From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
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Subject: Summary Tue 8/11/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, August 11, 1992
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Date: 12 Aug 92 18:42:25 GMT
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, August 11, 1992

by John Switzer

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August 11, 1992

NEWS

o       King Juan Carlos of Spain, who spurred on Spanish
colonization of California, is not finding a happy home in Santa
Barbara. The Spanish government donated a statue of the king to
the city, but local activists refuse to let it be placed in
Storke Placito because "it is a reminder of Spanish imperialism
and oppression." Thus, the statue will be replaced by a
multicultural statue designed by a local artist.

The proposed replacement statue will be a "large stone sphere
that includes carvings of the Chumash, Chicanos, Greeks, blacks,
and others." The artist hopes his statue will "create a dialogue
with the community."

o       Multiculturalists are not totally happy, however, as last
month the Santa Barbara City Council voted down a request to
change the name of the alley Indio Muerto, which translates to
"dead Indian." The request was made by a self-described "local
white chick" who thought the street's name was offensive, and she
wanted to change it to Indio Vivo, or "live Indian." She asserted
that this was especially appropriate during the 500th anniversary
of Columbus' arrival in the New World.

The City Council pointed out that the street got its name because
the body of an Indian was found by the city's surveyors.
Opponents to the change said that Santa Barbara has many such
colorful street names which contribute to its historical
heritage. For example, there is Canon Perdido ("lost cannon
street"), while Salsipuedes is roughly translated as "get out
while you can."

o       In a "surprise" move, the Solvang (near Santa Barbara)
City Council voted to permanently ban the use of outdoor
commercial barbecues. Spokeswoman Therese Brown said that the
ruling was necessary because "regulating the smoke and aroma is
difficult since these issues are so subjective." Also, the City
Council didn't think that outdoor cookouts fit the overall
Danish atmosphere that Solvang is famous for.

MORNING UPDATE

The fraud and deceit continue. Democrats have long been claiming
that the US military budget was an abomination that needed to be
cut. They believed that this would have strengthened the US
economy which would bring peace and justice to the world. Now,
though, the Democrats have been trying in this Presidential
campaign to tell the people what they want to hear, and this is
why they are talking tough about the use of military force.

Bill Clinton is demanding that the US send in air strikes against
Serbian forces, and Rush wonders what qualifications this draft-
dodger has to make such a demand. CBS This Morning asked Clinton
this very question and he replied that his deployment of the
National Guard gave him the experience he needs to be the
nation's Commander-in-Chief. This is funnier than anything Dan
Quayle has ever said, yet Rush is the lone media voice who is
pointing out just how absurd Clinton's statement really is.

FIRST HOUR

Item

o       Even as the show begins, Rush receives a note that relays
great news - Snapple has arrived in Houston, Austin, and Tulsa.
Texas and Oklahoma, thus, are no longer deprived of this great
beverage. Arkansas, though, is still a beverage wasteland.

A libertarian called yesterday to argue about whether the state's
traditional definition of marriage (a union of a man and a woman)
is a de facto sponsorship of religion since this definition
excludes other unions that are not accepted by most religions
(e.g. homosexuals). Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council in
Washington, DC wrote Rush a letter about this.

The definition of marriage has been one of the thrusts of those
involved in the culture war today. Those outside of society have
tried to claim that morality can be defined by individual choice
and that there is no absolute right or wrong. The mainstream
culture, however, disputes this and insists that morality cannot
be defined by the individual, and that there are absolute values.

These absolute values, however, often descend from religious
teachings, and so many anti-establishment types try to overcome
these values by claiming First Amendment rights of separation of
Church and State. They try to portray the Ten Commandments as a
threat to freedom and democracy, and the inability to teach
things such as "thou shalt not kill" is one thing that is
weakening the ethics and morality of America today.

Bauer writes in his letter that civilized nations have defined
marriage in the same way for millennia, not just because of
religion, but because common sense and experience has shown this
to be the best way to raise a family and teach children. Rush
agrees, but many people think that this definition is meant to be
a form of punishment. These same people seem to think that
discipline is an evil thing that should not be used to teach
kids. However, discipline is a form of love designed to teach
kids right from wrong.

Bauer says that if marriage is to be redefined as a union between
any two people, and not just a man and a woman, then why stop
there? Why not define marriage as a union of three people, or
have a 40-year old man marry a 10-year old girl? Why not a man
and a dog? If marriage just means spousal benefits, then why not
this approach?

Religion, of course, does prevent these definitions, states
Bauer. If the yardstick of society is personal happiness alone,
society would have no limits and no definitions. This would not
only destroy personal virtue but society as a whole. Rush agrees
and says that this is his main disagreement with libertarians who
seem to think that people live in vacuums and that there should
be no limits on personal, private behavior. Yet, what people do
in their lives does affect society, and this is why there are
limits.

Rush recalls the discussion he had last weekend with a 25-year
old woman and her mother about family values. The young woman
disagreed with Rush about what leadership really is. Rush said
that leaders are people who manage to extract more from an
individual than that individual can get out of himself. Leaders
inspire people to reach new heights.

The woman, though, thought that this definition sounded "mean,"
and that leaders should be supportive instead of pushing people.
She stated that this was one of society's problems today -
parents are not supportive enough and instead keep on pushing
their kids. Rush disagreed - kids need to be pushed if they are
going to achieve anything and go beyond their present limits.

Rush brought up his high school football days and how his coach
would make the team run 20 wind-sprints after each practice.
After the 20 were done, the coach would demand one more from his
players. The players, of course, didn't think that they could do
one more sprint or lift one more weight, yet the coach managed to
show the students that they could go one step further. They
learned that they could go beyond their self-imagined limits.

Today, though, this kind of pushing is called "hateful and
insensitive." It is considered to be a form of punishment,
instead of a love that is born out of a desire to see the best
for one's children. Rush was later criticized for not accepting
the young woman's ideas, but he doesn't see why he should need to
accept her theory when it's wrong.

He comments that women's lack of participation in competitive
sports is one reason many women don't see the need for kids to be
pushed. In his day-to-day existence, Rush has found this
discipline to be of utmost importance. He pushes himself to do
some things over and over again because he knows he can do them
better. This is how teachers should be - pushing students to
excel and to go beyond their current limits. These are the best
teachers and they are the ones who are remembered when the
student enters adult life.

Rush thanks these teachers and his parents for not being
"supportive," but rather encouraging him to be his best, and to
not accept "good enough" when he knew he could do better. This is
an attitude which is needed today.

*BREAK*

House Speaker Tom Foley spent several hours in an emergency room
after he mistakenly ate black plastic parts that he had thought
were part of his TV dinner. The plastic parts had gotten stuck on
his Salisbury steak because of faulty packaging. Doctors say that
the plastic parts will most likely pass through his system
without causing any damage. Rush comments that if this really
happens, then it will be the first time that Foley has passed
anything while a member of Congress without it resulting in major
damage to the system. Rush promises to watch this situation
closely.

Phone   Jeff from Tucson, AZ

Jeff is a conservative libertarian and he wonders why Rush
doesn't like libertarians. Rush replies that he has nothing
against libertarians, whom he likes more than he likes liberals.
However, he does think libertarians have a naive view of things,
and that although their philosophies look good on paper, they are
difficult to implement without anarchy.

Jeff understands this, but to him America's war on drugs is
treating only the symptoms and not the disease. Jeff despises
drugs and has never used them, and he hopes his kids will never
use them; however, he wonders why the free market system should
not apply to drugs as well as everything else. He just doesn't
see why drugs can't be legalized.

Rush says that he has discussed this topic to death before;
people don't live in a vacuum, and their actions do have a
societal impact that must be considered. People who do drugs
damage society, and this is why they're illegal. Rush wonders why
when libertarians get on his show the topic always gets around to
legalizing drugs.

*BREAK*

Item

o       Rush says that Jeff's call proves his own point on why
drugs should not be legalized. Jeff doesn't use drugs and he
doesn't want his kids to use them; so, if drugs are not good
enough for Jeff's kids, then why does he want them to be
available for everybody else's kids? This is the same cockeyed
logic Mario Cuomo uses for abortion - he doesn't believe in it
personally, but doesn't want to impose his morality on others
(although he does impose his beliefs on higher taxes every chance
he gets).

The fact that drugs are bad for Jeff's kids means that they're
bad for society in general. What is so bad about limits on
behavior for the sake of a strong society? The only people
demanding the legalization of marijuana and cocaine are drug
users themselves, who are now trying to claim that their favorite
drugs have some important "medicinal" uses.

People can't have it both ways - you can't complain about
America's lack of competitiveness and its low-worker
productivity, and then demand the legalization of drugs. Rush
doesn't know why this is a difficult point to understand.

Mervin Snerdley tells Rush that he thinks the Republicans will
blow it if they don't implement a pro-choice plank. Rush again
reminds him that the past three Presidential elections saw the
election of a pro-choice President by wide margins. Mervin,
though, thinks that the GOP should change their platform so as to
get part of the pro-choice vote.

Rush, though, says that Republicans would not get the Democratic
pro-choice vote, no matter what they do, and in any case, the
pro-life vote is as big, if not bigger, than the pro-choice vote.
If the Republican party tries to go after the pro-choice vote,
the only thing that is going to happen is that they will lose the
pro-life vote.

Ann Stone is a perfect example of the folly of going pro-choice -
her Republicans For Choice Ryder Rental truck has been making its
way to Houston, with very few pro-choicers showing up for any of
her rallies. Look at ultra-liberal Washington state - during the
last election, a pro-abortion ballot initiative was so close that
it take two weeks to count all the votes, and in preliminary vote
counts the initiative lost. Abortion won but it was not the
"slam-dunk" pro-choicers predicted.

What also bothers Rush is that it is the Democrats who refuse to
allow any debate on this issue at all. They refused to let
Governor Robert Casey (D-PA) speak at their convention, and pro-
lifers were silenced at the party platform hearings. However, the
Republicans are allowing both sides to speak, both at the
platform hearings and at the convention itself. Rush finds it
curious that the media is ignoring the fact that the party that
is supposedly the party of open-mindedness and change refused to
allow any dissenting opinions, while the GOP, long criticized for
being fascist and close-minded, is allow free debate.

Rush was "overcome with mirth" yesterday when he heard that
"Field Marshall William von Clinton" was qualified to be
President because he commanded the Arkansas National Guard. Yet,
the media takes this seriously, and even praises him for his
"qualifications." Nobody is calling into question whether sending
out the National Guard three times is any sort of real
qualification.

This is very curious since if Quayle were to come forth and claim
he was qualified to be President because he actually served in
the National Guard, not to mention his years in the House and
Senate Armed Forces Committee and participation with the IMF
Treaty, he would be ridiculed beyond belief. Yet Clinton, who
dodged the draft, claims he is qualified to command US armed
forces, and nobody is laughing. This is just another sign of the
huge double standard being used by the press today.

*BREAK*

Phone   Dana from Tampa, FL

Dana tells Rush that he is right again in his predictions that
the media is resuscitating Clinton. Today's AP polls, though,
show that Clinton has dropped to only a 17% margin in
Connecticut. Dana also wants to know how he can get on the
mailing list for the Limbaugh Letter, and Rush says that its ads
will be very prominent, so there's no need to worry.

Rush comments that he will be doing the newsletter's first
interview tomorrow with Charlton Heston; such an interview will
be a prominent feature of each issue. Rush adds that he will also
be doing a special feature, Dear Rush Slanders, which will
feature actual letters from liberals who talk about their
problems. Rush, though, instead of solving these problems will
tell the liberals how stupid they are to have them in the first
place.

Phone   John from Naples, FL

John talks about Perot's meeting with the congressional committee
on MIAs and POWs; Perot couldn't provide any specifics, and the
figures he provided were refuted by Senator John Kerry. John came
away with the impression that Perot was on the defensive
throughout the hearings, and it just made him think that the only
reason Perot started his presidential bid was to attack George
Bush. Rush says that John is right on the mark, and promises more
about this later.

*BREAK*

Phone   John from Columbus, OH

John called because Rush seems to be fuzzy about morality, and
about whether it comes from God or society. John doesn't think
that morality derives from religion, but Rush disagrees strongly.
Morality can't be based on the whims of the moment, as many
people seem to think. John, though, thinks that morality must be
based first on human life, and the things that derive therefrom
such as freedom.

In addition, John doesn't think drugs should be outlawed, because
if people outlaw everything that they don't want their children
exposed to, then why not outlaw homosexuals, liberals, and such?
John is not a drug-user, nor a libertarian, but rather an
objectivist.

Rush, though, doesn't see any correlation between these issues.
Liberalism is purely a matter of choice on the part of the
individual, and although homosexuality is still a matter of
debate as far as whether it is choice or genetics, it is a vastly
different matter than drugs. People choose to take drugs, and
drugs destroy people's minds and bodies. Rush doesn't see any
similarities between drugs and these other things.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Update  Slick Willie         ("Little Willie, Willie Won't Go
Home")

Paul Greenberg's column today in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette
continues his long-time attacks against Bill Clinton. Greenberg
has repeatedly pointed out Clinton's various lies, and how
Clinton manages to slyly avoid the political repercussions of his
lying. In this current column, Greenberg attacks Clinton's
portrayal of himself as a supporter of the Gulf War. Rush
comments on how Mary Matalin got into some trouble simply because
she told the truth about Clinton, and how he straddled the fence
about the Gulf War. Matalin was criticized for being a sleazy
campaigner.

However, Greenberg quotes Matalin in his own column - "Bill
Clinton's backflip on the Persian Gulf War would make an Olympic
gymnast green with envy. When it came to Desert Storm, Slick
Willie jockeyed for position, riding tall in the straddle."
Clinton is trying to claim that on January 15, 1991 he said that
he understood the argument that called for giving more time for
sanctions to work, but that he thought Congress should support
Bush's use of military action.

Greenberg says that this is not true, but it is "almost true,
almost surgically edited into a falsehood." He produces Clinton's
actual statement - "I agree with the arguments of the people in
the minority on the resolution that we should give sanctions more
time, maybe explore a full-scare embargo before we go to war."

Rush points out that Clinton has changed the word "agree" to
"understand," which of course changes the entire meaning of his
statement. Clinton clearly was siding with the people who opposed
the use of military action, yet after the victory in the Gulf
War, Clinton changed his statement so as to portray himself as a
supporter of the war.

Clinton has tried to portray himself as a strong, pro-military
hawk, yet the press is not exposing Clinton's lies. Rush says
"the Big Three networks - well, we've got to put CBS in there,
too - the Big Four are not telling you this." Greenberg ends his
column by saying "there is something scarier about these games of
Slick Willie, and that is the possibility that the candidate has
become so practiced at falsity that he's not aware of what he's
doing that it's become natural for him."

Rush knows he will be accused of being a sleazy, Clinton basher
just because he is telling the truth, but he will continue on his
mission to expose Clinton's deceit. People may claim that all
politicians lie, and that the economy is what is important, but
the character of the President does matter. This is why Bush is
in trouble - he lied about raising taxes, and thus opened the
door to Clinton's challenge. However, after the break, Rush will
show those who think the economy is the major problem that the US
is not really as bad off as they think.

*BREAK*

Today's Wall Street Journal confirms what Rush has been saying
about the economy - things are not going to hell in America. Rush
is glad to see this article because pessimism and negativism can
be really destructive to society, and can only make things worse.
Rush disagrees that you must be unsuccessful and suffering in
order to understand what is going on in America today. He is
convinced that this attitude is the result of a daily dose of
negative news by the media, and reinforced by the Democrats'
daily attacks against Bush.

Rush reads from the article which states that "America remains a
land of opportunity. The poor are not necessarily poorer. As a
group, the poorest 20% of households saw their mean household
income, adjusted for inflation, increase 5% during the 80s." This
is from the 1990 census data, and Rush recalls how the 80s was
supposed to be a decade of greed and selfishness in which the
rich took away from the poor, who didn't have anything to begin
with.

The article has states that "whatever they might think, many of
today's middle-aged adults are better off than their parents.
Today, one in four women has a college degree, compared with one
in ten of their mothers. The average income of a young family of
25 to 35 year olds, adjusted for inflation, is 40% higher than 30
years ago when their parents were their age."

The US still has the highest standard of living in the world,
with a per capita income that is 17% higher than that of Japan.
The Japanese also work an average of 6% more hours than
Americans, pay twice as much rent as New York residents, and 28%
more for basic staples.

Many Americans improve their lot. A study by the liberal Urban
Institute found that nearly half of the people in the lowest
income level moved up during the past two decades. In all but the
highest income level, more people stayed the same or moved up as
opposed to losing ground. Furthermore, real disposable income has
increased.

The article points out that the most publicized economic news
implies that things are getting worse. An economist with the
conference board says that "the general malaise is so great that
if you dare suggest that things aren't so terrible, people become
enraged." Rush knows this fact from personal experience.

There are people who are in trouble, but "on general we are
making it," with each generation better off than the previous
one. A general pessimism, though, seems to be prevailing.
Contrary to public perceptions, the white collar unemployment
rate is lower today than it was in 1982, when it was 10%. People
claim that white collar workers are especially hard hit by
today's recession, but white collar workers had higher
unemployment ten years ago.

Most people seem to think that real weekly income is down 19%
since 1973. However, this data does not include self-employed
professionals, pensioners, government workers, or supervisors.
When family incomes are used instead, real inflation adjusted
weekly income has risen 5.4%.

A psychotherapist says that many people are thinking things are
so bad today because they can't get what they want now. Their
parents may have waited 20 years for their dream house, or 10
years to get a new washer/dryer. Yet if people today can't get
what they want tomorrow, they blame the economy for being in bad
shape. The therapist says everyone should have a little patience,
and Rush agrees.

*BREAK*

Members of the Association of Black Psychologists who are meeting
in Denver said yesterday that the Los Angeles riots were a
"healthy outlet for black oppression," and that if the Rodney
King riots had not sparked the violence, something else would
have. The psychologists said that it was healthy for blacks to
express their feelings. Rush is incredulous that anyone could
call it healthy for 65 people to die, for neighborhoods to be
burnt to the ground, for people to stand in line for hours to
collect their welfare checks and then wait again to cash them.
Well, as long as this is "therapeutic."

Phone   P.J. from Starkville, MS

P.J. reports that Bush was asked by CNN about his alleged affair
with Jennifer Fitzgerald, and he refused to dignify the question
by answering it in any way except by denying it. P.J. wants to
know why it's not sleazy for the press to talk about Bush's
supposed affairs. Rush says that the press probably thinks it's
already put Clinton through the wringer, and thus now it's Bush's
turn.

A front-page story in the New York Post claims that Bush had an
affair with Fitzgerald on a trip to Geneva in 1984. The problem
with this story, though, is that the only source for it is the
now-deceased ambassador to Switzerland. A new book reports the
rumor, but since the source is dead nobody can corroborate it.
This is similar to Bob Woodward's alleged interview of Bill Casey
about Iran-Contra, even though Casey was in a coma.

There is no evidence whatsoever to substantiate this claim, and
the story appears to be nothing more than an attempt to sell a
new book, "The Powerhouse: Robert Keith Gray, the Selling of
Access and Influence in Washington" by Susan B. Trento.

Rush is handed a note and as he reads it, Tony Lo Bianco plays
the Houston Oilers' fight song in preparation for EIB's trip to
Houston next week. The story turns out to be minor news, but Rush
lets the music play on because he likes the tune so much. Rush
admits that it is a hokey song, but it is nonetheless inspiring
when one sings it in the Astrodome.

Thomas Foley was asked about Bush's alleged affair, and he very
emotionally defended both Clinton and Bush against the press'
invasion of the two men's private lives. He stated that he didn't
like the nature of such questions and he believed that voters are
sickened by such stories. Rush, though, bets that "you people out
there" probably love these types of rumors; otherwise, Sally
Jesse Raphael and Geraldo wouldn't be top shows. "You people love
sex and gore and blood and dishonesty," Rush states, perhaps
confusing the Democratic Presidential ticket with tabloid TV
shows.

In any case, there is no evidence whatsoever to prove that any
affair ever happened. The Post even uses a picture of Bush
talking to his secretary, in a room full of people. At least in
her accusations against Clinton, Gennifer Flowers was the woman
involved and she had supporting evidence. The Bush story, though,
is clearly the efforts of an authorette trying to sell her book
by using as her source a dead guy who can't deny the charges.

Mervin Snerdley, though, says that this affair has been "widely
known" in Washington. Rush says that the rumor has been widely
circulated, but he recalls how Hillary Clinton apologized after
referring to the alleged affair in her Vanity Fair interview.
Everyone who has publicly accused Bush of this affair has
apologized for it. It is interesting, though, how the media is
using a double standard for the Bush and Clinton campaigns.

*BREAK*

Phone   Elan from New York City, NY

Elan has a "secret list" of Clinton's intended cabinet
appointments:

-       Jesse Jackson as Secretary of State

-       Patricia Schroeder as Secretary of Defense

-       Barbara "Jabba the Hut" Mikulski as Chairwoman of the
Joint Chiefs (she doesn't have any military experience, but
equality is more important)

-       Ramsey Clark as National Security Advisor

-       Ted Kennedy as Attorney General

-       Maxine Walters as FBI Director

-       Ron Dellums as CIA Director

-       Patricia Ireland as Civil Rights Administrator

-       Fidel Castro as EPA Administrator

-       "Hanoi Jane" Fonda as head of the President's Council on
Physical Fitness

-       Marion Barry as Drug Secretary (he has hands-on
experience)

-       Angela Davis as Domestic Policies Czar

-       Barney Frank would be head of Health and Human Services
(with emphasis on "Human Services")

-       Mario Cuomo and Anita Hill would be Supreme Court
nominees

-       Bill Clinton as Secretary of Education (since Hillary
would be the real President)

-       David Dinkins as the Secretary for Economic Development

-       Nobody would be needed as Press Secretary because of the
"mainstream lapdog media."

Rush bets that Clinton copied his list from Michael Dukakis'
first-string choices. However, it's clear that Clinton's
appointees would be "full-fledged, pedal to the metal, liberal
extremist types." Rush thanks Elan for his great list, and asks
him to send him a copy of it.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush comments that he had a tour of Fort Bragg once, and
saw the Special Forces in training. Thus he is also qualified to
be Commander-in-Chief.

o       A convicted murderer is suing the Illinois Department of
Corrections for $1.5 million in federal court because they won't
respect his "First Amendment rights to worship in the nude." The
convict says that prison officials also refused his requests for
books on voodoo and didn't let him contact his "guru." State
prison spokesmen wouldn't comment on the suit. Rush wonders what
religion worships in the nude, and he hesitates to think about
what kind of god would be involved.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Rush received a letter from John in Greenville, SC who is a good
candidate for EIB's Memory Division. John reminded Rush of his
program's basic motto that all EIB needs to prove guilt is the
appearance of impropriety. Rush says that this is correct, and
EIB is simply following the lead of the Democrats who in 1986
attacked Ed Meese for "improprieties" in getting a loan for his
new house. A special prosecutor looked into the charges, and even
though he reported that he couldn't find any wrong-doing, he
still believed that there were some. Democrats demanded that
Meese resign because of the "appearance of impropriety."

John comments that Clinton seems to be begging to have charges of
philandering brought back against him. Not only has he called
Bush a tax-evader, racist, and the father of crooks, but Hillary
Clinton presented an award last weekend to "that legal giant,
Anita Hill." Through his wife, Clinton attacked Clarence Thomas
by reaffirming Anita Hill's credibility.

Interestingly enough, Rush adds that the President of the
American Bar Association said that "this profession is being
feminized. The future of the American Bar Association lies with
women." With all of this interesting news, Rush spontaneously
decides to do a Anita Hill Update.

Update  Anita Hill         (The Guess Who, "It Was Too Late -
She's Come Undone")

Rush restates his opinion that Anita Hill wasn't telling the
truth. He came to this simple conclusion because Hill had no
evidence. The fashionable thing is, of course, to believe Hill
because "why would she lie? What would she have to gain?" Forget
about the $10,000 speeches and the book deals, forget about the
increased prestige among liberals, and you easily come to the
conclusion that Hill had nothing to gain from lying. Still, Hill
had no evidence for her charges.

Rush got into an argument the other day with a feminist who
refused to stay in Rush's presence unless he changed his mind
about Anita Hill lying. Rush refused to do so, and he comments
that in his experience women who have been harassed believe Hill
no matter what. Legal standards don't matter to these people; so
what if Hill waited 10 years? So what if Hill said she was
harassed in the spring of 1981, but she didn't even meet Clarence
Thomas until the fall of 1981. Rush's feminist friend defended
Hill by claiming that she was unable to remember when she
graduated from high school, and she used this to justify her
belief in Hill.

The fact is that Hill's witnesses did not know her well and could
not corroborate her story, and if the harassment were really
traumatic, Hill would not have waited 10 years to tell her story.
In addition, the politics of the accusations were obvious. In
spite of all this, Hillary Clinton was in San Francisco Saturday
giving an award to Anita Hill for her "bravery and courage in
alerting the world" to the sexual harassment issue.

John's letter comments on how Clinton evidently doesn't mind his
wife giving an award to a woman whose veracity is doubted by the
majority of the American people. He closes his letter by asking
Rush to imagine what would happen if Barbara Bush gave Gennifer
Flowers an award for her courage and truthfulness, just like
Hillary Clinton did for Anita Hill.

As the Anita Hill Update theme plays, Rush repeatedly says "It's
the same thing, folks. It's the same thing. In fact, Gennifer
Flowers brought us more evidence than Anita Hill did."

*BREAK*

Phone   Christina from Saratoga, NY

Christine first wants to ask if Rush's figures that show family
incomes are up takes into account that more women and mothers are
working. Rush returns to the story which says that the 19% drop
since 1973 in real weekly income of the average American does not
take into account those who are self-employed professionals,
supervisors, those on pensions, or anyone employed in the public
sector such as teachers and government employees.

According to the story, a better judge of income is inflation-
adjusted family income, which has risen 5.4% in real terms since
1973. Rush admits that this is not a great increase, but a 5.4%
increase is a lot better than a 20% drop. The story doesn't
mention whether more women are working, yet it is still an
increase in family incomes, which is something that Rush thinks
should regularly happen. Christine admits that she didn't
realized that the income figures had been skewed like this, and
asks if Rush's quotes from the psychologist convention on the LA
riots are accurate.

Rush reads the Denver Post news story verbatim: "Members of the
Association of Black Psychologists said yesterday in Denver that
the Los Angeles riots were a healthy outlet for black oppression,
and if the Rodney King verdict had not sparked the violence,
something else would have. `We think it is a healthy sign,
instead of repressing all those feelings,' said Richard Webb,
chairman of the Association's social action committee. About 300
people are attending this annual conference this week, examining
racism, violence prevention, and other issues affecting the black
community."

Christine realizes that Rush was not taking things out of
context, but she is still shocked that someone would come up with
this kind of stuff. Rush says that these comments are no
different than Maxine Walters' "no justice, no peace" remark, nor
the fact that she condoned the riots and refused to condemn the
rioters. These psychobabblers have been saying all along that the
nation "must understand" the rioters and that they can't be
blamed for their rage.

Rush hopes that someone, hopefully Willie Williams, LA's new
police chief, will put their foot down and let Los Angeles know
that future riots and violence will not be tolerated. This is
especially needed now since so many people are threatening more
riots if the cops' federal trial does not produce a guilty
verdict.

*BREAK*

Phone   Irv from West Orange, NJ

Irv wonders how many times Ronald Reagan called out the National
Guard before he was President, and Rush replies "quite a few."
Irv then asks how much foreign policy experience Reagan had
before becoming President. Rush says that what qualified Reagan
on foreign policy issues was Reagan's statements on the need to
rebuild the military and to stop Communist expansion. Reagan,
though, did not claim that his National Guard experience
qualified him as Commander-in-Chief. Rush comments that Irv has
chosen to ignore what he has said on this issue, but Irv says
that this doesn't make Rush right. Rush points out that the fact
he is right makes him right.

Irv prefers not to discuss this subject any more and continues on
to his real topic of how when he went to public school, there was
never any discussion of religion in public schools. Instead,
children went to religious schools at some point or another, and
ethics came from the home.

Irv feels that "religious entities" in this country are realizing
that they are failing to attract people and thus are trying to
impose their curriculums as part of public schools. Also, if it
is important to have prayer in school, then why can't these
children just go to their own churches before or after school?

Rush says that nobody is advocating that public prayer be
mandated in school; also, parents do not come up with ethics
solely on their own. Parents are not the originators of morality,
and Irv admits that it is taught through religion. Rush says that
his main point is that ethics and right and wrong have been
excluded from schools. It's not so much that these things had
once been a major part of school curriculums, but that it's now
become unconstitutional to teach such things. You can't teach
right from wrong in schools today because value judgements are
frowned upon.

Irv says that Rush is not addressing his main issue which was
that there is a strong movement to include open prayers in
schools. Irv never remembers being taught any ethics or religion
in his schools. Rush wonders what Irv's point is since on one
hand he claims that there never has been prayer in schools but on
the other says that people have been implementing it.

Rush comments on Irv's condescending tone, and Irv says that he
learned it from Rush. Rush wishes that Irv had been more
interested in having a discussion as opposed to trying to be
provocative, as this might have led to a real discussion of some
issues.

*BREAK*

Phone   Lars from Los Angeles, CA

Lars had called yesterday right before the end of the show, and
so EIB has called him back. Lars wants to address Rush's oft-
repeated question as to why Bush has declined in the polls, and
he thinks that there are two parts to this. First, the media has
been very effective in blowing Clinton back up and making him
into a national figure. Second, Bush simply has not been
campaigning; Clinton has the whole field to himself, and Bush's
inaction portrays him in an ineffectual light. Lars would love to
see Bush come up with the same spirit that Reagan showed during
his campaigns.

Rush decides to end the suspense and gives his answer - there is
no specific event which has caused Bush's "massive plummet." The
betrayal of the no new taxes pledge is people's main reason for
being angry at Bush now, but it didn't seem to matter to them
during the Gulf War. The only thing that really is different
between Bush's rating now and before is that Clinton is
campaigning.

Are the polls taken today an accurate reflection of people's
disaffection with Bush and their love for Clinton? The gap
between the two candidates will undoubtedly narrow, and the only
thing left to happen is the Republican convention and succeeding
campaign. Thus, if the Republican campaign is going to close this
gap, then it shows that campaigns matter. In fact, the only thing
Clinton has done to get his ratings is that he has campaigned.

Clinton's biggest advantage is that he is not George Bush, and
the 1992 election will be about George Bush. Clinton is a third-
string candidate and nobody understands his economic plan. Rush
is amazed, though, at the massive fluctuations that occur in the
polls without some corresponding cause.

The media is responsible, of course, and Rush comments on how ABC
World News Tonight is all excited about the NY Post story about
Bush having a mistress. This is a total non-story, based on what
a dead person has to say, and yet the media is all over itself
trying to follow it.

It will therefore be interesting to see how effective the
Republican campaign will be. If Bush rebounds, it will be in
spite of his own record and in spite of the media's attempts to
totally discredit him.

*BREAK*

Phone   Phyllis from Baton Rouge, LA

Phyllis says that if the public schools produced Irving, then it
shows why the public schools need to be changed. Rush wouldn't
say that - Irving was just being contentious for the sake of
contentiousness. Had Irving had any real topic, and had he been
interested in a real discussion, he would have been an
interesting caller, but as it was, all he did was try to be
snide.

-- 
John Switzer               | "My name is Hillary. It's a German
                           | name that means 'She whose bosoms
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | defy gravity.'" -- from Top Secret,
jrs@netcom.com             | a vastly underpraised movie