Tool - Is it appropriate to Boycott Sponsors of TV and radio programming you disagree with?

Is it appropriate to Boycott Sponsors of TV and radio programming you disagree with?

Here is a list of current sponsors of Rush Limbaugh. Since I vehemently disagree with his entire should I boycott these companies? eharmony Inverness Medical (maker of stresstabs) Onstar Sleep Number Bed Home Office, parent company of The Neptune Society of Northern California Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners Smart & Final Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee Blue-Emu Lumber Liquidators Avacor (hair loss treatment) Lazerguide® (golf instruction tool) Mission Pharmacal Company General Steel Metal Buildings Life Quotes, Inc. Select Comfort Corporation Scottrade Inc RegionalHelpWanted.com, Inc. The Swap Shop Pfizer Inc Lending Tree Tarrant Books Stewart Enterprises Sorry, I wrote too quickly had had a typo there. I disagree with Limbaugh's entire outlook and opinion in general.

Public Comments

Yes, follow your beliefs and refuse to support the companies that violate them.
Right, a boycott of one. That'll shake them up!
Its the American way.
It is absolutely appropriate to boycott companies on those grounds. You have to ask yourself how many of those company's do you use products from and are you willing to do without those products. And by the way, protesting anything Rush Limbaugh has anything to do with is an excellent idea. Even a right-wing,conservative town like Sacramento couldn't handle Rush and had to get rid of him. Other than pure comedic value, and, boy is he funny, he has no redeeming qualities. Boycott away, I say!!
common sense says shop at the home depot but your heart says shop at ace hardware so no on the boy cot.
Yes it is. I've boycotted a lot of sponsors and businesses that are following the politically correct immoral bunch that we have to fight every day.
My answer is yes and no. In 2000, Dr. Laura Schlessinger started a daytime talk show. But within six or seven months it was shut down by homosexual rights advocates who didn't like the fact the someone with such a decidedly anti-homosexual agenda was being allowed to have a TV show. Ergo, enough companies and corporations were persuaded not to buy advertising time on the show. In that sense the boycott was successful. Later some of her radio advertisers pulled out, and her show was completely banned in Canada by the CBC. The only drawback to a boycott is when people start asking questions about what's so horrible about this TV or radio show that it needs to be banned, and therefore they become more interested in it.