Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, October 4, 1994

by John Switzer

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October 4, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: words to Captain Ross promo; smokers
cost health care system less than non-smokers who live longer;
investment fund to build supermarkets in inner cities shows that
capitalism works and benefits everyone; Department of Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy resigns; Espy is surrounded by allegations of
wrong-doing, such as how his girlfriend got a $12,000 scholarship
from a foundation run by Tyson Foods; media is concentrating on
Espy's gifts, but not on the favors he did for Tyson; Clinton's
promise to set new standards in government ethics isn't being
met; Barbra Streisand doesn't understand why people are
criticizing Hillary Clinton for making money; Streisand wonders
if her son is not as driven as she because he had a cesarian
birth; Nelson Mandela is in America for fund-raising, while Mario
Cuomo is trying to get votes by promising to establish an office
of trade with South Africa; pollution is now accused of causing
global cooling; caller says Rush is examining only Clinton's
flaws, and not looking at Republicans' failings; a friend of Rush
thinks Clinton will get re-elected in 1996 no matter what, just
because he campaigns so well; next two years will undoubtedly see
more Clinton scandals; caller says NAPM index of prices is going
up, which means inflation is coming, too; Clinton cites Ten
Commandments during fund-raiser, claiming Republicans are bearing
false witness against Chuck Robb; Richard Harwood writes piece in
Washington Post about why American journalists are losing
credibility among the American people; talk radio is succeeding
because it's doing the job that the print and TV media should be
doing; Rush gives some examples of why the people mistrust the
mainstream press; NY Times does feature piece on Clintons' talk
to religion reports about how "religion is his anchor"; Michael
Huffington's wife, Arianna, is being attacked in the press, yet
what's being said about her could be said about Hillary Clinton,
too; the American people saw how the press really worked during
the Gulf War; Americans are seeing for themselves the biases of
the mainstream media; the rumor is that Mike Synar might replace
Espy at the Agriculture Department; NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
fires 1,000 lawyers who violated their contract by striking; Rush
is flattered to know he and "Mr. Perfect" don't agree on
anything; the poor of New York are without legal representation
because the Legal Aid lawyers went on strike; Newsweek reports
that it was the CIA's no-smoking policy that allowed Aldrich Ames
to spy as much as he did; Bill and Hillary Clinton's ties to
Tyson are not being investigated, although Espy's have been
studied; caller asks why nobody is talking about investigating
and punishing Tyson Foods; the word "bribe" isn't being used much
in Washington lately; rabbi at first feared Rush was anti-
Semitic, but as he listened, he saw how untrue his fears were;
Espy's resignation is "just the tip of the sleazeberg," according
to Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX); fears of an epidemic of crack babies
and drug addict moms during the 80s were unfounded; Mississippi
man files lawsuit against the Bible, claiming it discriminates
against both blacks and homosexuals; crew of "Shawshank
Redemption" built a matchstick director's chair for a maggot
because ASPCA refused to allow it to be killed on camera;
government programs aren't moving supermarkets back into the
inner cities - the credit for this goes to capitalism and the
profit motive; caller thinks Rush has members of Congress running
scared, given how Senator Carl Levin and Rep. Ernest Istook
called his show to talk about the lobby reform act; current NFL
season doesn't yet have any dominant teams; if Mike Espy were Dee
Dee Myers, he'd be Secretary of State; Senator Carl Levin claims
to be interested in lobbyist reform, but he took $15,000 from HCI
in exchange for his vote on the Crime Bill, even though he
opposes the death penalty and even though the majority of his
constituents were against it; Rep. Carl Levin once noted that he
didn't care whether Reagan's tax cuts resulted in the rich paying
more in taxes, he still thought the rich were paying a too small
rate; U.S. wastes more ammo, this time giving a 21-gun salute for
Nelson Mandela; caller's grandson gets told at his first day at
Spartanburg Methodist Junior College that by the time the
students leave, 85% of them will be Democrats; Peter Jennings
says many will find it "sad": that Espy has been forced to
resign; caller wonders how many resignations it will take before
the media realizes that Clinton is known by the company he keeps;
media isn't making any ties between Espy and Clinton; Espy
divided up America into farmers, consumers, and taxpayers;
student at Marshall University is taking course that teaches
whites are evil and that blacks can't be racists.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

October 4, 1994 - It's now day 623 (day 642 for the rich and the
dead, and 35 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 839 days left) and 686
days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air
with 659 radio affiliates (with more than 20 million listeners
weekly world-wide), 250 TV affiliates (with a national rating of
3.7), and a newsletter with nearly 500,000 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" was on the NY Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list
for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," was on
the NY Times best-seller list for 16 weeks and has sold over 2.45
million copies.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Tuesday, October
6, 1992:

o	The Washington Times ran a long story about Clinton's
activities - his visit to Moscow and his protests of the Vietnam
War - during his second year at Oxford when he did not attend
classes. Clinton's campaign at first denied the allegations that
he visited Moscow, but eventually admitted to the visit, although
Clinton claimed his 1969 visit to Moscow was part of a 40-day
vacation, not an expression of anti-war feelings.

Newsweek also reported that Clinton's passport record in the
State Department was missing 3 pages, and the rumor was that
these pages covered his travels to the USSR. Clinton was asked
about this during an appearance on Larry King Live, but he just
laughed and dismissed the issue.

Clinton also said in a 1978 Arkansas Gazette story that he
attended only two anti-war protests, and then only to hear the
featured speakers. However, Robert Levin's biography of Clinton,
"Bill Clinton, the Inside Story," not only recounted all of the
protests that Clinton attended but also those he helped organize.
When Larry King asked about this discrepancy, Clinton laughed
again and attacked President Bush as a pathetic figure who was
running scared.

Rush was amazed that Clinton would laugh at these allegations,
instead of getting mad about them. Then curiously, when King
asked Clinton if he met the KGB during his trip to Moscow,
Clinton enigmatically replied "as far as I know, I didn't meet
with the KGB."

Meanwhile, on Crossfire Michael Kinsley insisted it was
"commonplace" for Americans to visit the Soviet Union in 1968 and
1969.

o	Working hard before the end of the legislative session,
Congress declared the week of October 4-10, 1992 as "National
Customer Service Week."

o	Sinead O'Connor was booed off the stage of Saturday Night
Live when she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul, telling the
audience "fight the real enemy."

o	Rush played a new public service announcement for Ross
Perot:

<<Sailor's Hornpipe starts playing>>

<<Announcer>> Walt Dizzie Pictures presents the story of a Texas
billionaire who reluctantly takes over the helm - Ross Perot in
"Captain Ross."

<<Perot>> I only will be the captain if my volunteers want me to
do it, Larry.

<<Announcer>> Yes, it's "Captain Ross," the story of a crew in
desperate need of a leader and who will accept just about
everything, even a maniacal Texas billionaire.

<<Perot>> Avast ye, maties, raise the tax mast! Do it . . . do
it, now, Larry!

<<Announcer>> "Captain Ross," a sea-faring story of the blind
leading the blind.

<<Sound of explosion, followed by voice of anxious sailor>>
Captain Ross - there's a gash in the hull!

<<Perot>> Now, come on, don't just stand there - stuff it with
money! <<sound of water pouring into the ship>> I am telling you
one more time, just don't stand there, stuff it . . . with money!

<<Announcer>> "Captain Ross" . . .

<<Perot>> I have decided after careful consideration that it is
only going to disrupt things to do this further. I don't want to
be captain anymore.

<<Explosion, followed by a splash and sailor's shout>> Man
overboard!

<<Announcer>> "Captain Ross," coming soon to a polling place near
you. If he takes over, we'll all go down with the ship.

o	The Michigan state supreme court let stand an appeal
court's ruling that reinstated an auto worker who was fired after
admitting he fondled a woman's breasts at a Chrysler plant; the
ruling meant the man would not only get his job back, but also
all back pay.

o	The London Observer reported that a study by Toronto
health care researchers found that dead smokers cost the country
less than old people who lived longer. The report noted that
"smokers are never a burden to non-smokers," and that even when
expensive lung cancer treatments were factored in, by the time
they died smokers cost the system less than those who were long-
lived.

o	It was revealed that a group of "doctors" who had been
claiming milk was bad for kids was actually a group from the
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).The press,
though, covered the PETA press conference as if these guys were a
bona fide scientific group.

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MORNING UPDATE

Rush has an item which undoubtedly will be ignored by the typical
(i.e. liberal) evening news. Last month a group of corporate
investors introduced a new investment fund, the Retail Investment
Initiative, which is attracting a lot of would-be investors, such
as GE, Bank of America, and Banker's Trust. It's important to
note that these well-heeled investors are jumping in with both
feet for only one reason - the expectations of making even more
money.

The fund would use $90 million to help big chain supermarkets
build stores in the inner cities. Investors are excited about
this idea because they know it will make a lot of money due to
one simple thing: there isn't much competition for supermarkets
in the inner cities, so it makes good business sense to move
there.

Although urban residents do have lower incomes, there are a lot
of them, which means these stores will make their profits via
volumes sales. This is why, for example, a Pathmart supermarket
in Newark is outperforming many other stores in the chain, and a
number of businesses other than just supermarkets have figured
this out. Banks, pharmacies, fast food chains, and even HMOs are
moving back into the inner cities.

Rush likes this fund because it's the private sector, not Robert
B. Reich, at work. And these businesspeople aren't using phony
phrases such as "putting people first," but rather are using
basic capitalism - profit-making - to revitalize the inner
cities. Capitalism is the American way, and it works, benefiting
everyone in society.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	Rush notes that his staff is laughing, and Bo Snerdley
remarks that they are telling "funeral stories," given that he's
just returned from a funeral. Mike Maimone, recently returned
from a two-day hiatus, hastily explains that he was not at a
funeral, but at the dentist.

o	Secretary of the Agricultural Department Mike Espy has
resigned, and Rush remarks that the rumor is that HUD Secretary
Henry Cisneros is next. Espy resigned late yesterday saying that
the investigation into whether he received gifts was "too
distracting" for him to remain. Espy predicted that he would be
exonerated, though.

The major question surrounding Espy concern his contacts with and
gifts from Tyson Foods. Espy will resign effective December 31st,
which, Rush observes, means that he'll have lots of free time
available, so he'd be able to accept tickets to the New Year's
bowl games should Tyson Foods have any more left.

The latest allegation against Espy, though, is that a foundation
run by Tyson gave a $12,000 scholarship to his girlfriend,
Patricia Dempsey. There are many other allegations against Espy
that don't concern Tyson Foods, but Rush is interested by how the
media seems concerned only with the gifts Espy got from Tyson and
not with how Espy relaxed all sorts of regulations for Tyson,
helping them get their chickens into Puerto Rico.

Mike Espy was also appointed as Agriculture Secretary by Bill
Clinton, who has close ties to Don Tyson and Tyson Foods. Thus,
it has to be asked whether Clinton is really insulated from these
dealings with Tyson; is Clinton somehow involved or is Espy
taking the fall for Clinton?

The Clintons seemed to have tried to do business in Washington as
they did business in Arkansas, so it could be, Rush admits, that
Espy was just trying to do what he thought his boss would want
him to do. However, Rush thinks it's really coincidental that
these allegations against Espy seemed centered on Tyson, which
has such close ties to Bill Clinton.

Of course, Bill Clinton was the one who pledged before his
inauguration that his administration would be the most ethically
pure in the country's history, with a new standard of ethics. Yet
in less than two years, you have a string of absent
administration members.

First was Les Aspin, who while never having to face any ethical
questions, did botch the handling of the Somalia mission. Roger
Altman lied to Congress and tried to get out of it by repeatedly
telling different stories, each time claiming his previous
testimony was "too narrow." Treasury official Jean Hanson,
though, had to resign because she dared to tell Congress the
truth, making everyone else look like a liar.

Bernard Nussbaum, former White House counsel, left for reasons
only known by the late Vincent Foster. Webster Hubble, number
three at the Department of Justice, resigned a few days after
Nussbaum, amidst allegations he overbilled clients of the Rose
law firm.

Former White House chief of staff Mac McLarty was kicked upstairs
because he was too nice. David Watkins of the White House was
reassigned after using a Marine Corps helicopter as his private
golf cart. And former White House counsel Vince Foster
disappeared when he supposedly left to get some air.

This administration was supposed to be far more pure and
ethically clean than any previous, but in reality hypocrisy has
been running rampant.

o	Barbra Streisand is back, making her usual inane
comments. Vanity Fair is coming out with a cover story on her
soon, and they quote her as making some incredible things, such
as how she believes that she is invited to White House functions
because they want to hear her ideas on policy. Streisand, though,
has decided to join the chorus of those defending Hillary Clinton
by saying "why should Hillary be painted as an evil woman because
she made money in the stock market? We live in a free enterprise
society - you want to make money for your family, why does that
make you greedy? In my opinion, it makes you smart!"

Rush has to marvel at the hypocrisy shown by leftists such as
Streisand, not to mention her ignorance about how it was in the
commodity market, not stock market, that Hillary made her
$100,000. Streisand and her ilk ridiculed all those who made
money in the evil 80s, but this is also exactly when the Clintons
were making their big scores.

Streisand is considered an important person by the media elite,
and they actually act as if she is stating profundities when she
makes comments like the following about her son, who doesn't seem
as driven as she is: "Is it because he was a cesarian birth and
didn't have to struggle through the birth canal?"

o	Nicole Brown Simpson's will doesn't give any of her
$700,000 estate to O.J. Simpson. Rush remarks that O.J. just
doesn't seem to get any breaks at all.

o	Nelson Mandela is back in America, looking for more
money. Meanwhile, Governor Mario Cuomo, running in a close re-
election race, is making his big proposal the establishment of an
office of trade with South Africa. Cuomo obviously thinks that
this is something which will get him votes from New Yorkers.
Rush, though, remembers how the conventional wisdom used to be
that South Africa would be doing great if Mandela was put in
charge and apartheid was eliminated.

o	Richard Harwood in the Washington Post has written an
incredible piece in today's Washington Post about why the
mainstream press is losing influence and credibility, and Rush
thinks he can help explain this by giving two examples of why
later in the show.

*BREAK*

Global cooling has reappeared to threaten the world. Sunday's Los
Angeles Times reported that researchers think smog is creating
clouds where they previously had not existed, as well as
increasing the brightness of current clouds. More and brighter
clouds will reflect more heat and light back into space,
"potentially" cooling the planet.

Researcher Phil Dirkey said it was unlikely that this would cause
another ice age, but he did think this effect could cool the
planet. Rush thus has to wonder how all of this will affect
global warming - don't these trends balance each other out,
assuming, of course, that the global warming claims are true?

Of course, there is no evidence proving global warming - even the
global warming crowd insist that no conclusions could be had
without another 20 years of study, but they insist that mankind
cannot afford to wait to take action to stop it. Rush sighs, and
notes "this is just another white thing - an example of more
racism in environmental science."

Phone	John from Willoughby, OH

John says he has a problem with Rush's opening comments because
Rush seems to be acting like the liberals in examining only his
opponents' flaws, in this case the ethical problems with
Clinton's administration. For Rush to be fair, John thinks he has
to compare the first two years of Clinton's administration with
the first two years Reagan's and Bush's, comparing how many
resignations these Republican Presidents had with Clinton's.

Rush says he doesn't have to make any comparisons with Reagan or
Bush because this wasn't his point; Rush was comparing the
reality of Clinton's administration to his promise that he would
have the most ethically pure administration ever. It was Bill
Clinton, after all, who pledged that his would be an
administration that would redefine ethics in government.

John, though, thinks Rush should mention how many administration
officials resigned in the first two years of Reagan or Bush's
administration. Rush says this is not his point; in fact, what
John wants him to say would negate his point, which is that
Clinton promised to clean up Washington politics as usual, and to
behave far better than his predecessors. In reality, though,
Clinton's record was as bad, if not worse, and the important
point is that Clinton is a total hypocrite.

Rush had dinner last night with a friend who is convinced that
Clinton will get re-elected in 1996 no matter what, just because
he's a great campaigner. Rush insisted that Clinton wasn't a
great campaigner, which started a big argument since Rush thinks
being a great campaigner is more than getting away with bold and
brazen lies. Rush just can't believe that the American people
will fall for this a second time - they're bound to be wise to
Clinton when he tries these things in 1996.

Rush also thinks that the scandals will continue unabated during
the next two years, making matters only worse for Clinton. Up
until now, Democrats have been helping Clinton cover up his
scandals, but Rush suspects that this will change in the coming
two years. It seems that there will be a lot of Democrats who
will be more than glad to let these scandals go public, simply
because they don't want Clinton around anymore.

Rush, however, again makes the point that he's not trying to
compare Clinton to Reagan or Bush, especially since Clinton's
hypocrisy stands alone, all by itself.

*BREAK*

Phone	Frank from Rockville, MD

Frank says today's USA Today reported that a survey of the
National Association of Purchasing Managers shows their index of
prices is going up, indicating higher inflation. This index is
the highest since 1988, and it's historically a predictor of
consumer inflation, and Frank fears that there will soon be a
replay of the Carter administration, including double digit
inflation and interest rates.

Rush thanks Frank for calling, but notes that higher interest
rates are not universally bad news - they are good for some
people, such as those living off of investment income and those
invested in real estate.

Phone	Don from Roanoke, VA

Don says that Bill Clinton attended a fund-raiser for Chuck Robb
last night, and Clinton actually cited the Ten Commandments'
injunction against citing false witness against his critics. Don
thinks Clinton should probably be reminded of the rest of those
Commandments.

Rush says the hypocrisy of those on the left continues unabated -
for Clinton to accuse the Republicans of forgetting the
Commandment about false witness shows that he must not have a
conscience. For someone to say such things they would have to
posses no soul, so that they could say something one day and the
complete opposite the next.

Rush can't see any other explanation for Clinton's statements
other than to say that the only reality for him is what exists
today. What he says today lasts only as long as today lasts;
tomorrow will be totally different.

Clinton was trying to claim that Republicans in general and
Oliver North in particular were misrepresenting Chuck Robb's
voting record in the Senate and his service as a Marine. Rush
can't imagine how anyone could say such a thing with a straight
face because it means that you have to truly believe that nobody
else will ever remember you lying.

From the 1992 campaign on, Clinton has lied constantly - about
the Reagan years, about the Bush economy, etc. - yet he can now
appear on stage holding a Bible, claiming that his opponents are
liar. Clinton obviously knows his willing allies in the press
won't call him on any of this, which brings Rush to the piece
written by Richard Harwood in today's Washington Post.

The piece is titled "Is Anyone Listening," and it begins as
follows:

"American journalists have rarely enjoyed great public esteem.
They have been stereotyped over the years as political hacks,
itinerant drunks, sob sisters and propagandists, the kind of
people who - like Charles Colson of the Nixon gang in the White
House - exhibit a willingness to run over their grandmothers in
search of a story."

He continues on to speculate about why journalists are suffering
a loss in credibility and esteem:

"There are several possible explanations for the lukewarm
attitudes of journalists toward the work they do. It may be that
many of us have always been skeptical that we are indispensable
to society and the workings of democracy and that our attitudes
toward our work have changed very little."

Rush, though, doesn't know of too many journalists who consider
themselves to be insignificant, but rather much the opposite -
that they are indispensable to America, democracy, and freedom.
These people have long thought they are more important than
anyone else, and that they shouldn't even have to make money at
what they do; they think their job is so essential that news
organizations should run at a loss, if necessary.

The print journalists, though, suffered a big decline when TV
came on the scene, usurping their place in power. The print media
was irate at how these "teleprompter readers" were paid so much
more than they were, never understanding that the news anchors
got the big bucks because they drew a large audience, which in
turn meant big bucks from advertisers.

Print people were also angry at how the TV media could influence
the American people in ways they never could. Eventually, though,
the print people started showing up on TV as talking head
journalists and consultants. Those print journalists, though, who
haven't found their way on TV, along with those TV journalists
who do nothing more than read a teleprompter, doing the same
stories that the guys across the street are doing, are all
finding out that there's yet another new kid on the block: radio
talk show hosts.

Radio has come along to reflect a different attitude and view
than those provided by the print and TV media. Radio has never
been as effective as it is now, and the way these journalists
respond is not by wondering if they're doing their job properly,
but by musing on whether they are thinking too little of
themselves.

Harwood, though, comes close to the truth by writing the
following:

"It may be that we feel a sense of displacement as other media
erode our audiences. A majority of Americans say they now get
most of their news from television. And there are other
competitors. In the New York Review of Books, the journalist
Thomas Edsall writes:

"`For the past two years, Rush Limbaugh III has done more to
shape the tone of national political discussion than any member
of the House and Senate, than any Cabinet appointee, than the
chairmen of both the Democratic and Republican parties or the
anchors of the major network news broadcasts.'"

Rush has found a couple of news stories which will illustrate
just why the press is losing credibility and influence.

*BREAK*

Rush notes there are many examples he could use to show why the
press doesn't have the credibility it thinks it should; in fact,
he could write a book full of them. However, he's noticed three
recent examples which illustrate why the people distrust the
press, one of which concerns Clinton's talk yesterday with some
religious journalists.

Today's NY Times reports "Clinton Talks About Religion As His
Anchor," and it reports that Clinton told some religion
journalists that he uses religion and the Bible to cope with
life's daily problems in the White House. Clinton also used the
Bible and religion to defend his policies, such as abortion and
putting gays in the military.

This is all well and good, as Clinton can say whatever he wants
and have it reported, yet everyone who reads this story will
realize the double standard that exists in the press. Had a
Republican President went out to talk to religious journalists,
citing the Bible and religion as why he believed why he did about
abortion, etc., the press would be full of negative stories about
the dangers presented to the nation because of the breakdown in
the "separation of Church and State."

Rush thinks the truly religious and devoted believers in America
know full well that Clinton is about as religious in truth as
someone who hasn't been to church in decades. They also know that
if the President were anyone else other than Clinton, this story
would be written as if his statements were a major threat to
democracy.

Nobody gets worried or excited when Clinton mixes religion and
politics, and this double standard is so obvious that few people
will come away from the Times story believing in the paper's
credibility. The specifics of what Clinton said don't matter,
except in that it exposes his hypocrisy, that of the media, and
that of those Democrats who are trying to scare the nation about
the "religious right."

Should any Republican mention religion, the scare-mongering
stories will surface, but when Clinton does this, the press only
praises him for being well-rounded and "devout." This double
standard, which says that only conservatives should not mix
religion and politics, is obvious to everyone who regularly
follows the news, but there are other examples of why the press
is losing credibility, and Rush will discuss them after the
break.

*BREAK*

The second example Rush has concerns the California Republican
candidate for the Senate, Rep. Michael Huffington (R-CA), who is
calling Senator Dianne Feinstein. Huffington's wife, Arianna, is
being crucified in the press, being portrayed as everything from
a religious fanatic to the "real power behind the throne." She is
being attacked as a shrewish wife who is telling her husband
everything he should do and who would be the "real power" should
he win his Senate race.

This stuff is being reported in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair,
Mirabella magazine, the New York newspapers - in short, the heart
of the national liberal press, even though Huffington is a local
politician who's running for a California Senate seat. The
liberal press, especially the New York liberal press,
nevertheless is trying to ruin both Huffington and his wife by
portraying him as a spineless poltroon and her as the most
conniving and manipulating woman who's ever walked the Earth. Of
course, these stories also take great pains to mention that the
Huffingtons are "unfairly" rich as well - that he didn't "earn"
his money, that he's spending his own money on his campaign, etc.

Yet if you take away the great wealth, what is being said about
the Huffingtons could also be said about Bill and Hillary
Clinton. The press, though, not only isn't worried about the
power that Hillary wields, but praises her for it.

Even now, after Hillary is responsible for the debacle of health
care, she is being praised by fifteen female journalists, who are
working hard to rehabilitate her image. Rush will discuss this
subject a bit more after the break.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

As to why the media's reputation is suffering, Rush notes that
the examples for this are countless. Rush recalls how he used to
love to tell his audience at the end of the show on Fridays that
they didn't need to listen to the news or read any newspapers
because on Monday he'd not only tell them what happened but what
to think about it, too.

The liberals had a conniption fit about this, claiming that Rush
was turning his listeners into mind-numbed robots. However, it's
the mainstream press which really acts like this, believing that
the public couldn't get along without them for even a second. The
mainstream press believes that the American public don't know
what to think, how to vote, what opinions to have unless the
press gives them these things first.

Rush admits that not everyone inside the Washington Beltway is
like this, but the dominant media in DC has a record that's clear
for anyone to see. This started to change, though, in the Gulf
War, which was the first war covered by television cameras -
CNN's cameras showed the war, the jets, the bombings, the press
briefings, etc. Then after spending all day watching for
themselves what had happened, the people turned on the nightly
news only to see how the news reports didn't bear any resemblance
at all to reality.

Plus, the people saw the press in operation, asking incredibly
stupid and arrogant questions of those in the administration in
the military; reporters asked Colin Powell why he didn't warn
Saddam Hussein of a U.S. attack and asked Norman Schwarzkopf why
minefields were that big a deal. Once the people saw the news as
it happened, and then saw the end product, they could see for
themselves the distortions that occurred.

And when Bernard Shaw returned from Baghdad, he actually refused
to allow himself to be debriefed by U.S. military officials,
saying that he was a journalist of the world and couldn't afford
to "take sides." The people saw this and said "what the hell, are
you a journalist or an American!?!"

Much the same thing happened during the Clarence Thomas/Anita
Hill hearings. Americans saw the hearings unfold in real time,
but at the end of the day saw the news reporters and analysts
spout things that had nothing to do with what really happened.
When the hearings concluded, a poll found that 60% of American
believed Clarence Thomas, but a year later, after the press had
its chance to put the proper spin on the hearings, the figures
were almost reversed, with only 40% of Americans believing
Thomas.

Thus, what Americans get on the news is not what they themselves
saw, and there are countless examples of this happening.
Americans have known for some time that the mainstream news is
biased and anything but objective, biased against not only
conservatives but traditional Americans.

Into this morass came Rush, saying what people already were
thinking, and because he dares to do so, he's accused of leading
a threat against democracy. Talk radio is portrayed as the
scourge of America, threatening the nation in a way that
"responsible journalists" never would dare think of doing.

Meanwhile, though, the press is praising Mike Synar, Dan
Rostenkowski, and Mike Espy. Rush digresses to note that the
rumor is that Synar might replace Espy at the Department of
Agriculture.

Yet with all of this, the press looks at itself, wondering why
it's lost influence, and the only answer it can find is "maybe we
didn't think very highly of ourselves to start with."

********

Rush wants to stand up and cheer at how NYC Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani has fired the 1,000 lawyers of the Legal Aid Society,
which provides legal services to the city's poor and indigent.
They walked off the job yesterday over a contract dispute,
demanding a raise from their average $45,000 a year salary.

The lawyers, though, all signed a contract promising not to
strike, so when they violated that provision, Giuliani rescinded
their contract, firing each and every one of them. Giuliani has
pledged to find other lawyers who will be willing to do this job,
and has invited other groups to bid for this business.

Rush finds this interesting because Giuliani was elected in part
because he pledged to cut the city's budget, and this is what
he's doing. When this society tried to extort more money from
him, he responded by cancelling their contract.

Michael Letwin, president of the lawyers group, though, has
complained that "for four years we have taken it on the chin!"
Rush, though, had thought that these legal aid lawyers weren't in
it for the money, but rather were interested in helping the poor
and dispossessed. Supposedly they all have given up great
opportunities in the private sector to serve their fellow man and
woman.

Rush loves how Giuliani has taken a page from Reagan's handbook
on dealing with the PATCO strike, and he loves seeing these
social do-gooders who criticize everyone else for being so greedy
get hung by their own greed and hypocrisy. And who have these
lawyers hurt by going on strike but their poor clients who are
now left without any representation.

There seems to be a whole network of people who claim that they
are doing their "social work" jobs out of the goodness of their
hearts, but as Rush has always said, it's money that drives
everyone. Some people are honest about this, while others are
phoney-baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock-and-rollers about
it, such as this Legal Aid Society.

Barbra Streisand for example doesn't see anything wrong with
Hillary Clinton making bucks in the commodities market, but
she'll attack Republicans for creating a decade of greed in the
80s. The left continually attacks those who dare to make a lot of
money, but they continually fall prey to their own hypocrisy.
"Way to go, Rudy!" Rush shouts.

*BREAK*

Phone	"Mr. Perfect" from Binghamton, NY

Mr. Perfect doesn't agree with a lot of what Rush says about
Clinton because he thinks everyone should be just like Clinton.
Rush suspects Mr. Perfect is smoking something other than
tobacco, but Mr. Perfect says he wants to know what Rush thinks
the New York legal aid lawyers should do - work for minimum wage?

Rush notes these lawyers are not working for minimum wage, plus
they signed a contract pledging not to strike. Mr. Perfect thinks
$45,000 is minimum wage for New York since a can of Coke costs
$10 there. He adds that he does not agree with Rush about
anything. Rush remarks that he is flattered to hear this, and is
very comforted by the knowledge that he and Mr. Perfect don't
agree at all.

Rush notes that these lawyers signed a contract, and they knew
what the deal was when they signed on. Plus, these lawyers are
supposed to be doing what they're doing out of compassion, not
for the money - this is the myth commonly held about legal aid
lawyers.

Of course, should anyone else decide they want more money, they
are accused of being greedy and selfish. The reality, though, is
that the poor in New York are now without legal representation
because their legal aid lawyers went on an illegal strike to get
more money.

Phone	Patrick from Las Cruces, NM

Patrick gives "mega-NRA dittos" and notes that a few years ago,
the global warming fanatics were insisting that pollution was
contributing to global warming. Now, though, these guys are
claiming pollution is cooling the planet. He thinks these
researchers are just a bunch of liberals who are just trying to
keep their research dollars flowing.

Rush agrees, and he notes that 20 years ago, the big scare was
global cooling. This is all part of how people are trying to make
their money by creating one scare after another; when one scare
passes by, they invent a new one. And consistently throughout it
all they have no proof for any of the crises they have invented.

*BREAK*

Phone	George from Lake Park, FL

George gives "orange juice drinking dittos," which reminds Rush
that August was another month of record volume sales for Florida
orange juice, and coincidentally EIB's orange juice contract ran
through the month of August. Rush has to wonder, though, how the
Florida orange growers - the men and women who get their fingers
dirty, taking the risks to plant, nurture, and grow their crops -
feel when they hear their local Democratic politicians insist
that they don't care if orange juice sales are the best they have
ever been, they just don't want Rush to be advertising their
product. These guys decided that their politics should come
before the well-being and best business of their constituents.

George first thanks Rush for putting his books on tape since
George has eye problems that make it difficult at times to read.
He also wants to give "cigar smoking dittos" because he's an avid
fan of Hoya de Monterey Excalibur No. 1s. Rush remarks that this
is Clinton's cigar; Clinton actually doesn't smoke them because
Hillary forbids him from lighting up, but at least he chews them.

George is depressed to hear this, but Rush admits that he loves
smoking the No. 1s, too; after all, Clinton drinks water, too,
but you can't stop drinking that. George adds that there are a
bunch of conservatives who own a local restaurant, Roco's Italian
Grill, and they listen to Rush's show all the time.

Rush asks George is cigar smoking relaxes him, and George says
his stogies do help him relax, although he might start looking
for another brand. Rush suggests a Partagas No. 10, or anything
from Arturo Fuente, assuming you can find them.

George adds that he has been watching Rush's TV show from the
beginning, but the first time he listened to Rush's radio show
was when Rush started being broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio.
He thanks Rush for providing a great service to America.

Rush thanks George for calling, and notes that his listeners
shouldn't get tired of hearing about cigars because they are a
great indulgence. He adds that Newsweek has just revealed that
Aldrich Ames of the CIA was able to spy as much as he did because
the CIA has a strict no-smoking policy.

In order to smoke, Ames had to leave the CIA building, and it was
there he met some unsavory characters, making it possible for him
to compromise far more than the original 36 or so cases that he
was originally suspected of revealing to the Soviets. Thus, it
was a politically correct no smoking policy that allowed the
worst turncoat in American history to get away with it. Rush has
to laugh at the irony of how if the CIA not buckled down to the
politically correct, Ames probably wouldn't have run into the
people he did.

*BREAK*

Phone	Paul from Omaha, NE

Paul says Espy's resignation is a "megastory" in farm country,
and it's interesting how this resignation is tied to Tyson Foods,
which has many questionable ties to many of those in the Clinton
administration, including Bill and Hillary Clinton. Rush notes
that it was a legal counsel to the Tyson Corp. which first
approached Hillary Clinton about making money in the cattle
futures market. However, Hillary curiously is not being
investigated about this, nor is her husband.

Paul says this is his point - how long will Tyson Foods be
allowed to get away with bribing public officials; when will any
of this company's officials be sent to prison for these crimes?
Rush says the Crime Bill "undoubtedly" will fix all this, and if
the Crime Bill doesn't do it, then the Lobby Reform and
Disclosure Act will.

Rush agrees, though, that Paul's point is a good one - if there
is a crime involved, shouldn't you investigate all involved
parties? Or will there be yet another special counsel to
investigate this case? Paul is unimpressed by that idea, given it
will be the fox who will be appointing such a special counsel.

Rush notes that the timing of this resignation is interesting -
will Espy's goodbye help Democrats running for re-election? This
brings back how Tim Russert on Sunday said he had been told by a
highly placed White House official that the Clinton
administration wouldn't mind a Republican Congress, given that he
could try to pull a "Harry Truman" by running against a "do-
nothing" Congress in 1996.

A caller yesterday made the point that the timing of the Haiti
invasion could also harm the Democrats running for re-election,
and Rush is going to be curious to see how many more scandals
surface between now and election day. The question is thus
whether Bill Clinton would be so cynical and ruthless that he
would be willing to sacrifice 40 or more Democrats in Congress,
just so he could have a Republican Congress to run against in
1996. The answer is of course Clinton would do such a thing if he
thought it would help him, so it's interesting to wonder if this
is really what is happening.

This has to make the Democrats running for re-election feel
totally miserable, especially since only two years ago the
Democrats were convinced that Clinton's election signalled a new
era of Democratic, FDR-style dominance. And Paul Gigot's column
in last Friday's Wall Street Journal even theorized that the
leaders of the Democratic party might try to force Clinton to
step down in 1996 because they think he is dragging the party
down.

Rush thanks Paul for calling, and notes that Nebraskans have an
interesting vocabulary; for example, they call what happened
between Espy and Tyson Foods a "bribe." You don't hear this word
much in Washington today, especially among the mainstream press,
so Rush wonders if perhaps he should dust off his dictionary, to
see if this word is part of the regular American language, or
just a Nebraskan regionalism.

*BREAK*

Phone	Joseph from Hollywood, FL

Joseph is a rabbi, so he gives "rabbinical dittos." Rush remarks
that this is a first for his program, although a rabbi friend has
given him dittos off the air. Joseph first asks Rush about the
Miami Dolphins, and Rush says he likes watching them play, but
doubts they'll make it to the Superbowl; Marino, though, is an
incredible competitor who's very focused on the game.

Joseph adds that he's been listening to Rush for some time and is
a big fan, but at the beginning he had some doubts about Rush
personally, given how many anti-Semitic rumors were floating
around about Rush. Joseph, though, saw how untrue these rumors
were when Rush came back from his trip to Israel, and spoke with
great feeling about the situation there.

Since then Joseph has seen a number of things that prove Rush is
not anti-Semitic, either in his words themselves or in the
feelings and intent behind those words. Joseph, in fact, believes
just the opposite, that Rush is a very fair person all around.

Rush thanks Joseph not just for saying this, but for bothering to
listen with an open mind, evaluating what he hears for himself. A
lot of Rush's critics don't do this, so Rush is gratified to hear
about those who have made the effort to do so.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o	Rush remarks that perhaps the best response so far to
Mike Espy's resignation is that of Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) who
said "hey, this is just the tip of the sleazeberg."

o	A new study says that the "epidemic" of drug abuse among
pregnant women during the 80s "appears to have been overstated."
The doom-and-gloomers were claiming that the number of drug
addicted mothers giving birth to "crack babies" would climb into
the millions by the year 2000, but it appears to have levelled
off in the 1990s, with the number of such babies estimated at
below 50,000.

Thus, once again another "crisis" turns out to be wrong, and once
again the nightly news got it wrong.

o	The Hattiesburg, MS paper reports that a Meridian, MS man
has filed a lawsuit against "God," claiming that the Bible
discriminates against blacks and homosexuals. Joel Ford filed the
suit on September 14th and not only wants the Bible changed to
eliminate such "racist" and "homophobic" references, but the
Oxford University Press to pay him $45 million in damages.

Rush has to laugh at the "sickos" out there, especially as Ford's
suit claims the Bible is a "book of hearsay" that has "abused and
oppressed me and my people, the Afro-American, and my gay and
lesbian sisters and brothers." Rush wonders if feminists will be
the next to sue the Bible for the way they are portrayed.

o	The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals evidently has a lot of clout in Hollywood. Actor Tim
Robbins, star of the new movie "The Shawshank Redemption,"
reports that while the movie was being filmed, an ASPCA
representative was on the set because a bird was being used in
one scene. However, when it came time for Robbins, who plays a
prison inmate, to pick a maggot out of his oatmeal, the ASPCA
person insisted that the maggot could not be killed on screen.

Someone in the crew humored the representative by building a
matchstick director's chair with a star and the name "Maggot"
emblazoned on the back. They then gently placed the maggot on its
chair between takes.

Rush remarks that he's heard only bits and pieces about this
movie, but the trailers for it make it look like the federal
prisoner played by Robbins is one of the greatest examples of
humanity ever seen.

o	Rush repeats his Morning Update about how a group of
"evil, money-making, profiteering" investors have come up with
the Retail Initiative investment fund which will invest some $90
million in placing supermarkets in the inner cities. Of course,
the whole point of this fund is to make the fund's wealthy
investors even more money, and in doing so, thanks to capitalism,
residents of the inner city will benefit, too.

Rush notes he has no fiduciary interest in this fund, but he
likes it precisely because it shows that capitalism work; it
shows that the profit motive improves people's lives, doing far
more to help people than government ever could.

The reason these investors want to build supermarkets in the
inner city is because they think these investments will make good
business sense, thanks to how there are very few full-service
supermarkets in the inner cities, and therefore little
competition. The inner cities are a giant market just waiting to
be tapped - even though the residents of the inner cities aren't
rich, there are a lot of them, and the stores can expect some
good volume business.

The Pathmart Supermarket in Newark, NJ regularly outperforms many
of the other stores in the chain, and the potential success of
markets in other places is attracting investors such as GE, Bank
of America, and other big corporate types. These businesses are
expecting that these supermarkets will help pave the way for
their own eventual move back into the inner cities, establishing
bank branches, pharmacies, fast food outlets, etc.

And all of this is being done by the private sector, the "evil,
rich guys who care only about making money." These guys aren't
being motivated by tax breaks or compassion or "people helping
people," but rather the idea of making more profits. It's not a
government program that's done this, but the private sector,
working in a capitalist system, which is the American way in
which everybody benefits.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dennis from Topeka, KS

Dennis heard Senator Carl Levin's (D-MI) call from Friday's show
on a Rush Replay his local station did over the weekend, and he
was struck by how the Senator decided he had to call a radio talk
show to make his point. Rush remarks that this concerns the grass
roots lobbying provisions that are in S.349, the Lobby Reform and
Disclosure Act.

Senator Levin called the show to insist that his bill did not
affect ordinary Americans at all, only paid, professional
lobbyists who spend more than 10% of their professional time on
lobbying efforts. Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK), though, called a
short time later to dispute Levin's assertions. The point is that
this bill can be interpreted in two totally different ways, and
the controversy continues to rage, because while the conference
committee version of bill passed in the House, it now sits in the
Senate.

Dennis notes that a large number of groups, ranging from
Christian groups to Planned Parenthood, who are opposing this
bill. He adds that Senator Levin, a United States Senator, called
a radio talk show while the debate was raging, simply because he
was scared to death of the calls he was getting. And Rep. Ernest
Istook (R-OK) made a point of saying that he listens to Rush's
show.

Dennis thus thinks Rush in particular and AM conservative talk
radio in general have members of Congress running scared. Rush
agrees, but adds that they are not only running scared but
hysterical. He admits, though, that Senator Levin was calling in
because he felt he needed to correct the record as he saw it, and
Dennis thinks it was a gutsy move; however, while Levin was
polite and did a good job defending his position, he was still
calling a radio show for this purpose.

Dennis notes that it's one thing for these Senators to appear on
PBS and another for them to show up on conservative talk radio.
As to football, he and his secretary respectfully have to
disagree with the rabbi who called earlier - it's going to be
"Joe and the Chiefs" in the Superbowl, not the Miami Dolphins.

Rush admits that one thing that's interesting about the current
NFL season is that there is no dominant power right now - you
don't know from week to week who will be winning their games.
This keeps the excitement up, of course, but at the same time,
you don't want the NFL to end up at parity, with no team much
better than any other, each winning 8 games and losing 8 games.
He thanks Dennis for calling.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that if Mike Espy were Dee Dee Myers, he'd be
Secretary of State today.

Phone	Randy from Lansing, MI

Randy is sadly a constituent of Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), and he
was troubled by what Levin had to say on Rush's show last Friday.
Levin claims to have a distaste of PACs and lobbying, yet he
accepted $15,000 from Sarah Brady's Handgun Control Inc. (HCI) in
exchange for his votes on the Crime Bill and Brady Bill. He's
been in Congress for 20 years, consistently voting against the
death penalty, yet he gladly supported the Crime Bill which has
60 new federal death penalty crimes; either Levin is lying to his
constituents about this bill or he knows that there is little
likelihood of anyone ever being executed for violating the new
federal felonies.

Randy thus finds Levin's statements Friday to be amazing. Rush
first asks if Carl Levin is related to Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI),
and Randy says they're both brothers and both in the great
tradition of "limousine liberals." Randy adds that he, along with
a number of other Michigan residents, called Senator Levin's
office to oppose the Crime Bill, and Levin's office actually
admitted that the majority of his constituents opposed it, too.
Yet Levin insisted he was "going to take the moral high ground"
and vote for it anyway.

Rush finds this an amazing thing because all the Democrats
running for re-election are insisting they do what is best for
their constituents, for their people, and for their state. Levin,
though, is claiming he wants to do what is "best for America" by
voting against the will of his constituents. In one way, this is
what Republicans are trying to do - nationalize the congressional
elections so that people see the national effect these liberals
have.

Rush bets Senator Levin is not running for re-election, and Randy
confirms this. Besides, he's planning on retiring in 1996, so
he's got nothing to lose. Rush remarks that about three or more
years ago, Rep. Sander Levin was on Crossfire talking about the
Reagan tax cuts; when it was pointed out to Levin that 1) the
rich were paying more after the tax cuts than before, and 2) that
federal revenues had soared after the tax cuts, Levin admitted
all this. However, he then insisted the rates for the rich
weren't fair because the rates were "too low."

It didn't matter to Levin that the rich were paying more in taxes
or that the government was raising more revenues; instead, he
seemed to think the goal of congressional tax policy was to make
the rates "fair," which really means punishing the rich. Rush
thanks Randy for his call.

Phone	Mimi from Spartanburg, SC

Mimi watched CNN this morning and "Lord a'mercy there was them
big guns blasting again, and some weird anthem music playing in
the background, and I thought `gollee, they must be replaying Act
I, Aristide, or Act II, Yeltsin,' but I looked up there and Lord
a'mercy it was Act III, Mandela!" Mimi was struck by how the
country has wasted more ammo, wasted more Marines' time and "gave
away more money to foreigners on the White House lawn then in the
entire Gulf War! Dang!"

Rush is laughing too hard to immediately reply to Mimi's
impassioned and accurate description of this morning's salute to
Nelson Mandela, but eventually jokes that he heard Mandela got
only a 17 gun salute because the nation was getting short on
ammo. Rush thanks Mimi for calling and making him laugh, and she
says she's also been mad for over a month when her grandson
started junior college; he reported that a political science
professor who was hosting the orientation lecture started off by
proclaiming he was a liberal Democrat. He then demanded to know
how many of his students were Republicans.

A number of students raised their hands, and the professor then
picked up a copy of Rush's book, stating without any equivocation
that his course would teach nothing in it. He also guaranteed
that 85% of the students would be Democrats when they left the
college. This got Mimi so mad that she got on the phone to her
daughter to get her to pull her son out of this school which
seems to thinks it's mission in life is not to teach but convert
the students to Democrats.

Mimi also talked to the dean the next day, and she knew she was
in trouble when he answered the phone with a "wussy, little
voice." She listed her complaint about the political science
teacher's indoctrination, and asked if the dean knew about this.
The dean admitted he was at that class; in fact, it turned out
the dean was the political science teacher.

Mimi replied "well, hell, I'm sleeping with the enemy then, this
conversation isn't going nowhere!" The man, though, was proud of
what he had done, and insisted that 85% of the school's students
were Democrats when they left the college. Mimi asked what right
the dean had to squash debate in this matter, but he was happy
about it. Mimi thus is considering writing some letters to the
local paper and contacting the college president.

Rush asks what this school is, and she says it's Spartanburg
Methodist Junior College in Spartanburg, SC. Mimi adds that this
guy also said Thomas Jefferson was a liberal and that America was
founded on liberalism, not Rush's conservatism. Mimi wonders what
would have happened if this guy had held up the Bible and claimed
he was going to teach devil worship. She bets this school has
probably taken the religion out, too.

Rush bets this has happened somewhere in America, and says he's
happy to get this news about the Spartanburg Methodist Junior
College. However, any reading of the Federalist Papers would show
that the founding fathers did not believe that it was government
that would make America great; in fact, it was government that
they were most afraid of.

He thanks Mimi for her report about this school which
"guarantees" to turn 85% of its students into Democrats. He
laughs at how he's called dangerous, when it reality it's guys
like this dean who show America what liberalism is really like,
creating a need for guys like Rush to fix what they've screwed
up. This is why every school should have at least two liberals
and two Communists, so that American students can see first-hand
what they really are and what they really think.

"We don't want fossils," Rush notes, "we want living, breathing
relics."

*BREAK*

Phone	Spig from Madison, WI

Spig wants to talk about Mike Espy, and Rush notes that Peter
Jennings in his story about this yesterday said "what many people
in this country will regard as just retribution, and many will
also find sad, Espy has been forced to resign." Rush has to
control himself from crying.

Spig wants to know, though, when the media starts realizing just
how many members of the Clinton administration have resigned, and
that you can tell what kind of person someone is by the company
they keep. How long can Clinton continue to take the high ground
and keep distance between himself and these "renegade children?"

Rush notes that the last deserters from the Clinton ship will be
the dominant "inside-the-Beltway" media types who feel Clinton is
one of their own. It's amazing someone would call Espy's
resignation "sad," and Rush can't even imagine these journalists
referring to someone in the Reagan or Bush administrations in the
same way.

Ray Donovan was sent to court on totally phony charges, resulting
in his eventual acquittal, but the media didn't think what had
been done to him was sad, even though his reputation had been
totally destroyed. Howard Feinman, though, was on CNN's "Inside
Politics" yesterday, and he comments about Espy, saying "the
whole pattern of his behavior as alleged is one of being too cozy
with the industry he regulated. Bill Clinton came here to stop
that kind of behavior, and that's what's underscored here."

The media is not making any connection between Espy and Clinton,
but Rush doesn't believe that Espy was acting on his own at all.
Clinton and Espy have ties to each other and to Tyson that go
way, way back; the only excuse Espy could possibly give would be
to say "hey, I thought I was still in Congress."

Spig says that Espy yesterday divided up America into three
groups: farmers, consumers, and taxpayers, but when did farmers
stop becoming taxpayers and consumers, and when did consumers
stop paying taxes? This is all one group, but Espy treats them
separately.

Rush finds that an interesting way to divide up one's
constituents, and it illustrates a lot about how liberals think.
The one thing that people in government have forgotten is that
they wouldn't have a dime if it weren't for the working people in
the private sector. He thanks Spig for his great comments.

*BREAK*

Phone	Lee from Huntington, WV

Lee says the caller from Spartanburg reminded her of a class
she's taking at Marshall University titled "Women, Minorities,
and the Mass Media." Lee knew that this course would be very
liberal, and this is exactly the case; the focus is on race and
how blacks can't be racists against whites. Rush bets the teacher
claims this is because blacks don't have power and that you have
to possess power in order to be racist, but this is nonsense.

Lee says the class also insists that whites are evil, and that
just realizing you're white is racist in and of itself. Lee
admits she is scared about her grade in this class because she
seems to be the only conservative in it. Rush hopes that's not
the case and thanks her for calling.

