From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Thu 9/3/92
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 04:02:36 GMT
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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Thursday, September 3, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, September 3, 1992

by John Switzer

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Spelling and other corrections gratefully received.

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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September 3, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

There might be a "smoking gun" that will expose Slick Willie's
true liberal nature, and Rush has to thank the liberal media for
finding it. Rush knows that it's rare that the liberal media is
praised for doing something so out of character such as telling
the truth, but it does happen from time to time.

The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that Wilhelm von Slick
Willie's uncle, Raymond Clinton, led an active lobbying effort to
keep Bill Clinton from getting drafted during the 60s. It's
already been established that Slick Willie lied about joining the
ROTC in order to keep from being drafted, and now it's being
reported that his uncle actively worked towards this end as well.

People may claim that "everybody did that back then," but Rush
asks "do you want a long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking
type that burned buildings during the Vietnam War being
President?" Do you want a guy that wrote in a letter that he
"loathed" the military to be Commander-in-Chief? Do you want a
guy who replied to these most recent charges by saying that the
"sources are dead and I have nothing more to say than I've said
before" to be President? Rush answers for himself - "I don't."

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush asks the audience to imagine that it is 1972, and
Jane Fonda opens her daily newspaper to read her horoscope - "you
will find happiness with a man who takes classic black and white
films, some of them starring your relatives, and colorizes them.
You'll quit your career in the arts to nurture him because of the
pressures put on him in the corporate world in which he lives and
works. He is the epitome of capitalism and a gazillionaire, and
you will be a contended wife and homeworker and quit all of your
work." Of course, this is simply too unbelievable to even
consider.

o       People still haven't figured out that Rush's TV show will
be starting on September 14th. Rush is doing some run-throughs
and rehearsals right now so he can work out all the bugs
beforehand.  One caller during last night's show waited almost a
half hour to say that he thought Rush's TV show would have some
"great conservatism" but all he was hearing was "bashing." Rush,
though, was only telling the truth about Clinton.

However, Rush wants to address people's expectations about his TV
show - the TV show will be separate from the radio show, and the
formats will not be the same. While he was out to dinner last
night, one of Rush's guests was saying that she was afraid that
the liberals would attack Rush en masse in an attempt to get his
show off the air.

Rush, though, is not worried about this - he's already gone
through this with his radio show and has survived just fine. The
main problem Rush sees with his TV show at first is that people
will call up and wonder where the Animal Rights and Homeless
Updates are. Rush's show will include at most 22 minutes of
performance time each night, and his main concern will therefore
be to satisfy the expectations of his audience.

Rush doesn't care about the critics because the reviews have
already been written, and his show has already been dismissed and
consigned to the waste heap. What's far more important to him are
the 13 million listeners who tune in his radio show each week.
Rush therefore wants to bring this large audience to his TV show
and keep them there. And of course there will be millions of
others whose first experience with Rush will be the TV show.

Thus, last night's caller was interesting since he expected
nothing but a half-hour of conservatism. Rush has high hopes for
his show, though, especially as his audience last night was
begging to come back, and they were potential advertisers. One
important thing to remember is that viewers must devote a few
weeks to the show before making their minds up about it, just
like listeners to the radio show can't tune in it and understand
what's going on immediately.

Rush feels that in his rehearsals of the TV show, the program
slows down whenever he gets real serious. Kit Carson disagrees
with that, and Rush admits that he may be wrong in this; however,
he and EIB are two years ahead of schedule as far as where he
wants to be with this show.

The TV show, like the radio show, is about Rush and what he wants
to do and say. Rush's show may change the world, but this is not
its purpose, and he is not going to make it into a "conservative"
showpiece. People should expect to laugh during his show, even
though they may not want to.

o       Newsweek and US News and World Report finally figured out
that Rush has the script to the season premiere of Murphy Brown.
Reporters from both magazines called yesterday to see if they
could get a peek at the script and Rush said no. Rush also
refused to provide any specifics about the episode because 1) he
doesn't think the show is any good, and 2) the Murphy Brown
lawyers told him to cease and desist reading it on the air. The
reporters were disappointed because they really wanted the low-
down on what the script contained.

Rush has already sent the script back, although he did make a
number of editorial corrections in the margins. The reporters
were surprised that Rush was not being combative about the show.
Rush threw them another curve when he said that he wanted people
to watch Murphy Brown because after they watch the premiere
episode, they can then change the channel to Rush's TV show and
hear his opinions about it.

Besides, the Murphy Brown producers have every right to ridicule
Quayle and put forth their liberal agenda through their show.
However, Rush thinks that they should at least be honest about
what they are doing.

*BREAK*

California finally has a budget again, and Rush promises to speak
volumes about it and about the lessons that can be learned from
the whole budget process. Rush will shout these lessons later in
the show so that the whole country can learn from this
experience.

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

Rush wrote a short article for National Review about what Bush
needs to do to win the election. In particular, he encouraged
Bush to get off the "128 tax increases" figure and instead
concentrate on Clinton's attitudes - "this guy never met a tax
increase he never liked." While Clinton wants to raise taxes to
solve every problem, Bush wants to cut taxes, and this difference
in philosophies should be exploited.

Today's Washington Post has an editorial that proves Rush's
point. The editorial praises Clinton for having an admirable
record on taxes and concludes with "[Clinton's tax record] is
better than ordinary, pretty progressive, and represented a
turn-around for a state that badly needed one. If anything,
Governor Clinton could be criticized for having failed to raise
taxes enough than for having raised them too much, but that's
apparently an attack he needs not fear this time around."

So now the Post is praising Clinton for raising taxes in
Arkansas, and in fact thinks that he should have raised taxes
even more. Rush wonders what more he needs to say when the
liberal media makes his point so well for him.

*BREAK*

Rush points out that he has matured over the years. Whereas in
the past, when Rush was shown to have been right on a particular
topic, he would have played his "nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah" song.
Now, though, he simply says "I told you so." Rush has made the
point time and time again that the scientific community is not
unanimous in believing that global warming poses a threat to the
world, or that global warming even exists. Rush has pointed out
that there is no environmental crisis and that the Earth is
remarkably rejuvenative. Rush wonders how many times he has said
these things, and the EIB staff responds "it seems like my entire
life, you don't talk about anything else."

His point having been made by his staff, Rush reads from George
Will's column that is in today's papers and which is titled "Al
Gore, Shill for the Sky Is Falling Set." Will writes that Gore's
environmentalism is a "caricature of contemporary liberalism, a
compound of unfocused compassion and green guilt about
consumptionism. His call to make the rescue of the environment
the central organizing principle of civilization is
embarrassing."

"When Gore asserts [as he did again on TV last Sunday] that the
world's scientific community is in consensus about global
warming, he is being as cavalier about the truth as the Bush
campaign has been about the Clinton tax increases. Gore knows
that his former mentor at Harvard, Roger Reville, who died last
year, concluded `the scientific base for greenhouse warming is
too uncertain to justify drastic action at this time. There is
little risk in delaying policy responses.' "

"Gore knows that a recent Gallup poll of scientists concerned
with global climate research shows that 53% do not believe that
warming has occurred and another 30% are uncertain. Gore's
particular ideas - lots of new taxes, treating the automobile as
a mortal threat to civilization, and much more - have no
constituency." Rush comments that he just did a Morning Update
about how Gore states in his book that the automobile is the most
dangerous threat mankind has ever faced, even more dangerous than
nuclear weapons.

Will continues on to say "the planet is more resilient, the
evidence about its stresses more mixed, and the facts about its
environmental progress more heartening than he admits. His book,
a jumble of dubious 1990 science, and worse, of 1960s philosophy,
is a powerful reason not to elect its author to high office in
the executive branch where impressionable people will be
bombarded by bad ideas in search of big budgets."

Rush comments that George Will has not been any friend of George
Bush, yet Will clearly states that having Gore in the White House
is unacceptable. The EIB staff tells Rush that a caller wants to
know how much Rush paid Will to write this column. Rush says that
this simply hasn't happened, and in fact Will doesn't have to
listen to his show because all Rush does is tell the truth. The
truth is out there for all to see, and Rush simply comments on
it. Sooner or later other people will figure out the truth for
themselves and comment on it.

Mona Charen also has a column that is headlined "Gore's Book
Tells Science Whoppers." Charen does listen to Rush's program,
but she didn't have to get her facts from Rush because the facts
are available to anybody. All Rush does is get to these facts
first. The EIB, not being as mature as their boss, decides to go
ahead and play the classic tune "Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah,
Nyah - Rush is Right, You are Wrong."

Rush cuts them off and reminds people that Gore was at the Earth
Summit blaming the United States for the world's ills. Bush
doesn't need to talk about 128 tax increases; all he has to do is
examine the Gore/Clinton campaign rhetoric which is made up of
nothing but "bovine fecal matter."

Rush forgot to mention an item in yesterday's Slick Willie Update
- Clinton said that he was amazed that he is still being asked
about his draft dodging. Rush asks Clinton to consider how Quayle
feels - he has been assaulted by the same National Guard jokes,
personal insults, and other mindless twit for four years.

Rush ends his segment on Gore's environmental policies by saying
"the environmental risk to the planet is pure theory and
unsupported. The destruction of the inner city family is fact.
Why do the liberals mock the real problem and sell the
theoretical problem as something of major importance that we need
to spend zillions on now? Why do liberals mock family values when
the real importance of family values can be seen in the growth of
this nation's illegitimacy rates - in the black community, over
65% of births are illegitimate."

This is all the evidence that is needed to illustrate what
happens when family values are impugned and ridiculed. Yet
liberals spent a three hour TV show mocking these values, and
then afterwards acted sanctimonious and self-righteous over
unsupported, theoretical, apocalyptic doom-and-gloom.

*BREAK*

Phone Carol from Rockville, MD

Carol saw some figures that make no sense at all - the Census
claims that the nation has 33.7 million people living in poverty.
However, only 25 million people are getting food stamps. Since
the poverty line for a family of four is $14,000, and the income
limit for food stamps is nearly $18,000, why are over 8 million
people who are eligible for food stamps not collecting them?

Rush comments that one of the videos he aired on his TV show last
night was from a 7-year old boy who wanted to know if Rush
thought he would be able to collect Social Security in 58 years
when he turns 65. Rush replied "I hope not, so don't plan for
it." He can't believe a crumb-cruncher like this is already
looking towards his first hand-out, instead of considering what
kind of education and job he wants.

Rush says that Carol's confusion is understandable and he talked
about this in yesterday's show. The Heritage Foundation issued a
report about how the Census Bureau overstates the problem of
poverty in America because 1) they don't count assets owned by
the poor, and 2) they count only cash income, not any welfare
benefits that the poor receive.

The Census Bureau counts as poor any household whose cash income
is less than the official poverty threshold ($13,942 a year for a
family of four). However, the Bureau does not count welfare
payments nor does it count assets owned by the poor. Rush
promises to illustrate the myths of the Census Bureau's figures
after the break.

*BREAK*

Rush points out that poverty is a relative thing, and in the
United States poverty can be found only in comparison to the
prosperity that exists. Real poverty, though, as it exists in the
rest of the world makes America's poor look rich. 40% of
America's poor own their own homes, the median value of which was
$43,562 in 1989. This is 58% of the median value of all homes
owned by all Americans in 1989. Nearly 750,000 poor people own
homes worth more than $100,000 while 75,000 own homes worth more
than $300,000.

62% of poor households own a car, and 14% own two or more cars.
Nearly 50% of poor households have air conditioning, 33% own
microwave ovens, and almost all own telephones. Poor Americans
live in larger houses and apartments, eat more meat, and are more
likely to own cars and dishwashers than the general populations
of western Europe.

The way the Census Bureau reports and interprets its poverty
figures is intended to make people feel guilty about being well
off in America, but this is ridiculous. America is attacked
because 25 million of its people are using food stamps, but then
the value of those food stamps is not factored into these
households' income. This at least would give a realistic figure
about the poor's earnings.

America is not a country without compassion. Parts of Florida are
getting so much help that they are about ready to ask people to
start contributing. Rush made the comment last night that the
hurricane-ravaged areas of Florida and Louisiana are getting all
the attention right now, but there is someplace that is being
overlooked and needs attention - Arkansas.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush's newspapers are "full of it" - full of news, that
is, about President Bush's announcement yesterday of a $755
million aid package for farmers hurt by Hurricane Andrew. Another
$1 billion will be spent on farm export subsidies. According to
the newspaper story, this is just another example of "election
year largess by a President running for re-election."

Rush wonders what Bush is supposed to do - refuse to help people
in Florida because he doesn't want to be accused of
electioneering? Can't the press cut any Republican some slack at
least once? Susan Spencer of CBS supposedly said after one of
Bush's speeches that she was "so taken by the power of
incumbency. We just gave him a five-minute campaign speech."

The press criticizes Bush for not doing anything, and for not
caring, but then when Bush does do something, the press accuses
him of being nothing more than a political phony. "Nobody, other
than Baron Wilhelm von Slick Willie, can win with you people,"
states Rush.

o       A listener sent Rush a letter about an interview CNN did
with a doctor in the Florida area. The doctor first said that
people had to be careful in the area because everyone was walking
around with guns. However, the doctor said that there was one
bright spot - hardly any looting was occurring. The listener
wonders if there could be a correlation between these two
observations.

o       In "horrible economic news," a private study by the
National Center for Education Information showed that more men
than women apply for teaching jobs, but more women get hired.
Only 29% of public school teachers are men, but 54% of applicants
for these jobs are men. "Obviously," teaching jobs are so low
paid that women are being suckered into them, while men are freed
to go seek jobs that offer real prosperity.

o       Rush finds a stack of news he hasn't seen before and thus
decides to go through it live, on the air.

o       Rape charges have been dropped against a New York man
because the District Attorney found no evidence to support the
woman's accusations. A 24-year old Rockland County phys-ed
teacher was accused of rape and sexual assault by an 18-year old
woman last month. The man's attorney told reporters that the
charges of rape were false from the very beginning.

Rush wonders what this country is coming to if a woman is not
automatically believed when she makes a charge of rape. What did
Anita Hill teach the country if not that the nature of the
evidence is irrelevant, and that allegations by women must be
believed immediately.

o       Rush sees the word "non-partisan" in the next news item,
and he bets that the story will be about "The League of Women
Voters." He continues on reading and finds out that the group in
question is "The League of Conservation Voters"; he congratulates
himself for his astuteness. This league has found that the
Democratic Presidential ticket is more in tune with the
environment than is the Republican ticket.

Rush recalls that Al Gore on page 9 of his book says that the
scientific community "confirmed" the existence of a CFC-caused
ozone hole in the Antarctic. However, this is not true - CFCs are
not in great supply in the South Pole since air conditioning is
not a big need there.

o       Today's Los Angeles Times reports that a poll shows that
people's attitudes towards Los Angeles have not changed because
of the riots. Rush says that this shows how bad things are - if
the riots didn't change people's attitudes for the worse, then
things must be pretty bad. More blacks, though, believe that they
don't have the same opportunities as other races. Rush is not
surprised since people like Charles Rangle and Louis Farrakhan
are telling blacks this every day.

o       A Labor Day weekend concert at Waterloo, NJ has been
cancelled because only 2,000 tickets have been sold instead of
the expected 100,000. The concert had been promoted heavily as an
"Earth Pledge Concert" which would feature rock and blues artists
in a repeat of Woodstock. Rush comments that he is so mean-
spirited that he "loves this kind of failure." The EIB staff
wonders why they "don't hear any love" from Rush.

o       A 39-year old Houston woman and her nephew have been
arrested in the slaying of the woman's husband. The man's body
had lain on the couch in front of the TV for two days before
others in the home realized that the man was dead, in spite of
the victim's gunshot wound to the head.

o       A Schenectady woman arrived at a Brooklyn funeral home,
but she found the body of another boy in her son's coffin. The
woman said she had a hard time convincing the funeral director
that the body was not that of her son. The funeral director
refused to believe the woman's claims until she brought in her
husband to confirm her complaint.

o       Hurricane Andrew has now been blamed for the death of a
16-year old dolphin, and Rush wonders why nobody is talking about
the animal deaths that have occurred because of the hurricane.
Why is nobody talking about the fish who didn't survive the
turbulent seas that were caused by man's evil? At least Dan
Rather seems to think that man caused the hurricane since during
an interview in Ft. Meyers he asked a man in the street if global
warming had anything to do with Hurricane Andrew. Rush wonders if
there was a proper dolphin funeral for the poor deceased mammal.

*BREAK*

Phone Nancy from Finley, OH

Nancy is upset that NBC News last night bashed corporate
America's attempts to help the victims of Hurricane Andrew. As
NBC showed pictures of trucks delivering food and water to
Florida, they asked the question "are they giving from their
hearts, or a little lower, from their wallets?" She bets that the
only reason the network didn't bash Bush is because his plea to
Americans to support the Red Cross resulted in $4 million in
contributions.

Rush is angered by this because this is yet more bashing of the
institutions that made America great. During the "evil" 80s,
corporations were bashed because they didn't care enough, even
though charitable contributions went up during that decade. Now,
when corporations do show that they care and want to help, they
get bashed anyway. Rush calls NBC's behavior in this asinine.

*BREAK*

Phone Dave from Gulfport, MS

Dave says that Gulfport hosted both Bush and Quayle after the
Republican convention, and when Dave got the opportunity to speak
to Bush he mentioned that in the Senate chambers it is Senator
Gore who sits to the left of Teddy Kennedy. Dave thinks that
there is a lot of poetic justice in this since Gore seems to be
to the left of Kennedy politically as well.

Rush points out that Senator Gore is the one liberal who is not
ridiculing Dan Quayle. The Hollywood left and culture elite,
along with liberals in general, are all expecting Gore to make
mince-meat of Quayle during the Vice Presidential debates. These
people are licking their lips in anticipation of this slaughter.

Rush doesn't think Gore has a chance to cream Quayle, and Gore
may be lucky to come out with his dignity intact. Gore is very
vulnerable, especially about what he has written in his book, and
he may well be on the defensive throughout the debates. How can
Gore explain his belief that the automobile is a greater threat
than nuclear weapons? What evidence can Gore provide to prove his
claim of an ozone hole over the Antarctic?

Phone Scott from Sacramento, CA

Scott says that California liberals, especially in education, are
talking about all of the "horrors" that will now result from the
catastrophic budget that Governor Pete Wilson just signed into
law. One of Scott's friends is a teacher, though, and he is
wondering about the fact California spends $6,000 per public
school student per year. Since he teaches a class of 30 students,
and since his salary is about $30,000 a year, just exactly where
is the other $150,000 going? Scott thinks that there should be
cuts in California's education budgets since there seems to be so
much waste going on.

Rush agrees and reads a paragraph from a story in today's
Washington Post written by Lou Cannon:

"Although the virtual capitulation by the Democratically
controlled legislature to the Governor's insistence on deep cuts
in government services was a victory for the governor, state
officials warn that California could face a repeat of the crisis
next year and have fewer resources with which to deal with it."

Rush says that this is exactly how good news is distorted by the
media. In fact, the problem has been solved - the Governor won,
and the liberals and education lobby lost. This is a profound
victory for Pete Wilson, who is still under attack by
conservatives who are angry about the $750 million in fee
increases that are included in the new budget.

However, when Wilson assumed office, California had a massive
budget deficit, and Wilson compromised with the Democrats in
implementing hundreds of millions of dollars in new taxes. Among
the many things that were taxed were free newspapers and popped
popcorn (although unpopped popcorn was not taxed).

Predictably, many business responded to the tax increases by
leaving the state, and because of this and of defense cutbacks,
California soon hit rock bottom. Yet the deficit only grew, and
in spite of this, when the Democrats came up with this year's
budget, it was bigger than ever.

Wilson refused to go along with the Democrats again, and insisted
on real spending cuts in welfare, education, and everything else.
Wilson pointed out that the only way to solve California's budget
is to stop spending. Papers, though, print pictures of poor
college students who are claiming that fee increases have
destroyed any hope that they have for a good future. <<The LA
Times yesterday printed a picture of one student carrying a `will
work for tuition' sign. Gee, what a novel idea.>>

Tom Hayes, Finance Director for the state, said that California
has lost 750,000 jobs since August, 1990. However, California
needs to create 500,000 jobs just to stay even with the expected
population increase in the workforce. Hayes predicted that unless
the state experiences a sharp upturn in the economy, California
will face another multi-billion dollar deficit next year.

Thus, California needs real economic growth if it is to have any
hope of solving its problems, and its chances of getting this
growth are a heck of a lot better now that it has avoided the
tax/spending increases that the Democrats wanted to implement.
Pete Wilson, though, may still be in political trouble even after
his victory, but he did the right thing in this situation.

*BREAK*

Rush reads an editorial from today's Wall Street Journal - "The
lesson of California ought to be painfully clear to President
Bush and the irresolute advisers of his first term, to the
faint-hearted Republicans in Congress, and indeed to all
Republicans who seek to govern from a minority position. You
control the agenda and you'll be able to persist in a standoff
longer than can the other side, the people who draw their life's
blood from the taxpayers. If Mr. Bush had adopted this line in
1990, the fiscal condition of the United States would not be in
the shape it is today, and Bill Clinton would not be measuring
drapes for the White House."

Rush points out that the line "the people who draw their life's
blood from the taxpayers" refers to liberals, who derive their
power from their ability to raise taxes and spend money. Wilson,
for all of his other faults, faced the liberals down, which is
why the voters elected him.

Rush wants to add one important point - Bill Clinton is claiming
that Bush's tax cuts will result in spending cuts. However, in
politics there rarely are any real "spending cuts." Instead, the
only thing that is ever cut is the rate that spending increases.
What is involved is just a smaller increase in funding, not real
cuts.

Congress currently uses the Current Services Baseline (CSB),
which gives them 10 to 12% in spending increases every year. Any
"spending cuts" will simply reduce the amount of this increase to
8, 4, or 2%. Yet liberals call this "massive, deep cuts," even
when no real cuts have occurred. Liberals are upset at this
because they consider the country to be a resource of an endless
supply of money for their programs, but they have to learn that
the money is running out.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       The July 1st issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education
confirms Rush's Undeniable Truth of Life #24 - feminism was
established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to
the mainstream of society. Rush knows that this sounds
outrageous, but he is confident he can back this truth up.

In a story by Courtney Leatherman, this year's annual meeting of
the National Women's Studies Association was supposed to "heal
fractures that crippled the organization after a large group of
minority women staged an angry walkout after the 1990
conference." The 1992 meeting's theme was "Enlarging the Circle -
the Power of Feminist Education," and it started with a screening
of the video "I Am Your Sister."

The organization's president then urged the association's members
to find a common background. However, within a half-hour a
speaker had offended a lesbian member of the audience by making
"heterosexist" remarks. Other women complained that a white woman
should not have been the opening speaker if the conference's goal
was to welcome back minority women.

Meeting organizers had to also apologize to Jewish feminists for
scheduling a meeting on the Friday night sabbath. Eco-feminists,
who believe in "a feminist approach to environmental issues,"
were also upset that every meal served at the conference included
meat. Finally, one woman asked that at future meetings, attendees
should be asked to forego hairspray and perfume which other
members find bothersome and offensive.

The EIB staff wonders where these women went for drinks after
this exciting and fun conference. Rush comments that this story
has every stereotypical joke about women and feminists, and it
shows why Rush can't take militant feminism seriously. This sort
of story belongs in MAD magazine or the National Lampoon, yet
these events actually happened.

Similarly, another feminist group wanted "aroma-free" zones so as
to protect one another from offensive perfumes and odors. Rush
comments that there "might have been a lot of love in these
rooms, but not a lot of sense." He realizes, however, that he's
bigoted, chauvinistic, homophobic, sexist, cold-hearted, and evil
for daring to make these sorts of comments.

o       A letter writer would like Rush to imagine a war breaking
out during a Clinton Presidency, and Clinton decides the US must
fight so as to protect its vital interests. What will Clinton do
when young Americans refuse to go because they don't believe in
the war or in the American policy? Will Clinton say "well, I can
appreciate that. Once there was a war I didn't believe in and I
didn't go either. You're excused."

This is how people excuse Slick Willie's draft-dodging, so if
this reasoning was valid once then why shouldn't it be valid
again? If "everybody dodged the draft" as Clinton's supporters
claim, then why should things be different now? (Of course, not
everybody dodged the draft because if they did there wouldn't
have been tens of thousands of American casualties during the
Vietnam War.)

Will Clinton force young Americans to fight for oil? And if
Clinton decides everyone goes, then how will he enforce his
decision? People may complain that future wars are unlikely
because the US doesn't have a major enemy, yet Rush points out
that there's more shooting going on, more civil wars, and more
dying occurring now than when the Soviet Union controlled its
part of the world with an iron hand.

*BREAK*

EIB has 503 affiliates and is still growing. In fact, EIB now has
100% coverage of the United States. <<Not true - I can pick up
Rush's show on three different radio stations, and thus EIB has
more than 100% coverage. At last I'm free of my enslavement to
that most evil of radio stations KTMS!>>

Phone Doug from Franklin Lakes, NJ

Doug is a triple-L fan (loyal liberalist), and he thinks that the
fight between Murphy Brown and Quayle is overblown and he wishes
it would stop. "The show is a parody, a cartoon, and it has no
connection with reality." Doug doesn't think the show is worth
debating in even the slightest.

Rush asks if Doug doesn't think that the producers of the show
aren't putting forth their political slant during the show? This
in itself is not troubling, but what bothers Rush is that
although this is what happens, the producers don't admit it. Doug
says that he watches the show regularly and every week he sees a
different viewpoint and tact. However, he thinks anyone who takes
this show seriously is a fool because the show does not reflect
reality.

Rush says that the producers claim that their show reflects
reality, but Doug thinks that belief is idiotic. "There's not a
newswoman in this country who has an attitude like Murphy Brown
has, nor is there a news show or studio that is run like that,
with caricatures of real-life." He thinks the whole debate about
the show has itself become an overblown joke.

Rush basically agrees with Doug, although he does think these
shows have some impact on society. Doug, though, says that
conservatives think that Hollywood is liberal, yet the Japanese
own the major studios there now and they have been changing
things. Rush says that ownership does not necessarily mean
control. Doug says that he works for the Japanese, and one way or
another they control everything they own, whether subtly or
overtly.

Rush wonders if the Japanese ended up owning Warner Bros. whether
they would actually try to control the content of Murphy Brown
scripts. Doug says that the Japanese want Bill Clinton to win
because Arkansas has a lot of Japanese-dominated factories.
Clinton is very much in favor of foreign ownership of US assets.

Rush finds this strange because this is a typical criticism of
conservatives. Doug says that he is against overwhelming foreign
ownership of US assets because sooner or later the money does go
back to Japan. Rush points out, though, that the assets remain in
the US.

Doug adds that he agrees with Rush on a lot of things such as the
non-existence of animal rights. What has been bugging Doug,
though, is the letter that Pat Robertson sent to his constituents
about the people who vote for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Robertson said that these sort of people appear to be the type
who practice witchcraft, murder babies, leave their husbands, and
become lesbians.

Doug has a real problem with this belief, and Rush says that he
does too. Conservatives don't believe that witches, baby
murderers, and lesbians are the only supporters of the ERA. For
example, Allen Alda supports the ERA, yet he is definitely not a
lesbian.

Doug is bothered, though, because he thinks the ERA is "extremely
important," but Rush disagrees. All the ERA does is leave the
definition of "equality" open to interpretation by each
individual court. It does not define the term at all, and is in
fact a redundant amendment. The Constitution already addresses
this issue with not only the 14th Amendment but its preamble.

Doug wonders if this is true, then why does so much of the
Republican agenda "treads on individual rights?" Pat Buchanan's
statements on "a religious war" are a good example because his
definition of "religious war" is that "if you're not right,
you're not Christian, you don't belong."

Rush says that this is not true, and this is not what Buchanan
said at all. He holds Doug over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone Doug from Franklin Lakes, NJ (continued)

Rush recalls how he had Pat Buchanan on his show shortly after
the Republican convention, and asked him to explain his comments
about "religious war." Buchanan said that he believes that
society's sense of morality and values derives from religion; not
the Christian religion, but just religion.

Buchanan has written columns praising aspects of Islam even
though he isn't a believer; one common thread in all religions is
that they have codes of conduct based on goodness and virtue.
Buchanan simply believes that the rules of life which tell people
what is right and what is wrong descend from religion.

Buchanan, though, is worried about the growing movement in the US
that seeks to eliminate all mention of God or of religion in
general from every public institution. Buchanan has nothing
against Jews, Muslims, or any non-Christian, but he simply wants
to make sure that God remains a vital ingredient of America's
make-up.

Doug, though, believes that this choice belongs not to the
majority but to the individual. Rush agrees, but Buchanan is not
trying to dictate terms to anyone, but just trying to hold on to
what has exited in America for 200 years. People are being told
that the mere mention of God is forbidden during a commencement
exercise, and that nativity scenes must be banned from any public
property.

This argument is not about the supremacy of one religion or ideal
over another, but about whether God is allowed in public life.
Doug says that he will have to reread Buchanan's columns on this,
but he has gotten the impression that Buchanan and Pat Boone
believe that their way of life is right and everything else is
wrong. The Republican convention gave him the attitude that
Republicans believe "white is right" and that "if you don't
believe in our God, you don't believe in any."

Rush can't believe Doug came away from the convention with the
"white is right" attitude since not one speaker even came close
to expressing this idea. Doug says that Pat Boone's prayer rally
had a total of 12 blacks in the audience, and Boone kept
referring to how people "must stay loyal to our God." Doug
doesn't like this attitude of exclusion.

Rush says that Boone's prayer rally had nothing to do with the
Republican convention. Plus, exclusion is not a Republican
problem. The problem is with people like Charles Rangle and Louis
Farrakhan who constantly create divisions between blacks and
anyone else. Nobody ever criticizes these "leaders" because if
one dares to do so, they are called racists and bigots. Doug
agrees on this totally.

Rush comments that one of the great things Lee Atwater did while
head of the Republican Party was to make a constant effort to
meet and talk with blacks, and to tell them that the GOP welcomes
them with open arms and does have a prominent place for them.

Doug says that this may be so, but the problem is that he
carefully watched the convention on CSPAN and other networks, and
that he evaluated everything he saw. Yet, he still came away with
the impression that he did. Rush asks him if he thinks Gore and
Clinton are centrists or moderates. Doug issues a sigh and thinks
that they are playing to the crowd.

Rush refers to Jesse Jackson's comments during the Democratic
convention that Mary and Joseph were homeless, Jesus was
illegitimate, and that Dan Quayle is a modern-day version of
Herod. This is the kind of thing that Buchanan is referring to
when he talks about "religious wars." The media acts as if
Buchanan is the next Hitler, yet Jackson said far more
frightening things than anything said in Houston.

Doug says that nobody is paying attention to Jackson, and Rush
agrees - the coverage given to the Democratic convention was very
selective, and people like Jackson should have been studied far
more closely for what they were saying. Doug agrees that the
Democratic party is not as unified as the press made it appear in
July, and that in fact it is "tied together with very fragile
strings." He laments that the choice given to the nation this
November is "very poor."

Rush says that Buchanan impresses people the way he does because
he speaks with such force and intensity. Doug says Buchanan
appears as someone who is eternally constipated, but Rush tells
him that he's confusing Buchanan with Patricia Schroeder. Michael
Kinsley, although a nice guy, also gives proof to the theory that
men can have "perpetual, unceasing PMS." Doug laughs and
regretfully agrees with these characterizations.

Rush asks if Doug thinks Rush has similar beliefs to Buchanan.
Doug doesn't think so because Buchanan is the "extreme of
conservatism." Rush asks about Pat Robertson, and Doug says that
Robertson is no conservative, and his recent comments have
destroyed any credibility he might have. Newsweek even featured
Robertson's quote in this week's Quotes section. Rush hasn't seen
this but will investigate it further.

*BREAK*

Rush warns his audience that he will do his politically correct,
environmental wacko football picks tomorrow. Since some
ideologues get upset when he talks about sports, Rush has
compromised by interpreting the teams' nicknames in a politically
correct way so as to pick the teams that should win the weekend's
games.

Phone Kent from Madison, TN

Kent gives "dittos from the pseudo home state of ozone-Al Gore,"
and he adds that locals often refer to Gore as the "third Senator
from Massachusetts." Kent adds a friend of his used to listen to
Rush's show religiously until she was offended by an ad that Rush
did for the local restaurant Hooter's.

Kent mentions the caller earlier this week who said that she had
no problems finding another job when laid off. Kent has been laid
off since April and has not been able to find another job even
though he has been looking diligently. However, he understands
the concepts of the business cycle and thus doesn't blame
President Bush for his problems.

Rush says that he has gotten mail which says similar things, and
he asks Kent how he should respond to this. Kent says that he has
sent out hundreds of resumes, and the problem he is finding is
that he is considered over-qualified for any jobs that pay less
than what he is used to make. He thus is stuck trying to find
jobs that pay at or above his old salary. The fact that he is 51
also works against him, and he finds it hard to even get a foot
in the door. What's even worse for Kent is that his was laid off
not because of anything he did or did not do, but because of bad
management at the upper levels of his company.

Rush admits that he tries to understand reality while still being
motivational. He knows that some people have problems finding a
job, and that some people do get fired without cause. But he
feels he has to media's counteract the continual negativism that
implies the country is failing and that things are really bad.
Rush wants to remain positive; he holds Kent through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone Kent from Madison, TN (continued)

Kent doesn't want to sound like a pessimist because he does
believe he'll come out ahead eventually. Pessimism is a dangerous
attitude because it can become self-fulfilling. However, the
point he wants to make is that a lot of people are out of work
even though they keep on trying to find work.

Rush agrees, but these people are going to have to keep on
trying, and ignore the negativism that the media continually
assaults them with.

-- 
John Switzer               | 50 years from now, nobody will
                           | remember Candace Bergen or Murphy
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | Brown, but every school kid will
jrs@netcom.com             | be taught about President Quayle.
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