Another bright shiny penny to shining light Sandra Fluke for standing up so wonderfully for women's reproductive rights against the bullying piggishness of Rush Limbaugh....who gets another bad penny award for trying to claim any credit for the success of Ms. Fluke a few days after she was nominated for person of the year, as if he thinks he did her some sort of favor by calling her a slut and a prostitute repeatedly.The controversy almost cost Limbaugh his career, as advertisers fled his vulgarity and fact-averse statements. It definitely cost the company for which he works some serious coin.
Lew Dickey, the CEO of Cumulus Media Networks, stated that it cost his company "a couple of million bucks in the first quarter and a couple of million bucks in quarter two." He claimed that the losses accounted for one percent of the 3.5 percent loss in revenue that Cumulus suffered over this period. He said things looked like they would be back to normal in June.[81]
When third quarter earnings were announced, net income was $56.05 million compared to $59.54 million for the prior year. Profit per share was $0.24 compared to $0.72 prior year. Income per share from continuing operations was $0.10 compared to $0.66 prior year. [82]
For those who may have forgotten, the original controversy began in February 2012. Roughly six months later, Time magazine nominated Ms. Fluke for person of the year.
So here is the award for MCP Limbaugh, representing not only the financial losses for which he was responsible, but also the failure and utter rejection of the culture war on women as reflected in the 2012 elections. Because I think you can fairly say the nasty jerk deserves at least some of the blame for the significant failure by the right with women.There is a certain resemblance between the beady eyed Limbaugh and the shiny pale pink piggy bank with only one penny.
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