From: nordquist@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu
Subject: Re: Summary Fri 10/2/92
Organization: Washington State University
Distribution: world,usa,alt,na
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:47:21 -0800

In article <1992Oct5.154729.16614@netcom.com>, jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
> Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show
> 
> for Friday, October 2, 1992
> 
> by John Switzer

Thanks John for the summary.  Just wanted to let you know the summaries are
very much appreciated.  It gives some zest to the day when I cannot listen to
the radio in the office.

Dan Nordquist
My opinions are mine and mine not my employers.                          

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> Spelling and other corrections gratefully received.
> 
> Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
> first summary for this month. In particular, please note that
> this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
> the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other as
> a daily listener.
> 
> ******************************************************************
> 
> October 2, 1992
> 
> NEWS
> 
> o       The House was unable to override President Bush's veto of
> a bill that would allow counseling about abortion in federally-
> funded clinics, preserving Bush's perfect veto record.
> 
> o       Does President Bush listen to Rush Limbaugh? Read Steve's
> call in yesterday's summary and then compare it to Bush's remarks
> on Good Morning America this morning: "Well, I've already said
> that the economy has made the going much, much tougher. I keep
> pointing out this isn't just the United States, this is global,
> and most world economies are doing worse than we are. So I'll
> accept my share of the blame, but we've got the answers for
> recovery."
> 
> o       Carpinteria, a small seaside community 10 miles south of
> Santa Barbara, is holding its annual avocado festival this
> weekend. Featured at this celebration will be the world's largest
> guacamole, made from 3000 avocados. Foods sold at the fair will
> include avocado brownies, avocado ice cream, and avocado sushi.
> 
> o       My local EIB affiliate KTMS reports that Allen Hatch is
> waging a one-man campaign in Santa Barbara to stop "doggy
> discrimination" against his pet miniature Chihuahua, Gomez. Hatch
> is putting up signs asking "Where is Gomez?" because he doesn't
> think it is right that he can't bring his dog into clothing
> stores and other non-food establishments.
> 
> Hatch carries his dog while shopping, yet stores have refused to
> allow him to bring the dog inside. "Some people have gotten very
> arrogant," Hatch states, "like grabbing my arm and asking me to
> leave." Hatch held a press conference yesterday at the Santa
> Barbara Courthouse to publicize his drive to "make people
> sensitive to animals," not to mention that he wanted to make his
> "best friend famous for a day."
> 
> <<Man, I gotta move out of this town>>
> 
> o       The 6th Annual Santa Barbara Beachfront Festival was held
> last Sunday and included sculptures from students at nearby Santa
> Barbara City College. The day-long fair was "done in harmony with
> nature," but not all of the artistic works cooperated with their
> creators.
> 
> One three-foot square bird cage was mounted on a pole that was
> attached to a raft designed to float in the ocean. The
> sculpture's four creators placed food inside the cage in the hope
> that seagulls would enter it. Thus, the piece would become a work
> of living art in which free birds sought to be caged, a contrast
> to the more common metaphor of caged birds trying to get free.
> 
> However, once the raft was anchored and set afloat, not one
> seagull entered the cage to get the food. The seagulls continued
> to ignore the cage until strong waves knocked the raft down,
> spilling the food out into the ocean. The seagulls then rapidly
> descended to eat the bounty that nature had provided for them.
> 
> The most interesting of the student works was a sculpture of a
> crucified mermaid that symbolized the "deplorable state of the
> ocean." Student artist Mark Failla said that he did the life-size
> sculpture because "the ocean is dead."
> 
> According to the college's student newspaper, The Channels, the
> mermaid sculpture was "the overall winner for the many children
> at the festival. One could frequently hear the excited little
> voices of children announcing `a mermaid, a mermaid!' " The young
> art lovers, however, did not see a replica of the "Little
> Mermaid," but a mermaid whose arms and flipper were nailed to the
> wood of her 12-foot tall cross.
> 
> <<Man, I really gotta move out of this town>>
> 
> MORNING UPDATE
> 
> It's time to talk about the debates - the independent
> Presidential Debate Commission has decided that there should be
> only one moderator for the Presidential debates. Rush points out
> that the TV networks came up with this idea so that they could
> have a good show; the networks had a problem with the 1988
> debates because Dukakis was in them, and Dukakis is a boring guy.
> 
> Rush wonders who makes up the Presidential Debate Commission -
> what do they do for four years? Sit around and drink coffee 8
> hours a day? Just what is the amount of work involved in planning
> the debates - 15 minutes, max? Who are these people and what do
> they do?
> 
> Rush says that the way the debates work is really simple - the
> sitting President of the United States tells when he will debate
> and where, and what the format will be. This is all it takes -
> the League of Women Voters, the Presidential Debate Commission,
> etc. don't matter. It is the President of the United States who
> decides what will happen.
> 
> Bush has now defined how the debates will happen - he'll debate
> Clinton four times, two debates as Clinton wants, and two the way
> he wants. Rush doesn't understand why there are still any
> questions about the debates.
> 
> The debates don't matter a hill of beans anyway, unless you ask a
> candidate what he would do if his wife was raped. What else do
> people remember from the last series of debates anyway?
> 
> FIRST HOUR
> 
> Items
> 
> o       Monday's show will be a Best of Rush show since Rush will
> be spending the weekend in Kansas City helping George Brett
> celebrate his 3000th hit. Rush would like to return for Monday's
> show, but the party on Sunday night will not let him make the
> last plane back to New York. Monday's show will include Rush's
> interview of President Bush.
> 
> o       The EIB audience is probably tired of hearing Rush talk
> about himself, but he feels a need to once again thank his loyal
> and devoted listeners; his editor at Simon and Schuster just told
> him that his book, "The Way Things Ought to Be," has sold
> 1,080,000 copies since it was released on September 10, three
> weeks ago.
> 
> The book is continuing to sell faster than any other hardback.
> Several listeners have written Rush that they can't find his book
> in bookstores, but were able to pick it up at grocery stores or
> discount stores.
> 
> o       The culture war was prominently mentioned at the
> Republican convention, and liberals have attacked Republicans for
> being divisive. Rush, though, points out that it is liberals who
> are segregating people into separate, competing groups; note the
> "us vs. them" mentality put forth by feminists who like to say
> "we're fierce, we're feminists, we're in your face."
> 
> Rush has talked about family values and its part in the culture
> war, and he has focused on the "values" portion of the equation;
> "family" is important only because in an ideal situation it is
> where values are first taught to children. Schools, television,
> movies and such, however, are trying to tear down the values that
> loving families try to instill.
> 
> Thus, Rush nearly shouted with joy when he read Thomas Sowell's
> column today which is about this very subject. Sowell is a
> brilliant economist at the Hoover Institute, a conservative
> think-tank at Stanford. Rush reads part of Sowell's column so
> that people can understand what the family values issue is all
> about:
> 
> "No one seems to have a harder time figuring out who the cultural
> elite are than the cultural elite themselves. No one seems to
> have a harder time figuring out what the values issue is all
> about than those who have been working overtime to undermine the
> values traditional in American society. All across the country,
> the undermining and destruction of the values that children were
> taught at home is going on in public schools.
> 
> "One of the first things that a family tries to teach its
> children is the difference between right and wrong. One of the
> first things our schools try to destroy is that distinction. This
> destruction is called `values clarification.' The up-to-date way
> to carry on the destruction of traditional values is to claim to
> be solving some social problem like drugs, AIDS, or teen
> pregnancy.
> 
> "Only those few people who have the time to research what is
> actually being done in drug education, sex education, or death
> education know what an utter fraud these labels are. For these
> are courses are about how right and wrong are outmoded notions,
> about how your parents' ideas are no guide for you, and about how
> each person must start from scratch to develop his or her own way
> of behaving.
> 
> "And schools are only one of the battlegrounds. All across the
> country children are going to and from school and they must past
> racks of dirty newspapers on display. They dare not enter many of
> the urban parks where every form of degeneracy flourishes.
> 
> "All this happens, and not because the Constitution requires that
> we permit it, not because the American people have voted to
> permit it, but because judges, responsive to the media's values
> and preferences, choose to lie about the Constitution and say
> that it requires that we suffer what untold generations of
> Americans before us refused to suffer, though living under the
> very same Constitution."
> 
> As an ironic footnote to Sowell's column, federal judge Robert
> Sweet has ruled that beggars have a constitutional right to
> panhandle on New York City streets. Sweet found that a state law
> banning begging in public places was unconstitutionally overbroad
> and in violation of the First Amendment guarantees of free
> speech. In his opinion Sweet stated:
> 
> "As the beggar's solicitation is entitled to the First Amendment
> protection, society cannot totally ban it just because it is
> disturbed by the message it relates. The message one or one
> hundred beggars send to society can be disturbing. If some
> portion of society is offended, the answer is not in
> criminalizing those people, but addressing the root cause of
> their existence."
> 
> Rush says that this decision is "180 degrees wrong and cockeyed
> liberalism" which shows exactly how the American culture is
> decaying. This decision is why decent, law-abiding citizens are
> forced to accept the behavior of human debris as normal.
> Furthermore, this judge has claimed that it is society's fault
> that these beggars exist. According to him, this gives beggars
> the right to harass the public and to pollute public places.
> 
> It is things like this that makes the law-abiding person throw up
> their hands and wonder why they should bother do the right thing.
> In the old days these people would not have been romanticized or
> have their failures excused, but instead they would have been
> humiliated into changing their behavior. This judge is a classic
> example of how liberals don't understand that there must be some
> sort of reward for those who behave and play by the rules.
> 
> When judges give special status to those who abrogate their
> responsibilities, then this is just another sign of cultural
> decay. This is why the values question is a serious one and why
> liberalism is a heinous philosophy.
> 
> o       Rush comments that he earlier this week predicted that
> there would be anniversary stories about the Clarence
> Thomas/Anita Hill hearings. USA Today has lost no time in being
> the first to do so with their story today titled "Hill/Thomas
> Duel Will Take Time to Heal." Rush knows the people at USA Today
> better than they know themselves.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Phone   Mark from Cumberland, MD
> 
> Mark was a staunch Perot supporter and even "collected signatures
> for this nut" before Perot dropped out of the race in July. Mark
> realizes now that Perot was feeding his ego and trying to make a
> name for himself. He thinks that Perot originally dropped out of
> the race because he might have actually won the race; now,
> though, Perot can run without consequence since he has no chance
> of winning.
> 
> Rush disagrees with Mark on one thing - Perot is still on a
> megalomaniacal trip. Rush was struck by how Perot has claimed
> that he is not on an ego trip like Bush and Clinton; thus, Perot
> actually believes that Bush and Clinton are running for President
> because they are the ones on an ego trip.
> 
> Mark is bothered by how Perot is taking advantage of his
> volunteers, and he wonders why these people are returning to
> Perot - when are they going to realize the truth of the matter?
> Rush doesn't know the answer to that question, but he notes that
> Perot actually thanked the American people for nominating him.
> Perot has paid state coordinators and other "volunteers," and yet
> he is thanking the American people for "nominating" him.
> 
> Mark wants to know how the Perot volunteers could have met with
> Perot on Monday, then go back to their own states, and within a
> matter of few days find out what their state's Perotnistas
> wanted. Rush says that he has already reported that the Perot
> coordinators started their polling efforts before their meeting
> this week with Perot.
> 
> Rush suspects that Mark is correct in saying that Perot wants to
> salvage his good name. Rush has no doubt that Ed Rollins was
> correct in his revelation that Perot was genuinely surprised at
> the anger that was generated when he quit the race. However, the
> question of how many people will end up coming back to the fold
> is an interesting one, and Rush hopes other callers have thoughts
> on this.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Phone   Shaun from Logan, UT
> 
> Shaun thinks that Perot has gotten back in the race to "save
> Bush's butt" since Perot has no chance to win the election. Rush
> says that there are conflicting views on this; Rush was watching
> Perot's announcement yesterday with his television crew, and it
> was interesting to note the different opinions on this matter.
> 
> Perot was repeating the same old populist stuff that originally
> excited people back in the spring. The Bush backers in the crew
> were afraid that the former Ross Perot supporters would flock
> back to him; Rush, though, just can't see Perot getting back the
> 36% rabid support that he had before he quit in July.
> 
> USA Today has a poll today that shows Perot would get 7% of the
> vote if the election were held today. 72% of the respondents said
> that there is no chance that they would support Perot, which
> leaves him with at most 28% of the vote. A lot of people think
> that Perot will help Bush the most because it will split the
> anti-Bush vote that is now going all to Clinton.
> 
> However, it has to be remembered that Perot truly dislikes Bush,
> and thus the debates will be very interesting to watch. Perot
> could dismiss both Bush and Clinton in a number of ways, and the
> shots he can take at Bush may end up hurting the President.
> 
> A lot of people also like how Perot treats the press with an "up
> yours" mentality. This will gain him some votes; but on the other
> hand, if you humiliate the press, you make a number of enemies
> who will go all-out to get you. Thus it's possible that the press
> will do all sorts of investigative reports on Perot.
> 
> In any case, Rush predicts that "we are going to witness a major
> self-destruct here." Rush won't say anymore, but he bets it will
> happen. Shaun wonders if Perot would throw his support to Bush
> since as a businessman he might figure that having the Democrats
> win would be a bad for his business.
> 
> Rush disagrees - Perot's proposals are even worse than the
> Democrats. Perot is a Democrat, and a liberal one at that. One of
> Perot's best friends is Jim Wright. It's an invalid assumption
> that big business is always conservative. A lot of big business
> is supporting Clinton because they know that his proposals will
> put a lot of their small business competition out of business.
> Plus, Clinton will help protect American businesses from foreign
> competition. This is basic bottom-line thinking, not ideology at
> work.
> 
> Perot, though, even wants to eliminate the home mortgage interest
> tax deduction for amounts above $250,000 and cut military
> spending far more than Bush. Perot also wants to cut in half
> business entertainment deductions and tax Social Security
> benefits. Perot is not a conservative, and he is certainly not
> afraid of Clinton's economic plan at all.
> 
> Phone   Mona from Stewartsville, MO
> 
> Mona gives Rush "megadittos" although she admits she wants a
> different President than Rush - she still wears her "Ollie for
> President" T-shirt. She wants to know, though, why Rush seems to
> think 1992 is the "Year of the Liberal Woman." Mona is a bit
> nervous and so Rush holds her across the break so that she can
> calm down.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Phone   Mona from Stewartsville, MO (continued)
> 
> Mona wants to know why Rush thinks women have to be liberals and
> not conservatives. Rush says that his point is that the media is
> calling 1992 the Year of the Woman because of a number of liberal
> women running for office; the conservative women are ignored. In
> 1990 there were more Republican women running for office, yet
> nobody called 1990 the Year of the Woman.
> 
> There's an assumption that women's issues are liberal and
> feminist issues, but this is not true. Conservative women in
> America don't support these liberal groups. Mona agrees totally
> with this, and she is sick of the media's bias, especially the
> disrespect that is shown to the President. She doesn't like "the
> trash we are having to put up with."
> 
> Rush says that Mona is not alone, especially as the arrogance,
> condescension, and bias of the media and liberals gets more and
> more pronounced. "Liberals are bad enough in their natural,
> arrogant state," but now the liberals actually think that they
> are going to win the White House in November. This has only
> increased their arrogance.
> 
> The NY Post, for example, is showing its bias with a story today
> about Fred Malloc, one of Bush's campaign aides. Malloc is on the
> Board of Directors for Northwest Airlines, which is now laying
> off a number of workers. The Post's headline for this story is
> "Jobs Lost at Bush Aide's Airline." Rush wonders how many times
> the media has reported about failing Arkansas businesses with
> similar headlines blasting Clinton, and he bets the answer is
> none.
> 
> Phone   Tim from Chicago, IL
> 
> Tim travels a lot around the Midwest, and he's noticed a distinct
> difference between the Clinton commercials being run in Wisconsin
> and those run in major cities. In the cities, which are
> experiencing high unemployment, the commercials basically say
> "things are bad, vote for me." In a place like Madison, though,
> which has a better economy, Clinton is running a "get the
> deadbeats off welfare" style of commercial.
> 
> Rush is surprised at this since Madison is pretty liberal, but
> Tim points out that an anti-welfare approach wouldn't go over in
> Chicago, while in Madison it plays well. Tim is bothered by this
> because it shows Clinton's pandering - he says whatever this or
> that particular group wants.
> 
> Rush thinks Tim has "nailed it" - the new logo for Slick Willie
> should be a giant panda bear since he continually panders. It's
> impossible to know what Clinton really stands for, and thus the
> thing that matters is who he will have to repay if he gets
> elected; the answer, of course, is that Clinton will have to
> repay all of those liberal special interest groups that he has
> been pandering to during the campaign.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Researchers in Utah are trying to figure out why cows eat
> Ponderosa pine needles which can cause the abortion of calves.
> Rush thinks that what this really means is that the researchers
> have really found "feminazi cows." Thus, EIB will have to add a
> feminazi cow to its Feminazi Trading Card set. The EIB staff
> suggests that the cow could be named "Bossy," and Rush says that
> this name would at least agree with his experience.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> SECOND HOUR
> 
> Rush comments that he has been "unfairly accosted in the media"
> recently, and he thus wants to tell his audience what he's told
> reporters before it gets published. The NY Post just called Rush
> for a clarification on what would happen if Clinton got elected,
> and Rush told the reporter "a Clinton victory will accelerate the
> publication of my next best-seller, appropriately-titled `See I
> Told You So.' "
> 
> The reporter than asked Rush if there were any drawbacks being
> closely aligned with the Republican party. Rush replied "I am not
> associated with the Republican party apparatus. I am proudly a
> Republican and a conservative. Both are instrumental to my
> happiness, self-respect, and success. Oh by the way, Miss
> Reporter, over 1,080,000 copies of my book, based on my beliefs,
> have been sold in three weeks, and you expect me to disassociate
> myself from me?"
> 
> Rush laughs at someone who thinks if there are any "drawbacks"
> about being a conservative when he's already got the "hottest-
> selling book in the frigging world." Rush also has the most-
> listened to radio talk show in the world, and is on his way to
> having the biggest TV talk show as well.
> 
> The only drawback Rush has yet found in being a Republican is
> having to deal with the press who doesn't understand it. He says
> that this story about him will come out in the Post on Monday,
> and on Tuesday Rush will compare the story to his actual comments
> to see how accurate the Post's reporting is.
> 
> Update  Feminist Update         (The Forester Sisters, "Men" with
> "in your face" slogan,         plus the violent `in your face'
> mooing of feminazi cows, cows, cows!)
> 
> This is a specially-tailored Feminist Update in honor of EIB's
> shocking discovery of feminazi cows. Researchers are trying to
> figure out why cows in Utah are eating Ponderosa Pine needles
> since these needles can cause the abortion of calves. Rush states
> that this news must be kept from human feminazis.
> 
> Rush points out that the difference between human feminazis and
> bovine feminazis is about 10 pounds and a flannel shirt. After a
> moment, Rush realizes that he had better explain and so he points
> out that it is the feminazi cow which doesn't wear the flannel
> shirt and which weighs less.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Update  Slick Willie         (Johnny Preston, "Charming Billy"
> with patented Hillary Cackle)
> 
> The nation's unemployment rate edged down to 7.5% for September,
> and Clinton is claiming that this news is the "final analysis" of
> George Bush's Presidency. Rush points that the US's unemployment
> rate is far less than elsewhere in the world. This news doesn't
> comfort those out of work, of course, but a rate of 7.5% is 2%
> less than it was during the 1982 recession, and a 5% unemployment
> rate is considered to be full employment in the United States.
> 
> However, even though the statistics showed a drop, the usual hue
> and cry was that it shouldn't be taken as an indication that
> things are getting better. Instead, the reason given for the drop
> was that so many people have become so disenchanted and
> frustrated with finding a job that they have given up altogether.
> 
> Rush again points out that the cause of this recession was
> exactly what Clinton wants to do all over again - a series of tax
> increases and over-regulation of business. This was done in 1990,
> and Clinton is claiming that the country needs more of the same.
> William F. Buckley's interview in the next Limbaugh Letter has a
> perceptive explanation of this.
> 
> Buckley realized when he was 18 that the government could not
> find a better job for him than he could. Why is it when Congress
> is universally disdained that people think that Washington can
> raise their kids better than parents or handle the economy better
> than the private sector? And why do people think that Clinton,
> who has never earned more than $35,000 a year in his life, can
> tell private businessmen how to best run their businesses?
> 
> Phone   Perry from Providence, RI
> 
> Perry has read the book "The Child Abuse Industry" by Mary Pride
> and says that it exposes the myth of the child advocacy groups in
> America. Just like homeless advocates have exaggerated the
> problem, Pride makes a case that this is happening in child abuse
> as well.
> 
> Pride lists statistics that show one out of every four female
> children is sexually abused before they are 18, and only 10% of
> these crimes are reported. Pride says that this is "marshmallow
> land, friends" - if the statistics show that one quarter of the
> female population is "unwilling defiled" before the age of 18,
> but only one-tenth of the cases are reported, then the number of
> reported cases means that 200% of the female population are
> victims of sexual abuse.
> 
> Perry says that these "guesstimate statistics" always fall apart
> when evaluated. The crime of child abuse and neglect is a serious
> problem, but it's nowhere near what the child advocates are
> claiming. Perry recalls that Rush reported last week that child
> abuse has gone up 256% during the past 20 years; Rush used this
> statistic to disprove the myth put forth by pro-choicers that
> abortion is needed to prevent the birth of unwanted children who
> will only be abused.
> 
> Rush agrees - abortion is not doing what pro-choicers claim it
> does, and thus perhaps this whole issue is a values question.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Phone   Anne from Plainfield, NJ
> 
> Anne heard from another listener that Rush stated that Clinton
> was invited to go to Moscow to demonstrate against the Vietnam
> War. Rush says that this isn't exactly true - the facts are that
> when Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, he did not attend class during
> the second year of classes nor did he graduate. In his biography
> Clinton claims that he didn't graduate because people were
> changing their majors and courses so as to avoid the Vietnam War.
> 
> Rush asked Rep. Bob Dornan to help him research this, and Dornan
> found out that Oxford graduated its average number of Rhodes
> scholars in 1969 and 1970, and thus Clinton's class did not have
> a lower than usual graduation rate as Clinton claims. Dornan
> added that he had it on good authority that not only did Clinton
> demonstrate against the war in Grovsner Square in London, but
> that Clinton rode the Peace Train to Moscow and was in Moscow on
> New Year's Eve in 1969.
> 
> Dornan made this information public in the House of
> Representatives, and although the Clinton campaign initially
> denied it, Dee Dee Meyers of the Clinton organization eventually
> confirmed that Clinton was in Moscow. The assumption is thus made
> that since the Cold War was very cold in 1969, and since Moscow
> was an ally of North Vietnam, that Clinton had been invited to
> Moscow by Soviet authorities. It was the Soviets who made Jane
> Fonda's trip to Hanoi possible since all such trips started out
> in Moscow. Americans simply didn't go to Moscow as a tourist in
> 1969; they had to be invited. Dornan is putting all of this
> information into the Congressional Record.
> 
> Anne says that if this is true, then Clinton is no different than
> Jane Fonda except that while Fonda was only a traitor, Clinton is
> both a traitor and a draft-dodger. Back in WWII, people like
> Tokyo Rose were called a traitor but Clinton is actually being
> considered for the highest office in the land. She marvels that
> the press is ignoring this pertinent bit of news.
> 
> Rush says that Clinton has a lot of stories like this. For
> example, Clinton made sure that Gennifer Flowers got a state job
> by giving her preference over a black woman who was more
> qualified. This story was part of Flowers' original allegations,
> and thus the media knows about it. However, even though the
> Arkansas state press has written about it a lot, the national
> media has ignored it.
> 
> Even Mike McAlary complains in his column in today's NY Post
> about how the NY Times will not criticize Bill Clinton, no matter
> what. Thus it's no secret that the major press is giving Clinton
> a free ride. Anne says that her local paper, the Courier News, is
> doing this is subtle ways - yesterday the paper printed a large,
> flattering picture of Clinton smiling and waving. Their picture
> of Bush, though, was much smaller and showed a grim-faced,
> clench-fisted Bush.
> 
> People thus don't even have to read the stories to get influenced
> by the paper's pro-Clinton bias. This disturbs her quite a bit
> and so she is going to write a letter to the paper. Rush comments
> that she should make sure that her letter sounds like hundreds of
> people agree with her; after all, one letter from the left is
> assumed to be speaking for everyone, while 500 letters from the
> right are discarded as the work of kooks.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> A poll of those in the armed forces shows that most think that
> women should be barred from ground-combat units.
> 
> Phone   Ted from Spring Valley, CA
> 
> Ted gives "moo-ega dittos" and wants to talk about the cable TV
> bill that Congress is trying to palm off on Bush. Ted says that
> his area has about half a dozen cable companies, but their
> service zones don't overlap. Ted has decided not to participate
> in a monopoly and thus doesn't get cable TV. Rush wonders how Ted
> can watch his show.
> 
> Ted replies that he tried to sell his TV set yesterday, but the
> buyer ended up not wanting it. However, when he had the set
> turned on he noticed that it manages to get only one station -
> the station which carries Rush's show. Thus, Ted was able to
> watch Rush's TV last night for the first time.
> 
> Ted says that Rush's show went too fast, and Rush says that this
> is the point - keep people wanting more. Ted, though, says that
> Rush's show will be the only show he'll allow in his house for
> some time. Rush is honored by this and thanks Ted for wanting to
> keep his TV just for watching his TV show. Ted admits that he has
> another TV, but that one is used only for watching videos. Rush
> says that Ted's is still a good story.
> 
> Ted thinks that the government should stay out of the cable TV
> industry. Rush says that the cable TV bill does have some good
> things in it. For example, if a cable operator is pulling
> broadcast TV signals out of the airwaves and transmitting them on
> the cable, and then sells advertising on those stations' signals,
> then the new bill will force the cable company to compensate the
> TV stations accordingly.
> 
> However, the bill has some bad things in it as well, such as
> setting prices. The government used to set prices only in time of
> war or other national emergency. It's simply bad law to let the
> government set prices for what George Will rightly refers to as
> "an entertainment option." This fact alone should make people
> suspicious about the bill.
> 
> Phone   Kirk from Tucson, AZ
> 
> Kirk is a bit disappointed because Rush started out the program
> talking about kids and education, but none of the callers seem
> interested in this subject. Rush says that politicians are
> talking about kids, but in a phony way. Perot, for example, talks
> about the need to solve the deficit "for the sake of our children
> and grandchildren."
> 
> Rush, though, knows what Kirk means - the US economy is robust
> and enduring, and thus will survive, but society right now is
> destroying its children. Rush tells Kirk, though, that he should
> take heart from the fact that there are far more people concerned
> about this than the media would have one believe.
> 
> Rush is positive about this, especially when Thomas Sowell, Dan
> Quayle, and others have got Hollywood on the run. Hollywood had
> to devote an entire one-hour show to refuting the Vice President,
> and it still was a bad show. Hal understands this and thanks Rush
> for the encouragement.
> 
> Hal, though, thinks that education is being destroyed by the
> control minorities have on schools. Hal is a teacher who gets one
> "minority directive" after another about `at-risk' children,
> which means minority children. For example, teachers are warned
> "never to discipline an `at-risk' child in front of his peers."
> Also, "you always want to allow an `at-risk' child to speak his
> mind."
> 
> Rush would like Hal to fax him the complete list he has so that
> he can check over the whole list and figure out just what all of
> these really mean and thus present them in the proper context
> when time permits.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Phone   Jim from Chattanooga, TN
> 
> Jim says that Bush came through town on Tuesday, and ABC anchor
> Brit Hume was interviewed by a local reporter about the bias of
> the national media. Hume replied that Bush had a legitimate
> complaint because the press has been openly admiring Clinton, but
> that this is changing. Rush asks Jim if he thinks things are
> changing and he answers "nope, I haven't seen it changing."
> However, Jim found it interesting to see a reporter admit this
> bias.
> 
> Rush says that Hume has been pretty decent in this; when Hume has
> been included in the roundtable discussion on This Week With
> David Brinkley, he has always had a reasoned viewpoint on how the
> media is treating the President. If there is a change from how
> the media is now admiring Clinton, it will be only because they
> have been shamed into it by numerous voices like Jim's who are
> tired of this bias. Rush therefore urges Jim to keep on with his
> complaints.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> THIRD HOUR
> 
> Items
> 
> o       Rush was talking with his economist friend Tom Hazlett of
> UC Davis about the call he had yesterday about the whole issue of
> companies moving factories to foreign countries. Al Gore has
> claimed that Bush is deliberately structuring foreign policy so
> as to send jobs to foreign countries for the benefit of US
> corporate profits.
> 
> Hazlett pointed out that liberals have continually whined about
> the poverty found in Mexico and South America. Phil Donahue once
> talked about how bad he felt because he was able to prosper only
> by the accident of being born in America. Ed Asner and other
> Hollywood leftists have protested time and time again on behalf
> of the poor people in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, etc.
> The US is even accused of causing these countries' poverty
> through its "imperialistic CIA."
> 
> So the North American Free Trade Agreement comes along and is
> attacked by these same liberals. NAFTA exports jobs to these poor
> countries, and even though these are the low-paying jobs that
> Americans don't want any more, the poor people in these countries
> are grateful for the chance to have them. So why are liberal
> Democrats bitching about this? They claim that they care so much
> for these poor people, yet they are now opposing conservatives
> who understand that NAFTA will benefit everyone involved.
> 
> Everyone should live in times of economic growth and prosperity,
> and when one trading partner is denied a chance to help itself
> out of its poverty, then how can liberals continue to claim to be
> compassionate and caring? Liberals, of course, justify their
> behavior by saying they are worried about the poor, unemployed
> American workers who are losing their jobs.
> 
> The difference, though, is that the jobs that will be exported
> are for the most part jobs that Americans won't do; these jobs
> simply don't pay enough to attract Americans. The job base in
> this country is continually changing and evolving into ever-more
> skilled and higher paying jobs. This requires, of course, that
> workers be trained so that they can be productive workers in
> these higher-skilled jobs.
> 
> The caller yesterday, though, thought that the problem was big
> business was greedy. This is not true, though - although some
> businesses are greedy, most are not. It is the consumers who are
> "greedy" because they want the lowest price available and a
> better standard of living. This, at least, is how liberals would
> view things since they want to define "greed" as being synonymous
> with "wanting more money."
> 
> o       The abortion "gag" rule has been misunderstood and
> mischaracterized time and time again. Liberals want abortion to
> be available on demand, and furthermore they want the government
> to pay for it. The Bush administration, though, is willing to
> fund family planning centers, but not abortion, since they don't
> believe family planning includes abortion.
> 
> The pro-abortion crowd, though, would love to define family
> planning as "the killing of babies," since they don't think sex
> should have any consequence and thus don't care about being
> responsible before conception. Thus, when a woman wants to have
> an abortion, the pro-choice crowd demands that federal tax
> dollars be used to encourage the woman to do this.
> 
> The Bush administration, though, does not want to use tax dollars
> to encourage abortion; if pro-choicers want to encourage
> abortion, they can set up their own clinics. The "gag" rule does
> nothing about restricting abortion but simply says that the
> government won't pay for it. This is not a violation of the First
> Amendment as claimed by pro-choicers who seem to think that
> pregnancy is some sort of disease and that giving birth is more
> dangerous than having an abortion.
> 
> However, just because an activity is legal does not mean that it
> has to occur. Thus, just because abortion is legal does not mean
> the federal government has to encourage it, much less pay for it.
> The pro-choicers, though, say that this is unfair.
> 
> However, if choice is really the objective, then why do they get
> so angry when a woman is encouraged to have her child instead of
> an abortion? These pro-choicers want federally-paid advocates in
> family planning clinics, and they get mad when a woman makes a
> choice for life. What is the source for this anger?
> 
> The "gag" rule is just another distortion because it flies in the
> face of choice. How would these family planning clinics feel if
> the federal government demanded that Operation Rescue be given a
> desk in each clinic, with access to each patient? The answer is
> so obvious that Rush doesn't even bother to answer it himself.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Phone   Richard from Marin County, CA
> 
> Richard has been an active-duty member of the armed forces for 12
> years, and he currently lives in military housing. However, there
> is a push on to appropriate this housing from the military so
> that it can be used for the homeless. Rush has his suspicions
> about Richard's veracity since "this shouldn't be happening until
> Clinton becomes President."
> 
> Rush, however, wouldn't put this past the liberals in Marin
> County since this area, just north of San Francisco, is a liberal
> bastion. Richard says that he was shocked when he heard about
> this - his family and two other families may be moved out of
> their homes, and although there are promises being made that
> they'll be taken care of, nothing is being done to find them new
> homes.
> 
> Richard points out that if his home is taken away, and they
> aren't relocated anywhere else, then his family will become
> homeless; thus, why can't he stay? The plan is to take his home,
> plus the two other families' homes, and create a little homeless
> section that is segregated from the rest of the base.
> 
> Rush wonders why the military is going along with this, and
> Richard says that the plans were made without he or the community
> being notified about it. Only one city councilman bothered to
> raise the red flag and say that Richard and the other people
> concerned should be involved in the decision.
> 
> Rush wonders what it would cost Richard to rent a new home and he
> replies about a $1,000 a month. Rush finds this whole situation a
> bit strange - the county is kicking these families out of their
> homes so that they can move the homeless in, and they are doing
> this without telling the neighborhood about it. "Hey," Rush
> states, "this is a preview of the Clinton administration."
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Rush is perusing the weekend's football contests, trying to
> figure out his environmental-wacko football picks:
> 
> o       One game is between the San Francisco 49ers against the
> "Anaheim Lambs." The Lambs have "just stunk up the joint all
> season long," while the 49ers scored only 31 points in their
> first three games. The 49ers, though, plundered the earth to get
> the evil metal, gold, which symbolizes money, greed, and Reagan.
> The Lambs, though, are just poor, little, helpless animals. Thus,
> the Lambs are the environmental-wacko pick.
> 
> o       Similarly, the Vikings are meeting the Bears. The Bears
> are making a comeback after their victory against the Falcons,
> and in the environmental-wacko method the Vikings have to lose.
> The Vikings are plunderers, although they didn't do as much
> damage as Columbus did with his visit to North America. The
> Bears, though, are cute, little, stupid animals who spend their
> lives seeking sweetness and honey. Thus, take the Bears.
> 
> o       The Broncos play the Chiefs this weekend, and this is not
> an easy choice. The Broncos are noble stallions who epitomize
> nature; these horses throw humans off their backs which is what
> animals should always do. The Chiefs, though, are the noble
> Native Americans. However, although the Indians are the purest
> form of human life, the horse was introduced to North America by
> Spanish white guys. The Indians then sullied themselves by
> imitating the Europeans and riding these horses. Thus, the
> Broncos have to win the game, especially since they are playing
> at home.
> 
> Bo Snerdley, however, takes issue with Rush's evaluation of the
> San Francisco 49ers - the ancient Egyptians discovered gold long
> before the California miners. Rush says that this may have been
> so, but the ancient Egyptians didn't plunder the North American
> continent. However, if the World Football League has teams in
> Egypt and Spain, then Bo's point would have to be considered in
> any game between the Cairo Sphinxes and the Barcelona Bulls.
> 
> Phone   Lee from Shelton, CT
> 
> Lee wants to give her thoughts on the need for child divorce. She
> thinks that people like Rush who have had happy childhoods with
> loving mothers probably can't understand what it's like to be in
> a situation where the child needs a divorce. Lee is about the
> same age as Rush's mother, and 60 years ago she was deserted by
> her parents and ended up in one foster home after another.
> 
> She eventually ended up in one foster home in which she was loved
> and felt very happy. However, because the foster parents were not
> the same religion as she was, they were not allowed to adopt her.
> Thus, Lee ended up in another 3 or 4 foster homes, where she had
> to be a "mother's helper" doing whatever the mother didn't want
> to do.
> 
> Lee doesn't think that there will be a lot of frivolous suits
> caused by the Gregory K. case. There have been 3 such suits this
> week, but who knows if these children are in the same situation
> that Lee was half a century ago. Lee would have loved to have had
> the opportunity to sue the state so that they would allow her to
> have a happy life.
> 
> Rush says that the problem he sees in this is that this event
> will be seized upon by those who are seeking to destroy the
> institution of the family in America. There are people who are
> trying to eliminate the whole concept of family values from
> children's minds so that they can be indoctrinated into good
> little liberals who think that there is no right or wrong.
> 
> Rush knows that there are some children who need help, but this
> ability of children to sue their parents will be used as yet
> another tool by those who seek to advance their liberal agenda.
> Rush thinks there must be a better way to solve these problems,
> although he is not an expert and cannot offer any ready
> solutions.
> 
> However, Rush wants to stop the idea that there are people other
> than parents who know better how to raise the parents' children.
> Lee agrees with that, but thinks that there are so many unhappy
> and abused children that they must be given some sort of rights.
> Rush wonders just how many children are being considered here; a
> lot of people think that if something happens to them it happens
> to everybody.
> 
> Lee doesn't believe that. Rush, though, thinks that there are
> kids today who think they are abused just because they are being
> treated like his parents treated him. Lee doesn't doubt that, but
> these kids have no conception of the kind of life she had to go
> through as a child.
> 
> She doesn't think that lawsuits are the best way to solve the
> problem, but she hopes that the Gregory K. case will offer a way
> out for kids who really need the help. She would like to think
> that the judges will be able to discern between those suits that
> are and are not frivolous.
> 
> Rush, though, says that just threatening to sue is often enough
> to bring about a settlement. He is just not comfortable with this
> precedent and the dangers that it may portend.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Phone   Vice President Dan Quayle from Cape Girardeau, MO
> 
> Rush says that during the break, Vice President Dan Quayle has
> called. Quayle is visiting Rush's hometown of Cape Girardeau, and
> is even now standing with Rush's mom, brother, and sister-in-law.
> Quayle says that there are several hundred people waiting for him
> at a rally, and he bets that he will get a big welcome when he
> says that he is glad to be in "Rush Limbaugh territory." Rush
> hopes that this is so, but he warns Quayle not to count on it -
> "they know my whole life there, Mr. Vice President."
> 
> Quayle says that he has just agreed to have a debate with Senator
> Gore on October 13th, and since this debate will have only one
> moderator Quayle asks if Rush would agree to be it. "I think that
> would be great," Quayle says, "and I'm sure that Al Gore would
> welcome that, too."
> 
> Rush says he would be happy and honored to serve as moderator,
> and Quayle promises to relay the news to Senator Gore, adding
> "I'm sure that he'll be thrilled with that, as I am, and so will
> all your listeners because you'll keep the debate going, you'll
> put the questions out there, and we're really looking forward to
> it. This is what the media's been wanting - they've wanted a
> good, solid, objective moderator to keep the discussion going. We
> have a lot of issues on the table, and you're the man."
> 
> Rush replies "I am honored to be asked, and I would serve with
> tremendous pleasure." He comments that the conventional wisdom is
> that Gore will trounce Quayle in the debates; the only person who
> hasn't been saying this, though, seems to be Gore himself. Rush
> thinks Gore has a bigger challenge than Clinton has - everyone is
> expecting Gore to make mincemeat of Quayle, but Rush knows it
> won't be that easy. Rush bets that if anyone is quaking in their
> boots, it is Gore, and Rush would love to be at the debate just
> to see him sweat.
> 
> Rush remarks that he heard yesterday that Quayle was planning to
> visit Cape Girardeau, and he wondered at the time whether anyone
> would tell the Vice President that this is his hometown. Rush is
> glad to see that not only has this happened, but that his family
> has had a chance to meet with Quayle.
> 
> Quayle says that Rush's family was there waiting for him when he
> arrived, and he adds "as they say, dittos, my friend!" Rush
> thanks the Vice President for calling, and wants to make an
> observation about the Murphy Brown situation. He points out that
> when the Murphy Brown producers decided to respond to Quayle's
> remarks about family values, they concentrated on the term
> "family" and what it means, instead of focusing on the values
> issue.
> 
> Quayle says that he has found it interesting that he made one
> sentence in his San Francisco speech about a missing father and
> family values. Yet Murphy Brown decided to spend an hour
> ridiculing and distorting what he said, and by doing so they
> talked down to the American public. However, Quayle promises to
> continue raising the issue and discussing it, no matter what
> Hollywood has to say about it.
> 
> Rush thanks the Vice President for calling, and asks him to give
> his warmest regards to his family. Quayle says he'll do that, and
> thanks Rush for agreeing to be the moderator for his debate with
> Gore. "It's going to be a great debate," Quayle states. "You'll
> be a great moderator, and I'm sure that Senator Gore won't
> chicken out on this."
> 
> Rush marvels at the things that can happen on his show, and he
> adds that October 13th is his mother's birthday.
> 
> *BREAK*
> 
> Rush says that an upcoming Morning Update will talk about the
> "misery index" which measures inflation, unemployment, interest
> rates, and the Gross National Product. This index was first used
> to show how miserable the economy was during the Carter
> administration.
> 
> The index has been calculated for other Presidencies in American
> history, and the absolute worst time was the Carter
> administration. The administration that had the least misery was
> during Reagan's first term; the second best showing was Reagan's
> second term. Rush urges Americans not to believe the Democrats'
> claims that America is going through its worst times now; the
> truth is that the worst time ever was when the Democrats
> controlled both Congress and the White House.
> 
> -- 
> 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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