From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Tue 9/29/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, Sep. 29, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:32:14 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, September 29, 1992

by John Switzer

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September 29, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

Some women actually think that Teen Talk Barbie (tm) should shut
up. This doll has angered some female educators because it dares
to say "math class is tough." Judy Blitch, Chairwoman of the
Education Department at a major college is outraged; she along
with a dozen of her students called Mattel, who makes the Barbie
dolls, to complain that the doll discourages girls from taking
math. According to Blitch, "Barbie represents an important part
in girls' lives, and can influence thinking."

Ann Bryant, Executive Director of the American Association of
University Women, is also mad. Bryant says that by giving the
message that math is tough, Teen Talk Barbie "could be turning
off girls to math and science." Rush is amazed by these
complaints - "if a doll can turn women off to studying math or
science, then it's time to stop listening to dolls and start
listening to people!"

Rush wonders when a Barbie doll became an education seminar in
the first place. Besides, Barbie is right - math is tough, so why
not be honest with girls? Tell them the truth and encourage them
to go for it; if math is going to be hard, then why lie to them
about it?

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Ross Perot is back on the breakfast table again! EIB
plays their new commercial for this exciting breakfast treat:

<<Husband, with birds chirping in the background>> Ah gee, honey
- I can't make up my mind.

<<Wife>> About what, dear?

<<Husband>> Oh, about what to have for breakfast - cereal, toast,
eggs . . .

<<Wife, getting impatient>> Well, I can't wait forever - will you
just make a decision?

<<Announcer>> Coming to a breakfast decision shouldn't be that
hard. That's why there's new Ross Perot Waffles.

<<Husband>> Waffles? I don't know . . .

<<Announcer>> Yes, new Ross Perot Waffles, because nobody waffles
like Ross Perot.

<<Husband, choking>> Uh . . . they're kind of hard to swallow!

<<Announcer>> Sure, Ross Perot is hard to swallow, but cover him
with enough sugary-sweet syrup and you won't care if there's no
nutritional value. And Ross Perot Waffles come in only one
flavor, so you won't have to think too hard when you reach for
Ross Perot.

<<Husband>> I'll let the kids decide! Billy! Hilly!

<<Announcer>> The next time you can't reach a decision what to
have for breakfast, let someone else make the decision for you!
Tell your spouse to pick up Ross Perot Waffles.

<<Ross Perot>> I've decided I don't want to be President. Jesse
Jackson, why don't you take over?

<<Announcer>> Because nobody is better at waffling than Ross
Perot!

o       Rush promises to comment more about Perot's appearance on
Larry King Live later in the show, but he finds it interesting to
note how King and Mike Wallace grovelled before Perot. Rush was
roundly accused of handling Bush with kid gloves and throwing him
only softballs, yet King was giving lessons last night in how to
grovel and pander to a guest.

Rush also wants to know how a meeting with 50 paid "volunteers"
could be called a "town meeting," which is what Perot has called
his meeting with the heads of his state organizations. The most
interesting news last night about Perot, though, was on Crossfire
- Ed Rollins stated that when he left the Perot organization,
Perot offered to pay him $500,000 to keep quiet about what went
on.

Perot has denied this charge, and said that he wished he could
stop talking about these "distractions" and instead talk about
the issues. Rush says that somebody has to be lying big time
about this - either Rollins or Perot. Ed Rollins, though, doesn't
have a history of making things up, and he did meet with Perot
every day, in spite of Perot's claims to the contrary. Somebody
is lying in this, and Rush wonders who his listeners think it is.

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

There are two items in this update:

o       Gorillas are making big news. Two African gorillas,
Josephine and Jimmy, escaped from their cage in the Miami Metro
Zoo and attacked a worker. At the Bronx Zoo, Congo the Gorilla
bit two handlers while he was being moved between cages.
Yesterday, Timmy the Gorilla was back in the news - he was moved
to the Cleveland Zoo last year so that he could mate, but he is
now trying to break up an already existing couple.

Rush, of course, is reminded about the sad fate of Mrithi the
Gorilla, who was the star of the movie "Gorillas in the Mist."
Mrithi was unfortunately shot to death when he was caught in the
crossfire between Rwandan government troops and rebels. A female
trainer who coached Mrithi during the movie was moved to tears at
this news and said "he was the first gorilla who touched me."
Rush suspects that if a human touched this woman, she probably
would file a sexual harassment suit.

Rush has to wonder, though, why these gorillas are attacking
their handlers. Are these brave animals fighting back against
oppression? Is it time for Allen Dershowitz to bring forth
lawsuits so as to acquire these gorillas' constitutional rights
of freedom?

o       A Reno, NV illusionist named Jonathan Pendragon had to be
hospitalized Saturday after he was mauled by a tiger that he was
trying to make disappear. Pendragon later said "the tiger didn't
make the mistake, the tiger was playing. This was my mistake."
Thus, Pendragon has confirmed the tiger's right to attack.
Obviously, this tiger, like the gorillas, was simply demanding
his freedom.

Items

o       A letter to the editor of the Houston Post asks how
Clinton can be so far ahead in the polls when his books are doing
so poorly. "I work at a bookstore," the woman writes, "and his
two books just sit there. Meantime, Rush Limbaugh's book is
selling like hotcakes. I mean it, though - neither Bill Clinton's
biography nor his personal plan for rebuilding the United States
has sold a single copy. Does this mean Democrats don't read?
Admittedly, Al Gore's book sold a few copies but sales tapered
off once it was discovered that his plan would bankrupt the
United States."

o       The Washington Post last week published a poll that
showed Clinton had a 21-point lead over Bush, and this poll was
reported nationwide as evidence of Clinton momentum. This week's
poll, however, gives Clinton only a 9-point lead. Thus, the Post
has an entire story today about "the perils of polling."

Rush calls this an incredible thing - when Clinton has a 21-point
lead, the Post presents its poll as fact; yet when his lead drops
to 15 points, the paper decides to cover itself by running a
story about how polls can go wrong. This entire Presidential
campaign has been based on polls that have been commissioned by
the networks who are thus making their own news.

The Post's final paragraph states "given the survey's margin of
sampling error, there is a small chance that the margin could be
as large as 17 points, or as small as 1 point." Thus, the Post is
admitting that its poll doesn't mean diddley-squat - if Clinton's
lead can be from 1 to 17 points, then how valuable is this poll?

This makes sense to Rush because he is not talking to a lot of
people who are going to vote for Clinton. If he really had a 21-
point lead, these people should be all over the place, but
they're not. At least, however, the Post has written a story
about the flaws in their own polls, although flaws exist in every
poll.

o       The Washington Post today also gives a list of foreign
policy advisers to Bill Clinton, and it is quite revealing to
note that there is not a moderate among them.

o       The UC Berkeley law school has been charged with
discrimination, but this time they have been accused of
discriminating against white students.

o       Lynn Yeakel is losing "big-time" in her Pennsylvania
Senate race, even though in this Year of the Woman she is getting
the majority of the women's vote.

*BREAK*

Items

o       A Conference Board survey of public confidence shows that
confidence in the economy has declined for three straight months.
Rush thinks that it will be interesting to see how these
attitudes affect the November elections.

o       Lynn Yeakel is behind Arlen Specter 54 to 38% in a recent
poll; however, since the poll's margin of error is probably
"40%," Rush doesn't know if he should believe this good news.
However, Specter is indeed acting more confidently while Yeakel
is slipping and making comments that make no sense. For example,
Yeakel recently was attacking Reagan/Bush supply-side economics
in front of a closed-up store that she claimed was the result of
these policies; however, the store actually went out of business
during the Carter administration.

Yeakel has also been ridiculed for mispronouncing the name of a
county in Philadelphia. Her main problems, though, have been a
string of revelations about her private life, including that she
had to pay $17,000 in back income taxes to the city of
Philadelphia, that her father was a former segregationist, and
that her husband belongs to a country club that discriminates
against blacks.

Yeakel claims that Specter is simply doing to her what society
has done for eons - defining her in terms of her husband. Rush,
though, points out that in America political candidates are
suspects and Yeakel is being treated no differently than any
other politician; thus, she had better get used to it.

*BREAK*

Rush says that he has a new favorite song - Curtis Steiger's
"Found A Miracle." Rush would like to sing it for his fans, but
he knows that he wouldn't be able to do it justice and so he
refrains.

Phone   Diane from Pittsburgh, PA

Diane, who has a thick English accent, is really frustrated by
how the Democrats are portraying Europe as a model for the United
States. She wishes the Republicans would call the Democrats'
bluff and point out that the mortgage rates are 14%, gasoline is
$4 a gallon, and unemployment is in double digits. She has lived
in Europe, and knows how bad it is.

Rush says that the Republicans are having enough trouble
identifying their own message without trying to attack the
Democrats. He recalls a Firing Line debate a while ago in which
Richard Gephardt and his liberal cronies kept talking about how
the Airbus was a lesson that the US should learn from.

The Airbus, though, is built by a company that was created by a
coalition of governments that subsidize it so that it doesn't
have to worry about taking a loss. Rush has been troubled by the
polls which seem to indicate that people think socialism was the
way to fix America's problems. Gephardt was basically saying this
by claiming that Boeing could not compete with Airbus and its
subsidies, and thus the US should start subsidizing American
airplane manufacturers.

Jack Kemp was also a guest on this Firing Line show, and he said
that he couldn't believe that Gephardt and his Democrats wanted
to emulate European socialism. Diane says that the Europeans are
not someone to emulate as these countries have nationalized
almost everything. Rush points out the current European monetary
crisis, which was created in part by the lack of real prosperity
and high unemployment rates.

Diane wishes that people could learn the truth about Europe,
especially about its national health care systems. Americans
don't realize that patients have to wait several days to get an
appointment, or that you could wait two or three years if you
need an operation for a problem is not life-threatening.

Diane visits her European relatives once a year, and it scares
her that the Democrats are talking about implementing what she
left England to get away from. Income taxes take at least a third
of people's income, and this doesn't count the other taxes.

Rush recalls that during a visit in England, he asked his tour
guide what she made. The guide replied that she made the
equivalent of about $13,000 a year. When Rush asked if she would
ever be able to earn $20,000 a year, the guide was flabbergasted
- she did not even acknowledge that this sort of prosperity would
ever be possible for her.

Diane thinks this is why there needs to be some sort of expose
about Europe's socialists, especially as Americans don't seem to
realize just how truly lucky they are being able to live in the
United States. Rush agrees.

He goes back to Gephardt's suggestion that the US should follow
the Airbus example. Boeing is still the world leader in aircraft,
yet the Democrats want to implement socialist procedures "to help
it compete." However, a basic fact of economics is that the
private sector can outdo a government economy anywhere in the
world; this is true as long as the private sector is not shackled
with needless and wasteful government regulations and mandates.

This is why Clinton's economic plan is so heinous, because it
will overburden private business in precisely this manner. Rush
is preparing some graphics to use on his TV show so that he can
illustrate this point. The combined business profits in 1989 were
$189 billion, and it can be shown that Clinton's Putting People
First plan will spend two-thirds of these business profits.

If the private sector is shackled like Clinton wants to do, then
the private sector can't compete with subsidized economies.
However, if the free market is left alone, and individuals are
allowed to work and apply themselves in a pursuit of excellence,
then the American economy will overcome the economy of any other
country in the world.

It is frustrating to see how many people seem to think that the
free market no longer works. Yet where else in the world can
Americans go to have the lifestyle, prosperity, and opportunity
that they have here? How many people come back from their world
travels saying that they would love to leave the US for someplace
else?

Rush hopes that Americans wake up fast, "and the best way to do
this is to watch this show and listen to the TV show." If people
don't want to wake up themselves, then Rush will be glad to
perform this job for them.

*BREAK*

Phone   Guy from Atlanta, GA

Guy bought both Rush's and Perot's books Sunday. Rush asks him if
he bought Clinton's book, too, and Guy replies "what for? I
wouldn't waste my money on it." Guy wants to talk about why
people might want to vote for Ross Perot. Rush says that his
television show tonight will feature a Ross Perot sound bite
medley which will show that Perot has violated his supporters'
trust far more than Bush has.

Guy, though, thinks that people should vote for Perot because he
has been the only person who has seriously talked about repaying
the national debt. Guy has a personal goal - he would like to see
a non-taxable increase in every dollar that he and his children
and grandchildren will earn. Perot is the only person who is
talking about repaying the federal debt, which is the only way
that this goal can be achieved since as long as there is debt,
part of people's income will have to go to pay it back.

Guy also has a "challenge" for Rush, and Rush holds him over the
break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Guy from Atlanta, GA (continued)

Guy would like to challenge Rush's belief that the most important
thing a President should do is to appoint conservative judges.
Guy believes that the most important objective of the President
should be to repay the debt. He would thus like Rush to conduct a
900 poll to see which of these concerns is most important to
Rush's 13 million listeners.

Rush wouldn't mind doing such a poll, but he points out that he
has never claimed that the federal judiciary is the most
important job of the President. The federal court appointments,
though, are a very serious and important concern that people
should consider when casting their votes in November.

However, if Guy is worried about the deficit then he definitely
should not vote for Perot. Rush has read Perot's economic plan
and it does nothing to solve the deficit.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Robert Samuelson had a piece in the Washington Post last week
that made the point that a balanced budget is not a panacea. Even
if the budget were balanced next year, the country's problems
would not be solved. The column is full of numbers, and so it
would be unwieldy to read it on the air, yet Rush hopes that
people can get a look at it on their own.

Rush understands the concerns of those who are worried about the
deficit, but this is no reason to vote for Perot. For example,
Perot is still claiming that his campaign belongs to the
volunteers, yet his 50 state coordinators are paid employees.
Perot also spent more on his campaign in August than George Bush
did.

It is interesting that Perot claimed on Larry King that his
volunteers "just put together" his new 800 number; last night was
just a repeat of what happened this spring. Supposedly Perot's
new 800 number got a half-million calls within a matter of hours.
Someone worked the numbers out to get a rate of 277 calls a
second. This is one heck of a phone bank for volunteers to have
"just put together."

Rush also noticed that Perot praised his meeting with the
Democrats - "everybody got along and was constructive." Perot
even claimed that this meeting was a "town hall," yet how can a
meeting with 50 paid "volunteers" be a town hall? However, the
Perot supporters at this meeting attacked the Democrats for doing
nothing but bashing Bush. Who's interpretation is correct -
Perot's or the volunteers'? Is there any doubt as to whose
opinion will win out?

Rush thinks that the only thing missing from last night's
appearance on Larry King was a white Siamese cat, and he suggests
that "Ernst Stavro" Perot could be used as a model for the next
James Bond villain.

Rush has Perot's economic plan, and he wonders whether the
volunteers, "who are in charge of everything," wrote it or even
approved it. Rush has reported on previous shows that Perot was
getting help on his economic plan from economic graduate students
at UC Berkeley.

Rush also notes that 60 Minutes was taping Perot's appearance on
Larry King because they are doing a profile of King. Thus, it is
no surprise that Mike Wallace called in to grovel and beg Perot
to come onto his own show to announce his candidacy.

King and Wallace have every right to grovel if they so desire,
but Rush would like to point out how he was attacked for being a
"sympathetic host" to President Bush. However, Rush has already
shown that he did ask Bush the tough questions that people needed
to hear the answers to.

Going back to Perot's economic plan, Rush says that it would shut
down the economy by burdening it with more and more taxes. Perot
even claims someone earning $55,000 a year is rich. Perot says
his plan will spur economic growth, but it will do exactly the
opposite thanks to its tax increases.

Update  Condom         (The Fifth Dimension, "Up, Up, and Away")

Connecticut state officials are trying to stop the spread of AIDS
by sending bar owners cases of cocktail napkins that have
pictures on them. One of the pictures shows a condom with the
message "please let this come between us." Other napkins say
"you're putting me on," "let the good times unroll," and "shake,
rattle, and unroll."

Beth Weinstein of the AIDS division of the state's Department of
Health Services justified the plan by saying "well, this is a way
of getting attention, to give people something to talk about."
Rush says that as a veteran of bars, he confirms that there is no
better opening line than to start talking about AIDS.

*BREAK*

Phone   Roy from Lompoc, CA

Roy is a long-time listener although he disagrees with Rush on a
lot of things. He thinks one of the reasons Rush has so many
listeners is because of the large silent majority that is so
horrified by what it sees going on - the S&L crisis, the House
Bank and Post Office scandals, congressional pay increases, and
such. The silent majority isn't organized, but at least they have
a leader in Rush.

He states it is the Democratic party that has controlled
Congress, along with the federal purse-strings. Roy also is tired
of the media bias - all he hears is "the great lie" coming out of
one news station after another. For example, there is no "peace
dividend"; Rush agrees, there can't be any extra money as long as
the US has the debt it currently has.

This is what is wrong with Clinton's economic plan - he will take
money from programs he doesn't like, such as the military, and
put into programs he does like (i.e. paying off his
constituents). Yet the same people who want the peace dividend
are the same ones bitching about the deficit.

Phone   Jeff from St. Petersburg, FL

Jeff says that the Saturday edition of the St. Petersburg Times
reported that Patricia Ireland of NOW said "the increased success
of women's candidates should really be called `the era of the
woman,'" instead of the Year of the Woman.

Rush says that time will tell if this is true - as he just
reported, Lynn Yeakel is already in serious trouble in
Pennsylvania. Yeakel, by the way, was the first major candidate
to claim that she's running for the Senate because of the way
Anita Hill was treated.

Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun is doing better, but she still has
a tough race to run. If she does win, it will be by a slim
margin. The two female Senate candidates in California are in
fairly good shape, but they are benefitting mainly from the bad
California economy.

*BREAK*

Phone   Greg from Portsmouth, VA

Greg is confused - he received a letter from the National
Wildlife Society asking him to adopt a humpback whale. Since
fatherhood is such a big step, Greg doesn't want to ascend to it
before getting Rush's advice.

Rush asks Greg what the NWS is claiming this program will do.
Greg says that the Society claims that if he sends them money, he
will be able to say that he has helped save the whales. Rush
explains that this is a classic fund-raising technique similar to
the "Adopt a Highway" program.

All the NWS is doing is raising money by tugging on people's
heart-strings and playing on their sympathies for these poor
animals. However, all Greg is really doing is helping the NWS
employees afford their five-star dinners.

Rush points out that this is the same, sleazy fund-raising
technique that the "adopt a tree in the Brazilian rainforest"
people are doing. He has written about this in his book, and it
all centers on the two basic ways people acquire their money.

The 80s have been condemned as a period of greed and selfishness.
If people dared try to better themselves during this time, they
were attacked for being greedy and selfish and uncaring.
Meanwhile, though, these liberal activists were sending out
letters begging for donations.

These people do not work, and they do not have jobs like normal
people have jobs. Of course, they explain that they are motivated
by their heart-felt desire to make the world a better, safer, and
more caring place.

This is why these people get so hysterical when the money sources
dry up. While the free market experiences its own cyclical
recessions, these people encounter recessions only when the
donations, from public or private sources, stop coming.

There are no free market restrictions on these people, who simply
take a percentage off the top of all incoming donations. Rush
recalls the recent United Way scandal which eventually exposed
the high salaries of so many executives of charitable and non-
profit organizations - six-figure salaries, first class travel,
and so forth.

Of course, when the contributions dry up, these "holy" groups
claim that people no longer care, and they again start up the
guilt machine to play on people's sympathies. This is what is so
ludicrous with the "adopt a whale" program - do people really
expect that the NWS is going to deposit a whale on their
doorstep? Or if you "adopt" a giant redwood is it going to become
your property as well?

This is just a scam that takes in a lot of compassionate and
caring suckers. People are willing to bend over backwards for
anyone that purports to be caring and compassionate. Even when
these groups do something wrong, all they have to do is to
perform a large "mea culpa," and things will get back to normal.

Because Americans are so compassionate, they are "easily
purchased" by these "sponges" who don't know how to work at real
jobs.

Phone   Art from Lakeland, FL

Art doesn't think that either the Republicans or the Democrats
are taking advantage of America's hunger for someone of high
integrity who will speak the truth. This is why Perot's campaign
took off like wildfire initially - people saw Perot as a leader
that they could trust to speak the truth.

Art was one of Perot's early supporters, and he was excited by
Perot because even though he didn't know what Perot would do,
Perot appeared as a real leader. Rush is glad that Art called
because he would like to investigate this matter of Perot's
appeal, then and now.

*BREAK*

Phone   Art from Lakeland, FL (continued)

Rush says that Art was evidently convinced that neither the
Republicans or Democrats were telling the truth back in the
spring, and this is one reason why he supported Perot. Rush asks
if this means Art still has reservations about Bush and Clinton.

Art answers yes because he feels that they both are more
interested in telling the public what sounds good instead of the
truth. Art simply wants someone who works for the people and who
tells the unvarnished truth.

Art was caught up in the initial groundswell of support for
Perot, and then when Perot quit he realized what a mistake he had
made. Thus, Art would not vote for Perot now because "he's not
what I thought he was." The only person that Art is excited by at
all is Jack Kemp, and Art has high hopes for the future.

Rush wonders if it Art was getting disillusioned about Perot
before he quit, and Art says that he was starting to be bothered
by how Perot never really said anything of substance. Rush says
that he has always felt that Perot's early appeal was pure
psychology based on the people's basic dissatisfaction with the
system. Art says that someone like a Barry Goldwater would be a
sure winner right now because America wants a leader.

Rush wants to know, though, why Americans seem so responsive to
people like Perot who talk about how tough times are and how much
pain and suffering there will be. All these people have to do is
say that the pain and misery will be "fairly" shared, and
Americans seem to fall in like sheep. Rush wants to know why a
leader can't speak positively about this country; why can't a
politician admit the problems but still be optimistic?

Art thinks that the majority of Perot's real volunteers are true
patriots who do care about the country. Rush agrees - these
people are involved and interested in politics; Perot was not
motivating a lot of people who had never participated in politics
before. Yet, these sophisticated people were still hoodwinked by
Perot's mind games.

Art also wants to comment on another example of political
correctness - a Florida judge carved out a new voting district by
taking bits and pieces from four counties. The new district
snakes around this way and that solely so that it can include all
of the area's minorities. Rush says that this is gerrymandering
which has a long and "honorable" tradition in America.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that he made a big mistake in regards to the Senate
race between Arlen Specter and Lynn Yeakel. Specter is getting
the majority of the female vote, not Yeakel. Specter is getting
61% of the male vote and 48% of the female vote, while Yeakel's
figures are 31% male and 45% female. Yeakel is also getting only
12% of the Republican vote, which disproves the myth that there
is some sort of massive pro-choice movement in the Republican
party.

According to the media, there is an incredible pro-choice
groundswell of support, yet if this were true, then Yeakel would
be getting a lot more of the Republican vote. Specter is even
getting 34% of the Democratic vote, not to mention 58% of the
Republican vote. Thus, the conventional wisdom doesn't seem to be
playing out.

Specter, though, has been a "good liberal" on women's issues, at
least until he supported Clarence Thomas instead of Anita Hill.
In any case, Yeakel simply "isn't doing it, folks."

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Phone   Tom from Minneapolis, MN

Tom wonders if after Clinton's victory in November whether Rush
will allow an hour for Clinton supporters to call and gloat,
since this is what Rush would do if Bush wins. Rush says that he
can no longer gloat because EIB has installed a "gloatometer"
that prevents him from gloating too much. However, if Clinton
does win, Rush is planning on having a day of mourning that will
include opportunities for Clinton supporters to call in to
apologize.

Tom asks if Clinton has called to schedule an interview, and Rush
says that the week has come and gone, and Clinton has not called.
Tom is a Clinton supporter and would like to know how the
Republicans can make the case that they are the party of family
values since they are claiming that family values have declined
during 12 years of Republican administrations.

Rush says that this is easy to answer - Republicans tell the
truth and family values have declined over the past decade.
However, what can the President do about this when liberals are
in charge of America's institutions - its schools, colleges,
Hollywood, and so forth?

Liberalism is an ideology that tolerates and accepts any form of
behavior and doesn't think that anything is morally wrong.
However, that being said, the real fault for any value decline
lies with the individuals who abrogate their responsibilities in
life. What liberalism and its supporters, such as Hollywood, do
is to foster attitudes and a climate in which this approach to
life seems acceptable.

Tom wonders then why the Republicans are making such a huge issue
of family values, implying that a Democratic President would lead
to a catastrophic decline in values. Tom thinks that Rush finds
just one whacked-out person and then tries to tar all liberals
with that brush.

Rush says that his show is replete with examples of liberal
wackos and this is possible only because society is replete with
them. People are concerned that this society's standards of
decency be maintained, and they don't want to see these standards
decline even further by having a Democratic President appoint
liberal judges.

The President can do only so much, but if he can be a leader and
if his point of view prevails in society, then he can accomplish
some victories. Some people get mad about this "culture war" and
attack the whole concept as an "us versus them" mentality.
However, there is a battle going on between those who don't think
there should be any limits on behavior and those who do think
limits must exist. Then another battle is fought on what those
limits should be.

This is not one group trying to tell another group how to live
their lives, but simply the maintenance of standards. Standards
are needed so that society knows some things are right and other
things are wrong.

Ben Wattenberg wrote a column that touches on this subject; in
particular he talks about values in education and whether
Clinton's values are appropriate. Wattenberg writes:

"Often working against the education establishment, Albert
Shenker has led the push for national standards as a partial
remedy aimed at restoring work-reward values. The Bush
administration has set up independent task forces to come up with
voluntary curriculum standards in math, language, civics,
science, history, arts, and geography."

Rush points out that this means the Bush administration is saying
we need standards so we can determine if people are learning
these things. The objective here is education - it's not a matter
of forcing things down people's throats but making sure they
learn what is necessary.

Wattenberg continues: "The key question is this - would a
President Clinton stand up to liberal interest groups, or will he
be turned into Carter-like mush? For example, liberals in
Congress - pushed by the National Education Association, school
bureaucrats, and civil rights groups - are balking at providing
assessments needed to see if students are actually learning the
new curriculum. Liberals claim that assessment might reveal that
minorities aren't doing well, and therefore keep them from doing
jobs."

Rush wonders if there can be anything sadder than civil rights
groups opposing improvements in education. How can the new
curriculum be evaluated if students are not tested to see how
well they are learning? The point is that students who are having
problems have to be identified so that they can be helped, but
liberals once again get in the way. The NEA is one of the largest
liberal groups around, and their endorsement of Clinton shows
what a liberal puppet Clinton has become.

Homeschooling has become so popular simply because parents know
their kids aren't being taught properly, not to mention this
description of Brooklyn's Thomas Jefferson High School provided
by the NY Daily News:

"Michael Reed says he doesn't bother to bring a weapon anymore -
he can't get it by the metal detectors. `It's next to
impossible,' says Reed . . . . Thomas Jefferson, where two
students were shot dead last February, is the showcase of the
Board of Education's $28 million effort to increase safety.
Thomas Jefferson High School, with 1800 students, is a security
fortress. At the back door, the entrance used by most students
and teachers, a computerized 6' by 5' carpet randomly selects
students and others to be scanned. Everyone entering the front
door is scanned with a hand-held metal detector. At both
entrances all bags are X-rayed, beepers, personal stereos,
Gameboys and other equipment are surrendered for the day."

Students also run a magnetic card through a computerized scanner
that records their attendance. If it's the student's birthday,
the computer prints out "Happy Birthday," which the principal
thinks is a "very nice touch."

Thus, things have gotten so bad that kids are being scanned by
metal detectors in case they are caring weapons. Yet when
attempts are made to actually teach these kids, liberals stand in
the way.

*BREAK*

Phone   William Bennett from Washington, DC

Former Education Secretary Bennett is calling in with his two
cents about family values and education. Bennett thinks family
values has been "botched up" by a lot of meaningless talk; its
real importance to education has to do with whether the next
generation is being taught what should be valued.

The reason so many young people are committing so many crimes is
that they have no sense of civility, no respect for life or
authority, and no self-discipline. Some kids seem unable to defer
self-gratification for even one second.

These are elemental values, and what people forget is that
punishment and restrictions are necessary so that values can be
internalized, leading to self-discipline. The major institution
that does this is the family; this is what family values are
about - the transmission of elemental values from one generation
to the next.

Rush says that a lot of people seem to have missed the point on
this - people like the producers of Murphy Brown are focusing on
the structure of the family as opposed to the values that should
be taught in the family. The shape of the family does not matter
as much as whether kids are taught right from wrong; the family
is a young child's first exposure to these concepts. Bennett
calls the family "the first, best, and original Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare." It is when the family fails that
the rest of the government departments have to get involved.

Rush says that Ben Wattenberg's column makes the point that the
Bush administration is doing the right thing on education, but
"it's a shame the Bush campaign can't follow their lead." Bennett
also thinks this is a shame, but he is glad to see the NEA being
singled out since it is the "most baneful influence in American
life that is within the law."

Rush would like to know when liberals started claiming that
assessments can't be done; aren't these tests needed to evaluate
whether teachers are really teaching? Bennett says that this is
part of the general retreat from objective reality - if a test
hurts someone's feelings then the NEA thinks it should be
avoided.

American school kids placed last in an international math exam,
but "at least" they came in first about how they felt about it.
So liberals seem to think it's okay if kids can't do math as long
as they think they can do math better than anyone else. One thing
that this shows, though, is that if you can teach kids to feel
good about doing math, then maybe you can teach them to actually
do the math itself.

Bennett, though, thinks that the NEA is opposed to testing simply
because they don't want to have their profession made
accountable. If these results were made public, then parents
might want to move their kids to other schools.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that William Bennett was originally slated to
appear on Good Morning America on Friday, and thus EIB had
tentatively arranged to have him as a guest on the TV show on
Thursday night. Good Morning America has changed their plans,
though, and thus Bennett may not make Rush's show either.
However, Rush pledges that Bennett will appear at some point in
the near future.

Phone   Peter from Pittsburgh, PA

Peter couldn't buy Rush's book, so he got the tape and has
listened to it a couple of times already. Peter doesn't remember
the name of the movie, but a black-and-white movie starred
Spencer Tracy as a wealthy businessman who entered the
Presidential race. He thinks that this movie perfectly describes
what has happened with Perot - the businessman ran for President
on a "throw the bums out" philosophy, but the businessman was
quickly turned into a typical politician by his advisers.

Rush says that what has struck him about Presidential politics is
that if you watch speeches from the 40s and 50s, the same basic
things were said then as right now - get rid of the waste, fraud,
and do-nothings in Congress. People have been saying these sorts
of things from the very beginning, and this is one reason people
are so angry - they have been saying these things for years, and
yet each election ends up with the same old politics as usual.

Peter says that he originally supported Perot because he thought
the man would finally break the hold that special interest groups
have on the government. USA Today ran an article recently about
how much money is spent by Congress to run their offices, and
some members don't even know how much they can spend.

Rush says that people have been angry about the imperial Congress
for years, and he wishes that the Bush administration would
exploit this seething anger that the public has towards a
Congress that exempts itself from almost every law they pass.
Recently Congress even exempted themselves from income tax
payments on their own retirement pay and pensions.

Nothing has changed in Congress, which is why the next edition of
the Limbaugh Letter will publish a list of the check kiters at
the House Bank. It's clear, though, why people are angry at
Congress.

As to Ross Perot, he has catered to special interests almost from
the very beginning. When Perot, for example, came out against
having gays in his cabinet, there was a backlash in the gay
community; Perot then backtracked and appointed a lesbian as his
California state coordinator. Perot became exactly what he said
he wasn't, and he's no different today.

Phone   Jill from St. Louis, MO

Jill thinks that Perot is still attracting people because his
"the future won't be bright until we tighten our belts" message
appeals to a lot of people. People's own experience speaks the
loudest - if people are in debt, they can't spend their way out
as Clinton wants to, or ignore it as Bush wants. People have to
confront their debts, and Perot is the only one voicing this
philosophy about the country's $4 trillion debt.

Rush says that the Democratic party has tried in 1984 and 1988 to
make the deficit the major issue of the campaign. However, both
Mondale and Dukakis lost. Jill thinks that the reason it's
important now is because the debt has gotten so large that it's
preventing banks from lending money.

Rush says that this is wrong - conventional wisdom says that if
the national debt keeps on growing, there won't be any money left
for private lending. However, banks are still making lots of
mortgage loans; it's commercial lending that has been scaled
back. The deficit is not creating this situation.

Besides, the Japanese were the ones who financed a large part of
the debt in the 80s; thus, this money was not coming from
American investors. The Japanese are having their own problems
now, and the economy has become a bit sluggish, but it will
rebound. The deficit is not going to destroy this country, and we
don't need to solve it immediately.

The deficit right now is nearly $400 billion thanks in part to
the S&L bailout; if this crisis hadn't occurred, the deficit
would be much less. In any case, as a percentage of GNP, the
deficit is the same percentage now as it was during JFK's time.

There's a lot of panic about this, but what people need to
realize is that the real problem is ever-increasing federal
spending. If federal spending, especially on entitlement
programs, is not gotten under control then there will be
problems.

*BREAK*

Phone   Maurice from Mobile, AL

Maurice watched the CSPAN coverage of President Bush's train trip
through Michigan, and Maurice was glad to see Bush attacking
Clinton's abysmal record as governor of Arkansas. He also wants
to know why the so-called bipartisan Presidential Commission on
Debates has all of a sudden decided to change the rules on the
debates?

Rush says that this is exactly his point - who are these people
sitting on this commission? Why are they pontificating about the
debates? The fact is that the debates will happen when whomever
is President says where he will debate and when. The Presidential
Commission will undoubtedly complain, but who cares? Who are
these people? "Screw `em," Rush states, and he adds that he
couldn't agree with Maurice more on this.

*BREAK*

A suspected bank robber in Mesquite, TX tried to take advantage
of gender-based assumptions by wearing a cowboy hat, beard, and
sunglasses. The suspect, though, turned out to be a 48-year old
woman. According to Rush, the police suspected this after a
witness told them that the robber couldn't parallel park her car
outside the bank.

Phone   Diane from South Bend, IN

Diane heard on the news that all calls going to Perot's 800
number register only positive responses. When someone called to
say that she didn't want Perot to re-enter the race, she got a
computer message that said "thanks for calling, we'll tell him to
run." Rush says that this sounds like a scam, but the Perot
"volunteers" undoubtedly don't mind this at all. The fact is that
Perot doesn't care what his volunteers want; he'll make his
decision regardless of their wishes.

Interestingly enough, Perot has also talked about how he wants to
implement a big, open Democracy. However, his meeting with his
state coordinators yesterday did not allow news cameras. Rush
bets that Perot did tape the meeting, and he'll probably sell the
tape for $19.95.

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John Switzer               | 50 years from now, nobody will
                           | remember Candice Bergen or Murphy
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | Brown, but every school kid will
jrs@netcom.com             | be taught about President Quayle.
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