Netflix Says That Actually It Doesn't Advertise with Rush Limbaugh

By Alan Scherstuhl Tue., Mar. 6 2012 at 12:10 PM

For the last year or so, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has been behaving like the hero of Brewster's Millions or some other sad '80s comedy (probably available for streaming!) where the hero has to piss away a fortune or a corporation or something while pretending to be a reasonable person. (This was a requirement of all wills back then.)

Hastings' stewardship of the good-movies-by-mail, terrible-movies-by-streaming company has been so erratic that the remaining subscribers are ready to assume the worst: That Netflix is a proud advertiser on Rush Limbaugh's daily three-hour vagina-drying AM radio comedy program.

This has led to thousands of furious comments on Netflix's Facebook page as well as much outraged Twitter chatter. On Netflix's Facebook wall, it goes like this: Some poor intern posts a barrel-scraping recommendation of some hilariously terrible stream-instant movie, like Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, and then hundreds of commenters yell that they're cancelling their subscriptions because Netflix apparently advertises on Limbaugh's show.

Recommending season one of a show called Workout, Netflix writes, "She's got six-pack abs and zero tolerance for whiny celebs." The first commenter asks, "Does she take birth control?"

But, guess what? It turns out Netflix and Limbaugh may have as little to do with each other as Limbaugh and General Motors, the company from whom the buttery sewer-fluke of a radio host claims to have refused ad money, on principle.

As Joe Brockmeier reports on ReadWriteWeb, Netflix claims not to advertise on on Limbaugh's show at all. Steve Swasey, Netflix's VP of corporate communications, tells Brockmeier:

We do buy network radio advertising and have confirmed that two Netflix spots were picked up in error around the Rush Limbaugh show. We have instructed our advertising agency to make sure that this error will not happen again.

Read Brockmeier's full report and Swaysey's full comment here.

That's how bad things are for Limbaugh these days: He's even being shunned by a company as determined to alienate its customers as Netflix.

And here's how clueless Netflix is: They don't even announce this on their very busy Facebook page.

Other Descriptions of Rush Limbaugh I Couldn't Squeeze Into This Piece:

Angry dollop of sweat and cookie dough Rush Limbaugh

Doom 3 boss monster Rush Limbaugh

Ready-to-pop alien egg sac Rush Limbaugh

Shouting pastry Rush Limbaugh

Alleged Dominican sex tourist Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh (AC 7, HP 15, HD 4, Move: 1" per round, Number of Attacks: 2, Damage: 1-4, 1-4, Special Attacks: Rhetorical Spew, Alignment: CE)

Follow Alan Scherstuhl on Twitter at @studiesincrap, and SF Weekly at SFWeekly and @TheSnitchSF.

Tags:

Netflix, Rush Limbaugh

We Recommend

DSCD

Netflix IS still on rush limbaugh's show. They may not have ACTIVELY purchased time specifically on the show, but instead are making 'Network" buys and the stations are so desperate to put things in that slot (because they don't HAVE anyone else) that they are using them on the show. So they are PASSIVELY advertising. But bottom line is they are still advertising. They can do what many many many other advertisers (and even recipients of free PSAs) have been doing and tell the Media Company that the do not want their service/product advertised on rush limbaugh (or any other hatemongering show) under any circumstances. And the Media Company/Radio stations MUST honor that. Keep up the pressure. They are being weasley.

TallLoving.Com

Meet Tall fiends.on my pic。

TallLoving.Com

If you are ready for a real relationship that leads to marriage, maybe you would like someone taller. Check left.to Meet Tall fiends.on my pic。

TallLoving.Com

======Find_your _perfect_soul_mate_here======Look_at_ my __username! !!

TallLoving.Com

Its_the_place_where_you_can_meet_talls_who_are_searching_for_their_special_someone.

Aries Post

Rush will be fine, some will go and some will come

Good articles on www.ariespost.com

Fughyew

vagina drying?is this supposed to be a real news story?MOVE ALONG FOLKS, PISSED OFF LEFTIST IN PUBLIC, NOTHING NEW TO SEE HERE

Dittodumb

The funniest thing here is that this dittohead assumes that Rush fans are so dim that they need him to point out that a blogger who calls Rush a 'sex tourist' might not be a Rush fan.b

Andrew in WV

As a 4 HD monster, I would think Rush should have more HP than 15. Unless you're accounting for his (what I assume would be) low CON score.

Steve in LA

Not entirely true. I heard a Netflix ad on Rush's show this morning (March 6) on KFI am in Los Angeles

e_dog

There are a lot of terrible movies on Netflix, many of them starring Dolph Lundgren or the guy who played the Kobra Kai dojo master in the Karate Kid trilogy. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is one of the good ones.