From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Tue 12/15/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, December 15, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:21:58 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, December 15, 1992

by John Switzer

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December 15, 1992

LIMBAUGH WATCH

December 15, 1992 - It's now 43 days after Bill Clinton's
election and Rush is still on the air with 546 radio affiliates
and 207 TV affiliates, and his book has been on the NY Times
hardback non-fiction best-seller list for 12 consecutive weeks
and is currently number one on the list.

MORNING UPDATE

Rush knows some listeners are expecting him to comment on
Clinton's economic summit, but he'd rather report real news. He
wonders if anybody has seen any pictures on TV of the world's
latest "eco-disaster." Has anyone seen pictures of poor little
animals dying, and of Greenpeace and its eco-fellows protesting
in outrageous anger?

If people don't understand what Rush is talking about, 11 days
ago a Greek oil tanker ran aground off the coast of Spain,
spilling over 21.5 million gallons of oil. This is double the
amount that was spilled by the Exxon Valdez at Prince William
Sound, yet not one word has been prominently said about it in the
major media; in fact, the NY Times buried this story in its back
pages, using type so small that you need a magnifying glass to
read it.

Why did the protestors spend weeks railing against the Valdez
disaster but now not care one iota about the spill off the
Spanish coast? The answer is simple - since it wasn't a US tanker
that spilled the oil, there's no threat to the world, and thus
the 21.5 million gallon oil spill doesn't matter.

FIRST HOUR

Rush got a fax from a friend of his about the Clinton economic
summit; the friend disagrees with Rush's belief that this summit
might be a risky thing for Clinton since it does not appear to
have any agenda. The friend thinks it's clear that Clinton's
agenda in this is to build a consensus that the country is in
terrible shape and that tax increases are needed. Clinton will
claim that he's talked to the business leaders of the country,
and that they all believe taxes need to be raised.

Rush says that this is a brilliant analysis, but it's a foregone
conclusion that taxes are going to be raised. When Rush said that
Clinton didn't have an agenda, he was actually referring to how
the summit itself didn't have an agenda; there was no set goal or
schedule, but instead people were just going to get together and
talk about "understanding" one another.

There is a "sexual term that involves a circle" that describes
what's going on in Little Rock, but Rush doesn't dare mention it
on the air. Instead, he will simply refer to the summit as a
"taffy pull."

The summit is certainly a charade, but it's interesting how the
attendees to this event act as if it were some religious event;
these guys are praising Clinton for caring, for being engaged,
and for being in touch. Rush notes that the Philadelphia Inquirer
is reporting that half of the attendees are big-time Clinton
supporters.

Rush bets some people will criticize him for criticizing
everything Democrats do; Rush, though, doesn't think just getting
together to talk about the problems will solve them, nor for that
matter are the problems involved that bad to begin with. John
Sculley, CEO of Apple Computer, was asked on Larry King last
night why Clinton was holding the summit, and Sculley replied
that this summit was the "process by which Clinton educates the
people." He added that Clinton did present his economic plan
during the campaign, but "a political campaign is different from
governing." In other words, campaigns are "BS" and people
shouldn't hold Clinton to his campaign promises.

Clinton, though, didn't do much of the talking, so how could he
have been educating the people? Rush thinks that what Clinton is
doing is just like what Perot did with Next Computers - he called
in educators from across the country, and asked for their input
on what the first Next Computer should be. In reality, the
computer was already designed, and Perot was simply using these
meetings as a way of turning these educators into his salesmen.

Thus, how can any of these business leaders be critical of the
summit? Will they criticize it, given that they've become the
"elite" by virtue of being invited to Little Rock in the first
place? It's incredible how the press is rolling over and lapping
up all of this stuff, like a dog with its stomach being rubbed.

Three months ago, the press was convinced the economy was the
worst of the past 50 years, but now they are unflappable and the
future is rosy bright. The NY Times, though, actually calls
things as they are, with a piece by Thomas Friedman who writes
that the summit is a "matter of politics" for Clinton.

Friedman says that what Clinton wants most out of this summit is
not a blueprint for the future (since he already knows what he's
going to do); rather, "he was trying to create a political mood,
a nationwide consensus that the economy is in a structural
decline. He also seemed to be trying to persuade Americans that
their President is working on it, but no one should expect a
quick fix, and that Congress should roll over and pass whatever
economic recovery program Mr. Clinton proposes."

Rush admits that he is surprised to see this brilliant analysis
appear in the NY Times. Rush has said before that Clinton is an
instinctive and brilliant politician, who has mastered his craft,
which is politics.

The whole point of the summit is to convince people that the good
economic statistics being reported don't tell the truth about
"real people," and Clinton wants a national mood of negativism
about the economy to continue. Clinton may actually believe
things are really bad and that the country's "structural
foundations" are falling apart; if this is true, then "we're in
deep doo-doo."

The best thing Clinton can do is to avoid meddling with the
economy; the government meddled with the country and the world
after the Great Depression and WWII, but those situations are
totally different from what's being experienced today. Clinton,
though, may not actually believe things are really bad, but
nonetheless feels a need to do something about the economy
because that's what got him elected.

The worst thing would be if Clinton truly believes that the
nature of government should be changed in the direction of
increased government intervention in all aspects of people's
lives. The summit, in any case, is a "two day taffy pull" that
will result in Clinton coming out with a "consensus" among the
business leaders who attended.

Interestingly, no members of Congress are at the summit, and Rush
bets that they are not happy about this at all. Rush promises to
talk more about this "notasummit" later on in the show.

*BREAK*

Rush finds it interesting that Ron Brown, former chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, has an impressive track record of
people whom he's worked for while a partner in the Washington law
firm of Patton, Boggs, and Blow. Brown has been named Clinton's
Commerce Secretary, and thus will oversee American business.
Clinton, of course, has insisted that his appointees must be as
ethically clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, yet Brown does
have a lot of baggage he'll be bringing with him to Clinton's
administration.

Brown is a lobbyist who has had as his clients the Association of
Trial Lawyers of America, Jean Claude Duvalier (aka Baby Doc, the
dictator who now lives in France, after having absconded with the
wealth of Haiti), Chrysler Corp., Louisiana State Department of
Conservation, NY Life Insurance, Paine Webber, some metals
company, the National Association of Retail Drugstores, Retail
Tax Committee, Unitary Tax Committee, Exxon, and the governments
of Oman, Kenya, Pakistan, Gabon, and Uganda.

Rush is glad to know that the nation's new Commerce Secretary
will be free of any conflicts of interest which might interfere
with his ability to serve his nation and control its business.

*BREAK*

Items

o       A Reuters story that appeared in last Friday's Washington
Times reports that a special environmental panel that includes
key advisers to President Clinton is adopting Perot's call for
increasing national gasoline taxes. The National Commission on
the Environment calls for a gasoline tax increase of more than $1
a gallon over five years; they feel this will encourage car
owners to conserve and shift to alternative fuels.

Thus, the environmentalists are already taking hold in the
Clinton administration; David Brody in his column today comments
on how Clinton is appointing people to departments in which they
have no expertise. Brody theorizes that this might be a brilliant
strategy for Clinton, and points out that Clinton has named his
EPA Secretary before naming his Secretary of State. This has
never happened before, and is an interesting point.

o       The Santa Barbara News Press relates the sad story of
Joel Slater, who renounced his US citizenship when President
Reagan bombed Libya; now that Clinton is President, though,
Slater wants to become a citizen again, but is having problems
doing so.

o       Bob Green's column today is titled "Soulless Killer Kids
will be the Death of Us All." Green notes how teenagers are
killing kids more and more for no reason, and asks why this is
happening. Rush has an answer for this, and it has nothing to do
with paying too little in taxes or how Reagan cut the budget.

Phone   Tim from Tacoma, WA

Tim was watching the coverage of the economic summit last night
on MacNeil/Lehrer, and he was surprised by how many of the
speakers sounded like Republicans. Rush mentions that Sculley is
a Republican. Tim also heard David Brinkley comment that many
Democrats were becoming "Republicrats," and the summit seems to
be proving this.

Rush says that one thing conservatives were angry about was how
Bush abandoned the conservative legacy that Reagan left, and this
allowed Clinton to take over much of it. Clinton talks a great
game, with his calls for welfare reform and such, and Rush has
been impressed how many Republican businessmen have such devotion
for Clinton. The CEO of Sara Lee, for example, was nearly
vitriolic in his condemnation of Bush, yet was unceasing in his
praise for Clinton.

Rush hopes that nobody falls for how Democrats are sounding like
Republicans; these people are still criticizing what Reagan did,
even though the decade of the 80s was the longest period of
peacetime prosperity since before WWII. It's fascination to watch
this happen, yet it was during the 80s that the personal computer
industry grew into a worldwide economic force.

Sculley and Apple Computers made their fortunes during the 80s,
as did so many other companies. Rush pointed this out to Phil
Donahue recently, and Donahue had no response when Rush noted
that Donahue himself prospered greatly during the 80s. The same
can be said for so many in the Hollywood left and cultural elite,
yet these people are still criticizing the same period that
allowed them to make their fortunes.

Thus, Rush is still wary of these "Republicrats" who still think
the rich are not paying their fair share; 1% of the wage-earners
in this country are now paying 24% of the taxes in this country,
yet in 1980 these same group paid only 18% of the country's total
tax burden. Thus, the rich are not undertaxed, but liberals and
Democrats can make their "fair share" claim sound good simply
because the rich do have lower rates.

But this is the core of Reaganomics - lower the rates from 70%
down to 28 and 31%, and the rich end up paying more of the total
tax burden. The rich also lost many of their loopholes and tax
shelters, and thus when people claim the 80s need to be "fixed,"
Rush becomes very wary and concerned.

The only thing about the 80s that needs to be fixed is that
nobody got a handle on government spending, which continued to
skyrocket throughout the decade. If there is one thing that must
be done, it is to implement the spending cuts that Congress
promised but never delivered on.

*BREAK*

Rush has decided that he will attend Mannheim Steamroller's final
concert of the year, which will be in Chicago this weekend.

Phone   Patrick from Los Angeles, CA

Patrick owns a recording company that videotapes conferences and
such; "I tape anything for everybody - I'm a mercenary," Patrick
admits. Thus, he has even taped conferences like that going on in
Little Rock, and Patrick adds that his favorite term for this
sort of "taffy pull" is "wanking." Rush says that this fits, and
notes that if any listener is upset with this term, EIB can
always claim that it is the listener who is inferring something
dirty.

Rush notes, though, that the Little Rock summit is a bit
different than other conferences. Rush has even done his own
taffy pull, i.e. that National Conservative Forum, but he did not
pretend that the fate of the entire country rested on what
happened down in Long Beach during the Forum. Clinton, though, is
using his summit for all sorts of political reasons which he is
not being honest about; in this, the NY Times got it right.

Patrick says that these sorts of conferences do tend to promote
misery, with the "cure" being more government money. Patrick has
told people at these events that they are living the American
dream by running these conferences in the first place. Rush
points out that these people usually fly into town on other
people's money - government grants, foundation money, private
donations, etc. - and then complain about how rotten things are,
even while they eat their banquet dinners and such.

Patrick has an interesting story about his most recent gig, and
Rush holds him over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Patrick from Los Angeles, CA (continued)

Patrick says that the last event he was at consisted of a lot of
business leaders and educators who kept going on about how bad
things were. Patrick wanted to grab the mike and point out that
these people were meeting in one of the more prestigious of LA's
hotels, eating fine meals, etc. However, he resisted the urge and
thus stayed quiet.

When the event was over and he was loading his equipment into his
van, he was accosted several times by homeless people looking for
money. Patrick gave them some spare change, but also suggested
that they go into the hotel and eat one of the $30 meals that the
people inside were eating; after all, it was these people who
claimed they cared about the less fortunate in society, so why
should they refuse the opportunity to offer some direct help?

Rush says that Patrick is "wrong" in his assumption that liberals
have no real compassion - he is "certain" that Democrats do care,
but of course to Democrats caring is all that matters. Patrick
finds it interesting that the solution to all of the problems
being mentioned during the summit is some enormous amount of
money; no matter what the problem is, more money will solve it.

Rush also finds it curious that he saw a photo of President-elect
Clinton and Al Gore sitting next to Marian Wright Edelman of the
Children's Defense Fund. What is Edelman doing at an economic
summit? Of course, Hillary Clinton and Edelman are close friends,
which explains Edelman's presence, in spite of the fact that she
has little economic expertise to contribute to an economics
summit.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush feels sorry for poor Joel Slater, who renounced his
citizenship five years ago when US warplanes bombed Libya. The
Santa Barbara News Press reports that Slater views his action as
"a passionate moment of free speech, almost an echo of the
sentiment that sent tea into Boston Harbor and fueled the
American Revolution."

Since renouncing his US citizenship, Slater has been deported
four times, and now feels "like a monopoly piece forced to return
to Go without collecting $200." Slater is now living in Santa
Barbara <<oh, joy>>, but doesn't like how Santa Barbara is
"Reagan's backyard." He has hopes that President-election
Clinton, who also vacations in the area, will reinstate his
citizenship via an Executive Order. Slater is therefore going to
hitchhike to Washington, DC so that he can press his case before
President Clinton. <<Why didn't Slater talk to Clinton last month
when he was in Summerland, which is only 10 miles south of Santa
Barbara?>>

Rush promises to put Slater's "maggot-infested, dope-smoking,
FM-type face" on his TV show so that drivers across America will
recognize him and "just keep driving." If the SB News Press
doesn't give its permission to use this photo, EIB will do an
artists' rendering and use that on the TV show.

Slater lives in "impoverished existence, sleeps in homeless
shelters, and takes charity when it's given, and secretly munches
food from grocery stores." In other words, Slater shoplifts and
steals food from grocery stores, and Rush bets that if he
shoplifted even a Snickers Bar, the news media would have
headlines shouting "Limbaugh nabbed in shoplifting scam."

Slater is unable to get work because he doesn't have the proper
papers, nor can he leave the country. The SB News Press writes
"not only is he a man without a country, he is a man trapped
within one." Rush would not believe the tone of this article had
it not been written in Santa Barbara.

Slater comments "people like me founded this country. Dissenters
are part of this nation. Without dissent, life becomes
complacent, and complacency in America is dangerous." Rush points
out that his Undeniable Truths of Life read that Americans
protesting America is not always patriotic, not to mention that
complacency is not always dangerous.

Slater has been deported from Australia, Canada, and the French
island of St. Pierre. Slater now plans to sue the French
government for violating international treaties on stateless
persons, as well as sue the US government for doing nothing to
settle his stateless plight. "You'd almost think we were living
in Russia," states Slater. "As a human being, I should be able to
work and live and travel."

Rush bets that Slater probably thought that the Soviet Union was
a paradise, and he notes that Slater is the one who caused his
troubles by renouncing his citizenship. And it was not people
like Slater who founded this country - Slater wasn't oppressed
just because Libya was bombed. Slater quit America all by
himself, yet he then compares himself to pilgrims who were
fleeing religious persecution.

Rush says that this is as idiotic as how some newspapers are
already starting to compare the homeless to Mary and Joseph,
which leads him into a homeless update.

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

As Rush predicted, people are starting to compare today's
homeless to Mary and Joseph searching for an inn in Bethlehem. A
letter to the editor of one newspaper has already made this
comparison, and Rush predicts that "weirdo preachers" will make
their usual Christmas statements that claim today's drug addicts,
alcoholics, mentally deranged, and other homeless are no
different than the parents of Jesus.

In related news, the homeless in Jacksonville, FL may soon have
answering machines which will be paid for by the city.
Jacksonville officials want to set up 25 telephone numbers which
the homeless can use to receive messages from family members,
potential employers, and social service agency workers.

The program will be cost $25 per month per phone number, and will
be paid by local agencies that help the homeless. Wanda Lanier,
coordinator of Emergency Services and Homeless Coalition, says
that this is a wonderful idea that has worked in other
communities.

If the plan is adopted, the homeless will be assigned phone
numbers which can be used by their telephonic correspondents. The
homeless can leave personalized greetings for callers, and Rush
muses on the types of incoherent messages that will result.

The homeless will be able to remotely access the answering
machines to get their messages, leaving Rush to wonder if the
homeless can be taught to do this, then why can't they get real
jobs? In fact, if the homeless can do this, then they can be
taught a real job, such as going door to door programming
people's VCRs.

Virgil Green, chief of the Jacksonville mental health program,
heard that this program has been tried in other cities and
thought it was a great idea. Jack Murray, though, is a homeless
man who thinks it would be better if he was given the job of
answering the phones.

*BREAK*

Rush has made an executive decision - his show has been using
only the up-tempo cuts from the Mannheim Steamroller's Christmas
albums, but for the rest of the week he'll try to play more of
this great music. Rush will be on a two-week vacation after this
week <<Huzzah! That means I get a two-week vacation, too!>>, and
the rest of the year's shows will include "Best of Rush" shows as
well as guest hosts such as Rep. Bob Dornan. Next week's TV shows
will include four new shows, but the rest of the year's shows
will be repeats.

Phone   Jim from Pocatello, ID

Jim first wonders what kind of message the homeless will leave -
"I'm sorry I can't come to the phone because I'm not home." Rush
notices that Jim obviously is not an answering machine expert,
because nobody leaves messages saying they're not home because
that's an invitation to thieves. Thus, the homeless will have to
be taught the "answering machine etiquette" that real phone
veterans use.

For example, Rush has a farmer friend whose machine has the
message "hello, I can't come to the phone 'cause I'm out at the
barn feeding the horses." Meanwhile, the friend is actually out
of the country.

Jim also thinks that to complete the "pilgrimage" to Little Rock,
some lava lamps, love beads, and bell bottoms will be needed.
Rush knows what Jim means, but there are even some establishment
Republicans who are walking out of the economic summit acting as
if they've seen the Second Coming.

However, although Clinton is trying to make people think that
long-term solutions to today's economic problems will be the
result of this summit, the reality is that these meetings are
pure politics, plain and simple. Only the NY Times has dared to
state this; Clinton is merely converting these people into
supporters by making them think they are involved with his
administration.

Also, Clinton is building a consensus for action based on his
doom-and-gloom rhetoric. Clinton will be able to throw away the
statistics that show the economy is recovering, and then can take
whatever action he wants. Interestingly enough, there are no
members of Congress at this summit, which is curious if problems
are being discussed and solutions being implemented.

Rush thinks it's going to be fun to watch when Clinton finally
gets around to trying to get his plans through Congress.

*BREAK*

Phone   Allen from Gadsden, Al

Allen has a suggestion for Rush - instead of advising people not
to pick up Joel Slater, Rush should suggest that people do give
him rides, but only during the time his show is on. Slater would
then have to listen to Rush's show for the full three hours and
maybe by the end of his journey would be worthy to get back into
the country.

Rush says that this is "not a bad idea at all" - a sort of Rush
Rehab; Allen says if it works, this idea could be expanded for
all sorts of other people on the outskirts of society. Allen also
tells Rush not to despair because not all of the people at
college are liberal pinkos; Allen goes to Auburn University and
Rush has a great following.

Rush appreciates knowing that, and adds that most people in this
country identify themselves as conservatives.

Phone   Diane from Ocala, FL

Diane refers to Rush's comment about the 8-year-old who was
killed, and is interested in Rush's views on this. Rush says that
today's column by Bob Green is a real "gut wrencher" about
burglars who broke into a San Jose house and beat a boy, hacked
at him with a meat cleaver, marched him around the house, stuffed
a sock in his mouth, wrapped his face in tape, and then left him
to die slowly. The 8-year-old third-grader, who stayed home from
school because of illness, died.

The killers were three teenagers who were neighbors and friends
of the family. The 8-year-old knew the teenagers, which is why he
let them in the house; the value of the objects stolen from the
house was less than $100. Green writes that children are being
killed more often by teenagers who have no concept of the value
of life. He wonders how this murderous soulness can be solved
since what happened to this boy defies understanding.

"Unless we can figure out a way to cure the dying national soul,"
writes Green, "it's over." Rush rereads Green's paragraph about
how so many teenagers have no concept about the value of life,
and points out that although his own show has discussed this
topic, but it's rarely discussed elsewhere.

Since Green has brought the subject of the nation's soul up, Rush
asks if there is any scientific evidence for any sort of soul.
Science can't provide this, of course, because the soul is not
just the animating aspect of a human being which defines that
human being, but it is a religious, not a scientific, concept.

Rush is glad that others are finally realizing that America is
heading down a course where the value of life is being slighted
and denigrated more and more. He doesn't think it is possible in
a civilized society to kill 1.5 million babies every year and to
have Jack Kevorkian running around praising the "dying process,"
without life being cheapened in the process. These things can't
be done without guilt unless life is cheapened.

Youngsters are highly impressionable, and they realize that
abortion is going on and what it means. Plus, the dominant media
culture, from the movies to MTV to records and books, is
increasingly encouraging children to lessen their respect for the
value of life. When in 20 years, girls' sexual activity is
doubling, there must be some cause.

Of course, every generation's music is criticized by previous
generations, but there is a great difference between what the
Beatles sang and what people like Ice T, 2 Live Crew, and others
are doing. There is also an underlying attitude of permissiveness
which hides behind the First Amendment, and this does affect
kids.

It is not too hard to realize what's wrong when kids are taking
guns to school and the school's response is to simply use metal
detectors. And then some groups such as the ACLU even oppose
these metal detectors. Values can't be taught in school anymore,
unless of course they are the homosexual values of the "Children
of the Rainbow" curriculum.

The Ten Commandments can't be mentioned in public schools, even
though there is no better guide to living together with others.
People have to start looking at the real problems in this, or
there will be no end to kids hacking each other to death. Rush
praises Bob Green for daring to talk about the concept of the
value of life, since so many people who don't want any
consequences attached to their actions are attacking anyone who
dares to talk about limits or values.

*BREAK*

Phone   Sandy from a payphone in New Jersey

Sandy and her husband James give dittos from their "mobile Rush
Room" - an 18-wheeler. Rush says that he gets lots of letters
from truckers who have turned off their music to listen to his
show, and he is flattered by their devotion. Sandy puts her
husband on since he "can't live without Rush," and since James
seems a bit stunned by the experience Rush thanks both him and
Sandy for calling.

Phone   Clark from Summer Hill, IL

Clark was reading an Evans and Novak column about Janetta Cole,
and Rush promises that he'll be talking about her during the next
hour. Rush hadn't planned to talk about Cole, but she was on
Nightline last night explaining her views on Clinton's economic
summit, and since Nightline didn't clue listeners in on who Cole
is, Rush will take up the slack and do so. He comments that even
Abe Rosenthal writes about Cole in his column today.

*BREAK*

Last Thursday's Williamsport Sunday Gazette [sic?] reports that
men can look but not stare while in Williamsport, PA area
schools. Staring will now be considered sexual harassment, and
Rush is reminded of what he wrote in his book, which by the way
had its highest sales ever last week; it's now sold 1.7 million
copies.

In his book, Rush writes about a Canadian professor who was
accused by female professors and students of ogling them in the
swimming pool - the male professor would sit on the bottom of the
pool and watch the women go by. He was censured by the school,
suspended, and required to go to "sensitivity" classes.

Rush warned people that this sort of thing was coming, but he
wonders what women expect men to do when women show up scantily
clad.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       ABC News just announced that Jack "the Dripper" Kevorkian
has struck again with his own special brand of "Last Aid"; he
"helped" two elderly Auburn Hills, MI women, one with Lou
Gehrig's disease and the other with a heart problem, commit
suicide. Kevorkian usually doesn't do two-fer deals, but since
Governor John Engler is expected to shortly sign into law a bill
outlawing assisted suicide, he had to move fast.

A woman who works at the EIB Building told Rush that she was
disturbed by how Kevorkian has so far helped only women with his
"Last Aid." Rush has noted this fact before, as have others, and
the "obvious" answer is that Kevorkian is a real lady-killer.

o       Janetta Cole was on Nightline last night and Rush thinks
he might do an impression of her on his TV show tonight. Cole is
a "cluster coordinator" for Clinton's transition team, and
recommended appointees to Clinton in the areas of education,
arts, labor, and humanities.

Cole is also the President of Spelman College, which is a mostly
black women's college in Atlanta. Cole is also a member of the
board for the Coca-Cola company. The Washington Post did a
profile of Cole in their November 26th edition, but the Post did
not report that in 1976 Cole was active in the Communist Front
Vinceremos Brigade, a group which fought to stop "US aggression"
against Cuba.

The Vinceremos Brigade also organized groups of leftists to visit
Cuba, ostensibly to help cut sugar cane. Rush recalls how these
visits to Cuba were played up as peace-making gestures, to form
"bridges of understanding" between peoples.

However, a 1976 FBI report on the Weathermen underground group
revealed that the Cuban intelligence agency provided special
training to selected members of the Vinceremos Brigade. These
members were trained in revolutionary tactics, including the use
of guns and explosives. This training was given only to those who
specifically requested it and who the Cubans were certain were
not US counter-intelligence agents.

Thus Cole, who is best friend to Hillary and Bill, was a profound
leftist. She also helped direct the US Peace Council, a pro-
Soviet, anti-US, anti-Israel, and pro-Marxist organization that
worked in Grenada. Cole is also close friends with Rep. Ron "Red"
Dellums, who knew and worked with both Fidel Castro and the
former socialist head of Grenada.

Abe Rosenthal, who is no right-wing extremist, writes in his NY
Times column that Cole "is the usual collection of far-left
loves, and hate." Cole was pro-Hanoi during the Vietnam War, but
evidently has gone "straight" since becoming President of Spelman
College. People are asking, though, if Cole's background matters
to President-elect Clinton. Apparently it doesn't since he has
nominated her to a prominent position.

Rush would not have bothered to mention this, but he felt he
needed to clue people in as to who she was, given that Nightline
last night didn't bother to do this themselves.

o       Walt Disney Company has caved in to special interest
group pressures, and has pulled an ad that features Piglet, the
stuttering pig character from the Winnie the Pooh stories. The
company pulled the ad after the National Stuttering Project, an
advocacy group for stutters, complained about the ad's copy use
of the term "P-P-P-Piglet."

Rush wonders if P-P-P-Porky P-P-P-Pig is next, and thinks that
people have to lighten up.

o       A full-page ad in today's NY Times is addressed to
President-elect Clinton. The letter is from the residents of East
Liverpool, OH, who beg Clinton to reconsider his promise to block
a waste incinerator. "It is our hope for industrial rebirth,"
according to the letter, which points out that the plant is one
of the most technologically advanced plants in the world. The
residents point out that the plant has undergone strenuous
scrutiny and has passed every test with flying colors.

Furthermore, the plant is the town's hope for the future, given
that the area has been economically depressed since its steel and
pottery plants closed 10 years ago. The plant has produced 500
union construction jobs, which will continue when the plant opens
because of additional construction. The plant will also provide
120 permanent on-site jobs, a $3.5 million payroll, and $1.7
million in local taxes. Finally, two jobs will be indirectly
created in the community for each job directly created by the
plant.

Al Gore, however, has decided that this plant is environmentally
unsound and has decided to close it, or at the very least start
the whole verification process over again, in spite of the fact
that the plant has passed every one of its tests with flying
colors. Thus, the town has resorted to a full-page letter in the
NY Times in an effort to get Clinton and Gore to listen to
reason.

*BREAK*

Sunday's NY Times had the headline "Disabled hunters have their
own preserve"; the US Forest Service has set aside a portion of a
national forest in West Virginia so that disabled hunters can
hunt without competing with other hunters or having to worry
about getting in their way. Mike Maimone hopes that a special
warning is issued when the blind guys go hunting. Rush reads part
of the story:

"High in the National Forest, about 250 miles southwest of
Washington, the woods are replete with deer, turkey, and
squirrel. Even the occasional bear passes through as tracks in
the snow on a recent morning indicated. Few able-bodied hunters
endure the long walk into these woods, and only disabled hunters'
vehicles are permitted past the locked iron gate that blocks the
access road.

" `I just enjoy bagging one of them babies,' Mr. Smith said,
looking around the woods and inhaling the crisp breeze, while
perched on his crutch. `The fresh air, the trees, the game I get
to see - I love it all.' "

Phone   Stephen from Atlanta, GA

Stephen is a 17-year-old senior who thinks Rush is exactly right
with his comments about the US educational system. He had the
same teacher for his sophomore world history and his junior US
history classes, and she gave him nothing but the liberal version
of the subjects. For example, his teacher insisted that students
use "African-American" instead of "black." Rush says that "black"
is okay again - the NY Times is already using it.

Stephen gives another example of his teacher's slant on things -
the Gulf War "was the result of imperialism by white people."
Rush laughs himself silly at this cliche, and Stephen adds that
his teacher claimed George Bush was behind the Clarence
Thomas/Anita Hill hearings because he wanted "to show America
what would happen if a black man was in such as a prestigious
position."

Rush is confounded by this remark, and Stephen explains that his
teacher believed that Bush was a racist who was trying to warn
America against ever putting another black on the Supreme Court.
Rush points out that this stuff is now being taught in schools
across America.

*BREAK*

Rush just called his home answering machine and found a message
from Bob Nathan, who does a morning show on EIB's Sacramento
affiliate. Nathan said that he got into trouble this morning when
he voiced his objections against Clinton's economic summit -
people called in and accused him of being racist and anti-
Summitic. The EIB staff doesn't get the joke, but Rush doesn't
care because he still thinks it is funny.

Phone   Kyle from Lincoln, NB

Kyle gives "lukewarm dittos" because he's the product of a
Democratic family; he agrees with 95% of what Rush says, with the
exception of Rush's environmental views. Kyle doesn't think Rush,
along with other Republicans, take the environment seriously
enough. Rush disagrees - he takes the environment very seriously,
and he is glad that the US is doing a "damn good job" of cleaning
up its messes. What he doesn't like is how the environmental
wackos, such as Gore, blame the US for the world's environmental
problems, when it is the US and capitalism which is doing the
most to help the environment.

Kyle doesn't think that a desire to protect the Spotted Owl makes
anyone an environmental wacko, but Rush disagrees. The Spotted
Owl is not endangered, but the militant environmentalists have
been claiming this so that they can continue their fight against
private property rights, capitalism, and the US logging industry.

Rush recalls the study a couple of weeks ago that found 12 times
the number of Spotted Owls in a California forest. Rush is not
for the wanton elimination of species, but by the same token he
is not in favor of subordinating man and his needs to an owl,
which has shown that it can adapt and survive.

Kyle agrees if this is the case; however, logging is a transitory
profession that requires companies to move from one area to
another. Rush, though, points out that trees are just another
crop, albeit one which takes 90 years in which to grow. Kyle says
the environmentalists want to stop logging in only a few thousand
acres, but Rush points out that this would just be the start. If
the environmentalists can achieve this on the basis of a lie,
then there's no end to where it will lead.

Kyle wonders if Rush thus thinks that environmentalists will keep
on finding more species to use to advance their causes, and Rush
thinks this is exactly the case. He points out that he is talking
about extremist environmentalists, not those who genuinely want
to balance out the needs of all concerned, including man and the
environment.

Rush thinks that man can peacefully coexist with all species on
this planet, but it's gotten to the point that almost anything
with four legs or gills in California is endangered. He's not
willing to sacrifice man's needs for the sake of some trumped up,
bogus environmental claims.

Rush points out that the US has more acres of forest than 200
years ago, thanks in part to modern man's ability to put out
forest fires and to plant millions upon millions of new trees
each and every year. Kyle understands this but just wishes that
Rush would not make light of so many environmental situations.

Rush says that this is a valid point, in the regard that many
people do misunderstand his Environmentalist Wacko update. Rush
doesn't do caller abortions anymore because it takes 10 minutes
to set it up for new callers; similarly, if people don't
understand Rush's core environmental beliefs, they'll
misunderstand the purpose of Rush's environmental updates.

Rush thus thanks Kyle for calling and allowing him to explain
this once again to the American public, because even though he
has done this "zillions of times before," he is always getting
new listeners who can benefit from this explanation. "It's kind
of like we just planted another tree here," Rush states. Kyle
thanks Rush for clarifying this, and adds that he is looking
forwards to getting Rush's book as a Christmas present.

Rush wonders if Kyle has specifically asked for this book, and
Kyle says that he has hinted this strongly. Rush suggests that
Kyle give his last name, and Kyle does so - Fink. Rush therefore
does a public service announcement on behalf of Kyle Fink of
Lincoln, NB - if anybody is wondering what to get him for
Christmas, they should buy a copy of Rush's book. Rush is certain
that Kyle will get a copy of "The Way Things Ought to Be" for
Christmas, noting that he definitely deserves it for showing on
national radio his ability to learn and expand his mind.

*BREAK*

Phone   Doug from St. Louis, MO

Doug heard Rush's comment about the 8-year-old boy killed by a
bunch of punk teenagers, and how soullessness may be overtaking
the country. Rush notices that Doug is stuttering, and although
this nervousness is understandable since Doug is on Rush's show,
Rush warns him that he is offending stutterers and thus must stop
it immediately; otherwise, Rush, in his great sensitivity, will
have to end this call.

Doug promises to do better and adds that he agrees with the idea
that soullessness is increasing in America; however, he would
like to go one step further and say that the problem with society
today is that people can't make a distinction between facts and
values. There was a time when society was based on Christian
family values, and people too often today base their opinions on
facts and what they think they can prove. Society has moved away
from higher values of the soul and this boy's death is just one
result of how society is ignoring these values.

Rush says that more and more people think that there are no
values, no absolute right and wrong. Many people define right and
wrong according to what they want to do, and should anyone
disagree with them, they will claim that their "freedom" is being
infringed. Rush agrees that not enough attention is being paid to
values. In fact, Dan Quayle and other Republicans were mocked and
impugned by the dominant media culture whenever they tried to
talk about values and morals.

Phone   Adam from Omaha, NB

Adam says that talk is a form of intercourse and so Clinton's
economic summit is a form of "cluster intercourse." Rush tells
Adam to be "real careful" here; his show has been dancing around
this subject, and he doesn't want Adam to ruin the show's
"stylistic focus." Adam promises to be careful and says that he
thinks Clinton already has his economic engine in place; with
Bentsen at the Treasury, an investment tax credit is a sure thing
and this will spur companies to make more capital investments.

Also, with Carol Browner at the EPA, companies will find a lot of
obstacles placed in their way should they want to turn their
equipment on, and so companies will have to hire even more
employees to handle this regulatory paperwork. Finally, even if
companies manage to make a profit with their new equipment,
Robert Reich will take a goodly portion of that profit to
"invest" in "critical technologies."

Rush thinks Adam has his thinking cap on straight, and agrees
that Clinton already knows what he is going to do - the economic
summit is just for show, so that Clinton can claim he has a
consensus to do what he has already decided to do.

*BREAK*

Phone   Ed from Madison, WI

Ed heard Rush's bit on the stutterers, and since he is a
stutterer, he hopes that people do lighten up. Rush agrees, and
notes that the Walt Disney ad is a print ad, and thus isn't even
spoken. Ed agrees, and he grew up with Winnie the Pooh, Elmer
Fudd, and Porky Pig, and although he still stutters, he's not
offended at all by them. Certainly if someone is deliberately
making fun of him, Ed will let them know about it, but this
doesn't happen much.

Rush says this whole deal is a great example of how some people
are wound too tight and are just waiting for someone to offend
them. It should be clear, though, that the Disney ad was not
intended in any way to make fun of stutterers.

Phone   Mary Jo from Indianapolis, IN

Mary Jo was doing her Christmas shopping last night, and bought
two copies of Rush's book. She noticed that the books had a
discount sticker on the cover plastered right over Rush's face,
and the clerk at the cash register said that the manager did this
on purpose because he didn't like Rush too much.

Mary Jo had heard the other stories people told about how
bookstore owners and managers showed their displeasure about
Rush's book, but was still surprised to see this actually
happening at a Dalton's in Indianapolis. Mary Jo adds that she
told a friend about this, and he's going to the same store to buy
some more copies just to aggravate the manager all the more.

Rush laughs at this, and has to marvel at "these small little
people" who think stuff like this will hurt him. With this kind
of stuff happening at retail stores, it's amazing that the
unemployment rate isn't double what it is.

Rush doesn't have much time left, but he comments that Coca-Cola
is coming out with a clear version of their cola, and Pepsi is
doing the same. "Ever heard of Snapple?" Rush asks. Snapple has
"clear stuff all over the place - clear cola, clear root beer,
and it's delicious," he states. The EIB staff adds that it's
"clearly better, too." Rush clearly agrees.


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