From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Wed 9/30/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Wednesday, Sep. 30, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:33:19 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, September 30, 1992

by John Switzer

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this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
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September 30, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

The Memory Division at the EIB Institute has remembered another
interesting fact - back in February, the Little General's
campaign emerged "spontaneously" and Perot claimed he would give
the country back to "you, the owners of the country." The
electronic town hall would finally give a voice to the people of
America, the owners of the country. The deficit was going to
shrink as the best minds in the country would ignore political
affiliations and join forces under Perot, who was only the
servant of the owners of the country.

The Memory Division, though, recalls that Rush didn't buy a bit
of this - he stated back then that the electronic town hall
wouldn't work because it stood the Constitution on its head; he
called Perot's "spontaneous" announcement a pre-planned farce; he
pointed out that Perot's economic plan, written with the help of
UC Berkeley graduates, wouldn't work. Rush stuck to his guns,
even though he received hate mail from every part of the country.

Now, Perot is back, and he is dangling his re-entry into the
Presidential race before the Republicans, Democrats, and American
people. Rush wasn't wrong then and he isn't wrong now. "Ross
Perot was a farce, he is a farce, and this so-called Presidential
campaign is a personal agenda only. Remember!"

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush stops the opening music so that he can start his
program with a correction. He points out that unlike newspapers
and other forms of the media, he always points out his errors in
a prominent manner. Yesterday Rush reported that Congress passed
a law that exempted congressional pensions from income taxes. A
number of listeners have called their congressional
representative about this, and these congressmen have thus called
Rush to find out what the story is.

Rush says that "I erred, I misspoke, I was confused" - he took
the word of a usually reliable source on this, but it is not
true. After checking into the facts, Rush found out that no such
law has been passed, and thus as the EIB staff plays the song
"I'm Sorry," he apologizes for making such an error. He admits
that he just "went with the odds - if there's something bad to
say about Congress, odds are that it's true."

Rush's congressional sources did point out, however, that
Congress had the most generous pensions in America, not to
mention that congressmen do have additional tax exemptions not
available to the general taxpayer.

Rush suggests that those listeners who did call Congress
yesterday to complain about the non-existent law should call back
to apologize; he tells them to make sure to blame the error on
their local talk show host.

o       Speaking of local talk show hosts, Tom Leykis has been
relieved of his talk show duties at EIB affiliate KFI in Los
Angeles. Rush says that Leykis is actually a friend, in spite of
the somewhat acerbic comments that Leykis has made about him in
the past. Leykis has been replaced by former Los Angeles police
chief Daryl Gates.

Rush therefore sums up what has happened since the LA riots - the
city has lost Daryl Gates, mayor Tom Bradley, and Tom Leykis.
However, Daryl Gates has returned, which Rush feels is "not a bad
deal."

o       Rush admits that he has to restrain himself from going
"nyah, nyah, nyah" since it was only a couple of days ago that he
suggested that the reason Bush was holding off on debates was
because he was waiting for Perot. Now, Bush has proposed four
debates, two of which will be done as Clinton wants, and two as
Bush wants. Bush has also offered to include Perot in the debates
should Perot enter the race.

Clinton, though, is now backtracking, claiming that the debates
should be done through the Presidential Debate Commission. This
is curious behavior from a man whose supporters have showed up at
Bush rallies in chicken costumes. Rush has to wonder what the
heck this Presidential Commission is anyway.

The Presidential debates will happen for one reason - the sitting
President of the United States, regardless of who he is, will
specify when and where he will show up. The Debate Commission is
as irrelevant as women will soon be in the Ross Perot
organization. Rush comments that Perot must be the most paranoid
individual around, given his comments about NBC's female
reporters. Rush promises more on this later.

Update  Slick Willie         (Johnny Preston, "Charming Billy"
with the patented Hillary Cackle)

Bill Clinton was in Moscow on New Year's Eve, 1969; he also led
anti-war protests in London during his years at Oxford, and was
therefore invited to Moscow by the Soviet Union. Rush points out
that Jane Fonda made her famous visit to North Vietnam via
Moscow, and the only Americans in Moscow in 1969 and 1970 were
those invited by the USSR. The Clinton campaign originally
claimed that Clinton was not in Moscow, yet they have now
admitted that this is true.

Rush recalls his theory that if Perot re-enters the race, Clinton
would have to move to the left to shore-up his support. In a
taped interview that aired on CBS today, Clinton warned viewers
that a Perot Presidential bid could result in a Bush victory in
November. Rush has been told that the Clinton campaign had a
series of speeches ready to go which had the theme that Clinton
is a new, moderate Democrat. Now, though, these speeches may be
scrubbed if Perot becomes a candidate.

Rush is glad to see that the Clinton campaign is starting to get
nervous about this, and he thinks there's a shift in the
Presidential race's momentum. The Washington Post has a story
about the political pundits who predicted a Clinton landslide
back in September. Rush, though, feels that Bush could turn
things around within a couple of days, and it may be starting
now.

*BREAK*

Phone   Linda from Bowie, MD

Linda voluminously praises Rush and thanks him for being on the
air. Rush asks Linda to hold on for a moment, and then tells Bo
that the first call of the day should not be full of such praise.
"This show is about the issues," Rush states, and this is
especially important for the first call of the day. Rush
instructs his call screener to make sure that these sorts of
calls are the second call of the day.

Linda says the Washington Times had a readers' poll yesterday
about whether Perot should get back into the race. 35% of the
readers said "yes," while 65% said "no." Rush isn't surprised by
this, and Linda points out that this poll did not automatically
count every call as a "yes" as Perot's 800 number does.

Rush recalls how Perot called his meeting with his state
coordinators a "town hall" and "democracy in action." Yet nobody
who disagrees with Perot was allowed through the doors, and the
same thing is happening with his phone bank - no one who
disagrees gets a voice.

These "Perot-bots," though, don't seem to care about the fact
that Perot's campaign has "never, ever" been about what his
"volunteers" think. They also don't care that his "town hall" is
just a gathering of sycophants. Rush would say more, but he
doesn't want to give away what he's planning for his TV show.

Linda also thinks Rush is starting to come into his own with his
TV show, and Rush remarks that EIB is coming up to speed in
record time. Linda has an anecdote about Rush's TV show, and so
Rush holds her through the break so that Linda can continue her
story about the superiority of his TV show.

*BREAK*

Phone   Linda from Bowie, MD

Linda says that she normally tapes Rush's show, which is on at
1:35 a.m. in her area, but she missed taping the one-week
anniversary show. When she waked up Saturday at 6:30, she
realized she had missed the show, and uttered a groan. Her
husband asked her what was wrong and when she told him, he said
"so now Rush is eliciting groans from her instead of me!" Linda
adds that "no one will never ever, ever, ever, never ever take
your place."

Rush thanks her for her flattering words, and Rush says that the
only place his TV show is not being aired is Washington, DC. Some
places are even running the show twice a day. For example, the
Tallahassee TV station carries Rush's show at 7 and 11 p.m. each
night. During the show, though, the station is airing an
announcement that indicates that they are being deluged with
phone calls from people who want the 7 p.m. show cancelled, and
the 11 p.m. show moved back to late night.

Rush says that fans of the TV show should let their affiliates
know that they like it since there are those who are complaining
about the show. These whiners can't deal with the truth or the
opposing point of view, and if they get their way, the only thing
that will be left on the tube is pabulum.

The only reason Rush's TV show isn't on in Washington is because
people don't want his political point of view to air. Thus, the
obstacles in life exist even for "big guys" like Rush. He says
that people can't afford to stop and rest on their laurels, and
when this does happen, it usually signals the end of a career.

Phone   Mike from Hot Springs, AK

Mike gives "dittos from the unclaimed boyhood town of Slick
Willie"; Clinton claims Hope as his hometown, but he spent most
of his youth in Hot Springs. Rush is not surprised since this is
another indication that Clinton wants to be on both sides of
every issue. Now, Clinton is even on "both sides of the Hope
issue."

Mike says that he got a phone call yesterday from a Time magazine
reporter who was doing a story on Rush. Mike says that the reason
he was called was because he was instrumental in getting Rush's
show on the air in the area. His business does a lot of
advertising on the local radio station, and he kept telling the
general manager to get Rush on their station "and get rid of this
Stardust music."

Time magazine called the Hot Springs affiliate and asked the
general manager for the names of some local business owners who
supported Rush. Mike says that the Time reporter also wanted the
names of businesses who hated Rush and liked Clinton, but Mike
said that he couldn't come up with one name. Mike doesn't know
what the story is going to be like, but he bets that the story
will "be fairly friendly, but they'll tag you in the end."

Rush finds this interesting because a couple of weeks ago, the
EIB offices started receiving all sorts of calls from different
people at Time who were doing a feature story on Rush. Mike says
that the reporter he talked to said his story was going to the
presses on Monday and thus would be in the issue of Time hitting
the newsstands in a couple of weeks.

Rush says that it seems that Time magazine has two different
groups who are doing two different stories about him. Rush had
been asked for a three to four hour interview by the Time
reporters, but he couldn't arrange this for this week; thus, the
interview has been put off until next week.

Time magazine wrote up Rush last year, and although it wasn't a
bad piece, it also wasn't very accurate. Thus, Rush and other EIB
staffers talked to the Time editors, who seemed flabbergasted
that Rush wasn't rolling over in joy at the prospect of being
featured in Time. Rush, though, seems to think that this story
will be a basically fair and accurate one, and thus he is going
to do the interview next week. However, this is interesting
because if Mike is correct, then there will be one story going to
the presses next week, with another one being done later.

The most interesting thing about all this is that Margaret
Carlson is one of the reporters who will interviewing Rush for a
Q&A section of the story. Carlson was the Time reporter who was
at a roundtable discussion that Rush recently attended, and she
stated then that journalism is not just about reporting the news
but also about bringing about change.

Carlson also attacked Pat Robertson for labelling feminists as
witches and lesbians at the Republican convention. This was wrong
on two counts - 1) Robertson was simply quoting feminist leaders,
and 2) he said this in a fund-raising letter, not during his
speech at the Republican convention. Rush pointed this out to
Carlson at the time, and then talked about it later during his
show.

Mike also wants Rush to stay on Clinton because "he's slicker
than a pig's butt." Rush thanks Mike both for calling and for his
efforts in getting EIB on the air in Hot Springs.

*BREAK*

Rush received a message from a Durango resident who thanks Rush
for telling the truth. The letter writer adds that Durango is
undergoing "Californication" - California liberals are moving
into town because they hate what is going on in California.

Phone   Cole from Clinton, MD

Cole says that Clinton was in town this morning, yet there was
almost no publicity about his appearance. Cole went searching and
found out that Clinton was actually appearing at a shopping
plaza. Cole went there and saw about 2000 people.

When Cole, though, talked to the attendees he found out that they
were Democrats who got a private phone call about the rally.
Thus, it was an event staged for the TV cameras. Rush says that
this is common in politics, but it is interesting to note how far
the Clinton campaign is going to avoid hecklers.

Cole agrees - the rally started about an hour late, and the
Clinton supporters were not very kind towards demonstrators
against Clinton. One man dressed as Elvis was thrown out bodily,
while another man booing Clinton was surrounded by "pimply-faced"
youths who threatened him and his wife. Rush holds Cole over the
break.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that William Bennett just called the EIB offices to
say that he also just got off the phone with a Time reporter who
was doing a story on Rush.

Phone   Cole from Clinton, MD (continued)

Cole says that Clinton got a number of small cheers throughout
his speech, but when he said he wanted to impose a 7.5% payroll
tax on small business, the cheers stopped. Cole says that Clinton
lost about half of his crowd right then and there. Rush is not
surprised since Clinton's economic plan quite clearly states
this. Rush wonders, though, why Clinton would come out and say
this in a speech, and he muses on what sort of group Clinton
thought he was talking to. "The momentum is shifting," Rush
states.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Clinton is now appearing somewhat defensive about the
Presidential debates; Bush wants to do four debates, two with one
moderator and two with three moderators. Clinton has refused so
far, insisting that all debates must go through the Presidential
Commission on Debates. Bush, however, is asking why the two
campaigns can't talk directly with one another to set these
debates up.

o       President Bush vetoed the DC Appropriations Bill because
it would allow Washington, DC to use tax dollars to pay for
abortions for poor women. This was his 35th veto and Bush called
for the nation to protect the unborn. Rush knows many will think
that Bush is shooting himself in the foot by doing this, but this
is incorrect; the pro-life position is a winning issue for Bush.

Lynn Yeakel is running against Senator Arlen Specter in
Pennsylvania, and even though she is pro-choice she is running
behind in the polls. Yeakel has sought to capitalize on her
gender and her pro-choice positions, and the media has gone along
with the idea that the Republican party is being split by the
abortion issue. This is not true - Yeakel is losing not only the
male vote but also the female vote. Granted, Specter is not a
pro-life candidate, but Yeakel's lack of success shows that this
is not the year of the pro-choice woman.

Bush has never stated that he is in favor of federally-funded
abortions, and Rush's instincts tell him that Bush's latest veto
will help him in turning the momentum against Clinton.

o       Senator Gore yesterday attacked Bush for causing the Gulf
War. According to Gore, the Gulf War would never have happened
had not Bush bungled the handling of the Iraq situation and
helped Hussein build up his war machine. Gore claims that if
America had not supported Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, Hussein
would never have been able to threaten Iraq.

This is duplicitous of Gore, however - he knows full well that
two separate policies were in force here. When Iraq was at war in
Iran, the US's interest was in keeping the war going and
preventing an Iranian victory. This is why the US, along with
most of the nations in the region, supported Iraq.

The invasion of Kuwait, though, was motivated by Hussein's
desperate need for money to build up his country after the war
and pay back his debts. Kuwait, though, was selling oil at prices
lower than Hussein wanted, and so he demanded that Kuwait raise
their prices and lower production. When they refused, Hussein
invaded. The war was financially-motivated.

So when Gore claims that the Gulf War was caused by Bush, he is
simply not telling the truth. Gore, though, has an interesting
history with the Gulf War himself - he claims that he supported
Bush during the Gulf War, but the fact is that he came out with
this support only because he was given prime-time TV coverage.

Senator Bob Dole has already revealed that during the debate on
the Gulf War, Gore came to Dole to negotiate prime floor time for
his speech at the Senate. Gore said that if he could get prime-
time to make his speech about this decision, he would then
support Bush. The deal was made, and so Gore made his speech to
support the war.

Rush wonders if Gore is being pressured by the traditional
Democratic constituencies for his support of the war, and thus is
trying to extricate himself from this and pacify the "peace-
mongers and jello-heads of the 60s?" In any case, the momentum is
clearly continuing to shift.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from Greenwich, RI

John is a volunteer on the steering committee for the Rhode
Island chapter of United We Stand, America. He says that the
chairman of his group is not being paid, and is instead just a
volunteer. John will support any candidate who will reform the
country and who can't be bought off.

Rush asks if John really thinks Perot can't be bought off. John
says that it's the United We Stand people who are the "magic,"
not Perot. John wants to see change in the government and thus
won't support either Clinton or Bush. The mass media and special
interests drown out any "good candidates," and he doesn't think
the current system is a really fair way to decide the Presidency.

Rush says that the Washington Post reports today that Perot has
spent $7 million since he pulled out of the campaign in July to
maintain the momentum of his movement - he is paying salaries to
consultants and other "volunteers." Yet Perot is still claiming
that his campaign is organized and controlled "from the bottom
up," alleging that it was the volunteers who got his name on the
ballots in all 50 states.

Perot, though, paid New York workers $10 an hour to collect
enough signatures to get his name on the NY ballot. Even when he
quit, Perot was still urging people to get his name on the
ballot. Perot spent more on his campaign in August than Bush did.

John says that this was necessary because his group needed
someone with money to get their message out to the country. He
thinks Rollins is also lying about Perot's offer of $500,000 in
hush money; John feels Rollins has always been a Republican and
was nothing but a "weasel in a henhouse." Thus, John is glad that
Perot decided to get back in the race.

Rush doesn't think that Perot ever really quit the race. John,
though, supports Perot because he wants his country to be his
first consideration and he wants "the people to have a voice."
Rush doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but he has to say
that he is puzzled that the volunteers still think they are in
control. Perot is the one who's in control.

John disagrees, and says that the volunteers were the ones who
started United We Stand; this is how it happened in Rhode Island,
and he's certain that this happened in other states as well. Rush
holds John over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from Greenwich, RI (continued)

John says that one of the reasons he is part of United We Stand
is because the media isn't doing their job telling the truth
about the politicians who aren't addressing the issues. Rush says
that the politicians are addressing the issues - everything in
this campaign is an issue. Perot claims that he wants to talk
about the issues and thus uses that excuse to avoid any questions
about his past or character. The issues, though, are being
addressed.

John doesn't think so, and in particular he hasn't heard anyone
talk about reforming the government. Rush asks how this can be
done, and John says that his group is contacting congressmen with
a list of issues that they want discussed. Rush asks why a group
that has only 10% or support thinks that they can make demands of
politicians.

John says that he wants to be a voice for everyone, and he thinks
that the reason most people aren't with United We Stand is
because they're ignorant of the facts; the media isn't doing its
job. Rush says that Perot claims his group is made of volunteers,
yet how many volunteers gave their input for his economic plan?
And what about Perot's claim that he would save money from the
federal budget by eliminating fraud and waste.

John disagrees - Perot talks about eliminating fraud and waste
via his calls for the line-item veto. Rush says that Bush also
wants the line-item veto, but this is not really addressing fraud
and waste. Bush also is talking about reforming Congress - he has
said time and time again that a new Congress must be elected
since the present one is not working.

John calls that party-bashing and not real reform. If the
Republicans were in power, they would be doing the same thing.
Rush says that it's been 39 years since the House had a
Republican majority; however, when President Reagan had a
Republican Senate, a lot of things got done.

John says that he voted for Reagan and is sorry for it now - when
David Stockman quit during Reagan's first term, John says that he
should have seen what was going on and realized the problems with
Reaganomics. Rush sighs and comments that he is suffering chest
pains.

Rush points out that Perot's 800 line counts each call as a "yes,
Ross, run" call, and Perot stated that he didn't feel a need to
pay for the phone calls for people who disagree with him. Yet
isn't the town hall supposed to be democracy in action? How can
it be democracy, though, if Perot won't give a voice to those who
disagree with him? Perot is not listening to the opposition,
either on his phone lines or in his meeting with Bush and
Clinton.

John says that United We Stand offered a chance to both the
Republicans and Democrats to state their views and come to a
compromise. Rush, though, points out that Perot has been saying
that he will run if his volunteers want him to, but how can he
make this decision if he is not listening to people who disagree
with him?

John says that Perot is under no obligation to spend his money on
people who disagree with him. Rush notices that Perot has spent
$16 million on his campaign since July and not the $7 million
figure he just reported. John claims that the Republican and
Democratic conventions were paid for by tax dollars.

Rush disagrees but points out that Perot is buying his campaign
even while he is claiming that it is being run by volunteers.
John says that if Perot wants to buy the election and then give
the government back to the people, that's fine with him. Rush
says that this is not what is going to happen - Perot is not
listening to any opposition.

Rush wonders if Perot will go back to the NAACP or talk to any
crowd that has a negative attitude. John says that the
Republicans and Democrats didn't have opposing views during their
convention. Rush points out that this is what the convention is
for. John, though, thinks that Clinton represents business as
usual, and he doesn't trust Bush.

Rush mentions Orson Swindle who heads up the Perot grass-roots
network. Swindle is quoted by David Broder in the Washington Post
as saying that he has no idea of what his group will do if Perot
announces his candidacy on Thursday. How can this be if the
volunteers are in charge?

John thinks that Swindle was referring only to how the campaign
would be funded, and the mechanics of how it would work. United
We Stand is not a Perot vehicle, and it will last long after
Perot leaves politics. Rush bets that Perot knows exactly where
every dime of his money will go, and the volunteers are not going
to have any say in this.

John thinks that Rush should judge Perot by his past record, and
Perot's record shows that he is a "real American." Rush doesn't
doubt that, but candidates have to be judged on what they are
saying now. Perot claims that he is doing whatever his volunteers
want, yet his chief volunteer has no idea of what is going on.

John says that if Clinton or Bush would talk about reforming the
country and about giving the country back to the people, Perot
would lose support. Perot, though, could still have an impact on
the election by preventing anyone from getting an electoral
majority. Rush points out that Perot's excuse in July for
quitting the race was because he didn't want to see the election
decided in the House. So what has changed now?

Rush knows he has been more animated and confrontational with
John than he has with most callers, but this is because he feels
passionately about this and about what Perot is doing. John says
that all he wants is to hear the politicians tell the truth.

Rush says that this is the purpose of his show. John, though,
reiterates that Rush is wrong is saying that Perot is paying off
his volunteers because the Rhode Island chairman is not being
paid. Rush says that this may be so, but many of what Perot is
calling "volunteers" are indeed being paid.

Rush knows that many people are thinking that he has been over-
antagonistic during this call, but he states that the reason is
he is being so passionate about this is that he is truly saddened
by how Perot has manipulated good Americans and has led them down
the garden path.

People like John are good, decent people who are deeply concerned
about their country, and yet they have hitched their wagon to a
megalomanic who is lying to them. Rush just wants to make people
see this and realized how they are being used.

*BREAK*

Phone   Chris from Peoria, IL

Chris wishes Perot should shut up, but Rush says that he has
nothing against letting Perot speak or running. Chris bets that
Rush would like to see Perot run only because it would help
secure a Bush victory. Chris adds that his local EIB affiliate
plays Rush's show at the same time as the TV show; Rush says that
the VCR is just the solution to this problem.

Chris, though, is a liberal who wants to comment on the caller in
the first hour from Clinton, MD who went to a Clinton rally.
Chris says that he saw Gore at the Illinois State Fair, and
nobody was thrown out. Rush says that he is not opposed to
Clinton's attempt to have a rally with only his own supporters
there; this is politics as normal in the age of television.

The problem, though, is that there are hecklers showing up
wherever Clinton goes. Elaine Boozler even got booed off the
stage at a Hurricane Andrew benefit when she started mentioning
Clinton. Rush holds Chris over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Chris from Peoria, IL (continued)

Chris thanks Rush for holding him over, and Rush comments that
this is called "fairness." Chris says that Bush, like Clinton, is
getting booed everywhere he goes. The country, though, needs a
change; not a change like Perot, though, but rather "the next New
Deal, as personified by the New Covenant to lift the country up
from the basement." Rush moans when he hears this, but Chris
insists that Clinton's plans will work because the people will
support him in this. Rush says that this is a media myth - there
is no mass support for Clinton or for his Putting People First
plan.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       The current issue of Vanity Fair has a couple of stories
about Perot, Rush has heard these stories before but only as
rumors. Pete Hamill's column in the NY Post today references the
Vanity Fair articles and concludes that the "H" in "H. Ross
Perot" stands for "Headcase."

Maria Brenner of Vanity Fair writes about how Perot hired some
private investigators to spy on his own daughter, Nancy, while
she was a student at college. Nancy's boyfriend was a Jewish
professor, which did not please Perot at all. Reportedly, a
number of news organizations were working on this story back in
July, right before Perot quit.

Another story is about Bobby Jo King who was fired from Perot's
EDS Systems because he came done with pneumonia related to HIV.
King lost all of his medical benefits and has since died. King's
family was interviewed by ABC World News Tonight, which also was
about to run the story until Perot abruptly quit in July.

And, of course, Ross Perot infuriated women journalists in
general, and NBC journalists in particular, when he complained
yesterday to the NBC Dallas Bureau Chief about the rough
treatment he has received from NBC's female correspondents Katie
Couric and Lisa Meyers. Meyers most recently angered Perot on
Monday with a story about his campaign.

Perot stated that the reason NBC's female reporters did so many
negative stories about him was because "they're trying to prove
their manhood." Rush states "here we have, in essence, a hand
grenade with a rotten haircut, who probably wishes he was six
inches taller, talking about how these female reporters are
trying to prove their manhood."

Rush tells Perot that this is the game of politics - "welcome to
it, Ross."

o       EIB has gotten a tape of an interview that EIB's Grand
Rapids affiliate WOOD did with Jack Kevorkian's attorney, Jeffrey
Feiger. Feiger seems to be taking Rush's comments on Kevorkian
personally - "there's no love here whatsoever." Rush states that
he has always said that he doesn't want the medical profession
corrupted to allow doctors to kill people. When Feiger was asked
about Rush he responded:

"This guy who claims that he is so smart that he can duel
somebody with half his brain tied behind his back. Believe me,
you can put three-quarters of my brain tied behind my back, and
I'll talk to him about this subject anytime, anywhere, anyplace.
He knows nothing about the facts, and if he is a true
conservative and he's attacking Dr. Kevorkian, then he apparently
knows nothing about the law or true conservatism. Probably, I
think he is just, uh, frankly, I know he is - he's just a big,
fat, blowhard who's getting listeners, knowing literally nothing
about Jack Kevorkian or myself, or the representation, or the
facts of any of the particular cases."

Rush points out that he has never even known Feiger's name before
now, much less criticized the lawyer's representation. What does
conservatism have to do with death, anyway? Rush speculates that
Feiger is probably confusing conservatism with libertarianism. In
any case, Feiger has made one of those truly substantive attacks
against him - "big, fat blowhard."

Rush points out that he has yet to comment on the appearance of
Dr. Death, or relate it to what he has done. Rush suspects that
Feiger's comments show that both he and Kevorkian are uptight.
Kevorkian is helping people kill themselves - he's not pulling
the trigger himself, but he's doing everything but by supplying a
suicide machine, poisons, carbon monoxide canisters, etc.

Feiger shows that society has a preoccupation with death, and
there are far too many people in society willing to help others
die.

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

Rush updates his new listeners in Durango about what his Homeless
Update is all about - there is no "homeless crisis," there are
not 3 million homeless in America, and most Americans are not a
paycheck away from homelessness. The homeless advocacy has
consistently exaggerated the scope of the problem so that they
can get more money and political power, and so that they can
continue their attacks against conservatives and America.

There are at most 600,000 homeless in America, and many of them
are people who need to be institutionalized, but this has been
prevented by "compassionate" liberals such as the ACLU. Many
homeless are drug and alcohol abusers, and most are not the
popular image of the poor, salt-of-the-earth type guy who has run
into bad luck because of Reaganomics.

The hypocrisy of the homeless advocacy can be seen in how a group
in Santa Monica decided that the solution to homelessness was to
give the homeless their own shopping carts. When New York City
newspapers hired the homeless to sell their newspapers during a
strike, the homeless advocacy groups called this exploitation.
The homeless themselves, though, loved it because they got to
keep all the money.

The Dumpster Dining video, though, is the brainchild of Project
Dignity in southern California. The group claims that they are
showing compassion because they are teaching the homeless how to
safely eat out of dumpsters. However, since this video has been
distributed, there have been a number of dumpster deaths and
injuries - homeless dive in dumpsters to look for food or sleep,
and then get crushed to death when the garbage truck empties the
dumpsters.

Rush has suggested that special flags could be attached to the
dumpsters to show that "somebody is home" when a homeless person
has followed Project Dignity's advice and jumped into the
dumpster to search for food. In fact, ramps and steps should be
attached to the dumpsters to allow disabled homeless to get their
fair share of Dumpster Dining.

This is needed since a homeless man was killed in St. Louis
yesterday when he crawled into a dumpster and fell asleep. Police
were able to easily identify the body, though, because they found
a court summons in his pocket - the summons was issued for
drinking in public the previous day. Rush wonders why Governor
Clinton is not doing something about this crisis.

*BREAK*

Phone   Shelly from Williamsport, PA

Shelly wants to know why Perot has any credibility left at all -
he first hinted he was going to run for President, never made a
formal announcement, then says he definitely won't run, and now
is saying he might run and he might not. If this guy should ever
get elected, what kind of President will he make if he can't even
make up his mind to be President in the first place?

Rush says that he thought Perot was originally planning to put
together an organization that crossed political lines. Perot said
he "didn't want this job," and thus if he did get elected he
would be able to go to Congress and claim that he had a mandate
from the people. However, Rush now believes that Perot is on a
giant ego trip - a real leader would lead, and would have real
programs and plans. Rush holds Shelly across the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Shelly from Williamsport, VA (continued)

Rush thinks that Perot is simply on an ego-trip, and he has to
wonder what would have happened if Norman Schwarzkopf had run the
Gulf War like Perot has run his campaign - what if Schwarzkopf
had told his "volunteers" that he would do whatever they wanted,
and then set up an 800 number for them to use to voice their
opinion?

Shelly says that she gets sick just looking at Perot, and then
when he dodges all sorts of questions about his personal life,
she doesn't know how people can still follow him. She, though,
doesn't even want to think about Clinton. Rush says that Clinton
is just Tom Hayden with a pretty face.

Phone   Charles from Faybrook, CT

Charles wants to know if there is a prize for buying the most
copies of Rush's book - he has bought 32 copies now as gifts for
family and friends, and he adds that even his liberal associates
like the book. Rush is overwhelmed, and doesn't know how he could
thank Charles for this show of support. However, he first wants
to know if Charles is paying retail or buying discounted copies.
Charles replies that every book was bought at full retail.

"That's even more impressive," Rush states. Charles thinks that
the momentum in the Presidential race has indeed changed, and he
would like to make a comment to the "boys in the bus - Al and
Slick Willie." If the family values issue is not a valid one,
Charles would like the two men to suggest a prime-time TV show
that reflects traditional values. Rush calls that a good
question.

Charles also hopes that Rush will be on the panel for the
Presidential Debates. Rush laughs and says that Charles shouldn't
hold his breath waiting for this to happen. Charles, though,
doesn't see why not - after all, if someone like Dan Rather can
be a moderator, why not Rush?

Rush thanks Charles again for buying so many copies, and he
wonders how he can thank Charles for this. "A mug is just not
enough," Rush states, and he decides to send him a catalog so he
can pick out whatever he wants. However, Rush will also send
along an autographed first edition of his book as a special
remembrance.

Phone   Don from Omaha, NB

Don gives greetings from the "WATS capital of America." Don would
like to talk about Perot's 800 number, but he first wants to ask
if EIB sells a cassette tape of all of the songs Rush has played
on his show. Rush says that he was planning to do this last year,
but it fell through for a lot of reasons. Some of the people who
have sent in songs don't want to give permission to have the
songs put on a CD or tape, while others want royalty payments.
The headaches and costs involved would make the project a
nightmare, not to mention that EIB couldn't break-even on it. EIB
has received numerous requests for this, and Rush regrets that he
can't do it.

Don says that a local firm, Call Interactive, specializes in
call-in surveys. Since Ross Perot's 800 number only plays a short
message and tallies a counter, they can set something like it up
within a few days. Rush finds that interesting - Perot gave the
impression that his volunteers set up the number almost like
magic.

Don, though, thinks that Perot's 800 number shows two things - it
shows that the electronic town hall can work, but it also shows
the dangers of the town hall. Perot is counting all calls to his
800 number as "run, Ross, run" votes, and thus if you don't agree
with Perot your vote won't be counted.

Rush agrees - Perot is not looking for competing opinions.
However, what troubles him about this is not how quickly 800
numbers can be established, but that Perot implied Monday that
the 800 number was just something his volunteers came up with,
when in reality he has been orchestrating everything from day
one.

*BREAK*

Phone   Charles from Richmond, VA

Charles resents being called ignorant because he doesn't support
Perot; Charles fought in Saudi Arabia, and he doesn't know why
people are ignoring what General Schwarzkopf has said in praise
of Bush's actions as Commander-in-Chief. Rush is glad someone
resents being called ignorant simply because they don't support
Perot's movement. Charles adds that the media is also guilty of
doing this, and he doesn't like being told how he should think or
vote.

Charles is a Republican, who's very happy with his life, and he
doesn't believe Gore's ersatz support for the Gulf War. Rush
repeats that according to Bob Dole, Gore supported Bush in the
Gulf War only because he received prime-time TV coverage. Charles
wishes the media would bring up these facts, and Rush says that
Dole did say this on CNN once. Charles, however, is still angry
at CNN's support of Peter Arnett's agenda and thus doesn't watch
them anymore.

Charles left the military because he was a victim of the force
reductions, but he doesn't hold Bush responsible for this since
the President was forced into it by Congress. Rush asks him how
he is doing now, and he says that he is looking into some sales
jobs. Rush wishes him well, especially as commissioned sales is
the type of job in which people have control over their
prosperity.

Phone   Lisa from Sacramento, CA

Lisa thanks her 11-year old daughter, Isabel, for dialing the
phone and getting through to the show. Isabel comes on the line
and Rush asks her why she isn't in school today. Isabel replies
"cause I get a better education listening to you."

Rush thanks her that sweet comment, and Isabel says that she is
becoming Rush's number one fan. Rush asks her which candidate she
would vote for if she could vote. Isabel answers "no one really -
they're all dumb." Rush asks if she thinks Perot is dumb, too,
and she replies "Perot? Well, yeah, sort of." Rush heaves a sigh
of relief as this answer shows that he has been properly
educating young Isabel. Isabel says that she would vote if she
has the chance but she doesn't know who.

Rush asks Isabel if she has a boyfriend, and she says yes. Rush
comments that he asked a 12-year old friend of his if she had a
boyfriend, and she said yes, too. When he asked what the two of
them did, the girl just got a sheepish grin on her face. Rush
thanks Isabel for calling and for being his fan. He points out
that his show spans all age groups, creeds, races, ethnic groups,
and all three sexes.

*BREAK*

Today's USA Today has the headline "Bush Proposal Further Muddies
Debate Picture." Rush says that Bush has not muddied anything up;
instead, the President has defined what the debates will be.
There is nothing hard to understand about this - the President is
the one who defines what the Presidential debates will be. Bush
has offered to debate with Clinton four times - two debates will
be as Clinton wants, and two as Bush wants.

Phone   Holly from Smithfield, VA

Holly has seen some homeless standing in front of shopping
centers and such, holding signs that say "Homeless - will work
for food." She is irritated by these people who seem incapable of
going into the nearby stores and asking for an application. Rush
says that the best way to show that these people are not just
"poor unfortunates" is to go up to someone carrying a "will work
for food" sign and give them a job. They'll be paid every two
weeks, taxes will be withheld from their paychecks, and so forth;
in other words, offer them a job on the same terms that most
people have to deal with. Rush bets that the homeless will
skeedaddle in the opposite way as quick as they can.

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                           | remember Candice Bergen or Murphy
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