From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Mon 12/14/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, December 14, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:08:20 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, December 14, 1992

by John Switzer

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December 14, 1992

NEWS

o       A balloon released during a party last Thursday in Santa
Barbara, CA, was found this morning by David Gracy of Leslie,
Michigan. Gracy called the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce
after he found the balloon hovering two feet above his snow-
covered front porch. No reports yet, though, on how many sea
turtles died because of the balloon's transcontinental odyssey.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

December 14, 1992 - It's now 42 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

The Decade of Limbaugh continues, and Rush has to laugh at how
Bill Clinton is making every one of his predictions come true. He
recalls how he has stated that Clinton's advisers were a bunch of
academicians who had all sorts of theories that they just knew
would work. These guys are a bunch of socialists who still think
socialism has failed around the world only because the right
people weren't in charge; these pointy-headed academicians, of
course, are the right people and are just itching to get their
hands on the government so that they can fix things that don't
need fixing.

Clinton named a number of new cabinet appointments Friday, and
two of them had interesting things to say. Laura Tyson, chairman
of Clinton's economic security council, said "I'm honored and
thrilled to put some of my theories into practice," proving what
Rush has said about these people being theoreticians who have
never put their theories into practice. Donna Shalala, named as
Secretary of Health and Human Services, also said that she can't
wait to "energize the agency to care about the people."

Rush rejoices at how Clinton's people are proving him right once
again, and he admits he is looking forward to the next four years
"Oh goodie! This is going to be so much fun!"

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       EIB now has over 14 million listeners during any one-week
period. The EIB staff erupts in wild applause, and Rush suggests
that someone call Larry King to inform him of these new numbers.

o       Rush has a great item from WWDB, EIB's Philadelphia
associate, but he left his stuff of fax items back in his office.
The phone that should never ring rings, and Rush answers it, only
to find out that Bo has searched Rush's office and found nothing
there; thus, "Rush must have it all." Rush starts to suggest that
Bo look on the floor but then discovers the stack of missing
material underneath his other "stack o' stuff."

The program director of WWDB tells Rush that he heard from a
listener that Rush's TV show Friday saved his life. A tree fell
on this guy's house, crushing everything in one room.
Fortunately, the man had just left the room so that he could
watch Rush's TV show. Rush comments that his show does have
benefits above and beyond the marvelous entertainment that it
offers, and in this case it has saved one listener's life.

o       Rush has a great story from the Washington Post about how
wonderful it is that America finally has a President with a
"sensitive touch" who's not afraid to hug men. Rush promises to
read from this exciting piece of journalism later.

o       Rush had a great weekend, as he flew back home to Cape
Girardeau to attend his brother's birthday party. His brother,
David, is on the local city council and is involved right in a
controversy of some sort, and it has gotten so intense that one
half of the city council is trying to fire the other half of the
council that includes David and his supporters.

Thus, David's wife arranged to have him arrested by uniformed
cops, and because of the controversy within the city council,
David actually believed at first that the arrest was real. He
quickly caught on, though, when he was booked and the officers
started reading the charges - 40 years of crimes against the
citizenry of Cape Girardeau and against the whole of humanity.

o       Rush needs some help with a dilemma - he would like to
ask people's advice on his problem, but he can't because whenever
he does this, his problems no longer stay private. Bo suggests
that Rush ask his listeners for help, and Rush refuses to do so,
although he admits detailing the problem on the air would resolve
it fairly quickly.

o       Rush was talking with a friend recently about why NYC
School Chancellor Joseph Fernandez, who makes $300,000 a year and
has a great future ahead of him if he just does his job well,
would tie his career to something like the "Children of the
Rainbow Curriculum" that is aggravating so many parents.
Furthermore, why are so many people pandering to a segment of the
population which is so small; depending on the studies you use,
homosexuals comprise only about 2 to 10% of the population, so
why are so many people pandering so much in a political sense to
them?

Of course, this pandering also occurs with many other special
groups, but Rush is curious as to why the pandering to the gay
lobby is directed at the extremist factions of the movement.
Saturday's Washington Times had a story about how one of the
inaugural balls taking place next month is going to be a gay one,
and both Clinton and Hillary are reportedly planning to attend
it.

Rush's friend thought that this will really harm Clinton
politically, but Rush doesn't think that this will be the case -
this is the politically correct position, after all. Rush looks
at all of the other pandering that Clinton has done, and if that
stuff hasn't harmed him, why should this, especially given how
Clinton will have four years in which he can undo any damage that
may result.

Still, Rush has to wonder why Clinton is going to go to the `Gay
Gala' at all; why would he actively pander in such a public
manner to such a small segment of the population? Rush points out
that Fernandez has severely harmed his New York career with his
pandering to the homosexual community, so why would Clinton do
these things?

The only answer Rush has come up with is that this is one of the
things that good liberals must do in order to show that they are
good liberals, worthy of liberal support.

*BREAK*

Items

o       The EIB Network is getting overrun with requests for "The
Twelve Days of Clinton," and Rush plays a caller from the EIB
comment line who pitifully begs for this song. Unfortunately,
this caller's request goes on for too long and Rush can't play
the whole song during this segment, and so he promises to do so
during the next half-hour.

o       The Clinton economic summit is underway, with 300
business leaders meeting in Little Rock for a "two day touchy-
feely televised situation." Rush wants to know, though, why this
summit is necessary, given that most everybody agrees that the
country is experiencing a sustained recovery. What can these 300
people do during these two days?

Rush has done the calculations - if each person is given a chance
to speak, they will have only 70 seconds each. This is not much
time, especially given the way many of these pseudo-intellectuals
like to speak. Thus, isn't this summit just nothing more than a
giant show and parade?

Rush also wants to know why Clinton needs to talk with these guys
since he has already spelled out in detail his economic program;
throughout his campaign Clinton said that he had the plans, the
programs, and the agenda to solve the country's problems. This is
yet another example of liberalism's love for symbolism over
substance, and it thus appears that it doesn't matter what these
people do - the important thing is that "they are there."

"Grab your wallets," Rush suggests.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush notes that many of the people whose names Clinton
has recently released have not been cabinet-level appointments;
going this public with sub-cabinet appointments has never been
done before, but Clinton is doing it to show that he is following
through on his promise to make his cabinet "look like America."
Rush promises some analysis of this later.

o       Rush plays the highly-requested "The Twelve Days of
Clinton" by "Loose" Bruce Kerr:

"On the first day of Clinton, he promised we will see a tax cut
for you and for me.

"On the second day of Clinton, he promised we will see two more
million jobs, and a tax cut for you and for me.

"On the third day of Clinton, he promised we will see three
liberal judges, two more million jobs, and a tax cut for you and
for me.

"On the fourth day of Clinton, he promised we will see four
balanced budgets, three liberal judges, two more million jobs,
and a tax cut for you and for me.

"On the fifth day of Clinton, he promised we will see five
folding wings of the Air Force. Four balanced budgets, three
liberal judges, two more million jobs, and a tax cut for you and
for me.

"On the sixth day of Clinton, he promised we will see six billion
in aid to students, five folding wings of the Air Force. Four
balanced budgets, three liberal judges, two more million jobs,
and a tax cut for you and for me.

"On the seventh day of Clinton, he promised we will see seven
days a week of health care, six billion in aid to students, five
folding wings (of the Air Force). Four balanced budgets, three
liberal judges, two more million jobs, and a tax cut for you and
for me.

"On the eighth day of Clinton, he promised we will see aid to
Somalia, seven days a week of health care, six billion in aid to
students, five folding wings (of the Air Force). Four balanced
budgets, three liberal judges, two more million jobs, and a tax
cut for you and for me.

"On the ninth day of Clinton, he promised we will see `nein' to
German competitors, aid to Somalia, seven days a week of health
care, six billion in aid to students, five folding wings (of the
Air Force). Four balanced budgets, three liberal judges, two more
million jobs, and a tax cut for you and for me.

"On the tenth day of Clinton, he promised we will see attention
to the deficit, `nein' to German competitors, aid to Somalia,
seven days a week of health care, six billion in aid to students,
five folding wings (of the Air Force). Four balanced budgets,
three liberal judges, two more million jobs, and a tax cut for
you and for me.

"On the eleventh day of Clinton, he promised we will see eleven
billion for Boris, attention to the deficit, `nein' to German
competitors, aid to Somalia, seven days a week of health care,
six billion in aid to students, five folding wings (of the Air
Force). Four balanced budgets, three liberal judges, two more
million jobs, and a tax cut for you and for me.

"On the twelfth day of Clinton, he promised we will see twelve
jobs for Hillary, eleven billion for Boris, attention to the
deficit, `nein' to German competitors, aid to Somalia, seven days
a week of health care, six billion in aid to students, five
folding wings (of the Air Force). Four balanced budgets, three
liberal judges, two more million jobs, and a tax cut for you and
for me."

o       A major "appointment" was over the weekend, but because
Clinton didn't announce it, the media didn't seem to care. Rush,
of course, is referring to Gino Torretta, Heisman Trophy winner.
In normal years, the Heisman Trophy winner would have been a
major news event, but not last weekend.

o       Rush notes that whenever he is covered by the mainstream
press, there will always be some references to his above-average
size. He thus wonders if this same technique can be done with
Robert Reich <<accent heavy on the "ch">>; the EIB staff doesn't
think this would be proper, and so a contrarian Rush decides that
from now on the new Secretary of the Labor Department will be
referred to as "the undersized Robert B. Reich."

Phone   Clancy from Walnut Creek, CA

Clancy thinks Clinton's economic summit parallels what Ross Perot
did in getting input from professors, college administrators, and
other educators when he became a partner in Next Computer - those
meetings were designed only to make people think they were really
involved, when in reality all of the planning had already been
done.

Rush calls that a "great idea and good thinking." He recalls how
Perot and Steve Jobs of Next Computer held a serious of meetings
in which they flew in educators from across the country,
supposedly to get their input on their new computer. However,
Jobs had already designed the computer and thus these meetings
were nothing but a high-scale sales job intended to get the
educators excited enough about the Next computer so that they
would really talk it up.

Clancy thinks that this is the same point with Clinton's summit -
these business leaders will go home, thinking that they are
actually participating in the economic planning of the country.
Rush adds that the television coverage of this event can also be
used to show the country that Clinton and his people "really
care." After all, why else would they be "involving" so many
business leaders in this "economic town hall."

Rush comments that syndicated columnist Paul Greenberg, long-time
Clinton nemesis who once wrote for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette,
has cleverly written about how the economic recovery has screwed
up Clinton's plans. Rush warns Greenberg that he had better get
his tax receipts in order since it may not be too long before he
will be investigated by the IRS. Greenberg writes the following:

"Nothing seems to throw the Clinton pre-administration like
prosperity. It's positively embarrassing. All during the Clinton
campaign, the criticism of the American economy came like an
unending barrage, but now in the unsettling wake of one promising
report after another, all is quiet on the fear and hysteria
front.

"I don't want to alarm anybody, but suppose the economy recovers
before the Clintonized theory machine makes it to Washington?
Supposed the sky isn't falling after all? Oh my, talk about an
emergency."

Rush says that Greenberg is exactly right, and it is nice to see
this stuff in the print media. Greenberg is also right in his
observation about prosperity throwing the Clinton administration
- this is why Clinton and Democrats in general have to criticize
the 80s, which was a period of pure prosperity without
liberalism. The Democrats have to make sure that the people never
want to return to these prosperous days because then the people
will not need liberals.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mike from North Caldwell, NJ

Mike wants to talk about the constitutionality of the US aid to
Somalia, and he's concerned that Congress hasn't even voted on
this. Even if Congress did vote for it, though, the Constitution
doesn't authorize this sort of activity. Rush says that the
Constitution doesn't prohibit it, but Mike says that the
Constitution allows the government to do only a few specific
things and he is worried at the attitude that allows the
government to do whatever it wants with taxpayers' money.

Rush says that this opens up a whole can of worms - does this
mean that the government cannot spend money on things like snail
darters? Mike says that the Tenth Amendment in particular
prohibits the government from assuming responsibilities that the
Constitution does not specifically grant. Rush, though, points
out that this doesn't mean that the people can make the final
decisions in the government.

The US people elect representatives to make their decisions for
them, and the individual people cannot micromanage the economy.
Besides, Somalia is Reagan's fault, according to Susan Rook on
last weekend's CNN Week in Review. Rush will comment more about
this during the second hour, but he first notes that even though
he flew all over the country last weekend, he still stayed
informed.

*BREAK*

Phone   Chris from Carmichael, CA

Chris wishes Rush would not take dangerous airplane rides since
if anything happened to him, there would be no one to take up the
EIB mantle. Rush says that Chris shouldn't worry since "they'll
run tapes."

Chris says that the gay lobby gave Clinton $3.5 million during
the primaries and general election campaign; the AIDS lobby also
gave him $1.2 million in donations. In return, Clinton has
promised to lift the ban on immigrants who are infected with the
HIV virus. This is a health issue, though, and thus Clinton has
advanced beyond the usual political practice of selling
ambassadorships, and is now selling policies.

Also, Clinton is lifting the ban on gays in the military - this
is not some deep conviction he has, but once again he has simply
sold the policy. Navy Times has reported that the gay lobby is
now trying to eliminate the mandatory HIV testing requirement for
all new recruits. The gay activists obviously do not care about
the effect that their plans will have on the military or any
other part of society.

Rush is not surprised - follow the money trail and you'll find
the reason for why people do what they do. However, all of this
stuff still does not seem to be hurting Clinton any, even though
Clinton's administration is supposed to be a model of ethics and
morality.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush says that the US is in Somalia to clean up a mistake
that Reagan made, at least according to CNN's Week in Review.
Rush points out that CNN did not specifically say that it was
Reagan's fault, but this inference was hard to avoid - CNN showed
a picture of Ronald Reagan shaking the hand of the former Somali
President, while CNN commented on how during the Cold War the US
and USSR competed to build a base in Somalia. The base was deemed
necessary at the time because each country wanted to be able to
defend its oil interests in the Middle East.

The Somalis did quite well during this competition, and the
dollars and rubles kept flowing in. However, when the Cold War
ended, and the US won, the competition for Somalia ended, and
there was no great need for any bases there anymore. This is when
a coup ousted the Somali President, and the warlord gangs took
over.

CNN thus wants to blame the entire current situation on the West,
given the prominence they gave to a picture of President Reagan
with the former Somali President. Evidently, the US should have
had the foresight not to win the Cold War, and thus Somalia would
not be starving today. Therefore Reagan is to blame for the
starving millions in Somalia, at least in the opinion of CNN's
Week in Review.

o       Rush suspects people are getting tired of hearing about
education and sex in schools, but he warns them that he is going
to be covering this subject all the more, given the type of
education that is going on right now. Rush commented last week
that he is stunned by the liberal logic that is being used.

For example, a San Jose principal is offended by how students are
playing with pencils that look like syringes, and so he's banned
these pencils. However, in other areas of the country, society is
distributing free, clean needles. Rush doesn't support playing
with toy syringes, but he doesn't think they will harm kids any
more than Super Soaker water guns, which are another great
example of liberal logic. When kids playing with water guns were
shot by guys with real guns, the liberals' answer was to get rid
of the toy guns, instead of getting the criminals who had the
real ones.

AIDS is another example - if this were any other fatal disease
that was spread by behavior, the disease would become a sanction
on that behavior. Yet because AIDS has been awarded its own civil
rights, the behavior that spreads it is now being encouraged, and
condoms are being given to our own kids.

Yesterday's NY Times reports that in spite of AIDS education and
warnings, American teenagers are having more sexual partners than
ever and thus are taking more risks. A study released by the Alan
Guttmacher Institute, which is an arm of Planned Parenthood,
reveals that 62% of sexually active girls between 15 and 19 have
had 2 or more sexual partners; a similar survey done in 1971
showed that only 39% had 2 or more partners. 4% of sexually
active girls 15 to 17 and 5% of those 18 to 19 had already had
more than 10 partners.

Things are changing, but not for the better. A spokeswoman for
the Guttmacher Institute said that this was not good news,
especially since students are also ignoring other sexually
transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea.

Rush points out that any time anyone tries to stop this trend by
altering kids' behavior, there are those who stand up and sputter
that this is an unrealistic approach and that kids will have sex
no matter what. But this survey shows that this isn't true - kids
are not always going to have sex, because 20 years ago they
weren't as sexually active as now. This shows that kids' behavior
can be changed; in this case it has changed for the worse, but
this can be reversed.

However, the liberals' answer to the dangers of sex is the
condom, which only sanctions the activity. Rush asks people to
imagine how many times the scenario occurs when Johnny and Mary
are out on a date, and Johnny wants to have sex. Mary doesn't
want to, but Johnny pulls out a school-issued condom, saying that
if it wasn't okay, the school wouldn't be issuing condoms.

Thus, promiscuous sexual activity is not inevitable; this is
risky behavior, given AIDS and other STDs, and it's a disservice
to the kids of America to tell them to do anything other than
what adults are currently practicing. Adults have learned to
modify their behavior, but for some reason kids are assumed not
to have this ability to change their behavior.

o       The Clinton economic team now includes Robert B. Reich,
Robert Ruben, Laura Tyson, and Roger Altman, all of whom come
from the "economic braintrust of Mario Cuomo." Some time ago
Cuomo put together a team of advisers called "The Commission on
Economic Competitiveness" to instruct him on economic policy
should he eventually decide to become President.

Laura Tyson, for example, comes from UC Berkeley, and has said "I
can't wait to put my theories into practice." She's an
academician who's never put her theories into practice, and thus
has no idea of the realities of the political world. Tyson, who
is head of Clinton's Council for Economic Advisers, is also
anti-free trade.

Carol Browner, chairperson of the EPA, is a disciple of Al Gore,
who, by the way, denies lobbying for her appointment. Browner is
an environmental extremist whose appointment does not bode well.
Donna Shalala is another liberal, but fortunately is not in
charge of education; instead she'll be going into Health and
Human Services.

Rush notes that Shalala would have been expected to head the
Education department, but Clinton decided to put her in charge of
an agency which she knows nothing about. Similarly for Reich -
he's an economist lecturing at Harvard, yet he's now in charge of
the Labor Department. Perhaps this is what Clinton means by
change - putting people in charge of departments they know
nothing about.

*BREAK*

Rush points out that the culture of the late 60s has finally
ascended to the Presidency. He comments that the story about
Clinton being a man who's "not afraid to hug men" indicates that
things are going to get worse; the dominant media culture, which
includes movies, magazines, books (with one major best-selling
exception of course), records, TV, etc., is run by people who
come from the Clinton generation.

These people prefer symbolism over substance, and they have
always made fun of things that conservatives hold dear. However,
up until now they've done so "out of power," but this has
changed. These guys now think one of their own is in the White
House, and so Rush suspects that the entertainment and news media
will become all the more effusive in 60s touchy-feely type
stories.

What's even worse is that the media will be permeated with a
"smug arrogance combined with a thoughtful glee." This will be
quite a change from their usual self-righteous anger, which is
what characterized these people when they thought they were out
of power (but really weren't).

Arrogance combined with power is one of the most disgusting of
combinations. Rush admits that he has a "tough time dealing with
arrogance," and he says "I cannot stomach pure undiluted,
concentrated, unadulterated pure arrogance - it rubs me raw far
more than any other human trait."

However, there is a bright spot to this - once these people
combine their arrogance with their smugness, "it's going to be
easy to despise them."

*BREAK*

Not much is being said about the oil spill off the coast of Spain
- 10 days ago a Greek oil tank ran aground and spilled 21.5
million gallons. Rush finds it curious that Greenpeace hasn't
been protesting the environmental destruction this spill has
caused, nor is anyone mentioning that it may take up to 10 years
to clean the spill. For that matter, nobody is even talking about
how this spill may alter the ecobalance of the Spanish coast
forever.

Rush finds it curious that this oil spill, which is twice the
size of the Valdez spill in Alaska, has not been given any
coverage like that given to the Valdez. Twice the amount of crude
oil has been spilled according to a story in today's NY Times,
but the Times' story is buried in its back pages and is in type
so small that Rush had to enlarge it with EIB's photocopiers just
so he could read it.

Rush finds this whole situation curious since after the Valdez
spill, the media was filled with stories attacking the US
capitalist system for letting this unprecedented environmental
disaster occur; Exxon was the scourge of the Earth, and America
was to blame.

Phone   Clark from Garden Grove, CA

Clark wants to talk about Somalia; President Bush wants to get
the US troops out of there in a couple of months, but Clark is
afraid that Clinton is going to escalate the US role to that of
one establishing a whole new government. If Clinton does this in
Somalia, then what about Bosnia, Ethiopia, or any other trouble
spot?

Rush wonders why Clark thinks that, and Clark said that he got
the idea when he saw the model Iman talking about how the US
couldn't stop at just feeding the people, but had to make sure a
new government was formed. Clark wonders what kind of government
Clinton is going to form - will it be a socialist democracy like
his advisers would love to implement?

Rush points out that Iman's comments show why she is "qualified"
to be Secretary of State - she's willing to criticize the US.
Some people don't think that Iman was being critical but Rush
disagrees; what other impression can people be left with when
Iman says that it's not enough for the US just to feed the
starving, but has to implement a peace process that establishes a
new government?

At the time, Rush was amazed that the US was being told to set up
a government by someone who probably would be one of the first to
protest if the US did this anywhere else in the world (such as
Nicaragua). However, Rush hasn't even considered whether Clinton
might want to establish a socialist government in Somalia, but
Clark thinks that the Communist threat in that region is not
over, and it's possible that Russia might yet turn back to
Communism.

Rush has no doubts that the Soviet Communists would love to get
back into power, but Yeltsin is holding his own for the moment.

Phone   Louis from Athens, TN

Louis gives "greetings from Al Gore's father's illegal dump
site." He also wonders about the economic summit, since he had
thought that it was impossible to get two economists, much less
300, agree on everything. Rush points out that 1) this is a
"retreat" not a summit, and 2) not all of the 300 are economists;
one guy, for example, is the owner of a small flower shop.

Louis is not impressed, but Rush says he'd rather have a meeting
of small businessmen instead of economists, elected officials, or
academicians any day. However, it should be remembered that this
retreat is nothing "but a bunch of smoke" in any case. Louis says
that he's already heard one attendee call for "more investment,"
which means taking more from the private sector.

Also, the head of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright
Edelman, has called for the US to "invest in families." This
Louis interprets as meaning that the government has to destroy
the family even further.

Rush is surprised to heard that Edelman is at this event, and
wonders what the CDF's president is doing at an economic retreat.
He notes that Mrs. Hillary Clinton's <<"Hail to the Chief"
plays>> footprints are all over Clinton's pre-administration.
It's clear that this economic summit is a mistake, and that the
Clinton team has once again been trapped by symbolism over
substance. They're asked what they are going to do at this
meeting, but they have no answer.

There is no agenda for this meeting, nor is there any goal; the
only thing that really matters is that they are meeting. It's
interesting that Mickey Kantor, who is not well liked by Hillary
Clinton <<"Hail to the Chief" plays>>, was in charge of the guest
list, which means that he's the one who will receive the flak
from all of those who weren't invited.

Clinton and his team were trapped into doing this summit; their
first mistake was announcing that they were going to have the
summit, and now they have to follow through with it, regardless
of whether it means anything. Rush recalls how the peace movement
during the 80s thought it was important to "talk" with the
Soviets. Yet, Reagan beat the Russians by not talking to them
until it was time. Liberals, though, didn't understand this, and
thought that because their symbolism wasn't present, the world
was doomed.

Thus, this summit is just more symbolism - nothing is going to be
achieved, but at least everyone is going to "talk." Clinton,
though, doesn't have any agenda for these two days, and no clear
goal in mind. Yet to liberals, talking is enough because it's the
symbolism that matters.

*BREAK*

Phone   Dwight from Preston, ID

Dwight has an article from the December 14th Air Force Times -
AIDS activists have sent 50 recommendations to Clinton, and one
of them is the elimination of "unnecessary and discriminatory"
mandatory AIDS testing for new recruits. Rush says that if
Clinton does end the mandatory AIDS testing, then it will hurt
Clinton because this will hurt the military.

Who will want to join the military with the knowledge that AIDS
testing is going to be eliminated? This, though, goes back to the
debate that started when AIDS was first discovered - who's rights
will prevail, those who have the disease and wish to remain
anonymous, or those who don't have the disease and want to remain
uninfected?

People who are uninfected claim they have a right to know if
their doctor or dentist has the disease, but AIDS activists claim
that this knowledge violates the privacy rights of those who are
infected. In a volunteer army, though, the lack of AIDS testing
will cut down dramatically on those who will want to serve;
soldiers will not be willing to add the risk of AIDS onto every
other risk that they're going to be asked to assume.

Rush points out how the AIDS controversy rejects those common
sense approaches that would be accepted without question if this
disease had not acquired a whole slew of its own civil rights.

*BREAK*

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

The world's biggest distributor of condoms is none other than the
United States government; however, the US's Agency for
International Development has cut back on the number of condoms
being distributed and has also phased out the smaller of its two
sizes. The agency's officials can't explain why the smaller size
has been eliminated, but do insist it doesn't point out any new
"anatomical trend."

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

The Style section of today's Washington Post has a "sensitive and
loving" article about our new "hugging President," and Rush
babbles on for a bit in the typical multiculturalist manner until
the EIB staff decide that they can't take anymore and scream in
horror. Rush decides to go back to being his normal self and
reads some excerpts from the Post story:

"It's not a picture that's worth a thousand words, it's the
touch. Here's President-elect Clinton in post-election euphoria,
with his legs crossed Fred Astaire-style, his arm casually draped
around the shoulders of his friend, Paul Barry. Granted, Barry's
arms are at his sides, but he leans into Clinton appreciatively.
The viewer can't even see their faces, but Clinton's initiative
at conviviality is unquestionable, not to mention his comfort
with man-to-man touch.

"Without running the risk of being considered `touchy-feely,'
Clinton is known as a hugger of men and women. Simple handshakes
aren't enough for this man whose theme song easily could be that
of the Cotton Industries - `the touch, the feel, the fabric of
our lives.' Stacks of Clinton's press photofiles reveal his
penchant for togetherness. His peers get full bear-hugs or
shoulder squeezes, elderly people get a firm grip on the neck and
tight wrist-press. Babies get more than a kiss, as he holds their
heads with both hands and beams straight at them."

Rush wonders if this means Clinton holds onto these babies heads
so tightly that the kids grow up looking like their heads were
malformed in vises. Rush recalls that one baby did throw up on
Clinton, and unfortunately the EIB staff has been unable to find
any videotape of that historic event. Rush continues to read from
the Post story:

"He and Hillary routinely <<"Hail to the Chief" plays and Rush
politely asks his staff to grant him an exemption on the Hillary
theme music for the duration of this reading>> hold hands, a
universal sign of equality and involvement, and maybe concern for
slippery airplane stairs, and recently the television cameras
caught Bill giving Hillary a light stroke upward on her cheek, a
touching gesture half the female population would sell their
souls to have the men in their lives do just once, and not when
they have catsup on their faces."

Rush can't believe this is an actual story in the Washington Post
- half the female population is supposed to be begging for a
light stroke on their cheek, a la Bill Clinton. Rush notes "when
men try that it's called sexual harassment." Continuing on with
the story:

"Are Americans ready for a tactile President? Do they know how to
hug back? Since the beginning of recorded time, one of the most
powerful and intimate methods of communications is touching, and
in monkey and ape tribes, touch partners are more important than
sex partners and that goes far beyond the removal of parasites."

Rush is not surprised that this story has now turned to the
animal kingdom for models of perfect human behavior, although he
suspects that Clinton would not be flattered to learn that the
author of this story seems to think Clinton has learned from apes
and monkeys.

"What one does with hands, lips, trunks, arms, and legs carries
far more weight than a barrage of insults, eloquent speeches, or
poetry whispered in the air. The problem is that many of us,
unlike Clinton, have lost touch with touch. When the meaning of
touch is wrapped up and bogged down with our prejudices, fears,
and tight upbringing, the message gets garbled and
misinterpreted.

"A man who feels uncomfortable with his sexuality may be
uncomfortable with another man giving him a full hug at an office
Christmas party. A woman who has disclosed her problems to
another woman holds back from hugging or embracing her when they
meet for lunch because they fear too much intimacy."

Rush pronounces this story to be the "psychobabble of the year,"
"absolute, total nonsense," and "deranged discourse." Yet this is
supposed to be a flattering analysis of Bill Clinton, and is a
perfect example of how the 60s generation thinks it is coming
into power and therefore is celebrating with the usual
nonsensical symbolism.

Given the paranoia about sexual harassment nowadays, people in
general and men in particular can't go around hugging each other
out of fear of lawsuits. In fact, in some places men can get in
trouble by looking at women. Rush notes that CompuServe
subscribers can download this article from the Executive News
Service <<sigh - now you tell me, after I've typed it all in>>.

*BREAK*

Rush points out that Bill Clinton is just a young man, yet wackos
are coming out of the woodwork with their in-depth analyses of
"what this all means to all of us." He admits he's not upset with
this, since this kind of thing is going to make the next four
years a heck of a lot of fun, yet he is still incredulous at the
depth of meaning people are giving to a picture of Clinton with
his arm around a friend at the golf course.

Rush reads yet more from this Post piece, which quotes Judith
Hall, psychologist at Boston's Northeastern University and editor
of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior:

"The meaning of a particular touch is usually not intrinsic, but
it's context-defined. So there's a great deal of ambiguity behind
each touch."

Rush suggests that EIB get an immediate subscription to the
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, since the pictures alone would be
priceless material for him to use on his TV show. Perhaps Rush
will also start hugging everyone in sight on his TV show, just to
see if this does work and makes his show a better place. Hall
continues on to say:

"For example, many people believe that higher status people touch
lower status people. We need a lot of research on that, but let's
say that it is true. It could mean that they are dominating or it
could mean that they have more freedom to touch, but they are
expressing their liking of that person. Or it could be a bonding
to get rid of the distance between them. So it is very
ambiguous."

Hall also thinks it's important to know how culture influences
touch, and the story writes about a student of Hall's who was
from Puerto Rico. This student sat very close to Hall and put his
hand on her knee when he "happily talked about the day's lesson."
Hall was at first "freaked," but she realized that the student
was not acting in a sexual manner, but that this was "just the
way he did it in his culture." Hall adds "he was a very nice
boy."

Rush wonders if Hall would have had the same attitude if Clarence
Thomas had done this, and again says that if all of this kind of
stuff can come from a picture of a guy on a golf course, then the
next four years are going to be great.

Phone   Shirley from Ft. Wayne, IN

Shirley compliments both Rush and Bo - Rush is very intelligent
and logical, while Bo has a "great voice." She has been thinking
back on the election and Bush's campaign, and she can't shake the
feeling that Bush really didn't want to be President any more.
She had been waiting for Bush to get energized and enlivened, but
this didn't happen until the very end.

Rush says that many people have come to this conclusion because
they can't find any other explanation for Rush's behavior and the
way his campaign was fought. Rush doesn't know Bush that well,
but it was clear when Rush went to last week's White House
Christmas party that Bush was not happy he lost.

The day before the election, Rush gave a warm-up speech for Bush
in New Jersey, and Rush managed to talk with Bush, members of his
family, and James Baker III. The group was very up and positive,
and was feeling confident. Rush commented that Bush must be happy
that the campaign was almost over, but Bush replied that he
wouldn't mind if the campaign went on for a while longer. There
was definitely not a feeling of "boy, am I glad this is almost
over" anywhere in Bush or the members of his campaign.

Also, nobody in the campaign expected to lose by such a wide
margin, and this stunned the President and his people. Bush has
reportedly been depressed at times because of this. At last
week's Christmas party, the mood was somber because this year's
series of parties have become an opportunity to say farewell to
the President.

When Rush got his turn to speak to the President, Bush did not
appear happy at all that this was his last Christmas and that he
was leaving. The staff members who were in the line were also
very melancholy, so Rush can't believe that Bush simply didn't
want to continue in the job.

Shirley then wonders why Bush was so reserved throughout the
campaign and didn't try to "rev up the troops" until the very
last minute. Rush suspects that the Bush campaign got lulled into
a false sense of security because of Bush's high approval rating
after the Gulf War. Also, the Democrats didn't put their number
one guys into the race, and the Bush people didn't think they had
to be concerned about the Democrats' "B-team."

Furthermore, the Bush people never took Clinton seriously enough,
in part because Rush knew the economy wasn't as bad as Clinton
and Gore portrayed it. Bush therefore didn't act like the economy
was that bad, and thus he was an easy target for Clinton's
charges that he was out of touch and incapable of relating to the
people. Rush holds Shirley over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Shirley from Ft. Wayne, IN (continued)

Shirley appreciates that Rush could explain the unexplainable
about the Bush campaign since she didn't understand Bush's
lackluster performance during the debates. Rush says that it's
hard to be up when one is down 20 points in the polls, not to
mention that the campaign really didn't light any fires. Shirley
agrees - she waited for something to happen when James Baker came
onboard, but nothing happened. Rush notes that James Baker wasn't
ready to leave Washington and thus certainly didn't want Bush to
lose.

Shirley understands this more clearly now, and she wonders if the
leaders of the conservative faction of the Republican party were
somewhat responsible for Bush's loss. Rush recalls that some
conservatives thought that the best thing for the conservative
movement would be for Bush to lose, given that Bush was by no
means a conservative; these conservatives thus felt that it would
be easier to get a conservative into the White House in 1996 if
Clinton was elected in 1992. Now that all is said and done,
there's not too much sadness about Bush's loss among rock-ribbed
conservatives.

However, the press did their best for 12 years to get rid of
Reagan and Bush. Thus, just because some conservatives didn't
help Bush doesn't mean they are responsible for his loss. The
election was Bush's to win, and when the people go into the
ballot box they vote for the candidate, not the miscellaneous
leaders of the conservative movement.

For example, Roseanne Barr has savagely attacked the critics who
disparaged her husband's new TV show; the bottom line, though, is
that people will watch the new show if they like it, not because
the critics did or did not like it and not because Tom Arnold is
or is not Roseanne's husband.

Certainly the people were convinced that the economy was the
worst in 50 years, but this was the culmination of 12 years of
negative reporting. However, if Bush had campaigned more strongly
and more vigorously, he could have won the election with or
without the help of conservatives such as George Will.

Another example of this is Dennis Miller, whose talk show bombed
out. Miller blamed Jay Leno and others for blackballing him and
keeping him from getting good guests. In reality, though, the
reason Dennis Miller bombed was because people didn't like Dennis
Miller.

Rush notes that this is not a cut on Dennis Miller, but the
problem many Hollywood talk show producers have is that because
Johnny Carson is a comedian, they think any comedian can be a
talk show host; they don't stop to consider how well this or that
person can talk. Dennis Miller did great stand-up routines, but a
talk show is about talking, and it's the host who defines his
show.

The same thing happens in politics - the important thing is the
candidate, and it doesn't matter who is supporting the candidate
if the candidate is not someone the people want. Shirley
understands that and thanks Rush for explaining these things.

*BREAK*

Rush has gotten Barbara Chenault Law to update her opera bump
once again:

"We love to hear Rush Limbaugh, Excellence in Broadcasting, from
sea to shining sea, over 14 million listen. Conservative voice of
freedom, heard throughout America, a message, pure and truthful.
God bless you, Rush Limbaugh.

Phone   Steve from Beaver Falls, PA

Steve hears Rush talking about the "60s people," and Rush says
he's referring to the "Volkswagen Bus Peace Crowd." Steve doesn't
think there are that many of these people around, but Rush points
out they are running the colleges and media now. Steve admits
this is true.

Rush doesn't think all of these people are associated with
Clinton, but the 60s holdouts do think that Clinton is one of
their own and thus are celebrating his election. Steve agrees
with that, and is glad that Rush wasn't implying that everyone
from the 60s crowd is a Clinton supporter.

Steve is 43 and was drafted in July, 1969, along with a lot of
his friends; he notes that most of his friends won't admit they
voted for Clinton. Rush says that six out of ten people didn't
vote for Clinton, and again points out that when he refers to the
"60s people" he's talking about the counter-culture that was
symbolized by Patty Hearst, the SLA, flower children, and so
forth.

Today's New York Times also has a story that will sicken those
who voted for Clinton because he would get them free health care.
The Times reports that Clinton's team is considering taxing
health care as income. Right now, health care packages are a
tax-free benefit to the employee, and companies can deduct the
costs of these benefits.

Under Clinton's plan, though, workers will be taxed on all or
part of these benefits, which will be counted as straight income.
Since there is no withholding done on these benefits (at least
not yet), workers will thus have to write a check on April 15th
to pay this new tax (or see their tax refund shrink by a
corresponding amount). Also, the company will no longer be able
to deduct their health care expenses, but will have to treat them
as normal payroll expenses.

Thus, the worker is going to pay for his health care, one way or
another. People think the government will pay for all this, but
who is the government if not the taxpaying citizen? If people
want a hint of things to come, they should look at New York; NY
tax collectors are driving around New Jersey and Pennsylvania
shopping malls, writing down the license numbers of cars that
have NY plates. The NY tax offices then send out letters to these
people, "reminding" them that they still have to pay NY sales
taxes on their out-of-state purchases. These guys are even
threatening to check shoppers' credit card receipts.

The moral is simple - as far as the government is concerned, it's
bad when the consumer benefits, and thus the consumer has to be
punished for their good fortune.

*BREAK*

Rush was just informed that he made the Top Ten List of Most
Boring Celebrities. Rush admits that he is a boring guy, but
finds himself in some rather strange company: Madonna, Woody
Allen, Ice T, Spike Lee, the Royal Family, and Jerry Brown.

Phone   Tory from Long Beach, MS

Tory heard that the ashes of Mount Pinatubo's eruptions have
resulted in brighter sunsets as well as temperatures a good 1 to
2 degrees lower world-wide. Rush says that this is true, but the
global warming scare-mongers say that this doesn't matter since
this news means global warming has only been delayed, not
stopped.

The more interesting thing about Mount Pinatubo is that NASA just
put out a story claiming that all ozone destruction is due to
man-made CFCs, and that volcanoes such as Mount Pinatubo have had
nothing to do with this "problem." However, a group of other
scientists have reported that there is no ozone depletion and
that these scares are just a hoax. NASA, though, insists that the
ozone hole over Antarctica has become a "black hole" that is
sucking the ozone out of the rest of the world's atmosphere.

Rush notes that one way to explain these conflicting stories is
that it is once again budget time in Washington, and government
organizations like NASA have to scramble to come up with reasons
why they should get more money.

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