From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Mon 10/5/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, Oct. 5, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:21:40 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, October 5, 1992

by John Switzer

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Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
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this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other as
a daily listener.

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October 5, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

This Morning Update replays an unsolicited call that Rush
received last Friday:

Phone   Vice President Dan Quayle from Cape Girardeau, MO

Quayle says that he has just agreed to have a debate with Senator
Gore on October 13th, and since this debate will have only one
moderator Quayle asks if Rush would agree to be it. "I think that
would be great," Quayle says, "and I'm sure that Al Gore would
welcome that, too."

Rush says he would be happy and honored to serve as moderator,
and Quayle promises to relay the news to Senator Gore, adding
"I'm sure that he'll be thrilled with that, as I am, and so will
all your listeners because you'll keep the debate going, you'll
put the questions out there, and we're really looking forward to
it. This is what the media's been wanting - they've wanted a
good, solid, objective moderator to keep the discussion going. We
have a lot of issues on the table, and you're the man."

Rush replies "I am honored to be asked, and I would serve with
tremendous pleasure."

<<end of call>>

The EIB network takes a look into the future to see just what
this debate might be like:

<<Floor reporter, asking Rush a question>> "Ah, Mr. Limbaugh -
Mr. Limbaugh, since this debate started, you have been talking
for about 10 minutes. Are there any questions that you have for
the candidates?"

<<Since Rush is flying back from Kansas City, today's show is a
"Best of Rush" show. The first hour of today's show is the first
hour that was originally aired on Thursday, August 27, 1992>>

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       EIB is still accepting short VHS videos for use on Rush's
upcoming TV show. "Brevity is the soul of wit," and tapes should
have some sort of comment which will make Rush look good. Rush
suggests that people pretend that these videos are just phone
calls that are being taped. Send the videos to Rush Limbaugh, the
Television Show, 515 West 57th Street, NYC, NY 10019. EIB will
not return any of these videos, however.

o       Tonight Rush has to write a 1200-word piece for National
Review on what Bush has to do to win. Although he has known that
he needed to write this article for a month, Rush wanted to wait
until the last minute so that he could put as much information as
possible in it. Rush now believes that he has found the issue
which will divide Clinton and the Democrats - the North American
Free Trade Agreement.

Rush knows that people may not understand this agreement, and
this is why he will explain it to his audience, just like he
explained Bush's 10% taxpayer checkoff plan earlier this week.
Rush was curious at first as to why Bush introduced this
agreement during the campaign, since critics claim that Americans
will lose their jobs because of it.

However, there is a good political reason for this, and Rush will
explain later. One reason to support the agreement, though, is
that Richard Gephardt is against it. As usual, Slick Willie is
positioning himself on both sides of the fence on this issue.

Update  Woody Allen         (Shep and the Limelighters, "Daddy's
Home")

Rush wonders what will happen if Allen and Soon-Yi get married
and later get a divorce - will Soon-Yi be awarded both alimony
and child support payments? Will Soon-Yi be awarded custody of
herself? And if Soon-Yi has a daughter who grows up and marries
Allen, then would he become his own brother-in-law? Rush comments
that not even Alex Haley would be able to make sense of this
family.

Item

o       Gloria Estafan and Julia Iglesias were among the
celebrities whose Florida homes were spared by Hurricane Andrew.
Madonna's new $4 million estate in Coral Gables took a "big
beating, though." Windows were broken and the landscape was
damaged. Rush says that this is no big deal for Madonna - "it's
not the first time that some guy blew into town for a night,
trashed her, and then left."

The mention of Julio Iglesias reminds Rush to ask his staff why
they haven't found his new Slick Willie Update theme - "All the
Girls I've Loved Before." The staff replies that they're still
looking, which Rush interprets to mean that they've forgotten
about his request. He says that he will obviously have to bring
in his own copy of the song.

This reminds Rush of the time he was taking a cruise and had a
number of guests in his stateroom. A waiter came in with their
food order, but there was no place in the stateroom in which to
set the tray down. After 30 seconds of turning around in circles,
the waiter finally got their attention by repeatedly saying
"still looking, still looking, still looking."

*BREAK*

Rush realizes that he has damaged his image by admitting that he
owns a Julio Iglesias CD. However, Rush explains that he bought
this CD because it has a duet between Iglesias and Diana Ross.

Phone   Doug from Rosalyn, NY

Doug thinks Bush's new checkoff plan is humorous because he
suggested to Rush back in 1988 that people should make voluntary
contributions to pay off the deficit; this, along with a cap on
spending, would solve the deficit. Rush says that Doug's comment
proves that Bush has been listening to his show for four years,
and obviously stole the idea from Doug.

Rush admits that Bush's idea does set a risky precedent because
you can't allow taxpayers to specify everything that their money
can or cannot be used for. However, Rush likes the idea because
it is a good political step; it shows the true hypocrisy of the
Democrats in Congress. Congress says that it's concerned about
the deficit, but it continues to spend, spend, spend. They then
turn around and blame Bush for the deficit.

Rush is also excited about his theory that the Free Trade
Agreement will show how much of a fallacy it is to believe that
the Democrats are now a party of moderates and centrists. He
believes that this issue will drive a wedge between the true
moderates in the party and the liberals who are only pretending
to be moderates.

Phone   Ed from Colorado Springs, CO

Ed wants to know the truth about Clinton's 128 tax increases
since both sides have different views on this. Rush says that
while Clinton has been governor, Arkansas has implemented 128
increases in taxes and fees; this doesn't mean Clinton signed 128
separate bills, but he did support 128 separate items.

However, Rush thinks Bush should get off of this 128 figure since
the real issue is Clinton's proposed economic plan which would
take two-thirds of American businesses' profits. All Clinton
knows about is raising taxes and spending money; he's never had a
job in the private sector.

Ed says that you can get a good idea of the sides of the issues
that Bush and Clinton are on by looking at the special interest
groups who are aligning with them. Rush agrees - just look at who
is endorsing Clinton and you will see that liberals are still
alive and well and supporting Bill Clinton.

Rush goes off on a tangent to comment that in Minneapolis, gases
released from liquid manure pits have killed four Minnesota
farmers in the past few weeks. Rush points out that manure is a
natural substance and he links this to a 1974 issue of Readers
Digest which reports that "ominous trends" in the world's climate
point to a global cooling trend. Rush laughs at how quickly the
doom-and-gloomers change their minds on things.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush starts laughing because Tony Lo Bianco has come in
with more photos; one shows him on the set of the WABC Channel 7
news set, and the other shows him with Phil Collins. In both
pictures Lo Bianco is wearing a stupid grin that can be
characterized only as "dumb happy." Rush is amazed at how Lo
Bianco is able to sneak by any security cop and through any stage
door.

o       The July 1974 issue of Readers Digest contained excerpts
from a piece printed in Fortune magazine. Tom Alexander is the
author and he writes that "ominous changes in the world's
weather" may indicate a "global cooling trend that could bring
massive tragedies for mankind." This fear has now been forgotten
as people are claiming that the Earth is now threatened by
cataclysmic global warming.

Al Gore writes in his "Earth in the Balance," page 325, that "we
now know that automobiles' cumulative impact on the environment
is posing a mortal threat to the security of every nation that is
more deadly even than that of any military enemy that we are
again likely to confront." In other words, the common car is more
dangerous to the Earth than the nuclear weapons in the hands of
the enemies of the United States.

Gore would obviously do something about these evil automobiles -
at the very least he would restrict the use and manufacture of
the automobile, no matter what the cost would be to consumers or
to auto industry workers. Will Gore insist on cars that get 70
m.p.g.? Will he insist that certain cars be banned altogether?

Gore is not alone in his beliefs, and these beliefs will clearly
harm the American worker and consumer. Clinton and Gore are
attacking Bush's record on jobs, but jobs can come only from the
private sector, which Gore evidently considers to be one of the
worst enemies of the environment.

Gore also writes on page 325 that "I support new laws to mandate
improvements in automobile fleet mileage, but much more is needed
than just that." Rush doesn't know why he is the only one
bringing out these points, but he is more than able to handle the
load.

o       The American Federation of Teachers has distributed a
list of average teacher salaries for each of the 50 states.
Connecticut tops the list with an average salary of $47,510 per
year. Alaska is next at $43,800 and New York pays $43,335 per
year. Rush comments that this is not bad money, although in New
York this figure isn't a lot to risk your life for, not to
mention that NY teachers have to buy their own body armor.

Michigan pays $40,700, Rhode Island pays $39,397, and Arkansas is
near the bottom of the list. California, which pays $40,425, is
having a budget crisis because the "education czars" don't think
education gets enough money. New Jersey is now spending over
$7,000 per student per year, which works out to $210,000 per an
average-sized classroom. Since teachers get paid an average
$41,000, what happens to the remaining $169,000? Does this money
go to classrooms, chalk, blackboards? Rush, though, feels sorry
for these poor teachers who are earning so "little" when compared
to the rest of the country.

Rush digresses to comment on how the Republicans were criticized
for spending as much money as they did on carpeting the
Astrodome. Yet, of course, the media didn't mention anything
negative about how much the Democrats spent on their convention.

o       The number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits
dropped below 400,000 for the first time in 22 months. The
decline of 90,000 claims was the largest drop ever recorded since
1967. Rush shakes his head at this horrible news, and the EIB
staff inserts the sound of a baby crying about this tragedy.
However, labor officials remained optimistic as they cautioned
against "reading too much" into these statistics.

Rush bets, though, that if the unemployment claims went up, the
economists would not advise against "reading too much" into the
rise. Instead, the increase would undoubtedly be used as a
bludgeon against the Presidency of George Bush.

*BREAK*

The EIB staff, having been chastised for their slackness, has
finally found "All the Girls I've Loved Before," and Rush plays
it to introduce it as his new Slick Willie Update theme. The
first time through the song Julio sings it solo, after which he
is then joined by Willie. Rush at first thinks that Clinton is
singing a duet with Ted Kennedy, but then realizes that it's
Willie Nelson, not Willie Clinton.

*BREAK*

Phone   Tom from Atlanta, GA

Tom thinks that the male equivalent of "slut" is "lecher" and not
"satyr." He also saw the Mark Russel special on PBS in which
Russel sang a song about Rush. Rush's mom heard the song and
thought it was very "cute." Tom, though, came away with a
different view about the song which referred to "right-wing talk
radio." Rush holds Tom over the break.

*BREAK*

<<All but the last segment of the second hour of today's show is
the second hour that was originally aired on Thursday, August 27,
1992>>

SECOND HOUR

o       Jeff Goldblum, Roger Ebert, and David Bowie are all
either dating or married to black women. The September issue of
Ebony magazine focuses on interracial couples composed of black
women and white men. Ebony quotes a psychologist who says that
successful black women are increasingly dating and marrying white
men because, in the psychologist's words, "there is a shortage of
successful black men." The magazine identifies Whoopi Goldberg
and Nell Carter as two famous black women who have chosen white
mates.

Rush is curious about this, though, because he had thought that
white men were the reasons for all of America's ills. White males
are so evil that the politically correct crowd wants no trace of
them to remain in history courses. White men are evidently pigs,
unless you want a happy and successful marriage.

One member of the EIB staff who wishes to remain anonymous tells
Rush that if a movie were made about Whoopi Goldberg's and Nell
Carter's romances, the title would be "White Men Can't See." Rush
laughs shamelessly at this joke. Bo Snerdley, however, is not
happy with this line of humor, and Rush comments that Bo is
seething so much that he is doing a great job of imitating a
booster rocket.

o       In more racial news, Spike Lee has issued calls for
American blacks to "go on strike" when his new movie about
Malcolm X is released. Lee's movie is going to open up at
theaters on November 20th, and Lee would like all blacks to go on
strike from work or school that day so that they can attend the
movie's premiere.

Lee was quoted in yesterday's LA Times as saying "we're telling
them that they've got to turn out to support this film and
support Malcolm X. It's not Hollywood, this ain't Walt Disney.
This is about the state of race relations in the world." Lee said
that "skipping school for the opening is okay because the film
presents the American history that students are not getting in
school. If they go see the film and write a report about what
they've seen, the teachers can't hold that against them."

Rush suggests that Spike Lee should go all the way - not only
should kids skip school to see the movie, but they should loot
the concession stand on their way out and then burn up the
building. The kids would thus get a complete educational
experience.

Phone   Tom from Atlanta, GA (continued)

Tom says that Mark Russel's song was about "right-wing radio,"
and in it Russel referred to "even the guy with half his brain
tied behind his back." Tom also thinks that if Spike Lee really
wants to make an impression across America, he should give free
admission to his movie to anyone who has a note from their
employer or teacher. Lee could then reimburse the theaters for
the loss in ticket revenues.

Tom, though, really wants to talk about the Presidential election
as he is having a hard time with it. Tom definitely won't vote
for Clinton, and when he was in Little Rock recently he couldn't
find anyone who supported Clinton. However, he can't buy into
Bush either, especially since Bush seems to think that family
values should be dictated by the government. Rush says that this
is not what Bush is saying, but William Bennett pegged the issue
right on the money - Bush should not be trying to portray family
values as a good-versus-evil type of battle.

Family values is a worthwhile issue, but the focus should be on
the ideology of liberalism which promotes a permissive society.
However, family values is being overblown and this only threatens
to turn people like Tom off of the entire subject. The importance
of family values can be seen by people like Robert Alton Harris
who claimed that he killed two kids because his mother drank
while he was in the womb.

The same people who claim that they shouldn't be held responsible
for their actions because of a dysfunctional family are the same
ones who most ridicule the concept of family values. However, if
a family can screw a child up, then can't a good family help a
child become a moral and responsible citizen?

*BREAK*

Rush notices a news story about a study that links brain size
with insanity. Rush predicts that a lot of jokes will soon be
made about this, but he refuses to participate and tears the
article in half as punctuation to his resolve to remain above the
fray.

Phone   Brendan from Toledo, OH

Rush comments that the average teacher's salary in Ohio is
$33,198 per year. Brendan agrees with most of what Pat Buchanan
said during his speech at the Republican convention. Brendan
thinks Buchanan was not being divisive or putting down gays but
expressing his disagreement with the gay life-style.

Rush thinks that Buchanan was trying to focus on the political
agenda of militant homosexual groups, and just because Buchanan
opposes that agenda doesn't mean he is gay-bashing. Brendan
comments that during the Democratic convention the Toledo Blade,
a gay newspaper, featured a front-page picture of Jesse Jackson
with the caption "Jackson states liberal manifesto." During the
Republican convention, though, this same paper featured an AIDS
activist smearing red paint on GOP posters. This bias is typical
of gay activist publications.

Brendan thus agrees with Rush that Buchanan was attacking the
militant gay activists' agenda, and he personally is not
impressed with the violent, dirty tactics that these people use.
Rush says that activists use these kinds of tactics because they
work - they consider it a victory when the Toledo Blade has a
front page photo of one of their activists at work. He therefore
sees no harm with identifying the gay activists' agenda and
challenging it.

Rush is intrigued that the Blade identified Jackson with the
"liberal manifesto" since the "new" Democratic party is supposed
to be a "moderate" party that is no longer a liberal homeland.

*BREAK*

Rush believes that the unmasking of Bill Clinton as a bona fide
liberal is essential for a Bush victory in November. If Clinton
gets away with his masquerade as a moderate, then things look bad
for Bush's re-election. This, of course, would benefit Rush since
a Clinton Presidency would make Rush the pre-eminent critic of
his administration; however, Rush is not so selfish as to place
the success of his show over the well-being of his country.

The press, though, will not show the truth about Clinton because
they want him to be elected. Thus, Rush has felt a need to find
an issue on which he can expose Clinton's true agenda and
motives, and he has found such an issue in the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Bush's support for this treaty has
been attacked by numbers of liberals because they claim the US
will lose jobs. However, Bill Clinton was notable during the
Democratic primaries for his support for NAFTA.

But when Clinton now speaks to union members in Michigan, he says
that "he has to look at the fine print" before he gives his
consent to this agreement. Richard Gephardt, though, has no
doubts about NAFTA - he considers it to be unacceptable in its
present form and that it "in no way will work." Gephardt further
attacks Bush for his support of this "job-killing" treaty.

Thus, Clinton has backtracked from his earlier support of the
agreement, and a prominent liberal Democrat has declared it to be
a bad idea. It should be obvious that if Clinton is elected,
NAFTA will not be implemented. Rush calls out some statistics -
the US this year will have a $7 billion surplus with Mexico, and
US exports to Mexico are expected to soar to $40 billion. In 1992
Mexico will become the US's number two market for manufactured
goods, pulling ahead of Japan. No matter how NAFTA is
interpreted, it means more jobs will be created in the US than
lost, simply because of the high Mexican demand for US
manufactured goods.

Certainly, a number of jobs on the low end of the pay scale,
including union jobs, will be lost. The jobs gained from NAFTA,
though, will be high-tech, higher-paying jobs. This is exactly
what Clinton is claiming that he wants for America - higher-
paying jobs. Furthermore, the reason jobs are exported to Mexico
is usually because American workers won't do those jobs at the
price that employers must pay to remain competitive in global
markets.

Mexican workers will accept less for their jobs because they
don't have any jobs right now. Furthermore, having Mexicans work
in Mexico means a drop in illegal immigration. So, although some
US jobs will be lost, the main effect of NAFTA will be to spur a
transition in the types of jobs Americans will be doing.

It's important to remember that there's no way to stop US
companies from manufacturing abroad. It's also important to
remember that Mexico has an economy one-tenth the size of
Japan's, yet they already buy as much as Japan does, even with
their current slack economy. Almost all of US exports to Mexico
are manufactured products.

It's absurd to think that the US economy is in trouble because
Japan won't open its markets, because Mexico is already buying
almost as much as Japan. Thus, why not build up the Mexican
economy so that they can continue to buy even more from us?
Richard Gephardt, though, doesn't want any part of this because
he firmly believes in protectionism and because he has no
understanding of how business works.

Clinton, though, has previously stated that he likes the basic
concept of NAFTA, and Rush hopes that Bush's raising of this as a
political issue will expose how liberal the Democratic party
really is. Clinton is backing down in the face of his party's
liberal leadership, and although he likes the agreement's
concepts, he is now refusing to commit himself to any of its
specifics. This issue therefore is one that can be exploited by
Bush to weaken both Clinton and the liberal Democrats.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush hopes that his audience realizes how fortunate they
are that he was born when he was so that he could explain the
major issues of today with the incredible clarity that he just
showed on NAFTA. Rush laughs at his ego, and explains that he is
trying to satirize Larry King's interview in TV Guide in which he
admitted that he had his doubts at first, but is now coming to
believe that he was indeed the man responsible for Perot's
decision to run for President. Rush wonders if King has realized
yet that the first Perot for President rallies were being held a
year and a half before Perot's appearance on King's show.

o       Rush has just been told why the Queen Elizabeth II ran
aground off the Massachusetts coast - it didn't run into an
uncharted reef, but instead hit Ted Kennedy's 1969 Oldsmobile.

*BREAK*

Rush plays his new public service announcement for his new wing
at the Museum of Broadcasting:

<<The Stars and Stripes March starts up, accompanied by the sound
of an old-style newsreel projector>>

<<Announcer>> Today the EIB radiotone newsreel cameras visit the
great wonders of our time. The new mecca for media mavens in
America - the Rush Limbaugh Wing of the Museum of Broadcasting.
As you can see, the ivy-covered walls of the wing dwarf the
standard museum, as well it should. Long lines of bright shiny
faces await patiently to view the astounding sights within.

        Once through the immense entry-way, small groups break up
to be escorted through the museum by freshly-scrubbed tour
guides. This wing of the Museum of Broadcasting, dedicated to one
of the great cultural icons of our time.

<<Interested male visitor>> Hey, uh, what's that under the glass
there?

<<Perky tour guide>> Oh, those are the Kennedy family jewels.
Rush keeps them under glass, although he's known to nail them to
the wall every now and then.

<<Excited and impressed crowd>> Ooooh, ahhhh!

<<Tour guide>> This is one of Rush's real prizes - a northern
Spotted Owl. Bagged that one on his last trip to the Washington
state.

<<Crowd>> Wow!

<<Announcer>> Visitors make the most of this rare opportunity to
view things of which legends are made.

<<Female tourist>> What's this thing covered with dust?

<<Tour guide>> That's the other half of Rush's brain - hasn't had
to use it in years.

<<Announcer>> It's recommended that visitors pack a lunch and
wear comfortable shoes to visit these extensive exhibits.

<<Tour guide>> This is a replica of a plaque you'll find in
Lincoln's Bedroom in the White House - "Rush Limbaugh slept
here."

<<Crowd>> Gosh!

<<Announcer>> Although still under construction, with new
exhibits arriving daily, the Rush Limbaugh Wing of the Museum of
Broadcasting remains one of the great wonders of our time.

<<Male tourist>> What are those inflatable things there?

<<Tour guide>> Oh, those are Mary Jo Kopechne's water wings -
never been used.

Next is a tape of Hillary Clinton being interviewed September
25th by EIB affiliate WWWE in Cleveland. When asked about Rush
Limbaugh's comments on her husband's lack of a college degree,
Hillary laughed and replied "you know, Rush Limbaugh has this
great racket going where he says whatever he wants to say
regardless of the facts, because it, you know, it makes news and
it's controversial. I mean that's how he makes his living."
Hillary then laughs again.

Rush closes this segment with his commercial for EIB's new horror
movie - "Single White Female."

<<ominous, scary music starts>>

<<Narrator>> Coming soon to a theater near you . . . the story of
a future too horrible to imagine until now! The most frightening
spectacle to hit this country since the Carter Presidency.
Hillary Clinton seemed simple and unassuming, until she moved
into the White House. Then she became a maniacal, power-hungry
psycho, in "Single White Female."

<<Hillary>> You said the "F-word" - Family values! Go to your
room, Willie!

<<Narrator>> Bill Clinton's advisers tried to shut her up, but
once she moved in, it was all over!

<<Hillary>> Willie, come here! <<whimpering sounds>> Sit!
<<panting sounds>> Now go fetch my paper! Good, Willie!

<<Narrator>> There's a stranger in the house, and she's running
the show!

<<Hillary>> You made a cabinet appointment without asking me?!?
Who's in charge around here?!

<<Narrator>> Hillary Clinton is holding her husband and the
entire country hostage in "Single White Female."

<<Hillary>> Smell the glove, Willie!

<<Narrator>> She's married to Bill Clinton, but she has the
ability to cause more damage than any single woman in history.

<<Hillary>> Now let's see that State of the Union address.

<<Narrator>> This is one nightmare you may not be able to wake up
from. Coming soon from a theater near you!

*BREAK*

<<The third hour of today's show is the first hour that was
originally aired on Monday, September 21, 1992>>

THIRD HOUR

Rush is pleased to be speaking with President George Bush, who
dropped by the EIB studios after his address to the United
Nations this morning. Bush remarks that "he's just one more fan
sitting at the table here." Rush comments that he's been thinking
about whether he should ask the President the questions his
audience might want to ask or the questions that are close to his
own heart. Rush has decided to go with his own heartfelt
questions.

Thus, Rush points out that he cannot believe that the people of
America are really that eager to be led by Bill Clinton; instead,
their support for Clinton seems to be an outgrowth of their anger
and frustration towards what President Bush has done in his first
term. Rush asks the President what he can say to these people.

The President says that he's made mistakes, but people should
look at his entire record and decide from that if they can put
their trust in him. The world is going through tremendous
changes, and in particular the danger of nuclear war has lessened
considerably thanks to his administration's efforts.

The President knows that people feel that he has let them down,
primarily because of the sluggish, anemic economy. The question
should therefore be "who best can move it out?" The United States
is still ahead of most other countries in the world, and is not a
"tail-end Charlie." Voters should therefore ask which candidate
is the best one to bring the US out of this recession.

The President knows he made a mistake in supporting the 1990 tax
increases, but Clinton's record is far worse that this. <<Donald
Lambro's column of September 14th reports that on September 3rd,
the Clinton campaign released a report on Clinton's record as
governor of Arkansas. Using figures supplied by the official
state Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, Clinton
raised taxes 34 times and increased fees 93 times, for a total of
127. Shame on you, Mary Matalin for exaggerating Clinton's record
on tax increases.>>

Rush says that Bush's economic agenda is not well known among the
American people, and Rush is continually surprised by how Clinton
talks about how the country has to go through so much pain and
suffering before things get better. Rush asks if the US is really
doing better than most other nations, then why are people feeling
so negative about the economy?

The President thinks that people are so down on the economy
because they are being inundated by a television media which
reports mainly negative news. Good news is simply not reported,
but it is there - interest rates are down, inflation isn't
robbing people of their life's savings, and companies'
inventories are down. However, people are scared that they aren't
going to keep their jobs and are worried about the future. The
President, though, is confident that his economic plan will do
more for the country than Clinton's.

Rush asks for specifics and the President replies that "we've got
to be a military superpower, an economic superpower, and an
export superpower." Rush wonders how the President can address
the average American's fears, even if those fears are groundless.
How can the President convince Americans that he is their best
hope?

The President points out that no matter who wins the Presidency,
there will be one big change in Washington - a new Congress that
will give President Bush a chance force Congress to listen to
people and implement his plans. The President points out that one
big difference between him and Clinton is that Clinton has
already come out in support of more spending and more taxes.
President Bush, though, believes that when the government is
already taking 24% of the nation's GNP in taxes, it is taking too
much.

The President thinks the people want tax relief, controls on
spending, and educational reform, all of which he supported. The
people want a strong crime bill, not the meaningless bill that is
stalled in Congress. The people want tort reform and a cap on
lawsuits because they believe people are suing each other too
much. These are all ingredients of Bush's economic program.

Rush asks Bush if he thinks people expect too much from their
President, and he replies "probably." Rush says that critics have
been predicting economic disaster for years now, and it finally
became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now people are waiting until
after the elections before making any new investments, but Rush
has always thought that the people have far more control over
their destiny than they think; however, people still believe that
the President can change their lives for them.

The President agrees - a lot of people think the US is in a deep
recession, but the economy has grown for five quarters, although
somewhat anemically. This news doesn't matter too much to the
worker who is worried about keeping his job, but it's clear that
the continual negativism about the economy is influencing
people's judgment. Some areas in the country are doing badly, but
others are doing better.

Voters should contrast the approaches proposed by Bush and
Clinton. Bush wants to cut back government and work with a new
Congress to implement his plans, while Clinton wants to increase
taxes and increase spending, not to mention increase regulations
and control from Washington.

Rush says that if one believes the polls, the people's support
for Clinton seems to indicate that they want more spending and
that they want more taxes. The President says that it matters how
the polls are worded. For example, "do you want to protect the
Spotted Owl or protect jobs?" The President, though, wants to do
both, although he wants to protect jobs first and then the owl.
This is why he wants to change the Endangered Species Act.

Rush says that it distresses him to think that people really
believe that the only solution for America is more government.
Government plans and programs just don't solve problems, yet more
and more people seem to think that they do. Rush therefore
wonders how the President can work to overcome these perceptions,
especially as people seem to be expecting far too much from
Washington in general and the President in particular.

The President says that people do expect a lot from the
President, and this is fine with him since when he came to the
White House he vowed never to complain or shift the blame.
However, he disagrees with people who think the economy can be
solved by a government program. To get the economy back on its
feet, you have to free up capital for investment.

The President points out that the deficits in his term have been
excessive, in large part to the S&L loan mess. However, the
government is not bailing out the institutions but is protecting
the depositors who left their money in these speculative S&Ls.
The President is proud that he is helping depositors, but this
has enlarged the deficit, and he accepts the blame for that.

However, the President is also frustrated that Congress has
stonewalled his economic programs for months - Congress is not
interested in helping the economy, because they are playing
politics with the situation. Rush points out that Congress seems
to be sending him only bills that they know he will veto.

Rush also wants to ask the President about Clinton's appearance
at Macomb County Community College in Warren, MI. Clinton said
that the Bush administration "was a do-nothing administration.
After four years of raising your taxes, selling out your jobs,
betraying your values, and violating your trust, Mr. Bush and Mr.
Quayle want to do it to you all over again." Rush thinks that
this is what Bush should be saying about Clinton and all of the
other liberal Democrats.

The President says that the Clinton campaign will "say anything"
and this is why he is confident that Clinton will lose in
November. It's ridiculous for Clinton to lecture him on values
and trust, especially in a speech in Michigan. Clinton is
proposing a 40 m.p.g. fuel standard, and the President points out
that "not even the looniest environmentalist has been that far
out." Clinton's plan would throw Michigan auto workers out of
work. Meanwhile, Bush is defending those auto workers by
eliminating expensive lawsuits, fighting for safer neighborhoods,
and pushing for a real increase in jobs.

However, the President cannot be all things to all people, but
Clinton at the very least should be supporting the President's
free trade proposals. Rush wonders what the government can do to
create jobs; Clinton is promising to create all sorts of jobs
during his first 100 days of utopia. How can the President do
this?

The President says that you can create a lot of government jobs
simply by spending more money, but all this does is leave people
in a dead end. What he would rather do is to create private
sector jobs through economic growth. This is why, for example, he
has supported a tax credit for first-time home buyers, to
stimulate the housing industry by giving people tax relief.

Clinton, though, wants to tax the middle class, especially with
his health care plan. Rush would like to talk about Clinton's
health care plan and how it compares with Bush's, and promises to
do so after the break.

*BREAK*

Rush asks the President to explain his health care plan, which is
people-oriented and offers tax credits. Clinton's plan, though,
is based on increasing the size of government. The President says
that his program is very different from Clinton's, and in
particular does not create a new role for government. The
President's plan would cover the poor and lower middle income
workers through vouchers which can be used to purchase insurance
from private sector companies.

The President also plans on cutting health care costs by cutting
malpractice insurance costs. However, the quality of health care
would not suffer under his plan, and the cost would go down
through pooled insurance coverage. This plan is very different
from Clinton's which would set prices and involve government in
the day-to-day operation of the health care industry.

Also, costs would be reduced by eliminating the burden on waiting
rooms since everyone would have health coverage. This would allow
health care to be more efficiently managed. Costs could be
streamlined, and government would not become a partner in the
health care business. Clinton, though, would impose a 7% tax on
businesses that didn't go along with his Play or Pay plan.

Rush says that market forces have been absent from the health
care industry for some time, and he wonders if there is any way
to reintroduce market controls into health care. The President
says that his plan would do this by making private insurance
companies more competitive through pooling of insurance coverage.
Furthermore, the health insurance coverage under his plan would
be portable - if people change jobs, then their health care goes
with them.

The President, though, also wants to address the malpractice
problem - these costs are killing the consumer, both because of
high insurance premiums and because care providers require all
sorts of unnecessary tests just to protect themselves from
lawsuits. Doctors provide more health care than needed out of the
fear of being sued. If the President's plan is approved, though,
these lawsuits will be capped. Of course, the trial lawyers will
not allow Clinton to implement such a plan.

*BREAK*

Rush asks the President about Clinton's draft-dodging. The latest
news is that Clinton contacted Senator Fulbright to get out of
serving in the military, and it seems that every couple of weeks
a new revelation comes out about Clinton's efforts to avoid the
draft. Rush is interested in how the President will be dealing
with this, especially as Bush barely mentioned it during his
speech before the National Guard in Utah.

The President has mixed emotions about this, but the fundamental
problem with Clinton is that he hasn't told the whole truth about
the matter. The President clearly has a fundamental difference of
opinion with Clinton about public service and about the military,
and he would never call the military "immoral" as Clinton did.

Rush wonders what about those who would claim character doesn't
matter for this election and that only the issues are important.
Besides, critics complain that the Vietnam War has been over for
almost 20 years. Bush replies that he's not trying to make a big
deal about Clinton's avoidance of the draft, but the issue does
highlight the fundamental difference between Bush and Clinton on
what public service and the military mean.

"There are still wolves in the woods," President Bush says, and
"someday the Commander-in-Chief may have to make a very difficult
decision." Thus, Clinton should level with the people and come
clean about his past, and elaborate on the letter he wrote in
which he condemned the military as "immoral" and in which he
stated that the only time the US military should fight is if
there were an "immediate danger" to the US.

President Bush has faced tough decisions and sent America's youth
to Panama and to the Gulf War, and he believes that the President
should not have a mindset that the military is immoral. If
Clinton has changed his mind about this, then Clinton should face
up to America and tell it the truth.

Rush asks about Admiral Crowe's endorsement of Clinton; Crowe
said that Clinton's alleged draft-dodging doesn't matter because
the future is what is important. President Bush says that he
respects Crowe, although Crowe opposed Bush's attempts to
mobilize the country in preparation for fighting the Gulf War.
Perhaps Crowe's opposition to the war is what motivated his
endorsement of Clinton. In any case, Crowe was a loyal, dedicated
member of the Navy.

However, the US still must be ready to fight another war in the
future because there are still dangers out in the world. The
President, though, is proud that the Gulf War laid to rest the
ghost of the Vietnam War, and that it had the broad support of
the American people. Rush calls Bush's 90% approval rating during
the war an amazing thing, and he contrasts it to Bush's present
low ratings.

The President knows that people are hurting, but the American
voter has to look at the entire package - "who do you trust?" The
President has worked hard to conduct himself in a manner worthy
of the people's trust, and will ask them in November to look at
his complete record, so that they can evaluate whether he is
trustworthy enough for a second term.

Rush asks the President about the presidential debates. The
President replies that he is not going to debate on Clinton's
terms, but instead will debate using the format and rules that
have been in use since 1976. Perhaps Clinton wants only one
moderator because he's afraid of tough questions, but the
President wants to debate and discuss the issues. However,
President Bush refuses to let Clinton change the rules from what
have been accepted by both Republicans and Democrats for the past
four elections.

Rush asks the President what he can gain in the debates, and he
replies that they will give him a chance to compare his economic
plan with Clinton's, to talk about service to one's country,
about the importance of continuing the work for world peace, and
especially about how the US can use the changes that are
occurring in the world to benefit all Americans.

Rush mentions that Evans and Novak are reporting that Clinton
last week promised that he would index the capital gains tax. If
true, this means that publicly he is attacking any reduction in
the tax as a benefit for the rich, but privately is admitting
that it is needed to get the economy moving again. The President
bets that Clinton got this idea from his own Agenda for Renewal,
and he wishes that Clinton would use his influence with the
Democratic Congress so that some of these things could happen
now.

Clinton also claims he supports the line-item veto, and the
President wonders why Clinton hasn't joined him in demanding this
power from Congress. In any case, the good news is that
government gridlock won't happen in a second Bush term because
there will be at least 100 new members of Congress in 1993. These
new members will have to listen to the calls for change from the
American people, and this will have to be real change, not the
typical tax and spend policies of the 70s.

Rush thanks the President for his visiting his show.

*BREAK*

Rush says that Mary Matalin called him on Thursday to see if he
would host the President on Monday. Rush told her "Mary, we don't
have guests on this show." After a few moments of stunned silence
on Mary's part, Rush told her that he would be delighted to visit
with the President. Rush also thanks the WABC staff for their
help in preparing for the President's visit. In fact, the program
director at WABC offered to buy every member of the staff a gyro
to thank them for their help.

Of course, Lo Bianco stormed into the EIB studio and managed to
get a picture of himself with the President. Rush says that Bush
was very polite, although he had no idea of who this crazy person
was. Lo Bianco protests at this, and Rush admits that even the
President had heard of the famous Tony Lo Bianco. However, when
the press encouraged Rush to move into the picture, Lo Bianco
told Rush to move out of the way. Lo Bianco admits that his
newfound fame was rushing to his head at the time.

Rush also wants to announce a major new addition to the EIB
network: affiliate 528 is WWDB in Philadelphia. EIB now has 100%
coverage in all major markets in the US. Rush tells his new
listeners in Philadelphia, though, that the show so far today is
not a typical one. He tells them that they will need to devote a
full six weeks of listening before they will start to understand
what's going on.

Furthermore, he knows that WWDB will be initially deluged with
all sorts of complaints about his show. However, groups in 527
other cities have tried to get Rush's show taken off the air, but
they have failed miserably; the same will happen in Philadelphia
because there will be more people who love the show than those
who hate it. Also, most of those who will be protesting the show
will quickly change their minds within 3 weeks or so. Thus,
people should lighten up, relax, enjoy the show, and have fun.

*BREAK*

EIB is receiving a lot of calls from people who are angry that
the President's interview was broken up by commercials. Rush
points out that when the President appears on 20-20, commercials
are aired as with any other show. Also, the basic fact is that
EIB is on the air because advertisers pay EIB to air their
commercials. Thus, EIB honors its advertisers, instead of
considering them as some sort of problem.

Local stations also have to air their own commercials, and they
would have panicked if Rush had just plowed ahead without any
breaks. These stations would have called EIB en masse to find out
how they will be able to make up their commercial time. There
simply wasn't enough time to setup any sort of contingency plan
with the stations, especially as Bush's visit was moved up an
hour at the last minute.

In addition, the President really needed the breaks so that he
could provide photo-ops to New York photographers. Rush adds that
the interview was taped by EIB, and he will be playing some of it
on his TV show tonight.

-- 
John Switzer               | 50 years from now, nobody will
                           | remember Candice Bergen or Murphy
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | Brown, but every school kid will
jrs@netcom.com             | be taught about President Quayle.