From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Wed 8/12/92
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 15:22:03 GMT
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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Wednesday, August 12, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, August 12, 1992

by John Switzer

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August 12, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

Driven by forces beyond his control, Rush has no choice but to
return to the subject of Anita Hill. Last Saturday Hillary
Clinton was the keynote speaker when the ABA gave Hill an award
for her "courage and bravery" in making her allegations against
Clarence Thomas. Rush points out that Hill did not have any
evidence to support her claim, nor were her witnesses able to
provide that evidence.

A man's life, career, and reputation was on the line, and now the
wife of the Democratic Presidential candidate is praising Hill
for her "courage and bravery." Rush asks his audience to imagine
what would happen if Barbara Bush gave Gennifer Flowers an award
for courage and bravery in making her claims against Bill
Clinton. In fact, Flowers has more evidence to support her claim
against Clinton than Hill does to support her accusations against
Thomas.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Iowa officials plan to open a "lactation room" in the
State House to allow new mothers to breast-feed their babies.
Rush thinks it is very appropriate to have such a place in a
governmental building since that's probably where the most boobs
can be found.

o       Oregon's first topless juice bar, Lollipops, will open in
Eugene, Oregon. The juice bar will be next to Jiggles, a topless
bar where alcohol is sold. Rush remarks that Lollipops will give
new meaning to the phrase "freshly squeezed."

o       All female Marine lieutenants will now get full combat
training alongside men. The standard training at Quantico will
include firing of live ammo in M-16s, throwing hand-grenades, and
participation in "mock wars." Rush points out that those
participating in "mock wars" are "faking it," and women should do
well at this.

o       A Cleveland judge ruled in favor of a 78-year old mother
who said that her life-long devotion to her son entitled her to
free auto work done by her mechanic son. The son therefore lost
his lawsuit against his mother for a pending auto bill. However,
the court did not implement the "whipping" the mother said she
should have given her son when he was a child. Rush says that if
Hillary Clinton was able to get her way, the son would have been
able to sue his mother much earlier in life, and thus she would
not have been able to build up such a large account of motherly
love.

o       Washington DC mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly and shadow Senator
Jesse Jackson have accused Republicans of "demonizing" the
nation's capital. The Republican party platform calls DC a
"national disgrace with hellish crime and scandal." Kelly claimed
that this was just another example of Republican "race-baiting."
Rush says that this is again the Democrats objecting to
Republicans stating the simple truth.

o       Stone Phillips' interview of President Bush showed the
bias of the media. Phillips mentioned Mary Matalin's use of the
term "bimbo eruptions" as an example of "low road" Republican
tactics. Rush again points out that this term was coined by a
Clinton staffer, so why shouldn't Republicans be able to use it?
Rush wonders if Stone Phillips even knew that Betsy Wright was
the one who first used this term.

o       The EIB Memory Division is still hard at work remembering
things. They recalled Lyndon Johnson's commercial against Barry
Goldwater and how Goldwater couldn't be trusted to have his
finger on the "button." This same charge was levelled against
Reagan in 1980 and throughout his two terms. Edward Kennedy even
went to Moscow to express his fear about Reagan's "cowboy
diplomacy." Yet liberals are now toasting Bill Clinton for being
the first to call for the bombing of Yugoslavia. Rush knows he
will be accused of taking the low road for simply noting these
facts, but a host has to do what a host has to do.

o       In the Netherlands "some real idiots, some real
nincompoops, some whose elevators don't go all the way to the
top," are trying to "pay the sea back for all that man has stolen
from her." These lunatics have built a 100-foot figure of a man,
and filled it with 20,000 loaves of bread; they plan to dump this
figure in the sea to "replenish" it. Rush promises more on this
later.

*BREAK*

Phone   Louise from East Bethel, MN

Louise says that she and her circle of friends think that Hillary
Clinton is the real force behind Bill Clinton. Hillary scares
Louise because of her views on child-rearing, and because Hillary
basically disappeared after her famous "teas and cookies"
comment. Hillary Clinton was recently in Minneapolis, and Louise
came away with the impression that she is a lot more than she
appears to be.

Rush agrees, and says that the Democratic convention showed the
influence feminists have on Bill Clinton and on the Democratic
party. Rush is also suspicious about Hillary's silence, and
believes that she has exacted a price from her husband for that
silence. Hillary is an example of the modern militant feminist,
who has a clear liberal agenda that she wants to implement. Rush
suspects that Hillary expects to have an influential role in a
Clinton administration.

It's clear that the Democrats have figured out what it takes to
win, as several party leaders have said that they're tired of
being right and losing. Thus, they will do whatever it takes to
win, and if this means shutting Hillary up and keeping her
influence backstage, then so be it. Democrats know that
liberalism is a losing proposition to most Americans, and thus
Hillary will stay out of sight until after the election.

If anyone doubts Rush on this, all they have to do is look at the
polls as to who does and does not believe Anita Hill. Feminism is
now based on abortion and sexual harassment, but since most
people don't believe Anita Hill or accept her agenda, the
Democrats will have to keep this aspect of their party silent
until they win.

*BREAK*

Rush has been invited to appear on Jesse Jackson's show, One Side
Now, when he is in Houston next Saturday. Rush would like to
appear, but this would require the cancellation of a number of
major commitments.

Update  Anita Hill         (The Guess Who, "It Was Too Late -
She's Come Undone")

In the chapter on Anita Hill in his upcoming book, Rush insisted
on keeping his statement that Anita Hill would be proven to be a
liar. Yesterday Dan Quayle was in Sacramento, and he commented
about Hillary Clinton's remarks at the presentation of an award
to Anita Hill. Quayle said that most Americans believed Clarence
Thomas and not Anita Hill, but that this didn't matter to the ABA
because Hill attacked a conservative who was also black. Hillary
Clinton gave the keynote speech right before Hill was given her
award.

Rush stated yesterday that women who have been sexually harassed
will believe Hill, regardless of what evidence is or is not
shown, and they will defend her no matter what. Rush has pointed
out that Hill said she was harassed by her supervisor in the
spring of 1981, but she didn't even meet Thomas until the fall of
1981. One feminist Rush was speaking to claimed that this was an
"understandable" memory lapse, and she justified Hill's lack of
specifics by saying that she herself could not remember her own
graduation date from high school.

Women are afraid that criticizing Hill will discredit the issue
of sexual harassment, but this is totally wrong. The worst thing
you can do about sexual harassment is to make false charges since
this trivializes women who really have been sexually harassed. A
listener yesterday wrote that for Clinton to praise Hill would be
the same thing as Barbara Bush giving an award to Gennifer
Flowers for her courage in her charges against Bill Clinton.

Quayle basically said these same things during his speech, and
Jane Danowitz of the Women's Campaign Fund in Washington, DC
responded by saying that "he is guilty of the cheapest of shots
by casting Anita Hill's testimony before the Senate Judiciary
Committee as partisan." Rush is amazed that Danowitz is ignoring
that the only reason Hill came forth with her charges was that
Clarence Thomas' nomination was a partisan issue. Danowitz,
though, continued on to say that "the issue is not who believes
who. The Vice President does not get it. Hill was there to tell a
story that was hard to tell and that affects almost every woman
in the workplace."

This proves Rush's point that the truth doesn't matter to
feminists; the issue of sexual harassment is their overriding
concern and it is far more important that Hill brought the issue
up in the first place than whether she was telling the truth.
However, most Americans don't believe this - most Americans are
concerned about the truth, and they aren't willing to sacrifice a
man's career for the sake of the feminist agenda. This is why
Hillary Clinton has been silenced, because if she were to start
spouting this nonsense, it would doom the Democrats' chances.

For Danowitz to claim that Quayle doesn't get it because he's
concerned about the truth is amazingly absurd. Rush is jazzed,
because this kind of thing ensures Clinton's defeat in November.

*BREAK*

Phone   Amy from Norfolk, VA

Amy is an "almost ex-feminazi" - she would have been a feminist,
but the feminazis refused to let her in their club. Thus, she
never got a chance to join the elite group of feminazis. In any
case, Amy knows that Rush would have eventually converted her,
and that if she had ever become a feminazi, she would be an ex-
feminazi now.

Amy took a number of "women's studies" in her college, and the
last course she took eight years ago was on "feminist politics."
This class was heavily attended by "lesbian separatists" who want
to live lives totally apart from men. The other members of this
class told Amy that if she was ever raped, it would be her own
fault because Amy was trying to make herself physically
attractive to men by wearing make-up and shaving her legs. Amy
admits that this was before the current sexual harassment
hysteria, and Rush bets that no feminazi would dare make such a
statement today.

The lesbian separatists, whom Amy charitably describes only as
"masculine-looking," told her that she would have to start
looking more masculine in order to be a true feminist; thus, they
excluded Amy from their clique, a fact that Amy is now very
grateful for. She is now happily married, and has one child. Amy
shows that she is a regular listener by saying that this means
she has been raped twice - once by her husband at the time of her
child's conception, and then again during the child's birth.

Rush is impressed by Amy's knowledge and explains to the audience
that Catherine MacKinnon teaches her law students in Michigan
that all sex between a man and a woman is rape, even if it is
consensual. Another feminazi has gone one step further than
MacKinnon by claiming that childbirth is also rape. Rush thanks
Amy for her enlightening call.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that part of modern, militant feminism (which is
separate from rank-and-file feminism) is the underlying
assumption that all men are natural-born rapists, and that sexual
harassment and rape are common, every-day occurrences. Danowitz
referred to this in her comments that implied almost every woman
has been sexually harassed, and this means that men must be
natural predators, and the exception is the man who does not rape
or harass. This assumption, though, simply isn't true, and the
feminist attempt to make this assumption part of every-day
society must be resisted.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Perot was on CSPAN last night, and Rush admits that he sort of
misses seeing Perot on the news every day. Rush was moved to
think, though, that Perot was "a little maniacal; he seems a
couple years away from being a James Bond style villain." Perot
trashed the government in his statement before the Senate, and he
said that the Vietnamese liked him because he was someone from
the United States who was straight-forward and polite. Perot told
the Vietnamese that their first mistake was in winning the
Vietnam War; if North Vietnam had just lost, the US would have
rebuilt them into a world economic power.

Perot also mentioned the $4.2 million offer that a third party
allegedly made during the Reagan administration; this person
claimed that he could provide all the information needed about
American POWs and MIAs. The United States does not deal with
individuals in such matters, and instead uses proxies such as
Perot for such deals.

The US called Perot to see if he would be willing to put up the
money; Perot was willing, but an investigation showed that the
Vietnam source was a phony, and his information was worthless.
Rush suspects that Perot never got his money back, which is one
reason that he hates Bush so much. Perot was also probably
humiliated by this episode which would have only made his
feelings worse.

Rush comments that he had the occasion to talk with Henry
Kissinger recently, who was very angry about the accusations that
he was willing to leave American POWs behind in Vietnam. Many of
the people in the government back then - Brent Scrowcroft, George
Bush, etc. - are still in the government now. Thus, the theory is
that these men have conspired to keep the facts about these
missing POWs quiet to avoid have their complicity revealed.

Rush comments that Kissinger was livid about these rumors during
the party, and he was still livid when he appeared on Nightline
last night. Kissinger is still fuming about the 60 Minutes report
that claims he and what he writes in his columns can be bought.
To Rush, Kissinger appeared to be generally angry and indignant,
and he convinced Rush that he did not do what he is now being
accused of.

This is a troublesome situation since the families of POWs and
MIAs want to know the truth about their missing relatives, and
there have been so many false leads and hopes. Perot, though,
brought no new evidence or proof during his most recent
appearance before the Senate.

Rush was struck by how in 1986 Perot told Rep. Stephen Solarz
that he knew people who could supply names, dates, and places.
Perot, though, refused to divulge the names of his sources, and
said that they would talk only to him. Perot insisted that the US
should negotiate with Vietnam, but Solarz said that negotiation
would be pointless since the Vietnamese claimed they don't have
any more POWs. Solarz said that if Perot would supply the
evidence, then that would be all the US would need. Perot,
though, refused to budge and produce his sources.

Now if Perot really did know people who could provide names,
dates, and sources, then why has he been unwilling to help these
missing POWs for six years? Has he put his ego before these men
who are supposedly still being held captive? Rush comments that
Perot is more likely "one hell of a salesman" who has sold a
product he doesn't have, and Rush regrets that the ones really
being hurt by all this are the families of the men who are
missing.

*BREAK*

Phone   Susan from Chapel Hill, NC

Susan had a little girl visiting the other day, and they were
watching TV when the Clintons were shown. The little girl asked
who they two people were and Susan unintentionally said "that's
Billary Clinton." She at first thought she made a mistake, but
after some thought she figured out that her unconscious was
telling her the truth.

She also read William F. Buckley's column in the Conservative
Chronicle about how liberals don't want to do anything to impede
the "right" of a 13-year old to have an abortion. An abortionist
recently was arrested for child molesting, and Buckley writes
"but isn't that their profession?"

Susan mentions how some feminists think that consensual sex and
child birth are rape, and so she wonders if abortion would be
another form of rape to them, too? Rush says that feminists are
on a quest for power, and they will use anything that will help
them portray women at a "power disadvantage."

The problem with feminism is that the feminazis define the
movement. This isolates the rank-and-file feminists who are not
man-hating activists, and Rush hopes that they start taking their
movement back. Hillary Clinton is a perfect example of how
feminists can have their reputations damaged when they state
their true agenda and opinions.

The vast majority of America's women do not think child birth and
consensual sex are rape, yet the media turns to the feminazis who
do believe this whenever a "feminist expert" is needed. The best
thing that can happen to feminism is if mainstream feminists get
control of the movement back. The problem, though, is that almost
all of the women in the news right now - especially most of the
women candidates running for Congress - are militant feminists,
not the rank-and-file members.

*BREAK*

Update  Environmental         (Barry McGuire, "Eve of
Destruction")

Rush comments that the apocalyptic doom-and-gloomers are not only
active in the environment but also the US economy. It seems that
everything now is a crisis - the deficit, the economy, the health
care system, the environment, the world's entire future.
Everybody is now nervous, uncertain, and frightened, which makes
them willing to do anything to change things.

One environmental crisis is the "ozone hole," which supposedly
will grow and grow until it causes massive skin cancer and other
maladies. Albert Gore even wrote a book about how the world must
take immediate action or suffer global damage. Alsten Chase, an
environmental columnist, has also written a book, "Playing God at
Yellowstone."

Chase has done research on ozone and the supposed ozone crisis,
and in his column today in the Orange County Register he provides
interesting statistics on what a hoax the ozone scare really is.
Even NASA has contributed to the scare-mongering with their
January report about massive amounts of chlorine compounds in the
upper atmosphere. This chlorine, though, was produced by the
eruption of Mount Pinatubo; in fact, man could not have produced
enough of this chemical and gotten it into the atmosphere quickly
enough to create the current situation.

Chase writes that the amount of chlorine annually produced by
man-made chlorofluorocarbons is 7500 tons. Volcanoes emit 36
million tons of chlorine each year. Stratospheric ozone levels
today are exactly what they were 30 years ago, and so Chase
wonders why scientists claim that there is a decline in ozone
levels?

The ozone layer fluctuates widely, paralleling the 11-year
sunspot cycle. The only way NASA can show a negative trend is if
they compare current levels with those from 1970, which is when
sun-spot activity peaked for the past 30 year period, resulting
in a peak of ozone levels.

Chase points out that ozone thinning over the Arctic was found in
the past, long before CFCs were in use. British scientists have
shown that this "hole" is just a thinning of the ozone layer, and
it lasts only a few weeks at certain times of the year. This
thinning had been observed as far back as the 30s and 40s. All of
this happened before CFCs were ever in use.

Contrary to the claims of the environmental socialists, who try
to blame this ozone thinning on man's activity and the evil CFCs,
it is Mount Arabus in the Arctic which has been erupting every
day for the past 100 years. Global wind patterns don't even allow
for CFCs to travel from North America down to the Arctic upper
atmosphere.

Ultraviolet radiation is declining over North America, contrary
to the environmental socialists' models which show that it should
have increased 6% since 1969. However, UVB levels are declining,
which indicates that there is more ozone present, and it is not
declining.

All of this shows what a crock the environmental ozone scare
really is, and it should warn people against those who are using
similar scare tactics on the economy, health care, etc.
Environmentalists have used these apocalyptic tactics for years
to great affect, and liberal Democrats are now finding them
useful as well.

Rush challenges anyone who doubts him to listen a while to Gore
or Clinton. It won't take long before they use the word "crisis"
or try to portray things in a gloom-and-doom manner. Rush is
confident that any doubters in his audience will soon realize
just how right he is in this.

*BREAK*

Rush has one more piece of news for his environmental update.
Supporters of the idea of the ozone crisis are trying to ban CFCs
from the entire world, and they claim this must be done
immediately. The best replacement right now for CFCs is a
chemical known as HFC-134A which costs 5 times as much as CFCs
and requires new machines whose life-expectancies are only 3 to 7
years, compared to a 30 year life-span for CFC machines.

If CFCs are banned altogether, and governments are already
agreeing to do this by 1995, it will cost the world $5 trillion.
610 million refrigerators and freezers will have to be
eliminated, as well as 120 million cold storage lockers, 100
million refrigerated trucks and train cars, and 150 million car
air conditioners. These machines all use CFCs, and the cost of
eliminating them is not measured only in dollars.

If all of these machines are banned in 1995, from 20 to 40
million people in third world countries may die because of a lack
of proper refrigeration for their food. What people forget is
that CFCs are mainly used not to cool "rich Republicans," but to
cool and preserve food. Because of CFCs, food can be preserved
and saved for the future.

Environmentalists want to ban CFCs not because they want to "save
the Earth," but because they want to implement their socialist
agendas. Socialists have found a new home in the environmental
movement, and this is a wise move on their part since it means
that they now speak for a constituency that can't reject them.

*BREAK*

The idea of a bunch of environmentalists in the Netherlands to
"give a gift to the sea" is being called dumb by Greenpeace and
sacrilegious by Christians. The government of the Netherlands is
trying to stop these wackos from towing a 100 foot steel statue
of a man into the North Sea and sinking it. The statue will be
filled with 20,000 loaves of bread, and backers are calling it
"the National Gift to the Sea."

Kies Baker says that detractors misunderstand his project - "this
is a positive act" because it is an "offering to the sea" in
return for all that man has "stolen" from it over the ages. The
statue cost $545,000 and the 20,000 loaves of bread were baked by
a dozen local bakers from grain grown on reclaimed land with
water drained from an artificial sea. If you so desire, you can
sponsor a loaf of bread for only $7.

"Holland feels guilty," according to statue supporters, because a
third of Holland's land was reclaimed from the sea. Thus, this
statue is their repayment to the sea for this "theft." Rush is
surprised, though, that mainstream environmentalists are
attacking this idea since this kind of idiocy is what they
usually produce.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

o       Howie Karr is a funny, right-wing columnist for the
Boston Herald who in his recent column provides the perfect
description of a typical, modern-day Democrat: "she's a homeless,
battered, lesbian of color, whose father was a Vietnam MIA, and
who needs - no, demands - an abortion because she tested positive
for HIV, which she got from a dirty needle given to her by Dan
Quayle in a boarded up factory that is the result of the Fast
Track Trade Agreement."

Rush calls this a perfect description of modern-day Democratic
victim, and adds that one would think that Reagan and Bush are
out injecting people with AIDS-filled needles since they
supposedly don't care enough about AIDS or its victims.

o       Rush moves onto Bush's alleged affair with Jennifer
Fitzgerald, and he points out the differences between these
allegations and the Gennifer Flowers' accusations. With Flowers'
charges, the woman allegedly involved came forth with details and
evidence; with Bush's alleged affair, the only "proof" is the
quote of a dead man in a new book.

Rush comments on how Trento's book has made the rounds. CNN's Bob
Franken has said that he received underlined excerpts of this
book from a Democrat. CNN's Tom Hannon found no reason to
follow-up the story when he was initially told about it, but
changed his mind after seeing reports by the NY Post and CBS.

The Los Angeles Times' Jack Nelson said that the authors' agent
offered him an exclusive about it last month, but he rejected it
because there's no story in it - just the alleged words of a dead
ambassador. Cox Newspapers' Julia Malone called it a legitimate
issue but hasn't been able to talk to Bush about it.

Rush is amazed at how the Democrats are passing this book around
and encouraging its use, even while they are attacking the
Republicans for sleazy campaigning. Rush states that when Bush is
asked a question about this during a press conference with
Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, people in the media seem to have
lost their sense. He thinks that this is a legitimate question to
ask, but not during a press conference with Rabin. He muses at
the lack of respect being shown for the Presidential office.

o       Rush is going to talk science again, which he knows will
distress the scientists in his audience. However, studies are now
showing that while people with very low cholesterol levels may
have less of a risk of heart attack, they seem to be at a higher
risk of death from liver disease, cancer, strokes, homicide, and
suicide.

Rush doesn't understand why someone would kill you for having a
low cholesterol level. Rush can understand, though, why someone
who is now eating oat bran and cardboard would commit homicide,
though. There you are, having stopped eating everything you like
and you end up with low cholesterol levels. You have reduced your
life to total unhappiness, and now you find out that you are at
higher risk from cancer. Thus, you go out and shoot "a happy fat
person enjoying life." Rush says that this is a sad thing, and it
all goes back to how people seem to think that the major crisis
of life is that people actually die.

It's not enough to just live your life and be happy, but you have
to worry about what the health police will think about your
life-style. People just can't win - first coffee is supposed to
cause heart disease, but then it's shown not to matter. Oat bran
was the next miracle food, but its beneficial affects were highly
overrated.

Rush comments that when he weighed 320 pounds, his cholesterol
was 148 and his triglycerides were normal. When Rush would tell
"healthy people" this, they got angry. They seemed to think it
was so unfair that Rush had such healthy genes. It's one thing to
want to be healthy, but it's another to expect to live forever.

*BREAK*

Rush comments on how Jay Leno is getting tired of all the attacks
against him; he is being criticized by the tabloids, Dennis
Miller, Arsenio Hall, etc. Rush suspects a lot of "sour grapes"
are involved in these attacks, especially from Dennis Miller,
whose own ratings were rock bottom. Leno, though, has never
responded to any of these attacks.

Leno said that there's two schools of thought - you don't dignify
these sorts of low attacks or you attack them head-on; Leno has
chosen the first course. Rush recalls how when he did radio in
Kansas City, he was viciously attacked by a local columnist. Rush
showed the column to his dad, who told him "Son, don't you even
acknowledge. Don't you even respond! You're bigger than that."

Rush comments that classy people tend to follow this advice, but
sooner or later, as the attacks continue, one's fans want their
hero to respond. Reagan's supporters were begging him to respond
to the Iran-Contra charges, and similarly for George Bush's
supporters now. The question, though, is how to respond to these
types of low blows.

Rush finds himself in a similar situation, as the American
Spectator has done a huge cover story on him for their next
issue. They sent him an advance copy of the story, and he was
struck by an "incredible thing" said about him in the story. He
now wonders whether he should respond to it or just let the
comment speak for itself.

The EIB staff originally wanted Rush to respond to the story, but
now they have changed their minds. Rush asks them why, and Lo
Bianco replies "because you're too big." Rush is in a quandary
because this comment is not a slur, but an amazing piece of
praise. He still isn't sure whether he should read it, but Diana,
the editor of the Limbaugh Letter, tells him to go for it.

The story says "he's very smart, Koppel says. He does his
homework, he's well informed and he's a star. William Bennett
tells the story of eating dinner at a restaurant with Limbaugh
when all of a sudden people started coming over to get his -
Limbaugh's - autograph. `I became security, organizing the line,'
says Bennett. Of Limbaugh, never short of superlatives to
describe himself, Bennett says, as though he were on the show,
`Rush Limbaugh is possibly our greatest living American.'"

Rush repeats that last line and he orders his staff to get
official EIB announcer Johnny Donovan in the studio so that he
can do a promo using this piece.

*BREAK*

Phone   Tom from Huntly, MO

Tom says that he would do anything, short of voting Democrat, to
get a Rush Limbaugh signature mug from which he can drink his
Snapple Ice-Tea. Rush gives him the EIB merchandise phone number
and Tom, his hopes for a free mug dashed, says "darn it." Rush
sighs and says that he would love the give the mug away, but he
has business associates to think of.

Tom understands Rush's point of view, and he moves onto his main
subject of Ross Perot's appearance before the Senate committee.
Tom thinks that if there is any truth in what Perot said
yesterday, it will shake the halls of Washington. He agrees that
if only one American was left in Vietnam because of CIA cover-
ups, that everything should be done to find that man and return
him to America.

Tom comments that Perot specifically referred to Bush's
complicity, from his days in the CIA, through his Vice
Presidency, and to his current Presidency. Rush asks Tom if he
thinks that Perot's animosity towards Bush had anything to do
with his Presidential bid, and Tom doesn't think so.

Rush saw Perot speak, and he finds it difficult to believe
Perot's comment that he was stonewalled by the US government.
Perot met with the North Vietnamese - if they told him the truth,
then how could he have been stonewalled? Tom says that the US
government lost the man who supposedly knew everything about
POWs, and Perot has stated that he suspects the government
deliberately lost the guy so as to end any discussion on the
issue.

If Perot is lying, he will go down as one of the biggest kooks in
history, but Tom thinks that Perot is an honest, sincere man who
is trying to do the right thing. Perot has something to say, and
even though he was treated like dirt by the Senate, he still
persevered.

Rush disagrees as to whether Perot was treated like dirt by the
Senate, who instead "rolled over backwards, forwards, and
sideways" for someone who acted like a "maniac." Rush still
thinks Perot was on some sort of maniacal trip, but Tom
disagrees. He says that if Perot is a nut, then this will come up
in time. However, if Perot is telling the truth, then the US must
tell the truth.

Rush says that everyone feels like this - if Americans are being
held captive, then they must be returned, and he doesn't see why
Tom is giving Perot so much credit for saying so. Rush asks Tom
if he was a Perot supporter during Perot's campaign, and Tom says
that he was not because during the campaign he thought Perot was
a kook. However, Perot's performance last night changed Tom's
mind about the man. In any case, this issue must be settled once
and for all.

Rush agrees that the truth must come out, but he asks what Tom
thinks about Perot's appearance before the Senate in 1986. Perot
refused to divulge his source and to this date he has remained
silent. Tom says that Perot told the Senate Committee yesterday
that this information has now been revealed in secret, sworn
testimony. Tom suspects that this information could very well
bring down the Bush administration.

Rush restates his opinion - if members of the US government knew
about POWs still being held, "they ought to fry" and it's time to
get to the truth about this matter. However, if any of this
evidence really implicates Bush, then there are enough people on
the Senate Committee who would love to publicize this
information.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mick from Wheaton, IL

Mick takes Rush to task for not being a mathematician; Mick
simply doesn't believe that EIB has 432 new listeners every
second since this means that 4.6 million new listeners would have
to be tuning in during every show. Rush admits that his show's
rate of attracting new listeners is greater than the US
birthrate.

Rush wonders, though, if Mick really believed that these figures
were being presented as factual. Once again Rush explains that he
likes to illustrate absurdity by being absurd and to show the
absurdity of others by using their own tactics against them.
People jump on Rush's statement of 432 listeners per second, but
nobody ever challenges the environmentalists' claims that 300,000
new cases of skin cancer will result if CFCs aren't banned
immediately.

Thus, Rush is exaggerating to encourage his listeners to examine
the claims being made throughout society today. The EIB staff,
though, tells Rush that new research shows that EIB is attracting
536 new listeners a second.

Rush ignores theme and comments that a common criticism of his
show is that he stifles individual creative thought, but Mick's
call proves otherwise. Rush bets that most of his audience is
thinking more about things, thanks to his show. Aside from his
main objective to get the most listeners ever for a radio show,
Rush is pleased when listeners tell him that his show makes them
think.

*BREAK*

Phone   Chris from Troy, MI

Chris has a question that's burning in her breast - does Rush
have a crush on Joan Lunden? She's intrigued by how Rush speaks
of Lunden, and wonders if he has asked her out now that she's a
free, unattached woman. Rush points out that even if he had a
crush on Lunden, what good would be achieved by stating it
publicly to 12 million listeners? He doesn't have a crush on her,
but if he did he would still keep quiet about it.

Chris, though, was impressed by how brightly Rush's eyes shown
when he was on Good Morning America, and she still thinks Rush
has a torch burning for the media star. Chris mentions how
quickly her phone call was put in the queue after she mentioned
her topic. Rush points out that Bo Snerdley is on vacation, which
is why his brother Merv is now manning the phones.


-- 
John Switzer               | "My name is Hillary. It's a German
                           | name that means 'She whose bosoms
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | defy gravity.'" -- from Top Secret,
jrs@netcom.com             | a vastly underpraised movie