(2 PM – promoted by TheMomCat)
LaLast evening I posted a rant about an email exchange with a company I didn’t name for fear that I might be wrong about there support of Rush. Well today I received more email from said company which confirms the fact that they are… Carbonite is the company and they have sent me two more emails claiming that they do not agree with Rush’s statements and that they were but poor advertisers only trying to get to a desired demographic.
All of this would be believable if they’d stop giving Rush money. By paying for advertising on his show they by default support him and hence his views.
The hoot is Mr. Friends equating calls for dropping advertising from Ed Shultz to calls to drop Rush. I don’t remember Ed ever calling a young college student a slut or all but a whore. Now admittedly I don’t read or watch all that much MSM anymore but from what I’ve seen and heard I can’t think of any ‘lefty’ commentator on or in any serious media outlet calling anyone a slut or all but a whore. I may have missed it if anyone has but I’m sure MSNBC, Salon, The New York Times or even Ruperts Journal would fire anyone who did.
The tone deafness of Mr. Friend and Carbonite is unreal. Disagreeing with Rush or Ed or anyones political views are not in my opinion reasonable cause to stop supporting their shows. Lude, sexsist,noxious commentary that by any standard of civility is beyond the pale is cause enough for me.
Mr. Friend is gonna schedule a meeting with Rush next week and berate him LOL sure right
Now I’m sorry, Carbonite can advertise with anyone they wish to and it is their right to do so it is of course the public’s right to stop buying the products and services offered by Carbonite.
I’ve pasted Mr. Friends post along with the email exchanges below In reverse order.
A Message from Carbonite CEO, David Friend Regarding Ads on Limbaugh
March 02, 2012
Over the past two days we have received a tremendous amount of feedback on Rush Limbaugh’s recent comments. I too am offended and very concerned about his comments. Limbaugh’s remarks have us rethinking our future use of talk radio.
We use more than 40 talk show hosts to help get the Carbonite message out to the public. The nature of talk radio is that from time to time listeners are offended by a host and ask that we pull our advertising. This goes for conservatives like Limbaugh and progressives like Stephanie Miller and Ed Shultz. We even get customers who demand that we pull the plug on NPR. As an advertiser, we do not have control over a show’s editorial content or what they say on air. Carbonite does not endorse the opinions of the shows or their hosts.
However, the outcry over Limbaugh is the worst we’ve ever seen. I have scheduled a face-to-face meeting next week with Limbaugh during which I will impress upon him that his comments were offensive to many of our customers and employees alike.
Please know your voice has been heard and that we are taking this matter very seriously.
Sincerely,
David Friend
7:35 from me to Carbonite
Oh and I just read your CEOs post, what a load of tripe. A demand by a customer to drop a a program or host is of course a serious thing but I have never heard the others he mentioned calling a young woman a slut or because he feels she’s demanding payment a whore or at least he wants her to be a porn star… I’ve never heard the like. He’s gonna have a stern talk with Rush, make me laugh, he is gonna tuck his chicken ass tale between his legs and pray this goes away. I personally am gonna do everything I can to see it does not. May I remind you he, Rush is loosing advertisers already are you going to be the last laughable supporters of this rabid dog? On 3/3/2012 11:45 AM, Carbonite
Customer Support wrote
Response Via Email (Corporate Guy. – Lewiston, ME) 03/03/2012 11:44 AM
> Hello and thank you for contacting Carbonite Customer Support.
>
> We do not endorse political views or opinions of the companies, magazines, newspapers, TV stations or radio stations that we advertise on. We simply choose a range of programs designed to reach a broad range of people so they might hear about Carbonite. Dave Friend, Carbonite’s Founder and CEO wrote this on his blog here: http://www.carbonite.com/en/bl…
>
> Sincerely,
> Corporate Guy
> Carbonite Customer Support
> www.carbonite.com
> Back it up. Get it back.
>
> For the latest news, tips, and discussions about Carbonite, visit us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CarboniteOnlineBackup) or follow us on Twitter (@carbonite).
>
> Customer By Email (Me) 03/02/2012 09:55 PM
> Corporate Guy;
> Thanks for the reply, I wonder what the viewing public of Salon,
> Daily Kos, Docudharma, The Stars Hollow Gazette and whomever else I can
> show you reply to will think of your rather Um Hm weak, equivocating,
> smarmy, Um well you know what I mean. Sorry, you can’t advertise with
> someone with out at least tacitly supporting there views. I mean
> really, without you money Mr Limbaugh wouldn’t have a bully pulpit to
> spew his rabid venom from.
>
> Sincerely
> Me
>On 3/2/2012 7:25 PM, Carbonite Customer Support wrote:
> Response Via Email (Corporate Guy. – Lewiston, ME) 03/02/2012 07:25 PM
> Hello and thank you for contacting Carbonite Customer Support in Lewiston,ME.
> My name is Corporate Guy.
>
> I apologize for any misunderstanding, but we do not endorse political views or opinions of the companies, magazines, newspapers, TV stations or radio stations that we advertise on. We simply choose a range of programs designed to reach a broad range of people so that might hear about Carbonite.
>
> Again I apologize, and have a great night!
>
> Please let us know if you need additional assistance.
>
> Sincerely,
>Corporate Guy.
> Carbonite Customer Support
> www.carbonite.com
> Back it up. Get it back.
>
> For the latest news, tips, and discussions about Carbonite, visit us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CarboniteOnlineBackup) or follow us on Twitter (@carbonite).
>
> Customer By Email (Me) 03/02/2012 02:56 PM
> (Email contained no body)
Subject line Dump Rush or do you agree with him?
>
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Yet the ultimate evil lies not in Bible Belters vs birth control nor in what “the government” can make anyone do think or say. It is about the engineered death of our former lifestyles to free up resources for the globalist parasitic multi-national corporations, NGOs and military industrial intelligence complexes.
Health care, like every other segment of our militant post 911 asshole lamestream media driven lost culture simply blows big time. Selling people crap OBomneycare health insurance which does not pay for the things it used to…..
which you used to get for free
from the job you used to have
Oh, but let’s have a media debate over birth control and the Christian religion. It’s kinda like naming Islam the Russia replacement enemy in the abscence of the Cold War.
Honestly does the entire theme not seem like something which came out of some Rand Corporation think tank. Hey guys we can divert the attention of the sheeple away from us ruining their health care by injecting another divisional distractional dysfunctional sound byte.
I note you mention Carbonite. Hmm. What is Carbonite and why are they so great. Well Carbonite will back up your system in the event of a crash. Ah but why would your system ever crash if the system didn’t suck in the first place.