After a call from protesters and blogs for them to pull their ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio show or face boycotts, Sears and Allstate both said that the commercials were never
scheduled to run in the first place.
The Daily Kos blog called for a boycott of Sears, but the company does not sponsor or advertise on the show per spokesman Tom Aiello. He said that WABC, a
New York radio station, mistakenly ran a Sears ad Thursday during a news break from the Limbaugh show.
The Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based company tweeted "Sears and Kmart did not intentionally advertise on the Rush Limbaugh show. We've taken actions to ensure our ads do not
run on this show.'' Allstate Corp. blamed a network media vendor for mistakenly running its commercials Monday afternoon during Limbaugh's show.
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