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Subject: Summary Mon 11/16/92
Summary: Unofficial Summary for Monday, Nov. 16, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, November 16, 1992

by John Switzer

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This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1992 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
to other electronic forums and bulletin boards is highly
encouraged. 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 16, 1992

MORNING UPDATE

Bill Clinton promises to hold to his vow of diversity, yet vows
of diversity are not how the country will get the best people to
work for it. Clinton, though, wants to have a cabinet that "looks
like America," which means that he will celebrate the diversity
of America rather than finding the best people for the job.

Rush doesn't want to offend anyone, but the greatness of America
is not found in its diversity; the greatness of America is found
in freedom, and in giving that freedom to the people so that they
can be the best they can be. It's not ethnicity, race, or
religion that makes America great, but freedom.

Freedom allows people to pursue excellence, yet if this pursuit
is subordinated to diversity and the "glorious mosaic of
America," then the country will not end up with the best people
available running the government. Instead, the nation will end up
with liberals running things using textbooks and untested
theories. "Don't go for diversity, Governor," Rush pleads. "Go
for the best, please?"

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush has got so much stuff to do today that "it's going
out the proverbial wazoo."

o       Algore spoke today - he still looked wooden, but at least
he spoke. Rush promises pictures on his TV show tonight.

o       Rush begs his CompuServe listeners to stop sending him
the "tired, worn-out" joke about the Clinton statue committee.
Nitpickers are also out in force, telling Rush that Clinton is
not President-elect until the electoral college meets.

o       The November 23rd issue of the New Republic has a number
of interesting items. One column has some amazing admissions
about Clinton, and Rush promises to read parts from it later.

o       In the Briefly segment of the November 10th edition of
the Orange County Review is a notice that Arkansas is rated worst
in health care. Rush remarks on the great timing of this report,
and how it is buried near the back pages.

o       Saturday's New York Times reports on a 14-page single-
spaced memo by James Carville and other Clinton staffers about
"how to remake the First Family so that people will like them."
Rush promises excerpts from this story later.

o       A picture of Bill and Hillary Clinton being printed in
today's papers shows Hillary looking up lovingly into Bill's
eyes, while Bill is looking off into the distance. Rush promises
to show this picture to his audience <<presumably on the TV
show>>.

o       The November 13th edition of the Grand Forks Herald
reports "Limbaugh's comment about Clinton's daughter angers Grand
Forks woman"; Becky Dornheim, who is a social worker, plans to
send a report about "suspected child abuse" to New York
officials. Dornheim was offended when Rush allegedly said that
Millie the dog was better looking than Chelsea Clinton.

Rush first points out that he never said this; what happened on
his TV show was that Rush was talking about the "in and out"
lists that appeared after the election. One list said "in - cute
daughter in the White House, out - cute dog in the White House."
Unfortunately, the associate director, who has since left the EIB
Network, showed a picture of Millie the dog when Chelsea's name
was mentioned.

Dornheim calls this mistake "the epitome of emotional abuse," and
is filling out appropriate state and police forms so as to get
Rush in trouble. Rush is amazed that when real child abuse is
occurring that someone would get so upset about this, and it
reminds him how some animal rights wacko on CompuServe tried to
get him arrested when he admitted on the air that he once killed
a mouse.

o       California state officials have found 12 times more
Spotted Owls in a state forest than were previously thought to
have existed.

o       Kansas City Chiefs ran a full-page ad over the weekend
saying that the Tomahawk Chop is coming back.

o       Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and her husband may have bought
a western White House in Summerland, CA for Bill and Hillary
Clinton, who still don't own a home of their own.

o       Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live has apologized in
advance to President-elect Clinton for satirizing him on the
show. Hartman said that he doesn't want to "offend" Clinton and
hopes that Clinton doesn't take his satirical barbs personally.
Rush notes that it is rare for a comic to make this sort of
statement, adding that to liberals satire and humor are a one-way
street. It's okay for liberals to do "biting" satire, but if
conservatives do it, then it's considered racist and bigoted.

*BREAK*

Marvin Kitman, TV critic for NY Newsday, has reviewed Rush's TV
show in today's paper. This is one of the best reviews that has
been done of the show, not because it is a favorable review, but
because Kitman actually reviewed the show itself instead of
talking about Rush's views or size. Kitman talked about the
show's format, how it is different from other shows, and the risk
that Rush took in putting the show on the air.

Rush is hesitant to thank journalists for doing a good job, and
so he simply tells Kitman "well done" in accurately reporting
what the show is and what it is about. Kitman writes

"Rush is in jeopardy all the time. His philosophy is `what the
hell - I'm the show, if it crashes, it's my fault. It all depends
on me.' He controls the fate; he can't blame the teleprompter,
the producers, the bookers. If the show is boring, he takes
responsibility; that to him is what being a conservative is all
about. Very few in TV are willing to take that risk."

Rush says that Kitman does comment favorably on other aspects of
the show, but Rush doesn't want to appear to be too self-serving
by reading all of the review. However, he would love to syndicate
this article to every paper in the country.

*BREAK*

To be fair, Rush will now talk about a review of his book which
is published in the latest issue of Variety. The review
concentrates on those portions of the book which discuss
Hollywood, mentioning how Rush "rails" against Hollywood stars
like Sally Fields, Ed Asner, Rob Reiner, Ted Danson, and Tom
Selleck because they are activists in certain causes. The review
says Rush disparages these people because they aren't experts,
but "this disingenuousness argument ignores Limbaugh's own lack
of expertise in anything save loud and scornful broadcasting."

Rush points out that his book clearly states that these people
can say anything they want since America is a free country; what
bothers him, though, is that these people are treated like
experts. For example, Sally Fields was brought in before a Senate
committee to testify on farms simply because she played a farmer
in a movie. Rush simply pointed out in his book that the media
doesn't challenge these celebrities because they need them as
guests and for interviews.

Phone   Dan from Crown Point, IN

Dan is a veteran of the Panama invasion and he thanks Rush for
the Veterans Day memorial that Rush did last Wednesday. Rush
thanks Dan for his comments, and notes that he has been
criticized by some baby boomers for putting them down. Rush's
real point was that the current generation really doesn't know
the hardships that previous generations really endured; in fact,
a listener sent Rush a note referring to a passage in Alan
Bloom's book, "The Closing of the American Mind":

"These young people have never experienced the anxieties about
simple well-being that their parents experienced during the
Depression. They have been raised in comfort and with the
expectation of ever-increasing comfort. Hence they are largely
indifferent to it; they are not proud of having acquired it and
have not occupied themselves with the petty and sometimes
deforming concerns necessary to its acquisition."

This generational change in America's leaders is what Rush was
pointing out last week. Rush thanks Dan for calling, and is glad
that he appreciated his Veterans Day Memorial.

Phone   Dave from Brooklyn, NY

Dave thinks Rush helped Clinton win the election; Clinton
obviously has been listening to Rush and taking his advice for
the past couple of years. Rush says that he has heard this
complaint several times; for example, one listener sent Rush a
note saying that the next time Rush writes a book, he shouldn't
publish it during a campaign year. The listener was certain that
the Clinton campaign read the book and learned from it.

Rush had noticed that often during the campaign he would make an
insightful criticism of Clinton and the very next day the Clinton
campaign would react to it. For example, Rush asked why Hillary
Clinton had been so silent, and the next day she started making
speeches.

Rush knows that helping Clinton to win is a horrible burden which
he will have to bear for some time. The worst possible thing,
however, would be if Clinton actually took Rush's economic advice
and redefined the Democratic party accordingly. "Where will we be
then?" Rush asks.

Rush also comments on the pictures of Clinton meeting with
Richard Gephardt, Tom Foley, and George Mitchell. Both Bill and
Hillary appeared older than usual and thus more statesman-like.
Incredibly, Clinton in his press conference today said the same
thing Bush said back in 1988 - "the days of confrontation are
over; Pennsylvania Avenue is a two-way street again."

*BREAK*

Phone   Dawn from Philadelphia, PA

Dawn wants to talk about gays in the military, Colin Powell, and
Andrew Hacker. Rush says that Dawn should pick whatever subject
she wants to, but he first comments that "I don't hear any love
in your voice." Dawn admits that she doesn't like all the
repetition that Rush has on his show; Rush replies that his show
deals with whatever is in the news.

Dawn asks Rush if he thinks male gynecologists and female
urologists can do a good job, and Rush replies that both groups
usually remain professional. Dawn thus wonders why it can't just
as well be true that gays in the military can perform their jobs
just as professionally as doctors; can't gays handle themselves
in the showers just as well as doctors can in the examining room?

Rush points out that doctors don't operate in a barracks, but a
clinical setting, and there are often witnesses about. In
particular, an exam a man gets from a urologist is not romantic
at all. Dawn says that showers are not romantic at all, which
prompts Rush to ask why men and women take showers separately.

Dawn says that men and women bathe together in Japan, but Rush
points out that this is usually families. Dawn says that men and
women use the same bathrooms in France, and she later visited an
American co-ed dorm which had co-ed bathrooms. She had no trouble
with either situation.

Rush says that this is not a normal custom in America, but Dawn
thinks that this is only because Americans aren't grown-up or
mature. Rush disagrees with that, but points out that this whole
argument misses the point of having gays in the military. The
purpose of the military is not to experiment with the social
architecture; the purpose of combat is to kill people and break
things so as to win war. The military is not the place to pursue
the current ideas of fairness, but to protect the United States
of America.

The leaders in the military don't oppose gays because they're
bigots, but because centuries of experience has shown that this
does not help with the military mission. The military's primary
purpose is to protect America, yet it's now being viewed as the
next place in which affirmative action should be tried.
Affirmative action, though, will not help the US to assemble a
battle force that can win. Rush holds Dawn over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Dawn from Philadelphia, PA (continued)

Dawn wants to say that she doesn't have any "love" in her voice
because she can't agree with many things Rush says. As to Andrew
Hacker, she asks if Rush was paraphrasing him. Rush reads the
exact quote of Hacker commenting on General Colin Powell:

"He put 99% of himself, or his black self, on hold, in the back,
because he was ambitious, wanted to get ahead, and did."

Dawn accepts and agrees with this comment but disagrees with
Rush's analysis of it. Rush says that his comment was that Hacker
thinks Colin Powell sold out because he wanted to be successful.
Dawn says that Rush also inferred from this comment that Hacker
was implying that Powell should have been shiftless and lazy;
this is not what Hacker meant.

Rush says that he doesn't think Hacker was thinking this, but
this is what his statements implied. Hacker is the epitome of
white racists since he attacked Powell for putting his black self
"on hold" in order to get ahead; Hacker's implication clearly is
that being ambitious is not being "black."

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush wants to devote his monologue this hour to some amazing
information about the Clintons. Last Saturday's NY Times reported
on a 14-page memo that was written by Clinton staffers back in
April and which was about how the Clinton family image needed to
be revised. According to the article, the Clinton campaign
realized the following:

"They had a potentially fatal problem - at least 40% of voters
didn't much like him. They saw him as a wishy-washy, fast-talking
career politician who did not talk straight. They liked Hillary
even less, regarding her as being in the race for herself, as
going for the power, and as a wife intent on running the show.

"Arguing that these images were wrong and unfair, the Clinton
organization's polling expert Stan Greenberg, its chief
strategist James Carville, and its media consultant Frank Greer
set out in a confidential memo to Mr. Clinton an ambitious
political rehabilitation - 14 single-spaced pages called `The
General Election Project Interim Report.' It covered a wide away
of topics; it set out basic tenets like `the candidate needs to
communicate in ways that sound less political.' "

Rush says that he has tried to get his hands on this document but
without success. However, the Times article does contain some
suggestions that were put forth in this memo - one was to stage a
media event during which Bill and Chelsea would surprise Hillary
on Mothers Day.

Also, events where Bill and Hillary "could go out on dates with
the American people" were encouraged. Rush wonders how this could
be done, and Bo Snerdley nails it by saying "bus tour." In
addition, the memo suggested Clinton should play his sax in
public, and noted that most people didn't realize that Chelsea
Clinton existed.

The memo also said that for Hillary there should be "joint
appearances with her friends where Hillary can laugh and do her
mimicry." Rush decides to play some examples of Hillary's
mimicry, which in this case are repetitions of the patented
Hillary cackle, making her sound a lot like Flipper the Dolphin.
Rush points out that Carville et al justified their plan by
claiming that they only wanted to show the American people the
"real" Clintons.

In another piece of Clinton news, in the November 23rd issue of
the New Republic Jacob Weissburg's "Washington Diarist" column
mentions that "Clinton's election eve salutation was an augmented
reprise of `The Man from Hope,'" (This was the Linda Bloodworth-
Thomason video biography of Clinton that aired during the
Democratic convention.) Weissburg continues on to say the
following:

"One thing I didn't realize when I wrote about this film a few
weeks ago is how disingenuous it really was. Bill Clinton was
indeed born in Hope, but he grew up in Hot Springs, which was an
hour away. The Clintons moved back and forth between the two
places until Bill was 5, and lived in Hot Springs from then on.
It was in Hot Springs he attended primary, junior high, and high
school.

"Why should Clinton want to distort this fact? Well, because
while Hope is the epitome of small-town wholesomeness, Hot
Springs is a tourist mecca, legendary for corruption,
prostitution, and gambling. In the 1920s it was Al Capone's
southern hideout.

"According to a story by Dave Moranis in the Washington Post,
Clinton's bid of revisionism hasn't escaped locals. When the
Governor appeared wearing his Hot Springs High letter sweater at
his 46th birthday party, his mother took reporters aside to point
it out since `Hot Springs people are feeling kind of left out.' "

Weissburg concludes by saying that "I still believe in a place
called Hot Springs" doesn't quite have the ring that "I still
believe in a place called Hope" has. Rush loves this story -
Clinton grew up in the "corruption capital of the state." Rush
notes, however, that the timing of this story is interesting,
occurring as it does after the election.

Weissburg's column has another item of interest, this one about
how the press covered Clinton's campaign:

"If reporters made less of Clinton's contradictions than Bush's
and Perot's, it's not because they are fewer. Indeed, coverage of
the campaign vindicated what conservatives have been saying for
years about liberal bias in the media. In their defense,
journalists say that though they may have their personal
opinions, as pros they're able to correct for them as they write.

"Sounds nice but I'm not buying it. Never mind the gushing copy
about Clinton which readers can recognize for what it is; the
real unfairness occurs in the stories that aren't covered or not
covered aggressively. Take, for instance, the tapes Gennifer
Flowers made in which Clinton seemingly asks her to lie about
their relationship.

"Quote from the tape: `If everybody's on the record denying it,
you've got no problem. If they ever ask you if you've talked to
me about it, you can just say no.' Endquote. The Washington Post
never printed a full transcript on the pretext that the
recordings were unverified, but Clinton himself never challenged
their authenticity, and even apologized to Mario Cuomo for saying
nasty things about him on tape.

"I don't think adultery per se is a legitimate avenue for press
scrutiny, but Flowers' charge that Clinton put her on the state
payroll at least bears looking into. To this day I have no idea
as whether it's true because the press didn't want to spoil
Clinton's party.

"Other potential major investigative stories, such as Mark
Hosenbaum's report in these pages that Clinton may have used his
influence to get his mother out of a malpractice jam, were simply
ignored. I never even saw a good story on Clinton's contradictory
positions on the Gulf War. Of course, I'm guilty, too - I saved
this point for this issue."

Rush calls this an amazing admission from a liberal, but notes
again the timing of this story. The EIB staff asks why liberals
would make such admissions and Rush says what can be done about
it now, after the election? It's as if liberals and the press
need to purge their souls and admit/assuage their guilt.

Liberals are all feeling better now, and in particular WABC's
Lisa Sliwa and Joy Behar used to hate the sight of Rush before
the election. Now that Clinton has won, however, both women have
no problem with Rush anymore; their guy won and so Rush is no
longer an irritant or threat. Rush is glad that liberals are
finally mature enough to accept the jokes that they themselves
often make against others.

Rush recalls the uproar that occurred after he first aired his
Feminazi Trading Card commercial - "you would have thought I was
headed for castration if I ran into these two in a dark alley,"
Rush states. Now, however, both Sliwa and Behar are able to laugh
when Clinton and other liberals are made fun of.

Rush is glad that these liberals can finally lighten up after 12
years, but he bets that they will soon be faced with a horrible
surprise. Clinton right now is promoting gays in the military,
diversity in the cabinet, and other sorts of things which he
hopes he can use to payoff the party liberals.

However, all Clinton is doing right now is spouting verbiage as
none of this stuff really will cost anything. Liberals will face
disappointment when it comes to pay for their plans, because the
money simply isn't there. Rush thinks it's going to be fun to
watch what happens when the liberals finally realize that words
is all they're going to get from Clinton, and not money.

*BREAK*

Phone   Tommy from Camp Hill, PA

Tommy was sitting in his Hot Springs Spa last night, reading his
Conservative Chronicle and drinking a Snapple, when he noticed
Carol Simpson on CSPAN. Simpson stated that 50% of Republican
women voted for Clinton, and Tommy asks Rush if he has heard
this. Rush knows Clinton got 50% of the female vote, but doesn't
remember Clinton getting that high of the GOP female vote.

However, it's clear that Clinton did not win because of the
abortion issue - in exit polls, only one in eight voters said
that abortion was one of their top three issues, and of those
people 60% were pro-life. If half of Republican women voted for
Clinton, though, and abortion wasn't the issue, Rush has to
wonder what the issue was.

Tommy doesn't know, but he thinks the Clintons are more like the
Beverly Hillbillies than the Jeffersons as Rush implied the other
day. Rush thanks Tommy for this comment, but points out that he
only said that the Clintons are "moving on up," not that they are
like the Jeffersons. Rush adds that the Clintons are far from
being Arkansas hicks - they are very much Northeastern,
liberally-educated people; Hillary's from Chicago and trained at
Wellesley while Bill got a similar liberal indoctrination at
schools that included Oxford.

Phone   Carol from Le Grand, OR

Carol is a Vietnam-era veteran, and her husband is still in the
army. She lived in an army barracks in Germany when she was 19
(which was 1974), and she and her husband have both been living
on army posts their entire adult life. Rush acknowledges that
Carol is an expert, and she says that her experience with
barracks living is that one of the first things that happen to
female newcomers is that one of the lesbian contingent befriends
them so as to find out where their proclivities lie.

Rush halts Carol because 1) this is very provocative and 2) he
needs to take a break, and thus he holds Carol over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Carol from Le Grand, OR (continued)

Carol says that lesbians may have still been in the closet in
1974, but they were nevertheless active; however, back in 1974 if
lesbians knew a woman wasn't gay they'd leave her alone because
they didn't want their homosexuality exposed. Carol has to wonder
therefore what will happen if Clinton openly allows gays in the
military; will lesbians become more visible and will this
discourage heterosexual women from entering the military because
of the perception that only lesbians become soldiers?

She says that it was bad enough being exposed to this back in
1974, and doesn't think that if she were 19 today and the ban on
homosexuals in the military were lifted that she would go into
military service today. As it is, the perception is that if a
woman goes into the military she is either a lesbian or whore.
She thinks this could pose a problem for recruiters in the
future.

Rush says that one thing which is not being brought up much is
how the liberals during the 80s passed a lot of "whistle blower"
laws; under these laws, employees can accuse each other or their
bosses in perfect anonymity. This has resulted in a lot of
anonymous accusations which have wreaked havoc throughout
government offices.

In particular, one of the fastest ways to get someone thrown out
of the military is to accuse them of being gay. Thus, one thing
that would happen if the ban on homosexuals in the military were
lifted is that these false and anonymous claims would lose their
sting. Carol agrees that this sort of stuff is a problem,
especially for women, who as Carol has already said, are
considered to be either lesbians or whores anyway.

However, as a mother Carol has another problem with allowing gays
into the military. She and her family were once stationed in a
very small post in Germany where the only place to take the
family to dinner was the Officers Club. If the ban on gays is
lifted, though, Carol is going to have to face the possibility of
having her children see openly gay conduct at the club.

Carol objects to the fact that her children will have to be
subjected to a lifestyle which most Americans still don't think
is normal. She points out that there is nothing in the Uniform
Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) that prevents open displays of
affection while in civilian clothes; thus, there is nothing to
prevent gays from doing whatever they want in public.

Carol doesn't think this is fair to her family, especially if
they are sent to another remote post. Rush finds this an
interesting point, and this kind of thing is why there's a lot of
caution about Clinton's proposals up on Capitol Hill. Even Sam
Nunn has said that movement toward having gays in the military
must go slow.

Rush points out that Clinton has never been in the military and
thus has no idea of what the issues really are. Furthermore,
Clinton says that his mind is made up on this matter, yet he is
going to convene a blue-ribbon panel to study it. If Clinton's
not going to change his mind, then why have a panel? Clinton is
simply pandering to his liberal supporters.

Another problem is Clinton's reference to conduct - heterosexual
conduct is not tolerated by the military, yet pregnancy rates are
skyrocketing on naval ships where both men and women serve. Rush
saw some woman last weekend who blamed this on men "who can't
control themselves," yet sex is a two-way affair <<so to speak>>.
Women aren't being raped wholesale on these ships, and there's
certainly a lot of consenting sex and equal participation with
going on.

All of these things point out that a great deal of thought needs
to be considered before opening the floodgates to gays in the
military. Rush thinks Carol for calling, and praises her for
achieving "expert status" on the Rush Limbaugh show, which is a
rare honor indeed.

Phone   John from Kansas City, MO

John heard on last night's news that the "Democratic rats are
coming out of the woodwork" - Clinton was having dinner with Jim
Wright, George Mitchell, and Richard Gephardt. Rush says that it
was Tom Foley, not Jim Wright, who was at the dinner, but John
doesn't think there's much difference between the two. Rush
points out that Foley has yet to write a book whose copies are
almost exclusively purchased by the Teamsters.

John stands corrected and says that these guys on Congress were
all hiding in the woodwork during the campaign, but now that the
election is over they're coming out into the open. It's clear to
John that these are the "same old pack of rats" that helped
Carter destroy the country.

Rush agrees - it's easy to show how little change is really going
on since so many of Clinton's advisers are from previous
Democratic administrations and campaigns.

Update  Timber         ("Chain Saw Blues" with the sounds of
falling trees)

A federal quarantine was imposed on Christmas trees infected with
twig-eating pine-shoot beetles; the quarantine affects trees in
six states - Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and
Illinois. Experts, though, say that eliminating trees from these
states won't limit the supply or raise prices since they comprise
less than 5% of the nation's supply; this is the first known case
in which a reduction of the supply of a commodity won't raise the
price.

Rush marvels at this economic miracle, undoubtedly wrought by the
Clinton administration. Furthermore, because of the quarantine,
"it will be virtually impossible for the consumer to buy an
infected tree," according to Dave Bowman of the National
Christmas Tree Growers Association.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush gives a mini-Animal rights update - a San Francisco
paper has the headline "Birds Disappearing, Cats Getting the
Blame." British courts are being asked to give dogs a right to
full-length tails. Finnish reindeer will have to wear reflective
neckbands so that night-time drivers will be able to see them in
time to avoid collisions. Rush wonders if this means that the
story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer will have to be
rewritten.

o       Bill Clinton in next week's issue of TV Guide states that
he was appalled by what he saw on TV recently; he thinks
Hollywood should take the lead in deglamorizing mindless sex and
violence.

o       US youths are admitting that they cheat and steal, which
Rush admits is the first step toward correcting the problem.

o       Rush ordered the movie "My Cousin Vinny" on his pay-for-
view channel, and he praises it as a hilarious movie. Undoubtedly
some southerners didn't like it, but the movie skewered every
stereotype possible, including those of New Yorkers.

*BREAK*

Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelly, loves to play the horses
and thus when she went to Louisville, KY to get a gown for her
son's inauguration, she also visited Churchill Downs. She told
the Associated Press that although she was up three dollars, "I
haven't won a lot of money since last October. My mind has been
on just one race." Rush bets that Mrs. Kelly will be a "fun First
Mother."

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Newly-married Kit Carson congratulated Rush on the Pittsburgh
Steelers' victory last weekend. The environmentalist wacko
method, however, failed to pick the winner in the Oilers and
Vikings game. Rush notices that when he starts speaking about
sports, his staff start staring off into the distance with "deer
in the headlight eyes." Bo Snerdley admits he likes synchronized
swimming, and Rush tells Bo not to look in his direction from now
on when he's talking about sports.

Update  Peace         (Slim Whitman, "Una Paloma Blanca" with the
sounds of war)

A Russian rocket has been launched at the United States; this
rocket, however, carries appeals for world peace and its
splashdown off the Washington state coast is scheduled for the
day before Thanksgiving. The mission is called "Spaceflight
Europe/America 500" and commemorates both the 500th anniversary
of Columbus' landing in the New World and the International Year
of Space.

Rush finds it amazing that Russia has launched a missile at the
US in the name of peace, and he thinks that this rocket is aimed
at the wrong people. The US is not in combat right now, and if
Russia were interested in world peace they should be sending the
rocket to Saddam Hussein or to Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia.

Rush admits that he thinks this whole story is stupid, but he did
it anyway because he wanted to play his peace update theme and
hear Tony Lo Bianco play the bomb noises. He does worry, though,
about how accurate the Russian guidance systems are. Also, if the
Russians really wanted to do something meaningful, they should
aim the rocket at Little Rock with the message "welcome back."

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

There are four items in this update:

o       California forests have twelve times more Spotted Owls
than were previously thought to have existed. Rush wonders how
many people have bought the entire Spotted Owl scenario, which
was cooked up only to support the anti-private property agenda of
the environmentalists.

o       Animal rights enthusiasts faced off last night over
whether cats are killing too many birds in San Francisco's Golden
Gate Park. Bird backers, led by Allen Hopkins of the Audibon
Society, told the San Francisco Animal Control and Welfare
Society that a "rise in the number of feral and unsupervised
house cats is literally eating away at the population of
migratory songbirds and ground nesting birds."

Hopkins produced statistics that showed a 50% drop in certain
bird populations and he lashed out at cat owners for abandoning
their pets and letting them run wild. "I just can't understand
why we let these cats kill these birds," Hopkins stated.

Rush says that this is what happens when man tries to micromanage
the environment, and he tells the bird backers that this is
called "nature" - cats chase birds and sometimes cats catch
birds. Rush thinks it is amazing that a liberal is admitting that
he doesn't understand nature in its purest form.

o       The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons defied the
strong views of Princess Anne and called for the "right" of every
British dog to a "full-length tail." The College said that the
routine cropping of tails for bulldogs and poodles is
"disgraceful conduct," and it threatened to take steps to revoke
the licenses of vets who cut off dogs' tails.

"Cutting dogs tails is an unjustified mutilation and is unethical
except to treat or prevent disease and injury," according to a
College spokesman. The College doesn't have the authority to ban
the practice itself, and is thus calling for the courts to end
this practice of "docking."

The newspaper reports that "Princess Anne barked" her criticisms
at the Veterinarian Association for making much the same
complaint. Rush doesn't dare contemplate how much trouble he'd
get into if he made a comment like that.

o       Former movie star Brigitte Bardot was hospitalized to
have her stomach pumped after she overdosed on sleeping pills.
"It's not clear if it was a suicide attempt," according to the
newspapers, but Bardot's husband told reporters that Bardot was
distressed because of her work as an animals rights activist.

Bardot reportedly became upset when she encountered some starving
sheep, and thus tried to kill herself. Rush hopes that more
people can be as "caring and compassionate" as Bardot, who when
she came upon some starving animals figured the answer to kill
herself.

*BREAK*

Phone   Kelley from St. George, UT

Kelley gives "dittos to the king from a baby boomer girl," and
she thanks Rush for his Veterans Day tribute since her father is
a Korean War vet. She thinks her generation is soft, and she
cried all day November 3rd because the country sent a draft-
dodger to the White House.

Rush encourages Kelley to continue listening to his show so as to
get the proper perspective on things, and comments that although
many people like Kelley have thanked him for his Veterans Day
tribute, others were offended. This just goes to show why you
shouldn't be worried about offending people because some people
will be offended whenever you express an opinion, no matter what
it is.

Rush definitely believes, though, that the baby boomer generation
has a better life than their parents did precisely because of the
sacrifices that their parents and grandparents made. People today
really don't realize what previous generations had to endure in
WWII and in the Great Depression.

George Will's column today makes a similar point, talking about
how crime isn't caused by poverty; liberals love to use this
excuse, but Ed Koch pointed out that there wasn't anything like
today's crime during the Great Depression, in spite of the real
and pervasive poverty that existed back then.

The fact is that life in America today is not as tough as what
previous generations have experienced, and Rush is glad that
Kelley is one of those who understood what he was trying to say
on Veterans Day.

*BREAK*

Interestingly enough, a law signed by President Johnson in 1967
prohibits a public official, including the President, from
appointing a relative to a job over which he exercises
jurisdiction. Thus, Hillary cannot be appointed to an executive
post, but the question remains whether she will have any
influence in the Clinton administration.

Rush is certain that Hillary will exert some influence, and he
plays the following the show what may happen:

<<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!

The Clintons welcomed Rep. Richard Gephardt, Senator George
Mitchell, and House Speaker Tom Foley to dinner over the weekend
at the Governor's Mansion in Little Rock. Rush found one of Bill
Clinton's comments last night particularly interesting - when a
reporter asked him if his wife was at the dinner, he replied that
not only was Hillary at the table, but "she knew more than any of
us on some topics."

Rush is flabbergasted by this comment, and he would love to have
the opportunity to ask Foley, Gephardt, and Mitchell if they
would agree that Hillary knows more about some issues than they
do. Watching these congressional leaders hem and haw their way
out of answering this question would make for hours of fun. Of
course, it may be true that Hillary knows more, but this does not
impress Rush - "whoopi," he says.

Phone   Rook from Falls Church, VA

Rook read Time magazine's profile of Rush last month and thought
it was nothing but a "four-page slam." Rush says that he and the
people at EIB liked the piece. Rook, though, wants to ask Rush
about Harry Shearer, who said "this country runs on personality,
not on ideas. I think if Rush were spouting diametrically opposed
ideas, he'd be just as popular."

Rush says that Shearer is a Los Angeles comedian who's been on
Saturday Night Live <<he's also part of Spinal Tap and does
voices for the Simpsons cartoon show>>, and he was commenting on
how Rush is a good entertainer. Rush firmly believes that this is
a compliment, even though Shearer clearly doesn't recognize the
importance of Rush's beliefs to his audience.

Rook, though, says that the article implied that no thinking
person ever listens to Rush; as far as Rook is concerned, he
thinks Rush said it best - it is his poignant and incisive truth
which is like a river in a dry land. Rush agrees, but points out
that the liberals in the press, politics, and Hollywood survive
on the notion that most people are fools. This goes double if the
people are conservatives. Thus, this idea is nothing new when it
shows up in a story about him.

Rook adds that he didn't use to have a TV in his home, but
finally got one to watch Rush's TV show. He called the local
cable station to see if Rush's show is going to be aired soon,
and the cable people said that they've been inundated with
requests.

Rush points out that Washington, DC is the only national market
not to carry his show, which for two consecutive weeks has been
the third most-watched syndicated show on the air. Of the new
syndicated programs, Rush's show is also the only one to show
consistent growth since its debut on September 14th; the show
opened at a 2.5 rating, and is now up to a 3.3 rating.

Thus, it's curious that a DC station would not want to carry
Rush's show since there is no business reason for this decision.
Rush has no doubts that if "Fred Slobotnik" was a liberal who
interviewed the worst Hollywood celebrities available and whose
show was getting a 2.5 rating, the DC stations would be demanding
to carry the show.

Rush points out that during the last eight years of his
broadcasting career, his popularity has gone only up, yet this
fact remains unacknowledged by the broadcast industry. Recently
the trade publication Electronic Media printed a story titled
"Election's End Won't Be the End of Limbaugh."

The story mentions Rush's TV talk competition, saying "Limbaugh's
TV talk show competition say they believe that the end of the
election could spell the beginning of the end for Limbaugh. The
freshman strip, one of the few new entries in syndication to look
like a winner in the TV season, will fizzle as the nation's focus
on politics continues to wane."

Rush is incredulous that when his show is the only one growing
that there are those who are still predicting his doom and defeat
because the elections are over. If this were going to happen, it
would have happened in 1988, yet during the last four years
Rush's radio show became the hottest show in radio. Thus, Rush is
confident that the only reason his show is still not in the DC
area is a purely political one.

*BREAK*

Phone   Joe from Randolph, MA

Joe is a veteran from Desert Storm and he really appreciated
Rush's tribute to the military on Veterans Day. Being called into
active duty to serve one's country really does mean far more than
getting a day off from work and an extra trip to the mall. Rush
recalls that the only story he found on Veterans Day about
Veterans Day was a 2-inch column in the NY Post which simply
listed which offices were going to be closed.

However, the next day's papers did have all sorts of news about
Veterans Day parades and such, which is in keeping with the basic
flaw of newspapers, i.e. that they report the news a day late.
Rush, though, remembers that when he was a kid the papers the day
before Veterans Day were filled with stories about what parades
were going to be held, interviews with veterans, etc. Rush
therefore was pleased to be able to present a heart-felt tribute
to the nation's military, which is a job most people in this
country wouldn't and don't do.

Rush is wearied by how people in the military are impugned
because of their commitment to their duty and the nation; they
are often called fanatics and extremists by a disapproving
population. Rush thanks Joe for calling, and he is glad Joe
appreciated his tribute and understood its true meaning.

*BREAK*

Phone   Beth from Shannon, IL

Beth usually listens to Rush while she drives a tractor, hauling
corn for her husband, but it broke down, thus allowing her to
call. She mentions how much negative coverage there's been on TV
and radio recently about spanking children, and Rush says that
this has been going on since Dr. Spock. Beth wonders, though, if
this lack of spanking isn't what's caused drug problems and
homosexuality.

Rush doesn't think spanking is at all relevant to homosexuality,
but he points out that both he and his brother David were
spanked, yet it hasn't damaged either of them at all. Rush
recalls that he even once had to go out into the yard in his
underwear to cut a birchbark switch for his dad to use on him.

In fact, Rush even spanks himself nowadays because he knows the
importance of discipline, and there's nothing inherently wrong
with spanking children for the purpose of discipline. If done
properly, spanking instills discipline, but of course liberals
think discipline is just cruel, unusual, and sadistic punishment.


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