From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
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Subject: Unofficial Summary for Monday, April 6, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, April 6, 1992

by John Switzer

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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.

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April 6, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

<<Warning - dangerous pun ahead. Proceed at your own risk.>>

Rush has to make a slight correction to the previous update he
did in which he suggested replacing the current American symbol
of an eagle with a "huge, fat sow with a lot of nipples." Each
nipple is being attacked by a little piglet, which represents one
of the many special interest groups and others who think that the
United States is just a charitable institution from which they
can suck out as much as they want.

However, as good as this symbol is, it is not quite accurate. A
more proper symbol would have the fat sow become a "nearly dead
emaciated pig, which has had all there is to be suckled out,
suckled out - there's nothing left." Thus, the little piglets
would be unable to say anything but "thanks for the mammaries."

FIRST HOUR

Rush starts off the show with the Country-Western song "Men,"
mixed in with the slogan that was shouted at last weekend's pro-
abortion rally - "We're fierce, we're feminists, and we're in
your face!" As the medley continues, the pitch of the slogan
rises and rises, until it sounds like a chipmunk on PMS.

The song "Men" goes:

"They buy you dinner, open your door,
Other than that, what are they good for?
Men . . . I'm talking about men.

They all want a girl, just like the girl
That married dear old dad, they make me so mad.
Men . . . I'm talking about men.

Well, you can't beat them up 'cause they're bigger than you,
You can't deal with 'em and you just can't shoot 'em.
Men . . . I'm talking about men."

<<repeat and fade>>

This leads into his first update of the day:

Update  Feminists         (Sandy Posey, "A Woman's Place")

Rush calls Sunday's pro-choice march "mass hysteria," and he
doubts that 500,000 really showed up. However, regardless of the
number, the attitudes and sentiments expressed by the marchers
are not representative of mainstream American women. The media
has helped to propagate this feeling, but Rush points out that
Reagan and Bush won the last three elections and were strongly
pro-choice.

Some critics may say that there were other issues that mattered
during those elections, but this proves Rush's point even more.
Feminists like to claim that abortion rights is a pivotal issue
in every campaign, but this simply isn't true. Also not true are
all of Jane Fonda's overpopulation and environmental claims -
this is the same information that was put out by Paul Ehrlich,
and which has been widely discredited.

Rush says that his chief of staff Kit Carson came up with a great
observation, and Rush praises Kit for "coming around." (Kit says
that he may be thinking more like Rush, but he no longer has any
friends. Rush advises him to find a new and better circle of
associates.) Kit normally would have praised the "power" of a
march like Sunday's, but today he said "if you want to win,
you've got to put some people . . . gee, half of those women were
lesbians!" Rush asked him how he knew, and he answered that you
don't even have to look at them - just listen to what they say.

Rush praises his chief of staff's astuteness, and says that NOW
is nothing more than an abortions/lesbian-rights organization.
Their "in your face" attitude has been borrowed from Queer Nation
and other homosexual movements. Evidently, they are convinced
that the "in your face" movement is the only way they can achieve
their goals; however, this type of attitude is useful only when
they represent a mainstream view. Otherwise, all it does is
antagonize people and strengthen the opposition.

Rush plays a number of quotes - Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
said "Why are we marching today? Forward together, Back alleys
never!" Rush wonders what the heck this means and calls it
"hysteria and panic." He mentions the doctor in New York City who
tore off the arm of a fetus by performing a 9-month abortion.
"Back alley" abortions are done by legal doctors, too.

Abortion, though, is no longer a women's "rights" issue - women's
"lives" are now supposedly at stake. The feminists have failed to
convince people so far and thus are trying to make it appear that
this is a life-and-death issue for all women.

Another speaker at the rally said "Women today have power. There
are more women registered to vote in this country than there are
men. We can do it!" Rush wonders "do what?" and says that the
feminists are now making this a man vs. woman issue. This is
"nothing but bitterness, nothing but anger, nothing but a failure
to acculturate in the mainstream of America." Rush doesn't think
that this is any way to win mass appeal for their program.
Instead, what the feminists are doing is trying to "force their
way onto people instead of compromise" or through other
democratic processes.

Rush says that a lot of Republicans are trying to get the GOP to
remove its pro-life plank from the party platform this summer.
However, this is exactly the wrong thing - pro-life candidates
win time and time again. In fact, the pro-choice side is in worse
shape than ever and their support is weaker than ever.

What probably bothers the feminist leadership the most, though,
is that what they are espousing is not accepted as normal by
mainstream America. They would like to think that their way is
the right way, but the majority of the country disagrees with
them. Rush calls the leadership that showed up on Sunday a "bunch
of kooks" - this doesn't include the rank-and-file members, but
the leadership is a bunch of "freaks, outcasts, people who are
upset that they are out of the mainstream."

*BREAK*

Rush mentions the piece that's been done on him in the May issue
of Vanity Fair. This issue also has an interview of Hillary
Clinton in which she accuses George Bush of having a mistress;
she immediately had to apologize for the remark. However, she
stated "I, more than anyone, should know of the pain brought
about by these accusations."

The story has run its course, though, and probably will not
affect the elections. However, this issue of Vanity Fair will
soon be out and has a picture of Ivana Trump on it; however, this
issue also has a 9,000 word story on Rush and his program. Peter
Boyer wrote the story, and "it is perhaps the best piece ever
done about this show and me," says Rush. Boyer spent about two
weeks with Rush and his show, and the story includes quotes from
a lot of people, including Gloria Alred.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Oliver Stone is still reportedly sitting at the Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion waiting to be awarded an Oscar for his movie
"JFK."

o       Winnie and Nelson Mandela have announced their divorce.
Rush recalls how there was a "collective organism across the
world when Winnie and Nelson Mandela fleeced people for ANC."
Rush has always had the impression that Winnie enjoyed the power
she had as Nelson's surrogate when he was in prison. When Nelson
was released, there was undoubtedly competition between the two.

The Sunday Times is reporting that Nelson Mandela wants a divorce
because he's concerned that these allegations against Winnie were
true. For example, Winnie Mandela was charged with the murder of
a black African who didn't accept the ANC party line. Also,
during Nelson's imprisonment the ANC was famous for its practice
of necklacing, which is putting a tire around an opponent's neck
and setting it on fire.

Rush and EIB have gotten a "copy" of the divorce decree - among
the property that will be split up is their Mercedes. Nelson gets
the car, while Winnie gets the tires.

Phone   Lori from Chevy Chase, MD

Lori was laughing at the feminists who were "screeching like wet
hens" on Sunday, and has to admit that she's embarrassed to say
that Mikulski is her own Senator. Lori calls the "back alley"
argument totally specious - 50 years ago when back alley
abortions were far more common, there weren't any good
contraceptive methods. That's different today, though, and Lori
would like all of these women who are "screaming for reproductive
rights to start screaming about reproductive responsibility."
Feminists imply that women don't have a choice, but women surely
do.

The Gutmacher Institute has said that 50% of the women who had
abortions last year weren't using any birth control, while the
majority of the remainder weren't using it regularly. Lori
wonders if feminists really think women are too stupid to use
birth control; why else would they mention Norplant only in a
paranoic light - for example, mentioning Norplant only in terms
of judges who force it on women, which is rare. Lori has to ask
why feminists want abortion so much when there are so many ways
to make it unnecessary.

Rush says that these women are simply engaged in radicalism, and
being pro-choice "stands for far more than just abortion." This
is not a "life" issue to the feminists, since they would have no
moral ground on which to stand. The only way they can have
marches like the one on Sunday is to portray the fetus as an
non-living inconvenience.

Right now abortion is the only issue feminists have to justify
their "in your face" attitude. The leadership didn't want any men
whatsoever in the march, because they are concerned only with
abortion and lesbian rights. Thus, pro-lifers will ultimately win
if they present the abortion issue as a life issue and try to
persuade people through their hearts.

Lori agrees, and says that she has convinced some of her friends
of her point of view by portraying abortion as the barbaric thing
it really is. Pro-choicers says that pro-lifers what to take away
choice, when it is really the feminists who don't want real
choice because they don't want to encourage responsible behavior.
If women would use contraception, abortion wouldn't need to
exist; both Rush and Lori decry the use of abortion as birth
control.

Rush says that ignoring the life of the fetus is the "epitome of
selfishness" and the logic of pro-choice crowd is indefensible.
He thanks Lori for calling, and says that her statement is quite
true - if a woman doesn't want to get pregnant, she has to assume
responsibility in the act that causes pregnancy.

Of course, this attitude will be attacked as restricting women's
rights to do what they want, but responsibility is not a dirty
word. Yet, to feminists, as well as to homosexuals, sex must have
no consequences. If sex has consequences, then these liberals
would have to deal with morality, and feminists don't want to do
that because they know they are supporting immoral behavior.

Feminists also talk about men's responsibility for pregnancy, but
Rush says that this would be a valid issue if all pregnancies
were the result of rape. But this is not the case.

*BREAK*

Rush says that pollsters claim 79% of Republicans support
abortion rights, but don't believe it should be used as birth
control. Last November Washington state had a ballot initiative
on abortions. Instead of the landslide pro-choice vote that was
expected, though, the vote was so close that it took an extra
week to count all the ballots. The ballot won by a fraction of a
percentage, which shows that pro-choice is not an overwhelming
wide-spread mainstream view.

Militant feminism has never been a mainstream view, and they will
remain outsiders as look as they continue the radical and angry
tactics that were in evidence on Sunday night. Rush thinks that
this "mob" will make it harder and harder for reasonable women to
support these same causes.

Rush is accused of not knowing what modern feminism is, but
Sunday's march was a clear example of it. Women may claim that
they're not part of that radicalism and extremism, but that they
are still feminists. However, these women will have to speak up
and redefine feminism according to their own views.

The media, of course, still is sympathetic to the feminazi view -
some New York media persons even marched on Sunday, which should
show how biased their reporting is. Rush says that women who
still think he is the "meanest SOB on the planet" should read the
May issue of Vanity Fair. Peter Boyer even got Rush to answer
personal questions that Rush had previously refused to answer for
anyone else.

*BREAK*

Phone   Marlene from Charleston, WV

Marlene has "almost decided that George is not a good guy
anymore." She worked on his 1988 campaign and had decided not to
help him this year. However, after seeing all of the speakers
yesterday attack Bush, Marlene is coming to realize that Bush is
not so bad after all. Rush says that the feminists blaming all
abortions on Bush is ridiculous, and he holds Marlene through the
break.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush opens the hour by saying that for the first time in years
he's excited about the new baseball season. When he worked for
the Kansas City Royals, he ended up spending so much time at each
and every game that he lost a lot of his zeal for the game. Rush
did "really important stuff" like escorting the singer for the
national anthem, getting baseballs signed by players, etc.

However, although Rush wouldn't have missed those years for
anything, he says that the objective of a professional team is to
"win games." Therefore, if your job is not concerned with that
primary objective, you are not going to have good prospects for a
long-term career. This, plus the fact that sports is usually an
escape for people, eliminated a lot of the mystique for Rush.
He's always liked the Royals, but has not been into the game as
much as he is now.

Phone   Marlene from Charleston, WV (continued)

Rush thanks Marlene for being on-hold, and she doesn't mind
because it's really entertaining being on hold for Rush's show.
Rush comments that Magic Johnson was the half-time guest during a
recent Chicago Bull's game, and Johnson expressed his displeasure
at how other members of the President's AIDS Commission were
trying to tell him what he should say and how he should say it.

When he was first appointed to the commission, Johnson had a
widely-publicized meeting with Bush in which he told the
President that he was not doing enough about AIDS. Rush is
certain that this was done at the urging of the other commission
members, and bets that someone finally took Johnson aside and
told him that the US was already spending more money on AIDS then
on any other disease.

It's just ridiculous that Johnson or anyone else could think
Washington, DC and President Bush were responsible for the spread
of AIDS. If people want to stop AIDS, or teenage pregnancy and
abortions, there are behavioral changes that must happen. Yet a
lot of people think that only the government can solve problems
anymore, that all that has to happen is for the government to
spend billions of dollars.

Marlene thinks that these people have a willing media - for
example, the media makes it appear that all American women are
100% behind the feminists who marched in Washington on Sunday.
Marlene isn't that fond of George Bush, but "if the feminists are
so much against him, then he can't be all bad." She thinks that
the focus has to be on writing one's congressmen and letting them
know what the mainstream voters really think. She bets that there
will be some big changes coming in November.

Rush agrees, and says that a number of people are going to be
very embarrassed - in particular, any of the media mavens who
think this presidential election will be only a two party race
will be "profoundly surprised" by what happens in the next six
months. Rush is withholding judgment on H. Ross Perot, but he
bets that Perot's affect on this election will be substantial.

Perot is not going to sit back and let the campaign happen, nor
is he going to let the media portray him as they will. Instead,
he is going to have 30 minute TV shows on all of the networks,
and he will present himself as he wants to be presented. The
media will thus be incredibly surprised by how much attention
Perot will be getting. The American voter today doesn't love
anyone in Washington, and no beltway politicians are inspiring or
energizing people.

Item

o       Rush comments that the May issue of Vanity Fair will be
hitting the newsstands within the week. This issue has articles
on both Hillary Clinton and Rush. Rush's name is even on the
cover - about "45 degrees up and to the right of Ivana Trump's
left breast." The story on Rush even quotes Gloria Alred on Rush
- "Limbaugh and his popularity are harmful to women. He is
absolutely formidable, and I think many of his statements could
have a dangerous impact. I think that they can create a climate
in which some people think it's okay to commit violence against
women."

Rush says that "no such thing is remotely possible," and that he
doesn't encourage nor discuss violence against women. If anything
is going to create conflict and violence against women, it is the
"in your face" attitude of the militant feminists who
demonstrated Sunday. The radical feminists are the ones who are
provocative and who will incite violence.

Similarly, Susan Faludi, a "new-wave feminist who's been passed
the feminist tampon from Molly Yard," said "I'm not surprised by
Limbaugh's popularity, but it makes me wonder about the women
listeners who clearly don't have their heads screwed on
straight." In other words, any women who listen to Rush, or god-
forbid actually like him, are masochistic people who like being
"put-down."

Rush says that Faludi is totally wrong - women are never put-down
on his show; rather it is radical feminism which Rush attacks,
and he usually attacks them after they have first attacked the
traditional morality and values that he and other Americans
value. This is typical liberalism - condescension that holds that
women simply can't be trusted to do the right thing unless they
listen to what the radical feminists are saying.

*BREAK*

Phone   Katie from Durham, NC

Katie gives "greetings but no dittos." She is a student at Duke
University, and was "kinda enraged a little bit about the way"
Rush has been trivializing the rally on Sunday. Rush holds her
through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Katie from Durham, NC (continued)

Katie is going to vote for the first time in November, and says
that the more she listens to Rush's show, the more convinced she
is that she is not going to vote for Bush and instead vote
Democrat. Rush thanks her for the "compliment," and is curious as
to why. He first asks her, though, why she (and so many other
listeners) seem to think Rush is a rabid George Bush fan. Katie
says that one thing is that Rush makes fun of the Democrats more
than he does of Bush and Quayle; she thinks the Democrats should
be ridiculed somewhat, but then again so should Bush and Quayle.

Rush says that he doesn't need to make fun of Bush and Quayle
because everyone else is doing that already - Jay Leno, Johnnie
Carson, etc. Jerry Brown, though, is the "nutburger and kook who
changes his mind every 5 minutes." Yesterday's San Francisco
Chronicle/Examiner reports that Brown went to China in 1989 to
find a cheap labor site for an American firm. Brown denies making
the journey, but he has changed his mind about enough other
topics to make him a good target.

Katie agrees that Brown should be ridiculed and that "Slick
Willie has earned his name"; however, though, she still thinks
that Bush and Quayle should not be excluded from this. Rush
comments that he has been critical of Bush for almost two years,
in almost everything except the Gulf War. In fact, Rush has been
so critical of the President that his administration has called
friends of his, such as Roger Ailes, demanding to know why Rush
is out for Bush's blood.

This is what Rush doesn't understand - he has criticized Bush
relentlessly on a number of topics - in particular, he has
attacked Bush for allowing people like Ross Perot to gain
support. If Bush had not betrayed the Reagan legacy, Perot would
not even stand a chance today. Rush, though, does support Bush
over any other current candidate, especially if the choice comes
down to Bush and a Democrat.

Katie says that this is where Rush is wrong - Bush at best is a
"mediocre president." Clinton will not make the best president,
but he won't make a worse president than Bush. Rush disagrees -
he doesn't want Clinton selecting Supreme Court justices or going
to the typical Democratic liberal leadership for advice. Katie
doesn't think Clinton will be asking advice from Mario Cuomo, but
Rush bets that people like Ted Kennedy won't wait to be called -
they'll be right there at the Oval Office with a list of
"acceptable" candidates.

Katie also says that she thinks Rush is trivializing the Sunday
pro-choice rally, which she calls a "success because there were
so many people there." Rush says that getting a large turnout
means "zilch" - the trouble is that a pro-life march will
probably happen within a couple of months, but the media "won't
tell you the truth about it."

Katie doesn't believe that and says that she's not militant or
angry at anyone. However, she tells Rush that "the media is
telling the truth except you," and wonders how Rush can dispute
the figure of 500,000 people. Rush again says that the turnout
has nothing to do with anything except to con the marchers into
believing that they accomplished something.

Katie thinks that a lot was accomplished - "they created a lot of
awareness." Rush bets that the feminists created more enemies
than they did friends during their march. Katie agrees and says
that she wouldn't try to make converts using the same tactics
that the feminist leadership used, but then she thinks that pro-
lifers "have no business standing outside of clinics."

Katie thinks that pro-lifers are "some of the most militant
people" and Rush also disagrees with that. Rush says that the
press and police mistreat pro-lifers such as Operation Rescue. He
calls them the most peaceful protesters since Martin Luther King,
Jr. but Katie thinks that they have "no right to impose their
ideas on anybody else - they have no right - a woman has the
right to do with her own body whatever she wants."

Rush calls that "specious, empty logic" - society already tells
women that they cannot do everything that want to with their own
body - prostitution is condemned and drugs are outlawed. Katie,
though, thinks Rush is entitled to his opinion, but abortion is
legal and the demonstrators are thus opposing a legal law. Rush
admits that, but says that the demonstrators are using a lawful
process to express their opposition to that law. Katie says "not
when they're spitting on people, and screaming at them, and
harassing them - that's exactly what they do."

Rush says that this is a "two-way street" - the pro-choicers are
just as aggressive as any pro-lifer could be, and the aggressor
sets the rules in such battles. He thanks Katie for calling, and
he starts to advise her to stay away from Democrats. However, he
then changes his mind; instead, he just jokes "well, do what you
want - if you want to register as a Democrat and throw away a lot
of your life, that's your business."

*BREAK*

Phone   Gary from Pueblo, CO

Gary talked to Rush about term limits about a year and a half
ago, and Rush admits that he has become a reluctant convert to
term limits, at least for the House of Representatives. He says
that the "real problem with this country is the House of
Representatives." The founders of this country wanted a
"revolving door" in the House and did not intend it to be a
career. Gary adds "they have run amuck, haven't they?"

Rush mentions an Associated Press story in which congressmen were
asked what they thought about the American people. These quotes
show the truth of Rush's statements that members of Congress
think the American people are a bunch of fools, who need "big
government and big Congress." The AP reporter writes that members
of Congress "have serious reservations about the public's ability
to handle the truth." Gary wonders how the congressmen know how
the public would react to the truth since they never tell it.

Rush says that most people react better to the truth than any
possible lie. For example, there is one aspect of his job that
Rush truly hates, and during these times Rush has a tendency to
"blow up." Thus, Rush's staff whispers amongst themselves before
they tell him about these assignments, because they don't want to
"get hit with a thrown cup." Instead they should just tell Rush
outright <<and then dodge the thrown cup>>.

*BREAK*

Phone   Charlene from Rochester, NY

Charlene tells Rush that she and her husband have just changed
from Democrat to Republican, to which Rush replies "take that,
Katie, from Durham, NC!" However, Charlene and her husband get to
vote one more time in the Democratic party, and she wants to know
if they should vote for Brown or Clinton, or instead just "stay
home and bake cookies." Rush says that "we're still talking about
who will finish last in the Indianapolis 500"; however, to keep
the Democrats in a "tizzy," Charlene and her husband should vote
for Brown. If nothing else, this would be more fun than voting
for Clinton.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       A new study reports that job changes that cause distress
to single, childless women do not generate distress in working
married women and mothers. Psychologist Rosalind Barnett said
that the study does not imply "any protection against feeling bad
after a lousy day at work." Rush wonders why the study was done
in the first place if the results don't mean anything.

o       Rush is "shocked" at the news about Nelson and Minnie
Mandela's impending divorce. Tony LoBianco comes into the studio
to do his impersonation of Rush doing his impersonation of Nelson
Mandela. He says "we love you" and Rush comments that it was
close, but "you're not Rich Little or anything." Lo Bianco says
that Rush's impersonation is funnier, but Rush isn't sure about
that - "I get laughed with," he says, but then tells Lo Bianco
"you get laughed at." Lo Bianco has to admit that this is
probably true, and when Rush does his own impersonation of
Mandela, Lo Bianco calls it "perfect."

Rush them tells him, in a Howard Cosell voice, that he should go
back into the broadcast booth and run the show. "You're not
supposed to be in there imitating the host, you're supposed to be
in there in awe. You're supposed to be in total respect. You
can't be me no matter how hard you want to be. I don't even think
it's wise for you to try because all you'll end up being is
disappointed. Now get in there." Lo Bianco meekly answers "yes,
boss" and returns to his booth. Rush is pleased, however, that
Tony Lo Bianco has made his "debut performance on the EIB
network."

Finally returning to the subject of Nelson Mandela, Rush recalls
how Winnie Mandela was called the "mother of her country" when
she and Nelson were in America "fleecing people" for money for
their communistic ANC. Winnie Mandela was praised as the
"greatest and most courageous woman" in the entire world, and the
media was filled with coverage about her. Now that she's getting
divorced, though, the media is strangely silent.

Bo comments that Winnie will now be the "unwed mother of a
nation, which fits the times," and Rush agrees - "the mother of
South Africa is a single parent."

o       A Japanese book publisher is being criticized by
feminists for offering a tour book that tells where strip joints
and brothels are in Southeast Asia. The book, Southeast Asia for
Men Travelling Alone, has been withdrawn, but feminists are
demanding that the publisher donate money to groups that promote
sexual equality.

Rush comments that the Japanese economy has peaked and is now
heading south, what with its stock market at 53% of its highest
point. Thus, the Democrats can claim another victim - they have
been leading the Japan-bashing, and have managed to ruin Japan's
economy just like they have ruined America's. Of course a lot of
people are happy about this, but they shouldn't be - the US is
not helped by a world-wide recession. The point is that
recessions are cyclical in nature and happen throughout the
world. Of course, liberals will claim that Reagan's tax cuts were
probably responsible for Japan's problems.

o       Rush mentions that Britain will have a major election
this month, and he does an impersonation of Neil Kinnock of
Britain's Labour Party. Rush calls the British elections a "major
thing to watch" because the Labour party is way to the left. Neil
Kinnock, in fact, was helping Ted Kennedy in his attempts during
the '80s to meet privately with Soviet leaders so that they could
circumvent Reagan's foreign policy towards the Soviet Union.

The British conservatives are down a couple of points in the
polls, but the Labour party may not win enough to get a clear
majority. Britain has a 9.4% employment rate, and in fact most of
Europe is in a recession. These countries did not have any
massive tax cuts, and their current recessions were not the fault
of tax cuts. Thus, the next time a Democrat tries to blame the
recession or deficit on Reagan's tax cuts, they should be told 1)
those tax cuts were offset by a corresponding rise in Social
Security taxes, and 2) Europe didn't have any tax cuts, so why
are they in recession?

The only reason for the massive deficits is that Congress can't
limit its spending. A listener recently asked Rush to explain the
budget deficit, and he obliges - "the national debt is the sum
total of all budget deficits since the history of the country.
It's caused by spending more money than we have." This is all you
need to know for an EIB master's degree in civics.

*BREAK*

Phone   Karen from Sugerland, TX

Karen says that she objects to Rush's closing statements on
Friday that his listeners didn't have to read newspapers or
anything during the weekend because he would keep them informed
and tell them what to think. She therefore thinks Rush believes
he knows everything and she feels sorry for the woman in Rush's
life. Rush asks "which one, there are about seven."

Karen doesn't get the joke and says "any of them - anyone who
would take you own deserves a medal of some sort." Rush says that
this kind of comment really "frosts" him because he has a great
many female friends who don't agree with him, yet they never take
a "men vs. women" attitude.

Karen wonders why Rush has any "right" to label feminists as
"feminazis." Rush tells her that "this is America and there's
this thing called the First Amendment, and I as an American have
access to it." He tells Karen that there are only 12 or so
feminazis in the country, and she derisively laughs and says "I
thought there were 500,000 of them."

Rush tells her that this is not the case - "a feminazi is a
feminist whose only objective and concern in the world is to see
it that as many abortions as possible take place." Karen doesn't
think that this is the goal of the pro-choice movement, and Rush
says that this may be true as far as Karen and other rank-and-
file feminists think, but as far as the feminist leadership is
concerned, "it is the sole objective because it is the single
best statement to men that they can make that `we don't need you,
we don't want you, we don't care about you, and you have no power
over us.'"

Karen says that the Constitution should give women "all freedoms
that our forefathers wanted us to have - freedom of choice should
be one of them." Rush asks her to examine that statement
logically - there are limitations on choice for everyone, in
every aspect of their life. Yet feminists want a single, specific
behavior to have no limits whatsoever so that they "can be
absolved of any conscience or any guilt, or any mistakes that
they might make, which is just sad."

Karen says that people can smoke which is not a healthy thing to
do, and Rush points out there is no constitutional right to
smoke. People have the right to do as they please as long as they
don't break any laws. Rush says that laws are essentially "the
moral limits of citizens as they establish limits on behavior."
The real argument about abortion now, though, is where will it be
defined as law - in the Supreme Court or in Congress. Rush holds
Karen through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Karen from Sugerland, TX (continued)

Rush says that the thing that amazes him about pro-choicers is
that right now abortion has been legalized through a Supreme
Court ruling. This law is being attacked from a number of fronts
- pro-lifers don't think the Constitution gives a right to kill
babies, while legal scholars dispute the law from a legal
standpoint. It's pretty clear that Roe vs. Wade will be
overturned sooner or later, but it will better overturned from a
legal perspective, not from the results of activists.

If pro-choicers want abortion to be legalized, then either the US
Congress or the state congresses can write a bill, vote on it,
pass it, and send it to the President or governor to sign; this
is the democratic process. Karen, though, says pro-lifers don't
think abortion is right under any circumstances. Rush fails to
see the relevance of this remark and so he tries again by asking
Karen why feminists consider it "wrong" to let the people and
their representatives decide this issue once and for all. If, as
the feminists state, the American public is massively in favor of
pro-choice, why are they afraid of going the congressional route?

Karen says that month ago, one of Rush's callers claimed that
feminists didn't want women to experience childbirth because then
they would reject feminism. Karen wants to know what does any man
know about childbirth? Rush says that you don't have to engage in
an activity in order to be qualified to discuss it or know about
it.

Karen says that "there are a lot of women who aren't good
mothers," and Rush asks if that means "kill the baby?" Karen says
that she just wants choice, and Rush says that her choice is to
"kill the baby so that it doesn't suffer." This whole issue is
about life, not about choice, freedom of speech, or anything
else.

Rush says that there are many laws that he doesn't like, but he
accepts them because they were passed through the democratic
process. Roe vs. Wade, though, was not implemented by the
democratic process but by "nine guys in judicial robes pandering
to a liberal constituency and finding a right that exists nowhere
in the Constitution."

Rush still doesn't understand the hysteria of the women who fear
the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. If these feminists are so
confident that their opinion is shared by the vast majority of
the American people, then let them implement abortion as the law
of the land through the democratic process. Karen wonders why
Rush thinks the women on Sunday were hysterical, and Rush answers
that he's looked up the word in "Merriam's Ninth Collegiate
Dictionary and I know the definition of hysteria and I saw it on
Sunday."

Karen accuses Rush of getting hysterical himself, and Rush
disputes that. Karen also thinks that Rush doesn't respect women
because he made a joke about "feminine logic." Rush says that
Karen should lighten up and not follow the feminists who have
constructed their whole agenda as "us against them." Rush has
tried to discuss this issue in the arena of politics and the
democratic process, but Karen has been the one who's accused Rush
of one personal failing after another.

He says that men and women should not be allowed to do whatever
they want to do without limits. Men have no right to go into a
theater wearing a trench coat and masturbate because it's their
body, and we have laws against prostitution that restrict the
actions of women. Rush is convinced that there should also be a
law against killing babies.

"There are two people involved here," he states - the baby and
the mother. Actually, the father makes three, but he's been
relegated to an inconsequential status by Roe vs. Wade. Yet Rush
has been accused of hating women simply because he doesn't want
to give them unlimited power to do whatever they want, regardless
of the law.

*BREAK*

Rush asks "what's the difference between Jane Fonda, Bill
Clinton, Jerry Brown, and Dan Quayle?" The answer is "Jane Fonda
went to Vietnam." Rush bets that this joke will now be told at
"all the dinner tables across America."

Phone   Stephen from Arlington, VA

Stephen thinks Rush should have a Ross Perot update, and as the
theme he suggests "Do a Little Sidestep" from the musical "Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas." Stephen was a student in high school
when Perot implemented his changes at the DFW School System in
Dallas. He says that his "life got hard overnight" - all the
letter grades were eliminated, in favor of Pass/No Pass. From his
own personal viewpoint he feels that he was much better prepared
for college. Rush says that he'll check into these changes
himself and see if he can get any more information on what
Perot's changes really were.

Rush did post a message on the Rush Limbaugh section of the
Issues forum on CompuServe, asking people whether they thought
Perot's candidacy really started on the Larry King show on
February 20th. One person said that they were at the meeting of
the "Perot for President" group in the summer of 1991. EIB is
checking out the claim and Rush will keep his audience updated on
the results, whatever way it goes.

However, if the campaign really did start in 1991, he wonders if
Perot's supporters will admit that there is some deception going
on. Most likely, though, the Perot supporters will claim that
this doesn't matter.

*BREAK*

Phone   Helen from Grand Forks, ND

Helen is a stay-at-home mom, and last weekend she attended the
state Republican convention as a delegate. In spite of Katie's
comments earlier in today's show that she converted to being a
Democrat because of Rush, Helen believes that Rush is doing far
more for Republicans than for Democrats. Rush is not only
converting Democrats to the Republican party, but he is also
making Republicans stronger in their beliefs.

Rush thanks Helen for her kind words, and says that he suspects
Katie was only trying to get his goat by blaming her liberalism
on him. Helen doesn't believe Katie either, and says that Rush
has given her confidence in believing that one person can make a
difference. Rush got Helen involved in politics during the
Clarence Thomas hearings and she thanks him for that.

Phone   Barbara from San Diego, CA

Barbara says that she was on hold for so long, but now that time
is quickly running out, she fears she won't get her "intellectual
orgasm." However, she does want to ask Rush about what has
happened to Tom Harkin, given that a year ago he was perceived to
be the Democrats' best hope.

Rush answers that "Harkin came down with a terminal case of
liberalitis." Rush admits that he thought Harkin was going to be
the front runner, because John Sununu told him that Harkin was
gaining strength. However, the White House, along with a lot of
others, misread how much support traditional liberalism was
losing.

Rush says that he will call Barbara tomorrow to continue their
discussion.

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