From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Fri 10/2/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Friday, October 2, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:47:29 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, October 2, 1992

by John Switzer

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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.