From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
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Subject: Summary Wed 12/16/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Wednesday, December 16, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:54:39 GMT
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, December 16, 1992

by John Switzer

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December 16, 1992

NEWS

o       The downtown Santa Barbara McDonalds has come to a
settlement with the homeless who have been demonstrating outside
it for the past day. The homeless started protesting when the
restaurant's management imposed a 30 minute time limit for
customers and a ban on bedrolls and backpacks. The two sides of
this dispute have come to a classic compromise, though -
McDonalds will allow backpacks if they are kept out of the middle
of the aisles, and the homeless accept the right of management to
refuse service to those who upset other customers.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

December 16, 1992 - It's now 44 days after Bill Clinton's
election and Rush is still on the air with 546 radio affiliates
and 207 TV affiliates, and his book has been on the NY Times
hardback non-fiction best-seller list for 12 consecutive weeks
and is currently number one on the list.

MORNING UPDATE

Rush promises some "anti-Summitry" on today's Morning Update -
Rush refuses to believe that Clinton's economic summit is in fact
a summit; what is really going on at this "notasummit" is
brilliant politics at work. President-elect Clinton has brought
together 361 non-elected business leaders, ostensibly to get
their advice on the state of America's economy and what its
problems are.

Thus, when these guys leave Little Rock, they will be filled with
enthusiasm about how Clinton is listening to them and really
cares about what they think he should do. The bottom line,
though, is that nobody leaving the "notasummit" will dare to
disagree with Clinton's policies because they've all participated
in this orgiastic celebration of democracy at work.

Clinton may be listening to these guys, many of whom were big
contributors to his campaign, but that's where it stops; Clinton
already knew what he was going to do. What this summit has done
for him is give him an army which will march back into America,
spread the word and sell his programs for big government, tax
increases, and government intervention.

If Clinton was really interested in finding solutions to
problems, he would have had Congress at the summit, but Congress
was conspicuously absent. "This is just a big, old-fashioned
taffy pull, folks," Rush explains.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush hates to admit it, but he is having one of his worst
days, and the fact that it is happening during the holiday season
has made it worse. Every time he has picked up the phone, he has
gotten one disappointment or piece of bad news after another;
things just keep piling on, but Rush is glad that he is able to
get a chance to be tested as a person. Thus, he will not bleed on
his audience, but he does warn people that he is flat-out fed up.

However, Rush does feel sorry for Barbra Streisand as well, since
she has encountered a personal tragedy - she just signed a $60
million multimedia deal, Furthermore, George Bush is still
President and the decade of greed has still not passed by. Evil
corporations are making all sorts of money while still firing
their people. IBM, of course, is firing its workers not because
they want to become a better company but just because they want
to follow George Bush's advice and open up a plant in some low-
wage foreign country.

Thus, it must be very hard for Streisand to enjoy her $60 million
when greedy businessmen are making and enjoying their excessive
profits. Plus, this is all happening in an America that is so
insensitive that it has yet to find a cure for AIDS. Rush thinks
that Streisand should give all her money back, at least until all
of this nation's strife and suffering is ended, but he is
sympathetic towards Streisand and the personal tragedy she is now
undergoing.

o       A Washington Post/ABC News poll is a perfect example of a
"journalistic front"; Meg Greenfield wrote a column for Newsweek
two weeks ago about how journalists can alter the public mood and
opinion by their reporting, and she calls these efforts by the
media to convince the public that a certain issue is the most
important one of the day "journalistic fronts." Greenfield, by
the way, although a liberal, was the one who suggested to George
Will that he write a syndicated column.

Rush has thus been waiting for an example of a journalistic front
that shows how the media can get the public worked up about
something, just so that he can illustrate this front on his TV
show, in the manner of the best TV weather reporters. What
typically happens with these fronts is that the media will
convince the public of the seriousness and importance of a
certain issue, and then commission a poll so that they can report
about it.

The Washington Post/ABC News poll is a perfect example of this -
60% of the people polled believe that Clinton will do a better
job on the economy than Bush has done. Rush points out that this
could happen only because of all the exuberant reporting coming
out of Little Rock during the economic summit. The media is
telling the American people that the economy is already coming
back and that Clinton is the miracle worker doing this.

Rush recalls how back in 1989 Bush was expected to release a
program to combat drugs, and so the media portrayed the drug
problem as the most important problem in America. A month later a
poll was done, and sure enough most people thought drugs were
America's foremost problem.

o       The NY Daily News has a story today about the continuing
educational dispute in New York City's schools. The Queens school
board was the first to refuse to implement Chancellor Fernandez's
Children of the Rainbow curriculum, and now other school boards
are standing up and refusing to accept this and other aspects of
Fernandez's pet educational projects.

This is understandable since parents want the best for their
kids, but until now some parents have been intimidated into
accepting whatever Fernandez wanted to do. The Brooklyn school
board is now trying to ban feminist fairy tales and a song about
recycling from the current curriculum, which also includes the
Children of the Rainbow program. District 12 in NYC is also
refusing to accept the multiculturalist agenda, since they prefer
one that teaches kids how to read and write.

This is what leadership is all about - one person standing up and
inspiring others to fight for what they believe in. Rush is glad
that there's a movement starting here, as part of a backlash
against the left's indoctrination of today's children.

*BREAK*

Rush decides to play "Traditions of Christmas," one of the tunes
on Mannheim Steamroller's Christmas albums that he normally
doesn't play. This particular song is from the second album and
was written by Chip Davis to recall memories of how he celebrated
Christmas as a child. Rush is impressed by how Davis could sit
down and write a new song from scratch that could still sound
like Christmas, and he adds that Mannheim Steamroller plays this
song live in the concerts they are doing for their current
Christmas tour.

*BREAK*

Phone   Don from Daytona Beach, FL

Don wonders why nobody has commented on how Clinton's proposed
gasoline taxes will almost certainly increase inflation. Rush
says that he has not seen much about this increase; so far,
Reuters and Friday's Washington Times are the only ones who have
reported that the National Commission on the Environment, which
is made up of many of the same people Clinton is choosing for his
administration, has recommended a $1 increase in the gas tax over
the next five years.

Don says that this sort of tax increase would definitely cause a
lot of inflation, and Rush adds that he can't believe a lot of
what he is hearing from the "experts" in Little Rock. The 1990
Budget Deal was necessary because the deficit was the most
important problem the country was facing, and when the deal was
signed, Congress promised the deficit would be down to $60
billion within five years.

Now, though, the deficit is almost $300 billion, yet half of the
people at Little Rock are trying to convince Clinton that the
answer to today's economy is massive spending which will increase
the deficit by about $60 to 80 billion. Rush points out that the
deficit has already been increased by about $150 billion over the
past two years, and the economy went into a tailspin as a result.

People at the economic summit, though, are saying that the US
cannot afford a consumption-led recovery, but instead needs an
"investment-led" recovery; in other words, the consumer has to
stop consuming and give his money to the government which will
then start "investing" (i.e. spending) it for him. These people
are saying that it is consumers who are the problem, and that the
answer is to have the government spend their money.

Liberal Democrats and economic experts have just spent the past
10 years talking about how monstrous the deficit is, and how it
has to be eliminated or the country is doomed; now that these
guys are now in control, they are talking about "investment," and
to heck with the deficit.

Clinton is being told that America can have a stimulus package
that spends more money and increases the size of the deficit,
that taxes can be raised on the "rich" and lowered on the middle
class, and that the deficit can be ultimately lowered by a
"long-term structural fix."

These economists are saying that there has to be some short-term
stimulus to get the economy going again, but the fact is that the
economy is going and moving up to speed. Clinton pointed to IBM
as an example of the US's troubled economy, but maybe IBM is
simply fixing the problems it has in competing in today's global
economy. Maybe IBM has made some bad management and design
decisions, and the fact that they are laying off 25,000 employees
does not mean the economy is in the toilet.

These people now want to do the same things that they criticized
Reagan for doing - increasing the deficit, spending more money,
etc. Rush understands Don's concerns about how a gasoline tax
increase will increase inflation, but if this "stimulus package"
and increased spending get approved, then a lot of other horrors
will happen as well - higher inflation, higher interest rates,
more unemployment, etc. Massive government programs have never
been able to fix the economy, unless perhaps you count war.

Phone   Paul from Fowlerville, MI

Paul wonders why customers have to use a Mastercard or Visa to
get the Limbaugh Letter; he's just a poor, struggling student and
thus doesn't qualify for a credit card yet. Rush calls this an
interesting point - the commercials for the Limbaugh Letter give
a telephone number for orders, but no address so that people can
send in checks.

"How stupid of us," Rush states, who points out that this is
another problem with American business - some companies make it
very hard for people who do want to buy to spend their money. The
EIB staff tells Rush that if someone wants to be billed for the
Limbaugh Letter, they should just call the 800 number, tell the
operator that they talked to Rush (and if necessary explain to
them that Rush Limbaugh is the guy who's in charge), and have
them bill you for the newsletter. Also, interested parties can
send checks to a post office box, which Rush will give later.

Paul also wants to talk about the "taffy pull," and he is
thankful that Rush's show came on after CSPAN televised some of
the speeches given in Little Rock because he needed a pick-me-up
after all of the gloomy talk he heard. He found it a bit
disconcerting that most of the speeches, as well as many of the
callers to CPSAN, were convinced that the US needed more
centralized planning.

Paul doesn't understand this, given that centralized planning
failed utterly in Eastern Europe; yet at the summit centralized
planning was given as the cure for education, the environment,
the economy, etc. Rush adds that each one of these guys also made
a pitch for more money - for example, one speech called for the
US to "fully fund Headstart," yet the US has been funding
Headstart for years.

Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund is a perfect
example of this - her only economic policy is that the government
should give them more money. Rush congratulates Paul for figuring
this out, and he comments on how the Little Rock summit did not
have any supply-siders or anyone who disagreed with Clinton.

Since Clinton was elected, this is his privilege, but it should
be realized that this summit was just a smokescreen, and its main
purpose was for the people to see how involved Bill Clinton is
and to praise him for his "understanding." Clinton plans on
coming out of this, not with any new ideas, but with a consensus
for action that lets him do what he originally planned to do in
the first place.

*BREAK*

Phone   Joe from Baltimore, MD

Joe has been in the computer industry for 10 years, working for
both large and small computer companies. He knows that IBM is not
laying off 25,000 workers because of the bad economy but because
of 10 years of bad management. IBM has been hampered by its
lethargic corporate structure, which was designed for the sales
of large mainframe computers, and thus it wasn't able to take
control of the personal computer market. They ended up being
eaten alive by the clones.

IBM is having more and more troubles selling its large computers,
especially since smaller companies such as Sun MicroSystems are
selling more capable computers for less. Other large computer
companies such as Burroughs and DEC went through this, and this
is part of the maturing process. Rush says that this is
capitalism, market forces, and competition all at work.

Joe agrees, and adds that it's thus ridiculous for Clinton to use
IBM as a model of a bad economy. Rush says that Clinton had a
grand old time talking about this and how IBM's failure shows
that the government needs to get more involved; in particular,
Clinton gnashed his teeth at how IBM was cutting back in R&D by
$1 billion.

Joe bets that IBM is cutting back its R&D in large mainframes,
which nobody is buying anymore, but IBM will almost certainly
continue its other R&D endeavors. After all, IBM still has many
good customers to support, and in order to keep selling the
latest technology to these customers, IBM must continue its R&D
for those machines that they are selling.

Rush says that this is also part of the computer business in
general - the leaders and innovators tend to get punished for
their success, since once someone gets a great idea, everyone
else jumps on the bandwagon. He holds Joe over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Joe from Baltimore, MD (continued)

Rush asks Joe if the Next computer is making any inroads, and Joe
says that Next is a competitor of his, and their machines are
nice products which have gotten a good portion of the education
and university marketplace.

Rush recalls how Steve Jobs and Ross Perot got together and
invited all sorts of educators and administrators to Dallas,
supposedly to get their input on what the Next computer should
be. In reality, however, the computer had been designed, and
Perot was just converting these people into a powerful salesforce
that would spread the word about his computer. This is much like
what Clinton is doing now in Little Rock.

Rush asks Joe what will happen to the 25,000 laid-off employees,
and Joe replies that the really talented people tend to get their
resumes out quickly and get snapped by the competition. Rush
thanks Joe for his comments and for explaining how the free
market really works.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush says that Rep. Bob Dornan will be coming in as guest
host for a while, and probably will end up talking about the B-1
Bomber and Bangladesh Airforce. Dornan won't be on the TV show,
which Rush thinks is probably a good thing since Dornan would
probably spend half the time showing the audience how a flight
simulator works.

o       Rep. Charles Rangle (D-NY) yesterday said he was outraged
that the NY Yankees signed Steve Howe to a multi-million dollar
contract. Since Howe has had multiple suspensions for cocaine
use, Rangle doesn't think that Howe is a proper role model for
America. Rush comments that Rangle may have a point - after all,
is Marion Barry a good role model for America's kids? Marion
Barry, an elected official who went to jail for six months for
cocaine use and possession, was then elected as a representative
of the nation's capital. Is this a signal that should be sent to
the nation's children?

How about Barney Frank, who was living with a guy who was running
a homosexual prostitution ring out of his Frank's basement and
was recruiting school kids for that ring? This is yet another
example of how the crime itself doesn't matter as much as the
person who committed it, which is why Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR)
is being investigated for sexual harassment while Senator Daniel
Inouye (D-HI) is not, although there is at least as much evidence
to warrant an investigation of Inouye as there is for Packwood.

The latest on Packwood is that an Oregon group has asked Senators
to refuse to seat Packwood when Congress convenes on January 5th.
Rush thinks this is ridiculous, but points out that in no
instance did Packwood continue his advances when the women said
stop, no, or whatever.

Rush doesn't think this excuses Packwood's behavior in the first
place, but what Packwood did does not fit the definition of
"harassment," and what this shows is that sexual harassment is
just the excuse that those on the left are using to get rid of
another Republican. Those demanding Packwood's ouster are
motivated by politics, not by a desire to have him atone for the
"ravages of sexual harassment."

o       There's more bad economic news - according to the
Commerce Dept., business inventories fell 0.3% in October, which
is the steepest monthly drop in 9 months. This means that goods
are being purchased faster than they can be made and stocked, and
thus if this trend continues it would indicate that new jobs may
be created so that companies can keep up with the demand for
their products.

Of course, the "proper" spin put on this by Clinton will be that
this is just a statistic that does not show the "human toll and
misery" that is going on in America.

o       South Central Los Angeles has experienced more tumult
recently, and Rush is reminded of Bob Green's column yesterday
about the "soullessness of America." The latest riots were caused
by the Los Angeles' refusal to reduce the high bails that have
been set for the four men charged with beating Reginald Denny;
the men's families have charged that refusing to reduce the bails
is racist and unfair.

So once again, South Central Los Angeles shows that people really
don't understand the nature and purpose of the US justice system.
The US judiciary is not a means by which society satisfies its
"silly little cultural concerns," but rather a way of seeing that
the laws of America are upheld.

The reason the bail amounts are so high for these four men is not
because of racism, but because there is a genuine fear that if
these guys are let loose, they'll just repeat what they did to
Denny. The families are trying to claim a moral equivalency
between these four men and the cops who beat Rodney King, but
this is idiocy; there is no comparison between the cops who beat
King and the thugs who beat Denny.

Furthermore, there is a definite flight risk where these four
thugs are concerned, and there's no reason in the world to let
these guys out on bail. Of course, this doesn't mean anything to
these families, and this is what caused new outbreaks in South
Central Los Angeles. The city still hasn't learned its lesson -
instead of dealing with people who break the law in a decisive
manner, the city has done its best to "understand the rage." Yet,
all this has done is produce more rage.

These riots will continue until society provides some form of
disincentive, until someone says "if you try this again, we'll
come down hard."

*BREAK*

Phone   Chris from Lexington, KY

Chris wants to make Rush look good by having Rush comment on
Arlen Specter's intention to set up a group of moderate
Republicans for the purpose of eliminating the GOP's anti-
abortion plank. Specter thinks that this will give the
Republicans "a better chance to get into the White house."

Rush says that the party's anti-abortion plank is pretty
restrictive and this frightens many people; however, Rush doubts
that anybody really left the GOP because of this one plank, nor
did anyone vote against Bush because of it. The election last
month hinged on the incumbent President and the type of campaign
he fought.

Exit polls showed that the vast majority of those who did vote
according to abortion were pro-lifers, while most pro-choicers
voted the way they did for other reasons. Furthermore, the
Republican party is going to be spending the next several months
trying to decide what it is and how it should regain its power.

If these moderate Republicans really think that their liberalism
and moderatism is going to help them win, then they are already
defeated. The Republicans became the party of the middle class
during the Reagan years, and it was during this period of time
that the party attracted Democrats. These Reagan Democrats, as
they were descriptively called, were attracted to the party
because of Reagan's conservatism.

The history lessons are there to see - when the Rockefeller
Republicans held sway, the party was not oriented to the problems
of most people and thus couldn't take advantage of the
opportunities that came their way for political gain. Rush also
notes that a poll taken after the election by Public Opinion
Strategies found that 60% of voters identified themselves as
conservatives.

Conservatism encompasses many things, and is not just based on
abortion. Rush recalls that he was at the convention, and it's
idiotic to claim that the religious right "forced" its way onto
the party. In actuality, the so-called "religious right" and
pro-life factions were at the convention by virtue of the fact
that they have been working at the grass roots level for years,
and they have been winning elections. This is the democratic
process at work.

The moderates in the Republican party had better learn this and
realize that future victory is not to be had by abandoning
conservatism. These conservatives are not going to give up,
either, especially since they don't believe in the slightest that
they are the reason Bush lost the election.

Besides, moderates is a synonym for "gutless" as far as Rush is
concerned. He knows he is in a bad mood, and thus may be speaking
too harshly, but to him being a moderate means not having any
principles but rather bending in the wind, according to the
fashions of the moment. In any case, moderates should realize
that conservatives are not the problem, and they should accept
the fact that conservatives are and will continue to be a major
force in the party.

*BREAK*

Phone   Cathy from Pleasanton, CA

Cathy has noticed that nobody at Clinton's little party in Little
Rock has said one thing about Congress cutting its spending, and
in particular cutting pork barrel spending and congressional
salaries. Rush says that this is exactly right and he reiterates
how amazed he was, after 10 years of profligate Republican
spending, that the answer being mentioned most in Little Rock was
"spend more money."

The fact, though, is that the US has spent so much money since
1990 that its deficit is almost twice its previous size. If
spending more money was the answer to the economy, then the US
should have a robust and booming economy now.

Cathy is also getting tired of hearing how the US should raise
its gasoline taxes because "Great Britain pays three times as
much for gas as the US does." Rush agrees - it's as if it's
unfair that US consumers have the advantage of lower gas prices.
Cathy adds that she has to drive quite a lot for her work, and
any large gasoline tax is going to kill her business.

Rush says that in a conversation he had last weekend with Thomas
W. Hazlett, economist at UC Davis, Hazlett made an interesting
point about the US airline industry. A casual glance at the major
airlines shows that not one of them is making any money; some
small airlines are making money, but the major airlines claim
they can't charge enough money to make flying profitable.

Rush asked Hazlett how an industry can stay in business in this
sort of economic climate where every company is losing massive
amounts of money. Hazlett replied that this is the greatest news
that the American consumer could have - fares are so low that
average people can fly. This has resulted in many companies
leaving the business, but so what - if the consumers benefit,
what does it matter if only a few airlines are left in business?

Similarly, IBM's layoff of 25,000 employees is good news for
computer-buying consumers who will benefit from the fact that IBM
will have to take aggressive action to attract and keep its
customers. Economic actions don't happen in vacuums, and thus
it's idiocy to say that America should pay more for its gasoline.
The price of gasoline is determined by the free market, so who
cares if the market in Europe is different than that in the US?

The US, instead of condemning itself for buying gasoline so
cheaply, should be grateful at the great deals it is getting.
Yet, the environmental wackos have convinced many people that
higher taxes are needed to force people to conserve. The Gulf War
was fought to continue the free flow of oil at market prices, and
this benefited the consumers and not Bush's millionaire oil
buddies.

Rush notes that it wasn't that long ago that airliners were
ordering fleets of new planes, and Boeing just recently got a
slew of new orders. This all goes to show that you can't just
isolate one small portion of the economy and claim that it
represents what is going on throughout the country; everything in
the economy is interrelated.

If things are bad for airliners now, some airline execs may
decide to take actions that will improve the company's fortunes
in the future. Thus consumers will benefit now, as well as later.
People should rejoice when they hear the airlines complaining
about how they can't charge enough for tickets.

Rush adds that Hazlett also said that if the airlines really
couldn't afford to stay in business, they would get out of the
business. They are not providing a public service out of the
goodness of their hearts. Entrepreneurs are taking risks right
now, and the airline business is risky; some of these people will
make a lot of money from their risks while others won't. However,
people should remember that the consumer is benefitting right
now.

*BREAK*

Phone   Carl from Hampton, VA

Carl lent his copy of Rush's book to his brother-in-law, who has
refused to return it. Rush asks if Carl's brother-in-law is a
liberal, but Carl doesn't think so. Rush comments that it's a
favorite liberal trick to borrow a copy of Rush's book or
newsletter, and then never return it. However, he warns people
that his book is in such great demand that it's quite possible
loaning it out to others may mean they'll never see it again.

Carl says he was going to buy his brother-in-law his own copy of
the book, but now he's not so sure. Rush suggests that Carl
strongly start issuing hints to his loved ones that he'd like a
copy of Rush's book for Christmas, and Carl thinks this is a good
idea.

Carl also comments that his copy of the book did have two extra
dust jackets, and so he put the extras on other books, in a
limited attempt to make his bookshelves look more like the ones
on Rush's TV show. Rush suspects that what happened is that
liberals took dust jackets from other books and put them on
copies of his book, so as to make it look like there are fewer
copies of his book for sale.

Liberals have been ingenuous in their attempts to impede sales of
Rush's book, and one NYC store even had a "liberal on patrol" who
actively discouraged patrons who looked like they were going to
buy it. Rush warns his listeners that this is happening, but
since his book has now sold over 1.7 million copies, liberals
seem to be failing in their efforts.

Phone   Adam from Omaha, NB

Adam enjoyed Rush's TV show last night, especially the montage of
clips from Clinton's economic summit. Adam comments that these
people are talking about how the country needs long-term
infrastructure spending, as well as "short-term stimulus."
However, most city officials know full well that it takes a good
two years or more to get any sort of road-building project off
the ground.

Rush says that few people have thought about this, but he bets
that Clinton's administration will consist of one group of people
who want to rebuild the country's infrastructure, while another
group lead by Algore will refuse to give permission to do all of
this building because of environmental concerns. This latter
group will want five years of environmental impact studies, and
then build the highway only if it does not kill one snail darter
or other animal.

Adam would also like to know if Rush would sign his copy of "The
Way Things Ought to Be" if he sent it to the EIB offices. Rush
doesn't know how to deal with this because if he agreed to do
this, the EIB offices would be buried by the million books that
would also be sent in for Rush's signature. And Rush doesn't have
the time to sign a million books in the first place.

Rush therefore suggests that if Adam wants a signed book, he
should get tickets to his TV show since every taping turns into a
book-signing party at the end. Rush hates having to turn Adam or
anyone else down, but he promises that if he runs into Adam
somewhere and Adam has the book on him, he'll sign it on the
spot.

*BREAK*

Phone   Randy from Burbank, CA

Randy first says that he had a tough time finding Rush's book
when it first came out; he called several stores and finally
found one that had it, and so he went there to pick it up. When
he arrived at the store, he noticed that the manager was holding
a meeting with the sales clerks, and she told them that if people
asked for the book the clerks should just give it to them without
any editorial comments. The manager then warned that if the
clerks did make some sort of remark, "his followers would notify
him that we're not allowing the sale of his book - that's the
kind of people they are."

Randy then asked one of the clerks for a copy of the book, and
the clerk asked "who is this guy? We've never hard of him - is he
like John Birch?" Randy said that if the clerk really wanted to
know who Rush was, he'd have to listen to him for a few weeks
since there was no way Randy could explain Rush in just one lunch
hour.

Rush asks Randy to hold over the break so that he can finish this
great story.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Phone   Randy from Burbank, CA (continued)

Rush summarizes Randy's story and is amazed that the manager of
the store effectively called Randy a kook, in Randy's presence.
Randy points out that all of the store's staff, as well as the
manager, were women who had never heard Rush's show for
themselves. Rush wonders how these guys could come up with the
conclusion that people who listen to the show are "followers."

Randy says that the head office of the bookstore's chain had sent
a memo to its stores about this because one of Rush's callers
recently named the bookstore when he described the troubles he
had trying to buy Rush's book. The bookstore chain thus didn't
want their name aired on national radio again, at least in the
context of being a hotbed of political correctness.

Rush says that this makes sense because few businesses survive by
refusing to sell customers what they want. Randy asks if Rush's
book is number one because he saw an ad for Schwarzkopf's book
that listed it as "the number one national best-seller." Rush
says that his book is still number one on the NY Times list;
Schwarzkopf may be number one, though, on the Washington Post
list, but Rush notes that the Post doesn't even think Rush's book
exists since they haven't mentioned it once.

Randy says that his wife gives megadittos to Rush, but he admits
that he doesn't like the term "dittohead" since it implies that
Rush's listeners are empty-brained fools who just accept
everything Rush says, without doing any of their own thinking.
Rush suggests that Randy and his wife could now call themselves
"followers," but says that many liberals come away with this
impression because of Rush's line about how people don't need to
pay attention to the news over the weekend; instead they should
have fun because on Monday Rush will not only tell them what
happened, but will also tell them what to think. The liberals go
nuts because they think Rush is serious about this; of course,
the reason the liberals believe this is because this is what they
do - they are the ones who think the public is a bunch of idiots
who have to be spoon-fed pabulum each and every day of their
lives. What Rush does, though, is to inspire thought.

Randy says that people like this are especially disturbed that
many of those who love Rush shared his basic beliefs long before
he went on national radio; Rush is now simply vocalizing what
these people have felt for a long time. It thus disturbs the
liberals that they were unable to conquer these people's minds,
in spite of their relentless deluge of anti-conservative
rhetoric.

Getting to his main topic, Randy has talked to people who voted
for Clinton and for Perot, and most of these people did so
because they thought that this was their best chance to get
something from the federal government, whether it be national
health care or whatever. Thus, these people voted for more
goodies from the government, and Randy fears that the
conservative movement is endangered by these people who don't
realize that before they can get anything from the government,
they have to pay for it first.

Rush admits that Clinton's "investment in America" is just a new
euphemism for "tax and spend"; however, Rush doesn't see this
being the deathknell of conservatism since this approach never
works. Punishing achievement through higher taxes and increased
government spending will only bankrupt nations since it serves as
a disincentive to entrepreneurial risk-taking and investment.
Thus, Rush thinks Clinton's approach could instead inspire
conservatism's rebirth.

Items

o       In spite of Clinton's rhetoric, housing starts have gone
up yet again, in the largest gain in three months (1.5%). Rush
has to wonder how ungrateful these people are - how dare they buy
houses before Clinton is President! If these guys were really
compassionate, they would wait until Clinton became President and
then buy their houses so that Clinton could get the credit.

Industrial production is also up for the second straight month,
with gains in automobile, truck, food, and fuel production. Rush
bets Vice President Gore will soon reverse these trends. Also,
despite the recent storm in the Northeast, retailers such as
Sears are reporting good Christmas sales.

Ford has also announced it is eliminating 10,000 European jobs,
which should be good news for all of those who think
protectionism is a good idea. America is also competing too well
in Japan because Japanese farmers recently held a protest to
demand that the Japanese government protect them for foreign
competition. The farmers want entitlements from the government,
and do not want the ban on importing foreign rice to be lifted.
Rush points out that the Japanese pay outrageous prices for the
rice simply because there is no imported rice available.

o       Oregon State University has done a study to find out who
the animal rights people are, and they found that 78% of the
people in animal rights groups are women; 82% are well-educated,
40% make more than $50,000 a year, 98% are environmental
extremists by their own admission, 83% are opposed to war, 71%
have no children, and 89% have an average of 5 pets.

This confirms Rush's oft-repeated statement that the various
liberal special interest groups are just the same people; the
specific cause is just the vehicle they are using for their
common socialist goal - the defeat of capitalism and private
property rights. Rush wonders about the survey's statistic that
83% are opposed to war since this implies 17% support war; Rush
doesn't know anyone who likes war, but there are those who
realize that if the US has to get in one, it has to win it.

Rush notes that the university also collected animal rights
literature and found some really interesting claims. For example,
the dairy industry is a big target, and the animal rights people
think it's cruel to take calves from their mothers early and
raise them on milk substitutes. Also, artificial insemination
"robs cows of their one happy day each year." Rush finds that
curious because artificial insemination is the latest craze among
feminists, so why can't this be done with cows?

The study also reports that an animal rights advocate at a
Washington, DC conference was asked the following question - "if
your house was on fire and you could save only your dog or your
child, which one would you rescue?" The woman's response was
"whichever one I can get to first."

o       Robert Herschfield, TV producer, claims in a USA Today
editorial that Somalia is what happens when you get a right-wing
government - "there's no government interference, everyone has a
gun, and volunteerism is taking care of those in need." Rush says
that this is so stupid, he may even show it on his TV show.

*BREAK*

Phone   Scott from Syracuse, NY

Scott thinks he has found the real-life version of the feminist
Blabby doll. A PBS mail-order catalog has the "Happy to Be Me"
doll, a "fashion doll that promotes positive self-esteem in young
girls." This doll has more realistic body dimensions than Barbie,
and Scott comments that Happy looks a bit "dumpy" with her 36-
27-38 dimensions.

Rush comments that his Undeniable Truth of Life #24 is that
feminist was established to allow unattractive women easy access
to the mainstream of society. Now here's a feminist doll that
looks like an old maid - "a frumpy dump."

*BREAK*

Rush hesitates to assume that Robert Herschfield is totally
serious in his column in USA Today which compares Somalia to
right-wing government. Herschfield thinks Somalia may represent
the "end of right-wing politics in this country," because it's
been a goal of conservatives to get government off the back of
the people. He claims that the people of Somalia went further and
got rid of government entirely.

Rush points out that the people had nothing to do with this -
there was a coup in Somalia; in effect, people broke the law, and
conservatives do not support lawlessness and breaking the law.
Herschfield, though, thinks that the warlords give an example of
true market forces, but Rush points out that the warlords
represent anarchy, criminals, and thugs. To compare these thugs
with modern-day American businessmen is absurd, yet this is a
comparison that liberals like to do.

Herschfield also claims that the warlords could be construed as a
"militia" and that they are simply exercising their "right to
bear arms." Rush says that this is yet another liberal
misperception of what is really going on, and he notes that
Washington, DC has the strictest gun control laws in the nation,
yet it still has the highest murder rate of any US city. Guns
don't kill people by themselves, someone has to pull the trigger.

Crime rates go up when society doesn't provide disincentives to
lawlessness by stopping it and punishing it whenever it occurs.
It also doesn't help that values can no longer be taught in
schools, yet this is also something liberals refuse to accept.

Herschfield says that the "omnipotent gun lobby" unreasonably
attacks any "reasonable gun restrictions" and he points out that
Somalia is what happens when there are no restrictions on guns.
Rush points out that these restrictions exist in abundance in
Washington, but they haven't done much good in curbing its crime
and lawlessness.

Herschfield also claims that private relief agencies show the
conservative's desire to "overburden charities" because they
don't think government should help people in need. Rush says that
conservatives have no problems with government helping people in
need, but what should not be done is to create more people in
need. Conservatives want to eliminate the dependency class, while
liberal policies increase it.

Phone   Joe from New York City, NY

Joe thinks it's not true that six out of ten people voted against
Clinton because only 5.7 people did so. Furthermore, 6.2 voted
against Bush. Rush points out that he rounded both numbers up,
but Joe doesn't remember hearing Rush say this. Rush says that he
did this all the time, but Joe says that he doesn't listen to
Rush very often because "you are such a die-hard Republican that
you think the Democrats are a bunch of crap, and I think you are.
That's what I have to say."

Rush thanks Joe for contributing such eloquence and intellectual
capacity to his show, and Joe replies "your elevator is stuck at
the bottom, in the basement, when it comes to politics." Rush
shows his bad mood is still in force by telling Joe that he's a
"cup and saucer short of a full place setting, and since you're
full of crap, you stink."

Phone   Gary from Alma, KS

Gary is a military policeman who agrees with Rush on gun control
- these laws don't prevent any criminals from doing what they
want. He also noticed recently that Clinton's chief of staff
appointee claimed he would dump his stocks and other investments
by the end of the year, and Gary wonders if this is another move
to avoid Clinton's tax increases, this time by one of his own
staff members.

Rush says that the chief of staff has to divest himself of
anything that could be a conflict of interest, but this could be
done in January, before the inauguration; if that were done,
though, it would mean that the chief of staff would have to pay
higher taxes on his capital gains. Thus, Clinton's own chief of
staff is following Michael Eisner's lead.

Gary, though, is optimistic - even though he knows the higher
taxes will be on America's doorstep within hours after the
inauguration, "we'll survive it - after all, we made it through
Carter." Rush agrees that the next four years will be fun.

Phone   Mike from West Milford, NJ

Mike has a heavy English accent and suggests that Rush help
tourists out by putting the EIB Building on the tourist maps.
Rush replies that tourists are definitely not what he needs to
deal with every day. Mike is in the computer business and is
interested in American politics; he thinks the American people
should be aware of the dangers of liberalism, which he calls
socialism. He points out that socialism has resulted in
innumerable disasters across the world.

Rush says that he is amazed at how, in spite of these failures,
the liberals think that socialism is still okay and that it's
simply not been tried by the "right people." Mike adds that the
US economy is not having any problems at all right now, certainly
when compared to the rest of the world.

Rush says he was watching William F. Buckley on Firing Line the
other night, and Robert Cutler of the New Republic claimed that
Margaret Thatcher ruined Britain and was responsible for the
country's current recession because her deficit reduction program
worked too well. Cutler claimed that this showed that the US must
increase deficit spending so as to fix the economy.

Mike thinks there may be some truth in this, but Margaret
Thatcher put more people back to work and did it more efficiently
than any other leader. British Airways, for example, was on its
last legs a decade ago, but now is one of the world's most
profitable airlines. Thatcher's privitization programs also had a
lot of benefits for the country.

He also points out that recessions are cyclical, and the current
one is world-wide. Rush agrees, and notes that the US is doing
far better than the rest of the world right now. He appreciates
Mike's call and his warning against liberalism, which he properly
recognizes as socialism.

*BREAK*

Rush got a fax of a newspaper story, but he doesn't know the
paper or date. However, the headline reads "IRS to Probe Anti-
Clinton Church in Binghamton." The church ran pre-election
advertisements that labelled Clinton a sinner, and its pastor
just announced that the IRS has requested for some "preliminary
information."

A Maryland group, Americans United for the Separation of Church
and State, filed a complaint with the IRS on November 3rd about
the ads. A spokesman for the group, Barry W. Lynn, claims that
"churches have every right to speak out on the moral issues of
the day, but the IRS draws the line, quite appropriately, at
partisan politicking. The integrity of both religion and
government are harmed when churches become cogs in a political
machine."

Rush says that if it all it takes to get investigated by the IRS
is to be anti-Clinton, then he had better call his own accountant
to get his tax records in order, too. Rush wonders, though, where
this group was when Baptist churches across the South passed the
plate for Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988. Why didn't the IRS
investigate those churches?

Phone   Steve from Chicago, IL

Steve is going to be at Mannheim Steamroller's concert next
weekend, and he adds that the Steelers are going to come back
from their Chicago loss and make the playoffs. Rush admits he is
a huge Steelers fan, but this year is their first trip to the
playoffs, which does not bode well for their chances. Also, the
Steelers have some bad injuries; nevertheless, everyone at EIB is
plugging for the Steelers, which Rush admits is what they have to
do since the Steelers is Rush's favorite team.

*BREAK*

Phone   Derek from Kennesaw, GA

Derek doesn't understand "megadittos" so he just says "hi, how
y'all are." He thinks Rush is giving Clinton a "bum rap" about
the "notasummit." At least Clinton appears to be doing something,
which is more than Bush did. If nothing else, Clinton gets "big
brownie points" from the American people for this.

Rush wonders what one thing has happened during the notasummit
that deserves praise - what has been achieved? Derek says that
perhaps the country needs a President who gets people together to
figure out the solutions. Rush says that Clinton is a leader - he
may listen to these people, but he already knows what he's going
to do. The summit means nothing, but Rush says if people feel
good about it, then he's happy, too.


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