From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Unofficial Summary for Monday, July 27, 1992
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 02:29:21 GMT
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, July 27, 1992

by John Switzer

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July 27, 1992

NEWS

o       Last week's Dr. Demento radio show included the following
new tune, which is now (sadly) out of date. It's sung to the tune
of "Yellow Rose of Texas."

"The Ballad of Ross Perot" by the Pheromones

"There's a billionaire in Texas, he's always on the go.
His real first name is Henry, they call him Ross Perot.
He won't admit to nothing, he's silent as a mime,
And if he is elected, the trains will run on time."

(Chorus - sung to "La-la-la.")

"There's a billionaire in Texas, and he's no diplomat,
A charismatic cowboy, he's sporting a white hat.
The press corps all but love him, he's got a lot to say,
And if and when he says it, we'll know it right away."

(Chorus)

"An electoral uprising is a terrible switch-sword,
The incumbent is a whiner, the challenger's ignored.
There ain't be nothing like it since Bullmoose Roosevelt,
And when we hit November, the polls are going to melt."

(Chorus)

"And when it comes to Texas some say `Lese vous ma Bush.' <<I
think this line is supposed to be French for `read my Bush,' but
I can't make it out.>>
Arose another Lyndon, not Johnson, but LaRouche.
He's an insider's outsider and he's got a lot of dough.
So what the hell, let's all get drunk and vote for Ross Perot."

o       Robert X. Cringley's column in this week's Infoworld
reports that there is now a "Perot DOS" - when you boot your
computer up with it, it prints a message saying that it might
run. It then investigates your harddisk to see if there are any
other competing operating systems on it; if it finds any
competition, it just quits.

MORNING UPDATE

Rush simply has to remind "you people" that it was he, the lone
voice crying in the wilderness, who has been right all along. It
was Rush who alone said of Perot's campaign that "when it's time
to talk issues, the train will stall." When Perot pulled in
experts from all sides of the political spectrum, Rush alone
pointed out that Perot already did this in business, and he
didn't listen to them then, and he won't listen to them now.

Rush was the only voice who predicted that the liberal media
would resuscitate Clinton and make him bigger than the Bullwinkle
balloon in the Macys Parade. Now Clinton's character issues have
been forgotten, and in fact Clinton is being praised for staying
in the race and "persevering." The media is praising Clinton's
tax and economic plan, and Rush is again the lone voice telling
people how destructive this plan will be to the economy.

Rush's lone voice is now telling the country that the
Presidential election has come down to socialism versus America,
and the socialists (Democrats) are trying to convince everyone
that they are not left of center. Finally, this solitary voice
has one last thing to say - "I'm right."

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush spent last week "jaunting across the fruited plain,"
and is now sore from having played five hours of water volleyball
yesterday. Rush doesn't mind his pain, though, because it's the
"good kind of sore - makes you feel macho." This game, however,
was different from his last attempt at the sport because this
time he wore swim trunks that would stay on.

o       Rush met a number of interesting people on his travels -
one guy sitting next to him on the airplane kept going on and on
about how Rush must be tired of sitting next to people on
airplanes who keep on bothering him. On the same flight, Rush ran
into a major league umpire who said that Rush has a big following
among baseball's umpires.

o       A special news bulletin interrupts Rush's monologue. As
an orchestra plays "Hail to the Chief," Rush reports that
President Bush was asked during an interview this morning at
Grand Rapids radio station WOOD what he thought about one of this
country's "most prominent citizens."

President Bush said "Well, Rush is a very sound man, and he's got
good, strong conservative principles, and of course I have a lot
of respect for him. And, uh, we all learn from him. Even those
who disagree with him out there listen to him because they like
his wisdom, and that they know he is a man of integrity and
honor."

As Bush finishes speaking, "Hail to the Chief" begins again. Rush
decides to replay Bush's statement, just in case some listeners
didn't hear it the first time. The EIB staff asks Rush to provide
some analysis on the President's comments, but Rush thinks Bush's
remarks were "perfectly succinct and clear, and need no
analysis." Bo Snerdley gives his opinion by making kissing noises
into the microphone, implying that Bush is trying to kiss up to
Rush.

Rush says that this is a common problem with conservatives in the
media today - they answer truthfully and honestly, but then
nabobs, both in and out of the media, distort what is said. This
is what happened with Quayle's comments on abortion last week,
and Rush promises to talk more about this later. However, Rush
suspects that Bo has had his perspective warped by being active
President of EIB last week.

Bo, though, says that Bush said such nice things only so that he
could be a guest on Rush's show. Rush comments that if Bush
really wanted to be on his show, all it would probably take would
be a phone call. Bo, however, is evidently letting his
conspiratorial feelings get the better of him.

Rush plays Bush's comments again, just in case newly arrived
listeners missed them.

o       Rush knows that his listeners may be feeling somewhat in
limbo because he was gone from the airwaves last week. Thus, if
any callers want to talk about things that happened last week,
Rush will be glad to take those calls today so that people can
get properly oriented.

o       A CompuServe listener sent Rush a note about Catherine
MacKinnon's recently announced engagement. The guy writes "is
Catherine MacKinnon's fiance just too lazy to commit suicide, or
is this decision of his just a scheme to get on Donahue?"

o       Today's New York Times has a front page story about the
Gore/Clinton campaign. (Rush points out that his show will not
refer to the Democratic Presidential ticket as Clinton/Gore, but
rather with the more descriptive term Gore/Clinton.) He promises
a lot more details later.

*BREAK*

Phone   Terri from Warsaw, IN

Terri had to wait until today to call Rush about the way Quayle
was treated about the question of his daughter having an
abortion. She thinks the question was a setup and Rush agrees; he
muses if Mario Cuomo might have had a hand in this. However, this
is fair game, and Rush recalls how Dukakis was asked in a 1988
debate what he would do if his wife was raped. Quayle has to be
prepared for this sort of thing.

Terri agrees, but says that it was obvious that Quayle was
answering this question as a sincere, honest human being. As the
mother of a daughter, she thinks Quayle was clearly answering in
the context of his daughter being an adult; he was simply
expressing his hopes that he had taught his daughter the proper
values. Rush points out that Quayle also said he would counsel
his daughter, and nobody is picking up on the question of what
exactly would Quayle tell his daughter.

Rush thinks that Quayle's answer was very responsible and puts a
lie to the comedians' betrayal of Quayle as a buffoon who shoots
from the hip. What Rush finds interesting is that the pro-choice
crowd ignored the fact that there was a pro-choice aspect in
Quayle's answer; instead they continued to heckle him, which only
hurt them more than it did him.

*BREAK*

Rush admits he may have missed some coverage of the Quayle
abortion tussle, but he finds it curious that the pro-choice
crowd didn't use Quayle's comments to support their own position.
Since Quayle said he would support his own daughter's decision,
the pro-choice crowd could have claimed that this is what most
people think - they hope their daughters wouldn't have an
abortion, but would support their decisions regardless. Instead,
they continued to denigrate and heckle him.

A lot of people are trying to portray Quayle as a flip-flopper on
this issue, but Rush disagrees with that idea totally; he doesn't
think Quayle or the pro-lifers will be hurt by this. This
situation, though, does point out the true hypocrisy of Senator
Albert Gore.

While in the House of Representatives, Gore voted against the
pro-choice position 27 times, while opposing pro-lifers only 5
times. In a 1987 letter Gore said of an anti-abortion bill "its
goal, which I do share, is to reduce the outrageously large
number of abortions which currently take place." Until 1988, Gore
was as pro-life as any Democrat could be; however, when he ran
for President, he changed his position on abortion dramatically,
doing a 180 degree flip-flop. In spite of his 1987 letter, Gore
voted in 1990 for a bill proposed by Senator Kennedy that would
allow abortion counseling on federally-funded clinics.

Rush therefore finds Gore's position on abortion far more curious
than Quayle's. However, when Paula Zhan of CBS asked Gore about
his shift on abortion, Gore was incensed and said that he hadn't
changed his position on abortion at all from his first day in
Congress. This, though, is an out-and-out lie. Gore told Joan
Lunden that he has always "strongly supported the principles
embodied in the Roe vs. Wade decision." Gore obviously changed
his stance on abortion so as to meet the Democratic litmus test
that demands its members be pro-abortion.

Today's Wall Street Journal has a story about Gore's shifts on
abortion, and the National Abortion Rights Action League is
quoted in the story as saying that Gore's change on abortion
didn't matter. NARAL's spokeswoman said that they didn't have a
problem with Gore's history of opposing abortion because
"politicians personally opposed to abortion voted against it in
the knowledge that the Supreme Court protected choice, but now
that the Court has shifted, these politicians may shift their
official position even while remaining personally opposed."

Rush can't believe how ludicrous an explanation this is; the
pro-choice crowd has never been willing to look the other way
when a politician voted against abortion. Yet, it's obvious now
that the pro-choice crowd doesn't want to do anything that might
besmirch Gore's political reputation. Clearly, though, Gore has
made one of the biggest flip-flops in recent political history,
and he has been far more insincere in his position than Quayle
ever has.

Rush comments on all of the rumors he heard last week about
Quayle and Bush - Bush was too sick and would have to step down,
or Quayle would resign, etc. Rush is amazed at the number of
reasonable and thoughtful people he knows who had bought into
these total fabrications. Rush, though, knows how people can get
caught up in the mood of the moment as even he has been "swept
off course (for mere moments).

For example, he really thought for a brief period that the New
York Democratic primary was important and that Jerry Brown would
walk away with all of the delegates. However, Rush quickly
realized that the primary would have a low turnout, and that even
if Brown won, it wouldn't mean anything. It's interesting,
though, to see how much the press tried to resuscitate Brown
then, just like they are trying to help Clinton now.

The press is also trying to convince the country that Bush can't
win with Quayle on the ticket. This is only July, and Rush is
convinced that the Gore/Clinton team is peaking. Gore and Clinton
are at about 59% right now, and it's doubtful that they can go
much higher. Besides, it's still very early in the election, and
there's miles to go before anyone in either party should start
panicking.

*BREAK*

Rush notices that he has yet to comment on Perot's appearances
with Larry King and Barbara Walters on the 17th. After seeing
Perot's economic plan, though, Rush isn't surprised that Perot
pulled out. He'll comment more on this later, but is now
convinced that Perot was making things up as he was going along.
Perot even told King that he had "the best three commercials in
the history of Presidential campaigns ready to go."

Phone   John from Charleston, SC

John thinks the Republicans "blew a golden opportunity" with
Quayle's remarks on his daughter and abortion; they could have
showed that Quayle not only knows about family values but that he
is articulate and caring. Rush points out that it was Quayle who
has led the Democrats into talking about family values; not only
was the topic of family issues the centerpiece of the Democratic
convention, but Gore/Clinton are continually talking about it.
So, the "goofus" that the Democrats are continually attacking has
in fact set their agenda for them.

John says that Quayle shows he knows more about family values
than any in the Democratic left; Quayle basically said he wasn't
about to lose his daughter over a decision she might make that he
would disagree with. Rush adds that Larry King didn't even ask
Quayle about how he would counsel his daughter, nor did he ask
about what kind of values Quayle has tried to teach her.

*BREAK*

Rush corrects himself - Clinton is at only 53% in the CNN poll,
and 55% in the Newsweek poll. So Gore/Clinton may not have peaked
yet, but if not they will soon.

Phone   Irene from Concho, AZ

Irene met Saturday with Senator McCain (R-AZ) who told them that
he listens to Rush regularly, and that Rush is the best thing
that has happened to conservatives in a long, long time. Irene
echoes those words and thanks Rush for providing valid news in an
age of a heavily-biased media. She says that her kids are doing
well, are conservative, and are die-hard Rush Limbaugh fans; she
hopes all conservatives educate themselves and listen to Rush.
Rush comments that these two goals are really the one and the
same - to educate yourself, all you have to do is listen to him.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Update  Slick Willie         ("Little Willie, Willie Won't Go
Home")

Nobody has talked about the "baggage" on the Gore/Clinton Magical
Mystery Tour, and Rush promises to talk about it in several
updates. For example, Clinton has trumpeted that he won't take
any money from Political Action Committees, yet he is taking in
loads from special interest groups. Clinton has gotten almost
$2.5 from million lawyers and law firms; securities firms are the
second largest contributors with at least $580,000. Real estate
and health care professionals have contributed more than $300,000
each.

The National Library on Money and Politics reported on Clinton's
finances for CNN, and their survey shows that the "new"
Democratic party is not really that new, nor is it a moderate
party. The real baggage for Gore/Clinton, though, is the current
Congress - Thomas Foley and Richard Gephardt will still run
things in the House, and Senator George Mitchell will control the
Senate.

Rush repeats his prediction that although Clinton is not
moderate, he's still not liberal enough for the Democratic
leadership. Clinton will therefore have to be continually
checking his back for attacks from behind; it's a dead certainly
that someone like Mario Cuomo or Jesse Jackson will eventually
say something to discredit him.

According to Reuters, though, Clinton is also worried about his
own self, since he has hired private investigators to check into
women who claim they have had affairs with him. Since the
Democratic convention, 19 different women have alleged that they
had affairs with Clinton. For Clinton to hire his own private
investigator implies that some of these charges are true; Clinton
is known to be a womanizer, and Rush comments that there are a
lot of rumors in Arkansas about this, and about his alleged
illegitimate kids. Even though a lot of these women are certainly
making false charges, the fact that Clinton has hired someone to
check them out indicates that he can't remember all of the
affairs he's had.

In more Clinton news, Rush comments on how Clinton at the
Democratic convention seemed to be reading a list of upcoming
Sally Jesse Raphael shows - addiction, dysfunctional families and
relationships, marital strife, etc. Other Democrats did the same
thing, and in effect they did the Sally Jesse Raphael show
without Sally. They obviously did this because they thought it
would help; they seem to think that the majority of Americans are
so screwed up that they'll be happy to know that the Democrats
can "relate."

In today's New York Times Maureen Dowd has a front page story on
this, and Rush promises to read it after the break.

*BREAK*

Maureen Dowd's story today in the NY Times reports that Sally
Jesse Raphael had a "shock of recognition" as she watched the
final night of the Democratic convention. "All that talk about
addiction, trauma, dysfunctional relationships, marital trouble,
self-help and recovery sounded like the talk show host's diet,"
she said. "These people belong on talk shows - they're the stuff
we're made off," Sally Jesse Raphael added.

Rush laughs at how one of the most bizarre talk show hosts is
applauding the Democrats' performance; in fact, Raphael is even
trying to book Gore and Clinton on her show. However, she admits
that "as a voter" she would rather have heard more about issues
and "less about shattering emotional barriers and making organic
connections." Raphael said that the Democrats were pushing all of
the same buttons she and her talk show colleagues do, but added
that this is a "step backwards" for politicians.

Rush points out that the same people who enjoy such "touchy-
feelie" activities are the same ones who are out on the whacko
left, and new-ageism seems to have taken over the Democratic
ticket. This is not to say that societal problems are not
serious, but this kind of thing is not the stuff that elects
Presidents. Clearly, it is also not the stuff of conservatism or
even moderatism; the people who are attracted to this lunacy do
not believe in personal responsibility and accountability, and
although people may be able to live their lives this way, it is
disastrous to use it as the basis of governmental policies.

*BREAK*

Phone   Al from Trumbull, CT

Al doesn't think that the Democrats seem very enthusiastic about
Clinton; during the last night of the convention, it didn't seem
that the delegates were really applauding him that much. Rush
thinks Al is right, and this is why Clinton has to fear the
liberal wing of his party. He points out how in the first three
nights of the convention there were signs in abundance for gay
rights, abortion, statehood for DC, etc. However, these signs
were nowhere in sight during Clinton's speech.

People complain that Bush doesn't stand for everything, but
Clinton tried to stand for everything in his speech, and half of
it was greeted by silence. In particular, Clinton's calls for
entrepreneurism met a stony response, which is explained by the
fact that 72% of the delegates work for groups that get their
money from public donations or government grants. In other words,
most of the delegates do not have jobs in the sense that most
people do, and these people are the ultra-left of the party.

Al adds that as he watched the last night of the convention, he
got the feeling that Clinton was nothing more than an actor
following a script. Several times during his speech, Clinton
motioned the crowd to silence its applause, but there were only
about two or three dozen people clapping. Clinton seemed totally
programmed, and even thanked this smattering of delegates for
their applause by saying "Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Rush says that the liberals of the Democratic party were
distressed throughout the primaries because Clinton was winning;
this was why Rush started his KoolAid gag, and it shows how much
of an illusion it is to think that the Democrats are now a
centrist party. What Clinton is doing is the same thing as
Dukakis calling himself a "progressive" instead of a liberal.

Similarly, every time Gore/Clinton talk about "investing in
America," they are really talking about "raise taxes and spend
more." They claim that the US infrastructure is falling apart,
but this is not true; the US is doing far better than most
countries in the world. The fabled collapse of a Chicago tunnel
that flooded the downtown area happened only because some nitwits
burrowed through the tunnel wall.

The Golden Gate Bridge is fine, although Rush would detour around
the Manhattan Bridge, but that's only because the liberals have
been running things in New York for decades. Gore and Clinton
talk about investing in America, but this is only what Perot was
warning about when he mentioned those who would "take your money
to buy your vote to make you bankrupt." This is just more of
liberal business as usual - Democrats are trying to get more of
your money by claiming they are going to rebuild the nation's
roads.

Why is Gore rebuilding roads and bridges, though, if he is so
convinced that cars are an evil? Gore's ecology book is a perfect
example of pseudo-science and new-ageism.

*BREAK*

Phone   Jason from Fullerton, CA

Jason is a bit angry at Quayle's comment about abortion. If
Quayle really defends the life of innocent unborn babies, then
how can he support his daughter if she wanted to have an
abortion? It's one thing for him to condemn abortion and try to
prevent his daughter from having one, but then accept her
decision; however, it's another thing altogether for Quayle to
support his daughter in a decision to have an abortion. It's
highly hypocritical for Quayle to say he is pro-life when he is
willing to support the "slaughter of his own grandchild."

Rush thinks that there is a difference in this situation as to
whether this hypothetical scenario occurs when Quayle's daughter
is a minor or an adult. Jason disagrees - even if Quayle's
daughter is an adult, Quayle should still be willing to condemn
the abortion and its resulting death of an innocent baby.

Rush wonders if Jason is saying that Quayle should disown his
daughter for having an abortion? Jason replies no, but he thinks
that true fatherly love would have Quayle oppose an abortion
which he knows would have an adverse affect on his daughter and
which would irreparably harm both her and her baby forever.
Quayle's love in this regard would not tear his family apart, and
Jason can't imagine any father who would disown his own child.

Rush says that this happens frequently, and it's unrealistic to
expect parents to have as their only option "putting their foot
down," and possibly driving their daughter off to have a secret
abortion. Jason says that if this happened, Quayle should still
take his daughter back, but he can't accept Quayle's support of
his daughter's abortion under any circumstances. This "support"
makes Jason livid since Quayle is supposed to be a leader in the
pro-life movement.

Rush thinks that Jason should use the word "love" instead of
"support." Jason doesn't think that it's love to allow one's
daughter have an abortion, because she would then suffer from its
aftereffects. He thinks that this jeopardizes Quayle's integrity;
Rush says that if Quayle had been as unyielding as Jason is
suggesting, he would attacked far more on all sides than he has
already been.

This was a hypothetical question concerning a hypothetical
abortion that had already happened; what should Quayle have done?
Jason replies that he should still love his daughter and forgive
her. Rush replies that this is what "support" means. Jason
disagrees because "support" means supporting abortion, and he
doesn't like how Quayle has waffled on this issue, or how Rush is
defending Quayle for this retreat from his pro-life principles.

Rush disagrees - Quayle did not flip-flop, nor does it mean that
the Vice President is secretly pro-choice. What it does mean is
that Quayle does love his daughter.

*BREAK*

Phone   Gif from Bel Air, MD

Gif and his wife went to the Six Flags Amusement Park in New
Jersey. The park had a sign that said that it prohibited the
wearing of T-shirts with profane, obscene, or otherwise offensive
slogans; anyone wearing such shirts would not be admitted to the
park. Interestingly enough, Six Flags is owned by Time Warner
Corp.

Rush is floored by this revelation and he wonders what would
happen if you wore a T-shirt that had the lyrics of "Cop Killer"
printed on it. He thanks Gif for this story, and thinks it's a
perfect example of hypocrisy - Time Warner will defend their
artists' "free speech rights" but not in their own park.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Item

o       Rush complains that the carpet in his studio is getting
tattered, and his official real radio announcer's chair can't
roll freely because it keeps bumping into snags. Bo Snerdley
snidely comments on how "people who lose weight always get
meaner," but Rush rejects that notion - although he is losing
weight, he is not getting losing his natural good humor.

Rush states one of his philosophies of life - "stay on offense";
it's not a good thing to be in the defensive role all the time.
However, Rush has heard far too often recently that he can no
longer relate to "ordinary people"; what this really means is
that Rush has succeeded and thus is not a "normal person." Just
because Rush has "big money" it is assumed that he is one of the
wealthy elite, and his statements of optimism about how the
country isn't that bad off are discarded as the rantings of
someone who is out of touch.

Rush was in Sacramento last week during his vacation, and he had
lunch with a number of people who were talking about the
hardships that currently exist in their industry (banking). These
people complained that they used to have five people doing the
job that one person is doing now. Rush asked them if the job was
getting done. When they answered yes, Rush congratulated them for
getting "lean and mean," and for effectively downsizing.

His companions asked Rush what he thought about the current
economic times, and he replied that he couldn't join in with the
doom-and-gloomers; his business is booming and growing, and he is
even hiring new people. Rush is tired of others trying to make
him feel guilty that he is succeeding. He is also tired of the
perception that it's a sin to prosper when others are having
problems. What should Rush and EIB do - layoff some workers
unnecessarily just to show some sense of "solidarity?"

The network radio business is down nationwide 22%, but EIB's
business is up "somewhere in the three figures." If EIB is
succeeding, does that mean that Rush is cheating or does it mean
that he is doing something right? Rush's companions are in the
banking business, and part of their problem is government
regulation. However, it isn't just Rush and EIB who are doing
well - to succeed, EIB has to sell advertising to companies who
are also doing well. Thus, not only EIB but also their
advertisers are doing well.

What really galls Rush is for others to tell him that because he
is succeeding, he doesn't know what America is all about. Since
when has America become a haven for mediocrity? Certainly there
are problems and troubles in America, but they are not the
portents of the final days of Armageddon. EIB is reaping the
benefits of America precisely because they have figured America
out, and this is something others can do as well.

People are lamenting the fact that they can't find jobs, yet they
aren't interested in getting the skills they need to compete in
the workplace. Rush is therefore tired of being defensive about
his success and about his ability to figure out what this country
is about. Rush does care about America's problems, but people
should stop listening to those who claim that poverty and
hopeless have overtaken this country, and that things can be
fixed only by massive changes in Washington. This is simply not
true.

*BREAK*

Phone   Jeremy from Buffalo, NY

Jeremy mentions the AIDS conference in Amsterdam last week, and
he found it interesting that the delegates claimed that the only
way AIDS could be controlled was for it to go "hand-in-hand with
women's rights." Rush hadn't heard this, but an editorial in
today's NY Daily News dovetails nicely with Jeremy's comments.

The editorial quotes the AIDS delegates as saying that women must
be urged to refuse sex unless a condom is used, and that women
must be trained to be "strong and skillful enough to say no."
Thus it appears that militant feminazis are now trying to tie
their agendas into the AIDS crisis. Jeremy says that a woman at
the conference claimed that because women are so badly dominated
by men and forced into unprotected sex so frequently that
militant feminism is needed.

Rush asks if the woman looked liked Mrs. Olson of the Folgers
Coffee commercials. Jeremy says yes, and Rush guesses that she
was Mathilda Crim, a woman who looks like she could be a villain
in a James Bond movie. The NY Daily News editorial agrees with
this nonsense, and adds "it's been difficult enough in this
country to get women to stand up for their rights to protect
themselves . . . how much more difficult will it be in countries
. . . where women's rights are nonexistent."

Rush says that this kind of extremist rhetoric is only going to
turn off mainstream America from these types of conferences. He
wonders, though, why women need to be taught to negotiate since
when a woman says no, it means no.

*BREAK*

Phone   Sessile from Kansas City, MO

Sessile wants to talk about the changes to 401K accounts which
will go into effect next year - 20% will be withheld from all
payments from such accounts. Rush says that this is part of the
gimmicks that are being used to fund three unemployment benefits
extensions. Congress did this as a way of getting their
extensions without busting the budget.

Rush explains that the 401K plan allows employees to put aside
money for retirement without being taxed on it at the time it's
earned. Instead, the money is supposed to be taxed when it's used
after retirement. This is just another example of the government
digging deeper in the public's pocket to get money for their
programs.

Sessile says that this withholding can be avoided by having the
moneys transferred directly into other retirement accounts. Rush
bets that this loophole won't last for long since the government
is intent on preventing people from holding onto what is their
own money.

Rush comments that the other way that unemployment benefits are
going to be "paid for" is by changing the way businesses pay
their quarterly tax payments. Until this year businesses could
pay 100% of the previous year's tax liability, or 90% of what
their current tax liability would be. This simplified accounting
for many, especially when they were having bad years.

However, for people who made more than the previous year, they
could hold onto their money a lot longer than they otherwise
would have been able to do. Instead of giving this money to the
government, they could keep it for up to a year and invest it for
themselves. The House Ways and Means Committee, though, thought
this was unfair, and changed things so that quarterly filers
would have to effectively file an almost complete tax return each
quarter.

It is important to remember that the government is not getting
any new money. All it is doing is getting its money a little
faster, and thus this plan won't help the deficit. This is all
smoke and mirrors, and Sessile adds that all it is doing is
taking money from a group that is working to a group that's not.

*BREAK*

 Item

o       Elizabeth Taylor said last week that "George Bush doesn't
even know how to spell AIDS." Rush calls this an incredibly
stupid statement; the US government doesn't spend as much money
on cancer as it does on AIDS, yet more people are dying from lung
cancer, many of them because of a behavioral life-style (i.e.
smoking). Is this fair?

Phone   Larry from New Orleans, LA

Larry is actually from Bogalusa, and he wonders why Rush has been
silent on the Dream Team's skunking of its Olympic competition so
far. Rush comments that the half-time score was 86 to 16 at
half-time in the Angola game. Larry says that some callers to a
local talk show said it was "such a shame" that the US would use
its best players against the rest of the world to win something
as insignificant as a gold medal.

One caller to the show, though, pointed out that most Americans
probably did not think the Olympics and gold medals were really
insignificant. Rush would like to ask the Croatian team what they
would rather be doing - fighting in their civil war or being
slaughtered by the Dream Team. Larry says that a friend of his
commented that one Angolan player will probably be immortalized
because of Michael Jordan's slam-dunk over his head.

Rush sees no reason why the US shouldn't send its best - the rest
of the world for decades has been sending its professionals
disguised as amateurs, and it's about time for the US to show
that it is the best in the world. The end result of this
competition will be that the rest of the world will get better
basketball teams. "People who lose don't want to lose all the
time," Rush states, "unless, of course, they're the Kansas City
Chiefs."

Take for example the Jamaican Bobsled team - if they keep trying,
they will get better and may even win a medal some day. The best
teams cause everybody else to get better. The same thing happens
in radio - the best radio show inspires other shows to try to
improve. Rush, of course, prays for these shows' continued
failure, but he does at least applaud their efforts.

Should Rush and EIB deliberately hold themselves back? If not,
then why should the US basketball team do the same? In fact, the
Dream Team is the only reason Rush watches the Olympics since he
couldn't care less about "lesbian synchronized swimming."

*BREAK*

 Rush has a basic philosophy of life, which has served him well
during the past two weeks. This is a two-pronged philosophy, and
prong #1 is "don't sweat the small stuff." Prong #2 is "it's all
small stuff."

Phone   Anna Marie from Tacoma, WA

Anna Marie is glad that someone like Rush is finally making sense
out of a confused world. She originally started listening to Rush
because back in March she was a Snapple (tm) demonstrator, and
customers kept on telling her about him. Anna Marie wishes she
could listen to Rush every day, but she can't because she's busy
and can't always be near a radio. Rush offers to send her as many
radios as she needs so that she'll always be close to his show.
She, however, is happy with her one radio.

Since Anna Marie is still demonstrating Snapple, though, Rush
asks if she would like to wear a Dittohead T-shirt while working.
Rush could even send a photo of himself drinking a Snapple as a
point-of-sale display. Anna Marie is receptive to this
suggestion.

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