You’d think, what with all of the Chick-fil-a stuff lately, that NewsBusters would be respectful of a business taking a principled stand that might hurt its business. But you’d be wrong.
Matthew Sheffield uses an August 3 NewsBusters post to gloat that Carbonite saw its profits fall after dropping its ads from Rush Limbaugh’s show after the Sandra Fluke “brouhaha.”
Of course, Sheffield doesn’t explain what the “brouhaha” was actually about — three days of Limbaugh engaging in a tirade of hate and misogyny against a woman simply for speaking in public about birth control. Then again, Sheffield’s MRC co-workers found nothing offensive in Limbaugh’s misogyny, so they certainly can’t understand why anyone would drop their ads from Limbaugh’s show because of it.
Sheffield chortles: “Limbaugh’s ratings are higher than before the recent brouhaha over Sandra Fluke and the effort to remove him from the air is collapsing on itself.” Not only does Sheffield provide any actual evidence that Limbaugh’s ratings are higher, he didn’t mention that it got bad enough that Limbaugh had to hire a crisis management specialist.