Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, May 26, 1994

by John Switzer

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May 26, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: EPA gives Utah state $500,000 to study
methane coming from cow's burps; activists want to stop
"electronic redlining" of information superhighway; pressure
seems to be getting to Clinton, who is talking about Republicans
as "fanatics mongering in hate and fear"; Clinton extending trade
benefits to China, continuing Bush policies that he had
criticized during 1992 campaign; Clinton goes to "pep rally" at
Capitol Hill; Democrats continuing to blame Republicans for their
own lack of progress in health care; Clinton facing increasing
hostility in the South; more callers support Rush's belief that
proper spanking is not abuse but punishment borne of love; Rush
accused of being hypocritical with his attacks against Kurt
Cobain; construction worker asks Rush not to criticize
jean-wearers; Burlington Fabrics "angry" at Rush's disparaging
remarks about denim jeans; EPA warns San Diego mayor not to clean
up river because it would "violate the sewage-based ecology of
the river"; contrary to news items, Rush's second book did very
well; caller bets Rostenkowski will use "congressional deficit
syndrome" as his defense in court; Rostenkowski might have taken
a "pay cut" if he had retired in 1992 with $1 million in campaign
contributions; NY Post reports "Hillary says Rosty Can Just Get
Losty"; words to "House Post Office" commercial; words to "Dan
Rostenkowski limited edition postage stamp" commercial; words to
"Hey, Hey, Paula"; Rush accused of suppressing anger towards his
father for being spanked; retired psychologist has had it with
psychobabblers; if liberals had been around in 1787, they'd still
be debating which truths are `self-evident"; good union worker
thinks Clinton is trying to make country a little more fair
because "there are too few people with too much money"; Sarasota
school officials have cancelled second appearance by Smokey
Robinson because he mentioned God in his first speech; sexual
harassment charges against NY teachers have increased over 800%
since 1991; coffee has become latest environmental hazard;
Clinton gets polite reception at Annapolis Naval Academy but
White House aides think the "relative warmth" is sign that
Clinton is "being recognized as a credible Commander-in-Chief";
Clinton tells Naval graduates that they will provide service to
their country outside of military; caller decries the rise of
"experts" in art and in parenting; caller figures he'll pay about
$2,000 a year out of pocket under the Clinton health care plan;
CBS to put on special about how excuses are being found for
nearly every action and misbehavior; caller notes that liberals
want to hold parents responsible for their children's actions,
but then deny parents the right to discipline their children so
as to teach them correctly; Rush's CIS account is 70277,2502.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

May 26, 1994 - It's now (allegedly) day 492 (day 511 for the rich
and the dead) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal") and
569 days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the
air with 640 radio affiliates (with more than 22 million
listeners weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national
rating of 3.7), and a newsletter with over 440,000 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 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 million copies.

NEWS

o	Reported on the Associated Press newswire - the Environmental
Protection Agency has given Utah State University half a million
dollars to determine how much methane is released into the
atmosphere when cows burp. The federally funded study will help
determine how much this burping contributes to global warming,
and follows a $300,000 grant in 1991 to Washington State
University to determine the effects of cow flatulence on global
warming. The Utah study will fit a small herd of cattle with
special breathing devices to measure the methane content of their
burps, with Ken Olson of Utah State noting that "methane produced
by cattle appears to be a consequential factor in global
warming," perhaps up to 20% of all worldwide methane emissions.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Thursday, May
28, 1992:

o	The Washington Post reported that the former head of the House
Post Office, Robert Rota, had confessed that he improperly
changed up to $20,000 in postage vouchers into cash for Rep. Dan
Rostenkowski (D-IL) over the previous five years. Rostenkowski
denied the allegations.

o	Rush commented that one of the best stories ever been written
on him had appeared in the July issue of Bigtops, a porno
magazine. There were no pictures of Rush, but the story was
titled "Rush Limbaugh, he's got the biggest hypothalamus in North
America."

o	The latest Presidential poll distributed the electoral votes as
follows: Bush had 190 electoral votes of the 270 he needed, Perot
had 128, and Clinton had only 6. While the poll did not include
all 50 states, it was sobering news for the Democrats, and Rush
predicted that should Perot fade away for some reason, the major
media would "stampede" to Bill Clinton in a massive attempt of
"mouth-to-mouth resuscitation." The press would stop at nothing
to turn Clinton back into a viable candidate because their major
goal was to get rid of Bush, so they would give Clinton the
biggest free ride from the press that this country had ever seen.

o	A study of 400 inner city youths done by Princeton University
reported that black leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Magic
Johnson were no more effective than George Bush in reaching urban
black teenagers to talk about drugs or safe sex. The study found
that members of the "hip-hop" generation rejected both mainstream
black and white cultures. Inner city teens would be delighted to
meet someone like Magic Johnson, but they would discount his
messages against drugs because they would believe he is "only
playing the game" - acting like a celebrity.

o	Ted Turner announced he would buy a 300,000 acre ranch in New
Mexico to raise buffalo which he believed were more politically
correct than cattle because "they were here first." Turner's
network, by the way, aired a 1991 show called "New Range Wars"
that claimed cattle were overgrazing and destroying the land.

Rush therefore composed a song in honor of Turner's new ranch.
Sung to the tune of "Home on the Range," its lyrics were:

	Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam,
	And a wife with a pink negligee.
	Where seldom are heard, a conservative word,
	And the news is on cable all day.

Rush added that Turner's wife, Jane Fonda, was assailed by Nora
Ephram for getting breast implants; Ephram was disappointed
because Fonda was intelligent and not "an average woman";
according to Ephram, "only middle class women get implants."

o	A 28-year old woman was arrested in Los Angeles for stealing a
3-year old from a daycare center and then setting a car on fire
with the child in it. The child was burned over 70% of its body.

o	A San Bernadino County coroner consultant reported that blood
tests indicated that the late Sam Kinnison took cocaine and
prescription drugs before he was killed in an April car crash.
The consultant wouldn't comment on whether the drugs impeded
Kinnison's ability to drive, but he did identify the drugs found
in the comedian's blood: xantac, valium, codeine, and cocaine.
Rush recalls that he took codeine once, and he certainly was not
capable of driving at the time.

o	An all-woman band called "The Bare Naked Ladies" was drawing
huge crowds, but was upsetting feminists.

o	Rush was in the midst of a "maddening episode" concerning his
computers. He'd been looking for an easy way to backup his 200MB
hard disk and was having no luck at all. At first he tried a
removable harddisk cartridge system from Syquest; after three
months, his "top-flight computer consultant" finally got him one
and installed it. Three hours later, though, the Syquest system
still wasn't working, and in fact caused his Mac system to crash.

Rush was so angry that he almost threw the thing out of the
window. He could understand this type of thing if he lived in
Moscow, but not in the good, old U.S.A. So next he tried a 3.5"
120MB tape drive. Again, after three months, his "tip-top
computer consultant" finally was able to order one from a
distributor. However, the day it was supposed to have arrived,
the "top-flight computer consultant" called to say that UPS had
lost the drive, and that it would show up "probably within a
month."

The "tofu-tongued consultant" called yesterday to say that the
drive had shown up, and Rush had him come over last night. The
tape drive was hooked up and Rush was able to copy data to it
without problems.

However, when he tried to format a new tape, his computer locked
up. He didn't realize this for about a half-hour, though, because
it took about 20 minutes to format each tape. So because Rush was
still without a proper back-up storage kit he warned callers that
he was in a "foul mood."

o	The May 17th issue of the Houston Post reported that when Perot
took his signature petitions to Austin, TX, his supporters took
along 90 boxes labelled "Perot - Now There's a Choice." However,
only 19 boxes actually contained the 200,000 petitions, while the
remaining 71 boxes were just for show.

Roger Ailes commented that he saw Perot being interviewed on TV;
during the interview, Perot brought out a sheaf of papers from
his safe and said "it's all right here - it's over for George
Bush." Perot didn't let the reporter see the information, though,
and instead put it right back into his safe. Rush called this
"pretty slick."

o	Two years earlier, an Idaho town of 24 people was destroyed to
make room for a new highway, so it was ironic that a 90-home
luxury home development in Hurricane, UT was stopped because five
rare male desert tortoises had taken up residence in the area.
The turtles, which were looking for mates, could not be touched
or moved under the terms of the Endangered Species Act.

o	The mountain gorilla Mrithi, star of the movie "Gorilla in the
Mists," was killed by gunfire in Rwanda. Diana E. McMeekan,
president of the African Wildlife Foundation, said "he was the
first gorilla who has ever touched me." The World Wildlife Fund
said that the gorilla was the first gorilla victim of the battle
between the Rwandan government and the LAPD. Rush hadn't seen any
comment from Sigourney Weaver, but he was interested in hearing
what she would have to say when learning that she was not the
star of the movie "Gorillas in the Mist."

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MORNING UPDATE

Rush asks what happens when liberals get together with the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)? The answer is stupid new
terms such as "electronic redlining." Civil rights advocates and
consumer activists have filed petitions this week with the FCC,
accusing phone companies of excluding poor people and minorities
from the "information superhighway." According to the activists,
this is illegal "electronic redlining" and discrimination.

Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Media
Education, insists that all new services must be made available
in an "equitable and non-discriminatory manner." He and others
are upset that the phone companies want to build new networks
linking phones and TVs in affluent neighborhoods first, instead
of in poor neighborhoods.

Thus, even before the information superhighway can be built,
these idiots want to ground it because it's unfair that poor
people won't have it first. However, Rush wants to pose some
business-related questions: when the automobile was first built,
who first bought it, poor people or the affluent? What about
telephones, TVs, camcorders, CDs, or any other new technology -
who bought these devices first? Did the companies market these
new devices to the poor or to those who could buy and afford
them?

This is not discrimination, but basic business, which is why
liberals can't and won't understand it.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	Rush suspects that the pressure is getting to the President
since he's starting to spout a bunch of leftist tripe and
rhetoric such as how Republicans are "a bunch of fanatics
mongering in hate and fear." Meanwhile, though, Republicans think
that the Kentucky election is a precursor to more big wins in
November.

o	Rush notes that the EIB Institute has both a think tank and a
memory division, and while the think tank thinks about stuff, the
memory division remembers stuff. The memory division has now
remembered Bill Clinton criticizing George Bush during the 1992
campaign about the U.S.'s dealings with China. Candidate Clinton
insisted that America should not trade with them or grant the
country most favored nation status until they "clean up their
abuses on human rights."

Thus, today's NY Times has the headline "Clinton Rejects
Penalizing China - President Said to Decide to Extend Trade
Benefits." Clinton said that the country would worry about human
rights later, and Rush thinks that it's fun to watch Clinton
flip-flop about such things, especially since Clinton isn't even
aware that he's changed his position on this.

o	The newspapers today, including the Wall Street Journal, have
stories about how Clinton went to Capitol Hill last night for a
"pep rally." Yet the only people who hold pep rallies are people
in school, proving how Clinton and those in his administration
still basically think they are in college, not the real world.
They're still writing their term papers and theorizing, as if
they weren't in control of everything.

Clinton talked about health care last night, but he chastised
Democrats for bottling up his health care plan. The WSJ reports
that "Clinton appealed to the Democrats to put aside their
differences," which implies that it's Democrats, not Republicans,
who are standing in the way of health care in Congress.

Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell actually said, "The number
of different views on health care far exceeds the number of
Senators." In other words, there are more health care plans than
guys in Congress, and the scuttlebutt floating around Capitol
Hill is that Mitchell is now thinking that the smart thing for
Democrats to do is to let the health care bill die, and then
blame Republicans for it in November.

This would work, though, only if the people wanted what the
Democrats were offering, but this might no longer be the case,
given that the polls on health care are moving to the right. Rush
would love to see the Democrats try to blame this on Republicans,
though, because he'll be right there to remind America that the
Republicans couldn't stop a Democratic health care plan even if
they were unified and voting together, which they aren't.

The Democrats don't agree with each other, so it's natural that
they would blame Republicans for their own failures. Rush thinks
such an attempt would backfire, though, given the string of
Republican victories over the past year, including how the
"Democratic seat" in Kentucky will now have a Republican in it
for the first time in 129 years.

Clinton, of course, when telling Democratic members of Congress
that they should "take credit" for health care, sharply attacked
Republicans as "fanatics who are peddling a message of hate and
fear." Clinton also insisted that Republicans were fooling
themselves if they thought Kentucky presaged the November
elections.

Rush notes, though, that Clinton is facing increasing hostility
especially in the rural south, given his recent attack against
the south. Rush thus doubts Clinton's portrayal of Republicans as
hate-mongers will have any effect, especially since Democrats
running for re-election are running away from Clinton.

In fact, Rush thinks the best thing Clinton could do is to
promise all the Democrats running for re-election that he won't
go anywhere near them during their re-election campaigns. The
Democrats don't want Clinton anywhere near them right now, so
they might even be willing to support his health care plan to
keep him away.

Rush admits EIB was premature in July, 1992 when it sent Tony Lo
Bianco down to Madison Square Gardens with grape-flavored KoolAid
for the Democratic convention. However, he is now thinking that
perhaps now might be the time to revive this idea to epitomize
the impending catastrophe of the Democratic party.

*BREAK*

Phone	Joey from Venice, FL

Joey first notes he was spanked as a kid, but is still a
productive American citizen, working his way to the top,
hopefully to become a CEO of a top American company. Rush hopes
Joey makes it, but also hopes that he will give all his employees
one hour a day to listen to the EIB Network. Joey agrees to do
so, and notes that the one caller earlier this week who thought
spanking was "violence" was totally off-base; the discipline his
parents gave him as a kid has stood him in good stead, from his
school days through his military service and even into his
business career.

Rush thanks Joey for his call, and notes that he is referring to
Sharon, a caller from St. Louis, who upbraided Rush for his
remarks in favor of spanking. However, punishment and discipline
are not the same as physical violence, yet liberals have defined
these words to be synonyms. As far as liberals are concerned,
punishment no longer means teaching people right from wrong, but
rather pointless beating and abuse, and liberals equate
punishment with "violence."

And, of course, parents are no longer considered to be up to the
task of raising their children, so an entire cottage industry has
been created to "teach" parents how to raise their kids. It's
gotten to the point where the average American is thought to be
dump, stupid, hopeless, and happy about it.

Phone	Eric from El Cerrito, CA

Eric thinks Rush has been very hypocritical over the past few
months, especially in how he criticized the media for its
negative comments about Richard Nixon after his death; however,
the day after Kurt Cobain's death, Rush called Cobain "human
debris." Rush points out that he has no respect for people who
commit suicide, and he made that point very clear at the time.
Not to mention that there was nothing in Cobain's life that Rush
thought was worthy of respect.

Eric still thinks that Rush was being hypocritical, given that he
himself thinks that Nixon was human debris; however, he wouldn't
say so after Nixon's death as quickly as Rush did of Cobain. He
thinks Rush's willingness to attack Cobain like this is sort of
hypocritical.

Rush doesn't think so because his comments about the press's
diatribes against Nixon were about how Nixon was being treated
after his death by the press as if he were still a potent threat
and enemy; however, Nixon could do no further harm to these
people, yet the media still was attacking him as if he could.

Rush asks Eric for other examples of his hypocrisy, and Eric says
that while Rush defends the freedom of smokers, he doesn't attack
anti-sodomy or anti-drug laws. In fact, Rush has been silent on
alcohol laws, too. Rush says that there are differences between
these substances and cigarettes; tobacco hasn't ruined people's
lives as have drugs and alcohol. As to sodomy, these laws have
been in effect for thousands of years for reasons that are still
valid today.

*BREAK*

Phone	Steve from San Bernadino, CA

Steve has two problems with what Rush has been saying lately.
First, Steve worked in the construction field for many years, so
he knows that a lot of hard-working people wear jeans. Thus, he
doesn't think Rush should be criticizing jeans, although he
admits that it's been quite a while since Rush has criticized
jeans as being worn only by hippy-types.

Rush says that he did own jeans before the hippy movement
started, but he stopped wearing them once they became the fashion
statement for hippies. Rush is amazed, though, that Steve is
calling right when a paper in Charlotte, NC is reporting that
Burlington Fabrics, which makes denim, is angry at Rush's
remarks. The paper is trying to stir up a ruckus about a comment
Rush made about jeans a while ago, and Burlington is playing
along gladly, even offering to send Rush a "huge pair" of jeans
to change his attitude.

EIB has thus issued a clarification about this. First, when Rush
started working in radio at the age of 16, he wanted to be taken
seriously by the establishment. He was also not a war protestor,
but instead thought the U.S. should win the Vietnam War, and for
those reasons he decided to avoid wearing the blue jeans that
were so popular with his generation.

Today, though, Rush doesn't wear jeans because he never got in
the habit of wearing them, nor does he have the kind of job that
would allow him to wear them even if he wanted to. Rush rarely
goes outside, and when he does, he's wearing shorts because the
only time he goes outside is when he's in Florida.

Besides, in "Jeans Lingo," Rush is "husky," and Rush would prefer
not to wear the overall type jeans. He's also never found a pair
of jeans that have a high enough rise and which didn't make him
look even heavier than he is. This is not to denigrate jeans,
though, because there are a lot of pieces of clothing that pose
similar problems for him, such as certain types of collars.

Rush admits he hasn't "bashed" those kinds of collars, but he
also hasn't intended to "bash" jeans, either. Rush really is
curious, though, whether Steve is really from San Bernadino, and
not a "Burlington plant."

Steve swears that his call is just a coincidence, and he would
also like to disagree with the "broad brush" that Rush has used
on the environment. Rush says that this criticism of him has got
to stop - he's got two books in print, dozens of issues of his
newsletter, five years of radio and two years of TV in which he's
been very specific about whom he disagrees with regarding the
environment.

Rush does not use a broad brush when talking about the
environmentalists, and he wishes that people would start
listening to what he actually says. For example, the latest
example of what Rush finds fault with concerns the river that
separates San Diego and Tijuana. The mayors of these two cities
wanted to clean up this heavily polluted river, but the EPA has
warned them to take no clean-up action that would "violate the
sewage-based ecology of the river."

The San Diego mayor then remarked "sewage has been spilled so
long, it has become vested, and the ecologists are telling us
that when we clean it up we may offend some creatures that live
in it." Thus, the EPA is now protecting organisms that live in
sewage.

Steve says his only point is that there are a lot of common sense
people who believe in clean water and clear air, and Rush says he
knows this; he's said many times that he's all for these things,
too. Steve says he knows this, but a lot of people he knows have
missed this point about Rush.

Rush says that the only thing Steve should ask these people is
"have you listened to him?" If they haven't, then tell these
people to shut up because they don't know what they're talking
about. Rush admits that he is getting tired of hearing about how
he "paints with a broad brush." He could understand this
criticism if he had been on the air for only a year or two, and
hadn't written any books, but this is not the case and the truth
about him is clear to see.

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As to another point to be cleared up, Rush has had two hardcover
books published, the first which was on the NY Times best-seller
list as number one for 24 weeks, having sold 2.3 million in
hardcover and 1.6 million in paperback. His second book came out
last November, and sold 2 million in eight weeks; his first book
didn't sell as fast because it took 13 printings to get to 2
million copies printed, while his second book had a first
printing of that many. Thus, the second book sold quickly,
without any pent-up demand, and has racked up total sales of 2.25
million so far.

A couple of stories, though, have claimed that "Limbaugh's book
bombed." Supposedly in the publishing world, a second book never
does as well as the first, and the paperback always sells more
than the hardcover, but Rush's book has broken both rules. Where
these other stories are coming from, Rush doesn't know, nor does
he know why his second book has fallen off the NY Times list,
other than the fact that it sold so incredibly quickly when first
released.

However, Rush is not worried about his second book, especially
since its paperback has yet to come out and since the hardcover
is only 60,000 behind in sales from the first. Rush suspects that
the second book will catch up as people buy their Father's Day
gifts.

*BREAK*

Phone	Craig from Northport, FL

Craig has studied both economics and politics, and has concluded
that Rostenkowski will go to trial, using the defense of
"congressional deficit syndrome," claiming that his 37 years in
Congress have made him incapable of judging right from wrong
anymore. Thus, because he's been surrounded by people who are
constantly stealing from the taxpayers, Rostenkowski will
undoubtedly claim that he is no longer responsible for his
actions and should be found innocent of all charges. Rush loves
the idea of "congressional deficit syndrome," and congratulates
Craig on his great analysis of the situation.

From what Rush has read in the Washington Post, Rostenkowski's
alleged illegal activities have involved several hundred thousand
dollars, echoing what Rush said earlier this week about how
Rostenkowski might have taken a "pay cut" had he retired with the
$1 million in campaign contributions in 1990. He's accused of
trading office postage stamps for cash and of assuming ownership
of cars previously leased by the government.

He has reimbursed the House Stationery Store to the tune of more
than $80,000 for wood and leather furniture, and investigators
are also looking into obstruction of justice charges, with
Rostenkowski staffers and others possibly being charged. Plus,
Rostenkowski has been accused of having fake employees on his
payroll, with people being paid without ever having to show up
for work.

Rush admits he was surprised to find out that the House has its
own Stationery Store, and since they used to have their own House
Bank and Post Office, he has to wonder just what other goodies
the House has up on Capitol Hill. He also finds it amazing that
when the House Post Office scandal broke, EIB put together a
parody commercial and took what it thought was a little poetic
license about what was going on in there.

However, that parody has been proven to be exactly right about
what was happening, with members of Congress laundering
constituents' checks and trading cash for stamps. Rush promises
to play this commercial later during the show and talk about this
some more as well.

*BREAK*

Today's NY Post has the headline "Hillary Says Rosty Can Just Get
Losty," and the story quotes her as saying that while
Rostenkowski is a great guy, "we don't need him for health care"
which is "bigger than any one person." Rush bets that Lani
Guinier and Rostenkowski will get together to commiserate about
they've both been dumped by the administration.

Rush recalls, though, that Rostenkowski once told Hillary during
her appearance before his committee that "the President will soon
become known as Hillary's husband." But Hillary hasn't hesitated
to dump Rostenkowski when it's become inconvenient to have him
around anymore. "This is a tough woman!" Rush remarks.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush admits he is still amazed at how when the House Post Office
scandal originally broke, EIB did a parody commercial,
speculating about what was going on at the time. The House Post
Office scandal actually broke before the House Bank one, but it
was put on the backburner when the check kiting at the bank was
revealed. EIB thus produced a commercial for both the House Bank
and Post Office, and EIB's guesses about what was happening at
the Post Office has ended up being dead on.

<<Announcer>> The Capitol Hill Post Office - over a 100 years of service.

<<Walter Brennan-type old geezer>> Yeah, I remember my first day
behind the counter at the Capitol Hill Post Office. It's
something I'll never forget . . .

<<Sound of jingling bell as the door is opened with sounds of
horses and wagons in the street outside.>>

<<Old Geezer when he was young>> Well, ah hello there, Mr.
Congressman. Is there anything I can help you with there?

<<Good Ol' Boy Congressman>> Well, yes son, I need a couple of
them thar first-class stamps.

<<Young Geezer>> Okay, is that all, sir?

<<Congressman>> No - uh - can you cash this check for a $1000?

<<Young Geezer>> Ah, boy, sir, I don't - I don't know, I don't
think so.

<<Congressman>> Well now, trust me, son, you can. You see, it's
just the way we do things up here on the Hill. Heh, heh, heh.

<<Old Geezer>> Oh, sure, the congressmen have come and gone, and
I've retired, but some things remain the same.

<<Sound of jingling bell as door is opened, with sounds of modern
accounting machines being operated in the background.>>

<<Young Geezer>> Well, ah, hello there, Mr. Congressman. Is there
anything I can help you with there?

<<Congressman>> Yeah, check my mailbox.

<<Young Geezer>> Okay - oh, just a check statement from your
bank, sir.

<<Congressman>> What check statement?

<<Young Geezer>> Ah, yes sir, I'll just tear this up right away.

<<Congressman>> Good kid, good kid. Hey, I need some postage
stamps - just one.

<<Young Geezer>> Okay, that'll be 29 cents.

<<Congressman>> Uh, here's a constituent's check for $5000.

<<Young Geezer>> Ah, and here's your change. Thanks, Congressman.

<<Congressman>> And kid, you keep that stamp.

<<Young Geezer, very excited>> Hey thanks!

<<Congressman, sotto voce>> That way if I'm indicted, he's my
accomplice. Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. <<Normal voice>> Bye-bye!

<<Old Geezer>> Yes sir, I guess it's true what they say about
congressmen and the Capitol Hill Post Office - neither inquiry
nor bribes nor abuses of power shall keep our appointed leaders
from making their rounds.

<<Announcer, with drum roll>> The Capitol Hill Post Office,
another special privilege institution.

********

Today's Washington Post reports that this is essentially part of
what was going on, with checks being cashed at the House Post
Office, ostensibly to buy stamps but later being converted for
stamps. Rush notes, by the way, that congressmen have the
"franking" privilege, which means they don't need to buy stamps
in the first place; however, they still set up a Post Office
anyway.

EIB didn't stop with this commercial, though, but continued to
tweak Rosty with the following commercial:

<<Announcer>> Attention, stamp collectors! The Capitol Hill Post
Office announces a must-have stamp for your collection - the Dan
Rostenkowski limited edition postage stamp. This special stamp is
available for a limited time only, and it features Dan
Rostenkowski at his best - surrounded by reporters, refusing to
answer any questions.

<<Disgusted woman>> Euugggh! There's no way you could get me to
lick that thing.

<<Announcer>> No need to worry about that! The Dan Rostenkowski
limited edition stamp has no glue on it; it won't stick to
anything and nothing will stick to it!

<<Excited stamp collector>> How do I get one?!?

<<Announcer>> Simply go to the Capitol Hill Post Office, cash a
constituent's check, and the stamp is absolutely free, no
questions asked!

<<Excited crowd>> Super!

<<Announcer>> And while you're there, you can vote on which Bill
Clinton you'd like to see on the new Presidential stamp: the old,
likable campaigning Bill Clinton or the new promise-breaking,
misleading, and occasionally confrontational Bill Clinton.

<<Excited crowd>> We're not sure which one we hate more!

<<Announcer>> The new limited edition Dan Rostenkowski postage
stamp. Another fine service from the Capitol Hill Post Office.

*********

In a musical mood, Rush plays one of his new favorites:

"Hey, Hey Paula, did I embarrass you?
Hey, Hey Paula, I didn't mean to harass you.
I can't wait to see, what you use for <<I can't make this word out>>.
Paula, they'll never know the truth . . . about my lust, my lust."

"Hey, Paula, I didn't know I'd frighten you.
Hey, hey, hey Paula, now it's kinda scary to me, too.
But if you swear it's true, I'll just say you're loose!
Ah, come on, I mean . . . what's the big deal . . . about my lust, my lust?"

<<Chorus>>
"Harassment means asking a time or two,
But you didn't let me finish the first time through.
I was just teasing . . . when I told you,
The job you want just might come true.
It's just my lust, my lust."

<<Verse>>
"Hey, hey, Paula, did I embarrass you?
Hey, hey, hey, Paula, I thought I was like a brother to you.
Harassment means asking a time or two.
You didn't let me finish the first time through.
I was just teasing, when I told you
The job you want might just come through.
Was it my lust? My lust??"

*BREAK*

Phone	Joe from New Providence, NJ

Joe is concerned about the conversation Rush had about corporal
punishment earlier this week, especially as how Rush related that
he once had to cut his own switch. He thinks Rush was "coming up
with lots of defenses" and rationalizations for the spankings he
received.

Joe thinks Rush was rationalizing about how the spankings did him
no harm and were for his own good; these are the kinds of
"defenses that remove a person from the feeling world - that's
what it's all about." Joe also felt a lot of anger in Rush during
this conversation.

Rush notes that Joe basically has accused him of not knowing what
he's talking about with his own life. Joe says that's not what he
means, but he did sense some anger on Rush's part towards the
caller who was insisting that spanking was always bad. Joe thinks
this anger, though, was misdirected on Rush's part, and that this
anger was not really towards the caller but towards his own
father.

Rush finds it amazing that someone would try to turn him into a
victim who hated his father. Joe, though, says he's only trying
to see if Rush is capable of looking at these things. Rush notes,
however, that Joe basically has called in, having already made
his conclusions about this, telling him that he is really mad at
his father, not with the caller who was trying to tell him that
what his father did was wrong.

Joe says that this is what he's sensing, and Rush's reply is "My
God, the country is finished." He's certain that Joe's call has
to be a joke, but he states again that 1) he is normal, 2) that
his childhood was normal, 3) that his father was terrific,
although 4) Rush did get mad at his dad at certain times, such as
when he got spanked.

However, as an adult now, Rush knows that his father did a pretty
good job as a parent, and that the country would be better off if
more people did things as his father did. Rush wouldn't mind
relieving his childhood at this point, especially since he knew
that his father's motivations were for what was best for his son,
and his actions turned out for the best.

Rush admits he still has some lingering anger about some things
about his father, but most of that is over how his father treated
himself, not his sons. Thus, he rejects the notion that some
listener could tell him that his anger at a caller's assertions
about all this was really anger directed at his father.

Joe asks how Rush would feel if someone today would strike him,
and Rush bets that he would ask for a "time-out" and try to
"understand" the person who struck him. Joe takes Rush seriously,
so Rush explains that this wouldn't happen since his security
people are very efficient. However, if someone did strike him,
Rush would be angry about him.

Joe says that this is how children feel when they are hit. Rush,
though, points out that being punished and spanked is a lot
different than being "hit" - even as a child, Rush knew why he
was being spanked and there was a big difference between that and
being slugged in the jaw.

Joe asks if being spanked was a common practice in his household,
and Rush says no because it occurred only a few times, maybe only
twice. Joe gives a psychiatric "hmmm" at this and says he has a
"hard time with that." Rush has no doubt about this, since it
appears Joe would love to hear him say that his father abused
him.

Joe says that Rush's father abused him at least twice, but Rush
notes that his father never abused him at any point. Rush could
probably advance his career by claiming he was abused, but that
was not the case, and he's not going to let anyone put words in
his mouth. Spanking is not abuse.

Joe refuses to believe this, and equates it to someone punching
Rush in the jaw or hitting him with a stick. Joe sees not
difference between these things and hitting an unprotected,
defenseless child. Rush doesn't see why it's so hard to draw a
distinction between unprovoked, angry violence, and a parent
punishing a child because that parent, out of a parent's love,
wants to teach and instruct the child. However, it appears that
Joe will never see that distinction, which is why his attempt to
psychoanalyze Rush is way off-base.

*BREAK*

Phone	Judy from Cincinnati, OH

Judy is still trying to recover from the last call, and notes she
is a retired psychologist; therefore, she points out, if
psychobabble drives Rush up the wall, it drives her up 17
stories, if not further. Rush admits he still can't make the
logical connection between slugging someone and parents'
punishing of their kids. Judy notes there is no connection
between these two things, but Rush says that to too many people
there are such connections, and unfortunately many of these
people are social workers who can take kids away from their
parents.

Judy says that psychobabble such as this has as much chance of
helping you understand the human condition as understanding a
toaster will help one become an electrical engineer. A little bit
of knowledge is still a dangerous thing, and many of her former
colleagues find it easier to use psychobabble instead of their
minds.

Judy adds that she is tired of hearing Rush attacked for being
"intolerant." She thinks Rush, if anything, is too tolerant, as
he is sometimes too diplomatic and gracious when talking about
ridiculous things. She notes a free society has to suffer fools,
but it doesn't have to suffer them gladly. She thinks Rush
therefore should start pointing out the sophism which has become
a sacrament to liberals, who do know what they are doing.

Rush notes that liberals aren't stupid, so they do know what
they're doing. Judy agrees, and points out that if the
psychobabbling liberals were around in 1787, they'd still be
debating what truths are self-evident, and the country would
still haven't have a Constitution.

Rush says this is a good point - the liberals would still be
arguing about the nature of truth and accusing the other founding
fathers of wanting to impose "their" truths on everyone else. He
finds it interesting that Judy thinks he is too tolerant towards
those who still mischaracterize him.

He has nearly 6.5 million copies of his books in print, plus a
newsletter with 450,000 subscribers and his shows being on the
air 17.5 hours a week. With all this, what Rush is and what he
believes is no mystery to those who actually try to find this out
for themselves.

Yet people continue to mischaracterize Rush, but what more can he
do? Should Rush really need to hire a PR person to make his cases
for him? Rush stands by everything he's said and written, so he
wonders what else he can do to end these mischaracterizations.

Judy says that she would like Rush to start attacking the false
premises behind the liberals' sophistry. Rush, though, doubts
this would help because the liberals know the truth but simply
refuse to accept it; it's in their best interests to discredit
Rush.

This is why Clinton has attacked Republicans as "peddling hate
and fear." This sort of cliched attack indicates to Rush that
Clinton, with his defenders, are losing it because they know they
are losing.

Judy agrees - this sort of personal attack is intellectual vacant
to begin with and used by people who know they have lost the
battle. However, she would not be so quick to credit the liberals
with the awareness that Rush is giving them; rather, she suspects
that they are intellectually void and incapable.

Rush warns against selling these people short and underestimating
them. Someone yesterday quoted a liberal economist as pointing
out that the employer mandate in Clinton's health care plan was
"virtuous" because it would fool the people. Liberal leaders know
what they are doing, and in their supreme arrogance and
condescension truly believe that the world needs them because the
people aren't able to survive on their own. Liberals thus try to
make people as dependent as possible on government and on the
liberals in that government.

Sadly, more and more people seem to want this dependency, so Rush
would not sell liberals short. He thanks Judy for calling.

Phone	Roger from Long Island, NY

Roger admits that Rush is keeping "us socialists in check," and
Rush recalls that Roger called about two years ago when he was a
flight attendant for Eastern Airlines. Roger admits that his
nephew Matthew breaks his heart because he's a dittohead who's
enriching EIB's coffers by buying all the dittohead stuff. And
his young niece, who started kindergarten last year, surprised
her teacher by telling her that she's worried about "Clinton
screwing up the economy."

Roger, though, insists that Bill Clinton is not a socialist, but
rather someone who's trying to fix the country. Rush asks Roger,
who he notes is still technically on strike against Eastern,
which has basically not flown any planes in two years, to hold on
through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Roger from Long Island, NY (continued)

Rush asks if Roger would like some free dittohead stuff, and
Roger says "sure!" He continues on to say that Clinton is not a
socialist but only wants to make the country "a little more fair"
because "there are too few people with too much money and too
many people without anything, and we have to correct this
situation or we'll destroy ourselves."

Roger insists the country has no more manufacturing, and is also
upset that Clinton is not tying human rights to the Most Favored
Nation status granted to other nations. This, to Roger, proves
Clinton is not a socialist. Rush says he has never called Clinton
a socialist per se, but his health care plan is socialism; his
flip-flops on China are basically an admission of the reality
that the U.S. can't afford to ignore its trade with China.

Roger, though, says one economist noted that if tariffs were
raised, trade with certain countries would be cut, but this would
force America to reindustrialize, thereby making up much lost
trade. Roger is all in favor of high tariffs for incoming goods
because while this makes imported goods more expensive, it would
reindustrialize America, creating millions of more jobs.

Rush says that competition is what will re-industrialize America,
as proven by how America's auto-unions are now very happy that
NAFTA is creating more jobs in the U.S. because more cars are
being sold in Mexico. Chrysler, in particular, has experienced a
rebirth because of NAFTA, but tariffs are nothing more than tax
increases.

Roger says that he talked to William Buckley once, asking for any
examples of products manufactured outside of the country that has
come back at a lower price than when they were made in the U.S.
Rush points out that Smith-Corona is now making typewriters
outside of the U.S. because of lower costs; for this company to
have stayed in New York, they would have had to be subsidized in
order to remain competitive. Subsidies, though, only keep bad
companies in business.

Roger says the book "Where America Went Wrong" shows that
American companies that set up manufacturing sites outside the
country and sell to American firms don't pay taxes on the
majority of the price of a product. If an American company
imports a good for $50 and then sells it for a 10% profit, it
pays taxes only on that 10% (i.e. $5); the $50 cost is not taxed
at all.

Rush says that Roger has basically said that America needs to
make things "more fair," but this is not what America is about.
Rather, America is about people pursuing excellence and freedom,
not fairness. Also, Roger seems to believe the union party line
that protection of American jobs is worth any cost, including
charging consumers more, even if those American companies aren't
competitive in the world market. Those days are gone, though, and
should not return.

*BREAK*

President Clinton spoke to graduates at the Naval Academy
yesterday, and Rush will talk more about that in the third hour.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o	The Sarasota, FL Herald Tribune is reporting that school
officials in Sarasota have banned a second appearance by Motown
singer Smokey Robinson because in his first speech to high school
students he made a few references to how religion and God have
improved his life. "We respect his belief but it's not something
we can allow other students to hear and be a party to," said Mary
Watts, assistant superintendent of Sarasota School District.

Watts also noted that they had told the sponsors of Robinson's
talk that there must be no religious content in his speeches,
songs, or literature. Robinson, however, told the students that
he felt somewhat like Lazarus since God had brought him back to
life from a bought with substance abuse. Robinson also recited
the 23rd Psalm and sang the song "Amazing Grace."

Robinson was cheered by the 1400 students at the Youth Explosion
anti-drug rally he spoke to, and the minister who organized the
rally, Rev. John Davis, remarked that Robinson mentioned God in
only one minute out of a two-hour presentation and that it was
"sad we live in a country that the mention of Jesus is taboo."
Rush contrasts this to how people like Khallid Mohammed can speak
at schools, saying what he pleases about Jews and others. Smokey
Robinson, though, can't even talk to kids about what's important
in his life.

It's now forbidden to post the Ten Commandments in public schools
today, as if they were truly dangerous ideas. Rush wonders,
though, if the people in Sarasota who are miffed at how Robinson
is being treated are "intolerant"; there are those who would make
this claim, yet isn't the real intolerance that shown by those
who would silence Robinson, who was not preaching or forcing
anything he was saying on someone else.

A representative of the school board said that they couldn't
"allow students to hear or be a party to" what Robinson said, as
if he were speaking the most dangerous of words. What Robinson
said and did was not harmful, oppressive, or intimidating, yet
he's been silenced.

o	Sexual harassment charges against teachers, custodians, and
administrators in New York public schools have skyrocketed from
16 in 1991 to 41 in 1992 and up to 137 cases in 1993. Most of the
charges were made by female students against male staffers and
teachers, and involved talk about sex acts, the size of penises,
staring at chests, and touching.

Rush doesn't want to condone any such activities, but he'd bet
that there's more anger among educators at Smokey Robinson in
Sarasota than what is seen in New York against those who
committed these acts.

o	Researchers are now claiming that coffee might be responsible
for a larger death rate in Central and South American songbirds.
As more forested land is being cleared for coffee planting,
songbirds are losing their natural habitats; plus songbirds are
dying from eating coffee beans.

"We want people to become more interested in
environmentally-friendly coffee - coffee that helps birds," said
Dr. Russell Greenberg, director of the Smithsonian's Migratory
Bird Center in Washington, DC. "Whole ecosystems are threatened
by the loss of greenery and may fall prey to coffee poisoning,"
Greenberg also stated, adding that it was large companies, not
family farmers, which were to blame for the change in coffee
farming practices.

o	President Clinton spoke at the Annapolis Naval Academy
yesterday, receiving at best polite applause from the graduates
and the crowd of 23,000 who were attending the graduation
ceremonies. Aides, though, thought the "relative warmth" of the
reception was a sign that Clinton was progressing as "being
recognized as a credible Commander-in-Chief."

In his speech to the graduates, Clinton mentioned how 400,000
Americans died in WWII, a conflict he described as the "turning
point in our century." He told the graduates that the question
being posed to them was "what deeds your generation will
accomplish, as the generation of WWII accomplished so much."

Clinton noted, though, that many of these achievements were done
after the war, and told the graduates that men and women entering
the military today "might ultimately provide duty and service in
other ways." Of course, military graduates might have no choice
in this, given the military cutbacks Clinton is implementing.

Clinton, by the way, had planned to stop by Oxford on his trip to
the 50th anniversary of the Normandy landing. However, the trip
to Oxford was postponed until after June 6th because of concerns
that the visit would bring about recollections that it was in
Oxford that Clinton avoided the draft, protested the war, and
wrote how he loathed the military.

White House aides have also said that Clinton knows he can't
improve on the emotional tribute paid by President Reagan to
those who died on Omaha Beach. Clinton therefore has been "boning
up" on the history of the D-Day invasion.

*BREAK*

Phone	Tim from South Pasadena, CA

Tim says that he and his wife have just had a little boy, and he
constantly runs into the issue of how to discipline his child. He
points out that the previous caller simply couldn't hear Rush say
how he hadn't been damaged by spanking, and to Tim this is
because this caller, like so many Americans, have gotten totally
dependent on "experts."

Tim sees this in his field, which is art. For example, Tim thinks
Picasso is a fraud, but because the "experts" disagree, you don't
dare say such a thing. Anything the "experts" say is accepted
without question by the media, and people's personal opinions are
treated with total disdain.

Tim does believe there are genuine experts in America, but the
"social planner experts" have degraded the meaning of this term,
so that "expert" doesn't mean anything anymore. These neo-experts
have killed any sort of common-sense and independent thinking.

Rush agrees with this, especially since he himself dismisses all
the media-made experts such as Catharine MacKinnon; this woman is
nuts, and because Rush doesn't accept the conventional wisdom put
forth by the media about her, he's attacked for being intolerant
and bigoted. He has come to believe that one of the reasons he's
so reviled by so many is because he's rejected the icons that
they have created for themselves.

Tim notes that Adam Smith showed he was an expert on economics
and free trade with his "Wealth of Nations," but there are
economists today who don't know what they are talking about being
hailed as experts. The same thing is happening in art.

Rush says that he took his first trip to Paris last January, and
his friends insisted he visit one of the main museums in the
city. Rush thus accompanied his friends as they looked through
the museum and ended up in the Van Gogh room. When his friends
went on and on about how Van Gogh's paintings showed the torture
and anger of the artist, Rush noted that he got angry every day,
but that isn't art.

Rush therefore has come to the conclusion that most people who
think Van Gogh is a great artist think so because "experts" have
said so, not because they think personally like these paintings
or are inspired by them. Tim agrees - about hundred years ago,
art bloomed like it never had, but these paintings were forgotten
once the Avant Garde came onto the scene. People like John Singer
Sargent were among the greatest artists ever to have lived, but
because they haven't been anointed by the cognoscenti, nobody
knows about them.

Rush admits that he never even heard of Matisse until two years
ago, and asks Tim to hang on through the break.

*BREAK*

The segment opens up with some Baroque classical music, and Rush
notes he likes this piece because he likes it, not because he
thinks it's "cultured." Also, he adds, he likes this sort of
music because you can't dance to it, so there's no pressure to do
so.

Phone	Tim from Pasadena, CA (continued)

Tim recalls how when Rush last year said he liked classical
music, union thug Mo Thacker came storming into the studio to
blast Rush for being an elitist. This is the typical of the
pressure imposed by liberals. Rush agrees with that.

Tim says that the sad thing about all these liberal diatribes of
art is that they have convinced the common man to abandon art,
simply so as to escape the batterings that the liberals give to
those who don't believe as they do. Rush says that art is now
defined as bullwhips stuck up in the rear ends of a nude man or a
crucifix placed in a jar of urine.

Tim agrees, but notes that there are still beautiful paintings
out there, but the reason this sort of art doesn't flourish today
is because the experts have been allowed to take over. Tim Wolfe
wrote a great book titled "What is the Painted Word" that goes
into all this. Rush thanks Tim for calling.

Rush is informed that James Carville is the latest member of the
Clinton administration to dump Rostenkowski, saying "he's not the
only person in Congress. As DeGaulle once said the graveyards are
full of indispensable men."

Phone	Charles from Taylor, MI

Charles says he figured out that since his company pays $5600 a
year for his health care, under the Clinton plan he'll have to
pay about $2,000 out of pocket for his 20% share of that plus all
the taxes on his benefits that are going to be levied. Thus, his
costs will start at $2,000 and go up from there. As to what he's
going to get, he likes what his current plan gives him, but he
knows all he's going to get from Clinton is the shaft.

Rush doesn't doubt that, and he wishes more people would do as
Charles has done and ask themselves how much the Clinton plan is
going to cost them and what they will get for their money. Until
people know these things, they shouldn't be supporting the
Clinton plan at all.

Phone	Linda from Dayton, OH

Linda notes that she was called a "Rushie" the other day because
she was reading Rush's book. Linda adds that she is a
conservative Democrat, is a nurse in a psych ward, and agrees
with Rush completely about spanking. Linda, her husband, and many
of their friends were spanked as children, and they've turned out
to be productive members of society; others who weren't spanked,
though, haven't learned right from wrong or that their actions
will have consequences.

Spanking is not abuse, which is when children are hit and slugged
for no reason, especially when extreme force is used. Rush says
that CBS has a special tonight hosted by Bernard Goldberg titled
"Don't Blame Me."

The CBS program will look at excuses such as the "black rage"
defense that attorney William Kuntsler will try to use to excuse
Colin Ferguson for his murder of commuters on the Long Island
Railroad. In another example, one worker who was late to work
every day for ten years, sued his boss when he got fired,
claiming that he couldn't help himself since he had a disability:
"chronic lateness syndrome."

Rush is thus encouraged that a major network would be taking a
look at these sorts of excuses; even CBS has to be thinking that
this sort of thing is weird. Of course, CBS doesn't have football
anymore, so they have to fill the time somehow, but still this is
a good sign.

*BREAK*

Rush replays Craig's call earlier today in which he predicted
that Dan Rostenkowski would use the "congressional deficit
disorder" defense in any upcoming trial.

Phone	Susan from Tyler, TX

Susan is 28 years old and was spanked as a child, such as when
she ran out into the street right in front of a car. Her parents
had already repeatedly warned her about this, so they took her to
her room and spanked her with a small leather belt. Susan is now
a well-adjusted and productive adult, and when she was a teacher
she could tell which kids were disciplined and which weren't, and
to her, spanking is a sign of love, not violence.

Rush says that the problem is that idiots are comparing spanking
to real violence and abuse, and Susan thinks that these people
are part of the problem today. If she were a kid today and ran in
front of a car, she'd probably be given drugs to cure her
"Attention Deficit Disorder."

Rush notes that it's not just in the field of art which enforces
a very strict obedience to the pop tenets of the day, but also
science; should you not obey the latest "scientific fact," the
supposed scientists will attack you with unbelievable venom.
Meanwhile, other scientists will tell the nation that movie
theater popcorn is killing them; nobody seems skeptical anymore,
except, of course, for the truth.

Phone	Derrick from Hartford, CT

Derrick says that there's a movement going on to hold parents
responsible for the actions of their children, but not to allow
parents to raise their kids as they see fit. If parents spank
their children, they're accused of abuse, and then if the kids
turn out rotten as a result of no discipline, the parents are
held responsible. Rush thinks this is a great point and thanks
Derrick for calling.

Phone	Larry from Gary, NB

Larry would like Rush's CompuServe address, and Rush says that
it's in the members directory - just type "GO MEMBERS." However,
for those without CIS accounts, Rush gives his ID: 70277,2502.
Rush looks forward to reading Larry's note, along with the
thousands of others he's sure to receive tonight from outraged
psychologists, parenting experts, and other scientists.

*BREAK*

Phone	Marilyn from New York City, NY

Marilyn works for an international art auction house in
Manhattan, so she knows that auction houses don't set the prices
for paintings; it's the collectors who set the prices, and
collectors who are passionate about a certain type of art will
pay anything for it. The art market is down right now, but it's a
fickle market, with the public determining what is and is not
hot.

For example, prices are really low on contemporary paintings, but
a small picture by one particular artist tripled in price, which
means that his works are now worth more. Thus, arts really
shouldn't be considered an investment, but rather people should
buy what they like. One painting sold for $85 million a few years
ago, simply because the purchaser liked that particular painting.

Collectors are interested only in particular artists and/or
genres, so they'll often be willing to pay whatever it takes to
get something by one of their favorites. Rush admits he can
understand that kind of thinking - he might pay $85 million for
certain cigars; after a moment's reflection he admits that he
really would never pay more than $10 million.

