From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
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Subject: Unofficial Summary for Wed. April 15, 1992
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Date: 16 Apr 92 21:19:08 GMT
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, April 15, 1992

by John Switzer

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April 15, 1992

NEWS

o       Americans for Ancient Forests held a press conference to
complain that the US Forest Service is not doing enough to
protect America's old forests. The organization will be starting
an ad campaign to "save" the old growth forests. Director Bob
Kopac said "our own forest service continues to put timber
interests ahead of everything else, and is much too cozy with one
of the industries it is supposed to monitor." He also said "if we
don't act soon, it will all be gone, and when it's gone, it will
be gone forever."

MORNING UPDATE

This is Rush's first double-topic update! First, Rush has made
the point for some time now that sexual harassment really has a
political agenda attached to it. It's wrong for conservatives to
sexually harass women, but when a liberal does it, liberals look
the other way. This was clearly demonstrated last month when
Oliver Stone was attending a screening of the movie "Article 99."
When a female reporter from Us magazine asked Stone for his
opinion on the movie, Stone pulled at her shirt and said "Why are
you wearing this? I can't see your breasts." After some photos
were taken, Stone then asked the reporter "Did you get my
erection on tape?" The editor at Us magazine ignored the
harassment by saying "Stone's always been great. He has a
charismatic personality but nothing offensive." Rush bets that if
a non-liberal did these same things, liberals would quickly find
them to be incredibly offensive, but they look the other way when
one of their stars is guilty.

In the second bit of news, a Pittsburgh Press poll reports that
only a third of the men polled would give up their lifeboat seat
on the Titanic for women who weren't in their families. This is
undoubtedly a direct result of feminism, and it should please
feminists that men are finally telling women to take care of
themselves. Also, only 8% of men were willing to give up their
seat for a celebrity such as Madonna. Madonna, however,
reportedly said that she would give her seat to any man who
wanted it.

FIRST HOUR

Item

o       Robert Alton Harris is scheduled to die next Tuesday in
the California gas chamber for his murder of two teenagers.
Governor Pete Wilson is being deluged with pleas for clemency,
including a video tape from Mike Farrell. The latest ploy to stop
the execution is to claim that Harris is the victim of "fetal
alcohol syndrome" - his pregnant mother drank and thus Harris
suffered brain damage while a "viable tissue mass." The mother,
of course, was only exercising her right to do anything with her
body that she wants.

What's interesting about the Harris case is that after he killed
the two boys, he ate their hamburgers. People seem to be more
bothered by the fact that Harris ate the hamburgers than by the
fact he killed two human beings. Rush refuses to believe,
however, that this is "more evidence for Jeremy Rifkin."

Governor Wilson was elected after running on a pro-death penalty
stance, and 80% of Californians support the death penalty. Since
Harris's appeals have all been rejected, Wilson's issuing of
clemency is the only hope he has left.

Rush apologizes for the use of the term "Ms. Carriage" in his
Feminazi Trading Card commercial. Rush did the commercial as a
response to the hysterical feminist march in Washington DC two
weeks ago. Rush does not "look for targets" every morning;
instead he responds to those who are attacking America's great
institutions and values. In particular, the American woman has
been under assault for some time by radical, militant feminism,
and Rush wants to defend American women, as well as other
American institutions.

Rush also likes to illustrate the absurdity of people and events
by being absurd himself. Since radical militant feminism is the
"height of absurdity," Rush chose an equally absurd product, the
"Feminazi Trading Cards." All Rush did was to take those things
that feminists have defined for themselves, and "throw them right
back at them."

However, it was a mistake for Rush to use the "Ms. Carriage" name
- it was not relevant to the issue and had the potential to hurt
people, especially those who have experienced miscarriages
themselves. Rush doesn't worry about "offending" people, because
this is unavoidable; you can offend some people just by
disagreeing with them. However, hurting people is another thing
altogether and doing so is inexcusable.

Thus, Rush will remove the last line from his Feminazi Trading
Cards commercial, which contains the reference to "Ms. Carriage,
Inc." The name originally looked and sounded funny, and its humor
blinded Rush to the possibility that others may be hurt by it. In
particular, a miscarriage is totally different from an abortion,
and is therefore not relevant in any way to feminism and their
fight for abortion rights.

Rush apologizes for his mistake and assures the audience that he
in no way was trying to see how far he could go. He does not try
to offend or hurt others; if this happens during the course of
responsible discourse, then that's unavoidable. However, this is
not the situation in this particular case, and Rush again
apologizes for any pain that his "Ms. Carriage" reference may
have caused.

He plays his Feminazi Trading Cards commercial again, but without
the last line. He ends the segment with an impression of Susan
Hoerchner saying "I thank you. Mr. Limbaugh and his feminist
extremism will be right back."

*BREAK*

Items

o       Today is tax day, and Rush wishes to commemorate it by
talking about "tax fairness." Rush is "pained" because he wrote
his own checks to the Internal Revenue Service last night, and he
says that the "fairest tax" is one in which every citizen pays
the same amount. A more "generous" system would have each citizen
pay the same percent of income; this means that someone who makes
10 times more than someone else pays 10 times more in taxes.

However, real "fairness" in America is being achieved by having
those who make 10 times more, pay 20 times more in taxes. This is
not fairness, however, but charity. This imbalance, though, still
isn't fair according to liberal Democrats. Rep. Sander Levin
admitted that the rich are paying more then ever in taxes, but
this is still "unfair" because the rich's tax-rate is "too low."

Rush has to wonder if it would be "fair" to get the same number
of votes as one pays in taxes. If someone pays 10 times more in
taxes, should they get 10 times as many votes? "Of course not,"
but this should put the issue into perspective.

o       Chicago is facing a massive clean-up to fix the flooding
of the business center; fish are even dying because the pools of
water are turning rancid. Mayor Richard Daly fired the acting
transportation commissioner, John LePlant, because he failed to
heed a warning about the potential dangers.

The floods were caused by "a hole in the dike. The little Dutch
Boy wasn't there because he's in the unemployment line trying to
get a job at a hotel." Bo Snerdley wonders why Rush is picking on
the Dutch, and Rush answers that this is the way the story went.
Rush tells Bo that he should be proud that the ancient Egyptians
never had any dikes that broke; "they built great dikes,
marvelous dikes," Rush states. Bo has to admit that this is true.

Rush is amazed that Bo is trying to divert attention from a major
story; under relentless pressure from Bo, though, Rush admits
that he is, in fact, "prejudiced against blonde, white people"
and that's why he's picking on the Dutch. Rush asks Bo what he
would have said had Rush mentioned "the little Ugandan boy with
his finger in the dike," and Bo shoots back "what's he doing in
the basement?"

Rush says that this disaster made him recall the 60 Minutes
report a year or so ago about the crumbling waterways and canals
under New York City. These canals are over a 100 years old, and
if they aren't repaired then New York could be equally as
devastated as Chicago. Rush therefore sympathizes with Chicagoans
who are dealing with this right now, because he knows it could
easily happen in his own city.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mike from Denton, TX

Mike appreciates Rush's apology about his "Ms. Carriage" line and
he thanks Rush for making it. Mike says that this clearly shows
how compassionate Rush is. Rush thanks Mike for his kind words,
and says that you can sometimes get people mad simply by being
too confident in expressing your opinions. However, sometimes you
can go too far, which is Rush did on this matter. The radio
business, though, says that you should never apologize, but Rush
has never held to that philosophy.

Phone   Mikey from Manhattan, NY

Mikey says that today's New York Times has a story about Betsy
Right, who is keeping track of the people who are coming into
town to do stories about Bill Clinton. Ms. Right maintains lists
of friendly journalists and tries to prevent Clinton's associates
from talking to any enemies. Mikey therefore has to wonder if
Clinton, who is governor of a "backwater state," can set up this
"kind of storm trooper brigade," then what will he do if he gets
to the White House and has the CIA and FBI to play with?

Rush says that Clinton is probably trying to keep tabs on who is
saying what, so that he can figure out what kind of attacks are
being made against him, and so that he can reply appropriately.
EIB does much the same thing - trying to figure out who your
friends are, and making sure that you don't help your enemies any
more than you absolutely have to. It's not a matter of trying to
control the media, but rather making sure that you're treated
fairly.

Rush hasn't read the story, though, and asks Mikey if he got the
impression that Clinton is trying to wreak vengeance on his
enemies. Mikey does think that Clinton is using this as a way to
counter-attack reporters and to discredit them before their
stories come out. A Little Rock man named Drew had a reputation
of criticizing Clinton, and right before a new story came out, a
number of items about Drew's past started appearing in the
newspapers.

Rush comments that James Carville, the "Democratic version of
Roger Ailes" who ran Harris Wofford's successful campaign for the
Senate, is now working for Clinton. Carville has reportedly
amassed one of the most thorough series of news clippings on
anyone who has ever said anything negative about Clinton. This is
nothing more, though, than an attempt to get dirt on those who
have ever attacked Clinton; Carville is being credited for doing
one of the most thorough such jobs that's ever been done.

Mikey thinks that the scope of this effort shows that Clinton
must feel he has a "lot to be afraid of." Rush wouldn't subscribe
to this, though, and says that it's much like Richard Nixon's
Enemies List. However, Rush tells Mikey that Clinton can't be all
bad since he wants a "kosher" White House. Mikey, though, says
that the word "kosher" in its original meaning means "slick,"
which to him seems really appropriate.

Rush thinks that Clinton's activities are a sign of the times,
and are indicative of what politics has really become today. It's
not surprising that Clinton does such things given that negative
campaigning is the modus operandi in politics now.

*BREAK*

Phone   Kristine from St. Francisville, LA

Kristine thinks Rush is normally great, but yesterday she saw him
on the Phil Donahue show, and Rush upset her when he said that
his ideal woman would be someone who is self-sufficient and can
take care of herself. Rush says that the May issue of Vanity Fair
has quoted him on his idea of an ideal woman, and this is what
the reference is to.

Kristine, though, is upset because she is a stay-at-home mom and
her husband works hard to make sure she can stay at home. She
thinks that Rush is therefore saying that he wants only a career
woman who will not stay at home with the children. Rush says that
this is not the case - his two experiences with marriage have
taught him that he doesn't want to be married to a woman "who has
to ask me every moment of the day what is important in life."

Kristine says that she isn't like that, but Rush says that this
is what he's experienced. A baby is screaming in the background
and Kristine explains that her 20-month old son is unhappy with
what she has given him for lunch. The son must know that he is on
the radio because he suddenly starts being very, very vocal. Rush
tells her that he "can't do battle with your son" and Kristin
manages to quiet her son down by letting him play outside.

Going back to his marriage experiences, Rush explains that he
doesn't want to criticize his ex-wives, but he wants his future
wife to be self-confident and know what she wants. She must be
able to entertain herself and not depend on Rush for all of her
life-experience.

For example, if Rush and Kristine were married, Rush would have
to tell her that one of his life's priorities is to watch NFL
football on Sunday. He does not want his wife to insist that
being married should change the things he likes to do in his
spare time. Similarly, if Kristin likes to go skiing, she should
feel that she can go skiing without him. The wife must remain an
independent individual, and Rush doesn't want to feel that he has
to provide his future wife's total needs.

Kristin understands this, but thinks that self-sufficiency can
destroy the mutual dependency that must exist in a successful
marriage. Rush agrees that too much individuality can destroy a
marriage, but he does think he can find a good balance between
being an individual and being part of a marriage.

*BREAK*

A Vernon, CT woman was granted probation for two years after
shooting her fiance with a .38 revolver. The state superior court
judge said that the woman had a "plausible explanation" because
the man abruptly cancelled the couple's wedding; in addition, the
woman was "unable to control her actions" at the time of the
assault. The judge said that the woman should be placed on
probation as she was unlikely to repeat her offense, and he
stated that if the woman completed her probation successfully,
the charge of attempted murder will be erased from her record.
Rush can't believe that a cancelled wedding is a "plausible
explanation" for attempted murder, and bets that the judge
graduated from the New York public school system.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush goes back to the Vernon, CT story and thinks it's
interesting that his first impression of this story was that it
was only a "filler" story. Life has become so cheap, and murder
so common, that things like this seem unimportant. However, Rush
decides to look at the story again.

Rush comments that Vernon, CT is "dangerously close to where I
live," which makes him all the more incredulous that "an abruptly
cancelled wedding" is a "plausible explanation" for shooting
someone in the chest. The judge granted the woman probation on
Tuesday, even though the woman shot her fiance in the chest at
point-blank range. Cary Mote, 47, had no criminal record before
the shooting. During the break, though, a female "engineerette"
told Rush that he "got it wrong - it should have been a .45
instead of a .38" because the wedding invitations had already
been printed and the cake ordered.

Rush calls this incredible - what would happen if a guy shot a
woman in the chest if she decided not to get married? Would a
judge casually excuse this shooting? The judge said that he was
swayed by the testimony of a psychiatrist, Peter Zemen, who said
Mote was suffering from "diminished emotional capacity" at the
time of the attack. The victim said that he supported Mote's
probation and that he didn't believe Mote was a threat to him or
anyone else. Rush doesn't think it should matter whether the
victim wants to press charges if attempted murder is involved.

It seems that when men are victimized by women, the law looks the
other way. For example, the Pennsylvania women's health spa
doesn't have to admit men because it would be "embarrassing for
the women." However, women are allowed into men's locker rooms
and into men's clubs. PMS has also been used as an excuse for
murder. Obviously, the law thinks that it is a one-way street. If
a man committed a crime similar to these types of women's crimes,
he certainly wouldn't be excused as the women are.

Rush, therefore thinks that women such as Mote would be great
military commandos. Just find women who have been jilted, and
give them guns. Place them in the front lines of the current war,
and they could serve as a pre-strike force for the First Calvary
Amazon Battalion.

*BREAK*

New York Governor Mario Cuomo yesterday pledged to start a
sweeping crackdown on underage drinking, which he blames for
everything from vandalism to college date rape. Rush calls this
"astounding on so many fronts" - here is a behavioral problem and
Cuomo is actually planning to stop the behavior. In addition to
closing loopholes in the law that may permit teen drinking, Cuomo
pledges to crack down on stores that sell alcohol to minors.

Rush is surprised, though, that Cuomo didn't take the typical
liberal attitude - tax alcohol. However, Rush is glad that Cuomo
has taken a moral stance against this behavior and its
consequences. He contrasts Cuomo's stance against teenage
drinking with his stance on teenage sex, which also causes a lot
of societal problems. Why isn't Cuomo trying to stop teenage sex
instead of talking about distributing condoms; why isn't Cuomo
talking about responsibility in regards to teenage sex as well as
teenage drinking?

Rush calls this "hypocrisy riding free on the range," and Cuomo
has shown that he knows in his heart what really needs to be
done. However, teenage drinking does not have a political agenda
attached to it as does teenage sex. Thus, Cuomo claims that
teenage sex cannot be stopped, yet he admits that teenage
drinking can.

Phone   Brett from Fayetteville, NC

Brett saw Rush's appearance on the Phil Donahue show, and thinks
that Rush should be ashamed of taking advantage of Donahue by
tying only one-half of his brain behind his back. Rush should tie
down at least 75% or more of his brain the next time he meets
with Donahue so that the confrontation will be "more fair." Rush
appreciates that advice.

Brett, though, would like Rush to explain his views on Bush's
proposal for educational choice. Rush says that to fix the public
educational system, you have to let parents have more say in how
their kids are to be educated. Parents will naturally look for
the best for their children and if they are given choices and are
involved, the educational system will improve.

*BREAK*

Phone   Bill from Kansas City, MO

Bill thinks that Donahue was being his "normal, slovenly
intellectual self" when he was casting innuendo at Rush. Bill did
enjoy the segment where Rush mentioned how Donahue taped his
interview with Perot back in July. Rush says that this was a
subject that Donahue did not want to discuss at all.

Bill mentions how Perot has sent some of his employees to
interview a prison inmate who claims that he knows for a fact
that George Bush was flown back from a secret meeting with
Iranian agents in Paris in an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. This
information supposedly confirms the truth of the October Surprise
allegations.

Bush, of course, was not a member of the government at this time,
and Jimmy Carter was President. Some people, though, think that
Bush could have asked for a ride in an SR-71 just because he used
to run the CIA. Perot has denied, though, that his investigation
of the prisoner's claims has anything to do with "digging up
dirt" on Bush.

Bill hopes that Perot visits the Donahue show and gets the same
treatment that Rush had; Rush comments that Perot has been on
Donahue and was reportedly not happy with the experience. Rush
says that he was assured before the program that things would go
smoothly, but even though this did not happen he hopes that the
audience doesn't go away only with the impression that Donahue
was "unfair" to him. Bill didn't think that, but he was angered
at how Donahue never really allowed Rush to fully explain his
views, and always ended the segments with his own liberal spin on
things.

Rush, though, doesn't think that anyone should be surprised that
Donahue is a liberal. Donahue is pretty upfront about his
viewpoints, and has a pretty good track record of attacking
conservatives. What bothers Rush about the difference between
television and radio, though, is that when Rush has a good radio
show, he knows it and so does everybody else. However, when he
has a good time on a TV show and thinks that things went well,
other viewers come away with a dissenting opinion.

Rush also does not go onto a talk show like Donahue's to state
his case or to fight at the host's own level. If Rush is asked a
question, he answers it and tries to engage the host in
meaningful debate. For example, a caller to Donahue called Rush a
"fascist" but then couldn't define the term. Another audience
member said that he "didn't hear any love or any compassion" in
Rush, immediately after Rush finished talking about the
importance and sanctity of life.

Rush thinks that his performance on the show was superb, and it
bothers him that the viewers' emphasis is on how he was treated.
You simply have to deal "with what you're dealt"; Rush could
lower himself to other people's levels, but it is not his style
"to get down in the gutter with the people who are already
there."

Rush didn't expect to get treated in a totally even-handed
manner, and thus what Donahue did doesn't bother him that much.
Television, though, is strange - sometimes people remember the
tie that Rush wore, and don't remember anything about what he
said.

Rush comments that the Donahue program will be aired in Chicago
on Friday, but will not appear in Los Angeles for perhaps two
weeks. Rush therefore apologizes to those in his audience who
haven't seen this specific Donahue show yet.

*BREAK*

After Rush appeared on Nightline, he called Ted Koppel's office
to thank him for the experience. Rush had intended to talk only
with Koppel's secretary because he assumed Koppel was preparing
for that night's show. Koppel came on the line, though, and said
"hell, no, we don't start preparing for the show until 11
o'clock!" In a 30 minute conversation, Ted Koppel warned Rush
about what he could expect when his new TV show starts.

Rush is condemned even before his show ever appears; Rush should
not listen to what anybody else says - he should trust his own
instincts as to whether it is bad or good. The press has probably
already written the first reviews, even before they've seen the
show. Nobody wants Rush to succeed, and society tries to tear
down almost everybody who does make it.

Rush asked Koppel to be his first guest. Koppel said that he
didn't think Rush had guests, and Rush admitted that he won't,
but he did tell Koppel "you could come on the show and interview
me."

Phone   Rich from Binghamton, NY

Rich is a "freezing New York resident anxiously awaiting global
warming." Rush saw a story about Norplant on Monday's ABC News.
The thrust of the story was on how women on welfare couldn't
afford to get the implants, and what a "tragedy" this is. This
irks Rich because they are assuming that women have no choice in
the matter of getting pregnant or having sex. The see the choice
not as "don't have sex," but "get Norplant."

Rush says that this is exactly right - sex is perceived as having
no right or wrong attached to it. Anyone who dares to talk about
sex's consequences are called "prudes." Rich thinks that this is
typical of liberal agendas - never a word about people being
responsible for their actions. Rush says that self-reliance is
the basis for American culture and that "it's amazing what
happens when you exercise it."

*BREAK*

Phone   Paul from Mesquite, TX

Paul gives Rush "infinite dittos" and he commends Rush for his
apology this morning; Rush took responsibility for his own
actions and for his own errors. He says that he was angered about
how Donahue didn't give Rush a chance to state his views on the
death penalty. Rush answers that he firmly supports the
punishment because it is provided for in the Fifth Amendment. The
death penalty is an appropriate punishment for someone who has
wantonly murdered others.

Rush was accused of hypocrisy on the Donahue show for supporting
capital punishment and opposing abortion. He sees no conflict at
all, though - a fetus is the epitome of innocence and has had
absolutely nothing to do with its own situation. This is a far
different situation from an adult who has callously murdered
other human beings. Conservatives are not hypocritical on these
issues, but liberals certainly are as they justify the deaths of
innocents, while allowing murderers to live.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       80% of Californians want the death penalty, and have
impeached state justices who have opposed capital punishment.
Governor Pete Wilson pledged that he would support the death
penalty, but many conservatives are afraid that Wilson will
change his mind on this issue as he has on so many others. Mother
Theresa, actor Mike Farrell, and others have begged Wilson to
show clemency to Robert Alton Harris.

The latest attempt to save Harris claims that he suffered "fetal
alcohol syndrome" because his pregnant mother drank. Advocates
are asserting that this is what has caused Harris's anti-social
tendencies.

The reason California is being perceived as such a battleground
is that if executions start there, other states may soon
implement them as well. Governor Wilson has said that "you may
believe in the death penalty, as I do, but also believe that
there are individual cases that deserve commutation."

o       Rush recalls how the swallows did not land at San Juan
Capistrano this year because a shopping mall had been built. The
swallows did not die on the spot, though, as some militant
environmentalists seem to think would have happened, but moved to
Irvine. Similarly, a pair of Great Horned Owl eggs were found at
the Cape Canaveral launch site. Another nest has been found
nearby. Rod McClanahan of the US Forest Service said that "we're
finding owls in habitats were nobody dreamed you'd find Spotted
Owls." McClanahan added that the owls were constantly adapting to
their environment.

According to militant environmentalists, however, the Spotted Owl
can live only in old growth Pacific Northwest forests. This is
just more of the "fraud and deceit" that is evident in the words
and actions of militant environmentalists who are trying to
promote their political agenda.

Loggers in New Mexico are also afraid that concern about the
Mexican Spotted Owl will be given federal protection; if this is
done, loggers would lose their jobs just like timber workers in
the Pacific Northwest.

o       Jeremy Rifkin held a press conference yesterday at which
he announced the start of his "Beyond Beef" agenda. According the
Washington Post, Rifkin was "flanked by representatives of half-
dozen other environmental groups" including Vegetarians on the
March. Rifkin said that "western beef consumption is responsible
for depletion of the rain forest and the ozone layer, third world
urbanization, top soil erosion, global warming, poverty, hunger,
economic injustice, cruelty to animals, cancer, heart disease,
and monopolistic corporate practices." Rush wonders how cows can
be responsible for all this.

This is an open admission of Rifkin's political agenda. Rifkin is
also demanding that the networks play his commercials free of
charge as Public Service Announcements. Rush says that this is
why he never has to make anything up - he just has to read the
newspapers.

o       Police in Toledo, OH report that 28 cases of glow-in-
the-dark "hot panties" were stolen last year. A suspect was
arrested after he tried to sell some of the panties to a
convenience store. These are the panties that say "No, No, No" in
the light, but "Yes, Yes, Yes" in the dark.

o       A pregnant woman and her unborn baby in Lockport, NY are
eligible for medicare payments even though the mother has
$164,000 in savings. Because the woman's interest income is below
the poverty level, she can still collect federal assistance.

o       Rep. Richard Gephardt said he would pay $615 in overdraft
charges to the Treasury for his overdrawn checks at the House
Bank. Rush is not impressed.

*BREAK*

Phone   Chip from Alexandria, VA

Chip thinks Perot is "one of the last chances we have before we
go into bankruptcy to turn the system around." Perot is also the
only change to eliminate "government by special interest
lobbying." Rush says that this may be true, and admits that Perot
has a formidable grass roots organization built up already.

Chip normally votes Republican, but he is looking at Perot
because he thinks Perot is the only one who can do some good;
however, Chip does disagree with Perot on a number of topics,
including the Gulf War. Rush, though, is concerned with the
possibility that Perot's candidacy may be built on deception;
this is especially dangerous given the public mood which seems
willing to accept everything Perot says without question.

Chip can't hold on through the break, but Rush promises to talk
more about it anyway.

*BREAK*

Rush returns to Ross Perot and his opposition to the Gulf War.
Perot says that the people own the country and that government
should flow from the people to Washington, DC. But although the
people supported Bush's Gulf War policy in record numbers, Perot
continues to disparage the purpose of the war, claiming that the
war was fought by Americans to protect the Kuwaiti Emir. This is
not true - the war was fought to protect the free flow of oil
throughout the world.

Now, is Perot really serious about the electronic town hall? Will
Perot surrender power to the people, and if he does, is he even
needed? If, however, the electronic town hall is solely for
"communicating with one's representatives," then Perot doesn't
have to follow the will of the people. This makes the electronic
hall meaningless.

Perot claims that his campaign was spontaneous, yet there is
evidence that it's been in the planning stages for perhaps two
years. Rush knows that he is nit-picking right now, but he still
has to wonder that if the people can be deceived about the start
of Perot's campaign, can't they be deceived in other ways? Rush
doesn't want to discourage anyone from supporting Perot, but he
does wish they would start questioning things a bit.

Phil Donahue was reluctant to talk about the show he did with
Perot that was taped in January. In that interview, Perot said
that the President should be "whoever represents the ordinary
citizen, and let's see who that person will be." Perot was
obviously thinking about running for President back then.

Phone   Rod from Great Neck, NY

Rod doubts that Bush could have been flown in the SR-71 Blackbird
because he would have had to pass the same flight clearance
regulations that astronauts have to meet. Rush once saw an SR-71
take off, and the plane is a space vehicle - the space suits have
to be custom-made, as do the helmets. Also, the SR-71 needs two
qualified pilots, and there is no space for an extra passenger.

Rod also wants to know how come there is any ozone left in the
world, given that there used to be millions of buffalos in the
Great Plains - why didn't these animals destroy the ozone then?
Rush says that he made a similar point to John McLaughlin, and
that man couldn't destroy the ozone layer even if he wanted to.
The EIB staff also points out that there was "major flatulence"
produced by the dinosaurs.

Rush goes back to the SR-71 spy plane, and he makes the point
that there was a fleet of these planes; there's not just one
Blackbird. He gets sidetracked and tells a story about how in
1973 he tried to drive out to the Pittsburgh airport, but found
himself stuck in massive traffic, even though it was a Sunday
afternoon. He found out that United Airlines was inaugurating its
747 flights to and from Pittsburgh; however, when they advertised
the event, they told residents to "come out and see the 747."
People thought that this was "THE" 747, and that there was only
one, and that's why they were all out clogging the roads.

The SR-71 flies at more than 2000 miles per hour, and can make
the trip across the coast in 45 minutes. During the last flight
of these aircraft, when the plane was coming in to land at
Washington, DC, it made its final approach at Seattle. That's how
fast the airplane travels.

*BREAK*

Phone   Barbara from Rochester, MI

Barbara says that a number of feminists are calling the
Washington, DC pro-abortion rally "Womstock" (for women, not for
womb), and she asks Rush if he wants to have a "Rushstock." He
likes the idea, and says that it could be the basis for his next
Conservative Forum. Barbara also wonders why Rush isn't talking
about "asteroid dangers." Rush says that he talked about this
three months ago; the odds of dying by an asteroid impact are far
greater than a number of other catastrophes. In fact, EIB has
done a public service announcement about the "Doomsday Rock":

<<Narrator>> "Somewhere in space at this very moment, hurtling
towards Earth at roughly 16 miles a second, is the Doomsday Rock,
a killer asteroid that could wipe out life on Earth as we know
it. Respected scientists estimate that your risk of death from
asteroid impact over the next 50 years is one in 6,000!

What can you do to help? Support Vice-President Quayle's space
research programs. Support space research. Show that YOU care."

Rush says that we need SDI to stop these asteroids - the "100th
monkey" certainly is not going to do anything to stop an asteroid
from hitting the Earth. An asteroid passed within 200,000 miles
of the Earth a couple of years ago, which is a "next door" as far
as the universe is concerned. Thus, nobody can tell Rush that he
isn't doing enough to save the planet.

*BREAK*

Rush forgot to add in his update on Cuomo that a New York
lawmaker wants to make it a crime to be a passenger in a car
driven by a drunk driver. Rush laughs at this typical liberal
approach - you can shoot your fiance in Connecticut and be
released on parole, but you can't be a passenger if the car has a
drunk driver.

Phone   Sylvia from Jacksonville, FL

Sylvia thinks that sanctity of life should "apply to both ends of
the spectrum." Since Robert Alton Harris committed a crime
against society, society should punish him by mining San
Francisco harbor and imprisoning him on Alcatraz. Society, of
course, should not pay for his imprisonment. This would preserve
the "sanctity of life" as society would not be killing Harris,
but Sylvia wishes him "good luck" surviving.

Rush cannot believing Sylvia is suggesting mining the SF harbor,
and he states that he firmly believes in the death penalty, which
is provided for by the Fifth Amendment. Sylvia is troubled by
what would happen if society makes a mistake and kills the wrong
man. Rush says that the present judicial system is so involved
and has so many appeals and processes that "we're pretty much
sure of their guilt by the time we fry them."

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