From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Mon 10/12/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, Oct. 12, 1992
Keywords: Rush Limbaugh Unofficial Summary
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:18:22 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, October 12, 1992

by John Switzer

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October 12, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

It's Columbus Day, the 500th anniversary of Columbus' landing in
1492. So what do people have to say about it?

"Columbus didn't really discover a new world - it was new to him,
but people had lived on the island he had discovered for
centuries. For them, it wasn't a new world, it was home. The
discovery of America brought many good things to the people of
Europe, but it brought many bad things to the people who already
lived here. It is important to remember this on Columbus Day."
(from "Encounter" by Jane Yolan)

The University of Minnesota also held a mock trial of Columbus,
and the 12-member jury found him guilty of slavery, torture,
murder, forced labor, kidnapping, violence, and robbery; jurors
could not agree on charges of genocide, rape, and international
terrorism, however. Columbus was sentenced to 350 years of
community service; the death penalty was ruled out because "his
victims were not a violent people and do not condone death." Rush
suspects that the liberals in Minnesota will show their usual
judicial sense and reduce Columbus' punishment to a suspended
sentence after 30 days.

This is nothing more than "multiculturalism gone amuck." Rush
adds that "Christopher Columbus changed history, and as a result
the United States of America happened, and I for one am grateful
and thankful for it! Yeah!"

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush knows that millions of Americans are huddled around
their radios, waiting for him to tell them what he thought about
the debate last night. Rush promises to fulfill his audience's
needs in this regard, plus he will tell the truth about Columbus
on this Columbus Day. New York City is having a Columbus Day
parade today, and Democrats are having a race to see who can get
the furthest away from the parade.

o       Rush wishes Tony Lo Bianco a happy 29th birthday, and
asks him if he enjoyed watching himself on TV last Friday. Lo
Bianco admits he was disappointed with how he looked. The EIB
staff starts shaking Lo Bianco's hand and Rush tells them to
knock it off as there's work to be done. Besides, it's already a
holiday, and thus there's no need to go overboard about things.
Rush promises to comment on Columbus Day celebrations later in
the show, although he will want to keep today's focus mainly on
the last night's debate.

o       Returning to the debates, Rush is interested in what his
audience is thinking about what happened last night since it is
people's perceptions and reactions that determine how the debates
will affect the Presidential race. Thus, Rush would like to do
another 900 poll today to see if people's minds have been changed
since Friday.

Friday's poll logged hundreds of thousands of calls, setting a
new record. The 900 poll last Friday had 88.8% of callers voting
for Bush, 7.7% voting for Perot, and 3.5% voting for Clinton.
Rush knows his 900 polls are by no means scientific, yet they do
provide a snapshot of what his listeners are thinking. The latest
results are especially interesting as 53% of listeners said back
in March that they would vote for Perot.

The 900 phone system was overtaxed with the number of calls
received, and even so a lot of people got busy signals. This
large number of calls, with so many in favor of Bush may indicate
that there is a lot of frustration among Bush voters in how their
candidate is being treated in the dominant media and the dominant
media's polls.

Rush is therefore interested in seeing what kind of response he
will get with today's poll, and whether the numbers will have
changed because of last night's debate. Call the following
numbers for today's poll:

        To vote for Bush, call 900-446-6661

        To vote for Clinton, call 900-446-6662

        To vote for Perot, call 900-446-6620

You will be charged 85 cents per call, and Rush warns his Rio
Linda residents that they should not try to call these 900
numbers collect. He will give the results that are available at
the end of today's show, and then give the final figures
tomorrow.

Rush is interested in seeing the ratings that the debates got,
especially as CBS showed the National League baseball playoffs
instead. Perot was likeable, homespun, and appeared as a repeat
of what he was like back in February and March - an outsider who
was not either Bush or Clinton. Perot again presented himself as
a reluctant candidate who is only responding to the will of the
people, and he said some intriguing things such as how he doesn't
want the vote of anyone who hates. Rush finds this curious as
most of the hate mail he's ever received has come from Perot
supporters.

Clinton was a "robo-candidate" filled with programmed answers
from his platform and the liberal Democratic handbook. Rush
comments that when he was a high school debater, he and his
partner had answers for every possible point and rattled them off
whenever keywords were stated; this appeared to be Clinton's
approach as well. When Clinton heard a keyword, the appropriate
prepared speech was the answer he brought up, regardless of the
true context of the question.

Clinton also thanked everybody for "touching" him, and he acted
as a very touchy-feely type candidate who has personally
encountered every single problem in the world. Rush therefore
found Clinton to be especially slick and disingenuous; he paused
before every answer as if he were thinking about it, just like
it's taught in debate school. This undoubtedly impressed a lot of
people who perceived Clinton as "thoughtful." Clinton, though,
was talking at the audience, instead of to them.

George Bush said many, many right things, but few people seem to
be impressed. Bush had the right answer about the stock market's
response to Clinton, about Magic Johnson and AIDS, and about so
many other things. Yet Bush's answers never seemed to cut through
the debate noise.

Rush recalls how Reagan's first debate in 1984 with Mondale came
off badly for him because Reagan appeared stodgy and over-
coached. Bush doesn't seem to have much passion, and he did not
seem to say much about what he really feels, instead choosing to
say what he thought was the best political answer.

*BREAK*

Items

o       A new monkey species has been discovered in the Amazon.
Rush bets that this monkey will undoubtedly be proven even more
intelligent than man, which is why it has been hiding out from
everybody.

o       An "amazing" thing is going on about condoms - two
listeners have written to Rush about how a grand jury has decided
not to indict a man who broke into a woman's apartment and raped
her because the woman told the man "stop - please use a condom."
The man did use a condom during the rape, but the jury decided
that the woman's request meant that she consented to the sex.

The grand jury seems right in line with how high schools today
think the use of condoms seems to be the most important subject
that can be taught, and thus have made the condom the new
diploma. So the schools' emphasis on condoms has achieved yet
another "victory."

Phone   Jeremy from Columbia, MO

Jeremy says that Perot was bound to win the debate last night
because he is not a politician; Perot had nothing to lose, and
thus by impressing people he's gained a lot of votes. Rush says
that Perot is still down 20 points from where he was back in
July. Jeremy thinks that Perot will gain support from Bush
because Clinton supporters are "off in their own little world."

*BREAK*

Pat Buchanan has visited the EIB studios and Rush promises to
talk to him later.

Phone   Steve from West Bloomfield, MI

Steve mentions that after the debates NBC's John Chancellor said
that nobody was a clear winner. NBC then put on Al Gore who
claimed that Clinton scored a "knock-out" punch. Steve thinks
that Gore looked like a fool, especially when he said this right
after Chancellor made his remarks. Rush says that Gore has been
especially unbelievable lately.

Gore's harping about the investigations into Clinton's background
is absurd; he and his Democratic friends have an obvious dual
standard about looking into people's past - evidently it's okay
to look into everything Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas did 20
years ago, but it's forbidden to examine the past of a Democratic
Presidential candidate. At least Bork and Thomas were up front
about what they did, but Clinton still hasn't come clean with the
American public.

Gore also makes one misstatement after another about how the
Reagan years and supply-side economics didn't work, yet the press
never challenges him. Nor does the press challenge Clinton's
accusations that Bush is engaging in McCarthyism. Gore's belief
that the automobile is the biggest danger faced by the world is
also ignored. Rush hopes that Quayle will make Tuesday's debate a
real fight and bring some of this stuff out.

Senator Joseph Biden was also on the air last night, with some of
the meanest and most vindictive rhetoric ever. The Democrats
attack Bush for engaging in politics of hate, yet Biden was
spewing truly venomous hate and using personal attacks. Biden
reached the heights of hypocrisy by claiming that Bush was a
phony while "Reagan was the real thing." Biden, though, certainly
spent his energy attacking Reagan while he was President. Once
again, though, the press never challenged Biden on this.

Rush asks his staff if the debates changed their minds, and they
answer no. Three cadets from a US military academy who are
visiting also say that their minds weren't changed by the
debates. A visiting photographer, the only person in the room
planning to vote for Clinton, also says that the debates didn't
change his mind. Thus the debates' importance remains to be seen.
However, Rush is still frustrated by the ridiculous statements of
people like Gore and Biden.

Phone   John from Baton Rouge, LA

Rush notices that John is from Louisiana and points out that
everyone investigated David Duke's background, yet Clinton's past
activities are somehow sacrosanct because "the issues are too
important." John says that the debates last night showed that
Bush is a "wonderful President but a terrible television
personality." Bush didn't come up with any knockout punches on
Clinton, although John kept thinking up all sorts of suggestions.
For example, Clinton talked about his health care plans, yet
Medicare has grown way out of control - what will happen after
Clinton implements his plan?

Rush says that he got an interesting letter from a Martinez, CA
listener who was also livid at the openings that Bush let flitter
away. Clinton's comments about how Arkansas has increased jobs
was just one example. John says that the average wage in Arkansas
is not that much more than the minimum wage. He learned this the
hard way from living in Arkansas himself.

Rush says that Bush could have refuted Clinton's charge that he
never put forth a health care plan; Bush has made one plan after
another, but they've been bottled up by the Democratic Congress.
John says that the capital gains tax is another example - he owns
a rental home that he would love to sell but can't now because of
the excessive capital gains tax. Rush agrees - the Democrats have
successfully convinced people that capital gains tax reductions
will benefit only the rich, which is patently untrue.

Rush adds that there is one thing that Bush has to do in order to
cut through the noise, and he will talk about that after the
break.

*BREAK*

Pat Buchanan is in New York City for a Columbus Day celebration.
Rush greets him and says that the one thing that irritated him
more than anything else last night was that both Gore and Clinton
talked about how Bush is out of touch. Bush last night tried to
show how the US economy is not apocalyptic nor is it the worst
economy of the past 50 years. Bush tried early on in the debates
to show the reality and to tell people that things are not as bad
as they think.

Clinton and Gore, however, then attacked him for being out of
touch. Gore, in particular was condescending and insulting in
this. If people really believe what Gore and Clinton are saying -
that the US is finished and has no more opportunities left - then
things are truly in bad shape. It sadly seems, though, that Bush
cannot talk about reality without being attacked, and that
Clinton and Gore are having some success in getting people to
respond to their speeches about pain and misery. Bush therefore
has to communicate that he is not out of touch and that he truly
understands the situation.

Pat says that 80% of the American people think the country is
headed in the wrong direction, and Bush has only a 16% approval
rating on economic issues. Clinton is "one of the luckiest men
around" because of this, and he is evidently trying to ride this
negativity into the White House. Pat thinks Bush has to be more
angry and confrontational, and "come out like Joe Frazier."

Rush knows Pat has prepared many candidates for other debates,
and would like to get some thoughts from him on this after the
break.

*BREAK*

Pat says that the President has to convince the people that his
second administration will be changing the country's economic
course. However, Bush has to "take Clinton out" and not hold back
any punches. Rush says that people are angry about government,
yet people are willing to elect Clinton, the most pro-government
candidate in several years. The people are not demanding to be
lead by Clinton - they are just unbelievably angry at government
now.

Pat agrees that it is ridiculous for people to vote in the pro-
government Clinton when what they really want is a change from
government as usual. Rush asks Pat if he can take a few calls,
and he agrees, and so Rush promises to have him take some phone
calls during the second hour.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush again says that his 900 polls aren't a scientific
survey, but they do measure what his particular audience is
thinking. The poll last Friday registered hundreds of thousands
of calls, and Rush repeats the numbers. When Pat hears that Bush
scored an 88.8% rating says "he's closed the gap - that's even
better than the Weekly Reader."

o       Rush says that the current Time magazine has a biography
of him, and it is fairly accurate. Rush has to wonder, though,
why everyone has to ask Gloria Alred what she thinks of him. One
of the pictures they use, though, is not a "beautiful photo" -
"it makes me look like one of the meanest, cruelest, most
deceitful sons of a gun on the planet - it is not a beautiful
thing." Pat sees the picture and comments that it looks like
"Hannibal Lector just before he got out of that cage." Rush bets
that the press loves to do stuff like this - pick the one picture
out of several dozen that puts their subject in the worst light
possible. Pat offers some consolation by suggesting that Rush
take a look at what the press has done to him during the past
year.

Phone   John from Darien, CT

John thinks that Bush made some good points last night, but
because he doesn't have a forceful delivery, he didn't score many
hits. John feels that Bush is most effective when he gets rid of
his notes and attacks his critics head-on, speaking from his
heart. Pat suggests that Bush's handlers encouraged him to be
Presidential and therefore avoid any sharp attacks.

Now that Bush has done the Presidential thing, though, Pat feels
that he may start swinging on next Thursday's debate. John hopes
so, but he is bothered by how Perot kept saying that the system
stinks, and that some people in Washington are good; to John this
is absolutely backwards. He doesn't think the system stinks at
all, and instead feels that the founding fathers' work is still
workable and usable today. Most of the people who were
interviewed by the media, though, said that they liked what Perot
had to say.

Rush is not surprised since the debates are theater which
highlight the candidates' television personalities. Perot picks
up votes when he talks about how important the people are,
because the people want to matter and want to feel that they are
involved and empowered. Rush wishes that Perot had been asked how
many of his volunteers he had spoken to in order to know what to
say during the debate; this question would show what a lie it is
that Perot's campaign is being run by the volunteers.

Pat says that Perot speaks in an "authentic" language that
creates concrete words and images. Clinton, however, is exactly
the opposite with his patented, scripted rebuttals. Pat thinks
Clinton won't be able to do this on Thursday, and these debates
are going to be more vigorous. Rush agrees - the preliminaries
are out of the way and the candidates will now be looking to
score some big points.

Rush remarks that one of the problems with the debates is that
candidates can't make all of the points that they want to because
of the time limitations. Furthermore, candidates get coached to
the point where they have to say this or that phrase in response
to any attacks, and this prevents them from acting like who they
really are.

Pat agrees - the candidates get primed, and are told to make
their points. However, the people elect the man, not the points,
and this is why Perot came off as well as he did - he appeared to
be an authentic individual. Perot claims that he didn't do any
preparation, and this seems to be true - this is why he did so
well. People don't remember the policy statements but the
personal bits such as Perot's joke about his ears.

Rush says that Bush had a great line about how the stock market
dropped in expectation of a Clinton win - this could have been a
great line, but Bush didn't deliver it properly. Rush suspects
that conservatives are often held back by their desire to be
liked and show that they are not the nazis or fascists that the
media portrays them as.

Pat agrees - Clinton gave Bush a perfect opening and Bush replied
with a natural and effective rebuttal; Bush, though, held back in
its delivery somewhat and so it wasn't as effective as it could
have been. Pat thinks that Bush should also have brought up the
subject of patriotism; not to say that Clinton isn't patriotic,
but to point out how he and Clinton have different
interpretations of what patriotism really means.

Rush also thinks that Bush should have gotten mad about Clinton's
charges of McCarthyism; these charges were just another example
of his robotically prepared answers. Clinton, though, won't be
robotic if he wins the election because he won't have to be; he's
saying whatever he has to in order to get elected. Once that is
done, however, then he'll start following his true agenda.

Pat is amazed that in this age of public hatred towards big
government and politics, people seem willing to elect the most
pro-government politician in decades. Rush adds that Clinton is
part of the 60s crowd who is now claiming that their anti-war
protests were really "to honor" the soldiers who were dying in
Vietnam. However, when these soldiers returned to America, they
weren't greeted with parades but with sheer hatred from these
same protestors. Once again Clinton and his peace crowd friends
are trying to rewrite history.

*BREAK*

Phone   Peggy from Long Beach, CA

Peggy would like to ask about Bush's statement that Clinton's
economic plan will affect the working class; she wonders if there
is any source material for this claim which she can use to
convince her friends not to vote for Clinton. Rush says that
Senator Phil Gramm has shown that Clinton's proposal to tax the
upper 2% will affect those who make more than $74,000 a year, not
the $200,000 a year that Clinton claims. Gramm also has shown
that Clinton's taxes and mandated spending will take two-thirds
of US business profits. These proposals are devastating and will
affect the average working person as businesses downsize, cut
wages, and cut jobs.

Rush says that another aspect of this is that thanks to Reagan's
tax reforms in the 80s small business owners can now file their
business taxes as individuals; this means that a lot of business
owners are reporting business income as personal income, and thus
they will be hit hard by Clinton's proposals to tax "the rich."
Peggy wonders where she can get this information, and Rush
suggests calling either the Bush campaign or Senator Gramm's
office, because the media is not doing its job in reporting this
information.

Pat says that he can't believe that Clinton would be able to
impose these sorts of taxes on businesses during a bad economy;
instead, Clinton would have to increase the deficit to fund his
programs. Rush says that Bush has suggested a number of things
that would help the deficit, yet the Democratic Congress, which
has made an issue out of the deficit year after year, has stood
in his way.

*BREAK*

Phone   Cathy from Thornton, IL

Cathy came away from the debates thinking that Clinton couldn't
think fast enough on his feet to be President; he seemed to be
groping for his prepared, memorized answers every time he spoke.
Pat says that Clinton did at least speak directly to the cameras;
Perot, however, didn't start looking at the right camera until
half-way through the debates. The NY Post mentions this,
wondering if Perot really didn't understand that you talk to the
camera that has the red dot on.

Cathy thinks that if Perot is going to do everything that he is
promising to do, he'd almost have to be a dictator like Hitler,
especially since he keeps on talking about "changing the system."
Rush recalls that he asked back in the spring how Perot could
deal with a combative Congress. Perot last night, though, said
that he would be able to face Congress head-on because he would
have the power of the people behind him.

Pat thinks it's ridiculous for Perot to claim he can get Congress
to accept his proposals, such as his 50 cent increase in the gas
tax. Rush adds he is tired seeing Perot talk about how Europeans
pay so much more for gas, implying that Americans "don't pay our
fair share." The free market, though, is a great thing, and Rush
for one is happy that Americans don't have to pay as much for
gasoline as Europeans do. Why should we envy "saps" who are
paying more than twice what we are? Pat points out that the
United States is a huge country that dwarfs the smaller European
ones, and our transportation needs are quite a bit different.

Rush asks Cathy what she thought of Bush, and she replies he was
trying to be too careful last night, in particular with how he
talked about Clinton's visit to Moscow. Bush went out of his way
to say he wasn't attacking Clinton's patriotism, and yet Clinton
responded by claiming Bush was attacking his patriotism. Bush
seemed to be worrying too much about whether he offended anyone.

Rush comments that Tom Shales of the NY Post wrote that Bush won
because he didn't lose, Clinton lost because he didn't win, and
Perot had some good one-liners. Pat disagrees because although
President Bush won the debate, he still has to be more aggressive
and take some risks; he can't worry about offending people but
instead has to "get the ball in the air."

Phone   Charlie from Lake Grove, IL

Charlie thinks Perot won the debate, but "Bush gained big time"
because he looked Presidential and in control. Clinton wasn't
able to deliver a knock-out blow, and Charlie feels that Bush was
setting himself up for the next two debates in which he will be
more aggressive.

Pat says that Clinton is obviously playing things cautiously so
as to protect his 10-point lead. Bush should therefore shake up
Clinton's game and force him off his prepared speeches. Charlie
thinks Clinton appeared very contrived last night, and Rush
agrees - "this guy's a walking, talking, public policy manual -
we're looking at a robot here." Pat calls says both Clinton and
Gore are "policy wonks."

Rush is amazed at how Gore is getting away with so many offensive
statements about Bush's courage and competence. Gore and Clinton
are incredibly condescending and arrogant with their remarks
about how "out of touch" Bush is; yet Gore is the one who is
thinking that Clinton scored a knockout punch last night, which
should show how out of touch he is. Pat marvels at how Gore is
planning to do away with the internal combustion engine within 25
years since it's the "biggest danger in the world." Pat refuses
to condemn Gore, though, because as a former television
commentator he knows that during the summer "you've got to get
kooks like that to keep your ratings from going down."

Phone   Jim from Santa Clara, CA

When Jim's 14-year old daughter heard Clinton talk about holding
crack babies she remarked "I wonder if he inhaled." Both Pat and
Rush laugh at this, and Jim says that the debates were basically
boring except for Perot, who was the designated comic relief for
the night.

*BREAK*

Rush repeats the numbers to call for his 900 poll, but this time
he decides to editorialize a bit:

To vote for "the President", call 900-446-6661

To vote for "Robo-policy wonk Bill Clinton", call 900-446-6662

To vote for "the guy who's all ears, Ross Perot", call 900-446-
6620

Rush knows he has probably tainted his own poll, but he doubts
that he will have affected the results too much.

Phone   Susan from Danville, IL

Susan thinks that the American public is much smarter than the
liberal media gives them credit for, and thus Bush will be re-
elected in November. Bush clearly won the debate, but people
weren't listening because he was too nice. Clinton, however, came
across "as if he had inhaled." Rush says that people are hearing
Bush, but things just aren't registering.

Susan adds that Rush is "like an active volcano because you spew
forth an eruption of knowledge into the atmosphere of our brains,
emitting profound conservative wisdom which continues to deplete
the ozone layer of toxic liberalism." She adds that she feels
that Rush is the new "sex-symbol of American conservatism." Pat
states that Rush should now be called "Pinatubo Limbaugh."

Susan continues to praise Rush, but he stops her because "any
more of this and we'll get off the topic." Rush asks what the
latest polls are showing, and Pat says NBC shows Clinton ahead by
9 points while CNN says his lead may be as high as 15 points.
Rush says that if Bush is going to win, then there will have to
be an unprecedented turn-around in the polls, and it will have to
start soon. If Bush wins in November, though, with the polls like
they are, then what does that mean?

Pat says that it would mean that people are lying to the polls
because it's not politically correct to say that you're for
George Bush. He remembers how Hubert Humphrey gained 13 points
during the last four weeks in the 1968 election. He also recalls
the British election in which Neil Kinnock was ahead right up
until the election yet John Major still won. Clinton hasn't "won
the sale," and people may make their decision at the last minute.

Bush therefore has to keep raising all of the various concerns
about Clinton so that when people go to the polls they look at
Clinton, look at Bush, and decide that they can't afford to
gamble with Clinton. Susan adds that she doesn't think that the
polls are that accurate in showing Bush's support.

On CSPAN last night she heard a lot of Perot and Bush supporters
during the first call-in sequence, but there were more Clinton
supporters during the second call-in session. She felt that CSPAN
was screening the calls so as to get more Clinton voters. Rush
doesn't think CSPAN does such things, but Pat says that one thing
that is done is that the media exaggerates the winner of any
debate. A poll done right after the first Reagan/Mondale debate
showed people thought Mondale had won but only by a 4% margin;
several days later, that figure was up to 60%. This is why people
think that Nixon was absolutely destroyed by JFK in 1960. Rush
says that the media is already doing this now - Perot did very
well, Clinton didn't lose, and Bush is "wallowing."

Phone   Dennis from Cincinnati, OH

Dennis wonders if President Bush is trying to lose the election
so that he can come back in 1996 after the country has been
devastated by Clinton. Pat doesn't think Bush is trying to lose,
but adds if he is, "I hope he makes it close." Rush thanks
Patrick Buchanan for dropping by and notes that Buchanan will be
attending a dinner tonight in honor of Columbus and other white
European males.

*BREAK*

 Phone  Vance from Minneapolis, MN

Vance agrees with most of what Rush and Pat have said, but he
thinks that Bush should be "carefully aggressive" - when he loses
his temper, he sometimes appears to be desperate. Thus, he has to
temper his righteous anger, and avoid any appearance of being
vindictive. Reagan was able to do this very well.

Rush says that Reagan was able to display anger, but he used his
eyes only to do it; thus, Reagan came across as someone of good
cheer who was also very confident. Rush doesn't know what Bush
really does when he gets mad since the President seems to act
like he's mad instead of actually being mad; Vance agrees -
Bush's anger last night seemed to be somewhat programmed for the
TV cameras.

Vance has been waiting for Bush to come out and attack the
Democratic Congress and explain why he's vetoed bill and bill
they've sent to him. Clinton and other Democrats are attacking
him for his vetoes, and Bush needs to explain his reasons for
rejecting their legislation. Rush agrees - a factual rebuttal of
Clinton's charges on this is necessary.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Columbus Day is generating a lot of news on this 500th
anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the "New World."
Multiculturalists, of course, are hysterical about this holiday
because multiculturalism is a tool of revenge being used by those
who have failed to succeed in America. Multiculturalists are
taking out their anger on young skulls of mush, and unfortunately
young minority children are the prime victims of this anger.

Multiculturalism teaches that American is immoral, unjust, and
unfair, and all because of how America came to be. Christopher
Columbus, of course, is the new target for this anger. However,
the simple fact of the matter is that people today can't change
what Columbus did.

Granted, others may have landed on the shores of North America
before Columbus, but these people did not change history. What
Columbus did was to set into motion events that eventually
resulted in the creation of America, the single greatest nation
ever to be seen on the face of the Earth.

Those who have failed in America are not happy about this, which
is why they are teaching young children that native North
America, South America, and Africa were much better than what
happened after Europeans arrived. Columbus is blamed for bringing
diseases to America, yet had Columbus not travelled, would North
America still be free and unspoiled? Of course not; Columbus
hadn't discovered Hispanola, someone else would have and the
course of history would still have been changed.

The founding documents of this country contain nothing of
Christopher Columbus, which raises the question why is Columbus
being criticized? Today is not Columbus Day in Berkeley, but
rather "Indigenous Peoples' Day." Yet before Columbus arrived,
these indigenous peoples fought wars, died from disease, enslaved
one another, and such. Human beings are human beings, and human
behavior is remarkably similar throughout the world.

The only difference between these indigenous peoples and
Europeans is that the Europeans easily won their battles. There
haven't been any civilizations that have been free of war and
strife, and it's an insult to people's intelligence to blame
Columbus for introducing these evils to the indigenous peoples of
this hemisphere.

The EIB staff disagrees and points out that Atlantis was a utopia
without war or disease; they just didn't handle earthquakes too
well. Rush refuses to believe this, just as he refuses to believe
that white Europeans are the source of all evil in the world
today. If Columbus was so evil, then why hasn't Columbus Day been
protested for the past 500 years? And what can be done about it
anyway? Should the country be given back to its indigenous
peoples?

The country seems to be in some sort of self-flagellation mode.
People evidently love the idea that things are really bad and
that we're such a heinous people; is this because people are
feeling guilty about their prosperity? This is ridiculous -
America is the greatest country in the world, and it feeds and
protects the world.

Multiculturalism, though, has convinced a generation of American
kids that this country is a horrible place, and that they are
doomed to fail no matter what they do. Meanwhile immigrants
continue to come to our shores and find the hope and prosperity
that native citizens seem to think has vanished.

What's the difference between immigrants and the native citizens?
The immigrants haven't been polluted by the multiculturalist
garbage. Classes of kids are being told that their ancestors'
original homelands were better than America, yet why did these
people emigrate in the first place? Why did people flee to the
United States if their homelands were so great and the US is so
evil?

Multiculturalism is an attempt to teach young kids that they
would be better off somewhere else. Rush has no problem with
teaching people about Africa or Egypt or whatever; however, this
information should not take precedence over what these kids need
to know in order to successfully live in America. A lot of
Americans have prospered without having to take self-esteem
classes; in particular Asian children are performing so well that
the UC system has instituted quotas to limit the number of
incoming Asian students.

Kids need to be taught the essentials, yet they are being taught
information that should not be their primary focus. Why should
young African-American children be taught about Africa instead of
about America? Africa is a fine subject to teach, but only after
the basics are covered first. These kids must be taught how to
access the opportunities that exist for them in America.

Yet multiculturalists are mad about their failure to succeed and
thus have implemented their agenda to vent their anger. It's
gotten so bad that New York politicians are arguing over who was
the first to state that they weren't going to march in today's
parades. It's gotten so ridiculous that liberals in Lowell, MA
are offended by a sign that says "slow children" because they
think it damages children's self-esteem. This paternalistic and
pandering liberalism is what guides multiculturalism and why it
is so damaging.

*BREAK*

Phone   Grace from Bellingham, WA

Grace loves America and thinks it is a great country, but there
is room for improvement. She reads an excerpt from Columbus'
diary which praises the natives he's seen for being loving and
generous. Columbus, though, tells his king that all he needs is
50 soldiers in order to subjugate and enslave all of the natives.
Rush asks for the source of this diary, and Grace mentions the
books "The People's History of the United History" and "Conquest
of Paradise."

Rush won't argue with Grace about this, but the quote she read
seems to be too perfect a fit into the multiculturalist agenda.
He can't help but feel that if this were a true source, it would
be far more widely reported in the mainstream media. He holds the
soft-spoken Grace over the break, but first tells her that she
will have to speak up a bit since she sounds "too much like
Bush."

*BREAK*

Phone   Grace from Bellingham, WA (continued)

Grace doesn't think that what Columbus did was irrelevant because
"he did wipe out almost an entire race of people - the Indians!
They were kind to him and they did not have the technology the
Europeans did, they did not have the weapons the European did,
and he enslaved them!"

Rush says that historical accounts also show that many Indians
were cruel and violent, even to the point of offering infant
sacrifices. Grace doesn't care and says "who's to say we aren't
any better? Who's to say that if Columbus didn't come over, they
wouldn't be a thriving country now?" Rush replies "who knows,"
and wonders if Grace loses any sleep over this.

Grace says no, but she does lose sleep because western
civilization is still "incredibly racist" against Native
Americans - take, for example, the Washington Redskins. Rush says
that Grace is evidencing a new phenomenon that is extremely
irrelevant - these were all non-issues before political
correctness and a willing media came along to present them as
issues. Rush points out that the Washington Redskins did not
adapt their name to belittle or ridicule Native Americans.

Some commentators, though, claim that if this name offends
someone, then it should be dropped. Rush's answer is always to
ask what can a human being do that wouldn't offend somebody
somewhere; you can't live your life by trying not to offend
everybody. Grace, however, says that the name is racist and "we
are racist against Indians. I am not an extremist and I don't
feel guilty about what Columbus did, but how about making it fair
for them? We did come over, we did invade their land, and we set
up reservations on the worst land we could find. It's not fair."

Rush agrees that Grace has described the situation as it exists
today; however, the reservations were the result of the Indian
wars which the Indians lost. Grace, though, thinks that anyone
would fight if someone invaded their home. Rush agrees, but the
point is that this happens everywhere all over the world and you
can't change what's already happened.

Grace says that this shouldn't happen, and "it's a changeable
thing." Rush wonders what can be changed, and Grace says that
society's view of Indians should be changed. Schools teach that
Indians are inferior, for example. Rush wonders what Grace would
say to the Indian chief in Atlanta who likes the Tomahawk Chop
because he sells a lot of tomahawks.

Grace says that she is not an extremist, and doesn't believe in
the Tomahawk Chop or in allowing Indians to be "racist against
us. I don't think that's fair either." However, she lives next to
a reservation and her mother teaches at the Indian school, which
does not get enough money. Rush agrees that the reservation
system is outmoded, and that it is time for inclusion and full
citizenship for Native Americans.

Phone   Mike from Stratford, CT

Mike has read Rush's book from cover to cover, and he even had
his wife quiz him on the Rush Lexicon terms in the back; Mike got
them all right. Rush comments that the people who are attending
his TV show are bringing their books for his signature. Mike says
that he'd give his first-born child in trade for Rush's
autograph, but Rush tells him that this is not necessary; just
show up for the TV show. Mike asks how he can get to the show,
and Rush replies "generally, automobiles are best," adding that
to request an application call 212-397-7367 between 9 a.m. and 1
p.m. EST, or 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. RLT (Rio Linda Time).

Mike saw the debate last night, and noticed that Clinton always
referred to Bush as "Mr. Bush" while Bush referred to Clinton as
"Governor Clinton." To Mike, Clinton was being disrespectful
towards the office of the President, and Mike wonders if he is
being nitpicky about this.

Rush thinks Mike might be picking a nit or two with this, and he
doubts that Clinton is going to face any problems about his tone.
However, Clinton and Gore are being factually incorrect in about
90% of their allegations; if anything, Clinton is being
disrespectful with his free hand with the facts.

*BREAK*

Lo Bianco decides to use his creative freedom and plays the
Tomahawk Chop "music"; Rush requests some real bumper music, and
he cautions Lo Bianco against such things, reminding him that
people now know what he looks like.

Phone   Paula from Old Greenwich, CT

Paula says that Perot doesn't have a life of public service that
can be examined, and thus he was able to be relaxed during the
debates last night. Perot, though, didn't come up with any
solutions. Rush says that Perot will not have the solutions
because these are "supposed to come from the people."

Paula thinks Bill Clinton made a big mistake in reminding people
of his 17th wedding anniversary, in light of his confession that
he has had affairs, although he hasn't admitted to one with
Gennifer Flowers. Thus, for Clinton to make a big deal about his
marriage when he has not respected the institution was not a good
idea. Why didn't Clinton talk with Hillary or get counseling to
solve his marriage problems?

Paula also thinks that Bush was addressing the concerns of many
Americans when he mentioned how Clinton protested the Vietnam War
overseas. She thinks it is important that Clinton took
scholarship money and then never finished his studies or took his
graduation test. Rush points out that Clinton didn't even go to
class during his second year at Oxford. Paula adds that Clinton
didn't give his scholarship money back so that "someone who
deserved it" could use it.

Paula does think Bush must show some more energy when talking
about himself; Bush needs to be more like Rush in "tooting his
own horn." Bush, though, was very effective with his statement
that people must vote for someone they can trust. Rush says that
this was a gutsy thing for Bush to say, especially after his own
broken promise on taxes.

Paula agrees, but thinks Clinton is far more vulnerable in this
regard - for example, he promised Arkansas voters in 1990 that he
would serve a full four years as governor and not run for
President. Rush says that "it's not fair" to criticize a man for
the youthful actions he took when he was only 44.

Paula also points out that Clinton promised a middle class tax
cut during the New Hampshire primaries, yet he backed off on this
in June. Rush says that Clinton is a walking, talking public
policy manual who will say whatever he has to in order to please
the group he's currently addressing.

Paula agrees and adds that Bush was exactly right with his
remarks on Magic Johnson and AIDS. Rush was hoping to get to this
topic on today's show, but he will have to save it for tonight's
TV show. Rush thanks Paula for calling and promises the poll
results after the break.

*BREAK*

Last Friday's 900 poll gave 88.8% of the vote to Bush, 7.7% to
Perot, and 3.5% to Clinton. The latest count for today's poll
gives 87.2% to Bush, 10.6% to Perot, and 2.2% to Clinton. Both
polls had hundreds of thousands of calls, and Rush promises final
figures on tomorrow's show.
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