From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Tue 10/6/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:01:39 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, October 6, 1992

by John Switzer

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October 6, 1992

NEWS

o       Congress has been working overtime in an effort to pass
as many bills as possible before the end of the current session.
One of the many important bills that have been passed was one
declaring the week of October 4-10, 1992 as "National Customer
Service Week." <<Get in the congressional spirit - call up your
favorite software vendor and complain about a non-existent bug.
Let those customer service guys know you care.>>

o       From ABC Radio News: Deborah Ellis of the Alexandria
Women's clinic made the following comment about the Supreme
Court's hearing of whether pro-life protestors are guilty of
discrimination against women: "Women are discriminated against as
a class because they are denied a Constitutional right that only
the class of women has. It's like the segregationist mob blocking
black children from entering a school and depriving them of only
the Constitutional rights that they have. It's the same
situation."

MORNING UPDATE

The Century of Limbaugh continues - Rush recalls that during the
Clarence Thomas hearings he predicted that sexual harassment
would be the new plague of the 90s. Proof of this can be found in
7-year old Chelsea Hence who, according to her mother, has
already learned "that it's okay for little boys to put down,
embarrass, and humiliate little girls."

Neither Chelsea or her mother likes how little boys behave on
Chelsea's school bus - they use foul language, and they tease and
harass Chelsea. Thus, Chelsea's mother has filed a sexual
discrimination suit against the school board claiming that "when
I put my child on a school bus in the morning, I have a right to
know that she will have a safe and relatively happy ride to
school, without being harassed and forced to listen to
profanities."

The school's superintendent replied that in the past the school
has considered foul language to be a disciplinary action, but "in
the future it's apparent we're going to have to consider language
`sexual harassment,' even for elementary kids." Rush says that
what is truly apparent is that the agenda of sexual harassment
has gone totally out of control. Certainly rudeness and foul
language are distasteful and should be stopped, but they should
not be classified as sexual harassment or criminal behavior.

"Feminists have gotten ahold of this, folks - political
correctness in the first grade already. Who's next?"

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush comments that his TV show is definitely too short as
he can't get to everything he wants to, and he promises that
tonight's show will get to the news about the Clarence Thomas
hearings. He adds that the TV industry is "stunned" about his
show's success; although he doesn't want to give specifics yet,
he does say that the show has "gloatable numbers."

o       Bill Clinton's youthful protests of the Vietnam War are
getting national attention now. The Washington Times ran a long
story yesterday about Clinton's activities during his second year
at Oxford when he did not attend classes. Clinton's campaign
first denied the allegations that he visited Moscow, but is now
admitting the visit; however, they are claiming that Clinton's
1969 visit to Moscow was part of a 40-day vacation, and not an
expression of his anti-war feelings. Rush adds in an aside that
the Clinton/Gore ticket has really put together a slick,
brilliant, and tremendous show.

There is obviously much more to come out about this, and last
night Larry King asked Clinton about the missing pages in his
passport. King also asked about the possibility that Clinton
might have met with Soviet agents during his trip.

Rush recalls that in 1969 and 1970, the Cold War was at its
height as the US was fighting a war against the Soviet's proxies
in Vietnam. Anti-war protests were also nearing their zenith
then. There was a great distrust of Communism in general, and of
the Soviet Union in particular.

Furthermore, it's well known that Soviet intelligence, including
the KGB, was especially interested in co-opting Americans to work
for the Soviet cause, whether the Americans did so knowingly or
not. Particular targets of the KGB were those who were leaning
towards the political left, notably students. The Soviets counted
it as a victory every time official US policy was opposed by
Americans.

Most people won't remember this negative part of the past as
people tend to remember only the good things. Plus, many liberals
would claim that the Soviets acted as they did only because they
were "forced into it by imperialistic American foreign policy."

Today, though, Bill Clinton has been accused of being sympathetic
to the enemies of the United States back in 1969; even as he
tried to escape military service, he sympathized with the same
enemies who were killing American soldiers. Clinton said in a
1978 Arkansas Gazette story that he attended only two anti-war
protests, but he asserts that he did so only to hear the featured
speakers.

However, Robert Levin's biography of Clinton, "Bill Clinton, the
Inside Story," not only recounts all of the protests that Clinton
attended but also those he helped organize. So Clinton's 1978
statement is contradicted by his own biography, but when he asked
about this on Larry King he laughed.

Rush finds this a curious response - if someone is accused of
being anti-American and helping America's enemy, would they laugh
about it? Now Newsweek is reporting that Clinton's passport is
missing 3 pages, and the rumor is that these pages covered his
travels to the USSR. Clinton was asked about this, too, and he
laughed again.

Clinton then attacked President Bush as a pathetic figure who is
running scared, and again Clinton laughed. Rush couldn't believe
this when he saw it - if someone is running for the Presidency of
the United States, and none of these rumors or stories are true,
then wouldn't a normal person experience some indignation at the
very least? Wouldn't a normal person express some legitimate
anger and outrage?

Instead of attacking these allegations as unsubstantiated rumors,
though, Clinton chuckles and attacks Bush as someone who is not
quite right in the head. This whole attitude of Clinton's rubs
Rush the wrong way, and he is certain there will be more said
about this later.

o       Rush will talk a little about Sinead O'Connor although he
doesn't want to spend too much time about her since she is an
"irrelevant bald chick." However, he does want to mention two
words - "hate crime." Rush wonders what would happen if someone
tore up a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the same way that
O'Connor tore up a picture of the Pope last Saturday night.

Evidently all of the activists who would rise up in great anger
over this sort of attack on King think it is fashionable when any
aspect of Christianity is attacked or despoiled. Rush adds that
he'll have more to say about this on his TV show.

*BREAK*

Rush promos his upcoming commercial for the Limbaugh Letter, the
second issue of which will contain a transcript of his interview
with President Bush, as well as an interview with William F.
Buckley. "Commercials are so important on this show," Rush
states, "that we promo them." He adds that his newsletter is
really a monthly update to his best-selling book.

Phone   Clinton from Highpoint, NC

Clinton heard Michael Kinsley last night say that it was
commonplace for Americans to visit the Soviet Union in 1968 and
1969. Rush isn't surprised that liberals would have loved to
visit the USSR during the 60s. He adds that Americans could
travel to the Soviet Union, although their travel was limited to
certain hotels, travel services, and such. The fact still remains
that the KGB actively spied on Americans back then and used
Americans who opposed the then current American foreign policy.
Rush has a great quote on all this which he will read after the
break.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Larry King asked Clinton if he met the KGB during his
trip to Moscow in 1969 and Clinton replied "as far as I know, I
didn't meet with the KGB." Rush finds that statement curious
since it implies some equivocation - Clinton is admitting that
this might have happened but he didn't know it if it did.

Rush says that this is exactly the point - the KGB didn't sidle
up to visiting Americans and say "hello, comrade, we are KGB -
you are anti-American - we love you." The KGB's solicitations
didn't happen this way. Rush is still amazed that a Presidential
nominee wouldn't get mad about these sorts of allegations. This
is even more amazing considering that a few weeks before the
Democratic convention, Democrats were hanging their heads in
disbelief that Slick Willie would be their nominee.

o       EIB has put together a couple of new bits for the
edification of its listeners. The first bit is a new version of
Rush's Timber Update theme. Rush plays the new theme, which like
the old theme includes the sound of chainsaws, falling trees, and
cries of "timber!" The update, though, is now based on a 12-bar
blues, and one of the musical instruments is a chainsaw which is
revved so that it keeps in tune with the song.

o       The NY Times has a story today about how 80% of Perot's
ex-supporters don't trust him. Rush recalls how when Perot
announced his re-entry into the race some EIB staffers were
afraid that all of his former supporters would flock back to him,
but this isn't happening. Thus, Rush plays his new public service
announcement for Ross Perot:

<<Sailor's Hornpipe starts playing>>

<<Announcer>> Walt Dizzie Pictures presents the story of a Texas
billionaire who reluctantly takes over the helm - Ross Perot in
"Captain Ross."

<<Perot>> I only will be the captain if my volunteers want me to
do it, Larry.

<<Announcer>> Yes, it's "Captain Ross," the story of a crew in
desperate need of a leader and who will accept just about
everything, even a maniacal Texas billionaire.

<<Perot>> Avast ye, maties, raise the tax mast! Do it . . . do
it, now, Larry!

<<Announcer>> "Captain Ross," a sea-faring story of the blind
leading the blind.

<<Sound of explosion, followed by voice of anxious sailor>>
Captain Ross - there's a gash in the hull!

<<Perot>> Now, come on, don't just stand there - stuff it with
money! <<sound of water pouring into the ship>> I am telling you
one more time, just don't stand there, stuff it . . . with money!

<<Announcer>> "Captain Ross" . . .

<<Perot>> I have decided after careful consideration that it is
only going to disrupt things to do this further. I don't want to
be captain anymore.

<<Explosion, followed by a splash and sailor's shout>> Man
overboard!

<<Announcer>> "Captain Ross," coming soon to a polling place near
you. If he takes over, we'll all go down with the ship.

o       Rush comments that he flew back from Kansas City on USAir
yesterday. Bo asks who he paid off to get on the plane since
USAir is experiencing a strike right now, and Rush replies that
he paid full, first-class airfare which is why he got on the
plane. Rush had to take this flight which left Kansas City at
7:45 in the morning so that he could get back in time for his
"debate" with Margaret Carlson of Time magazine. Rush says that
he had expected Carlson would interview him but she ended up
debating him on almost everything.

Rush comments that Carlson had heard about his previous comments
about her and he speculates that the Time magazine piece on him
may be "payback" time for her. However, it was a fun experience,
although Rush would like to take back the time he tried to
explain his Undeniable Truth of Life #24 to her. Rush found it
funny that Carlson was talking more in the interview than he was,
and the two even ended up talking all the way down the hall when
Carlson left.

Getting back to his airline story, Rush had gone to bed at 2 am
since the big party for George Brett's 3000th hit was on Sunday
night. Rush got up at 5 so that he could make his USAir flight.
Rush, of course, had heard rumors about an impending strike when
he booked his travel arrangements and asked his travel agent
about this. The agent, though, promised Rush that no massive work
stoppage would occur and Rush's flight was okay.

Thus, Rush didn't book two flights as he normally would have in
this situation. He then woke up at 5 am, turned on the news, and
the first story was about the strike. Rush tried to call USAir
but ended up being on hold for 40 minutes, and so he hightailed
it out to the airport in the hope that his plane would fly.

Rush found that his flight would be operating, at least if the
plane's crew arrived, which the ticket agent said had about a
"90% chance of happening." The crew did show up, about 45 minutes
late, but everything worked out fine as Rush arrived in New York
just in time for his meeting with Margaret Carlson.

Rush finishes his airline story and he wonders why he started the
story in the first place. He can't remember before the break
comes, but he is certain that he will figure it out before the
end of the show.

*BREAK*

Phone   Bill from Corina, ME

Bill is a Bush supporter, and he asks if Clinton has been
spending his whole life trying to become President, then why
would he do something as stupid as visit Moscow and take part in
anti-American protests? Rush says that Clinton has done several
things that would make one ask this question. For example, for
the three years while Clinton was at Yale, he lived with Hillary
out of wedlock. This is important only because less than 11% of
the country at that time was engaging in such behavior; if
Clinton were really looking to the future, wouldn't he have
moderated his actions accordingly?

Bill says that things like this bother him, but this isn't what
America wants to hear right now, and he is afraid that if Bush
continues on with these attacks against Clinton, Bush is going to
lose. Bush needs to talk about the need for smaller government.
Rush agrees - people have been disappointed about this for
months.

However, Bush has been trying to talk about issues such as school
choice, but people just don't hear him. Rush recalls that he
talked with John Sununu two years ago and Sununu was predicting
that the Bush campaign was ready to go, and that it would show
Bush as one of the most conservative Presidents in history. One
of the issues Sununu mentioned was school choice.

Bill thinks that this may be true, but Bush should attack the
main problem which is Congress and not Clinton. People like
George Mitchell are in Washington, and this is what Bush needs to
attack - the status quo in Washington. Bill, though, just doesn't
hear Bush talk about the issues.

Rush says that he hears this complaint all the time, yet Bush and
his campaign are talking about the issues. Somehow, the problem
has become one of communication, and evidently the Bush campaign
can't seem to solve it.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that the Teen Talk Barbie has outraged feminists
everywhere because the doll says that "math is tough." The
feminazis are claiming that this doll would reinforce girls'
perceptions that math is too hard for them. EIB, though, has
bought 20 of these dolls, each of which has 4 different sayings.
However, not one of the 20 dolls said "math is tough."

The simple fact of the matter is that math is tough for
everybody. Mattel, though, has capitulated to the feminists by
offering to trade in a talking Barbie for one that doesn't talk.
Rush says that he knows a lot of husbands who would love to be
given that same offer.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Today is the first anniversary of the start of the
Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings. Intriguingly, Lynn Yeakel is
continuing to trail Senator Arlen Specter in their Pennsylvania
Senate race; Yeakel is behind him even among women.

Yeakel originally based her campaign on how Anita Hill was
treated, but last year two-thirds of Americans, including women,
believed Clarence Thomas instead of Hill. A recent NBC/Wall
Street Journal poll has 49% of women believing Hill while 38%
believe Thomas, which is an interesting about-face. Last year's
poll was a snapshot of people's impressions of Thomas and Hill,
while the recent poll is a snapshot of how people view them after
a year of media favoritism towards Hill.

The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting that Hill is getting
another award - she will be honored as the ACLU's Civil
Libertarian of the Year during a $125 per person Bill of Rights
banquet. Rush is curious because he thought that only rich
Republicans could afford such a dinner, and he wonders if Hill
will be getting her usual $10,000 fee for her speech.

How, though, could Hill be considered Civil Libertarian of the
Year when she did not have any evidence to support her charges,
not to mention that she lied to the Senate Committee?

o       An auto worker who admitted fondling a woman's breasts at
a Chrysler plant will get his job back, including back pay. The
Michigan state supreme court let stand an appeal court's ruling
that the man be given his job back. Rush suggests that the man
should be put to work servicing headlights. The news story,
though, does not report on why the court ruled as it did. Rush
calls it a curious case, while Mike Maimone bets the auto worker
found the ruling to be uplifting.

o       With all of the hubbub about the talking Barbie, Rush
wonders if there is a talking Ken doll - has Ken ever been able
to talk? Rush doesn't want to speculate on where the Talking
Ken's button is, but he bets that Ken says "yes, dear" and "thank
you, dear." Perhaps Ken would also say "Barbie flunked math
class"?

o       The London Observer has a story about Toronto health care
researchers. Rush digresses a minute to talk about those who
think national health care is a right and an entitlement. Rush
would like to change the term "entitlement" to the more apt
description "gift." Many people evidently think health care is a
right since Clinton is winning votes with it, which is strange
since all of the Democratic primary candidates who talked about
this have fallen by the wayside.

People actually think health care is something that is owed to
them, yet if this is so, then why don't people think that the
government owes them food? Why don't people demand food vouchers
from the government, since after all everyone has to eat in order
to live. And if people need a car to get to work, then why
doesn't the government buy everyone a car? Why not government-
provided dental insurance or anything else that people think they
need?

Many people claim that the Canadian system is the best system in
the entire world, and that therefore the US should have
socialized medicine. The London Observer, though, reports that a
Canadian survey has found that dead smokers cost the country less
than old people who live longer. The report says that "smokers
are never a burden to non-smokers," and that even when expensive
lung cancer treatments are factored in, by the time they die
smokers cost the system less than those who are long-lived.

So, the Canadian health care system is evidently so burdened that
some are praising smokers for dying sooner, and thereby freeing
up resources for the non-smokers. "There," states Rush, "put that
in your pipe and smoke it!"

*BREAK*

Phone   Joe from Manhattan, NY

Joe points out that not only do 75% of American workers work for
companies with 50 employees or less, but 50% of American workers
are employed by companies with 20 employees or less. He says that
Clinton and his ideas of mandated business-provided health care
are really out of touch with small businesses. A lot of the small
business owners ended up starting their business because they
were laid off and needed to find themselves a job. Many small
business owners make less than their employees, and Clinton's
proposals are just going to kill off businesses right and left.

Rush says that this is a great point, especially as he is tired
of how Gore and Clinton sanctimoniously talk about how out of
touch Bush is because he doesn't understand the country. It's
Bill Clinton, who has never held a job in the private sector, who
is really the one out of touch with his proposals that will
assault small businesses.

Joe says that he works for one of the largest growing franchise
operations in the country, and he knows that if Clinton's 7% Pay
or Play health plan is implemented, a lot of his company's
franchisees couldn't afford it and still stay in business.
America will become nothing more than a nation of part-time
employees if Clinton's plans really take hold.

Rush says that Clinton and his little support group are just
itching to try their socialist dreams one more time; they are
convinced that the reason that similar plans have failed in the
past is because they weren't given a fair shake. There is nothing
at all populist about Clinton - the people are not demanding
Clinton's economic plan nor are they demanding that business be
punished so much that people get laid off and fired.

On the other hand, though, some people are supporting Clinton's
calls for national health care. The argument goes back and forth
as to whether the people get the government they want and
deserve. However, Rush can't believe that the people are
knowingly supporting Clinton's dream team of advisors like Derek
Shearer and Robert Reiche who believe that a big centralized
government is the only way to get a "fair" society.

Liberals think that people are idiots who can't succeed on their
own, which is why Clinton is calling for affirmative action type
programs for everyone. They honestly believe that people can't
survive without massive government intervention that will
guarantee equality of result and a risk-free life. The only way
to do this, though, is to make life as miserable as possible for
as many people as possible - this is how liberals define
equality.

Joe says that the Fortune 500 companies are losing market share
to smaller companies, and thus may be backing Clinton because
Clinton's problems will hurt small businesses the most. Rush says
that this is exactly right - big companies think Clinton will
eliminate a lot of their competition for them.

*BREAK*

Rush apologizes on behalf of EIB since everyone working there is
having a good time, which is contrary to the conventional wisdom
that states everyone must endure pain, suffering, and misery in
order to be a "decent person." He wonders why people actually
want to make their lives worse; why do people think things can be
made better by slowing things down?

Clinton says his program to invest in America will bring about
economic growth, but if this is true, then why is there any need
for pain and suffering? If economic growth brings about jobs and
decent wages, then who is going to suffer? The answer, of course,
is that it will be the working taxpayer who will suffer because
he is going to have to foot the bill for Clinton's plans.

Some might claim that suffering is needed because higher taxes
are required to raise more money. Yet when taxes are raised, what
suffers are jobs and disposable income. Higher taxes mean that
the people will have less money to spend, yet people are so
convinced that there must be change that they don't care what the
change will be. "Things can't get any worse," people claim;
however, the Great Depression and the 1982 recession are just two
examples of when things certainly were worse.

Phone   Brian from Katie, TX

Brian is watching "Billigate" with great interest, and he wonders
why the media is so slow in covering these stories. Rush says
that the main reason that the media isn't covering these stories
is because Bush isn't talking about them. However, if Bush does
start talking about these character issues, they will get more
coverage.

Granted, the media is not highly motivated to print anything
negative about Clinton in the first place, but if Bush did start
making an issue of Clinton's past, the media would cover it.
Right now, though, Bob Dornan is the only one trying to make news
about it, and thus Clinton and his campaign are laughing it off.
Bush is the one who has to make these stories news, and Bush
won't do it until he knows there is something to them.

Phone   Irene from Murrells Inlet, SC

Irene points out that Rush is one example of media influence.
Rush agrees, but adds that his is a lone voice crying in the
media wilderness. Irene wants to talk about health care. She
doesn't think people consider health care to be an entitlement;
rather people are frustrated with the way things are right now.
She points out that her community does not have a community
hospital; the only hospital in her area is a for-profit
institution.

Rush wonders what the problem with this is - what is wrong with
having a hospital operate for profit? The biggest problem with
health care is not that there is profit, but that market forces
aren't controlling health care prices. If prices were predicated
on the ability of the consumer to pay, as prices are throughout
the economy, then why shouldn't people make profit on health
care?

Irene says that hospitals often have no involvement with the
community, and are more concerned with competing with other
hospitals for doctors, getting the best equipment, and so forth.
Not every hospital needs a Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI) or a
nuclear medicine program or laser surgery. These expensive
machines simply raise the costs for every patient. Instead of
this approach, hospitals should be centrally controlled so that
each specializes in certain areas of expensive medicine.

Irene has worked in a hospital and she has seen how hospitals
operate. Rush holds her through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Irene from Murrells Inlet, SC (continued)

Irene says that one of the reasons Medicare has been in trouble
so much is because the doctors and hospitals have raped the
system by billing for all sorts of services that aren't really
rendered. If a doctor pokes his head into a patient's room, he'll
bill Medicare for an office visit. Irene even got a bill for eye
surgery two years after the patient died, and she refused to pay
it because she wasn't even sure if the doctor was in attendance.
The elderly are routinely asked to sign forms which are later
sent in to Medicare for non-supplied services.

Rush says that a hospital tried to keep his own grandmother out
of the hospital; he wonders how Irene can explain why this would
happen. Irene says that this sort of thing - keeping the elderly
out of hospitals - is more recent, but when a patient is in the
hospital the doctor has little to do. The staff does most of the
work, but the doctor still charges for a full office visit each
time he sticks his foot through the door.

Rush suggests that centralization is what has caused this mess -
a monolithic central government that pays every bill it gets
allows everyone along the billing chain to profit wildly. The
solution to runaway health costs is therefore not more
centralization but the introduction of competition and market
forces into the health care industry. Competition between
hospitals is not the problem.

Irene disagrees because these machines are expensive. Rush asks
whether this means that the makers of these machines should just
give their products away. Irene doesn't think this, but says that
everyone is greedy, from the consumers to the providers.
Hospitals pay low wages, and the one near her starts off at
minimum wage.

Rush says that the reason hospitals pay minimum wage is because
there are people willing to take the jobs - this is the market at
work, and he can't condemn businesses for this. He points out
that according to the US Department of Labor, 75% of those doing
minimum wage jobs are teenagers, not parents trying to feed their
families.

*BREAK*

Phone   Eddie from Albany, NY

Eddie and his brother run a small business, and he vividly
remembers the Jimmy Carter days; however, when he mentions the
Carter administration to others, their eyes glaze over as if this
were ancient history that could never happen again. Eddie thinks
it is a scary thought to think that a Clinton victory could bring
those days back.

Rush says that what is really scary is that Democrats have been
continually complaining about the 12 years of Reagan and Bush.
They've been frustrated because they haven't been able to do
their favorite things for 12 years, and if Clinton gets into the
White House, they'll get their chance again. "You had better hold
onto your back pocket," Rush warns, because if these clowns get
into the White House, they are going to start doing what they
haven't been able to do for 12 years, and look out."

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Update  Homeless         (Clarence "Frogman" Henry, "Ain't Got No
Home")

Another dumpster death has occurred, this time in Washington, DC.
Sunday's Washington Post reports that a man was killed when the
dumpster he and his woman companion were sleeping in was emptied
by a garbage truck last Saturday. The woman, who was seriously
injured, said that the two of them were screaming but they
couldn't be heard over the noise of the garbage truck.

Rush comments on how these needless dumpster deaths seem to be a
common occurrence nowadays, although more people worldwide are
still being killed by elephants or at rap concerts than by
garbage trucks. However, he points out that people are choosing
to sleep in garbage, and he wonders what kind of life it must be
when the biggest threat in your life is to have a garbage truck
show up.

A sign should therefore be posted on dumpsters to indicate that
"somebody's home." What happens to the trash, though, if the
trash can't be emptied? Do these garbage drivers, who are like
"over-eager busboys," have to come back in two weeks? Do they
wake up the sleeping dumpster occupants? Are Reagan's tax cuts
are to blame for this or is someone else responsible for people
who choose to sleep in dumpsters?

Items

o       Rush recalls the group of "doctors" who last week claimed
milk was bad for kids. In actuality they were members of People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). This should give
credence to the maxim that if there is any group of scientists or
doctors that has the word "responsible" in their name, really
responsible people should run the other way. It also shows that
PETA is a group of wackos who will make things up if they have
to.

The press, though, covered the PETA press conference as if these
guys were a bona fide scientific group.

o       Kids are more likely today to be less healthy and more
likely to be victims of homicide and AIDS than at any time except
for the mid 80s, according to a report released by the American
Health Foundation, a non-profit research and education group.
Increases in the occurrence of measles, high blood cholesterol
levels, and obesity were cited as some of the reasons for the
drop in kids' overall health.

Doctor Robert Rubin at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
said that the state of health care was such today that "you're
sitting on a powder keg." Rush says he doesn't see why anyone
would oppose an increase in the size of government since that is
obviously the only thing that will cure kids from being fat and
inactive.

o       The NY Times reports that because of a New Jersey state
supreme court ruling, 1500 unionized government workers can now
be laid off from state offices in New Jersey. Rush calls this a
harbinger of things to come - with government deficits running so
high, government workers will be the next to suffer from cost
cutting moves.

*BREAK*

Phone   David from Bakersfield, CA

David thanks Rush for being a positive and optimistic
conservative, and he points out that the opposite of "right" is
not only "left," but also "wrong." He would like to draw a
parallel between Clinton and David Duke - both are trying to shed
off an unsavory past which they have chalked up to youthful
zealousness. Duke's followers, however, thought he was talking
about the issues, just as Clinton's followers think Clinton is
doing.

Rush understands David's basic point, but he doesn't think this
is really an accurate or useful comparison. Clinton has been
elected to a number of prominent state offices, and his past is
not the same as Duke's KKK background. Clinton may be trying to
hide parts of his past, but Duke never did that - Duke admitted
his past but said he had changed. People, though, didn't believe
him.

Besides, Duke is an "entity to himself," and if he is going to
compared to anyone, he should be compared to Senator Robert Byrd
(D-WV) who is indeed an ex-Klansman.

Rush goes to take the next call, Evelyn from Aliquippa, PA, but
Evelyn has hung up. Rush is disappointed because she was going to
ask why he "bashes Democrats." Rush has an answer for this, but
he won't give it until the next call about it; he is saddened
that Evelyn "chickened out," and let her cowardice take over. On
the other hand, of course, maybe he just had to go to the
bathroom.

Phone   Mike from Santa Rosa, CA

Mike asks why feminists complain about American women getting 71
cents out of every dollar a man earns when in Japan it is the
woman who are being laid off first. These Japanese women are
getting zero cents per each dollar, and "71 cents is a hell of a
lot better than zero cents."

Rush answers "they don't realize just how good they have it, do
they? And things are relative - it may not be what they want but
take a look around the world - go to Iran, go to Iraq, go to
Saudi Arabia. How would you like to be a woman there? Yeah, I see
your point." Mike thanks Rush for letting him on the air and he
hangs up.

Rush laughs and turns to Bo to ask him "what're you doing to me,
Bo?" Rush explains that although he usually steps in and protects
his audience against the "wandering aimlessness of the caller,"
sometimes he can't help himself. He admits that Mike's viewpoint
is one way of looking at things, but adds "I sure as hell
wouldn't be satisfied with that answer." He adds that if any
women want to talk to him about this, he'll be glad to do so
after the break.

*BREAK*

Rush has previously talked about how he was in a roundtable
discussion with Margaret Carlson who said that the press should
be an agent for change, as opposed to simply reporting events.
After her interview of Rush yesterday, Carlson said that she was
responding to a question about why the press seems inclined
towards Clinton. Carlson answered by saying that since reporters
are closer to the events that make the news, they are more open
to change than the average person. Rush therefore wants to
correct his previous statements about what Carlson said.

A large portion of the interview yesterday was about feminism and
abortion, which is when it tended to become more of a debate than
an interview. Rush, though, had a good time talking to her
yesterday - he really enjoys discussing the issues with those who
disagree with him, which is why he wishes more callers who
disagree with him would make the effort to call.

Phone   Charles from Kitty Hawk, NC

Charles is a 50-year old businessman who has been downsizing for
the past two years because of increased taxes, and he doesn't see
how Congress can solve the national debt without starting a
massive rise in inflation. It scares him that a Clinton
administration could make things even worse by going back to pork
barrel politics.

Rush says that this scares him, too; however, people who are
paying taxes don't think things are going to get worse for them -
instead they think the "other guy will pay his fair share."
Charles says that congressmen are doing the same thing - everyone
else should cut down their spending, but not them.

Rush says that a little inflation would be great for the real
estate industry, and Charles agrees since that's his business.
Higher inflation would also help those, such as retirees, who are
living off of investment incomes. Charles says that a banker
friend was telling him about an widow in her 60s who was
complaining about getting only 2.9% in her CDs. The banker was
sympathetic, especially as the woman's account was in the
hundreds of thousands of dollars range. Charles, though, thinks
that some of these people living on investment income are crying
about nothing.

Rush bets that the woman was looking at her stash of money as her
nest egg for the rest of her life, and the 90s are going to be
about the preservation of principle. He also thinks that the only
way the debt is going to be solved is by the government deciding
to inflate the economy by printing more money; Congress simply is
never going to have the discipline needed to control its
spending.

Charles thinks that this would also help the government since it
local, state, and federal governments have been living off of 6
to 10% inflation for years. Rush agrees - the governments
continue to count on this rate of inflation and growth, even
though they are unrealistic figures. Inflation, though, is a
hidden tax that can eat people alive, and it's sad that people
don't remember the 70s.

Rush asks Charles what he would do if inflation takes off, and he
replies "debt - lock in debt now at these low prices as a hedge."
Gold, of course, is another way to protect oneself.

*BREAK*

Rush wishes "courageous young warrior" Brandon Benson of State
Center, Iowa, a happy 14th birthday. Rush has been vilified with
some of the most hateful and intolerant messages ever posted to a
BBS, and young Benson has come to Rush's defense time and time
again against these nattering nabobs.

Phone   Diane from Dallas, TX

Diane wonders how any national health care plan can work when the
present problems with the health care industry derive from abuses
of the insurance industry in the first place? How is adding more
abusers to this system going to help? Rush says that Clinton is
promising savings of $80 billion with "cost containment
measures."

Diane wonders how Clinton is going to do this, and Rush is
"shocked" that she doesn't automatically believe what Clinton
says. Diane sticks to her guns, however, and asks "what does cost
containment actually mean?" Rush replies "you tell me." Is
Clinton to shake his finger at the naughty insurance companies?

One thing that is certain is that Clinton will implement new
taxes to pay for his grandiose plans. This is what bothers Diane
- Canadians have an average 46% tax rate, thanks in large part to
their national health care plan, and she doesn't want to pay half
of her income in taxes to pay for other people's health care.

Rush asks Diane if she wants people to die, and she admits "yeah,
that's what I want." Actually, Diane wants to stop paying taxes
so that others can abuse the system. Rush says that Diane should
be happy that the government will take "only" 46% of her income.
Diane, though, says that although she is only 29, she remembers
when communities and people took time to care for one another and
didn't need the government's help.

Rush points out that the major source for this community caring
were churches and school groups. He points out that the agrees
totally with Diane's concerns and worries - Clinton has no clue
as to where he's going to save $80 billion, yet he is claiming
Bush is the one who is clueless.

Diane doesn't know why people want this socialist approach to
health care, and Rush has to admit he doesn't know the answer to
this either. Diane wonders what she can do to make a change in
things. Rush asks what is it that gets things done in politics -
protest marches, special interest groups, lobbyists, or what?
Diane has to evaluate what she thinks is the most influential
approach and do that.

Rush suggests that Diane could submit a guest editorial to the
Limbaugh Letter, which now has tens of thousands of subscribers,
and will soon have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Rush
doesn't promise that he'll use Diane's submission, but writing is
cathartic in any case and could help Diane feel better.

Diane says that she is an active member of the Republican party,
but only for the past month or so. She believes in equal rights
for women, and has never had any problem getting equal rights
because she shows that she is worth getting paid the same as men.
She does not need the feminists to do this for her.

Rush says that there are a lot of organizations that are composed
of women just like Diane, and they have 10 times the membership
of NOW - Concerned Women of America and the Eagle Forum are just
two. Rush encourages Diane to look into these groups and see if
she wants to get involved in them. He has Bo give Diane the
address for her editorial submission to the Limbaugh Letter.

*BREAK*

Phone   Karen from San Antonio, TX

Karen is a working mother and she wants Rush to explain what his
term "feminazi" means. Rush says that a feminazi is a feminist to
whom the most important thing is to see to it that as many
abortions as possible take place. A feminazi gets angry whenever
a woman is talked out of an abortion. There are probably only 25
feminazis or so in the country.

As to what a feminist is, Rush doesn't define the term himself.
Instead he lets the media define it by who they present as
experts and leaders of the feminist movement. Feminism is
therefore defined as whatever these feminists think is feminism.

-- 
John Switzer               | Why am I voting for Clinton? Because... 
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From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:23:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Rush is bad for our country, NOT!
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