{"id":16165,"date":"2012-03-26T19:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T19:06:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-26T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T19:06:49","slug":"media_matters_is_like_jock_itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/26\/media_matters_is_like_jock_itch\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Matters is Like Jock Itch"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Mark Stevens is back. Let me refresh your memory. Mark Stevens is a local advertiser on this program in New York on WABC, our flagship station there. And last week he appeared on the Fox Business Channel on Varney & Co. to describe how he\u2019s being targeted by Media Matters for America and related groups. And he said two interesting things last week. He said that this is not a boycott. It\u2019s terrorism. It\u2019s a small number of people trying to make themselves sound like a large number of people. They\u2019re trying to make themselves sound like they\u2019re angry customers who are never gonna patronize the business again when that\u2019s not who they are. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re Democrat operatives, and they are running a terrorism campaign. They are calling and sending e-mails to his female employees, and they are threatening them. He said after his appearance on Varney & Co. last week, and after we played the sound bites, he received 40,000 e-mails. That\u2019s his number. Thirty-eight thousand of them were supportive. Two thousand were critical of him and his decision to keep sponsoring. Well, today he showed back up on Fox with Megyn Kelly and we have two sound bites. She asked him, “Does the intimidation campaign cause you any concern?”<\/line><\/p>\n

STEVENS: Absolutely no concern. Let them come. Let them come! The e-mails I\u2019ve been getting, Megyn, by the tens of thousands. I\u2019m trying to answer them all because they\u2019re so heartfelt and they\u2019re really tapping into something that\u2019s going on in America that the story is not being told. People who run little manufacturing businesses, retailers, people in the military, all kinds of people across the country who feel powerless, they\u2019re suffocated. It\u2019s like the lid is blowing off in the e-mails they write me. God bless me. They think I\u2019m a hero, which I\u2019m not. But I have to answer all of them because their e-mails are so heartfelt. Something is going on here that has to be addressed because the country\u2019s at risk. If I can\u2019t advertise where I want to advertise my business because of a small group of people… We can tell, because the vast majority of e-mails are in support of us, Rush, America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He wants to advertise. And he is, by the way. He has doubled or tripled down on his buy. He is not being intimidated by it because he wants people to know what is going on. Tens of thousands of e-mails here. And she asked him, Megyn Kelly said, “Well, Mr. Stevens, what are you going to do next?”<\/p>\n

STEVENS: Advertise more heavily! Stand my ground! Absolutely not give in in any way. Give no quarter to those who will intimidate me or my company. And if I can do anything else for others, try to be the bulwark that stands in the way of this terrorist activity. Because I love the country, and it\u2019s gotta stop!<\/line>