From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Tue 10/13/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, Oct. 13 (REPOST)
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:22:41 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, October 13, 1992

by John Switzer

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Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
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this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
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a daily listener.

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October 13, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

It's gotten dangerous how people are defining "out of touch" in
America today. Apparently at this point in the nation's history,
people who succeed and actually do well, not to mention those who
think that the country still offers opportunity and hope, are
"out of touch." To be "in touch" with America, you evidently must
think that things are over, that there's no chance to succeed
anymore, and that those who do succeed are doing it via immoral
means.

After Sunday's debate, Al Gore claimed that it was so one-sided
that it should be compared to a prize fight in which Clinton
scored a knock-out in the first 10 minutes. Both Gore and Clinton
claimed that the debate showed that Bush is out of touch for
trying to tell people that things aren't hopeless and aren't as
bad as some think. This claim is not too surprising, though,
since Gore has already said other absurd things, such as the
automobile is a bigger threat to the world than nuclear weapons.

This is still the United States of America, where millions of
people are coming to find opportunity. People have to think
positively - opportunity still exists in America, and far more
opportunity exists in America than in anywhere else.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush has the final figures for yesterday's 900 poll.
Friday's poll received over 500,000 dial-in attempts; yesterday's
poll had 661,000 attempts. Thus, these two polls received over
1.1 million calls, although certainly some of this number
reflects people who had to redial the 900 poll numbers in order
to finally get through. During yesterday's poll, Bush got 88% of
the vote, Perot 10%, and Clinton 2%. This contrasts to Friday's
poll in which Bush got 88.8%, Perot 7.7%, and Clinton 3.5%.

o       Mary Matalin has a great piece in today's NY Times, and
Rush adds that he is also writing an Op-Ed piece at the request
of the Times. Rush doesn't know if the piece will actually be
printed but it discusses what Bush will have to do to win the
second debate.

o       Durango, Colorado is providing Rush with a rare joy in
life - to watch "hell break loose" when his show debuts in a town
for the first time. "After four years, you'd think that hell
wouldn't break loose," but this was not to be in Durango. Rush
received a FAX from a long-time Durango resident who is angry at
how liberal Californians are invading his area and engaging in
"Californication."

These invading liberals, as is their bent, started complaining
when Rush's show began hitting the airwaves. The local Durango
paper, the Durango Weekly, thus decided to take a reader's poll
about whether Rush's program should stay on the air. Rush saw a
copy of the poll's questions and made an off-hand comment about
how it was "obvious" that the Clinton campaign was in charge of
the paper.

The Durango Weekly's owner, Rick Baker, called Rush to tell him
that his paper is not an apologist for Clinton, and he wanted
Rush to make this correction on the air so that listeners would
stop attacking him for being a Clinton stooge. In fact, the paper
ran the poll as an attempt to find out the truth about Rush's
show; not surprisingly, 92% of the poll's respondents said they
want Rush's show to stay on the air.

Rush marvels at the power of his microphone, as if the Clinton
campaign would go out and buy the Durango Weekly as a way of
influencing public opinion.

o       A great editorial cartoon was in the Cincinnati Inquirer,
and Rush plans to show it on his TV show tonight. The cartoon has
four panels showing Christopher Columbus appearing on Larry King
Live and King's first question is "Christopher Columbus - you've
had 500 years to ponder your invasion of America. Your thoughts?"
Columbus appears a bit perplexed and says "shape-a like an egg -
that's-a all I was-a tryin' to prove!"

Next, King asks "Disease, pestilence, genocide, the Tomahawk Chop
- regrets?" Columbus replies "a trade route! Honest-to-god,
that's-a all I was-a lookin' for!" King is not satisfied and
continues with "ethnic cleansing, 1492 - your reaction?" Columbus
answers "tea, spices, maybe a good cup-a-coffee - that's-a all I
wanted!"

King then says "let's got to the phones - Wounded Knee, South
Dakota!" A dejected Columbus ends up saying "next time, I only do
Rush Limbaugh!"

o       Rush reads a headline - "Fisherman is arrested for using
wife as shark bait." This produces howls of laughter in the EIB
control room, and Rush has a bit of trouble gaining his composure
as well. He promises to read the story later.

o       Another headline in USA Today is "Doctor-assisted suicide
needs patient safeguards." Rush admits that this is a serious
subject, but when he first saw this headline he had to ask "Why?
Does it really matter if the needle injecting the poison is
sterile?" Rush pledges to share this story as well.

o       Bill Clinton has gotten the endorsement of yet another
famous American - Willie Horton. Rush starts laughing again and
he begs his staff to get him a Kleenix (tm). He blows his nose on
the air and continues on. Rapist and murderer Willie Horton,
speaking from his jail cell at the Maryland State Penitentiary,
told the London Sunday Telegraph that he is backing Bill Clinton.

He said "I'm touched by what the Democrats are doing and how
they're coming together again. I disagree with the Republicans
because of what happened to me." Horton is serving a double-life
sentence, plus 85 years, for his convictions for murder, rape,
mutilation, and unbelievably vicious assault, yet once again
Horton is being portrayed as a victim. Rush is incredulous that
Horton could claim anyone, much less the Republicans, ever did
anything to him.

*BREAK*

A grand jury in Austin, TX decided not to indict a man who broke
into a woman's apartment and raped and assaulted her for 45
minutes. The grand jury said that because the woman asked the man
to use a condom, she therefore consented to the sex, in spite of
the fact that she was held at knife-point. A huge protest was
held in Austin yesterday by angry, outraged members of the
community.

Rush says that he predicted that this sort of thing would happen
- a rapist would be applauded for using a condom during a rape.
After all, condoms have become the new diploma in many school
districts across the country. So now a woman "consented" to sex
simply because she was scared of getting a sexual disease during
rape; this is wrong - the woman "submitted" not "consented," and
this was still forcible rape against the woman's will.

Simply because the man used a condom does not alter the fact that
the rapist was behaving in a criminal manner. Yet, some people
have elevated the condom to such heights that this man is not
being indicted for his crime.

Rush is struck by Willie Horton's support for Clinton, since
Horton, while on a furlough that was personally signed by Michael
Dukakis, then raped a woman and nearly killed her boyfriend.
Would it have made a difference if Horton had used a condom
during his rape? Rape is being trivialized today, by cases like
this and by feminists who claim all sex is rape.

The grand jury has to look at this case again because their
decision in this "simply will not do."

*BREAK*

Phone   Cathy from Placerville, CA

Cathy first mentions that the failure rate for condoms, as used
by teenagers to prevent pregnancy, is about 16%. This means that
if schools continue to portray condoms as the "solution" to AIDS,
then one out of six kids, if not more, is destined to get AIDS.
She points out that AIDS can be transmitted 30 days out of every
month, while pregnancy can occur on only four days out of each
month.

Rush agrees, but says that the condom represents a lot of things
to people. To some adults, the condom means that they've done
their job to teach kids to be responsible; by giving a kid a
condom, the adults feel that they've done all they can to ensure
the kid's safety. Others view condoms as something that will
allow them to avoid changing their behavior; they want to remain
promiscuous and the condom's promise of "safe sex" is their
excuse.

Also, a growing number of people have accepted the fallacious
logic that society can't stop kids from doing bad things - drugs,
sex, etc. Condoms, though, are just the easy way out of dealing
with tough situations. Cathy says that schools should at least
tell kids the odds - that one out of six of teenagers will get
AIDS. Rush says that this is a bit excessive - not all teenagers
will be having sex with someone who is infected with AIDS.

However, the best way to illustrate the point is to ask kids if
they would get on an airplane if they knew that 20 out of every
100 people would die before the plane lands. Another way of
stating this is to say that the plane has a 20% chance of
crashing. How many people would accept those odds? AIDS is not an
instant killer, which means that its deaths don't have the
profound impact that airline crashes do, and so putting things in
these terms makes people think a bit more about what they are
doing.

Cathy also saw Katie Couric's interview of Barbara Bush this
morning, and Couric asked Mrs. Bush is she thought character was
an important issue. Mrs. Bush incredulously replied, "yes, don't
you?" What bothers Cathy is that Couric didn't reply for several
seconds, and so Mrs. Bush said "well, come on, answer the
question." Couric finally replied "well, I'm the one who's
supposed to ask the questions."

It seems obvious to Cathy that Couric didn't believe that
character was an important issue, but she knew that this wasn't
the right answer. She couldn't agree with Mrs. Bush, though,
because this would give credence to what the Bush campaign has
been saying. Rush isn't quite certain about this - he feels that
Couric may have only been somewhat taken aback by Mrs. Bush's
directness.

Not too many people really believe that character doesn't matter,
although they may say this in public because it's the politically
correct thing to say. Mary Matalin has an Op-Ed piece in today's
NY Times in which she points this out - character is the central
issue in any election because how a candidate will handle their
office is determined by their character. Character determines
leadership, how problems are solved, how crises are handled, etc.

Rush says that he was on the Today show with Couric in early
June, talking about his visit to the White House. When he said
that Bush impressed him as a decent, honest man, Couric seemed to
frown. Rush pointed this out, and Couric said that she was only
thinking about his answer. These television people aren't used to
being challenged, and Mrs. Bush does this sort of thing very
well.

When people ask "is character really an issue," what they are
really asking is "do you think Clinton is really dishonest and
sleazy?" It's important, though, that when the media ask these
sorts of leading questions, that the respondents be honest,
forthright, and direct in their answers.

Phone   Brian from Katy, TX

Brian wants to make several observations. The first is that the
media is all outraged and beside itself over what it thinks are
Bush's challenges to Clinton's patriotism. Where was this same
media, though, when Clinton and Gore directly attacked Bush's
patriotism by claiming that Bush was putting his re-election
before the country's interests?

Rush says that he played a couple of clips from the "spin
doctors" after Sunday's debate, and both Gore and Biden portrayed
Bush as an old, senile man who is out of touch. Biden in
particular appeared very embittered, while Gore claimed that
Clinton delivered a knockout punch within the first 10 minutes.

The press, however, didn't challenge them at all. In fact, the
press allows Gore, Biden, et al to answer their questions any way
they want, and the press never pins them down or gets them to
answer the question that was actually asked. When Barbara Bush or
any other Republican is asked a challenging question, however,
the reporter then starts a debate with them.

Brian also asks if 1992 is really the Year of the Woman, fueled
with outrage over how women are treated in the workplace, then
why isn't there any outrage about Charlotte Perry, who lost a
state job in Arkansas because Bill Clinton gave the job to
Gennifer Flowers? Perry, who is black, even appealed this
decision and won her grievance. Rush says that the news media
knows about this, but doesn't consider it to be newsworthy, even
though Perry was infinitely more qualified than Flowers to have
that job.

Rush recalls that Ted Koppel held a roundtable discussion after
the Republican convention, and when Reed Irvine of Accuracy in
the Media gave the details of this case, Larry King replied "it's
about time Reed Irvine is interested in affirmative action."
Thus, the media is ignoring this story, and the excuse they give
is that the Gennifer Flowers tapes are nothing more than tabloid
news.

*BREAK*

Democrat Carol Moseley Braun is running against Republican Rich
Williamson for an Illinois Senate seat. If Braun's lead
continues, then Illinois voters will elect the state's first
welfare-cheat Senator. The elections this year have been based on
electing anti-government candidates, and this has been one thing
that is propelling Braun's candidacy. Yet the country may elect
the biggest pro-government President in history simply because it
wants change. This same logic seems to be operating with Braun.

Braun is being charged with mishandling an inheritance of $28,750
and embezzling some of her mother's Medicaid money. Braun,
though, is claiming that she didn't know about this. Rush points
out that it's not politically correct to tell the truth about
Democrats or to look into their past. "The issues are too great"
to disqualify Democrats because they are welfare cheats or
adulterers. Yet, when Clarence Thomas is accused of having merely
said something that might have been sexually harassment, then
every aspect of his life can be examined.

Braun is rumored to have other skeletons in her closet, and this
may help Williamson who is still behind 16 points in the polls.
However, Williamson gained 8 points over this latest news about
Braun. Illinois voters, though, may decide that it's okay to have
a welfare-cheat sit in the Senate because she is, after all, a
woman and thus will be able to "nurture" the economy back to
health.

*BREAK*

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has said that he doubts
that there will ever be a cure found for AIDS. Rush is glad that
Koop is saying the same thing he's been saying for months - just
how many viruses has man been able to cure? Koop added that the
AIDS virus invades the DNA in a cell's nucleus and mutates in so
many ways that he can't see how it could be destroyed.

Rush doesn't see what is so tough about this issue - AIDS is
behaviorally spread, and thus modification of behavior is needed
to stop it. Yet people simply can't talk about this disease
truthfully.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush plays the ad for EIB's newest horrible flick, "Tax
Raiser 2"

<<Announcer>> First, there was the Carter administration . . .

<<Panicked man>> 22% interest rates??

<<Hysterical woman>> Double-digit inflation??

<<Man and woman>> Aauughh!!!

<<Announcer>> Now, Pinhead is back and he's got his eye on the
White House Democratic, dressed in sheep's clothing. But don't
let his clever disguise fool you.

<<Clinton>> Invest in America!

<<Announcer>> He's got only one thing on his mind - taking more
of your money out of your pocket.

<<Screams of fright and horror>>

<<Announcer>> Bill Clinton is Tax Raiser 2. He's a master of
waffling on issues and stretching the truth.

<<Clinton>> The draft board never called me. Uh, I never used my
influence. Ah, Gennifer who??

<<Announcer>> Bill Clinton in Tax Raiser 2. He and his wife
Hillary have got a whole bag of tricks they want to try on you!
<<evil laughter from Bill and Hillary>> Bill Clinton in Tax
Raiser 2 - elect to see this, and you'll be paying for it for the
next four years!

o       Next, "Single White Female":

<<ominous, scary music starts>>

<<Announcer>> Coming soon to a theater near you . . . the story
of a future too horrible to imagine until now! The most
frightening spectacle to hit this country since the Carter
Presidency. Hillary Clinton seemed simple and unassuming, until
she moved into the White House. Then she became a maniacal,
power-hungry psycho, in "Single White Female."

<<Hillary>> You said the "F-word" - Family values! Go to your
room, Willie!

<<Announcer>> Bill Clinton's advisers tried to shut her up, but
once she moved in, it was all over!

<<Hillary>> Willie, come here! <<whimpering sounds>> Sit!
<<panting sounds>> Now go fetch my paper! Good, Willie!

<<Announcer>> There's a stranger in the house, and she's running
the show!

<<Hillary>> You made a cabinet appointment without asking me?!?
Who's in charge around here?!

<<Announcer>> Hillary Clinton is holding her husband and the
entire country hostage in "Single White Female."

<<Hillary>> Smell the glove, Willie!

<<Announcer>> She's married to Bill Clinton, but she has the
ability to cause more damage than any single woman in history.

<<Hillary>> Now let's see that State of the Union address.

<<Announcer>> This is one nightmare you may not be able to wake
up from. Coming soon from a theater near you!

o       A Japanese fisherman was arrested for using his wife as
shark bait. The man and his wife had an argument, and he threw
her into a net and dragged her behind his boat in shark-infested
waters for 30 minutes. Tokyo police have arrested the man and his
cousin for the crime. The wife, however, suffered only minor
bruises, and Rush comments that this proves wives are "lousy
shark baits, primarily because wives are the sharks." The EIB
staff criticizes Rush for this remark, but he says he can judge
only by his own experience.

o       A new product made in Austin, TX is designed to foil
urinalysis attempts. A "handy powdered capsule of 100% pure
urine" is available for $19.95 from Byrd Laboratories in Austin.
The product is guaranteed to beat any urine test, and all the
customer has to do is "just add water." Byrd Laboratories is
evidently quite specialized as their slogan is "Byrd
Laboratories, purveyors of fine urine products."

o       Rush hates to subject his audience to the pain, but there
are three bits of good economic news today. Motorola, a company
that specializes in high-tech computer chips such as the 68000-
family of CPUs which are in Macintosh computers, is reporting a
39% increase in third quarter profits. This bad news produces a
scream of horror from the EIB staff. Rush wonders if a 39%
increase sounds like "pain and suffering," and he points out that
the increase is largely due to a strong export demand for
Motorola's products.

Westinghouse is also reporting high third quarter profits, and so
is Intel Corp., which had a new all-time high for third quarter
profits. The EIB staff screams again, and Rush wonders why this
sort of good news doesn't seem to matter to people. In addition,
the EIB offices are being flooded with good news from business
owners across the country.

One CompuServe letter writer attacked Rush's optimism and
positiveness by saying that for every company that succeeds, a
dozen or so fail. This, however, is always what happens -
successful businesses are always outnumbered by those that fail,
but the fact is that these succeeding businesses show opportunity
still exists.

o       The Gallup Youth Survey reveals that 90% of teenagers are
excited about the future, with 42% strongly excited about their
future prospects. The only teenagers who aren't optimistic about
the future are those who are doing so poorly in high school that
their chances of graduating are slim. 90% of teenagers also
reported that they have close ties to their families. Rush
wonders why his is the only show that reports good and positive
economic news.

o       A teacher in Tucson, AZ has written Rush that she is in
charge of lunch detention at an area middle school. Students who
earn this detention must eat their lunches apart from other
students, in a semi-darkened and silent room. To pass the time,
the teacher works on her computer, eats lunch, and plays
previously recorded tapes of Rush's show.

The teacher was therefore surprised when one of her 7th-grade
students, Ruben Redondo III, asked if he could voluntarily stay
for detention. The teacher asked why Ruben would want to do this
since he had finished his punishment, and he replied that he
wanted to listen to Rush talk some more about Clinton. Ruben has
stayed almost every day since, and two of his friends, Nick
Huerta and Carlos Rodriguez, have often joined him.

The teacher is quite pleased to report that she is responsible
for creating a Rush Room in her school. She remarks that it shows
kids want to be free-thinkers if they are given the chance. Rush
is pleased that he is able to help ne'er-do-well kids turn around
their lives; "just another example of how this program performs a
valuable service for the kids of America."

o       Another letter writer remarks that Rush stated a few days
ago that his book has sold 1.2 million copies in only a month.
The writer wants to know how many trees died to print Rush's
book, and he thinks that comparing this number with the number of
trees that Gore's book used would be a good way to harass
environmental wackos. In fact, the writer would rather see Rush
stop mentioning his book in terms of how many copies it's sold,
but rather in terms of how many trees have been used to print it.
Rush likes the idea.

o       A number of military people are saying that Bill Clinton
would be unable to get the most basic of security clearances
because of his history of organizing war protests and his
inability to explain his travels to the Soviet Union. The
President is the one who carries the nuclear "football" and yet
the country is about to elect someone who couldn't get the most
basic security clearance.

*BREAK*

Phone   Patrick from Detroit, MI

Patrick hasn't heard anyone mention how Perot said that he "would
cheat" if necessary to get his proposals through Congress. Rush
didn't hear this, but Patrick says that he has a tape of this at
home; Perot made the remark while leaning off to one side. Rush
has his staff contact the EIB TV people so they can get a tape of
the debate and check it out.

Rush recalls how he originally thought that if Perot was elected
he would try to intimidate Congress by using the power of the
people. Patrick, however, doesn't think that anyone who amasses
$3 billion can do so totally legally; he can't shake the feeling
that Perot is somewhat shifty. Rush says others have raised this
question, but it's also true that there are richer men than Perot
out there in the world.

*BREAK*

Phone   Jennie from Volga, SD

Jennie agrees that things are better than people think, and Bush
should start making this point. Rush says that Bush is making the
point, but people aren't listening; furthermore, when the
President did say things weren't that bad during the debate
Sunday, the Democratic spin doctors immediately portrayed him as
a senile, old man who was out of touch.

Jennie thinks that Bush could win some points on this if he
directly addressed the American people and told them that if they
are at rock-bottom, then they should vote for Clinton. However,
if people aren't totally devastated right now, then they should
vote for Bush because a Clinton presidency would make things
worse.

Rush says that a number of people are trying to advise the
President on what he should do on Thursday, and Rush's Op-Ed
piece on this very subject may be in the NY Times this week. One
of the most important things that Bush has to do, though, is to
present a factual rebuttal to the many lies that Clinton is
spouting.

It's simply untrue that the current times are the worst economic
times in 50 years. Clinton also attacks supply-side economics,
and Bush has to defend supply-side policies. Unfortunately, Bush
doesn't seem to believe in supply-side philosophies, which may be
why he is letting these attacks slide.

The Bush campaign announced recently that Richard Darman,
Nicholas Brady, and some other administration economists are now
out of the picture. This should have been done a long time ago,
but it may be happening now because Darman was just profiled in
the NY Post. Darman stated that Bush was "idiotic" for
apologizing during the Republican convention for the 1990 Budget
Deal.

Darman has also started shifting himself away from the Bush
administration, in preparation for a possible Bush defeat. Thus,
for Bush to get rid of Darman now is simply meaningless; the
President has to set the policy, not let others do it. It's one
thing to have handlers, but it's another to let them set policy.

During the debate the President said that Jim Baker was going to
run the economy, but does anyone remember any great achievements
from Baker's stint as Treasury Secretary during Reagan's second
term?

Clinton even attacked Bush for "firing the team" instead of the
coach in getting rid of Darman. This is a flawed analogy, but it
certainly sounds good. However, the only person who could fire
Clinton if his Presidency gets screwed up is Hillary, and so the
country will have to wait and see about this. What Clinton's
remark shows, though, is that all Bush has done with his firing
of Darman is to give Clinton another opening for an attack.

Mary Matalin and Mandy Grunwald were on Face the Nation Sunday,
and the two got into a real cat fight at times. Grunwald was in
St. Louis at the time, and she remarked that George Bush hasn't
shown the "Show Me State" anything in four years. Matalin
attacked her for that remark, and Grunwald replied "hey, Mary,
cop the attitude." The Clinton campaign has this ability to
respond in clever, pithy, and unsubstantial ways and Bush is just
giving them an opening.

Bush is also missing opportunities - Clinton claims that Bush
held a "right wing meeting" in the Oval office, and Bush let him
get away with it instead of pointing out that the four
Republicans involved were three ex-fighter pilots and a former
POW. Bush needs to get some factual rebuttals out against
Clinton's many lies.

The explanation from the Bush campaign, though, is that the
President had to act Presidential during the first debate; if
Bush hadn't done this, the press would have been all over him for
acting "desperate." Rush says that Bush should stop worrying
about the press, and instead worry about the box office - the
voters.

Rush has a bet with a feminist about tonight's Vice Presidential
debate. If Gore mops the floor up with Quayle, as the feminist
thinks will happen, Rush will lend his car to her for five days,
chauffeur included. If Quayle wins, however, Rush gets five body
massages from the feminist.

Rush is confident that Quayle will win the debate because Quayle
is not a buffoon and he's had four years of speaking
extemporaneously and handling media ridicule and attacks. Plus,
Gore is the one who is facing the real pressure because so many
liberals think Gore will devastate Quayle. Not to mention that
Gore is a maniac who says absolutely crazy things. Can Gore
really defend what he has written in his book?

Rush hopes that people really see Gore try to defend his book -
if anyone but a Democrat had written "Earth in the Balance,"
there would have been all sorts of exposes and attacks against
it. However, since a Democrat wrote the book, the media looks the
other way and praises Gore's "compassion and caring."

Of course, the big question is what James Stockdale will do
during the debate - talk about Perot?

*BREAK*

Phone   Janelle from Aurora, IL

Janelle doesn't think people know what Clinton's call for public
health care really means - delays, poor service, and low quality
health care. Rush says that people think that it will be free,
and thus will be good enough for them; however, he tells Janelle
that she has hit the nail on the head, but people seem to think
health care is their birthright, and they don't want to hear any
negatives.

Nobody is talking about rationing of health care, either - nobody
is talking about whether everything will be covered, or whether
certain operations will be restricted or rationed. Janelle works
in the health care field, and has seen what occurs in public
hospitals. She adds that Bush made a really good point about how
lawsuits are sending medical costs out of control - doctors get 5
X-rays instead of one because they want to protect themselves
from any possible lawsuits.

Rush agrees, but from what he is seeing in this Presidential
election, it appears that most people don't care about the
issues. All people care about is getting rid of Bush, and the
issues be damned. If people really cared about the issues,
Clinton wouldn't be getting more than the 25% his Democratic
party loyalists would give him. Rush therefore thinks that the
people who are planning to vote for Clinton are idiots because
Clinton is going to ruin the country.

Janelle has brought up some good points, but the Clinton
supporters undoubtedly don't care. These people don't care that
government can't run anything, they still want government-run
health care. Unfortunately, the whole country will get what these
idiots who vote for Clinton want; Rush just wishes that there was
some way that Clinton's supporters would be the only ones who
will be affected by his insane policies.

*BREAK*

Phone   Scott from Auburn, AL

Scott wants to "scalp" Rush's book - one of his friends can't
find a copy and so Scott is going to sell off his copy for $50.
Rush doesn't want to comment on the morality of what Scott is
proposing, but he does add that "everybody should read this book,
no matter what it takes."

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       Rush points out that his environmental wacko picks had a
3-0 record last weekend.

o       Regardless of how one views Clinton's politics, one has
to admire his campaign's ability to respond to attacks. Now that
Clinton's war-protesting, peacenik, draft-dodging past has been
brought up, the Clinton campaign has found all sorts of military
types to endorse him. In particular, Reagan's favorite member of
the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Crowe, has jumped on the Clinton
bandwagon.

Rush, though, wishes that Bush had brought up the question of
what President Clinton would do in 1994 if he had to send troops
to protect vital US interests. What would happen if some troops
refused to go because they "don't believe in the policy?" What
could Clinton say to these people?

General Bill Odom, who headed the NSA during the Reagan
administration, has now also endorsed Clinton. Odom is a scholar
on Soviet affairs and was reportedly involved with the Iran-
Contra deal. The media is thus praising Odom as a "top hawk" who
has now endorsed Clinton for the "eagle seal" (Presidential
seal). The conclusion a casual watcher would make is that the
military doesn't care about Clinton's past.

Rush doesn't want to cast any aspersions on Odom's military
credentials, but he does want to illustrate that Odom may not be
the "right-wing hawk" that the press claims he is. Odom in fact
voted for George McGovern in 1972 because McGovern was going to
end the Vietnam War. Odom's logic was that the only real danger
to the US was its mortal enemy of Soviet Communism and the
Vietnam War was a distraction. Thus by voting for McGovern, Odom
felt the US could devote its full energies against the USSR.

Rush doesn't think Odom sounds like much of a hawk - who did Odom
think was funding the North Vietnamese if not the USSR and
Communist China? Yet the media takes Odom at face value and
doesn't bother to investigate any deeper.

o       An editorial headline in USA Today reads "Doctor-assisted
suicide needs patient safeguards." Rush at first thought that
this meant that the needle which would inject poison into the
victim's veins had to be sterilized, but the editorial is really
referring to Proposition 161, California's euthanasia initiative
which will be on the November ballot. According to USA Today, the
initiative allows doctors to kill patients, not just help them
kill themselves.

One of the major problems with the bill is that doctors cannot be
sued or prosecuted for speeding the deaths of patients who are
expected to die within six months. Rush wonders when doctors
became able to predict without flaw when a patient will die. This
bill, though, will allow doctors to kill as long as they claim
the patient would have died anyway in six months.

What happens if a doctor first tells Melvis Snerdgrass that she
will be dead in six months, and then asks if she would like to
die right now. What will Snerdgrass, who will undoubtedly be
highly emotional at this point, say? This bill has an incredibly
cavalier approach to life and death, and amazingly some are
claiming that California voters will pass it.

*BREAK*

Phone   Marlene from Peoria, IL

Marlene saw Tom Brokaw last week when he was visiting Peoria, and
Brokaw had the obligatory gloom-and-doom interview with a blue-
collar worker about how bad things are. Brokaw didn't point out,
however, that this guy had a $20/hour job with Caterpillar and
that the reason things were so bad for him is that he's been on
strike for the past 9 months.

Rush finds that interesting - NBC found a guy that choose to walk
off his union job and who is now complaining about how rotten his
life is. Rush is glad that America now has the proper perspective
for Brokaw's report. He comments that Americans really have
gotten spoiled recently; what Americans think is bad is actually
a lifestyle that millions across the world would do anything to
be a part of.

Marlene says that Caterpillar offers great wages and benefits,
yet the union workers are still crying about things. Rush doesn't
know what the full details are, but he does think that anyone who
is being paid $20 an hour, with full medical benefits, and who
still thinks the country is failing or unfair, is acting somewhat
spoiled and ungrateful for what he's got.

Marlene also says that Rich Williamson and Carol Moseley Braun
had a debate in Peoria over the weekend, and she was impressed
with Williamson's performance. He made a lot of points,
especially about Braun's welfare problems. Braun kept telling
Williamson how bad "your 12 years were," acting as if Williamson
had been President instead of Reagan and Bush, and Williams
rebutted that quite well, too. He pointed out that during the
past 12 years, he was quite successfully employed in the private
sector and was not a career public sector employee.

Rush thinks that Braun has basically become a cliche who spouts
the typical leftist and feminist cliches. For another example of
this, on his TV show last night Rush played a clip of Joseph
Biden praising Reagan "as the real thing"; how can this be when
Democrats across the country are attacking the past 12 years of
Reaganomics supply-side policies?

Marlene says that the local press has been biased in their
coverage about Williamson; they attack Williamson for engaging in
sleazy politics whenever he tells the truth about Braun's past,
yet Braun herself called Williamson a "Freddy Krueger." Rush
laughs at that, and says "the more I hear, the more convinced I
am that Democrats are absolutely stupid. They're just so desirous
of getting power back, they're willing to sell their souls."

The EIB staff asks "what souls," and Rush admits this is a good
question, although perhaps a bit too harsh. Rush tells Illinois
voters that this is the Year of the Woman and if they want a
welfare-cheat for a Senator, then they should vote for Braun.

Rush comments that it's hard to tell the truth anymore; People
magazine has taken him to task for attacking the Census Bureau's
poverty figures. According to People, "Limbaugh's diatribes will
often careen far beyond the boundaries of even impolite party
politics. If the New York Times reports 35 million poor in the
US, Limbaugh will announce with no authentication but his own,
that the poorest people in America are better off and better fed
than the mainstream families of Europe."

Rush points out that he gave his authority for his statements -
his main sources were the report prepared by the Heritage
Foundation and the Census Bureau's own statistics. Rush is not
surprised at this story, though, since this type of misreporting
by People is typical.

*BREAK*

Rush relates that today is his mother's birthday, but when he
tried to call her at home, there was no answer. "She's probably
out consuming adult beverages at the country club with her
buddies, the blue-haired Bloody Mary gang." Rush and his brother
David bought her a satellite dish so that she could watch his TV
show at 8 o'clock, directly from the satellite feed. That way she
doesn't have to stay up until 1 a.m. to watch it.

Rush is somewhat disappointed, though, because he has his own
special present planned as well, and he wanted to spring it on
her during the show. He is confident, though, that someone will
be listening to the show and tell his mother to call in before
the end of the third hour.

Phone   Bob from Seal, FL

Bob has been waiting for the "other shoe" to drop - if the US is
friends with Russia now, then why haven't the KGB files on
Clinton's trip been released? Also, why hasn't anyone gotten the
files on Clinton that British intelligence undoubtedly kept? Rush
says that James Baker was asked about this and he replied that
Bush was not going to use the power of his office in such a way.

Bob, though, thinks that someone ought to get this information.
It is very strange that Clinton doesn't remember whom he talked
to, and since only 50,000 or so Americans were let in during
1969, the KGB undoubtedly kept close tabs on Clinton during his
visit. Rush says that the London papers printed similar
information about how KGB files reveal that in 1982 Ted Kennedy
made overtures via John Tunney to Yuri Andropov about how the
Democrats in Congress could work with the Soviets to overcome
Reagan's policies.

Bob thinks that since Clinton is running for President, the
people have a right to know the truth about his travels. The
President is not a shoe-shine clerk, and the people need to know
the person to whom they are giving control of the country. Bob is
confident that this information exists and thinks it must be made
public.

Besides, Bob points out, the former KGB officers are selling all
sorts of information so why not the truth about Clinton? Rush
agrees - anything is available for sale from the former Soviet
republics - Iran reportedly just bought four nuclear weapons from
Khazakistan.

Bob also says that he is on disability right now, and though he
gets only $640 a month, he is doing just fine. He doesn't know
why everyone keeps saying that the "rich have to pay," since the
rich are the ones who give jobs to others. Rush calls that sort
of talk "blasphemous" and he sarcastically states that he's
gotten every job he's ever had from someone who was below the
poverty level. Rush knows he shouldn't have said that because
he'll be accused of bashing the poor, which he is not doing;
instead, all he is doing is pointing out the facts of life to
Democrats who are doing their best to take this country to the
gutter.

Rush asks if Bob has a copy of his book, and Bob says that he
made a point of setting aside money to get it. Rush asks if he
has a VCR, and Bob says no, but he can always borrow his
brother's. Rush therefore promises to send him a signed copy of
Rush III, the Limbaugh Chronicles.

Rush wonders what President Clinton would do if he heard that
Iran has just bought four Soviet nuclear weapons - would he
deploy the National Guard? Fanatical Iranian leaders have paid
for four nuclear warheads, but the weapons have not yet been
delivered, according to the People's Mudjahadeen, an opposition
group to Iranian fundamentalists. Of course, this news gives
"credence" to Clinton's plans to cut the military even further,
because it so obviously shows that the "world is a safer place."

The news story doesn't give a price for the warheads, but Rush
bets he could afford to get a couple.

*BREAK*

Phone   Pamela from Austin, TX

Pamela starts to speak but is cut off by her "security system" -
a loud labrador that Rush suspects is a cousin to the Hound of
the Baskervilles. Pamela works for Advanced Micro Devices, and
she applauds Rush's reporting of how they "kicked butt and made a
fortune." Rush says that he got a letter from some "goon" who
claimed that AMD was "cheating somebody" in order to have their
record earnings. Rush, however, is glad to be able to point out
successful businesses.

Pamela says that she is happy about this because she is now
making three times as much money as she did in 1987. Rush is
"shocked" at this news which he calls "un-American." The EIB
staff undoubtedly agrees as the scream of a horrified woman is
heard in the background. Rush can't believe that hard work is
really paying off in America anymore, and he is saddened at how
Pamela and her coworkers just don't get it anymore.

Pamela also says that a little more than a month ago, her two
daughters, 6 and 10, came home from school with an example of
political correctness. Rush is astounded that Pamela is a working
mother who has two kids, yet she still is happy. Pamela admits
that this is true, and she adds that she is a single working
mother, too.

Pamela says that her two daughters came home from school and
declared that they never wanted to have kids because it must be a
miserable experience. Her oldest daughter's teacher is evidently
a single, liberal female who told her class that it was a
"horrible thing" that women had to have children. Pamela was
livid, to say the least, and she had to spent a lot of her time
to convince her daughters that the most significant experience in
her life has been her children.

Rush wonders what the teacher's logic in this statement was, and
Pamela says that the teacher told her daughter that not only must
women have relationships with men in order to have children, but
it's painful, involves sacrifice, and interferes with the woman's
career. Rush is glad that Pamela called with this example of
political correctness at work in elementary school.

Speaking of mothers and the joy of children, Rush is delighted to
see that his mother is on the phone.

Phone   Mrs. Limbaugh from Cape Girardeau, MO

Mrs. Limbaugh says that two people have told her that Rush
mentioned her on his show, and she tells him that she was indeed
out with her friends, but there's not a blue-haired one in the
bunch. Rush asks where she is, and she replies she is celebrating
her birthday at the Cape Girardeau Country Club.

Rush wishes her a happy birthday and tells her that she should
pick up this week's People magazine because it has a picture of
her with both her sons. Mrs. Limbaugh thanks her son for the
satellite dish since this will allow her to watch his show
directly from the satellite feed. She adds that Rush's show is
getting better and better every day.

Rush asks her to hold on because he has another birthday present
for her; he comments that he went in on the satellite dish just
because it was the only way his brother would be able to afford
to give her a present. Mrs. Limbaugh won't stand for this remark,
and Rush admits that the satellite dish was his brother's idea
and he thanks his brother for allowing him to participate with
it.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mrs. Limbaugh from Cape Girardeau, MO (continued)

Rush says that his mother and father sacrificed quite a bit for
him and his brother, and in particular she never bought herself
too much in the way of fancy clothes. Rush would therefore like
to fly his mother and one of her friends up to New York for a
couple of days and open an account for her at one of New York's
fashionable stores. Mrs. Limbaugh is touched and Rush says that
it is a thrill for him to be able to do this.

Rush recalls how his mother never really had the great things she
wanted, and so he hopes that she will take advantage of his offer
to splurge a bit now. Mrs. Limbaugh says that this is incredibly
nice, and Rush notes that she is not turning him down.

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