From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Wed 12/9/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Wednesday, December 9, 1992
Keywords: Rush Limbaugh Unofficial Summary
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:13:34 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, December 9, 1992

by John Switzer

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December 9, 1992

LIMBAUGH WATCH

December 9, 1992 - It's now 37 days after Bill Clinton's election
and Rush is still on the air with 546 radio affiliates and 207 TV
affiliates, and his book has been on the NY Times hardback non-
fiction best-seller list for 12 consecutive weeks and is
currently number one on the list.

MORNING UPDATE

Rush has some more amazing educational news - the Raleigh, NC
News and Observer recently reported on a year-long study that
claims North Carolina's teachers are ill-prepared to teach the
state's ethnically diverse student population; furthermore, the
report states that many teachers are so ignorant that they aren't
even aware of their biases.

Education is supposed to teach kids to be the best they can be,
and to instruct them on what they need to know in order to
succeed as adults in America; but now the multiculturalists not
only avoid teaching excellence but also actively discourage it.
Peggy Macintosh, Associate Director of the Center for Research on
Women at Wellesley College, wants to change the curriculums in
Brookline, MA schools so that "vertical thinking" is avoided.
According to Macintosh, vertical thinking is stimulated by words
such as "excellent," "success," and "accomplishment," and is used
by white males to create and maintain society's patriarchal
structures.

Rush thinks this is quintessential psychobabble, and he points
out that the pursuit of excellence is what has made American
great, and today's students will have to be taught these things
if America is going to remain great.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush has once again been shown that there is a God;
yesterday's NY Times did an astounding thing - they admitted that
their feature story on the "Clinton recovery and expansion" was
in error. On page A-2 the Times printed a correction that said
the headline about the "Clinton recovery and expansion" was wrong
since most of the good economic news reported in the story
represented economic activity that occurred well before Clinton's
election. The Times even stated that this news "should have been
more directly linked to the Bush administration."

o       Along the same lines, another headline states "Clinton
eschews rosy outlook." Rush does not think this is good news,
since Clinton's continuing negativity about the economy will give
him and his advisers a reason to start tinkering with it. Rush
promises more later.

o       A story in the Fargo, ND newspaper has a report about
three Fargo North High School students who were suspended for
painting the epithets "bitch" and "whore" on the lockers of three
female students. The principal of the high school, Ed Raymond, is
quoted as blaming "talk show hosts such as ultra-conservative
Rush Limbaugh for fanning the flames of intolerance." Raymond
said "they're all bigotry bucks - they're laughing their way to
the bank, but they're taking advantage of people."

Rush is once again amazed that he is accused of intolerance when
it is those on the left who continually and repeatedly try to
impose their will on others through the political correctness
movement. And once again liberals are blaming Rush and other talk
show hosts for what three punk kids did; the story doesn't even
mention if the kids listened to Rush's show, and even if they
did, Rush never encourages or supports such activities.

Another example of the left's intolerance was provided by one of
Rush's friends who works in Hollywood; a couple of weeks before
the election she showed up to a staff meeting wearing a
Bush/Quayle button and was soundly attacked by her coworkers, all
of whom wore Clinton/Gore buttons. One coworker even told her "I
really hate you right now."

Rush's friend told her coworkers that she was astounded that
they, as liberals claiming to be the models of tolerance and
compassion, would hate her for wearing a Bush/Quayle button and
would threaten never to work with her again. This is exactly
right, yet it shows the hypocrisy of those on the left who claim
conservatives are trying to impose their morality on everyone;
yet, when someone disagrees with the cultural elite, it is those
on the left who ostracize them and who demand conformity.

o       Today's Washington Post has a column by Robert Samuelson
who writes that "Clinton needs trickle-down economics." Samuelson
theorizes that the reason the prosperity of the 80s did not
trickle down to the poor was because of the fierce competition in
the global economy. He writes that the 70s had brought about a
climate of fear, which then pervaded people's feelings in the 80s
and early 90s; thus, Clinton needs to implement "real trickle-
down economics" as opposed to pushing for government make-work
jobs or a higher minimum wage.

Rush says that this is exactly right - a higher minimum wage only
creates more unemployment since it is a wage that is not tied to
ability, performance, or profitability. The more the government
makes employees pay for incompetence, the fewer employees will be
hired. This is another example of symbolism over substance - the
objective is to make people feel good by raising the minimum
wage, and it doesn't matter that the minimum wage hurts the poor
more than it helps.

This is what is frightening about Clinton's economic advisers who
have never worked in the real world - their theories work in the
textbooks, but have never been tried them for real. Rush suspects
that Clinton knows the truth about trickle-down economics - it is
only the private sector at work - and that it is only the private
sector which can revitalize the economy.

o       Rush thinks that the media should have been given the
military's weapons and told to distribute the food in Somalia,
given that there seem to be more media people in Somalia than US
military. If anything validates the Pentagon's handling of the
media during the Gulf War, it is what happened last night when
the Marines land on the Somali beaches and ended up facing the
glare of camera lights, photographers, and dozens of reporters.

If the misery weren't so horrific in Somalia, the media's actions
would be an absolute joke. To make matters worse, reporters
almost immediately started criticizing the military's actions.
When the Marines ran into some personnel at the airport, they
followed the proper military procedures to make sure that they
weren't dangerous, but the media acted as if the Somalis' "civil
rights" were being violated.

CNN, of course, is trying to make their coverage a repeat of what
they did during the Gulf War - they have their special logo,
music, and such, and Rush calls it "overkill to the max."

*BREAK*

Rush mentions how Ed Raymond, principal at Fargo North High
School, blames him for what some punk kids did to a girls' locker
room. Rush therefore decides he is going to blame Raymond and his
fellow liberals for Woody Allen, since liberalism is what has
created the attitude of permissiveness which has inspired and
condoned Allen's behavior. Rush knows Raymond is a liberal since
a) he has taken this occasion of some kids' misbehavior to bash
conservatives, and b) he is blaming someone other than these kids
for what they did.

It is typical of liberals to put the blame for someone's misdeeds
on everyone else but those actually responsible. Since liberals
don't believe that there should be consequences to one's actions,
Raymond should continue to blame Rush for these kids' actions; in
fact, perhaps these kids were even drinking when they vandalized
the girls' lockers - this would give Raymond a golden opportunity
to find a perfect excuse for what they did.

Update  General David Dinkins         ("General David Dinkins,
Where Are You?")

For the past couple of days, Mayor Dinkins has had a tough
problem - should he side with his city's gay activists or with a
fellow liberal, black mayor? Dinkins yesterday decided to side
with gay activists - not only did Dinkins encourage the boycott
against Colorado, but he said that he would not attend the US
Conference of Mayors at Colorado Springs next June. In fact,
Dinkins even made a plea for the conference to be moved to New
York City.

Thus, Dinkins has just snubbed a black brother mayor, who had
come to New York to seek aid and comfort from the mayor of
America's leading city. Rush has to feel some pity for poor Mayor
Webb who was followed around the city by the Lesbian Avengers and
dozens of reporters. Mayor Dinkins, however, not only snubbed
Mayor Webb, but turned against him and even tried to take
advantage of the situation.

"So much for solidarity," Rush muses. He suggests that next time
Mayor Webb call Marge Schott since he stands a better chance of
sympathy from her than from David Dinkins.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush has to marvel at how the EIB staff got an artificial
Christmas tree for the studio - this tree is so life-like that it
even sheds its needles, and Rush is half-tempted to put it in a
dish of water to keep it from shedding even more. The staff has
now gotten a can of pine scent so as to make the tree even more
life-like, which makes Rush wonder why they didn't get a real
tree in the first place.

o       Rush has been meaning to play Mannheim Steamroller's
version of "Silent Night" for two days but hasn't gotten around
to it. Thus, he has his staff play the song now since he would
like to share this emotionally powerful piece of lush music with
his listeners.

o       The EIB staff hands Rush the proper phone number for the
Limbaugh Letter commercial that is coming up. Rush admits that he
is so good at what he does that he doesn't even need ad copy to
do these commercials; however, he does from time to time forget
little things such as the phone number for ordering the product.

Phone   Lisa from West Point, NY

Lisa thinks it's absurd for people to claim that the military
intervention into Somalia is a "last-ditch" effort by Bush and
the Pentagon to forestall pending budget cuts. Rush points out
that these cuts have already happened, and Californians in
particular are acutely aware of this, since the defense cuts have
really hurt that state's defense-related businesses.

Rush adds that it is pretty ridiculous to claim that the "Restore
Hope" program is intended to keep the military budgets from being
cut, although some government groups do end up doing some
ridiculous things for that purpose. NASA, for example, is trying
to create some anxiety about comets and asteroids hitting the
Earth by issuing a press release about how a comet last year came
within 2.2 million miles of the planet. Rush has to admit that
this is "damn close" in the scale of the universe.

However, Rush is offended by the accusation that Bush is using
Somalia only so that he can restore his "historical legacy" and
leave office with the mantle of a decisive leader. Rush recalls
how so many people claimed the Gulf War was fought only to
increase the fortunes of Bush's oil-business friends, yet the
price of oil fell after the US sent troops.

Lisa adds that this sort of charge enrages her friends in the
military who did serve in Desert Storm and Shield. People tell
Lisa and her husband, who is in the military, that life is too
good in the military and that it's taxpayers who are footing the
bill for this "good life." Lisa points out that she and her
husband pay taxes as well, not to mention that most people have
no idea about what is going on in the military now. For example,
250,000 men are being cut from the Army already.

Rush says that there has always been and always will be an
ignorance among people who haven't served in the military, and
these people will never stop believing that it is the US military
which starts and causes wars. The Somali campaign, though, is
purely a humanitarian effort, but some people are even
complaining that this is "overextending the purpose of the
military."

Other critics are saying that it is the African countries who
should be helping the Somalis, since some of those countries are
basically nothing but standing armies. These people ask why the
US military should go halfway across the world to help Somalia
since Libya and Botswana are closer and should be helping them.
The US, though, is the only country that can do the job, and thus
there is a moral argument that it should do the job.

*BREAK*

Rush adds that the next issue of his newsletter reprints the memo
on how to change a light bulb at the Rocky Flats nuclear power
plant in only 33 short steps. Rush comments that some people are
upset that the newsletter has its date and issue number on page
two instead of the cover. Rush, though, states that "the cover is
me and that's what it's supposed to be." Since anything else
would detract from "me," he tells editor Diana Schneider "so
screw

Phone   Keith from Brunswick, ME

Keith comments on how David Cohen signed an $18 million deal with
the Kansas City Royals, taking $9 million up front so as to avoid
any Clinton tax increases. Rush says that he doesn't blame Cohen
for doing this at all, although many people will be mad that
Cohen is "avoiding taxes." He suspects that this anger will give
Clinton an excuse to increase taxes on the rich even more.

Keith wonders if taxing the rich too much decreases investment,
and Rush says that what happens when the rich are taxed is that
they figure out ways to avoid the tax. Perot is a great example -
he paid an effective tax rate of 6.8% on his 1991 income simply
because he heavily invested in tax-free municipal bonds. The guy
making $25,000 a year, though, doesn't have this luxury and thus
ends up paying twice as much percentage-wise than Perot does.

If Clinton's tax-the-rich programs are going to concentrate on
"tax rates" as opposed to getting more revenue, they are doomed
to failure since the rich can find ways to avoid the higher
taxes. It can't be argued, though, that the rich are paying more
in taxes, both percentagewise and dollarwise, than they did
before Reagan; this is what Reagan accomplished - he eliminated
tax breaks in favor of lower tax rates, and so the rich are
paying more of this country's tax burden.

This doesn't matter to Democrats and liberals, though, because as
Sander Levin noted, it doesn't matter if the rich are paying more
in dollars "because the rate is too low." What this shows is that
the Democrats are not interested in using the tax code to raise
more revenue, but rather to "punish" the rich and to promote
class envy. Once again, symbolism is more important than
substance to liberals.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from Richmond, VA

John had thought he had seen it all during the campaign as far as
the media is concerned. Either the media has gotten incredibly
arrogant or the military has turned very liberal; John can't
otherwise understand why the Marine Corps made a landing under
the cover of darkness only to end up on a beach that was full of
reporters, their cameras, and massive floodlights.

Rush repeats his comments that what happened yesterday validates
the Pentagon's policies during the Gulf War. Rush had to laugh,
though, when during CNN's landing-by-landing coverage Bernard
Shaw saw a soldier rip off his dog tags and put them in his
pocket. Shaw then angrily stated that the soldier was trying to
hide his identity from the media. Rush points out that this is
generally one of the many things that an armed invasion of
another country is all about.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Last night Rush saw Clinton's press conference with
members of Congress, and was incredulous when Clinton claimed
that during the campaign he stated that Bush had ignored not only
domestic policy but also foreign policy. Rush doesn't remember
hearing Clinton say anything about his administration's foreign
policy during the campaign, and thus is having his EIB staff
researching the archives to find anything Clinton said on this
subject.

Rush recalls that he predicted before the election that Clinton's
Presidency would be defined not by domestic policies but by
foreign affairs. Clinton even said last night that he might have
to spend more time on foreign issues, at the detriment of
domestic issues. Thus, it is interesting that one of the
headlines in today's USA Today is "pressure is mounting for US
intervention in Bosnia."

Rush bets that these sorts of firefights will continue through
Clinton's administration, but this is not why the people elected
him. Things may work out all right, but Rush is fascinated by the
irony of an entire Presidential campaign that was centered on
domestic "pain," yet now that Clinton is elected, he may be too
busy with world affairs to attend to problems at home.

o       Rush also predicted yesterday that the conspiracy wackos
would soon start coming up with all sorts of theories for the
US's intervention in Somalia. Iran has now stated that the US is
really trying to establish a base of military operations near the
Middle East in preparation for an eventual takeover of the
region's oil fields.

o       Rush notes that Clinton was "overwhelmingly" elected by
over 40% of the nation's voters so that he could bring "change"
to Washington, DC. Congress, however, held its elections for
Committee chairmanships and 20 out of the 21 incumbents have been
re-elected. Rush marvels at the scope and sweep of this "change."

o       The troops in Somalia are encountering a drug, Khat,
which is derived from a local shrub; Khat can cause paranoid
psychosis and distort judgment, and is a favorite of the Somali
gunmen who routinely chew the shrub's leaves to allay their
anxiety. The Marines are thus being warned to expect possible
psychotic behavior from some Somalis; US soldiers are also being
told that the drug is readily identifiable in urine, and thus it
would not be wise to experiment with it.

o       A Southold, NY man writes about whether one can get gift
certificates for telepathic orgasms. Rush admits this would be a
great stocking stuffer. Rush got another great proposal along
these lines, but he doesn't dare mention it on the air.

Update  Feminist         (The Forester Sisters, "Men" with "in
your face" slogan)

Last Friday's Houston Chronicle reports that Gloria Steinem has
come to the defense of Senator Bob Packwood. In a Reuters news
story that has not been picked up by any of the mainstream wire
services Steinem says that Packwood is a "courageous champion for
women who should not be judged hastily."

Rush wonders why anyone bothers to listen to Steinem at all,
given that she is spouting nothing but blatant hypocrisy.
Steinem, though, claims that Packwood's support for feminist
legislation demands that Packwood's life "be judged in context."
Rush says that this statement is "such bunk" coming from Steinem,
who is the acknowledged leader of modern feminism.

Steinem is on the one hand talks about how evil men are towards
women, yet then says what Packwood does in his own life is nobody
else's business because he's right on feminist issues. This is
the same logic that feminists have used to defend Senator
Kennedy, and it proves that feminism is nothing more than
liberalism. This is why women who think they are both feminists
and conservatives should examine what the feminist leaders are
saying and realize what feminism has really become.

The sexual harassment issue has become nothing more than a
vehicle which the feminists and liberals are using to "correct
the inequities of power," to use Susan Hoerchner's term. Rush
firmly believes that any man who abuses his power or authority
with a female subordinate should be stripped of his power and
position. Sexual harassment really requires this abuse of one's
position of authority and is unconscionable.

It is thus nothing but hypocritical for feminists to praise
Packwood for "supporting women's issues" when he is regularly
abusing his power over women, which is the very thing feminists
are complaining about the most. Yet, it's evidently okay for
Packwood to abuse his power as long as he votes the "right" (i.e.
feminist) way, and this is a blatantly hypocritical thing for
Steinem to admit.

*BREAK*

Phone   Lou from Hyde Park, NY

Lou ended up watching the Whoopi Goldberg show when he was
waiting for Rush's show to come on. Whoopi and her guest Alec
Baldwin were lamenting how New York chose to stay in the "Stone
Age" by re-electing Senator D'Amato. Whoopi also said that when
she was a little girl, she "wanted to sniff the sweat of Sean
Connery," which Lou thought was a curious thing to say. Rush says
that this is obviously "a Whoopi thing."

Lou says that Baldwin and Goldberg then talked about how happy
they were that "we won"; had Bush won re-election Baldwin said he
would have moved to England, and Goldberg said she would have
gone to Canada. The two then agreed that Reagan and Bush formed a
"shadow government" to accomplish the things that Congress
wouldn't let them do.

Lou offers to send Rush a copy of this show, which he has taped,
but Rush declines, saying that he really doesn't have the time to
watch the Whoopi Goldberg show. It amazes him, though, how
liberals continue to think that they are in danger from what
Republicans and conservatives do.

Goldberg made her millions during the 80s, when the evil Reagan
and Bush were in power. On the Donahue and Posner show last
night, Donahue started talking about how many people didn't get
to go to "Reagan's party," but Rush pointed out that Donahue
certainly was at that party since he made millions during the
80s. All of these liberals think the 80s were a time of political
and economic oppression, yet it was during the 80s that they made
their fortunes and got the country to pay for their art.

Rush is encouraged that both Baldwin and Goldberg said they would
have left the country had Bush won; this may be a great way to
get a Republican elected in 1996 - simply list all the people who
would leave should the GOP candidate win.

*BREAK*

Phone   Charlie from Ringtown, PA

Charlie says that Philadelphia's Channel 29 has stated that if
Rush's show doesn't work at 11 p.m., they'll drop Rush's show
altogether. Rush has no problems with that, but he is curious at
how Charlie appears to be angry at the station. Charlie agrees
and thinks that the TV station is trying to sabotage their test.

Rush points out that the TV station doesn't have to go through
such mechanizations in order to kill his show. All they had to do
was keep it at 1:30 a.m., or even drop it; businesses, especially
independent stations, don't go out of their way to find or create
failures. The TV station is even working hard with Rush's EIB
affiliate in Philadelphia to make sure that this three-week test
will succeed.

Rush asks if the TV station is promoting his show during the day,
and Charlie admits that they are. Rush thus doesn't think that
Charlie should be upset with the station, but adds that Charlie's
anger toward the station shows how the public has developed a
large mistrust towards the media in general.

Rush appreciates Charlie's concern, but doesn't think that this
is a case where the station is hoping his TV show will fail.
After all, if the station didn't want to carry the show, they
could just drop it. Rush has no doubts that the station is trying
to find a show that will be successful in the 11 p.m. time slot
and which can compete against the network news.

"They have found it," he adds, supremely confident that Channel
29's three-week test will pan out. Thus, Charlie and other
Philadelphia dittoheads should celebrate because the station has
fixed their problem, now that they are airing Rush's show at 11
p.m. Rush thanks Charlie for calling and for his solicitude.

Phone   Sharon from Gibbs, MO

Sharon is excited to be on the show, and although she is a loyal
listener when she can afford the time away from riding herd on
her four children, she wants to comment on Rush's remarks about
the minimum wage. Her husband just started working at a shoe
factory, and he's making minimum wage, even though he has almost
four years of college. If their parents hadn't given them their
house to live in, they couldn't live on this minimum wage job; as
it is, they are barely making it and Sharon really doesn't see
any future for her and her family.

Rush says that Sharon has a future, and agrees that in one sense
her problem is indeed the minimum wage. He notes that 75% of the
people working for minimum wage are teenagers, and thus are not
working to support a family. The minimum wage is pernicious
because it elevates the cost of incompetence for businesses and
it enables employers to hire skilled people at low wages. The
government is getting in the way of the market process by
arbitrarily applying a value to a particular series of jobs.

Families certainly can't live on the minimum wage, which serves
only one purpose - letting Democratic politicians claim that
they're helping the workers of America. Rush wonders why the
minimum wage is only $4.25/hour when a "fairer" wage would
certainly be $30,000 a year.

The problem with the minimum wage is explained by Robert
Samuelson whose column in the Washington Post criticizes the
Clinton administration for emulating the European model of high
minimum wages. The minimum wage forces employers to pay their
employees a certain amount, but there is nothing the government
can do to force businesses to hire people. Thus, the higher the
minimum wage goes, the fewer people are hired for unskilled jobs.

This is the same thing that happens should businesses be forced
to pay the total health insurance costs for all of their
employees; if this happens, businesses who can't afford such
expenses will fire employees to reduce their costs. Businesses
are not social programs, and the minimum wage is a de facto
social program.

The unemployment rate during the 80s averaged 9.6% in the
European Community, but only 7.2% in the United States, and part
of the reason for this is the Europeans' higher minimum wages.
Rush adds that the US figure is so high because of the high
unemployment during the 1980-82 recession. The minimum wage,
though, also drives down wages in places where there is no
competition for businesses; the minimum wage basically tells
employers that they have to pay a certain amount to their
workers, but no more.

Wage increases must be tied to productivity, given that a
business' profit is what pays the employees' salaries. Businesses
make more profit if they have more productive workers, and thus
there should be a competition among businesses for productive
workers. However, if everyone in town is paying their workers the
same price, regardless of their productivity, then it's the
productive workers who suffer.

Rush admits he is not an economist, but "just a real guy." He
asks Sharon what her husband studied in college, and she says
that he studied marketing education but had to withdraw from
school when their fourth child arrived. Her husband needs only
slightly more than a semester's worth of classes to get his
degree, but this would mean moving back to Columbia, which would
in turn mean they couldn't live rent-free in their parents'
house.

Rush knows he can't give any immediate help to Sharon and her
family, but he holds her over the break so that he might be able
to boost her spirits somewhat, and give her a more positive
attitude towards things.

*BREAK*

Phone   Sharon from Gibbs, MO (continued)

Rush encourages Sharon to "hold on" until Clinton gets to be
President since he will solve all of her problems. Sharon is not
convinced because she knows things will get worse, and this is
Rush's point - people elected Clinton because they think he can
make their lives better, but this is not possible.

Now, some people would have no patience with Sharon and would
tell her that instead of lamenting her fate, she and her husband
should do whatever it takes to improve their lives - he could
take a second job, she could work out of the home, etc. Liberals,
though, would blame Reagan for Sharon's problems.

Rush, though, encourages Sharon not to wait for Clinton but
instead realize that she lives in America where people can create
their own jobs. This certainly will take a lot of work, but the
first step is to believe that the only limitations that people
have on them are the ones which they have put on themselves.

Sharon wonders how her husband can get a better job without a
degree, but Rush doesn't think a degree is necessary to get a job
that pays more than minimum wage. He doesn't want to be critical,
but lots of people have overcome problems like these, and thus
there's hope for Sharon and her family, too. Above all, people
must remove the obstacles that they have placed in front of their
lives. This is hard, but it's being done every day.

*BREAK*

Phone   Sharon from Gibbs, MO (continued)

Rush says that he and his staff discussed Sharon's situation, and
came up with many possible approaches. The important thing,
though, is that Sharon cannot afford to let herself be imprisoned
by the notion that she and her husband are imprisoned by the
minimum wage.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Rush promises that he will try to do his news digest, do a
monologue, and take at least one phone call before the first
break.

Update  Sexual Harassment         (Frankie Vallie, "My Eyes
Adored You")

Rush first shows his incredibly good common sense by pointing out
that on his show, the word "harassment" is pronounced so as to
rhyme with "bare-ass-ment," and not the more trendy "harris-
ment." That being said, Rush reports that the December 6th issue
of West Hawaii Today has a story on the continuing charges of
sexual harassment against Senator Inouye.

The story, whose headline reads "Powerful Dems, Culture, Stifle
Inouye Sex Charges," reports on why the sexual harassment charges
made against Inouye by his hairdresser and nine other women have
not been investigated as the charges lodged against Senator
Packwood. In addition to the hairdresser, only two of the women
have identified themselves, and Senator Inouye has made repeated
demands for the women to identify themselves so that he can
properly defend himself.

Toni Wurst is spokesperson for Code of Silence Broken, a group
which was formed to make sure the charges against Inouye are
fully investigated; Wurst says that Hawaii's one-party Democratic
machine dominates its politics, judiciary, and business. Women
are thus afraid to come forward publicly because they fear
retribution since the Democratic party controls so much of the
state's business.

Rush had thought that the Anita Hill hearings were supposed to
solve this problem, but evidently this is not the case in Hawaii.
Nancy Kriedman, president of Hawaii's Political Women's Caucus,
says that she doesn't think that it's been fear of repercussions
that has stifled any investigation, but only that there hasn't
been sufficient information available to draw conclusions.
Kriedman also thinks that some of the women will come forward,
after they see the Senate fully investigate the charges made
against Senator Packwood.

Rush thinks Friedman's response is amazingly muted, given the
seriousness of the charges made against Senator Inouye.

Items

o       Rush notes that his staff is working on finding a theme
song for a new Multicultural Update - that time-honored classic,
"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing."

o       School officials at two elementary schools in San Jose,
CA have banned pencils that resemble hypodermic needles because
students have been seen playing at "shooting up." Principal Lou
Henry of Clyde Arbuckle Elementary School fears that the pencils
are a "way of introducing the children to this kind of drug
paraphernalia." Mr. Henry, however, added that he's lost cost of
the number of real hypodermic needles that have been found on the
school grounds.

Rush recalls how during the Super Soaker controversy, New York
schools wanted to ban the Super Soakers, while across the city
free needles were being given to drug users. It's absurd that
when real guns are killing kids in New York and elsewhere that
liberals chose to eliminate the water guns. Now, clean needles
are being given away in AIDS programs, while school officials are
banning pencils that resemble needles.

This is the same logic that is used throughout AIDS education -
this is a disease that is acquired primarily through risky
behavior, but society is encouraging its students to engage in
that risky behavior by giving out condoms and needles.

o       Gondwanaland is in the news. Rush knows many of his
listeners may not know about Gondwanaland, but NASA is trying to
spruce up its 1993 budget requests with a report on how this
super-continent may have been fragmented by being hit by
monstrous asteroids millions of years ago. Three scientists from
Ames Research Center near San Francisco theorize that incoming
asteroids and/or comets may have broken up this continent, in
addition to being responsible for the mass extinction of the
dinosaurs.

o       "Black women marry less," according to the US Census
Bureau. At age 40, one in four black women have never married,
compared to one in ten white women.

Phone   George from Crustwood, IL

George gives greetings from the "first state to elect a welfare
cheat to national office." He asks about Clinton's position on
the NAFTA treaty, and Rush replies that when Clinton was
campaigning in union states he was against it, but in non-union
states he supported it. Clinton did agree to sign it, although he
wants Congress to add some things to it.

George says that the November 8th issue of the Chicago Tribune
reported that Clinton promised not to modify the NAFTA agreement,
which is supposed to be signed this month. Rush says that if
Clinton goes along with NAFTA, then the US will benefit. However,
the danger is that Clinton may turn Gore loose on the agreement,
which will mean trouble. No matter what happens with NAFTA,
though, Clinton will be able to claim that this is exactly what
he promised during the campaign.

*BREAK*

Phone   Pete from Monterey, CA

Pete is afraid to go out of the house because of a newspaper
story that reads "Carmel House and Tree in Mortal Combat." The
story is about a 65-year-old pine tree which is pushing into the
walls of an old house in Carmel, and so the owner went to the
Carmel City Council to get permission to chop the tree down. A
councilwoman, though, stated that "the house is an intrusion to
that tree."

Rush laughs as he imagines the house moving onto the tree, and
Pete thinks this is the first known case of "home-icide." An
environmentalist at the meeting, though, agreed with the city
councilwoman, saying "trees come first," even though the tree is
on the homeowner's property.

Rush says that this perfectly illustrates how the environmental
movement strives to deprive people of their private property
rights. Private property is essential for capitalism, which is
why environmentalists want to infringe upon it as much as
possible. Pete says that the city's forester suggested cutting
the tree down and replacing it with two smaller ones, but the
city council ignored this expert's advice and voted 4 to 2 to
leave the tree alone.

Rush says that this was obviously done so as to avoid hurting the
tree's feelings. Pete agrees, and adds that the owner of the
house and tree said he might demolish the house. However, the
Carmel city council also just passed a "historical preservation
ordinance" that grants special privileges to homes older than 50
years old. Since this guy's house was built near the turn of the
century, he can't tear it down.

Rush says that he has to get film of this battle between the tree
and house to show on his TV show.

*BREAK*

Phone   Karen from Atco, NJ

Karen was listening to the news during Thanksgiving, and several
people in Florida whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew
said that they had the money to rebuild, but they couldn't start
building because their planned homes did not include
handicapped-accessible bathrooms. Thus, even though these people
want to build their own private homes, they can't do so.

Rush has to admit "that some of us are stupid, and most of us who
are stupid work in government." Rush has taken two calls in a row
about idiots in government who are preventing people from
building or improving their homes. First, a tree in Carmel can
destroy a house, and now a "bunch of stupid fools" in Florida
have demanded that private home owners must be "fair" and build
bathrooms for the handicapped in their own homes.

Karen notes that while the government is busy twiddling their
thumbs, these people and their children have no homes, and are
living in tents and such out in the open. "It's just plain
stupid," Rush says; he used to believe that all of this kind of
thing was the product of liberals, but he's now realized that
there are "just plain stupid" people working in government.

Karen wonders why the children who are living outside are not
given as much consideration as some theoretical handicapped
person. Rush notes that this is more symbolism over substance,
created by people who go home at night and praise themselves for
how much they "care." Of course, liberals justify their idiocy by
saying people never know when some handicapped person will stop
by, and so ridiculous regulations are required since regular
people can't be trusted to "care" as much as liberals do.

This is all part of how people in government make work for
themselves to justify their positions, and Karen agrees. She
doesn't think that this is fair for people to have to suffer
because of such stupid bureaucratic nonsense. Rush says that what
is obviously needed is for Gloria Estafan to hold another benefit
concert on behalf of the victims of this government-sponsored
stupidity.

Rush notes that he has nothing against handicapped bathrooms,
which in fact are the commode of choice when in New York City.
Space is at such a premium in the city that regular stalls are
"so small, you have to slither in there as a snake." He points
out that in the average New York restaurant, a table for four is
no larger than a table for one anywhere else in the country.

Rush promises to look into the Florida story and see what else
they can dig up on it.

Phone   Angie from Cary, NC

Angie says that she empathizes greatly with the woman from Gibbs,
MO because she and her husband were in the same situation - her
husband was working hard for low money, while she took care of
her three kids. Angie thinks Rush's words of optimism, though,
were the best thing he could say; when Angie was going through
this trying period, she at first didn't think she had any
options, but after some thought, help from friends, and hard work
she realized that this wasn't the case.

Rush thinks this is a good point - if people are having problems,
they should find those who have triumphed over those problems and
find out how they did it. Rush regularly counsels people who want
to make it big in radio to hang around those who already are
successful and who enjoy it; don't listen to those who failed,
because they have no worthwhile advice to give on the matter.

People should find role models for their desired lifestyle, and
this is what people need to be taught while in school.
Opportunities abound in America, in spite of the negativism that
pervaded the recently concluded Presidential campaign.

One thing Rush remembers about his life in Kansas City was how
his house was in a neighborhood that had many fine homes; his
life wasn't going so well, and he lived in a house that cost
$40,000. He looked at other houses that cost $300,000 or so and
wondered what the owners of these homes did for a living.

This is the sort of thing others should do if they're wondering
how they can make their lives a success. Granted some people may
have been lucky or have had lots of help, but in the majority of
cases people who succeed have done so through their own hard
work. People should apply themselves to find out how the economy
works and how businesses succeed, and this would show that there
are not fixed classes of haves and have-nots in America.

If people depend on the minimum wage for their success, they
won't find it; if they look to themselves, however, their chances
for prosperity become much better.

*BREAK*

Phone   Shaun from Phoenix, AZ

Shaun works for a large public accounting firm which has some
great people working for it. He went to his group's Christmas
party, and they played the gift exchange game in which people
receive gifts and can then decide to keep them or switch them for
another already opened gift. Two of the gifts turned out to be
copies of The Way Things Ought to Be, and the trading was fast
and furious as people swapped gifts so that they could get a copy
of Rush's book.

The trading would have continued forever, with people continually
trading presents for Rush's book, had there not been a rule that
allowed people who got the present four times to keep it. Shaun
was pleased to realize that he worked with people who were such
die-hard Rush fans and conservatives.

Rush calls that a very heartwarming story, but comments that in
the games he's played like this, it's the first person who trades
for the gift that keeps it. "Oh well, accountants do things
differently than the rest of us," he admits.

*BREAK*

Charles Barkley of the Phoenix Suns was playing in New Jersey
last night, and Rush was reminded of when Barkley was playing
golf with Cotton Fitzsimmons. Barkley pointed out that he was a
millionaire who was black, who could live anywhere he wanted, and
who was going to vote for Clinton. Fitzsimmons told Barkley that
if he was really going to vote for Clinton, then he'd better make
sure he never gets divorced because should this happen and should
Clinton win, the only thing Barkley would be is black since his
wife and Clinton would end up splitting his money.

Barkley also said that he wouldn't mind playing for the
Philadelphia 76'ers, explaining "I can be bought - I have no
pride. If they paid me enough money, I'd work for the Klan." Rush
has to laugh at this incredibly politically incorrect statement
and hopes he can get it for his TV show.


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