From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Mon 8/17/92
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 05:04:30 GMT
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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, August 17, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, August 17, 1992

by John Switzer

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August 17, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

Bill Clinton made his first foreign policy statement last week,
and it's outrageous what he's getting away with. Slick Willie
showed how he got his nickname by indulging in blatant history
revisionism during his speech at the World Affairs Council in Los
Angeles. Clinton attacked Bush for failing to back movements
seeking democratic change around the world.

Clinton said "time after time this President has sided with the
status quo against democratic change with familiar tyrants rather
than with those who would overthrow them." This description,
though, better describes Mikhail Gorbachev than Bush; is Clinton
attacking Bush for his speech in Kiev in which he encouraged the
continued unification of the USSR? If so, then this is confusing
because this speech was an attempt to show solidarity with
Gorbachev, who has been applauded by the Democrats as the
greatest modern-day world savior.

"There are more people walking this planet free today because of
the last 12 years of Ronald Reagan and George Bush," states Rush.
If anything, Democrats have stood in the way of freedom and
democracy in Central America and the rest of the world, just
because these freedom movements were supported by Republican
Presidents. "This is a lie, this is a fraud, this is Slick Willie
rewriting history for the purposes of establishing a credibility
he does not deserve."

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush is in Houston this week, at EIB affiliate AM700
KSEV.

o       Bo is back on the job, after two weeks in a new age
retreat.

o       The newspapers are playing up the story that Republicans
are arriving in Houston for the Republican convention with long,
depressed faces. This is not true as almost everybody is upbeat
and excited. Buchanan and Reagan will be speaking at the
convention tonight, and Reagan will focus on foreign policy.

Many critics are claiming now that the US has won the Cold War
that the Republican party no longer has anything to offer, but
this is as ridiculous as saying that the winner of the Superbowl
is a has-been. Rush hopes that Reagan's speech tonight will
remind people how profound the Republican party's success over
Communism has been, and that Republican values are still
important.

o       Rush had lunch yesterday with George Will, and the two
ending up talking about Anita Hill and Hillary Clinton. Rush
pointed out last week that George Bush will be the last President
from the WWII generation. The next new President will be the
first President to have a wife who will probably have her own
career outside the home, and Rush and Will talked about the
possibility of a President appointing his wife to a cabinet
position.

Rush therefore asked Will how Hillary Clinton is expecting to be
paid off for her current silence, given that when she speaks she
reveals how liberal she and the Democratic party really are.
Will, however, doesn't consider Hillary to be a President's wife,
but a woman with her own agenda who has already said "you elect
him, you get me." Hillary also has a long paper trail, similar to
Robert Bork's paper trail. Thus, Will suggested that it was
entirely proper to examine Hillary's methods, motives, and
agenda.

If Robert Bork can be disqualified as a Supreme Court Justice by
using things he wrote 23 years ago, then the same can be done for
Presidential wives who will clearly influence national policy.
Will therefore thinks it is perfectly fine for Republicans to go
after Hillary Clinton as a legitimate target.

Of course, attacking Hillary still must be done with great care
since, in spite of all of feminist attempts to the contrary,
society still believes "you must be nice to the girl." You can't
treat women as severely as you can men since that would be
considered condescending or disrespectful. This is an easy
statement to prove - look at the feminist outrage over how "Anita
Hill was treated." Feminists are not concerned about whether Hill
was telling the truth, but about how the Senate Committee treated
her.

Lynn Yeakel, Carole Moseley Braun, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara
Boxer are all livid at how Hill was treated, and so the
Republicans will have to be careful in their attacks against
Hillary.

o       The abortion issue is an interesting one since both the
Democrats and Republicans are trying to cast themselves as the
"party in the center," yet neither really are since there is no
center on this issue. Rush promises to talk more about this later
in the show, especially about the debate going on within the
Republican party about abortion.

o       The New York Times yesterday accused Bush of wanting to
start military action against Iraq so as to improve his political
ratings, and Rush will talk more about this later.

o       This month's National Geographic has a major article on
slavery, written by a black Jamaican scholar. He calculates that
about 10 to 12 million slaves were kidnapped from Africa, but
only 500,000 ended up in the United States. Rush promises more
later.

*BREAK*

M. T. Mathis, the former mayor of Florala, AL, was impeached in
1988 because of his voodoo activities - he accused his police
chief of being a witch, engaged in voodoo rituals, and proclaimed
a National Voodoo Week. He is now running for re-election and is
promising "No more voodoo." Rush thinks Mathis should instead
promise "read my lips, no more hexes."

Update Slick Willie ("Can You Play Your Saxophone, Billy Boy")

Rush refuses to let Clinton get away with his statement that he
is qualified to be Commander-in-Chief because he's commanded the
Arkansas National Guard. Critics, though, have asked what
Reagan's qualifications were to be President. Rush says that
Reagan had many more qualifications than Clinton, who
successfully dodged the draft and who opposed the use of force in
the Gulf War. Reagan's statements showed that he appreciated the
nature of the US's military forces, and knew how they should be
used, while Clinton wants to cut defense forces.

However, Rush looks at Clinton's statement in a new light - the
entire state of Arkansas has about half the people that live in
Brooklyn. Thus, it can be assumed that the Arkansas National
Guard has less people than the New York City police department.
Thus, General David Dinkins, as mayor of NYC, controls more
members in his police forces than Clinton controls in the
Arkansas National Guard. Thus, is Dinkins more qualified to be
Commander-in-Chief because he controls a larger force?

The answer is no - the ability to control the US's military
forces is heavily dependent on one's underlying value system and
whether they understand the nature of the military and its
importance in defending the freedoms of the US and the world.
Field Marshall von Clinton comes up short in this regard, as well
as in many other areas.

*BREAK*

Phone Allen from Schenectady, NY

Allen is EIB's resident liberal, and he remarks that Rush must be
in "seventh heaven" because of the Republican convention. Rush
admits that he is, and the convention mood is nowhere near as
dour as that portrayed by the press. Allen bets that the only
party better than a convention is a candidate's inauguration, but
Rush sadly comments that he's never been invited to one of those
yet.

Allen recalls his last call in which he said that Bush would
"probably" win in November, but not because the American public
thinks Clinton is a typical liberal. Allen thinks Clinton has
moved to the center of the political spectrum, but he fears that
Clinton will be harmed by the baggage from his personal life and
from his political career as Arkansas's governor. In any case,
Clinton is more to the right than Allen and his liberal friends
are.

Rush disagrees, and thinks that Clinton's centrism is still an
illusion. However, even if Clinton is a moderate, his election
still won't magically solve the nation's problems. For example,
there are those who claim that if Clinton is elected, the
nation's health care crisis will be over; however, the American
people don't want national health care, and this is seen by the
fact that every Democratic candidate who based his campaign on
this issue was eliminated in the early stages of the primaries.

Clinton is still going to have to work with a liberal, Democratic
Congress, and this Congress cares more about amassing executive
power to themselves than they do about the party or about working
with a Democratic President. Thus, even if Clinton is a centrist,
he's not going to get what he wants.

Furthermore, Clinton will be more willing to work with a liberal
Congress than Bush would be, or so Republicans hope, and this
makes him more of a liberal than Bush is. The American people are
therefore not going to elect a liberal to the Presidency, and if
the Republicans can portray Clinton in this light, Bush will win.
Cokie Roberts claims that the people she is talking to are
"squeamish" about electing liberals to both the Congress and
Presidency; they feel more comfortable about having a divided
government that can provide checks and balances. Rush, though,
thinks it is more basic than this - people just don't want a
liberal President.

Allen says that the American electorate is far more centrist than
Rush thinks; they are certainly more centrist than either Ted
Kennedy or Pat Buchanan. Depending on the economy, these people
move to slightly left of center or slightly right, and Scott
feels that in the present economy they will move slightly to the
left. However, Allen also thinks that the Republican party is now
to the right of President Bush.

Rush says that Allen is echoing what the press is now claiming -
that the Republican party is moving far to the right, while the
Democrats are moving to the center. However, it is the fact that
Bush moved from the right to the center that got himself in
trouble. Allen replies that Bush's lack of action on the economic
recession was his downfall - he first denied the existence of the
recession and then vetoed the first extension of unemployment
benefits.

Rush disagrees because he has rarely heard this argument from his
audience. In calls to his show, in his mail, and in FAXes, the
most common complaints are that Bush reneged on his no new taxes
pledge and that Bush capitulated to the Democrats instead of
fighting them. Bush's "kinder and gentler" attitude had him
compromising with the Democrats, and this is why he is in trouble
now. By agreeing with the liberal Democrats he moved to the left,
towards the center, and this is why people are angry with him.

There are people who are claiming that Reagan shouldn't speak at
the convention because he will remind people of the "economic
failure of the 80s." However, this is wrong - this is just more
conservative bashing by the typical crowd, and it would be a
major mistake to think that the Republican party has to move to
the center. The only reason Republicans are behind in the polls
right now is because they abandoned conservatism and did move to
the center. Democrats have to discredit conservatism because
conservative policies work and totally discredit the policies of
liberalism.

*BREAK*

Phone Molly from Nacogdoches, TX

Molly wants to hear Rush's comments about Bush possibly resuming
the Gulf War, which she thinks would be an amazing coincidence if
Bush did so during the Republican convention. Rush comments that
the entire Bush administration is denying that Bush is planning
another war during the Republican convention so as to boost his
rating in the polls. This accusation was made by an unnamed
source in the NY Times, yet people are giving more credit to this
anonymous source than to anyone in the Bush administration. Rush
points out that taking any military action is a risky thing
politically for a President; if one American dies, than the
President has to defend his actions.

Molly comments that it's mostly her women friends who are saying
that Bush should have gotten rid of Hussein the first place. Rush
points out that the conventional wisdom that is now being spouted
by people like Bill Schneider of Public Opinion magazine is that
the Gulf War was a failure because the US didn't "get Saddam."
Thus, the only way Bush can redeem himself in this is by going
back in to target Saddam.

This is not true, however; the issue at stake right now is to
force the Iraqis to open up their ministry buildings for
inspection by UN forces. This is simply enforcing what the Iraqis
agreed to do when they signed the surrender agreements back in
1991.

Rush is bothered, though, by how people are ignoring the risk
Bush would take in having any military action - how is victory
defined, either in Bosnia or Iraq? The US supposedly had victory
after the Gulf War, so how could victory be defined now? The only
clear victory the US could win is if it removes Saddam from
power, but this is not something that can be easily done,
especially in one week. Rush will explain more after the break.

*BREAK*

Tony Lo Bianco tells Rush that his picture with Quayle is now on
the wall of Patsy's, right under Rush's picture. Rush shakes his
head at Lo Bianco's shameless self-promotion.

Returning to the issue of Bush starting another war for political
reasons, Rush notes that it would be very hard for the US to get
Saddam for a number of reasons. First, Saddam has 50 look-alikes
dispersed across Iraq, not to mention he's got a nuclear-proof
bunker. To get Saddam, it would take a house-to-house search,
involving tens of thousands of men with thousands of casualties.
Bush would have to run the risk of producing a captured "Saddam"
only to have the real Saddam appear on an interview on CNN. There
is no way Bush could go into Iraq and produce any sort of easy
victory, and he knows this.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       It's time to announce the Limbaugh Letter, which EIB
research has shown is in high demand by the audience. The
listeners to this show have demanded more of Rush, and since EIB
has conquered radio, it is expanding into television and the
printed media as well. Rush knows that this has happened only
because of "you and me, and I thank both of us." The first
Limbaugh Letter commercial will be airing at the end of this
segment.

o       Senator Don Nickles (R-OK) headed up the Republican
platform hearings, and he recently made a speech to the Arkansas
delegates. Rush laughs at the fact that the Arkansas delegation
is seated in the worst possible position in the Houston Astrodome
- although the Astrodome doesn't have any posts, the networks
have erected some for their camera platforms, and the Arkansas
delegation is smack dab behind them.

Nickles made the comment during his speech that "Bill Clinton and
Al Gore have what it takes to take what you have." Rush crows a
bit that Nickels is using his own parody of the Allen Parsons
Project song "Eye in the Sky" - "I am a Democrat in the House of
Representatives. I've got what it takes, to take what you've got.
I can steal you blind."

o       Madonna fans held a huge birthday bash Sunday for their
idol, who turned 34. The Madonna celebrants took a bus tour of
Madonna's teenage haunts, including where she received her first
kiss. Rush comments that Sharon Stone is a "gorgeous Madonna -
she's Madonna where God left off."

Update Feminist (The Forester Sisters, "Men" with "in your face"
slogan)

Yesterday, Bush's female Treasury Secretary referred to Bill
Clinton and Henry Cisneros as "skirt chasers," which was
perceived as sleazy by many in Washington. Rush, of course, was
the one who mentioned that Cisneros was able to join the Clinton
campaign because he is no longer mayor of San Antonio; he lost
his position about admitting that he was having an affair. The
woman asked "can you imagine two skirt chasers campaigning
together?" Rush says that this is easy to imagine - just look at
any convention of the National Organization for Women.

<<Rush plays his first commercial for the Limbaugh Letter. Call
1-800-457-4141 to subscribe to a full year, 12 issues, of the
Limbaugh Letter for only $29.95. The Letter will include
interviews of famous people, including Rush interviewing himself.
Imagine the full flavor of Rush's show put onto paper, and you
have the Limbaugh Letter. Call now! Well, get your credit card
first, and then call.>>

*BREAK*

Phone Scott from Petaluma, CA

Scott is a moderate who was against both Clarence Thomas and
"Saint Anita"; he opposed Thomas because nobody ever asked him
about his activities during the Vietnam War. However, Anita Hill
"stepped over the bounds of normal behavior in what she did to
Thomas." Scott gives "33 and a third dittos" to Rush because he
thinks Rush is absolutely correct a third of the time, makes
Scott think another third of the time, and is dead wrong the
remaining third.

Scott has compiled a list of people from his generation who were
at their draft age in the 60s era, and he wants to know what
Rush's draft number was. Rush answers that his number was 152;
however, he got a 4F deferment because of an "inoperative
pyelonydal cyst" and a "football knee." Rush made no effort to
avoid or evade the draft.

Scott is pleased to hear that but wonders if anyone who has never
served in the military would be more qualified than Clinton or
Quayle to serve as Commander-in-Chief. Rush points out that
Quayle served in the National Guard, yet he is criticized and
laughed at for his service. Clinton, though, wrote letters in an
attempt to avoid military service, but nobody laughs at him for
his statement about being qualified to lead the US armed forces.

Scott's point, though, is that whether someone was or was not in
the military doesn't really matter as to their ability to be
President. Rush agrees - this is why he thinks that fundamental
values are more important, which is why Clinton just doesn't
measure up. In any case, the media and other political
commentators are definitely not treating Quayle with the same kid
gloves that they are reserving for Clinton.

*BREAK*

Items

o       During one of the many soirees he has attended in Houston
so far, Rush talked with a reporter from the Economist magazine
who said that Rush is "big in the UK." The editors of the
magazine even want the reporter to do a story on Rush. Rush is
flattered, but he wonders how his show could be heard in the UK
since he's not syndicated there yet.

o       The EIB staff is demanding that Rush provide more details
about his pyelonydal cyst, but he refuses to give any more
details, since his show does have standards. Bo delicately asks
"is it below the waist?" but Rush refuses to answer. Bo says
"it's got to be near the hemorrhoids," but Rush still won't
answer. Tony Lo Bianco guesses "is it around the corner from the
hemorrhoids?" Rush, though, refuses to say anything more except
"whatever it is, folks, it's a draft deferment."

<<However, since I have no standards, I can provide the following
information - the prefix "pyelo" refers to the renal pelvis area,
and "plyelonephritis" is an inflammation of both the lining of
the pelvis and the parenchyma of the kidney. Aren't you glad you
know?>>

o       Diana Merryman, a nightclub dancer in San Antonio, TX
told police that a patron bit her in her rear end, and then
threatened her because he suffered a loose tooth. Richard Kerr
was charged with assault and bodily injury by the police, but he
claims that he was only trying to put a dollar bill in the
woman's G-string "when she backed into his tooth."

Merryman, 20, told the cops that the suspect bit her when she
bent over on stage. She drove herself to a local hospital after
the attack, where she found out that she suffered two puncture
wounds on her right buttocks.

o       In Harrison City, PA, a 60-year old man was arrested for
stabbing his wife to death. The man stabbed his wife 219 times
because he was tired of the way she always hid the milk in the
refrigerator by stacking lots of vegetables in front of it. He
told police that he "wasn't going to take this any more."

The EIB staff laughs at the story, and Rush is saddened that his
staff is so insensitive that they would first laugh at his
pyelonydal cyst and now at the death of a woman who simply liked
vegetables. Rush comments that this case is just the latest of a
number of assaults in which "seasoned citizens" shoot, stab, or
burn one their spouse.

*BREAK*

A number of stories in the media today are critical about the
"protest area" that was setup for protesters at the Republican
convention. The press is complaining that no protestors are being
let into the Astrodome, yet the Democrats didn't let protestors
into Madison Square Garden.

Rush is tired of hearing about how "unfair" the Republicans are,
especially as the GOP has allowed a real debate on the abortion
issue, while the Democrats refused to let pro-lifers speak at
all. Abortion is an interesting issue in that there really is no
center ground in it, but commentators claim that candidates must
attract the center in order to win elections.

The Democrats are clearly extreme in their support for abortion
on demand, but the Republican position in support of a
fundamental support for life is just as extreme. Thus, abortion
is an "either-or" issue, and the only possible middle ground is
to believe that abortion should be legal, but it should never
happen. Rush believes that most people in this country believe
this - the government should not implement restrictions on
reproductive behavior, but they don't want abortions to happen
either.

This is why the Democrats are so upset when they are pegged as
supporting abortion-on-demand, yet if this weren't true then
liberals would not be so angry when women are talked out of it.
Democrats know most people don't like seeing 1.5 million
abortions every year, and thus it would be a great mistake for
Republicans to water down their pro-life stance.

Of course, the Republicans might be able to widen the base of
their support if they compromised a bit on this, but Rush would
hate to see this happen since their position is based on morality
and on the sanctity of life. Democrats and their pro-choice
stance have no basis in morality, but are rooted only in the idea
that people should have no restrictions on their activities at
all. Thus, keeping the pro-life plank highlights the moral
groundwork of the Republican party.

Bush is being encouraged to "move to the center," but this is
what got him into trouble. For the Republican party to do the
same thing would negate the years that the GOP has stuck to its
principles. Every pro-life Republican who has changed their
position to pro-choice has vanished from the political spectrum,
and thus Rush praises the GOP's decision to stick to their pro-
life principles.

*BREAK*

Phone John from Belle Haven, VA

John wonders if Ann Stone and her Republicans for Choice get
their way, then where will pro-life Republicans go? Rush agrees -
this is another way of looking at what he's been saying. He's
amazed at how the media is presenting this issue, and how the
pro-choicers are getting so much favorable coverage. The way the
media is presenting things is as if Republicans for Choice were
the major force in the party.

Ann Stone, though, rented a cheap Ryder truck, placed a cheap
banner on it, and then drove to Houston. She, however, did not
get any of the demonstrations that she hoped for. Even
California's pro-choice governor, Pete Wilson, admitted that
there is no support among the majority of Republicans for a pro-
choice plank. The media, though, is a willing participant with
the pro-choice crowd, and will give prime coverage to any
Republican who breaks ranks with the pro-lifers.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

To celebrate his being in Houston this week, Rush plays his
second favorite song, the Houston Oilers fight song.

Update Marion Barry ("No, No, No, No, I Don't Smoke It No More")

TV producer Ron Samuels has called Marion Barry a "great role
model and inspiration. There's more to Barry's life than getting
caught in a hotel room with cocaine." Samuels is thinking of
casting Louis Gosset, Jr. as Barry in a possible film. Rush
comments that Barry and Jesse Jackson are not the best of
friends; Jackson is in Houston to complain about the Republican
convention, asking "what are we going to get in four days what we
haven't got for four years?"

Rush comments that the current topic of conversation in Houston
this week is about what George Bush should and will say in his
acceptance speech Thursday night. Rush is confident that he could
write a good speech for Bush, but Bush has to get back his
credibility. When Bush complains about a liberal Congress, he has
to admit that his problem is that he's been going along with
those same liberals.

Thus, Jackson's comment is appropriate - Bush has had almost four
years to define his Presidency and principles, so how can he do
so in only four days? Rush says that his suggestions for Bush
would include going back to his inaugural address and admit that
his hope for a "kinder and gentler nation" were misguided. Bush's
hopes were understandable, though, given that Reagan and Congress
were always at odds during Reagan's second term.

Bush has to realize that he has enemies in Congress, and that
cooperation has not gotten him or the country anywhere. Thus he
has to admit that he misunderstood his role as President; he
originally thought that the people wanted a cooperative
government but now has realized that one cannot trust liberal
Democrats. Bush has to admit that he was wrong in believing that
the Democrats had the best interests of the country at heart.
Then he has to admit that he was wrong in believing that he could
form a compromise government with them in the 1990 Budget Deal.

Bush should point out that Clinton's economic plan is nothing
more than the 1990 Budget Deal, but only worse. Taxes were raised
on the rich in 1990, but evidently Clinton doesn't think it is
enough and wants to do it again. Thus, Bush should position
himself as the lone obstacle who will prevent the repetition of
the mistakes that were made in 1990. Without an obstacle to the
Democratic tax increases, the economy is only going to worsen.

Rush doesn't know if this approach will work, but it's something
that Bush has to try in order to restore his credibility with the
American people. Rush has met Bush, and although he doesn't know
him intimately, Bush came across as a genuinely nice guy.
Unfortunately, the people elected Bush to bicker and be
confrontational with the Democrats; they don't want liberals to
run the government. Rush thinks, though, that Bush could pull
this speech off, but it will be a tough sell for much of the
country.

*BREAK*

This month's National Geographic reports that 10 to 12 million
slaves were taken from Africa, but only 500,000 ended up in
Africa, which is less than 5% of the total number. Many slaves
died in transit, and it was the Spanish that were the major slave
traders. There is no justification for slavery, of course, but it
is worthwhile to note that America was not the world's major
slaver, but it was a world leader in abolishing slavery, fighting
a bloody civil war to do so.

Phone Radford from Atlanta, GA

Radford saw an article in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution
this weekend titled "The Hollow Man." Russ Baker of Rutgers wrote
the article that claims George Bush is a man without any
convictions, but he also attacks Bush for holding to right-wing
conservative values. Radford finds this a curious contradiction
in the article, and he wonders why the media never points out
that Clinton promised his state's voters that he would not run
for President while Governor.

Rush chides Radford for engaging in negative campaigning by
telling the truth about Clinton. Rush imagines the heat Quayle
would get if he made a similar promise about the Senate. He
points out that Clinton promised everything to everybody during
his convention; if someone thinks they are a victim of any shape
or form, then the Democratic party will cater to them.

If someone wants to go through life thinking that they have no
hope, and that misery, pain and suffering are the ways to
enlightenment, then they should vote for Clinton and Gore. These
two men even said that things were going to get worse, yet
America is not Ethiopia or Somalia, and Rush promises more after
the break.

*BREAK*

Item

o       Bo Snerdley went to a spiritual retreat that was filled
with new-agers who hated Rush and said "he's got to go." Bo,
putting himself in great personal peril, admitted that he not
only knew Rush but worked for him. These people thought that
being miserable, poor, and weak gave them a moral superiority
over everyone else. Rush agrees - a lot of people feel they must
be miserable, but now they have a new political home in the
Democratic Party.

Not too many convention protestors have shown up so far, thanks
in part to the rather inhospitable plain that is reserved for the
protestors. The Houston Chronicle reports that 250 to 500
leftists (probably only 25 to 50, given that this is a Chronicle
story) demonstrated yesterday at Wiley Park to attack Bush for
his foreign policy and his lack of support for a national health
care plan.

AIDS activists in T-shirts and combat boots also protested
yesterday; the All People's Coalition is bringing these people
together for their protests. Timothy J. Sweeney of the New York
Gay Men's Health Crisis said that "over 150,000 Americans have
been diagnosed with AIDS since George Bush became President, and
funding is being cut across the country to those organizations
educating the people of color."

Does Sweeney think that black people are responsible for AIDS?
Does Sweeney also really mean to imply that Bush is directly
responsible for infecting 150,000 people with AIDS? When did Bush
have time to have sex with 150,000 people, and when did he get
AIDS himself? Rush points out that the national AIDS budget is
continuing to expand, which makes Sweeney's comment about cuts in
funding to people of color even more curious.

Theresa Gutierrez of the National Coalition to Stop US
Intervention in the Middle East added her two cents by saying
"you can't use us to go to Iraq to kill for the oil companies."
Rush calls this another brilliant statement, and he comments on
how the Republican convention has some 2000 delegates, yet the
press thinks 25 or 50 protestors are the big story.

ACTUP and Queer Nation are also scheduled to hold protests. Mike
Davidson of ACTUP said "we're here to punish Republicans. We're
here to embarrass them in front of the whole world." Among the
other activities planned are "puke-ins" at Republican galas -
infiltrating parties and then throwing up on the floor. They also
plan to disrupt church services and burn Barbara Bush in effigy.
Rush comments that this will really convert people to their
cause.

Supposedly, tonight ACTUP will march into the Astrodome and
disrupt the convention, despite the massive security
preparations. Rush recalls how the gays tried to disrupt the
Academy Awards but failed utterly, and he doubts they will get
onto the Astrodome floor. Lo Bianco, though, puts his money on
ACTUP because he thinks they will "tiptoe" in.

Phone Bud from Rapid City, SD

Bud saw Tom "I never met a lie I didn't like" Brokaw who was
giving poll results that showed a lot of people disapproved of
Bush and gave him a low approval rating. However, this poll
failed to ask voters if they would vote for Bush again. Bud
doesn't approve of what Bush has done, yet he will still vote for
him in November. Thus, he thinks these polls are just "smoke and
mirrors."

Rush thumps his desk and berates himself for forgetting an
important point he had intended to mention earlier. Rush had
breakfast yesterday with Pat Buchanan, who is "pedal to the metal
pro-Bush." Rush asked him about this, and Buchanan said that he's
endorsing Bush partially because the Republicans are letting him
speak tonight. However, his main reason for supporting Bush is
because "how in the hell does anybody in their right mind vote
for Clinton?"

This nukes the idea that many conservatives have that it's better
to vote for Clinton than to have another four years of Bush. Rush
therefore wonders if Buchanan's die-hard supporters will follow
his lead or instead claim that Buchanan has "sold out." Rush
therefore thinks that Bud's point is a good one - even though
people may disapprove of Bush, many will still vote for him.

*BREAK*

Phone Carrie from Columbus, OH

Carrie gives Rush "pyelonydal dittos" since her husband also has
a pyelonydal cyst, and she says that it hasn't interfered with
their life together because "we just keep a little innertube
around." Carrie doesn't like hearing how Desert Storm was a
failure just because Saddam wasn't killed, and she recalls all of
tricks Saddam pulled during the war (i.e. the "baby milk plant").
She has no doubt that Saddam hid himself among civilians during
the war, and that to kill Hussein would mean killing a lot of
civilians, too.

Rush says that this is absolutely correct - Hussein has at least
50 look-alikes and it would cost a lot of lives to get him. Rush
believes that war planners tried to kill Hussein but failed. It
should also be remembered that Saddam has to love what he is
doing right now, playing the Ayatollah Khomeni to Bush's Jimmy
Carter. For Bush to try to target Saddam right now would mean
taking a risk as big as Carter's aborted hostage rescue attempt.

Saddam would undoubtedly love to hold a press conference on
January 21st to crow about how Bush was defeated and gone while
he, the Great Leader, is still in power. It's no coincidence that
weapons inspectors are having problems right before the US
elections. The media, though, is continuing to ignore this aspect
of Saddam's little games, and they aren't considering that any
military action during this week would totally overshadow and
preempt the convention. If war started up, the only people left
in Houston would be third-string anchors and reporters.

"You people are going to have to think, or have me think for
you," Rush states, "because the media isn't going to tell you
this stuff."

*BREAK*

Phone Carol from Syracuse, NY

Carol says her daughter's business is doing about five times
better this year than during last year's recession. She also says
that there's a theory about pyelonydal cysts that they are an
indication that Rush was really twins but the other twin never
developed. Rush isn't too sure about this theory, and he admits
that he is starting to regret going public with his cysts because
"you people are not going to be content to sit around and mind
your own business."

However, he begs his listeners to stick around because his show
is the only place "you're going to get the truth about the
Republican convention."

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