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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Thursday, November 19, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, November 19, 1992

by John Switzer

NOTE: This is being posted to both alt.fan.rush-limbaugh and
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please let me know. Thanks - [e-mail].

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 19, 1992

<<Introducing a new feature! The Limbaugh Watch!>>

LIMBAUGH WATCH

November 19, 1992 - It's now 17 days after Bill Clinton's
election and Rush is still on the air with 536 radio affiliates
and 207 TV affiliates, and his book is number one on the NY Times
hardback non-fiction best-seller list.

MORNING UPDATE

The NY Times has some "surprising news"; in a headline it
proclaims "Increasingly reporters claim they're Democrats." Rush
knows his audience is probably stunned and amazed, but the School
of Journalism at Indiana University conducted a survey of 1400
journalists and found that the following facts:

44% of journalists now identify themselves as Democrats, up from
36% in 1971. The reporters who state that they are Republicans
has dropped from 26% in 1971 to 16% now. Furthermore, the
nation's 122,000 journalists claim Democratic affiliation at a
rate 5 to 10% higher than the general public.

"Of course," this has no bearing on what these journalists do;
"certainly" they can still perform their job and tell the whole
truth about things, without letting any political bias get in
their way. However, when Rush accepts an invitation to the White
House, his objectivity is shot to hell.

Rush hopes that those who claim that the media isn't tilted
toward the left and toward the Democrats can move on and accept
the survey's results and the situation as it really is.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o       Rush's comments on spanking have continued to elicit
response from the American people. Rush promises more later.

o       Rush thought he heard on the news that Jesse Jackson has
called for public marches and protests next spring should Clinton
fail to move fast enough on creating jobs. However, scanning the
newspapers failed to produce any story of this alleged statement.

Rush is also curious that Jackson was not in attendance at the NY
premiere of Malcolm X; perhaps this has to do with how Martin
Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were not the best of friends
during their lifetimes. Some might even call them enemies, but in
any case "there wasn't a lot of love there" between the two.

The EIB Memory Division also found a column written by Carl Rowan
about how Malcolm X did not do one thing to lift blacks up or
help them change their lives. Rowan wrote "In real life, Malcolm
X generated a feeble social hurricane of black power, where the
winds cried `burn, baby, burn.' This was self-defeating madness
for black America."

Rowan added that he would go see Spike Lee's movie anyway, just
to see if Lee found out anything about Malcolm X that Rowan
didn't know. Rush would bet that Rowan is more of a follower of
Martin Luther King than of Malcolm X, which goes to show that the
black community is not a monolithic community that speaks which
one voice.

In regards to Lee's movie, however, Rush has to wonder about what
will happen during the Academy Awards. He recalls how when the
cops in the Rodney King beating were acquitted, Los Angeles was
beset by riots. Similarly, when the Chicago Bulls won the NBA
pennant, Chicago experienced riots of its own. The message is
clear - riots are caused not by the rioters, but by external
events beyond the control of the rioters.

Thus, what happens if Denzel Washington doesn't win the Oscar for
Best Actor or if Spike Lee doesn't get Best Director? What if the
movie doesn't get the Best Picture award? Will Los Angeles or New
York City burn as a result? Rush thus encourages these cities to
take advantage of the next six months to get their riot gear
ready. Rush is proud that his show can help the country by
remaining on the cutting edge like this.

o       Richard Nixon has a fascinating piece in today's NY
Times, and Robert Strauss is quoted in many papers about the
precariously balanced situation in the former Soviet Union. Also,
on Tuesday's Posner and Donahue program, Posner was asked by a
caller about the situation in Russia; he replied that the
situation was very unsettled, that a coup could certainly occur,
and that Russia's nuclear weapons are still pointed at the US.

Rush comments that during the book party for "The Way Things
Ought to Be" Posner came told him that he didn't like Rush's show
much. A reporter later told Rush that Posner didn't seem to like
Rush much at all, and Rush replied that this was only natural -
Posner is a Communist and it was conservatives like Rush who
helped bring about the end of Soviet Communism.

Getting back to the state of the former USSR, Rush has the
feeling that the Clinton presidency will be defined not by
domestic issues but by foreign affairs. Furthermore, Clinton will
either have either an extremely good or extremely bad four years
because he is too much of an activist to simply enjoy the status
quo.

In addition, although Clinton is the consummate politician, he
still has had a lot of luck on his side up to now - he ran
against an incumbent President who could not use his incumbency
as a political weapon and who had a totally disjointed campaign;
Clinton didn't have to run against the normal Democratic front-
runners during the campaign because they didn't think they would
have stood a chance after the Gulf War; and Clinton had the help
of a powerful third-party candidate, Ross Perot.

Clinton is also benefiting from an economy that is already on the
rebound, and his biggest problem with it will be making it look
like he's had something to do with the recovery. The question
needs to be asked if Clinton's luck will continue; if so, Clinton
could end up having one of the greatest Presidencies in history.
Similarly, Clinton's Presidency could just as easily fall apart.

Interestingly, Clinton was elected because Bush was perceived as
someone who cared more about foreign policy than about domestic
issues. The world, though, is still a dangerous place, and in
many respects is falling apart. The end of Soviet Communism has
allowed all sorts of age-old rivalries to resurface, resulting in
wars such as those seen in Bosnia.

Rush therefore thinks that the Clinton presidency will be defined
by foreign policy, and this is the area in which he is weakest.
Rush notes that the press did an abysmal job during the campaign
in asking Clinton foreign policy questions, and he is hard
pressed to remember any probing questions about foreign affairs
that the press did ask Clinton.

Clinton will probably play it safe by filling the State
Department offices with experienced people from previous
administrations, even while economic positions will be filled
with all sorts of academicians who have little practical
experience with the economy.

 *BREAK*

Rush forgot to tell his audience some "huge" news - as of Sunday,
November 29th, Rush's book "The Way Things Ought to Be" will
regain its position as number one on the NY Times non-fiction
hardback best-seller list. The EIB staff erupts in uproarious
applause, and Rush proudly proclaims "now I sit atop Madonna on
this list." While Madonna's book is number two, Schwarzkopf is at
number three, while Kathie Lee Gifford is at number four.

Rush had to admit the best-seller list has a strange assortment
of books, but he points out that his book regained the number one
slot after the election. Also, when Rush's book first lost its
number one place, the press made a big deal about it; Rush has to
wonder if a similar big deal will be made now that the book has
become number one again.

Rush suspects that many people are buying copies of the book as
Christmas gifts, and he thanks his devoted fans for their
support, again pointing out that his success is directly
attributable to his listeners.

*BREAK*

Items

o       Rush mentions the controversy created by Kirk Fordice's
remarks about America being a "Christian nation," and he promises
to talk about it more later in the show.

o       Returning to Robert Strauss' comments about the current
situation in Russia, Rush reads a sentence from a story in
today's USA Today:

"But Strauss added a note of cautious optimism, predicting
Yeltsin will survive as Russia's President, emerging politically
stronger from upcoming battles with conservative law-makers."

So once again, conservatives are portrayed as the ultimate evil
who are standing in the face of Yeltsin's liberal democratic
policies. For Soviet Communists to be called "conservatives" is a
purposeful and intentional misnomer designed to curry favor with
American liberals. It's part of an attempt to portray American
conservatives as a reactionary, anti-democratic force, and this
isn't true.

Phone   Patrick from Peoria, IL

Patrick heard a sound bite from Hillary's speech to the
Children's Defense Fund; Hillary said that "every child has a
right to be born healthy," which Patrick thinks is a curious
statement from a pro-choice advocate. Patrick asks if children
have a right to be born healthy, then don't they have a right to
be born, period?

Rush says that Hillary was undoubtedly making a call for
increased government spending on prenatal and other health care.
Her statement, though, does show the inconsistency within her
arguments. However, there is no right to be born healthy since
this is a "right" that cannot be secured; man doesn't have the
medical technology and ability to make sure every baby is going
to be born healthy. Therefore, her call for this "right" is
totally meaningless.

Hillary's statement is the kind of innocuous statement that gets
crowds on their feet, even though it really doesn't mean
anything. This is how Democrats show how they care, by making
senseless statements that can't be backed up with action. It also
shows how liberals think equality and sameness of result can
actually be achieved, when no such thing is possible.

Rush promises to find Hillary's quote for his TV show, and he
adds that he wants to introduce his TV staff on Friday's show.
Recently a bunch of reporters showed up to look at the TV show's
set, and they were stunned to find out that Rush didn't use a
teleprompter or cue cards. One reporter was also amazed that
Rush's staff is as small as it is, and so Rush wants to recognize
his hard-working employees.

Rush asks Patrick if Hillary said anything else that was curious,
and Patrick says that if a pro-lifer had made a similar
contradictory remark - as for example, when Quayle said that he
would support his daughter if she had an abortion - the media
would be all over that pro-lifer. Rush says that the liberals
think conservatives are filled with hatred, intolerance, and
disgust, when in reality it is exactly opposite.

*BREAK*

Phone   Chris from Denver, CO

Chris has been reading some things about Clinton recently; for
example, Clinton wants to set up an 800 number for "policy
advice," and he wants to keep in touch with the American people
by taking calls on talk shows. Rush says that there are two parts
to being President - governing and campaigning, and Clinton is
definitely not going to stop campaigning. Clinton may be slick,
but he is one of the best politicians to enter American politics.

Rush comments that the December issue of the Limbaugh Letter,
which now has 90,000 subscribers, will list Clinton's promises.
On his TV show, Rush has already checked off two of the promises
as broken, but in fairness Clinton really didn't break them; he
just said something different. Clinton is really an adept
politician, and he knows full well that by asking talk show hosts
to take callers who can give him "advice," the shows will end up
highlighting his political agenda. This is just more campaigning.

The cynical view of things like the 800 number will be that
they're just props which will have no impact on what Clinton says
and does. In any case, a leader has to lead; a leader cannot sift
through hundreds of thousands of suggestions to find the right
answer. Regardless, however, Clinton is making some smart
political moves.

Chris says that Clinton did come out strongly on one issue - the
"cat in the White House" issue. Rush says that Clinton "fairly
blew up" when he learned that some reporters used catnip to lure
his cat, Socks, out of the Governor's Mansion so as to take
pictures of it. Rush comments that the pictures he's seen seem to
indicate that the poor cat was scared to death by all of the
photographers and their flash bulbs.

The EIB staff suggests that the cat was stoned, not scared, and
Rush, who has never owned a cat himself, is surprised to learn
that catnip is an intoxicant to cats. He's not surprised, though,
that the cat inhaled.

Clinton evidently saw the pictures of his cat and became angry
because the reporters had been told to leave the cat alone. So
his people sent out a strongly-worded memo telling reporters to
leave the cat alone. Rush bets that the reporters will be good
from now on, and stop trying to drug the First Cat.

*BREAK*

Phone   Dan from Mesa, AZ

Dan was born in 1968, and thus the only thing he knows about JFK
is what he's read. He is thus interested in knowing why the press
thinks Clinton is some sort of second-coming for Kennedy. Rush
has to laugh at that turn of phrase, but lets Dan continue on to
ask whether Clinton's administration is another Camelot or
another "Came-alot." Rush decisively replies "both."

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       "EIB Network News Guy" Tom Martin was teasing Rush
yesterday about how the media is allegedly full of liberals. Rush
produced the NY Times article which showed 44.4% of journalists
admitted being Democrats, while 16% were Republicans and 34% were
independents. Rush doesn't for a minute believe that the 34% are
really independents, and suspects that most if not all of them
are really closet Democrats.

Rush on his TV show last night therefore added the figures for
Democrats and independents together, and took 5% from the
Republican figure, producing a new set of figures - 83% are
Democrats and 11% Republicans; the remaining 6% are reserved for
the obligatory socialists and communists who have always been in
the media.

Rush knows some in his audience probably think he is being
particularly horrible about this, and in fact one member of the
media in the audience shouted out "that's horrible." Rush,
therefore, has come up with some names as representatives of
these groups:

-       The acknowledged Democrats include Leslie Stahl, Sam
Donaldson, Michael Kinsley.

-       The so-called "independents" who are really Democrats
could be CNN's Ken Bode, Charlie Rose, and Tim Russert.

-       The Republicans, of course, are much harder to find, but
Rush promises to keep looking.

o       Rush received two more letters on the spanking issue. One
listener doesn't accept the logic of the first listener who wrote
in claiming that Rush's audience was composed of people who will
do whatever Rush says, and thus will now "beat the hell" out of
their kids because Rush "said it was okay." Rush yesterday
replied to this accusation by recalling how liberals think that
the American people are too stupid to think for themselves.

Today's letter writer points out that the same people who accuse
Rush of inspiring parents to abuse their children are the same
people who don't think kids are affected by songs such as Cop
Killer or TV shows such as Murphy Brown. "But if Rush says
spanking is acceptable, kids will be beaten," according to this
twisted liberal logic. Rush says the letter has a good point.

Another letter writer tells Rush that he missed the point about
the spanking controversy - "it is the mere appearance of
impropriety in your comments, not what you actually said that
matters. Not only that, it is also the severity of the inference,
not actually what was said. It's like the `seriousness of the
charges' are more important than the actual evidence. As a dad
myself, I hate to spank my two kids, age 8 and 9, but sometimes
this is what it takes to get their attention."

This father also says that he probably should abuse his kids so
that they will have an excuse later on in life should they turn
out to be abnormal. Rush calls this another good point; everybody
should have an excuse for their aberrant behavior.

o       Rush received a fax yesterday of a column by John Star
that appeared in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. The column is
titled "Hillary Airport?" and talks about the possibility of
renaming the Little Rock Airport after Hillary Clinton. Rush at
first thought this was ridiculous, but it turns out to be true.
The supposed reason for renaming the airport is that Hillary was
the Airport Commission's lawyer for several years.

Commissioner Seth Ward opposes the name change, but acknowledged
that a majority of the airport's board backs the change. He added
"I don't have anything against Hillary, but she hasn't done
anything out there she wasn't paid for." Rush notes that the
airport's current name is Adams Field, after George Adams, a
National Guardsman who was killed at the airport in 1936 by a
flying propeller.

Rush says that it just figures that the Clintons would take this
honor away from a member of America's military who died in the
service of his country. Rush sighs, adding "there's just no
justice in this world."

Rush also wonders, though, if there are any homosexuals in the
Arkansas National Guard. After all, Clinton claimed he was
qualified to be Commander-in-Chief because he deployed the
Arkansas National Guard, and so Rush has to wonder just what
exactly Clinton did about this issue as Governor.

*BREAK*

Bo Snerdley brings Rush's coffee in and asks Rush to taste it.
Rush is suspicious, but Bo explains that he isn't sure whether he
put in the Sweet-and-Low. Rush tastes it and notices that it's a
new kind of coffee; Bo points out that "it's that stuff you
always call mud and doesn't want to drink." Rush laughs and
suspects that Bo goes out of his way to find coffee shops that
have day-old coffee sitting on the burner.

Phone   Sven from Itasca County, MN

Sven is a "minority, conservative homosexual" who says that
camaraderie and cohesion need to be part of any troop unit going
into battle; homosexuals would disrupt this cohesion, which is
why they shouldn't be admitted into the military. Rush doesn't
want to hurt Sven's feelings, but he says that many in the
audience are now doubting that Sven is really a homosexual,
especially since it is a rare thing for a homosexual to call and
oppose those things that most homosexuals are supporting.

Rush therefore has to ask Sven if he is really gay, or if he is
just a heterosexual claiming to be gay. Sven says that he is a
homosexual who has never had any interest in women. Rush asks him
how many of his homosexual friends know of his feelings in this
matter.

Sven says that he is a realist who disagrees with the militant
homosexual community; he tried living in the gay community while
he was in the city and was repulsed by how most of the gay
community made their sexuality the centerpiece of their whole
lives. Although Sven is gay, he has a full life outside of that.

Rush is curious why Sven thinks there is such a sudden mad dash
for gays to join the military; most people don't want to join the
military, so it is strange to suddenly have so many gays
demanding to be let in. In time of war, such as in WWII, many men
lied about their age to get into the army but this was because
they had such a strong sense of purpose. Absent that, though, why
are so many gays so motivated to join the military?

Sven thinks the liberal militant homosexuals have a "we're queer,
we're here" attitude and want to be accepted everywhere. They
have centered their entire lives about being homosexual, and
spend each day in an attempt to be accepted as normal by all of
society. Rush thanks Sven for calling.

*BREAK*

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Since this commercial was recorded, EIB has realized that some
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Phone   Jim from Indianapolis, IN

Jim was "switched" as a child, and he don't thinks it hurt him as
all; he is happily married and employed, and loves his family and
country. He adds that he has never taken drugs nor has he
committed any crime other than speeding. Rush finds this curious,
since "everyone" knows that being spanked is child abuse, which
means that you're doomed to a life of unhappiness and failure.

Rush asks Jim whom he hates and what he is bitter about, and Jim
replies he doesn't hate anyone, although he is sad about
Clinton's victory. Rush interrupts him because he notices EIB's
intern from Wellesley is wearing a T-shirt with a huge peace sign
plastered on it. The intern waves a friendly greeting to Rush and
he bets that she is purposefully trying to irritate him.

Jim bets that the intern never was spanked as a child, and the
intern replies that she has never engaged in deviant sexual
behavior. Rush explains he was asking about being spanked as a
child by one's parents, and she replies that she was indeed
spanked and that she nevertheless enjoys life now.

Jim also agrees with Rush's statement on how thinking is hard
work, but he would like to draw a distinction between being able
to reason and being able to think. He suspects that Rush's
popularity is motivated more by people's desire for reason than
for their desire to think. Spanking is an example of this -
people know that children must be disciplined, and doing so is a
reasonable thing to do.

Jim thinks Rush excels in being able to reason concisely and
clearly, and Rush thanks him for his flattering call.

Phone   Brad from Des Moines, IA

Brad gives "bin busting dittos" since the Iowa corn crop is
producing record harvests; "she's a record crop" Brad states.
Rush wonders why the harvest is female, and Brad really can't
answer the question - it's just sexism in the Midwest. Rush says
that he saw a picture of the corn harvest, and ears of corn are
lying all over the place because the bins are already full. Brad
adds that 40% of the crop still needs to be brought in.

Brad admits that there are some disadvantages about a good
harvest - "it's not worth as much as a bad one." Rush says that
he's known women like this as well, and after he realizes what
he's said he begs Brad to "get me out of this one."

Brad obliges by moving onto his topic which is how disturbed he
is about Senator Kerry's trip to Vietnam. For the past 20 years
Vietnam has used their MIA/POW records as a weapon, and Brad
doesn't think the US should rush into any relaxing of relations
between the US and Vietnam as Kerry has recommended.

Rush says that the Vietnamese have been holding their records as
bait to entice the US into rebuilding their country. He thinks
this year has been especially cruel to the families of these MIAs
who have seen all sorts of new, but limited, information released
each week. Rush thinks it would be a mistake to give the
Vietnamese any aid whatsoever right now.

Rush recalls that last summer Ross Perot testified in front of
Senator Kerry's committee <<Perot music starts>> that he told the
Vietnamese that their biggest mistake was in winning the war. Had
Vietnam lost the war, the US would have been generous in victory,
but not in defeat. Rush doesn't think this generosity should be
extended at all until there is conclusive evidence that we have
all the information that Vietnam has about MIAs; until this
happens, "we shouldn't give them one dime."

*BREAK*

Rush is confident that President-elect Clinton had no intention
of letting the gays-in-the-military issue become such a focal
point of his transition into power. Clinton probably hoped that
he could quickly state his policy and then move onto other
issues, but if so he underestimated the strength of public
opinion on this matter.

There have been many arguments brought forth during this debate,
both pro and con, and the media has noticeably brought forward
only old and retired military officials to speak out against
allowing gays in the military. This tends to make their side of
the argument look outdated and out-of-touch, and younger military
minds such as Colin Powell are ignored.

This happened even during the debate about having women in
combat. The news media featured former Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Thomas More who pointed out that women can't be
part of a combat-ready force because they can't be ready to fly
every day of every month. This is a fact of nature, yet the
response to this argument, as well as to every argument against
allowing gays or women in the military, has been to accuse people
like More of "bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and fear."

Rush was talking with someone about this who said he didn't want
to take a shower with someone who was gay, and so Rush played
Devils Advocate by asking him if he really thought he could get
AIDS by taking a shower next to a gay guy. Rush's friend retorted
by making an analogy to someone joining a health club. As the
days go by, this person learns that more and more members are
homosexual. How are this person and the other heterosexual
members of the club going to handle this situation? What are they
going to do?

*BREAK*

 Rush won't answer the question he posed before the break,
leaving it up to the audience to come up with the answer and then
apply it to the situation in the military. Rush will be glad to
talk with anyone about this should they so desire.

Phone   Julie from Atlanta, GA

Julie is really enjoying Rush's TV show, but wants to know why
Rush advocates spanking as a form of discipline. Rush says that
this basically comes from his own life experience - he was
spanked and it worked. The spankings he got were few in number
and were the "last straw" on the part of his parents, but they
were also an expression of love by his parents who did not want
to punish Rush as much as they wanted to make sure he would learn
the proper lessons of life.

Julie is adamantly opposed to spanking because she thinks it's a
quick fix; it's much easier to spank a kid than to sit down and
explain the consequences of their actions and why certain actions
are wrong. Rush holds Julie over the break.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Rush asks Julie to hold on for a bit; Jeff Greenfield's office
just called Rush to tell him that Nightline is doing a show on
Hillary, and they want some of Rush's Hillary bits. Rush is
pleased to cooperate with fellow members of the press, and he
encourages his audience to listen to the Nightline show, unless
of course it is on opposite his own show. In this case, watch
Rush's show since "it'll be far more interesting anyway."

Rush plays the two bits he is sending to Nightline, and he hopes
they play them in this order:

<<ominous, scary music starts>>

<<Narrator>> Coming soon to a theater near you . . . the story of
a future too horrible to imagine until now! The most frightening
spectacle to hit this country since the Carter Presidency.
Hillary Clinton seemed simple and unassuming, until she moved
into the White House. Then she became a maniacal, power-hungry
psycho, in "Single White Female."

<<Hillary>> You said the "F-word" - Family values! Go to your
room, Willie!

<<Narrator>> Bill Clinton's advisers tried to shut her up, but
once she moved in, it was all over!

<<Hillary>> Willie, come here! <<whimpering sounds>> Sit!
<<panting sounds>> Now go fetch my paper! Good, Willie!

<<Narrator>> There's a stranger in the house, and she's running
the show!

<<Hillary>> You made a cabinet appointment without asking me?!?
Who's in charge around here?!

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

<<Hillary>> Smell the glove, Willie!

<<Narrator>> She's married to Bill Clinton, but she has the
ability to cause more damage than any single woman in history.

<<Hillary>> Now let's see that State of the Union address.

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

Rush doubts if Nightline will actually use this one, and thus
he's sending them the following bit, which is slightly tamer and
less provocative:

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

<<2 is pressed>>

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

<<3 is pressed>>

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

<<4 is pressed>>

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

Just in case Nightline really likes these bits, Rush is adding in
his latest movie commercial:

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

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

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

<<Algore>> Yes, master!

<<Count Taxula>> Shredded my draft record?

<<Algore>> Yes, master!

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

<<Algore>> Happy hunting, master!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phone   Julie from Atlanta, GA (continued)

Rush thanks Julie for waiting, and she admits that she enjoys
Rush's bits. Julie says that she doesn't spank her children, but
instead reasons with her children. She thinks that the flaw with
using spanking as the last resort is that last resort measures
usually mean that the parents are angry and completely
frustrated.

She thinks the point of discipline is to raise "little adults in
the making," but Rush says that six-year-olds can't be talked to
as an adult. Julie doesn't do this, but still thinks the goal
should be to teach kids that there are always limits to behavior,
and if the boundaries are crossed, then there are consequences.

Rush asks how Julie does this, and she replies she removes
privileges from her kids who are actually her husband's children
from a prior marriage. They used to live with their real mother
until about a year ago. In that home the children were spanked
often, but even now when they go to visit her, their mother
claims they are always out of control. Yet in Julie's household,
the children are well behaved, and she can't but think that her
method of talking to her girls is a better method.

Rush won't tell people that spanking is the only hope they have
for rearing responsible children, but he does not think spanking
is inherently counter-productive because it has been shown to
work. Rush admits he is not a parent, and thus his only
experience was being a child who was spanked. However, he can
also see the differences between children who are properly
spanked and those who are not in the children he sees around him.

Julie says that adults can't resort to violence when in
discussions with others, but Rush says that this is not an
apples-to-apples situation. When teaching one's children, you're
teaching your flesh-and-blood and you're not trying to teach them
what to think but what is right and wrong. This is not the same
as reasoning and debating one another. Parents have to raise
their children to know right from wrong for the kids' own good.

Julie doesn't think parents should spank since it means they're
angry and out of control, but Rush says that this never happened
in his household. His parents never spanked him in a fit of rage
since that would be abuse, which certainly is wrong and criminal.
Rush never saw his parents spank him in the midst of a tantrum.

Julie, though, doesn't see how any human can strike another human
being without being in a tantrum. She doesn't hit her dogs,
either. Rush says that he has housebroken dogs twice. The first
time he didn't hit the dog and thus he had to replace his carpet
after two years because "the damn little thing refused to listen
to my reasoning. It refused to understand my concerns for the
aroma in my house."

When Rush thus got his second set of dogs, he did resort to
occasionally hitting the dogs to housebreak them, and they were
housebroken "lickety split." Rush notes that even his own mother,
who can establish a rapport with any dog, taught him how to
"spank" dogs - where to hit so as not to hurt them and the
circumstances under which the spanking should be done.

Julie says that her method is to have something that makes noise;
when you see the dogs squat, you make the noise to startle them
and then take them outside. Rush says he tried that method
without success; in fact, the noise scared the dogs so much that
it scared the "stuff" out of them. Rush thanks Julie for her
call, and hopes she calls again.

*BREAK*

Rush recalls his comments about all of the state tax initiatives
that failed during the last election. In particular, the
California tax-the-rich initiative lost big, showing that
Clinton's higher-taxes proposals do not have wide support.
Colorado voters also got a touch of "Perotitis" and passed an
initiative that requires the people to approve any tax increased
passed by the state legislature. Even Governor Roy Roemer of
Colorado stated that "the people have spoken, they want
government to be smaller."

The headline of one story about this, though, is "Colorado Tax
Revolt - Hard to Interpret." Rush has to laugh because there's
nothing hard about it at all - people do not want higher taxes,
no matter what the reason. Of course, though, liberals believe
the voters are idiots, and thus don't think the people really
know what they're doing. Thus, Rush warns Colorado voters to look
out "because they're trying to figure out what's plain as day."

*BREAK*

Bo brings in Rush's coffee and Rush pulls him aside to ask if
EIB's young intern has a crush on him; Rush has noticed she keeps
popping in for no reason every few minutes. Bo suspects that this
is true, and goes off to ask her about it. Rush pulls him back,
telling him that he just wanted Bo's opinion of this, one man to
another. Bo does think the intern is fascinated by Rush, which
confirms Rush's suspicions. "I recognized the behavior," he
states.

Phone   Vicki from Dixon, TN

Vicki saw Magic Johnson on TV last night; Johnson said that he
met with Clinton before the election and that Clinton promised to
put him back on the AIDS Commission. Rush says that all he heard
was that Johnson wanted to be back on the Commission and was
going to ask Clinton about it.

Rush thinks the AIDS community is in for a big surprise as to
what Clinton can and will do; he doubts that there will be any
real substantive advances in AIDS research for at least a few
years, yet the AIDS activists don't seem to care. Clinton has
made only one speech about AIDS, yet the activists praise him as
if he was someone who can achieve results.

America is spending more on AIDS than on any other disease, and
it's absurd to claim that AIDS was ignored under Bush and Reagan.
It's also hard to see how anyone could think AIDS is being
ignored since AIDS is in the news each and every day. Thus, what
difference will Clinton's presidency have on AIDS research? Yet a
lot of people think symbolism such as having Johnson on the AIDS
Commission is something to be applauded.

Rush points out that the AIDS Commission is like any other group
of people - they want power. They sit around and make all sorts
of recommendations, and they want their recommendations followed.
However, even if Clinton gave carte blanche to the Commission,
what is going to happen?

AIDS is caused by a virus, and man has not cured any virus;
vaccines have been developed, but they don't help anyone who's
already infected. Rush hasn't seen any medical research by Bill
Clinton, so what can Clinton bring to this issue except more
symbolism? Symbolism is okay if it inspires people and gives them
help, but the bottom line still has to be remembered - what
results will be achieved?

Rush also thinks that it would have looked really bad for the
liberal community had Johnson worked well with President Bush;
this would not have helped Clinton's election at all. Chapter 8
of Rush's book talks about how AIDS activists think there is good
and bad money - money generated by conservatives is unwanted and
bad. Even if conservatives could help bring about new medical
advances, their help is not wanted; the idea that Johnson can be
more effective on the AIDS Commission under Clinton is
ridiculous.

Nobody ever gets everything they want, so what was Johnson's
response when this happened - he quit. Johnson never quit in the
NBA when things got tough, but he did quit the AIDS Commission.
It's clear that the politicos have gotten their hands on Johnson,
which is what is wrong with the whole AIDS problem - it's a
political issue first and then a health problem.

Phone   Shawn from Provo, UT

Shawn says that there was a lot of talk about national health
care during the campaign, and she used to work in a pharmacy that
handled Medicaid prescriptions. The government paid them only
about 60% of their wholesale cost for the drugs they dispensed,
and this took a big chunk of their profits. Thus, the staff would
typically refer to Medicaid recipients with derogatory names such
as "leeches."

The government also changed the rules without warning - Medicaid
billing would pay for some drugs one month but not the next
month. Rush is surprised that the government can move that fast,
but Shawn says that if the government could get out of paying the
store, they would.

About nine months ago, Shawn's husband lost her job, and a few
weeks later she found out she was pregnant. Because of medical
problems, she had to quit her job, too, and thus has had to go on
Medicaid. It's thus been a humbling experience for her to be on
the other side of this issue now, and to be regarded as a "leech"
by others.

Shawn still doesn't support the permanent Medicaid/welfare
recipients, but she has changed her mind about some things. Rush
holds her over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Shawn from Provo, UT (continued)

During the campaign Shawn heard a lot of Rush's callers disparage
national health care like she used to - they attacked those who
think that the government owes them a free ride. Rush clarifies
that - he disagreed with the idea that health care is a right,
and thus is something that should be guaranteed by the
government. The fact is that the government cannot afford to
provide help for all of people's problems.

If health care is a right, then why aren't food, cars, jobs, and
such all rights as well? This is a never-ending cycle, and is
just like Hillary Clinton's claim that every child has a "right"
to be born healthy. In this case, the government cannot possibly
guarantee that everyone will be born healthy and thus it cannot
be a right.

Rush wants to stop the creeping movement throughout society that
makes people think they have a right to everything in life. Rush
doesn't think people on Medicaid have purposely gotten sick so
that they would stay on Medicaid, but if the government
eliminates all pain and suffering, then why should people go out
and work? Why should they take care of themselves?

Shawn says that she and her husband don't like being in their
situation, and it's painful when others consider them to be some
sort of sponges or leeches. Rush says that America is a
compassionate society, which is why this health care issue is so
troublesome. This issue is different than the traditional debate
over welfare, because Rush, like every compassionate person, does
not want to discard those who can't fend for themselves. Society
has to help these people.

However, at the same time society doesn't want to create an
increasing dependency class filled with people who won't work,
even though they can. The United States doesn't have the money
for this, and Clinton knows this, which is why he's backed off on
implementing his health care plan within the first 100 days of
his administration. This is why many of the people Clinton made
promises to will have to be satisfied with his rhetoric instead.

*BREAK*

Rush chides his staff for not reminding him about Kirk Fordice's
remark about Christian nations, but he promises he will get to it
eventually.

Phone   Sally from Long Island, NY

Sally had five children whom she spanked and all of them grew up
to be fine citizens who voted for Bush. However, the one "change
of life" baby she had when she was in her 40s wasn't spanked, and
this daughter voted for Clinton this year, which was her first
Presidential election.

Rush has to laugh, and he asks why Sally didn't spank her last
child. Sally replies that her sixth child was a beautiful little
girl, and she didn't feel like spanking her and so "reasoned with
her"; however, she grew up to be a "wild child."

Sally says that she tried to explain things to her daughter; for
example, one night Sally had to go out and find out why she
didn't come inside the house when it got dark. The daughter,
though, didn't care because she knew there would be no penalty
except getting a talking-to. Sally is devastated that her
daughter's first Presidential vote was for Clinton.

Rush says that this is a good point, and he remarks that there
were times in which he thought he was going to get spanked but
didn't. For instance, he got mad and threw his baseball glove at
his brother and broke a window. Rush thought he would be spanked
then, but he wasn't because his parents knew that he knew he did
wrong.

--
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!)