From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Thu 10/8/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary Thursday Oct. 8, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: world,usa,alt,na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:15:38 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, October 8, 1992

by John Switzer

NOTE: This is being posted to both alt.fan.rush-limbaugh and
alt.rush-limbaugh and thus you may see it twice if your sysadm
aliases the two newsgroups together. Since most sites don't
support both groups, this double-posting appears to be
unavoidable, however, if anyone has any ideas on how to avoid it,
please let me know. Thanks - jrs@netcom.com.

This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1992 by John Switzer.
All Rights Reserved. This summary is distributed on CompuServe
and the Internet; distribution of this unofficial summary to
other electronic forums and bulletin boards is highly encouraged.
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.

******************************************************************

October 8, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

Rush has some hip-deep analysis for this morning's update -
Clinton loves to criticize the 12 years of the Reagan/Bush
administrations as "draconian" and "horrible." Yet the misery
index shows that the worst economic time for this country since
WWII was under Jimmy Carter. The Wall Street Journal calls
Clinton's economic proposals "poor ideas we can hope he does not
mean."

Clinton would punish business, punish achievers, and punish the
middle class, with the end result of sending people's quality of
life into a tailspin that could even be worse than the Carter
years. Clinton's health care proposals don't even have a price
tag attached, and his plan would force many small businesses to
fail.

It was Ronald Reagan who performed best on the misery index, and
yet Clinton is ridiculing Reagan and his proposals which achieved
this success. If Clinton is so bright, then why can't he figure
this out? The reason is that liberal Democrats have had the
overriding goal of discrediting the Reagan legacy, and if Clinton
is also trying to attack the Reagan years, he is using liberal,
not moderate, economic analysis. Clinton's proposals didn't work
back then and they won't work now either.

FIRST HOUR

"It's nut-cracking time today" on the EIB network because the
"floodgates are opening" regarding Clinton's trip to the Soviet
Union. Clinton's campaign is pursuing their damage control by
attacking Bush for daring to challenge Clinton's patriotism. Rush
again points out that nobody is challenging Slick Willie's
patriotism. Instead people are questioning two things - Clinton's
judgement and honesty.

Rush will give full details later on today's show, but he remarks
that last night's TV show exposed the lie that Clinton told on
the Donahue show - Clinton has claimed that his meeting with Rev.
McSorely in Oslo, Norway in 1969 was purely coincidental.
McSorely runs the Peace Institute at Georgetown University, and
was a major player in the peace movement during the 60s and 70s.

Rush points out that nobody is saying that Clinton did not have a
right to protest the Vietnam War; this is his right as an
American. Again, though, what is important is Clinton's honesty,
and what he did that he now thinks is so bad that he doesn't want
anyone to know about it.

Clinton claims that he didn't really meet with McSorely, nor did
they go to any peace protests or meet with any other peace
protestors. However in his 1978 book, "Peace Eyes," McSorely says
that he and Clinton took trips together to meet with
conscientious objectors; furthermore, McSorely writes that
Clinton asked to go on the trip to Oslo, and McSorely was glad to
have him along since "he was very good at setting up
demonstrations and protests."

Clinton, though, is claiming that he didn't go to any meetings at
all with McSorely while the two were in Oslo. In a Washington
Times interview today, however, McSorely mentions Clinton and
says "since he's running for President, he can't afford to be
clear on any of these things. He can't - he'd be foolish to tell
the truth about it." The Times' headline for this story is "He'd
be foolish to tell the truth."

It is rather obvious that the Clinton campaign has not gotten
ahold of McSorely to muzzle him, which is interesting because it
was Hillary Clinton who did not want to move the Clinton campaign
out of Little Rock. Had the campaign been moved to Washington,
they probably would have been able to contact McSorely and
coordinate stories.

In other Clinton news, Rush is interested in knowing how those in
the Northeast and upper Midwest who have Polish, Czech, or other
Soviet bloc roots feel about Clinton's claim that 1969 was a
period of "relaxing tensions" in which relations between the US
and USSR were "thawing." Rush points out that the term "detente"
wasn't even coined until 1972.

Furthermore, the Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in 1968,
one year before Clinton's visit. Yet Clinton thinks tensions were
"relaxing" in 1969. The peace movement crowd has always claimed
that the US was the focus of evil in the world; that the US was
arming itself was what was supposedly making the world an unsafe
place. This is what these guys believed in the 60s, 70s, and even
80s.

Bill Clinton was part of this crowd who believed that the United
States was to blame, even while tanks were rolling into downtown
Prague, and he was protesting US policies at the time. These guys
believed that peace could be had only if Americans "understood"
the Soviets.

However, one of Rush's Undeniable Truths is that peace could not
be established with the Soviet Union by "understanding the
people" because the people were not in charge. When Communism
held sway, the people were in a nationwide prison, living under
tyranny. That was the only thing that needed to be understood
about the Soviet people.

Yet Clinton supposedly spent 40 days travelling across Europe and
Russia, trying to develop an understanding with these peoples. If
this were true, then why doesn't he want this known? The peace
crowd is proud of their actions even now, so why is Clinton so
reticent to acknowledge his past? Wouldn't his travels be useful
in establishing his foreign policy credentials?

Couldn't Clinton claim that his travels were only an attempt to
understand the peoples of the world? Why is he avoiding any
specifics on his travels? One final footnote about Clinton's
travels is that when he was finished in Moscow he returned to the
west via Czechoslovakia - he visited that country only one year
after Soviet tanks crushed it.

Rush asks a simple question - can one learn more about the world
by attending history classes at Oxford or by travelling around
Europe and the Soviet bloc? Clinton, of course, eschewed classes
during the entire second year of his Rhodes scholarship. Rush
again points out that nobody is challenging Clinton's patriotism,
but rather his judgment.

A dittohead wrote Rush with one perspective on this. "Assume the
worst," he writes - "Clinton is elected. The bad news is that the
Communists finally have a sleeper in the White House. The good
news is that this is too late - Communism has collapsed.
Impeccable timing as usual for the Democrats."

James Carville of the Clinton campaign addressed the questions
about where the missing pages are for Clinton's passport in the
State Department's files by saying that the Republicans had
controlled the State Department since 1981, "and if anyone
tampered with the files, it wouldn't have been us." Rush points
out that this is not true - if anything is true in Washington, it
is that the Washington bureaucracy is still controlled by
liberals. This was one of Reagan's greatest failures - his
inability to get these bureaucracies under control.

*BREAK*

Rush also would like people to think about the 80s peace
protestors who blamed the US for all of the world's ills. These
demonstrators, like those in the 60s and 70s before them, thought
that the US was the main evil of the world. Clinton was one of
these people, and now he is claiming that 1969 was a period of
thawing between the US and USSR, even though one year earlier the
Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia.

This shows how little liberals understand, even now, the dangers
that the Soviets posed to the world. Liberals still don't realize
this, nor do they realize the dangers posed to the world by other
nations. They still continue to think that all people have to do
is "understand" each other and things will all be okay. Do the
American people really want someone like this to be President of
the United States?

Rush suspects that those Americans who live in the Northwest and
Midwest, whose ethnic roots come from the former Soviet bloc, are
very much concerned with whether Clinton realizes the true
dangers Communism posed.

Phone   Gail from Eden Prairie, MN

Gail is getting tired of hearing about what Clinton did in 1969;
she would rather have people focus on the issues. In particular,
she saw one of Bush's ads that showed how much people's taxes
would be raised under a Clinton administration; she would like to
see similar figures for what would happen under a Bush
administration.

Rush is distressed by people who think character doesn't matter.
Clinton has contradicted himself time and time again. How does
anyone know what Clinton will do as President? How can anyone
trust him? During the New Hampshire primary in January, 1992,
Clinton said "I want to make it very clear that this middle class
tax cut is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a
short-term economic strategy." Only six months later (June 6) on
Good Morning America, Clinton then said "I would emphasize to you
that the press and my opponents always made more of the middle
class tax cut then I did."

Whether Clinton is telling the truth is a central issue, and Rush
is getting tired of people complaining that nobody is talking
about the issues; the issues are being talked about - people
simply aren't listening.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush knows he got a little testy during the last call,
but he's getting tired of the cliche being spouted everywhere
that the issues are not being talked about. The character of our
leaders is a central issue, and it is such an important issue
that it was mentioned by the nation's founding fathers as one of
singular importance. Character is important and it deserves to be
discussed like any other issue.

Rush has spent quite a bit of time talking about the issues, and
if people don't think this, then they're not listening. Rush's
show talks about the events of the day, and thus when Clinton
talks about his economic plan, this is what the show talks about.
For example, Clinton says that he will raise taxes on the upper
2% of taxpayers in America, which means that he will raise taxes
on those with a household income of $74,000 or more.

Those who make $50,000 or less constitute 90% of the nation's
wage-earners according to IRS and Bureau of Labor statistics.
When Reagan took office in 1980, only 8% of the population made
more than $50,000, and thus 2% were added to this tax bracket
during Reagan's terms. It's real simple - Clinton is a Democrat,
and when Democrats are put together with taxes, taxes go up,
plain and simple.

Rush also wants to address the myth that his show doesn't include
callers who disagree with him. Rush would love to have more
callers who disagree, and in fact he has devoted entire hours
just for those who do disagree with him. Rush is not impolite,
rude, or insulting to such callers, which is why he's surprised
more people don't call to talk about the issues. Allen from
Schenectady, EIB's resident liberal, is just one regular caller
who has discussions about the issues with Rush, and Rush wishes
Bo would find more of such callers.

o       Rush has another problem, which is the National League
playoff between the Atlanta Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates. Both
teams have their games aired on EIB affiliates, and thus Rush
doesn't want to take sides and possibly offend some of his
listeners.

Ed Randall has a talk show on New York radio, and Randall asked
Pirate center fielder Andy van Slyke about his previous comments
that he was a fan of Rush's. Van Slyke replied by saying "Rush, I
just want to let you know that the Pittsburgh Pirates are, as a
group, collectively huge fans of yours, and we'd like you to
endorse a Snapple champagne flavor in two weeks, and we
appreciate your promotion and backing of the Pittsburgh Pirates
in 1992. You could be the personal spokesman for the Pirates, and
the sponsor could be Snapple champagne flavor."

Rush thanks Ed Randall for the audio clip, and says that this
points out his dilemma - the Pirates are big fans of his, but he
hasn't heard anything from the Braves. Rush likes the idea of
champagne flavor Snapple, though.

o       Speaking of Atlanta and Ted Turners' Braves, Jane Fonda
has said that the reason her marriage to Ted Turner has been
successful is because she's independently wealthy. Rush wonders
if liposuction has anything to do with it as well.

o       The ratings have come in for Perot's infomercial, and
evidently he did quite well. This has led Rush to speculate that
Perot might decide to do a weekly sitcom after the election - he
could sit at his desk, give his home-spun wisdom, and show one
chart after another.

Rush points out that Perot used a chart on child poverty around
the world, but each country's figures were from a different year.
Perot apologized for this, saying that these were the latest
figures he could get. Rush is incredulous that the richest man in
the world can't get current child poverty rates - "somebody ought
to get fired," he states.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that EIB is getting a lot of favorable response to
the new Timber Update theme, which features a 12-bar blues that
includes the use of a chainsaw as a musical instrument. Rush
plays the tune and asks the audience to imagine a bunch of trees
with Clinton/Gore signs on them being cut down.

Phone   Pat from Bridgewater, NJ

Pat thinks Bush side-stepped the question last night when he was
asked about Clinton's trip to the Soviet Union. Bush didn't
really want to talk about this, saying that he had some
information about it that he wanted to look into. Pat suspects
that Bush is looking into past Soviet intelligence practices.

Pat says that Soviet intelligence started recruiting people from
the Cambridge area in the early 1920s; their successes included
such famous spies like Kim Philby. Pat can't believe that the KGB
would ignore a Rhodes scholar who had Clinton's connections, and
he thus does not doubt that Clinton was approached at some point
by KGB agents. Rush points out that Pat is only making a
supposition about whether Clinton was actually recruited by the
KGB.

However, it's interesting that Clinton left the door open to this
possibility when he said on Donahue that "as far as I know I
wasn't approached by the KGB." Former NY mayor Ed Koch even
mentioned on his radio show that when he toured the Soviet Union
during the Cold War, he felt that his tour guide was from the
KGB. Rush points out that the Soviets were paranoid about
Americans during the 60s and 70s and they certainly kept a close
watch on visiting Americans.

Pat agrees - the Soviet Intourist travel agency kept tabs on
touring Americans and reported directly to the KGB. One of the
techniques the Soviets used to evaluate potential recruits was to
contact them during trips to Oslo, Moscow, Paris, and elsewhere.
The Soviets would then talk to these people and sound them out to
see if they would be useful and willing participants.

Rush wonders if Pat is saying that Clinton was turned into a spy,
or that Clinton was simply a useful dupe for the Soviets. Pat
thinks that the Soviets simply wanted to use Clinton's influence
and contacts by reinforcing his youthful anti-American and pro-
socialist tendencies.

Rush adds a new wrinkle to the equation - Clinton's reputation is
pretty clear, as far as his womanizing goes. The question thus
has to be asked if Clinton is the kind of guy who would spend New
Year's Eve alone anywhere? Rush bets that if Clinton spent the
1969 New Year's Eve alone, it would have been the only time he
did so.

*BREAK*

Phone   Don from Eugene, OR

Don saw Perot's infomercial the other day, and it seems like
Perot really plugged his book during the last few seconds. Why
didn't Perot talk about his solutions in the first place? Rush
says that Perot obviously is leaving the solutions to the "owners
of the country" who will decide how much pain and suffering they
are willing to endure.

Rush suggests a few titles for the proposed Ross Perot sitcom:
"Dork and Mindy", "Rich Man, Boring Man", "Major Dud", "Who's the
Ross", "Quantum Creep", "American Grandstand", or even a take-off
on that old 50s favorite "Howdy, Loonie".

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush comments that he reads every letter he gets on
CompuServe although he can't answer them all. Some people,
though, think he has flunkies reading his email. He points out
that CompuServe costs money and he's not about to trust his
password to members of his staff.

One letter writer tells Rush that the company he works for,
Advanced Micro Devices, just announced that their third quarter
sales have increased 23% over last year. Rush sarcastically hopes
that his listeners don't panic about this horrible news. Rush
wonders how anyone can be doing so well in the face of such
economic misery and pain. Granted the US economy is not the best
it could be, but it is not the worst economy of the last 50
years. Clinton's claims otherwise are an out-and-out lie.

The letter writer asks Rush to remind everyone that Quayle was
not blaming public schools for America's current economic
"catastrophe," as Gore claimed. The letter writer points out that
Rush made this point himself, but left unchallenged Gore's claim
that there has been an economic catastrophe. Rush says that this
is correct - there is no economic catastrophe as Gore is trying
to make people believe.

o       Another letter writer is enrolled in a geology class at
Wichita State University. The textbook, "Race to Save the
Planet," says that people must eat on banana leaves instead of
plates, use baking soda instead of deodorants, and that people
belong to the Earth, not the other way around. The book claims
that the rest of the world is paying the cost for the United
State's selfishness, an example of which includes flushing the
toilet every time that it is used.

Rush is intrigued by this example of political correctness in a
geology class, and would therefore like other students across the
country help him to illustrate the political correctness that is
invading America's schools. Any students who have other examples
of this sort, in which leftist poppycock ideology is being taught
to them as fact, should write Rush to tell him about it.

These examples can include anything such as Andrea Dworkin's
claim that the only true sex is sex between two women. Another
example would be Catherine MacKinnon's statement that all sex
between men and women is rape. Rush is particularly interested in
what schools are saying in preparation for next Monday's Columbus
Day celebrations.

Letters, along with the examples of political correctness, should
be sent to Rush Limbaugh Homework, c/o EIB Building, 17th Floor,
2 Penn Plaza, NY, NY 10121. Correspondents should be certain to
address the letters to "Rush Limbaugh Homework," because
otherwise they will be put into different stacks. Rush promises
to share the resulting letters with both his TV and radio
audiences.

*BREAK*

Bo Snerdley has been very frustrated today as call screener
because "there's no love in there today." Rush recalls how he
once suspended Bo for 45 minutes for rudeness to callers, and Bo
sullenly remarks "I remember." Rush knows, though, that he has
put a heavy burden on Bo when he asked for callers who disagree.

Bo says people are making person-to-person and collect calls on
the EIB office lines in an attempt to get to Rush. Rush is
curious about this, and thinks that these must be Rio Linda
people calling since EIB has an 800 call-in number. Bo says that
these people all have "great" ideas on how Bush can win; one
caller, for example, thought Bush should use the slogan "Vote for
Clinton and you'll get Gored."

Bo says that he got one call from someone who disagreed with
Rush, but when she was finished with her tirade, she slammed the
phone down. Rush admits that this is not a great way to get on
the air. Bo says that callers should be concise and get quickly
to the point - people shouldn't make speeches or give their life
histories.

Rush says that this is a good point - calls on this show are not
for making speeches. Also, people rarely have information that
nobody else knows. Bo adds that conspiracy theories are a big hit
among callers today, and Rush says that he doesn't take those.
Rush comments that Bo has gotten so frustrated that he even typed
a four-letter word to describe how angry the next caller is about
how he can't get Rush's TV show in the DC area.

Rush adds that his book is number one on the NY Times best seller
list for the fourth week in a row. Schwarzkopf's book is number
2, while the latest book about Edward Kennedy is number 6. Rush
again thanks his wonderful public for making him what he is
today, and he hopes that he always meets his public's
expectations of him.

Phone   Gary from Arlington, VA

Gary is mad that he can't watch Rush's TV show in Arlington
because no Washington, DC stations are carrying it. This is
especially ridiculous since the area's NBC affiliate is running
Bob Costas and Concentration during their midnight and 12:30am
time slots.

Rush says that his TV show is now on 207 stations, but he is
still not on in Washington, DC. Major network affiliates often
can't have Rush on the air because of their network affiliations.
One station in the DC area wanted to put Rush on at 5 in the
morning, but EIB refused to be buried that way.

Gary wouldn't mind Rush's show being on at 12:30am because he has
a VCR. Gary called his local station and complained about this
blackout, but the station denied that any blackout was in effect.
Rush holds Gary over the break so he can explain the facts of TV
life to him.

*BREAK*

Phone   Gary from Arlington, VA (continued)

Rush explains that his TV show is a syndicated show, and EIB thus
had to create its own network. EIB has made the best deals it
could with NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox affiliates, and independent
stations. However, Rush's show is outperforming many of the
network late night shows that it runs against.

In addition, when Rush's show is sandwiched between two network
shows, his show often outperforms the network shows both before
and after it. Networks don't like this, and one station had to
move Rush's show from 11:30pm to 1:00am because of network
complaints about this.

Some network affiliates are saying that they have to wait and see
how Rush performs before giving his show any better time slots,
yet Rush's show is stunning the TV industry with its success.
Things should therefore be changing shortly.

Gary also thinks that the reason the media doesn't like Bush and
Quayle is because these two guys are boring - they don't run
around or cheat on their wives, or have any other dirty secrets
to be exposed. Clinton and Gore, on the other hand, are great
fodder for journalists.

Rush says that a rather cynical journalist friend of his says
that when you get reporters off-guard or drunk enough, they'll
admit that they can't wait until Clinton is elected. They are
sitting on all sorts of stories about Clinton right now because
they want to unleash this dirt against a sitting President, as
opposed to using them against a mere Presidential candidate.
These journalists are therefore salivating about what the dirt
they can dig up on President Clinton should he get elected.
Whether this is true or not, however, it's clear that there is a
strong political bias in the media.

The fact that Rush's TV show is not in the Washington, DC area is
curious since Rush's show is performing very well in every area
of the country where it is being aired, and EIB is far ahead of
where they thought they would be right now. Therefore, if Rush's
show is not being aired in the DC region it's because of politics
and not because of the show's performance.

Phone   Tim from Morristown, TN

Tim was listening to Rush's comments about how the founding
fathers thought character was a primary component of the nation's
leaders. However, George Washington and Ben Franklin were accused
of having affairs just like JFK did, and so Tim doesn't see any
real correlation between character and leadership since all of
these men were great leaders.

Rush says that character, in the political context, has nothing
to do with affairs. He would also dispute the claim that JFK was
a great leader; had Kennedy lived, he may not have been re-
elected in 1964. He was in big trouble politically which was why
he went to Dallas in 1963 - he needed to shore up his political
base.

Rush doubts, though, if people would have voted for JFK if they
had known then that Kennedy had ties with the Mafia and would
turn the White House into a whorehouse. Washington and Franklin,
however, have been accused of all sorts of failings, and if it
pleases people to attack them this way, then so be it. It won't
change anything.

Clinton, though, is someone who does not want to come forth and
volunteer the truth about his past. This is a character issue,
and the office of the White House demands the best people
possible. The voters will be fooled from time to time, but the
country shouldn't say that character doesn't matter.

You cannot separate a leader's integrity, honesty, and moral
fiber from his beliefs, dreams, accomplishments, and methods.
Rush is stunned, though, by how many people are trying to this,
saying that character and integrity have nothing to do with
leadership. Even Clinton is claiming that the American people
don't want to hear about this because they "care about jobs."

The American people, though, know that Presidents can't create
jobs without expanding the size of the government. People also
know that the President's views about how the free market should
operate are important. You can't separate character from these
things.

Tim thinks Nixon was a good leader, who also had a character
flaw. Rush wonders if the Watergate fiasco should be ignored
then. Tim admits that Nixon lied, but this shouldn't disqualify
him from being President. Rush says that the American people
didn't know this at the time of the elections; this is his point
- you have to get the best people possible for the job, but this
doesn't mean overlooking someone's lack of character of
integrity. Tim, though, says that even with his flaws, Nixon was
a good leader.

Rush says that he doesn't agree with Tim that someone can be a
good leader if they lie; what the country went through because of
Watergate was not inconsequential, and it has had dramatic
repercussions on the nation. Watergate, after all, was the reason
the country elected Jimmy Carter.

Nixon also implemented wage and price controls when inflation
reached 5%. Granted Nixon is a brilliant man, but his domestic
policies were sort of screwy. This doesn't mean that people can't
redeem themselves - if Clinton just admitted he was a peace
protestor and organizer and came clean with the American people,
this would no longer be an issue.

As it stands now, though, Rush and a whole lot of other people
don't trust Clinton and they don't know what he really believes
or what he will do if elected. All Clinton has to do is tell the
truth, yet one of his long-time friends, Rev. Richard McSorely,
is now publicly saying that Clinton "can't afford to tell the
truth." This comment should trouble anyone who hears it.

*BREAK*

Phone   Craig from Columbus, OH

Craig saw Perot's infomercial and asks if Perot really
understands what raising the gas tax would do to the trucking
industry and to those industries that depend on trucking. Rush
thinks that Perot is dead wrong about this - raising gas taxes
like Perot wants to would be a bad move. Perot, though, thinks
that as long as things are "fair" and sacrifice is "shared" then
all will be okay.

However, it's a great thing when US citizens have to pay only
$1.30 a gallon for gas instead of the $4 a gallon as Europeans
do. The Europeans should be as fortunate as the US is in this
regard, yet Perot is just spouting the typical leftist
gobbledegook that claims the US and its lifestyle as the problem.
Rush is tired of hearing this crap which claims that capitalism,
consumers, and the free market are the ultimate evils in the
world.

A low gas price is great news for consumers, who are the "owners
of the country." There is no gasoline crisis, yet Perot thinks
the US has to reduce imported oil by raising the price to $4 a
gallon so that people don't drive as much. Rush points out that
if this happened, and people didn't drive as much, then the US
could kiss a lot of its industries - motels, tourist, sales, and
more - goodbye.

*BREAK*

Phone   Paul from Niagara Falls, NY

Paul is a 19-year old young skull of mush, and he has a joke.
Rush asks Bo if he has screened this joke so that his show's
standards are maintained. Bo says yes, and so Rush lets Paul
continue. Paul asks "how many feminists does it take to screw in
a lightbulb? Three - one to actually put the bulb in, and two
others to tell how bad the socket has it."

Rush says that he heard this joke before, but with a slightly
different punch line: "how many feminists does it take to screw
in a lightbulb? One, darn it!" Another popular joke making the
rounds right now is "what is the sure-fire feminist method of
birth control? Their personalities."

Rush says that Susan Lewis of Raleigh, NC sent him a number of
"dumb man" jokes so as to balance out the "dumb blonde" jokes he
told earlier in the year. Rush agrees that this is needed, and so
will tell some of them during the third hour.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Susan Lewis, who met her husband at Rush's second wedding, has
sent Rush a list of "dumb men" jokes which she wants him to read
as penance for previously reading dumb blonde jokes with "such
glee." Rush agrees that this is only fair, and so he reads them:

o       Why do dumb men like blonde jokes? Because they're only
one line.

o       What is a dumb man's idea of a 50-50 relationship? You
cook, I eat.

o       Why is it good that there are female astronauts? So that
when the crew gets lost in space, someone will have the guts to
ask for directions.

o       What's a man's idea of helping with the housework?
Lifting his legs so you can vacuum.

o       What's the difference between a man and ET? ET phoned
home.

o       What is the difference between government bonds and men.
Government bonds mature.

o       What's the best way to force a man to do sit-ups? Put the
remote control between his toes.

o       What did God say after creating man? "I can do better
than this."

o       Why is psychoanalysis quicker for a man than a woman?
When it's time to go back to his childhood, a man is already
there.

o       What's a man's idea of a seven-course dinner? A hotdog
and a six-pack.

o       Why are men like noodles? They're always in hot water,
they lack taste, and they need dough.

o       How do men exercise at the beach? By sucking in their
stomachs whenever they see a bikini?

o       Why did the man cross the road? Who knows - why do men do
anything?

Rush points out that he is reading these jokes so the show will
be balanced and fair, not to raise the quality of the program. He
comments that Diana Schneider is the only member of the EIB staff
who is laughing at these jokes.

Update  Sexual Harassment         ("My Eyes Adored You")

NY Newsday has a story today with the headline "Harassment: one
year after Anita Hill, men still making advances." The story
comments on how a year ago a female executive was angered when
she listened to the Clarence Thomas hearings, and yet a year
later sexual harassment still occurs.

Rush says that this is not a complicated subject - the Clarence
Thomas hearings were not about sexual harassment; they were about
whether a man was qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Anita
Hill's goal was not to raise consciousness about sexual
harassment, but to destroy the life, career, and reputation of
Clarence Thomas simply because he is a black conservative who was
not willing to state that Roe vs. Wade was good constitutional
law.

If the purpose of the Clarence Thomas hearings was to raise
consciousness about sexual harassment, then why did they happen
in the first place? Why did these hearings occur in the context
of a Senate Judiciary Confirmation hearing? Just because sexual
harassment continues to occur, that doesn't mean that the
Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings had anything to do with
sexual harassment - the two have nothing in common.

If people want to have a congressional seminar on sexual
harassment, then they can have hearings before a House or Senate
congressional committee; however, this should not be done during
a Senate confirmation hearing. It's ludicrous therefore to claim
a year after those confirmation hearings that they were a failure
because sexual harassment is still going on.

If the hearings failed, their "failure" is only in that Clarence
Thomas is now the most powerful black man in America, and he's a
conservative, too. Rush is glad that the entire Anita Hill
charade failed because its purpose was to destroy Thomas, and
prevent him from sitting on the Court.

Items

o       About 55% of 600,000 students in kindergarten through the
10th grade supported George Bush in the Weekly Reader's latest
Presidential polls, while only 39% supported Clinton. The editor
of the Weekly Reader added that the support for Bush was a
"surprise," especially as he drew "heavy support from those in
Kindergarten through the fourth-grade."

Rush wonders who the number one influence is in the lives of
students in kindergarten through the fourth grade, and he posits
that the kids are most influenced by their parents, along with
his own show, of course. Interestingly enough, the Weekly Reader
poll has picked the winner in the last 9 Presidential elections.

o       Strobe Talbot is a Time magazine journalist who
specializes in arms control; Talbot had one of his articles
endorsed by Walter Mondale in 1984, which should give some clues
to his political leanings. Talbot is also friends with Bill
Clinton, and studied with him at Oxford.

Talbot has said that he was one of the 8 Rhodes scholars out of a
total of 32 at Oxford who went with Clinton on a trip to the
Soviet Union. Rush is curious as to how many other Rhodes
scholars are still associated somehow with Clinton.

*BREAK*

Phone   Sandy from San Rafael, CA

Sandy thinks Rush has been less than candid with his good news
about the economic recovery. Housing starts are up, but what the
Federal Reserve Bank is doing is lowering the interest rates;
this is being done not because it's sound fiscal policy, but
rather as a form of pork-barrel spending which is designed to get
Bush re-elected.

Sandy likes Rush's positive attitude, but the good economic news
about housing starts going up is artificial. Housing starts did
jump 10.8% in August, but this is an artificial jump created by
artificially low "pork barrel" interest rates. Rush says that
what he considers to be good economic news are the many letters
he is getting from people who are telling him how great their
businesses are doing.

Rush says that several stories this week have been about how
people are not buying new homes, even with the low mortgage
rates. Sandy says this only shows that artificial fixes stop
working after a while. Mortgage rates are at the lowest they have
been in 30 years, which shows how much tinkering the
administration has been doing with interest rates.

Rush agrees that the Bush administration has put too much faith
into the power of low interest rates; these low rates are not
spurring the increased spending that is desired because the
American people are scared that they won't have a job in a year,
two years, or whatever. Rush wants to ask, though, whether people
are scared because the economy really is bad or because they have
been pummeled with negative news stories for year after year.

Not all businesses are doing well, but Rush's mail shows that
people are succeeding right now. Sandy, though, thinks that when
the government consumes 47% of the GNP, this is bound to help
someone. Lowering interest rates, though, is a temporary fix for
the election, and no matter who gets elected the interest rates
will go back up, resulting in the loss of jobs.

Rush would believe this except that the lower interest rates have
not created a lot of jobs so how can higher rates destroy jobs?
Rush knows that higher interest rates will hurt, but how much
harm can they do to growth when lower rates haven't been creating
that growth? Rush holds Sandy over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Sandy from San Rafael, CA

Sandy says that a lot of people are at work building houses
because of low interest rates, but Rush disagrees - the interest
rates are not resulting in lots of housing starts. Sandy says
that low interest rates work only for a little bit and then
people start holding back because they are worried about keeping
their job. Rush points out that banks have been really tight with
their money which is another reason why low interest rates are
not spurring on the economy.

Sandy doesn't trust either Clinton or Bush, and Rush comments
that he has always been quite clear that he has been motivated
more by his opposition to Clinton than by his support for Bush -
this is why he says the current election is like a Superbowl in
which none of your favorite teams are playing; you end up
cheering for someone to lose.

However, Bush is not as big a problem to conservatives as they
seem to think he is. Bush has stood fast on pro-life, the
judiciary, and school choice. Sandy says that Bush has backed off
on his support of the Second Amendment by banning the importation
of assault weapons. Rush jokingly says he views this as Bush's
attempt to bolster the domestic assault weapon industry; banning
foreign-made weapons is just "simple protectionism."

Phone   Ken from Farmingdale, NY

Ken says that a few years ago the media and liberals were
complaining about how immigrants came into the US to steal
American jobs. But now these same people are opposing President
Bush's attempt to help these people better their lives in their
own countries via the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Clinton in particular has said he supports NAFTA, but only if
there are some protectionist riders attached to it.

Rush says that this is nothing new for Clinton - he's for it,
then he's against it, and then he's for it again. Ken recalls
that protectionism is one of the major causes of the Great
Depression; Rush hadn't heard this, but he wouldn't dare dispute
a caller from Farmingdale on this.

Ken also thinks Bush did a great job on Larry King last night,
and Rush agrees. It was a shame that they didn't take phone
calls, but it was a relaxed and very positive appearance. Ken
hopes that the appearance will help Bush with the debate next
Sunday.

Phone   Pam from Bethlehem, PA

Pam says that Rush talks about how people can't trust Clinton,
but she is worried about whether Bush has lied about his
involvement with Iran-Contra. She didn't vote for Bush in 1988
because she just couldn't believe that Bush, with his CIA
experience and Washington contacts, was ignorant of everything
going on. She wonders where Bush is left if it comes out that he
was involved in this scandal.

Rush replies "in deep doo-doo if they can prove it." Bush,
though, has denied lying about Iran-Contra, and has pointed out
that Lawrence Walsh has spent 5 years trying to indict everyone
he could about Iran-Contra, but no evidence has come forth to
prove Bush's involvement. Clinton's personal issues have not been
investigated for five years like Iran-Contra has.

Clinton, however, could stop all of these stories about his trips
and such simply by coming clear and telling the whole truth. Rush
asks Pam if the Iran-Contra issue will determine her vote this
year, and she replies that she doesn't think so; she doesn't see
much difference between Clinton and Bush on economic issues,
though, which is why she is concentrating on the character issue.
She admits that nothing has been proven in 5 years, but it still
is a nagging question. The bottom line, though, is that she
doesn't like either candidate.

Rush says that this is his point - people don't like either one
and thus are looking for a reason to cast their vote one way or
the other. He asks Pam to call him back after the election to
tell him how she voted.

*BREAK*

President Bush has appointed Mary Fisher to the Presidential AIDS
Commission as a replacement for Magic Johnson. Michael Petrellis
of ACTUP, however, has said "we have to question what her
qualifications are - she's not a doctor, she's not a researcher,
she's the daughter of a Republican fund-raiser and is HIV-
positive."

Rush wonders what Magic Johnson's qualifications were to be on
the commission except that he is a basketball player, he's
friends with Arsenio Hall, and he can't remember from whom he got
the HIV virus. At least Mary Fisher knows that it was her husband
who infected her, and her husband infected her because he was
fooling around. Johnson is not a doctor or researcher, so why was
it okay for him to be on the Commission? Petrellis' comment shows
just how political the AIDS battle has become.

Phone   Greg from Dallas, TX

Greg is a homebuilder, and he says that housing starts are up not
because interest rates are low but because people have more money
to spend. Banks are still being really tight with lending, and
the low interest rates are not spurring all sorts of new
business. However, Greg is busier today than he's been in five
years, and he says that if this is Bush's economic policies in
action, then he is all in favor of them.

Greg is worried, though, about what Clinton will do to his
industry which is so volatile that any tax increases could kill
it. Rush is glad to hear this concern on Greg's part, as well as
the fact that his business is succeeding. He asks all of the
business people listening right now to send in their stories
about how well their businesses are doing. It's time people were
shown that things are not all just gloom and doom and Rush
pledges to do so with his show.

*BREAK*

To send in your stories of how your business is prospering, write
a short paragraph with the pertinent details and mail it to Rush
Limbaugh, America Works Division, c/o EIB Building, 2 Penn Plaza,
17th Floor, NY, NY 10121.

Rush again reminds people that his TV show tapes two shows each
Thursday night, and he would like to take more calls for Friday's
show. Phone calls will be accepted starting around 5pm EST today,
and callers can use the phone number 212-397-7367.

-- 
John Switzer               | Why am I voting for Clinton? Because... 
                           | Bill Gates: 36, CEO Microsoft, $6 billion
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | Me: 36, Tech Writer, 1978 Diesel Rabbit
jrs@netcom.com             | Screw the nerdy rich! (at least 'til I get there)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.rush-limbaugh