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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Tuesday, November 17, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, November 17, 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 17, 1992

NEWS

o       The Solvang Bike Museum Task Force met yesterday to
discuss the creation of a bicycle museum in or around Solvang,
CA. Nothing has been determined yet as to how the museum will be
financed or where exactly it will be placed. The proposed museum
will show the evolution of the bicycle throughout history, and
its place in modern-day California.

o       ABC News reports that two researchers have concluded that
listening to country-western music "tends to promote suicidal
tendencies." Stephen Stack of Wayne State University and Jim
Gunlock of Auburn examined data from 49 cities and found that the
higher the percentage of country western music played on the
radio, the higher the incidence of suicide among caucasians.

Gunlock says that the fact that blacks don't listen to CW music
tends to indicate that it is the music which is the contributing
factor. He added that most people underestimate how much their
environment influences their behavior, and he pointed to "how one
of the leading factors in country western music is sadness."

MORNING UPDATE

Rush says that when people go shopping this Christmas, they may
find some stores that have signs reading "everyday low prices"
instead of "big sale." People may indeed find bargains at these
stores because the free market works.

Florsheim Shoes did a market survey and found that more people
would buy their shoes if the prices were lower; thus, Florsheim
has adopted a strategy of "everyday low prices" which they expect
will bring in new customers. Even though the per-shoe profit will
be less, the higher volume of shoes sold will mean increased
over-all profits.

Rush knows that most people think this is axiomatic and are now
wondering why Rush is talking about it. He explains that
Clinton's administration is going to be filled with policy wonks
who are chomping at the bit to start tinkering with the economy.
Some of these economists have never held a job outside teaching,
and thus have never been part of the real world and free market
economy; they've never tested their theories and have never seen
them work except on paper.

Whether the product be shoes, french fries, health care, or
whatever, the American marketplace works - not because of
government policies but in spite of them. "Remember that in these
next four years," Rush advises.

FIRST HOUR

Rush was a guest on NYC Channel 5's Street Talk show, and the
topic today was about the new survey done by the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai Brith that shows about 40 million Americans
continue to hold anti-Semitic views. Blacks were twice as likely
as whites to fall into the most strident anti-Semitic group, but
better educated blacks were no more likely than better educated
whites to be biased against Jews.

Rush had seen the survey but hadn't really thought about it much
when he appeared on Street Talk this morning. Rush asked the
show's hosts to let the other guests go first, and the extra time
allowed him to form a cogent opinion on the topic. Rush first
disputed the idea that education by itself will solve the
problems of racism and bias; this sounds good in theory, but Rush
has seen as much anti-Semitism and other forms of racism come
from educated journalists as he has seen coming from those who
don't have college degrees.

The problems of racism and bias are being exacerbated throughout
society by the increasing trend towards "groupism." For example,
there is much uproar in NYC right now over the acquittal of a
black man who was accused of killing Yankel Rosenbaum; Rosenbaum
was an Hasidic Jew who was killed during mob riots after a black
boy was accidentally killed by a car driven by another Jew.

Jews are also upset that blacks were allowed to riot in Crown
Heights for 24 to 48 hours without police entering the
neighborhood to stop the violence. A civil rights lawsuit has
thus been filed against both the city and the police for their
failure to act promptly.

Rush says that this sort of thing happens when people decide to
give up their individuality and instead seek power as a member of
a certain group. This creates the victimization of all of those
who are part of the group, and the most-often cited solution to
this victimization is some sort of "entitlement" from the
government.

Instead of earning power on their own, people in these groups are
demanding that the government give power to them. Power cannot be
distributed on this basis, however; power has to be earned, not
distributed according to some arbitrary idea of fairness. Much of
liberalism is devoted to these sorts of attempts to parcel out
power according to groups.

On the Street Talk show, the other guests were a Jew and a black,
and both were talking about how much their respective groups have
been victimized. Rush was glad that he had to leave early because
otherwise the two would have eventually come to the conclusion
that everyone is a victim except for white males, who of course
are the ones doing the victimizing.

Rush therefore said that this whole situation should be called
"the battle of the victims"; each group is trying to portray
itself as the bigger victim. As long as the problems of racism
and prejudice, however, are fought on the battlefield of
victimization, nothing is going to be solved. The only thing that
will happen is the increasing separation of people into disparate
groups, each of whom hates the others all the more.

The only way to get out of this cycle is to dedicate oneself to
the pursuit of excellence, which highlights the power of the
individual. As long as the leaders of these different groups,
though, continue the myth that individuals are forever doomed to
failure because of some oppressor, the problems will only get
worse.

Education is not a magic solution to these problems, and it's
ridiculous to claim that only the uneducated are racists and
bigots. Rush has read much hate, vitriol, and racism in the
opinion pages of the NY Times and other newspapers and magazines.
Certainly being more educated will increase the likelihood of one
becoming more aware of the differences that exist in the world,
but education won't do anything if victimization is the thrust of
that education.

It's axiomatic to Rush that it is on the individual level that
this battle against racism has to be fought.

*BREAK*

Phone   Sharon from Teaneck, NJ

Sharon saw the Street Talk show this morning, and she agrees that
education is not a magic cure for the problems of racism;
however, she thinks people are missing the point of the Crown
Heights lawsuit. This lawsuit alleges that the police were
deliberately told not to enter the area to stop the riot and
protect the Jewish residents. Interestingly enough, the tapes of
the 911 calls made during this time have mysteriously
disappeared.

Sharon adds that Eric Brindle of the NY Post wrote recently that
many Jews are beginning to feel that they are living in a Jim
Crow environment that doesn't provide any justice to Jews. It's
not that the police don't want to do their job, but that the
government is telling them not to go out and protect Jews. One of
her friends was in the riots, and the police told him that they
were told not to go into the area.

Sharon says that there appears to be a cover-up going on about
the deliberate choice made by Mayor Dinkins and the Police Chief
to let the riots continue; the riots continued until Dinkins was
almost hit by a rock himself. Rush agrees that a lot of this
needs to be looked into, and he recalls how Dinkins sided with
the family of Jose Kiko Garcia back in June.

Garcia was killed by a cop, and Garcia's family claimed it was
murder. However, the Grand Jury eventually cleared the cop of any
wrong-doing, and said that the shoot was justified. Garcia was a
drug dealer who was out on parole, and Garcia was armed. Dinkins
refused to believe the cop, though, and instead sided with the
criminal element of the Crown Heights area.

Rush says that it was clear at the time that the riots in Crown
Heights were allowed to continue unchecked. Some defenders of
this action are now claiming that this was done only so that the
violence "would play itself out." This, however, shows the folly
of the liberal approach to crime - liberals act as if they don't
want to make the crooks angry because then "they'll only get
meaner."

*BREAK*

Rush received a fax of a letter to the editor that appeared in
the November 11th edition of Florida's Bradenton Herald. The
letter is titled "Stop Limbaugh," and the letter writer says,
"This Rush `out in limbo' Limbaugh is such a bigot. What gives
him the right to say anything he feels like?" Rush points out
that there is something called a "Constitution," and it includes
a nifty feature called "the First Amendment."

The letter writer continues on to say the following:

"He is constantly slamming President-elect Clinton because he is
very biased to President Bush. This Rush "out in limbo" Limbaugh
show does not set a good example for the younger people or for
anyone, for that matter. This man shows no decency, respect, or
honor.

"We have just elected a new President of the United States.
President-elect Clinton is going to have a hard enough time
putting our nation together. We don't need any more of this
negative garble. What we should be doing is working together; we
have been divided long enough. Please, can't we put a stop to
Rush Limbaugh by taking his show off the network? If this can't
be done, I'll call Ross Perot - he knows how to solve problems.
I've heard enough."

Rush says that his program has been the "single repository of
positiveness" for the present and the future, even though good
economic news is finally being reported nation-wide. For example,
homes are once again being sold in large numbers across the
country.

So why is Clinton holding an economic summit, the last one of
which was held during the Ford Presidency. (That summit produced
those mighty effective WIN - Whip Inflation Now - buttons.) One
reason an economic summit is being held is that it gives Robert
Reiche a chance to put his economic theories into practice. Also,
though, the economy is moving so fast that Clinton is trying to
get in front of it so that he can take credit for the
improvements that are even now happening.

Phone   Anne from Lime, CT

Anne usually agrees with most of what Rush says, but she
disagrees with him about groupism and how Jews want to be
victims. Rush says that he is repulsed by how being a victim has
become fashionable today, and that those claiming victimhood are
often rewarded by government grants, entitlements, and so forth.

Anne couldn't agree more with that, but she thinks that anti-
Semitism is something a lot of people don't understand. Anne is
black, but she has studied a lot of Jewish history, and the one
thing that stands out is that one society after another has
victimized the Jewish people throughout the ages. She thus thinks
that the Jews have good reason to come together in a strong,
cohesive group.

Rush says that Jews certainly shouldn't be lumped in with the
other political groups that are forming in America now. Also,
Jews have not renounced their individuality, nor are they an
example of an economically depressed group that is claiming their
lack of success is the result of being oppressed. To the
contrary, Jews are not asking the government to grant them
political favors, but they are rather asking for the right to
live their own lives. This is what the Crown Heights dispute is
all about - Jews simply want the same protections that every
citizen is entitled to.

Other groups in American society, though, have been lead by false
prophets who continually promise their constituents all sorts of
favors if they just toe the line. The Jewish community certainly
doesn't belong to this category of groups. Rush was struck,
though, when he was listening to the black and Jewish guests talk
on Street Talk by how the two were competing each other as to who
was the biggest victim.

Anne points out that the Hasidic community requires them to be
insulated from the secular world, and thus they group together so
as to uphold their community values and beliefs. She also thinks
that black leaders will start being more vocal about the rising
tide of anti-Semitism among the black community.

Rush doesn't want to point blame to anyone, but he would prefer
to emphasize that the victimization of groups that is taking
place is not going to solve any problems. He thanks Anne for
calling and for her opinions.

*BREAK*

Phone   Bob from Downers Grove, IL

Bob thinks Rush should make a difference between "education" as
it comes from school books, and "education" as it comes from
seeing the real world. Rush says that education certainly comes
in many forms, and education in the classroom is not the solution
to bias and racism.

Physical characteristics, such as weight, skin color,
attractiveness, and so forth are the first thing anyone notices
about another person. Classroom education is not going to do much
about this, but life experience along with proper parental
influence can do much to destroy basic prejudices.

Bob thinks that the school system should also be blamed for not
teaching kids to tell the difference between the facts of reality
and what they may believe. Rush, though, says that teaching
reason is not an easy thing, especially since feminists blow a
gasket just because a doll says "math class is tough."

Schools in America teach a bunch of irrelevant things, but they
rarely teach students how to think. "Thinking is hard work," Rush
states. It's not just having consciousness or brain-wave
activity, but the process of reasoning. People, though, can
overcome their prejudices, and this happens all the time.

Bob agrees - he used to be prejudiced against blacks just because
he never saw any blacks until he moved to the city at the age of
eight. He asked his mother about blacks, and she told him that
they simply had a different skin tone. Bob also agrees that
thinking is hard work, proof of which is the fact that so many
people voted for Clinton.

Rush tells Bob not to be so prejudicial against 46-year-old
gray-haired Democrats, and thanks him for calling. Rush bets it
would be an interesting experiment to find out what prejudices
people had earlier in life that they've now outgrown.

*BREAK*

Rush remarks that his EIB staff started laughing at him because
he said "thinking is hard work." The cynical EIB staff thinks
Rush said this simply so that he could pat himself on the back.
However, Rush was not trying to praise himself or put others
down; instead, he was trying to point out that "thinking" is not
the simple presence of brain activity.

If thinking were simply the presence of consciousness, then why
does society call some people "great thinkers." Bo Snerdley, who
is proud of his African-Egyptian heritage, says that the concept
of "great thinker" is a "western abomination."

Rush explains that Bo believes that all important things of
western civilization were stolen from the ancient Egyptians;
modern man doesn't recognize this, though, because "the papaya
didn't hold up when they wrote the stuff down."

Bo asks Rush if he really meant "papaya," and Rush hurriedly
amends his statement to refer to papyrus. He explains that he has
papaya on his mind because "you can't pass an intersection on 8th
Avenue in this city without running into a papaya juice place."

Rush adds that he once met a girl on a cruise ship who explained
that she couldn't have either sex or dinner without drinking
papaya juice because it helped her "acid levels." Ever since,
Rush has thought of that when he's heard papayas mentioned. "I've
had girls tell me no for a whole lot of reasons," Rush adds, "but
I've never had `I don't have my papaya with me' offered as an
excuse."

Rush points out that this entire segment is an example of how he
thinks; furthermore, not only does Rush think, but he does so in
an entertaining way.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Update  President-elect Clinton         (Billy Joel, "Pressure")

Rush admits that he is surprised that Clinton is already
restating and changing his campaign promises and pledges. Yet
Clinton has already backed off on his national health care plan,
and Rush gloats a bit by saying "nyah, nyah, nyah." Clinton has
decided to delay providing health insurance to the currently
uninsured 35 million Americans so that he can instead concentrate
on bringing health costs under control.

This decision was prompted by Clinton's promise during the third
Presidential debate not to raise taxes on the middle class. Rush
adds that Clinton's promise of a middle class tax cut has also
fallen by the wayside. Thus, if people voted for Clinton on these
two issues, they will have to accept that these issues are being
already "altered, changed, reneged, rephrased, recast, re-aimed,
misstated, forgotten, . . . ." Rush is about to continue on but
is interrupted by the EIB Gloatometer; thus, he continues on to
his second Clinton update.

Update  President-elect Clinton         (Johnny Preston,
"Charming Billy")

PBS commentator Bill Moyers was a weekend visitor to the Arkansas
Governor's Mansion over the weekend, but Moyers insists that he
didn't visit Clinton as a journalist, but was rather sharing his
experience as former press secretary to LBJ. Moyers says that
Clinton was interested in Johnson's decisions on Vietnam and on
how his staff worked. Moyers praises Clinton for being "a really
good student."

The Washington Post reported this event with the headline
"Objectivity Questioned After Meeting with Clinton." Rush is
somewhat surprised at this tone in the Post, but he recalls how
this same complaint was made against him after he visited the
Bush White House. He admits that it is nice to see the Post is
consistent in its accusations of this type.

Moyers, though, insists that all he did was to discuss the
Johnson administration with Clinton; the two did not discuss
current Clinton policies. There are some rumors, though, that
Moyers wants a sabbatical from PBS so that he can join the
Clinton administration. Moyers, however, has denied these rumors.

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

Rush comments that he has gotten a complaint letter saying that
Mike Maimone plays too many sound effects during the Animal
Rights update theme; Maimone responds by playing a kinder and
gentler update theme. There are three items in this update:

o       The November 12th issue of the Northport Observer reports
that an anonymous caller reported to police that seagulls were
taking fish off of a parked truck at Cow Harbor Park. The
anonymous caller was upset because the gulls were dropping the
fish on the ground, "creating a mess." The police officer
responding to the call, however, "found that all offending gulls
had fled" by the time he arrived on the scene.

Witnesses were not able to identify any particular gulls, and so
no further action was taken. Rush is shocked at this blatantly
liberal approach to crime - "they all look the same so forget
about catching the offenders." The EIB staff bets that they could
remember what a "fat seagull" looks like, and Rush suspects that
they are making fun of him. Rush admits, though, that terns are a
different matter.

o       The Pope is planning on visiting Denver next summer to
hold a special mass on World Youth Day. Animal rights activists
have already announced that they will oppose the Papal Mass
because it will be held at a State Park and thereby endanger the
prairie dogs that live there. A local group, the Animal Rights
Mobilization, said that the preparations for the Pope's visit are
killing prairie dogs, whose population was already decimated by
bubonic plague earlier this year.

"If the Pope holds a mass at the park, then World Youth Day will
have to pay for the restoration," according to a spokeswoman for
Animal Rights Mobilization.

o       Vancouver residents have noted a terrible problem -
joggers with pony tails are being attacked by owls who think the
joggers are squirrels. Rush has a hard time telling this bit of
news since he is laughing so hard, and he points out that his
show never makes anything up.

*BREAK*

Phone   Richard from Washington, DC

Richard refers to Rush's statement earlier about changing light
bulbs at the Rocky Flats nuclear power plant, and Rush says that
it takes 43 people, 1,087 man-hours, and 33 steps to change an
emergency lightbulb. Richard says that all of this is necessary
because the people of the United States are terrorized by the
thought of another Three Mile Island. Thus, the NRC has written
steps to ensure the public safety.

Rush says that the only reason that regulations like this are
written is because the looney left has created so much fear and
paranoia that ridiculously redundant steps like these are
considered necessary. Regardless of safety considerations, it
should not take 1,087 man-hours to change a light bulb. Rush
points out that he isn't criticizing the nuclear power crowd, but
rather those on the left who have raised such ridiculous fears.

Richard used to work in a nuclear power plant, and he agrees that
the looney left and the media's perpetuation of their stupidity
is exactly what is making these sort of regulations necessary.
Rush says that he is in favor of nuclear power, and that he
didn't intend to criticize those in the nuclear industry.

Rush points out that he is not afraid of nuclear power, and for
that matter is not afraid of nuclear weapons as long as they are
not in the hands of America's enemies. He points out that nuclear
weapons have kept the peace for 40 years, noting that the only
time nukes were used two wonderful things happened - WWII ended
and America won. In addition, the horrors of nuclear weapons were
clearly demonstrated, which has had a great impact on making sure
that these weapons will never be used again.

Rush promises, though, to illustrate what liberal bureaucracy has
given America by reading after the break the 33 steps required to
change a light bulb.

*BREAK*

Rush reads part of the Denver Post news story that describes the
33 steps needed to change a light bulb at the Rocky Flats Nuclear
Power Plant. This procedure is for replacing a lightbulb in a
"criticality beacon," which is a revolving red light similar to
that used on top of police cars.

An internal memo says it takes at least 43 people at least
1,087.1 man-hours to replace this light bulb. This job used to
need only 12 workers 4.15 hours, and this dramatic increase in
time and labor was required to bring the plant up to "safety
standards." This change was one of many done under the Energy
Department's new "Safety First" mandate.

Rush reads the steps in this process:

Step 1. Receive a work control form.

Step 2. The lead planner discusses the form at the work control
meeting.

Step 3. A 24-hour delay is required before a dry run of the light
bulb repair is done, requiring four people.

Step 4. The dry-run rehearsal is performed.

Step 5. Next, the dry run participants fill out information
comment sheets and return them to the planner.

Step 6. The planner formally proposes a work package to be
submitted to the lead planner.

Step 7. The lead planner submits the work package to the
committee for review.

(Rush notes that the light is still burned out at this point,
meaning that should an actual emergency occur, there could be
problems.)

Step 8. The work package is reviewed and changed by the work
control committee.

Step 9. The work package is returned to the planner.

Step 10.        The work planner revises the work plan
accordingly.

Step 11.        The planner waits at least 48 hours, until the
next work control meeting.

Step 12.        The work package is delivered to nuclear safety
officials for their inspection.

Step 13.        Nuclear safety officials fill out a safety
evaluation screen form.

Step 14.        The planner delivers the safety evaluation screen
form to the operations manager for signing.

Step 15.        The planner returns the signed safety evaluation
screen form to the nuclear safety officials for their review.

Step 16.        The planner gives a copy of the work package to
logistics officials.

Step 17.        Logistics sends the work package to Production
Engineering Support Officials.

Step 18.        Production then assigns a procurement number to
the light bulb and any other needed parts.

Step 19.        A bill of materials is then sent to a worker who
orders the light bulb.

Step 20.        The planner meanwhile delivers the approvals from
Production and nuclear safety officials to the operations
manager.

Step 21.        The operations manager then schedules the work
package for a presentation at the Waste Operations Review
Committee meeting.

Step 22.        After a 72-hour delay to allow the Waste
Operations Review Committee meeting to occur, the committee hears
a 15-minute presentation by six workers on the proposed light
bulb replacement.

(Rush is incredulous that all of this is for a light bulb.)

Step 23.        A 24-hour delay is required to ship the work
package to Scheduling.

Step 24.        The work package is then put on ready-to-work
status.

Step 25.        The light bulb replacement is scheduled to be
done at the next criticality beacon test.

Step 26.        There is then a two-week average delay until the
next scheduled criticality beacon test.

Step 27.        The inspector is notified of the time of
replacement so somebody can watch it.

Step 28.        Parts, tools, and ladders are assembled and moved
to the work site.

Step 29.        Electricians finally change the light bulb.

(Rush rejoices that the light bulb is finally changed, and he
notices that this is the first time that electricians are
mentioned.)

Step 30.        The inspector verifies that the proper light bulb
is installed.

(Rush bets that these plans were heavily influenced by unions -
why couldn't this verification have been done when the bulb was
chosen?)

Step 31.        The job site is cleaned up and tools are removed.

Step 32.        The criticality beacon is checked for operation
during the next regularly scheduled criticality beacon test,
which may mean another two week delay.

Step 33.        The scheduler closes out and files all work
package forms.

Rush points out that this whole process used to take only 4 hours
and 12 workers until liberal safety regulations were imposed.
"And that's the kind of guys who are going to get their hands on
the US economy," Rush points out.

*BREAK*

Phone   Doug from Boulder, CO

Doug quotes Henry Ford - "Thinking is the hardest work there is.
That's why so few people engage in it." Rush says that this is
exactly right, although he didn't know Henry Ford had already
said it. "Great minds think alike," he states.

Doug encourages Rush to keep up the good work, and Rush replies
that it's impossible for him to do anything else. Bo, however,
has his own thoughts about this and hits the Gloatometer,
spurring Rush onto the next caller.

Phone   Pat from Charlotte, NC

Pat wonders if the US still needs the electoral college; he
doesn't like how Clinton is claiming a mandate just because he
got a margin of 100 electoral votes. Rush says that he is not in
favor of getting rid of the electoral college, although it is
possible to have the winner of the popular vote lose in the
electoral college. However, Rush doesn't think this is enough to
eliminate something that is provided for by the Constitution.
Should the winner of the popular vote someday lose the election,
Rush has not doubt that the public uproar would end the electoral
college.

It is interesting, though, to see how the electoral college
affects campaigns. For example, Perot's entrance into the
Presidential race this year changed the focus from simply winning
certain states to winning certain districts in those states.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mike from Memphis, TN

Mike gives "pyelonydal cyst dittos" although he has had his cysts
removed. Mike, though, disagrees with Rush's opinion that the
Supreme Court is Ronald Reagan's only legacy to the country. He,
along with a lot of other people who voted for Reagan, will
restore the Reagan legacy in 1996, and he notes that the Reagan
movement is more than the Supreme Court.

Rush agrees totally, but his comment about the Reagan legacy was
referring to the aspects of government which still bear the
imprint of Reagan's 8 years in office, and basically the Supreme
Court is the only such aspect of government in which Reagan's
hand can still be seen.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       Rush has been perusing the list of Clinton's promises
which will be included in the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
Each promise will have a box next to it so that dittoheads can
record the date when the promise is broken; Rush will start the
ball rolling on his TV show tonight by marking off the first two
promises that Clinton has already broken.

In addition, because of popular demand, the next issue of the
Limbaugh Letter will also include the updated version of Rush's
35 Undeniable Truths of Life.

o       Elizabeth Tamposi, Assistant Secretary of State, has been
fired for ostensibly searching through State Department files for
information on Clinton. The first theory Rush heard about this
was that Tamposi was going to "fall on the grenade" so as to
protect higher-ups in the administration.

Rush never bought into this, and his scepticism was vindicated by
how this case is continuing to be pursued. Rush is struck by the
glee and anticipation which liberals are displaying about this
case, which shows just how vindictive some liberals can be.
Getting Bush out of office isn't enough, but they have to kick
him while he's down.

Rush doesn't excuse what Tamposi is alleged to have done, but he
has to wonder what would have happened if something about Clinton
had been discovered in the State Department's files - would the
Republicans have used or disclosed it? This is a question which
will never be answered, of course, and so Rush would like to
instead focus on how whenever Republicans do anything that's
perceived to be wrong, Democrats act as if it were the Original
Sin.

Rush goes back to the Clarence Thomas hearings which were started
when a staffer for a congressional Democrat leaked a secret FBI
report. Conservatives, of course, were outraged, but neither the
press nor the Democrats seemed to care, and when an
"investigation" was held, it was stonewalled by Congress.

What happened to the media's "search for the truth?" Why didn't
the media react with the same outrage that Clinton showed when he
talked about the State Department files? Interestingly enough,
during the Thomas hearings President Bush didn't get angry and
outraged over the leak of the FBI report on Hill, nor did he go
around accusing people like Clinton did.

The effort to discredit Bush, and through him Reagan, is still
continuing, and this is what the Tamposi investigation is all
about. Liberals, of course, thrive on finding scandal about
Republicans because this is how they've won the White House in
the past.

o       On his TV show last night, Rush continued the discussion
of gays in the military, and he took a phone call from a Navy
Seal named Kenny in Washington, DC. Kenny brought up an
interesting point and so Rush decides to replay last night's call
now.

<<phone call begins>>

Phone   Kenny from Washington, DC

Kenny is "pretty fired up" about the entire situation about
having gays in the military. He says that one of the major
reasons that the US military is being changed today is that the
deficit and other budget problems have made money really tight;
thus, everything is being cut back.

However, one thing that remains in the military is that all of
your medical care is covered when you join. This makes the
military an especially attractive option for gays, especially if
their "companions" are given the same spousal benefits that
husbands and wives of military personnel are given.

Rush admits that he hadn't thought about lifetime health
benefits, and he points out that spousal equivalency battles have
been fought largely so that non-spouse companions can get onto a
company's or state's employee health plans.

<<phone call ends>>

Rush notes that one of the basic rules of investigative
journalism is "follow the money" - if you follow the money trail,
you'll eventually find out exactly why a movement is happening.

*BREAK*

Phone   Hazel from Brooklyn, NY

Hazel says that she loves getting a "double dose of Rush" on the
radio and TV, adding that now that Rush's new NYC affiliate is
showing the TV show at 11 a.m., she is actually awake enough to
watch it. Rush asks her if she has a VCR, and if so why didn't
she program it to record the show when it was televised late at
night.

Hazel replies that she has a VCR and can program it without
problems; "I'm great with all sorts of electronic appliances,"
she explains. Rush tells her that she should be quiet about that
ability since feminists might get upset. Hazel answers "well,
they're the ones who really push it."

"Way to go, Hazel!" Rush says applaudingly, and Hazel says that
on Saturday she started experiencing withdrawal symptoms about
noon because Rush's radio show wasn't on; she thus started
watching her collection of Rush TV tapes so that she could get
her fix. Rush suggests that she could also get her fix by
watching one of the Rush videos.

Hazel says that she was thinking about that, especially since
things are looking up for her financially. Rush adds that a new
gadget has come along to make it easier to program VCRs - it's
voice-activated, and so to program the VCR you simply speak the
appropriate command. EIB is meeting tomorrow with the makers of
the device to see if it will be advertised on Rush's show. "So
things are looking up out there, Hazel," Rush says.

Hazel wonders how this device can understand regional differences
in speech and foreign accents. Rush admits he hadn't thought of
this, and he wonders whether you'll have to buy "the Mississippi
version, the 7-11 version, or the Brooklyn version." The feminist
version, of course, would require the user to shout in a loud and
irritating manner.

Hazel gets to her topic, which is how education tends to make
people less racist. She wonders what effect multiculturalism will
have on prejudice and racism since it exacerbates racial and
ethnic differences. Rush has no doubt that this is what will be
the result of multiculturalism, which is, after all, the tool of
revenge of those who have failed in society.

By teaching American kids all sorts of irrelevant things, the
kids will be divided up into disparate groups and racial tensions
will be increased. Hazel agrees, and bets that after 20 years of
education, people will come out of college hating each other more
and more.

Hazel also wonders what will happen if gays are allowed into the
military - will AIDS activists sue the military to stop HIV
testing of recruits since they consider it to be discriminatory
against homosexuals? Will activists claim that since HIV testing
unfairly excludes homosexuals from military service?

If this happens, then Hazel also has to ask if NBA players don't
want to play basketball with an infected player, how will
soldiers feel about serving next to gays who may be HIV positive?
Hazel doesn't think every gay in the military will have AIDS, but
the people pushing for gays in the armed forces are gay
militants, who have already shown that they will sue over
anything they think is discriminatory such as HIV testing.

Rush says that this would result in the classic argument that is
going on now in society - who has the greater right, the right of
those who are not infected to remain so, or those who are
infected and want to retain their privacy rights? Rush notes that
Kenny made the point last night that having a lot of gays in the
military will reduce the number of people volunteering for
military service.

Hazel says that many of the people who complained about having
Magic Johnson play in the NBA were the parents of the players,
and in a similar manner parents of potential military recruits
will be anxious about having their children serve in a military
that will expose them to such needless risks.

Rush adds that what is particularly dangerous about all of this
is that there is a President who has no personal experience with
the military, and who nevertheless intends to override the advice
of the military experts.

*BREAK*

Broadcast engineer Mike Maimone pointed out a potential pitfall
with the voice-activated VCR timer - liberals can program it to
refuse to let the user record the Rush Limbaugh show.

Phone   Ron from Finley, OH

Ron thinks Rush's success has a lot to do with the positive focus
of his show, but he has to wonder how Rush can keep his program
positive through the Clinton administration. Rush says that this
will be a challenge, but the less Clinton ends up being able to
do what he has promised, the more positive it will be for
everybody.

Wanting to pay for everybody's health care is a decent idea, but
the country cannot afford it. Government simply isn't the
solution to this problem, and if it can't be done, then this is a
good thing. Ron, though, wonders how Rush and his audience can
make the best of the four years of the Clinton Presidency.

Rush doesn't think this will be hard at all, and he reiterates
his belief that whoever the President is should not become the
dominant factor in most people's lives. Clinton's here for four
years, and there's not much people can do about it, so they have
to continue on living their lives.

This is how Rush will stay positive - he won't be spending the
next four years complaining and moaning. Ron, though, is worried
about how Rush seems to be spending a lot of his time pointing
out Clinton's deficiencies. Rush says that he is not going to
become a whiner or nattering nabob, and above all he will
continue to have fun. The radio and TV shows are a source of
great pleasure to Rush and should he stop having fun on them, his
entire life will start heading downwards.

Phone   Rick from Clinton Corners, NY

Rick mentions that Clinton Corners is an unincorporated area next
to the town of Clinton, and Rush confesses that now that the
election is over, he's seeing signs with "Clinton" on them all
over the place. People are even sending all sorts of pictures of
streets, cities, towns, and such that are all named Clinton. Rick
comments that his area even has a "Clinton Town Hall" and
promises to send Rush a picture of it.

Rick thinks that he detected an error in Rush's description of
how to change a lightbulb in a nuclear power plant. He doesn't
think that all of these steps were done for safety reasons, but
rather as part of the "Clinton employment plan." Rick suspects
that this is how Clinton plans to create his 500,000 new jobs.

Rush says that this is exactly right - Clinton's "investment in
America" is all about make-work, government created jobs. This is
what government does, and Rush thinks Rick's observation is a
brilliant one.

Phone   Robert from Williamsport, PA

Robert grew up in an all-white neighborhood and attended all-
white schools, but when he entered the army he met, fell in love,
and married a black woman. He thus doesn't think that classroom
education is as important as real-life education. Robert is also
an active duty military person, and including gays will cause
major changes throughout the armed forces. For example, all
recruits must pass an AIDS test before they can even show up for
boot camp.

Rush says that today's USA Today points out that Clinton can
issue executive orders to change things in the military, but he
cannot change a law without Congressional support. At least one
federal law, article 25 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice,
criminalizes the act of sodomy, and the President cannot
eliminate this law by executive order. Thus, in order to get rid
of this law, the President must get Congress' help.

This issue is just one more indication that there are many things
to be considered before allowing gays in the military. Another
thing that should be mentioned is that Clinton may be trying to
pay back his gay constituents by "standing tough" on allowing
gays in the military, even though he knows that Congress might
have different ideas on the matter.

Robert says that sodomy is illegal even for consensual
heterosexuals, and he asks if gays are going to be allowed
together in a barracks, then what will stop a male and female
from bunking in the same barracks? Rush doesn't think that
Clinton intends for gays to be able to bunk together, and this is
what his references to "conduct" mean.

Robert, though, wants to know how the military will know if gays
are bunking together. Rush says that recruits will have to still
identify themselves as gays or heterosexuals, but he does admit
that having gays bunk in the same barracks as heterosexuals will
pose problems. Will only one gay be allowed in a barracks of
heterosexuals? If men and women aren't going to be bunked
together, then how can gays be put into the same barracks?

Once again, this is one of many problems that must be considered
before implementing this plan, and Rush thanks Robert for
bringing it up.

*BREAK*

Page A-19 of today's New York Times has the headlines "Liberals
Advise Clinton to Raise Deficit Spending." A commission led by
Mario Cuomo and Felix Rohatyn is telling the President-elect that
he should be prepared to increase the deficit; the commission was
created in 1990 in anticipation of a Cuomo campaign for the
Presidency.

Rush recalls that back in October, 1990 he appeared at the
Bakersfield Business Conference only days after the 1990 Budget
Deal was signed. He remembers that this was a period in which the
government was considered to be in a crisis situation; the
federal government had been shut down for a weekend, and the
deficit was considered to be the ultimate problem that must be
solved immediately. Democrats warned that if the deficit wasn't
fixed, all sorts of catastrophes would occur.

The 1990 Budget Deal was signed, and Democrats promised that the
budget deficit would be reduced to only $65 billion in 1996. By
creating a crisis situation, the Democrats managed to put through
the second-largest tax increase in this country's history, yet
the 1990 Budget Deal, as everyone now knows, didn't do one thing
to help the deficit.

In his speech at Bakersfield, Rush facetiously told the crowd
"let us never hear about deficit reduction again because it's
been fixed." Robert McNamara, who followed Rush on stage, didn't
hear the satire in Rush's voice and attacked him for it. However,
the same people who now want Clinton to consider increased
deficit spending are the same ones who insisted that catastrophes
would fall the country if the deficit wasn't fixed back in 1990.

Democrats, of course, are in power now and thus don't have to
play their games about the deficit; thus, they can do what they
really want, which is spend, spend, spend. Rush says that this is
only one way in which he and his listeners will have fun on his
show, by pointing out all of "this marvelous hypocrisy."

*BREAK*

Rush is saddened immensely to read a headline that states "Cuomo
- It Looks Like I'll Never Be President." In a speech at Salem
State College in Massachusetts Cuomo admitted that he had passed
up his last opportunity to become President, and that now that
Clinton is in the White House, Cuomo's own Presidential
aspirations will never be fulfilled.

The sounds of a crying EIB staff fill the airwaves, "as the
nation mourns the passing of this once great opportunity." Rush
lets the wailing continue for a few seconds before he tells his
crew "all right, stuff it!"

Phone   Eric from Ames, IA

Eric saw Peter Jennings the other night talk about how much money
is being spent on ex-Presidents, and Rush remarks on how
interesting it is that this subject never came up after Carter
became an ex-President, but it seems to be a hot topic now that
there are multiple Republican ex-Presidents.

Eric says that one of his friends is trying to convince him that
Bush is really happy about losing because it allows him to get
these benefits. Rush says that a number of people are also
speculating that the Bush campaign was run so badly that Bush
probably wanted to lose.

Rush doesn't believe this for a minute, especially since he
talked with Bush one day before the election and Bush was
confident he was going to win. In particular, the Bush campaign
was placing a lot of hope in the inaccuracy of the polls,
especially since British polls were wrong about John Majors being
re-elected in England's spring elections.

--
John Switzer               | "Lobbyists are circling Clinton like slugs
                           | around a saucer of beer."
CompuServe: 74076,1250     | -- Alexander Cockburn, LA Times 11/15/92
Internet: [e-mail]   | (P.S. Impeach Clinton, support the coup!)