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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, November 22, 1993

by John Switzer

This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1993 by John Switzer.
All Rights Reserved. These summaries are distributed on
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Spelling and other corrections gratefully received.

Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
first summary for this month. In particular, please note that
this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other as
a daily listener.

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November 22, 1993

LIMBAUGH WATCH

November 22, 1993 - It's now day 307 (day 326 for the rich and
the dead) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal") and 385
days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air
with 636 radio affiliates (with more than 20 million listeners
weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national rating of
3.7), and a newsletter with over 370,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction
best-seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million
copies sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster
stopped printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things
Ought To Be" has been on the NY Times paperback non-fiction
best-seller list for ten weeks and is currently at number two.
Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," opened on the NY Times
best-seller list at number one.

NEWS

o       This morning Detroit police found the body of a 61-year-old
bone cancer patient at the apartment of Jack Kevorkian, who is
currently out on bail awaiting trial for violating Michigan's
laws barring assisted suicide. This is the 20th such suicide at
which Kevorkian has presided, and the second time in a month such
a death has occurred at his apartment.

o       On Saturday Youths Against Racism, a Sacramento-based group,
picketed EIB's Sacramento affiliate, KFBK, claiming that Rush
Limbaugh was partially responsible for a string of recent
fire-bombings. The protestors claimed that conservative hosts
such as Limbaugh were responsible in part for encouraging acts
such as the fire-bombings of a Jewish synagogue and NAACP office,
which reportedly were done by a white supremacist group.

Protestor Leslie Birkenstock insisted "Rush is a televised hate
crime," while Bob Johnson, also a member of Youths Against
Racism, called on KFBK to air programs which would "balance out"
Rush's program. Johnson then stated the following:

"We're not here to censor Limbaugh. We only want our community to
see the connection between Limbaugh's venomous intolerance and a
growing culture of hate. Everyone from Rush Limbaugh to the
governor [Pete Wilson], with his war on immigrants, is
contributing to the mainstream intolerance that has become
unacceptable. It gives clues to people in the community that it's
okay to find scapegoats - immigrants, people of color. In these
hard times that's manipulative."

o       Commerce Secretary Ron Brown said it was "quite absurd" that
one person's unproven allegations could cause him all of the
troubles he's experienced about his alleged taking of a bribe
from Vietnamese officials. On Face the Nation Brown insisted that
he was innocent of all charges, and was confident that President
Clinton would not remove him from office. Brown, however, did not
have anything to say about his situation compared to that of
another famous government employee, Clarence Thomas, who also
suffered from one person's unproven allegations.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Monday, November
25, 1991:

o       During a half-time interview on Channel 24 in Milwaukee, Magic
Johnson said that "the best and safest sex is no sex. If you
practice this, you'll be all right." Rush bet Magic's statement
would "confound a lot of people," and he said the statement was
to Johnson's credit.

Bob from Salinas, CA, a youth pastor in Salinas, agreed with
Magic Johnson and said that distributing condoms to teenagers and
referring to them as "safe sex" was wrong. Abstinence was good
for kids because it built self-respect and showed them that they
weren't just animals who couldn't control their own nature.

However, in New York City, the "great condom blitz" was scheduled
to start - 500 volunteers from the Gay Men's Health Crisis wanted
to distribute 100,000 condoms at 34 New York City subway stops
during morning and evening rush hours. The condoms were to be
accompanied with a flyer that graphically showed how to use them.
Rush asked "don't you get the impression that the Gay Men's
Health Crisis want people to use condoms, which means that they
want people to have sex?"

Rush thought there were two groups of people in America who were
behind this condom drive - 1) the gay/lesbian community, and 2)
the pro-choice community. They both pushed condoms because they
wanted to advance the theory that "sex must have no
consequences." In particular, if the homosexual community could
convince people that condoms were the best and most responsible
option to stop the spread of AIDS, promiscuous behavior could not
be criticized.

Rush responded to this by giving some condom information gleaned
from Jane Chastade's column in the NY Daily News, written earlier
in the year. Chastade quoted a study by Project Respect that
showed pregnancy rates could be cut in half if students were
taught abstinence-based sexual education; this dispelled the
notion that you couldn't stop kids from having sex.

In addition, the condom failure rate in dealing with
contraception was 14.2%, which was the same thing as saying that
15 out of 100 people on an airplane would die. Rush asked how
many people would stay on a plane that had those odds.

Also, a Louis Harris poll commissioned in 1986 by Planned
Parenthood showed that the rate of sexual activity went up 30%
among teenagers who attended sex education classes in which the
curriculum included the use of condoms. This proved that
teenagers were at greater risk when given condoms, simply because
they were more sexually active.

Finally, a study published in the AMA Journal showed that for
couples in which one partner already had AIDS, 17% of the spouses
contracted AIDS within 18 months even though they used condoms
and practiced "safe sex." Condoms were thus not the answer in the
fight against AIDS, especially as giving them out to kids only
put the kids at greater risk.

o       The state of education was demonstrated by how Teresa Tussey, a
guard at Santa Ana High School, decided to wear a bullet-proof
vest after 15 years on the job. Rush sarcastically said that this
showed "you can't stop them - kids are always going to get guns
and use them." Thus, it seemed "obvious" that schools should pass
out bullet-proof vests to everyone, and then perhaps call Oliver
North's security company. Rush seriously noted that there was a
solution - take the guns away from kids as they came to school.

o       The Hollywood rich and elite showed their "solidarity" with the
poor by eating rice and beans at Sony studios during an Oxfam
"banquet" to raise consciousness about world hunger. The
banquet's caterer, Ruth Hedges, said "what we're doing is
bringing across to the philanthropic crowd that the capitalist
system doesn't work, that there's a totally unjust distribution
of food in the world."

Rush said it was "absolutely, blatantly, dangerously wrong" to
have all of these "locoweeds" coming out against the United
States, and it was idiocy to say that capitalism was responsible
for the unjust distribution of food. Rush pointed out that
America feeds the world with its capitalist system, and it grated
on him how the incredibly prosperous Hollywood left would
criticize the system that gave them everything they had.

o       Mario Cuomo appeared on This Week with David Brinkley, and when
asked "did you call Dan Quayle, `Danny the cabin boy'?" he denied
saying it; however, his office later said that Cuomo did make the
comment but "not in the context indicated on the show." Cuomo
also denied that in 1990 he said he considered Saddam Hussein's
invasion of Kuwait to be "no big deal" and that America should
just let him keep the islands. Cuomo accused the reporters of
making the quote up, even though he did clearly say them in
December, 1990.

These denials, Rush noted, showed an incredible arrogance - the
fact that Cuomo was willing to deny on national TV what he said
on national TV showed that he either genuinely didn't remember
saying these things, which indicated serious memory lapses, or
that he did remember them, but denied them anyway, indicating a
serious lapse of professional ethics.

o       The Democratic Presidential candidates spoke out on their
economic platforms. Governor Douglas Wilder acknowledged that he
didn't have a deficit reduction plan, but said he would "like to
see someone who does." Bob Kerrey and Bill Clinton both agreed
that it would be okay to increase the deficit if the money would
go to programs that would increase US productivity.

Tom Harkin also said that "deficits can be good, if the money
goes to public works instead of the military." Rush called this
"scary stuff," but said that as long as the Democratic candidates
continued to talk this way, "Bush can screwup five times more
than he's already done and still win."

o       Rush noted that gun control only took guns out of the hands of
law-abiding citizens. To illustrate this, he mentioned the news
story about how a man in Kansas City killed one boy with a knife,
stabbed several others, and threw them out of a second story
window. The man was finally killed by police as he was about to
cut another child's throat. Rush pointed out that not one gun was
involved except the one that ended the killing. This kind of
crime could not be stopped simply by getting guns out of the
law-abiding's hands.

o       Rep. Leon Panetta (D-CA) chaired a congressional subcommittee
that concluded that the "federal government" (i.e. the Bush
administration) was responsible for wasting taxpayers' money.
Panetta didn't give any specifics, and Rush said this report was
"the pot calling the kettle black."

o       In Paradise Hills, Saskatchewan, three men walked into a tavern
and encountered a rowdy, all-female party. The women were able to
strip the men of most of their clothes before the men could
escape. A social worker criticized police for not arresting the
women for sexual assault, and complained that the problem was
that "most men secretly envied the victims."

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MORNING UPDATE

Nobody loves new gadgets and gizmos more than Rush, but even he
has his doubts about a new machine developed by a scientist
working for the government's Agricultural Research Service. The
"flow-cytometer cell sorter" could allow parents to choose the
sex of their baby. So far, this device has been used successfully
only with animals, but its use with humans could occur within a
year.

Basically, sperm cells in a test tube are coated with a dye and
then passed by an ultra-violet laser. A computer then analyzes
the sperm cells and gives each one an electrical charge, with
boy-producing and girl-producing sperm receiving oppositely
polarized charges. The sperm can then be separated, for use in
artificial semination that virtually guarantees the sex of the
child.

This is no joke, and Rush is concerned about how this development
is fraught with ethical and moral peril. Female infanticide and
abortion are common in China and India because parents prefer
boys to girls, and if the history of mankind is any indication,
fewer females will be born than males, should parents be able to
choose.

Nature produces more women than men for a reason - women produce
other people, thereby ensuring the survival of the species. This
idea is a bad idea, especially as the human race has survived for
as long as it has because these sorts of decisions have been out
of its hands. "We are incapable of making these sorts of
decisions in our own best interests," Rush notes.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush received a letter on CompuServe from someone who gave him
grief for encouraging people to smoke. Rush sighs at how some
people just don't get the joke or understand that he illustrates
the absurd by being absurd.

o       Rush seldom demands much of his listeners, but today is an
exception - all callers today will have to answer one question
before they get to their main topic: "where were you when you
first heard me?" Each caller must in detail describe the first
moment at which they saw or heard Rush.

o       Rush admits he never tires of seeing the "Kennedy stuff,"
especially since he's seeing a lot of new things all the time.
For example, over the weekend he saw some new footage of the
Kennedy motorcade in Dallas. However, reporters seem to be in a
contest as to who can say the most outrageous things about the
Kennedy assassination. On CNN yesterday, one show went on and on
about how Dallas was an ultra-right wing haven in 1963;
furthermore, Kennedy aides and friends warned Kennedy not to go
there because of these "threatening" right-wingers.

Rush notes that Kennedy was in very sad shape politically in
1963, and he went to Dallas precisely to shore up support in
advance of the 1964 elections. Not surprisingly, therefore, there
were those protesting Kennedy's arrival, just as protestors
surfaced whenever Reagan or Bush appeared somewhere. Rush notes,
though, that when ACTUP or the feminists harassed these
Presidents, there was never any mention of the idea that these
groups might pose a physical or mortal threat to the President.

Yet in the context of Kennedy's assassination, CNN ran a story
about how "dangerous" the right-wingers were in Dallas in 1963.
This sort of thing is so maddening because none of the groups
being vilified or criticized had anything to do with Kennedy's
assassination; yet, the program spent an incredible amount of
time talking about how the "real crime" in Dallas back then was
that nobody spoke out against the "horrible right-wingers."

The program positioned the entire right-wing as a bunch of kooks,
dangerous assassins, and other supposed threats to democracy and
the Presidency of the United States. Yet the reality is that the
person who shot President Kennedy was a guy who loved Communists
and who hoped that he would be accepted by them. This guy was a
total left-winger - he tried to live in the Soviet Union, loved
Cuba, and tried to become a KGB agent.

But CNN persisted with their incredible story that nearly blamed
the Kennedy assassination on right-wingers and their "vicious
pamphlets." These right-wingers were exercising their free speech
rights by passing out their pamphlets, yet a major network has
presented these guys as the "real" danger to Kennedy, even
thought it was a convicted leftist who pulled the trigger on the
gun that killed the President.

Rush, however, states that continued attacks against
conservatives and the right wing such as this are a sign that
conservatives are winning and that the left is becoming
near-hysterical as a result. This kind of diatribe can be tough
to take, but conservatives have to accept victory even if it
means being disliked and hated by those on the left.

The left is in the "throes of desperation," which is why they're
making mindless accusations and throwing "thoughtless barbs" at
the right. As if the CNN report wasn't enough, though, ABC had a
report which was just as unbelievable.

As to the Brady Bill, Rush first notes that he feels much safer
now that the Brady Bill has been passed; "isn't it marvelous that
crime has been solved?" Rush asks, adding that he now will go
walking more than two blocks at a time in New York because he
knows that there will be fewer guns and fewer criminals out on
the streets. He remarks that the Brady Bill is one of those
landmark pieces of legislation, and just as the 1990 Budget Deal
ended for all time the problem of the federal budget deficit, the
Brady Bill has ended the problem of crime.

Rush is euphoric as he considers this, but notes that at the end
of a story that ABC did about John Kennedy, the reporter stated
that Kennedy and Martin Luther King "would be shocked to see the
violence that is America today."

Rush had to laugh out loud when he heard this, especially since
both Kennedy and King were assassinated - these men were
destroyed by violence, not to mention there was some of the worst
violence against blacks in the South during the Kennedy
administration. Busloads of blacks would be stopped by the KKK,
and while the cops looked the other way, blacks would be beaten
and the buses fire-bombed.

Since JFK and his brother did a lot to fight this violence, they
were certainly aware of what the heck was going on back then.
Violence has always been a problem of the human condition, and
the only reason today's violence seems worse is because America
coddles those who commit these crimes and seems reluctant to
bring criminals to justice.

o       Rush jokes that the American Airlines strike could be resolved
by having the airline move to Mexico. He bets, though, that the
flight attendants who are striking probably are doing so, not so
much because of the money, but because they feel that the company
is dealing with them far too impersonally. This is a problem many
corporations have.

Rush points out that the flight attendants walked off the job
voluntarily, so NAFTA can't be blamed for any of these job
losses, although Perot might try to make this case. However,
since American Airlines has a big repair depot at Perot's
Alliance Airport, Perot will have to choose his sides carefully
this time.

o       Dr. Death has struck again; there's been a 20th "medicide," and
Rush thinks it's clear that Kevorkian is nothing less than a
serial killer. The victim in this case came to Kevorkian's
apartment, so it should also be abundantly clear that Kevorkian
had to supply some heavy assistance to "help" this guy die.

*BREAK*

Today's NY Post has the headline "Brady Bill - Too Late for
Grieving Family." Rush wonders what kind of story is this - the
press has been decrying the lack of passage for the Brady Bill
for years, and then when it passes, the press has nothing but
complaints.

"You people in the press are idiots and fools!" Rush exclaims.
The press has been whining for years about gun control, and then
when it finally comes, it whines "it's too late." The Brady Bill
is supposed to have solved the crime problem in America, yet the
press doggedly continues to focus on the negative.

Phone   Dave from Lincoln, NB

Dave says he first listened to Rush when his college conservative
group was collecting donations for starting a newspaper, and one
donor sent in a "Best of Rush" tape. Since then he's been a
faithful listener, who even arranged his classes so he could
listen to Rush.

Dave asks how the White House will justify its refusal to support
the deficit reduction bill which Tim Penny and John Kasich have
introduced in the House. Rush says that the administration will
oppose this bill by blaming Penny and Kasich for taking money
away from the elderly, destitute, and everyone else on Medicare.
The administration will suggest that the deficit reduction
contained in the Penny/Kasich bill threatens universal health
care coverage and thereby endangers these fine, but poor,
Americans.

Clinton, who insisted earlier that health care had to be reformed
because not doing so would result in runaway deficits, will now
insist that nothing can be allowed to jeopardize health care;
thus, any savings and other cuts must be applied to for health
care. Using these cuts for deficit reduction will actually make
the deficit worse, Clinton will complain, because this would
jeopardize health care reform, which is essential to getting the
deficit under control. The administration even now is saying that
it has done enough about deficit reduction, and will thus claim
that any further cuts will jeopardize health care.

Dave says that this makes sense, yet during the 1993 Budget
debate, the administration complained that the deficit was the
most important problem that had to be solved. Rush admits that
the President is being hypocritical; he's already backed off from
his promise to cut health care costs with his health care program
- he's instead saying that his program will only slow the growth
of future cost increases. Clinton will thus try to deflect the
Penny/Kasich bill by complaining it will threaten the
all-important issue of health care reform.

*BREAK*

Rush just picked up today's NY Times and has found a column by
Donna Shalala in which she says virtually everything Rush just
predicted the administration would say about the Penny/Kasich
deficit reduction bill. He notes that this bill would provide
$108 billion in further spending cuts, which is what the
President said he wanted last spring when the budget debate was
raging. The Penny/Kasich bill includes cuts in Medicare, though,
which is why Rush suggested that the administration would insist
that these cuts be transferred to health care.

Proving Rush right, Shalala writes that "it's important for
members of Congress to stop and take note of what's being
proposed. In the name of immediate deficit reduction, the
Penny/Kasich bill would devastate all major proposals for
comprehensive health care reform, precisely the cure to our
long-term deficit problem."

Thus, Rush "just nailed it" since the administration is now
claiming that its health care program is needed to fix the
country's deficit. He notes that Shalala is the same person who
refused to even consider first testing the Clinton health care
program on a small group, saying that this was too important an
issue to wait.

Phone   Tim from Columbus, OH

Tim says that he was in his car when he first heard Rush. His
parents told him that he should listen to Rush, so one lunchtime
he frantically spun the dial trying to find Rush; he's been
listening ever since.

Tim is worried that Clinton's support of NAFTA will help spur
economic growth. Also, Clinton's tax increases may result in a de
facto reduction of the capital gains tax, given that the higher
taxes on income may make investments more attractive, given the
lower capital gains tax rate. Tim wonders if this was why
Clinton's supported NAFTA.

Rush says he still doesn't know why Clinton supported NAFTA since
it is in direct opposition to everything Clinton has talked about
previously - NAFTA is about lowering taxes and increasing
competition and free trade. Clinton's high taxes on business are
exactly the opposite thing which will be done under NAFTA.

Rush says that as the personal income tax rate rises to between
36% and 40%, the capital gains tax of 28% will become more
attractive to investors. Those who can put their income into
capital gains may very well do this, but the higher taxes will
make it harder to come up with this income in the first place.

Rush adds that 70% of those who would benefit from a lowering of
the capital gains tax rate would be those whose money is invested
in pension funds. Thus, the capital gains tax affects not just
the wealthy but a lot of other people. This is why lowering the
capital gains tax, or even just indexing it for inflation, would
generate a lot of economic activity. Indexing capital gains so
that people would not be penalized for inflation would result in
people's selling property and other assets left and right. This
would result in a lot of economic activity.

However, Rush doubts that this same thing can be achieved by
raising the personal and corporate tax rates to near 40%. Time
will tell, though. However, as Rush looks at the 1994 tax year,
he sees a lot of money being taken out of people's hands; this
money can't be transferred from the private sector to the public
sector without hurting the overall economy.

Rush would love to see a robust and growing economy, but he just
can't see all these taxes doing anything but slowing the economy
down. He points to how tax increases on diesel fuel have affected
truckers, and through them, all other consumers. Most of the
people Rush is talking to aren't optimistic either, especially if
interest rates should start rising, as increasing interest rates
will be a damper on what economic activity there is.

Rush adds that the Clinton administration is also heavily
counting on low interest rates to keep the deficit down. The
White House is currently financing the national debt and deficit
right mainly by short-term bonds, not long-term bonds. This is
fiscally imprudent for the long-term since the administration
should be locking in these low rates for 30 years. Instead, it's
selling short-term bonds, which because they offer a slightly
lower interest rate than long-term bonds are therefore cheaper to
pay off.

The risk is that the country, by not locking in these low rates
now, will have to pay higher interest in five to seven years,
when the short-term bonds expire. Plus, the administration is
counting on continued low rates to spur economic activity.

So, if interest rates go up, the basis for the administration's
economic plan goes out the window; it will become more expensive
to borrow money, so economic activity will slow. Then, because
the country will have to finance its debt at higher rates, the
cost of that deficit will increase and therefore the deficit will
increase, too.

This is what happened to New York City in 1975; because the city
didn't lock in low interest rates using long-term bonds, its
debt-servicing costs soared and brought it to near bankruptcy.
The Clinton administration, of course, is claiming that it is
responsible for these low interest rates, but this is far from
the truth; the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates 24 times
before Clinton was even elected.

Rush hopes the economy will do well next year, but he just can't
see how it can with the tax increases that will go into effect
the next year. The increases on those making more than $150,000 a
year are sizeable, and these are people who spend money and hire
others; these people create wealth, which is what is needed in
order for there to be economic growth. Yet Clinton wants to
punish the wealthy, and economic activity has to suffer as a
result.

*BREAK*

Phone   David from Fremont, CA

David, 11, was in the car with his dad in San Francisco when he
first heard Rush's show. Rush thinks San Francisco is the
"perfect place to first hear me," and is proud that David was on
a family outing when he had his first Rush experience.

David wants to talk about sexual harassment in his school,
Madison Elementary in Fremont - two weeks before his school
started this year, all the boys got a letter from the principal
which contained a list of things which they couldn't say to
girls. The letter also contained a number of rules which the boys
had to obey; if the boys violated these rules or said anything
improper, they'd be suspended.

David says that as a result, no boy this year even talks to girls
because they're afraid of saying something wrong and getting
suspended. Rush asks for some examples of sexually harassing
speech, and David replies that boys can't call girls "cows."
Plus, boys have to let the girls play games with them; refusing
to let the girls join in would be "putting the girls down."
However, if boys want to play with girls, and the girls don't
want to let them play, the boys have to accept that denial as
final.

Rush is amazed at how sexual harassment is being defined now -
11-year-old boys not letting girls play with them is being
considered "sexual harassment." This is what Rush predicted would
happen - harassment would be eventually defined as either any
attention that women don't want or as not getting the attention
they do want. Rush is also amazed at the hypocrisy that exists in
the school's rules about how boys must let girls play with them
but not vice versa. He asks if it's any wonder that parents are
pulling kids out of such schools.

Rush says that David can't win this situation, so he's obviously
doing the right thing by avoiding contact with girls. However, as
to calling girls "cows," Rush asks if David has ever said such a
thing to a girl. David says that he never has, but he wanted to a
few times, like when a girl happened to be fat, rude, or made
crude comments to him.

Rush notes that calling someone a cow because she's fat or rude
may be impolite, but these things have nothing to do with sexual
harassment. Rush asks if David really has been avoiding talking
to girls, and David says he's afraid to talk to them.

Rush notes that this is yet another example of how society is
being balkanized, with people being afraid to interact with one
another. Now 11-year-old kids are afraid to talk to one another,
all because of the way the definition of sexual harassment has
been broadened. Rush thanks David for his call and has his staff
get his number so that EIB can check up on him in the future to
see how things are progressing at his school.

*BREAK*

Rush tells his staff to call David back and tell him that he
should also avoid using the term "water buffalo" because as
circumstances have shown, this is just as bad as calling women
"cows."

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush was besieged during the break by people who couldn't believe
the call from 11-year-old David of Fremont. Rush admits he was
stunned, too, by the story of how boys at Madison Elementary were
sent letters warning them against engaging in "sexual
harassment." This sort of thing stems from the basic notion that
to be a woman or a girl is to be a victim; from the moment of
birth, everything that happens to females is supposedly based on
discrimination, abuse, disrespect, etc.

It's a sad thing that those promulgating this agenda have
triumphed in this particular school. Rush doesn't think it's a
good thing that boys and girls are being separated, with the boys
refusing to even talk to the girls anymore out of fear of being
accused of sexual harassment.

So anytime a boy calls a girl a name at this school (something
which is a very common occurrence among children), they're going
to be accused of sexual harassment. Boys also have to let girls
play with them because refusing to do so would "be putting them
down." Thus, sexual harassment is whatever offends a girl,
whatever attention she doesn't want, or not getting the attention
she does want. These are not good and healthy lessons to be
teaching today's kids, Rush sadly notes.

Rush finds it highly ironic, though, that David said that he
can't call girls "cows," because he recalls how a group of
feminists are using cows to spread the feminist message. Three
women in Wyoming were given by NEA grant to paint words from the
journals of early feminists on the sides of 70 cows.

Thus, these feminists were using cows to highlight the triumphs
and struggle of feminists. Rush admits that this makes sense
because sometimes it does take three or more stomachs to swallow
what the feminists dish out. So while David can't call girls
"cows," these feminist artists are using cows to promote and
honor the great women of the past.

Rush notes that this sends a lot of conflicting messages, but the
EIB thinks this is "an udder outrage." Rush agrees, and wonders
how the feminists would react if it were to be said that these
women were painting their tributes on the sides of "fat farm
animals."

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There are two Rush Limbaughs, Rush explains. There's the Rush
Limbaugh who does his radio show, his TV show, and who writes his
newsletter and his books. There are undoubtedly few people in
America whose views are more public than his, given that he has
15 hours a week on the radio and two and a half hours on TV each
week to make his opinions known.

He also has written two best-sellers, with more than 7 million
combined copies in print. Furthermore, his newsletter has 375,000
subscribers. Thus, everything Rush believes and professes is
readily available for digestion and examination by anyone who
cares to do so.

However, there's the "other" Rush Limbaugh - the one who is
quoted by newspapers, magazines, and TV shows as saying stuff he
has never said. His critics claim he is a hate-monger and racist,
yet nobody has ever heard Rush say these things.

Rush thus wonders how someone whose views have been so clearly
explained and professed can still be so widely misinterpreted and
misquoted. How can so many things be written about Rush (and his
audience) and yet get so much of him and his beliefs wrong?

This is one reason Rush has stopped doing interviews. Aside from
the fact that such interviews are not much fun, he doesn't need
the air time. Plus, he doesn't have the time to spend two hours
with a reporter who's going to turn around and transform that two
hours into a ten-minute piece that's been slanted in some bizarre
manner.

Rush stresses he is not whining about this stuff as the President
did, but is just pointing out that the more the left vilifies
him, the more it means he and those with him are winning. Rush
admits, though, he doesn't know if the President really was
genuine with his whining; he could have been as upset as he
appeared, or he could have been making some strategic pre-emptive
comments against the press.

Returning to the subject at hand, Rush notes that there are some
reviews of his new book which obviously were done by people who
had never read it, and this sort of thing happens often. This is
why Rush is now saying that there must be two Rush Limbaughs.

Rush has often told those who have asked him for advice on how to
succeed in the radio business that they should hang around those
who are successful and those who love the business. It's
counter-productive to think that someone who's bitter and
resentful will be able to offer much help; rather, one should
look for someone who's succeeding and see what can be learned
from them.

A friend also reminded Rush of something Mark Twain said on this
subject:

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that. But the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great."

Rush thinks this is great advice, and the desire to stay away
from those who belittle ambition is what continually reinforces
his decision to keep away from those reporters and journalists
who seem desirous of remaining mired in the negatives of life.

*BREAK*

Rush says that the reason there are two Rush Limbaughs is because
liberals have to find conservatives to blame for their failures
and the failures of their policies. All their efforts to make
people happy, peaceful, and prosperous have not worked, so they
have to blame the nearest prominent conservative for these
failures. It's now Rush's turn to be blamed for these things, and
he joins a prominent list that includes George Will, William F.
Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and Pat Buchanan. Thus, Rush now
proclaims himself to be the "scapegoat for liberals' failures."

Phone   Stu from Baltimore, MD

Stu says he was riding the Atlantic City expressway when he first
heard Rush's show; he heard an Animal Rights Update and a
Feminist Update back to back, and he realized that Rush was not
just funny but also was able to cut right to the quick of the
serious issues. Stu says he considers Rush to be the "90s voice
of the Silent Majority."

Stu wanted to talk about the Brady Bill, and how his liberal
friends are actually saying for real what Rush has jokingly said
- that the crime problem is now solved and that things will all
get better. Stu pointed out to his friends that in Baltimore 300
murders happen every year, and that's even though Maryland
already has a 7-day waiting period. He asked his liberal friends
just how the Brady Bill would make a difference.

Rush adds that California already has a 15-day waiting period,
and New York has a total ban altogether, yet crime doesn't seem
to have been helped by such policies. These liberal orgies about
the Brady Bill remind him of how New York City erupted in a
love-fest after David Dinkins was elected mayor in 1989;
everybody seemed to be convinced that the mere fact that New York
had elected its first black mayor would make the city better.
However, the voters of New York City spoke out quite clearly this
year about how well they thought Dinkins had done this.

Stu thinks that Rush should revise the sales figures of his book
up by 25% since the liberals are claiming that 25% of Americans
can't read; this means 25% of Americans are trying to buy Rush's
book but can't because they can't read the title. Rush
appreciates Stu's suggestion, but says that he will resist the
temptation to do so since he and his show must remain a bastion
of truth and accuracy.

Rush thanks Stu for calling and says his call reminded him that
yesterday Senator Bill Bradley delivered a sermon at the AME
church; curiously, the subject of this sermon was Ed Rollins.
Nobody is complaining, though, that a Democratic Senator gave a
speech about politics in a church; Rush notes that had a
Republican delivered this speech about politics, the liberals
would have erupted in outrage about how this violated the sacred
precepts of the separation of church and state. However, nobody
seems to have minded how Bradley joined both politics and
religion together.

Speaking of Ed Rollins, Rush notes that Rollins has already said
that he was not telling the truth when he claimed to have
influenced black ministers. Rollins said that he was only trying
to get James Carville's goat about winning the gubernatorial
elections in New Jersey when he made his remarks. The Democrats,
though, have refused to believe this, and thus are basically
saying they would prefer to believe Rollin's lie.

If the Democrats in New Jersey, though, are going to believe that
Rollins paid off the black ministers with $500,000 in walking
around money (although Rollins has also pointed out that the GOP
spent only $70,000 in walking around money for the entire
election), then this means that the Democrats are not only
calling Rollins a liar, but also all of the black preachers,
since these preachers have insisted they didn't take the money.
Rush wonders if Al Sharpton will now sue the Democratic party of
New Jersey for "dissing" his fellow ministers.

*BREAK*

Phone   Sandy from Green Forest, AR

Sandy says that her family were decorating for Christmas two
years ago when her husband turned Rush on, and she's been a loyal
listener ever since. Rush is proud that Sandy first heard this
program while with her family; she wasn't protesting or otherwise
in a fit of anger when she first heard his voice. "That's good!"
he observes.

Sandy says she is getting so upset with women who "are coming out
in droves" wanting to take over. Rush notes that this is nothing
new since women have always wanted to take over; the only
difference now is that men are letting them do it. Sandy wishes
that men would stand up to women and put them back in their
place.

Rush asks Sandy for an example of this, and she says that men
should stop caving in. For example, men should stop accepting
stuff such as what is happening to David in Fresno. Rush doesn't
know if he wants to comment on this and asks Sandy "do you want
me to really get in trouble here?"

"Ah, go ahead!" Sandy cavalierly replies. Rush cautiously says
that there is a reason for all this basic behavior on the part of
men and women. However, things are changing; it used to be that
when men and women were out looking for a partner in life, it was
the woman who was on a "salary hunt." Now men, at least in New
York City, have joined in, too, with both sexes having certain
expectations about what their partner should earn.

The point is that women always have had the power because it's
women who say no, so men will tend to do whatever it is they
think women want them to do. The best example of this is the
"typical liberal cowed journalists in Washington" who have been
totally buffaloed by the feminists; sooner or later, women will
start asking "where are the real men?" In the meantime, men will
do whatever they have to do to "reach the promised land."

Sandy understands, and says that before she got married, she was
totally independent, with her own job, car, etc. When she got
married she still wanted those things and thought that she should
be "in control." She wasn't that happy, though, and by the time
she had three children, she realized that "anything with two
heads is a monster." She understood then that only one person
could be the head of the family.

She now stays home with the kids, does the housework, cooks
dinner, and so forth, and is far happier then she was when she
had her own career, working outside the home. Rush thinks this is
fine, but says the "problem" is that choices such as this are
ridiculed by the feminist leadership. He'd prefer not to remain
on this subject, though, since it'd be basically "beating a dead
horse, uh, cow, uh, water buffalo."

He asks Sandy if he has made his main point clear and if she
understands it. Bo Snerdley interrupts to say no, and Rush tells
him to hush because he knows all Bo wants him to do is to be more
explicit about "the promised land." The fact, though, is that the
"pursuit" is usually the male chasing the female, and it's still
considered a bit weird to have it the other way around.

Human nature remains constant, and while men still want the same
thing, they are having to continually change who they are in
order to please their women. Rush thus wants to know "at what
point are men going to get tired of all these U-turns, right
turns, left turns - all these stop signs, all these one-way
street signs, all these `one-way, do not enter' signs - they're
going to get tired of this!"

A particularly loud female voice in the background screams in
laughter at Rush's analogy to "one-way, do not enter" signs, and
Rush decides he'd better stop now and go to a break.

*BREAK*

Phone   C.L. from Gastonia, NC

C.L. says he started listening to Rush because of a "hard-nosed"
Democrat who works with him at the Ford dealership in Gastonia.
The Democrat kept asking him to listen to Rush's show, and
although C.L. at first thought this was some kind of liberal
trick, he finally relented. He's thus been listening ever since.

C.L. thanks Rush for "taking some guilt" away from him; he's a
life-long Democrat who worked hard for JFK 30 years ago. However,
his Democratic family was against him because they, as Baptists,
didn't like Kennedy's Catholicism. C.L. and his wife were even
ostracized a bit by his family because of how he not only voted
for Kennedy but also worked for his campaign.

C.L. had therefore been feeling guilty about voting for JFK, but
after Rush played the clips of Kennedy's speech last June, C.L.
finally realized that JFK was really a dittohead. Thus, C.L. knew
he shouldn't feel bad about his vote for Kennedy. Rush is glad to
be of help, and says he really should play some of those clips
again, given how everyone is playing the same old thing about
Kennedy this week. These clips, however, show the truth about
John F. Kennedy. Rush thanks C.L. for reminding him about this
and for calling.

Phone   Dave from Toledo, OH

Dave says he doesn't remember the exact moment he first heard
Rush, but he thanks his father-in-law for telling him about Rush
three or four years ago. Dave says he was watching the Today show
this morning as Katie Couric interviewed Danny Osmond; three or
four times Couric mentioned Osmond's "great legs," and this made
Dave wonder whether any male anchor could get away with
mentioning a woman's legs like this.

Rush says this is typical and not at all a surprise - since women
are now victims, they can get away with anything. Women can
organize all-women clubs and organizations, but men can't do the
same themselves. Women are allowed such things because this stuff
is just part of "getting evenism"; all of this "getting even"
supposedly is quid pro quo and allegedly justified because of all
the evil things that men have done to women over the ages.

There's no end to this sort of stuff, though, because when is
enough "getting even" enough? Rush finds it strange, though, to
mention someone's legs during the course of an interview, given
how the important thing is how well Osmond sings, dances, and
such.

*BREAK*

Rush promises that in the next hour he'll play some excerpts from
Kennedy's 1962 speech in which he linked lower taxes with a
reduced deficit and growing economy.

Phone   Michael from Atlanta, GA

Michael says he was trying to tune into a Braves game when he
first heard Rush's show. "The Lord works in mysterious ways and
the radio hasn't changed stations since," he notes. Michael,
however, does want to have Rush clarify something he said last
Friday about how women are trying to get admitted into the
Citadel military academy.

Michael says that Rush seemed to support allowing women into the
Citadel as long as standards are maintained. However, Michael
thinks that men should be allowed to attend all-male
institutions, as there are genuine benefits for doing so. Rush
says that these are not conflicting viewpoints - when he says
standards shouldn't be lowered for admitting women into the
Citadel, he basically means women shouldn't be admitted since
they can't meet the physical standards that men must meet.

Rush is all in favor of allowing all-male and all-female
institutions, and he was pointing out Friday that women simply
couldn't meet the current standards which the Citadel has
established. Women themselves have basically admitted that
single-gender schools are valuable, given the support they give
to all-female institutions.

Rush recalls how when Mills College in California was
experiencing monetary problems, school officials thought about
allowing men to attend. The female student body, though, erupted
in outrage and hysteria, and the plans to admit men were dropped.
This college is supposedly a school of strong-minded feminists,
yet they collapsed in hysteria at the thought that men might be
admitted.

Michael says that men should still have the option of attending
all-male institutions, and Rush agrees; he again notes that his
point in all this is that when it comes to the physical
standards, women can't be admitted into such institutions without
lowering the standards.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Bill Clinton is being criticized for his interview in Rolling
Stone magazine, with some people even saying he was "whining."
Others, though, think this is a "win-win" situation for the
President, who said he had fought "more damn battles" in his term
so far than any previous President, with the possible exception
of Ronald Reagan.

The President complained he had "not gotten one damn bit of
credit from the knee-jerk liberal press" for his achievements.
Clinton also praised himself for making the wealthy "pay their
fair share," but he was angry that he hasn't gotten any credit
for this. He's quoted in the magazine as saying:

"Do I care if I get credit? No! And you get no credit around here
for fighting and bleeding, and that's why the know-nothings and
the do-nothings and the negative right-wingers always win -
because of the way people like you put questions to people like
me!"

Rush wonders what the heck Clinton is talking about, especially
as the liberal press has bent over backwards for him. Rush
recalls how the press engaged in all sorts of self-recrimination
when Vincent Foster committed suicide, with one commentator after
another decrying the lack of "civility" in Washington.

Of course, the press didn't seem to care about civility for too
long, given how it's currently treating Bob Packwood. The Wall
Street Journal printed a couple of editorials about Foster, and
that was it, and the press was beside itself, crying mea culpas
about the inhumane treatment of public officials. Yet the entire
Washington press corps is portraying Packwood as the most
despicable specimen of humanity ever.

However, going back to the Rolling Stones interview, Rush thinks
the most important thing Clinton said was "look what I did - I
said the wealthy would have to pay their fair share and look what
we did to the tax system." This speaks volumes about what
Clinton's agenda really was - he went after the wealthy, and he
wasn't thinking about anything else, such as economic growth or
cutting the deficit.

Juxtaposed with this is John F. Kennedy, who spoke at New York's
Economic Club in December, 1962. His speech included a call for
major tax cuts, which he said would revive a lagging economy.
When Rush heard this speech, he realized that Kennedy was an
economic dittohead, so plays a brief excerpt from the speech:

"We shall therefore neither postpone our tax cut plan nor cut
into essential national security programs. This administration is
determined to protect America's security and survival, and we are
also determined to step up its economic growth. And I think we
must do both.

"Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and
the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is
increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long
as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered
by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to
balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or
enough profits.

"Surely the lesson of the last decade is that budget deficits are
not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but slow economic growth and
periodic recessions, and any new recession would break all
deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax
rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the
soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the
rates now."

Christine Todd Whitman used parts of this speech in her own
gubernatorial campaign in New Jersey. Of course, the Democrats
are trying to take Whitman's victory from her, yet it's a victory
which was the result of her tax-cutting philosophy.

Rush really hopes, though, that the New Jersey election isn't
decertified because of a stupid protest, even though the
Democrats would get really skunked in a second election, given
the anger of New Jersey voters. But this second election
shouldn't happen at all; there are too many examples where a riot
or a protest can be used to overturn the democratic process.
Elections shouldn't be overturned just because someone raises a
lot of ruckus and comes up with outrageous allegations. What is
being alleged by the Democrats isn't even illegal, and
discouraging voters from voting has been going on for some time.

For example, Pat Caddell, who ran the 1986 Senate campaign for
Democrat Alan Cranston, deliberately ran a highly negative
campaign so as to anger young voters to the point where they
would refuse to vote. Caddell therefore suppressed the vote, and
it's sophistry and ignorance to think this sort of thing has
never happened before.

Rush plays another excerpt from the Kennedy speech:

"For all these reasons, next year's tax bill should reduce
personal as well as corporate income taxes. For those in the
lower brackets who are certain to spend their additional
take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets who
can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and
able to invest more capital. Third, the next tax bill should
improve both the equity and the simplicity of our present tax
system."

Then Kennedy stated:

"Those are the three tests which the right kind of bill must
meet, and I am confident that the enactment of the right bill
next year will in due course increase our Gross National Product
by several times the amount of taxes actually cut, profit margins
will be improved, and both the incentive to invest and the supply
of internal funds for investment will be increased. There will be
new interest in taking risk, in increasing productivity, in
creating new jobs and new products for long term economic
growth."

Rush notes that Kennedy is the liberals' icon, yet 30 years ago
he sounded like any other supply-sider, such as Ronald Reagan or
Rush Limbaugh. It is for this reason that Rush again proclaims
John F. Kennedy to be a "posthumous dittohead."

*BREAK*

Phone   Dale from Temple City, CA

Dale says he first saw Rush by watching one of his parents'
videotapes of his TV show. Dale was amazed to hear Rush's
viewpoints, especially about the Rodney King beating trial; he
had never heard these opinions elsewhere in the media. Dale was a
bit skeptical about Rush, but repeated viewings and listenings
convinced him that Rush was genuine. Rush thanks Dale for this
heart-warming story.

Dale says that the Brady Bill's passage in the Senate was
possible only because the Republicans ended their filibuster. He
wonders why the Republicans did such a thing. Rush says that the
polls are showing a high majority of the people want the Brady
Bill's waiting period, so the Republicans saw the political
handwriting on the wall. However, the GOP also managed to get a
compromise in the Senate - the Brady Bill would last only four
years, after which instant background checks must be implemented.

Dale asks if it's possible that the NRA-sponsored amendment for
the instant checks could be struck out during the reconciliation
of the House and Senate versions of the bill. Rush thinks this is
certainly possible since nothing is ever written in stone when a
bill is passed in Congress; bills can always be amended. However,
the "important thing" to remember is that the passage of the
Brady Bill signals the end of crime as the country now knows it.

"This is a big, big day in America history - it's the day crime
is ended," Rush notes. Of course, this will have major
ramifications throughout society; for example, Superman movies
won't be possible anymore since there won't be any more crime
committed with guns. Of course, white collar crime such as that
committed by the evil Michael Milken will still exist, but at
least gun-related crime has been ended, all thanks to the Brady
Bill.

Phone   Kitty from St. Louis, MO

Kitty says she was sitting in her kitchen in 1988 trying to find
a music station when she turned on Rush's show; she heard Rush
mention the Democratic convention and Michael Dukakis and was
encouraged by his remarks. She had a bit of a problem learning
who Rush was since he didn't say his name often enough, but she
persevered and finally found out who he was and when he was on.

Kitty says that Rush mirrors much of what she herself has been
thinking for all her life. For example, during the debate about
NAFTA she had been telling her friends that the labor movement
didn't matter and was full of Mafia-types. Then the day after
NAFTA, Rush put on some clips of union guys condemning NAFTA;
however Rush dared to put cutouts of John Gotti and Jimmy Hoffa
next to the union leaders. Rush says he had expected to get some
grief from this, especially since he also played the "Love Theme
from the Godfather" in the background, but Kitty's the first
person to have mentioned this.

Rush thanks Kitty for her kind words and asks why she is calling.
She says that she just had to call because she was a charter
listener, having first tuned in on August, 1988. She was
encouraged by Rush's optimistic discussion of the Democratic
convention back then, and quickly called all her family and
friends to get them tuned in as well.

She says she's also reading Rush's new book and thinks it's
wonderful. Rush asks "what do you expect?" He adds that his
standards for himself are set to a "pressure-packed high," and is
glad that Kitty has found the book to match those standards. He
thanks her for calling.

*BREAK*

Phone   Howard from Punta Gorda, FL

Howard says that he was driving in Goldsboro, NC when he first
heard Rush's show. However, at the time, Howard owned a rock
station so he would listen only to his music competition, so as
to find out who their advertisers were. Thus, Howard listened to
Rush for about 15 minutes, didn't find him interesting, and
turned him off. He didn't start listening again until he moved to
Florida last spring and started up a new business outside of
broadcasting.

Rush finds it fascinating that Howard finally "caught on" to the
show when he removed himself from the broadcasting field. Howard
admits that it's a big relief to be able to listen to the radio
like a normal person, without it being part of his business.

Howard is a bit upset about how St. John's University is changing
its school mascot from the Redman; they haven't received any
complaints about it, but decided to change the name anyway as a
sort of pre-emptive strike against the forces of the politically
correct. Howard, though, has to wonder about Notre Dame and its
"Fighting Irish" mascot. Doesn't this mascot cast aspersions on
the Irish by stereotypically portraying them as a people who are
ready to fight at the drop of a hat?

Rush says that political correctness does get ridiculous - what
about the Syracuse Orangemen who are obviously making fun of some
sort of "fruit people," he asks. This sort of thing is
hypersensitivity, and the problem is that while everyone laughs
at this folly, it keeps on happening.

Phone   Luanne from Maple Grove, MN

Luanne first heard Rush the day after last year's Presidential
elections. She was depressed and trying to find something to
cheer her up on the radio, and she found Rush. She thought Rush
and what he was saying then were great, and she quickly got her
husband hooked, too. Luanne and her husband had been living in
Washington state, and were hoping that Minnesota would be less
liberal.

However, that's not the case, and she heard a local talk show
host just recently complain about how there's nobody to "balance
out" Rush; yet the entire rest of the media is full of the
liberal outlook. Rush notes that liberals can't stand any
opposition, which is why freedom of speech seems to extend only
to liberals. Luanne agrees and says that her whole family is
conservative and finds that Rush echoes what they all believe.
Rush thanks her for that and for calling.

Phone   Lynn from Minneapolis, MN

Lynn says that he first heard Rush when he was visiting a store
that he owns and which his son runs. His son turned him on to
Rush, and he's been listening since. Rush is glad to see how
families are spreading the "glorious word of EIB."

Lynn mentions how President Clinton told the Japanese that they
should lower their taxes, so that their people would have more
money to spend for American products. Rush says he's reported on
this before, as Clinton has been encouraging the Japanese to
lower their taxes for at least three months. However, the press
really hasn't picked up on this story before now.

If Clinton is encouraging the Japanese to lower taxes to
stimulate their economy, then why is he not doing the same here
at home? Yet, instead of taking the same advice he's giving the
Japanese, Clinton is trying to "stimulate" the economy through
massive government spending and tax hikes.

The conclusion is obvious - Clinton does know what the right
answer is to get the economy moving again, but he's not going to
do this in America because that's not his goal; Clinton doesn't
want to stimulate the economy as much as he wants to be in charge
of it. Clinton has many, many faces, but his administration is
all about the socialization of the United States and about
putting government in charge of as much of the people's lives as
possible. This is all about the acquisition of power, with the
administration claiming all it wants is fairness and equality.

Rush has talked about this time and time again, so he doesn't
want to start repeating himself too much. However, people would
be wise to remember that the Clinton administration is the most
left-wing administration to sit in Washington for a very long
time. It's not just Clinton, but also all those in the
administration, such as his cabinet. It's an ultra-left
administration with ultra-left motives.

*BREAK*

President Clinton has announced that American Airlines and its
striking workers have agreed to end the strike by submitting
their disputes to binding arbitration. Rush doesn't know if
Clinton played any role in getting the two sides together or
whether he's just announcing this fact.

Phone   Bo from Athens, GA

Bo first heard Rush when he was an "observer/controller at the
U.S. Army's premiere Ground Combat Center in the high desert of
California during the height of the Gulf War." He heard Rush say
"it's showtime, America, let's see what the age of the 80s paid
for," and Bo was hooked. Rush thinks this is terrific and thanks
Bo for calling and tuning in.

Bo says he heard Rush talk about the Clinton administration's
financing of the debt via short-term bonds; he thinks this will
be beneficial to the Democrats should a Republican President be
elected in 1996 because then that President will have to pay the
price of funding the debt with higher-interest bonds.

Rush says that this is exactly right - using short-term bonds is
a very selfish thing to do on two counts: it'll make the
Democrats look good since the deficit will be lower in the
short-term, and it'll make the Republicans look bad since they
will have to deal with the higher deficits that will result
afterwards.

Bo says that this isn't surprising since the Clinton
administration is trying to grab 15% of the country's GDP, and
thus it should be expected that the Democrats will take whatever
they can, without any thought about the country's long-term
future. Rush agrees and says that when the interest rates go up,
it'll be the next administration that will have to finance the
debt with long-term bonds with higher interest rates, and thus
higher deficit interest payments.

Phone   Eric from Cape Girardeau, MO

Eric says that the first time he heard Rush was right before Rush
came into town last year to speak at his sister's high school
commencement. Eric originally tuned in just to hear Rush say
"Cape Girardeau" on the national airwaves, but he quickly
realized that Rush was saying all the things that he himself
believed, so he's become a faithful listener.

Rush is gratified to have yet more evidence that his listeners
are not sponges who are soaking up what he has to say, but rather
people who listen to him because he echoes and validates their
own personal beliefs. Eric agrees and then says that he watched
Rush's TV show when he was talking about Ross Perot. Eric lived
in Dallas for about a year, and Perot's comments about how
Mexicans were backwards and didn't have running water seemed to
be based on the stereotypes many Texans have about Mexicans.

Eric doesn't want to say that Perot is a racist, but he does
believe that Perot's comments about this are based in total
ignorance. Rush says that this is no longer the strangest thing
he's heard about Perot. Over the weekend Rush read that Perot's
"craziness" is supposedly due to attempts by Republicans to
implant some kind of receivers in his teeth via Perot's dentist.
This operation was botched, but because of the electronics in his
teeth whenever Perot watches a movie, he thinks whatever is
happening in it is happening to him. Rush marvels at all the
strange stories there are out there about Perot.

However, as to whether Perot was using stereotypical beliefs when
he talked about the "average Mexican," Rush doesn't believe that
as readily as he believes that Perot was simply trying to
deceive.

*BREAK*

Phone   Cathy from the French Alps

Cathy says that it's nine o'clock at night in France and she
can't believe she's talking to Rush. Rush finds it difficult to
believe, too, especially as he didn't think people in France
could call EIB's 800 number; he wisely decides not to think how
much this call is costing EIB.

Cathy says that she's able to call 800 numbers using a "Telegroup
number," but the French government is doing its best to dump this
feature, along with everything else American. There's even a big
scandal about the movie Jurassic Park. Rush doesn't blame the
French government for not wanting the U.S.'s movies and TV, but
admits "they've been strange over there."

Cathy says she's living in France because her husband is French
and they have five children. She hopes that the Clinton health
care plan doesn't get implemented because she and her husband
will be moving back to America next summer after 12 years in
France, and they don't want to go back to that kind of system.

Rush asks Cathy what she was doing when she first heard his show,
and she replies that she was in Nice, listening to a tape of the
show that her mother had sent her. She adds that her mother
regularly sends her a bunch of tapes of Rush's show each and
every month. Rush is glad to see that once again, it was a family
member who got a listener hooked on the show. "Have we got family
values lassoed, we own them!" he exclaims. He thanks Cathy for
calling and has Bo take her number so that EIB can call her back
at some point to discuss health care.
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