From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
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Subject: Summary Mon 8/31/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, August 31, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:01:54 GMT
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, August 31, 1992

by John Switzer

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Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
first summary for this month. In particular, please note that
this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other as
a daily listener.

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August 31, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

Moviemaker Spike Lee is showing his leadership skills by asking
black students to skip school in November. Lee's movie about
Malcolm X is scheduled to be released on November 20th, and he is
asking all blacks to skip going to school or work on that day so
that they can go see his movie. This obvious attempt to hype his
movie appeared in the August 26th edition of the Los Angeles
Times, but Lee claims his only motivation is that blacks are not
being properly educated and thus need to see this movie so as to
get a proper historical perspective.

Rush suggests that if Spike Lee is really serious about this,
then he should go all the way and suggest that after the movie,
blacks loot the concession stand and then torch the theater. This
would help to convey the true spirit of Malcolm X, and thus
complete Lee's version of a black education.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush comments that he heard from Murphy Brown's lawyers
on Friday - they want their script back because it's their
property.

o       Rush rips paper on the air and asks people what they
think it is. A wiseacre calls on the phone that shouldn't ring
and asks if it is Rush's pants ripping. Rush says that this
doesn't happen anymore, and he explains that he is ripping up the
old, original contract that established the EIB Network.

Today's show will have a major announcement - not only will Rush
announce his 500th radio affiliate, but also his show's ever-
increasing radio figures - 3.03 million people are listening to
Rush's show at any one time, with over 13 million people
listening during any one week. This means that almost 2% of the
American people are listening to Rush's show every week, which is
unprecedented for a three-hour radio talk show.

Rush thanks his listeners for making this possible, since they
are the ones who make the numbers. He points out that his great
success happened during the Bush administration, which should
give people hope for the future, and show that opportunity still
exists in America.

Rush says that he and EIB are positioned "well into the next
century," and predicts that not only is this the Year and Decade
of Limbaugh, but also the "Century of Limbaugh." Rush says that
the 12 years of Reagan and Bush have been overwhelmingly kind to
him and EIB, but he refuses to disclose how much money he expects
from his continued growth. This is not just because Rush has a
lot of class, but also because he simply doesn't know. He does
say that this is "the largest and most profoundly successful
radio show since the invention of television," and his new
contract relates this fact.

o       Clinton's lead has declined in two polls, but one has to
search long and hard to find this information in the New York
papers.

o       Slick Willie's new television ad is being praised by the
mainstream lap-dog media. Rush will comment on this, as well as
on Clinton's speech to the American Legion last week. Everyone
Rush meets is mentioning how blatant the bias of the media is in
regards to Clinton.

o       Rush has received a number of letters on CompuServe. One
writer asks what the "H" is his name stands for, and he answers
"Hudson." The writer also asks if his newsletter will be printed
on recycled paper, and Rush says no - he will be using virgin
paper from the renewable resource of America's forests.

Rush has talked to thousands of trees, and they all agreed to die
so as to allow him to preserve his wisdom for the ages. Their
enthusiasm for this is such that the trees may just as well be
jumping in front of the saws; they cried out "pulp me, pulp me,"
and how can Rush deny their entreaty?

Plus, George Will has commented that the beauty of trees is not
just in what they are, but in what they can be made into, and
what better product than the Limbaugh Letter?

o       Another letter writer from Spokane says that his city is
adopting the motto "De-Foley-ate Congress." He adds that if 30
million Americans don't have health insurance, this does not mean
that the US economy is cruel and vicious; he asks just how many
of these people spend $200 or $300 a month in new car payments.
Such people have made a free market choice - they prefer to spend
their money for a car instead of for health care insurance.

Rush calls this a brilliant point that many people don't see
because they believe health care is a right that the government
should pay for if necessary. If health care is a right or an
entitlement that people should expect from the government, then
why shouldn't people expect to have a "right" to a new car?

What good is health insurance if you can't drive yourself to the
hospital after a heart attack? What if you dial 911 and the
operator thinks you're pulling a practical joke? What if you live
in Arkansas and every call to 911 is from someone who thinks they
are calling directory assistance? What not just make everything
in life an "entitlement" that people should demand from the
government?

*BREAK*

Items

o       Football season is starting, which means that Rush's
environmentally-correct football picks will be starting on
Friday.

o       Rush says that in any given week, a minimum of 5% of
Americans listen to his show. The figure is probably even higher,
given that people go on vacation and such, and other Americans
gladly step in to take their place near the radio. This is
especially amazing as Rush has a mid-day radio show, but early
morning is the prime-time slot for radio. Many people would
therefore like to listen to Rush's show, but can't because
they're at work or school. Lots of people therefore tape the show
so that they can listen to it at their leisure later. <<I do!
It's easy, ask me how.>>

o       When Rush was leaving for dinner recently, the doorman
for his apartment building said that a guest of another resident
was hoping to meet him. Rush agreed, and the guest told him that
his show was an oasis at which listeners could find relief from
the biased media; the other resident echoed that thought. The
guest, who is a woman, also said that Rush is wrong in believing
that most women hate him, because millions of conservative women
love him.

o       Rush received a fax from someone who bet that during the
Presidential debates, the journalists are going to have to be
careful not to direct any hard questions to Clinton. If a
journalist did ask a difficult or probing question of Clinton, he
would undoubtedly be ostracized by his journalistic brethren.
Thus, the fax writer bets that the debates will be Clinton and
the journalists versus Bush, who will stand alone.

*BREAK*

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

Clinton is getting away with a lot of things he's saying because
the media is not challenging him. Last week, Clinton told the
American Legion that he was qualified to serve as Commander-in-
Chief because Reagan and Lincoln were two Presidents who did not
serve in the military. If a Republican, though, had made such a
historical error, the media would have turned it into a major
story, yet nobody is making any reference to Clinton's error,
much less criticize it.

Lincoln, though, was in the Illinois militia and fought in the
Blackhawk wars in 1832. Ronald Reagan was in the reserves, and
even made promotional films for the military. Although Reagan
didn't actually fight in WWII, he also did not write letters in
an attempt to get out of military service. Clinton, though,
dodged his military service obligation, yet he still attempts to
compare himself to Lincoln and Reagan.

The main point of this, though, is that although a Commander-in-
Chief does not have to have been in the military himself, what is
important is his attitude towards the military. Clinton claimed,
though, that if he had been President in 1991, he would have
listened to Norman Schwarzkopf, and would have let the war
continue for another day or two so that Allied forces could have
invaded Baghdad; Clinton claims he would not have stopped the war
"early" as Bush did. Rush says that if Clinton had been
President, the US would not have gone to war at all to stop Iraq,
but the media is not challenging Clinton at all on this.
Clinton's blatant hypocrisy on this is galling in and of itself,
but the media's help in propagating this hypocrisy is even more
irritating.

Rush wonders where Mark Shields is about all this - Shields was
on Nightline during the Desert Shield deployment, claiming that
the volunteer army was unfair because it didn't include the sons
of the rich. Shields also criticized Rush for not serving in the
military, and he said that anyone who wasn't in the military
shouldn't be allowed to comment on military matters.

Shields also called Buchanan a "chicken hawk" who wants to send
other people's boys off to war, although he's never gone off to
war himself. What about Clinton, a man who cheated and lied to
stay out of the draft, and yet is now calling for US air strikes
against Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina? Isn't Clinton a chicken
hawk, too, according to Shields' definition of the term?

Update  Slick Willie         (Julio Iglesias, "To All the Girls I
Loved Before")

Rush comments that Al Gore yesterday admitted that he voted for
the same 1990 Budget Deal that he has criticized Bush for
supporting. Rush is amazed, though, that nobody in the media is
telling the truth about Clinton, but he volunteers to step into
the breach. Also, Gennifer Flowers has stated that she has a
video of her and Clinton; the EIB staff asks him what the rating
of this movie is, but he hasn't seen it so he doesn't know. The
staff then decides to refer to the Flowers tape as the "the Perot
video" - she's got it, but nobody has seen it.

Moving on to the update, Rush says that Clinton is airing his
first national political ad. One of the things said in the ad is
that "people are ready, they've had enough of a government that
just doesn't work. Those making over $200,000 a year have to pay
more, the rest of us get a break."

Rush doesn't remember Clinton saying that he supports a middle
class tax cut; he did promise this during the primaries but has
since gone back on that support. Is the middle class supposed to
get a break just because the rich are paying more? What kind of
magic is it that gives the middle class a break when they don't
pay any less, but when somebody else pays more?

Clinton also claims government doesn't work, but his entire
platform is about enlarging government so that it can provide
more and more goodies to its people. Rush wonders how many people
define a "government that works" as a government that intrudes
even more into their lives, and promises more and more
entitlements?

*BREAK*

Phone   Melva from Memphis, TN

Rush has trouble reading his computer screen because it is an IBM
monitor that uses the standard IBM font, which is harder to read
than his trusty Macintosh font. He puts that aside and welcomes
Melva to his show; he comments that EIB's first call screener was
named "Melva Snerdley." Also, one of his mother's best friends
was named Melva.

Melva gives dittos from Cybil Shepherd's hometown, and she
mentions the Emmy Awards last night. Rush tried to watch it, but
had trouble because it was nothing more than a Bill Clinton
Political Action Committee presenting awards. The fact that all
of these liberals support Clinton should show people what a lie
it is that Clinton is really a moderate.

Melva says that when Shepherd accepted her award and started an
orgy of Quayle-bashing, Melva wondered how all the southern
Reagan Democrats could support Clinton and his policies. Rush
says that Beau Bridges showed he was a typical liberal with his
calls for gun control; just because Bridges played James Brady in
a movie, he's now considered an expert on social issues. Yet,
these guys undoubtedly walk out to their limousines protected by
armed bodyguards.

Rush bets, though, that the Quayle-bashing has already backfired
on the liberals, and he doubts that Reagan Democrats in the South
will find anything to like in what they saw last night. Liberals
set up all sorts of restrictions on what people can or cannot do,
and then turn around and exempt themselves because they are the
"elite" who can be "trusted to do the right thing."

Rush wonders why these liberals feel so threatened by Quayle that
they continue to attack him - if Quayle really is such a buffoon,
then why their knee-jerk reactions to anything he says or does?

*BREAK*

Rush comments that the EIB staff has agreed with him that his
monitor is not displaying properly.

Phone   Bill from Indiana, PA

Bill is somewhat laconic and says "Hi Blinky and Susan." Given
Bill's level of energy, Rush asks if he just got out of bed, and
Bill says that he is simply nervous. However, all of this slow-
speed banter has taken up all of the segment's time, and so Rush
holds him across the break.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush comments that the Limbaugh Letter already has signed
up 15,000 subscribers in just two weeks. Rush is somewhat
disappointed, though, that the commercial for his newsletter has
already happened in the first segment, since he would have liked
to promo the commercial itself.

o       Tony Lo Bianco (yes, the real actor Tony Lo Bianco) was a
guest at the water volleyball party Rush attended Saturday, and
he was asking about the broadcast engineer who has assumed his
name.

Rush can't reveal the names of those involved, but many attendees
at this party brought their crum-crunchers with them. These kids
kept jumping in the pool in spite of being told many times not to
interfere with the volleyball game. Rush was amazed to see a
total lack of discipline among these parents and their children.

One woman in her 30s was on Rush's team in the opening game, but
was playing below her usual high level. To make matters worse,
butlers kept interrupt the games by bringing over trays of shrimp
and such. After two games, Rush asked the woman why she was
sluffing off so much, and a bystander said that she just didn't
want to get her hair wet. Rush responded by dunking her in the
pool.

After this, a number of other women came up to this lady
throughout the party and insisted that she "stand up" to Rush's
brazenness. The woman herself, though, didn't really mind it, and
in fact the level of the game got quickly better, although
members of the opposing team aimed shots at Rush's head several
times in an attempt to defend the woman's "honor."

The children, though, proved to be interesting. One 8-year old
daughter ran through the house screaming "keep away from me, keep
away from me." She ran into a bedroom and slammed the door shut,
and a 6-year old boy followed her shouting "I love you, kiss me
on the lips." The girl ran to her father for assistance, and
looked somewhat askance at the experience. The boy continued to
shout "I want to marry you, I want to marry you."

Rush was amazed, though, by this 6-year old kid's behavior; "he's
got more guts than I do," he states. He wonders if this is normal
behavior for 6-year olds, and the parents in the EIB staff nod
their heads yes. Rush is still surprised, especially as he
recalls that when he was 6 he hated girls.

Phone   Bill from Indiana, PA (continued)

Bill has calmed down somewhat, at least enough to ask Rush his
question. Bill wants to know if Clinton's supposed 128 tax
increases included real hikes in taxes or just the raising of
simple fees. Rush calls this a good question because he has just
received a fax on this from the Bush campaign, and he'll read
this fax after the break.

Rush wonders, though, why the media is not challenging Clinton on
his claim that he did not raise taxes 128 times. Why isn't anyone
asking him how many times he did raise taxes; this is the sort of
question reporters ask Bush, so why not ask it of Clinton as
well?

*BREAK*

Bush claims Clinton raised taxes 128 times while governor of
Arkansas, but Clinton denies this. The Bush campaign is standing
by their statement, but the August 29th issue of the Washington
Post quotes a Clinton staffer as saying that this figure came
from a rival of Clinton's. The Bush campaign, though, says that
their source is the Arkansas Tax Handbook, which is published by
the Arkansas legislature.

The Bush people faxed a copy of the Arkansas Tax Handbook to
Rush, and it shows that George Will and Michael Kinsley were
mistaken in their criticisms of the Bush figure. A 1987 Arkansas
law, Act 383, lengthened the dog-racing season, and Kinsley
claims that Bush is wrong in calling this a tax increase.
However, the dog-racing industry is a state-granted monopoly, and
the owners of this monopoly have contributed heavily to Clinton's
campaigns.

The size of the dog-racing revenues which go into the Arkansas
state coffers can be seen in what happened last year - Clinton
granted a 1% increase to the parks' take from dog-racing, and the
state lost $1 million in tax revenues. However, the 1987
extension of the dog-racing season was for the explicit purpose
of raising state revenue, and this increase in revenues was
specifically targeted for city and mental retardation programs.

Granted this is not a tax in the real sense of the term, since
going to the dog-racing track is a voluntary activity. However,
it was a payback to Clinton contributors, and was an increase in
the size of state revenues. Any such increase has to come from
the people, and Rush lets the audience decide as to whether this
fits the description of what a tax increase is.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from Jacksonville, FL

John says that the Bush is being dishonest in his figure of 128
tax increases for Clinton, since if Bush's "one time" of raising
taxes is counted in the same way, it can be shown he raised taxes
70 times. John is angry at how the Bush campaign is not stating
the whole truth of the matter.

Rush understands this logic and thinks that this issue is a
ridiculous one, for many reasons, including the one that John
just gave. What Bush has to do is get off the numbers game, and
start pointing out the philosophical differences between Bush and
Clinton. Clinton has admitted that he would raise taxes by $150
billion, so what will he really do if he wins the election?
Clinton thinks raising taxes is the major solution to problems,
and this point is what Bush should attack.

John says that at least Clinton is being honest in what he is
going to do; Bush says he will have a jobs training program, but
he is not giving any specifics about what he will do or how much
it will cost. Rush agrees, but if Clinton is being honest in
this, it's the only time in his campaign he's being honest.

Bush must point out the damage that Clinton's proposed tax
increases will do to the US economy. However, if Clinton is being
honest about raising taxes, then this is remarkable since
promising to raise taxes has never won anyone an election. John,
though, thinks that the people don't trust Bush, and consider him
to be someone who will say anything to get elected.

Rush says that people don't trust politicians in general -
Clinton's support among voters is soft, and thus Bush can exploit
this distrust by hammering away at Clinton's vulnerabilities.
Bush, though, has to keep admitting that he made a mistake by
going along with the Democrats in the 1990 Budget Deal, and he
has to unmask Clinton and Gore as the real liberals in this
campaign. This is easy to do - just look at all the special
interest groups that support them.

Clinton is already backing down from his previous support of
NAFTA, which should show that the liberal leadership of Congress
is going to pull Clinton's strings. Bush has to point this out,
and show that all that Clinton will do if he is elected is to
repeat the mistakes of the 1990 Budget Deal.

Phone   Ed from Jacksonville, FL

Ed thinks Rush is a hard-core Republican, which explains why he
supports Bush. Ed, though, simply can't vote for someone who lies
to him - Bush raised taxes after saying he wouldn't, and he
signed the quota bill after he promised not to. Ed says that
Clinton still supports a middle class tax cut, and at least
Clinton has not lied to him yet. In fact, the Democrats passed
such a tax cut but Bush vetoed it because it had an increase in
the tax rate for the top 2% of wage earners.

Rush says that Bush vetoed the bill because the Democrats wrote
the bill to guarantee that he would veto it; there was just too
much bad law in there for Bush to accept. Ed, though, says that
he can't trust Bush at all, and if Bush says that he will cut
taxes, Ed won't believe him. He says that Bush signed the 1990
Budget Deal in spite of its support by liberal Democrats. Rush
says that Bush has already admitted that this is a mistake and
won't repeat it.

Rush asks Ed why he supports taxing the rich more, and Ed replies
that taxing the rich more will give more money to the middle
class; this is how Clinton intends to pay for his tax cut for the
middle class. Rush tells him that taxing the rich only destroys
their ability to create jobs for the middle class.

Ed, though, says that a tax increase on the rich will spur the
creation of jobs and tax credits for investment in America. For
example, Clinton can stop the defection of jobs to Mexico by
giving tax credits to businesses who stay in the US; this would
stop the US from losing jobs because of Mexico's lower wages.

Rush says that American jobs are being lost because of high taxes
and over-regulation, and he holds Ed across the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Ed from Jacksonville, FL (continued)

Ed says that he has been checking out Bush and Clinton since the
beginning of the primaries, and Bush has lied in everything he
said in 1988. Bush said he would fight the liberal Congress and
he has failed to do so. Ed has to wonder why he should believe
Bush again; he'd rather give Clinton another four years, and if
Clinton doesn't do what he says, Ed will kick him out and give
someone else a chance. Ed says that if Rush would be objective
about Clinton, he'd agree.

Ed supported Clarence Thomas' appointment to the Supreme Court,
and Rush says that this is one reason why Ed shouldn't vote for
Clinton. Rush asks Ed if he really wants Clinton to make Mario
Cuomo a Justice on the Supreme Court. Ed doubts that Clinton
would nominate Mario Cuomo because Clinton despises the man. Ed
thinks that the only reason that Clinton has said that he would
nominate Cuomo was that he was only trying to be "nice" to a
fellow Democratic governor.

Rush says that this is what bothers him so much about Clinton -
Clinton lies and will say anything he has to in order to get
elected. Rush does not want Clinton to appoint his liberal
colleagues to position of power, because Rush still considers
liberalism to be a heinous system that must be opposed and
defeated. "This may be the Superbowl in which nobody's favorite
team is playing," Rush states, "but I still want somebody to lose
the game."

*BREAK*

Life is getting better across the world, although somewhat slowly
- the World Bank reports that the income of the average Japanese
was $25,430 in 1990 which is up from an average income of $900 in
the 60s. The United States and Europe have recorded gains, but
they weren't as spectacular as Japan's. In the Third World,
average incomes are rising at about 3% per year, but in some
countries this still means that people are being paid less than
$1 a day. Rush wonders if Arkansas is included in these figures.

Phone   Tom from Muncie, IN

Tom thinks the success of Rush's show indicates that the American
people are not as stupid as some think. He also congratulates
Rush on the article about him in New Dimension magazine. Rush
comments that the cover photo for that issue makes him look like
a blimp, but he is no longer that large.

Tom says that the strike at the GM Saturn plant is spreading
around the country, and he is not going to be able to trade in
his Toyota for a new Saturn like he would like. Rush holds Tom
over the break.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

EIB now has 503 affiliates, which means that EIB now has blanket
coverage of the entire US - no matter where you go, if you can
tune a radio, you can listen to Rush. However, people are still
having problems programing their VCRs, and Rush bets these people
will be voting for Clinton.

Phone   Tom from Muncie, IN (continued)

Tom says that the strike at the GM plant in Lordstown has
frustrated his desire to buy a high-quality American-made car.
Tom doesn't understand why, given that GM lost $7 billion last
year, its employees would want even more of a shrinking pie. Rush
says that the UAW has 2300 striking employees at the key
Lordstown plant as a protest against GM's planned 53,000 layoffs.
The union is also against GM's plans to outsource some of its
labor to other countries.

What this strike has done is prevent GM from selling the one big
hit of its auto line, and Tom says that this will prevent GM from
making a rebound. Furthermore, the strikers will only end up
shooting themselves in the foot, not to mention that their strike
will have a ripple effect that will force GM to temporarily
layoff thousands of other workers. All these people will end up
on unemployment because a few workers want more.

Rush says that there's more to the strike than just more money;
the unions are basically saying that if GM lays them off, they'll
take the company down with them. This situation has put the
unions in a bad light, but Rush asks Tom what he would have the
workers do. Tom replies that their primary concern should be
making a good product that would be competitive both in the US
and overseas. That is the only kind of job security that they
should be worried about - keeping their jobs by building the best
quality product in the world.

Tom heard on the news today that the average GM car has an
average of $900 worth of health care costs for GM employees built
into it. Rush isn't surprised, and he decides to read a letter
from "a highly placed journalist at one of the leading automobile
magazines in the world." The man writes that "it's clear to me,
that reading excerpts from Al Gore's book, that raising the
corporate average fuel economy to 40 m.p.g. would have several
unintended negative effects, as is the case with simple-minded,
do-gooder laws."

This letter is especially relevant as GM is in a fight for its
corporate life, but it's being bombarded on two sides - by its
striking workers and by environmentalists who want to impose one
restriction after another on them. The journalist continues on to
say that if the US does what Gore says we should do, e.g. require
a 40 m.p.g. fuel rate on cars, "it would sink Chrysler, swamp
General Motors, and cause Ford to take on water at a dangerous
rate."

People don't want slow, 50 m.p.h. cars, and auto manufacturers
would basically have to pay people to buy them. Since people do
want large cars, American manufacturers would have to import high
m.p.g. cars to meet the mandated average fuel efficiency rate.
These foreign small cars would have to sold at a highly
subsidized price, just so that the auto makers could sell enough
of them to keep on producing their more profitable line of bigger
cars.

The result would be a de facto export of jobs, not to mention
that people would keep their older cars far longer. And of
course, older cars pollute more, regardless of the fuel
efficiency they have when new. The writer adds that he has yet to
seen a Greenpeace sticker on a new Civic, but he has seen them on
old Volvos, Microbuses, and Subarus, which get far worse fuel
mileage, and which pollute far more than the new 1992 towncars.
The writer concludes by saying that "activists like Al and
Hillary would love for us to be out of cars and into public
transportation so we wouldn't clog the route in front of their
limousines."

Rush says that if the US is to compete in a global economy,
people have to think of business in global terms. If a competitor
is making typewriters at a labor rate of $2 per hour, then US
manufacturers will have to have the same labor rate or have the
US government subsidize them.

Similarly, if Al Gore decides that he wants US cars to get 40
m.p.g., he's going to have to subsidize US auto makers in order
to keep them in business. Meanwhile, US consumers will be holding
onto their older cars or buying used cars just so they can have
the cars they want to drive.

Rush wonders what Gore/Clinton would have to say about the
Lordstown strike? Clinton makes a big deal about being for
workers, but what would he say to GM's shareholders? This is the
kind of thing that Bush needs to really attack Clinton on because
Clinton is vulnerable.

*BREAK*

o       Rush reads from this week's Newsweek which talks about
the Lordstown strike - "at one time the UAW and GM were the co-
conspirators in creating a second-rate US car industry. Now, the
union seems intent on continuing on that path alone."

Rush says this is an amazing admission for Newsweek to make, but
Rush can't remember one major strike in recent memory in which
the American people sided with the unions. During the 1982 PATCO
strike, the American people reviled the striking airline
controllers who had broken their oath not to strike.

People hear every day about how bad the US economy is, then when
GM is starting to make things a bit better, the unions hamstring
the company by going on strike. Rush bets the American people
will side with GM on this, and union membership is only going to
continue to plummet. In the long run, this strike will only make
it easier for companies to get concessions from their unions.

o       Rush turns to the story about Magic Johnson who said
yesterday that he is supporting Bill Clinton for President.
Johnson criticized President Bush for not doing enough about
AIDS, and added that he feels Bush only "used" him by appointing
him to the Presidential Commission on AIDS. Magic said "of course
it was for the publicity - the AIDS commission came up with all
the data he wanted. He cut them down left and right in funding.
That's why I'm stepping down - I can work harder getting to kids
in a different way."

Rush says that the only people who used Magic Johnson were the
other members of the Commission who puts words and facts in his
head so as to promote their own agendas. Bush was not the one who
originally thought of appointing Johnson to the AIDS commission;
Bush instead was responding to intense public demand that was
generated by the AIDS activists to put Johnson on the panel.

Plus, Rush is incredulous that Johnson would think that in the
short time he's been on the commission that anything could really
be done. Johnson contracted HIV because of his behavior, and thus
the best way he can help to stop AIDS is by telling people not to
do what he did.

Rush asks if anyone knows any virus for which man has found a
cure - there hasn't been any cure found for a single retrovirus
in the history of man. What does this say about what people
should be doing about AIDS, and how they should be approaching
the problem?

*BREAK*

Rush knows that the scientists in his audience are looking around
for viruses that have been cured, and he wishes them the best of
luck. How about the common cold? Billions of dollars are spent
every year on its symptoms, but has it ever been cured? How long
has the common cold been afflicting man? And this is a much
simpler virus than HIV. (Of course, there's no cure for the EIB
virus, but at least it is a beneficial and healthful virus.)

Now Magic Johnson, who acquired HIV through his own promiscuous
behavior, is blaming everyone and anyone except himself for it.
Rush doesn't understand why people can't simply be honest about
this disease instead of playing these type of political games.

Phone   John from Slidell, LA

John wants to first mention Clinton's draft-dodging - what
bothers John is that if Clinton is elected President and then
defects to Canada as a conscientious objector, is Gore really
qualified to be President? Rush doubts if Canada would want
Clinton since he would undoubtedly destroy their health care
system.

John then moves onto how the media is criticizing Bush for moving
too slowly about aid for those hurt by Hurricane Andrew. Yet Bush
was in Florida and Louisiana almost before the winds died down,
and the press' response was to attack him for trying to turn the
tragedy into a political photo-op. Two days later, though, the
press then attacked Bush for not acting fast enough.

Rush says that this is the "absolute truth" and is undeniable. On
Monday last week the New York Times accused Bush of going to
Florida so quickly because he "obviously is trying to politicize
the tragedy" so as to get Florida's electoral votes. Bush on
Monday said that federal troops were standing by, ready to move
as soon as the governors of the afflicted states made their
request, which is required by law.

Two days later the troops were still on standby because no
official requests were made. Bush simply cannot send in federal
troops whenever he wants; there have to be formal requests
because the US is not a dictatorship - there is a thing called
states rights.

However, on Thursday of last week, Cokie Roberts was on ABC News
Nightline asking "where was Bush" and accusing him of not acting
fast enough. This is hard to fathom since only two days before
Bush was accused of moving too quickly. Rush says that this sort
of behavior is usually displayed by people with multiple
personalties who normally occupy mental health institutions.

Rush bets that Bush called the governor of Florida and agreed not
to blame him for not making his request fast enough if the
governor wouldn't engage in partisan politics by blaming the
President for not responding fast enough. Bush undoubtedly made
the point that people are in need and that tossing blame around
would not help anyone. Bush was willing to look beyond politics
to help the people who were in desperate need.

This scenario can be inferred because if Bush really was lax in
his response to this crisis, Governor Childs (D-FL) would be all
over Bush, accusing him of negligence. However, since it is only
the media who is accusing Bush of moving too slow.

*BREAK*

Rep. Charley Rangle (D-NY) yesterday accused Bill Clinton of
ignoring blacks in favor of southern blue-collar workers. He
warned that blacks may retaliate by not voting in November. Rush
wonders what logic is used by black leaders like Rangle who seem
to want blacks to get out of American life altogether.

Rangle pointed out that Clinton's bus tour is not stopping in
black towns nor is Clinton "kissing black babies." Rangle said a
lot of blacks will stay home on election day, and "one vote that
stays home that's not going to vote for the Republican party is
not worth as much as someone that would vote for the Republican
that's turned around to vote for Bill Clinton. The whole idea is
to go where the fish are."

Rush is confused by this paragraph and he tries to read it again.
He wonders if Rangle's constituents understand this phraseology.
However, Rangle's advice to forgo voting is akin to Spike Lee's
call for blacks to skip school or work so that they can watch his
new movie in November.

Phone   Tony from Los Angeles, CA

Tony says "shame, shame" on the union people. The auto industry
is an essential part of the US economy, and the UAW is trying to
hold the country ransom by holding GM hostage. Tony owns a
foreign car right now, but he was planning on buying an American
car next. However, he now has his doubts - why should he support
union workers who aren't supporting him?

Rush asks him what these workers' options are - what can they do
about GM laying off 50,000 workers? Tony says that this is a
narrow view; destroying GM is not going to help them or anyone
else. Rush says that a significant portion of the US population
is happy when they can ruin something or when others get hurt. To
these people, "soaking the rich" is a great thing; they are the
ones who demanded that Al Campanis be fired for alleged racist
remarks. Yet have their lives been made better at all by this?

Of course, this attitude is fostered by liberals who exploit
class envy and hatred for their own political purposes.

Phone   Elizabeth from Augusta, GA

Elizabeth is tired of hearing how qualified Clinton is to be
Commander-in-Chief, and she is furious at how the press is
treating him with kid gloves. She saw Brent Bozell on CSPAN
Sunday, and Bozell presented flow charts and other diagrams that
showed how totally biased the media's coverage was about the
Democratic and Republican conventions.

For example, not once did the media use the label "liberal"
during the Democratic convention, yet they used dozens of labels
like "extreme right-wing" and "born again mob" to characterize
the Republican convention. Elizabeth wants to know if Bush and
the GOP stands a chance against this bias.

Rush says that the gap between Bush and Clinton in the polls is
closing, and the press is befuddled totally. The New York Times
reports that Clinton's lead over Bush has dropped in two surveys,
but this story is hidden on page 39A. The press really thinks
that the American public is a bunch of idiots who can be led by a
media pied piper. Yet the media's candidate has lost in the last
three Presidential elections.

Rush encourages Elizabeth by telling her that she is not the only
one who notices these things. One of Rush's Democratic friends
even mentioned how one-sided the news coverage on the election
is. Reasonable people who don't normally believe in conspiracy
theories are now wondering if this bias has been orchestrated by
somebody in cloaked-filled rooms. Thus, people are aware of this
overwhelming bias, and the media is not being given a free ride
by the American public.

*BREAK*

Phone   Will from Orchard Park, NY

Will says that Mike Deaver (former Reagan staffer) and Joe Trippe
(of Jerry Brown's campaign) were on public radio last week, and
Deaver made a comment about the biased media coverage. Trippe
agreed that it was biased, but he liked it because it was biased
in his favor. Rush says that the Democrats may be feeling that
they are really close this year to winning the White House. These
guys can almost taste the cushy White House jobs that they might
be offered, and they are letting the truth come out about the
relationship between them and the press.


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