From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Summary Fri 1/1/93
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Friday, January 1, 1993
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:51:16 GMT

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, January 1, 1993

by John Switzer

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This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1993 by John Switzer.
All Rights Reserved. These summaries are distributed on
CompuServe, GEnie, and the Internet, and archived on GEnie (NPC
Roundtable) and Internet (cathouse.aiss.uiuc.edu).  Distribution
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encouraged. Spelling and other corrections gratefully received.

Please note the following disclaimer when reading and using this
summary:

1.      These summaries are unofficial summaries and are not
approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or EIB, and should not be
considered a 100% accurate representation of each show. I have no
connection to Rush Limbaugh or EIB other than as a daily
listener.

2.      Because this summary is not a word-by-word transcript, it
is inevitable that I may not accurately portray Rush's beliefs or
supporting points. My choice of words may also distort the points
presented by Rush and his callers.  A good rule of thumb is "If
something sounds reasonable and intelligent, it belongs to Rush;
if something sounds weird or wrong, it probably belongs to me."

3.      The format of this summary is as follows:

        o NEWS - refers to what I consider to be  pertinent  news
items of the day, as reported by the newspapers, radio, or TV
news media. This news may or may not also be reported by Rush
during his show; however, I like to use this feature to keep a
perspective on current events as they happen.

        o MORNING UPDATE - this is Rush's syndicated morning
update which is separate from his regular show.

        o Items - these are the short bits of news or other items
of interest that Rush himself discusses.

        o Phone - this indicates a phone call.

        o Update - this is one of Rush's many updates, and
indicates which song Rush is playing. Note, though, that I may
not use the "official" title of the song, and sometimes will use
the most recognizable line of dialogue as the title.

        Any other text is part of Rush's monologue.

4.      Anything that appears in "double quotes" may or  may  not
be a direct quote of Rush, his sources, or his callers. Use the
context of the quoted statement to determine the meaning. My
editorial comments are enclosed in double angled brackets (<<
>>).

5.      Although I strive for accuracy at all times, because of
the length of each show (3 hours a day, 5 days a week), I cannot
check facts, figures, or names. In particular, the names of
people, places, and things may be spelled incorrectly.

6.      A note is needed on Rush's sense of humor, which can run
the gamut from sardonic and sarcastic to rude and crude. Trying
to convey the spirit of spoken humor into the written word is a
daunting task, and I may not always be successful. Therefore, I
use the following conventions to identify Rush's humor: a) a
lead-in such as "Rush jokes" or "Rush injects some humor by
saying; b) using words such as "according to Rush," "supposedly,"
"allegedly" as in "The police supposedly called the theft of 500
panties `unmentionable.' c) putting editorial comments within
double brackets as in <<Rush is joking here>>. Above all, use
your knowledge of Rush and his show, and the context of the
remarks to determine if humor is present.

DISCLAIMER: This unofficial summary is intended for regular
listeners of Rush's show and is not intended to replace or
supplant Rush's show, as if that would be possible. If you find
that you cannot regularly listen to Rush's show, check with your
local station to see if they replay the show later at night. My
local station, for example, replays the show most nights at 8pm.
You can also use most VCRs to record from the radio - simply
connect an audio cable from the AUDIO IN jack at the back of your
VCR to the AUDIO OUT or auxiliary speaker jack at the back of
your radio. Then switch your VCR over to LINE mode (see the VCR's
documentation for details) and record.

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January 1, 1993

LIMBAUGH WATCH

January 1, 1993 - It's now 60 days after Bill Clinton's election
and Rush is still on the air with 546 radio affiliates and 207 TV
affiliates, and his book has been on the NY Times hardback non-
fiction best-seller list for 15 consecutive weeks and is
currently number one on the list.

MORNING UPDATE

<<missing because my local EIB affiliates did not play it>>

<<Because Rush is on vacation until January 4th, today's show is
a "Best of Rush" show and is a repeat of the show that was aired
on Wednesday, November 4, 1992>>

FIRST HOUR

Rush starts off the show by saying "I was not wrong about one
thing. I was not wrong about why people voted the way they did
and what the people were expecting." Rush admits that he "blew
the prediction" about the election, but this is only because he
was being "true to my cause." Rush was surprised by the size of
the Perot vote, but this was the only aspect of the election that
did surprise him. However, one important thing to remember is
that six out of ten people in the election yesterday voted
against Clinton.

Rush has been doing interviews all morning with radio stations,
newspapers, magazines, etc. All of these interviews have had one
overriding theme - "Rush, what are you going to do now that the
elections are over?" Rush reminds people that his show started in
August, 1988 with some 56 affiliates, and the criticism most
often made against the show then was that he wouldn't have
anything to talk about after the 1988 Presidential election.
Critics predicted his show would rapidly fail.

This, of course, was ridiculous - Rush's show is event-driven,
and he will talk about whatever is hot. Using this simple format,
the EIB network has grown to 530 affiliates, and Rush says his
show will continue to discuss the events of the day. In fact,
events could become even more interesting during the Clinton
administration than they were during the past couple of years,
and thus Rush has no worries about his future or the future of
his show. If anything, Rush's show will now become the focus of
the "good, honest, and loyal opposition to the monolithic power
which will descend on Washington, DC."

Rush suggests that the people who should be worried about their
future are all of the hosts of politically-oriented shows whose
careers skyrocketed when they brought on Presidential candidates
as guests. Late-night comedians who have built their careers on
ridiculing the 12 years of Reagan/Bush may also find the going
rough since they will now have to make fun of the politicians
that they personally support.

The NY Times today has a headline proclaiming "Clinton carves a
wide and deep path through the heart of Reagan country," implying
that the Reagan/Bush coalition has been dispatched for good and
that conservatism has died its final death. Rush warns his
audience not to believe this stuff because conservatism did not
really lose yesterday; for Clinton and Gore to win, they had to
dispel the notion that they are liberals and instead had to make
people believe that they are moderates who have moved to the
right.

Clinton and Gore knew full well that had they run as liberals,
they would have been defeated. As it is, Clinton received only
43% of the popular vote, and thus six out of 10 people voted
against him. He has received no mandate because this election was
never a referendum about what Clinton wanted to do; if anything,
this election was about George Bush, and Bush was rejected.

Clinton had to appear to adopt conservative principles in order
to win, and the reason Bush ran into problems was because he
moved away from conservatism. Bush was elected in 1988 because
people thought he was going to continue what the Reagan coalition
had started; Bush started to distance himself from the Reagan
years only after he won the election, and it was then his
troubles began.

If liberals want to believe that conservatism is finished, then
Rush has no problems letting them believe this myth. The fact
remains that Clinton and Gore had to move to the right in order
to get elected, and the only reason they were elected is because
Clinton was the last guy standing. The people didn't care who he
was, they simply wanted change.

The politicos are all talking about the "mandate for change" that
was displayed yesterday, yet there are today 8 new Republicans in
the House and only one new Democrat in the Senate. The "mandate
for change" is not a mandate for the Democratic party or for
liberalism. 1992 was also supposed to be the Year of the Woman,
but only 6 of the 13 or so women running for the Senate won.

With the exception of Barbara Boxer, the liberal women who were
elected did not run against conservatives. Boxer barely won her
race against arch-conservative Bruce Herschensohn, yet
considering that Bush lost big-time in California, Boxer should
have won by a larger margin if ideology was really driving the
race. Lynn Yeakel, the Anita Hill candidate, went down to defeat,
while Carol Moseley Braun won her race only after losing a big
lead to a very weak opponent.

The "Year of the Woman" was really the "Year of the Liberal
Woman," which is why Rush opposed them. Rush opposed liberalism
throughout this election, and he predicts that although the
Republican party will have to redefine itself, the Democratic
party has a much more daunting task ahead of it.

The Democrats will soon engage in a huge battle for the soul of
their party, as liberalism tries to reassert itself. For example,
Tom Brokaw interviewed Jesse Jackson last night, and Jackson
produced a liberal wish-list that had little in common with what
Clinton has said he will do. If Clinton holds true to what he
said during his campaign, there will be some major conflicts
between him and the Democratic party's liberal leadership.

*BREAK*

Rush bets that a lot of people woke up today wondering just
exactly what they did yesterday. He adds that it has been a long
campaign for him, too, and so he will be taking this Friday off.
The show on Friday will be a "Best of Rush" show, and two of the
three hours will feature calls from Clinton supporters who said
why they were going to vote for "President-elect Clinton."

Rush chokes when referring to "President-elect Clinton," but he
repeats that life is what it is, and that people have to accept
the cards they are dealt. Just because Clinton won the election
doesn't mean his life will change, and he points out that Clinton
won only because he moved to the right and convinced people he
was more conservative than Bush.

Rush can't control the events of the day, and so he, along with
the rest of America, has to deal with them as they happen. People
may be sad and depressed about what happened, and they may be
incredulous that a peace protestor will now be President, but
this doesn't mean their lives have to change. "Who would have
thunk," Rush asks, "but it's happened."

The only reason Clinton was elected, though, is because people
didn't care if they elected a dope-smoker or peace protestor; all
people wanted was to get Bush out of the White House. Rush
recalls the saying "it's better to have loved and lost than never
to have loved at all"; thus, people will lose sometimes, but they
should keep a positive attitude and keep on loving.

The EIB staff shouts "anything else, coach?" Rush laughs and says
he knows some people are down in the dumps today, but he has some
great news and he simply refuses to share in the depression.
There is good news from yesterday's election, such as how term
limits passed everywhere it was on the ballot, and Rush will
share this news throughout the show.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush points out that "you've done it, at least four out
of every ten of you people have," and so he plays his commercial
for EIB's new horror movie which was "released" yesterday:

<<Announcer>> In a castle, deep in the heart of Arksylvania,
there lives an evil as old as the Democratic party itself.
Terrormount Pictures presents Bill Clinton in Taxula!

<<Algore>> Count Taxula, arise! It is I, your faithful servant,
Algore. Your agenda requires that you feed!

<<Count Taxula>> Thank you, Algore! Have you raised the CAFE
standards?

<<Algore>> Yes, master!

<<Count Taxula>> Shredded my draft record?

<<Algore>> Yes, master!

<<Count Taxula>> Good, good! Then I am off!

<<Algore>> Happy hunting, master!

<<Announcer>> He lays in waiting until his hunger calls. Then he
pounces on anyone who makes over $36,000 per year, sucking the
life blood out of every American taxpayer.

<<Horrified townsman>> Sir! We found his paycheck lying here,
drained of every penny!

<<Outraged police officer>> How could anyone do this in good
conscience? It's inhuman!

<<Announcer>> All the while, using his charisma and slick
character to hypnotize his victims.

<<Count Taxula>> Just look into your television! Invest in
America! Invest in America!! Invest in AMERICA!!!

<<Announcer>> Bill Clinton is Taxula! He sleeps in the daytime
and has been known to prowl at night.

<<Southern belle>> Oh, Willie - do that again!

<<Announcer>> Bill Clinton is . . . Taxula!

<<Count Taxula>> Come on, Algore, let's go to Congress! I'm
hungry! Bwah-ha-ha-ha!

o       USA Today has the headline "Economists: Clinton must act
decisively." Economists are telling Clinton to "get started now"
and "don't fall from the train that got you to the White House."
Rush says that this train was one of doom, gloom, and suffering,
and he is eagerly waiting for Clinton to soon start talking about
the prosperity that is "just around the corner" and how the
country's prospects for the future are suddenly brightening.

Phone   Kelly from New Haven, CT

Kelly voted for George Bush and is thus depressed and concerned
today; in particular, she is worried about foreign policy because
she has a young son whom she'd rather not see go off to fight in
a war. Rush says that Kelly can take heart from one simple fact -
most of the foreign leaders that the US deals with are lying and
dishonest thugs. The US, until now, has had honest, truthful
people to deal with them; now, though, there will finally be
someone in the White House who can relate to these deceivers and
instantly spot their falsehoods. "You should feel totally
confident about this," Rush advises.

Kelly doesn't think that Clinton is as knowledgeable as Bush is
about foreign affairs, but Rush doesn't think this matters -
"this is the battle of deceit," he proclaims, "and we're about to
enter that battle on equal footing."

Kelly takes some heart from that and asks Rush about the role
that the media has played in this election; given that the
media's anointed candidate has won, she wonders if Americans are
really living in a free country anymore. Rush discourages Kelly
from becoming that depressed about things; granted, this is the
first time the media has chosen a candidate, shielded him from
bad news, and helped him to victory, but this does not mean the
end of the Union.

Kelly thanks Rush for making her feel better, and he encourages
her to remain positive and to remember she still has more control
over her life and that of her family than Clinton does. Rush
admits, however, that this may not be true if Kelly's son enters
the military, and this reminds him of the exit poll that showed
Clinton got the majority of the veteran vote.

Rush cannot believe that anyone can still believe that people
voted the issues in this election, if the majority of veterans
supported the draft-dodging Clinton. He wonders if perhaps the
veterans who supported Clinton were the ones who did not go to
war; it would be interesting to see if there is any distinction
between veterans who did and did not go to war, and he suspects
that few who actually fought in combat voted for Clinton.

Rush also wonders if the non-combat veterans comprise a
constituent group that thinks because they served they are
entitled to a "lifetime of goodies"; he can't say this for a
fact, but he would love for someone to explain this anomaly to
him.

*BREAK*

Rush says that what he particularly loves about today is how many
people are surprised that he is not depressed, crying, and down
in the dumps because of the election results. He comments that he
has received an incredible amount of foul, mean, and vicious mail
that indicates there has been a lot of pent-up rage at
conservatives for the past 12 years.

These letters are filled with so much anger that they even
suggest Rush do things with his body that he doesn't think are
possible, but he encourages liberals to continue this sort of
venting if it will do them any good. However, Rush pledges he
will not ever gloat in such a manner, and he has even installed a
gloatometer to make sure he keeps this promise.

Phone   Chris from Ft. Wayne, IN

Chris is proud that at least her state voted in Bush, and Rush
says that Bush did win a fair amount of states. Chris, however,
can't believe that USA Today is calling Clinton's victory a
"landslide" since Clinton got less than 50% of the vote. Rush,
however, is not too concerned about this and is willing to give
the media their day because they have been waiting for 12 years
to write these sorts of headlines.

A young child screams in the background and Chris says that it
was her "squealing child" climbing a ladder; Rush warns her that
under the new administration children will have a powerful
advocate in the White House who will support their right to sue
their parents for such things as being allowed to fall off a
ladder. Chris promises she will take better care of her kid.

Getting back to the point, Rush says that he supported Bush in
this election because Bush was the closest candidate to what Rush
personally believed. Bush was not a real conservative, but he was
a lot closer to it than Clinton. However, defending the President
was still really tough when he signed the Civil Rights
legislation and broke his "no new taxes" pledge.

The shoe is now on the other foot, though - what are the
Hollywood left, the liberal civil rights coalitions, and the
press going to do now when they don't get their way? They've got
a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress, so they can't
blame Republican administrations anymore for their failures.

Rush predicts, though, that liberals will try to claim that the
"roots of Reaganism are so deep that it will take years to clean
up this mess. It may take the rest of mankind's time on this
planet to fix what's wrong." Liberals are going to blame Bush,
Reagan, Buchanan, and even Rush for everything that goes wrong,
even though they are the ones in charge now.

Kelly says that she plans on taking advantage of the new
administration, and she and her husband will still go ahead with
their plans to start a side business; although it may take more
work to make it succeed, they will succeed. Plus, if Clinton's
health care plans are implemented, Kelly will drop her health
plan at work so as to take advantage of the government-supplied
one; after all, she's paying for it, why not use it?

Rush congratulates Kelly on her optimism, and he comments that
under Clinton's plan some people may face a reduction in health
care. Many companies are providing some "mighty fine health care
plans" that go beyond what Clinton is mandating, and some of them
are bound to cut benefits only to what the government is
requiring. People will be surprised at this, and Rush will be
right there to remind them that they simply weren't paying
attention to the issues during the campaign.

Rush bets this sort of thing will start tomorrow, and it won't be
long until he can say "nyah, nyah, nyah" to those who voted for
Clinton. Rush continues on saying "nyah, nyah, nyah," but the
gloatometer kicks in, reminding him of his promise.

*BREAK*

Rush bets that many in his audience are stunned that he is having
so much fun and is even gloating right now. He explains that he
is gloating because he will be proven right throughout the
Clinton administration. However, if Clinton can reduce health
care costs, create more private sector jobs, and reform welfare,
then Rush will be one of the first to applaud his efforts. "I
won't begrudge him if he succeeds," Rush pledges, "but he won't."

Carl Rowan's column today is in fact about "all those promises"
Clinton has made, and Rowan asks how Clinton can possibly live up
to all of them. Rush is interested, for example, in when Clinton
will live up to the promise he made during the NY primaries that
he will keep a kosher kitchen in the White House. Rush remembers
every single one of these promises, and he'll keep on reminding
people of them throughout the next four years.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush explains that the EIB Institute is "feverishly
working" to compile every promise Bill Clinton made during the
1992 primaries and campaign. This list will be printed in an
upcoming issue of the Limbaugh Letter, so that listeners can hang
it on a nearby wall and check off each promise as Clinton
fulfills or breaks it.

Whenever Clinton fulfills a promise, Rush will announce that
"Promise number so-and-so" can be checked off, and millions of
listeners will then mark the promise off on their list. In this
way, when the 1996 election comes around, listeners can see which
promises were kept and which were broken.

o       President-elect Clinton has already promised massive,
sweeping changes in the first 100 days of his administration.
"Plans will be set in motion," and some problems will even be
fixed. Thus, on April 29th, 1993, Rush will do a "100 Days Show";
this happens to be a Friday, so callers will be able to express
their own opinions as to how successful Clinton has been.

o       Rush gives his list of winners and losers in yesterday's
election:

-       BIG LOSER - the special prosecutor industry, with
Lawrence Walsh as the last big name special prosecutor; "they
won't investigate themselves, folks," Rush explains.

-       BIG WINNER - Arkansas which can now move ahead after 12
years of stagnation under Clinton.

-       BIG LOSERS - stand-up comics who will no longer have Dan
Quayle or even a Republican administration to ridicule and
impugn.

-       BIG WINNER - New York state because Mario Cuomo will be
finally gone as governor.

-       BIG LOSER - the Supreme Court because Mario Cuomo will
have left New York to become one of Clinton's Court Justices.

-       BIG WINNER - Margot Perot who will once again be able to
talk to people who are not named "Perot."

-       BIG LOSER - New York liberals because they won't have
anyone except themselves to blame for New York's continuing,
decaying situation.

-       BIG WINNERS - every little tinhorn, mischief-making
dictator across the world who will be itching to test the new
President's mettle.

-       BIG LOSERS - those naive optimists in the middle class
who really think that they won't get taxed.

-       BIG WINNER - Kentucky Fried Chicken because of
Clintonomics which will put a chicken plant in every town.

-       BIG LOSER - the office of the Presidency.

-       BIG WINNER - the media who anointed their first
President.

-       BIGGEST WINNER OF ALL - "without question, me," Rush
states. "Four years of material which will demonstrate to one and
all just how accurate, profound, and right-on-mama I am."

o       The exit poll data from yesterday's election provides
some interesting insights. In ABC's exit poll people were asked
whether they would rather see government provide more services
with higher taxes, or fewer services with lower taxes. About 38%
of the electorate said they want more services and higher taxes;
53% of the people want fewer services and lower taxes. This is
curious because some of this 53% had to vote for Clinton.

This should show that the people weren't listening to what
Clinton said and did not vote the issues in this election; if the
people were paying attention to issues, they wouldn't have voted
for the one candidate who is promising higher taxes and bigger
government. This election was therefore not about Clinton but
about saying "bye-bye" to George Bush.

Another exit question asked people what they thought was more
important - a government that encourages traditional family
values, or a government that encourages tolerance for non-
traditional values. 68% of voters said they thought government
should encourage traditional family values, while only 26% said
they wanted the government to encourage more tolerance toward
non-traditional values.

Bush and Clinton each got about 40% of the voters in the 68%
block which proves conservatism is not dead. This exit poll, plus
the 8 new Republicans in the House, and only one new Democrat in
the Senate, shows conservatism is alive and well. Plus,
California's euthanasia initiative, Proposition 161, went down to
defeat, as did the state's "tax the rich" proposition.

If liberalism were really holding sway among people, both of
these two propositions would have won big, especially in
California where Democrats won every major office in sight.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush comments that Mario Cuomo was a big loser yesterday
because his $800 million bond issue "went down in flames"; his
attempt to secure bigger government was defeated, even though
Clinton won the state with a huge lead. Cuomo also saw the
candidate he endorsed for the Senate, Bob Abrams, lose to Alfonse
D'Amato, not to mention that Cuomo is out of the Presidential
race for at least 8 years.

Cuomo's future looks bright only if Clinton follows through on
his promise to appoint Cuomo to the Supreme Court, and Rush will
love to watch those confirmation hearings. Clinton said on
Primetime Live that he will look at his appointee's judicial
record, yet what records of this sort can he examine for Cuomo?
And if Clinton doesn't nominate Cuomo, then the sparks will fly
as well.

o       Rush was interviewed on NY channel 4 by Gabe Pressman
last night, and following him on the show was "her hatness,"
Bella Abzug, who proved that strife is "just waiting around the
corner" for the Democratic party. New York liberals are "all
concerned" that Clinton and Gore didn't address urban issues, and
Abzug pointed out last night that "those two young men are from
farms and may not know about these issues - we may have to guide
them on how to deal with urban problems."

Rush can't wait to see Abzug guiding Bill Clinton on urban issues
- "it's going to be great," he exclaims.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush comments on Clinton's promise to make Washington, DC
the 51st state, and he bets that this issue will quickly slide
from "top priority" status to the "rear of the agenda." If this
happens, Jesse Jackson will "do a slow burn" since he hopes to be
one of DC's perennial Senators. The other Senator for life, of
course, will be Marion Barry.

Admiral William Crowe will probably be head of the NSC, while Ron
Brown may be Attorney General. Hillary, of course, will be the
"First Woman," working behind the scenes. Pat Schroeder could be
Secretary of Defense, and there's no end to the other
possibilities that exist.

o       Another exit poll question asked by ABC shows that 58% of
the people who voted for Clinton were concerned about their
choice, and yet Clinton still thinks he has some sort of massive
mandate.

Phone   Tim from Greensboro, NC

Tim saw one of the Today show reporters say that Clinton was
going to "inherit an economy poised for recovery." Tim can't
believe that with all of the gloom-and-doom economic news that
has been put forth throughout the campaign that only one day
after the election, the media is finally acknowledging that there
is a recovery in progress.

Rush breaks one of radio's cardinal rules by whistling on the
air, and he sends one of his staff to get a clip from the Today
show to use on his TV show. He recalls how he said in the
previous hour that it would only be a matter of time before
Clinton and the media would start talking about how the economy
is getting better.

Tim also mentions the National Review special issue that
disproved all of the Democratic myths about Reaganomics. Stanley
Greenberg, a former consultant for Governor Clinton, said in this
issue that the Democrats had to destroy the successes of the
Reagan/Bush era, and this is exactly what they did. Bush, though,
just let the Democrats get away with it.

Rush says that Bush didn't believe in Reaganomics either, and Tim
agrees. Bush destroyed much of the Reagan era, and even though
Tim voted for Bush, he's still angry at what has been done to the
Republican party. Rush recalls how in his NY Times editorial he
warned that Bush had to stop the history revisionism that was and
is going on about the prosperity that occurred during the 80s.
The Democrats, though, succeeded in getting most people to forget
about what really happened during the 80s.

Tim says that he is only 23, but he remembers that during the 80s
the Republican party was the party of the middle class, and there
was real prosperity then. Bush, along with the Republican party
head Rich Bond et al, have eliminated all that Reagan has
achieved; in fact, Bush has done more to the Republican party
than the Democrats because Bush has destroyed it from the inside
out. Tim hopes that Kemp, or some other conservative, will take
the helm for 1996 and rebuild the party.

Rush says that the Republican party had better do something along
the lines of the Council of Trent to start fixing these problems.
There will be a big battle for the soul of the Republican party,
and much of this battle will include vicious infighting. However,
the Democrats will have the same problem, except that they will
have to deal with it while they govern.

*BREAK*

Phone   Keith from Griffith, IN

Keith thinks Jesse Jackson could be a big winner; he saw Jackson
interviewed on a Chicago TV station, and Jackson was asked why he
was so invisible during the campaign. Jackson replied that he
wasn't invisible and that he was out registering voters, and
such. Jackson then said that he has had meetings with Clinton,
adding that Clinton has said Washington, DC will have statehood
within a year.

Rush says that Jackson will be guaranteed a Senate seat if DC
does become a state. However, if DC does become a state within
the first 100 days or so, people will be scratching their heads
wondering why Clinton and Congress are bothering with this when
so many other important things need to be done. Rush will then
point out that he predicted Clinton would have to pay back his
liberal backers.

Yet if DC isn't made a state, then Jackson and other liberals are
going to be furious. Rush predicts that DC statehood will indeed
be moved to the rear of the agenda, and Jackson will self-ignite
because of it.

Phone   Mark from San Francisco, CA

Mark noticed that when Clinton made his acceptance speech last
night Hillary was the one who handed him the speech; Mark thought
that this fit perfectly with EIB's commercial for "Single White
Female." Rush obligingly plays the commercial:

<<ominous, scary music starts>>

<<Narrator>> 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!

<<Narrator>> 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!

<<Narrator>> 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?!

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

<<Hillary>> Smell the glove, Willie!

<<Narrator>> 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.

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

Rush says that several people have mentioned this to him, but he
doesn't think it means that Hillary has already taken over.
Rather, he thinks it's nothing more than how many husbands give
their wives their wallets, keys, or whatever to hold for them.
This really is not that big a deal, and he warns people not to
get too paranoid and let "Ross Perotitis" take hold on them.

Granted, Hillary may have written the speech, but this will come
out soon enough. In fact, Bill may have been asserting his
dominance by forcing Hillary to act as his servant and hold his
speech for him. Rush has no doubt that Ted Koppel and the rest of
the media will soon reveal the truth about all this.

*BREAK*

Phone   Phoebe from Roseland, NJ

Phoebe regretfully says that New Jersey did not vote Republican
this year as it usually does. She comes from an upper middle
class, retired community that did really well in the 80s, but
they were turned off by how Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson were
"so strident about religion - that scared a lot of people."

Rush says that Buchanan and Robertson may have been the Bush
campaign's overture to the right wing. Rush doesn't think
anything was wrong with either man's speech at the convention,
but it is risky to use God as motivation in politics. This may
have been the right thing to do, but in politics you try to
persuade people, and religion instead tends to intimidate and
frighten them.

Rush is out of time and will comment more on this subject later
in the third hour.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       Rush gives a preview of what it will be like when people
call the White House after January 20th:

<<Hillary Clinton's Voice>> Hi, this is Hillary Clinton. For
information on White House tours, stay on the line. To speak to
the Secretary of State, press 2.

<<2 is pressed>>

<<Hillary Clinton again>> Hi, this is the Secretary of State. For
information about entertaining foreign dignitaries, stay on the
line. To speak to the Secretary of Defense, press 3.

<<3 is pressed>>

<<Hillary again>> Hi, this is the Secretary of Defense. For
information on how to feign motherhood and to appear like June
Cleaver while harboring ill feelings about the institute of
marriage and family, stay on the line. To speak to the nation's
Budget Director, press 4.

<<4 is pressed>>

<<Still Hillary>> Hi, this is the Budget Director. For fun and
easy no-bake cookie recipes, stay on the line. To speak to my
husband Bill at White House Cleaning Services, press 5, and
thanks for calling.

o       Rush was watching the election returns at a friend's
office last night, and he figured he should call home to get his
phone messages. One of the messages was from a friend, Rabbi Nate
Segal, who is visiting Israel right now. Segal reported "Rush, it
is four in the morning in Israel, and they are rioting in the
streets - not because Bush is losing but because they can't see
the Rush Limbaugh show."

o       One of the highlights of last night was seeing Senator
Gore give his speech and then afterwards kneel down on stage to
give high-fives to the audience below. The Secret Service had to
hold on to his belt to prevent him from tumbling into the
audience. Gore seemed intent on highlighting the touchy-feely
aspects of his philosophy, and in his speech he even said "we are
the children of the modern age."

Rush and the EIB staff start laughing because Rush is continually
referring to Gore as "Algore," and Rush bets liberals are stunned
that he is not as depressed and miserable as they usually are.
"I'm prepared for a life of hell for the next four years," Rush
admits, "but damn it, I'm going to enjoy it, despite you!"

Going back to "Algore," Rush has to wonder what the "modern age"
is - hasn't the modern age given the world crack, AIDS, drive-by
shootings, condoms to replace high school diplomas, the
destruction of the family, the worship of inanimate objects (e.g.
trees) as gods, and even the Murphy Brown and Whoopi Goldberg
shows?

Gore also said "the people voted to take back our country," and
Rush wonders "from who?"; he comments that if anyone has ever
been divisive, it has been Gore and his compatriot Clinton, who
have been spouting such drivel as this.

Rush plays a public service announcement that demonstrates the
"touchy-feely" atmosphere that will pervade the Clinton
administration. The PSA tells people what the signs of infectious
mononucleosis are, the primary one evidently being "swollen
eyelids." The PSA goes into exquisite detail on the nature of the
swollen eyes and skin rashes that occur in the "kissing disease."

Rush admits he is looking forward to seeing all sorts of
"helpful" messages like this from Clinton's administration. "Look
for those bulging eye sockets out there," he warns.

Update  Animal Rights         (Andy Williams, "Born Free" with
gratuitous sound effects)

As if southern Africa hasn't had enough tragedy recently,
officials in Botswana shot and killed a mother tiger and her cubs
after the mother fatally mauled a park officer. This lion was one
of the orphaned cubs raised by George Adamson, who inspired the
Born Free movies. Adamson was still raising abandoned lion cubs
when he himself killed by bandits two years ago. As Rush tells
this sad story, the sounds of angry members of the animal kingdom
fill the air, as elephants, monkeys, tigers, lions, and such
express their outrage at this cold-blooded murder. Rush consoles
them by saying "there's still one lion left, but it's tough
toenails."

*BREAK*

Phone   Patricia from Poughkeepsie, NY

Patricia is proud to say that her county at least voted for Bush,
which Rush admits is quite an anomaly. Patricia agrees with Rush
that the country rejected a man, George Bush, and not a
philosophy, and she predicts that those who think the "far-right
religious fanatics" are down and out "ain't seen nothing yet."
She bets that conservatives will "go back to the drawing board,"
get even more Republicans elected in 1994, and see victory in
1996.

Rush agrees - Clinton and Gore were not supposed to be a liberal
ticket, yet the liberals are pretty happy about their election,
aren't they? This couldn't be because Clinton and Gore are really
liberals, could it? "Nah," Rush states, certain that the
Democratic party would never engage in such deceptive tactics.

Rush returns to the last caller in the second hour, and says that
the right wing had nothing to do with the defeat of George Bush;
Bush lost this election totally by virtue of what he himself did.
If anyone else was to blame, it was "moderate" Republicans who
are devoid of any convictions; if people were upset about any
aspect of Bush's character it was that he didn't appear to have
any real convictions.

As far as Pat Robertson's and Buchanan's speeches are concerned,
Rush points out that those in the so-called religious right are
not trying to force their beliefs on anyone; all they are doing
is stating their beliefs and saying that the nation would be
better off if more people did believe along similar lines.

Rush recalls the 1960 Kennedy campaign, which was all about
political issues, and he contrasts it to the 1992 campaign which
was filled with the cultural issues that are at the heart of the
current culture war. Buchanan stated the truth in his speech, yet
he was attacked for being "divisive."

Rush says that there are a lot of people in the political process
who don't want God to be part of anything, "and they scare me a
whole lot more than people who want God to be part of this
country. They scare me a lot more."

Phone   Barbara from Manhattan, NY

Barbara gives "megadittos from a depressed conservative
Republican," and she adds that when she and her friends were
watching the election returns it was Bush, Quayle, and Rush who
got the most cheers from the audience. She also thanks Rush for
getting her through the dark days of the campaign, and she is
confident that with Rush's help she can make it through the
Clinton administration. Rush thanks her for those kind words and
holds her through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Barbara from Manhattan, NY (continued)

Rush asks Barbara why she is depressed and if his show today has
helped lighten her load. Barbara says that Rush is the best
weapon that conservatives have because he is so positive and
optimistic; she hasn't stopped crying yet, but she is certain
that the Republicans will get together to put together a coherent
ideology.

Liberalism did lose yesterday, and she says that her congressman
Bill Green (R-NY) lost yesterday to a liberal opponent, but this
was because Green tried to "out-liberal" the liberals and because
Green tried to align himself with Clinton. Rush says that this is
exactly right - Green ran commercials that highlighted his
differences with Bush, and he was not helped at all by moving to
the left.

Kay Hutchinson, state treasurer of Texas, told Rush that she
disagreed with the last chapter in his book which said "we're
winning," but Rush stands firm on this belief. The modus operandi
of liberalism - using the public trough to empower liberals and
increase the size of government - is over, and people are
rejecting this philosophy everywhere.

Conservatives didn't win the election yesterday, but they didn't
lose either - liberalism has had to hide itself to win the
election because liberals knew that they'd lose big time if they
went public. Rush also firmly believes that conservatives are far
better out of power than when in power; when Reagan finally came
to power, conservatives were at a bit of a loss as to what they
should do. However, those eight years were a learning experience,
and Rush has hopes for the future. The elections clearly
demonstrated that the moderate approach in the Republican party
does not help the party at all, and conservatism must be the
anchor in the future of the GOP.

Barbara thanks Rush for helping her and other conservatives, and
she is proud to be a conservative Republican. She also thanks
George Bush and Dan Quayle for "four years of wonderful service."
Rush appreciates that and says that if anything, Republicans
should be mad only that the Democrats had to be copy-cats and
mimic the Republican party in order to win.

Above all, Rush encourages his audience to avoid the mean-
spirited and vicious humor and mood that pervade liberalism; "be
of good cheer," he advises. "What you have to do is find the good
in everything, while pointing to the bad and saying `we can do
better than that.' Do it with humor and do it with a smile, and
you'll be magnetic and it'll draw people."

Rush advises against being dour and depressed because people
can't do anything about this now anyway. Take the cards that are
dealt and accept them and move on.

Phone   Steve from Houston, TX

Steve wants to know where the Republicans can go from here, and
Rush says "up! Where else can we go?" Steve is worried, though,
that the Republicans seem to have lost the young and collegiate
vote that Reagan worked so hard to get. Rush says that
Republicans have some good opportunities here, and it may just be
that the liberals will screw up so royally that it will be the
final nail in the coffin of liberalism.

Liberals will not be able to blame anybody else when their
socialist "magic fixes" don't work. Liberals think that the
people do want big, socialist government, and this is what they
are going to try. This will all the more clearly define the
conservative opposition, and show all the more why conservatism
is correct. The liberals' errors will finally discredit socialism
and its idea of centralized authority and distribution in
America, just as these ideas have been discredited elsewhere in
the world.

Steve wonders if Republicans can pick up any of Perot's
supporters in 1996, and Rush says that anything is possible,
especially since 1996 is four years away. Perot is an interesting
wrench in the scheme of things - he could be a regular guest on
Larry King, he could even have his own TV show, he could form his
own political party, and/or he could run again for President in
1996.

Conservatives, though, have to remember that they alone are in
control of their own destiny; they can't depend on anyone else
helping them. It's like football - for a team to win the
championship, they have to defeat the team they are playing right
now. Eventually you might have to fight the number one team, but
only after winning the current game.

Rush does think the Republicans can get the youth vote back,
especially since the young did not vote for Clinton but rather
voted against Bush.

*BREAK*

Phone   Jo from Fayetteville, AR

Jo says that after listening to Rush, she realized that there is
a bright side to Clinton's victory - Arkansas is finally rid of
him and thus can now move forward toward prosperity. She also
thinks Clinton's slogan should not be Bush's "God Bless America"
but "God Help America." Jo adds that she has baked a bunch of
cookies and two pumpkin pies this morning while listening to
Rush.

Rush says that the feminazis will undoubtedly be angry about
this, and he comments that he exposed the feminazis during his TV
show last night. Feminism is supposedly all about making things
better for women, but it's not. Camille Paglia has done
everything that the feminists have said women should do, but
she's persona non grata to Gloria Steinem and the rest of the
feminist leadership.

Phone   Stacy from Hammond, LA

Stacy is a student at Southeastern Louisiana University and about
a week and a half ago, the Clinton campaign arrived at the
university for a rally. Although the university has 13,000
students, only half a dozen people showed up to hear Clinton and
Gore speak. Rush is incredulous that so few people showed up, and
Stacy says that this is true; there was no advertising for the
rally, and thus Clinton ended up "talking to himself."

Rush says that he was surprised that Louisiana voted for Clinton,
and Stacy admits this surprised her too; the voters in suburbia
voted for Bush, but urban areas went for Clinton. Rush agrees,
but has to laugh at Bella Abzug's comment that Clinton is just a
farmboy who doesn't know anything about the cities and thus will
have to be "guided" by good liberals such as she.

*BREAK*

Phone   Ken from Spanish Fork, UT

Ken has a problem with "the rock-and-roll President" - he thinks
the whole baby-boomer generation is going to be judged by
Clinton's administration. Ken says that a lot of people are
commenting on how Clinton is the first post-WWII President who
grew up listening to Elvis, and he is worried that when Clinton
blows it, the entire generation will be colored with failure as
well. Rush doesn't think that necessarily follows, and when he
has more time he'll discuss it. Until then, "smile," Rush
suggests.

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