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 yet.
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 up the airport.
I mean, probably he probably heard the new regulations.
He can use his cell phone and 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 you can fire it up and read a book.
Uh if you have an ebook on your iPad or your or your uh your smartphone or what have you, you can do you can do all of that.
You can have it on, but you got you have to turn you know 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 uh get email and surf the uh 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 uh you will not churn your battery.
If 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 your flight, you're gonna lose 20, 30% of your battery.
Because it'll never find, it's gonna 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 the 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, and there's nothing above normal.
Uh, and that's that's but that's only if your uh airliner has Wi-Fi on.
If it doesn't, turn the turn the airplane mode on anyway, and you 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 gonna look like crazy, it's gonna look for GPS locators, it can't do that at altitude, it's gonna go bonking 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, but 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 alley, you can you can turn the phone on, can't you?
You can turn on the iPad once you get to altitude, and now you can do it on the ground.
Big whoop.
Now, if they would let you collect data while you're taxing and taking off and 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 taxing out.
That would goof things up.
I mentioned earlier, folks, that the uh there's a website, campus reform.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 this they're doing great work out there.
What they did, they 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 reduce $2,500.
They're playing these things.
Now they know that every that it's not true.
You can't.
Everybody knows this now.
So the campus reform people, uh, it's priceless what they're what they're 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 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 and 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 likeability succumbs to political gravity.
It's by 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.
Forty-five percent 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 not 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 attitudes generally been akin to, well, he may not be doing a great job, but I still like the guy.
This is 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 can 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 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 making happen.
My theory, the 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.
I mean, 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 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 seem 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 and if you like your doctor, you're gonna 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 him, young people, people all across the spectrum.
Now the media's reporting it.
So the Limbaugh theorem is being worn out.
But it really is frustrating, because all of this, all of this could have been known by the mass population three years ago.
Could have been known long ago.
We need not have had to go through all of this.
We need not be where we are.
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 The Wall Street Journal.
More likely, it's a combination of time and recent political crises like Syria, NSA surveillance, glitches with the health care law, the 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.
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 with a limball theorem is 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 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 with there's not one thing that we can figure out to explain why Obama's like a villainy 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 gotta 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 twenty-three years I've been trying to get in touch with you.
Well, here you are.
Here I am.
Well, let me tell you it's I was telling Snurley 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 thirty some years of age, you uh and those are the people that um uh Obamacare really needs, because they're gonna finance the whole thing.
The young people that put no demand on the dream on, you know, are they 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.
And what they know wait 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 I don't that's why I 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.
And under, it's only about 50, 60 percent of these people have any type of credit whatsoever.
So that means 40 to 50 percent of them don't exist as far as the United States government's concerned.
Is that Obamacare?
Wait a second, is that is that That's true.
You're telling me that people in this target demographic uh people forty to fifty percent of them are not going to be recognized by the system.
That's right.
And so they get they're they're told to call the experience experience help desk in order to get verified.
And the experience 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 help healthcare.gov and see if you can get it from them.
It's a vicious circle of the colour.
Yeah, but then that just starts the cycle repeating.
If you call health healthcare.gov, they refer you to it.
Right.
And some of and some of them are getting emails that say uh because they've gotten so far to put their email in and stuff, and they get an email that says um uh you have a notice about your ID verification, um, 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 uh for anybody.
And it was basically the honor system.
So how does it held every day be Christmas, too, you know?
Well, I know, but so you're saying that's 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 these are the that this is the segment of the marketplace that this thing depends on.
Well, there's no to be real.
There's no way.
That's not a glitch.
There's there's no way to fix that.
If you're right about this, there's no way to fix that other than do you really think they wanted this to work?
Well, no.
I 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 spokeman, spokesman Barack Obama.
Right.
I gotta pause there because I am sadly out of time.
Hang on.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limboy, and we return out of Peter in Morristown, New Jersey.
You started on something interesting, and I ran out of time.
You were saying I was 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 practice.
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 um Obamacare spokesperson uh 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 health care product in jail and charged him 18 million dollars for um uh you know deceptive advertising practices.
This isn't right.
Well, I do have to acknowledge one thing, he he does own it now.
That that is the the big transformation that has occurred.
He has now he has 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 as 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 it's uh I don't know where it's gonna go.
I I I uh wish there was some more fight and pushback from the acknowledged other party.
But I mean, this this 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 uh, you know, you you've got you you're 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.
Uh in that edit one of the reasons why LBJ didn't run for re-election '68's because he had lost all connection with the American people.
He had lost their respect.
Uh, remember when Klondike, CBS evening new, Cronkite Cronkite, when he said uh whatever he reported on the, I think it was the me Lie mask.
No, it wasn't me lie, it was 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 what he mistreated his beagles.
And they got a picture of that too.
Uh and he says, Well, I've lost Klondike now.
That means I've lost the country.
But there isn't an equivalent like Obama's not going to sit there's gee, I lost Chuck Todd, I've lost the country.
Gee, I've lost Scott Pelley, I've lost.
I mean, that isn't gonna happen.
But he does own this.
There's no now.
Let's speak of that, let's listen to how the White House handling this.
Grab sound bike, let's see here.
Number 10 and 11.
Let's go to the spokes kid.
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.
This is it's it's it's all over the news now.
This is it's it's NBC reported it, and they tried to hide it, and they brought it back.
It's all over every 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 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 re-election 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 uh on let's see uh CNN today, this morning.
Chris Cuomo was talking to him, 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 gonna 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 and 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 uh 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 some wise guy's wife got cancer, Jay.
You dare go back and cite Romney.
By the way, Romney care in Massachusetts is a disaster too.
I'd say you know, they're they blamed they blame the website crash on high volume.
Do you remember this, folks?
The website crashes the first day, so there's so many people trying to get through.
They sign up six people.
Now they had 4.7 million unique visits.
That's six people sign up and they're blaming high traffic for this.
The point is, these are not the sound bites I thought we had.
Carney is out there saying, well, it only affects 15% of people.
It only affects a few people.
Fifteen percent 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 the people.
Those are 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 Limboard, 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 Sibelius or Harry Reed 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 reaction, well, it's a small percentage, and it's 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 minutiae 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 or 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 the most ex 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 gonna 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 people 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 me.
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 gonna get cheaper because they didn't want massive reform.
But he didn't care.
He was gonna get it anyway.
So you had something that you liked, your doctor, your plan, and he had to tell you he was gonna 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 gonna 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.
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 if just one of them is not in the network, you're done.
I'll use myself as an example.
I I now have uh six thousand dollar deductible and a four thousand dollar out of pocket.
No, no, no, no.
That uh president said that wasn't gonna 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 gonna sit there and really judge how bad is it bleeding, will I get a scar?
If it's not I I mean, I may get out the sewing kit, because I'm gonna be facing that six thousand dollar deductible, that four thousand out of pocket.
Right.
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 it's it 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.
That and and the middle class is being lied to and made to believe they are the recipients of the redistribution.
Oh, no, no, no.
Six thousand dollar deductible and four thousand 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 healthcare.
This is insane.
It's just insane what they're selling.
Well, it's it's it's by design.
All this is by design.
This is you're eventually you're gonna be faced with a solution to this.
And the solution is gonna be, you know what?
It was a valiant effort.
We really tried hard.
Republicans, though, they kept gumming it up by trying to repeal it.
This is what they'll say.
The Republicans made it worse.
They try to defund it, try to repeal it.
Look, folks, we gave it our best shot, but I'm we're just we're gonna have to now.
Uh government's gonna have to essentially we're gonna put everybody on Medicaid.
And it's gonna be free for you.
That's the next lie that's coming.
I'll tell you this, I I can't I'm 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 um characters in the book is really cute.