From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Unofficial Summary for Friday, April 3, 1992
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 92 20:42:23 GMT
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, April 3, 1992

by John Switzer

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April 3, 1992

NEWS

o       Paul Harvey reports that forests in Europe are growing
larger in part because of the nitrogen that comes from the
pollution of Europe's factories.

o       Jerry Brown has appeared at a New York press conference
to welcome the endorsement of Rolling Stone magazine.

MORNING UPDATE

Rush says that it's a burden to be right - the April 6th issue of
Newsweek has an article entitled "Rethinking Homeless Myths." The
story states "The figure of 3 million homeless in the United
States, used by advocates and the media in the 1980s, has little
basis in fact. A 1988 Urban Institute report found there were no
more than 600,000 homeless people on any night," contrary to what
homeless advocate Mitch Snyder claimed. Continuing, the story
adds that "the boom in emergency-shelter construction, from
98,000 beds in 1983 to 275,000 in 1988 may have aggravated rather
than eased the long-term problem."

This is what Rush has been saying for almost four years, and he
bets that the story's writers have been listening to his show.
So, the homeless problem is nothing more than a "straw dog," and
is not getting worse, but is improving. Aside from these homeless
facts, what can Rush's listeners learn from this? Only that Rush
is right - "on ozone, on global warming, on practically
everything!"

FIRST HOUR

Update  Jerry Brown         (The Unbelievably Gorgeous Linda
Ronstadt, "You're No Good")

Jerry Brown was on the Phil Donahue show yesterday, and Donahue
asked him if he still went out with girls. When Brown answered in
the affirmative, Donahue looked disappointed. Another great line
making the rounds is that "Clinton's never inhaled and Brown's
never exhaled."

Rush admits, though, that he's been examining his own beliefs
about Brown, because Rush has always thought that Brown was a
flake. However, the former governor appears to be drawing crowds
wherever he goes, and he is winning a number of races. Rush
therefore asked himself what he was missing in all of this.

Rush concluded, though, that he's not missing anything. Most
people simply don't know what New York is like during a campaign
season. New York is media crazy anyway, and as a result you are
inundated with news and coverage about Brown and Clinton. This
worried Rush until he realized that New York has not voted for a
winning presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

New York is just one state and it is not representative of the
rest of the country. New York gave 60% to Ted Kennedy in 1980,
supported Mondale in 1984, and was behind Dukakis in 1988. Mario
Cuomo, of course, has always been a local favorite, but he has
never been able to make the scene nationally. Democrats who are
favored by New Yorkers cannot translate that popularity into
nationwide support.

What made this analysis difficult for Rush, though, is that Brown
is a "total flake." When Brown was on a local talk show, a caller
questioned his flat tax plan, and Brown went off on a tangent
about "tax inefficiency and loopholes." The loopholes, though,
are already gone.

At a meeting with the NY Post editorial board yesterday, Brown
again called for "massive government programs. We need greater
public sector intervention to maintain stability." Brown claims
to be an outsider, and yet he parrots the traditional, liberal
party line. Rush calls it "mind-boggling" that Brown is still
portrayed as some crusader who is rallying disaffected voters to
his side.

Rush says that Brown's campaign is totally irrelevant and won't
"matter a hill of beans." One of the reasons Brown is doing so
well is because he's entertaining - when you have Pat Buchanan
running for president and John Sununu is hosting Crossfire,
something is out of whack. Jay Leno says something, and it gets
written up in USA Today. Americans are laughing at politicians
and are taking comedians seriously.

Although third-party candidates have come forward before, the
current situation is different. Rush says that a lot of his
letters are telling him that his support for Bush is not the way
to go. Rush is incredulous that anyone could think he supports
Bush. The vehemence of these letters show that a lot of usually
apathetic people are being fired up during this election, and
Rush calls the people's reaction "phenomenal."

It would be ridiculous to make a prediction as to what will
happen in November, but Rush sticks to his prediction that the
1992 Democratic convention in New York will be a repeat of what
happened in 1968 - every aberrant group will show up demanding
attention. The polls show that two-thirds of voters wish they had
other choices, and Democrats are hoping that this convention will
be brokered and will come up with some candidate other than
what's out there now.

However, the New York media still gives the impression that Jerry
Brown's campaign is a fast-rolling train that's continually
gaining momentum. Of course, all of the attention is on the
Democrats since there is no real Republican campaign going on.
The fact is, though, the Democratic campaign is only about "who's
going to come in last in the Indianapolis 500." Whoever wins the
Democratic nomination is going to be the guy that will lose in
November.

The media concentrates, though, on ridiculous things - for
example, Brown raises $5 million with his 800 number. This is
nothing compared to what is needed to win the Presidency. And who
is Brown attracting - a bunch of kooks and 60s holdovers. This
isn't all of his support, of course, but it is a significant
fraction of it. Rush, though, is "stunned" that Brown can get
even this support - that Brown can attract so many disaffected
voters means that the voters are paying attention and are
listening, both to the status quo leaders and to Jerry Brown.

Brown, though, isn't making any sense. All Brown is doing is
living from primary to primary. For example, for Brown to talk
about Jesse Jackson as his Vice President is a stupid move. It is
stupid for him to pander like this in New York, but it is going
to be a flat-out idiotic thing for him to do when he leaves New
York and goes on to the rest of the nation.

Clinton, though, isn't doing that much better, what with his
endorsements from Jimmy Carter and Tom Harkin. These are the kind
of endorsements you want to hide.

*BREAK*

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

Anita Hill is now travelling the lecture circuit, and she is
receiving $11,000 per speech. Her first speech on this tour was
at the Yale University Law School, and she claimed that society
is still not confronting sexual harassment issues. She says "this
issue will not go away until we scrutinize it."

Rush goes back to the Thomas hearings, and how the feminists
wanted the hearings to be a referendum on sexual harassment. The
Thomas hearings, though, were never about sexual harassment, and
few people believed Hill in any case. However, Hill's supporters
were saying "why would she lie? What does she have to gain?"
Well, aside from the now obvious political motivations, it's also
obvious that she had a lot to gain, especially at $11,000 a
speech.

At the time, feminists claimed that Hill was a victim, who was
being savaged by the Judiciary Committee, and who would suffer
because of her testimony. She's now being portrayed as an expert
on sexual harassment, which may be true since she most likely is
guilty of it herself. Thus, the question can now be answered -
Anita Hill had a lot to gain by attacking Clarence Thomas.

Rush detours back to what is going on in New York City - Jesse
Jackson has recorded a Public Service Announcement urging people
to join a march in Washington, DC on May 16th. Jackson's march
will be to "force" Washington to start caring about the fact that
kids are carrying guns to school.

Rush states that it's obvious that the federal government cannot
affect social issues and cannot solve these kinds of social
programs. The federal government is going broke because of all
the money that has been wasted trying to solve this problems, and
Jackson and his cohorts are now asking for even more.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from Norwich, CT

John refers to Bea's call on April 1, and he thinks Bea totally
misunderstood Rush's point. Rush brings John up to date by saying
that he was playing a practical joke on April Fools Day by
stating that he wanted to raise taxes on the poor. However, he
surrounded this absurd proposition with a bunch of very true and
accurate comments. Bea's reaction to all of this was that Rush
was essentially the "scum of the Earth" and that he was a phony.

Rush says that his main point about Bea is that she has been
listening to Rush for years, and because Rush says one thing that
she doesn't like, she immediately discards everything she knows
about him and says that she "knew it all along." Bea ended her
call by urging all pro-lifers to call Rush and join her in
stating her disgust about Rush's "poor-bashing." Bea bought
everything Rush said, "hook, line, and sinker."

John says that he knew what Rush was doing, and he has always
considering entitlement programs to be an addiction. People are
"addicted to what they are getting and the only way to stop that
merry-go-round is to stop the enabling." Rush agrees totally with
that.

His point, though, is that Bea probably agreed with 99% of what
Rush was saying on Wednesday, but she considered his "poor-
bashing" to be immoral and thus rejected everything that he said.
She reacted as most people should have, because Rush's attacks
against the poor should have disqualified both him and his other
statements.

Phone   Stan from Westmoreland, NY

Stan is glad that he is moving to Florida, but he is still
worried that "Cuomo will get a chance to do to the United States
what he has done to New York." What he wants to talk about,
though, is that last week USA Today had the headline "Women
Launch Assault Against Old Men's Clubs." It seems to him that
feminists are trying to blame all of the problems of Congress on
the fact that men are running things. For example, Mary Madeline
said that "to the extent trust, character, integrity, and honesty
play into this election, there is a tendency that it will see
women with those traits more than men."

Stan says that women were also involved in the House scandals,
and that to him it seems that Congress was fine for 150 years
with an all-male composition; Stan thinks all of these scandals
started with the current congressional era when women were
allowed into the House and Senate. Stan has nothing against women
in Congress, but it "ticks" him off when they start blaming men
for all of the scandals that occur.

Rush is silent for a moment and says that he is "incredulous"
about Stan's theories - "open line Friday strikes again." Rush
can't agree with any of Stan's beliefs, and he adds that he
thinks that there is a lot of truth to the statement that "women
are perceived to be more caring and honest, and are perceived to
be less conniving, less prone to conspiracy, and less prone to
[the corruption] of power." Women aren't in power in politics,
and it is power that corrupts.

However, it's obvious that the feminist leadership is trying to
gain political power by whatever means possible. Judge Susan
Hoerchner stated as much during the Thomas hearings when she said
that "this is about the inequities of power." Now feminists have
an opportunity to exploit the scandals in Congress, and this is
nothing new.

People, though, are tired of politics as usual, with its
corruption and power. Women are not associated with this type of
scandal and with dishonesty. They aren't associated with the
arrogance that produced the House Bank and Post Office scandals.
Therefore Rush thinks that "this is a great year for women
candidates to run."

Rush certainly lampoons and attack liberal women, but he thinks
that the main opportunity here is for independent and
conservative women to run for election and to win congressional
seats. Feminists are upset about not having enough
representation, but the bottom line is that you have to enter the
race, run the race, and win the race. Rush hopes the Republican
party catches on to this, but he doesn't think either the
Republican or Democrat parties still understand this.

Women can take advantage of their "perceived nature" - the
reality may be different, of course, but elections are often
about perceptions. The reality, though, is that women are
sometimes as vicious and as manipulative as men. However, women
are trying to get the same type of power that men have and they
are ignoring the power that they already have.

The real concerns of the modern American women aren't represented
by the feminism that most female candidates espouse. If
conservative and independent women could figure this out, this
year could be a great election year for them. However, the
American people are not angry at men, but they are angry at those
who are in power. Thus, this is ideal for women who are perceived
as more caring, more gentle, and more honest. Women should try to
capitalize on these perceptions.

*BREAK*

Phone   Steve from Binghamton, NY

Steve asks Rush what he thinks of Brown's flat-tax, but he first
wants to tell a joke. Rush has Steve tell him the joke off the
air, and he says "oh, it's one of these." Rush sighs when he
hears the punch line, and says that it's a good thing he screened
the joke.

On the flat tax, Rush says that Brown obviously doesn't even
understand the flat tax he's proposing. Brown stood in the way of
the Proposition 13 California tax cut, which was passed by the
people when he was governor. However, the idea of a flat tax is
moot - it will never happen. Rush is not being negative about
this, but he is only looking at things realistically. He promises
to explain after the break.

*BREAK*

Rush explains that a flat tax will never happen, but Brown has
made it his number one program. Brown may not have the same
character baggage that Clinton does, but he certainly has a
dubious ability to understand reality. Congress's single greatest
power is the tax code, and politics is all about power. Congress
will not be willing to relinquish the biggest power that they
have over the people of America. A flat tax would eliminate this
power totally and those in Congress are never going to write a
law that would politically castrate them. "It's a moot issue."

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush apologizes for being a "blubbering, blabbering fool" the
past couple of days; he's been trying to talk about too much and
trying to make "too much sense." We are living in an unusual
political environment in which people don't care about what their
candidates stand for, and Rush feels passionately about these
subjects. He mentions one subject and then gets side-tracked on
another.

However, he doesn't want to give the impression that he
disparages or doubts the intelligence of his audience. He knows
that his listeners are intelligent and knowledgeable, but he has
been baffled by the way some people are acting right now. This
doesn't mean he thinks that these people are stupid, only that
he's having difficulty expressing how he feels.

Rush knows that John Anderson was a third-party candidate in
1980, but this is a big difference from what is happening now. In
1980, most people couldn't wait to elect Reagan so that they
could oust Jimmy Carter. Even though they despised Carter,
though, the people still trusted and believed in the traditional
political institutions. Now, however, people don't think that the
systems are working; people are voting know for traditional
candidates, but the exit polls show that most of them wish that
they had other choices available. Brown has furthermore managed
to con people into believing that he is an outsider, which is
definitely not true.

Rush has a friend visiting from San Francisco who is covering the
New York primary. When he went out to do man-in-the-street
interviews, he found that people don't care if Brown has changed
his mind on all the major issues; they don't want to hear it.
This is "scary stuff" to Rush, "especially when the candidate is
Jerry Brown." But then again, this is the Democratic party, and
Brown and Clinton are fighting for "who is going to come in last
in the Indianapolis 500."

Items

o       Rush wants to tell New Yorkers how much in new taxes they
are going to have to pay so that they can pay for Mario Cuomo's
new state budget. There will be a $1 billion increase in income
tax revenue, both for personal taxes and corporate taxes; this
will be done, not by raising taxes, but by eliminating the tax
cuts that were scheduled to be put into effect this year. These
tax cuts were originally supposed to go into effect four years
ago, but continuing budget problems kept deferring the cuts. The
tax rates will thus stay the same; Rush doubts if anyone ever
believed their taxes would be cut anyway.

Health insurers will have a new $135 million tax, which of course
will be passed onto consumers. If you have a beeper, you will now
have to pay a $1 a month tax. Rush laughs at this, and bets that
it's probably an attempt to tax drug dealers. The beeper tax,
though, is expected to raise $7 million. A drivers license will
now cost $4 more, which will raise $10 million.

Traffic fines at state parks will now have a $15 surcharge, which
will raise $480,000. A $5 junk car fee has to be paid if you have
your car taken to the junk card, which will raise $1 million.
Rush says that the problem with taxes like this is that people
won't junk their cars; they'll just abandon them in the Bronx.

Car insurance will have a new $1 surcharge, which will raise $8
million. Higher license fees for liquor stores, bars, gardening
shops, and nurseries will raise $2 million. A $5 surcharge will
be made for drunk driving violations, and it will cost $25 to get
a suspended license re-instated.

Higher court filing fees, plus a 20% tax on punitive damage
lawsuit awards will raise $25 million. Rush can't believe that if
you now go to court, win your case, and are awarded damages, that
you'll now have to pay a 20% tax right off the top. Rush bets
that lottery winners will soon have to pay an 80% tax.

Gasoline taxes will be higher by one cent per gallon. There will
also be an added tax on foreign-owned banks, plus an extra $20
million from "an anticipated rush to get new vanity license
plates." A fingerprint check fee and fees on parolees will raise
$5.5 million.

Rush comments that the New York politicos are claiming that all
of this is the fault of Reagan and Bush. They are interrogating
Clinton and Brown, asking them what they are going to do to help
New York. Rush says that this country has social problems
everywhere, and they can't be solved by adding more money. The
country has attempted to solve our problems by buying our way out
of them, and we have gone broke because of it. We now have a
total debt of more than $1 trillion, plus an annual deficit of
$400 billion. Yet, New Yorkers are asking Brown and Clinton how
much more money they are going to spend to help the city.

o       A 16-year old student, who was charged with shooting and
killing another teenager, has been released and will be able to
return to school. The student was released on his own
recognizance by New York authorities because even though he
killed the student in front of hundreds of witnesses in front of
Hillcrest High School, prosecutors did not bring him before a
Grand Jury within six days.

Rush says that the high school will now have a really great
learning environment since they will have a gun-toting murderer
in their midst. And what is Jesse Jackson doing about this? He's
holding a march in Washington, demanding that the government do
something about it.

*BREAK*

Phone   Neil from Memphis, TN

Neil thinks that both the Republican and Democratic parties are
out of touch with the American people. Rush totally agrees, and
this is why he thinks the people are tired of the existing
political institutions. Neither party is inspiring the voters,
and he says that the conservative wing of the Republican party is
desperately searching for someone who will be able to inspire
voters in the 1996 campaign.

Neil, though, is angry that taxes are still being raised -
charging a $5 junk car tax will just lead to abandoned cars. Our
elected officials have a profound lack of compassion, and this
shows that politicians don't realize how bad things are right
now. Rush says, however, that the American people still don't
realize that they still have a lot of control over their lives. A
lot of people have been conditioned to believe that Washington is
the only place where problems can be solved.

However, when people fix their own problems - at home, at work,
wherever - this kind of attitude is infectious and spreads to
others. Self-reliance, though, is considered almost to be a vice
nowadays, and seems to be synonymous with greed. Neil thinks
everyone needs some help at some point in their lives, but this
help usually is nothing more than an opportunity. Sometimes
people have to make their own opportunities, but this can be
done.

Rush agrees and says that "this idea that the government has the
solution to our problems is holding us back."

*BREAK*

Rush shares a personal anecdote about his apartment building.
Rush likes New York because it's the most convenient place he's
ever lived. He doesn't own a car, and gets door-to-door service.
If Rush doesn't want to go out for dinner, he can call a
restaurant and have his dinner delivered.

Recently, though, a delivery person from a Chinese restaurant
showed up to deliver a meal to another resident at Rush's
building. The delivery guy, though, didn't want to go through the
usual route and insisted on going through the main lobby. The
security guy and the delivery person got into a fight about this,
and the security guy "cut his knuckles on the jaw of the delivery
guy."

The apartment building then decided that no more orders would be
accepted from this particular restaurant. Rush has no problem
with this - if someone creates a problem, then you should not do
business with them. However, the building management has decided
that after 9pm, if a delivery shows up for a resident, the
resident has to go down to the lobby and pick it up. Also,
deliveries during the day have to be escorted by a building
employee. If no escort is available, the tenant still has to go
down and pick the delivery up.

Rush calls this typical liberalism - instead of blaming the one
guy that caused the trouble, they are now blaming the entire
building and forcing each resident to be inconvenienced. The
management, though, is also upset that these delivery guys take
advantage of their visit and put menus under all of the apartment
doors.

Rush has no problem with that, and says "anything that makes my
life easier, I'm all for." He comments that as a kid he used to
use the dumb-waiter in his house to get to the basement because
it was more convenient than using the stairs. However, he says
that this is a basic problem with society today - why should the
tenants of his building be inconvenienced because of one delivery
guy?

The solution to the problem, as seen by the management, is to
focus on the wrong people - they are singling out the tenants
instead of the miscreant delivery person. Rush doesn't even order
food after 9pm - "I order enough food at 6 and it lasts."

Bo Snerdley claims that Rush has a "racist building" and that the
real purpose of the management's new ruling is to keep out
minorities, since everybody knows that all delivery people are
minorities. Rush says "gee whiz," and states that racism has
nothing to do with the new rule. Bo, though, then suggests that
next time Rush gets a food order, he should tell the security guy
to send the delivery person up because he is having dinner with
him. Rush calls that a great idea, and adds that this would give
the delivery guy more time to distribute his menus.

Rush is also getting grief from IBM owners who are telling him
that he wouldn't have been distracted during yesterday's show if
he got a computer that worked - an IBM instead of his MAC Quadra.
Rush bets that his CompuServe mailbox will now be filled with
letters saying that he doesn't want to go down to the lobby
because he's a "fat, lazy slob."

Rush explains that he doesn't want to go down to the lobby
because "after 9 o'clock I'm in my underwear, and I'm not going
to put my clothes back on just to accept a delivery. It's much
easier to throw on a T-shirt and a baggy pair of shorts to answer
the door with some guy who can't speak English anyway, you give
him the money, he gives you the food, and he's out of there."

For Rush to wear such things down in the lobby, though, would not
be appropriate because he is "an influential and powerful member
of the media."

*BREAK*

Rush comments that today is Open Line Friday "where we
occasionally speak with people on the phone." He adds that his
building problems are similar to when you make an appointment to
get your car fixed, and the garage says that you shouldn't drive
in. Instead stop a block away and they'll tow you in.

The EIB staff suggest that Rush organize a tenants' strike, but
he says that there's a one-5zword solution to this - "move." He
might, though, call Jesse Jackson for advice on how he could get
Washington to fix his problem.

Phone   Roe from Morrisville, NC

Roe wants to talk about Jerry Brown's tax plans - Brown claims
that he would have a 13% tax on both individuals and
corporations. During a debate Clinton claimed that this would be
a double tax on the people, and Brown denied it, saying that he
was only doing what was done in Germany. Roe explains, though,
that in Germany, people pay a 13% sales (or more-worth) tax.
Every purchase includes a 13% value-added tax added.

Brown also claims that his tax will allow poor people to deduct
their rent, but the whole point of the flat tax is to eliminate
these types of deductions. Brown's flat tax is nothing more than
pandering to people at their most basic levels - economic. Rush
says that Brown's flat tax is moot, in any case, because it will
never be passed by Congress.

Today's USA Today proclaims that the recession is over, and Rush
has to ask what has anybody who is running for office done to end
the recession? The only people who have done this are the people
who are spending their money, and who now feel confident about
things.

*BREAK*

Phone   Heather from Apple Valley, CA

Heather says that Nightline last night did a show on both Clinton
and Brown. Ted Koppel said that Clinton's "least favorite
moniker" is "Slick Willie." Rush isn't surprised, and Heather
says that Rush's stuff is "filtering up there." Rush comments
that John Hayes of Albuquerque sent Rush a picture of Clinton and
a friend, Frank Allar, from 1969. The picture shows the two men
in front of the house that they shared at 46 Lectford Road in
North Oxford. Rush says that "you would not recognize Sick Willie
in this picture - if there ever was a guy who looks like he was
living in a dumpster, looking for discarded dope . . ." Clinton
has a big grin on his face and "he looks like he's been inhaling
a long time."

Phone   Stephen from Astoria, NY

Stephen asks why Rush "tries to bash Clinton" and "put him down."
Rush answers that he doesn't like what Clinton is trying to do to
the country, plus Clinton is not very upfront and tries to hide
too many things. Plus, he's leary of what Hillary Clinton might
do, given what she's already said she would like to do. Rush just
doesn't think Clinton is capable of running the country like it
should be run.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       Environmental and Animal rights activists have sued the
federal government, claiming that Bush's 90 day moratorium on new
governmental regulations is illegally delaying the listing of new
endangered species, including a Utah snail. Rush says that this
should show how great it would be to suspend even more
regulations, and perhaps even have a "waiting list" for
endangered species. Why shouldn't endangered species have to
stand in line like everybody else?

o       Gary, Indiana authorities will not comment on the
speculations that one reason that Larry Kennedy, 16, committed
suicide was because his family wouldn't let him take a bath ever
since his infant sister drowned 7 years ago. Students at his high
school reportedly ridiculed him for his body odor. Rush comments
that the English Tudor family bathed only once a year because
they believed that bathing was harmful and unhealthful. Rush says
that pregnancies were "astronomically high" after that one day
because "they all did it on the same day." <<Hmmm, perhaps
California could use this technique instead of outercourse - just
make sure teenagers don't get a chance to bathe, and you will not
only stop pregnancies, but also conserve water at the same
time.>>

o       Baby Theresa, the infant who lived for 9 days with only a
brain-stem for a brain, was buried in the "Garden of Innocents."
Rush says that the whole situation was sad, especially as it
concerned serious issues of life and death.

o       In Illinois, Senator Allen Dixon lost in the primary
elections to a woman, Carol Mosley Braun. The conventional wisdom
is that Dixon lost because he voted in favor of Clarence Thomas.
A couple of voters mentioned this as their main reason for voting
against Dixon, and the media has really played it up. Rush hopes
that the media continues to think that this is what really
happened, because it will blind them to the fact that a
conservative Republican might be able to get this seat.

Rush says that Dixon wasn't all that bad a guy, but Richard
Williamson is a conservative who will be opposing Braun.
Williamson, though, has switched his position on abortion from
pro-life to pro-choice. A lot of Republicans evidently believe
that the only "hope" Republicans have in the coming elections is
to become pro-choice. One "insider" is quoted in today's Evans
and Novak column as saying that the Republican presidential
nominee in 1996 will be pro-choice.

Rush states some facts - the men who won the presidency in 1980,
1984, and 1988 were both "ardently pro-life." There is thus no
evidence to suggest that the GOP should be changing on this
issue. However, many Republicans are making this same mistake,
which is one reason there is such disarray within the Republican
party right now. To think that Braun can be defeated only by
another "feminist" candidate is absurd. The last politician who
switched to pro-choice like this was Jim Corter, who ran and lost
against Jim Florio in the New Jersey gubernatorial race.

The media, though, can easily distort the true importance of
events. For example, Clinton is being savaged by the New York
media, and Rush has to wonder if Mario Cuomo is behind this.
Cuomo could be exacting his revenge, especially since a number of
columnists are friends with him and his son Andrew. However, on a
national scale, what happens in New York is rarely relevant.

The same sort of thing happens in Washington, DC, and Rush says
that Washingtonians can easily lose track of what the public
really thinks. Given that the local media emphasizes the pro-
choice point of view, Washington politicians start thinking that
pro-choice is what mainstream Americans think, but it's not.

Rush says that this whole situation is similar to when he was a
DJ in his home town. His radio station did not try to capture one
specific market, but programmed their music to capture specific
audiences at particular times of day. For example, in early
morning they played easy-listening music for people who were
waking up, but at 3 in the afternoon they played rock and roll
for the kids coming home from school.

Trying to do this as a candidate is foolish - changing your mind
is one thing, but changing your convictions is totally different.
Becoming pro-choice is exactly the wrong thing that Williamson
should be doing - a conservative Republican could mop up the
election, especially considering that Braun was nothing more than
a country recorder.

This is not to disparage Braun's abilities, but it should show
how angry the voters are, that they would toss out an incumbent
for someone with no political experience. You can't win these
voters simply by becoming pro-choice, and Rush has to cry for his
party.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mike from Meridian, OH

Mike thinks that term limits are the wrong approach to reduce the
power of incumbents; instead, chairmanships should be regularly
rotated so as to nullify the members' seniority. Rush says that
term limits are not about seniority as much as they are to get
back to the original intent of the founding fathers - having a
revolving door in the House.

The Senate is not as big of a problem as the House, given its
smaller membership, but it is very difficult to get any changes
made in the House. The Washington Post today reports that Vic
Fazio (D-CA) and Guy Vander Jagt (R-MI) have been at odds over
the recent House scandals. Vander Jagt has been trying to use the
scandals politically, and Fazio is getting upset at this. Fazio
said yesterday "they can take this as a threat, or view it as a
warning. We will match every ethical impropriety, perk, and
privilege they level at the Congress with the same and more at
the White House and this administration."

Rush comments that Fazio and Vander Jagt were also guests when he
was on MacNeil/Lehrer, and he told Fazio that Congress has not
been doing what people want them to do, and that it is the
Democrats in the House who are responsible for governmental
gridlock. Later in the show, Fazio sent his own veiled message by
stating "we've got to get fair taxes in this country so that
people who make millions, like Rush Limbaugh, pay their fair
share."

This was a clear threat from somebody who has forgotten that he's
supposed to be a servant of the American people. This is exactly
the kind of power that the House members have, and which
continues to blind them from the anger that people have towards
them. Congressional arrogance is still in full force, and these
guys think they are untouchable and safe from the anger of the
people. Rush promises more after the break.

*BREAK*

Rush reads Fazio's threat again, and calls it a great example of
congressional arrogance. The House Bank and Post Office scandals
are not originating at the White House, although Bush should
certainly be making some political hay with them. What Fazio is
trying to do is to hide those parts of these scandals which have
not yet been revealed.

These scandals are not about perks, and its absurd for Fazio to
threaten a tit-for-tat battle over perks. These scandals are
about unresponsiveness, arrogance, and a lack of caring on the
part of the members of the House. If the business of Congress is
going to be a tit-for-tat battle against the White House, then
Congress has missed the entire issue.

The reality, though, is that Fazio knows exactly what he's doing
- he's trying to get the public's attention away from the House's
misdeeds as much as possible. He's trying to make the public
forget that reform of the House should be the number one priority
now. If anything should show the need for term limits, this is it
- "you've got to get these people out of there." Term limits is
the only way to get rid of these powerful people who have the
advantages of their offices. Simply shuffling committee
memberships around is not going to alter their attitudes of
arrogance one bit.

The House of Representatives was never intended to be a career,
and none of the changes that American society has seen during the
past 200 years has changed this. The House of Representatives is
how this country spends its money, and the abusers of this power
have to go.

Phone   Michael from East Lansing, MI

Michael thinks that liberals should be scared of Perot's attempt
to censor the National Review with his money. He thinks that
Perot is an attractive candidate initially, but this fascination
wears off quickly when you start to think about what he is going
to do should he ever get to the White House.

Rush predicts that the country hasn't seen anything about Perot
yet. Perot is not going to be a typical candidate - he's not
going to have typical press conferences and be portrayed by
typical media sound bites. Perot can buy his own air time on all
of the major networks - he can setup his own programs and take
calls from people, and thereby never deal with the usual media.

Michael doesn't think Perot has ever said exactly what he's going
to do, and Rush says that this doesn't matter to his supporters -
this is what is so phenomenal about his candidacy. People are so
desperate for a change from the current status quo that they are
willing to go solely on their emotional response. Rush bets that
Perot will have his own convention and "put on one heck of a good
party." Perot simply won't allow the Democrats and Republicans to
hog all of the press this summer.

Rush explains that Michael was originally talking about how Perot
tried to buy out an entire run of one month's National Review
because he didn't like the article that was being written about
him. Rush said yesterday that this should send a warning to both
liberals and conservatives. Perot tried to censor an entire issue
of a magazine by using his money. This is how Perot thinks and
how he gets things done. This is not necessarily bad - Perot has
become a success using these techniques in his own company, but
you simply can't rule like this in Washington.

Of course, people like Fazio in Congress do think they rule -
"this is the problem - we've got guys in Congress who think they
rule." Rush bets that "people over America are being blinded by
the aura of this profundity," but he tells them that this loss of
sight will be only momentary.

*BREAK*

Phone   Oceola from Biloxi, MS

Oceola wants to complain because although she likes Rush's bits,
she dislikes how the congressmen in his House Bank and Post
Office commercials always have southern accents. She thinks that
this gives the impression that all of the crooks in the House are
from the South. Oceola's sister from the North recently visited,
and when she heard Rush's commercials she said "all the crooks
are down here in the South - none of my Democrats are crooks."
The sister said that this must be true because why would Rush use
a "rebel voice" otherwise?

Rush calls this hypersensitivity, and he bets that the next group
to complain will be a bunch of nerds who don't like the voice of
the teller in the House Bank commercial. Rush certainly doesn't
think that all crooks come from the South, but Oceola wonders why
Rush doesn't use a Michigan or other northern accent. She says
that she can recognize northern accents immediately because she
lives near an Air Force Base, and hears them all the time.

Rush can't believe that he's been hassled for his commercials,
and Oceola says that this is what happens on "Open Line Friday."
She comments that Bo was laughing while he was talking to her.
Rush, however, still doesn't believe that his commercials can
convince the nation that all crooks live in the South. He still
thinks Oceola is being hypersensitive and suggests she "lighten
up"; however, he invites her to call back sometime and he'll play
the commercials for her.

*BREAK*

Phone   Check from Jacksonville, FL

Chuck has always though that Perot was a conservative and wonders
why Rush doesn't think Perot would be good for conservatism. Rush
says that Perot is not talking like a conservative right now, and
most of his rabid support is coming form liberals. People have
been taken in by the myth that rich people are always
conservative Republicans, and there are more rich Democrats in
Congress than there are rich Republicans. To Rush, Perot is
clearly not involved in conservative politics.

Rush also wants to say again that if people would think about
Perot they would realize that he tried to use his money to
implement censorship; he tried to buy something so that it
wouldn't be in the public domain.

Furthermore, liberals, though, always attack people who have
money, but at the same time they need this money to advance their
agendas. Perot wants to cap executives' pay, which is exactly
what liberals want to do. However, Perot is a billionaire, and
wanted to use the money he's been allowed to make to prevent a
magazine from being published. Liberals claim that they are all
for the First Amendment, and that it is the Republicans who try
to "shut people up." The politically correct movement, though, is
nothing but liberals who are the first in line to impose their
will on others.

Rush just wishes that if the people who are supporting Perot
would stop and think about these things, they would realize that
they would not support Perot at all if he were anybody else.
These people, though, don't seem to care about this very much.

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