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Home Depot reportedly claims it doesn’t “support” Limbaugh’s show -- but here’s the audio

August 17, 2009 7:10 pm ET by Jeremy Schulman

Last week, Media Matters reported on companies and organizations that have run ads in recent weeks on the hate- and conspiracy theory-filled programs of Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Rush Limbaugh despite appearing on a 2006 list of advertisers that reportedly didn't want their ads broadcast during Air America programs.

One of these companies is the Home Depot. As we reported, Home Depot has recently advertised on Limbaugh's show.

Media Matters has now received multiple emails from readers who say that they contacted Home Depot and received a reply asserting that Home Depot doesn't "support the Rush Limbaugh radio show." Here's the text of one such email:

Dear ********,

Thank you for contacting The Home Depot Customer Care.

We appreciate you taking the time to forward your concerns.

In reference to your e-mail, we would like to inform you that the Home Depot do not support the Rush Limbaugh radio show.

We look forward to your continued patronage and assisting you with all of your home improvement needs. 

Sincerely,

*******

Customer Care Research Team

Media Matters has the audio of a Home Depot ad that aired on New York's WABC-AM during the July 3 Rush Limbaugh Show at 12:49 p.m. ET.

Reader tips contributed to this post. Thanks, and keep them coming!

Tags: Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Premiere Radio Networks

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    • Author by terrapin53 (August 17, 2009 10:00 pm ET)
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      Technically they could right if this was a local WABC commercial and not nationwide. Home Depot needs to go to each loacal staion and say no to advertising during the idiots time slot.
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      • Author by freespeech (August 18, 2009 8:50 am ET)
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        I am an independant thinker and listen to Limbaugh, Beck and Dobbs a couple times a week. I find little more than their presentation of hard facts, clearly identified opinions, and an encouragement of their listeners to think. This country provides for free speech, not just the free speech you or I want to here. Don't be a sheep; read, listen, observe, challenge, and think for yourself. Our representative democracy has served us well for the past 233 years. The free market works. Liberty is the corner stone to all of our successes regardless of how messy the process was getting there. As for Home Depot, they are a commercial, for profit business that advertises to the entire buying public. This would include the listeners to these three shows. If you don't like Home Depot for this, then under our democracy and the liberty it guarantees, you can choose not to shop there. WHAT A CONCEPT!
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