From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Tue 11/10/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:54:28 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, November 10, 1992

by John Switzer

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November 10, 1992

Highlights from the TV show on Monday, November 9, 1992

o       Senator Daniel P. Moynihan recently held a press
conference at which he gave a suggestion to Clinton:

"Yes, I think we're going to pick up on that over-$100,000 class,
and there's money there - there's a lot more money than there was
15 years ago. And I think taking the capital gains tax down - 28%
where it is now and which is not quite toward the top of the
income tax break - cut it to 15%. Call it a deal and get
governing. That's the, uh, false thing about taxing and spending
- let's govern."

o       WZZM TV 13 of Grand Rapids, Michigan announced the
results of its Great Late Debate where its viewers voted on
whether they'd prefer to have Rush's show or "Married With
Children" on at 11:30 p.m. - 3,925 viewers wanted the sitcom
while 7,359 voted for Rush. Rush thanks WZZM and his loyal
viewers in Grand Rapids, but he is somewhat dismayed that during
WZZM's election night celebration they dropped only one single
balloon in his honor.

Phone   Sandy from Phoenix, AZ

Rush repeats what he said during Monday's radio show about Magic
Johnson and AIDS, and Sandy wants to refute USA Today's claim
that not one of 250,000 AIDS cases was transmitted through sports
contact. On page 1105 of the May 5th, 1990 issue of The Lancet, a
British medical journal, is the documented case of a soccer
player who contracted AIDS during a game.

The Italian soccer player's team was playing a team from a drug
rehabilitation center, and one of the opposing players ran into
the Italian player, and the two men hit foreheads. It turned out
that the opposing player had already tested positive for the HIV
virus, and two months later the Italian player tested for the
virus as well. Sandy points out that this case is very well
documented.

Rush hadn't heard about this case, but it proves his point that
any risk, no matter how small, is too much to ask when you're
talking about contracting a fatal disease. It is not ignorant to
want to avoid the risk of getting a disease that will kill you.

MORNING UPDATE

People had better lower their expectations - even though they
voted last week in favor of "sweeping change which would herald
in a new era of utopia," it was Bill Clinton who won the
election. The NY Times headline yesterday was "Clinton: after
raising hopes, tries to lower expectations." Thus, even though
Clinton throughout the campaign came to the people with
government "solutions" for one problem after another, Clinton is
now telling people "don't expect too much too soon."

Clinton is saying this because he and his campaign know that the
government cannot fix what's wrong with the economy because the
government never can. "What fixes the economy," Rush explains,
"is you - the private sector. Isn't it amazing?" It is the
individual citizen who makes the difference by taking a risk in
the private sector with their own money, or the money of
investors and/or bankers.

Clinton knows this, just like he knows that the welfare state has
been tried time and time again, and time and time again it has
failed. These attempts have put the country into such debt that
the US can't afford to try it again. Thus, all of Clinton's
stated plans can't be put into action, contrary to what he said
during the campaign.

Rush sums things up by saying "it is as it's always been - folks,
lower your expectations for government but raise your own
expectations for yourself, and you'll prosper. You'll do a lot
better than waiting for the government to fix things for you."

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush has been asked by friends to do a recording for a
Christmas album, and thus decided to sing "Angels We Have Heard
on High." Rush has devoted himself to this performance, spending
"at least" 20 minutes on it. He isn't sure whether he should sing
an excerpt from his recording since "when I sing, people go
nuts." The EIB staff shudders at the thought, and Rush decides
not to do any excerpts before the album's official release.

o       Rush knows that many people, including him, have suffered
personal defeats over the past week, and many of his critics
expected Rush to be in a gloomy mood. Rush, though, refuses to
start crying and whining when things don't go his way; instead,
he resolves to get on with his life and accept things as they
are.

Radio Concepts from St. Cloud, MN has recorded a special song
that perfectly illustrates Rush's attitude; the employees at
Radio Concepts were disappointed by the election, but they still
got together and produced a special version of Louis Armstrong
singing "It's a Wonderful World." Rush plays this heart-warming
song:

"I say `tax the rich' and the corporations, too.
I simply don't care for me and you.
And I think to myself `what a wonderful world.'

 "I see President Clinton and VP Gore
Make the rich pay the bills so the poor can have more.
And I think to myself `why, they'll never tax me.'

"Now the Supreme Court will soon have Cuomo on the bench
And we'll let Hillary take care of the rest.
I see Democrats shaking hands saying `how do you do,'
But what they're really saying is `we screwed you.'

"Folks telling me, callers calling him.
Letting him know Rush was right again.
And they say to him then `thank God we have Rush.'
Oh, and they say to him then `thank you for Rush Limbaugh.' "

Radio Concepts also tells Rush that the company was founded two
years ago in the midst of the recession, and has grown from two
employees to nine. Rush advises Radio Concepts not to grow any
more because if they have 12 employees the liberal Congress will
require them to provide health care even for the rats living
underneath their floorboards.

Update  Timber         ("Chain Saw Blues" with the sounds of
falling trees)

Senator Gore and his wife got lost while walking through the
woods recently, requiring 38 Secret Service agents to get them
out. Rush has to marvel at what can happen to America's "most
profound and preeminent environmentalist on the plant."

Continuing on with the update, Rush says that a tree which holds
the promise of a possible cure for AIDS has been cut down. In a
scene that could have been from the movie "Medicine Man," D. D.
Suharta, a researcher from the University of Illinois, returned
to a tree in Malaysia from which he took sap samples in 1987 but
found that it had been cut down. The sap in low concentrations
showed an ability to stop the spread of HIV-1 without destroying
human cells.

Rush has to wonder if this really was the only example of this
tree in the world. He suggests that in the future researchers
take spotted owls with them so as to mark any future trees that
may show promise.

*BREAK*

William Bennett has a great column in today's Washington Post
about what the Republican party needs to do during the next four
years. Rush says that this column is available from CompuServe's
Executive News Service, and he recommends it highly. Rush adds
that he's been invited by Bennett to play football against a
liberal think tank; Jack Kemp and cheerleaders will also be in
attendance.

Rush says that some of his fondest memories of his days with the
Kansas City Royals are about the Thursday afternoons when the
Royals front office played the media, rain or shine. Rush isn't
sure if he will accept Bennett's offer, but it is incredibly
tempting to be able to play a contact sport against a "bunch of
arrogant liberals on public land."

Update  Death         (Jim Morrison, "This is the End")

On his TV show Rush showed clips of Fred LeBeau crossing the
finish line at the NYC marathon a couple of weeks ago. Yet,
LeBeau was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago and was
given only six months to live; LeBeau's story is an incredible
rebuttal of initiatives such as California's Proposition 161
which would have legalized doctor-assisted suicide and would have
protected the doctor from any liability in performing such
actions.

Another such case is two-year-old Gerald Stubby who was thrown by
his mother into a desk; the boy has been comatose since October
6th, and doctors stated that he would not be able to survive
without life support. Because the doctors testified that this
child would not be able to live on his own, Nebraska officials
authorized his disconnection from life support, but he is now
breathing fine on his own.

This is another example of doctors "blowing it," but nobody
expects the medical community to be perfect. However, there are
those who still want to give doctors the power of death over
those whom they think have only six months or so to live. Rush
says that people need to be very careful about this - "life is a
very, very precious thing that exceeds all of our ability to
define it, control it, understand it, and explain it. We had best
just respect it."

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush states that whenever he errs, he immediately
corrects that error prominently. Thus, he says he was in error
when he said yesterday that Spike Lee's new movie was opening
yesterday. The movie is not scheduled to be released until
November 20th, and Spike Lee has encouraged blacks to skip school
and work so that they could see this most important movie. Rush
therefore encourages anyone who is skipping school today to get
back to the classroom.

o       After his TV show yesterday, Rush did a number of
interviews for affiliate stations, and some of the stations were
upset about what they thought was a deliberate and unfair shot at
Chelsea Clinton on last Friday's show. There was no such attack
intended, however - the assistant associate director, who is
usually to blame for any screwups that happens on a TV show,
mistakenly put up a picture of Millie the First Dog when Rush was
talking about Chelsea.

Rush at the time was discussing the "in and out" lists that are
circulating right now, and the NY Daily News listed "in - cute
kid in the White House, out - cute dog in the White House." Rush
had no intention of doing such a thing, and he even spanked
himself on the air; however, Rush will try to make an appropriate
apology on today's show.

o       Bob Dole is calling for a special prosecutor to
investigate Lawrence Walsh, and Rush thinks that this is a good
idea. Rush, though, also thinks it would be a mistake for
Republicans to blame Bush's defeat on Walsh and the indictment he
handed down on the Friday before the election. This, after all,
is the excuse the liberals used to blame their 1988 loss on
Willie Horton.

Certainly, the way Walsh handed down that indictment was dirty
and repugnant, but Republicans shouldn't whine about it; had the
campaign been run better and had stronger convictions, the GOP
would have been able to withstand these sorts of attacks, and so
the blame can't be laid at Walsh's feet.

o       The Supreme Court's decision on health care and AIDS is a
momentous decision, but nobody is presenting the case properly.
The issue that was at stake was if a company has the right to
fund its own health care system the way it wants to; that is, can
the company spend its money the way it wants?

The law right now allows a self-insured company the right to
change its health-care plan at any time, and the Supreme Court
was ruling on this aspect of the law. Government mandates come
into play only when a company buys insurance from another
company. Rush promises to explain this decision more thoroughly
later, especially since the coverage about this case is so
emotionally-laden.

o       Rush doesn't understand why when the media for the past
week has been talking about how much better the economy is now,
Clinton is still saying that the economy is "worse than we've
imagined." Clinton seems to be relying on the NY Post story last
week that claimed Bush had "cooked the figures" to make things
look better than they seemed.

Rush was giving Clinton the benefit of the doubt yesterday, but
the only reason Clinton could still be talking about how rotten a
shape the economy is in is because he wants to implement measures
that could be justified only in crisis situations. "This is not a
good sign," Rush warns, and he promises to talk more about this.

*BREAK*

Phone   Doctor Jerry from Cleveland, OH

Dr. Jerry wants to disagree with Rush about euthanasia and
doctor-assisted suicide. Since he deals with cancer patients and
others who are terminally ill and in such pain that he can't do
anything for them, he thinks that there has to be a point where a
patient has a right to request a medical intervention such as
death to end their pain.

Rush says that it is hard to disagree with this, but the problem
is that many physician-assisted deaths have involved non-
terminally ill patients; these patients may have had Alzheimer's
or multiple sclerosis, and they may have been in pain, but they
were not terminally ill.

Rush does not like how the medical profession, which by its
nature is supposed to extend and preserve life, is now being used
by some to kill. The danger is that once society can cavalierly
accept the medical community ending life, society can quickly
progress to where doctors determine who lives and who dies for
all sorts of reasons, such as how much the patient's treatment
costs.

Even California's Proposition 161, which requires the patient's
consent, is not acceptable; what if Fred LeBeau had been told
that he was going to die within six months and thus chose
suicide? What if doctors either intentionally or unintentionally
pressure patients into choosing death?

Dr. Jerry agrees with this totally - physicians should not be
empowered to determine who will die. However, there is a point
where some people - a group made up of physicians, doctors,
family members, and the patient - can decide that there is no
point in continuing the patient's life.

Rush says that he met some old friends last weekend in
California, and one friend admitted that although he never used
to agree with Rush about euthanasia, he converted to Rush's
thinking after seeing a relative of his get seriously ill. Rush's
friend was shocked at how quickly the doctors told him to "pull
the plug and get it over with."

This is what happened in Rush's experience, too - when his
grandmother entered the hospital, the doctors gave him and his
mother two days to decide whether they should pull the feeding
tubes so that she would starve. Rush remarks that doctors
certainly have to become somewhat callous to the suffering they
see every day because otherwise they couldn't handle it, however,
this only makes him all the more unwilling to give doctors the
power to kill.

Dr. Jerry admits that this is a problem, but the majority of
doctors are caring and compassionate. Rush, though, says that
when this sort of behavior is empowered by law, it's not the end
of the matter, but the beginning. This will open a Pandora's box
that could reach throughout society. Rush thanks Dr. Jerry for
calling and invites him to call back at any time.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that life expectancies in America are growing - in
1900, only 4% of the elderly population were 85 or older; in
1990, though, people 85 or older constituted 10% of the over-65
group. Thus people are living longer, unless they decide to turn
themselves over to Dr. Kevorkian and his crowd.

A USA Today story about this adds that 50 years from now the old
may outnumber the young simply because people are living longer.
Rush comments that he is looking forward to his - "I'm going to
live 400 years, just to make sure everybody agrees with me."

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Bob Dole yesterday called for the firing and investigation of
Lawrence Walsh, the independent special prosecutor. Rush recalls
the 1986 confirmation hearings for Justice William Rehnquist and
how Arizona attorney James Brosnihan testified against
Rehnquist's confirmation as Chief Justice because he claimed
Rehnquist harassed minority voters in Phoenix in 1960.

A number of other witnesses, though, came forward to say that
they never saw Rehnquist even come close to such actions, giving
strong credence to the belief that Brosnihan's actions were
motivated by partisanship.

Brosnihan was recently hired by Lawrence Walsh as an assistant
prosecutor, and it was Brosnihan who pushed for the release of
the indictment three days before the election. The release of
this indictment was politically timed, although there are those
who think that had the release of the indictment been delayed
until after the election, Walsh's office would still have been
accused of playing politics, but this time in Bush's favor.

Rush understands this, but he also understands that this
congressional witch hunt has to end. Even so, though, he doesn't
think it would be a wise move for Republicans to blame Walsh for
losing the election because this is a typical Democratic move;
the Democrats have always refused to believe that they have lost
elections because of substance and issues, but instead have
blamed "marketing and packaging," "Willie Horton," or some other
issue that strongly implied the stupidity of the voter.

Rush would rather accept reality and the facts of life, and thus
encourages Republicans not to take the easy way out by blaming
Bush's defeat on Lawrence Walsh. If Republicans are going to
return as the party of the middle class, they will have to face
the defeat in the context of the arena of ideas.

Even so, though, Rush supports Bob Dole's attack against Walsh
and the special prosecutor industry. Brosnihan's involvement
shows the folly of claiming that Walsh's investigation is not
partisan even though Walsh is a Republican, and it's time that
the attempt to criminalize foreign policy be ended.

There is much vindictiveness among Democrats right now,
especially in how "public interest groups" are demanding that
Republicans not take any papers with them, implying that all
Republicans are crooks. This kind of pettiness is intolerable,
but it should be kept as a separate issue from trying to
understand why Bush lost.

The election can be viewed as a sort of football game - when a
team loses or wins, how many coaches really blame the officiating
for the loss or win? People like Mike Ditka might object to the
officiating after the game, but Ditka accepts the reality of the
situation and makes the coaching changes necessary. Republicans
should follow his lead and realize that the election was lost
long before the Walsh indictment was handed down.

Update  Feminist         (The Forester Sisters, "Men" with "in
your face" slogan)

The new members of the Senate were introduced to Washington
yesterday, but the press seems to care only about the female
ones. Senate head George Mitchell said that the new freshman
class would "make the Senate more representative of the country.
There will be new and different perspectives."

Rush rejects the notion that just because women are in the Senate
now, it will be more representative of the country; women do not
have to be represented by women. If this weren't true, then
elections should be dispensed with and Senators appointed
according to the latest Census data. Rush promises to finish the
update after the break.

*BREAK*

Update  Feminist         (The Forester Sisters, "Men" with "in
your face" slogan)

Senator-elect Patty Murray (D-WA) told Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Joseph Biden that she doesn't want a post on the
committee, but she is confident that "one of the other three
women will accept Biden's offer." Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is
a member of the steering committee that determines committee
assignments, but he has stated that he hasn't seen any requests
from any of the women to be on the Judiciary Committee. Rush
finds this curious since so many liberal women claimed that they
were running for the Senate because of the way the Judiciary
Committee treated Anita Hill.

The female members are meeting with Senator Barbara Mikulski to
talk about forming a Senate Women's Caucus. Patty Murray said
that she was confident the women Senators would form a "strong
coalition and work together." She added that "we know the eyes of
the nation are on us. We know that other women are looking to us
for leadership and I expect that we will be providing this over
the next year."

Rush points out that the Senate is not about advancing this or
that particular cause, yet here these women are trying to
continue to fractionalize the nation. Rush suspects, though, that
the reason these women do not want to be on the Judiciary
Committee is because they don't know what they are doing. Being a
Senator is not the same as being class president.

Update  Native American         (traditional Native American
chant followed by "Cherokee Nation")

Representative and Senator-elect Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D-CO)
is well-known for his pony-tail; Campbell had to get special
permission from House leaders to keep the pony-tail, as well to
wear a bandana with a silver clasp instead of a tie. Senator
George Mitchell has now given similar dispensation to Campbell so
that he can continue his traditional personal dress while serving
in the Senate.

*BREAK*

Phone   Wendy from South Amboy, NJ

Wendy is a student at Rutgers and although she is a liberal, she
doesn't believe in affirmative action, quotas, unemployment
benefits, and welfare; she thinks these things are better handled
by the family, church, or private charities. However, she still
thinks she is a feminist and a liberal because of her belief in
reproductive rights.

If it weren't for this, she would be a Republican, and she would
vote for Kemp in a minute; however, she was turned off by what
she thinks was a lack of tolerance at the Republican convention.
Rush says that it seems that Wendy believes in fiscal
conservatism, but wants government to stay out of the cultural
aspects of life, and Wendy agrees with that.

This is why she thinks Rush is wrong about feminism - people look
at feminists as a left-wing extreme, but it's composed of a wide
range of people. Thus, Wendy is a feminist and doesn't accept all
of the liberal views on things, but she doesn't think Rush sees
feminism as being this wide-ranging in scope.

Rush says that feminism can't be flexibly defined across society,
because it is defined by the national feminist leadership. Most
women's definition of feminism has little in common with the
radical extremists who lead the feminist movement today. Rush
rejects this extremism because it is extreme liberalism, which is
why he takes every chance he can to point out this philosophy's
flaws.

The feminist community is divided even now by competing factions
such as Gloria Steinem and Camille Paglia. Paglia has done
everything the feminists say should be done - she's independent,
career-minded, and doesn't need men - but she has been ostracized
by the feminist leadership for her views. For example, Paglia
suffered criticism during the William Kennedy Smith trial for
saying that women who went out walking at 3 a.m. with someone
they didn't know should have to bear some responsibility for
being raped.

Wendy, though, doesn't think that it's enough for people to
criticize liberal ideologies, but people have to be encouraged to
be more self-sufficient so that they create their own lives for
themselves. She thinks Rush sometimes is too flippant on these
matters and should instead be more constructive.

Rush says that he's often criticized for singling out extremists
as being representative of the majority of feminists; yet it is
these extremists who are making themselves the leaders of the
feminist movement, and if you don't agree with them, you become
an outcast, as is the case with Paglia.

The willing media also trumpets leaders such as Gloria Steinem,
and has faithfully reported her statements that the Republican
emphasis on family values is akin to the patriarchal repression
that was created under Nazism. Wendy has heard this comparison
before - that one of the first things Hitler did was to outlaw
abortions.

Rush, though, doesn't understand this logic because Hitler is
more in line with the pro-choice movement today than pro-lifers.
It is the pro-choice movement that wants to selectively eliminate
people they don't like, according to their own convenience.
Hitler eliminated jews, gays, and anyone who was socially
unacceptable, and pro-choicers are encouraging this same sort of
choice. Hitler was known for his selective elimination of whole
groups of people, and to compare him to modern America is
outrageous.

Had Rush said anything similar to what Steinem has said, he would
be assailed on all quarters, but nobody challenges Steinem. Wendy
says that this is because nobody listens to her, but Rush says
that Steinem every year is feted at one gala after another for
her feminist views.

Wendy says that Steinem is just an extreme feminist, but Rush
refuses to accept this - there is only one feminism, and that is
what is defined by who is recognized as the feminist leadership.
Rush asks Wendy what she thinks feminism is, and she replies that
feminism is "respecting the choices women make and expecting them
to expect the most from themselves."

Rush says that this is "not feminism, but conservatism - welcome
aboard." Wendy thinks that this can be both conservatism and
feminism, but Rush disagrees. Feminism is liberalism that
requires centralized government to fix the problems men create in
society. Wendy insists that this is only the radical definition,
but Rush points out that the radicals are who define this
movement and who are leading it.

Rush, however, says that from now on his listeners across the
fruited plain should simply mentally add "radical" and "extreme"
whenever he refers to "feminism." If women want the freedom to
pursue any life they want, making the same money (or more) that
men make, and exercising their choices, then Rush is 100% behind
them.

Wendy says that this is what feminism is, but Rush wonders why
feminists protest every contestant at every beauty pageant. This
is what feminists do, and their job is to convert and persuade as
many women as possible. Rush is proud to say that he stridently
oppose these feminists and their liberalism; he thanks Wendy for
calling and for not misinterpreting his term "feminazi."

*BREAK*

Rush recalls the woman who called his show seeking his advice
about what she should do with her liberal fiance. The woman
wanted to stay at home and be a mother, while her liberal
boyfriend wanted her to work because the economy was so bad. Rush
told her that if the fiance was really a good liberal and
feminist, then he should respect her choices.

Of course, the good liberal, like all liberals, is willing to
support choice unless the choice is a conservative one. This is
similar to how Rush can't refer to himself as "pro-choice"
because he hopes the choice will be for life. Pro-choice doesn't
really mean a choice with more than one option.

This is the same hypocrisy that exists with political
correctness; although liberals claim to be the tolerant and
compassionate ones, they refuse to tolerate anything that is not
politically correct.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from New Albany, IN

John refers to the California nun who won a $1 million and
donated the money to her convent; John doesn't see why the nun
could be considered greedy since she didn't keep the money for
herself. Rush says that it's obvious that the nun is greedy since
she was gambling and hoping for a big score. "I think it's a bit
hypocritical," he states.

John misses the irony in Rush's statement and asks him if he's
ever been around nuns in his life and he replies no. John,
though, was taught by nuns for eight years and has two sisters
who are sisters. "When you get an education by nuns, you have an
education," he states.

Rush admits that he's heard this, but tells John that the purpose
of his previous comments was that everyone in this society needs
money, and it's not evil to want more money or to improve one's
life. Rush still insists that the nun's wealth is "ill-gotten
money, and it would have been better if it had come from bingo!"

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       EIB is being overwhelmed with requests for their new
version of "What a Wonderful World," and Rush obligingly plays
this little known classic.

o       Rush has talked a bit about hypocrisy today, and would
like to provide another example. Judge Sol Wachtler, 62, is a
Republican New York judge who is in trouble right now for
allegedly threatening and blackmailing a woman with whom he had
previously had an affair.

Bo Snerdley wonders why Rush is attacking a Republican, and Rush
points out that he doesn't spare Republicans if their case needs
to be discussed. Rush reminds his call screener that he was one
of Bush's biggest critics before the election.

The coverage of Wachtler's troubles, though, is again showing how
guilt by association is presumed always to be the case with
Republicans - the press loves to show pictures of the woman
Wachtler was involved with standing next to Marilyn Quayle or at
a Bush fund-raiser, as if Quayle or Bush were involved somehow in
this situation. This is typical of liberals, though - blaming
people who had nothing to do with a crime.

Wachtler, though, has built a fine reputation as a New York
jurist, and he was rumored to have political aspirations,
possibly even planning on an appointment to the Supreme Court.
Wachtler, however, was having an affair with a woman and when the
woman broke it off last year, "he apparently went nutso" -
following her, sending her threatening notes, and other obsessive
behavior.

Rush has always said that love is the only human emotion that
people can't control, and it can make people do things that
nothing else would. When the story started coming out last week,
all of New York's politicians were stunned - Republicans,
Democrats, etc. Nobody ever expected this sort of behavior from
Wachtler, who was put on suicide watch while he was held in a
mental institution over the weekend.

Wachtler was blackmailing the woman with compromising pictures of
he lover and of her daughter, and yet some people are saying that
Wachtler shouldn't be punished because the punishment "is having
to endure this publicity." Rush recalls how Clarence Thomas's
life and career were almost ruined with 10-year old, unproven
allegations, yet people are scrambling to provide excuses for
Wachtler.

Wachtler was even caught on the Long Island Expressway, trying to
evade police shredding kidnap notes, and throwing them out the
window; yet New York society is "reeling" and coming up with all
sorts of excuses. Rush has to marvel at the differences between
this and how Clarence Thomas was almost ruined for life because
he allegedly put a pubic hair on a Coke can.

o       Insight magazine has a story about Andrew Hacker, a white
sociologist who has written a book (Two Nations: Black and White,
Separate, Hostile, and Unequal) claiming that whites are still
keeping blacks down. Hacker is a self-proclaimed expert on "black
authenticity," and during a roundtable discussion that was
reported in Essence magazine Hacker stated that Powell "put 99%
of himself, or his black self, on hold, in the back, because he
was ambitious, wanted to get ahead and did."

Hacker is being celebrated by the liberal community, yet he has
basically said that blacks, by their very nature, are lazy slobs
who can do nothing else but exist on the public dole. Because
Powell studied and worked hard, was ambitious, applied himself,
and persevered in order to succeed, Hacker thinks Powell has
betrayed his nature and "turned white."

If this isn't racism in its purest form, Rush doesn't know what
is. For Hacker to be able to claim that a successful black is
"white" is incredible; this is the kind of stuff that others have
been ostracized for. Rush would imagine that any black would get
livid at what this "compassionate" white liberal is saying; it is
this type of attitude that has kept blacks in dependence and
bondage to the liberal plantation.

Rush encourages people to make the most of themselves, yet Hacker
is defining "blackness" as being something which can't succeed.
Furthermore, blacks are supposed to "stay black" and not succeed.
Rush has to laugh at this absurdity, and wonders if Powell thinks
he is really a "traitor" or a "white guy with black skin."

Rush is certain that Hacker would consider Clarence Thomas to be
a traitor, too, since he, like Powell, shunned the liberal
plantation and instead applied himself to succeed. Liberals seek
to segregate society into all of these disparate groups, while
Rush and other conservatives believe that people are basically
all the same - they want the best for themselves and their
families, and it is intolerable for someone like Hacker to claim
that doing this is a "crime against blackness."

*BREAK*

Phone   Dale from Rochester, PA

Dale says that Giant Eagle, a major grocery store chain, was
forced last week to remove all of their store-brand canned
spinach because someone had found the head of a mouse in a can;
all of the cans were packaged in Arkansas. A store representative
came on the TV and encouraged viewers to go ahead and eat the
spinach, because it was safe to eat in spite of the extra mouse
head.

Rush is "surprised" at this story because Arkansas "leads the
nation" in so many categories; this, at least, is what Clinton
has said. Dale says that this story just reminded him of how
Clinton is going to do for the nation what he's done for
Arkansas.

Rush laughs, but says that this kind of thing happens all over
the country, and he doubts that Clinton had anything to do with
it. Obviously all that happened was that some worker confused the
mouse head with the spinach; this could happen to anybody.

Phone   Patrick from Durham, NH

Patrick is a student at University of New Hampshire, and his
pre-law class is studying the confirmation hearings for Supreme
Court Justices. The class watched the Frontline special on the
Thomas hearings, and so when they discussed the Thomas hearings,
Patrick brought along Rush's book.

Rush holds Patrick over the break so he can hear what happened
when Patrick brought his book into class.

*BREAK*

Phone   Patrick from Durham, NH (continued)

Patrick says that he not only brought Rush's book into the
classroom but also David Brock's American Spectator article on
Anita Hill. Dale mentioned Rush's point that the Thomas/Hill
hearings were a political attempt to destroy Thomas, and he
pointed out Brock's evidence about how Hill's testimony was
obtained.

The reaction by Patrick's largely female class was basically that
"we men aren't getting it." Patrick is confused as to what he is
not getting, because according to the evidence the hearings were
an open and shut case. Rush says that he knows a number of women
who resolutely believe Hill, no matter what, because she has
become a cause celebre about whom the facts don't matter.

Thus, what these feminists are claiming with their "men don't get
it" is that men don't understand what it's like to be a woman in
a man's world, being subjected to male whims and being considered
second-class citizens. The hearings were simply an opportunity
for feminists to grab some power from men; this is what Susan
Hoerchner meant when she said that the hearings were about "the
inequities of power."

Thus, men can't understand this because they aren't women. To the
women in Patrick's class, and to women across the country, the
Thomas/Hill hearings were far more than a Supreme Court
confirmation hearing. Thomas came to symbolize for these women
what they claim happens to them throughout their lives.

The women chose a bad case, though, because there was no evidence
that sexual harassment ever occurred between Thomas and Hill.
What these women should have done, as far as Rush is concerned,
was to find a real case of sexual harassment, such as New York's
Randy Daniels, and fight it. Unless the women have a clear cut
case, though, their credibility is damaged, which is why women
resort to the "you don't get it" statement - they can't fall back
on the facts or evidence.

Patrick now understands this, but he still doesn't understand why
facts and truth are irrelevant in this matter. Rush says that he
pointed out in his book that the "seriousness of the charges" was
what mattered to the feminists, not the nature of the evidence.
Rush bets that most of the women who believe Hill have been
sexually harassed in one way or another, and this predisposes
them to accept Hill's story on face value.

The national polls taken during the hearings, though, showed that
two-thirds of Americans, including women, did not believe Hill. A
year later, though, after the press had time to present their
spin on things, 42 to 39% of the people believe Hill. The people
have forgotten what they saw for themselves, and are instead
believing what the media is saying about it.

Patrick adds that Anita Hill is making speeches at $10,000 per,
and Rush points out that Hill is not saying much in her speeches
about the Thomas hearings. Instead she talks about harassment in
general terms. Rush recalls how when he was flying to Kansas City
last month he was seated next to a highly educated 70-year-old
black woman who was doing some legal research. The topic of
conversation moved to the Thomas/Hill hearings, and the woman
said that she didn't believe a word that Hill was saying because
"where are her boyfriends? She has no boyfriends. She has trouble
with men - mark my words."

Rush admits he didn't think about this, and he finds it
interesting that this statement was a gut reaction from a highly
educated woman. Of course, having no boyfriends is no excuse for
being harassed, but the issue is still Hill's credibility. To
feminists, of course, Hill's credibility doesn't matter because
they have turned this case into an "us versus them" issue.

Rush hopes that he has helped Patrick with his class and asks him
to call back to let the EIB audience know how this explanation
was received.

*BREAK*

Phone   Conan from Norwich, CT

Conan the conservative Republican gives Rush dittos, even though
Conan is a member of the "all-too-liberal media." He predicts
that Quayle will end up at the Heritage Foundation, Bennett will
be head of the GOP, and Kemp will be running in 1996 with either
Lynn Martin or Gov. Carol Campbell as his running mate.

Rush says that Kemp is the natural choice now for winning the
1996 Republican primaries, but this is by no means certain. A
number of other people such as Governor William Weld are
preparing their own campaigns. Conan agrees, but says that Weld
appears to be made from the same patrician mold that produced
Bush, while Kemp appears as a more down-to-earth "normal guy."

Rush agrees on that, and adds that both Governor John Engler and
Governor Tommy Thompson are also in the trenches right now,
dealing with problems such as bloated state budgets and welfare
reform. These two men should be given their due and carefully
watched during the next four years because they are actually
doing the work and getting things done. They are "total pluses"
to the Republican party, and Rush bets that their influence will
be felt in 1996 in one way or another.

Conan also thinks that the liberals still hate Ronald Reagan, and
this is an indication of just how effective he was at governing.
Reagan and FDR were both effective Presidents, and as such will
be reviled for years to come. Rush agrees, and he is amazed that
Clinton is still talking about how rotten the economy is, even
though the media is now coming out with all sorts of positive
economic news.

The only reason for Clinton to do this is to set the stage for
some really draconian economic measures, measures which would
normally be used only for crisis situations. Clinton and his
cronies will therefore continue to bash and blame Reagan because
they need to create a crisis feeling to justify draconian and
socialist measures. "I am not heartened by this," Rush states.

*BREAK*

Convicted murderer Lloyd Wayne Hampton will be executed by lethal
injection tonight in Joliet, Illinois for the 1990 murder and
torture of a man. Hampton killed the man precisely so that he
would be caught and executed. The state will oblige Hampton at
midnight tonight, and EIB's Chicago affiliate, WLS, will be
having a "post-execution gala."

Phone   George from Bridgeport, CT

George doesn't think that Rush is a conservative, but rather is a
monarchist who thinks he is infallible. George says that Rush's
"talent on loan from God" line indicates that he believes in some
sort of divine right, and furthermore Rush thinks everyone should
believe like he does.

Rush admits that he does believe everyone should share his
opinions, but he's willing to persuade people on these things as
opposed to imposing his will on others. As to talent being on
loan from God, that is true for everyone - everybody will have to
return their talents to God someday.

Rush doesn't have any time left in the show, though, and thus
asks if George can talk about this tomorrow since, after all,
Rush doesn't want to be accused of being a monarchist.

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