From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Thu 10/15/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Thursday, October 15, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 02:34:35 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, October 15, 1992

by John Switzer

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October 15, 1992

NEWS

o       Today's Los Angeles Times reports that this season's
syndicated TV shows as a rule are receiving lower ratings than
their lead-in shows. The Times reports that "`You Bet Your Life,'
`The Whoopi Goldberg Show,' `Rush Limbaugh,' `Star Search,'
`Vicki!,' `Infatuation,' and `That's Amore' are all receiving, on
average, lower ratings than their lead-in programs" in the top 25
US markets.

However, the Times notes that "Limbaugh has been the only one to
show any growth at this early juncture," plus Rush's show has
"come the closest to meeting his projected numbers." Multimedia
Entertainment sold the show to its advertisers promising a 3
rating, and it produced a 2.9 rating for the week ending Oct 4,
up from its 2.5 rating two weeks before.

Whoopi Goldberg's show, however, has taken a drop of 0.5 points
since its debut, with a current to-date rating of 2.3; Whoopi's
show is produced by Genesis Entertainment, which says that it
will have to give "make-goods" (free advertising time) to some of
its advertisers. The LA Times notes that "critics have called the
late-night talk show boring, despite big-name guests." Goldberg
is reportedly revamping her show.

MORNING UPDATE

The 1980 and 1984 landslide victories for Ronald Reagan have been
attacked by liberals who claimed that the people were not paying
attention to the issues; instead, they were simply taken in by
Reagan's slick marketing and packaging. Rush at the time and even
now says this is flat-out wrong. Reagan was elected because
people liked his issues - 1) lower taxes, 2) stop the Communists,
and 3) restore the American military. People liked what they
heard, and the reason they elected Reagan was that they always
vote the issues in Presidential elections.

In 1992, however, Rush is a bit befuddled because his theory
doesn't seem to be panning out. If people were voting for the
issues now, Clinton would still not be leading in the polls. Many
people claim that they are tired of how the campaign is being
sidetracked and that the issues are not being talked about. Yet,
this campaign has been about issues, but no one seems to care.

Nobody seems to be casting their vote for Clinton based on the
issues, because if they were they'd realize that Clinton is the
biggest supporter of big government who has come down the pike in
the last 20 years. This election is not about the issues, but
about change. People are not excited about Clinton or what he
will do for the country; they just want to get rid of Bush. If
this is true, however, then it is a big mistake, and Rush begs
his listeners to remember who has told them this.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush is suspicious - Tony Lo Bianco is the broadcast
engineer today and he's wearing a suit. Rush wonders if President
Bush or Norman Schwarzkopf is planning to drop by.

o       Rush congratulates Jim and Connie Barnes of Sacramento,
CA who are the new parents of their first child, Jennifer Lynn
Barnes, born yesterday. Rush says that Jim Barnes is the
executive producer of the Rush videos, as well as a good friend.

o       Yesterday Rush refused to name the Arizona teacher who is
playing tapes of his show during lunch detention even when school
officials called EIB to find out who she is. The teacher has sent
Rush a note saying that she and her students were thrilled that
they were mentioned on the air, and they thank Rush for keeping
their identities secret so that they can continue their Rush Room
practice.

o       Amy Pagnazi has called Rush "an ornery ozone-sucker" in
her column in today's NY Post. The theme of Pagnazi's column is
that Gore blew it in the VP debates by not pinning Quayle down on
environmental issues. She claims that Bush and Quayle, "abetted
by that ornery ozone-sucker Rush Limbaugh," have given
environmental issues lip service by implementing only "limp-
wristed" regulations.

Rush promises to talk more about environmental issues, especially
as things are yet again getting mischaracterized. However, Pete
Hamill also has a column in today's NY Post in which he attacks
Republican "chicken hawks." Hamill thinks it is inexcusable to be
investigating Clinton's past, and he writes "but now they insist
the war should have been fought as long as it was by others.
`They' include Richard Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Rich
Bond, Pat Buchanan, and other Republican bravos."

Rush says that people are missing the whole point of Clinton's
role in the Vietnam War peace movement, and he promises to
explain more later in the show.

o       Labels of "fascism" and "nazi" are being thrown against
Senator Alfonse D'Amato by his opponent, Robert Abrams, and
Abrams' supporter Gloria Steinem. Rush is amazed that nobody is
challenging Steinem on any of her hate-filled, extremist
allegations. Yet should anyone even think about looking into
Clinton's background, they are attacked for "Willy Hortonism."

o       In 1991 Ross Perot paid 6.8% of his income in taxes; the
average tax rate for the entire country is 11%. Perot paid $15.8
million in taxes on his $230.4 million income; he managed to do
this by heavily investing in tax-free municipal bonds. "That's
pretty good," Rush remarks.

o       Rush is planning to be in Kansas City this weekend to
appear at a rally for his brother's good friend and former
partner, David Steelman, who is running for Attorney General.
Next weekend, Rush will be in Atlanta to help out Newt Gingrich's
re-election efforts.

o       Rush has to admit that he feels sorry for the Pirates,
who lost their seventh play-off game in the bottom of the ninth,
after leading the Braves throughout the game. "It just snuffs out
your heart" to get so close and then to lose it at literally the
last minute. Rush was privately pulling for the Pirates, many of
whom are fans of his.

However, Rush loved watching "great liberals" such as Ted Turner,
Jane Fonda, and Jimmy Carter doing the Tomahawk Chop. Native
Americans, of course, say that the Tomahawk Chop is setting back
the gains they have made in recent years. Rush, though, had
thought that a few setbacks would be welcome since Indian
activists seem to want to set society back to the times before
Columbus.

o       Rush took calls only from Clinton supporters during the
last hour of yesterday's show, and he plans to do this again
today. He finds the reasons being given for supporting Clinton to
be fascinating and he hopes regular listeners aren't offended at
being excluded. Clinton voters will also be featured on the TV
show tonight and tomorrow night.

o       Bush has got 19% of the New York City vote compared to
Clinton's 71% share. People are now blaming Bush for New York's
economic problems, and Rush promises some "hip-deep" analysis.

*BREAK*

Pete Hamill's column about the "chicken hawks" is just another
liberal attempt to confuse people on what conservatives really
believe. The Democrats have successfully obfuscated the meaning
of trickle-down economics and now are trying to obscure what
conservatives really believe about war.

Liberals have always portrayed conservatives as people who love
war and love seeing people die. This was their complaint about
Reagan - he would send the sons of America's poor off to die.
Conservatives, though, don't like war, but at least they
understand what war is about - killing people and breaking
things. When war is necessary, then it should be fought to win,
which is why the Vietnam War is regarded as a failure - the US
lost.

War is always the last option for conservatives, but
conservatives know that there are some times when war becomes
unavoidable and must be fought. The Gulf War was the country's
last option, but when it had to happen, the US fought to win and
to get the war over with as soon as possible. Conservatives don't
like war, and want to end it and its horrors as quickly as they
can. This is why leaders such as Schwarzkopf are honored, not
because they are bloodthirsty warmongers, but because they
understand the true nature and horrors of war.

However, when Clinton says he was opposed to the war, what does
he mean - was he opposed to the way the war was fought or to what
the war was being fought about? If Clinton opposed the way the
war was fought, then Rush would agree with him - LBJ built up US
military forces to 500,000 but these soldiers weren't allowed to
do what they needed to win.

However, if Clinton opposed what the war was all about, then Rush
has a serious disagreement with him about this. All one has to do
is to look at what happened when the US lost the war and pulled
out - hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people were
slaughtered in Cambodia. Stopping the tyranny of Communism was a
worthy goal.

*BREAK*

Rush just found out that his book will be number one on the NY
Times best-seller list for October 28th; this makes the fifth
week in a row that Rush's book has appeared on the list.
Schwarzkopf's book is number 2 on the list while the new Kennedy
expose book is at number 10. Rush remarks that the well-oiled
Kennedy machine "hit the road and did a good job of killing that
book."

Rush comments that he has been studying the NY Times best-seller
lists and this is the first time in about three years that the
best-selling non-fiction hardback has not been about menopause.
"It's a beautiful thing," he proudly states.

Rush recalls that Johnny Mathis' Greatest Hits record was on the
Hot 100 album list for over 400 weeks, which is an incredible
accomplishment.

Phone   Geno from Tampa Bay, FL

Geno gives dittos from the "soon-to-be home of the Tampa Bay
Giants." Rush is reminded of a friend of his who just visited
Russia. The friend took his camcorder and asked Russians what
they thought about the Giants moving to St. Petersburg; slightly
bewildered Russians thought it "would be great for both of our
countries."

The friend also asked "what do you think of Rush Limbaugh" and
filmed the resulting blank stares. However, when he asked the
people what they thought about Gorbachev, many Russians became
livid with rage. Rush's friend also took along some copies of
Rush's book and placed it in conspicuous locations in Russian
bookstores. Rush promises to show some of this footage on his TV
show.

Geno is an ex-Republican party aide and worker, and he is
concerned that the Republican party along with Bush has dug
themselves into a hole. When Geno worked for the party, it was a
"cloth coat party" but now has become a "mink coat party" that no
longer represents the average person. GOP officials are now
wining and dining the top CEO executives and giving them
everything they want, including the S&L bailout.

Rush says that Geno is pretty close on this, but the S&L problems
are bipartisan. Geno knows this but wonders why the Republican
administrations of the past 12 years haven't been investigating
the S&L crooks. Rush says that the GOP administrations have been
prosecuting these guys, and some of them have gotten longer jail
terms than violent criminals.

Geno never sees anything about this in the papers, and Rush asks
him whose fault is it if the media doesn't report these stories.
Geno, though, thinks that the Bush campaign should be touting
their record in this. Rush wonders if this would matter a hill of
beans to most people.

Rush admits, however, that Geno is very close with his remarks
about the Republican party - the GOP, under Ronald Reagan, was
the party for the middle class. Bush came in, though, and all of
that changed. Geno, though, says that junk bond dealers were
"running amuck" when Reagan left. Rush doesn't think junk bonds
are an evil manifestation; without junk bonds, CNN would never
have been started. Some junk bonds were worthless, but they
allowed many businesses to get their initial financing.

Geno thinks that a lot of southern Democrats who supported Reagan
are now going back to the Democrats or Perot; in 1980 they didn't
like the liberal "bullcrap" but now they don't like how the
Republican party seems to be a shill for the wealthy. Rush agrees
that this is the popular image of the GOP today, but there are
still a lot of people in the party who are frustrated at its
patrician image. Regardless of how the 1992 elections go, there
will be a four-year battle over the soul of the Republican party.

This is good news, though, because it means that the Republican
party will get a decent identity and be able to refute the
charges that it cares only about the "fat cats." Bush is being
tarred with this same brush, but it definitely is not true with
him; however, he just seems to have a problem in communicating
what he really believes.

Rush, though, was discouraged about a year ago when he saw Quayle
speak at a Republican luncheon, and the audience looked nothing
like the people who showed up while Reagan was President. Instead
of working people and young people, everyone there fit the
patrician image that has become the cliche for the GOP. There is
work to be done in this, so that the Republican party can again
become the party for everyone, especially the middle class.

*BREAK*

Update  Feminist         (The Forester Sisters, "Men" with "in
	your face" slogan plus the patented Hillary cackle with
	the violent mooing, grunting, and meowing of feminazi
	cows, pigs, and cats)

Rush tells Lo Bianco that he should stop editorializing with the
cows, pigs, and cats; however, the Hillary cackle is acceptable
for a feminist update. Going on to the update, there are two
items today:

o       Roscoe Bartlett, a Maryland Republican, has called
"regrettable" his use of the term "feminazi" to describe women
who want tougher sexual harassment laws. A story in yesterday's
Morning Herald in Hagerstown reports that Bartlett made the
comment during a debate on Monday at Mount St. Mary's College,
and Bartlett says that he "borrowed the term from Rush Limbaugh."

Rush points out that people have to leave these sorts of things
to the professionals. The only reason Bartlett is in trouble is
because he misused the word - a feminazi is not the same thing as
a feminist, but rather one of those few feminists who believe
that abortion is the most important thing in their lives.
Feminazis get mad when a pregnant woman decides to have the baby
instead of having an abortion.

o       NOW president Patricia Ireland spoke Tuesday at a noon
rally at Santa Rosa, CA. The newspaper presents the story as if a
huge crowd appeared, yet only 50 people showed up. Rush comments
that more people show up for his TV show than for an appearance
by Ireland.

*BREAK*

Kathleen Baylog, an Upland, CA woman, has filed a lawsuit against
Bill Clinton because the prospect of having a draft-dodger and
Communist sympathizer as President is causing her "emotional
distress." She is suing for an unspecified amount of money.

Rush laughs at this and praises America for being a great
country. Because of this news he doesn't think the country should
get rid of the lawyers just yet; instead, this lawsuit should be
taken care of first, and then the lawyers should be eliminated.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush says that he wants to dedicate another hour to callers who
are voting for Clinton because he wants to prove his point - that
people are not voting according to issues this year. One
candidate after another in the primaries based his campaign on
running against Washington, Congress, and government - Perot,
Jerry Brown, Buchanan, etc. Yet in November the nation may elect
someone, Bill Clinton, who is the epitome of big government and
politics as usual.

Clinton has a good 30-point lead in New York state and a 50-point
lead in New York City. Certainly New York City is the capital and
mecca of liberalism, but the real reason for Clinton's lead is
that New York has been in bad shape for decades. Democrats are
now claiming, though, that the Reagan and Bush economic plans
have cost New York state 43% of all jobs lost in the country
during the past four years.

Rush wonders how any President can penalize a particular state?
How could Bush implement a program to cost New York its jobs?
Could it possibly be that the reason New York has problems is
because it has been run by liberals for decades? Every liberal
dream has come true in New York - could this have something to do
with it?

Could Mario Cuomo or David Dinkins possibly be doing something
wrong? Could New York's tax and spend liberalism be responsible
for the state's job losses? New York is the self-proclaimed
intellectual capital of the world; wouldn't these people be smart
enough to tell what's happening if two guys in Washington
targeted them for misery?

Maybe the economic mess in New York has been heightened by New
York Democrats and not Reagan or Bush? Robert Abrams is running
against Senator Alfonse D'Amato on the basis that the US needs to
be better able to compete with Germany and Japan. Abrams thinks
America is losing the world economic battle, but this is not
true. Yet how can New York compete with Germany when it can't
even compete with North Carolina or Mississippi?

New York has the "most intelligent" people in the country, yet
they are being outproduced by "hayseeds" in Mississippi and
Wisconsin. Abrams claims America doesn't work, yet liberalism is
what produces an America that doesn't work. People are going to
have to simply wake up before it is too late.

*BREAK*

Phone   Lou from Phoenix, AZ

Lou wonders why "voodoo economics" should be more acceptable
today than it was 12 years ago when Bush coined the term to
describe Reagan's trickle-down theories. Rush says that Bush is
not talking about trickle-down economics during the current
campaign. Lou wants to know, though, why Bush as Reagan's Vice
President suddenly started to support it; why is trickle-down
economics acceptable today?

Rush says that Bush was wrong in 1979 and 1980 because trickle-
down economics did work. Lou says that the prosperity in the
1980s was based on war because of Reagan's military spending.
Rush says that military spending has nothing to do with
encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit and letting people invest
and create their own jobs.

Lou asks if Bush can change his mind on certain subjects, then
why can't Clinton change his mind after he enters office? Rush
says that Bush was wrong to attack trickle-down economics, but
Bush was wrong to flip-flop in the first place. This never helps
politicians win their races. Lou, though, thinks that politicians
are made up of flip-flops; this is how they are defined.

Rush says that Bush is in trouble right now because of his flip-
flops; people don't know what he really thinks about certain
things. However, just because Bush has some problems, that
doesn't mean the people should elect Clinton, who is known to
have flipped-flopped on almost every issue.

Rush wonders if Lou is supporting Perot, but Lou says that he
wouldn't vote for Perot because he's "another Mussolini." Lou
suspects that he'll vote Libertarian if anything. Rush says that
it will be interesting to see if the Libertarians do any better
this year than they usually do.

Phone   John from Cape Coral, FL

John read an article in US News and World Report by John Leo
about "Here Comes the Wild Creatures." Leo talks about
Pennsylvania's governor Robert Casey who was called a "sexist,"
"racist," and "homophobe" by gay rights activists recently; yet
Casey has awarded a lot of contracts to businesses owned by
minorities and women, not to mention that his health care program
is a model for the rest of the country.

Rush says that the reason liberals oppose Casey is because he is
pro-life. John says that one woman from the Village Voice is
quoted as saying that Casey should not have been allowed to speak
at the Democratic convention because he is the liberal equivalent
of Jerry Falwell; she added that anyone who is pro-life is no
different than a "nazi."

Rush points out that this shows how liberals are all for protest,
the First Amendment, and opposing views until someone starts
protesting and disagreeing with them. Liberals are running out of
substance really fast anymore, as evidenced by their free use of
the term "nazi." These people are "moral vagrants" who are trying
to redefine society so that what they do is perceived as
"normal." Rush promises to say a bit more on this after the
break.

*BREAK*

Update  Feminist         (The Forester Sisters, "Men" with "in
	your face" slogan and the patented Hillary cackle)

Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) is being subjected to an
incredible amount of sleaze and disinformation. If you listened
to the liberals, you would think that they never resort to
negative campaigning, hate words, or sleaze; only Republicans do
such heinous things, of course. However, D'Amato's opponent
Robert Abrams called him a "fascist," which is a particularly
offensive term to the Italian D'Amato. Abrams apologized to
Italians for his use of the term, but insisted that "fascist" is
an accurate description of D'Amato's "misleading and disruptive
campaign tactics."

This is not what fascism means, and Abrams obviously has no idea
of what the term means. Rush recalls how he was once called a
fascist on the Donahue show, but the idiot caller was unable to
define what he meant by the term. A number of people, however,
have come to the defense of both D'Amato and Abrams, and one of
those supporting Abrams is feminist leader Gloria Steinem.

Gloria Steinem said that she is supporting Abrams because D'Amato
is indeed not only a fascist but an outright nazi as well.
Steinem stated "D'Amato's anti-abortion positions exactly
replicate those of the Nazis. The first thing the National
Socialists did when they were elected to power between the wars
in Germany was to padlock the family planning clinics and to
declare an abortion a crime." Steinem has also previously said
that the "patriarchal society" in America is based on Nazi roots.

The media presents Steinem as a responsible leader, which should
explain why Rush has found it necessary to come up with terms
like "feminazi." Steinem evidently knows nothing about history.
Adolph Hitler and his Nazis embarked on a program of selective
murder, determining who was fit to live, killing those who were
"unfit."

Rush asks who is pursuing a similar course in America today - is
it the pro-life community who thinks everyone should be given a
chance at life, or the pro-choice community which reaches into
its little black bag to pull out all sorts of reasons why babies
should be aborted - they may be unwanted, they might suffer, they
may be abused, they might be poor?

This selective, selfish decision-making as to who lives or who
dies certainly is a closer match to what happened in Nazi Germany
than anything the pro-life crowd is doing. Yet the press doesn't
challenge Steinem, nor is anyone upset about her remarks. Why
isn't Abrams bothered that one of his most prominent supporters
is someone who has gone off the deep end?

Yet, if Clinton really is ahead 50 points in New York then Abrams
and Steinem really aren't that much different from the New York
mainstream. Nevertheless, it is still boggling that a group of
people whose overriding concern is to give everyone the same
right to life is now being compared to the most murderous regime
in the modern world. Rush asks those members of his audience who
consider themselves to be feminists if Gloria Steinem really is
speaking for them.

*BREAK*

Phone   Charlie from Atascadero, CA

Charlie thinks Bush should point out the trickle-down effect of
military spending during tonight's debate. Also, a little
economic hardship is a small price to pay for world peace. Rush
has heard this before; also, the Washington Post reported this
week that the deficit this year is going to be only $290 billion
instead of the predicted $400 billion. The reason for the smaller
amount is because of smaller costs for the S&L bailout.

This is still not small change, but it's not that much more than
Reagan's largest deficit, and it shows how strong the economy
really is. All things also have a price, but now that the 50
years of the Cold War have ended, people are forgetting what
those years of tension and strife were really like. People always
tend to take things for granted, however.

Charlie says that his sister-in-law thinks Rush looks much better
today than he did eight years ago. at least according to the
picture of him with George Brett in Time magazine. Rush
appreciates that comment and thanks Charlie and his sister-in-
law.

Rush points out that he will be taping two television shows
tonight, and so callers who want to be on Friday's show can call
today 5:15 to 7:00 p.m. EST. The phone number to call is 212-
397-7367.

Rush is particularly interested in hearing Clinton supporters
explain why they are going to vote for Clinton. One caller got
last night told Rush that Clinton was going to create jobs; Rush
asked how, and the caller replied "you just wait and see!"

Phone   Mark from Union Town, PA

Mark is a liberal who used to be a Kingaholic, but he now is a
convert to Rush. Rush tries to make Mark feel at home by shouting
"What's the question!?!" Mark appreciates that, but says that
even though he is a liberal, he is against Clinton because
Clinton is not the best choice the Democratic party could have
made. He doesn't see how he can support Clinton now when he
supported Jerry Brown during the primaries.

Rush asks Mark what who he is planning to vote for, and Mark
replies that he may vote for Bush or Perot. Mark regrets that
Brown shot himself in the foot by naming Jesse Jackson as his VP
candidate; he bets that Brown could have won the NY primary if he
hadn't done this. Rush says that Brown was never even close to
winning in NY; the NY press just blew Brown out of proportion in
an attempt to make news and to attack Clinton, who at the time
they did not want to win.

*BREAK*

Phone   Tom from Quimby, IO

Tom is afraid that Rush may be giving Clinton an excuse for his
draft status by saying that Clinton could claim he was against
the way the war was fought. Rush says that this wasn't his point
- the war protestors claimed that the war itself was wrong, but
the war was not wrong, it was the way the war was fought that was
wrong.

Clinton was opposed to the war itself, yet the war was fought to
stop the Communists, something the US finally did in spite of
peace protestors who travelled to Moscow "to make friends" with
the Soviets. The peace protestors claimed to love the native
people of Vietnam and Cambodia, yet these people were slaughtered
by the millions when the US lost and pulled out. Rush therefore
doesn't see how Clinton can possibly defend his peace protesting
days.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

A Congressional committee is probing charges of illegal links
between the 1988 Bush campaign and the independent group that
made the Willie Horton ad. CBS News reports that the FEC received
an anonymous tip that the woman who was part of the group that
developed the ads may have been given newspaper clippings about
Horton from a researcher for the 1988 campaign.

Rush wonders why there should be a problem even if there is a
link, especially since the Willie Horton ad only told the truth.
This whole story, with its anonymous tip, smacks of the same
tactics used against Clarence Thomas, and there's obviously a
clear double standard going on.

The Democrats are doing with Willie Horton what they are trying
to do with the successes of the 80s - they are trying to rewrite
history and intimidate into silence anyone who disagrees with
them. Rush wonders why there isn't an investigation going on into
Abrams' charges of "nazi" against D'Amato; he is incredulous that
a Congressional committee is investigating this matter.

"It's the same old truth," Rush states. "You can't tell the truth
about Democrats - you do that, look out, they're going to try to
shut you up." If anyone is practicing nazism, it is Democrats who
continue to attack the people who put on an ad that told the
simple truth.

The Democrats, of course, are now crying "witch-hunt" over the
stories about a search through State Department files for
information on Clinton's peace protesting past. Rush has an
alternate theory, however. The Clinton campaign has already
created its own "bimbo eruptions division" to investigate the
claims any woman might make that she had an affair with Clinton;
thus, the Clinton campaign hired their own investigator to look
into their own candidate's peccadillos.

The State Department, however, is not run by Republicans, and is
instead filled with bureaucratic appointees from years past. Is
it possible that Clinton's group lifted the files themselves or
perhaps a Clinton sympathizer was responsible? This is at least a
good a possibility as what Clinton's people are claiming.

Update  Gorbasm         ("Theme from the Empire Strikes Back")

Mikhail Gorbachev denied yesterday that when he was President of
the USSR that he failed to disclose that Soviet leaders ordered
the execution of 14,000 Polish officers during WWII. "I didn't
hide anything that I knew," stated Gorbachev. The Russian
government, however, doesn't believe him, and thinks instead that
he was responsible for helping to spread Soviet lies.

Rush thinks we should perhaps call Gorbachev "Slick Gorby";
perhaps that was what Clinton was doing in Moscow in 1969 -
meeting with Gorbachev and giving him advice on how to get out of
tight situations.

Phone   Quentin from Kensington, MD

Quentin is voting for Clinton because of the "total decadence
that I've observed in the 12 years of the Reagan/Bush
administration." Quentin is a cab driver and a crisis
intervention specialist who thinks he has his finger on the pulse
of the country. Rush comments that Kit Carson talked to another
cab driver who was in favor of raising taxes on businesses and
Rush asks Quentin if he agrees.

Quentin replies that as a general rule, he is against raising
taxes on businesses. However, he's voting for Clinton because he
remembers seeing the soup lines in 1984 and they were a lot
shorter than they are now. Rush asks what Clinton is going to do
to shorten those soup lines.

Quentin ignores Rush's question, saying that he wants to talk
about the issues, and the issue is why should the country follow
Bush "down in a blaze." Quentin knows what Bush stands for, and
the Reagan/Bush prosperity was a short-lived flame. Businesses
are moving out of the country now.

Rush notices that everything Quentin has said so far has been
about what he doesn't like about the way things are. It seems
that Quentin is voting for Clinton solely because he wants to get
rid of Bush, which is what Rush suspected would be the case.

Rush asks what are the exact reasons that Quentin is going to
vote for Clinton. Quentin replies he doesn't want to see the
country killed quickly - the infrastructure of the country is
falling apart, and Quentin doesn't think that someone like Bush,
who doesn't even know what a supermarket scanner is, is really in
touch with the country.

Also, Bush's use of Willie Horton shows his hypocrisy, according
to Quentin. Bush is "very conservative when it comes to those
issues, but he's very liberal when it comes to all of that
corruption, including his son."

Rush thanks Quentin for calling, and again points out that it
seems Quentin's main motivation in this election seems to be to
get rid of Bush. Rush asks Quentin if he can name one thing that
Clinton will do to improve the country. Quentin answers that
Clinton will rebuild the infrastructure by providing jobs for
people; he can't provide specifics on Clinton's plans to do this,
but he remembers that Clinton did outline his program.

*BREAK*

Phone   Bridget from West Hartford, CT

Bridget started listening to Rush's show for the first time this
week, is 22, and just graduated from college with a degree in
business. She was raised as a Republican conservative, but is now
a "staunch" supporter of Clinton and Gore because she is still
jobless thanks to the recession in the Northeast.

Rush says that there is no doubt that there is a recession going
on, but is the President solely to blame for the Northeast's
problems? Bridget says that both Bush and Reagan are to blame
because their policies created a false prosperity that made this
recession inevitable. She predicted this would happen back in
1985 - "the Reagan years were inflated, phony wealth" created by
people using money they didn't have. Hartford was excessively
built up by developers who "sold their souls to the devils."
Thus, it's no surprise that this house of cards eventually
collapsed.

Rush says that the prosperity of the 80s was not phony; there are
always crooks around, but were all of the failed savings and
loans the result of criminal behavior? Rush doubts that more than
10 or 15% of the S&L failures were due to criminal behavior.
Isn't it possible that bad judgement was also to blame, and if so
how can Reagan and Bush be held responsible for that?

There's no doubt that recessions come in cycles, but the
prosperity of the 80s was not artificial. Bridget, though, still
thinks that Reagan was encouraging the economy to go out of
control by inflating the economy. Rush says that the 80s had the
lowest inflation rates in decades, and he holds her over the
break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Bridget from West Hartford, CT (continued)

Bridget says that during the 80s, everyone was encouraged to
spend all their money and use credit; now everyone has to pay
back the piper. She thinks Republicans and Reagan encouraged this
spending and credit. Rush doesn't recall Reagan or any other
Republican encouraging others to spend money; rather, they
encouraged people to earn more money by engaging in commerce.
Granted some people ran up debt, but this is not all bad. The 80s
were not a party whose bill is coming due now; the 80s were
genuine prosperity, and to blame Reagan for it is actually to
blame the American people for enjoying life too much.

Bridget, however, just graduated from college and is still
unemployed. She lived with a friend of hers, though, for a while
in the East Village, which "is not pretty." This was quite a
contrast to the upper middle class home and community she grew up
in, and she was shocked to realize that her "fantasyland" idea of
America as a "land of prosperity in which everyone is taken care
of" was wrong.

She lived in East Village for a month and saw children playing
with rats and glass in the gutters, with their 14-year old
mothers standing nearby. One day she went to the neighborhood
grocery store and the clerk asked if she would be paying cash.
Bridget assumed that the clerk was asking if she was going to use
a credit card, but she realized her mistake when the cash
register was opened and "there were food stamps there piled a
mile high."

"I had the audacity," states Bridget, "to come in from the upper
West Side and ask if I could charge my groceries. How dare I, as
an American citizen, be that out of touch with what is going on
in our country! That is no different than Mr. Bush one year ago
going into a grocery store and saying `oh, gee, isn't that cool,
these scanner things.' This man has not been in a grocery store
for 35 years. This man has no idea of how hard I had to work to
get through college."

Rush disagrees, and says that this is simply not true. It is not
correct to say that you have to do something in order to know
what it is. Rush doesn't have to be a drug addict, poor, or
homeless in order to know how bad those situations are. He says
that Bridget seems to be possessed with a lot of guilt that she
is blaming on Reagan, Bush, and the Republicans. He asks her what
she thinks Clinton will do to get those children out of the
gutter with the rats.

Bridget says that Clinton has a domestic policy and wants to do
something about changing things. Rush asks what Clinton is going
to do that hasn't already been done, to the tune of $2 trillion?
Bridget doesn't answer, instead saying "Mr. Bush has no idea of
what we, as average human beings in his country want or need, or
what our daily needs are."

Rush asks since when has the President become the provider of
one's daily needs? The idea that the President, Washington, and
the government can provide for people's daily needs is precisely
why the country has the problems it has right now - these
policies have created a class of dependent people who expect
everything in their lives to come from the government.

Rush states that the country has spent itself into debt, not
because of military spending, but because of social spending.
Bridget says "that's not true," but Rush disagrees - the country
has spent more on social programs than on defense for that past
20 years. Bridget wonders, though, how this country can give
"billions to Russia, billions - B-I-L-L-I-O-N-S - to Russia? We
need it right here! Those kids didn't eat that evening!" Rush
wonders how Bridget can think that the government is not doing
enough for the poor when she herself saw a cash register drawer
piled high with food stamps.

Bridget doesn't answer the question and Rush asks the question
again; he then asks how Bridget can blame Bush for her lack of
knowledge about food stamps. Bridget says that it is the
mentality of Republicans that she objects to - a mentality that
ignores the poor. Rush says that Republicans know the poor exist
and in fact want to help them, not with government programs, but
by teaching them how to access the opportunities for prosperity
that exist in America.

Bridget says "I think Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore have a very
specific domestic agenda. Granted, I will be the first one to
admit that I was going to vote for Perot first." Rush asks what
Clinton is going to do to help those kids in the gutter. Bridget
says that it bothers her that Clinton doesn't have any
international experience, but she thinks he is "far more in tune
with the American people."

Rush says that this may be so, but "this touchy-feely stuff
doesn't mean beans." Just because someone knows how you feel
doesn't mean that they can help you. He asks Bridget how long she
thinks it will take Clinton to solve these problems. Bridget
replies that Clinton's focus on this issue and his desire to make
America a superpower again will be enough. Bush claims the
country is not coming apart at the seams, but "yeah, we are" she
states.

She doesn't think it will be an easy four years under Clinton and
Gore, but she feels betrayed by Bush's administration, especially
with his many scandals. Her friends at Fordham had to die because
Bush sold arms to Iraq and then had to fight a war. Rush asks how
many of her friends died in Iraq, and Bridget says "one kid in
New York" that she knew died. She wonders, though, why nobody
talks about Bush's scandals.

Rush replies that people are talking about them, and there has
been a $50 million, 5-year investigation into the Reagan and Bush
administrations. Bush has been asked over 4,000 questions about
Iraq, Iran, and Contra aid, and the Democrats have come up empty
with their investigations. Rush thanks Bridget for calling,
especially as she is intelligent, engaged, and concerned.

*BREAK*

Phone   Emilia from San Francisco, CA

Emilia doesn't see much difference between the Presidential
candidates since they all are after "enlarging government power
in one way or another"; thus, she will vote for Clinton because
he is strongly pro-choice. Emilia wonders why anyone would oppose
choice.

Rush replies that for one thing the fetus is not being given any
choice in the matter of its life. Emilia doesn't think a fetus
has any rights. Rush says that the Constitution guarantees a
"right to life," but Emilia says that this is "the right to life
for those who are actually living. That fetus is still actually
inside the woman's body."

Rush points out that abortion kills a separate individual. Emilia
agrees, "but that entity is inside the woman's womb" and the
mother has every right to do with her body whatever she wants "as
long as no other separate human being is being hurt in some way."
Thus, people should be able to use whatever drugs they want. Rush
asks if Emilia thinks that drugs be legalized and she answers
"oh, sure."

Emilia thinks having Clinton as President would also ensure that
the three liberal Justices who are planning to retire would be
replaced with proper Justices. Rush asks her if she thinks there
should be a pro-choice litmus test for Justices, which is what
Clinton has said will guide him if he becomes President. Emilia
says no, but doesn't think this matters because "the Justices
have been politically consistent to the point where people who
are very familiar with their political views can predict how they
will rule on any case."

Rush asks Emilia if she thinks pro-choice is the most important
issue facing the country, and she answers no; this is just the
only issue that separates the candidates in her mind. Rush says
Perot is pro-choice, but Emilia won't vote for Perot because he
is autocratic and authoritarian. For example, Perot has said he
is in favor of doing police drug sweeps through whole
neighborhoods, and Rush says that Perot has indeed made such a
comment.

*BREAK*

Rush promises to continue taking calls from Clinton supporters
when he tapes his TV show tonight.

Phone   Walker from Long Island, NY

Walker says that he listens to both Rush and Bob Grant on WABC,
and thinks that both men are the greatest campaign tool that
Clinton has. "All you got to do is listen to your program and
listen to Bob's program - what comes across [ . . . is that . . .
] people come to their own conclusions. I think you two guys are
doing the utmost greatest service to Clinton."

Rush is a bit disappointed that Walker seems to be saying that he
will vote for Clinton only because Rush supports Bush. If people
want to criticize Rush, they can go ahead, but they can do this
at any time; it would be nice now, though, to hear substantive
reasons as to why people are looking forward to getting Clinton
into the White House.

Phone   Tim from Weimar, CA

Tim says that the first debate changed his mind. Clinton told the
entire nation that Arkansas is the number one state in creating
new and high-paying jobs. If Clinton can do this in his 12 years
as Arkansas' governor, then he can do the same thing for the rest
of the country. Tim points out that Bush didn't refute Clinton on
his claim, and thus it must be true.

Rush says that Clinton was not telling the whole truth - Arkansas
is still near the last of all 50 states in terms of what people
earn. Tim challenges Rush to come up with some figures that might
change his mind as he doesn't see why Clinton would say something
like this if it weren't true. Rush wonders why Clinton would lie
about other things as well.


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