From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
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Subject: Summary Thu 12/17/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Thursday, December 17, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:55:36 GMT
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, December 17, 1992

by John Switzer

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December 17, 1992

LIMBAUGH WATCH

December 17, 1992 - It's now 45 days after Bill Clinton's
election and Rush is still on the air with 546 radio affiliates
and 207 TV affiliates, and his book has been on the NY Times
hardback non-fiction best-seller list for 12 consecutive weeks
and is currently number one on the list.

MORNING UPDATE

Most people think that the animal rights crowd has the most
compassionate and most caring people around. Well, Oregon State
University did a study to find out who the animal rights people
are, and they found that 78% of the people in animal rights
groups are women; 82% are well-educated, 40% make more than
$50,000 a year, 98% are environmental extremists by their own
admission, 83% are feminists, 83% are opposed to war, 71% have no
children, and 89% have an average of 5 pets.

Rush has been saying all along that the left-wing wacko groups
are all cut from the same cloth - to these leftists the cause,
whether it be animal rights, feminism, the environment, or
whatever, is just the vehicle they are using to achieve their
ultimate objective of world socialism, which requires the
elimination of capitalism and private property rights.

The study also investigated the literature that these animal
rights groups put out, and one brochure rails against artificial
insemination of cows because "it robs them of their one happy day
a year." Rush is surprised since if artificial insemination is
good enough for human feminists, "why not for cows - after all,
what's the difference?"

FIRST HOUR

Update  General David Dinkins         ("General David Dinkins,
Where Are You")

Dinkins is trying to glue back the pieces of his "gorgeous
mosaic" of a city since nobody is getting along with anyone else.
Rush comments that this is what happens when people try to solve
problems using symbolism instead of substance; Dinkins was
elected in 1989, and New York rejoiced because now that they had
a black mayor, the city would heal itself and become a wonderful
place in which to live.

Real problems cannot be solved with symbolism, though, and
Dinkins' term as mayor proves this. Today's NY Daily News has a
report on a school board meeting last night which was about the
"Children of the Rainbow" curriculum; parents across New York are
coming forward to put their foot down about having their kids
taught a pro-gay curriculum, feminist nursery rhymes, and other
sorts of multicultural and leftist propaganda.

Last night's meeting developed into a raucous shouting and
shoving match that had to be ended early by security guards.
"There was no love in that room," Rush states. However, one
picture of this meeting is priceless - an angry-looking woman
wearing wire-rimmed glasses was at the meeting and carried a sign
that stated "Give me condoms, or give me death."

"Well, that's a no brainer," Rush states, and he suggests a new
slogan for this woman - "buy your condoms for yourself." Where is
it written that it is now the right of all Americans to be given
condoms by the government? And so, once again, the left tries to
draw a moral equivalency between two totally different events.
When Patrick Henry shouted "Give me liberty, or give me death,"
he didn't have the option of popping down to the corner store to
pick up a six-pack of liberty; Henry couldn't buy his liberty,
but people can buy their own condoms.

Items

o       Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) has now been accused of
being a leader in the House Post Office scandal, which involved
congressmen laundering constituent and campaign contributions
through the post office so that the funds could be converted into
personal funds. A congressman could perhaps buy 5 stamps using a
$10,000 check, and take the change in cash; or in many cases,
congressmen bought $10,000 worth of stamps and then sold them
back to the post office.

Rostenkowski bought $29,672 worth of stamps, which is enough to
mail 50 first-class letters every day for the six-year period
under review by a grand jury. This is rather strange since
members of Congress have the franking privilege, which allows
them to send their letters for free, without the need to buy
stamps in the first place.

The Justice Department has launched a full investigation into the
House Bank scandal, but of course the majority of people who are
in "deep doo-doo" are no longer in Congress, which figures. Some
of the worst offenders are still in office, though, and so the
investigation will continue.

o       Congress is also in the news because the Democratic
majority has decided to change the rules so as to cut in half the
10 seats that Republicans gained during the last election.
Congress will now allow its five delegates from Guam, Puerto
Rico, and elsewhere to cast votes when the House is in "Committee
of the Whole Session," which is when the final votes on bills
occur.

George Will has written a column about this, and he found a quote
from Thomas Foley from before he was Speaker of the House; Foley
at that time opposed letting these delegates vote in the full
House, and suggested that the delegates should instead
participate in committees, since committees are not established
by the Constitution. Foley has all of a sudden changed his mind,
just so that Republicans would not have the full benefit of last
month's elections.

This is yet another example of the condescending arrogance of the
House in general and liberal Democrats in particular that
manifested itself in the House Bank and Post Office scandals.
This arrogance also motivated the Democrats' limiting of special
orders, which allow members to make after-hour speeches that are
televised on CSPAN.

To remind people of how things work, Rush replays one of his
favorite EIB commercials:

<<Announcer>> The Capitol Hill Post Office - over a 100 years of
service.

<<Walter Brennan-type old geezer>> Yeah, I remember my first day
behind the counter at the Capitol Hill Post Office. It's
something I'll never forget . . .

<<Sound of jingling bell as the door is opened with sounds of
horses and wagons in the street outside.>>

<<Old Geezer when he was young>> Well, ah hello there, Mr.
Congressman. Is there anything I can help you with there?

<<Good Ol' Boy Congressman>> Well, yes son, I need a couple of
them thar first-class stamps.

<<Young Geezer>> Okay, is that all, sir?

<<Congressman>> No - uh - can you cash this check for a $1000?

<<Young Geezer>> Ah, boy, sir, I don't - I don't know, I don't
think so.

<<Congressman>> Well now, trust me, son, you can. You see, it's
just the way we do things up here on the Hill. Heh, heh, heh.

<<Old Geezer>> Oh, sure, the congressmen have come and gone, and
I've retired, but some things remain the same.

<<Sound of jingling bell as door is opened, with sounds of modern
accounting machines being operated in the background.>>

<<Young Geezer>> Well, ah, hello there, Mr. Congressman. Is there
anything I can help you with there?

<<Congressman>> Yeah, check my mailbox.

<<Young Geezer>> Okay - oh, just a check statement from your
bank, sir.

<<Congressman>> What check statement?

<<Young Geezer>> Ah, yes sir, I'll just tear this up right away.

<<Congressman>> Good kid, good kid. Hey, I need some postage
stamps - just one.

<<Young Geezer>> Okay, that'll be 29 cents.

<<Congressman>> Uh, here's a constituent's check for $5000.

<<Young Geezer>> Ah, and here's your change. Thanks, Congressman.

<<Congressman>> And kid, you keep that stamp.

<<Young Geezer, very excited>> Hey thanks!

<<Congressman, sotto voce>> That way if I'm indicted, he's my
accomplice. Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. <<Normal voice>> Bye-bye!

<<Old Geezer>> Yes sir, I guess it's true what they say about
congressmen and the Capitol Hill Post Office - neither inquiry
nor bribes nor abuses of power shall keep our appointed leaders
from making their rounds.

<<Announcer, with drum roll>> The Capitol Hill Post Office,
another special privilege institution.

Rush notes that a full transcript of this commercial, in addition
to those for the House Bank and Bungee Condoms, can be found in
"The Way Things Ought to Be."

o       Rush comments that he illustrated a "journalistic front"
on his TV show last night. Amazingly, though, NBC News has
provided another example with their latest poll that shows 71% of
the people approve of the way Clinton is handling the economy,
while only 8% don't. The shift in public confidence is profound,
and Rush is amazed at how the American public can go from the
"depths of depression to a heroin-like high in a matter of days."

The EIB staff shows off their drug knowledge by pointing out that
heroin doesn't give one a real high, so Rush amends his remark to
"a drug-like high."

o       It's an interesting thing to see the happy, smiling faces
of people in Baidoa, Somalia just because the Marines have moved
in and pushed the gun-toting thugs out. This should make
Americans feel good.

*BREAK*

Update  Animal Rights         (Andy Williams, "Born Free" with
gratuitous sound effects)

Rush asks his staff if they know what a newt is, and they reply
"a congressman?" Rush informs his staff that the newt is a little
salamander-type amphibian that has no natural enemies because it
doesn't taste very good.

However, newts near Berkeley, CA are dying at a rapid rate
because automobiles are squashing them as they try to cross
heavily travelled Southpark Drive to get to Wildcat Creek which
is where they mate. As many as 200 newts are being killed every
day, and so officials are going to close the road during the newt
mating season. Thus, the newt's only natural predator has turned
out to be a tire, which supports Rush's oft-repeated call to ban
the wheel.

*BREAK*

Phone   Otto from Wichita, KS

Otto is a moderate Democrat, which almost makes him a Republican.
He says that Gabon is a small oil-producing country on the west
coast of Africa; it is a member of OPEC and which gets 75% of its
export revenues from oil. This is the explanation why Ron Brown
represented both Gabon and Exxon.

Rush explains that Ron Brown lobbied for both Exxon and Gabon
while head of the Democratic National Committee. He thanks Otto
for looking this up, explaining "I could have done it myself, but
I knew that you would do and I knew it would be a learning
experience for whomever in the audience looked it up, and I'm
here to teach as well as to entertain."

Phone   Jewel from Lancaster, PA

Rush is excited to once again hear from the ever-witty and
effervescent Jewel, who gives him "teleorgasmic dittos from the
county where Intercourse isn't just fun, it's a city!" Rush says
that EIB doesn't hear enough from Jewel, who replies she has a
quote from Frankie Schaeffer - "being introduced to literature
and art by feminists is like being introduced to sex via rape."

Rush calls that a hard-hitting quote, and the anti-feminist Jewel
replies with a gleeful "yes!" She adds that her call is really
about politically correct education, "which so impermeates our
society that I can't escape it at the libary. [sic]" Rush starts
to correct Jewel on her novel new word "impermeates," but then
starts laughing at her pronunciation of library. He asks if that
is what she really means, and she decides to let Rush decide this
for himself.

"She's sharp, folks," Rush says, and asks what Jewel found in the
"libary." Jewel says that she is learning a new language,
Italian. Rush asks if she is Italian, and she replies that she is
Irish, but she cooks enough Italian food that she figured she
should learn the language to know what she's eating.

Jewel picked up an intermediate-level Italian book, "Face to
Face: a Contemporary Reader for Communication" published by Ohio
State and Holt, Rheinhart, and Winston. The book contains the
Italian version of the "Charter for Animal Rights" and Jewel
translates it for Rush and the audience:

o       The rights of wild animals are that man hasn't got the
right to hunt for sport because animals have the right to live
and multiply on the Earth.

o       Animals have the right to conservation of their
environment.

o       Animals have the right to have their freedom preserved;
it is a crime to confine them to zoos.

Jewel's translation is interrupted by a long-distance operator
who 1) interrupts Jewel's nationally broadcast phone call, 2)
reads off her phone number for the entire nation to hear, 3) and
informs her that her sister is making an emergency call and asks
if Jewel wants to release the line. Jewel regretfully releases
the line so she can talk to her sister, telling Rush "you've got
my number, call back." Rush dutifully replies "yes, ma'am."

Rush then hopes the EIB staff has Jewel's number and then
explains that he first talked to Jewel after the Gulf War when he
was putting together the cast for his miniseries entitled Gulf
War Won. Jewel was one of many people who suggested a cast
addition, and her idea was that the San Francisco chapter of
Dykes on Bikes portray the First All-American Amazon Calvary
Battalion whose job was to go behind enemy lines and eliminate
future members of the Republican Guard in their "intra-uterine
bunkers."

"Ever since then," Rush adds, "we have marveled at her
creativity."

Phone   Jerry from Richmond, CA

Jerry refers to Rush's recent stories about sexual harassment and
thinks "you poor men are getting hammered all the time by these
women," and she wonders what men are supposed to do when women
show up scantily clad; why is it now a crime for men to look at
them? She is now 60 and has worked around men all her life, and
she knows that there is a way to treat sexual harassment - you
say `no,' and that's it. She doesn't know why feminists are going
so crazy about the issue of sexual harassment.

Rush says that if you look at the way Senator Packwood and
Senator Inouye are being treated, it's clear what's happening.
This issue is politically and ideologically motivated, and is
about keeping conservatives and Republicans out of power, and
about preserving Democratic and liberal power.

Certainly there are a lot of women who are seriously concerned
about sexual harassment and about how some men abuse their power
over women. Yet, the hysteria that accompanied the attempt to
destroy Clarence Thomas is quite different then how many
feminists and liberals are ignoring similar accusations being
made against Daniel Inouye. Clearly politics is what is pushing
many sexual harassment investigations.

*BREAK*

Phone   Bob from Pittsburgh, PA

Rush comments that he got a letter from two of the Steelers'
quarterbacks begging him to attend the annual awards ceremony for
the NFL's Quarterbacks' Club which will be held in Tampa next
February. Rush had received a previous invitation to be the MC
because although he dearly would like to attend, he had to refuse
because he simply didn't have the time.

So now two quarterbacks from his favorite football team are
applying pressure on Rush, because they really want an MC from
outside sports "and who better than a life-long Steelers fan?"
Rush admits he is torn by this request, and thus is going to have
to think about it.

Rush adds that he had hoped to get into Pittsburgh to see a
Steelers game, and Bob adds that he would love to see Rush come
to town. Rush notes that he worked in Pittsburgh for five years,
from 1971 to 1975, right when the Steelers' dynasty began, and so
he has always had a soft spot in his heart for both the Steelers
and Pittsburgh.

Bob continues on to his topic, which is how he is appalled by the
idea of having condoms distributed in schools; he doesn't see why
kids, if they are responsible enough to have sex, shouldn't be
responsible enough to buy their own condoms. Giving condoms out
in schools simply advocates irresponsible sexual behavior.

Rush agrees, and notes that liberals are doing this not only in
New York, but throughout the country. In New York, the militant
gay lobby is behind the condom distribution plan, and they don't
want anyone to judge their actions or for there to be any
consequences to their actions.

Also, people claim kids are going to have sex, no matter what,
but the most recent Planned Parenthood statistics show that the
percentage of teenage girls having sex with multiple partners has
almost doubled in the past 20 years. If these figures can go up,
then they certainly can go down, and Rush notes that the early
1970s were right in the middle of the "free sex" revolution.

The question therefore has to be asked why sexual activity is
increasing, and the answer is simple - values are no longer able
to be taught in schools because there are those who claim this is
"imposing morality" on them. Giving condoms out, though, only
encourages the activity, and thus is a disgraceful disservice to
these kids. Adults have modified their behavior to take into
account the risks posed by AIDS and sexually transmitted
diseases, so why can't adults teach what they've learned to
today's kids?

Certainly this won't be 100% successful, but it certainly will
work a lot better than the idiotic Children of the Rainbow
curriculum and other multiculturalist crap which is more
symbolism than substance. Some adults feel that all they have to
do is give out condoms to "solve" the problem, and thus can wash
their hands of it; these people don't care that these condoms are
not the totally effective insurance policy as claimed because
giving out condoms allows them to ignore the root problem which
can be solved only by teaching values.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from Cleveland, OH

John has decided to make a sign of his own which will say "Give
me Limbaugh, or give me death." He plans on putting this sign in
the front yard of his newly purchased home. Rush thinks John is
very selfish for going out and buying a home before Clinton
becomes President; what John should do now is punch a hole in his
roof so that when it rains, he gets wet, and thus can relate to
those who are suffering across the world.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush received a fax from John of Bedford, Indiana who
reports that the "liberal left store clerks of the nation" are
targeting works other than Rush's best-seller. John's wife was in
such a bookstore the other day and overheard another customer ask
a clerk for assistance in finding a copy of "The Little Mermaid"
videotape. The female clerk tried to discourage the customer from
buying this movie since "it presents a terrible lesson to our
little girls - that they have to give up everything for the man
they love."

Rush points out that people get mad as heck when he says that it
is a goal of feminism to make sure no woman ever gets any
pleasure from a man; women are not supposed to need or desire a
man or be happy with a man. This is certainly what the hostile,
bitter, and angry feminist leaders think, which is why it is
important to realize that feminism is defined by the movement's
leaders.

Rush explains, for those who haven't seen the film, that the
little mermaid, Ariel, gave up being a mermaid so that she could
marry the human man that she fell in love with. This is what
Ariel wanted to do; she was not forced to marry this guy or give
up her half-fish life. Yet, this is all it took to anger a store
clerk.

John adds that the clerk suggested that instead of "The Little
Mermaid," that the customer buy "Beauty and the Beast." John
writes that he was surprised at this since he expected that the
"feminazi, environmentalist-wacko, animal rights store clerk"
would be just as appalled by how this movie ends with the
prince's transformation back into a human. John's wife, though,
suggested that the clerk probably was attracted by "subtle hints
of bestiality" that she read into this film.

John signs his fax as "just one of your `followers,'" and Rush
laughs because this is in reference to the bookstore story he
told yesterday about how a manager of a bookstore warned his
employees not to air their political opinions when customers ask
for Rush's book because Rush's "followers" would call up and
publicize the store's attempts at political correctness.

o       Larry Cudlow has written an editorial for the Wall Street
Journal titled "It's capital formation, stupid!" This is a take-
off on the famous sign that James Carville had in his office -
"it's the economy, stupid!" Cudlow is alarmed by the great number
of calls for increased government spending that came out of the
Little Rock economic summit.

Rush adds that he is amazed by how throughout the Reagan and Bush
administrations, the Democrats harped on and on about the deficit
and how it had to be reduced or the country would face ruin; now
that it's their deficit, however, they don't seem very concerned
at all about increasing it.

Rush also highly recommends Robert Bartley's book "The Seven Fat
Years" for anyone who wants an accurate history of the Reagan
years and why they were prosperous. This is the best-documented
book on the Reagan decade that is available; it has a lot of
figures and statistics, "but boy is it right."

Bartley recalls how the day after this year's election, Senator
Patrick Moynihan stated "I just realized - now it's our deficit."
This means that for 12 years the Democrats had been able to
portray the deficit as the fault of Republican Presidents,
ignoring the fact that it was the Democratic Congress who was
spending the money and thereby creating the deficit. Now, though,
the Democrats are realizing that it's going to be "their"
deficit.

Democrats are now trying to cover themselves on this, which is
why Robert Reich said that the country could go ahead and
increase the deficit, as long as it was within the "context of a
deficit reduction plan." Thus, an "infusion of spending and
investment" would help out the economy, and Congress could then
take care of the deficit afterwards.

If this were going to work, though, then why didn't the 1990
budget deal work? After all, this deal was supposed to reduce the
deficit to $60 billion by 1995 yet the only thing that happened
was that the deficits skyrocketed.

Cudlow has a lot of interesting things to say about this,
including the point that "workers do not create jobs - businesses
create jobs." Thus, the big problem facing America for the
remaining years of the 20th-century is not job programs or job
training, but capital supplies and capital formation. In other
words, it's getting the private sector to invest and take the
risks of expanding business.

Cudlow also quotes the McKenzie Institute survey which is
appearing in the January issue of the Limbaugh Letter. According
to this survey, the typical full-time American worker produced
$49,600 in goods and services in 1990, while the German worker
produced $44,200, the Japanese worker $38,200, and the British
worker $37,100. German and Japanese factory workers also produced
only 80% of that produced by American workers, which is why US
exports have doubled in just the past 6 years.

Also, a recent NY Times story cites the McKenzie study and says
that it corroborates earlier research by economists William
Beaumel and Edward Wolfe, among others, who found America's
higher productivity is due to "Washington's relatively hands-off
attitude compared with Tokyo or Bonn." Rush talks about this in
his newsletter - government does not have to get involved in
order to save business or make it productive because America is
already productive; in fact, America is more productive than the
other major industrial nations precisely because it has less
government interference. America still has a lot of government
interference going on, but it's still less than what businesses
in Europe and Japan have to deal with.

This is why many people are frightened by what happened at
Clinton's economic summit - Clinton had a little army down there
demanding more government involvement in business, using the
excuse of "necessary investment."

America is not in a crisis, however - on Monday the Wall Street
Journal reported that American high-tech companies have regained
the lead in semiconductors; the US semiconductor industry is also
poised to surpass the Japanese in the field of High Definition
TV. The Japanese are building an analog format, while the US is
doing its research on digital HDTV. America is also ahead of
Japan in the fields of electronic notebooks and wireless phones.

Also, the US is running a "health surplus" in advanced
technology, moving from about $15 billion in exports in 1986 to
about $36 billion last year; this year, the export figure should
be even higher since US semiconductor chip makers are expected to
reclaim the lead from Japan.

Thus, America is not in a crisis and there is no need for
Clinton's gloomy talk or drastic measures. Rush has been talking
for months about how things aren't as bad as Clinton was saying,
but he was continually attacked for being "out of touch." These
stories, though, vindicate Rush's optimism, and he promises more
on this later in the show.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from Cleveland, OH

John wants to talk about Clinton's economic summit and how
differently it's being treated than Bush's education summit was.
Bush brought in all 50 governors and others to talk about the
state of education in America, but the response of the media and
Democrats towards it was nothing if not cynical. John wonders why
the Democrats think government should not be involved in
education but should be deeply involved in the economy.

Rush says that this is not really that complicated - the
difference in Presidents certainly makes a difference. He asks
John why he thinks the media disdains Bush so much yet is willing
to roll over and play dead for Clinton; the press won't even
attach any politics to any of Clinton's moves, and instead gives
him the benefit of any and all doubt. Why is there such a love-in
among the press for Clinton?

John suspects that the press wants Clinton to succeed, but Rush
recalls how right before the Democratic convention Clinton was an
embarrassment. He suspects that the answer to this is
generational - Clinton is of the same approximate generation as
most members in the press. Thus, the media is on an "idealistic,
utopian high," and the question to ask is what will happen if
Clinton fails to deliver on his utopian promises.

*BREAK*

Phone   Derek from Yuma, AZ

Derek recently finished four years of college at one of the
service academies, but because of his own self-admitted
"foolishness" he didn't get a commission; thus, he has had to
join the normal workforce. He's found that getting a job is not
that difficult if people are willing to go out and look for one;
he's currently working two jobs and has turned down three.

Rush wants to be as balanced as possible and thus asks if Derek
is doing what he really wants to do. Derek says that he's not;
his degree is in political science, and if he had the chance,
he'd love to be a congressional staffer or enter law school to
get his law degree. He's going to start taking some classes at
community college, but there aren't too many classes that he can
take which will really help him towards his law degree. This is
why he's working two jobs - so that he can save enough money to
go back to school full-time.

Derek is currently working as a lifeguard and as a night hotel
clerk; the hotel job could be considered a "career" job but
that's not what he wants to do forever. Rush comments that he saw
Clinton taking a phone call during the economic summit from a
woman who said she'd been looking for a job in television for
three years. The 26-year-old woman was depressed because she had
gotten her degree in TV and radio and blamed the country for her
inability to get a job in her chosen career.

Rush loved seeing Clinton take this call because there was not
one thing Clinton could tell this woman that would help her get a
job, nor could Clinton really agree with her that the country was
to blame for her misfortune. Rush bets that there are a lot of
reasons the woman hasn't been able to find a job - unwilling to
move, inflexible in other ways, and so forth. There's no way that
somebody who's genuinely looking for work for three years could
not find at least an entry-level, get-your-foot-in-the-door type
job in either radio or TV.

Rush doesn't want to anger recent college graduates, but he does
believe that as the amount of sacrifice that each generation has
to endure decreases, their unrealistic expectations for instant
gratification rises. Rush recalls how his parents ended up going
through World War II, while his grandparents went through the
Great Depression.

These people knew real sacrifice and they thus didn't expect to
own a home when they were 25; they knew full well that they would
have to work hard for 30 years or more to get what they wanted.
However, as succeeding generations have grown up, they have had
to deal with fewer real sacrifices. Since these latter
generations' lives have been so much better than previous ones,
their expectations have grown as well.

Thus, Rush has little patience for 26-year-olds who are angry
that they don't have it all right now. He thus congratulates
Derek for realizing the need to plan ahead, take two jobs, and
slowly work towards his ultimate goal. Derek is at least
recognizing his responsibilities and setting off to fulfill them.

Derek agrees - people have to take responsibilities for their own
actions. Rush says that it goes beyond this, though; the woman
who called Clinton moaned about how she couldn't even get
unemployment because she never had a full-time job. This woman is
complaining at 26 that she can't get unemployment because she's
never accepted full-time employment.

Rush thinks Derek is therefore on the right track and is pretty
level-headed about things. He suggests that Derek remain
dedicated to his desires and try to get and keep jobs where he
can do what he's best at since this will present the best
possibility he has for being happy in his work.

*BREAK*

Phone   Marian from Mendon, NV

Marian enjoys Rush's endeavors and thanks him "for being the best
prescription there is." She gets nauseous when she watches TV and
sees that "c-word guy all over the place" but Rush's TV show
restores her good graces. Rush asks if she saw yesterday's TV
show, and she replies that their local station airs each show the
next day at 5 p.m.

Rush encourages her to watch it because not only does he do a
great weather report, but he also shows some footage of Clinton
nodding off at the economic summit; interestingly enough, nobody
in the press is jumping on Clinton for being "disengaged" as they
did when Reagan reportedly took a nap during a cabinet meeting.

Plus, EIB sent their own spy to Little Rock who got all sorts of
footage about the town and about how well Rush's book is selling
there. Rush hasn't seen the tape yet, but reportedly his spy even
managed to interview Peter Jennings; Rush suspects that Jennings
may have something to say about how "right" Rush was to be
critical of Bush during the campaign.

Marian also wonders who is paying for the economic summit, and
Rush isn't sure. He thinks the businessmen are paying their own
way, but can't say this for a fact. Marian also wonders if these
guests were specifically selected, or if it was an open
invitation. Rush says that they were definitely specifically
invited, and an interesting tidbit is that contributors to the
Clinton campaign far outnumber those to the Bush campaign.

Rush noticed an interesting thing in Peter Johnson's column today
- Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) and Rep. Bob Michel (R-IL) have raised
an interesting point. When the President gives a State of the
Union address or any other speech, the opposition always gets a
chance to respond. However, during the economic summit
President-elect Clinton got 17 hours of uninterrupted coverage;
no opportunities were given for a Republican response.

Marian thinks the Republicans have to get out and tell the public
that the credit for the current recovery should really go to Bush
instead of Clinton. Rush says that it's too late for this - a
recent poll shows that most Americans give high marks to Clinton
for "his" handling of the economy. This is yet another example of
a journalistic front - the press has come out with one story
after another praising Clinton for what he is allegedly doing,
and the public is buying it.

What the Republicans need to do is bring out some supply-siders
who champion the side of lower tax rates and expanding job rates.
The economic summit had nothing but gloom-and-doom pessimists,
and there should have been people out there talking about
Reagan's seven fat years. If the Democrats are really going to be
fair, of course, then why wasn't there any opportunity given at
the summit for a Republican response?

Phone   Tom from Los Angeles, CA

Tom asks if Rush thinks there is a correlation between the 1992
election of Clinton and the 1992 death of the comic book
superhero <<`superhero' is a shared registered trademark of DC
and Marvel Comics>> Superman <<`Superman' is a registered
trademark of DC Comics - I know you didn't need to know these
things, but I'd prefer not to get sued>>.

Rush hadn't thought about that, and Tom says that he was struck
by this interesting "coincidence." If Superman was fighting the
never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way,
then wouldn't it be a great piece of symbolism to have Clinton's
election and Superman's death represent the death of American
values.

Rush says "hmmm," but says that many listeners are thinking right
now that Tom is "an absolute kook." However, today's NY Daily
News has a story about how Bill Clinton will give the eulogy at
Superman's funeral. The latest issue of "Superman, The Man of
Steel" was drawn before the election, which means that DC Comics
took a big chance in printing the issue.

NY Daily News asked DC Comics about this and the editors admitted
they took a gamble in picking Clinton to be the victor of the
November elections. Clinton will now become the first President
since JFK to be depicted in a Superman comic book. Rush thus has
to wonder if the reason Superman has now assumed room temperature
is because Superman is no longer needed, since Clinton is going
to be President.

*BREAK*

Rush wonders if it is possible that the turnout for Malcolm X is
not as big as expected, given that not much is being heard lately
about the movie. Spike Lee, however, is claiming that customers
who buy tickets for his movie are being given tickets for other
movies; thus, patronage for his movie is being underreported,
which he claims is why the movie is not doing as well as some had
thought it would.

Warner Bros. and others have said that this is not true, but Lee
is refusing to accept this. This leads Rush to believe that an
excuse is in the making for why attendance at the movie is not as
high as expected.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       Rush says that the next Superman comic book has Bill
Clinton doing Superman's eulogy; thus, the reason why Superman
had to die is revealed - with Bill Clinton as President, who
needs Superman?

o       New York City appears to have another Bernard Goetz-type
story. A guy waiting in a subway station was listening to his
Sony Walkman when four guys approached and punched him. The guy
then pulled a gun and shot two of the gang; one of the gang
members died and now police are looking for the guy who shot him.

This situation is somewhat different from the Goetz situation in
that Goetz was never actually attacked, but this most recent
victim was physically attacked before he brought out and used his
gun. Rush bets that this story will quickly make the national
news, and will once again show the sense of proportion that is
missing from the nation's judicial system.

Undoubtedly this vigilante will be soundly condemned and the
police will pursue him far more than they would the most hardened
of criminals.

o       American exports reached an all-time high in October,
with civilian aircraft sales and telecommunications/other
consumer exports leading the way. The trade deficit thus declined
18% from September. Also, S&Ls are reporting rising and record
high profits. Rush thinks this is a dangerous thing for the S&Ls
to do since Congress will certainly not accept such good news
coming from the hated and evil S&L industry.

However, unemployment did rise a bit, but analysts claim that
this was because the Thanksgiving week was a short week, and thus
the next week was worse than usual.

o       Bob Bitner, 40, from Taylor, MI, fell in love with
bowling as a child and spent 31 years trying to bowl a perfect
game. He finally bowled a perfect game recently, but 30 minutes
later he collapsed and died of a heart attack at the bowling
alley. The man's wife, Pam, sadly commented that Bitner's last
bowling game was both a perfect game and his last. The American
Bowling Congress plans on sending Bitner's wife a posthumous "300
ring" in time for his funeral on Saturday.

Rush thinks this is a tragic event, but it shows how dangerous
bowling really is. The federal consumer protection agencies must
look into this and determine whether bowling is ever really a
safe sport. Rush thinks that bowling must be banned since these
risks are unconscionable in this day and age; at the very least,
if bowling is to continue, there must be warnings on every ball,
pin, shoe, and can of beer.

There is no justification for bowling - it is not even a good
exercise, since you burn more calories sleeping then bowling (you
don't drink beer while sleeping). Rush thus hopes the new Clinton
administration will do something about this horrible and
dangerous sport.

o       Health care benefits are going to be taxed, according to
a story in USA Today. Rush, of course, has already done this
story. USA Today reports that some health care benefits will be
taxed to pay for health care benefits for those who are currently
unemployed. Rush has to laugh how people elected Clinton so that
they will get health care, and Clinton's answer is to tax
everyone's health care benefits.

Rush knew that this would happen, but so many people thought that
they would get "free" benefits; of course, the reality is that
you never get anything from the government without paying for it.
Rush knows he shouldn't be this happy since he's going to get the
shaft, too, but at least he knows that he tried to prevent it.

o       An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that Clinton is
inspiring public confidence; 77% percent of the people approve
the direction that the Clinton transition team is taking. This is
another example of a "journalism front" that is creating the news
- first they release all sorts of positive news stories, and then
commission a poll about it.

Also, 60% of registered voters have positive feelings about Bill
Clinton, which is double the 30% figure that was reported in July
during the Presidential campaign. Rush comments that Meg
Greenfield of the Washington Post came up with the idea of a
"journalistic front," and this story is an example of it - how
could Clinton win the election with only 30% approval rating, if
the press didn't have a hand in propping him and his campaign up?

Americans are also becoming more optimistic, as the poll shows
60% of people think 1993 will be better than 1992. Rush recalls
how only six weeks ago, nearly 80% thought the country was on the
wrong course, so what has changed since then? There's going to be
a new President, but what has he done? Of course, people wanted
change and that's what they got, and Rush is glad people are
feeling good; however, Rush fears that people are setting
themselves up for disappointment since mood shifts that occur so
quickly cannot be that genuine.

Rush promises to check back in with the public next July to see
if the public's optimism is justified; he adds that his new book,
"See, I Told You So," should be out about then.

*BREAK*

Phone   L.B. from Cerritos, CA

L.B. gives dittos to the "Excellence in Broadcast System, and to
the entrepreneur for which it stands, one nation under Rush with
liberty and justice and Rush's way for all." L.B. is confident
that Rush's way is the right way since it is freedom's way; he
wonders why liberals never give Rush's audience any credit for
having any sense of their own or acknowledge the possibility that
people have held their beliefs for years before Rush showed up.

Rush agrees and says that he was recently interviewed by a
reporter who asked if his success was due to "the new
conservative movement." Rush said no, because there are people
out there who have been conservatives for far longer than Rush
has even been alive. Rush has simply tapped into the conservative
feelings which have been around for a long time, and which are
rarely articulated on the major media today.

Liberals and those who are part of the cultural elite really do
think, though, that the people who listen to Rush, watch his TV
show, and buy his book are nothing more than robots who do
whatever Rush says. This shows how condescending and insulting
they are, and how little they understand about what the majority
of this country really believes.

L.B. agrees and says that he tried to call in once on Rush's EIB
affiliate, KFI, to talk about "people who want to kill babies,"
but the call screener refused his call, stating "you have nothing
intelligent to say, sir." Rush says that his LA affiliate is not
really censoring conservatives since they do air Rush's show.

Besides, radio hosts typically tightly screen calls for all sorts
of reasons; for example, Rush has told Bo Snerdley that he
doesn't want any calls on abortion unless abortion is currently
in the news. This sort of thing really is more of a programming
decision than it is a political one.

*BREAK*

A private Japanese college is requiring its American foreign
exchange students to be tested for AIDS. The school, located
about 500 miles northwest of Tokyo, says that it is not prepared
to handle the situation should one of its students have AIDS.
Rush says that this college looks like a great place for an ACTUP
chapter, since that would encourage the spread of American
liberalism into Japan. "After all, fair's fair," Rush says.

Phone   Mike from Lafayette, LA

Mike says that Rush has made a convert out of him in regards to
the animal rights movement. His cat recently had a litter of
babies, and three of them died within a matter of hours, and the
remaining kitten died within a week. Mike and his family felt
sorry for the momma cat who lost all of her babies, but he
changed his mind when he saw the mother then devour the last
kitten.

Rush comments that Mike's story isn't really appropriate now
since some people are eating in Rush Rooms, but Mike's story does
point out that animals don't give each other rights and thus man
cannot assign them rights either. However, Mike should realize
that the mother cat realized that Mike, being an evil human, did
not deserve her kittens and thus wanted to spare her children
from having to live in such an abusive and evil atmosphere.

Mike says that he did throw a rock at a tomcat once, but this
experience showed him how he had slowly been duped by the animal
rights crowd. Mike loves animals, but he had started believing
all of the garbage that these groups have been saying. He had
been projecting all sorts of human values onto these animals, yet
this mother cat turned around and ate one of her own dead babies.

Rush welcomes Mike to the fold of right-thinking Americans, and
he is glad that Mike's call shows the effect his show is having
on America.

Phone   Walter from Bellmawr, NJ

Walter loves Rush and his show, but it's too short. Rush hopes
that Walter is talking about his TV show, since he doesn't think
he would want to do a radio show that's longer than three hours.
Walter says he was referring to the TV show and wishes that it
were an hour long. He comments on Bill Bradley, who like Clinton
is a Rhodes Scholar; Bradley was a chief architect of the 1986
tax reform. This legislation "torpedoed" Walter's real estate
investments, yet Bradley sold the tax reform act as a way to "tax
the rich" so as to get "tax fairness."

Thus, Bradley's bill created a real estate depression and the
resulting economic recession, yet Bradley and his Democratic
friends blame Bush for destroying the economy. In reality,
though, it was the Democrats who destroyed a major section of the
economy and who, by the way, have also devastated the military
and defense industries.

The current recession therefore lies squarely on the shoulders of
Bill Bradley and the Democrats, who then four years later put
through another "tax the rich" bill. Of course, the luxury tax
torpedoed only those workers in New Jersey who built yachts and
other such luxury items; it didn't hurt the rich at all.

Walter also mentions Robert Reich, another Rhodes Scholar, and
Reich insisted on CNN in February, 1991 that the "top 20% have to
pay for the bottom 80%." Walter finds it interesting that Reich
said back in 1991 that the Democrats' best Presidential
candidates were Clinton and Gore. Rush doesn't remember seeing
this but is glad that Walter has mentioned it to him.

*BREAK*

Phone   Fred from San Francisco, CA

Fred enjoyed Rush's story about the bowler, but he bets that
there will soon be a batch of wrongful death lawsuits against all
of the bowling equipment manufacturers. Also, Marian Wright
Edelman was on television this morning, talking about all of the
things the Clinton administration needs to do to help "poor
children." Rush notes that he didn't realize that Edelman was an
economist, in addition to leading the Children's Defense Fund.

Edelman claimed that most children living in poverty were not
part of welfare families, but instead had working parents; yet,
she then said the main thing that is needed is more jobs. Fred
finds this a curious thing to say - if the problem with child
poverty is not welfare families, then how will more jobs help?
Rush admits he has given up trying to understand these people's
logic.

Rush adds that Bob Dole recently reported that the Democratic
National Committee paid for Clinton's economic summit, which is a
curious thing. Fred says that he heard the attendees paid their
own way and hotel rooms, but the DNC did pay for the remaining
expenses such as food; however, even this ended up costing
$150,000, which is quite a food cost for 300 people over two
days.

Rush adds that a story in one of today's papers reports that when
Donna Shalala was President of Hunter College in New York, she
lead backpacking expeditions out into the woods with feminist Liz
Holman (who is now NYC's controller) and "other women who live
alone." Thus, it appears that some extremist feminist ideology is
now part of Clinton's cabinet, thanks to Mrs. Bill Clinton, who
is also close friends with Edelman.

Fred refers to a previous caller's theory that Bush intentionally
lost the election; yet, if Bush was really trying to win the
election, why did he give up on California? At the very least
Bush should have tried to help the Republican candidates running
there; perhaps Herschensohn might have won if Bush had help.

Rush disagrees - the way things were going, Bush might have ended
up hurting Herschensohn had he showed up in California. After
all, Bush lost California by 2 million votes, and in that context
it's amazing Herschensohn got as close to winning as he did. Rush
feels that the Bush campaign wrote California off because they
knew they could never win it, and thus it would have been a waste
of time and money to even try.

Thus, the Bush campaign went into a defensive mode, and shifted
the battleground to the rustbelt states. Bush certainly knew that
the country needed more conservatives and Republicans in
Congress, but his main focus was his own re-election. Rush asks
if Fred really believes that Bush deliberately lost the election
because he didn't want to serve a second term as President.

Fred doesn't know, but he's heard a lot of things about how the
1990 budget deal is really going to raise taxes in 1993, and thus
the Republicans may have thought this would be a good time to let
the Democrats take over; thus, when the stuff really hits the
fan, the Democrats will be the ones taking the heat for it.

Rush wishes that the Republicans were organized enough to concoct
such a strategy; in fact he wishes they were organized enough to
come up with any strategy, but he knows for a fact that this
particular scenario was not the case with the November elections.

*BREAK*

Phone   Bill from Baton Rouge, LA

Bill says that many of his friends and coworkers are big fans,
and Rush comments that Bill sounds like James Carville. Bill says
that he went to Louisiana State University with Carville and used
to live near Carville, Louisiana, which was named after
Carville's mother. Bill knew that Carville would pose a big
challenge to Bush, and wishes that the Bush campaign had realized
this before the election.

Bill works for the federal government, which is closing the local
office because it's consolidating its functions with the one in
Dallas. The office then hired a consulting firm to hold some
seminars for the agency's 300 employees to help them find another
job. One of their key bits of advice was that job-seekers should
not go home and read the newspapers or watch the TV news because
they would end up becoming more depressed and negative than they
already were.

Rush finds this interesting - a consulting firm basically said
that the news is so negative and depressing that job-seekers
should not pay any attention to it so that they can keep their
spirits up. "An interesting point," Rush adds, "on which to close
this show."


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