Simple Click Forms to E-mail Rush's Sponsors & Former Sponsors

[The_Finman]

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[The_Finman]

When you E-mail Oreck Vacume cleaners please point them to this link.

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/rushoreck.html

Pretty much exposes them

[Rhino]

Would you mind posting it without the Flash? My IE does not recognize my Mozilla mail client. When it's a simple link I can get around that, but Flash makes it impossible for me to see the mail link.

[Warlady]

Rhino he posted a link for those who don't have Flash. Does that not work?

[Rhino]

The link was to install Flash, which I prefer not to do. I would also assume that some other readers might not want to upgrade to version 6 just to read/use a message board post. As I said, it's just a preference. It won't kill me to just skip the e-mails altogether.

[Warlady]

You can find a few of the email contacts in this thread

Here (http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Board=UBB1&amp;Number=105089&amp;page=2&amp; view=collapsed&amp;sb=5&amp;o=&amp;fpart=1)

[The_Finman]

Well the Flash allowed me to create a form letter, with subject and all the all of Rush's sponsors ready to go all at once.

Anyway Edward Seattle posted this on the RR.com board and asked that we pass this information to all conservative boards.

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Originally posted by Edward Seattle:
You know, TakeBacktheMedia.com is supporting themselves by taking donations via the Amazon Honor System and Paypal.

If we really want to give them a taste of their own medicine, we can complain to them, and eliminate their ability to raise funds. That is a lot more likely to be effective than boycotting advertisers who say they have dropped Rush.

Here is what to do:

For Amazon.com Honor System:

Email the following: honor-system@amazon.com, payments-mail@amazon.com, honor-feedback@amazon.com

Date

Amazon Honor System
In re: http://www.amazon.com/paypage/P1AMSMGWCEIIVQ (Takebackthemedia.com)


Good Morning,

The above member of Amazon Honor System is using their website (www.takebackthemedia.com) to promote hate speech and incite violence. Some examples:

They suggest that George Bush and the Bush Family are Nazi sympathizers:
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html

They call Donald Rumsfeld a &amp;#8220;monster,&amp;#8221; and say he is causing a war in order to get rich:
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/pentagoon.html

There are many more examples on their site. Whatever one&amp;#8217;s personal politics, their comments are extremist, hate based, and designed to incite. I was surprised that Amazon was allowing them to collect money via the Amazon Honor System.

As an Amazon customer, I am requesting that you follow your own terms of service in terminating their access to this program immediately.

On behalf of thousands of concerned citizens, thank you for your immediate attention to this. We will be monitoring the outcome of this request.

Regards,

Name


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For Paypal:

You need to use their webform, unless someone has an email address:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_contact-general-flow


Date

Paypal
In re: TakeBacktheMedia.com (Verified Business Member)


Good Morning,

The above referenced member of Paypal is using their website (www.takebackthemedia.com) to promote hate speech and incite violence. Some examples:

They suggest that George Bush and the Bush Family are Nazi sympathizers:
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html

They call Donald Rumsfeld a &amp;#8220;monster,&amp;#8221; and say he is causing a war in order to get rich:
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/pentagoon.html

There are many more examples on their site. Whatever one&amp;#8217;s personal politics, their comments are extremist, hate based, and designed to incite. I was surprised that Paypal was allowing them to collect money as a verified Business Member.

As an Paypal user, I am requesting that you follow your own terms of service in terminating their access to this program immediately.

On behalf of thousands of concerned citizens, thank you for your immediate attention to this. We will be monitoring the outcome of this request.

Regards,

Name


Let's saddle up, and give these guys a taste of their own medicine!

Someone please post this to other boards as well. Thanks.

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I sent off a complaint against Take Back the Media with Amazon but I looked at the political Pay Pal sites listed and saw a whole bunch of Patriotic sites and Republican ones and I can't in all honesty complain about Take Back The Media when they aren't even listed in the front of the lists like the good political sites are. I hope you'll understand.

[JMK444]

This is a great campaign.

Rush deserves our support, if only because what he's standing against now is a form of coercive censorship.

I've sent a number of e-mails to his sponsors using a slightly different tone;

"To whom it may concern,

I am writing in response to the organized protest to the Rush Limbaugh Show. I've checked out the website of "Take Back the Media" (www.takebackthemedia.com) and you should too. It's a real eye-opener!

I wouldn't want to be associated with a fringe group like this.

If you choose to pull your ads from the Rush Limbaugh Show at this inopportune time, you run the risk of alienating his over 20 million loyal listeners...I doubt this website or its advocates have even a fraction of that market share.

Please stand by Rush Limbaugh while he is under attack. He's stood by American business against the same anti-market forces throughout his radio career.

My best regards,
JMK"



The most potent weapon, of course, would be to get hold of a number of the investors of these companies and get "An Investors Campaign" going. Companies fear and thus listen to investors more than consumers and if a group of investors threatened to pull out because these companies were undermining free speech by submitting to coercion, that might have them take even more notice.

Sadly, a lot of business people are cowards - they don't ever want to take a stand or, God forbid, offend anyone. Most of them are also bottom-line people and Limbaugh's 21 million listener base has to be attractive no matter what one's political persuasion is.


My best regards,
JMK

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Thanks for joining the battle JMK! Rush was on the air today but I didn't get to hear his entire show and I don't know if he addressed the campaign against him.

[JMK444]

This kind of media coercion is not just disgusting, but dangerous.

Look, I despise Phil Donohue, but I wouldn't try and get his sponsors to dump him. Let his ratings do him in...and if there were a Leftist with a solid listenership and decent ratings, more power to him, though I'd rarely listen in, unless it were to get riled up.

It's a dangerous precedent...and only a hate-filled, anti-American, anti-business cretin would resort to it.

If a group like that approached me and I was running a business that was taking out ads they didn't like, I'd go out and buy double in response. Boycott! Bring it on and prove your influence.

These punks don't have enough reach to organize an effective boycott anyway.

My best regards,
JMK

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Look, I despise Phil Donohue, but I wouldn't try and get his sponsors to dump him. Let his ratings do him in...and if there were a Leftist with a solid listenership and decent ratings, more power to him, though I'd rarely listen in, unless it were to get riled up.

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There really must not be many liberals that watch the news networks because if they did, then Phil's show wouldn't be doing so poorly in the ratings. Or...there aren't enough liberals in this country to give Phil good ratings. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[JMK444]

I believe it's the second SouthernGal.

There are, accoridng to best estimates about 13% of the U.S. population that identify themselves as "Liberal." That goes along with a recent poll on war and the U.S. population. The poll showed that there are 11% of the U.S. population that would never support a war under any circumstances...direct attack, whatever. These are the extreme radical fringe. There are also 33% who would support war under almost any circumstances, "If the government says we need to go to war...let's go...I'm there."

That makes about 44% of the population reflexive one way or the other. Now considering that most of the current anti-war crowd is really anti-Bush, that 11% can pretty much be considered "Leftist" or "Liberal," with a small smattering of Libertarians who oppose the military build-up on the same grounds they oppose the entitlement/social-program build-up...as "government encroachment."

That 33% who support any war their government supports can largely be considered "Conservative, so even on the reflexive level, Conservatives outnumber Liberals about 3 to 1.

Of the remaining 56% of the population, about 27% of these will unconditionally support any war that the government makes a "reasonable case" for. About 12% are "casualty-phobic," that is they're OK with a war, that the government makes a case for, until the casualties start piling up. The other 17% of the population are "defeat-phobic." That is they're up for a war where the government makes a case for, unless they feel that defeat is a real possibility.

One of the reasons that the Democrats have been losing ground over the past two decades is that some of their core groups are actually groups that hold some basic conservative values.

America's largest minority now, Hispanics, are overwhelmingly Roman Catholic and these people tend to be very conservative politically. Many blacks tend to hold to a lot more conservative views than those who represent that group within the Democratic Party. For one thing, blacks are far more likely to be crime victims than whites and tend to much tougher on crime than many other groups. Their support for School Vouchers demonstrates another area where that group holds to conservative values.

Come to think about it....maybe Donahue has done as well as any Liberal Talk Host could expect to do!

My best regards,
JMK

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Come to think about it....maybe Donahue has done as well as any Liberal Talk Host could expect to do!

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I think you are right, JMK! Except Chris Matthews seems to be doing okay. Of course, Chris doesn't get this insane look in his eyes when he gets passionate about something, like Phil does. Phil looks downright crazy to me when he talks.

[JMK444]

I think guys like Chris Mathews and Stone Phillips kind of defy convention. They're not reflexively Liberal or Conservative and so they come across as "thoughtful," to a lot of viewers.

A lot of hardcore Liberals despise the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly despite never having listened to them. Hannity and O'Reilly, in particular, as well as Mike (Weiner) Savage, have all gotten on G W Bush about doing so little about the U.S. borders and some of the overreaching of the Patriot's Act.

I think the reason that there's so little common ground between hardcore Leftists and virtually everyone else, is that their view is almost entirely predicated on emotion...whatever sound "good," and "fair," and "loving." Practicality is rarely even a consideration for these emotionalists.

My best regards,
JMK

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I believe the hardcore leftists are anti-american. They want our country to be either socialist or communist. They don't want us to be free.

[Warlady]

Tell Limbaugh Advertisers to stand firm!!! (http://www.conservativealerts.com/020303.htm)