The good news yesterday was that Rush Limbaugh's syndicator was suspending national ads for two weeks. That's a sign they're in more trouble than they admitted.
But they didn't pull all the national ads. They told local stations to replace other national ads with "Lifelock and Lear Financial or a local spot of your choice."
Of those two, LifeLock looks like a pretty damn good target for action, via its high profile board of directors that includes former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Goldman Sachs Managing Director Gene Yoon.
Details and contact info below the fold.
First a bit more about LifeLock, so you know what you're dealing with. From a January 2012 press release about Goldman Sachs investing $25 million in the company:
Founded in 2005 by a series of professionals in the banking, payment, credit and security industries, LifeLock has grown into one of the fastest growing companies in Arizona. These individuals have set out to defend Americans from the onslaught of identity theft at a time when personal information is compromised daily.
Located in a secure facility in Tempe, Arizona, LifeLock enables “locks” by setting and automatically renewing fraud alerts with the major credit bureaus, removing member names from pre-approved credit card offers and junk mail lists.
There are many other ID theft companies around, but maybe none with as pedigreed a list of directors as Lifelock. Those directors are listed below. Please let them know what you think of their firm's participation in the Limbaugh show, something all other national advertisers except Lear, a gold coin seller, have at least temporarily abandoned.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Todd Davis
LifeLock, Inc.
c/o Tami Nealy, Senior Director of Corporate Communications
tami@lifelock.com
Director
David Cowan
Partner Bessemer Venture Partners
650.853.7000
@davidcowan on Twitter
Director
Tom Ridge
Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
President, Ridge Global
1-202-833-2008
press@ridgeglobal.com
Director
Chini Krishnan
Founder and CEO Vimo, Inc.
650-618-4600
http://www.vimo.com/...
2595 East Bayshore Road
Suite 250
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Director
George Reyes
Retired Chief Financial Officer Google, Inc.
c/o Tami Nealy, Senior Director of Corporate Communications
tami@lifelock.com
Director
Gene Yoon
Managing Director
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
c/o Investor Relations
gs-investor-relations@gs.com
Of course you can reach out to Lifelock directly as well.