Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, June 8, 1994

by John Switzer

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June 8, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: NY murderer gets minimum sentence of
only 25 years for killing 17 women; Super Soaker squirt gun
amnesty program PSA; new sex survey by Alan Guttmacher Institute
inspires Donna Shalala to call upon teens to "live with a caring
adult"; Clarence "Frogman" Henry will be part of a Rock and Roll
revival; Clinton says he wishes he had military experience
because he grew up on war movies; Clinton claims his generation
suffered more than any other about Vietnam because "we all love
the military so much"; Clinton's 1969 letter shows he not only
loathed the military but that he thought its actions were
illegal; Clinton's poll ratings are down far lower than what
would be expected with a recovering economy and D-Day events;
Clinton's building a cross with stones on Omaha Beach was staged
by White House aides; Deborah Oren reports that virtually every
photo of Clinton at D-Day celebrations was carefully staged;
Hillary praises France's state-run, socialist health care system;
Clinton compares his political foes to fascists while in Italy
talking to a real fascist; Clinton doesn't deny what's in
Woodward's book, but rather defends his "process"; Rush
criticizes the idea of welfare ATM cards because it just makes
welfare easier and people more dependent; caller thinks Michael
Kinsley was very disrespectful towards Oliver North on Crossfire;
Rush lists differences between Oliver North and Bill Clinton;
Rush is not thinking much about his retirement; Democratic
National Committee says it will "understand" if Democrats running
for re-election don't want to be associated with Bill Clinton;
secret recording of "Bill Clinton" trying to help out Mario
Cuomo; Denmark is now marrying same-sex couples; LAFD firefighter
wins right to read Playboy on his own time in private quarters in
the firehouse; FCC will not ban Joe Camel because there is no
evidence that it encourages young people to smoke; after reading
about new AMA study on second-hand smoke, Rush wonders if he was
"abused" as a kid because his mother smoked; more women students
are drinking to excess on college campuses; Robert Ruben claims
Bush administration deceived Clinton on true size of deficit and
that Clinton's policies are responsible for current economic
recovery and low interest rates; caller upset that Rush is
defending firefighter's right to read Playboy; because of caller
demand, Rush reads the Sunday Times of London story on Jackie
Onassis; British story on Jackie O. says things which would never
be seen in an American paper; Woodward book quotes James Carville
as asking where the hallowed ground is for Bill Clinton; if
smokers are going to be taxed more for the Clinton health care
plan, what will stop government from taxing skiers, meat eaters,
AIDS victims, etc.?; caller got big radio talk show break because
of previous call to Rush's show; story about father of dead Army
Ranger was leaked to the press by someone at the meeting; caller
notes that the American press is not bashing the President too
much, but rather is still refusing to report all the facts about
him.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

June 8, 1994 - It's now (allegedly) day 505 (day 524 for the rich
and the dead) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal") and
582 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" 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 2.25
million copies.

NEWS

o	Joel Rifkin, convicted of killing at least 17 women, most
of whom were prostitutes, was sentenced in New York to the
maximum possible sentence: 25 years to life. The judge said he
gave Rifkin the maximum sentence because he never showed any
remorse. Should Rifkin, who tried to plead insanity, be released
after 25 years, he will have spent less than 1.5 years in jail
per murdered victim.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, June
10, 1992:

o	The air-powered Super Soaker Water Guns were considered a
hazard by many people as they had been involved in a number of
real shootings - kids got the wrong people wet, and those people
responded by shooting a real gun. Predictably, instead of going
after the people with the real guns, many liberals, such as the
mayor of Boston, wanted to ban the squirt guns.

Rush, however, was nevertheless concerned about this "crisis," so
he promised to give out a Rush Limbaugh signature mug for every
Super Soaker turned into the EIB offices by the end of the show
on Friday. To promote his amnesty program for Super Squirters,
Rush played a new public service announcement:

"New York City - murder, drugs, crime. Now a new menace is
stalking the streets of the Big Apple - high-powered, fully
automatic assault squirt guns. On every street corner, even the
youngest child has access to a wide range of water weaponry. From
tiny, easily concealable 79 cent Saturday Night Special Squirters
to 30 dollar state-of-the-art aquatic armaments like `the Super
Soaker.'

"There is no reason for the average citizen to own a squirt gun
that can be loaded with over two liters of water. There is no
legitimate sporting purpose to such a weapon. Now, in its
continuing effort to keep America safer and drier, the EIB
network offers its `Squirt Gun Amnesty Program.'

"Send your Super Soaker to the EIB Network, c/o Rush Limbaugh, 2
Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121, and you'll receive in return a
Rush Limbaugh, 14-carat gold-lettered signature mug. Another
public service of the EIB network."

Within an hour of Rush's announcement, Bo Snerdley rather timidly
informed his boss that "there are two guys in the lobby with
water guns that want their mugs." Bo didn't know what to do,
telling Rush "I'm just looking for a directive, chief."

Rush told Bo to get the guys' names and addresses, and the
valuable mugs would be mailed to them. Bo then brought in the
Super Soakers, and Rush was stunned as he realized that people
seemed to be buying new squirters just so that they could get the
EIB mugs.

o	Brazilian Indian Chief Paolino Payakin had been praised
for years by the media and numerous environmental leaders for
being a crusader against the destruction of the rainforest and
the flooding of native homelands. Payakin was honored by the
United Nations and appeared on the cover of Parade magazine,
which reported he was "the man who would save the world" and was
a role model for "all children of all nations." He had also met
with U.S. congressmen in 1988 to protest the proposed flooding of
Brazilian lands.

However, in the shadow of the Earth Summit, Payakin was being
sought by Brazilian police for the rape, torture, and attempted
murder of an 18-year old high school girl. Brazilian's largest
newsweekly Veja magazine reported that Payakin was hiding out in
the Brazilian jungle, 2000 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. The
magazine also reported that the girl was a tutor of the chief's
children, and was raped in a car after a barbecue at his house.

Rush was confused - "house?" - "barbecue?" - "car?"; he didn't
quite understand how this "proud Indian of South America," a
representative of his land's indigenous peoples, a bulwark
against the evil white man's civilization, and who stopped the
white man's intrusion upon sacred lands, could be living in a
house made of wood and driving a polluting car. Furthermore, the
chief even had barbecues, which pollute the air and kill animals.

According to Brazilian police, Payakin's wife held the 18-year
old girl down while he raped her and bit off her nipple. The
chief then tried to strangle the girl, but she was saved by a
servant who heard her cries for help. Rush remarked that he was
also amazed that the chief would have a servant.

The accusations against Payakin stunned Earth Summit attendees,
who expected the chief to speak at the Summit. Another Indian
chief, who along with Payakin had won the UN Global 500 Award for
his efforts to protect the environment, refused to speak against
a "man who has fought hard for our peoples." Rush noted that
Payakin might be protecting the environment, but somebody
obviously had to protect the peoples from him and his wife.

o	CNN reported that the Earth Summit was ignoring the
"world's greatest problem: overpopulation." CNN also stated that
pure water was being ignored even though 2 million children were
dying each year because of dehydration.

Furthermore CNN claimed that the life-styles in the Third World
were "cultural beauty and oneness with nature," but Rush noted in
the United States these life-styles were typically called poverty
and despair. The idea that primitive life-styles were somehow
more sacred and preferable to a life-style that used technology
was absurd, especially since this technology allows humanity to
do things like put out forest fires that 200 years ago would have
burned unabated.

Rush couldn't believe that anyone would think that high-rise
buildings and air conditioning would make modern man less pure
than a bare-footed savage who drinks dirty water that will give
him a disease.

o	However, there was also some good news about the Earth
Summit - finally, the US was telling the rest of the world to
shut up. Anne Devroy of the Washington Post wrote that the Bush
administration "struck back with a vengeance yesterday, accusing
the nations of the world of having an `Amerika' mentality."
Devroy also wrote that Germany and Japan were following a guilt-
induced practice of being politically correct.

Michael Young of the State Department said that the US objected
to language that gave poor nation "rights" to development, and
which targeted poor people under occupation (i.e. Arabs in
Israeli-occupied land). Young also objected to the idea that
developing nations had to pay the entire tab for this Summit's
proposals.

o	The Tacoma Morning News Tribune reported that Maryland
decided to fight its rising teenage pregnancy rates with an ad
campaign that stressed abstinence. One of the ads in this series,
for example, showed a baby with the narrator saying "it's amazing
how many guys disappear when one of these shows up." Since the
ads started in 1989, the state saw a 5% drop per year in teenage
pregnancies, and an overall drop of 16% in abortions.

o	Pat Robertson decided not to buy United Press
International because "the economics do not make good sense."
Rush wondered if the liberals who worked at UPI, and who opposed
Robertson's proposed takeover, would breathe a sigh of relief and
say "now we don't have to worry about a religious conservative
owning our organization; instead, we can start collecting
unemployment."

o	Some new bumper music reminded Rush of the fall of 1982,
when he ended up at a Renaissance Festival with his then fiancee.
Rush didn't particularly enjoy standing outdoors in the heat, but
he agreed to go because there was an NFL players strike going on.
He hoped that EIB's new bumper music brought back memories "as
happy" as that one.

o	Some Democrats were concerned that a replica of the
jersey worn by former NBA player Bill Bradley was hanging in
Madison Square Gardens, site of the upcoming Democratic national
convention. These Democrats wanted to pull the jersey down for
the convention because they were concerned that it would give
Bradley an unfair advantage in the quest for the Vice
Presidential nomination (or should Clinton somehow slip up, an
unfair advantage for the Presidential nomination).

o	John from San Francisco, who said he hadn't listened to
Rush for two years, was convinced that Rush had become "Bush
Limbaugh" and had "sold out to the administration." According to
John, Rush as so rich that he had become alienated from the 40%
of his audience who was going to vote for Perot and thereby
"knock the pants off of Bush and all you administration lackeys -
the once maverick, the once advocate of every Reagan Democrat in
the nation, you've sold out to the Bush man. And I'm here to call
you back into the fold, Rush, and tell you not to underestimate
the power of Perot."

o	In bad news for Governor Tommy Thompson (R-WI) and all
conservatives, a Minnesota state appeals court ruled against the
state's plan to pay newly arrived residents only the welfare
amounts offered by their previous state. The court ruled that not
only must new residents be paid what other residents are
receiving, but that those welfare recipients who were paid less
must be reimbursed.

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MORNING UPDATE

The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a wing of Planned Parenthood, has
released another teen sex survey and so far the most widely
reported aspect of the survey is that there's less teen sex than
previously expected. However, this is not the most important
revelation of the survey, as far as Rush is concerned; rather,
60% of girls who had sex before the age of 15 said they were
coerced into having sex, often by a much older man.

This has outraged Health and Human Services Secretary Donna
Shalala, who said "we as a nation have to work together to send
the strongest possible signal that all teens, boys and girls,
should be abstinent, stay in school, and live with a caring
adult." Rush wonders just what Shalala means by "a caring adult";
why didn't she just say "parents"? This is another attempt to
redefine the family, so that family can mean anything - a family
no longer means just people related by blood, but anyone, such as
the San Francisco chapter of Dykes on Bikes.

And while Shalala is insisting that boys and girls be abstinent,
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is talking about how kids should
be enjoying sex, as long as they have condoms. So which is it,
Rush asks the Clinton administration - should kids be abstinent
or should they have sex? And has anyone in the Clinton
administration ever heard of "parents"?

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	Rush wonders whether EIB should start counting the days
until the November elections, as well as the days of the Raw
Deal; after all, if Republicans win more seats in November, the
Raw Deal would effectively be stymied, given that Clinton would
no longer have the slim margins of victory which he had been
getting.

Of course, since it took EIB a year to get its days of the Raw
Deal correct, Rush isn't sure if they could get the right answer
for the few months until the November elections. Bo Snerdley
hangs his head in shame over his mathematical failings, but Rush
tells him not to feel bad since everyone at EIB had trouble with
these calculations.

"Math is tough," Bo says in his best Barbie voice, and Rush
agrees; of course, EIB should be grateful that there aren't any
women on the staff because if there had been a "girl" present,
they'd still be looking for the right figure. After all, as the
feminists have said, math class is tough.

o	Clarence "Frogman" Henry will be performing as part of a
Rock and Roll revival in New Jersey Saturday, so Rush hopes to
play his Homeless Update some time today to honor the Frogman's
appearance.

o	Rush saw an incredible clip during the production meeting
of his TV staff yesterday, but he doesn't think too many people
have seen it yet. The clip was part of an interview NBC's Tom
Brokaw did of President Clinton during the D-Day ceremonies, and
in the clip, Clinton stated the following:

"There are plenty of times when I wish I had the experience,
because I, after all, am a child of WWII. I grew up on the war
movies, you know, on John Wayne and John Hodiak, and Robert
Mitchum, and all those war movies. I grew up with the memories of
a father I never knew, with a picture of his uniform on in WWII.
What I'm doing this week has brought me back to my roots in a
very profound way. You and I are about the same age and you know
what I'm talking about. There's nothing that can compare with it,
and I think that all the people who grew up in my generation were
hurt maybe worse than any other generation could have been by
their ambivalence over Vietnam because we all love the military
so much."

Rush can't believe the brazenness of this remark; "this man is
shameless," he remarks, certain now more than ever that Bob
Woodward's book is giving an accurate picture of Clinton and his
White House. Clinton has to have a pathology in order to be able
to say something like this, especially given what most Americans
think about Clinton, his past, and his past and present feelings
towards the military.

Rush reads parts of the letter the Clinton wrote in December 3,
1969 to Colonel Eugene Holmes, head of the ROTC program at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock:

"I am writing too in the hope that my telling this one story will
help you to understand more clearly how so many fine people have
come to find themselves still loving their country but loathing
the military, to which you and other good men have devoted years,
lifetimes, of the best service you could give. To many of us, it
is no longer clear what is service and what is disservice, or if
it is clear, the conclusion is likely to be illegal."

Thus, Clinton considered the military to be illegal in its
actions, and he loathed it. So for Clinton to claim he grew up as
a child of WWII because he watched John Wayne war movies is
outrageous. These movies all ended up with everyone being a hero,
earning the glory; these movies highlighted the heroism of those
who were fighting and dying in WWII.

It seems that it's the accolades and cheers Clinton undoubtedly
relates to, yet these movies were fake, full of actors and dummy
bullets. Yet it is with they with whom Clinton apparently
identifies.

Rush replays the clip of Clinton and finds it amazing that
Clinton is feeling sorry for himself and his own generation. Yet
Clinton and his friends reviled the military and held it and
those in it in contempt; perhaps Clinton had his eyes opened his
weekend and something got to his heart, but Rush has his doubts.

Clinton also said he "wished" he had the experience of serving in
the military, and Rush wonders if Clinton said this because he
wanted some of the glory for himself. The fact is, though, that
those in the military do not love war; they hope and pray they
never have to fight one.

The important thing about these people, though, is that when they
are called upon to serve in war, they go, even though they hate
war and certainly don't enjoy it. This is what makes them
special, not because they have a "sense of duty," as
Stephanopoulos remarked recently.

Clinton still doesn't seem to have the foggiest idea about what
motivates those in the military or why they are to be hailed and
honored. When called upon to serve, they do so, even though they
are doing things they despise and hate doing. Clinton, though,
still doesn't understand this, and Rush sees no evidence that he
has changed his opinion of the military from his youthful days at
Oxford.

Speaking of Oxford, Clinton is getting his honorary degree there
today, and Rush finds this interesting - Clinton has just spent a
week with men and women reliving their war experiences. Today,
Clinton is going back to Oxford to relive his war memories -
leading protests against the United States and its military - and
it's ironic that he was greeted by student protestors himself.

Clinton's approval ratings are lower than they've been for nearly
a year, and his disapproval ratings are higher than the approval
numbers. And this is the case after four days of ceremonies and
publicity which would, for most Presidents, generate a spike in
the poll ratings. If the economy were not as strong as it is,
Clinton's approval rating would be in the teens.

Rush has talked to those experienced with politics and polls, and
they told him that a good economy is worth about 30 to 35 points
in the polls. The party-line supporters add another 30 points or
so, which means Clinton should be at 60 to 70 in the polls, but
he's down at 46% right now.

Rush adds that it's been revealed that the widely seen pictures
of President Clinton at the beach at Normandy were staged, which
is interesting given that the White House had for weeks
previously been insisting that Clinton's D-Day trip would not be
about him but about the men and women of D-Day. However, this was
not the case, as Rush will explain after the break.

*BREAK*

On his TV show tonight, Rush will show the video of President
Clinton walking, apparently alone, along Omaha Beach at Normandy,
lost in thought. He stopped and made a cross out of some stones
that just happened to be there, and then knelt in prayer. What
really happened, though, was that White House aides had
previously walked the beach, found a spot near the preset TV
cameras which had a good location of a battleship off shore, and
placed the stones on the beach.

Deborah Oren of the NY Post also reports that virtually every
photo of the D-Day was especially calculated and set up by White
House officials in advance. And when Clinton built his cross, he
was surrounded by White House aides, just outside of camera
range. One photographer was angry at how Clinton usurped the D-
Day events; this celebration was supposed to be in honor of the
veterans, yet Clinton used it to make himself look good every
chance he got.

Phone	Mary from Rockland County, NY

Mary gives megadittos and says both she and her husband heard the
Brokaw interview of Clinton. Her husband, a Navy lifer who
enlisted when he was 17, was "jumping up and down" in anger when
he heard Clinton talking as if he loved the military.

Mary also thanks Rush for bringing health care to the attention
of the American people, and she notes that insurance companies
have already been slowly turned into health maintenance
organizations; this means that the country is halfway towards
what Clinton wants to do. Thus, she figures that since people
have already gotten used to getting less with health care, the
shock of the Clinton plan won't be as much. Rush agrees -
hospitals and doctors have already been aligning themselves into
HMOs and similar groups in anticipation of the Clinton plan.

*BREAK*

Rush has been criticized for being "extreme" in referring to the
Clinton plan as "socialism," yet yesterday, when Hillary Clinton
was in Paris, she praised France's state-run health system.
"State-run," Rush notes, is a synonym for socialism, and Hillary
praised this socialist system which reimburses people for their
health care costs.

Hillary, of course, want to go this system one better - instead
of people paying for their own care and getting reimbursed by the
government, as is the case in France, she wants to give the
people a Health Security credit card so that the government will
take care of the bill directly (after taxing the people for the
money, of course).

Hillary said "what struck me was that whomever I spoke with,
whatever their political beliefs, was happy with the way children
are taken care of. There is so much the United States can learn
from that kind of commitment." Rush lets that comment stand by
itself.

Phone	Gayle from St. James, NY

Gayle read a story about how when Clinton was in Italy, he
compared his political foes to fascists. She was upset that
Clinton would criticize his enemies this way in a foreign
country. Rush notes that Clinton at the time was meeting with a
fascist, the new President of Italy, and it's amazing that
Clinton will call someone like Rush a fascist, and then turn
around, meet a real fascist, and have nothing but praise for him.

Gayle is upset about this hypocrisy and suspects that the
Clintons are trying to keep the people off-base with such things
so that they can't follow the really important stuff. Rush isn't
sure about this; he used to believe that Bill was just as big a
leftist as Hillary, and that they both were pushing for a leftist
agenda. However, the Woodward book has caused him to rethink his
theory.

Rush notes that when Clinton was asked about Woodward's book, he
didn't deny anything in it but basically said that it was a shame
Woodward didn't like his "process." Clinton said he preferred to
have debates and meetings with his staff so as to get more ideas;
however, the Presidency is supposed to be a position of
leadership, not consensus, and the White House staff is supposed
to be full of people who agree with the President and who
exercise his agenda and vision.

Woodward's book, though, points out that the administration is in
disarray, without any apparent vision coming from the President.
Yet in spite of this the administration is still managing to move
the country to the left. Rush thus is beginning to believe that
Hillary really is running things in the White House, with Clinton
being the bumbler whose purpose is to get elected.

According to Woodward, Hillary is the one who keeps everyone
focused and on target for the ultimate goals. So Rush might have
to revise his theory about how much influence Hillary has.

Phone	Anita from Lafayette, LA

Anita agrees with most of what Rush says but thinks Rush is hard
on welfare mothers. She's been in the welfare office and seen
some well-dressed "welfare moms," but she herself is on all the
welfare programs because her husband left her and her family. She
doesn't like being on welfare, AFDC, food stamps, and Medicare
and is working hard to get off them.

Rush congratulates Anita for this, and notes that when he
criticized the idea of giving welfare recipients ATM cards, he
wasn't talking about people like Anita, who he believes typifies
most of those on welfare who are looking for a way out of this
dependence. The government's welfare policies should be
structured to help people get out of it, so making welfare easier
and more convenient only does a disservice for these people.

Rush notes that the way the ATM cards will work is that the
government will deposit someone's benefit checks into a state-run
account. The recipients can go out with their ATM card and spend
money. However, when they've used up their allotment, they have
to wait until next month's checks come in.

But what will government do when these people use their ATM cards
like credit card and spend through their money in five days? If
it's a stigma and embarrassment to use food stamps, then what
about the stigma of presenting an ATM card at the grocery store,
only to be told that there aren't sufficient funds in the account
to cover the purchases?

Rush thinks this is not only inhumane, but a government trick to
make welfare easy. But welfare should be tough, with people being
motivated to get off it.

*BREAK*

Phone	Salvatore from Meridian, CT

Salvatore gives Rush dittos and "lots of luck on your new bride,"
and Rush appreciates that, although it sounds like Salvatore is
reminding Rush to send in his warranty card for his new bride so
he can send her back if something goes wrong.

Salvatore thinks Michael Kinsley was incredibly disrespectful
last night on Crossfire to Oliver North, but what's worse, as far
as he's concerned, is how so many Republicans are antagonistic
against North. Rush says part of this is that the mainstream
Republicans fear that North and his grass roots strength threaten
their power base, plus there's some class bias at work here,
given that North is not part of the patrician wing of the party.

These Republicans who seem worried about North, however, are
misreading the mood of the people; they seem to think the people
want conciliatory, non-confrontational politicians, but this is
not the case. The Republican party was at its height in the 80s,
when the differences between it and the Democrats were stark and
clear, and when Ronald Reagan was taking the Democrats on in
battle every day.

Oliver North, like Ronald Reagan, doesn't do one thing to be like
a Democrat or to be liked by Democrats, yet some Republicans seem
not to care about his example. It's almost as if some of the
Republican leaders just want to keep their little seat of power,
without carrying if they're ever in the majority or win all the
battles.

Rush notes, by the way, that there are many things that are known
about Oliver North. He was never sued for sexually harassing
someone, and Fawn Hall had nothing but the greatest respect for
him. Plus, if you vote for Ollie, you get Betsy for free - there
are no two-for-one deals here. Ollie has never cashed in his
stamps for money and his wife never traded cattle futures. And
Ollie, of course, never did have the courage to duck the draft.

"These are all things we know about Ollie," Rush notes, and he
sighs because "if the media never stops picking on Ollie, how are
we ever going to get good people to run for Congress?"

*BREAK*

Rush saw an ad in the paper for his second book - if you buy a
copy of "See, I Told You So" for Father's Day, you can enter a
contest about how you and your father are big fans of Rush. The
winner gets tickets for the Rush Limbaugh TV show, which is sold
out for the rest of the year.

Phone	Aaron from Jefferson, OH

Aaron wants to ask Rush what he's planning to do with his life
when he gets tired of doing radio and TV talk shows. Rush says
"retired - what you think I am, Larry King?" Rush notes in an
aside that the conventional wisdom is that King retired from
radio because he was tired, but that wasn't the case at all.

In any case, Rush never thinks about retirement, but one thing he
does know is that he definitely does not want to go into
politics; he's never had any aspirations to run for office and
can't ever imagine that changing.

The only thing Rush has ever said about leaving radio is that
when the day comes, he wants to be the one who makes that
decision. He doesn't want to be left with a handful of stations,
still pathetically telling himself he can make a comeback. Thus,
whatever he does, he wants to remain in charge of his future and
career.

Rush admits he has gotten very good at taking vacations, but even
as he's out and about he's still thinking about how he can relate
his experiences to his audience. He has yet to really think much
about his retirement, except perhaps to muse on where he'd like
to live.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o	The Washington Times is reporting that the Democratic
National Committee "will understand distance" (i.e. Democratic
candidates distancing themselves from Clinton by running away
from him). The story by Donald Lambro reports that the DNC is
telling candidates that it will not penalize them for trying to
avoid being linked with Clinton, given last month's losses of two
long-term Democratic congressional seats to Republicans who had
successfully tarred their opponents as being Clinton supporters.

The Democrats are afraid that Republicans will continue to use
this strategy for the fall elections. Political Director of the
DNC Don Switzer <<no relation . . . I hope>> is quoted as saying
"there are clearly some areas of the country where it is not
going to benefit a candidate to associate himself with Bill
Clinton. And if you want us to stay away, we'll stay away."

However, DNC Chairman David Wilhelm was on the Today show this
morning with Paula Zhan, and he said he hadn't seen this quote,
which he implied was untrustworthy since it appeared in a
"right-leaning" newspaper. When asked if the quote was true,
Wilhelm said "absolutely not," adding that he was encouraging
candidates to run proactive campaigns with the President.

"We have a record to be proud of," he insisted, saying that
Clinton had created 3 million new jobs, three times the number of
the Bush administration, had cut the federal deficit in half, had
passed the National Service Act, and was about to pass the
National Crime Bill. "We're making a difference in people's lives
- that's a record to run on and be proud of," Wilhelm added.

Rush therefore wonders what Don Switzer is talking about, and he
suspects that Mr. Switzer's career will have an abrupt change in
the next couple days, if not hours (or even minutes). However,
Rush has long been predicting that Democrats would run away from
President Clinton, and as proof he plays an episode of "Behind
the Scenes At the Clinton White House" which was originally aired
more than six months ago:

<<Announcer>> And now, another edition of "Behind the Scenes at
the Clinton White House."

<<President Clinton, speaking to an aide>> Give me Governor Cuomo
on line two! <<picks up phone>> Hey, Mario, good buddy!

<<Governor Cuomo>> Bill, forget it!

<<Clinton>> Listen, Mario, I need your help on this health care
bill.

<<Cuomo>> Stay away!

<<Clinton>> If you could just go around the state with me next
month, and help me sell it to the voters, it would sure be a lot
of help! And there'll be lots of photo-ops in it for you! You and
me, just standing there smiling <<laughs>>

<<Cuomo>> Bill, I'm grateful for your kind and generous offer,
but let's face it, you've got so much on your plate already . . .
you got health care to worry about, NAFTA, Somalia . . .

<<Clinton>> Tell you what, if you help me out, I'll campaign as
hard as I can, all over the state!

<<Cuomo>> Thanks, but no thanks . . . look at what happened to
Dinkins and Florio! You think I'm crazy? Stay away! Look what
happens to the people you go near, they sink the minute you get
there! Look, let's face it, you're not popular . . . you're not
popular. And the way for you to get popular is to stay away from
me!

<<Clinton, as Mario hangs up the phone, leaving only a dial
tone>> Mario? Mario?! Mario??

<<Announcer>> Join us next time for another edition of "Behind
the Scenes at the Clinton White House."

o	Rush reads a story from Copenhagen, Denmark:

"The bride wears an ankle-length skirt and matching blouse. Her
fiancee is dressed in black. It's a simple, civil wedding at City
Hall - no flowers, no music, much like countless others performed
over the decades. But this is a wedding of two women. Smiling,
but a bit nervous, they stand before a city official who's donned
a flowing robe for the occasion.

"`I ask you, Annette Lin,' the official says softly, `do you take
Hanna Poulson to be your lawful partner?' She does. `Likewise, I
ask you, Hanna Poulson, do you take Annette Lin to be your lawful
partner?' Yes. `I pronounce you,' the official declares,
`registered partners.'

"The brides clasp hands and exchange affectionate glances. `Hanna
is the only one I've loved in my life,' confides Ms. Lin, beaming
proudly at her spouse. `If she were a boy, I'd love her the
same!' "

Rush thinks about this for a minute, but just can't believe that
"you may now kiss your registered partner" will fly. Denmark, by
the way, is a model country for many liberals, such as Ted
Kennedy.

o	In good news that shows there is some sanity in the
country, Los Angeles County firefighter Captain Steve Johnson
will be allowed to read Playboy at the firehouse. A female
firefighter had sued him for sexual harassment, but a U.S.
District Judge in a preliminary ruling stated that First
Amendment protections would allow Captain Johnson to read the
magazine in his private quarters at the firehouse during his
breaks in his 24-hour shifts. The judge will issue his final
ruling later this week.

Rush thinks sexual harassment really got off the deep end when
female firefighters successfully convinced county officials that
reading Playboy while off-duty constituted sexual harassment.
Fortunately, Captain Johnson sued, refusing to accept the
decision.

o	FCC regulators will not ban cartoon character Joe Camel,
which anti-smoking activists claim encourages young people to
smoke. However, the FCC, in a 3 to 2 vote, said it could not find
any evidence that the R.J. Reynolds campaign did in fact
encourage young people to smoke.

Rush finds it interesting that "old Joe" has survived on the same
day that the AMA has announced that second-hand smoke is deadlier
than ever to women, especially pregnant women. Rush wonders if he
should sue his mother and grandmother for smoking since he grew
up surrounded by second-hand smoke coming from all the female
members of his household.

The EIB staff think Rush was indeed "abused," and he agrees.
After all, he was just a little boy, and was assaulted beyond
belief by this deadly, horrible smoke. "Look out, mom, I'm coming
after you!" Rush warns, promising that he'll soon file suit
because she poisoned him with her smoking.

Rush admits that he turned out fine, even though his mother did
smoke and was around women who smoked when she was pregnant with
both him and his brother. Of course, while Rush did turn out
fine, his brother David is another matter, so perhaps the AMA can
use him as an example to show what can happen when you smoke
around kids.

"Just kidding," Rush quickly states, knowing full well that his
brother the lawyer can bring lawsuits, too. He points out that
both he and his brother are just fine, so if second-hand smoke is
really so bad, why isn't everyone dying from it?

o	Women are drinking to excess more than ever on college
campuses, with the number of such women tripling over the past 20
years, according to the National Commission on Substance Abuse.
The number of women who drink to get "blitzed" has nearly
approached that of men, with binge drinking (five drinks in one
night) being the worst drinking problem on college campuses, with
alcohol being involved in most college-life problems, such as
rape, AIDS, crime, and academic difficulties.

Rush knows some people who own beer distributorships, and they've
told Rush that once the left is finished with cigarettes, they'll
come after the beer industry next. Rush has no doubt that this
will be what happens, as yet more freedoms are nibbled away by
those in government.

He finds it interesting, though, that more women are drinking to
excess today, and he wonders if three times as many women are
really getting blind drunk today than in 1970, then is it three
times easier for college males to . . . ?

*BREAK*

Phone	Brice from Ouray, CO

Brice watched Bob Woodward and Robert Ruben on Larry King last
night, and Rush says he saw this show, too, and couldn't believe
what Ruben was saying. Brice heard a caller who had just
graduated from college with a degree in economics point out that
it took two years for any economic policy to have any effect, but
Ruben insisted that Clinton's economic policies were different
and that they were responsible for the current good economic
news.

Rush says that Ruben is just blowing smoke, and Brice agrees; the
thing is that Ruben doesn't realize that most Americans are
seeing through this now. Rush says Ruben was wrong about a lot of
things, such as his claim that the Clinton plan was what was
responsible for the low interest rates that spurred an economic
recovery. However, interest rates are now higher than they were
than when Clinton took office, plus Clinton had nothing to do
with the previous low interest rates, given that Alan Greenspan
had been lowering them for two years before Clinton took office.

Ruben also insisted that when Clinton took office in January,
1993, they had been deceived by the Bush administration as to the
true size of the deficit. He thus claimed that the Clinton
administration had no choice but to push through a deficit
reduction plan, which was responsible for the lower deficit.

Rush blew up when he heard this because the administration's
"deficit reduction" plan included a $20 billion economic stimulus
package which would have sent the deficit soaring. And it was the
Republicans who defeated this stimulus plan, thereby helping to
keep the deficit lower, so the deficit would be higher than it is
now had Clinton got what he wanted.

Plus, Clinton, Ruben, and Alice Rivlin all knew the true state of
the nation's deficits, and in Woodward's book Rivlin even
pointedly states that the Clinton campaign misrepresented the
deficit to the American people. She even told Paul Begala that
the Clinton campaign had been dishonest with its statements on
the deficit, yet Ruben last night was acting as if he were back
in January, 1993, telling the same lies he told then.

However, Rush is encouraged to see that these lies aren't being
accepted anymore, which is one reason Clinton's approval ratings
are dropping. And for Ruben, who made a killing in Goldman-Sachs
to tell such lies about the economics is simply brazen.

Brice adds that Ruben referred to "solid growth and moderate
inflation" several times, and Rush guesses that this is what the
administration thinks is going on now. Brice says that this seems
to be the new Clinton slogan, given that Ruben repeated it time
and time again.

Rush admits that Ruben has to spout the company line, but his
claims last night about interest rates, the economy, and the
deficit have been refuted time and time again. Even when Alice
Rivlin has been telling the administration it can't lie about
such things anymore, people like Ruben seem determined to do
precisely that.

*BREAK*

Phone	Sam from Ft. Collins, CO

Sam says she thinks that the NOW organization should be tickled
pink that women college students have achieved alcohol parity
with men. Rush bets NOW will blame this on men, and Sam agrees -
undoubtedly the male students were buying the women drinks.

Phone	Melissa from Newport News, VA

Melissa is honored to be talking to Rush, but takes exception
with his support of the firefighter who wants to read Playboy.
She used to work in a nuclear engineering department, and daily
she would go into someone's office and see a Playboy magazine or
poster. She thinks this is incredibly humiliating, and she
stresses that she's not a feminist, but a traditional stay-at-
home mom.

Melissa asks Rush if he'd like his "little bride" or his mother
to experience this sort of humiliating thing. Rush notes that his
mother bought Playboy to read his interview in it, but Melissa
thinks this is altogether different.

Rush says he is being guided not by a love of Playboy but by a
desire for safeguarding constitutional rights. This firefighter
was reading the magazine in his private quarters during his
breaks, and it's not sexual harassment, as a female firefighter
claimed.

Melissa doesn't think it's sexual harassment either, but it is
uncalled for behavior in his office, especially when there are
females working there. She doesn't think Rush understands how
embarrassing this is.

Rush says he does understand Melissa's point, but thinks she's
wrong. He admits he's tempted to call his "little wife" to ask
her if she would be bothered by a coworker reading Playboy. He
asks Melissa if she thinks anyone should be reading Playboy
anywhere, and she says she doesn't like it all, but still thinks
reading it is uncalled for in the workplace.

Rush asks if it's okay if guys read Playboy without Melissa or
other females knowing about it, and she replies that it would be
fine in the men's restroom. However, this is not what happened
when she worked at the nuclear plant, and it's one thing to read
this magazine in a car but another to read it in the workplace.

Rush notes that some women could be just as easily offended by
his own books as they would be by Playboy, so does this mean that
his book should be banned from the workplace, too? Melissa thinks
these are totally different works which can't be compared. Rush,
though, points out that in a First Amendment rights sense, they
are the same, given that neither has been declared obscene.

Melissa, though, thinks that it's ridiculous that anyone would
complain about Rush's book being read in their presence since
"your book doesn't have pictures of `nekked' people in it yet!"
Rush admits he doesn't have "nekked" posters of himself, but,
ever on the lookout for more merchandising ideas, asks Melissa if
she would buy such a poster if EIB offered it.

"Oh, Rush! Absolutely not!" Melissa replies, and Rush tells his
staff to forget that addition to the EIB catalog. Melissa says
she's just a regular person who thinks reading Playboy in the
workplace is uncalled for.

Rush notes that this incident concerns the firefighter's private
quarters, which means someone has to go out of their way to see
it. Melissa says she saw the same magazine in her nuclear
engineering department, and she doesn't think she should have to
see this sort of thing at work.

Rush says that he would dare suggest that if workers at a nuclear
facility are reading Playboy, then there are bigger problems at
that workplace than their reading of a soft-porn magazine. What
people should be objecting to is reading when they should be
working.

Rush understands Melissa's sensibilities, but he doesn't think
that women should be able to claim that what men do in private is
bothering them. Melissa still doesn't agree because this is
uncalled for behavior in the workplace. She says that if someone
can read Playboy in the firehouse, then they can read it at the
bank.

Rush says that a bank manager reading Playboy would be
inappropriate behavior, but not sexual harassment, which is what
the lawsuit concerning Captain Johnson was all about.

*BREAK*

Phone	Eileen from Blue Eye, MO

Eileen heard Rush on Monday mention a story about Jackie Kennedy
Onassis, but he didn't explain further. Rush says the May 29th
Sunday Times of London had this story, which is not very nice at
all to the recently canonized Jackie O. Eileen says the truth
about her should be told.

Rush says the story is really mean, and he wonders if anyone
really wants to hear it. Eileen says she wants to hear it and is
certain that many Americans want to hear it because it's time
that somebody told the truth about Jackie Kennedy after 30 years.

Rush doesn't know if the story is the truth, but it's obvious
that this story would never be printed in the U.S. Eileen says
that this is because the American press is so much in love with
the Kennedy family that they'd never write anything unfavorable.
The Kennedys are akin to America's royalty.

Rush says he'll think about this over the next few minutes and if
he decides to read the story, he'll do so in the first part of
next hour. He warns people, though, that many of those who think
they want to hear this story will be shocked at what the British
press can get away with.

*BREAK*

Phone	Bobby from Atlanta, GA

Bobby notes that the June, 1994 issue of Playboy includes six
nude women firefighters, and the story is titled "Some Like It
Hot." Rush stresses that he didn't know this, and exclaims "Hey,
Melissa, is that what you're upset about?!" Rush hears a phone
ring by Bobby and asks if he's reading Playboy at work; Bobby
admits he's not reading the magazine, but he is at work and is
looking at it right now.

Rush asks if the females Bobby works at are upset about his
reading Playboy, and Bobby says that a woman in the other room
thinks "it's a hoot." In fact, she was the one who brought it in
- it was her boyfriend's, and she wanted Bobby to call Rush to
talk about it. Bobby adds that if anyone should be filing sexual
harassment charges, it should be the firefighters who work with
these women.

Rush doesn't understand, so Bobby explains that these poor men
have to see these women fully clothed every day, knowing they've
seen them naked in the magazine. Rush finally sees Bobby's point,
and stresses that he had trouble understanding this because "I'm
not oriented to these things."

"Yeah, right," Bobby replies, and he adds that one of the women
is a firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service. Rush is surprised
to hear that the Forest Service has firefighters, and Bobby
insists this is true because "she's hugging some kind of tree -
honest, there's a picture here of her hugging some kind of tree!"

Rush asks what kind of work Bobby does, and he replies that he's
in the construction business. Rush is not surprised, and Bobby
adds that he does industrial furnaces. Rush is not surprised
about this either, given that Bobby seems to be the kind of guy
who's regularly stoking the furnaces.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Phone	Barbara from Manhattan, NY

Barbara wants to hear the Jackie Onassis story because Rush
promised to read it on Monday and because she is curious to hear
what the American papers won't report about the Kennedys. Rush
says that he shouldn't have teased his audience about this story
because he has a problem with such "trash" stories; there are
similar stories written about him all the time and some people
believe this stuff.

Barbara says that there have been too many "saint" stories about
Jackie O. so she'd like to get some balance to them. Rush is not
still convinced, so he does a conference call with Rich from
Lamont, IL who doesn't think this story should be read.

Phone	Rich from Lamont, IL

Rich says that Rush shouldn't read this story because it will
damage Rush's credibility, given that it will lower him to the
tabloid level. Barbara thinks Rich is sweet to be worried about
Rush, but she adds "I'm not worried about you, Rush!"; she just
wants to hear the dirt about Jackie O. and thinks the story would
be entertainment, not news.

Rich says he's seen the things the London papers write, and the
truth doesn't bother them, nor do they have any mercy. Rush notes
that the Sunday Times of London is not a tabloid "Fleetstreet
Rag"; it is a respectable sort of paper.

Barbara, though, says Rush promised he'd read this story, so he
should follow through on his promise. Rush asks Rich if he thinks
the story could be read if he stressed that it was a story from
the London Times and not his own personal opinions.

Rich says he was going to suggest this, with Rush acting like a
reporter who's reading someone else's material, so that listeners
don't think the story is Rush's opinion. Barbara thinks this is a
great idea, and points out that she's not going to be that
willing to believe everything in this story but she does want to
hear it for herself.

Rush decides to read the story while both Rich and Barbara are on
the line, so that should they feel he's gone too far with it or
read too much, they can stop him. The story, written by Julie
Burchhill, starts off by noting that "only a country as deeply
trashy as America could ever have mistaken the Kennedys as
royalty." It then states that when Jackie O. was buried next to
JFK in Arlington, "the best you could say about the golden couple
is that they deserved each other - now they sleep, side by side,
in the cold bed of infinity, but a bed no colder probably than
any one they ever shared."

The story goes on to report that Jackie O. buried "two husbands,
both of them worthless, and a brother-in-law who was at least and
possibly a great man." The paper, though, says that the funeral
which showed the nation the "real Jackie Onassis" was that of
Eleanor Roosevelt in 1962:

"Impeccably aristocratic, Eleanor Roosevelt had revolutionized
the foolish role of the First Lady, making good use of it for her
country and being loved for it. Jackie never liked her. She
described her as `pig-headed, mean, and spiteful' and vacated the
White House whenever she visited. Eleanor Roosevelt's death was
an occasion of national mourning at which John Kennedy conducted
himself with Presidential gravitas and dignity. There was no such
graciousness from the petulant, preening First Lady."

According to Patricia Peabody Roosevelt, after the funeral Jackie
sat "regally" on a nearby couch, trying to get someone to light
her cigarette for her. The Roosevelt men "simply stared," so
"with a resigned sigh," she lit her own cigarette. "This was the
other Jackie, the beast behind the beauty; Jackie, the self-
obsessed boor, playing coquette even as a nation mourned. She
would get away with it this time, but in 1968 she would show her
true colors."

Later on in the story, it is said that Jackie was not embarrassed
by her father's adultery, and instead often showing pictures of
her father with his mistress to friends. Jackie loved to tell the
story about her father's affair on his own honeymoon to all her
friends. She also accepted her husband's own adultery in the
White House, even though it made her look like a "Catholic
doormat," no different than her mother Rose, whom she ridiculed.

Jackie "was an American to the tips of her French manicure," and
indulged in massive spending, to the tune of $3,000 per minute
near the end of the 60s. Aristotle Onassis was "stunned by her
sheer greed," and by 1970 was once again being seen with his best
friend and love of his life, Maria Callas. He divorced Jackie
only after showing muckraking columnist Jack Anderson the records
of Jackie's spending; Anderson wrote about it, signalling the end
of Jackie's marriage to Onassis.

The story states that "Jackie seemed curiously incapable of
keeping men interested in her," with all the men in her life
turning to other women. "Perhaps Jackie was a Sphinx without a
secret, a beautifully shod boor," the story speculates, noting
that when she finally went into a career, her journalistic
efforts were "pedestrian," "ghost-written," and "PR-driven."

About her final affair with a married man, the story notes that
"in a typically bitchy, last act, her final male companion was
the husband of a woman who had been with him for half a century
and who was heartbroken with the idea of a divorce."

Rush notes that while American papers have played up the angle
that Jackie was a victim of her philandering husbands, this paper
states that she simply couldn't keep her husbands interested in
her. It adds that when "Jackie tried to modernize, she looked
like a slob," who was too old for blue jeans but nevertheless
insisted on wearing them.

According to the paper, "the nearest America has to such an
iconic female presence" is Madonna, who nevertheless "was more
like Joe Kennedy than Jackie, brash, swashbuckling, bedding every
show-biz beauty she could and making every red cent she had."

The story also compares Jackie to Princess Diana, as both were
born into aristocratic families, were fashion-plates, and married
well although not wisely. Diana, however, took on "a family
vastly more powerful than the toy-town Kennedys and won," not to
mention that Diana loved the masses while Jackie loathed them.

The story also makes the point "that money can buy you happiness,
but only if you made every penny yourself." Rush notes that there
is more to this story, but he'll stop now. However, it can't be
denied that the opinions expressed in it certainly could never be
found in the American press.

Barbara says she has heard some of these things, such as the Jack
Anderson column which was mentioned. Rush says he had also read
about Jackie's spending habits, but the idea that Jackie was a
boor that couldn't interest the men in her life is something new.

Perhaps the best line in the story was the one about "money
buying you happiness if you earned every red cent." This is very
true, and Rush thanks both his callers and hopes he has placated
his audience by reading this story in the London Times.

*BREAK*

Rush adds that the London Times story also reports that Jackie
Onassis betrayed women as much as her husband betrayed her, and
that while Jackie was lonely, "some people deserve to be lonely
because they're nasty." It compares Jackie with Marilyn Monroe,
who came from nowhere and made more of herself because of her own
efforts than any other 20th-century American women; she made a
fortune and gave much of it away. Monroe was "ostensibly a brash
bimbo" but was "truly a woman of substance," while "for Jackie,
it was the other way around."

Jackie then married Aristotle Onassis for her money, but
Burchhill doesn't think this was anything new for her since she
had married for money before when she married JFK. However, her
marriage to JFK wasn't seen as a golddigger's dream because JFK
was handsome and young, concealing Jackie's true motivations.
However, "Onassis was older than the bride's mother, and was
extremely ugly - of course Jackie married him for his money."

Thus, according to the Times, Jackie was a cold, cruel,
insensitive golddigger, a compulsive shopper and homewrecker who
was unable to interest men. And again, this is a story that would
never have appeared in an American paper.

*BREAK*

The latest excerpt from Bob Woodward's book "The Agenda" quotes
James Carville asking a White House aide "where's the hallowed
ground with this President?", meaning what does Clinton stand
for.

Phone	Peter from Cleveland, OH

Peter thinks the center of the Clinton administration is Hillary
Clinton, whom the President has referred to as his "moral
compass." Peter thus wonders just what Hillary wants to do now
that she's gotten the power she's always craved, especially since
the Clinton health care plan is Hillary's plan to control
Americans' freedoms.

Peter thinks it's criminal that nobody is even debating whether
government should take over health care but rather how it's going
to be paid for. If this health care plan can be paid for by
taxing cigarettes out of existence, then what's going to stop the
government from taxing cholesterol, beef, overweight people, and
such?

Rush says this is exactly right and is what he means about how
the Clinton administration is full of people who are daily
encroaching upon Americans' freedoms. Peter notes that while Bill
Clinton might not have any solid principles, his wife does and
those principles are socialist in nature.

Peter is disheartened because otherwise reasonable people think
that government should pay for health care. Rush says the way to
deal with these people is to ask if health care is a right. If
they answer yes, then ask if food, a car, or a job are rights,
too? After all, you need these things before you need health
care.

This will get people thinking about this and how health care is
believed to be a right because people in government have said so.
However, those in government who want health care to be a right
are really interested in putting government in charge of it, and
this will allow government to punish any behavior it doesn't
like.

Peter says this is his point - why not tax people who ski or are
overweight, since those things are dangerous, too. Rush notes
that it is believed by some that AIDS will be the biggest single
strain on the health care system in the near future, absent any
cure. Most AIDS victims have gotten their disease through their
behavior, so does this mean these people will be punished for
their behaviors as well?

Peter says that the AIDS disease has powerful political allies
that prevent any rational discussion of this disease; the
administration has turned AIDS into a sacred disease, killing any
free speech about it. He wonders what ever happened to leadership
that engenders a real discussion of ideas.

Rush says that people like he and Peter are routinely called
elitist, sexist, racist, and homophobic for daring to bring these
matters up. The opponents have not only defined the terms of the
debate but have also defined the terms themselves so that anyone
who disagrees with them are racists and bigots. Thus, the answer
to "what ever happened to leadership?" can be seen in what is
happening to Oliver North.

Peter says that the concept of free speech is all about getting
all the ideas out and discusses, but this is not happening.
Nobody, for example, is debating the merits of the Clinton health
care plan as to whether government should be in charge; instead,
the only thing being discussed is who is paying for it.

Rush would disagree somewhat, because he believes that if it
hadn't been for talk radio, the health care plan would have
already been passed. The other members of the media haven't put
forth the same critical analysis as talk radio has, but part of
the problem is that people really have a lot on their hands just
struggling with day-to-day life. They can't be as politically
active or aware as one might like because of the demands of daily
life.

However, even so Rush thinks the Clinton health care plan is the
liberals' last gasp at socializing America; if they fail here,
they'll fail everywhere. Peter, though, wonders why nobody is
challenging some basic assumptions of current government, such as
how the tax code is being used to punish and reward certain
practices and behaviors. The government has become a constant
presence in people's lives, and it shouldn't be that way.

Rush notes that the tax code has been used to modify the social
architecture for years, but he agrees with Peter about these
points. The reason the country will never have a flat tax or a
simplified tax system is precisely because the current tax code
gives those in Congress most of their power.

Rush thanks Peter for calling and for making his points so
succinctly.

*BREAK*

Phone	Michael from Indiana

Michael says he called into Rush's show about a year ago, but he
wasn't able to get on the air. Bo thus arranged for him to be a
caller to Rush's TV show, which motivated a local talk host to
invite Michael on his own show. By the end of the night, he was
offered his own show and became the youngest male radio talk show
host in America.

Rush thinks this is great and notes that he's often asked how he
got started in radio by those hoping to do the same. Rush,
though, is the last person to ask about this since he got his
start on a radio station that was once co-owned by his father;
however, Michael got his show by being a great guest, which is
how many careers are made.

Michael says doing a show like this is a great deal of fun, but
also hopes to get into politics, too. Rush is gratified to hear
this, and is proud that his own TV show launched yet another
career in the broadcasting industry. He encourages Michael to
stay dedicated and true to his desires, and not allow the
naysayers in this cutthroat industry to discourage him.

*BREAK*

Phone	Joyce from Yuma, AZ

Joyce says that a lot of people are whining about how Clinton is
being harassed by the press, yet the press is still suppressing
all sorts of stories, such as the one Rush read about the rebuke
Clinton got from the father of an Army Ranger who had died in
Somalia. Rush notes that this exchange did not appear in American
papers, but it was appeared in the British papers.

EIB called this man to find out more about this, but he didn't
want to go on the air. However, he was flabbergasted to have
learned that this exchange had been reported at all because there
wasn't anyone from the press in the room. Thus, someone in that
room had to have leaked it to the London paper.

Joyce says she is quite resentful of how the American press is
not telling the people the facts; you can debate what the facts
mean, but the facts should be reported. Rush agrees, and says
someone told him of a TV show recently on which it was argued
whether the "bashing had gone too far." Rush can't imagine this
ever being asked about a Republican President.


