Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show for Thursday, November 18, 1993

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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, November 18, 1993

by John Switzer

This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1993 by John Switzer.
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November 18, 1993

LIMBAUGH WATCH

November 18, 1993 - It's now day 303 (day 322 for the rich and
the dead) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal") and 381
days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air
with 636 radio affiliates (with more than 20 million listeners
weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national rating of
3.7), and a newsletter with over 370,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction
best-seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million
copies sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster
stopped printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things
Ought To Be" has been on the NY Times paperback non-fiction
best-seller list for nine weeks and is currently at number one.
Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," after having sold over
600,000 copies since November 3rd, has opened on the NY Times
best-seller list at number one.

NEWS

o       Hindus are suing San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to prevent
park officials from removing a rock which Hindus, Buddhists, and
New Agers have turned into a shrine. The bullet-shaped concrete
rock is believed to have been part of a traffic barrier and was
abandoned in the park in 1989 by a truck driver who wanted to
lighten his load. Devotees of the rock, though, quickly
discovered it, and covered it with chalk markings and surrounded
it with flowers and a rock garden.

o       Sea explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau is suing a
California dairy because its billboards showing the company's
bovine mascot Flo in the ocean wearing scuba gear are captioned
"Jacques Cowsteau." Cousteau's lawyer, Charlene Bush, insists
that this is an exploitation and misappropriation of her client's
name. She also insisted that the ads have made a "liar and a
chump" out of Cousteau by making it appear as if he's "out there
flogging milk." Cousteau, who does not endorse commercial
products, is suing for $1.2 million.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Tuesday,
November 21, 1991:

o       Rush was astounded at the latest folly of President Bush, who
announced that in addition to signing the Civil Rights Act he
would also announce the end of racial quotas for federal
agencies. This, to Rush, indicated that Bush knew that the Civil
Rights Act was nothing more than a quota bill. However, to make
matters worse, Bush got so much heat from liberals and the civil
rights coalition that he almost immediately reversed his decision
to end federal racial quotas. Thus, Bush made three errors - 1)
signing the Act in the first place, 2) announcing the end of
federal quotas (which in itself was good but showed the folly of
the latest Civil Rights Act), and 3) reversing his intention to
end the federal quotas.

Rush noted that ending federal hiring quotas wouldn't make any
sense if the Civil Rights Act was signed in the first place, so
Bush's actions made no sense at all. This whole situation showed
that the White House knew it had made a grave error about the
Civil Rights Act, and the reason for this entire debacle was the
White House's fears about David Duke. None of this would have
happened had Bush stood his ground and refused to sign a quota
bill.

Bush also changed his mind about his trip to Japan, so since
Cuomo heavily criticized Bush for not taking the trip, it
appeared that Bush was responding with knee-jerk reactions to
"every syllable of criticism that appears in the media." Rush
lamented how Bush was serving up every issue on a silver platter
to the liberal Democrats. The best thing liberal Democrats could
do, Rush noted, was keep their mouths shut."

Dawn from Laguna Niguel, CA regretted how President Reagan hadn't
chosen a real conservative for his Vice President in 1980, but
Rush said Bush "hasn't totally deserted the cause." However, the
worst part of everything was that the White House appeared to be
dysfunctional and in total disarray, with President Bush seeming
to cave in to every little bit of liberal criticism. Dawn thought
that Bush had reverted on all of the things that he campaigned
for, and that he only talked conservatism at election time.

Rush wondered if anybody was "running the show" in the White
House, and theorized that there must have been a number of
competing groups in the White House staff and administration.
This was the only explanation for Bush's "embarrassing and
nonsensical" behavior.

President Bush wasn't getting any help from the press, either -
on ABC News, Peter Jennings led one of his stories by saying,
"President Bush with some needed help on the economy - the Soviet
economy." Meanwhile, at a speech at SUNY, Buffalo, Vladimir
Posner said that the United States had a "duty and obligation" to
help the Soviets with economic aid.

o       Rush noted that in the latest episode of Star Trek the Next
Generation Captain Picard said "the most sacred right we have is
the right to choose." Speaking of the right to choose, Washington
state finally concluded the vote counting on the state's abortion
initiative - voters approved the initiative by less than 5,000
votes, which meant that abortion would still be legal in
Washington state even if Roe vs. Wade were overturned.

o       The Atlanta Braves met with Clyde Bellecourt of AIM to talk
about Bellecourt's complaints about the Braves' logo and Tomahawk
Chop. Rush noted that in the previous day's show, he quoted an
ACLU official as saying "just because something offends somebody,
that doesn't make it illegal."

o       Liberal supporters of Robert Kerrey were claiming that his joke
about lesbians wasn't really making fun of lesbians but of Jerry
Brown. Rush observed that the liberal defense of Kerrey was in
sharp contrast to what they would have done had Dan Quayle or any
other conservative told this joke. Once again, the liberals
demonstrated the clear double standard that existed in theirs
dealing with liberals and conservatives.

o       Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA) was "unrepentant and defiant" as
he responded to the Senate Ethic Committee's rebuke of him for
his part in the Keating savings and loan scandal. Cranston
claimed that he was "just the one that was caught" and that
"everybody does it." Other senators sharply rejected Cranston's
remarks.

o       Dr. Jack Kevorkian had his medical license suspended, but he
insisted that he would continue to "help people commit suicide."
Rush noted that Kevorkian's statement was a tantamount admission
that he intended to keep on "killing people."

o       Timmy the Gorilla, who was moved from the Cincinnati Zoo to the
Bronx Zoo for mating purposes, had not yet been able to mate with
the Bronx Zoo's four female gorillas. The zoo keepers were
mystified by Timmy's lack of interest, and said they were trying
to find a way to encourage Timmy's amorous advances.

Gorilla experts said that gorillas' habits were "opposite to
man's in sexual interaction," as mating normally occurred in the
early morning hours and only when females were in heat. However,
naughty movies, television, and "mood music" hadn't gotten Timmy
interested at all in any of his four potential mates. Rush
suggested putting up some pictures of Molly Yard up on the wall -
this would make any female gorilla look good.

o       The Arcata, CA local paper had a story with the headline "No
Dittos for Limbaugh." Some Arcata citizens evidently wanted to
have their city officially welcome Rush to town when he came to
visit on the Rush to Excellence Tour. The matter took up several
town meetings, and one of the concerns was a previous visit by
Helen Caldicott, who Rush described as a deceitful anti-nuclear
proponent with "many screws loose."

City officials said that Arcata, one of the few cities that
passed resolutions supporting deserters from the Gulf War,
welcomed Caldicott because she had a "legitimate political
purpose" in travelling. They considered Rush, though, to be
"nothing more than an entertainer looking to make money."

The irony of the situation, though, was that Caldicott, who had
been honored by the city, had recently attacked the timber
industry, one of the city's main industries. Caldicott insisted
that "the timber industry is no different than Nazi Germany.
Those logs on those trucks are no different than Jews being taken
to concentration camps."

Rush recalled that Caldicott was also the one who said "Mikhail
Gorbachev is just like Jesus Christ - he comes with plans for
world peace and is ignored." Not surprisingly, the city of Arcata
was regretting their decision to honor this particular nutcase.

o       In Provo, Utah a group of Brigham Young University coeds
proposed stopping campus violence against women by imposing a
nighttime curfew on men. The women wanted to implement a curfew
for Thursday evenings, claiming that this would not only give men
an idea of the restrictions women face, but also give women the
right to walk across the university without being afraid. Jill
Thompson said "I want to walk anywhere I want, anytime I want
without being attacked." Rush remarked "you wouldn't get far in
New York, babe."

o       Researchers in New Jersey were hoping that "contraceptive
salt-licks" would thin out a rising deer population that was
damaging private property. Rutger University researchers were
given the task of coming up with the contraceptives. Rush noted
that if human beings would be allowed to exercise their natural
roles, these deer could be easily thinned by hunting.

o       Mary from Montgomery, IL thought a lot of the country's
economic problems could be traced back to the elimination of
deductions for credit card interest and other non-home loan
interest. She had $1700 in credit card interest deductions in
1985, plus $700 in car loan interest, and $200 in medical costs.
These deductions were responsible for about $600 in a tax refund
that Mary and her family were able to save and use to buy things.

Rush said that the 1986 tax deal was designed to remove a great
many tax deductions, but with lower income tax rates as a
compensation. Rush predicted then that the deductions would be
eliminated, but that the rates would slowly inch their way back
up. This was what happened, so if Mary was ending up with less
money to spend, it wasn't because she couldn't deduct credit card
interest, but because her taxes had been steadily increased.

Rush also noted that it was foolish for people to judge their tax
status by the size of their refund. Getting a larger refund
simply meant that the government was shafting you more than ever.
The answer was to cut taxes again, and perhaps to bring back some
tax deductions. The bite from people's paychecks was far larger
than anything people could get back through tax refunds. Mary,
though, felt that people should get something back for "the
things we do simply to survive."

Mary thought that Rush's plans and suggestions were fine for
people making a million dollars a year, but that they didn't
relate to her and her reality. Rush reiterated his point that
Mary should stop looking at getting something back from the
government and instead focus on preventing the government from
getting her money in the first place.

Rush pointed to the example of FICA deductions, in which the
employee and employer supposedly both pay half of the Social
Security deductions. In actuality, though, the employer is paying
nothing - the money being paid by the employer is actually the
employee's, and the government is simply taking it before it can
reach the employee. In this manner, the employee doesn't realize
the full tax bite that he or she is really paying.

In the same manner, people should start concentrating on avoiding
getting "financially raped" every paycheck. When you get
something back at tax time, that simply means you are overpaying
the government. Most people should aim for a "No refund, No
payout" on April 15th. The only real solution, though, was to get
people in government who would lower taxes and government
spending.

David from Thousand Oaks, CA thought the American people had lost
their resourcefulness - Americans should learn the tax law
instead of expecting a rebate on their credit card purchases. For
example, if Mary took care of another woman's child, then the
second woman could not only go to work, but Mary could take all
sort of tax deductions for running a business. There were plenty
of incentives for people to go out and take risks; certainly more
people would fail then succeed, but David noted that if someone
quit after only one failure, they would be "dead meat."

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MORNING UPDATE

Almost over night, liberals have discovered family values and are
now performing studies and giving speeches about what everyone
else has known all along, which is that the disintegration of the
traditional nuclear family is at the roots of society's most
serious social problems. The latest such study was done by the
Urban Institute which found that sons of working mothers are 45%
more likely to have sex at an earlier age than the sons of
stay-at-home mothers.

The irony of all this is that the researchers are at a loss to
explain why unsupervised teenage boys have sex at earlier ages
than those whose mothers are at home, watching them, and asking
their sons just what the heck they're doing. Layton Coup,
coauthor of the Urban Institute study, said he couldn't explain
the results of his study, but he insisted that more sex education
was necessary to solve the problem.

Rush tells liberals that this subject is a no-brainer; kids don't
need yet more classes showing them how to put a condom on a
banana. This nonsense is the problem, not the solution. The real
solution is two parents, at home, telling kids what's right and
what's wrong. As Perot might say, "problem solved - thank you -
see you next time."

FIRST HOUR

Rush promises some mop-up comments" on NAFTA, but he first wants
to remark on all the stories and quotes he's hearing about
Clinton's "leadership." Tom Foley even stated that he had never
seen such great leadership in his 30 years in the House.

Rush, though, points out that it was 134 Republican votes which
passed NAFTA, given that the gridlock on this issue came from
Clinton's own party. Had Clinton presented this plan properly and
worked on it six months ago, instead of six weeks, he'd have
gotten it passed far more easily.

Meanwhile, the spending cut bill presented by Rep. Tim Penny
(D-MN) and Rep. John Kasich (R-OH) is still persona non grata on
Capitol Hill. This bill, which is what Clinton said last spring
he wanted - additional spending cuts in the fall, would provide
$103 billion in spending cuts over the past 5 years. Speaker
Foley and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, along with the NY
Times, have rejected the bill out of hand.

Both Foley and Bentsen said that they didn't want these spending
cuts to result in any true deficit savings, but rather more money
which could be spent on other programs. Yet for the past 12 years
the Democrats have been claiming that the deficit was the number
one enemy of the American people and would be the source of doom
for the American economy and people.

Now that there's a bipartisan bill which presents real spending
cuts of $103 billion, it's been rejected out of hand because
"savings" and "spending cuts" to liberal Democrats mean only one
thing - using those funds for other programs. In this case, that
other program is health care, and this desire on the part of the
Democrats to find new funding sources for health care is a
tantamount admission that it's simply untrue that Clinton's
health care program isn't going to cost any more money.

So, health care will cost more than the Clintons are claiming,
and it won't help that a number of Democratic congressman have
accepted pork payoffs from the President so NAFTA would pass.
Rush digresses to note that the amount of pork which Clinton
spread out was not that much, relatively speaking; it was
slightly less than what President Reagan distributed to get his
tax cuts implemented. Thus, whether one likes this form of
vote-buying or not, it's nothing new.

However, the American people are fed up with this sort of
politics as usual, and Rush thinks it's about time that this sort
of thing is stopped. The politics of the matter, though, is that
all of those who accepted these pork payoffs will now be eager to
demonstrate to their constituents that they haven't surrendered
their principles and aren't up for sale to the highest bidder.

Rush therefore thinks that this will put pressure on Congress to
pass the Penny/Kasich spending cuts bill, with the savings
actually being applied to reduce the deficit. Passing this bill
will be one way congressmen can show that they really are serious
about cutting the deficit.

Rush adds that some Republicans who were in favor of NAFTA are
now a bit confused about how they feel about the agreement's
passage in the House; these Republicans simply don't like how
Clinton is scoring so many victories. These people, though,
should get some backbone and not be afraid that the President can
be right once. Clinton did the right thing, but this is nothing
to be frightened of; rather, Republicans should be pointing out
that they have long been doing the right thing.

Just as the vote on NAFTA will have ramifications on the
Penny/Kasich bill, Rush is confident that it will have some
effect on health care, too. First, though, he wants to praise a
courageous and selfless woman who stepped aside and shelved her
number one passion in favor of her husband's interest and
passion. This woman, who is now the role model for all women
everywhere, decided that for the good of all, she should
subordinate to her husband and take a back seat. Rush thus
salutes Hillary Rodham Clinton for walking behind her husband the
first time in this administration.

Rush adds that there is now evidence that the pharmaceutical
industry has lost more jobs this year because of Clinton and the
First Lady than what will be lost under NAFTA. He promises more
about this and about the Clintons' investments, and how those
investments benefited from the Clintons' attacks against the
health care industry in general and the pharmaceutical industry
in particular.

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Items

o       Today's the "Great American Smokeout," with everyone
encouraging Americans not to smoke. Rush, though, wonders how
health care will be paid for, if nobody's smoking. He theorizes
that the only way to make the Smokeout work is if nobody gets any
health care today and instead stays sick.

o       The Senate has voted to ban 19 so-called "assault-style
weapons." However, just in case someone thinks this ban will have
any impact on crime at all, Rush notes that less than 1% of all
crime in the U.S. is committed with these sorts of "assault-style
weapons." This bill, which is being hailed as a "major step
forward" is thus nothing but a worthless symbolic action.
Fortunately, though, the Senate did preserve Americans' rights by
refusing to ban assault bricks and filleting knives.

Rush notes that New York City had 11 murders last night, three
more than the usual. What's truly amazing about this fact,
though, is that it made any news at all. Rush recalls how Senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan called this sort of thing "defining
deviancy down," in which something like the St. Valentine's Day
Massacre, which killed all of six people, was considered a
horrific crime seventy years ago; yet today, 11 people getting
murdered barely is considered worthy of putting on the news
wires. "I guess we need more vigilantes out there," Rush notes.
"They're just not trying!"

o       Before concluding the segment, Rush would like to thank his
loyal listeners and fans since his second book, "See, I Told You
So," which opened at number one on the NY Times best-seller list,
is still number one on next week's list. The paperback version of
"The Way Things Ought to Be" has also jumped from number seven to
number one on next week's list.

Furthermore, although the original printing of "See, I Told You
So" was 2 million copies, Simon and Schuster had to order another
200,000 copies of it. Rush notes that he's hearing from people
that one of their favorite parts in this book is his discussion
of the Pilgrims and how they were the original American
socialists; however, these people learned the folly of their ways
really fast and quickly changed their society.

Rush is stunned, though, how his second book, although it already
has had a record first printing, has had to print more copies
after only two weeks. He thanks his listeners for showing America
so much about themselves and him, even though the publishing
world hates him. One London newspaper even proclaimed his editor,
Judith Regan, to be the architect of destruction of western
civilization.

*BREAK*

George Will's column today is about how Clinton is arriving late
to the conclusion that the breakup of the family is the root
cause to today's societal problems. Will is showing how
conservatives should claim victory on this issue, which is an
important thing since liberals really don't know how to fix these
problems which they've caused.

Rush mentioned this on his TV show last night, and he's received
a lot of mail asking how liberals could be blamed for this. Rush
has talked about this previously on his shows, not to mention in
both of his books, but he's glad to talk about it again. At the
central root of the family break-up is illegitimacy and the
break-up of marriage. There's less of a sense of commitment
between people getting married, given how marriage is being
devalued throughout society, even to the point of non-married
couples getting all the same benefits as married couples have.
Getting all the benefits without any of the responsibilities has
devalued marriage in society, and liberals have sponsored the
advancement of this agenda.

Similarly, liberals have refused to allow black and white
absolutes when morality is discussed; instead, they have defined
"open-mindedness" as one's ability to see any subject in terms of
grey. Furthermore, it is liberals whose policies have resulted in
government assuming the role of the wage-earning father in far
too many families today; if a government check replaces the check
a father would bring home from work, then why have a father or a
two-parent marriage?

*BREAK*

Phone   Chris from San Antonio, TX

Chris is glad that the House has passed NAFTA, especially since
he thinks Perot is totally off-base with his claim that NAFTA
will cause jobs to be lost to Mexico. Rush notes that some jobs
may be lost, and Chris agrees that a few might be lost. However,
the United States economy is far too strong for it to be damaged
by something like this. He points out that the U.S. is the only
country which can provide enough goods not only for its own
people, but for the rest of the world.

Rush says this is not true with some electronics, but it most
definitely is true agriculturally - the U.S. feeds the world. He
agrees with Chris that NAFTA is about far more than jobs, and in
the long term sense it's true that any jobs lost because of NAFTA
won't matter. Of course, those who lose their jobs would have a
different and far more personal view, but this is part of a
changing economy.

The bottom line about NAFTA, though, is that the United States
has "just discovered a zillion customers" and has expanded its
potential markets. In fact, Rush thinks the U.S. shouldn't be
satisfied with Mexico but keep on heading south until it's
trading with the entire hemisphere. The U.S. should be the
dominant economic force of this hemisphere, especially since
Latin America is turning out to be one of the fastest growth
regions in the world. Mexico should thus be the first of many
steps as the U.S. expands its customer base.

Phone   David from Louisville, KY

David congratulates Rush on what he did to help get NAFTA passed,
but Rush wonders if the administration still considers him to be
a "distinguished American," which is what Al Gore said during the
debate with Perot. Rush suspects that his tenure as a
distinguished American has ended, but David disagrees; "you'll
always be a distinguished American," he tells states.

David thinks the reason Ross Perot was so opposed to NAFTA was
that he feared it would make his Alliance Airport free trade zone
lose business. Rush says he has heard this before, but Rush
doesn't know what someone with $3.2 billion really wants out of
life.

Perhaps Perot is motivated to earn ever more money, no matter how
much he already has, but even if so, would Perot go to the effort
of opposing NAFTA, just to protect one of his investments? Or is
it possible Perot opposed NAFTA because of politics, hoping that
he could garner support by playing a populist tune and building
on people's basic fears?

One thing which has always bothered Rush about the super-rich is
that they try to convince everyone that their great wealth hasn't
changed them, that they are still just "plain folk." To make this
point, these rich then criticize the very people they do business
with. This is how the Kennedys have worked - nobody has
criticized the Kennedys for their wealth simply because the
Kennedys are full of "good, liberal compassion."

Similarly, Perot has tried to make this same case for himself,
yet nobody grows up and inherits $3.2 billion. Perot could be
teaching people a lot about wealth and creating it, given that it
does no good to be a champion of the working man if the working
man doesn't have a job. Perot could be teaching people how wealth
is created and works, because this is what creates more jobs.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the Chinese government
has endorsed the concept of a "wealthy class," saying that the
development of wealthy people is a "necessary consequence of
accelerated economic reform." Furthermore, the Chinese government
is acknowledging that allowing people to be wealthy fosters and
encourages competition and a growing economy.

Thus, even the commies are realizing that in order to create
wealth, you have to allow some people to get rich. This is also
true for a recovering economy, yet to have rich guys such as
Perot play their populist game is highly hypocritical. Perot
knows that to have a growing economy, wealth has to be created
and some people have to get rich, yet he ignores this truth to
pretend he's just another working man.

Rush thus doesn't know what Perot's real motivations were in
opposing NAFTA. He can't understand why anyone with $3.2 billion
would put himself on the line just to save one airport in Texas.
Perhaps the free trade zone at this airport will bring in a lot
of money, but how much money does Perot really want or need?

Rush is not a member of the super-rich so he doesn't know if they
ever feel that they have enough. He recalls how when he lived in
Sacramento seven years ago, he was making about $42,000 a year.
He had been in town two years and had met a number of the town's
"movers and shakers." One of these guys invited Rush to his
house, and Rush was amazed at what he found. For example, there
were 18 cases of vodka alone in his basement; this guy simply
preferred to do his liquor shopping only once every five years.

This guy told Rush that he carried about $3,000 in cash every
day, which also amazed Rush. Rush asked why the guy carried this
much money, and he replied that he sometimes spent this much
money, not to mention that he also wanted to make sure someone
holding him up would be satisfied with his take.

Rush still can't understand such an approach to life, but
although he can understand how Perot could be mean enough to
oppose NAFTA out of purely selfish reasons, he doesn't know if
this is really the case. Perot, though, is also being accused of
opposing last spring's $16 billion economic stimulus package
because he feared it would actually help the economy, which in
turn would raise interest rates and lower his bond yields.

Rush doesn't know if Perot really is this selfish, but he does
think it's very disingenuous for someone with $3.2 billion to
refuse to be honest about wealth, how it's created, and how
creating wealth will always produce some wealthy people.

*BREAK*

Phone   Steve from Belleville, IL

Steve thinks Rush may be a bit premature in considering the
liberals' support of family values to be a victory. He says that
the liberals never get things right, and they aren't getting
things right now. For example, Clinton isn't calling the lack of
family values the problem, but rather is considering it to be the
result of crime and such. When Clinton was asked about this last
week, he said that the problem was crime and drugs, and that
these had to be fixed before the family could be fixed. Steve,
though, thinks this is exactly opposite, with the problems with
the family leading to the problems of drugs and crime.

Rush agrees with Steve's analysis of the true root cause of these
problems, but he's not sure that Steve is accurately interpreting
the President's position. However, it is accurate to say that
liberals may be recognizing the problems but that they don't know
what the real solutions are. Rush doubts he'll ever see a liberal
on one of the TV talk shows talking about the need for moral
absolutes or for defining a clear idea of right and wrong.

Liberals instead will try to portray government as the number one
ingredient in their recipe for solving these problems; they'll
use this problem as they've used every other one - to justify
their desire for a bigger government and more redistribution of
wealth. Steve says that liberals won't pass any laws about moral
issues because they'll then get into arguments about whose
morality to use; this is why they'd rather implement such things
in other ways.

Rush says that Jesse Jackson is the biggest such dichotomy; he'll
go into schools when the cameras are off and chastise students
for not turning in their own classmates for selling drugs,
bringing weapons to school, and beating other students up.
Jackson will point out that all of these students would turn in a
teacher if they discovered a KKK robe in his locker, but they
wouldn't turn in a fellow student. However, as Jackson points out
to these students, they are being victimized more by their fellow
blacks than by the KKK. However, Jackson will say such things
only in private gatherings, never in public.

*BREAK*

Phone   Dale from Lakewood, OH

Dale congratulates Rush for his effect on the NAFTA vote, and
adds that Rush is probably one of the most entertaining speakers
alive. He adds that all of the great leaders of the past were
great leaders, too. Rush asks Dale to hold that thought over the
break because he'd like to hear more of such logic.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Phone   Dale from Lakewood, OH (continued)

Dale says that all the great leaders of the past have been great
orators who could persuade people to follow them - for example,
FDR, Winston Churchill, and Hitler. Rush sighs and notes that
Dale "had to throw Hitler in the mix! You could have said
Gorbachev!"

Dale says that America does need real leaders, so he thinks Rush
has a responsibility to "go into politics and be the biggest
leader you can be." Rush thinks he is fulfilling his
responsibilities and draws an analogy to what happened with Pat
Robertson, who built up a very large and loyal audience on the
700 Club. He then made a massive target out of himself by running
for President, and after all was said and done, he went back to
the 700 Club and things are different now.

Rush has said many times that getting an audience is a far
different task than getting them to vote for you, which is why
the carcasses of those who have tried to go from broadcasting
into politics are strewn across the American landscape. Thus,
although Rush appreciates Dale's suggestion, he's not tempted to
go into politics.

Dale says he can wait, given that Rush is not going to go away
any time soon. Rush agrees with that, although there are always
those who are claiming that Rush is on his last legs and will be
going away "sometime soon." He thanks Dale for his kind
suggestions, though, and for his call.

********

Nationally syndicated columnist Tony Snow has written a column
about Hillary Clinton, her attacks against the health care field,
and how her investments have increased because of them. Rush
recalls how he thought Vince Foster's suicide was pretty strange
at the time, and he asked a lot of questions which the mainstream
press should have been asking.

For example, was Foster handling the Clintons' investment advice?
Also, considering that Hillary had spent many hours bashing the
pharmaceutical business, was she selling short in those stocks?
Rush also was convinced at the time that Foster's suicide was
motivated by something which hadn't yet been revealed publicly.

Three weeks ago, though, Businessweek reported that Hillary
Clinton had invested in a firm that did sell pharmaceuticals
short. Today's column by Snow reveals some more information:

"Words matter. When Hillary Rodham Clinton assailed insurance
company greed several weeks ago, insurance company stocks took a
dive. Aflax shares fell 8.7% in five trading days; Life
Reassurance Corp. values dropped to a 52-week low, shaken by what
one analyst called the `Hillary factor.' That sort of chaos has
become routine for those dedicated to the healing arts.

"The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse reports that drug stock
prices have slid more than 47% over the past two years, and
broader health care stocks - technology and insurance, etc. -
have tumbled 41%. In all, fearful investors have yanked roughly
$2 billion in equity from companies that supply drugs, medical
equipment, and medical insurance to the American public.

"This panic has affected lots of people. Cash-strapped firms have
had to fire upwards of 60,000 employees and suspend research on
everything from drugs that treat AIDS to optic lasers that kill
cancer cells without chemotherapy or surgery. Patients who had
hope for new cures now must wait or do without."

Thus, 60,000 people have lost jobs since Hillary Clinton started
bashing the pharmaceutical industry, which is a far greater
number of jobs than will be lost because of NAFTA. Snow reports
that the Catalyst Institute "finally fingers a culprit for this
calamity" in their study "Political Rhetoric and Stock Price
Volatility: a Case Study."

The study concludes that President Clinton's statements and
initiatives are responsible for most of the drug industry's
crisis. The study estimates that the return on pharmaceutical
stocks has fallen 41% more than one might expect under normal
times, with most of this drop due to Clinton's "health care
schemes." Snow also writes:

"The market devaluation has hammered not the rich or the mighty,
but the humbler population of workers and retirees. This is
because pension funds, mutual funds, and other so-called
institutional investors hold nearly 60% of the nation's
pharmaceutical stocks. While Clinton-speak has hurt millions, a
few wiley investors have done just fine. One of them is Hillary
Rodham Clinton, whose single, largest personal investment is a
nearly $100,000 stake in a group called Value Partners One.

"The partnership, run by Little Rock money manager William Smith,
invests aggressively in a variety of stocks. It also allocates
part of its portfolio to short selling, a strategy for profiting
from a stock's decline by borrowing and selling shares at a high
price, rebuying them at a low price, and pocketing the profit and
returning the shares to the original lender.

"According to reports filed with the Office of Government Ethics,
Value Partners One has moved increasingly into health care stocks
in the last 18 months, especially in its short sales holding. The
fund, as of October 31, 1991, contained five medical stocks; the
number had grown to at least 18 by May, 1992, including 13 in the
short-sales group. Six of the ten stocks in the short-sales
roster listed on December 31, 1992 were related to health care.

"The December short-sales report listed profits of nearly
$275,000 on an outlay of $775,000, an impressive 35.5% return. It
thus seems likely the group gambled successfully on the
expectation that the Clinton plan would shake up the medical
industry. There's nothing illegal or improper about any of this,
and Mr. Smith deserves credit for skillful management of the
fund. He also scores points for discretion - understandably wary
of the press, he will not provide details about the fund's makeup
during 1993, and cautions that government documents could give a
misleading impression about investments since they feature
snapshots of the partnership."

Hillary Clinton late spring put her investments in a blind trust,
so Snow concludes by writing:

"Since the White House has declared health care a moral crusade,
the public deserves answers to three question with important
ethical implications: 1) What trades did Value Partners make in
1993 when Mrs. Clinton's holdings were not blind? 2) What
information did the partnership give her about the fund? 3) Do
conflict of interest statutes apply to Hillary Rodham Clinton?"

In addition to this, federal authorities are investigating a
possible conflict of interest with the Rose law firm, of which
Hillary was once a partner, and which was paid more than $400,000
to defend and later attack the business practices of a failed
savings and loan in Little Rock, which is now being investigated
by the Justice Department.

The firm, which included senior partners Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Webster Hubble, and Vincent Foster, initially helped Madison
Guarantee Savings and Loan stay in business with arguments before
state banking regulators; when this same savings and loan failed,
the Rose law firm sued it on behalf of the U.S. government. The
failure of the savings and loan cost U.S. taxpayers $50 million,
and the savings and loan was owned by a long-term friend and
business partner of the Clintons. Meanwhile, files being sought
by the Justice Department cannot be located by the Clintons.

Rush noted that Ed Meese was hounded out of Washington for far
less than this, so Rush is certain these two stories will be
pursued for some time to come. He predicts that there will be a
lot said about both cases in the coming months.

*BREAK*

Rush understands that some people have no idea of what their
investing consultants are doing, and it's also true that there's
nothing wrong about selling short. Joe Kennedy made quite a
fortune doing this. The only reason Rush is talking about this is
because the Clintons have made a career out of condemning those
people who work for a living and who benefited during the 80s.

Those who sell short are making a calculated risk to make lots of
money, yet when other people do this, the Clintons are livid and
outraged. What's good for the Clintons is evidently not good for
anyone else, not to mention how they create for political profit
one villain after another out of industries such as the
pharmaceuticals.

Phone   Emmett from St. Louis, MO

Emmett is an "anti-NAFTA dittohead" and is glad to have Rush
back; he says it was hard for him during the NAFTA debate to
listen to Rush and his show, especially when he went off
passionately with his pro-NAFTA comments. Rush says he is fully
aware of how some of his listeners must have felt, and Emmett
says that he now knows how liberals must feel when they listen to
Rush.

Rush welcomes him back to the show, but asks if he ever thought
about turning the show off for good. "Nah, you're too lovable,"
Emmett comments. Rush appreciates hearing that and is glad that
this day is turning into a "day of healing" between him and his
audience. Rush asks Emmett what his fears are about NAFTA, and
Emmett replies that the agreement will freeze in place all of the
liberal-sponsored environmental and regulatory laws; now these
laws and regulations can be eliminated only if a NAFTA-tribunal
agrees.

Rush has heard this argument, but as he's said before, if the US
allows such a tribunal to override its Constitution and dictate
terms to it, then the US has major problems, not with NAFTA, but
with its system of government. However, the US is going to be
selling another $50 billion of agricultural products to Mexico
over the next five years, and this is going to have many
trickle-down benefits throughout the economy. And this is just
one part of the economy which will see such export gains.

*BREAK*

Phone   Barbara from Eureka Springs, AR

Barbara says that she saw a very large article about the Clintons
and their investments in last Sunday's Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Rush says that the national press has not yet picked up on this
story, but he's seen story after story in the Arkansas papers
about it. Barbara says this investigation has been going on for
some time in Arkansas, and she thinks it's amazing that the
Clintons can't find the records which the Justice Department
wants. Added to this are the possible connections between Vincent
Foster's suicide and these other stories.

Rush predicts this story will eventually get out of Arkansas at
some point, and Barbara hopes so; "we lived it, and now everybody
else should, too!" She adds that she's been a life-long
Republican, except for when she voted for Kennedy; she's done her
mea culpas for that, and since then has stayed with the
Republicans, from Nixon through Bush.

However, she's angry with the Republicans right now because they
don't have a leader. She doesn't think Rush should be that leader
since the country needs him more as a spokesman than as a
politician. However, the GOP should have a leader standing up to
praise Clinton for the job he did in getting NAFTA passed, but at
the same time stressing that NAFTA was the creation of Reagan and
Bush.

Rush says that Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich have been saying
this; last night, for example, after NAFTA was passed, Democrats
and Republicans alternated at the House well to make their
speeches of thanks. When Armey came up, he said he just wanted to
remind everybody that 42% of the Democrats and 75% of Republicans
voted for NAFTA, so he hoped he had heard the last of "Republican
obstructionism."

Barbara says this is good, but wonders why the Republicans can't
get together more often than every four years. Rush says that the
Republican party is still in a shambles right now because of the
1992 elections, with a lot of fissures in evidence. A lot of
Republicans are trying to be the leader Barbara wants, but it
will take more than someone's self-declaration to make them the
leader of the party. This will happen, though, eventually.

Rush notes that his call screener, "health nut Bo Snerdley," has
just picked up some more fried cheese. He remarks that Bo won't
eat meat, chicken, or fish, but his sandwiches are made up of
bread, soaked in butter, and surrounded by "melted fat and
cheese." Then he puts French Fries on the side. Rush confesses
that "these health freaks bug me in a lot of ways with their
pompousness," and he wonders just who Bo thinks he's fooling with
his fat-filled diet.

Rush asks if Bo got him his pea soup, and when Bo replies no,
Rush wonders how he can keep propping up the pea industry, which
Hillary doesn't like, if Bo doesn't cooperate. Bo replies that
he's selling short in peas right now.

Getting back to the topic, Rush thinks Barbara and other
Republicans will be hearing more from Jack Kemp soon. There are
others, though, such as Bob Dole, who are trying to be the next
leader of the GOP, so Barbara should be patient and let things
shake out.

Barbara says she'll try to do this, but finds it hard to do so,
especially when Nightline last night decided to have Perot on
instead of a Republican. Rush says that there are Republican
careers waiting to be made on a number of issues, such as health
care, so the party will eventually get its leader.

Phone   Roger from Carefree, AZ

Roger is mad at the feminists who criticize Rush because all they
have to do is listen to Rush's show for themselves and they'd
find out that Rush is a nice guy who's kind and gentle to female
callers. Rush says that no liberal dares listen to his show
because then they'd have to listen to the truth, and that's a
very threatening thing to liberals.

Roger says his 94-year-old mother listens to Rush's show, and
she's a liberal, although he suspects "we're weakening her."
Roger notes that both he and his wife "light up" when Rush talks
to a woman, simply because Rush is so kind and compassionate to
women callers. Rush confesses that he has a crush on every woman
who calls his show, and Roger says that nobody could fault Rush
for how he treats women on his show.

Rush appreciates hearing that, but comments that many liberals
who criticize his show, never listen to it; when they're asked
why they don't trying listening once, they always reply "I don't
have to, I know what Limbaugh is!" Liberals construct their
little cocoons so they can live a comfortable life, and it's just
easier to portray Rush using cliches than by actually
intellectually evaluating him and what he says.

*BREAK*

Rush plays an oldie but a goodie from the EIB archives - as the
intro to "Wipeout" plays, a woman caller to the EIB listener
comment line says: "I saw you on 60 Minutes and I think that any
woman that isn't attracted to you, Rush, has to be a lesbian! Has
to be!" Rush`s response was to blow a raspberry in disbelief.

Phone   Chris from Newport News, VA

Chris heard Rush earlier talk about how eliminating tariffs via
NAFTA will improve the free market. Chris works with
international businessmen who teach others how to set up and run
their own business. These entrepreneurs are experiencing
phenomenal growth rates in Mexico, Brazil, Poland, Hungary, and
China. People in these places have been repressed economically
for some time, and they are ecstatic to finally be in business
for themselves. Chris thus thinks that if America continues what
it did with NAFTA, it can expand all over the world.

He adds that physicians in the UK are also expanding into private
practice, given how the English health care system works. Rush
notes that under the Clinton health care plan, physicians who
practice privately can't charge more than what their health care
alliance dictates; thus, why would doctors want to practice
privately if their salaries are still going to be capped? Chris
says that doctors could always go south of the border, and Rush
doesn't doubt that some doctors would set up shop in Tijuana
should the Clinton plan be implemented.

Phone   Terry from Elizabethtown, KY

Terry gives dittos from the "home of fast women and beautiful
horses." Rush says he thought the phrase was "home of beautiful
women and fast horses," but Terry rejects this, saying "I live
here." Terry is a small investor who invested in the Merck drug
company because CD return rates were so low; he has watched his
investment go from $50/share to $30/share since "Hillary hysteria
hit." Thus, he thinks Tony Snow's column is exactly right and
that Hillary is not hurting just the wealthy but little guys like
him as well.

Terry also wants to know why Mohammed Aideed, who used to be the
number one bad guy in Somalia, is now an okay guy. People seem to
have forgotten that 18 Americans died because of Aideed and
because Les Aspin didn't give them the support that their
commander requested. Rush sighs because this is true -
investigations are being held into every aspect of Tailhook, but
nobody seems to care about what happened in Mogadishu. Meanwhile,
Aideed is making appearances to the general public in Somalia.

*BREAK*

Phone   Don from Livermore, CA

Don gives "SITYS dittos" because he's just read Rush's second
book and thinks it's even better than the first one. He advises
everyone to purchase the book and use it "to fight off the
liberals." Rush notes that some spoilsport for Entertainment
Weekly reviewed the book and complained that Rush just ranted and
raved in it, and didn't know what he was talking about.

Rush, though, was using the NY Times in this book to prove his
own points about feminism and environmentalism, but the reviewer
totally misread what his intent was. Rush is thus glad that
people, such as Don, are realizing that this book is a source of
ammunition for those who want to present the truth to issues.

Don says that his real reason for calling is that last month the
Wall Street Journal had a story that reported "Clinton investment
agenda blossoms, but savings seem harder to cultivate." The story
detailed all the spending increases that are in the Clinton
budget, such as a 15% increase in highway spending and a 20%
increase in the Headstart program.

Rush says he does plan to get back to this, as well as Al Gore's
absurd claims for the savings he expects to come from his
"reinventing government" program. Supposedly, this plan would
save billions, but the real savings are minuscule. Rush thus
promises not to forget any of this stuff in the coming months.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o       "Come on home," Rush tells those anti-NAFTA dittoheads. "Today
is a day of healing and understanding. We must repair our rift!"

o       Ed Rollins is giving depositions to lawyers today about the New
Jersey gubernatorial elections and the "walking around money" he
passed out. The November 13th edition of the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette, however, has an interesting story about how some of the
Democrats now crying "foul" about alleged Republican efforts to
suppress the black vote in New Jersey are the same ones who urged
Republican voters to stay home in the 1986 Pennsylvania
gubernatorial election.

A letter sent to thousands of Republicans quoted Raymond Mong as
saying, "As a fellow Republican I have concluded that it would be
better not to vote at all than to vote for William Scranton."
Scranton, the then Lt. Governor, lost his bid to become governor
to current governor Bob Casey. Casey won that election by only
80,000 votes out of 3 million cast.

The mailing to Republicans was labelled "paid for by the Real Bob
Casey committee," and the architect behind that letter was none
other than James Carville, who coincidentally was sent by the
White House to help Jim Florio in the past elections. Granted
this letter featured no "walking around money," but the
conclusions between it and the situation in New Jersey are
obvious.

Rick Robb, manager of Scranton's 1986 campaign, noted that the
members of the Florio campaign whining about Rollins' comments
are being a bit hypocritical. "A loss is a loss," Robb noted,
"but the whining about it and the hypocrisy is a little
disconcerting."

Rush also remembers the 1986 Senate race in California in which
incumbent Alan Cranston was opposed by the moderate, pro-life
Republican Ed Zschau. Since Zschau supported abortion, pro-lifers
decided to stay home and not vote, and there was an organized
campaign put on by pro-lifers for this purpose. Given Cranston's
small margin of victory in 1986, it is theorized that these
pro-lifers' decision not to vote was responsible for his victory.

The point is that vote suppression is nothing new. Furthermore,
the Gazette's story also quotes Rick Robb as saying that if a law
were passed to make the use of election day cash illegal,
Democrats would be the most upset, given how "Philadelphia has a
grand tradition of this."

o       Rush has a friend in town who sells tilapia fish, which are
imported from Egypt. These fish are a new delicacy, and Rush's
friend raises these fish for the dinner table. Rush and his
friend discussed how beautiful these fish were, and how
incongruous that beauty was with their eventual fate. From that
discussion, the two somehow moved on to the discussion of the
5,000-year-old "Ice Man."

Someone then said it would soon be possible that there might be
genetic material present in the Ice Man's remains (specifically,
his sperm), and if so, he could be cloned at some point in the
future. Rush had his doubts about this, and those doubts were
intensified when he learned that this theory was being put forth
on the Donahue show.

However, this finally does get Rush to his point, which is that
there is a new "sperm gizmo" which could allow parents to choose
whether their next child will be a boy or girl. A test-tube of 10
million sperm suspended in water is mixed with a fluorescent dye
that coats the gender-determining genetic material of the sperm.

This mixture is passed through a fine needle which forces the
sperm in single file, where they pass by an ultraviolet laser,
which makes the "girl sperm" glow brighter than the "boy sperm."
A computer records the relative brightness while a vibrating
mechanism breaks up the stream into droplets containing only one
sperm each. The computer then adds an electric charge to each
droplet - positive to the female droplets and negative to the
male droplets. A set of electrically-charged metal plates is then
used to separate the sperm into two groups.

This means that parents will soon be able to choose whether they
want a boy or a girl, which raises all sorts of ethical
questions. Rush considers this to be a dangerous tampering with
nature, given that nature ensures there will be more women than
men in a species so that the species can survive.

Most couples want boys instead of girls, and most aborted babies
are female. Thus, given this information, in the future the
government could very well step in at some point to force couples
to have girls. Rush, though, is optimistic and is confident that
"something's going to step in to screw this up."

*BREAK*

Phone   Rita from Spanaway, WA

Rita is calling from a payphone and notes that it is the only
thing separating her lips from Rush's. She asks what ever
happened to Ross Perot's sidekick, Admiral James Stockdale, and
Rush replies "if you were Admiral Stockdale, would you hang
around with Perot?"

Rita also asks why Hillary Clinton's health care plan can't be
tried on first on a trial basis. Rush says that this was
suggested but Donna Shalala rejected the notion out of hand; such
a trial study would show that the plan wouldn't work. Rita says
that such prototyping of projects and programs is pretty
commonplace, and it's done to make sure something works.

Rush says the objective is not to find health care that works,
but to put one-seventh of the U.S. economy under the control of
government; socialism is the goal, so the Clintons aren't going
to risk any failure that could reject the plan. Rush notes that
the fact that the administration is not willing to first test its
health care program on the uninsured should speak volumes about
the Clintons' true intent.

Phone   Eric from Charlotte, NC

Eric says that Rush is the savior of travelling salesman since
they now have something in common to talk about. He mentions
violence in America and says that he used to live in Sweden; he
also works with a lot of Swedes in his company. He thus has seen
how another country deals with violence; in Sweden, for example,
the notion of dealing with problems with violence is simply not
acceptable. Gun control has nothing to do with the lack of
violent crime there; rather, the levels of violence are low
because of the attitude that violence is unacceptable.

Rush thinks non-violent societies are rare simply because the
world is governed by the violent use of force; this is a part of
human nature. The things that separate humanity from the rest of
the animal kingdom are not instinctive to humans but have to be
instilled in each person: morality, virtue, and such must be
taught. If Swedish society has a non-violent nature then perhaps
it's because it is taught. He adds that Sweden doesn't have the
defense and military needs that other countries, such as the U.S.
have; this helps to create a mentality in which violence can be
avoided. Soldiers, after all, are trained in violence and to be
killers.

Eric says that he and his wife have never spanked their
5-year-old daughter, and he thinks this rejection of violence to
solve problems is why she's not violent. Rush says that spanking
is not violence; for example, his mother, a totally non-violent
person, spanks dogs to house-train them. The dogs learn real fast
where they can and cannot go, whereas without such corrective
measures, they might never learn.

Rush's parents also spanked him, and he didn't become a violent
psychopath. "I was spanked and I turned out damn well," Rush
points out, adding that sometimes "I had to cut my own twig."
Eric says that he was spanked, too. Rush says that the reason
this spanking didn't scar either of them was because it wasn't
violence, but an attempt by loving parents to teach them right
from wrong.

Rush notes this sort of spanking is different from the truly
useless violence of a parent beating a kid because they're mad at
what the kid has done. However, if the spanking is motivated by a
desire to teach a lesson and is borne out of love, then that's
different. Rush thus doesn't think a spanking by loving parents
is violence, but an expression of love.

He notes that the violence in football is very real, but Eric
says that this is part of the "game" of football. However, he
still thinks that conservatives need to stress this point more to
liberals. Rush points out that liberals aren't doing a good job
about stopping violence, and in fact don't even recognize
violence when it occurs, as evidenced by their comments about the
South Central riots.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that he suffers under an incredible pressure to be
right; most people can afford a few mistakes now and then, but
the moment he makes one, the critics rapidly descend to howl
their glee at Limbaugh's error. Rush, though, is up to the task
of being right and accurate, as the last call just showed.

A well-intentioned man from North Carolina just called to discuss
violence, yet liberals don't have the slightest clue about
violence, what causes it, when it should and shouldn't happen,
and how to stop the bad violence. For example, liberals will look
at two cartoon characters' burning down a house and insist this
must be stopped; meanwhile, liberals will watch an entire
neighborhood in Los Angeles burn to the ground and conclude that
a "political point of view" is being expressed.

Liberals want to attack fake violence while at the same time
rationalizing real violence. Liberals just banned the sale of 19
assault weapons, yet these sort of weapons contributed to just
one percent of American crime. "Real, real efficiency, don't you
think?" he asks. Not much has been done to ban criminals, and in
fact when someone defended himself against criminals, he was
labelled a vigilante who had endangered his entire neighborhood
because he dared to protect himself.

It is the liberals' lack of understanding about violence that has
gotten this country into much of the trouble it's in. "They're a
bunch of pansies," Rush adds for emphasis.

Phone   Stan from Johnson City, NY

Stan, as a U.S. combat veteran of the Korean War, thanks Rush for
the tribute he gave to the U.S.'s military on his TV show last
week. He was choked up by what Rush had to say, and appreciates
having Rush as a counterweight to those who consider all military
people to be warmongers and babykillers. Rush is proud and happy
he could do such a tribute and thanks Stan for his comments.

Stan adds that his faith in Rush was recently confirmed when he
talked about "my Steelers"; as someone who grew up near
Pittsburgh, he also is a lifelong fan of the Steelers, Penguins,
and Pirates. Rush says Pittsburgh is a great town in which it's
easy to be a fan of everything the city represents. Stan adds
that Pittsburgh is a great town for families.

Rush thanks Stan for his call and notes that he still hasn't
delivered his promised diatribe on the NFL's stupid telecast
rules. Last night at dinner he described what angered him about
this subject to his dinner companions, and it's a very
complicated subject, even for sports fans. A person has to be a
"superfan" to really understand this subject, and Rush discovered
that non-sports people have an almost impossible time trying to
follow his point in this.

"I value my opinion," Rush notes, adding "I dare say that there
are probably not enough people who care about this to make it
worthwhile for me to go into it." However, this only means it
will be a challenge to make people care enough about this
subject, so Rush decides to continue.

Complicating the subject, though, is that some people enjoy
watching certain teams; for example, Los Angeles residents are
probably glad they get to see the Rams and Raider games. However,
do the people in Indianapolis really want to watch every Colts
game? Do the football fans in New England really want to watch
every one of the Patriots' games? Do Cincinnati residents really
want to watch every game played by their team? Yet the NFL
demands that these people have to watch every game of these
rotten teams.

Those who have a big beef with the NFL's telecast rules, though,
are those like him whose favorite team is not the local team;
these people thus don't get to watch their favorite team play
each week. However, these people are definitely in the minority,
so Rush admits that his point is totally irrelevant.

Rush's gripe, though, would be irrelevant if he could get a
satellite dish, but he can't do this unless he wants to live
somewhere outside the New York area. Rush sighs and says he's not
going to "bleed on you people anymore." He notes, though, that
his tale of woe does illustrate that nobody, no matter who they
are, gets everything they want.

Phone   Mark from Lexington, KY

Mark is a liberal and proud of it; however, he listens to Rush's
show every day and doesn't have the knee-jerk reactions which
Rush seems to assume all liberals have to his show. Rush says
that many liberals, especially his critics, do have knee-jerk
reactions to his show. Mark, though, wants to stress that not all
liberals feel the same way; although he doesn't agree with Rush
most of the time, he does agree with Rush on some things, such as
NAFTA.

Mark is also a card-carrying member of both the ACLU and NRA;
Rush notes that there are many Democrats, such as Tom Foley, who
are like this, too. Mark, though, wishes that Rush would stop
treating all liberals as if they were a massive block of people
who all think alike.

Rush says that liberals and conservatives are defined by their
ideological characteristics and beliefs. A "liberal" doesn't have
to totally toe the party line, and it's "allowed" for them to
depart from the liberal plantation on some things.

Mark says he doesn't really know what the liberal agenda is,
although he is most definitely a liberal. Whatever this agenda
is, he's not part of it. Rush says this is an interesting point -
he has gotten in trouble in the past because he defines feminism
by what the leaders of that movement think and do. It's not the
rank-and-file feminists, though, who define the liberal agenda,
but rather the leaders, who thus are those Rush focuses on.

Similarly, the liberal leaders are the ones defining the liberal
agenda, and this sometimes might not reflect the feelings of the
rank-and-file. Thus, when Rush talks about "the liberals," he's
talking about the leaders - the people with the power. Certainly
the rank-and-file is not totally reflected by this leadership,
just as the rank-and-file feminists aren't represented by the
feminist extremists.

Mark wishes that Rush wouldn't assume that every stupid person in
government is a liberal, given that there are stupid people of
all political persuasions. Rush says that he's called many
conservatives and Republicans stupid; the most recent example of
this is Ed Rollins.

Mark accepts that and moves on to the topic of gun control, which
he thinks parallels the war on drugs. Just as the pro-gun people
say "if you make guns illegal, only the criminals will own guns,"
when drugs are made illegal, people will still have drugs. Rush
says there is a moral difference between these two points, but
Mark disagrees.

Rush points out that drugs are not a good thing to do - there is
abundant evidence with legal substances to know that it's not
wise to add more substances to this list. Also, to make the
analogy between guns and drugs accurate, one would have to talk
about legalizing the use of guns to kill oneself. Drugs are a
force for self-destruction, so to make the parallel complete,
guns would have to become a force for self-destruction, too. "I
don't think we want people shooting themselves, case closed" Rush
states.

*BREAK*

Phone   Christian from Redout, TX

Christian asks about "smokers' rights," and Rush jokes that
cigarette smokers should be banished while cigar smokers be
honored as people who fill the air with the soft scents of fine
and rich tobacco blends. Cigarette smoke, though, is "pungent and
yucko." Rush explains that his previous comments about smokers
were related to how if cigarette taxes are supposed to be paying
for health care, then the country obviously needs more smokers.
The fact of the matter, though, is that smoking is a legal
activity, and until the substance gets banned, then it's
ridiculous to penalize smokers as if they were some sort of
vermin.

Christian, although he doesn't smoke anything himself, agrees
with that and thinks it's very unfair that those who smoke
tobacco can't smoke in so many places. He adds that the EPA has
released a bunch of nonsense about second-hand smoke. Rush says
that the "smoking gun" about second-hand smoke was supposedly
just found, showing that second-hand smoke was just as dangerous
as "first-hand" smoke.

However, Rush thinks politics has invaded these studies far too
much. He notes that smoking has been banned in Los Angeles
restaurants, with the result that restaurants in the outlying
areas are getting a surge in business. Rush sees no reason why
there can't be smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants,
as there's room for everybody.

*BREAK*

Phone   Joe from Minneapolis, MN

Joe says that when he local press originally reported Ed Rollins'
comments, it claimed that Rollins was paying ministers only to be
silent about the elections. Thus, Rollins did nothing to suppress
the vote at all, nor did he pay someone not to vote. All he did
was ask the ministers not to talk about voting during their
sermons.

Joe also recalls that it was Thomas Jefferson who expressed the
hope that a properly informed population would make the right
choices, and he thinks Rush does a great job in informing the
public about the issues. Rush thanks him for that and says that
the Democrats are still trying to claim that Christine Todd
Whitman "stole" the election from Jim Florio.