From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Thu 8/13/92
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 14:07:46 GMT
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Summary: REPOST - Complete Summary for Thursday, August 13, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, August 13, 1992

by John Switzer

(My original post for the 13th did not include the entire 
show. This post should replace it.)

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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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August 13, 1992

<<A big thank you goes to Bob Danielson for providing me with a
copy of today's show, which I did not have since my local EIB
affiliate decided to broadcast a Dodgers game instead of Rush's
show.>>

MORNING UPDATE

Rush has shocking news - everyone is going to die! People are
lowering their cholesterol in the hopes of reducing their chances
of a heart attack and thus prolonging their lives. However, a
recent medical study found that people with low cholesterol
levels were at greater disk from death due to stroke, cancer,
liver and lung disease, suicide, and even homicide.

Rush wonders what society is supposed to do - first it is told
that it has to give up all the foods it enjoys so that it will
have lower cholesterol, and thus be able to live longer lives,
albeit in misery. Now, though, society is told that low levels of
cholesterol can kill you, too.

The bottom line is that everyone is going to die, and thus it
makes sense that while people are alive they should enjoy life.
Rush therefore encourages his audience to have fun and live
naturally, and stop trying to act as if you can prevent death.
"And when you die," Rush adds, "see you later."

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Kit Carson is in the EIB studios to announce that the
trustees of Honolulu University are conferring the honorary
degree of "Doctors of Letters" upon Rush Limbaugh to honor his
"advanced thinking." This is Rush's second honorary degree as
Rita from Detroit has already given him a "Degree of
Trickonology."

Rush wonders when he can go to Honolulu to receive the degree,
but Kit informs him that it's already been mailed to him. Rush is
somewhat disappointed about not being able to go to Hawaii, but
he is still deeply grateful for receiving this degree. Kit
wonders if he now needs to call Rush "Dr. Limbaugh," but Rush
says that he doesn't believe in such pretentiousness, although he
does remark "the Decade of Limbaugh continues - there's just no
way to stop this juggernaut."

o       In more great news, Rush's new book "The Way Things Ought
to Be" has come off the presses; however, the book will not be
widely available until September.

o       Rush is somewhat distracted for the nonce since he
notices that the woman who called him yesterday to talk about his
"crush" on Joan Lunden has called back.

Rush is troubled, though, at the way politics is proceeding this
year. Although he used to believe that "anything goes" in
politics, he is bothered by how the media is now considering the
quotes of a dead man in a book to be a valid news source. Rich
Bond's recent remarks about Hillary Clinton also trouble him. He
doesn't know if he would do anything differently, but he suspects
that there are better ways to fight a campaign.

The Republican campaign seems to think that it must tell voters
about the negative aspects of Clinton and his campaign since the
media is ignoring so much of the Clintons' past. But when they
tell the truth, Republicans are then attacked by the Democrats
for "negative campaigning." However, Rush thinks that a person's
character is important and that it should be considered when
electing a President.

Rush doesn't like this personal stuff if it's not related to
ideology, issues, or character. These personal attacks, though,
are getting very one-sided, since there is so little critical
analysis of anything that Clinton says or does. Today's USA Today
reports on Clinton's meeting with their editorial board
yesterday, and Clinton evidently can do no wrong for these
people.

This year is like 1988 - if the Bush campaign had not shown that
Dukakis was a liberal, the press would never had revealed this on
its own. Bush, therefore, did the press' job for them.
Republicans, though, are incredibly angry about the timing of the
allegations that Bush had an affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald.

The Republican anger is especially intense because they are
claiming that they have real "proof" of Clinton's dalliance with
Gennifer Flowers - copies of parking tickets that Clinton got
while parked outside Flowers' apartment building. Rush laughs at
this "evidence" - this is a Presidential campaign, and the big
"proof" is a collection of parking tickets. Republicans had been
planning to release this information on Labor Day, but they are
now afraid that if they do so, it won't be very effective and
might backfire.

Barbara Bush reacted decisively and with anger about the rumors
of her husband's alleged affair. Dan Quayle is scoring bull's-
eyes and is saying all the right things about this. He was in
Irvine, CA yesterday and Rush is glad to see that Quayle really
shines when his campaign "lets Quayle be Quayle." Rush will talk
more about this after the break.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush wants his callers today to try to define family
values. The front page of New York Times claims that "GOP finds
family values less absolute when political and personal needs
clash." This story says that Republicans find it easy to talk
about family values and take a pro-life stance, but then when
their own daughters are involved, their personal needs are at
odds with their political beliefs.

Family values has had a sort of "virgin birth" as a political
idea, and thus Rush would like to hear what people think family
values are.

o       Quayle yesterday lectured the press about "good
journalism and bad journalism," and he suggested that when the
media starts talking about sleaze that they should start off the
discussion by looking into a mirror. Quayle said good journalists
are being "overwhelmed by bad journalists and bad journalism."

Rush says that Quayle was right; Rush had dinner last night with
members of the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal and Dow
Jones. These editors were appalled, not only by the latest
stories about Bush's alleged affair, but by how the alleged words
of a man who's been dead for four years are being used as a valid
news source. The New York Post was the first major member of the
media to go with this story, while most other organizations -
CNN, CBS, NBC, etc. - all rejected it when the Democrats
initially presented Trento's book to them.

The Democrats knew some tabloid would eventually run the story,
and this would cause the rest of the media to claim that they had
an obligation to report on it. Interestingly enough, this story
about Bush's affair has been around for years, and SPY magazine
even did a cover story about it. However, nobody until now has
considered these rumors to be newsworthy.

Quayle pointed out that the quality of journalism is being
brought down by this type of reporting, and by those reporters
who don't think they need to corroborate the supposed words of a
dead man. Rush praises Quayle for presenting a very reasoned and
measured criticism of the media, and he notes that Quayle's
restraint is remarkable considering that he has been savaged by
the media for years.

*BREAK*

Rush points out that George Bush will be our last President from
the World War II generation. Future Presidents will undoubtedly
be married to women who have their own careers, and who mirror
the changes that women in American society have seen during the
past 30 years. Rush asks if the country is ready for a First Lady
who may be appointed to a cabinet position or the Supreme Court?

Rush is suspicious of the role that Hillary Clinton has lately
assumed in her husband's campaign. During the primaries Hillary
was very prominent, but she has been silent for a couple of
months. Rush therefore has to ask what deal has been cut, and
what Hillary has been promised in return for her silence during
the campaign.

Rush thinks Hillary Clinton's approach to child advocacy laws is
pop psychology founded on psychobabble. Hillary is part of the
generation that is amazed by Time magazine's cover story that
proclaimed men and women really are born different from one
another. The Republican complaints against Hillary are true, but
Rush has to wonder if they will work; it's only August, and he
asks how much of these sorts of attacks will be tolerated or
accepted by the people?

Granted, Hillary may not have wrangled an appointment to a
cabinet, but how much attention will Bill Clinton give to her
advice and agenda? Hillary Clinton's campaign role right now is
simply to stand near by, look lovingly at her husband, and
applaud when appropriate. This is not the Hillary Clinton who was
present during the primary campaign, and given that she is a true
feminist, it's highly unlikely that she meekly agreed to a
subordinate role without exacting some sort of price.

Women can certainly be involved in politics - the wives of Phil
Gramm, Bob Dole, and Dick Cheney are other examples of the sort
of First Ladies that can be expected in future White House
administrations. Thus, it's a given that the First Lady will take
a more active role at some point in the future, and Rush wonders
when society will be ready for this.

If Hillary Clinton has been promised some sort of appointment,
why haven't the people been told this. If Bill Clinton appoints
his wife to such a position, will it bother people? Clinton
hasn't named any other potential members of his cabinet, so why
should he single out Hillary? John F. Kennedy didn't tell anyone
before his election that he would appoint his brother Bobby as
Attorney General. Is Bill Clinton assuming that people should
expect this sort of appointment if he gets elected?

Phone   Chris from Troy, MI (continued from yesterday's show)

Chris yesterday accused Rush of having a crush on Joan Lunden,
but she couldn't get to her point yesterday because she was so
effusive in her praise of Rush. Rush relates that Diana
Schneider, the self-named "girl editor" of the Limbaugh Letter,
told Rush that if a rumor gets out that Rush has a crush on Joan
Lunden, it will make the female members of his audience
"incredibly jealous."

Chris says that this won't happen because Rush is being so "coy"
with his feelings on the matter, but she will keep her eye on the
tabloids so that she can learn the real story. Rush asks Chris
what she thinks family values are, and Chris replies that she's
not paying much attention to the campaign this year. She doesn't
like either Bush or Clinton, and now that Perot has left the
campaign she may end up not voting.

Rush says that many people feel like this - to them the 1992
elections are like a Superbowl in which none of their favorite
teams are playing. He hopes, though, that Chris does vote for
somebody in November.

*BREAK*

Phone   Pat from Fargo, ND

Pat is a conservative Republican who manufactures diving buoys,
and he offers to give one to Rush for free so that he can present
it to Ted Kennedy as a wedding present. He relates that he
started his business as a hobby because he was tired of going
diving and having fishermen hook his wetsuit with their
fishlines; thus he builds diving buoys with lights that indicate
where he is diving. Pat's not getting rich doing this rather
strange sideline, but he has gotten a number of other companies
interested in his product.

Rush asks him if he thinks the country is mired in misery with no
more opportunity left. Pat doesn't think so and he is tired of
hearing people say that the US should be more like Japan, because
Japan has, for the most part, taken US concepts and enhanced
them. Pat thinks that the US should be "more like us and be
greater at what we do." Rush praises Pat for his entrepreneurial
spirit, which is one of the many things that has made America
great.

Pat continues on with his topic which is that even though he is a
conservative Republican, he is still thinking about voting for
Gore/Clinton. Pat would prefer to see Buchanan in the race, and
in particular he is upset about the status of free trade in
America. He doesn't like the North American Free Trade Agreement
because it will cause a large exodus of companies and jobs to
Mexico. He would prefer to see American companies layoff workers
or at least pay them a lower wage.

Rush asks Pat how Clinton is going to help this, and Pat admits
that he is really voting against Bush as opposed to voting for
Clinton. He thinks that having a Clinton administration, though,
will wake Americans up and show them why they should elect
Clinton in 1996.

Pat would also like to cut foreign aid, especially to countries
who are self-sufficient such as Japan and South Korea. This
savings could be applied to the deficit. Rush says that the US
foreign aid budget is only about $15 billion, which although a
significant sum, would do basically nothing to help the $400
billion deficit.

Rush relates that a friend of his has a funny theory about
foreign aid, and he will explain more about it later in the show.

*BREAK*

Phone   Rick from Peoria, IL

Rick defines family values as teaching children the difference
between right and wrong; teaching them respect for authority; and
teaching them a sense of responsibility for their actions. These
are "family" values because these things must be learned at home.
This is why Rick and his wife don't want to send their children
to daycare centers, because they want to be able to control what
their kids learn and what type of morality is instilled in them.

Rush comments that this answer is right on the mark, and Rick
replies that he has been attending the EIB Institute all summer
long. Rush says that "it shows" and that he will talk more about
these things after the break.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush inaugurates a new Slick Willie Update theme -
"Charming Billy" by Johnny Preston. This song is especially
appropriate as it asks "can you blow your saxophone, Billy boy,
Billy boy" and "can you get yourself a date, Billy boy, Billy
boy."

Rush bets that this infectious little ditty will become almost as
popular as Clarence Frogman Henry's "Ain't Got No Home."

o       Rush plays his Bo Diddley bump music because he's got a
story about Bo Diddley. Lisa from Sacramento has written Rush on
CompuServe to tell him about a concert she and her boyfriend went
to see in Reno, NV last weekend. The show featured several 50s
rock-and-rollers, including Bo Diddley.

The crowd was enjoying his music when Diddley suddenly stopped
and started talking about how bad off the country was. Diddley
then talked about how he attended both the Democratic convention
and a Bill Clinton rally, and he said Clinton was the man who
would solve this country's problems. As Diddley continued to
praise Clinton, about 90% of the audience started booing and
shouting slogans such as "Clinton is an idiot."

Diddley replied by saying that he was sorry people felt that way,
but he continued on with his liberal proselytizing, and he even
obliquely referred to the Rodney King beating as an example of
how badly America is doing. Lisa turned to her boyfriend and said
that she wanted to leave if Diddley didn't shut up. When Diddley
started to ramble on about Vietnam, Lisa got up to leave, along
with hundreds of others.

Lisa writes "I am not kidding, Rush - that place was almost full,
but after Bo started spewing out, it started emptying out in
record numbers." Some people left immediately, while others hung
around the lobby until "Bozo Bo" got off the stage. However, not
even the next performer, Chuck Berry, could get the crowd back.

So what happened is that Diddley had the crowd in the palm of his
hand, but when he started echoing the Bill Clinton rhetoric and
started lecturing the audience about how bad things were, half
the crowd left the arena. Rush wonders how this can be - Clinton
is getting more than 50% in national polls.

The EIB staff points out that Reno is "Limbaugh Country" and Rush
agrees. Rush, though, has checked out this story, and has found
that Lisa of Sacramento was correct in her description. Rush
admits, though, that EIB had to lie in order to get the truth -
first, they called a number of sources and told them that they
were from the Clinton campaign, trying to verify rumors they
heard that Clinton had been vilified during the concert. Next,
EIB pretended to be a number of different news organizations in
order to get the truth.

One radio station hadn't heard about any problems at the concert.
The Reno Gazette's entertainment staff confirmed a lot of what
Lisa said. As EIB dug further, they found out that Diddley did
indeed trash America and voice his support for Clinton;
furthermore, half of the crowd did boo Bo before leaving.

The basic lesson is that not everybody is believing Clinton's
political rhetoric, nor do they believe that America is a
decaying country.

*BREAK*

One of Rush's friends has an interesting theory about foreign
aid. There's no question that the US has been too undemanding in
how it distributes foreign aid, but this doesn't mean that the
elimination of foreign aid would help the deficit or social
programs very much. Nevertheless, if foreign aid is worth doing
at all, it's worth doing right.

Rush's friend suggests having two columns on the wall at the
foreign aid office. One column should be labelled "We love you"
while the other titled "Screw you." If a country is always bad-
mouthing the United States and misuses any foreign aid it is
given, it gets put on the "Screw you" list.

At this point if a country wants to get back on the "We love you"
list, it has to stop criticizing the United States and start
praising the concepts of capitalism and freedom. After a year or
two of this, the country might get back in the US's good graces.
One serendipitous advantage of this system would be that the
Democratic party would perennially be on the "Screw you" list.

The US should be able to demand a certain amount of loyalty and
allegiance to the countries it is giving money to. Why should the
US give money to those who align themselves with America's
enemies. Rush bets that countries would work hard to get off the
"Screw you" list by implementing reforms to encourage freedom and
capitalism.

Phone   Mike from Marietta, GA

Mike is a firm supporter of President Bush, and Rush acts him if
he is really that excited about Bush. Mike replies that he's not
as excited as he was four years ago, but he has hope that Bush
will come out swinging hard during the Republican convention.

Rush agrees, but he is irritated at the "dumb" platform fight
that the GOP had yesterday. First the 1990 Budget Deal was called
a "mistake," but Bush objected and so the reference to it was
changed behind closed doors from "mistaken" to "recessionary."
Michael Kinsley on Crossfire thus pounced on his Republican
guests for the GOP's admission that Bush caused the recession.

Rush is irritated at this kind of confusion, which is "an ad
waiting to happen." Rush asks Mike to hold on through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mike from Marietta, GA (continued)

Rush feels that now that Bush has vetoed the use of the word
"mistake" when referring to his support for the 1990 Budget Deal,
it will be a lot harder for Bush to make up lost ground. Mike
points out, though, that Bush can still admit it was a mistake in
his acceptance speech during the convention, and Rush agrees that
this is a possibility.

What Bush has to say, according to Rush, is that his major
mistake was believing that he could compromise with the
Democrats. The 1990 Budget Deal was a Democratic proposal, and
Bush has to make that distinction; none of the 1990 tax increases
were Republican ideas, and Bush has to lay the onus on the
Democrats.

Mike recalls how Tom Foley and George Mitchell had smug,
crocodile smiles on their faces during Bush's 1990 press
conference about the budget deal. Mike suspects that the
Democratic leadership in Congress was planning to use this
against Bush even back then. Rush agrees, but he also thinks that
Democrats truly believe that the best way to solve economic
problems is to raise taxes.

Democrats continue to ignore the success of the Reagan years, and
are instead holding close to the precepts spelled out in the
liberal Democrat handbook. They are primarily interested in
raising taxes because this is the source of their power. Mike
would like Rush to clarify what he said about how entitlement
programs are always increased year after year, while Congress
claims that it has made cuts.

Rush says that this is how the federal budget works. Congress
uses a concept called the Current Services Baselines (CSB), which
uses current expenses as the base for all future spending. This
is in contrast to private businesses which have to predict future
revenues, sales, and costs, and then plan their budgets
accordingly; typically such businesses are conservative in their
estimates of the future so that they aren't caught unawares by a
drop in income. Nobody consistently assumes that they will have a
10 to 12% growth rate every year.

This, though, is what the CSB allows Congress to do every year,
year after year. Each year Congress adds 10 to 12% to the current
budget; if they then decide to have only a 6% growth in a
particular budget item, Congress praises themselves for cutting
the budget by 6%.

Rush gives an example - suppose Mike wanted to buy a Mercedes.
Since he doesn't have the $100,000, he has to borrow it. Mike
therefore would have to include this expense and the loan
payments in his budget for next year. If Mike, though, decides to
buy a Corvette for $50,000 instead of the Mercedes, has he really
saved $50,000? No, he's still spending $50,000 he doesn't have,
yet if congressional budget logic was used, Mike would be able to
claim he "cut his budget."

Congress assumes a 10 to 12% growth, which they know is
unrealistic, and they don't use any real data to figure out what
they should spend on next year's budget. Some economists claim
that if Congress would just figure on a "cost of living" increase
- increasing the budget by the rate of inflation plus 1% - the
deficit would quickly be eliminated.

Mike says that this wouldn't work because it makes sense. Rush
agrees but wonders why the country can't live with only a 5%
increase. No new taxes would have to be raised, the country could
still increase spending, and the budget would be balanced.

Rush was getting frustrated watching Michael Kinsley on Crossfire
last night. The Republican platform calls for a reduction in top
tax rates, and Kinsley was accusing his Republican guests of
supporting "tax cuts for the rich." However, the 1990 tax
increases were fraudulent since the 1986 tax deal was based on
keeping tax rates where they were - tax deductions were
eliminated so that the top tax rate could be raised to 28%.
Raising the tax rate in 1990 violated the pledge Washington made
about this in 1986.

It's not a "tax cut" when a rotten tax increase is rolled back,
but this is the kind of logic congressional Democrats use. It's
no different than Congress' way of using the Current Services
Baseline to give themselves more and more money each year.

This is all part of the deception being perpetrated by liberal
Democrats and the press who claim that it was Bush and
Republicans who destroyed the economy with the 1990 Budget Deal.
This should show conservatives why it would be sheer folly to
elect Clinton in 1992, and Rush will comment more after the
break.

*BREAK*

Rush is distracted because he is now holding in his hands an
initial-run copy of his book. The book's back cover quotes
William F. Buckley, Jr. as saying "whenever I hear about Rush
Limbaugh, I marvel on two counts. The first, that his war on
political correctness is tolerated. The second, that it is
enjoyed, even by liberals."

Rush returns to the theory that some conservatives have that it
would be better to elect Clinton than Bush in 1992; these people
feel that if Bush is in the White House, he will remain the head
of the Republican party. Thus, if Bush's lame-duck term further
damages the Republican party, won't conservatism suffer as well?
According to this logic, if Clinton were to be the President,
conservatism would have a freer hand to reassert itself and to
attack liberalism.

Rush has found this to be strange logic, because if people really
believe this, why stop at Clinton? Why not get someone in the
White House who can really screw things up beyond expectations?
However, the US economy is far more powerful than any man, party,
or political philosophy. Liberal Democrats are trying to destroy
the economy, but in spite of their increased taxes and such, the
economy is still strong.

Granted, the economy is in a downturn, but these are cyclical
things, and the economy will come back, probably after the
November elections. Rush has to wonder what would happen if the
economy makes its roaring comeback during a Clinton
administration? If this happens, conservatives can then kiss any
1996 hopes goodbye, and they instead will have to wait until the
year 2000 before they can see one of their own as President.

*BREAK*

Republicans have rescinded their description of Washington, DC as
"a crime-ridden, drug-infested city of one-party rule." The GOP
had included this description in their party platform, but when
Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly "blew a gasket," it was removed from the
platform. Rush is sorry to see this, though, because this was a
perfect description of the District of Columbia; he hopes that DC
never becomes a state, and that people instead refer to it for
what it is - a prison.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       Rush's book will soon be out, which will allow him to use
himself as a reference source. "A new version of the Bible - the
Book of Rush," he jokes. Oliver North's blurb on the back cover
praises Rush for capturing the spirit of true Americans, adding
"it will drive his critics over the brink."

William Bennett says that "this is Rush Limbaugh at his best.
Rush . . . is a natural resource. In his book, Rush not only
tells us how things ought to be, but why they ought to be." Rush
reveals that his next book will be titled "See, I Told You So."

o       After the death of former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington
in 1988, three city aldermen forced the removal of a mural
depicting him wearing women's underwear. A federal judge, though,
ruled Monday that this violated the student artists' civil
rights.

Rush comments that the picture itself was really hilarious, and
it was not too long after this dispute that other artists placed
an American flag on the floor in front of a display of their
pictures. Many people objected because they didn't want to have
to walk on the flag in order to see the pictures, but the liberal
crowd came to the artists' defense. However, it was the liberals
who wanted the offensive picture of Harold Washington taken down,
making one wonder about their commitment to the First Amendment.

EIB has been offered a supposedly super-secret fax from the
offices of the Democratic National Committee. The fax exposes
what the Democrats allegedly think are weaknesses and
vulnerabilities in Al Gore's book "Earth in the Balance." The fax
is reprinted in today's Wall Street Journal, and the editors
relate that Marla Romash of the Gore campaign called them to
explain the memo.

She told them that the campaign asked Jonathan Salat to act like
"one of the most stupid people we know - a Bush/Quayle staffer.
We asked him to be as irresponsible, outrageous, and sneaky as we
know the Bush/Quayle people are, and come up with all the
ridiculous lines of attack that will be made against Senator
Gore's book so that we could be prepared for it."

Rush compared the fax to Gore's book, and cross-checked the
facts. However, the fax is much ado about nothing - for example,
the fax says that Gore admits in his book that he is unqualified
to be President. He supposedly admits he has no principles and
will change his mind on the issues according to political needs,
plus he uses products that he criticizes for being
environmentally dangerous.

Supposedly, Gore's book has this information in it, but when Rush
cross-checked the facts, he found that the fax totally
misrepresents what is in Gore's book. The above information is
supposed to be on page 340 of the book, but all that Rush could
find was a statement by Gore that "I myself have supported sugar
price supports, and until now have always voted for them without
appreciating the full consequences of my vote."

For Salat to interpret Gore's statement as an admission that he
has no principles is incredible, especially as Gore's entire book
is about how his own attitudes towards the Earth have changed
over the years. Rush therefore doesn't think Gore is vulnerable
in the way that the fax states.

However, Gore's book is full of pseudo-science and doomsday
claims which can be easily refuted, and these can be exploited.
However, the DNC fax concentrates on what they think are Gore's
personal character flaws. Rush is glad that this fax has come out
as it will warn Republicans from attacking Gore's book like the
Democrats think they will.

Instead, the Republicans are now free to attack Gore's policy
statements, which infer that the United States is the greatest
environmental evil in the world. There's plenty of ammo in this
regard, and Republicans can show how his suggested policies will
seriously damage the country needlessly.

Gore really cannot be attacked on a personal level because he
simply does not appear as a deceitful person. If Rush, though,
had read this fax without cross-checking it against Gore's book
the audience would have come away with the impression that Gore
is some sort of psychotic who should be a regular guest on the
Sally Jesse Raphael show. If the Democrats are serious about what
they say in this memo, Rush thinks that they are being over-
sensitive.

*BREAK*

Rush points out that on page 147 of his book, Gore attacks
America and its standard of living as one of the main causes of
global pollution. However, this is not true, and if people are
going to attack Gore with his book, this is the type of thing
that should be used.

Phone   Matt from Canton, OH

Matt hasn't heard much about how much the loss of Lee Attwater
has affected the Bush campaign. Rich Bond is no Attwater, and
Matt thinks that he is sorely missed, especially as Attwater
would not back down from a fight.

Rush says that Attwater did the things that Bush simply cannot do
- get involved in knock-down confrontations and let the fur fly.
This is why Mary Matalin is so popular - she is keeping some part
of his spirit alive.

Matt also praises Attwater for his attempts to include blacks as
part of the GOP. Rush says that Attwater also went to where
America really is - WalMarts, bowling alleys, and especially
cities and towns in the midwest - and learned what was important
to them. Rush also has to wonder about the type of changes that
James Baker will bring when he joins the Bush campaign.

*BREAK*

Phone   Betty from Lancaster, PA

Betty called yesterday but wasn't able to get on, so EIB has
called her back. She congratulates Rush on his honorary degree
and bets that soon institutions of higher learning will be
standing in line, begging Rush to accept their honorary degrees,
too.

Betty saw an AP story last Saturday about how dolphins are now
being employed as midwives. Rush says that he did an Animal
Rights Update on this, and he comments that "this borders on such
stupidity that it's hard to even laugh at it because you're too
busy feeling sorry for the people who do this."

Rush explains that a company has decided that the best way for
babies to be born is in a pool of water that has dolphins in it.
Evidently these people feel that simply having the noble dolphin
around will enhance the babies' lives immensely. Betty says that
one of the plan's supporters claims that the dolphins will be
able to make ultrasonic contact with the baby when it's in the
womb; doctors, though, can do this already.

Betty also thinks that family values must include loyalty - one
learns loyalty in a family, and this is what Bush and Quayle
meant when they said they would support their daughters or
granddaughters if they had an abortion.

Rush says that the New York Times today states that Bush and
Quayle are vulnerable on their pro-life positions because they
have said that they would support their daughters, even if they
had abortions. Rush, though, has to wonder what family values
really mean - conservatives believe that the fetus has a right to
life because it is alive.

Liberals, though, must insist that the fetus is nothing but an
"unviable tissue mass." Liberals won't even debate whether a
fetus has a life because they have no moral standing on this
whatsoever. Thus, from a family values basis, conservatives
clearly have the stronger position.

Betty says that most of the people she knows don't want abortion
made illegal, but they don't want to see it done either. Rush
thinks that this is the view of the majority of Americans -
abortion should be legal but nobody should ever have one.

Betty therefore thinks that Bush and Quayle are not hypocritical
at all in their statements. What are these two fathers going to
do - ignore their daughters, throw them out, and disown them?
Bush and Quayle have given a reasonable answer to this question -
they would do everything possible to dissuade their adult
children from having an abortion; however, should their daughters
have an abortion, they, as fathers, would still love and support
them.

Rush says that the pro-choice crowd is so gleeful about this
because they do indeed think pro-lifers should disown their
children if they have abortions. Rush points out that people fall
in love with murderers; this is strange, but it happens.
Similarly, should someone be arrested for being a murderer, that
person's parents usually come forward with words of support and
love for their children.

Betty says that this is the epitome of pro-life - supporting your
child. Rush says that people do the best they can to raise their
children with the proper foundation of morals and values, but
differences of opinions do happen. Thus, what should a pro-life
father do if his daughter has an abortion? Should he disown her,
publish an ad disclosing the abortion, or what?

The pro-choice crowd is loving this situation because they love
mischaracterizing the pro-life position as a negative, confining,
punishing type of situation. This is not surprising since
liberals think saying "no" is always a form of punishment, and
they do not understand that discipline is a way to teach someone
right from wrong.

However, even the finest parents can have the worst kids. Parents
can only do their best and then hope for the best. Pro-life,
though, is about this bond of love between parents and children,
and loyalty certainly is an important aspect of family values.

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Phone   Steve from Gatesville, TX

Steve mentions Perot's testimony yesterday before Congress, and
he thinks Rush was somewhat inaccurate in his description in how
Perot tried to buy the $4.2 million tape that would prove
Americans were still alive. Perot actually said that he was
approached by the government to meet with the seller of this
tape, but when the seller arrived in the US, the government's men
picked him up before Perot's men got to meet him.

Rush says that Perot's men were never supposed to meet with this
guy. Perot was never promised that his men would meet with the
guy; all the government wanted from Perot was his money for the
deal. Steve, though, says that when Perot contacted his
government contact about why the man was picked up, the man said
that they were no longer interested in the deal.

Rush says that the government supposedly investigated the man and
his tape and didn't find it valid. Steve says that Perot also
brought up a question during the recent hearings about whether
the US ever tried a rescue mission. The Senate Committee would
not answer Perot's question on this.

Rush says that he didn't see the whole hearing, but he got the
distinct impression that Perot knew more about this matter than
the Senators on the Committee. Rush wonders how this could be -
how can a private citizen, albeit a billionaire, know more about
this than the government?

Steve says that he was in the Special Forces, and many guys there
had a high opinion of Perot. They would thus tell him many things
that they would not tell others. Rush says that this makes sense
- Perot appears to have a vast network of informants and
investigators.

However, if Perot does have investigators looking into POWs, then
wouldn't he also have investigators looking into other things as
well? Steve says that Perot has been interested in the POW issue
for decades, and Rush agrees. He doesn't doubt that Perot cares
greatly about getting back America's MIAs and POWs.

Steve says that he was in Vietnam from 1969 to 1973, and during
one rescue mission he talked to two pilots right before they were
captured. However, these two soldiers were then placed on the MIA
list. Granted these soldiers could have been killed shortly
thereafter, but what worries him is that even though he filed his
report, he has yet to be asked any questions by any
investigators.

Steve thinks a lot of people in Washington simply don't care
about this issue, nor about the men who have been lost. These
people were never in the military and they don't give a whit
about those who have served. Rush admits that many in Washington
do seem to have a privileged, Ivy-League background, and it's
easy to assume that these people don't care about anybody else.
The book "The Best and the Brightest" was all about how people in
Washington are so separated from the concerns of the rest of the
country.

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Rush is still marveling at his own book - he wrote some of this
stuff eight months ago, and it is even more appropriate today
than back then. In fact, this book is so good that Rush can't put
it down, and he was the one who wrote it.

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