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Oscar Munoz, President and CEO of United Airlines.<\/p><\/div>\n
Mr. Snerdley just walked in, and he was upset over something Governor Christie said. Governor Christie\u2019s the governor of New Jersey, and Governor Christie has lambasted United for doing what they did simply to make money. “Come on, Governor. That\u2019s what the liberals always say when they go out and bash a corporation. That\u2019s not the way to bash this.” Snerdley came in; he thinks Christie was being a hypocrite because United makes New Jersey a lot of money flying into Newark. And, of course, the state of New Jersey does everything they do to get money like every other government entity does.<\/p>\n
They never do with a dime less than what they have every year. So I looked at Snerdley and I said, “You know what? We\u2019re kind of getting sidetracked on this United story.” When you look at this — when you look at really what was involved here — they had four crew members that were in Chicago that they needed to get to Louisville for a flight out of Louisville the next morning. And for that reason they bumped four people off the plane and beat up one of them who refused to go and snuck back on.<\/p>\n
Now, I looked into it and there are any number of ways to get those four employees to Louisville. They could have chartered a small jet. They could have driven them. They could have found a bus. They could have rented a bus. They could have put \u2019em on a train. They could have done any number of things instead of what they did. And here\u2019s another thing. Now, I realize that the more we\u2019ve learned about this guy, Dr. David Dao, I mean, he is an intriguing figure. The guy is a doctor. He lost his medical license.<\/p>\n
He was getting gay guys hooked on OxyContin to keep them coming back to him, where he would hold them up for gay sex. (So goes the story.) When he lost his medical license, he joined the professional poker circuit and earned about a quarter of a million dollars doing that. Look, folks, it\u2019s fun, and it\u2019s interesting. But do you realize none of that justifies what happened to the guy? Okay, so he\u2019s a kook. So he\u2019s strange. It doesn\u2019t justify what happened to the guy. I\u2019m not suggesting that United is behind this.<\/p>\n
But, look, there are some people that want to mitigate what happened by pointing out this guy\u2019s oddities or his frailties. Here\u2019s what United needs to do. To solve the problem going forward, here\u2019s what United needs to. Right now when you go buy a ticket to United or any airline, it\u2019s a contract. By the way, this guy met the terms of the deal. There was a seat on the plane offered for sale. He bought it, he paid for it, and he got on the plane. How many of you people have been bumped from a flight after you\u2019ve been seated?<\/p>\n
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They usually bump you in the gate area before anybody\u2019s been seated. So that was a little odd. But the guy met the terms of the, quote-unquote, “contract.” He purchased the ticket and he paid the price and for that he got a seat on the airplane — and then they come and they threw him off. What United needs to do is rewrite the contract. What do they call it? Nobody reads the fine print. Make this plain as day. Here\u2019s the new deal with United Airlines if you decide to fly with them:<\/p>\n
You agree to pay the price for the seat on the airplane, and you get on the airplane realizing that you might be asked to vacate that seat — and if you don\u2019t, you could get beat up. Then if you buy the ticket, and that happens to you, then you have no recourse because you have signed a contract acknowledging you could get beat up if they try to throw you off the plane and you refuse to go. That\u2019s how this could be solved in the future if United doesn\u2019t want to change the policy. (chuckling) Man, this is boomeranging now.<\/p>\n
The ChiCom Parliament has taken this up, because United, I guess, wants to expand its service in China. And this guy… (interruption) What is he? (interruption) Vietnamese, but he wasn\u2019t born there? (interruption) Was he born in Vietnam to Chinese parents or what is it? There is a… (interruption) There is a Chinese link to the guy and a Vietnamese link as well.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Joe in Bridgeton, New Jersey, as we kick it off. Joe, thank you for calling. Great to have you here. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Wow, Rush. It\u2019s an honor. You\u2019re the best teacher ever. Rush, my question was this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: What made \u2019em pick that fellow? Did he draw the short straw out in the lobby, or do you think they had information, did they look up his information?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t have any idea. You know, it\u2019s a good question. All we\u2019ve been told — unless there\u2019s something — I\u2019ve gotta tell you, to be very honest with you, I have not immersed myself in the deep down details of this story. I know that there were four people chosen at random. I don\u2019t know what “random” means —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — with United Airlines. I don\u2019t know if they picked numbers out of a hat, if they went to a seating chart, put their fingers on seat numbers. I don\u2019t know if they have passenger names when they did this, I have no idea. (interruption) You do know how they picked \u2019em?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, no, but that\u2019s what concerns me. You know, were they doing a background check —<\/p>\n
RUSH: It was a random computer. I\u2019ve just been told, Joe, that it was a random computer. There were no humans involved in choosing the four passengers to be thrown off and beat up.<\/p>\n
CALLER: There we go. Okay. Very good. I guess that\u2019s good news.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What were you thinking happened?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I was thinking they might have — not that this is a bad thing in certain circumstances, but I think they might have profiled and said, “This guy, he might be shaky on a flight. If somebody\u2019s gotta go, let\u2019s get him.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, let me tell you, the guy would have been shaky on the flight. That\u2019s one thing that was uncovered here. Normally this kind of thing, the procedure for bumping people off flights happens before everybody boards. It happens in the gate area. Once they put you on the plane — I\u2019ve been asking people if they\u2019ve ever been bumped or seen anybody bumped after everybody\u2019s been seated, after the plane\u2019s been boarded, and I haven\u2019t found anybody yet who can remember that happening, either to them or having witnessed it on a plane they were flying.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s number one. This story has multiple levels of mystery and intrigue. Like how did the guy get beat up? When he snuck back on the plane he was already bloodied up. And then he got even further bloodied up when they dragged him out after he had snuck back in there. They dragged him out, and parts of his I guess face were banging off the legs of the seats as they dragged him out of there.<\/p>\n
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As I say, United needs to change the fine print on the tickets, the contract, to include the fact that if they randomly seek to oust you from a plane after you\u2019ve been seated, that you could get beat up if you refuse to leave. And if that happens and if you bought the ticket under those protections, then you have no course of action. This guy\u2019s got two sets of lawyers now.<\/p>\n
Folks, he\u2019s lawyered up like you can\u2019t believe, understandably. This is gonna be a huge settlement. It\u2019s not gonna ever go to trial. They don\u2019t want this becoming a class — They don\u2019t want people coming out of the woodwork, “Oh, yeah, you know what happened to me back in 1999? I was on a United flight…” They don\u2019t want any of that. In fact, I\u2019m surprised some ambulance chaser lawyer hasn\u2019t found a bunch of people to whom United beat up or claims that United beat up or claims that United beat up.<\/p>\n
Something like this, I mean, it just starts boomeranging, the plaintiff\u2019s bar goes nuts. I mean, this could be approaching the tobacco settlement if they\u2019re not careful. But this guy\u2019s got two sets of lawyers, he\u2019s lawyered up. And I\u2019m telling you this, too. What we\u2019ve learned about this guy — and it should not matter. This is the thing, some people, “They chose the right guy. Look at this reprobate. If they\u2019re gonna kick somebody off the plane, pick him.”<\/p>\n
Folks, that doesn\u2019t matter. Nothing this guy did justified him being treated this way. He paid the price. He completed the deal. He got on the plane. They let him on the plane. Okay, so he gives OxyContin to gay guys to hook them on the drug to keep them coming back to him for gay sex. Now, you laugh. They\u2019re in there laughing. I\u2019m telling you, in our culture today, this guy is gonna be fascinating. There\u2019s going to be movies written about this guy. Movies made.<\/p>\n
This is the kind of character that not even writers could come up with. Real life out doing fiction each and every time. And that\u2019s just one aspect of the guy. He lost his medical license, yet he had to get on that plane to go treats patients the next day who were waiting. How\u2019d he get his medical license back with everything else we know? There\u2019s enough cultural degradation that people like this are gigantic curiosity figures and will automatically gain a lot of public sentiment and support \u2019cause of what happened to the guy.<\/p>\n
In other words, what kind of behavior that we do not know that we would have to learn about this guy before people would think, “You know what, this guy deserved to get beat up”? And I\u2019m gonna tell you, that\u2019s a high bar. (interruption) Okay. All right. Okay. Snerdley is offering — okay. If it\u2019s learned that the guy is cruel to animals, he\u2019s gonna lose some sympathy, true. If he has, like, punched his wife and dragged her out of an elevator in a New Jersey casino, that might cause him some problems.<\/p>\n
If they find out he\u2019s pro-choice, he might lose some sympathy. If they find out that he was at one time an illegal immigrant, that might redound to his favor. I mean, there\u2019s any number, the way our culture is and the way people go about examining the worth of individuals. And you know as well as I do that much of it is based on how much victimization have they suffered, how much suffering have they endured at the hands of evil majorities.<\/p>\n
So we\u2019re just at the beginning of this story. I wish I had time to get this next call in, but I don\u2019t. We\u2019ve got a guy from Durham, North Carolina, wants to talk about Spicer and his comments. He\u2019s agreeing with me that everybody knew what Spicer was saying or was trying to say.<\/p>\n
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But I have to take a break. The next segment I\u2019m gonna get into some of these Trump sound bites, interview with Maria Bartiromo because it\u2019s all about his agenda, how he\u2019s gonna go about getting health care passed, tax reform passed, how he\u2019s working with Congress. You\u2019ll I think be interested if you didn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I got a little suggestion for the people, crisis PR operation, at United Airlines. Find out if this guy voted for Trump. If Dr. David Dao voted for Trump, you might, you might have an avenue here to mitigate some of what happened.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna tell you what I honestly think about this. Not that I\u2019ve withheld anything. I\u2019m not gonna make a specific prediction, but I\u2019m gonna wager here that we don\u2019t know the half of it yet. I\u2019m gonna wager that we\u2019re gonna learn some things in time that are gonna cause everybody to rethink what they think they know happened on that airplane and in that terminal.<\/p>\n
I say this because it always happens. I say this because I know how the media works. I say this because I know how stories are created, how they are amplified, how they are updated and so forth. There are certain things about this guy that are known that are not being factored in. Like this guy has a history of exploiting situations in which he finds himself. I\u2019m not gonna make any specific predictions, but I want you to remember that on this day, April 12th, I make the prediction that what we think we know about this, what everybody is slam dunk certain of, is not going to be what really happened when we find out everything. You just wait.<\/p>\n
This is so typical of the way things get reported in our media today. You have all the ingredients. You have Big Corporation automatically a suspect in the eyes of the left and the media. You have an innocent passenger who happens to be of minority persuasion. The ingredients are all there. And I\u2019m not, as I say, going to hazard specificity, but I\u2019m just gonna tell you that when this — and I don\u2019t know how long it\u2019s gonna take, but the day is going to come where there\u2019s gonna be a bunch of revelations that you\u2019ll go, “No kidding! I would have never guessed that.”<\/p>\n
You just wait. What you think you know about this right now is not going to hold up. There\u2019s a bunch of stuff that is yet to be learned or maybe it has been learned but it isn\u2019t being reported.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: And back to the phones we go. Arthur in Somerville, New Jersey. Great to have you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, good afternoon, Rush. Regarding the United incident, suppose the pilot had gotten on the microphone and said that because of a passenger not willing to get off the plane, we\u2019re all going to be delayed three hours. What do you think the reaction —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Oh, I think the passengers would have beat the guy up.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, okay. Right. In other words, what are you supposed to do? In the future now, if somebody doesn\u2019t want to get off the plane, what are you supposed to do, say, “I\u2019m sorry, everybody go home”?<\/p>\n
RUSH: What do you mean, the crew?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. Suppose another incident occurs where a passenger for whatever reason doesn\u2019t want to get off the plane. What happens? Does everything just stop? Or do they get the person off the plane? What, do they shoot \u2019em? How do they get \u2019em off the plane?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m not sure what you\u2019re asking. Are you suggesting that what United should do in the future is if somebody refuses to get off the plane that they\u2019re just not gonna do the flight, just announce the flight\u2019s canceled?<\/p>\n
CALLER: What do they do if the person doesn\u2019t want to get off?<\/p>\n
RUSH: They call the cops. The airline can\u2019t arrest anybody. They have to call the cops.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right, exactly, they have to call the cops to get the guy off. So what happens, you know, in the meantime, everybody\u2019s delayed.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n
CALLER: How do you think the people are gonna react to that? As you said, if they had made that announcement, the passengers themselves would have hit the guy over the head with a bat and thrown him off the plane.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s possible. If the captain says, “Ladies and gentlemen, there\u2019s an unruly passenger,” and then name the seat number, “who refuses to deplane and until he deplanes, we can\u2019t push back. And until the passenger is off the airplane, we can\u2019t move.” So yeah, the passengers at some point would take matters in their own hands and turn against the guy. Well, they have to call the cops. The CEO may say they\u2019re not gonna call the cops, but if they need to arrest somebody, they can\u2019t. Only the cops can. That\u2019s another little factor here.<\/p>\n
Folks, I\u2019m just telling you, I don\u2019t know what it is, but there\u2019s a whole bunch of this that we don\u2019t know yet, and when we find out what we don\u2019t know, the entire complexion of this story\u2019s gonna change. You wait. It always happens. We\u2019re talking about the media here, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n
Now, I\u2019ve also been looking into the bump procedure. We have said earlier on the program today that it\u2019s computer random. I\u2019ve been thinking about. If it\u2019s a computer, it isn\u2019t random. They know, for example, who their best customers are. They know who their gold card or whatever, members of their little flight club are. They know, for example, if somebody on the flight has a connector to an international flight. They\u2019re not gonna bump those people, I guarantee you. They\u2019re not gonna bump people that buy first class or business class frequently, even though this airplane didn\u2019t have those. This was a puddle jumper jet.<\/p>\n
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But they know who their customers are. (interruption) A mom and two kids, right, they\u2019re not gonna bump one of the kids. They might bump mom, but — (laughing) — not gonna bump one of the kids. So when they say it\u2019s random, it\u2019s random, but. They know who their best customers are. They know if they got a first time flier. They know if they have somebody that doesn\u2019t usually fly United on there. They know who would be the least damage in making mad.<\/p>\n
So they\u2019re not gonna make a great, constantly good paying customer mad. They\u2019re not gonna throw an international traveler off if he\u2019s got a connection. Now, granted, you\u2019re not gonna fly international out of Louisville, but I\u2019m just saying, they know who\u2019s on the plane, and they know what their customer level is. So saying it\u2019s random computer generated is not a cop-out, but it\u2019s a way of claiming that there\u2019s no human bias involved in who gets chosen.<\/p>\n
Do you think that the airline and every passenger manifest, do you think that the passenger manifest contains such things as “This passenger has a history of trouble making on board?” Well, I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ve got it. I\u2019m sure there are experts out there that, “Oh, yeah, Rush, I\u2019ve been thrown off and they told me that they had evidence that I was gonna create trouble up there.” I don\u2019t know how much is known. But, again — (interruption) If whoever finds out? Oh. Oh, the public won\u2019t care about that. If the public\u2019s gonna get concerned about what secret databases contain information they\u2019re about five years late to the party here.<\/p>\n
Folks, I\u2019m just so confident that we don\u2019t know the half of this and that there is factual news that we will someday learn that\u2019s going to be change the way the majority of people see this episode. You watch. No I don\u2019t have an inside track. I don\u2019t know anybody involved in this. I don\u2019t know anything. I\u2019ve never heard of anybody involved. I just know the media. I know the rush to judgment tendencies. I know the mob mentality. I know all of the biases involved here.<\/p>\n
A, you have a corporation that is destroying the planet, United Airlines. You have a corporation, period, evil, distrusted, despised, mean-spirited, doesn\u2019t like people, doesn\u2019t care if its customers die, like the tobacco industry or whatever. This is a general profile that leftists have of corporations. So you know that going in. We have enough experience to know that sometimes people the media choose to champion turn out to be unworthy of it.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t think of any examples off the top of my head, but there are plenty. If I took the time to research it, I could give you some. I\u2019m sure I could find some great examples of just this kind of thing where a story happens that captivates the attention of the public and in a short period of time the full story ends up being reported, and it changes entirely the perception people had of the people involved and of the reporting in general.<\/p>\n
Well, how many stories have we had of politicians accused of doing one thing or another, turns out they haven\u2019t done it? Look at Ray Donovan, labor secretary with Nixon or Reagan. His reputation was totally destroyed in court. He was exonerated by a jury in 30 minutes, but the media destroyed him in the months leading up to it. He said, “Where do I go to get my reputation back?” These things are relatively, relatively common.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Off the top of my head I thought of four stories that turned out to be the exact opposite of how they were originally reported and how everybody thought. First, Duke lacrosse<\/a>. Remember how that was first reported? These evil white rich lacrosse players, they savaged and they tricked a poor black dancer to come in and then you know what they did. And it turned out, the whole thing, every bit of it was made up.<\/p>\n University of Virginia rape story, courtesy of Rolling Stone, just today: “‘Rolling Stone\u2019 Settles Defamation Case With Former U.Va. Associate Dean.”<\/a> Rolling Stone totally made up a story about an imaginary series of rapes. Trayvon Martin<\/a>, Tawana Brawley, and, of course, the Gentle Giant, the “hands up, don\u2019t shoot” thing,<\/a> which they\u2019re still lying about!<\/p>\n So I\u2019m just saying that this United Airlines story is not — this isn\u2019t it. There are gonna be other things that we learn and this whole story\u2019s entire focus and energy is gonna change. It\u2019s gonna be different.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: There\u2019s a little update to the story. It doesn\u2019t quite fulfill my prediction, but it gets us on the road to fulfillment. Are you ready? U.K. Daily Mail: “I\u2019m staying. You\u2019ll have to drag me off this airplane,” says Dr. David Dao to the cops. Dr. Dao then tells the person he\u2019s talking to the phone, “I tell you, make a lawsuit against United Airlines.”<\/p>\n There\u2019s another tape that has serviced, another passenger tape, and the passenger questioned here, Dr. David Dao is seen arguing with police and a flight attendant in the new video. The new video shows some of what happened just before he was dragged off the plane. In the clip, the police officer is heard telling Dr. Dao he\u2019s gonna have to drag him off. Dao says: “I won\u2019t go. I\u2019m a physician I have to work tomorrow, eight o\u2019clock,” Dr Dao said. The tense moment where Dr. Dao argued with Chicago cop just seconds before being humiliatingly hauled off an overbooked flight has been captured on camera.<\/p>\n “The new video recorded by a female passenger sitting directly behind Dr. Dao starts with a flight attendant and a cop standing in the aisle. The doctor is seen gesturing with his arm towards the cop, while talking on his cellphone. ‘I won\u2019t go. I\u2019m a physician I have to work tomorrow, eight o\u2019clock,\u2019 he is heard saying. Dr. Dao then tells the person he is talking to on the phone: ‘I\u2026 I tell you\u2026 make a lawsuit against United Airlines.\u2019<\/p>\n “The officer is then heard in the video again asking Dr. Dao to leave. ‘No I am not going,\u2019 he replies, shaking his head angrily. The cop then says: ‘Well\u2026 I have to drag you… You know how this is going to end up happening, right?\u2019 Dao then replies: ‘You can drag me, I\u2019m not going. I\u2019m staying right here. You\u2019ll have to drag me.\u2019<\/p>\n “The cop then says, ‘I\u2019m just telling you, it\u2019s going to be a lot harder for you…\u2019, before Dao interrupts with: ‘Yes I know that, I\u2019d rather go to jail.\u2019 ‘You\u2019d rather go to jail than just getting off,\u2019 the cop replies, while sounded confused at the comment. ‘Yes,\u2019 Dao is heard saying. The two then continue speaking for a few more seconds, with Dr. Dao mentioning he had flown to Chicago from Los Angeles and was desperate to get home, before the video cuts off.”<\/p>\n So just a little update there. It just shows there\u2019s more to this than what we know. And I predict to you there\u2019s going to be even more to this than what we know.<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s Mike in Long Island, out on New York. It\u2019s great to have you with us, sir. Appreciate your patience too. How are you doing?<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Rush. Pleased to talk to you. Thank you very much for taking my call.<\/p>\n RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n CALLER: I have a story goes back about a year and a half of my wife and I and another couple, this goes to Medford, Oregon, a small airport, Rogue Valley, United Airlines where all four of us were bumped off a United flight. Turns out it was a connecting flight that was supposed to go, first of all, to San Francisco and then I was gonna change planes to come back home to Long Island.<\/p>\n Well, as it turns out the four of us, two couples, we were the last on line, and you know how it goes, you gotta board nowadays by zone, I think we were zone 3. And we get to the gate, we never got on the plane, and the girl, the attendant at the gate said, “Hold on, you guys stop a minute.” And I happened to know that the crew people got on the plane. There was no explanation about what was going on. We were just told to hold for a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, as it turns out, she said, “Well, you guys are getting bumped.” I said, “What do you mean we\u2019re getting bumped?” The flimsy excuse she gave us at first was that the plane had a weight problem and it was overweight.<\/p>\n RUSH: Insinuating that you were obese, huh?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, we\u2019re not. (laughing) Anyway, she wouldn\u2019t allow us to board. So they offered us a compensation, I believe it was a hundred dollars each, which I thought was kind of ridiculous considering that we were going to get bumped. And the next flight out, by the way — this was at about ten o\u2019clock in the morning — and the next flight out wasn\u2019t gonna be until about five, and that was only going to Frisco.<\/p>\n Now, Medford is a small airport. There\u2019s only a small amount of flights coming in and out. There\u2019s Delta, there\u2019s Alaska, and there\u2019s United. The Delta and the United flights had come and gone. This was the only one and the next flight out was gonna be about 5 p.m. So to make a long story short, she gave us our hundred bucks. We found out that we had gotten bumped not because of weight but because of the issue with the crew just like this poor guy and those four people —<\/p>\n RUSH: They had to get crew to San Francisco for a totally different flight that that crew had to be on the next morning.<\/p>\n RUSH: Poor woman. Woman.<\/p>\n CALLER: Poor woman. Excuse me.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: There were tears welling up in her eyes because she knew that they had done us wrong. And, well, we couldn\u2019t do anything. We went back to my daughter\u2019s house. She lives in Medford, and fortunately she was home, she drove us back to the flight we got bumped to, five o\u2019clock. We went to Frisco, there were no return flights to New York. We had to take a hotel for the night. Of course, United didn\u2019t pay for the hotel. And that was it. We just got bumped. There was no volunteer arrangement that we were asked voluntarily —<\/p>\n RUSH: You got bumped because you were the last to arrive.<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s exactly right. That\u2019s my feeling. And what I didn\u2019t like was the lie they told us about the wait. In actually it was the issue with the crew.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah, I don\u2019t imagine that they would want to tell you that was the real reason.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah, but it was obvious they had walked in right in front of us.<\/p>\n RUSH: Did they ever tell you something like, “Hey, it\u2019s not that bad, Medford\u2019s a much nicer place than Long Island anyway”?<\/p>\n CALLER: No, they never said that. (laughing) Medford\u2019s a nice place, but I like it home.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, look, you know, these stories are legion and numerous. They\u2019re all over the place. It\u2019s part of flying commercial, getting bumped or being asked to get off the airplane or whatever, and — (interruption) Do I feel sorry for — yeah, but, you know, when you look at the whole — what did they have to do, both in this case and Chicago with the flight to Louisville and then your example from Medford to — it\u2019s San Francisco, by the way. People who say Frisco are generally in organized crime. I don\u2019t want to assume that about you. But the issue of getting crew — let\u2019s look at Louisville, Chicago. They could have chartered, United could have chartered a little jet for four, $5,000 and put their crew on.<\/p>\n They could have put their crew in a car. They didn\u2019t need the crew in Louisville \u2019til the next day. What United was actually doing here was a quest to save money. It\u2019s a little bit different than making a profit. They were trying to save money, and look at how much this is gonna cost them versus the simple solutions they had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: What United needs to do is rewrite the contract. What do they call it? Nobody reads the fine print. Make this plain as day. Here's the new deal with United Airlines if you decide to fly with them: You agree to pay the price for the seat on the airplane, and you get on the airplane realizing that you might be asked to vacate that seat — and if you don't, you could get beat up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/650-041117-Elian-and-Untited.jpg\")
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CALLER: Yes, I guess that\u2019s the story. Anyway, we wanted to speak to a manager about it. First of all, we didn\u2019t like the idea of being bumped, and second of all, how come it was only a hundred buck compensation? Well, the manager would not speak to us. Now, you could see the poor girl that was at the gate —<\/p>\n