Rush Limbaugh accuses critics of mass deception
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Radio host Rush Limbaugh
A new petition campaign by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee calling on sponsors to end their relationship with talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh is based on a two-year-old “Stop Rush” campaign run by a handful of activists, according to the “Rush Limbaugh Show.”
Brian Glicklich, a spokesman for the top-rated radio program, said “Stop Rush” claims to be a grassroots group made up of ordinary consumers unhappy with Limbaugh’s comments.
“In truth, however, there are no potential customers here, just a small number of hardcore political activists founded by Angelo Carusone, [executive vice president] of Media Matters for America,” he said.
He pointed out there are only 10 Twitter users account for almost 70 percent of all Stop Rush tweets to advertisers, amplified by illicit software.
“In addition, almost every communication from a Stop Rush activist originates from outside the state of the advertiser,” he said. “Thus, these activists are not and never would have been customers … their only role is to harass small businesses in an attempt to interfere with their operations, as long as they are advertising with Rush.”
Glicklich said a small number of “politically motivated out of-state activists are distributing target lists indiscriminately, and annoying small businesses until they give up the advertising deals that help them grow, or risk being unable to conduct business at all.”
“It’s not even activism … it’s blackmail,” he said.
Glicklich said that while the activists long have operated secretly, the show’s investigation reveals the names of those who are “tweeting, Facebooking, and emailing small businesses with harassing and bullying messages over and over until they surrender.”
That investigation listed the following activists:
Name: Matthew Mitchell
Location: Altamonte Springs, FL
ID: Captain Murdock/@CaptMurdock
Name: Nancy Padak
Location: Kent State University
ID: npadak@kent.edu, Facebook.com/nancy.padak
Fun Fact: Emails advertisers with harassment from her official Kent State email address. Gives businesses she has no relationship with 1-star ratings if they advertise on Rush. Friend of Cherie Richards
Name: Jason Rey
Location: Georgia
ID: Frantic Quark/@FranticQuark
Name: Lauren Reynolds
Location: Los Angeles, CA
ID: Lauren Reynolds/@chloesty, lonelydays46@gmail.com, Facebook.com/lauren.reynolds.946179
Fun Fact: Gives businesses she has no relationship with 1-star ratings if they advertise on Rush
Name: Cherie Richards
Location: Powell, Ohio
ID: Kitty Fitzgerald/@KittyFitz50 kittyfitzgerald@gmail.com, Facebook.com/cherier1
Fun Fact: Regularly changes online identity to hide anonymously, gives businesses she has no relationship with 1-star ratings if they advertise on Rush
Name: Sarah Smyea Rivers
Location: Whittier, CA
ID: SueBryce/@eurekasue49
Fun Fact: Changes ID frequently with different numbers to remain anonymous, has sent over 96,000 tweets
Name: Dennis William Rohner
Location: Gainesville, FL
ID: Shawtoo@Shawtoo
Name: Linda Kotsenburg Swanholm
Location: Covina, CA
ID: CMMorgan/@socallks, lswanholm@aol.com
Fun Fact: Develops, administers, and distributes target lists indiscriminately, gives businesses she has no relationship with 1-star ratings if they advertise on Rush
Name: Carol Kernahan Wallin
Location: Anaheim, CA
ID: Uses @Flushfools and @hrhprincess, Facebook.com/carol.kernahan.7, flushfools@gmail.com
Fun Fact: Writes for DailyKos under both identities, long bullying/harassing pieces about political opponents.
Glicklich said when challenged to reveal their names, the activists protested that they had received “death threats from Rush fans.”
But Glicklich said they offered no evidence of such threats.
“They simply need anonymity to bully with impunity,” he said.
He called the Stop Rush movement “simply a small number of extremists sending tens of thousands of tweets and other messages.”
Glicklich pointed out that a software program from UniteBlue allows Stop Rush to send tweets from others’ accounts. Nearly 90 percent of the tweets were found to have been sent that way.
Some of the tweets come from an employer’s address, such as the messages from Nancy Padak at Kent State University, to “give added authority as they harass and bully targets.”
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