From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Tue 12/8/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, December 8, 1992
Keywords: Rush Limbaugh Unofficial Summary
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:12:25 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, December 8, 1992

by John Switzer

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This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1992 by John Switzer.
All Rights Reserved. These summaries are distributed on
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Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
first summary for this month. In particular, please note that
this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other as
a daily listener.

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December 8, 1992

LIMBAUGH WATCH

December 8, 1992 - It's now 36 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 11 consecutive weeks and is
currently number one on the list.

MORNING UPDATE

Feminists have a new tool to use in the fight against sexual
harassment - the Harasser Flasher. This device clips to a woman's
clothing and has three lights (red, yellow, and green) which
women can turn on to indicate their feelings about a man's
advances.

Rush has to wonder why women can't just say something, and he
recalls how when he worked for a Pittsburgh radio station the
general manager wanted as little time as possible to be spent on
traffic reports. He thus implemented a color-coded system that
Rush had to use; for example, one morning Rush might say "Fort
Pitt Tunnel - blue." Drivers had to carry around a card that
explained the color codes so that they'd know what to expect;
however, this ended up causing all sorts of accidents because
drivers had to take their eyes off the road to study their
traffic report cards.

Rush says that if women are being hassled, they should say
something instead of depending on three little lights. "Besides,"
he asks, "what about the fashion statement it makes?"

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Time magazine has ripped off Rush's line about being on
top of Madonna on the NY best-seller lists.

o       A number of people are upset at the use of the US
military to feed people; some critics think that normal relief
agencies should be used. Rush points out that the military is
needed because of the warlords and their armies. Critics then ask
why the US military should be used instead of armies from
neighboring countries. The reason the US military is being used,
though, is simple - we are the only ones who care enough to do
the job and who can do the job.

Some people are upset at the precedent this use of the military
sets, but there will always be naysayers whenever the US military
is being used. Rush notes that the US military is being used to
disarm teenage thugs in Somalia, and he wonders if the conspiracy
wackos will soon claim that this whole operation is just a
rehearsal for the military to move into the inner cities. The
wackos will point to how Bush once headed the CIA as "proof" for
their theories.

Rush muses on this theory for a second and then admits it
wouldn't be a bad idea, and he points out that starting unfounded
rumors is yet another public service by the EIB network.

o       The latest joke making the rounds asks why NYC chancellor
Joseph Fernandez won't be named Education Secretary by
President-elect Clinton - because Fernandez did inhale. In his
autobiography Fernandez admits that he mainlined heroin as a
teenager.

o       Rush asked recently who will great representation first -
blacks in South Africa or Republicans in New York City. New York
City is a great example of how one-party government works; city
schools can't teach substantive subjects such as math nor can
they even protect their students from drug dealers or random
shootings. So, what's the liberals' answer - distribute condoms
and teach respect for gays.

This focuses all the media attention on condoms and gays, and
thus nobody talks about the real problems that exist. This
technique is typically how liberalism manages to hide its
failures, and liberals can get away with it in New York City,
thanks to their one-party system of government.

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

Paul Smith, morning show host at EIB's Philadelphia affiliate,
WWDB, sent Rush a fax of a story from today's Philadelphia
Inquirer. Rush notes that the Inquirer's weekly television
listings haven't been updated to show that his TV show is now
airing at 11 p.m. Philadelphia's EIB affiliate is moving Rush's
show from its previous 1:30 a.m. time slot for a three-week test,
but the liberal media is "evidently" trying to sabotage the test
by not printing the proper TV listings.

Returning to the fax, today's Inquirer has a story similar in
tone to that about the mayor of Denver who is visiting New York
in an attempt to fight the liberal boycott of Colorado. The
Lesbian Avengers have been following this poor guy around town
giving him grief for this; the Avengers think that the mayor
should be supporting the boycott since his own step-son is gay.
The mayor has been harassed so much by this group, which shouts
"we're queer, we're here, and we're not going skiing," that he
has even had to hire security guards.

The Inquirer story reports that a lesbian group named Lesbian
Visibility Project is going to local shopping malls to "shop `til
stigmas drop." The LVP is trying to raise people's consciousness
about lesbians, and their slogan is "we're here, we're queer, and
we're going shopping." The group even sings one verse of "Deck
the Halls," just so that they can sing the line "now we don our
gay apparel."

In other feminist news, an 18-year-old South Carolina girl had to
play Santa Claus at a mall because the regular Santa Claus
couldn't show up. The kids, however, were not pleased to find out
that Santa Claus was a girl, and so the mall sent the girl back
to being one of Santa's helpers. The girl, who is going to be
paid less as a helper, says that this is sexual discrimination;
"just because I'm female doesn't mean they can keep me from being
Santa Claus," she stated.

Rush notes that the hostility of feminism continues.

*BREAK*

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

Carol Moseley Braun, who decided to run for the US Senate after
being outraged at the way Anita Hill was treated by the Senate
Judiciary Committee, has hired lawyers to investigate an
anonymous letter that accuses her campaign manager of sexual
harassment. Rush points out that the Anita Hill experience taught
the nation that it was only the accusation that mattered, and
that the evidence was inconsequential simply because of the
"nature of the charges" of a crime as serious as sexual
harassment.

EIB's Chicago affiliate is reporting that Braun is currently
travelling with her campaign manager in Africa, and that the two
will soon marry. Rush notes that Braun also has just bought a new
Cadillac and a new Jeep, although she hasn't paid many of her
campaign debts or some of her campaign employees.

*BREAK*

Rush is very much aware that many of his listeners tune into his
show for his renowned "hip-deep analysis" of the issues that
confront the nation. His hate mail Rush always contains some
letters which criticize him for talking about himself, and one
recent letter writer warned "don't forget - you always got to
dance with the one who brung ya."

However, what is Rush to do when Bo Snerdley tells him that all
the callers today just want to talk about him? Rush is confident,
though, that he can do an entire show without a single caller, if
necessary. This drastic a move won't happen today, though, since
there's at least one substantive caller.

Phone   Jeff from Newfield, NJ

Jeff is able to watch Rush's TV show on the Philadelphia
affiliate, and thus is glad that it will now be aired at 11 p.m.
instead of 1:30 a.m. When this news was first announced three
weeks ago, he even wrote the station to thank them, telling them
that he now would actually watch the commercials instead of
fast-forwarding through them the next day. He also called the
station this week to add his voice in praise of their move.
Evidently a lot of other people are doing the same, since the
first thing the receptionist said was "is this about Rush
Limbaugh? His show is now on at 11 o'clock."

Rush has to laugh, but bets that critics will claim he
artificially influenced events; if the test works, his success
will be disparaged because "all Rush did" was tell his fans to
call the station and to watch at the new time. Rush knows he will
be attacked for the "unfair" advantage of having 13.5 million
listeners. This makes no logic, but Rush doesn't care about the
critics - all he cares about is the success of the show. If the
show succeeds in its new time slot, he won't care one whit what
the critics say about it.

Jeff agrees with Rush's definition of liberalism as being
"symbolism over substance and subjectivity over objectivity."
He's noticed how most car ads are nothing but symbolism - "we
drive excitement," "oh, what a feeling," "it just feels right,"
and so forth. There's not much being said about specs and such in
these ads, and Jeff thinks liberals are taking over Madison
Avenue.

Rush thinks the liberals have been there for some time, but
comments that because of its nature, advertising is one of the
best indicators of society's trends and cultural shifts. He
doesn't worry about the ads themselves, because they are simply
reflecting what is already going on in society. Watching the
latest ads will tell an observer a lot about a society, and Rush
is especially aware of this since EIB's basic business is selling
advertising.

Jeff says that the gays in the military issue shows how far
society has travelled in 20 years. During the Vietnam War, you
could have claimed to be gay and thereby avoided the draft, but
few people did so; now, if the draft were reinstated and gays
still banned, everyone and their brother who didn't want to join
would have no problems claiming to be gay.

Rush says that the converse of this is that the 60s generation
was totally against the military, but now these same people are
on a mad dash to get into the military. Of course, the military
offers all sorts of benefits in peace time, such as lifetime
health benefits. Certainly some people do want to serve their
country, but it is curious that the left has made a 180 degree
turn on the attractiveness of military service.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Lo Bianco gets into the Christmas spirit by adding sleigh
bells to Handel's "Water Music."

o       Rush adds that Tom Wilson, the Ziggy cartoonist, did a
cartoon in last Sunday's paper that had two aliens ask Ziggy and
his dog where they could find mankind's leader, Rush Limbaugh.

o       On his TV show, which is now airing on Philadelphia's
channel 29 at 11 p.m., Rush will have more to say about the
controversy going on in Boulder, CO. The mayor complained about
having too many affluent whites, and Rush has pointed out that if
the problem is too many whites, then the solution is to bring in
poor people of color. Rush's camera crews are even now
interviewing poor blacks and hispanics to see if they are
interested in taking up Mayor Leslie Dirgen's "call" for poor
immigrants to move to her city.

Update  Gay Community         (Klaus Nomie, "You Don't Know Me")

Heath Johnson, a Colorado State University student, has removed
his painting "Sesame Treat" from a display because the producer
of Sesame Street complained about how he put Bert and Ernie in a
"compromising position."

*BREAK*

Phone   Jim from El Paso, TX

Jim suggests that when callers challenge Rush on what he
allegedly has said, Rush should demand that they quote him
verbatim. Rush says he already does this, but he can never get
these people to supply exact quotes; they always paraphrase what
they think Rush has said. What's particularly aggravating is that
often these people haven't heard Rush say these alleged
statements themselves, but rather have heard others report on
what Rush supposedly said.

Three weeks ago, Rush got a letter that demonstrates how this
works - the letter was a decidedly hostile one from Ray Brady,
CBS Business Analyst. Brady criticized Rush for criticizing him
for his liberal bias. Rush, though, hasn't even seen Brady on TV
for over a year, and thus hasn't even commented on him for at
least that long; Brady, though, heard from some third party that
Rush made the comment, and thus was motivated to write his angry
letter.

This happens to Rush a lot, just as it happens to a lot of other
celebrities and political commentators. Rush, though, promises
not to let this kind of stuff bother him, saying "it doesn't
daunt me!"

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       EIB has nothing but women on hold for today's show, which
pleases Rush immensely since he usually has to beg women to call
his show.

o       Tony Lo Bianco's Christmas gift is being violated in Lo
Bianco's very presence - Lo Bianco bought the studio a "pretty
little coffeepot," the color of which Bo Snerdley describes as
"caucasian." This was a very thoughtful gift, which Rush
appreciates. However, another admirer at Cappuchino Inc. of
Everett, MA mailed in an industrial coffeemaker, similar to those
used in Restaurants, and Lo Bianco's fine coffeepot is being
shunted aside right before his very eyes.

Rush is amazed that his staff would be so callous as to do this
the one day this week that Lo Bianco is at the studios, working.
Lo Bianco thus asks if he can have his gift back, and Rush thinks
that this would be very proper, especially as Bo seems to be
angling to take Lo Bianco's gift home.

o       Rush thanks Burt Decker, author of "You've Got to Be
Believed to Be Heard," has named Rush as the year's second best
communicator. Decker names Magic Johnson as number one, which
gives rise to the question of what type of communication Decker
is giving his award for. Decker says that Johnson is "always
articulate and confident in manner," and lists the remaining top
ten communicators: Rush, John Madden, Billy Crystal, Bob Costas,
Bill Clinton, Ross Perot, Katie Couric, and Norman Schwarzkopf.

Among the worst communicators are George Bush, James Stockdale,
and Dan Rather. Decker says that it "is somewhat miraculous that
[Rather] continues to sustain his position with his stiff,
formal, and affected manner." Rush is proud to be one of the top
ten best communicators and again thanks Burt Decker.

o       Rush comments on how education in America today avoids
the teaching of substantive topics in favor of "gooey, touchy-
feely things." NYC school chancellor Joseph Fernandez, who has
admitted in his autobiography that he shot up heroin as a youth,
is continually under fire from parents who don't want their kids
to be taught a curriculum that advocates homosexuality and which
passes out condoms.

New York Parents last night had a meeting and one parent after
another denounced the "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum, and
each was cheered by the other parents in the audience. Fernandez,
though, doesn't care about the parents' wishes, but it's rumored
that he will be leaving NYC soon, possibly to be a member of
Clinton's administration. Rush doubts that Fernandez's use of
drugs will be a handicap to him, given that Marion Barry's
political career is doing fine even after his jail term for
cocaine use.

Yesterday's News and Observer of Raleigh, NC had the headline
"Teachers not culturally equipped to teach minorities report
says." The story by Tim Simons says that according to a year-long
study, North Carolina's teachers are ill-prepared to meet the
needs of the states' diverse student population. The report
offers 50 recommendations for the better education of minority
students.

Some of these recommendations are requiring student teachers to
work in both rural and urban districts before graduating, paying
rural teachers more than urban teachers, encouraging teachers to
speak a second language, and making cultural diversity training
as important as improving students' academic performance. Rush
emphasizes this last recommendation, which proves
multiculturalism is willing to sacrifice academic performance in
favor of multicultural philosophy.

Thus, Outcome Based Education has now infiltrated North
Carolina's schools, and these sorts of programs divide people up
into groups; instead of treating kids as Americans, they consider
them to be only members of their specific groups. Rush knows that
education can help with the problems of bigotry and racism, but
one thing education cannot do is to teach someone to love someone
else.

Education is supposed to teach kids what they need to know to
have successful and productive lives in America; the goal should
be to make kids well-rounded, not to convince them that their
personal identity depends on their cultural or racial
affiliation. There is an American culture, and it is unique and
identifiable; American culture is not a hodge-podge composed of
miscellaneous other cultures, but is instead based on a rugged
individualism that encourages people to be the best they can be.

This is what produces a great nation, but doing your best today
is called self-centered and greedy; Rush warns that students who
are taught in proper schools will end up having a far better
education that those being taught this sort of psycho-babble, and
ultimately the former group of kids will have a tremendous
advantage over the latter.

This stuff is happening at the local level, and it doesn't matter
who the President is or who the members of Congress are. This is
why school choice is important, so that parents can decide what's
best for their children, as opposed to letting bureaucrats at the
local level make overreaching pronouncements that will affect
these kids' entire future.

*BREAK*

Suzanne Fields has written a column about how sad it is that Lynn
Cheney is leaving the National Endowment of the Humanities;
Cheney's term is not scheduled to end for another 15 months, but
she doesn't want to compromise her leadership under the Clinton
administration. Fields also notes much of what is happening at
American universities, and she voices her fears that this trend
will accelerate when Cheney is gone.

For example, the University of Wisconsin offers a three credit
class that teaches students how to demonstrate, and the students
are given an opportunity to show what they've learned in front of
the university's library. At San Diego State, students can take a
course on the lesbianism experience in western civilization,
while students at the University of Minnesota can study the
history of "lesbian sex wars in the 80s" in a course about
"lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies."

Fields notes that while this sort of stuff is being taught, many
other mainstream topics are being actively discouraged or banned.
At the 1992 College Art Association Conference, a speaker from
USC warned against painters such as Mary Cassatt whose work has
images drawn from the domestic life of children in the home
because "their paintings reinforce patriarchal thought."

Peggy Macintosh, Associate Director of the Center for Research on
Women at Wellesley College criticizes "vertical thinking," which
is stimulated by words such as "excellent," "success," and
"accomplishment." Macintosh says vertical thinking is used by
white males who have created structures such as the military, the
government, and the church.

Thus, excellence is no longer the goal of much of America's
teaching institutions, and Rush warns that ideas such as these,
like all ideas, have consequences. This is why he spends so much
time on then.

*BREAK*

Phone   Cindy from Wellesley, MA

Cindy asks Rush why he never went into the military and Rush is
curious as to why she is asking this question, given that there
have been countless stories written about this. CNN even did a
story on this, and it's no secret that Rush had both student and
physical deferments that kept him out of the draft.

Cindy is a former 10-year Air Force officer who eventually had to
leave the service because she is gay. She doesn't think that the
point is whether gays should be allowed to join the military -
they are already in the military and many of them have paid the
ultimate sacrifice by dying for their country. Cindy is angry
that so many people like Rush are pontificating on this issue and
it's not true that having gays in the military would harm its
esprit de corps.

Rush says that he has never said this, and in fact on the Donahue
and Posner show that is airing on CNBC tonight, Rush states that
he doesn't know whether gays should be admitted into the
military, and thus is willing to accept the judgment of the
experts, i.e. those who are leading the military.

The military has an express purpose that is essential to this
country - the defense of the country; the military is supposed to
kill people and break things, and it is not supposed to be the
next social laboratory. Those who are in charge of the military
are the experts of their "business," and Rush has to assume that
their reasons for excluding gays are not motivated by bias or
bigotry, but have a sound basis.

Mankind has had thousands of years of experience in fighting
wars, and thus Rush has to defer to the experts on this matter.
Cindy thinks this is the "easy way out," especially given the
"anti-gay sentiment" among Rush and his dittoheads; she thinks
the Gay Update Theme is proof of this. Rush wonders what he
specifically does that is anti-gay.

Cindy says that Rush's support for Amendment 2 is anti-gay since
to her it is an infringement of gays' rights. She also doesn't
like Rush's comments on the Lesbian Avengers. Rush wonders why he
should be called anti-gay for reporting news events, and says Meg
Greenfield of the Washington Post has a great column in this
week's Newsweek about how journalists frame debates so as to work
people up into frenzy; the furor about Amendment 2 is a perfect
example of this. All Amendment 2 says is that gays are not a
government-sanction minority for the purposes of affirmative
action and so forth.

Rush thinks that the American people are tired of the
divisiveness that is going on in the country right now, because
they know that it only exacerbates tensions. People, though,
cannot even oppose things like affirmative action without being
called racists and bigots.

Cindy says that she is being discriminated against because she
can't marry "her better half" or participate in her lover's job-
supplied benefits. Rush points out that he can't get those
benefits either because he's not married, and he asks why
marriage should be diluted to include every possible coupling.
It's one thing to come up with other solutions to this problem
and it's another to distort a sacred tradition such as marriage.

Cindy says that the divorce rate shows marriage is not the
institution it used to be, but Rush says that the institution is
fine; people get married for the wrong reasons and perhaps
divorce has become too easy. This is no reason to tear down the
institution. If accessing health benefits is that important, then
gays need to find other ways to achieve that goal, but they
shouldn't destroy the existing institution of marriage.

Rush notes that nothing of what he's said is anti-gay, but this
is what many people think because Rush is daring to disagree with
the gay activists' political agenda. Rush holds Cindy over the
break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Cindy from Wellesley, MA (continued)

Rush asks Cindy if she thinks marriage was devised as a way of
discriminating against homosexuals, and she replies no. Rush
points out that angry militant homosexuals act as if marriage was
an institution solely designed by homophobes to excludes gays
from the mainstream of life. This, though, was not and is not the
purpose of marriage.

Cindy says that she doesn't want to talk about the institution of
marriage, but says that gays are suffering every day; for
example, they are unable to celebrate the holidays with the
parents of their loved one because of the parents' homophobia.
She thinks Rush's Gay Update theme is a perfect example of this
type of attitude.

Rush points out that his Gay Update theme was recorded by a gay
man, but Cindy thinks the context in which Rush plays it only
encourages anti-gay attitudes. She thinks that it's clear that
Rush's audience "are pretty scary, some of them." Rush says that
many of them may think the same of Cindy, and she agrees;
however, she thinks the only reason there are no equal rights for
gays is because gays are the "invisible minority." Gays can and
do hide themselves, which is something other minorities such as
blacks cannot do.

Granted some gays are not invisible, but this may be what it
takes; gays who are part of ACTUP and such may scare some people,
but if this is what it takes, then so be it. Rush says that he
has just heard Cindy say "in your face" - that if ACTUP thinks it
will take "in your face" tactics to get what they want, then this
is what is going to happen.

Rush points out that it is this "in your face" behavior which
arches so many people's backs and makes the gays' cause all the
harder to accomplish. Cindy points to the 60s and how civil
rights marchers were in people's faces, especially during the
race riots. This, according to her, is what it often takes.

Rush points out that the race riots didn't work very well, but
Cindy thinks that this is because the US power structure is
controlled by heterosexual white males. Rush says that this is
not the problem; one of the problems is that America's schools
aren't teaching the right things.

It's become a cliche to say that America's crime is caused by
poverty, but this is not true; there was greater poverty during
the Great Depression, but crime back then didn't occur at current
levels. America is not teaching its kids values; it's not
teaching minority kids how to succeed in America, and instead is
teaching a bunch of psychobabble. This isn't working and thus
it's not surprising that some people are angry and frustrated.
Rush holds Cindy over another break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Cindy from Wellesley, MA (continued)

Rush returns to the subject of the military, and Cindy would like
people to look at the issue of gays in the military again,
especially since gays are already in the military and have and
are serving with distinction. Gays have served their country
proudly and will continue to do so.

Rush points out that it is his show which has made a point of
celebrating and saluting those American men and women who have
served their country, and he has never made a distinction as to
who they are.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       An associate professor of social work at Ohio State plans
to allow the poor into his classroom free of charge, even if the
college objects to the practice. Rush wonders why everyone
doesn't just give everything away.

o       The Nashville Tennessean reports that parents are furious
after learning that co-ed teenagers went skinny-dipping with
their chaperones on a Cumberland Science Museum nature trip.
Museum officials have taken steps to make sure this event will
not be repeated during future trips, which are taken to study
endangered loggerhead sea turtles. Of the five boys and five
girls who went on the trip, eight participated in the skinny
dipping along with a chaperone and two college students.

o       A Timber Wolf Summit in Alaska is scheduled for next
month and Rush promises an Animal Rights Update about this later.

o       Senator Lloyd Bentsen is rumored to be ready to accept
Clinton's offer to be Treasury Secretary, and this would mean a
special election to fill his Senate seat. Supposedly, Texas
Republicans are thinking of asking John Doggett, who testified on
behalf of Clarence Thomas last year, to run against the
Democratic candidate.

Rush would love to see this happen, especially since Doggett
irritated liberals with his supreme self-confidence. Senator
Metzenbaum even tried to lecture Doggett, who refused to back
down in the face of the committee's attacks against him.

The Washington Post has a story about how business loves Senator
Lloyd Bentsen, and Rush admits that it would be a good sign if
either Bentsen or Paul Volcker were nominated as Treasury
Secretary. The Wall Street Journal also points out that Bentsen
was a near-Republican before Reagan was elected, after which he
became a die-hard opponent of Reaganomics. WSJ hopes that
Bentsen's antipathy towards Reagan was motivated by partisanship
and not philosophical principles, so that "Lloyd of Lubbock and
not Bentsen of the Beltway" is running the Treasury.

The President of the American Petroleum Institute is quoted by
the Post as saying that Bentsen is "a great American statesman"
who should be cloned. Rush notes that had a Republican Senator
been so praised, the Democrats would run to the attack; after
all, the country can't afford someone who's going to be beholding
to the evil, polluting oil industry.

Chris Walker, Washington tax lobbyist for business, also praises
Bentsen, saying "I view him extremely positively." Rush notes
that Bentsen also opposed the 1986 tax reform act, which may have
been the right thing to do, given that the act caused massive
devaluations in America's real estate, which in turn precipitated
the S&L crisis.

Even though Bentsen favors raising taxes on the rich, he is a big
proponent of tax shelters which would soften the blow of higher
taxes. These tax breaks were eliminated in 1986 and it would be
no surprise if Bentsen encouraged their readoption. Rush adds
that just because one is a Democrat doesn't necessarily mean
they're anti-business.

*BREAK*

Lo Bianco's coffeepot has already been relegated to the EIB
trashheap, and the staff has installed their new industrial
model. Lo Bianco, though, is glad he saw this sad event happen
since it would have been much worse to come in the next day to
see no sign of his gift. Rush is glad that he has such a
thoughtful and understanding staff, at least in Lo Bianco; Bo
Snerdley is another matter, however, as Rush bets that he will
still make an attempt to steal Lo Bianco's coffeepot for his own
use.

Phone   Julie from Bloomington, IN

Julie says "hi, darling," and thanks Rush for the greatest day of
her life and for the "greatest weekend I've ever spent with a
man." She hopes that Rush enjoyed things as much as she did. Rush
is a bit confused, and Julie explains that she was the caller who
offered Rush a "throat rub from the inside."

Rush realizes that Julie is the caller whom he featured in his
book, and he comments that Julie's original call has given him a
lot of grief since then. Julie adds that her offer is still open,
and she was amazed and pleased to see her call chronicled in
Rush's best-selling book.

She's been trying for about a month to thank Rush for this favor,
and she promises Rush will see her again, probably when he least
expects it. Rush tells Bo that he wants to see the guest list for
his TV show from now on, just so that he can be prepared in case
Julie sneaks onto the set. Rush thanks Julie for refreshing his
memory about this unforgettable day in his life.

Phone   Kate from New Bedford, MA

Kate and her husband were at a dinner party when she mentioned
that she was on the waiting list at the library for Rush's book.
She then got self-conscious because she wasn't sure whether her
hosts liked Rush or not; however, the hosts started laughing, and
then displayed their collection of Rush mugs, videos, and other
EIB merchandise.

Rush finds this to be an amazing thing - Kate was at the home of
friends but was still self-conscious about admitting she likes
Rush. Kate notes that Rush himself admits that people either love
him or hate him, with equal doses of passion. Rush says that he
still hasn't figured out why people hate him so much; one caller
today was a 12-year-old kid who mentioned Rush's name in a
speech, and he was loudly booed by most of the adults in their
audience. Kate admits that in her neck of the woods - the home of
the Kennedys and Dukakis - "you've got to watch your step." Rush
agrees that would be a prudent thing to do.

The hate mail still continues to pour in, though; one CompuServe
listener angrily asked Rush if he was going to play "The Loser"
as his new Bush Update theme. Rush explains yet again that the
reason he called Michael Dukakis "The Loser" was because after
the 1988 elections, Jim Wright called a press conference to state
that Bush's election didn't matter because Congress was going to
set the agenda. It didn't matter to the Democrats that their guy
lost, and this is why Rush used the theme - to remind them that
the people had indeed repudiated their candidate.

Phone   Kelly from Pacifica, CA

Kelly had to leave to get her haircut, but her husband Terry is
still hanging on to the line. Rush appreciates how long Kelly had
to wait while on hold and thus suggests that EIB could call her
at her hairdressers during the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Kelly at Visions Hair Salon in Pacifica, CA

Both Kelly and Terry are on the line, and Kelly is flabbergasted
that Rush has called her back. She notes that she was on hold for
almost two hours before she had to leave, but at least she told
her husband that his life was on the line if he dared to hangup
before Rush came on.

Kelly called because last week she sat down with an article about
how to set the table for the holidays, and was astounded to find
that even this story was politically correct. Terry has the
article, which is from the December 2nd issue of the San
Francisco Examiner. Bonnie Wach writes the following:

"If you are an only granddaughter, or maybe the first one to get
married, you may have had to deal with the dilemma of Grandma's
china. There is no polite way to refuse Grandma's china and not
come off like an ungrateful wretch, and considering the cocooning
and burrowing 80s, when the everyday ware worked just fine for
black bean chili and Thirty-Something, but now there's a new
President, a renewed feeling of promise, and festivity in the
air, in the sense we're ushering in a new era of entertaining.
It's time to upgrade and update the table china. Fortunately for
Grandma and the preservation of family values, that doesn't
necessarily mean you have to get rid of everything in your
cabinets. The key, as with everything else in life, is to
maximize and accessorize."

Rush doesn't understand why the Republicans were criticized
during the 80s for having lavish parties and enjoying themselves,
while now all of this is again okay because there's a Democratic
President. Rush hopes Kelly will mail this article to her, since
with his TV show he can now illustrate much of this folly;
perhaps he'll even set a table on the air to show how proper
Democrats do it.

Terry adds that the article has a suggestion for a centerpiece -
pour dirt in the middle of the table, place freshly washed spring
bulbs in the dirt, and then surround the whole mess with fake
snow. Kelly sarcastically adds that this is exactly the sort of
thing she'd like to have on her holiday dinner table, but this is
the sort of thing that happens when one is a Republican living in
San Francisco.

Rush laughs as well, and congratulates Kelly for being able to
laugh at this, too. He has Bo give Kelly and Terry EIB's address
so that they can mail the article to him; he's now seriously
thinking of displaying this idea on his TV show, and even having
staffers eat from a table that is decorated with mounds of dirt.

Update  Animal Rights         (Andy Williams, "Born Free" with
gratuitous sound effects)

Because of public outrage, the Governor of Alaska, Wally Hickle,
has temporarily suspended plans to thin out the state's wolf
herds by shooting 300 to 400 of the animals. The herds need to be
thinned because they are killing too many caribou and moose,
which is preventing hunters from finding as many game. Rush
points out that the caribou and moose are "history" either way
this turns out, and that the wolf is not a threatened or
endangered species in Alaska.

Governor Hickle has announced a three-day Wolf Summit next month
to decide if the ban on wolf kills will be continued.
Environmentalists, though, are suspicious and think that Hickle
is only trying to buy time so that public emotions can cool down
over the wolf kills.

"I smell a rat," said Nicole Evans of the Alaska Wildlife
Federation. Rush points out that there are no rats involved in
this dispute. The Fund for Animals group has now called for an
international boycott of Alaska, which means that the politically
correct crowd has now decided that two of the US's 50 states are
not worthy of tourism. Rush notes that man is just as much a part
of nature as any wolf, and he has no doubts that wolves would arm
themselves with guns if they had the capacity to do so.

Rush thinks the solution to the problem is obvious - since the
wolf is endangered in the lower 48 states but not in Alaska, then
why not move the wolves down to other states? Of course, it is
the animal rights crowd who should pay for it, since they haven't
spent much of the money they fleece from the general public on
the animals they claim to support. "Let them put their money
where they mouths are," Rush suggests.

*BREAK*

The Missoulan of Missoula, MT has a story by Asta Bowen who
writes that her "sisters" face a "firing squad" since they are
members of a "small remote community marked for death." Bowen
admits that "not all of my sisters will be killed - some of them
will watch others die and then escape, [but] the loss of a few
lives can spell disaster for all."

Who are these sisters of Bowen? The wolves of Alaska, and Rush
points out that this is why these people are wackos, since they
consider all animals to be the same, except for man who is the
least worthy of the animal kingdom.

Phone   Allen from Denton, TX

Allen is a police officer who in his off-duty hours has started a
non-profit, first-aid service with some other police and fire
officers. The group offers free CPR first aid classes and hopes
to raise money for a half-way house for the homeless.

Rush wonders if Allen is really a conservative, given that
everyone knows that conservatives have no compassion whatsoever.
He asks how Allen is planning to "scam" people with his so-called
non-profit group. Allen admits that going is tough right now
because the only people contributing are conservative business
owners such as Red Lobster and Culligan Water Softener. They
hope, though, to have a massive rummage sale to raise further
funds.

Rush has run out of time, but thanks Allen for calling and wishes
him and his buddies the best with their endeavor.

*BREAK*

Bernard Weintraub of the NY Times has written a perceptive and
insightful column on Barbra Streisand's call for a boycott of
Colorado; Weintraub writes:

"Quite inadvertently it seems Barbra Streisand broke one of
Hollywood's cardinal rules, which is the issues which one speaks
out about should remain as remote as possible, like apartheid in
Africa, hunger in the Third World, or in the 1980s the war in
Central America. The farther away the better. In Hollywood a
political issue is embraced as long as one is not personally
touched by it."

Weintraub has pointed out the left's love of symbolism over
substance; as long as someone says the right things, it doesn't
matter what you do.


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