Last week’s Chick-fil-A appreciation day must have been painful to watch for David Friend, the CEO of Carbonite, a computer file backup service that was once the king of its industry.
Watching how well a business that is favored by the Right can do must have ground salt into the self-inflicted wound that is still plaguing Carbonite today.
On Saturday March 3, David Friend, the breast-beating fool who is the CEO of Carbonite, decided he could not even wait until the following Monday to drop his company’s advertising relationship with Rush Limbaugh. Bleating about Limbaugh having correctly characterized a young woman who wanted a Catholic university to pay for her contraception devices, Friend cited a desire for a “more civilized public discourse” as the reason for his action.
The truth was that Carbonite and a few other foolish advertisers were convinced to drop Limbaugh by Media Matters, a George Soros operation dedicated to destroying conservative talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular. Carbonite was played just as the rest of them were played. Now that a full calendar quarter has past, the extent to which Carbonite was played can be more accurately assessed.
While Chick-fil-A was gaining record-breaking sales merely because its CEO Dan Cathy has stood for traditional marriage, Carbonite was suffering a substantial decrease in sales. What is worse is that in its type of business, customers make a decision that stands for a year or more. Nothing will bring back the business Carbonite has lost.
An examination of Carbonite’s Security and Exchange Commission filings and Rush’s listenership figures show that David Friend’s knee jerk liberal move has sent these two traveling in opposite directions. Limbaugh’s numbers are higher than ever, and the per share price of Carbonite stock has fallen by 15%.
Now, David Friend is sorry. Now he understands he hurt his company so he could beat his breast and feel like a good little liberal. When asked about the wisdom of dropping Limbaugh, he said, “I guess my impression was that it wouldn’t be that impactful, but I guess it was quite impactful.”
Maybe the fact that liberals can’t be trusted enters into this picture. On Friday, Friend and a former Carbonite executive revealed they have formed a new on-line file backup service company, one that will eventually be a competitor to Carbonite.
As Rush would say, “ Hmmmmm.”
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David Friend of Carbonite acted rashly when he abandoned Rush Limabaugh’s radio show. Of course it hurt business for his company. That’s what happens when people do stupid things like Friend did. Rush Limbaugh merely told the truth about that misguided Fluke woman. But, the libtards can’t handle the truth. They’re out of touch with reality, anyhow. They’re delusional. Rush’s show is at a all-time high. Of course, his show is more popular then ever. The “truth” always wins out.
that’s what happens when you act without thinking first. that’s what happens when you underestimate someones popularity. So sad, too bad. Do you suppose someone at Carbonite will get smart and fire this guy?
Yep people do stupid things. Like putting every record and secrets from photos to bank accounts ito business in one company that can be taken over by the government anytime they want. In the comminist stste of Russia their government knows everything about everyone. Course they had to find out one person at a time. Here we put everything in one place so that the government can find out everything at one time anytime they decide to confiscate carbonites records. If you want a back up put it on a disc.
Some other arrogant liberal businesses better take notice. We aren’t stupid and we can decide WHERE we want to spend our money!!!
I don’t find this funny. I like for Co’s to show who they are and what they stand for. We are only responsible for our own actions. God fearing people should and will stand together. Good-bye Carbonite., and good riddance. Personally, I would be shocked to find a liberal Co. safeguarding my files. Who knows what info may be passed on to this administration. Food for thought….
So true about your files being safe with carbonite the liberal co. You rock Rush and thanks for your dedication in telling the truth and letting people who have half of brain to listen to the truth the facts about lying liberals. God Bless and keep up the good work!!
Carbonite got exactly what they deserved. FOOLS
So David Friend did your liberal friends back you and the company, no they left you like the stinking rats they are
Carbonite, and others, wanted to go back to Rush. He told all of them, NO. They are tanking and Rush is growing. To celebrate how much I appreciate Rush, I buy his teas every month…-PI
That’s got to have been quite a lesson for Carbonite to have learned.
Debra…
Wow. So you stand for T. Cathy expressing his mind, but not for David Friend. Your glee over his failure is nauseating.
You mean like the liberals practically demanding Mr. Cathy’s head because of his beliefs, yet NOT A PEEP to the muslims having worse beliefs (they DO take heads)…….yep, it is pretty nauseating.
Once a company enters the political arena, they deserve the ‘respect’ or ‘fallout’ that will be generated from those who either support or fight the political agenda. Rush Limbaugh’s job is to express political commentary. Carbonite’s job is to back up computer files. Each to his own.
Rush has signifiicant conservative support–because America is largely conservative. America is also oriented to Christianity and family values, so companies, like Target and Home Depot, that actively support the minority agendas of homosexuality and same-sex marriage should also expect ‘fallout.’
You find T. Cathy objectionable and David friend admirable.
David friend took aggressive action to boycott someone.
Really is that the best you can do?
Eahara: Did Mr. Cathy pull his advertising from places that may have endorsed Gay Marriage? NO Did Mr Cathy pull his advertising in order to supress any one’s free speech? NO
D Friend cited a desire for a “more civilized public discourse” as the reason for his action.
Translation: D Friend wanted to control how and what Rush said.
You’re lack of understanding of the issue is nauseating.
The guy got just what he deserved. He’s perfectly free to find Places with more civilized discouse to place his ads.
Yeah, He could go over to Air America, oh wait . . . no, he can’t, because they never were able to make a profit, and even Sore Oh’s got tired of shoveling money into that worthless pit.
And because the Air America cast were aligned with the ideology of Sore Oh’s and the communist/progressive left, I did, and still do enjoy the fact that they shut down.
I feel the same about Carbonite taking a hit as well. They support the left, who has been building up their anti-American momentum over the past century. It really began to advance in the late 50′s – early 60′s.
And it accelerated rapidly after the left got control of the DOE, NEA and began indoctrinating the children.
If Friend does get that other competitor company up and running, I hope it fails too. The less support the left has, the less harm the democrats can do to this country. Unfortunately Carbonite is a small fish swimming in their ocean’s of cash.
Typical of right wingers. I didn’t say that I objected to T. Cathy. I was glad to see the Chick-fil-A success on August 1st. What I object to is the glee expressed over the failure of another human being’s venture and business.
Odd how anyone who takes issue with anything that Rush says receives such vitriol from you fine Christian people. Maybe you should save it for Obama and the people who are destroying this country