gut-punches to contraception. And then the photo of the all Old Men panels on birth control.

Women (and a lot of men, too) were already gathering, and the Komen defeat by way of social networking is still very fresh for people who, unlike most of us super savvy netizens really haven't seen how powerful a net campaign can be.

When you add in the fact that has a tenth of the listeners as NPR, you get the idea that A)it isn't going to hurt advertisers to drop him, and B)they're probably getting a ton more free publicity by NOT spending any money at all just by dropping him, it's a no-brainer.

I don't think JC Penney's pushback against the homophobic groups threatening to boycott them because of Ellen is hurting them at all.

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted for the Blunt amendment and just had to apologize to her constituents, when she got flooded with angry phone calls and emails from Alaskan women wondering who the fuck she thought she was representing.

The world is moving on without these folks. We live in interesting times.

I think they're starting to panic.

I think they're starting to panic.

::pops popcorn, passes it around::