Petition Wants Rush Limbaugh Radio Show Off AFN
There is a petition online calling for the removal of Rush Limbaugh's radio show from the Armed Forces Network.
The petition was started last week and was posted on the White House's public petition website, We The People.
The anti-Limbaugh petition, which had more than 21,000 electronic signatures as of yesterday, pleads with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to remove Limbaugh's show from the network due to the host's "abusive, divisive, insulting language."
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If the petition can gather 25,000 signatures by April 4, the federal government will publically respond, according to whitehouse.gov.
Under the website's guidelines, petitioners have one month to collect 25,000 electronic signatures. If the petition gathers the necessary amount of signatures the White House will give an official response to the petition.
There is also a pro-Limbaugh petition which launched soon after and states that the petition to remove Limbaugh from AFN is "a direct threat to free speech" and continues to highlight that other liberal and progressive individuals have made controversial statements as well.
This new petition is just that latest development in this continuing drama. There have been several reports which explain that many advertisers have pulled ads in response to his remarks.
AOL, Tax Resolution Services, weight loss program Sensa and vitamin supplier Vitacost, along with over 50 others, have all pulled their commercials form his show.
There were also two radio stations, KPUA AM 670 and WBEC 1420, who stated that the stations will no longer broadcast his show.
"It has never been our goal to allow our station to be used for personal attacks and intolerance," according to a statement from KPUA's parent company.
"The most recent incident has crossed a line of decency and a standard that we expect of programming on KPUA whether it is locally produced or a syndicated program like the Rush Limbaugh show," the statement said.
According to Limbaugh's web site, there are more than 600 stations that broadcast his show.
