From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Mon 1/4/93
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, January 4, 1993
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:09:04 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, January 4, 1993

by John Switzer

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This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1993 by John Switzer.
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Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
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this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
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January 4, 1993

LIMBAUGH WATCH

January 4, 1993 - It's now 63 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 15 consecutive weeks and is
currently number one on the list.

MORNING UPDATE

<<Today's Morning Update is a repeat of the one originally aired
on Friday, September 18, 1992>>

Who says a college degree isn't worth anything anymore? The New
York Times recently did a feature story on filmmaker Spike Lee,
and the story in passing mentioned how Lee did not have a college
degree. Lee, who recently said that kids should skip school
November 20th so that they can watch the premiere of his new film
about Malcolm X, read this and called the newspaper to complain.
However, nobody was at the offices and so Lee left a message on
their answering machine.

Harpers magazine recently printed a transcript of Lee's message,
and Rush thinks it would be instructive to read it on the air, so
that people can see what a college education really means in
America.

<<Message Begins>>

"This is Spike Lee. How ya doin'? Look, how in the hell are ya
going to write some bull*bleep* that I don't have a *bleep*ing
college degree? I got a *bleep*ing Masters from NYU and a
*bleep*ing undergraduate degree from Moorehouse College.

"How's the *bleep*ing New York Times going to write some
bull*bleep* that I don't have a *bleep*ing college degree? You
know, you Mother*bleep*ers ought to do some *bleep*ing research
or whatever you call that *bleep* before you write some *bleep*
*bleep* *bleep*!

"All right, I got a *bleep*ing Masters of Fine Arts from
*bleep*ing NYU. I want a Mother*bleep*ing retraction. All right,
Mother*bleep*ers?!"

<<Message Ends>>

Thus, if you get a college degree, you too can speak with the
same eloquence shown by Spike Lee. Or perhaps, Rush wonders,
should this simply be called "looter lingo"?

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Since today is Rush's first day back from vacation, EIB's
New York flagship station WABC has decided not to carry David
Dinkins' "State of the City" message this morning. Rush promises
to keep his listeners informed on Dinkins' speech, although the
state of the city can be summed up with one word - "bad." Rush
adds to this brief synopsis his equally terse commentary - "and
getting worse."

o       Rush is glad to be back in New York, even though his
return trip has convinced him never to use that particular
airline again. Rush won't divulge the name of the airline and
instead asks "do you know what I got when I was in Hawaii?" The
EIB staff answers "a disease?" Rush refuses to pay attention to
his staff and instead says that he got both a tan and a lei on
his vacation.

In addition, though, Rush also got a private, VIP tour of the
nuclear submarine USS Indianapolis, and he thanks Commander David
Zacharias and his entire crew for this privilege. Rush took a
number of pictures during his tour, including one of him using
the sub's periscope to hunt for liberal frigates.

He was amazed that although this sub has a crew of about 140 men,
there are only 95 bunks, and the bunks look like book shelves
with draw curtains. The bunks are only 5'6" long, which makes
sleeping a chore for people of average or above average height.

The largest place aboard the sub was the Mess, which is no bigger
than two picnic tables such as might be found in any typical
run-down city park. Broadcast engineer Mike Maimone asks if there
are any homeless at these tables as there are in New York City,
and Rush tells him this is not the case; Rush then muses on how
great it is to be back with his erudite EIB staff.

Rush took some video of his tour and he promises to show it
during his TV show. He adds that the rest of his vacation was
great as well, and it gave him the opportunity to stay at a hotel
managed by a Swiss national, Urs Aeby; Rush made a bet with
Aeby's wife, Katie, but he can't talk about the bet until he wins
it, which will be in about 6 to 9 months.

The EIB staff guesses that the bet was about Clinton raising
taxes, and Rush says that this is a sure thing; his bet, though,
is about something Clinton will do. In other Clinton news, Rush
has received an invitation to Clinton's inauguration; the
invitation, which is the first such invitation to be printed on
recycled paper, is addressed to "H. R. Lumbaugh." Rush doesn't
know if he'll attend, though, because it's in the middle of the
week and he does have his two shows to do.

Rush has to laugh, though, because the way he found out about the
invitation is by reading dozens of CompuServe email messages from
people encouraging him to go. Rush at first thought these letter
writers were just the usual gang of idiots, but then his mother
clued him in. He will have to consult his schedule, though, to
see if he can attend.

o       Last Thursday's San Francisco Chronicle contained a
review of a book by anthropologist Helen E. Fisher. The book,
"Anatomy of Love - The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and
Divorce," claims that divorce can be traced to ape behavior. Rush
promises more about this later.

o       Channel 2 in NYC is heavily promoting its move of Geraldo
Rivera's talk show to 4:00 p.m., which means it will be competing
head-to-head against Oprah and Phil Donahue. Rush bets some
"pretty sleazy topics" will be the result of this competition.
"It's going to be fun to watch," Rush states, and he compares the
trend towards sleaziness to baseball salaries - they keep going
up and up, and people think that there's got to be some limit,
but it's never reached.

o       Saturday's NY Times had a great story about how drumming
can "provide personal growth for women," and Rush promises more
on this during today's show.

o       Ling-Ling the giant Chinese panda has died, which has
reduced its mate Sing-Sing to tears-tears. Interestingly enough,
Ling-Ling lived for 22 years, which is 8 years longer than the
normal 14-year life-expectancy of pandas living in the wild.

*BREAK*

Phone   Tom from Fresno, CA

Tom would like to hear Rush's comments on Lawrence Walsh, and
Rush says that the criticism he's heard of Walsh during the past
couple of weeks has been pretty accurate. Walsh seems governed
now by a desire to maintain and enhance his reputation; his
entire investigation has been about criminalizing foreign policy
and it simply hasn't worked. Walsh was given unlimited amounts of
time and money, yet the best he's been able to come up with is
that "somebody didn't give us their notes on time." So far, Walsh
is not expected to deliver one indictment on anything of
substance.

Rush totally supports Bush's Christmas Eve pardons, and in fact
thinks they should have come earlier. When Walsh, though, was
asked if Bush's action means some people in government are above
the law, he smugly, condescendingly, and defiantly replied "it
depends on what President you're working for."

Supposedly Walsh is a "good Republican," but nothing is further
than the truth; Walsh hired James Brosnihan, a premiere leftist,
to help him indict Weinberger a few days before the election. The
basic lesson to be learned, though, is that you can't criminalize
foreign policy.

Limits also have to be placed on special prosecutors, but since
special prosecutors always examine the executive branch, and
since a Democrat will now be in charge of the executive branch,
Rush suspects that these limits will be quickly forthcoming.

*BREAK*

Phone   Scott from Omaha, NB

Scott's brother-in-law works at a local television station and
his cube is decorated with Rush memorabilia. When Senator Kerry
was scheduled for a visit, however, the brother-in-law was told
by his supervisor that he shouldn't "say any of your Rush stuff"
when introduced to the Senator. Evidently, the supervisor thought
that the mere mention of Rush's name would scare Senator Kerry.

Rush asks what happened and Scott says that his brother-in-law
went out of his way so as to avoid contact with the man. Rush has
to laugh at this sort of small-town paranoia. Why would Senator
Kerry be upset in the first place if he ran into a dittohead?
Rush bets that Kerry, if he knew about this, would be
embarrassed, and he adds that treating elected officials with
these sorts of kid gloves is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Phone   Morgan from Los Banos, CA

Morgan is using a cellular phone and manages to get in only
"Rush? Rush?" before he loses the connection. Rush explains that
Morgan wanted to talk about Time magazine's cover picture of
Clinton on last week's issue. Rush made a point of avoiding most
news magazines during his vacation so he didn't see this issue of
Time until he got back.

Rush has to wonder if Time magazine purposely laid out their
cover so that the points of the "M" in "TIME" appeared as horns
on Clinton's head, or was this just a production error that
managed to slip by all of the Time staffers? Unfortunately, if
this was done on purpose, the guilty party would never admit it,
and thus the world will never know the truth of this. Rush
promises, though, to show this interesting cover on his TV show.

Rush moves onto the book by Helen E. Fisher; the review by the SF
Chronicle contains a number of quotes from Fisher, who believes
that the human habit of divorce can be traced to the "four-year
itch found in the ape world." Rush admits that he is tired of
having mankind compared to rocks, apes, and anything else that
inhabits this planet. Even George Carlin recently said on the
Whoopi Show that "a man is a boy is a rock" as far as he's
concerned. This is exactly the wrong way to look at things since
it devalues humanity to claim that humans are no better than any
other life-form.

Fisher claims, though, that the human tendency to form pair
relationships to create and raise children is "quite unusual in
the mammalian world." Rush notes that the tone of the article is
that because forming "pair relationships" is "unusual," it's
therefore wrong and man would be much better off to follow the
example of "nature." Of course, man is a part of nature, yet
there are those who think man is not only not part of nature but
even beneath it.

Rush hates to correct a prominent anthropologist, but he points
out that forming pair relationships is called "love," which is an
emotion unique to mankind. Certainly love of a sort can be found
in animals such as dogs, but no animal loves in the same way as
man does.

*BREAK*

Returning to Fisher's book, Rush notes that there's an
interesting feminist slant in the article. Fisher notes that only
3% of species form "pair bonds to raise their young." The article
notes "female elephants, for example, are more typical of the
majority of mammals. They travel with other females, mate when a
male comes by, and raise their infants within the female harem.
When, on the other hand, a female animal like the red fox needs
the male for protection and food, she pairs up with the father of
her kits until the offspring are strong and mature on their own.
Then they break up."

Rush notes that the implication of all this is that the male is
discarded as an unwanted relic that is "nothing more than a tired
piece of pasta." This, according to Fisher, is the "law of
nature." The Chronicle adds the following:

"When our ape-like ancestors moved out of the trees of Africa,
four million years ago, and began to walk upright on the
savannah, females began to carry their offspring in their arms
rather than on their backs. And although they remained with other
females to gather food, when they gave birth, they needed males
for food and protection and so formed a pair bond with the
father. Their continued nursing stopped ovulation and therefore
other births for about four years, during which the infant grew
strong enough to leave. Then the pair bond broke up."

This is the source for the "four-year itch" and the roots of
divorce. Rush notes that had he said something along the lines of
"ape-like ancestors moved out of the trees of Africa" he would be
accused of racism. Rush also notes that the missing link that
proves man did come from "ape-link ancestors" has yet to be
found.

"Isn't it wonderful," says Rush, who marvels at how Fisher has
now explained the causes for divorce - it took four years until
baby ape-like ancestors grew up enough so that they could take
the family ape-like ancestor sedan and "split the scene." This
explains the "four-year itch" that characterizes modern divorces.

Rush notes, though, that this does not explain why many children
don't leave home until they are 35 years old. Obviously, man
still doesn't understand nature as well as his ape-like
ancestors. Rush promises more on this fascinating subject after
the break.

*BREAK*

The SF Chronicle reports that Fisher's studies indicate that
there is no such thing as a "seven-year itch"; rather, Fisher's
survey of 62 cultures across the world has shown that the divorce
rate peaks during the fourth year of marriage. Fisher also thinks
that mankind's "mating traits and tendencies" are heavily
influenced by "shared unconscious tendencies that are encoded in
our DNA." Fisher claims these inherited tendencies are
responsible for the way people flirt and the way they resist
marriage and monogamy; she also devotes a significant portion of
her book to the "copulatory gaze" (also known as "ogling").

Fisher also says that abortion is directly related to the
behavior of mankind's ape-like behavior, and Rush promises more
about this during the second hour.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush notes with some sadness that the Houston Oilers, his
second-favorite team, lost to the Buffalo Bills yesterday, in
spite of having a 35-3 lead in the third quarter. Rush calls this
a "dirty rotten shame," and therefore plays the Houston Oilers
Fight Song as a tribute; however, there are some "technical
problems," and the song repeatedly speeds up and slows down until
it fades away like the Oilers did yesterday.

Rush laughs and notes that because of this tribute it is a good
thing he won't be getting back to Houston for a while.

o       David Dinkins' "State of the City" speech is finally
over; Rush comments that Dinkins took 57 minutes to explain "why
the city is in the toilet without a plunger."

Returning to the subject of Helen Fisher's book, Rush reads from
the Chronicle review:

"It's because of Fisher's encyclopedic knowledge of the animal
world that she's begun to speak out with great authority on
related issues, including abortion. `Throughout the entire animal
kingdom,' states Fisher, `females choose whether to have and
raise their young. The weeding out process in nature is a very
natural one, so it's in conflict with the human female to tell
her to bear her young when she can't or doesn't want to.' "

Rush points out that Fisher may be a great anthropologist, but
although mankind is a part of nature, man is not an animal. Even
Perot said "we ain't rabbits," which means that Rush and Perot
are aligned on this issue. In fact, it is when humans become
animal-like that society begins to crumble (e.g. Willie Horton).

Rush's train of thought is derailed by the EIB staff who start
singing "birds do it, bees do it." Rush sighs and continues on
with the article:

"How do female animals make that choice? They abandon their
young, eat them, refuse to feed them, or otherwise weed them out.
The mother field mouse has only so much milk, energy, and time.
Perhaps she finds a runt or a baby going blind and decides the
baby isn't going to make it. This is a part of natural selection
- not every animal is designed to have and raise every baby it
was built to give birth to. Mothers naturally choose not to raise
some babies and to raise others."

Rush wonders if people really want this attitude to become part
of the human existence. This trend is certainly coming - people
are already deciding who lives and dies based on convenience.
Abortion is now being justified by saying that some children are
"unwanted." Some babies are being aborted just because they are
female, especially in China, and Molly Yard has praised China for
their abortion policies.

Rush notes that it won't be long before parents will be able to
abort children for all sorts of genetic reasons - green eyes, red
hair, or whatever. Fisher, though, condones this sort of abortion
because it is only using the "natural selection instincts
inherited from our ape-like ancestors." It is outrageous, though,
that some people think humanity should behave as animals.

Fisher also has some things to say about sexual harassment:

"Anyone who thinks that this issue will go away without our
deepest attention does not know the basics of the human animal.
Sexual harassment is simply inevitable in any environment unless
four steps are taken:

"1) training sessions on how to smile and not to smile, how to
touch, how to use your voice, and how to dress, 2) posted rules
describing acceptable behavior, 3) a person selected to be the
`fair witness,' someone who will listen to complaints, and 4) a
way of instituting taboos that will make it immediately clear
when certain behavior is inappropriate."

Thus, the anthropologist Fisher is now an expert on sexual
harassment. Of course, Fisher thinks sexual harassment is
inevitable, which essentially means that all men are harassers;
this is no different than saying that all whites are racist
simply because they are white.

*BREAK*

Rush says that Fisher's theory does explain why Ling-Ling kept on
killing her panda babies - Ling-Ling simply didn't want the
children to live and thus rolled over on them to kill them.
Animal rights activists used to blame this on the fact that
Ling-Ling was living in captivity, but now it's obvious that
Ling-Ling was simply following the laws of natural selection.

Since Ling-Ling lived 8 years longer than the normal lifespan of
pandas living in the wild, she must have been happy; thus, she
was only weeding out what she must have thought were inferior
offspring. "It's purely natural," Rush states. "She was doing the
right thing - animals never do anything wrong, only humans do.
Isn't it marvelous to know?"

Mike Maimone suggests that the reason Ling-Ling wasn't happy with
her babies was that Sing-Sing is a deadbeat. Like most women,
Ling-Ling needed a man who had a career - Smokey the Bear, for
example. Rush suggests a better bear would be Mike Ditka. He
thinks this is as good an explanation as any other - if man was
only able to understand panda-talk, people would have realized
that Ling-Ling thought Sing-Sing was just a loser.

Phone   Susan from Houston, TX

Rush takes Susan's call with trepidation since he doesn't know
how she feels about his tribute to the Oilers. Susan, though, is
a Cowboys fan and thus has high hopes for their next game with
the Eagles. Susan thinks that Fisher's book is obviously not
science, but only her opinion. Rush notes that the SF Chronicle
reports that "no scientist refutes her laws of nature."

Susan finds it curious how these sorts of scientists always end
up with results that support their goal of a socialist state that
takes care of everybody. She points out that Ling-Ling is a
perfect example of someone who was cared for by the state and had
a perfect life. Rush points out that some animal rights critics
might say that Ling-Ling was basically raped. Ling-Ling obviously
didn't want any children which is why she and Sing-Sing had to be
forced together; this would have been avoided if the animals had
been left alone in the wild.

*BREAK*

Phone   Ted from Huntington, NY

Ted has a list of "disastrous blind dates":

o       Gloria Steinem and Hugh Hefner

o       Bob Dornan and Sinead O'Connor

o       Patricia Ireland and her husband (Rush especially likes
this one)

o       Molly Yard and Pat Buchanan

o       Phyllis Schlafly and Mario Cuomo

o       Bill Clinton and Sister Souljah

o       Amy Fisher and Joe Buttafuoco

o       Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers

o       George Bush and Hillary Clinton

o       Rush Limbaugh and Barbara Boxer (or Dianne Feinstein)

Rush admits these would be disastrous blind dates, and he
comments that the December 31st issue of the NY Post reports that
Hillary Clinton's high school classmates predicted she would
become a nun because she didn't date very much; they thus
nicknamed her "Sister Frigidaire." Hillary reportedly didn't go
out on dates much at Wellesley either; she was too busy tutoring
inner city school children, organizing food drives, distributing
campaign literature, and making anti-Vietnam War speeches.

Item

o       Saturday's NY Times has more anthropological news - Penny
Geneeson is one of many women "setting off on a complex journey
of rhythm and consciousness" by expressing herself through
drumming, which has become for "growing ranks of women" a means
of "spiritual transformation, stress relief, and personal
growth."

These drummers see themselves as "bearers for new traditions" and
Geneeson has formed a "drumming circle" with other women. "Our
culture does not allow women to make noise," claims Geneeson, and
thus drumming is a valid means of female expression. Rush wonders
if Geneeson has heard about Helen Reddy and "I Am Woman."

Geneeson, though, says "drumming is doing something we're not
supposed to do and it feels good." Rush points out that this is
just one more reason he finds it hard to take feminist activists
seriously. Yet this is a major story in a major mainstream
newspaper.

A Manhattan drumming instructor says "something's happening out
there" and the Times notes that female drumming is spreading
across the country and can be found in churches, retreats, and
craft fairs. Rush wonders if this means that there will be a new
Christmas carol next year - "The Little Drummer Babe." Rush
comments this story is the NY Times version of Geraldo - taking
some weirdos and presenting them as representative of most women.

The Times continues on to say that the popularity for drumming
among women has a different basis than the already publicized
drumming circles that men have created. According to Robert Bly,
male drumming is a reference to "the wild man, a primal,
spontaneous being within every man that's been suppressed by the
industrial and corporate culture."

Rush looks at the newspaper again to make sure it's the NY Times
and not the Counter-Culture Times. He comments that he, as a man,
has never had the urge to take up drumming in an attempt to break
the "shackles of corporate suppression."

Geneeson is quoted by the Times as saying "women often first come
to drumming because they're interested in multiculturalism and
music." Geneeson, a professional pianist, explains that she was
originally attracted to African and Latin rhythms because they
were "looser and freer in expression" than the music she was
originally trained in.

"Many of us are afraid," Geneeson adds. "We somehow believe that
our own rhythms in drumming and dancing are not good enough.
Drumming is about reclaiming and recapturing the feminine divine.
Women don't even know that this is their heritage to reclaim."

Rush says that if this is all it takes, then drums should be
given to women and their rooms should be sound-proofed. This will
rectify all the problems between men and women.

*BREAK*

Phone   Melody from Fresno, CA

Melody is a high-school band director and points out that women
have been playing the drums for a long time, especially in high
school and college bands. Rush agrees and finds it interesting
that these women also think there is a political, feminist, and
anti-male justification for playing the drums. Melody hasn't
found this in her students, but she has found that people who
love music are people who love music. She herself isn't in music
because she wants to establish a new feminist identity.

Rush says that what irritates him about this is that this
"looney-tunes, nutcake" stuff is presented by a major paper as
real news. The news media is presenting this as normal and
admirable activity. Melody thinks this shows that these women are
grasping at straws because everything else they've tried has
failed.

Rush agrees and adds that these women are grasping at straws
because they are deeply unhappy, sad, lonely, bitter, and angry.
They are desperately trying to get noticed. Melody feels sorry
for these women, especially since music by itself is such a great
addition to one's life.

Rush confesses he doesn't feel sorry for these women because
there's no reason to pity them - these people are "just
screwballs" and he doesn't have enough time to feel sorry for all
of the world's screwballs. Human misery across the world is far
more than any person can fully comprehend, and there are too many
people worthwhile of sympathy and compassion for Rush to devote
any time to these "locoweeds."

Melody wonders if mainstream America is buying into stuff like
this, and Rush is certain that they aren't. He holds Melody over
the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Melody from Fresno, CA (continued)

Rush adds that it doesn't matter whether mainstream America buys
into this drumming stuff; the dominant media culture does not
reflect what mainstream America thinks is important. The NY Times
undoubtedly thinks this is a major story, and this shows how
feminism gets defined in America - feminism is not defined by the
rank-and-file members, but by its leaders and by what the media
chooses to present as feminism.

This occurs all the time - the media presents as mainstream all
sorts of things which really aren't, which is why Rush spends his
time on such issues.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       Rush mentions the twin-asteroid Toutatis, which
scientists recently photographed using radar. Rush recalls that
the odds of the Earth getting hit by an asteroid are far greater
than the danger of man destroying the planet. Man and his tin
cans and plastic jugs and automobiles are not going to destroy
the Earth, yet policies are being made according to these
incredibly unlikely possibilities. Rush also notes that there is
only one thing that could possibly help man should an asteroid be
on a collision course with Earth - Star Wars and SDI technology.

A letter that appeared in the December 31st issue of the Panama
City Herald takes Rush to task for claiming that man could not
destroy the Earth. The woman writing the letter, Leesa Marlowe,
thinks that detonating all of the world's nuclear weapons could
certainly push the Earth out of its orbit and into the sun.

Rush suggests that Ms. Marlowe buy his book; the Earth has been
around for possibly 4 billion years, more or less, which is far
longer than man has been around. The Earth has survived forces
that dwarf anything man could create - sunspots, volcanoes, etc.
Man could certainly destroy a lot of the life support system on
the planet for some period of time, but man couldn't destroy the
Earth even with all of the nuclear weapons now in existence.

Rush notes that the robot, Dante, that was sent into the
Antarctic volcano Mount Erebus has already broken down. Rush
suggests that next time the robot be sent into New York City
schools - if it can survive that, it can survive a lousy volcano.
Rush adds that Mount Erebus is probably responsible for more
ozone depletion than anything man has done; however, the ozone
hole has already closed.

Rush is amazed that there are still people who think that things
such as disposable diapers and plastic jugs can actually destroy
the planet. "It's hysteria run amuck," Rush states. Everything is
a crisis to these activists. Even Jesse Jackson has found a new
crisis to be worried about - the rise of tuberculosis among drug
and alcohol users, the homeless, and such. Of course, the "real"
problem for all these crises is that there's not enough funding.
It's about time, though, that people stopped having a hysterical
approach to every problem that arises.

o       Today's NY Times has a story that piqued Rush's interest
- Clinton has been under a lot of pressure to name a prominent
mainstream economist to his Council of Economic Advisers, and
thus Clinton has offered a Council seat to Allan Blinder, a
Princeton economist. Blinder would serve under Laura Tyson, a
Berkeley economist who many fear does not have the depth of
experience and knowledge needed to run the Council. Tyson
specializes in trade and industrial issues, and Blinder's
appointment would counter this criticism.

Rush says that this basically means Tyson is not qualified for
her job and thus Clinton has had to appoint someone else to help
her out. This is what happens, though, when people focus more on
diversity than on quality and excellence. For example, Clinton
appointed two hispanics to his cabinet, which was his goal. Rush
has to wonder, though, how many hispanic farm workers' lives are
going to improve because of this.

Clinton said special interests would not have any influence in
his administration, but so far his administration has been
dominated by special interests. Clinton has implemented a defacto
quota system, which of course is fully supported by liberals who
think that it is needed to wipe out bias and separatism. Yet the
result has been more bias and more separatism than ever before as
Clinton hires people on the basis of their skin color, gender,
etc.

The bottom line is that America is simply not getting the best
people for Clinton's administration.

*BREAK*

Phone   Merlin from Kenosha, WI

Merlin is being told by a lot of liberal friends that the only
people Rush lets on his show are people who make him look good.
Rush says that this is a common criticism made by shallow people
who don't listen to his show with any depth. Rush's show requires
its listeners to think, but a lot of people have knee-jerk
reactions whenever they hear one of their favorite buzzwords.

Rush says that callers are supposed to make him look good - there
is no First Amendment to be boring on his show. Rush's show is a
benevolent dictatorship because it's a business and he has to get
ratings. Thus, calls must maintain listener interest. This
doesn't mean that callers have to agree with Rush, but they do
have to talk about current topics of interest.

Plus, Rush's show is based on what he thinks, not about what
America or the callers think. Thus, the definition of a call that
makes Rush look good is one from someone who can have a good
conversation with Rush on a timely and substantive topic of
interest. Anything that improves the quality of the show and
makes Rush look good is what callers should strive for.

*BREAK*

Phone   Jonathan from Brookline, MA

Jonathan has three news items which he thinks Rush will be
interested in. Rush asks Jonathan if he would mind if Rush took
the opportunity to present a short caller clinic after Jonathan's
call. When Jonathan hangs up, Rush will analyze his call and list
its good and bad points. Jonathan has no objections to this, and
says that his goal is to "be the firstest with the mostest with
the news."

Jonathan's first item is that the NY Rangers are going to fire
their head coach Roger Neilson so that they will have a better
chance of winning the Stanley Cup. His second item is a quote
Paul Newman made in the movie "Exodus" - "people are different,
people want to be different, people have a right to be
different."

The third item of Jonathan's call is the "amazing, shocking, and
inside information" news reported by Paul Harvey that Ronald
Reagan voted against George Bush. Rush says that this news is all
over the newspapers, and the source for this story is a Clinton
supporter who insists on anonymity. Although Reagan hasn't made
any statement on this yet, his spokeswoman stated quite clearly
that Reagan supported the re-election of George Bush.

Jonathan wonders if George Bush is suppressing any real anger
about the election; during the press conference with Yeltsin,
Bush referred to the next President as "Governor Clinton" instead
of "President-elect Clinton." Jonathan thinks Bush still "doesn't
get it," and this reminds him of how during the Gulf War Bush
said Saddam Hussein "doesn't get it" and was a "madman."

Jonathan doesn't like how Bush tends to bluff - he bluffed when
he talked about getting Hussein and trying him for war crimes,
and he's bluffing now when he talks about trying the Serbs for
their war crimes. This bothers him because he doesn't like
America to promise to do things and then not do them. Thus, Bush
has been a great disappointment to Jonathan, who is a
conservative, and he is glad Bush has turned out to be a one-
termer.

Jonathan says that Clinton is no Ronald Reagan, and in 1980 the
American people voted for a great man as opposed to voting
against Carter. The fact that Bush was replaced by someone like
Clinton means that the American people really hated Bush.

Rush tries to get a word in edgewise, but Jonathan continues on
with the "shocking news" that Hillary Clinton gave thousands of
dollars to the PLO. Rush thanks Jonathan for calling and points
out that this phone call was not a setup. "In fact," Rush states,
"after the show I'm going to have a long talk with Bo Snerdley
about what in the world he found attractive about that caller."

Rush says that Jonathan's call didn't have one interesting
characteristic. First, Rush was not heard at all during this call
and Rush asks if anybody, besides Jonathan, cares what Jonathan
from Brookline really thinks. Second, this call was not a
conversation, but a speech by Jonathan.

If Rush was going to let callers makes speeches, the determining
factor as to who gets on would be if the caller could be a good
host for the show. If Rush is not going to talk during the call,
then why should he be at the studio at all? Rush adds that it's a
major mistake for any caller to think they have national news of
importance that nobody else in the audience knows.

Jonathan not only thought he had major, ground-breaking
information nobody else knew, but he then got the story wrong. To
make matters worse, he used Paul Harvey as his source, thereby
implying Harvey, a paragon of accuracy, got it wrong. Jonathan
then quickly began talking about totally irrelevant things such
as the NY Rangers, the movie "Exodus," and the pronunciation of
Saddam Hussein's name.

This call basically shows what makes Rush's show what it is -
Rush. It therefore follows that for the show to be good, Rush has
to be present and has to look good. Rush points out that Jonathan
wasn't treated rudely or impolitely; furthermore, Jonathan agreed
in advance to this analysis, which, after all, will only help him
become a better caller in the future.

Rush bets that Jonathan is a regular caller to all the local talk
shows in the Brookline area - he fits the profile of someone who
makes speeches and who tries to stir up the public. Rush is
certain that most hosts do what he did during the call - step
aside, let the caller make his speech, and then move on to the
next call. Rush marvels, though, at how things work out - right
before this call he had been talking about the purpose of callers
on his show, and along comes a caller who allows him to
illustrate exactly what he means.

*BREAK*

Phone   Laurie from Wilmington, DE

Laurie is a new listener, who found Rush's show by accident while
he was on vacation. Rush asks if Laurie had heard about him
before this point, and she says she hadn't and hopes this doesn't
hurt Rush's feelings. Rush answers that on the contrary he's
encouraged - someone who's never heard of him tuned in while he
was on vacation yet still continued listening until he returned.

"So," Rush states, "this is your first day exposure to me."
Laurie replies "yeah, scary isn't it?" Rush laughs and hopes this
is a compliment. Laurie mentions Helen Fisher who thinks that
man's ape-like ancestors stopped carrying their children on their
backs when they moved from the trees. "I have two teenagers,"
Laurie states, "and these kids are still on my back."

Rush admits that this does disprove Fisher's theory, not to
mention that Fisher is ignoring both papooses and kangaroos.
Laurie adds that she and her husband have been together for 16
years and she theorizes that this is because they have "a lot of
calamine lotion" and because they both have been scratching each
other's itches.

Rush asks if Laurie is a liberal or conservative, and she doesn't
know. She didn't like anybody in the last Presidential race, and
Rush says that he's asking these questions to find out if Laurie
is predisposed to hating him. Laurie says that she has a sense of
humor and even likes Andrew Dice Clay's humor. Rush warns her
that the politically correct won't like these answers and thus
Laurie will have to be on her guard. "Will they make me go out
and get a job?" she nervously asks.

Rush thanks Laurie for calling and welcomes her to the EIB
audience. He advises her that she should be spend at least six
weeks listening to his show, though, before coming to any
conclusions about him and the show.

*BREAK*

Rush has to correct what he said earlier that if he doesn't talk
about something, it's not important - he had intended to talk
about the latest happenings in Carol Moseley Braun's life, but
simply didn't have the time to do it today. Braun has moved into
a $3,000 a month apartment, has bought a new Jeep, has just
returned from a month-long trip to Africa, and is dating her
campaign manager who has been accused of sexual harassment by
three women.

Braun claims that the allegations against her campaign manager
are "unfounded" but Rush remembers that the whole reason Braun
ran for office is because Anita Hill made unfounded allegations
against Clarence Thomas. Rush is curious as to how Braun can
afford a $3,000 apartment in Chicago when she will have to
maintain a home in Washington, DC as well. Plus, her campaign is
in debt and about a dozen campaign staffers are owed back wages.

Many critics are complaining that Braun is viewing her Senate
office as an opportunity to access riches and power, and Rush
promises more about this on tomorrow's show.

*BREAK*

Phone   Don from Boston, MA

Don would like to know what Rush thinks about turning New York
City into a state - this would create a more manageable network
of counties and make it possible to improve police and other
services. Rush refuses to hear of this - if NYC became a state,
then the Democrats would have a massive majority in both the
House and Senate. If anything, NYC should become a foreign
country.

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