From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Mon 9/28/92
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 23:09:20 GMT
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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, September 28, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, September 28, 1992

by John Switzer

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September 28, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

Is it any wonder why cops are angry? Thousands of NYC cops
demonstrated in lower Manhattan a little over a week ago as a
protest against Mayor David Dinkins. Police barricades were
broken and traffic came to a halt; columnist Jimmy Breslin
claimed that the cops used the word `nigger' to describe Dinkins,
although other reporters state that this is not true.

The cops were angry because when drug dealer Jose Kiko Garcia was
killed by a NYC police officer, Dinkins sided with family members
who claimed that the cop murdered him. A New York grand jury,
however, cleared the cop of any wrong-doing; Garcia was also
found to be a drug dealer who was trained in the Dominican
Republic. Dinkins, however, is still pushing for an all-civilian
review board to investigate police behavior.

After the protests Dinkins stated "there's no reason to behave
like hooligans - they violated the law out there, and they did
so, mind you, not under the cover of darkness but in full view of
the media." Rush points out that this high-handed speech came
from the same mayor who refused to condemn the arsonists,
rioters, and looters of the Los Angeles riots. Dinkins has also
refused to enforce court-orders that prohibited a small group of
thugs from harassing some of New York City's Korean grocers and
shopkeepers.

Rush says that anyone breaking the law should be condemned,
whether it be the cops or anyone else. However, he refuses to
stand by and let this double standard of hypocrisy be mouthed by
Dinkins, who is criticizing the cops even while he coddles the
very criminals that the police are supposed to protect society
from.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush is confounded as to how he should start today's
jam-packed show, plus he is a bit ticked off that both the Bush
and Clinton campaigns are meeting with Perot today. It appears
that both campaigns are begging him for his support, which is
curious since Perot is only getting 10% or so in the polls.

On Nightline recently Owen Swindle, head of the Perot volunteer
network, was making all sorts of demands. Rush is glad that
Swindle is involving himself in politics, but Rush has to ask the
question just who is Swindle and his group that they should make
demands on anybody?

Rush bets that both Bush and Clinton will present their economic
plans to Pope Perot for his imprimatur; however, Perot will
undoubtedly dismiss both plans and insist that his plan is the
correct one. Rush, though, has studied Perot's plan, and will
explain it later in the show.

o       EIB has always been on the cutting edge, bringing news to
the American public long before the mainstream media discovers
it. One example of this has been Rush's long-standing warnings
against carrots. He has given statistic after statistic that
illustrate just how dangerous these vegetable vermin really are -
for example, everyone born in 1910 who has eaten carrots is
either dead or is suffering from wrinkled skin, false teeth, loss
of hearing, and failing eyesight.

Virtually everyone involved in a serious automobile accident has
eaten carrots. Nearly every single person who has been divorced
has eaten carrots within 6 months of their divorce. Carrot
consumption is also found in the personal histories of murderers
and other criminals.

"This is a dangerous vegetable, ladies and gentlemen" Rush
states. Now the August edition of the Journal of Addiction is
reporting that Czechoslovakian scientists have found that carrots
can be addicting. Three patients had eaten so many carrots that
their skin turned orange, and when they were deprived of carrots,
they experienced withdrawal symptoms.

o       Rush has stated for some time that the S&L scandal has
been a broad-based bipartisan scandal that involves both
Democrats and Republicans. Many people, though, have complained
that the S&L scandal is a result of Reaganomics and the
Reagan/Bush era.

The scandal, though, has already inspired the resignations of
many in Congress, such as former House Speaker Jim Wright and
former Rep. Tony Coelho. Rush points out that Ross Perot and Jim
Wright sound quite a bit alike.

Now there's been a conviction of a long-time Democrat supporter -
Ted Kennedy's father-in-law Edmund Reggie was convicted Saturday
of defrauding Acadia Savings and Loan of $3.9 million. Reggie,
long-time friend and confidant of Louisiana governor Edwin
Edwards, claimed that the US Attorney has been after him for 10
and a half years. Reggie could face 10 years in prison and a
$10,000 fine.

o       A new biography of Ted Kennedy is claiming that he had
sex with underage girls. Kennedy also allegedly snorted cocaine
in the Senate cloakroom. Rush has to wonder "so what" - is this
stuff that surprising at all, considering Kennedy's reputation?

o       Ted Turner gave a speech recently in New York City. He
complained that the Ten Commandments' injunction of "thou shalt
not kill" did not seem to protect blacks and Indians from white
men. He also stated that "when one religion says `only we shall
go to the Promised Land,' everybody loses. Now is the time for
all good persons to come to the aid of the planet. We invented
the atomic bomb before the chain saw, but the chain saw did more
damage."

Rush would love to see Turner tell the people of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki this little bit of news. If Turner is right, then the US
military should eliminate every nuclear weapon in its arsenal,
and re-arm its forces with semi-automatic and fully automatic
chainsaws. This would make the US armed forces an awesome weapon
to behold should America need to return to the Gulf.

This is the kind of idiotic environmental eco-wackism that is
praised so highly by those on the left. Rush has to wonder,
though, who is right - is the chainsaw the greatest threat to
mankind as Turner seems to think, or is it the automobile, as
Gore has claimed in his book? Rush points out that the US has
more acres of forest now than it did 200 years ago, not to
mention that the tree is just a crop; it takes longer to grow
than corn, but it still is a crop, not something to venerate.

Turner, though, also stated that the blue dye used in toilet bowl
cleaners should be banned, and he thinks that all employees of
the oil industry should quit their jobs. Turner then said "what
good is it to be rich in a burned out world? I have five
children, but if I were getting married today I would only have
two. We have to get progressive." Turner also compared city
dwellers to rats in a cage.

Rush is not too amazed that Turner still receives awards for his
"thoughtfulness, vision, and caring" since he is simply
displaying the "intellectual vacancy" that permeates the top
levels of the liberal leadership. "This is all poppycock," Rush
states.

*BREAK*

Rush says that George Bush should stand up and start telling the
truth about Perot - Perot does not want to be President and
doesn't have the temperament for the job. Rush won't call Perot's
supporters "nuts" as so many newspapers are doing, but he does
want to know what is electrifying these supporters. Perot says
that he only wants to do what his volunteers want him to do, yet
if this were true he would have never quit in the first place.

This is what bothers Rush so much - Perot's supporters are not in
control, but are being manipulated by an artful schemer. Owen
Swindle said that if Perot does not want to get in the race to
win, he shouldn't enter; well, Perot is not in the race to win.
That much is clear.

Rush wants to know why Bush or Clinton should have to make Perot
happy. Perot has only 13 or 15% in the polls right now, and his
disapproval ratings are hovering around 47%. If the political
pundits are right and Clinton is already heading towards a
landslide victory, then why does he need to pander to Perot,
especially as Clinton has already rejected much of Perot's plan?

However, Rush feels that Bush could gain a lot by explaining his
own positions and stop trying to please Perot. Bush should get
his message out instead of trying to get "Emperor" Perot's
blessing. The conventional wisdom states that Perot may gain Bush
some swing states, but even so, Rush thinks that Bush should
concentrate on his own campaign. Besides, Rush suspects that the
main goal of the Bush and Clinton meetings is to convince Perot
not to run, as opposed to listening to his concerns.

However, Perot is claiming that he is meeting with Bush and
Clinton, as well as his state coordinators, so as to decide
whether to re-enter the race. Rush wonders why Perot should need
to meet with his state coordinators to decide if he is going to
run? His supporters obviously think he should run. This decision
should be a foregone conclusion, and all of this makes Rush
believe that these meetings are just some sort of smokescreen.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mike from Topeka, KS

Mike doesn't think President Bush should ignore Perot because
although Perot isn't that important, Bush should be listening to
his supporters and their concerns. Rush says that he doesn't
think Perot's supporters have any consensus of opinion as far as
what they want the next President to do.

Mike says that Bush doesn't have anything to gain if he ignores
the Perot supporters. Rush, though, doesn't want Bush to ignore
the Perotnistas, but the President needs to start showing some
leadership and going on the offense. Bush cannot please everybody
and he shouldn't even try to; instead he should present his
programs and explain them clearly to the people.

Mike says that he is not a Perot supporter, but he thinks that
it's important to listen to everyone's thoughts and ideas before
coming to any decisions. These people may have some ideas that
could pay off and work well for Bush. Rush replies that the Perot
supporters are among the most abused political army he's ever
seen; what these people want has never mattered to Ross Perot,
either before he quit or now.

Perot claims he wants to do what the volunteers want, yet he has
not done this in any way, shape, or form. Plus, all of the Perot
supporters have their own ideas as to what Perot will really do
if he gets elected. These people are "concerned, deeply worried
patriots" who see their country heading for great peril. Perot
then came into this mix and made them feel important, involved,
and empowered, but there have never been any specifics as far as
what Perot would do if he was elected.

Perot's paperback book is the first truly substantiative thing
he's yet produced. He's already rejected his electronic town hall
idea in a TV Guide interview, yet this doesn't matter to Perot's
supporters, who are still being victimized by Perot's mind games.
Rush sees no reason to continue to play this game of Perot's.

Mike says that since the Perot supporters are decent, concerned
supporters, shouldn't Bush and Clinton at least listen to them?
Rush says that this may be so, but Bush and Clinton are not
talking to his supporters, but to Perot's state coordinators.

Rush is bothered by how Perot's supporters are being presented as
a solid block of supporters; he is also bothered by how the two
Presidential candidates decided to drop everything when "a guy
who has no chance of winning, a guy who is a megalomanic, a guy
who is a hand grenade with a horrible haircut" decides to call a
meeting. "This is absolutely insane, absolutely asinine," he
states.

Mike knows he won't be able to change Rush's mind, but he still
doesn't think Bush should walk away from the Perot supporters and
their concerns. Rush says that in normal times, the Republicans
and Democrats would shore up their own party base and then try to
address the undecided voters and independents.

However, Rush can't remember another time in which such a small
group of independents were given so much attention, to the
detriment of the main candidate's own party. Does the November
election hinge on these Perot voters? If not, Rush is even more
confused as to why Bush and Clinton are pandering so much to this
man.

Mike simply doesn't think that Bush should alienate the Perot
supporters. Rush asks why not - he, for example, wants to
alienate liberals because he doesn't want them to win
politically. His core beliefs are diametrically opposed to what
liberals believe, and he doesn't what to compromise his beliefs
so as to "win over" liberals' support. This is what politics is
all about - you can't be in politics without alienating somebody.
When people have principles, and articulate them, are bound to
alienate someone.

Rush is incredulous as to why everyone, including the media, is
bending over and grabbing their ankles for Perot. Rush would love
some callers to explain this bizarre behavior to him.

*BREAK*

Phone   Barbara from Duncan, TX

Barbara is the singer who did the opera bump that is based on an
aria from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi. Rush says that this is one
of his favorite pieces of music, and he thanks Barbara again for
sending it in. Barbara appreciates this but is somewhat "hepped
out" because she is so nervous; she thanks Rush for being equal
time. Her reason for calling is that she heard George Will
yesterday predict that the American people will elect a
Democratic Congress, and this prospect frightens her to death.

Rush says that this is nothing new - Congress has been
predominantly Democratic for decades. Barbara knows this, and
this is why she is so grateful to Rush for his attempts to fight
the Democrats. Barbara doesn't know why anyone would vote for
Clinton, especially given his character problems.

Rush says that he doesn't know why anyone would endorse Clinton's
economic plans either. This year, though, has been a shocker in
many ways - first, Rush was stunned to see how Perot manipulated
so many voters. Second, Rush was shocked by how many people seem
willing to support the socialism being put forth by Clinton and
Gore as a way of solving the country's problems.

Barbara says that a friend of hers told her that conservatives
are always for the individual, while the liberal is always for
the masses, but the masses never have a say. Rush says that this
is a good definition because liberals don't trust the individual
or believe that the individual is intelligent and competent
enough to live their own life. He, though, prefers the question
"what's the difference between a liberal and a Communist? The
Communist knows what he's doing."

Barbara also is grateful that Rush is so supportive of America's
women, and she likes hearing female callers who actually "love
their men - husbands, fathers, sons." And of course, the women
callers love Rush. Rush appreciates hearing this, and he thanks
Barbara for calling and for letting him talk to the woman who
produced one of his favorite bumps.

*BREAK*

Rush promises to go through Perot's economic plan during the next
hour, but he wants to tell the Perotnistas that "this has never,
ever been about what you think, and it isn't about what you want
or think now. This is all about Ross Perot regaining his good
name."

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

The current political campaign has shocked a lot of people, who
would never have guessed a year ago that Bill Clinton would have
a 15-point lead. Now Rush adds that the one-year anniversary of
the Clarence Thomas hearings is coming up in October, and he
predicts that the press' savagery of Bush will be even more
pronounced.

Nobody, though, would have dared to guess last year that Bush
would appear to be "hopelessly out of it". Nobody would have
dared to believe that Clinton would be ahead in the polls, even
while he tells one story after another about the draft. Nobody
would have believed that Clinton would be the leader in the polls
while he is telling America that it needs a new top tax rate.

In a very bad sign, high-placed Republicans are already starting
to talk about who is to blame for George Bush's defeat in
November. Some Republicans are even blaming Reaganomics for
Bush's loss, while others are attacking James Baker.

On top of all this, there haven't been any debates yet. Rush has
to wonder if "the Little General" does decide to run again for
the Presidency, how will the debates work? Rush doesn't think
Bush is afraid to debate, which is what the media hype is
positing. Instead, Rush thinks Bush is waiting for Perot to re-
enter the race, so that he can be part of the debate.

Should Perot be a candidate, the debates will then become Perot
and Clinton versus the President. Rush doesn't doubt that Bush
will be able to acquit himself quite well in such a situation,
not to mention that Perot will quite confound Clinton. Rush
recalls that when the race was still a three-man race, Clinton
abandoned the pretense of being a moderate so that he could court
his core constituency of liberals such as gays, big labor,
teachers, and such.

Clinton had to do this to make sure that Perot didn't take away
from his core support. Bush, however, has already made his
overtures to the right-wing, both at the convention and
afterwards. Thus, if Perot re-enters the race, Clinton will have
to shift back to the left, and this will show just how liberal he
really is. Clinton would then have to acknowledge all of the
leftist special interest groups that he is promising the moon to,
and people would realize that if he is elected, he will have to
pay these liberals back.

Thus, if Perot re-enters the race, Clinton is hurt, and three-man
debates will therefore be a great help to Bush. Rush recalls how
after Dan Rather in 1988 asked Bush about Iran-Contra, Bush
replied forcefully. Bush is not a "wimp," and he is not afraid to
debate; instead, Bush seems to be waiting until Perot comes back
into the race.

Having Perot in the debates will also be interesting for another
reason - before he quit, Perot claimed that he could solve the
deficit in large part by eliminating $180 billion in government
fraud and waste. In his book, though, Perot doesn't even mention
cutting fraud or waste. His plan, though, does include the
following:

o       Increase gasoline taxes 10 cents a gallon a year for five
years.

o       Increase taxes on Social Security benefits on retirees
who have individual incomes of $25,000/year or joint incomes of
$32,000/year. Rush bets that AARP will soon rev up their protests
against Perot.

o       The upper income tax bracket will be raised from 31% to
33% for individuals making $55,550 a year or more, and on joint
filers making more than $89,290 a year. Rush comments that this
is a larger tax increase than Clinton's.

o       Perot's plan will also tax employer-paid health benefits
as personal income if the insurance premiums are more than
$135/month for individuals or $335/month for families. Thus,
people's taxes will be raised on this as well.

o       "The more affluent" will pay Medicare taxes on all of
their income, as opposed to the current upper limit of $130,000 a
year. Thus, someone making $150,000 a year will now have to pay
Medicare taxes on an extra $20,000.

o       The capital gains income tax for small businesses will be
eliminated, and the tax will be reduced for other long-term
investment. Rush points out that Clinton has publicly renounced
any reductions in the capital gains tax, and so Rush wonders if
Clinton will change his tune after meeting with Perot.

o       Investment credits will be supplied to businesses for
R&D.

o       Entitlement spending will be cut 15%, affecting Medicare,
Medicaid, food stamps, veterans' benefits, and farm price
supports. All other federal spending will be cut 10% across the
board, with exceptions being made only for debt servicing and
military spending.

o       Military spending, however, would be reduced an
additional $40 billion over Bush's proposed cuts, chiefly through
the elimination of the B-2 bomber and the Seawolf Submarine.

Rush says that he is all for cutting spending since this is the
only way the deficit problem can ever be solved. However, Perot's
plans are draconian - the budget could be balanced by freezing
spending at current levels, and then allowing growth only at the
levels of inflation.

What this country needs is economic growth. Clinton doesn't
address growth at all, while Perot barely mentions the subject
except in the form of investment credits. Both Clinton and Perot
would implement dozens of new taxes which would take more money
from the average person. The bottom line, though, is that it's
better to let the individual spend their own money as opposed to
the government taking their money and doing whatever it wants
with it.

Perot's plan shows that he is most certainly a liberal who
believes in tax and spend politics. However, Perot has yet to
address how he would get his program passed through what would
almost certainly be an antagonistic Congress.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mike from Sioux Falls, SD

Mike says that a lot has been said about Clinton's integrity and
character, but 18 years ago a sitting President was kicked out of
office for lying. Mike thinks that the people have more on
Clinton now than they did on Nixon in 1974; thus, if a lie was
good enough to get Nixon out of office than it should be enough
to keep Clinton out of office.

Rush says that the big difference between then and now is that
the press supports Clinton and wants him to win. Rush, though,
doesn't know if there is much that one can do about the press
except to illustrate their bias. He recalls how Margaret Carlson
of Time magazine stated flatly that journalism should be an agent
of change. The press's objective today is no longer to simply
report the news; they now want to make the news.

*BREAK*

Update  Slick Willie         (Johnny Preston, "Charming Billy")

Rush notes that his Slick Willie Update theme now includes a
genuine "cackle" from Hillary Clinton, who laughed when asked
about him during an interview with EIB affiliate WWWE. Rush
points out that many of the voters who are angry at President
Bush are most upset about Bush's alleged lack of principles. Bush
is criticized frequently for his lack of principles and for his
lack of vision.

However, if this is true for Bush then it is true for Clinton as
well, yet Clinton is much, much worse. "The man is a pure, 100%
politician, and a damn good one" - Clinton can occupy both sides
of every issue, lying wherever necessary. On January 15, 1991,
one day before the air war against Iraq started, Clinton stated
that he supported those who believed that sanctions should be
given more time. Now, though, Clinton claims that he didn't agree
with those favoring sanctions, but instead only "understood" them
because he "supported the President."

Similar evidence has now been found about his stance on abortion
- Democrats believe that Clinton has always been pro-choice, but
this is not true. Nancy Leebee, Executive Directory of the
Planned Parenthood chapter in Little Rock said that "we were
never certain about his stand. When he began his candidacy for
President last fall it was the first time as Governor he ever
said he was pro-choice." As recently as the 1990 election
gubernatorial campaign, Clinton made overtures via third parties
to the Arkansas right to life groups.

Pro-life groups have also been frustrated by Clinton because he
refused to let himself be pinned down on a constitutional
amendment banning public funding of abortion which became law in
Arkansas in 1988. In a 1986 letter to an anti-abortion leader,
Clinton said that he "was opposed to abortion and government
funding of abortion." Clinton also stated that he backed the
concept of the ban on government funding of abortion, but that he
"had some questions about its impact."

(Clinton did the same thing about the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Clinton originally supported NAFTA, but backed off
when he started courting Michigan auto workers.)

In July, however, Clinton wrote a constituent that he "never
wavered" in his support of Roe vs. Wade. This is not true -
Clinton  became pro-choice only when he started running for the
Presidency. Dee Dee Meyers of the Clinton campaign, though, said
that "there's been an evolution in his position."

Apparently Clinton is still evolving since he has stated that he
opposes public funding of abortions, even though he also backs a
national health care plan that would pay for abortions. Al Gore
is in the exact same position - in 1986 he opposed government-
funded abortions, but is now saying that a national health care
plan must pay for abortion.

Rush would prefer not to talk about abortion per se, but would
rather concentrate on the matter of principle. If people are mad
at George Bush's alleged lack of principles, then they are
eventually going to be mad at Bill Clinton at some point, since
he is the epitome of the artful politician.

This is the genius of Perot - he appears to be anything but a
politician to his supporters, who remain convinced that they know
what he stands for, regardless of whatever he himself says.
However, if people are concerned about principle, then their
concerns should be amplified a hundred-fold when they consider
Bill Clinton.

*BREAK*

Rush received a note from a listener in Sacramento who saw a
logging truck on the highway. The truck had three old growth logs
in its bed, and one of the logs was spray-painted "Spotted Owl
RV."

Phone   Charlie from San Jose, CA

Charlie wonders what has happened about the Clintons'
investigation of Rush; he heard this mentioned this on the TV
show, but nothing more was said about it. Rush says that he
talked about it on the radio show but didn't get time to do it on
TV. He explains that EIB recently received a number of calls
about various "scandals" in his past. One of these was received
by EIB's Sacramento affiliate, which was asked whether it was
true that Rush didn't register to vote until 1986.

Rush says that this is true - he didn't start to vote until 1986.
However, he's somewhat disappointed that the Clinton people
haven't called his show to try to embarrass him with this story.
Rush, though, has spent quite a bit of time on his radio show
already talking about this, not to mention that he also admitted
that he did smoke marijuana twice while a youth.

Rush adds that the reason his show is being assailed in Durango,
CO is because about 40% of the community there is the "arts and
croissants crowd"; these people trumpet their compassion for the
people even while they fence off their property so that they
don't have to be bothered by the people. These people are not
even really locals, but spend each year floating from one
enlightened community to another. The actual residents of
Durango, however, love Rush and his show.

As usual, these liberals think that the First Amendment is fine
except when it applies to Rush. Rush points out that his EIB
affiliate in Durango loves the publicity that these complaints
are generating and he urges liberals to keep on calling.

*BREAK*

Phone   Ken from Bloomsburg, PA

Ken needs a favor - he's taking a "contemporary social problems"
course and needs some ammunition to help him fight his teacher
who thinks animals have rights. Rush says that many animal rights
wackos think that animals have a right to kindness, but if
animals do have a right to kindness, then why don't they treat
each other that way? Rush hates to descend into crass
commercialism, but he suggests that Ken buy his book because it
has a chapter about this very subject.

Ken goes onto his main point which is that he turned down a
college scholarship in 1973 to join the Navy; thus, he remembers
Carter and how the Navy was once unable to send out ships because
they were in such a state as disrepair. Ken is afraid that
Clinton will just do this all over again, and he doesn't know why
anyone in the military would support Clinton.

Rush says he has asked a similar question as to why big business
seems to be supporting Clinton; the answer may be that Clinton's
plans would put a lot of small businesses out of business, thus
eliminating competition. Rush, though, doesn't know too many
military people who support Clinton, who seems to be pandering
mainly to those who think the US military is the big problem in
the world.

One thing to remember, though, is that Russia still has its
nuclear missiles aimed at the US, and the US's missiles are still
targeted on Russia. The world is still a dangerous place, and
people should remember this.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Dr. Death, aka Jack Kevorkian, has now assisted his fifth
Michigan suicide, and many Michigan residents are now demanding a
state law to outlaw physician-assisted suicide. Kevorkian has
been charged with this offense before, but the charges have been
dropped because of a lack of applicable laws.

Rush points out that this whole issue is not "right to die" as
its proponents claim. If people want to die, then they can go
ahead, but they should not corrupt the America medical health
care system by giving it the right to kill. Kevorkian seems
literally obsessed with killing people and presiding over death,
and he shows how the medical system can be corrupted.

Rush wonders how many of the five "suicides" have been terminally
ill? The latest victim did have terminal lung cancer; she killed
herself by breathing carbon monoxide that was provided by Jack
"the Dripper" Kevorkian. Rush wonders why society is so
preoccupied with death, as this has resulted in the cheapening of
life in so many areas.

Rush knows that he will be attacked for "standing in the way of
choice," and thus wants to explain his position again. He does
not want to impose his way on anyone, but instead wants to wage a
battle of minds and hearts and persuade others. Human beings must
be responsible and caring for more than their own lives; people
have to be concerned about ethics, morality, and social order,
and have to be cognizant of the effect that their life and
actions will have on society at large.

Rush feels that one of the greatest disservices that can be done
for future generations would be to cheapen human life. When life
is treated cavalierly, and considered to be no more valuable than
a dolphin or whatever, then everything else in life will soon be
devalued. Life is the most precious gift of creation, and so if
life becomes nothing more than a convenience for the living, then
what else might be sacrificed by this casual attitude towards
life?

Rush suspects that society is already seeing the results of this
downgrading of the value of life in the increasing murder, crime,
and suicide rates, especially by the young. Rush personally feels
that the lack of God's presence in society is also responsible
for this; this is not any specific religion's God, but rather the
general idea that there is more to life than what exists on
Earth. There clearly is a higher authority in life, and when
people ignore this, life can be cheapened without affecting the
conscience.

Thus, when Rush sees a doctor praised for killing people, he is
alarmed. If Kevorkian wants to keep on killing people, then he
should resign as a doctor and instead ask society for a license
to kill. If society is ready to do this, that's one thing, but
it's another to turn doctors, whose purpose is to heal and save
life, into killers.

If someone is terminally ill and wants to end their life, then
that person should go ahead and do it on their own. However, the
medical community and the laws of the US should not be perverted
into claiming that "assisted suicide" is some sort of honorable
task. If people don't have the courage to really kill themselves,
then perhaps they really don't want to die. In any case, it is a
dangerous thing to give doctors the ability to kill.

People may think that this issue won't affect them, yet these
things don't happen in vacuums, and people's actions have an
impact on the rest of society. If killing becomes an act of
compassion, if killing makes people feel good, if killing becomes
an honorable profession, then society is in trouble. If society
praises a killer, then what will happen to the values of the
youth?

Life is a precious thing that should awe and inspire people. Rush
has to wonder how human beings acquire the soul that makes them
unique on this planet; is this not miraculous? Rush again says he
doesn't want to impose his will on anyone - if people want to
die, then they should go ahead and kill themselves; however,
don't corrupt the American medical system in the process.

*BREAK*

Phone   Dean from Santa Cruz, CA

Dean is a family physician who agrees with Rush totally on the
sanctity of human life. The Hippocratic Oath was instituted so
that people could trust their doctor and know he would not kill
their retarded child or induce an abortion. Dean sees society
slipping back into the times when doctors did kill as well as
heal. California's November ballot even has a euthanasia
initiative on it.

Rush says that America is paying the price for a long period of
tolerance in which no behavior was condemned. This has resulted
in a continuous decline of standards. Rush asks Dean what can be
done to alert people about the dangers of doctor-assisted death.
Dean says that a lot of things are related - the lack of respect
for sex leads to a lack of respect for the unborn and for
children in general, and now even the elderly are not respected
any more.

Dean remembers Ted Turner's comment about how he would have only
two children today; how do Turner's three younger children feel
about their father's desire? Rush says that Turner is a kook who
has bought into the overpopulation crowd's specious arguments.

Dean agrees and mentions a book by Jacqueline Casen of Humboldt
State which disproves the overpopulation myths. The entire
population of the world could be put into Texas, with the same
population density as a major city such as London or New York.
There would even be space left over for industry and parks.

Dean thinks that there is a real war going on against the human
race, and Rush agrees - this is what the environmental militants
and animal rights wackos have been doing. These people may look
like kooks, but they have been responsible for encouraging
attitudes that have resulted in a cheapening of life. When the
argument is made that it's better for people to die than to live
and perhaps suffer, things are headed downhill fast.

*BREAK*

People are not calling the right number to be an audience member
for Rush's TV show. This is not the same number used by the radio
show (800-282-2882), but rather 212-397-7367. To get on the TV
show, call this number between noon and 3 p.m. EST. The best
approach, though, would be to write EIB Audience Director, Rush
Limbaugh the TV Show, 515 W. 57th Street, NY, NY 10019.

Phone   Bob from Manhattan, NY

Bob works for Time, Inc. in the circulation department, and he
doesn't think Time magazine is as biased as the many newspapers
which use some very subtle techniques. Newsday, for example,
recently had a big story on about a "US official" who quit the
State Department in protest over the US's stance on the
Yugoslavian civil war. The first few paragraphs played up the
idea that the US is not living up to its obligations, and it
wasn't revealed until deep in the story that the "official" was
only the acting desk officer, a minor position.

The next day a follow-up article that was buried in the back of
the paper stated that this guy was just a junior officer who can
easily "take the high road" while Bush has to consider the
reality of the situation. A week later, though, a column by this
junior officer appeared on Newsday's editorial page, and the
officer was called the former "Chief of Yugoslavian Affairs."

Rush marvels at life's little coincidences - the paper first
decides to present this official as an important member of the
State Department, and he then ends up doing an editorial for the
paper. Bob points out that the readers of the paper could easily
come away with the mistaken belief that the official is really an
important person.

Bob says that papers can skew the news in other wells as well -
he remembers when the week's unemployment figures hit 400,000,
Newsday put the news on its front page. The next week when
unemployment dropped, however, the story was buried in the
business section. This tends to influence how people view the
economy, and thus it's no great surprise to find out that
consumer confidence is slipping.

Bob therefore would like people to be aware of the subtleties
that the press can use to influence public opinion. Rush says
that the media also tends to present certain public policy
opinions as being "mainstream," while discounting any competing
viewpoints as "fringe" or "nutty."

For example, anyone who is not pro-choice is considered some sort
of nut by the mainstream press. The media has no objectivity on
this, even though it is clear that the American public does not
support abortion-on-demand. The vote in Washington state on an
pro-abortion initiative last year was so close that it took weeks
before the registrar could certify that initiative had passed.

Similarly, 1992 is supposed to be the Year of the Woman, and
nobody in the press challenges this assumption at all. Rush says
that the best proof of the liberal bias in America is the success
of his own book, "The Way Things Ought to Be" <<which, by the
way, is $14 at Crown Books - what a deal!>>. All Rush does in his
book is tell the truth and present the simple facts, and almost a
million copies have now been sold. If the knowledge in his book
were commonplace, and if it were something that was available in
the local newspapers, his book would not be selling at all.

Rush also points out that the press soundly ridiculed him for
"throwing softballs" at the President when he visited the show
last week. However, even if this were true, what's wrong with it?
What's wrong with the President visiting a show that is actually
friendly to him? Nothing, but the press seems to think that this
is a cardinal sin of unimaginable proportions.

Bob also points out that the so-called "experts" are really
nothing of the sort - instead, they are the director of a
homeless coalition, research group, or think-tank. Bob would like
to know who these people are, and why they can't get regular jobs
and work for a living.

However, sometimes this approach backfires. In their story about
the Emmy Awards, Newsday used three photos of Roseanne and Tom
Arnold, Candice Bergen, and Ted Turner with Jane Fonda. This
selection said it all and showed how the paper was right in line
with the cultural fascists of the media elite.

Rush says that his TV show is planning on putting forth a montage
that shows just who is supporting which Presidential candidate.
Bob says that if he had his way, he would take clips from the MTV
Awards and string them together, and then ask the question "these
are the people supporting Bill Clinton - are you?"

Rush tells him that this is exactly the kind of thing his TV show
is planning to do. The real subtlety of the dominant media,
though, is that they imply that anyone who doesn't agree with
them is some sort of ogre. Rush admits, though, that this
arrogance on their part only makes his assured and eventual
victory all the sweeter.

*BREAK*

Phone   Andre from Ft. Collins, CO

Andre asks Rush whether Perot will take support more from Bush or
Clinton, and Rush hazards a guess that Perot will hurt Clinton
more. Andre asks if it's true that Perot will re-enter the race
on Friday and Rush says "who the hell knows?" However, the more
Rush thinks about this is the more he believes that Perot will
help Bush.

Perot could hurt Bush in Texas and make things more difficult in
California; still, Rush has faith in the American people and
knows that they won't throw away their vote. Rush still can't see
a 20% or 15% win for Clinton. Perot also isn't going to come up
with 14% of the vote on November, regardless of what the polls
say now.

Phone   Joe from Watertown, SD

Joe points out that South Dakota is a no-income tax state and is
experiencing 10 to 12% growth each year. Rush bets that the
northern states will soon be flooded with people who are sick of
the high-tax urban regions, and want to find someplace that won't
be continually trying to change their lives with liberal social
engineering programs.

Joe says that there are already some calls for "tax reform and
fairness," but this idea is not selling at all well in South
Dakota. Joe comments that his business advertises on Rush's show
locally, and Rush proudly says that EIB has yet to have one of
its advertisers go out of business. Joe confirms that he is
getting all sorts of new business, thanks to Rush.

Rush adds that a South Carolina man wrote a letter to one of
EIB's South Carolina TV affiliates stating that as long as Rush's
show is on the air, he will not buy any advertising time from
that station. The man not only objected to the content but was
also angry that Rush's show comes on before Nightline, and thus
he loses some sleep every night since he has to stay up an extra
half-hour.

The man also sent Rush a copy of the letter, and Rush wrote the
man back to say that he was sorry the man was losing sleep; he
pointed out, though, that if the man advertised his business on
Rush's show, he could have more restful sleep simply because his
business would be expanding and growing. The man wrote Rush back
to applaud him for this courtesy and solid business sense,
showing that conservatives can win these battles one by one.

Joe's wife also pointed out to him that Clinton should be
compared to LBJ instead of Carter. Both Clinton and LBJ ran
around on their wives, had their campaigns financed by their
wives, were draft-dodgers who hid the truth of the matter, were
supported by the unions, and they both hated the military
intensely. Both men also represent huge increases in social
spending that will supposedly cure all of America's ills.

Joe also thinks there are some interesting similarities in how
LBJ led the nation deeper into Vietnam, while Clinton is making
noises about military intervention in Bosnia. Even though General
Colin Powell clearly stated that there's no way that the US can
achieve a military victory in Bosnia, Clinton still went around
calling for air strikes.

Rush likes Joe's comparisons between Johnson and Clinton,
especially as they got him thinking about Hillary Clinton. Is
Hillary really a good feminist? She has ignored how her husband
has fooled around, even while her income has provided him with a
more luxurious lifestyle than he could provide on his own. Is
this acceptable behavior for feminists or is she simply using her
husband like he has used her?

*BREAK*

The September 9th of the Albuquerque Tribune has a weather
forecast that says "more sun - a liberal amount of sun that only
Rush Limbaugh can hate." Thus, Rush is getting attacked even by
weathermen now.

Phone   Mike from Huntington Beach, CA

Mike says that Hillary Clinton was in town about a week and a
half ago telling the crowd that the Gore/Clinton campaign was a
"return to common sense and conservative principles." Mike
doesn't see how anyone could believe this, but Rush says that
some people want change so badly that they'll believe anything.
However, it is an amazing thing when Gore and Clinton claim to
represent common sense and conservative principles. As the show
ends, Hillary Clinton's cackle comes on the air as if to
punctuate Rush's statement.

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                           | remember Candice Bergen or Murphy
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