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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Friday, November 20, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, November 20, 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 20, 1992

LIMBAUGH WATCH

November 20, 1992 - It's now 18 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.

NEWS

o       A British medical journal, The Lancet, reports that blood
and saliva can be trapped in equipment in doctors' and dentists'
offices, greatly raising the risk of transmitting the AIDS virus.
Researchers found traces of the HIV virus on apparatus that had
been used on patients who were infected with the virus.

Microbiologist David Lewis reports that the risk of infection
this way is declining as dentists have already started to heat
sterilize all equipment that goes into the mouth. He suggests
that patients who are worried about this should ask the dentist
if their equipment is heat sterilized after each use.

MORNING UPDATE

Rush wants to gaze into the future a bit - he was asked how he
thinks the Clinton Presidency will turn out, and he replied that
it's going to be measured in extremes. Clinton's administration
will be considered either an extremely good administration or an
extremely bad one. Rush can't see it becoming an ineffectual,
middle-ground, not-much-happening Presidency.

Rush also suspects that Clinton's Presidency will be measured by
how he handles foreign affairs, not domestic issues. This is
ironic since Clinton is the weakest President in terms of foreign
affairs in many years; Clinton wasn't even asked many foreign
policy questions during the campaign; he was elected to fix the
economy, but the economy is already fixing itself.

Foreign policy, though, is another matter - the Middle East, the
former Soviet Union, European wars, etc. continue to make the
world a dangerous and unstable place. Clinton's stay in office is
going to turn on how he deals with foreign policy issues and not
economic ones.

FIRST HOUR

Item

o       Rush starts off the show by saying "The views expressed
by the host of this show marvel in comparison to other views
expressed by any other host on any other show. And also, the
people hearing the views marvel as well as the views marvel -
everybody marvels when I'm around, folks, so start marveling!"

People are sending Rush some "nice try notes" on CompuServe;
they're telling him something along the lines of "Rush, will you
stop the Clinton bashing and move on - get back to when your show
was entertaining and fun, Rush! You sound like a spoilsport!"

Rush points that if anyone is a spoilsport, it is some Democrats
who are more miserable in their victory that they were before.
Rush's show is about the news of the day, and he can do nothing
about the fact that the news lately is all about Clinton - his
transition team, his cat, his wife, and everything else
Clintonesque.

Rush got a call on the TV show which will air tonight from a
woman who told Rush to stop bashing Clinton; it seemed that this
woman was angry and miserable simply because Rush was not angry
and miserable.

Along these same lines, Rush read an incredible column in the New
York Observer; Rush can't be totally certain as to the tone and
intent of this column, and whether the writer, Emily Praeger, is
being serious or trying her hand at satire. Rush's inclination is
that no satire is intended because he's noticed that liberals
have suddenly become the nicest people in the world, now that
their candidate has won. Some cynics might also wonder why
liberals are happy that Clinton won since Clinton is not supposed
to be a liberal.

However, Rush has noticed some liberals even saying that he is a
nice guy, which is quite a change from the venom they spat his
way before the election. Rush was at his desk this morning
talking on the phone when a liberal working at the radio station
started chiding him for talking on the phone. Rush asked her why
she was interrupting him and she replied with a smile "Rush,
you're too polite! You're just too polite - love you!"

Rush points out that during the last 12 years liberals were
hysterical about the Presidencies of Reagan and Bush; Rush found
this curious because at the time liberals were winning the
culture war, with government grants for the NEA, condoms being
distributed in schools, and so forth.

Praeger's column in the Observer gives some insight as to why
liberals acted as they did, and Rush reads from it:

"The Bill and Al era has begun! Thank God! I feel such relief. I
was anxious all last month. I felt that if George Bush got in, he
would take revenge on all those who wrote negatively about him."

Rush points out that if anyone had to be worried about
retribution it is conservative columnists. Bush had every aspect
of his character assaulted, with one lie after another told about
him, yet Praeger and her colleagues thought that Bush would
somehow visit retribution on them. Rush finds this a strange
remark to make, unless perhaps Praeger thought she deserved it.
Rush continues on with her column:

"I really thought he would take revenge on those who wrote
negatively about him. After seeing the Republican convention, I
really thought we might be carted off to camps. It isn't so far
fetched, it's happening elsewhere in the world. My only
consolation was that David Brinkley and George Will would be
there, too.

"I can't believe it. Soon we'll have a President who was against
the war in Vietnam, loves oral sex, and has a cat. Don't we all
feel he's just like us? Don't we all feel that we'll be invited
to the White House? I hear that all over town editors and
publishers are toadying like mad and why? Because they want that
invitation to the Inaugural Ball, they want cabinet posts.

"I want Secretary of Humor, and I do think that the Observer's
staff deserves some thanks in way of an invite. We're a small
operation but we've done our bit."

Rush wonders if liberals really live in a perpetual fear that
conservatives want to cart them off to concentration camps, but
conservatism is not the home of totalitarianism. This is an
irrational, hysterical fear, and if Praeger is being serious in
her column, then it explains a lot about liberals. Praeger also
writes:

"Already you can feel a change in the air - no more fire and
brimstone, no more sin, good-bye to the fundamentalists, and the
alliance of Church and State. Rush Limbaugh doesn't need that
second show now. After Bill and Al have been in office for a
couple years, the fundamentalists will be relegated to their
rightful place as right-wing extremists, fanatical religious
groups who can write letters fast.

"Perhaps Bill and Al will jail those who finger human fetuses as
a supposed form of protest. I live to see that day. And
incidentally I did appreciate the black humor of the ACTUP
protest that laid a human corpse on the steps of the venue on
which Quayle was speaking. Bravo to the AIDS victim who gave his
body for political protest. It was raw, I grant you, but no more
raw then seeing a human fetus in a Chinese take-out box.

"I've always thought Madonna and Pat Buchanan were opposite ends
of the same continuum, but now that we have two men in office
that have sex, I think we've seen the end of S&M as a populist
fashion. Time for Madonna to get real. Without George Bush, Dan
Quayle, and the fundamentalists to play off, S&M loses its flash.
It too must retire to its underground vault, the particular play
world of the theatrical and detached.

"It's going to be very different for this country to have loving,
affectionate, and sexual men in and around the White House, and
women, and a bevy of pre-pubescent and adolescent girls, and one
studious little boy. There's even a living mistress floating
around like some bizarre Greek chorus. It's going to be very
human. We need that, we need some normalcy. We were getting
weird."

Rush has to laugh at someone who thinks the nation was getting
weird with Bush, and he admits that Praeger may indeed be using
some satire to make her point; nevertheless, in all humor there
is some truth, and Praeger's column shows someone who is glad her
side of the culture war has won. She rejoices in aberrant
behavior and loose morals, and she considers the basic pursuit of
hedonism to be normal acceptable behavior; all of this has been
validated, according to Praeger, because the voters elected
Clinton and Gore.

Rush calls it astounding, though, how hysterical the liberals
were before the election, acting as if conservatives were going
to throw them into concentration camps. Now that Clinton has won,
though, liberals are all smiles.

*BREAK*

Kirk Fordice's comment at the Republican governors' conference
about America being a Christian nation has generated a lot of
controversy. The reactions to his comment fall into the same sort
of hysteria that categorize the NY Observer column; just because
someone points out that 86% of Americans are Christians, liberals
hysterically assert that this means a war is being fought against
non-Christians.

When Buchanan talked about a "religious war" during the
Republican convention, Rush understood what he meant, but he
didn't understand the liberal reaction to this comment. The US
has fiery debate and political arguments, but it doesn't have the
religious wars that other nations have, complete with bombs and
bullets.

The left also claims that the "right" is trying to impose its
will on everyone else, yet this is not true for Rush or for any
conservative he knows. There are certainly many people who want
to maintain some set of standards, but this is not imposing one's
will. Rush has never imposed his will on anyone, yet this is what
he is constantly accused of.

However, there are those who are trying to impose their will on
others; for example, when Los Angeles was torn apart by riots,
there were people who stated that the rioters should be not
called thugs or criminals and that America should instead
"understand their rage." These are the people who were trying to
impose their will on others by having their behavior exempted
from the law of the land that should apply to everyone.

All Rush wants is to be able to participate in the arena of ideas
and political debate; should he lose, he loses and that's that.
Rush promises to say more about this after the break.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that he loves Manheim Steamroller's Christmas
music, in spite of their leftist political leanings. Rush is
flying to Washington tonight so that he can see their opening
concert for this season. He remarks on this because last night he
did the Donahue and Posner show, and Donahue commented on all of
the negative publicity that characterizes Rush as some sort of
fascist tyrant.

Rush told Donahue that he could look long and hard without
success to find people who actually know Rush and who would agree
with that characterization. It's as if liberals get scared simply
because he is a conservative and because he is popular.

When Rush's book hit number one on the NY Times best-seller list,
Rush's editor Judith Regan was called by a Hollywood liberal who
couldn't believe Regan was doing this since "if Limbaugh's views
are accepted, my daughter will never be able to get an abortion."
Regan pointed out that the Hollywood liberal didn't have a
daughter, but this didn't seem to matter to the liberal who
really thought Rush wanted to make everyone conform to his
lifestyle.

Rush has never imposed his views on anybody, yet this is what the
liberals think he wants. They evidently go around really
believing that conservatives are just looking for any opportunity
to declare war on their political enemies, with the eventual goal
of putting them into concentration camps.

Rush doubts anyone can find any anti-Semitic views in Kirk
Fordice's life, yet liberals still are incredibly fearful that
they are going to be put into concentration camps. Rush wonders
if perhaps a psychiatrist might be able to help out with this
irrational fear.

Rush returns to the subject of Manheim Steamroller who invited
Rush to their concert, saying in their invitation that this was
simply an expression of friendship. Rush notes that liberals
typically shy away from publicly associating with any
conservative, yet Rush has no problem meeting with liberals
outside of the political arena. He is glad that Manheim
Steamroller doesn't share this typical liberal fear either.

Rush plays a couple of cuts from Manheim Steamroller's Christmas
music, including their celebrated version of "Silent Night." Rush
promises to play more of the group's Christmas music after
Thanksgiving, and he notes that Chip Davis and his associates in
the group were the same people who did the country-western hit
"Convoy."

*BREAK*

Rush gives his sympathies to President Bush and his family over
the death of his mother Dorothy Walker Bush.

Phone   Bob from Ft. Meyers, FL

Bob says that Rush shouldn't get so defensive about Phil Donahue;
Bob has never seen as mean-spirited a person as Donahue when
Donahue gets a guest who doesn't share his liberal views. Bob
thinks the only person on the media who is as mean-spirited as
Donahue is Michael Kinsley.

Rush agrees that Kinsley has a tendency to be mean and shrill,
but he says that Donahue really wasn't that mean-spirited to him
during the show; Donahue was just resorting to the standard
liberal cliches and the "same old same old."

This was the day that Rush featured on his show the NY Times
article about liberal dominance in the media. Rush had some fun
with the Times' figures, claiming that 5% of the media was really
Communist and socialist, instead of being the independents as
they claimed. Posner didn't think Rush's comment about this was
funny and he demanded that Rush name one of these Communist media
types.

Rush replied "you're one - you're in America, you're a journalist
asking me questions, and you're a Communist." Donahue admitted
Rush had a point, and Rush gave a couple more names of avowed
socialists in the media - Christopher Hutchens and Alexander
Cockburn. Rush doesn't have a problem with socialist and
communist reporters, but he at least would like people to be
honest about what they are; Rush, after all, makes no bones about
his political leanings.

Posner was also upset about the section in Rush's book about his
"Diet for Peace." Neither Donahue or Posner got the joke about
Rush dieting so that he could sit in a B1-B bomber on its way to
bomb Moscow. This sequence led to a discussion of the deficit and
military spending, and Rush told the two hosts that the reason
the B1-B bomber was built was so that it wouldn't ever be used in
war. Donahue asked why the bomber wasn't used in the Gulf War,
and Rush pointed out that the US didn't need them. Donahue and
Posner then cut to a break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Dave from Wichita, KS

Dave notes that Rush talks about "being balanced," and he remarks
how the local radio station has a liberal host both before and
after Rush. Dave adds that he's made 188 calls during the past
four years in attempts to get through to Rush, and he's glad his
perseverance paid off.

Dave is a moderate Republican and Christian, and he's a bit
concerned about the future of the Republican party. He wonders if
Rush with his comments about the "Kemp, Bennett, Limbaugh" wing
of the party is trying to distance himself from the evangelical
right. Rush finds this a curious comment and he wonders why Dave
thinks he ever was aligned with the evangelical right.

Dave doesn't think Rush ever did align himself with the religious
right, but he has heard Bennett do commercials for a religious
newspaper. Rush holds Dave over the break.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Phone   Dave from Wichita, KS (continued)

Dave says that he believes Bennett's commercials for a Christian
newspaper seem to tie him to the religious right. Dave classifies
himself as a moderate Republican and he thinks moderates are the
majority in the party; he doesn't believe Reagan and Bush won
because they went "far to the right." In truth, they were the
only choice since the Democratic candidates were far left
liberals.

Rush says that Dave should love Bush since Bush is not a
conservative Republican, but a true moderate Republican. Dave
agrees, adding that he supported candidate Bush during the
primaries in 1979 and 1980. Dave still voted for Reagan, though,
because he was the only real choice available; he feels that the
majority of Americans voted for Reagan for the same reasons - he
was the only acceptable choice.

Rush disagrees as he doesn't think Reagan was viewed by most
voters as the lesser of two evils; Reagan came to power because
he was on a rising tide of conservative and activists. Even
George Will, who is a moderate conservative, admits this. Dave,
however, thinks Will is not a real moderate, but someone who
represents the right-wing.

Rush is surprised by that, but points out that Will wrote that
people voted for Bush in 1988 because they thought they were
getting four more years of Reagan. However, this turned out not
to be the case, which is why Bush lost so much support. Rush
therefore asks why the Reagan Democrats abandoned Bush if it
wasn't because he did turn out to be a moderate and not a
Reagan-style Republican?

Dave thinks the Republican party ended up being torn apart
because of the evangelical right, pro-life, and other "far
right-wing wacko factions." He thinks the Republican party in his
area has almost been annihilated by right-wing factions, "whether
they be evangelical or Rush Limbaugh."

Rush asks if Dave blames him for helping to cause the
disintegration of the Republican party, and Dave says that this
is indeed his feeling. Rush is interested in what Dave thinks are
examples of Rush's far right-wing policies. Dave replies that
Kansas Republicans are still the party of Bob Dole and Gerald
Ford, and he thinks the average American and average Republican
are moderates in their thinking.

Rush wonders what the difference in Dave's mind is between
moderate and conservative Republicans. Dave says that a major
difference is that moderate Republicans are pro-choice. Rush says
that election returns indicate that there is no pro-choice
majority in the Republican party, but Dave disagrees. He thinks
that the Republican party is perceived to be pro-life only
because Reagan and Bush were pro-life, but again these men were
elected because the country had no choice.

Rush still disagrees that abortion is a defining issue in
elections, although the pro-choicers would like people to believe
this. Exit polls showed only one in eight voters thought abortion
was a keystone issue for them, and most of that group voted pro-
life. Rush points to the Washington state referendum on abortion;
the voting was so close it took two weeks to count all the
ballots.

Rush thinks Dave is falling into the trap of casting pro-lifers
as the reason for the Republican's defeat this year. This is not
the case - the GOP lost this election because it came in second
in the arena of ideas. A sign in James Carville's office even
proclaims "It's the economy, stupid!" and Rush doesn't think the
fundamentalist right had anything to do with Bush's defeat. For
Republicans to believe this is as ridiculous as the Democrats
blaming 1988 on Willie Horton.

Dave would prefer not to talk about the abortion issue, as there
are many other reasons for the difference between moderates and
the "far right or evangelical right." Rush would like to know
other examples of what defines the far right and evangelical
right, especially as to what Dave thinks has been harming the
Republican party.

Dave says that Rush's stands on the environment and feminism go
farther to the right than most people want. For example,
moderates believe that there are some concerns to be expressed
about the environment and about women's rights; Rush says that he
is concerned about these things, too.

Dave, though, says "it seems like the part of the party you're
involved in," and Rush says that he's not involved with any part
of the Republican party. Rush talked about the "Kemp, Bennett,
Limbaugh" wing simply because Larry King wrote a column claiming
Rush had a wing of his own in the GOP, which is ridiculous. Rush
has never been a force in the Republican party.

Rush still wonders why Dave wants to lump Rush in with what he
thinks is the "far and evangelical right." Dave thinks that
Rush's beliefs seem to lean in that direction, and Rush wonders
if Dave thinks he is "far right" because he has stated his belief
in God. Dave doesn't think so, but says that he's just gotten his
impression from listening to Rush over the years. "It seems to me
that you're a bit further in that direction, but I'm not going to
say that you identify more with David Duke than with me."

Rush is a bit disappointed that Dave can't come up with some
specifics as why he thinks Rush is a member of the "far right" or
"evangelical right." Rush thanks Dave for calling, but points out
that no moderate Republican in modern history has won the
Presidency if he's run as a moderate.

*BREAK*

Rush comments that members of his staff praised him for putting
up with the previous call for as long as he did, but Rush thinks
that this subject - the future of the Republican party - needs to
be discussed. Rush doesn't think he really got to the heart of
the caller's ideas, but at least the attempt was made.

Rush also wants to deny the notion that he is somehow an integral
part of the Republican party; not one GOP policy has been written
by Rush, and "you would not find one entry in my phone logs -
because we don't keep phone logs, but if we did keep phone logs -
you would not find one call from the Republican National
Committee at any time suggesting, asking, or mentioning - you
won't find it."

Rush admits that he is indeed a Republican but he does not have
his own wing of the party as Larry King has implied. Rush,
though, has been attacked for going to dinner at the Bush White
House or sitting in the Presidential box at the Republican
convention. Donahue even said Rush was "in my President's box
during the Republican convention," but Rush pointed out that Bush
is his President, too. However, not once while he was there in
the convention was he approached by the party leaders for advice,
nor was he asked to speak.

Rush again points out that it's very hard to turn down
Presidential invitations. Ted Koppell, David Brinkley, Tim
Russert, and Bill Moyers didn't turn down invitations from
Clinton, yet they aren't being criticized for being a
Presidential/Democratic patsy. There's a clear double standard
about this going on, which is why Rush spent so much time talking
about it.

*BREAK*

Phone   Lee from Gladstone, AL

Lee works in a bridal shop, Simply Elegant, and since they play
Rush's show every day she thinks it should be renamed Simply
Elegant Rush Room. Lee's birthday was last Tuesday, and so her
fellow dittohead coworkers gave her a copy of Rush's book, "The
Way Things Ought to Be." When she got the book she clasped it to
her chest, and Rush bets the book enjoyed the experience.

Lee's mother is a staunch Democrat, and when she saw Rush's book
she blanched a bit but still remained polite enough to say "oh,
what's a pretty book." Lee wonders if Rush heard Barbra Streisand
accusations at yesterday's AIDS conference that Ronald Reagan
caused "thousands of deaths."

Rush says that the AIDS hysteria is louder than ever, although
there seems to be some sort of consensus that the AIDS problem is
going to be solved now that Clinton has been elected. He adds
that Streisand has called for a boycott of Colorado because
residents voted down a bill which would guarantee "gay rights."
Thomas Sowell, however, wrote in a recent column that "there's no
such thing as gay rights. Human beings and citizens of the United
States have rights - period."

During last night's Project AIDS benefit, Streisand said "I will
never forget my fellow actor Ronald Reagan for his neglect of
AIDS sufferers." Rush wonders how many people think AIDS has been
neglected since it is getting billions of dollars of government
funding. Rush is amazed that symbolism is becoming a legitimate
substitute for substance in today's politically correct world.

Phone   George from Plainfield, NJ

George is a registered Democrat who doesn't like how Rush thinks
all Democrats are Communists. Rush says that he has never said
this, and he points out that if this were true, he would have
said that 95% of journalists were Communists instead of saying
that 95% were Democrats and 5% were Communists or socialist.

George says that Rush has "equated" Democrats with Communists,
but Rush says that the only thing he said along those lines was
"the only difference between a liberal and a Communist is that
the Communist knows what he's doing." George zings Rush back by
saying "and the only difference between a Republican and a Nazi
is that the Republican knows what he's doing . . . uh, the Nazi
knows what he's doing."

George then says that Rush has "kicked this Willy Horton to
death," and has ignored how former Texas governor Clemons had a
furlough program similar to the Dukakis program. George tells
Rush "you put on what you want to put on and that's it." Rush
points out that it was the Democrats who kept Willy Horton alive
for four years; it was the reason they constantly gave for why
they lost in 1988.

George, though, thinks that the only person keeping Horton's name
in the news in New Jersey has been "you and the other guy. You
slept in the White House - what more has to be said? You had
Bush's ear, didn't you?"

Rush has to laugh because George is proving his point that
liberals are getting more self-confident and braver; he wonders
where people like George have been for the past four years when
he was desperate to find callers who disagree with him. George
replies "I've suffered for 12 years, now you suffer for four!
I've suffered for 12, you suffer for four!"

Rush again laughs because this proves his other point that
liberals are mad that he is not suffering. "It's got you all
worked up, hasn't it?" Rush asks. George, who is practically
screaming at this point, insists "I'm happy as hell. I'm
delighted!" Rush says that George sounds bitter and angry to him,
but is glad that the Democrats do get a chance to win every once
in a while "since it is so infrequent."

George thinks Rush is a reactionary who doesn't do anything for
people, and instead supports dittohead ex-GIs who used their GI
Bill benefits to buy homes and "then suddenly they became
Republicans!" Rush notes the "bitterness oozing out," and George
says "oh yeah, that's socialism - who's kidding who?"

Rush suspects that someone has been kidding George for a while,
but George thinks "you've got these dittoheads, I can't believe
it! They want to lick your boots, and you can't stand to have
somebody disagree with you." Rush notes that he has been spending
all of this time with George.

"Thank you, I appreciate it," says George who then hangs up the
phone. Rush laughs at this, but is glad that the Democrats are
confident again and are coming out of the woodwork. "Let that be
a lesson to you other Democrats who feel that way," Rush says.
"See, it was fun - I'm sure it was cathartic and therapeutic for
him. He feels better now."

*BREAK*

Update  Timber         ("Chainsaw Blues," with the sounds of
falling trees)

"Old Grandaddy" is an almost 300-year-old saguaro cactus, which
at 52 feet tall, with 56 arm, is listed in the Guiness Book of
Records as the tallest in the world. The cactus, however, has
come down with a fatal bacterial disease, and national park
officials near Tucson say that there is nothing which can save
it. It's just a matter of time before the cactus passes on.

A higher cactus has been found in Gila Bend, but "Old Grandaddy"
has been a landmark for centuries, undoubtedly witnessing all the
evils that white men have visited upon the North American
continent. Rush suspects that evil white men were even
responsible for the disease which is killing it.

Rush also gives some advice to aspiring gardeners - if you have a
cactus at home and don't know when to water it, get an Arizona
paper and when it rains in Arizona, water the cactus.

Phone   Tab from Waco, TX

Tab is a "Waco dittohead" and he gives congratulations to his
brother and sister-in-law who are "expecting their first
conservative." Rush bets that the guy in New Jersey is probably
shaking his fist at the radio because of Tab's comment.

Tab mentions Lee Iacocca's appearance on Nightline this week;
Iacocca said that in 1990 Perot called him about running for
President as head of a third-party that Perot wanted to organize.
When Iacocca turned Perot down, Perot asked for other ideas as to
Presidential candidates, saying that if he couldn't find anyone
else, "I'd do it."

Rush says that this couldn't be true since Perot didn't think
about running for President until his February 20th appearance on
Larry King Live this year. Tab says that he might have been tired
and just heard what he wanted to hear, and Rush suspects that
this is true since it's "impossible" that Perot was thinking
about running for President back in 1990. After all, Perot's wife
was even surprised when Perot said he might run back in February.

Rush thanks Tab for his call and then says "just more evidence
that old Rush is right again. Get used to it, folks! I was right
yesterday, I was right last month, I was right last year, I was
right today, and I will be right tomorrow!"

*BREAK*

Phone   Sandy from Lincoln, IL

Sandy marvels at Rush's stamina and energy, and she bets that
Rush gets his energy from "channelled sexual energy." When Rush
announced that he doesn't believe in sex outside of marriage,
Sandy was doubtful. Now, though, she thinks "it fits" - Rush is
just like the gladiators of old - he focuses on the task ahead
and gives everything he has to his endeavors.

Sandy likes how this makes for a fantastic show, but she is also
saddened because she has been hoping Rush would fall in love and
have children because Rush would make a "super daddy." Rush says
that he has already been condemned as a father because of his
comments about spanking, and he holds Sandy over the break.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       It appears that the commissioners for the Adams Field
airport near Little Rock have dropped the idea of renaming the
airport in honor of Hillary Clinton.

o       Kate O'Burn, a member of the Presidential commission
studying the women in combat issue, wants President Bush to go
ahead and forward the commission's report to Congress. The report
is against the idea of having women in combat forces and aboard
Navy ships; O'Burn says that sending the report to Congress will
put the onus on the Democrats as to whether women will be put
into combat. If women are put into combat, it will then be seen
as a Democratic initiative.

Phone   Sandy from Lincoln, IL (continued)

Rush thanks Sandy for her idea and he is flattered that Sandy
noticed his energy levels. Sandy says that the reason she was
thinking about how Rush would make a great father is that she
gave up a baby daughter for adoption 25 years ago. Her child came
back into her life at the beginning of this year, and thus Sandy
is acutely aware of how important children are.

Rush asks if Sandy's daughter told her that she wished Sandy had
aborted her, and Sandy replies no. She also thanks Rush for being
upbeat and positive. Rush knows many in the audience are askance
at how he asked his question about abortion, but he points out
that one of the reasons given for allowing abortions is that it
is better to abort a child than to have it be "unwanted."

Sandy's daughter, though, was unwanted, yet it is clear that she
prefers being alive today, regardless of what her childhood was
like.

Phone   William Bennett from Washington, DC

Rush says that he tried to get ahold of Bennett after the call
from the guy from Wichita about how the Republican party has
allegedly moved far to the right. The Wichita caller claimed Rush
was part of the ultra-right-wing portion of the GOP which
allegedly caused the party's defeat in this year's elections.

This caller thought the evangelical part of the party is
responsible for its downfall, while the moderates are trying to
reclaim their party. The caller also claimed most moderates were
holding their nose when they voted for Reagan and Bush. Rush is
therefore interested in knowing how Bennett is handling these
sorts of criticisms of the party.

Bennett says that it would be a mistake to think that there was
no wide enthusiasm for Ronald Reagan and for Bush in 1988. 95% of
Republicans voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and a significant
portion of Democrats did as well. Bennett points out that when
the GOP was unabashedly conservative in 1980, 1984, and 1988 it
got the support of somewhere around 135 out of 150 states.

Rush says that the history revisionists are claiming that Reagan
was really a moderate; this, along with liberal comments about
the speakers at this year's Republican convention, are rewriting
the history of the past 12 years.

Bennett says that things like the Republican party platform and
ancillary speakers at the convention take on added importance
only when the party does not have a strong leader who espouses
clear principles. This was the problem with Bush's campaign this
year; Bush did not provide a strong enough focus for the party.

Rush wonders where the Republican party is headed now; many
liberals and the so-called moderate Republicans all disparage
what they call the "far right-wing." Bennett heard someone say
"we've got to keep the Christians out of the party," which was a
statement that floored him. Most Americans just happen to be
Christians, even though people of all religions flock to America.
Bennett points out that America's tolerance for all religions is
a product of Christian tolerance.

Most Americans have shared concerns about their country, its
values, and such. However, it seems that if Americans should
happen to go to church, then their voice no longer matters and
their opinions on these concerns are no longer legitimate. Anyone
can get involved in politics, yet it has become the case where if
someone goes to church, they are attacked for daring to get
involved with politics.

America is not suffering right now from an over-supply of
Christian ideals; Madonna's book alone shows that American
culture is not dominated by Christianity. Rush says that this is
what amazes him about the liberal hysteria; they have been
winning the culture war on many fronts, yet they act as if they
are minutes away from being sent to concentration camps. Now that
Clinton has won, though, liberals think that they are safe from
the fundamentalist right-wing whom they feel want to impose a
rigid lifestyle on them.

Bennett admits that there are some fundamentalists who do want to
impose their personal lifestyle on others, and he disagrees with
them about this. However, if the anti-Christian left can be
active in politics, than why can't the Christian right be
involved as well? Rush says that this is a by-product of how the
idea of separation of Church and State has been so distorted
recently.

Bennett points out he hasn't heard anyone calling for a
reestablishment of a state Church, and the real issue is whether
Christians can be involved with politics. Bennett notes that when
people with deeply-held religious beliefs get involved in
political debates, the people who tend to be extreme in their
views tend to soften and become more flexible.

Politics is the art of compromise, and thus it tends to soften
the hard edges of people's policies and beliefs. This is exactly
why people should be involved in politics, so that common ground
can be found, compromises sought, and agreements and consensus
formed.

Rush asks if Bennett thinks that the "far right-wing" is trying
to take over the party, and Bennett says that there is no real
"they"; there's no monolithic right-wing. Rush points out that
Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, etc. are typically grouped together
as a cabal that is trying to make America a Christian nation that
will exclude all non-Christians.

Bennett says that this will never happen, and he notes that there
are wide disagreements between those in the conservative wing of
the party. He suspects that some people on the left are
subconsciously thinking that now that they've won the White House
and Congress that there will now be unanimity throughout the
nation; now that Democrats control the federal government, these
liberals think the whole nation will be of one mind. They seem to
think that it's impossible for anyone to hold conservative views
anymore.

Rush laughs at this and comments that NYC school chancellor
Joseph Fernandez is reportedly planning to quit, and Bennett says
that this is some of the best news he's heard in a long time. He
comments on the Wall Street Journal article today about how New
York parents are up in arms about how Fernandez and his school
board insist on teaching lesbian motherhood to second-graders.

Bennett is amazed that when US schoolchildren are coming in last
among industrialized nations in reading, mathematics, and
science, that the NYC school district wants to teach kids about
lesbian motherhood. He points out that this sort of thing has
taught kids to worship their own feelings, and is one cause of
the increasing violence in America.

*BREAK*

Bo tells Rush that he is being deluged with requests for the
number to order the Limbaugh Letter, and so Rush asks people to
write down this number - 800-457-4141.

Phone   Glen from Oakland, CA

Glen is in a freezing phone booth in one of the worst parts of
town, so he would like to make this call brief. Rush is glad to
know that Oakland has a functioning phone booth, and Glen says
that he owns a parking lot business in this area of town and
knows just how bad an area it really is.

Even though Glen is a Democrat who voted for Clinton, he has been
listening to Rush since he started his business in July. Glen is
a bit disappointed because Rush hasn't shown much grace in
defeat; he had hoped Rush would have shown more of a spirit of
cooperation. Rush instead has gone too far in ridiculing the
Clintons and Glen thinks he is childish in some of the things he
has said and done.

Glen says that Rush should do more to create a "dialogue for
productive change" as opposed to simply tearing down the
opposition. Rush says that he opposed Clinton during the
campaign, and thus he is puzzled by how people seem to think that
he should forget the deeply-rooted differences he has with
Clinton. Should he forget his core beliefs and just jump on the
Clinton bandwagon? Why can't Rush be allowed to be a watchdog for
Clinton when all sorts of Democrats were self-proclaimed
watchdogs for Reagan and Bush?

Glen says that he doesn't object so much to Rush's views as to
how Rush relates his views. Rush apologizes for making Glen stay
in a bad part of town, but he holds him over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone   Glen from Oakland, CA (continued)

Glen thinks Rush is "the ultimate spin doctor"; no matter what a
Democrat says, Rush will put the Republican spin on it, and no
Democrat can say anything of any merit. Glen thinks if Rush was
more objective and acknowledged that Democrats have some good
views that more Democrats would tune into Rush's show.

"We don't hear that from you, Rush," Glen says. "It's just black
and white, and it's a little bit of a turn-off. There's a hell of
a market out there - there are a lot of Democrats who would tune
you in more often if there was some objectivity there."

Rush understands the point that Glen is making, but it's untrue
that Rush has never said anything good about any Democrats. Rush
does not consider himself to be an intractable right-winger, but
he does consider the Democratic leadership in Congress to be a
bunch of phonies. Rush points out that the people and beliefs he
supports are continually ridiculed, twisted, and misanalyzed, and
his show is a small media island which exposes the hypocrisy on
the left.

This idea of objectivity seems to be a one-way street; Rush has
to be "objective," but this is not a requirement of the rest of
the media. The media has misreported and misquoted Reagan,
Buchanan, and so forth, and nobody challenges them for that. It
also seems that the only way a conservative can "grow" and be
"enlightened" is to become more liberal.

Glen says that the Republican party is going to have to move in
that direction if it has any hope for the future. Rush points out
that the Democratic party won this year only because it moved to
the right; had Bill Clinton and Al Gore come forth as liberals
like Dukakis and Mondale, they would have lost. Bush, on the
other hand, got into trouble precisely because he moved to the
left, and thus Rush doesn't buy Glen's argument.

Glen doesn't think the Democrats had anything to do with the
election; had Bush dumped Quayle and chosen Kemp or Dole as VP,
he would have won. Rush says that the voters don't vote according
to the Vice President. Leadership has to come from the
Presidential candidate; if this leadership is missing, the VP
choice will not matter a hill of beans.

Bush governed as a moderate after campaigning as a conservative,
and this is what got him into trouble. Glen is silent for a few
seconds, with the only sound being that of a truck driving by,
and so Rush gets a little concerned about Glen's safety. Glen
speaks up, admitting that he is still breathing, albeit
shivering.

Rush thanks him for calling, especially since he had to do so
from a cold phone booth in a bad area of Oakland. Rush wonders if
EIB should follow Glen's advice and pick one day a month to be a
"Rush Grows Day." Rush would spend this day finding something
"good and objective" about Democrats.

"Let's do that," Rush says, but the EIB staff expresses their
doubts that Rush can fill three hours by saying good things about
Democrats. Rush promises to try this bold experiment in radio
broadcasting, and he'll take careful notice as to whether his
ratings go up.

Phone   Dave from Lincoln, NB

Dave is not a right-winger, but he voted Republican, not because
he voted for Bush, but because he voted for the people behind the
President, such as Quayle. Dave wants to talk about the
procedures for changing an emergency lightbulb in the Rocky Flats
nuclear power plant. Rush recalls that it takes 43 men over 1000
hours and 33 steps to change the bulb.

He says that this is true, but he points out that it is not an
ordinary lightbulb - it's a safety light which will warn workers
when a "criticality" such as high radiation leakage occurs. This
is not the same as the flashing red light on a police car, which
could cause riots in Los Angeles. Rush mentions that Rodney King
recently stated that because of his beating he can now
"understand" how the slaves felt.

Rush understands what the lightbulb means and its purpose, but he
still doesn't understand why its replacement needs so many steps.
It used to take only 12 guys and 4 hours to replace the
lightbulb, but this has been changed to 43 people and 1,080
hours. Dave says that it can still take only four hours; a lot of
the 33 steps are simple redundancy steps which go in effect only
if something goes wrong.

Rush says that a lot of the steps include 24 and 72 hour delays,
and as long as a 2 week delay before the bulb can be replaced.
Dave doesn't agree with all of this, but he thinks some of this
was taken out of context. Rush says that he just read the
procedures directly from the news story, and it still seems
ridiculous to him that it takes 1,000 hours to change a
lightbulb.

*BREAK*

Rush met yesterday with some potential advertisers who have
developed a voice-activated VCR timer. Rush has always been
amazed how setting a clock can bring an educated society to its
knees. People who can use computers, word processors,
spreadsheets, and such break out in a cold sweat when they have
to program their VCRs. Thus, all sorts of devices have been
developed for this purpose.

The VCR-Plus remote is one such device, but the new voice-
activated gadget is even more amazing. Once it is configured for
the user's equipment and voice, the device prompts the user to
speak the information it needs - channel, day, starting and
ending times, etc.

The device learns each individual user's voice, and users can
even give commands such as "fast forward," "rewind," or whatever.
Users can even customize the commands they want the VCR to
respond to. The voice-activated remote even has a "ZAP IT"
function which speeds the tape forward for 60 seconds.

Even though this device couldn't be simpler, Rush has no doubt
that some people will have problems with it since they seem to
want a VCR that can read their minds. Rush warns his listeners
that this will not happen soon; people will have to wait at least
until Clinton's second term or maybe even Perot's Presidency
before machines will be able to read their minds.

*BREAK*

Rush adds that the new voice-activated VCR timer can learn up to
four different people's voices, regardless of what accents they
have.

Phone   Marjorie from Virginia Beach, VA

Marjorie notes that Clinton's new western White House in
Summerland is close to Hollywood, and she wonders how many
underground tunnels it will have so that Madonna and others can
get in and out unseen. Rush bets that there is an underwater
tunnel that will use submarines for this purpose.

--
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!)