From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Mon 9/14/92
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 21:28:50 GMT
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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, September 14, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, September 14, 1992

by John Switzer

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September 14, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

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

The Soviet Union is dead, but Mikhail Gorbachev is still around,
and thus it's time for another Gorbasm. (A Gorbasm is that
feeling of excitement, bliss, and euphoria that occurs when you
think about all the great things that Gorbachev will do for the
planet. Yet, a Gorbasm is nothing but fake emotion.) Gorbachev
was in Jerusalem recently and called himself a "life-long
socialist following in the steps of Jesus." In a newspaper
article he also proclaimed that "true socialism is the equivalent
to the ideals of Christ."

This reminds Rush of anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott who
stated that "Gorbachev is just like Christ - he comes and offers
peace proposals and no one listens." Rush points out that the
Earth has hundreds of millions of people who listen to the words
of Christ, and who are attempting to implement them. Yet these
people are called "kooks, wackos, and extremists."

If he resembles anyone, "Mikhail Gorbachev represents the devil.
Mikhail Gorbachev cannot possibly represent Christ."

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush humbly thanks the National Association of
Broadcasters for naming him "Broadcast Personality" of the Year"
Saturday in New Orleans at their annual Marconi Awards banquet.
Radio station managers and other personnel vote for these awards.

o       Rush's "romance" with a certain woman is "ripening"
according to a New York gossip columnist. Rush refuses to divulge
the woman's name since there is nothing "ripening." According to
the rumors, though, Rush and his paramour walked through Central
Park, with Rush's editor at Simon and Schuster serving as a
chaperone. The editor supposedly admitted to the gossip columnist
that the two "lovebirds" did get some quality time together
because she heard later that Rush is a "great kisser."

However, the "unguarded moment together" that the gossip
columnist is making such a big deal about was not a romantic
interlude. Rush agreed to go on a walk through Central Park with
his editor, her infant child Lulu, and another woman. As the
group approached the boat pond, Rush was left with the other lady
while his editor showed Lulu the statue of Alice in Wonderland
which is nearby. Rush insists that there were no "PDAs" - public
displays of affection.

Rush didn't even read this column for himself; his TV partner
Roger Ailes told him about the column and how it stated that Rush
is a good kisser. Rush says that this last fact is the only bit
of truth in the entire story.

o       Rush comments that some people have already seen the
debut of his TV show. The first caller for today's show even
wants to talk about it. Some TV stations are airing the show
twice - once in the morning and then late at night. Rush is
distressed, though, that he is still being besieged with requests
from listeners who don't know when Rush's show will be aired on
their local TV stations. This means that a lot of stations aren't
making much of an effort to promote the show. There are even
jokes being made about it - one maggot-infested FM-type said
"we've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that Rush's TV
show starts today. The good news is that it airs at 1 a.m."

Rush encountered this same attitude when he started out his
national radio show four years ago. However, Washington, DC is
the only major US market that will not see the TV show. Rush
hopes, though, that his devoted dittoheads will "wade through the
TV listings" to find where and when his TV show will be aired.

Rush is certain that there are a great number of people who have
already written letters of complaint about his show; these
letters will be mailed tomorrow after its debut. Rush points out
that if people like something, they rarely call the manufacturer
or dealer to praise them and their product. However, if something
goes wrong, people will complain loud and long.

Thus, the lesson is that if people like Rush's show, they should
let their affiliate know so as to counter-balance the complaints
that are already being made. It's bad enough that people are
having trouble finding out just when Rush's show is on, thanks to
a lack of advertising on the part of the affiliates, but critics
have decided Rush's show is a failure even before it has aired.

Rush is confident, though - the fact that others aren't giving
Rush any chance of success will allow him to "sneak up on his
critics." New Orleans has already learned about the power of
Rush's fans - the TV station is showing Rush's show after
Nightline, but because of Monday Night Football they decided to
cancel Rush's show during football season. The station received
so many complaints that they changed their minds and will now air
the show at 7p.m. on Mondays. In Baton Rouge, the David Letterman
show was even moved back to allow Rush's show to be aired first.

Thus, there is no conspiracy against him or his show, and Rush
knows that he will overcome the nay sayers who seek to condemn
everything he does even before he does it.

*BREAK*

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

The current issue of Playboy magazine has a number of articles
about modern feminism, including one by Camille Paglia. Bernard
Goldberg explains in the magazine that the reason the media
accepts the feminist agenda is because "nobody wants to look like
a Neanderthal."

Also, the Washington Times reports that Tawana Hammond, the first
girl to play high school football in Carol County in DC, was
injured in the team's first scrimmage practice in 1989. The girl
is now suing the school board for $1.5 million because she was
"not adequately warned about the dangers of the sport." Rush says
that one of the main arguments against allowing girls to play
football was because they would be injured. This is just one of
the many reasons why it's so hard to take feminists seriously.

*BREAK*

Rush doesn't want to laugh at Tawana Hammond's misfortune, but
she was the one who threatened to sue her school if she wasn't
allowed to play football in 1989. She then showed up for practice
in August, 1989, was tackled in the first scrimmage, and suffered
a ruptured spleen, which required four months of hospitalization.
One official commented that it used to be that the debate was
about whether women should play football at all, but now it's
about how much warning they should be given about the sport. The
official said that most people would have realized the dangers
involved once they put on all of the protective padding. Rush
adds that women have been excluded from this sport for decades -
shouldn't this be a good warning about how aggressive the sport
is?

Rush comments that the picture of Tawana Hammond in the newspaper
looks a lot like Joel Sabastini, who promptly comes into the
studio to refute the charge. Rush promises to take a photo of
Joel and show both pictures on his TV show so that his audience
can decide for themselves.

Phone   Brad from Ft. Meyers, FL

Brad saw Rush's TV show at 11:30 EST this morning, and he thinks
it was a great show, albeit too short by "two and a half hours."
Brad says "it's just like the radio show - it's fun." Rush asks
Brad to describe the show, and Brad says that "I saw just you,
what else is there?" Rush adds that he also interviewed a poster
of Slick Willie on this first show.

Brad wants to know, though, what the box of Hamburger Helper was
doing on the bookshelf. Rush replies that this box is actually
"Roadkill Helper," which a fan sent him some time ago.

Phone   Steve from Farmington, MO

Steve wants to apologize to Rush for doubting him about his claim
that the liberal political agenda is being put forth in public
schools. His eyes were opened, though, when he and his wife
started attending adult education classes at the local city
college. One of the articles given to his wife to improve her
reading skills was about how hunting is wrong. The article even
claimed that dove hunters illegally enter the city and shoot down
doves that are sitting on telephone wires.

Rush has to laugh at what schools are doing now, and Steve says
that at least he doesn't have to pay much for the classes because
he and his wife have gotten government grants. Rush is amazed
that not only are liberals infiltrating the schools more than he
thought, but they're using government money to do so. Rush thanks
Steve for his call, and tells him that no apologies are needed
for doubting him about liberal propaganda - people sometimes need
to see these things for themselves.

Rush comments that a lot of people want him to give out the phone
number for subscribing to the Limbaugh Letter, but he can't do
that in the body of his show since it would violate the rules and
regulations that the FCC and other alphabet soup agencies have
put into effect. However, even though he cannot give out the
number, he can still tell his listeners when the commercial for
the Limbaugh Letter is coming up, which is right now.

*BREAK*

Rush has made a command decision during the break - although
there is a lot of interest about his TV show and book, he doesn't
want to spend much of the show's time talking about himself;
instead he wants to talk about the issues. However, since the
people seem to be demanding to talk about Rush, he doesn't want
to discourage them. Therefore, he has decided that the last hour
of today's show will include calls only from those who disagree
with him on issues of some substance. Thus, even though he
doesn't have to do this, Rush will use the third hour to balance
out the rest of the show which will undoubtedly include calls
from dittoheads who want to praise Rush, his TV show, and his
book.

Rush doesn't even want to hear one "ditto" during the last hour
of today's show - he wants to hear only from those who genuinely
disagree with him. Rush knows that this is an incredible thing
for him to do on the day his TV show debuts, but he is tired of
hearing the critics complain that his show never presents
dissenting opinions.

Having used up the segment talking about how the phone calls
today are about nothing but him, Rush promises to actually start
taking calls after the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Shaun from Miami, FL

Shaun also saw Rush's TV show, which was aired at noon local
time, and he thinks it was great, too. He in particular liked
Rush's joke about Whoopi Goldberg, and Rush cautions him not to
spoil the show for the rest of the audience by telling the joke
now.

Shaun also wants to talk about Dan Quayle's appearance on CSPAN
Friday; 14 out of the 20 calls he took were very negative calls.
In particular, Quayle was attacked for dodging the draft by
entering the National Guard, and for covering up the "fact" that
he smoked marijuana. Shaun, though, hadn't heard the marijuana
accusations before.

Rush says that this is a very old story that's been around for
years - a prison inmate in Indiana is claiming that he has proof
that Quayle was a big pot smoker in college, but Bush and Quayle
have supposedly used their influence and positions of power to
silence him. However, the inmate has no proof whatsoever, a fact
which is shown by how even Perot investigated the inmate's claims
and found nothing to them.

Shaun finds it interesting that the attacks that Quayle had to
defend himself against were the same sort of charges that have
been repeatedly levelled against Clinton. One caller even asked
about the rumors that Quayle has had an affair. Rush says that
these rumors are just as unfounded as the marijuana ones.

Rush says that the Clinton campaign is very well organized, and
it's not surprising that Quayle would be overwhelmed with callers
who are asking the same sort of questions that have been asked of
Slick Willie. Since it's "nip and tuck" time for Bush/Quayle,
these sort of calls could cause people to change their vote.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       New York City is concerned about the amount of lead that
is in its water supply, which until now has always been rated as
one of the country's best. Water samples have been taken
everywhere, including at the mayor's mansion. The tests found
that the water at the mayor's mansion has unacceptably high
levels of lead, while the water at City Hall has barely
acceptable levels.

Obviously, the lead has to be eliminated, but what's interesting
is a comment made by Sandy Evans of the city's environmental
protection agency - Evans stated that the tests done at the
mayor's mansion showed that "this is a problem that affects all
classes." Rush laughs at the implication behind this remark -
that "even the rich and powerful in New York City" are affected
by contaminated water.

This is a typical liberal reaction to a problem - a problem is
evidently okay as long as it exists among the rich and poor. This
attitude typifies so much of the liberal attempt to equalize
anything and everything in society.

o       For another example of this, Rush points to the
collegiate football game yesterday between Notre Dame and
Michigan - the mother of several athletes wrote Rush to mention
how the game ended in a tie, after "much hard work on the part of
the players, coaches, staff, and fans. No one expects to go into
a game of any kind, even life, with the thought that they'll lose
as the definite outcome. There's always hope, otherwise, what's
the point of playing? We go into the game charged up, ready,
expectant, and hopeful. We do our best and try our hardest."
However, even though both of the teams in yesterday's game did
this, neither won because it was a tie.

Rush says that these two teams did their best yesterday to win,
but the game ended in a tie. Everybody at the stadium, from the
players to the coaches to the fans to the network broadcasters to
the television audience, was disappointed at this. There's an
important lesson about life in this - the game yesterday ended in
equality and sameness of result. Everybody did their best and yet
nobody won.

What this shows is that it's basic human nature for somebody to
win; a tie, and its resultant sameness of result, is unnatural
and dissatisfying. Not one person at that stadium thought the
game was acceptable, and there was much anger about what
happened. Yet this is what liberalism seeks - to guarantee that
everyone finishes the same, that nobody wins or loses.

The point is that humans want somebody to win, and people are not
happy with a form of total equality that guarantees that
everybody ends up with the same result. The two football teams
are not taking consolation in the fact that they didn't lose, but
instead are angry that they didn't win. Even though a liberal
could argue that the tie means "both teams won," not one member
of either team is glad that they played ball for three hours and
ended up with a tie.

o       There's more controversy about the use of dolphins as
midwives in Israel. Six pregnant English women want to give birth
in the Red Sea, surrounded by dolphins. The women have taken up
residence in a sea-side resort near a lagoon that has six
dolphins, and have been passing the time by swimming with the
dolphins. The women hope that the dolphins will use their
"biological sonar" to "see" the babies in their bodies; the women
think this will calm them during the birth experience.

Israeli medical authorities, however, have not given permission
for the dolphin-assisted births; one official said that the women
could give birth with English dolphins if they so desired, but
not with Israeli dolphins. Rush comments that nature usually
shows the best way for things to happen, and if a birth in water
surrounded by dolphins was so beneficial, then the human race
would have adopted this technique eons ago.

Rush also points out that dolphins are known to get sexually
aroused when they cavort in the water with humans, and often
extend their "finger of friendship" to swimmers.

 *BREAK*

Rush asks his staff if any of them watched Larry King's Town
Meeting in Wichita last night, and none of them did. Rush is
surprised by how little curiosity his staff seems to have about
this sort of thing. He says that King's entire show was about how
America is going to hell in a handbasket, and how Wichita itself
is disintegrating before the people's eyes. Rush knows Wichita,
and the description given of that city last night just didn't
jive with what he knows.

The world is not ending, and people know this. For example, the
August 29th edition of the Wichita Eagle reported that Arsenio
Hall got the "Rush-off" from its Wichita affiliate - Arsenio's
show was bumped from the line-up to make room for Rush's show.
Thus, Wichita is not some leftist-oriented city as was portrayed
by King's show, nor are most Wichita residents paranoid chicken
littles.

Yet King seems to agree with Clinton and Gore that a government
program is needed for every problem under the sun. Unfortunately,
more and more people seem to think that government is the only
one that can offer any solutions.

For example, Clinton wants a government job training program, but
why is this needed? What are the schools good for if not for
training people to get a job? The problem is that schools today
want to have kids read about "Heather's Two Mommies," condoms,
and other politically correct topics. The educational curriculum
has been taken over by leftists and liberals, which is why kids
aren't being taught what they need to know to be a good worker.

If workers, though, are not qualified to work or are not good
employees, then they shouldn't be employed. The solution is not
to put the government in the marketplace, but to get the
government out of education so that kids can be taught what they
need to know.

*BREAK*

Phone   Dave from Evansville, IN

Dave saw Ross Perot on CSPAN last night, and he was amazed that
Perot actually left the door open to re-entering the Presidential
race. Perot said that he was going to give the Republicans and
Democrats a couple of more weeks and then "leave it up to the
volunteers." Whatever his volunteers want him to do, Perot would
do.

Dave can't believe that Perot is trying to make a comeback by
saying that he will re-enter politics if his issues don't get
talked about. Given all this, the title of Perot's new book
"United We Stand" is particularly ironic. Rush comments that some
people have asked him about where his own book is in relation to
Perot's; however, since Perot's book is a paperback and Rush's is
a hardback, the two books won't be on the same lists.

Dave says that he not only bought Rush's book at Waldenbooks, but
also picked up the audio tape of his book. Dave thinks Rush
should talk about the audio tape more. Rush sighs and points out
to the audience that he tried to talk about the issues - Dave
supposedly wanted to talk about Perot, but the caller has
finagled the subject around to Rush's book. Dave adds that he
bought the Rush poster, too.

Dave also wants to ask a question about the Rush III Video - a
bird flew away in the background right as his ex-speech teacher
was being interviewed. Rush says that this is just the way things
happened; it was "divine countenance" in operation. However,
since Dave seems to insist on talking about Rush and how great he
is, Rush regretfully has to move onto another caller who wants to
talk about real issues.

First, though, Rush comments that nobody should be surprised by
the Perot situation. During the Republican convention Rush talked
with Ed Rollins about Perot. Rollins said that Perot and his ego
are "so far gone" that he thought he would be cheered and saluted
for redefining the political process. Perot had no idea that he
would be assailed for being a quitter and liar. Rollins therefore
predicted that Perot would eventually find some way to get back
into the race so as to clear his name and reputation.

It's idiotic, though, for Perot to say "it's up to the
volunteers" as to whether he should get back into the race,
because if it were really up to the volunteers, Perot would never
have quit the race in the first place. "We're dealing with a
profound amount of confusion here," states Rush.

Phone   Sam from Ft. Worth, TX

Sam wonders why Rush is against the family leave bill since going
three months without pay might allow Sam to qualify for all of
the government entitlement programs he doesn't qualify for now.
Furthermore, the drop of income Sam would have to take would mean
that he would get an automatic tax cut of 25%; since he may drop
into a lower tax bracket, he could end up getting an even bigger
tax break, plus he could start receiving all of the government
benefits. There's also the possibility that President Clinton
would go ahead and implement some sort of income supplement to
make up for these lost wages. Sam could even come out ahead,
without having to work.

Rush calls this a good point, but asks Sam if he knows how many
American employees are currently covered by some sort of maternal
leave policy. Sam guesses somewhere around 85%, and Rush says
that 92% of women who are currently employed have such benefits
already. Sam, though, says that going along with Clinton would
allow these women to qualify for even more government programs.

Rush asks who stands to lose the most if a family leave plan is
implemented - wouldn't this be women since employers may favor
hiring men since they know women are more likely to take off
three months from work if the government should mandate it? A
caller last week also pointed out that if the economy is really
as bad as the Democrats claim, then how could anyone afford
taking three months off work without pay?

Al Gore is claiming that each year of the Bush administration has
lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Losing jobs means that not
only are more people on unemployment, but the declining tax base
means that taxes have to be raised on those who are working so as
to pay benefits to unemployed Americans. The only solution for
this is not extended unemployment benefits, tax increases, or
three months of family leave, as Clinton has suggested; what
America needs is an expanding job base, with more people paying
taxes. The economy cannot be expanded, though, by government
programs which force employers to provide three months of leave
to their employees.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mrs. Limbaugh from Cape Girardeau, MO

Rush's mom says that she knows Marconi was the inventor of the
radio, and Rush is proud of her knowledge - "you can see where I
get my intelligence," he states. She wonders, though, why she
hasn't seen anything in the papers about Rush being awarded the
Best Radio Personality award. Rush says that this is nothing new.

Mrs. Limbaugh also says that Rush should just "let those people
go" - she likes it when one caller after another praises her son.
Rush admits he likes it, too, but he has to think of his audience
who might get tired of hearing such extended effusiveness. Rush
adds that a small newspaper quoted the man who gave him his first
radio job as saying that "Rush doesn't have what it takes" and
that he won't have anything to talk about after the election.
This is the sort of caller Rush wants for his third hour today.

Mrs. Limbaugh understands this, but doesn't think she'll listen
to the third hour - she doesn't want to hear anyone criticize her
dear son. When Rush expresses his disappointment, she admits that
she'll really listen today because she never misses a second of
his show. She states that "I'm a busy person" since her son now
has a three hour radio show and a half-hour TV show. She also
thanks all of the nice callers today for their kind comments
about Rush.

Rush says that he has a great mother - she's so excited about his
TV show that she learned how to program all three of the VCRs in
her home, even though she is by no means a techno-whiz. Mrs.
Limbaugh adds that Rush's grandfather, who will be 101 years old
on September 27th, is also excited about his grandson's TV debut.

*BREAK*

Rush again reminds his audience that no dittoheads will be
allowed in the third hour of today's show. Bo, though, tells his
boss that he is having problems finding callers who disagree with
Rush. Rush begs disagreeing callers to take the chance and call
in during the next hour.

Phone   Ramona from Grand Rapids, MI

Ramona thinks that giving birth in a pool full of dolphins is
sort of weird, but water births are "more natural" than the
typical hospital birth. Above all, a water birth can be easier
for the mother. Rush says that he has no quarrel with people
trying different things, but he objects to those who claim that
their weird way is the "only" way to go.

Ramona wouldn't call these people "weird" because she hasn't met
them. Rush, though, "knows" the dolphin advocates are weird, and
confidently tells Ramona "you're being nice and tolerant, but the
world needs more people like me."

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       Rush will take calls only from people who disagree with
him this hour. He wants genuine disagreements, however, and
doesn't want to hear one "ditto" from anybody.

o       The National Council on Economic Education commissioned a
Gallup poll to survey 1005 adults, 300 college students, and 300
high school students as to their economic knowledge. Only 51%
correctly defined the federal deficit, while only 22% knew the
correct unemployment rate - most people thought that unemployment
was at 14% or so, instead of the actual 7.3% rate. Only 11% knew
the correct inflation rate of 3.2%.

Rush says that this survey tells a lot about what is going on in
America - if people think that the unemployment rate is twice as
high as it really is, and only one in nine knows the correct
inflation rate, then it's safe to say that most Americans have a
profound lack of knowledge about the economy. Since most people
get most of their news from television, this should show why
people think the economy is in the toilet - people simply don't
know the truth.

This is great news in one sense - all that has to be done is to
educate people as to the reality of America today. The inflation
rate is the most important economic figure that exists since high
inflation is a de facto tax which affects everyone, but which
hurts the poor the most. Inflation has been low for a decade,
though, yet most people don't understand just what a great boon
this has been for them.

Fortunately, Rush now has a TV show and a newsletter to fight
this ignorance. In fact, the first issue of the Limbaugh Letter
is especially relevant as its theme is "America does work."

o       Lars Erik Nelson, a columnist for the NY Daily News, has
written a profound column today. He mentions Pat Robertson's
letter that attacks feminism, and as Rush demonstrated last week,
Robertson was only quoting the feminists themselves.

Even the liberal Nelson admits that "Robertson has a point and we
may as well look at it carefully. In the right-winger's
nightmare, the culprit for the corruption of American life is
perfectly clear: a cultural elite of New York and Hollywood-based
liberals, mostly Jewish, who glorify sexual promiscuity, defend
homosexuality, raise bratty kids, oppose religion, scorn
patriotism, and refuse to punish criminals."

"Surprise," writes Larson, "the culprit may indeed exist." Nelson
continues on to say that the just-published book "Freudian Fraud"
explains a lot of modern-day intellectual American history, such
as why New York first-graders are taught about homosexuality and
why Dan Quayle gets a lot of support when he speaks about family
values.

In the 1920s, American white supremacists argued that the North
European race was superior to any other. Freud, though, thought
that the way kids were raised was more important to their
development. Sociologists of the time seized his theories and
used them to counteract the supremacists' racist claims. However,
these sociologists went one step beyond Freud. Nelson writes "if
cultural training, not nature, determined a person's behavior,
then homosexuality could not be a crime against nature.
Homosexuality was nothing more than an alternative life-style, no
more inferior than any other."

Nelson gives other examples of how other forms of aberrant
behavior were explained away as just the result of the way people
were raised. The author of this new book on Freud is a self-
proclaimed liberal Democrat who writes that "the values of
Freudian theory have been incorporated into liberal politics,
particularly Democratic party politics. And since they're based
on nonsense, that leaves us in a bit of a bind."

Thus, Nelson has shown the source for liberalism's attitudes that
scorn patriotism, decry the punishment of crime, and accept any
form of aberrant behavior. Furthermore, it is the Democratic
party that is the home of this permissiveness. This is why
Dukakis lost in 1988 - Willie Horton wasn't a myth, and Dukakis
really did have a problem with the Pledge of Allegiance. Dukakis
lost because he was clearly a liberal, and Rush is pleased to see
that both Nelson and the author of this new book about Freud have
confirmed a lot of what he has said about liberals.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mark from Seattle, WA

Mark asks why George Bush is any different from Clinton since
both men are pretending to be something they are not. Clinton
claims he is not a liberal while Bush claims to be a
conservative. Mark wonders why Rush is back on the "Bush
bandwagon" since it's clear that Bush cares only about his re-
election; Bush is campaigning like a conservative, but certainly
won't govern that way.

Rush replies that he asked Buchanan about the credibility problem
he might suffer because he is now supporting Bush. Buchanan
replied with a look of incredulity - "what should I do? Vote for
Clinton? How could anybody do that?" Bush, though, certainly has
a big challenge in front of him since he has to somehow show why
he should be re-elected after four lackluster years.

Rush says that he has always been clear in his feelings about the
November election - it is like a Superbowl game in which none of
his favorite teams are playing. Thus, Rush is reduced to hoping
that a hated team will lose. However, all Rush has to do is
listen to Clinton talk about his economic plan to realize that
should Clinton get elected, there will be a massive confiscation
of wealth nation-wide. Clinton is a dedicated big government man
through and through, and his socialist tendencies scare Rush.

Mark agrees, but says that the country has weathered this sort of
President before. He wonders just how much different a second
Bush term would be from his first. Rush, though, thinks that Bush
will definitely not allow a second tax increase to occur. Mark
has his doubts about this - if Bush wins a second term, he's in
for four years and does not have to worry about getting re-
elected. Since Bush is not a conservative, this does not bode
well for the country.

Rush says that Bush may not be a conservative's conservative, but
he certainly is more conservative than Clinton. The economy
aside, though, Rush points that the federal judiciary is also
important, and the nation should not surrender its courts to
liberals who will find that there's a First Amendment right to
beg.

Rush points out that there are times when a decision has to be
made against a negative instead of for a positive. Mark, though,
would rather look to 1996, but Rush discounts the idea that a
Clinton Presidency would improve the conservative movement. Rush
simply isn't willing to sacrifice the next four years of this
country in order to get a "real conservative" in the White House
in 1996.

Mark doesn't want to sacrifice the country either, but he doesn't
see much difference between Bush and Clinton. Conservatism cannot
survive another four years of being defined by Bush. Rush says
that the conservative cause is not going to be destroyed or
defined by Bush. Granted Bush is not a real conservative, but
conservatives will be better off in 1996 after a Bush second term
than they will be after a Clinton first term.

*BREAK*

Rush gives one last little bit of comfort to conservatives who
are still bothered by what George Bush might do during his second
term - "don't forget, he will have me as an adviser in his second
term. Chew on that!" The EIB staff warns Rush that some in the
audience might take this comment to mean that Rush is "indeed on
the payroll." Rush calls that absurd; all he is doing is
illustrating the absurd by being absurd. It is obvious to any
thinking person that what Rush means is that George Bush will be
able to tune in to Rush's show every day so that he can learn
what he should do. In fact, Bush can now also turn in order to
the TV to study at the EIB Institute.

Phone   Patsy Ann from Wyoming Valley, PA

Patsy Ann wants to take issue with Rush over "Joanne Kopechne" -
this bothers Patsy Ann because Kopechne came from her area and
she knows her family. Patsy Ann thinks that Mary Jo Kopechne made
a mistake in associating with "that piece of trash Kennedy" and
ended up paying for it with her life. Patsy Ann thus hopes that
Rush can focus on Ted Kennedy and stop laughing at Mary Jo.

Rush denies ridiculing Kopechne, but Patsy Ann says that she has
heard Rush laugh sneeringly when Mary Jo's name is mentioned.
Rush says that he hasn't done this, but Patsy Ann says that at
the very least some people listening might be laughing. Rush
assumes that Patsy Ann is distressed by his calls for a national
holiday in honor of Mary Jo, given that she single-handedly saved
the country from a Ted Kennedy presidency. He also bets that he
doesn't like the Ted Kennedy jokes that were made after the QE2
ran aground.

Patsy Ann says that these things bother her, and she points out
that the media always brings this issue up when Ted Kennedy is
mentioned. Rush says that it's hard to get away from
Chappaquiddick. Patsy Ann understands, but this particular thing
really bothers her.

She admits, however, that she loves Rush's show and agrees with
him 85% of the time, although Bo, "in his sexy voice,"
specifically warned her not to say this. Rush understands Patsy
Ann's complaint and will think about it because he does not want
to cause people pain. However, he does think it is important that
people should remember the truth of some events and how the truth
was swept under the rug at the time. "It's not our intention to
bring pain, but life is life and we'll see how it goes."

To close off this phone call, Rush plays that all-time favorite
ditty "I'm A Philanderer."

Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are - well, you'll know that I'm around.
I kiss 'em and I love 'em cause to me they're all the same.
I get so gosh-darn hamad I don't even know their names.

Because I'm a philanderer, yes, a philanderer.
I sleep around, around, around, around, around.

Well, my views are on the left, got a bimbo on my right.
Only God will know where I'll be passing out tonight.
And if you want to ask me which girl I love the best,
I'll tear open my shirt, got `Mother Rosie' on my chest.

Because I'm a philanderer, yes, a philanderer.
I sleep around, around, around, around, around.

Well, I'm the type of guy who likes to roam around,
I'm never in one place, I roam from town to town.
And when I find myself falling for some girl,
I jump right in that car of mine and I take her for a whirl.

Because I'm a Kennedy, yes, Ted Kennedy, The car spins round, and
round, and round, and round, and round.

Phone   Chris from Toledo, OH

Chris is glad that Rush has finally admitted that he is on Bush's
payroll, and the EIB staff smugly tells Rush that they warned him
this would happen. Chris is angry that Rush was "beating up" on
economists a while ago. Rush says that he was specifically
attacking the "Nobel Prize-winning" economists who allegedly
support Clinton's economic plan.

Chris is glad to hear this because some economists really know
their stuff. Rush points out that he was pretty specific with his
criticisms, and in fact mentioned John Kenneth Galbraith as a
great example of the socialist-minded types he was referring to.
Chris points out that Ronald Reagan majored in economics in
college. Also, the National Review's issue on Reaganomics
mentions that Reagan had 400 economists working for him, and they
produced some great things for the country. Rush says that Reagan
was not one of those he was talking about since Reagan never won
a Nobel Prize.

Rush was trying to make the point that Clinton is justifying his
economic plan by claiming it is supported by Nobel Prize winners,
but this is like saying nine out of ten college professors
support it. The people who support Clinton's plans are a bunch of
liberals. Both Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel
Prize for economics, yet neither would support Clinton's
programs.

Thus, the fact that Clinton has the support of a few prize-
winning economists does not mean much at all. Rush doesn't know
who the Nobel Prize winners are, but Robert Reiche is one
economist that is publicly supporting Clinton, and Reiche wrote
Dukakis' economic program.

Clinton hasn't named the Nobel Prize winners he is referring to,
but he's trying to justify his ideas by claiming he has these
guys' support. Unless Clinton were to identify these guys and
allow their records to be examined, their support for him is
meaningless. Besides, just because someone wins an award does not
mean that they are excellent - Los Angeles talk show host Tom
Likus made the point that the people who usually win movie and TV
awards are the producers of documentaries and features that
nobody ever watches.

Chris just wishes that when Rush criticizes leftist economists
that he would also praise some correct-minded economists on the
right. Rush agrees, and he thanks Chris for his call which has
allowed him to do precisely this. Thanks to Chris' shrewd
perceptions, Rush has now been able to publicly mention Friedman
and Hayek as examples of economists who know what they're doing.

*BREAK*

Phone   Margaret from St. Louis, MO

Margaret gives Rush "non-kudos" as she disagrees with Rush about
his views on sex education. A lot of parents don't teach their
kids about sex, so if the schools don't teach them about it,
where will they learn it? Rush replies that he would change his
mind on the need for sex-ed if someone could show him some
statistics that showed it works.

Margaret bets that if Rush asked all of his female friends he
would find that all of them knew at least one person in high
school, that did not know where babies came from. Rush says that
he would believe this, especially as he remembers some of the
sixth-grade conversations he had about sex and babies.

He recalls that when he was in junior high, the school erupted
one day because someone had found a feminine sanitary napkin in
the front yard. Rush didn't know what people were talking about,
though, and so he asked his fellow students what this thing was.
Nobody could or would tell him, so he went home and asked his
mom. His mom then called his dad about it, and when his father
came home he sat both Rush and his brother down and explained the
facts of life to them.

Thus, Rush feels lucky in the way he learned about sex; however,
what bothers him is that there are too many statistics now that
show that the way sexual education is being taught produces an
increase in sexual activity. Margaret says that her mother worked
in the East St. Louis school district in the 70s and it broke her
heart to see how many girls got pregnant during the summer. Thus,
her job was to teach the kids where babies came from.

Rush doesn't mind that, but passing out condoms and such is not
the way to go. Margaret says that recently a school
superintendent decided to give out condoms to kids regardless of
whether their parents wanted the school to do this or not.
Margaret thinks that this is a good idea since so many parents
are clueless about their kids' sexuality.

Rush says that in New York the big discussion is now over whether
abstinence should be taught. A lot of parents want this, but in
spite of the fact that schools are required by state law to teach
abstinence, the school chancellor refuses to do it. The point is
that if parents can't stop schools from giving condoms to their
kids, then what else will liberals be able to do to the children
without their parents having any say-so?

Margaret, though, thinks that parents who are involved with their
children won't be bothered as to what the schools do. Rush
disagrees - the caring, involved parents are the ones most
concerned about what schools are teaching their children - this
is why New York parents are going to have a march to protest the
high-handedness of the NYC school board. It is the caring parents
who are most upset that they don't have any say in what their
kids will be taught, and they fear that the school might end up
teaching things that contradict what they've been trying to teach
their children themselves.

Los Angeles schools have finally admitted that sexual education
causes an increase in teenage pregnancies, but their answer to
this is "outercourse", aka "creative masturbation." If kids are
taught the right things, then they'll be okay, but schools are
now filling the minds of youngsters with liberal pap and
propaganda, which, by the way, is why they won't be able to find
a job without some sort of Clinton-sponsored job training
program.

*BREAK*

Phone   J.D. from Raleigh, NC

J.D. wonders why Rush is against Clinton's $6 billion plan to
retrain people - if these people are not trained, then how are
they going to get off of welfare? Rush asks J.D. if he needs job
training, and J.D. laughs. Rush says that this is his point -
J.D., and most other people, have learned what they need to know
through school, work, and life. A $6 billion program is just
another liberal excuse to spend money - "all we need to do is
shore up our educational system and people will be fine."

-- 
John Switzer               | 50 years from now, nobody will
                           | remember Candice Bergen or Murphy
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | Brown, but every school kid will
jrs@netcom.com             | be taught about President Quayle.
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