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Nov. 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 1, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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No, I don't think anybody died or I'd see Geraldo on Fox and I don't see Geraldo so I don't think anybody died.
The shooting at LAX.
Several people heard happen in Terminal 3.
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What was that about an iPod?
Well, you can, but, you know, that's – HR is all excited because you can now use your iPod and your iPhone on the airplane.
But you can't.
You can't use the cellular radio.
So if your airplane, your airline doesn't offer Wi-Fi, you can't surf the net and you can't make a phone call.
So that's probably what the guy's shooting at the airport.
He probably heard the new regulations.
He can use his cell phone.
You can't.
You can fire it up and you can look at mail you've already downloaded, whatever, but you cannot connect to a cell network during takeoff or landing.
And you can't do it in the air because you can't get a cell signal in the air.
So if your airline doesn't have Wi-Fi, it isn't that big a deal.
Now you can fire it up and read a book.
If you have an e-book on your iPad or your smartphone or whatever, you can do all of that.
You can have it all, but you've got – you have to turn – By the way, can I give you all a big battery-saving tip?
If you're on an airline that has Wi-Fi, so you can get email and surf the internet while you're at altitude.
A good little trick is on your device, turn your airplane mode on.
And if you have an iPhone, this works.
After you turn airplane mode on, which turns off all the radios, then you turn Wi-Fi back on.
And that way, you will not churn your battery.
If you have your cellular radios and you get airplane mode off and you're flying around and your cell phone's trying to ping and find a cell tower for whatever length you're flight, you're going to lose 20, 30% of your battery because it'll never find.
It's going to be churning full speed trying to connect to a cell network.
It'll say searching on your phone.
And that's why you lose your battery out to Wazoo when you're flying.
So turn on airplane mode that turns off the cell radios and then turn Wi-Fi back on.
And there's hardly any battery drain up.
There's nothing above normal.
And that's only if your airliner has Wi-Fi on.
It doesn't, turn the airplane mode on anyway, because you've got to turn those radios off.
You've got to stop the phone trying to find a cell network at altitude.
It'll never do that.
It's going to look like crazy.
It's going to look for GPS locators.
It can't do that at altitude.
It's going to go bunker.
That battery is running 150% because it never shuts down because it never finds a cell tower to connect to.
Just a little helpful battery saving tip from your guru.
Happy to help.
So, anyway, this is all about these new rules in the FCC.
Hey, yeah, you can use your phone on the no, you can't.
You can't make a call and you can't download data via cell, even with the new rules.
So you better have on your iDevice or your phone whatever you want to read before you get on the airplane, because that's all you can do.
I mean, it's a big whoop to me because you've been able to do that anyway.
Once you get up in the audio, you can turn the phone on, can't you?
You can turn on the iPad once you get to altitude.
Now you can do it on the ground.
Big whoop.
Now, if they would let you collect data while you're taxiing and taking off, that'd be a big deal.
But you can't.
They don't want 150 people making phone calls on their telephones as they're taxiing out.
That would goof things up.
I mentioned earlier, folks, that there's a website, campusreform.com.
They're out there surveying students and they're telling them the truth about things.
This is the demographic that voted for Obama.
And they're doing great work out there.
What they did, they went to a campus, in this case, the University of Northern Colorado, and they started asking questions of the students while showing them video of Obama lying about being able to keep your plan if you like it, being able to keep your doctor if you like him, and having your premium reduced $2,500.
They're playing these things.
Now they know that it's not true.
You can't.
Everybody knows this now.
So the campus reform people, it's priceless.
The looks on these young students' faces as they learn that they were deceived.
And it really, if I may say so, the instances of young, single, 20-year-old women, when they learn that dear leader was deceiving them, when they're presented with the facts, they're just shocked.
Students call President Obama's handling of scandals in Obamacare rollout deceitful and incompetent.
President Obama's health care promises were deceitful, according to students.
Explanation of glitches, deceitful and incompetent.
President acting like a kid would act.
In an interview with Campus Reform on Wednesday, students expressed doubts that Obama has been blind to scandals like this.
See, that's another thing that's happening.
They're now thinking, okay, what else did he know about that he lied to us about?
There's a reason his approval numbers are coming down.
Here's this from the Washington Post.
I mean, they're scratching their heads over there at this.
Headline, Obama's likability succumbs to political gravity.
It's by Sean Sullivan.
Here's how it begins.
Now it's personal.
Gone are the days when President Obama could count on the public holding him in high personal regard, even if they didn't like the job he was doing.
Americans hold a more negative personal view of Obama for the first time in an NBC News Wall Street Journal poll.
Just 41% say they have a positive view of Obama.
45% say they view him negatively.
The numbers mark a notable shift.
They also cite a Washington Post ABC poll that shows a decline in Obama's personal popularity.
And they're nervous about it at the Washington Post.
They're scratching their heads.
They can't figure it out, really.
They say the numbers mark a notable shift.
For most of his presidency, Obama's personal popularity has outpaced his job approval rating.
The public's attitude's generally been akin to, well, he may not be doing a great job, but I still like the guy.
This is what gave birth to the Limbaugh theorem.
People say, I don't like the direction the country's going, and I don't like his policies.
But boy, is the guy doing a great job.
How in the world can this be?
And of course, there's a racial component to it.
Can't take that out of the equation.
It's always going to be there.
But the other factor is Obama was never seen as governing.
He was never really seen as responsible or accountable because every day that he was seen, he was out on the campaign trail campaigning against all this stuff that he was actually making happen.
My theory, Limbaugh theorem, is that Obama positioned himself as an outsider, not attached to anything that's happening.
The things that he has made happen, his policies, he positions himself as opposed to and against them.
And he makes it look like he's fighting for everybody else to overcome all these things that he has done.
He goes out and fights against the very policies he's enacted.
And it creates the illusion with a compliant media that somebody else is doing that stuff.
And he's out there and he's mad about it.
He's mad that we haven't created jobs sooner than we have.
He's mad that we're not out of the recession.
And he's mad about all this stuff.
And people, oh, this guy's out there fighting for me.
That's one of the reasons why the constant campaign is to create the optics that he's not governing, doesn't appear to be governing.
So he doesn't appear to be part of Washington.
He appears to have this mysterious, powerful bunch of forces that are opposing him.
They're Republicans.
And they're stopping him from creating jobs.
They're stopping him from giving people proper health care.
They're stopping him from making their home values go up.
And he's constantly out there fighting them.
And he does it by constantly campaigning and never seemed to be governing.
But now all that's that's that's fading away because it is his and he's being proven now to have lied.
Now Obama is seen as governing and now the press is noticing and now the president's approval numbers are plummeting.
If this kind of media honesty had been going on the past five years, I'm telling you today he would not have been reelected.
If when Obama in 2010, remember the Tea Party came to life because of all the debt and because of Obamacare, if the media had told the truth then, what they knew then and know now, that you weren't going to be able to keep your doctor.
Can you imagine Obama goes out and makes one of these appearances at a college campus and he says, Over, if you like your doctor, you're going to be keeping it.
And if you like your plan, nobody can take that away.
And if the press said the president today lied to college students, because by definition, you won't be able to keep your plan.
Can you imagine the different place we would be today?
But the Limbaugh Theorem explains why none of that honesty happened.
It was because advancing the leftist agenda no matter how is all that mattered.
And they've done it.
Now we've got Obamacare.
And now people are learning after the fact that Obama lied and was deceitful and is incompetent.
People had voted for it, young people, people all across the spectrum.
Now the media is reporting it.
So the Limbaugh Theorem is being borne out.
But it really is frustrating because all of this could have been known by the mass population three years ago.
It could have been known long ago.
We need not have had to go through all of this.
We need not be where we are, but we are.
It says here in the Washington Post: Obama's personal popularity has carried him through tough times and was no doubt an asset for him in the 2012 election.
While things may turn around for the president, the current trend does not look good for him.
There doesn't appear to be any one overarching reason or policy or political decision to explain the drop in Obama's popularity, say the pollsters at NBC and a Wall Street Journal.
More likely, it's a combination of time and recent political crises like Syria, NSA surveillance, glitches with the healthcare law.
They really think at the Washington Post, there isn't a singular explanation for this.
They really think it's just a culmination of things.
It's so unfortunate.
The president may not be able to ever, ever recover from this, no matter how hard we try to help him.
I think the exposure of his strategy for avoiding responsibility by the Limbaugh Theorem has clearly been a factor because it's being borne out here.
But you people in the media, let me help you out.
During the government shutdown, when the mall cannot be used by anybody and Obama opens it up for an illegal alien rally for amnesty, you don't.
You don't understand how that literally frosts people all over this country.
You have no idea, do you?
You have no idea how big this lie is.
You get to keep your plan.
You have no idea the impact of people with this stupid rollout of Obamacare.
You have no idea how important health care is to people.
And now they find out that the people they trusted to be in charge of it have no clue what they're doing.
There are people scared to death.
And they are in droves each and every day, coupled with people who are mad as they can be about all of this.
And you sit there still inside the belt wisdom.
There's not one thing that we can figure out to explain why Obama's likability is falling.
I bet you can't because you've worked so hard to keep it up.
You're wondering why all of a sudden are people not paying attention to you?
It's because they can see finally the truth.
I really think the exposure of the limbaugh theorem has been sort of like pulling the curtain back on the Wizard of Oz.
I got to take a break here, folks, because it is Open Line Friday and still much to do.
So sit tight.
We're coming right back.
And we are back.
Great to have you with us, my friends to the phones.
Peter in Morristown, New Jersey.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
It's been 23 years I've been trying to get in touch with you.
Well, here you are.
Here I am.
Well, let me tell you, I was telling Snerley yesterday, and see, he was kind enough to call me back today.
You know, when you go on the Obamacare website and you are under 30-some years of age, and those are the people that Obamacare really needs because they're going to finance the whole thing, the young people that put no demand on this.
Dream on.
You know, they're forgetting that those people don't have any income.
They don't have any jobs.
Well, the other thing that they don't have is they don't have a credit rating.
And the funny thing is, is the identity verification system that's done on the Obamacare website was hooked into the Experian database.
So when you go on and they go to Experian to find out if you're a real person, you get a line that says your identity wasn't verified.
You won't be able to submit your application for health care coverage until your identity is verified.
Hold it.
They use your credit rating to determine whether you really exist?
They go to the Experian database, which is a credit reporting service to see if you exist.
I don't owe anybody anything, so that's why I don't know about that.
Yeah, but you probably borrowed money at one time or another in your life, or you have a credit card or maybe.
But you know, there's no question.
There's no question.
But 35 and under, it's only about 50, 60% of these people have any type of credit whatsoever.
So that means 40 to 50% of them don't exist as far as the United States government's concerned in Obamacare.
Wait a second.
Is that true?
You're telling me that people in this target demographic.
40 to 50% of them are not going to be recognized by the system?
That's right.
And so they're told to call the Experian Help Desk in order to get verified.
And the Experian helpline is jammed up and hangs up and says, sorry, too much call volume.
I'll get to you later.
Same problem as the Obamacare helpline.
And then when they finally get through, they said, well, you know, there's a manual way of doing it that the government can do for you.
So call helphealthcare.gov and see if you can get it from them.
It's a vicious circle.
Yeah, but then that just starts the cycle repeating.
If you call healthcare.gov, they refer you to it.
Right.
And some of them are getting emails that say, because they've gotten so far to put their email in and stuff, and they get an email that says, you have a notice about your ID verification, but there's no place to respond to the notice.
All right.
Now, we were told that at the outset here, because the system, and this is before the rollout, by the way, this is before everybody knew what a mess this was.
Because they were running behind, we were told that for the first year, there weren't going to verify incomes for subsidies for anybody.
And it was basically the honor system.
So how do they build every day be Christmas, too?
Well, I know, but so you're saying that's BS?
That's BS.
They're verifying your identity, and you cannot complete your application unless their database verifies your identity.
And the database that they're using is Experian.
And Experian only has people in it that have debt.
Is that right?
That's right.
And this is the segment of the marketplace that this thing depends on how to be real.
There's no way.
That's not a glitch.
There's no way to fix that.
If you're right about this, there's no way to fix that other than...
No.
Do you really think they wanted this to work?
Well, no.
I got one other point.
You made a great point, Rush.
You made a superior point today when you were talking about all the lies and how big it is.
But it's bigger than you think because President Obama stopped becoming president the minute this was launched and he became Obamacare spokesman, spokesman Barack Obama.
Right.
I got to pause there because I am sadly out of time.
Hang on.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, and we return now to Peter in Morristown, New Jersey.
You started on something interesting, and I ran out of time.
You were saying I was more right than I knew about something, and you had just ran out of time, and you said that Obama ceased being president, became Obamacare spokesman.
Where are you going with that?
Well, you know, this big lie, when he was running for president and running for re-election, and he was pitching a policy, you know, politicos can say anything they want without being held accountable.
But once he became the advertising spokesperson for a legitimate product that's being sold to the public through a website and is distributing private companies' products, the insurance company's products, and their own products through the website, he's subject to the same Federal Trade Commission rules as everybody else.
And now he's a deceptive advertising practicer.
Now he's somebody who is for defrauding purchasers.
Now he's somebody who is pulling bait and switch.
These are all, I spent 40 years in marketing, so I know what I'm talking about.
This guy, you should start calling him.
Refer to him from now on as advertising or Obamacare spokesperson, Barack Obama, because that's what he is.
He's nothing but a pitch man now for a real product that should come under the same rules and regulations as every other product in the country.
And hell, they just put that guy up in Minnesota or Michigan who was doing some healthcare product in jail and charged him $18 million for deceptive advertising practices.
This isn't right.
Well, I do have to acknowledge one thing.
He does own it now.
That is the big transformation that has occurred.
He has now, he has escaped where he was safe.
He was safe within the Limbaugh theorem.
He was safe on college campus arguing against all this stuff that he'd caused, arguing against his own policies, but making it look like other people were doing this bad stuff.
And he was fighting them.
And he was trying to make it better for people.
And when he was doing that, he was never held accountable for anything he was doing.
He was always attached, disattached from it.
Never seen his governing.
You're right.
Now he's the spokesman.
Now he is, and he did it himself.
He attached himself to Obamacare, not just with the name.
He was out touting the benefits, and he lied.
And it was major.
And I think it's, I don't know where it's going to go.
I wish there was some more fight and pushback from the acknowledged other party.
But I mean, this is this, you talk about a scam or a bait and switch.
This is one of the biggest ones in history.
And this is on a presidential level, folks, this, this, you know, you're getting close to LBJ and Vietnam territory here because that bunch, LBJ and his collection of best and brightest were lying through their teeth about Vietnam and a number of things in that.
And it got one of the reasons why LBJ didn't run for reelection in 68 is because he had lost all connection with the American people.
He had lost their respect.
And remember when Klondike, CBS Evening New Cronkite, Cronkite, when he said whatever he reported on the, I think it was the Me Lai mask.
No, it wasn't Me Lai.
It was the The Ted Offensive, which actually was a success, but the media reported as a big failure.
And then LBJ sitting there watching while pulling the dog's ears.
You know, that's why he mistreated his beagles.
And they got a picture of that, too.
And he says, well, I've lost Klondike.
Now that means I've lost the country.
But there isn't an equivalent client.
Like Obama's not going to sit there, gee, I lost Chuck Todd.
I've lost the country.
Gee, I've lost Scott Pelley.
I've lost.
I mean, that isn't going to happen.
But he does own this.
Now, let's, speaking of that, let's listen to how the White House is handling this.
Grab soundbite.
Let's see here.
Number 10 and 11.
Let's go to the spokeskid.
Now keep in mind, I want to take you back to the first hour.
93 million people were not going to be able to keep their plan.
The government knew it.
It was in the Federal Register.
It's all over the news now.
NBC reported it, then they tried to hide it, and they brought it back.
It's all over.
The government knew, the administration knew in 2010 that 93 million Americans wouldn't be able to keep their health care plan, would not be able to keep their doctor.
Folks, this is so big.
I mean, this is such a lie.
This is not just an ordinary make a promise and don't fulfill it kind of lie.
This is huge.
This was purposeful practice deceit that led to a fraudulent reelection result that would have never happened had the truth been known.
If Obama's out there saying you get to keep your plan and you get to keep your doctor and the press was saying, no, you will not, he was finished.
But that didn't happen.
But now it's so how are they dealing with it?
Let's go to Jay Carney.
This is on, let's see, CNN today, this morning.
Chris Cuomo was talking to him.
He said, look, the numbers about early returns, who's signing up, they're terrible, Jay.
I mean, six people.
I mean, it's just how it is.
They're very low.
The real question is, how are you going to handle not getting to critical mass, which is the key to making this affordable?
The Affordable Care Act.
That affordable piece is this pool of coverage.
What do you do if you don't get the numbers that you need?
First of all, we are going to get the numbers that we need.
We have to look at Massachusetts, which under Governor Romney introduced a health care reform plan very similar to what the president has introduced here.
And in their first month of enrollment, only 123 people enrolled for premium paying plans in Massachusetts.
In the end, they had massive enrollment towards the end of the enrollment period.
So, you know, we always expected enrollment figures to be low.
We were saying that before October 1st.
Right, you expected six people, Jay?
And then you cite Romney?
Why don't you tell us about how he ran health care while putting his dog on the roof of his car?
Why he didn't care if some guy's wife got cancer, Jay?
You dare go back and cite Romney?
By the way, Romney Care in Massachusetts is a disaster, too.
You know, they blame the website crash on high volume.
Do you remember this, folks?
The website crashes the first day.
There's so many people trying to get through.
They sign up six people.
Now, they had 4.7 million unique visits.
Six people sign up and they're blaming high traffic for this.
The point is, these are not the soundbites I thought we had.
Carney is out there saying, well, it only affects 15% of people.
It only affects a few people.
15% of the people were talking millions of real people.
You know, this is the thing that really frosts me.
These people on the left, these Democrats, people like Obama and Harry Reid and Pelosi, for some silly reason, they get all the credit for having the big hearts.
And they get all the credit for having all the compassion.
And they care about the little guy.
The little guy is getting shafted and getting screwed by these people for 50 years.
The little guy takes the brunt of every one of their policies.
And now the little guy was lied to.
The little guy and his family were lied to about being able to keep their plan.
And this is important to people.
I hate that it's become this, by the way, but health care is oftentimes the most important thing to people, the thing they fear losing the most.
Some people fear losing their health care more than they fear losing their house.
I wish that weren't the case.
That's also part of Democrat propaganda.
There's no reason to live in abject fear that you don't have health insurance.
There's no reason for that.
But people do.
That's been constructed.
So it matters.
So Obama comes along and lies, and you don't get to keep your plan.
And what you're forced into costs three times as much.
And the regime says, well, it's only affecting 15% of people.
This is the point.
Those are real people.
Real human beings.
We're told the Democrats are the ones that really care about them.
These conservatives like Limbaugh, they don't care about people.
They only care about getting rich.
They only care about exploiting people.
They only care about hurting Obama.
We have the compassion.
We care about people.
And it's the exact opposite.
I'm telling you, bottom of my heart, we conservatives love everybody and we want the best for everybody.
We just happen to believe that everybody will do much better for themselves if they invest in themselves rather than letting somebody else do it.
Because we believe, we know that nobody's going to care about you as much as you do.
It's not possible that Barack Obama cares as much about you as you do.
It isn't possible.
I don't care what you think that Kathleen Sebelius or Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi care anywhere near about you as you do.
You're just there to be exploited and used as far as they're concerned.
So here now, millions of Americans don't have health insurance now.
They either can't sign up or they can't afford it.
And the White House reacts, well, it's a small percentage.
It's real people.
And it isn't a small percentage.
It is not a small percentage.
But the point is, it's real people.
It's not statistics.
It's not a percentage.
They don't care, folks.
This is all minutia to them.
All that matters to them is that they ultimately gain total control over the health care system because that gives them total control over the way you live.
Because the way you live has cost components when you get sick.
And when they're in charge of whether or not you get treated, that means they can determine how you must live in order to qualify for being treated later on.
They can dictate to you what you will and will not eat and where and you will not go and how you will not get there and hold that threat of not giving you health care over your head all the time.
That's who these people are.
That's who Barack Obama, lying in a most just extreme way to get this silly, Disaster of a law signed into law telling you the biggest lie he could concoct.
Now, here's one little piece of logic I'm going to leave you with before we go to the break.
If keeping your plan was so important, and it was to people, right?
If keeping your doctor was so important, why did we have to go change all of this anyway?
If people like their plans and like their doctors, then why did we have to totally turn everything upside down?
Couldn't we conclude that it may not have been broken?
If the number one selling point to reform was you get to keep what you've got, that translates to people being satisfied with what they've got to meet.
So, what did Obama?
He had to lie to people because most people were satisfied with what they had.
So, he had to tell them that they could keep it and that it was going to get cheaper because they didn't want massive reform.
But he didn't care.
He was going to get it anyway.
So, you had something that you liked, your doctor, your plan, and he had to tell you he was going to make it cheaper.
And it turns out now you can't even keep it.
You can't keep your plan.
You can't keep your doctor.
The plan doesn't exist anymore.
Your doctor may opt out.
And if you are able to stay in the system, it's going to cost you three times what you were paying.
And all of that is a reality born of lies told by the President of the United States.
It's Open Line Friday, and back to the phones.
Patty in Chicago.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, hello.
Rush, I wanted to say that Obamacare has dangerously compromised the middle class's accessibility to health care with these high deductibles and these high out-of-pocket costs.
Because we now have to really think twice and three times and four times before we approach a doctor, an emergency room, a hospital.
That's right.
Because what if you encounter a doctor who's not on the network, as it's called?
Exactly.
You are screwed like you can't, you may as well not have insurance.
Exactly.
You got a surgical team of six people working on it.
If just one of them is not in the network, you're done.
I'll use myself as an example.
I now have a $6,000 deductible and a $4,000 out-of-pocket.
No, no, no, no, no.
That president said that wasn't going to happen.
You must be wrong.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
But now, on the other hand, I live in Chicago, Illinois.
Illinois has expanded Medicaid.
So all these people have untethered access to health care.
They can run there with a hangnail.
I, on the other hand, if I cut my leg, I'm going to sit there and really judge how bad is it bleeding?
Will I get a scar?
If it's not, I mean, I may get out the sewing kit because I'm going to be facing that $6,000 deductible, that $4,000 out of pocket.
In my mind, the health care system has flipped.
All the people that get it for free, they have untethered access.
I now, as a middle-class person, am at the back of the line.
I really think.
Well, you've identified here what is really the objective.
And the objective here is the redistribution of wealth or of income.
And the middle class is being lied to and made to believe they are the recipients of the redistribution.
Oh, no, no.
$6,000 deductible and $4,000 out of pocket.
I'm sorry.
That's not, you don't have insurance.
No, no.
And, you know, years ago, when I was between jobs, I did have a catastrophic plan.
You know, my catastrophic plan way back when was better than this, and this is considered health care.
This is insane.
It's just insane what they're selling.
Well, it's by design.
All this is by design.
This is you're eventually going to be faced with a solution to this.
And the solution is going to be, you know what?
It was a valiant effort.
We really tried hard.
The Republicans, though, they kept gumming it up by trying to repeal it.
This is what they'll say.
The Republicans made it worse.
They tried to defund it, try to repeal it.
Look, folks, we gave it our best shot, but we're going to have to now government's going to have to essentially put everybody on Medicaid.
And it's going to be free for you.
That's the next lie that's coming.
I'll tell you, this, I can't, I've frosted like I can't describe for you, folks.
Okay, we've got one big, exciting broadcast hour to go.
I mentioned some of the mail coming in characters in the book is really cute.
I have a couple I'll share with you.
We kick off the next hour as we get back into things.
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