ReadabilityThe more you know about Sandra Fluke...Update (Hope Carbonite backed up their old business model)
…the more this entire farce has the potential to backfire spectacularly on both the democrats and Rush’s Advertisers who ran away.
Now, imagine Fluke trying to defend this language about “heterosexist” policies in a public hearing, with Republican members of the committee questioning her about whether religious institutions (or private businesses, or taxpayers) should also be required to foot the bill for “gender reassignment.”
Congratulations, America: You’ve been scammed!
Ah but it has only been a short term scam, because of the increased interest in Rush’s show and the power of the new media the populace will shortly know the facts on Miss Fluke much to the determent of the left. I’m sure Rush’s late lamented advertisers will be delighted to be proudly defending the state mandating sex change coverage.
And even worse, I suspect that while “public” women will continue to pretend they are shocked SHOCKED by Limbaugh’s words, the seed that the dems are looking to get business and taxpayers to support an interesting set of sexual proclivities for young women is there.
I strongly suggest that women have a dim view of this. I know Roxeanne does:
Back in the Dark Ages, men used to buy women diamonds before getting them into bed. Now that you’ve done away with that requirement, how about at least asking men to buy your Ortho Tri Cyclen? If you’re an equal partner, negotiating a sexual encounter, why are you so unequal that you’re the ones crying to rich men in Congress for help, like Oliver Twist asking for another serving of food, while all the guys on Law Review are writing their Notes and applying to clerkships without a care in the world? And whose fault is that? Rick Santorum’s? Pope Benedict? or yours, for not having the basic self-respect to tell Mr. Law Review that he’s not getting any unless he understands that “equality” doesn’t mean that the woman buys the Pill and the condoms, too?
Read that whole post, it’s really something
Update: Adrienne (who I should link to more often) kindly does a service for Carbonite employees who handle chats who might be wondering what your day is going to be like for the foreseeable future. (Via NiceDeb)
Adrienne : Thank you. Since your CEO has made it clear that he doesn’t care about my business because I listen to Rush Limbaugh (who is the one responsible for my subscribing to Carbonite in the first place) , I have decided to take my business elsewhere. Please convey the message to your managers and CEO.
Rinse and repeat
Update 2: Cause, meet effect:
As of the closing bell on Monday, March 5th, 2012, Carbonite’s stock dropped to $9.15 per share. They actually hit their 52 week (or one year) low during the trading session of $9.09 per share. Oh, and the 52 week high for Carbonite stock was $21.10. Seems like they have quite a business model running there huh?
Maybe Carbonite can restore their old business model from a previous backup?
Update 3: I wonder how many former Rush advertisers carry ads on Mike Malloy’s show:
Their God, if this is the way they want to look at it, keeps smashing them into little grease spots on the pavement
Hey picking on victims of people slaughtered and left homeless by tornadoes is one thing but it certainly doesn’t rise to the level of calling a political operative masquerading as a poor student a ‘slut’, particularly since the dead and homeless are in flyover country.
Update 4: Instalanche: And an update, As Hilo HI goes so goes Pittsfield Massachusetts? Who’s defining winning for these guys: Charlie Sheen?
…the more this entire farce has the potential to backfire spectacularly on both the democrats and Rush’s Advertisers who ran away.
Now, imagine Fluke trying to defend this language about “heterosexist” policies in a public hearing, with Republican members of the committee questioning her about whether religious institutions (or private businesses, or taxpayers) should also be required to foot the bill for “gender reassignment.”
Congratulations, America: You’ve been scammed!
Ah but it has only been a short term scam, because of the increased interest in Rush’s show and the power of the new media the populace will shortly know the facts on Miss Fluke much to the determent of the left. I’m sure Rush’s late lamented advertisers will be delighted to be proudly defending the state mandating sex change coverage.
And even worse, I suspect that while “public” women will continue to pretend they are shocked SHOCKED by Limbaugh’s words, the seed that the dems are looking to get business and taxpayers to support an interesting set of sexual proclivities for young women is there.
I strongly suggest that women have a dim view of this. I know Roxeanne does:
Back in the Dark Ages, men used to buy women diamonds before getting them into bed. Now that you’ve done away with that requirement, how about at least asking men to buy your Ortho Tri Cyclen? If you’re an equal partner, negotiating a sexual encounter, why are you so unequal that you’re the ones crying to rich men in Congress for help, like Oliver Twist asking for another serving of food, while all the guys on Law Review are writing their Notes and applying to clerkships without a care in the world? And whose fault is that? Rick Santorum’s? Pope Benedict? or yours, for not having the basic self-respect to tell Mr. Law Review that he’s not getting any unless he understands that “equality” doesn’t mean that the woman buys the Pill and the condoms, too?
Read that whole post, it’s really something
Update: Adrienne (who I should link to more often) kindly does a service for Carbonite employees who handle chats who might be wondering what your day is going to be like for the foreseeable future. (Via NiceDeb)
Adrienne : Thank you. Since your CEO has made it clear that he doesn’t care about my business because I listen to Rush Limbaugh (who is the one responsible for my subscribing to Carbonite in the first place) , I have decided to take my business elsewhere. Please convey the message to your managers and CEO.
Rinse and repeat
Update 2: Cause, meet effect:
As of the closing bell on Monday, March 5th, 2012, Carbonite’s stock dropped to $9.15 per share. They actually hit their 52 week (or one year) low during the trading session of $9.09 per share. Oh, and the 52 week high for Carbonite stock was $21.10. Seems like they have quite a business model running there huh?
Maybe Carbonite can restore their old business model from a previous backup?
Update 3: I wonder how many former Rush advertisers carry ads on Mike Malloy’s show:
Their God, if this is the way they want to look at it, keeps smashing them into little grease spots on the pavement
Hey picking on victims of people slaughtered and left homeless by tornadoes is one thing but it certainly doesn’t rise to the level of calling a political operative masquerading as a poor student a ‘slut’, particularly since the dead and homeless are in flyover country.
Update 4: Instalanche: And an update, As Hilo HI goes so goes Pittsfield Massachusetts? Who’s defining winning for these guys: Charlie Sheen?
Carbonite is now — and always has been — losing money hand-over-fist at the rate of $20+ million per year.
Look at its 2011 Annual Report: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1340127/000119312512101462/d277280d10k.htm
The company has an “accumulated deficit” (accountant-speak for “cumulative loss”) of $100 million.
Carbonite was rescued from insolvency by an IPO last summer.
Losing its Rush-relationship will leave it ever more vulnerable to the growing competition.
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker! … Carbonite’s kamikaze CEO has effectively cut his own throat to protest Limbaugh’s jokes about Sandra Fluke’s crusade to compel other people to pay for her and other Georgetown Law students’ birth control!
It would have been a much better project to go after the left-wing nutjobs who have done as bad or much worse than Rush Limbaugh then to try to defend him. Like going after Rolling Stone advertisers for Mr. Douche. At least Dennis Kucinich seems to have gotten the heave-ho in Ohio.
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Hey, lets keep up with the lists of advertisers that leave Right Thinking radio shows!
Keeps my stops to a minimum and saves me the gas I am spending that the libs are making so overly expensive.
Lib boycotts do nothing more that give me a list of companies to avoid. Thanks libs!!
Hope carbonite becomes kryptonite!
Here’s the thing: If Carbonite will cave so easily and so quickly, to a loud and thuggish minority, how can I trust them with my data?
What real power did these thugs have? Only what Carbonite gave them. The same subscribers that will now be leaving them ASAP (Limbaugh won’t even need to say a word, but it will happen) would have stuck with them AND encouraged more of their peers to use Carbonite if they had merely shown some spine. Once these people are gone… good luck getting them or people like them back.
With the cost of storage these days, I’m tempted to buy a few EMC racks and create a competing service targeted at just these folks that will be voting with their feet. Maybe use a variant of the Gadsen flag as the logo…
Peter,
You have GOT to see this if you haven’t already, at The Daley Gator:
That whore Fluke is also an #occupy goon who actually posed for a picture holding a sign that says “Occupy my vagina”.
http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/well-what-do-you-know-sandra-fluke-is-an-occutard-picture/
Freaking whore.
Why are people apologizing again?
OK apparently the pic is photoshopped, but she’s still a whore.
Thank you for the link.
It is appalling how we expect women to treat themselves with so little respect. I would have thought that “he pays for half of the birth control” was not some arch-conservative position, but basic common sense (sort of like, “Don’t sleep with a guy you met three hours ago”). Sigh.
I read an interview somewhere with the CEO of Carbonite (I don’t believe it was a recent interview – I know, I know – lousy reporting!!), where he related the massive amount of money they lost every year and that it would be several more years before they even broke even. That should be enough to make anyone switch.
As to Mike Malloy? I just spent some time on his site trying to ascertain who his advertisers were.
Thanks for the link, Peter…
Yeah, Mike talks a mean line when he is on the radio, out of reach.
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