{"id":16324,"date":"2012-03-08T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:13:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-08T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:13:50","slug":"washington_post_runs_out_and_out_lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/08\/washington_post_runs_out_and_out_lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Runs Out-and-Out Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Folks, are you all still loaded for bear out there? Will you indulge me for one more inside baseball moment here? Won\u2019t take very long, but this one needs to be dealt with quickly and we\u2019ll move on because unemployment\u2019s back up and Gallup, according to them, it\u2019s big, and other things are happening as well. They always are this time of year, and in this type of year. Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. <\/p>\n

Yesterday I explained to you how it is that we have not lost whatever the number is today, 45 or 43 advertisers. Today there\u2019s a more blatant example of what journalism has become, and it\u2019s in the Washington Post. It\u2019s a story written by a woman named Alexandra Petri. I don\u2019t know how it\u2019s pronounced. Alexandra Petri. And let me read you the headline of this news story. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s in the newspaper or just on their website, but here\u2019s the headline: “Rush Limbaugh\u00c2\u2019s Show Targets Jerks, Judging From the Latest Ads — Advertisers learned something about Rush Limbaugh\u00c2\u2019s demographic this week. ‘Here we thought lots of pleasant, upstanding people were listening to and enjoying the rational things Rush had to say,\u2019 dozens of companies said. ‘Apparently not.\u2019 It turns out that people who really, truly still enjoy Rush Limbaugh\u00c2\u2019s show are — how do I put this? — jerks.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>This is the Washington Post characterizing you. “At least that\u00c2\u2019s what the new advertisements moving into the vast empty lot of Rush Limbaugh, Inc., implies. … So far, he\u00c2\u2019s picked up AshleyMadison.com, the site where you go to cheat on your wife, and another website that is explicitly for sugar-daddy matchmaking.” There\u2019s only one problem. We are not running spots or commercials from AshleyMadison.com. In fact, when we find that they are running in our program in local markets we call the local affiliate and tell them, “Don\u2019t run these ads in our show.” We do not sponsor companies that help people cheat on their spouses. And right here it is in the Washington Post, claiming that we are. <\/p>\n

Now, the people that run Ashley Madison are out saying they\u2019re willing to advertise on our program. There are stories and advertising blogs about this, but we have not accepted it. Right here in the Washington Post. Ms. Petri, I don\u2019t know who feeds you your information — I have a pretty good guess — but you might want to double-check here because you\u2019ve written something that\u2019s patently false, it\u2019s an out-and-out lie complete with your b-i-itchy opinion in it, and it is untrue. We are not running commercials. We wouldn\u2019t accept commercials. We have rejected their offers from outfits that do this kind of thing, provide a way for you to cheat on your spouse. We have never knowingly had this company in our program. <\/p>\n

And again, there are two ways<\/a> you can get on this program. You can come and be an official EIB sponsor, or you can buy commercial time on one of our local affiliates and become one of 18,000-plus advertisers that we will never know about, except with things like this. When we find out, we do our best to clear this inventory. So I wanted to set this straight. It is an out-and-out lie, just like every other report about lost advertisers and everything else that you\u2019re seeing. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have new sponsors coming on in the next week two weeks, three of them at least. As I said yesterday current advertisers that canceled, had a couple meetings with them, they\u2019re asking to come back in. There\u2019s literally nothing factual being reported about this. <\/p>\n

So just so you know, as though you don\u2019t know — I\u2019m sure you do — what is in the Washington Post, either in their newspaper or on their website, is an out-and-out lie. I mean it\u2019s not even close. This is a so-called reporter, Alexandra Petri, who simply accepts false information from a site, probably Media Matters, who knows, that she trusts. We are not running spots from this company that tells you how to cheat on your spouse, we never have, and when we find out that they\u2019re running on local stations, EIB affiliates, we call the affiliate and we ask them not to. Nor will we ever accept such advertising, because you are not jerks. You in this audience are among those who make this country work. <\/p>\n

On the second page of this story: “But AshleyMadison, the website for people seeking extramarital affairs, and SeekingArrangement.com, which is, as Politico reported, the self-proclaimed ‘world\u00c2\u2019s largest sugar daddy and sugar baby dating website\u2019 — they\u00c2\u2019re now both firmly on board,” the Rush Limbaugh program. They are not “firmly on board.” They never have been firmly on board and they never will be firmly on board. Folks, I must be honest. (joking) At one time months ago we considered taking AshleyMadison.com because we know that Bill Clinton listens to this program. So we know one member of the audience cheats on his spouse, did so in the Oval Office, and in an attempt to perhaps include everybody we thought maybe we would help out, but we decided no. We didn\u2019t know anybody else in this audience who cheats on their spouse besides Bill Clinton, so we rejected it. John Edwards listens. So that\u2019s two of them. John Edwards listens to the program. Ted Kennedy listened to the program. But we decided to reject it. <\/p>\n

We have never run ads from either of these two companies, we never will, and again, for the last time, when we find out that they are running on local stations during this program, we ask the stations to move the commercials. Just that simple. Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, has got the snarky, lying, full-of-holes so-called report today, and I guarantee you, she\u2019ll run another story tomorrow saying I made this all up, and I\u2019m trying to cover my rear end but, folks, it isn\u2019t true. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Won\u2019t take very long, but this one needs to be dealt with quickly and we\u2019ll move on because unemployment\u2019s back up and Gallup, according to them, it\u2019s big, and other things are happening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWashington Post Runs Out-and-Out Lie - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/08\/washington_post_runs_out_and_out_lie\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Washington Post Runs Out-and-Out Lie - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Folks, are you all still loaded for bear out there? 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