From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Tue 8/25/92
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 14:19:09 GMT
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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, August 25, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, August 25, 1992

by John Switzer

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August 25, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

Rush wants to address those who are somewhat cynical about the
concept of family values. Liberal Democrats such as Mario Cuomo
attack anyone who wants to talk about family values or "culture."
Cuomo even accused Republicans of being "nazis" simply because
they consider this topic to be worthy of debate. Liberal
Democrats claim that the whole concept of family values is
flawed, and that people should be free to do what they want,
without restrictions.

Now this is all well and good, but what is the big trend now in
Hollywood? Axl Rose, Roseanne Arnold, and other Hollywood
leftists are saying that their inability to act responsibly is
not their fault, but is instead a direct result of child abuse,
unloving parents, or some other aspect of a dysfunctional family.

So if the concept of family values is meaningless then why are
these people blaming a lack of family values for their problems?
If your family can screw you up, then can't the right family help
you?

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       This morning Rush put to bed the first issue of the
Limbaugh Letter, and charter subscribers should receive it by the
middle of September. Rush predicts that many newsletter
publishers will be astounded by the quality of this publication.

o       Eric Lacitis of the Seattle Times wrote a column on
Rush's speech in Houston last Tuesday, and Rush comments that he
forgets how good he really is until he sees what he said in
print. Rush was at Wortham Center, which had about 1100 people
who had paid $75 each to attend a ceremony honoring pro-life
celebrities and politicians.

By Tuesday, it had become obvious that the media was being very
critical of the Republican party and its delegates. Rush stated
that the media was claiming that the GOP was a "divided party,
split right down the media." This bias was on every network, and
on every TV station, even on the Spanish Telemundo channel;
however, Rush calls Telemundo "a nice break" since he couldn't
understand what they were saying.

In his speech Rush remarked on how he saw nothing but happy,
smiling people attending the GOP convention, but the media still
portrayed them as "kooks and odd balls" who were on the verge of
suicide. Rush told the delegates in the room that they should
feel confident because they showed why the Republican party has
won the last three Presidential elections with a landslide
margin.

o       The Democrats are continuing to claim that the Republican
party is trying to turn Hillary Clinton into another Willie
Horton, and the NY Times today predicts Willie Horton will become
a weapon for the Democrats this year. Allegedly, the Democrats
will benefit by pointing out how sleazy and dirty Republican
campaign tactics really are. Evidently the Democrats' tactic of
history revisionism is being used on the Willie Horton issue and
so Rush will comment more about it later in the show.

o       Rush has a pop quiz for his dedicated students at the EIB
Institute - "who called Slick Willie a `draft-dodging, pot-
smoking womanizer'?" Nobody seems to have the answer, so Rush
gives a hint - the person is not a conservative, or even a
Republican. Also, at the time nobody said the quote was sleazy,
and in fact the press treated the speaker with "profound
respect."

The answer is Sister Souljah, and if anyone in the audience
answered this question correctly, they can advance from beginning
to intermediate studies at the EIB Institute. Nobody criticized
the good Sister Souljah for saying this, nor did they accuse her
of being sleazy or dirty. The EIB staff, though, points out that
this is because Sister Souljah is not a Republican.

o       Woody Allen has said that his romance with Mia Farrow's
adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, started when he took her to a
Knicks game. Allen has even hinted that he might marry Ms.
Previn; if this happens, then it means that Mia Farrow, who never
was Allen's wife, will become his mother-in-law.

 *BREAK*

Items

o       Rush wants his audience to write something down <<I
always do>> - his upcoming TV show will feature videos from the
audience in which they ask Rush a quick question or make a quick
comment. These excerpts should be 30 seconds or less, and Rush
warns that contributors will not get their video cassette back
since he plans on taking them home and recording movies on them.
(He would be interested in donating the tapes to the homeless, if
the homeless could find a use for them. Perhaps Project Dignity
could install VCRs in the homeless' shopping carts.)

These tapes must be VHS, and Rush encourages creativity. They
should be sent to Rush Limbaugh, the Television Show, 515 West
57th Street, NYC, NY 10019.

o       Rush comments on the looting occurring in the hurricane-
ravaged areas of Florida. He wonders what jury verdict inspired
these people to go out and loot their own neighborhoods. The
answer, of course, is that these looters are nothing more than a
bunch of opportunistic criminals, just as were the Los Angeles
looters. Yet, in the Los Angeles riots, the people of America
were asked to "understand the rage." Ditto for what happened in
the Chicago riots after the Chicago Bulls won the 1992
championship.

Update  Slick Willie         (Johnny Preston, "Charming Billy")

Sunday's New York Times had an editorial by Michael Kelly who
wrote about "Whatever It Takes to Win an Election." Kelly quotes
a leading policy expert on the left who insisted on anonymity
"because he didn't want to represent the view of any party
faction"; this expert stated that Clinton has put forth one of
the most progressive agendas since 1972, even while Clinton is
pretending to have the most moderate Democratic platform ever.

Clinton plans to redistribute wealth by raising taxes on the
rich, to double the cuts in the military budget so as to use
those sums for government work projects, etc. Several consultants
on Democratic policy have called Clinton's platform "the most
progressive redistribution of wealth plan since the campaign of
George S. McGovern."

*BREAK*

Items

o       The EIB staff tells Rush that Larry King recently called
him a "far right whacko." Rush wonders how anybody would know
this, and he asks "if a tree fell on the Larry King show, would
anybody hear it?" He laughs at these "madcap criticisms" which
are a unique feature of King's persona.

o       Rush has Ross Perot news, but Mike Mamone doesn't get the
music started in time. Rush says that this sort of lapse wouldn't
have happened if Tony Lo Bianco had been manning the broadcast
booth. Anyway, Perot has reportedly spent $12.3 million of his
own money on his aborted Presidential campaign. Rush comments
that this has to be one of the most expensive abortions in the
history of Planned Parenthood.

Tony Lo Bianco comes storming into the EIB studios to save the
day, and Rush tells him that he's received a letter from someone
who saw Lo Bianco's picture with the Vice President on the walls
of Patsy's.

Phone   Jim from Stamford, CT

Jim thought President Bush gave a very good acceptance speech
last week, but he thinks that Bush should have said something
about how he plans to end the government gridlock that has been
paralyzing Washington, DC for the past four years. Jim thinks
Bush should have presented his plan to the people and asked them
for a mandate so that he could implement it, even with a hostile
Congress. Bush should have formed a partnership with the American
people so that they could provide a united front against
Congress.

Rush says that Jim has a good point - this is something that most
people understand, but it would have been better if it had been
stated outright. Rush harkens back to the days when public anger
about the House Bank scandal was its strongest. Rush and Rep. Vic
Fazio both appeared on MacNeil/Lehrer one night, and Fazio said
that the scandal should be set aside so that "Congress can get on
doing the work that the people elected it to do."

Rush told him that Congress hasn't been doing its job for the
past 12 years; Congress has been playing partisan politics and
opposing the Republican President of the United States. Nothing
was getting done because Congress refused to let a Republican
President have any sort of legislative victory. Government
gridlock has resulted because the Congress is opposing the will
of the people, who as a nation elected the President to represent
them and their wishes.

Even if Bush did have a mandate, though, Congress will still
fight him; this is the dilemma that Perot faced - even if he got
to Washington, Congress would not cooperate with him. Congress is
interested only in usurping as much political power as possible,
and it doesn't matter who the President is.

Paul Tsongas called Bush's plan the result of a "cynical
President who no longer cares about the deficit," and he
predicted that Bush's plan would only continue government
gridlock. Thus, Tsongas is blaming gridlock on President Bush
instead of Congress. Rush asks Jim if he thinks the Democratic
Congress will "roll over" and give President Clinton whatever he
wants in the first 100 days of his administration.

Jim doesn't think so, but the people may be thinking that Clinton
could get farther along with the Congress than Bush could.
However, Jim thinks that the American public would really rather
have Bush fight Congress and force them to implement his plans.
The people are hoping that Bush can help them take back their
country. Rush agrees and says that Democrats seem to think that
Republicans are "nazis" just because they do want to take back
their country from liberalism and special interests.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that he was unable to log in to his CompuServe
mailbox regularly last week while he was in Houston. However,
he's back on his normal schedule and is reading every item that
appears in his in-box. Since he gets about 200 to 300 letters a
day, he cannot respond to every letter, but he does read it all.
Rush has tried to implement macros to reply to these letters, but
he found this to be unsatisfactory as it resulted in rather
impersonal responses.

Phone   Laura from Milford, MI

Laura praises Rush's brilliant description of liberalism
yesterday, and she wishes it were in print so that she could
share it with everyone she knows. Rush recalls that his monologue
was about why it is important to be concerned about declining
cultural values, and why the concept of family values is an
important campaign issue. Rush says that he will try to put a
transcript of this monologue into an upcoming issue of his
newsletter.

Rush says that the ultimate factor for this year's Presidential
election will still be economic issues, but nonetheless the basic
cultural difference between Republicans and Democrats is still
important. It would be a mistake to talk too much about family
values, however, since people will eventually get tired of the
subject and tune out. This is what happened in 1985, when the
issue of South Africa and apartheid was so prominent that after a
couple of weeks of unending coverage, people were overwhelmed and
no longer knew or cared about what should be done.

Rush wants to mention family values, though, not just because
they need to be mentioned, but also to affirm that family values
and morality are relevant to the current campaign. He wants to
address those who think that there is no right or wrong, and that
any aberrant behavior can be explained by "social causes."
Instead of standing up and saying that something is wrong, these
people instead try to find excuses for it.

Rush promises to print a transcript of his monologue in his new
newsletter since he does think it would be worthwhile, not to
mention that this will show how EIB will eventually totally
dominate the printed media as well.

*BREAK*

Phone   Fred from Wyomissing, PA

Fred thinks that the "present administration and its poor
economic direction of the hurricane" are directly responsible for
the looting in Florida. If Bush had given enough aid to Africa,
the hurricane would never have gotten near the US coast. Fred
wants to ask, though, if Perot <<"When Johnny Comes Marching
Home" starts playing>> is going to get enough of a following now
so that he will be elected President.

Rush doesn't think so, but he does believe that one of Perot's
main goals is the destruction of George Bush. Rush thinks that
this feature of Perot's character will become more pronounced the
closer Bush and Clinton get in the polls.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       EIB now has a weekly audience of 12.5 million people.

o       Rush is daunted by the genuine pain and destruction that
Hurricane Andrew is generating. The power of this storm is
humbling and should give man cause to remember just how impotent
he can be in the face of nature, which has now left at least
150,000 people homeless. The prayers and hopes of the EIB staff
are with these poor folks, but Rush realizes how small that
comment is when compared to the magnitude of this disaster.

o       Saturday's Boston Globe printed a Washington Post News
Service story about a 65-year old woman who says that she can't
work with black people anymore because they make her nervous. The
woman has been awarded full disability payments because she
suffered "post trauma stress disorder" after being mugged by a
black man in 1986.

In both 1990 and 1991 a Florida workers compensations judge ruled
that this woman deserved the disability payments because she is
"incapable of working because of her phobia of black people." She
has been paid about $50,000 in disability funds which were paid
by her former employer. Critics, including the ACLU, complain
that the state is sanctioning racism.

Rush comments that worker compensations "judges" used to be
called "arbitrators" but had their titles changed so as to earn
more money. This is the type of "judge" that Susan Herschner is.

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

Rush doesn't want to be accused of bashing Hillary Clinton but he
is troubled by the ongoing idea that Hillary is just a
candidate's wife and is out of bounds during the current
Presidential campaign. Rush, though, is convinced that Hillary is
fair game and a valid point of political discussion.

The May issue of Vanity Fair this year included, in addition to a
9500-word story about Rush, a feature story on Hillary Clinton.
Rush digresses for a moment to say that the EIB office is being
deluged with requests for interviews, given that Rush's TV show,
book, and newsletter are all due out shortly. However, Rush warns
these reporters that if they are fair in their story, they will
become persona non grata as far as their liberal friends are
concerned. Even if reporters come into the interview convinced
that Rush is a nazi hate-monger, Rush's charm will convince them
otherwise.

Getting back to the May issue of Vanity Fair, Bill Clinton is
quoted as saying that he would have "an unprecedented
partnership" with his wife if elected. If this is really what
Bill Clinton is intending for his administration, then isn't it
valid to ask about the nature of this "partnership?"

Hillary Clinton added "I want maneuverability in the
administration." Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, said
that the job of Attorney General was not sufficient for Hillary
since it is only "local law-making." He suggested that "Secretary
of State" would be a better position for his sister. To this day,
neither Hillary or Bill have disputed the accuracy of these
quotes.

It should be clear that Hillary Clinton plans on having a
prominent role in the Clinton administration. Even so, sexual
equality does not seem to apply to her since criticisms of
Hillary are perceived as "unfair." However, Hillary has made
herself a legitimate target and Rush hopes that Republicans do
not let themselves be talked out of their investigations of her
motives and agenda.

*BREAK*

Phone   Patrick from Ft. Hamilton, NY

Patrick heard Bill Clinton come out with strong words of support
for the US military at a rally at Ft. Dix. Patrick remembers how
after the Gulf War he returned to his base in Germany and started
preparing his taxes for the previous year. He found out that
almost every state in the nation followed the federal policy of
tax forgiveness for members of the Gulf War; Arkansas and New
York were the only two states that refused to go along with this.
Rush is not surprised at this news at all.

Patrick shortly thereafter was stationed in New York, and he
can't believe that any intelligent American would vote for
Clinton. He remembers the shambles that Jimmy Carter left this
country in, and in particular Carter gave the Panama Canal away
to Panama. Nobody is talking about this, but because Carter gave
the Canal away, the US had to fight another war a few years
later. Patrick also doubts if Clinton would have supported the
Gulf War if he had been President in 1990.

Rush says that Clinton would definitely not have acted as Bush
did, but he points out that Carter was only continuing a policy
that was started before his administration. However, Clinton did
state on January 15, 1991 that he wanted to give sanctions
another year in which to work. Now, though, he is claiming that
he didn't "agree" with those supporting sanctions but only that
he "understood" them. This is slickness at its best.

*BREAK*

Rush is starting to try out different formats for his TV show
this week, and one idea that he is experimenting with is "ask
Rush videos." Viewers would send in a video with a 30-second or
so question or comment that Rush can play on the air and then
reply to. These questions and comments can be about anything, and
creativity is a plus, as is brevity. EIB will not return any of
these tapes, however, so viewers should take pride in the
realization that their tapes will soon become part of Rush's
private collection. Rush says that he is kidding about absconding
with these tapes, and EIB is looking into some way to make good
use with them.

Rush says that he can't really tell people what his TV show is
going to be like, mainly because he doesn't yet know. However,
two things that are guaranteed are that 1) it will be different
from Rush's radio show, and 2) it will be different from any
other TV show. Rush may have guests, but if so, they will
interview him. There will be no band and no couch. If Woody Allen
drops by, though, Rush will make an exception and produce a couch
for him.

Rush digresses to wonder that since convicted child molesters are
usually ordered to see a therapist, what would happen if Allen
should be convicted of this crime? Allen has been seeing
therapists for decades, so would the judge order him to stop
seeing his therapist? Rush comments, though, that he does not
believe Farrow's stories of child abuse, and he will not believe
them until he sees evidence for these charges. He simply refuses
to believe the feminist contention that men are natural-born
rapists and abusers.

The testimony of a 14-year old on the Current Affair TV show is
simply not good enough, especially when Allen's alleged crimes
are "rubbing his daughter's shoulders" and "asking her to hug
him." These charges are dangerous because they are automatically
believed, even if no evidence is presented.

Phone   Larry from Lester, MA

Larry would like to encourage Rush to talk about the federal
budget and deficit in terms that the average family can relate
to. It's hard for an average person to think about what a
trillion dollars really means. However, dividing the $1.5
trillion federal budget by America's 60 million families shows
that the government is spending $25,000 per family per year. Rush
comments that this is higher than the mean family income.

Tax collections, which are at $1.1 trillion, amount to about
$18,000 per family per year. People don't think that they are
paying this, but if they aren't, who is? Finally, the $4 trillion
total deficit comes out to a $66,000 debt per family. Larry
thinks that these types of figures make it easier for people to
understand just what the federal budget and deficit really are.

Rush says that in 1988 the Democrats tried to portray the deficit
as a "monster" but he has to wonder how valid a campaign issue it
really is. The country continues to function and people go on
with their lives. The deficit during the 80s was not a problem
because it was underwritten by foreign investors, and thus it
didn't drain much money from the US economy.

However, it's a Presidential campaign season, and so the deficit
is big news again. However, the deficit, if viewed as a
percentage of the GNP, is no larger than it was in 1960; although
it is certainly larger dollar-wise, it is no larger percentage-
wise. One good thing about the debate on the deficit, though, is
that people are becoming aware that government spending is out of
control.

Rush points out that Bush's 10 percent checkoff plan would allow
taxpayers to specify that 10% of their taxes would be used to
reduce the deficit, which means that spending would also be
reduced. Note that the national debt is not being discussed here
- nobody is talking about reducing the country's total debt, only
in reducing the year-to-year deficit by reducing year-to-year
spending.

For every dollar that taxpayers allocate for deficit reduction,
Congress must reduce their spending by one dollar. Thus if
taxpayers assign $50 billion for deficit reduction, Congress must
reduce spending by $50 billion. If every taxpayer checked this
box every year, the deficit would be eliminated within four or
five years. This, however, would still allow the federal budget
to grow at about the rate of inflation.

Congress is claiming that it can't afford to cut $50 billion from
its $1.5 trillion budget, but its real fear is that it will lose
part of its power. Congress' power derives from its ability to
spend money, and thus letting the people specify they want
deficit reduction reduces congressional power. Rush, however,
refuses to believe that cutting $50 billion from the budget is
going to cause "pain and suffering," or that it will hurt the
poor the most.

*BREAK*

Rush is amazed that his show is one of the few national shows
that provides an explanation of Bush's checkoff plan. Would Larry
King really know what this is all about should someone call him
to talk about it? Rush isn't complaining, though, as it is to his
benefit that he is the lone voice providing this information.

What Rush is most amazed by, though, is that the same people who
have been complaining for years about the deficit are the ones
who are most against a plan that will really work. The deficit
would be eliminated today if Congress had ever provided the
numerous spending cuts that they agreed to time and time again,
but they never lived up to their promises. If Bush's plan is not
accepted, then the country should just admit that federal
spending will never be cut, and that the federal deficit will
never be reduced.

Politics, though, does demand that Congress oppose Bush's plan
since it is a good idea that is not theirs, and since they stand
to lose part of their power. Rush still has to wonder, though,
why is he the only member of the national media who explains and
discusses such things.

*BREAK*

 Phone  Mary from Cape Cod, MA

Mary gets anxiety attacks whenever she thinks Clinton might get
elected in November. She hopes that people will look at Clinton
with a more appraising eye. Mary thinks Clinton is nothing more
than a Jimmy Swaggert-style political evangelist. Rush calls that
an interesting comparison.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Rush wants to again ask if America is really on its last legs -
is the picture really as bleak as that painted by all of the
negative news reports? Are people really condemned to live more
poorly than their parents, and are parents doomed to watch their
children accept a lower standard of living?

Last week Rush said that most of the people he talked to are
doing okay, but they think that a lot other people are really
experiencing hard times. These unfortunates are not just the
unemployed, who are certainly having troubles, but all of those
who are supposedly only "one paycheck away" from homelessness.

The reason so many people have this impression is because so many
people - media, Democrats, and other commentators - are producing
daily negative reports about the country. However, when Rush
tries to counteract this negativism, he is accused of being "out
of touch" with America; because Rush is a success, it is assumed
that he doesn't really understand America. It's become a cliche
to act as if the only people who really understand what America
is about are those who talk about nothing but pain and suffering.

America, though, is not out of opportunity, and for every person
who has said "I can't do it," somebody has successfully done it.
The August 31st issue of US News and World Report has on page 53
the quote "citizens seem torn about whether to vote based on
their own circumstances or on their wider fears about the
nation." This statement echoes what Rush said last week about
whether candidates should emphasis the positives or negatives of
the country today. Unfortunately, politicians are now expected to
focus on the negative aspects of life.

The US News and World Report story continues on to say "for
instance, while 91% say that they are satisfied with their family
life, only 43% say their family life is excellent or good. 66%
say religion is losing influence in America, but 61% say it is
very important to them." Rush wonders how these conflicting
figures can be reconciled, and the story shows that these
conflicts extend into racial and environmental issues.

In addition voters are supposedly "deeply unhappy" about both
their own personal finances and those of the nation. Rush asks
how voters can be "deeply unhappy" about their personal finances
when 91% say that they are satisfied with their family life.
There must be some overlap between these two groups of people
since sufficient money is an important part of having a happy
family life.

Democrats, though, are at least being honest - there will be more
pain and more suffering if they are elected. However, do the
people really want leaders who surrender and give up, and who
state that things will get worse? Certainly there will be some
pain and suffering, but why does this have to be the focus of a
Presidential campaign?

Reagan never used this kind of negative approach but instead set
an optimistic tone for the future. It thus appears that most
candidates this year have decided to pander to voters' most
negative fears. This is surprising since most people don't seem
to be that negative in their assessments of their own personal
situations.

*BREAK*

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

A middle-aged homeless man nicknamed "the Wild Man" is
terrorizing the upper Westside of Manhattan. This guy has often
been seen carrying an ice-pick and a machete. Rush wonders how
this can be since the homeless are supposed to be only poor
people who are victims of Reagan's greed. The news story reports
"in a chilling example of how dangerous mentally ill people can
slip between the cracks of the criminal and mental health
systems, the Wild Man has been frightening residents since 1985."

The Wild Man was just released from Ryker's Island, and has been
sent to a nearby hospital at least 37 times since 1985. However,
he continues to return to menace residents with his ice-picks.
Rush points out that this is yet another example of the failure
of the liberal approach to both crime and homelessness.

Phone   Jane from Des Moines, IL

Jane heard one of the Republican convention's women say "you
can't be one kind of man and another kind of President," and Jane
was struck by the thought that this should become the Republican
party's slogan. She thinks that Bush is clearly better in terms
of integrity, experience, and character than Clinton, whom Jane
calls a "baby."

Rush thanks Jane for reminding him of this line, which was spoken
by Lynn Martin in her nomination speech.

*BREAK*

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

New York City opened up the newly refurbished Thompkin Square
Park today; the park was torn apart a couple of years ago by the
homeless and drug dealers. The park's opening featured a puppet
show as well as city officials dressed as clowns. Things did not
go well, however, as Mayor Dinkins got into a shouting match with
homeless activists who accused him of using police state tactics
against the homeless.

Rush says that NYC finally cleaned up the human sewer of Thompkin
Park, and now the very people that made the park into a sewer in
the first place are demanding that they be allowed to do it
again.

Phone   Bob from Piscataway, NJ

Bob thinks that New Jersey is a great example of what would
happen to America if Clinton gets elected. From 1972 to 1980, New
Jersey was run by Governor Burn who campaigned against a state
income tax; by 1973, though, a state income tax was adopted. This
governor was so unpopular that he was assured to have only one
term, but in 1976 New Jersey had a surplus; the governor then
rebated that money directly to the taxpayers, mailing out checks
one week before the election. Not surprisingly, Governor Burn was
re-elected.

From 1980 to 1988, the state had a Republican as governor and its
economy boomed; McDonalds ended up paying $8 an hour or so to its
workers because employment was at such a high level. This shows
that full employment eliminates the need for a minimum wage,
since with full employment the marketplace sets salaries.

However, Governor Jim Florio was elected, and even though he
campaigned against tax increases, within six months he passed the
largest state tax increase in the history of New Jersey. This
$2.8 billion increase was larger than all of the tax increases
for the remaining 49 states combined. Rush adds that Mario Cuomo
praised Florio for his "courageous" tax increases.

Florio then raised the minimum wage in New Jersey to the highest
in the country. Not surprisingly, businesses are moving out of
state, resulting in a 9.8% unemployment rate. Rush says that this
is a direct result of the philosophy that government can take
care of everybody and do everything better than the private
sector. This lesson should have been learned by now, but people
still believe that the government can tax people into prosperity.

Rush points out that Clinton has never held a job in the private
sector, and Bob wonders why the country wants Clinton to screw up
the country as badly as he has screwed up Arkansas. Bob doesn't
even know what qualifications Clinton has for the job of
President, and Rush replies that as far as the media is
concerned, the only necessary qualification is the belief that
government can fix anything.

Bob adds that he recently went to a James Taylor concert. Taylor
expressed his environmental views and his hope that the coming
elections would bring a "real environmentalist" into office. The
applause for Taylor's comments was quickly drowned out by a loud
chorus of boos and cat-calls. Rush finds this interesting, and he
mentions that Bo Diddley appeared at a concert in Reno, NV but
was also booed off the stage when he sang the praises of Clinton.
A letter writer complained that Diddley destroyed the spirit of
the night by preaching his views about Clinton.

*BREAK*

Phone   Doug from Biloxi, MS

Doug is a hard-core Republican who is hoping for a Reagan/Nixon
ticket in 1996, and he was angered by how Tom Brokaw introduced a
female speaker at the Republican convention. Brokaw said that the
top 5 members of Bush's cabinet are White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
over the age of 55, and he then claimed that the Republicans made
an exception for the young woman speaking.

Doug likes watching CSPAN for its unbiased coverage, but on PBS
Brokaw interrupted the woman's speech by claiming that the
convention changed their plans by having a young black woman
speak. Doug wondered why these commentators didn't make these
same sort of comments about the Democrats' choice of gays and
such.

Rush says that this is simply intellectual laziness on the part
of Brokaw and his comrades; these guys assume that the Republican
party is composed of only rich, white males, and that there are
no blacks or women in the GOP. Those in the media find it easier
to stick by their cliches rather than make an objective analysis
of the reality within the Republican party.

Rush praises the Republican women who spoke at the convention -
they weren't angry, bitter people, but instead talked about
substantive issues with both optimism and good humor. And for
their happiness, these women have been excluded by those on the
left. Rush relates that he's dated women who refuse to go out
with him anymore because they are ostracized by their friends for
daring to date him and then have a good time. "The exclusion is
all happening on the left, folks."

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Phone   Elaine from Bellmore, NY

Elaine saw Crossfire last night, and she wonders if Rush got as
angry as she did when Bob Bechel "totally lost his composure"
about how he really hates right-to-lifers who he claimed were
"full of crap." Elaine couldn't believe the anger he displayed,
but Rush says that some of this was undoubtedly staged, although
his passion was genuine. Rush is glad that Elaine calls and he
has Bo take her number so that if she likes he can call her back
tomorrow.

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