Summary Mon 7/22/96

[John Switzer]

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, July 22, 1996

by John Switzer

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July 22, 1996

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Joe Klein says he'll be more sympathetic
now to politicians after he's been heavily criticized for lying
to his fellow reporters; words to "The Ballad of Ross Perot";
Rush suggests some events for the Liberal Olympics; while fake
doves were being used in the Olympics to ensure against the
deaths of live doves, the FDA took a step toward allowing RU-486
to be used as an abortifacient; air bags are killing two children
for each one that is saved; Bob Dole releases the results of his
latest check-up, while Clinton continues to keep his medical
records secret; Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) says a source told
him that satellite pictures showed an object similar to a missile
near TWA flight 800 before it exploded; Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA)
suggests a $3 to $5 tax on new tickets for the sake of enhancing
air travel security; educational consultant demands an end to
dodge ball and competition in schools; dodge ball teaches a
valuable life lesson about how when you get on top, you become a
target for everyone; Nike's new slogan is "you don't win silver,
you lose gold"; caller says not teaching kids how to be
competitive will harm them; caller recalls how Ronald Reagan
stopped Libyan terrorism for several years by bombing Qhaddafi's
home; caller hopes Rush speaks at the Republican convention;
caller warns that taking competition out of kids' lives will mean
expecting less of them; caller notes that one of her best
memories of high school was of the French competitions she was
in; umpire notes that kids today seem less interested in
competing than when he was a kid; the "Weekly Standard" reports
that Bob Dole's campaign has asked Billy Dale to handle all press
travel for the campaign; Buttman brings in his whole family to
harass Dole, but Republicans respond with Baloneyman; Rush
suggests MSNBC be called PMSNBC; Colin Powell says he will do
barnstorming campaigns for Bob Dole; Monica Crowley writes a book
"Nixon Off the Record" that supposedly quotes Nixon's thoughts
about Bill Clinton; caller says Republicans have to concentrate
on getting their message out; AP poll shows that the gap between
Clinton and Dole and between Republicans and Democrats is
narrowing; caller says Sam Nunn was not suggesting a new tax on
airline tickets but a surcharge imposed by the airlines; the
Republicans' third welfare bill is in the Senate and Clinton
faces some problems no matter what he does with it; Senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) opposes the Republican welfare
reform bill, saying it would result in "bands of children roving
the streets"; caller asks why the press is not going after
Clinton for refusing to publicize his medical records; caller
thinks Bob Dole has to move to the center to get elected because
the electorate is a bunch of dummies; Reform Party decides to
publicize the results of its ballots after all; Robert Downey Jr.
is arrested for the third time in a month on drug-related
charges; $10.1 million in grants given by HUD has done nothing to
help Denver's homeless problems; caller notes that Nunn could
find extra money for airline security by going to the FAA's
surplus moneys; caller notes that the media as well as
politicians are sensationalizing the crash of the TWA 747,
ignoring some possible explanations for the ones that suggest
terrorists; American journalists are trying to lie their way into
restricted areas of JFK Airport; Rush suggests calling Bill
Clinton "the Joe Klein of Presidents"; caller thinks it's good
that Bob Dole won't be spending any money until after the
convention; caller thinks the unions' negative ads can be
ignored; the Journal of the International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers tries to link Newt Gingrich and
GOPAC with the ValuJet crash; caller thinks Republicans have to
respond to the Democrats' negative ads; pro-life Republican is
worried that Republicans' union-bashing will harm them in
November; caller thinks Bill Clinton was a "big crybaby" at the
Olympics opening ceremonies and doesn't know why.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

July 22, 1996 - It's now 1342 days after Bill Clinton's election,
but Rush is still on the air with 650 radio affiliates (with more
than 20 million listeners weekly world-wide), 210 TV affiliates,
and a newsletter with more than 500,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction best-
seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million copies
sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster stopped
printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things Ought To
Be" was on the NY Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list
for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," was on
the NY Times hardback best-seller list for 16 weeks and has sold
over 2.45 million copies; the paperback version was on the best-
seller list for 11 weeks.

WHITEWATER WATCH

o Pending and Possible Indictments: White House lawyer and
Presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey (became an unindicted co-
conspirator in May, 1996).

o Indictments: Governor Jim Guy Tucker (D-AR) (taking out a
loan under false pretenses and defrauding the IRS); Herby
Branscum, Jr. and Robert Hill (conspiracy, misapplication of bank
funds, and failing to file correct statements with federal
regulators and examiners); Susan McDougal (for allegedly
embezzling $150,000 from conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife).

o Convictions: James McDougal (fraud and conspiracy
concerning Madison Guaranty S&L and Capital Management Services-
May, 1996); Susan McDougal (fraud and conspiracy concerning
Madison Guaranty S&L-May, 1996); Governor Jim Guy Tucker (D-AR)
(felony fraud and conspiracy-May, 1996); David Hale (felony
fraud-March, 1994); Robert Palmer (convicted of falsifying
appraisal documents related to Madison Guaranty S&L-December,
1994); Webster Hubbell (convicted of mail fraud, tax evasion, and
overbilling clients of at least $394,000-December, 1994); Charles
Matthews and Eugene Fitzhugh (bribery-January 1995, defrauding
the SBA-April 1995); real estate broker Christopher V. Wade
(pleaded guilty to lying to a bankruptcy court and filing false
loan applications to buy Whitewater property-March, 1995); Little
Rock banker Neil Ainley (pleaded guilty to reduced charges of
willfully delivering false documents to the government-May 1995);
Arkansas college professor Stephen Smith (pleaded guilty to
misusing federal funds to help pay off a loan he took out along
with James McDougal and Governor Jim Guy Tucker); Larry Kuca
(pleaded guilty to defrauding the SBA of a $150,000 loan together
with David Hale-July 1995).

NEWS

o Joe Klein, who's been heavily criticized by his
journalist colleagues for lying to them about whether he wrote
"Primary Colors," is now saying that he now knows how politicians
feel. Klein wrote in his column in the July 29th issue of
Newsweek that after experiencing what politicians go through, "I
hope I'll show a little more mercy . . . for the brave, frail
fools and heroes who live our public lives." Klein, who not only
lied about being the author of "Primary Colors" but wrote a piece
attacking the way he was portrayed in it so as to generate
further interest in the book, also complained that the "ensuing
maelstrom was unbelievable."

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Monday, July 25,
1994:

o Saturday Hillary Clinton kicked off the Health Security
Express bus trip in Seattle, but only 1,000 supporters showed up,
a big drop from the nearly 30,000 that showed up there in 1992 to
cheer Bill Clinton. Also, several thousand people showed up to
oppose Hillary Clinton, thanks to EIB's Seattle affiliate KVI
which announced where and when Hillary showed up. There were
signs such as "Hillary, why take the bus? Fly your broom" and
"Don't fix what's not broken," not to mention "impeach Hillary"
and "Heil Hillary."

The White House tried to drown these people out with loud music
and to block them from news coverage by moving a big banner in
front of them. Neither method worked, so the organizers of the
rally turned on a fountain so as to further drown out and block
the protestors.

This move backfired, though, because when the fountain was turned
on, the protestors starting chanting "Whitewater, Whitewater!"
According to Rush's sources at KVI, even the journalists were
laughing at this point.

o Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO) was on CNN's Late Edition and
he told a caller who was in the United Auto Workers that he could
keep his current health care plan under the Clinton health care
plan:

"Probably nothing will happen to your health care. This plan will
apply for people that are not now covered. Your plan would most
likely stay in place. There's nothing in our plan that says that
employers and employees can't agree to anything they want. You've
already agreed with your employer, it'll just keep on going
forward."

o On Meet the Press Vice President Algore insisted that
Republicans would eventually support the Clinton health care plan
because they were still mad about not getting on the boat with
Social Security and Medicare.

o USA Today reported that Tom Foley and George Mitchell met
with Clinton to officially declare the President's plan dead. USA
Today, though, said Congress was just removing Clinton's name
from the bill, so as to "remove the anti-Clinton sentiment that
drags almost any bill down." The paper predicted that any bill
coming out of this move would be nothing more than "repackaged
Clinton."

o The District of Columbia was named the "infant mortality
capital of America" by Nicholas Eberstadt, a visiting scholar at
the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and
a visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and
Development Studies. Writing in the Spring, 1994 issue of "The
Public Interest," Eberstadt reported that according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the 1991 infant
mortality rate in Washington, DC was 21 per 1,000 live births,
230% higher than the national average and 75% higher than the
next worst federal site, the state of Delaware.

While high infant mortality rates were usually a sign of poverty,
the District of Columbia was an "unusually affluent region of
black America." According to 1990 Census Bureau and Bureau of
Labor statistics, the largely black DC population had a per
capita income nearly 40% higher than the national average and a
poverty rate 70% below that for the nation at large. Furthermore,
unemployment in DC was only 60% that of the national average in
1989.

Eberstadt also concluded that "there is no compelling evidence to
suggest that the availability of health services is more limited
for black Washingtonians than for other black Americans"
According to government statistics supplied by Health and Human
Services and the office of DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, per
capita expenditure on health services in DC around 1991 was about
40% higher than that for the nation at large.

Furthermore, in 1990 the ratio of primary care physicians to
population in DC was almost twice the national average, as was
the ratio of community hospital beds to population. Eberstadt
didn't find any evidence to indicate that DC residents were
uninsured at a rate any higher than the rest of the population.

Eberstadt said the infant mortality rate seemed linked to the
lack of prenatal care, which in turn had was correlated to the
high rate of illegitimacy among black babies in DC; in 1991 over
77% of the black births were to unmarried women. In addition to
the lifestyle choices that resulted in this high rate of
illegitimacy, Eberstadt found links between low birthweight
babies and the area's high crime rate. He theorized that "it may
be that neighborhoods in which violent crime is out of control
are also afflicted by a breakdown of norms that have
traditionally served to protect the life chances of the newborn."

o A U.S. food drop in Rwanda missed the intended location
by a mile, dropping the food near homes, making the residents
flee for their lives, fearing they were being bombed. The food
drop included yeast and Gruyere cheese.

o The diary of Joshua Steiner, chief of staff to Treasury
Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, became part of the Whitewater
investigation, and it seemed to confirm suspicious that Roger
Altman of the Treasury had perjured himself by lying before
Congress about his contacts with White House officials. Altman
had told four different stories about this to Congress, although
he called this "amending" his testimony.

The Steiner diary then reported that Lloyd Bentsen was involved
in this investigation and knew about what was going on much
earlier than he previously admitted to. Furthermore, the diary
showed that President Clinton was livid when Altman resigned from
the Resolution Trust Corp. after being questioned by Senator
Alfonse D'Amato, which indicated that Clinton was interested in
keeping a political ally in charge of the investigation by the
RTC.

Steiner's diary said "you watch a disaster unfold and seem
powerless to stop it." While on Face the Nation yesterday, White
House counsel Lloyd Cutler said the following about all this:

"I have concluded that so far as the White House people are
concerned, there was no violation of any ethical or legal
standard prevailing under government regulations today. I have
also concluded that looking at it in retrospect, perhaps too many
people were involved in these contacts and the heads-up, which
was given by the Treasury officials to the White House, which I
think was entirely proper, But it should have been down from
counsel to counsel, and all the persons involved might better
have been kept out of the matter."

Cutler then became the latest in a long line of White House
officials to rewrite the administration's ethics rules, being
quoted in the Washington Post that he would "create more specific
rules about White House contacts on sensitive investigations," so
as to make sure existing rules were enforced.

o Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) backed away from
supporting the Clinton health care plan, which she once adamantly
supported. The Los Angeles Times reported "Feinstein Still
Agonizing Over Vote on Health Care: She Sees the Need for Reform,
and is Bothered by the Crush of Proposals and the Need to Pass
One."

o The Dr. Demento radio show played the following tune,
sung to the tune of "Yellow Rose of Texas":

"The Ballad of Ross Perot" by the Pheromones

"There's a billionaire in Texas, he's always on the go.
His real first name is Henry, they call him Ross Perot.
He won't admit to nothing, he's silent as a mime,
And if he is elected, the trains will run on time."

(Chorus - sung to "La-la-la.")

"There's a billionaire in Texas, and he's no diplomat,
A charismatic cowboy, he's sporting a white hat.
The press corps all but love him, he's got a lot to say,
And if and when he says it, we'll know it right away."

(Chorus)

"An electoral uprising is a terrible switch-sword,
The incumbent is a whiner, the challenger's ignored.
There ain't be nothing like it since Bullmoose Roosevelt,
And when we hit November, the polls are going to melt."

(Chorus)

"And when it comes to Texas some say `Lese vous ma Bush.' <<I
think this line is supposed to be French for `read my Bush,' but
I can't make it out.>>
Arose another Lyndon, not Johnson, but LaRouche.
He's an insider's outsider and he's got a lot of dough.
So what the hell, let's all get drunk and vote for Ross Perot."

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MORNING UPDATE

Hard-core liberals hate competition, wanting everyone to be the
same, equal, and on the "same playing field." Thus, the Olympics,
being a celebration of competition and of being the absolute
best, with clear winners and losers, have to be driving them up
the wall, so being the compassionate type that he is, Rush has
come up with some suggestions to help them during the next two
weeks when the Olympics will be constantly in the news.

Liberals should stage their own "Liberal Olympics," with events
such as "synchronized spending," where liberals compete to see
who can tax his constituents the most and then spend the most on
failed programs. Given all the practice liberals in Congress have
had at this, it's bound to be an exciting competition.

Liberal journalists can get into the act, too, with "liberal
weight lifting," where they see who can carry the most water for
Presidential politicians and policies. Also, healthy and
dependent liberals can compete in the "100-yard liberal dash," in
which they try to sprint to the mailbox in record time when the
government check arrives; this will be difficult because runners
will have to run with their hand out for their hand out.

Thus, even dyed-in-the-wool liberals can now the thrill of
winning and be competitive without ever comprising their
principles.

FIRST HOUR

<<NOTE: Because of time constraints, I am not doing as
comprehensive a summary of today's show as normal>>

Items

o The ratings for NBC's coverage of the Olympics are about
twice as high as for the Barcelona games, but Rush was not able
to see the opening ceremonies on Friday night. This was
unfortunate because he had heard the ceremonies included the
spectacle of young children running across the field holding
paper doves on top of five-foot sticks.

This was done, of course, to prevent any real doves from being
toasted by the Olympic flame, as happened in the Seoul games, and
fortunately no children fell into the flame. Rush found it
interesting to contrast the great concern shown here to avoid the
deaths of some doves with the FDA's decision to allow broader use
of the RU-486 abortifacient, which brings about death in the
womb.

o The New Yorker is reporting that Monica Crowley, a former
assistant to Richard Nixon, has written a book, "Nixon Off the
Record," with some steamy quotes of Nixon before his death
commenting on Bill Clinton. Crowley, Nixon's foreign policy
assistant and worked with him from 1990 until his death in 1994,
used her own diaries as source material for the book, so she
doesn't have any tapes of Nixon saying these things, but the
people that Rush has talked to have said that her quotes of Nixon
sound just like him.

o Air bags are killing two children for each one that is
saved.

o Bob Dole has released the results of his latest medical
check-up, which shows that he is probably in better health than
Bill Clinton, but nobody is really sure since Clinton has not
released his own medical records. Rush recalls how Clinton fired
the White House physician, Burton Lee, who served George Bush,
which is not that unusual, but what was unusual is that Clinton
fired Lee because the doctor would not inject him with a drug
without first knowing what it was and without seeing the
President's records.

Rush has noticed that the press is investigating Dole's health
records thoroughly, but before anyone claims Dole is too old to
be President, Rush would remind them that Nelson Mandela was 76
when he became President of South Africa.

o The press is continuing to speculate about the crash of
the TWA 747 flight 800, given that nobody yet knows what really
happened. Bad weather has hampered search efforts for wreckage
and bodies, which is bad news since the sea water could destroy
valuable evidence in only a few days.

USA Today quotes Senator Alfonse D'Amato as saying an unnamed
source told him that satellite photos show an object launched
near the TWA flight, coming close to it, passing it, turning
around, and then the plane exploding. FBI associate director
James Kallstrom, however, said he hadn't heard anything about
this.

Rush also heard that Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) has suggested a $3
to $5 tax on new tickets to prevent future crashes, which is
amazing since nobody yet knows what really happened. How can
charging passengers another $5 do anything to prevent this from
happening again if you don't know what happened in the first
place?

Raising taxes to fix an unknown problem is a "solution" that can
only be considered by those Americans who are mind-numbed robots
who demand only one thing from their representatives: that they
"care."

o A somewhat humorous story concerns an educational
consultant and former physical education teacher in Ohio, Ambrose
Braselton. Speaking at a workshop for 100 teachers, Braselton
called for an end to the sport of dodge ball since it turns
students into "targets" and promotes competition.

"When you set up a competitive structure," Braselton said, "you
say `I am comparing you.' I'm looking to the day when we can have
many homecoming queens, many valedictorians, where everybody is
as good as everybody else."

But this is not the real world, Rush notes, not to mention that
dodge ball was one of his favorite activities in gym class - you
got to throw at the girls and anyone else you didn't like. Dodge
ball didn't hurt, either - even if you got hit in the head it
didn't hurt.

Bo Snerdley says it hurt him, but Rush doubts it since a dodge
ball is big and rubbery. Besides, this game taught people how to
dodge and gave them great reflexes, especially if there were many
balls in play at once.

It's ridiculous to view competition as an evil that has to be
wiped out, and as to dodge ball, Rush only wishes he could have
played it more often instead of the push-ups and the 600 yard
walk and run (which had a heavy emphasis on the walking part for
Rush). The EIB staff ask if Rush also did square dancing and he
says he did but he fortunately never had to do badminton.

*BREAK*

Going back to dodge ball, Rush notes that it was a stunning
achievement to become the last person left on your side. At that
point everyone on the other team (and sometimes your own team)
was gunning for you, which is as good a metaphor for real life as
anything - anytime you succeed, everyone is gunning for you, and
Rush is grateful that his games of dodge ball taught him this
lesson, thereby helping him to cope with being alone on top.

Being on top is what the Olympics is all about, after all, and
speaking of the Olympics, Nike certainly is promoting competition
with its Olympics commercials that state "you don't win silver,
you lose gold." Nike, by the way, is not an official Olympics
sponsor, despite what everyone thinks; instead, they have put
together a great marketing campaign that makes people think they
are an official sponsor.

Their motto of "you don't win silver, you lose gold," though,
epitomizes competition and Rush bets that it is irritating
liberals across the nation. Rush can see Nike's point, though.

Phone Debby from Lakeland, FL

Debby says the attempt to end competition in school is harmful to
kids because when they grow up and get in charge, they won't know
how to deal with other countries. Will these kids end up doing
whatever the other countries want, rolling over for them?

Rush agrees - the anti-competition movement is a terrible thing
and it's been going on for a long time. For example, when Rush
came to New York in 1988 one junior football league somewhere had
a team that was so good that the opposing team was given a 28
point handicap to begin with. The bottom line is that it's a
lousy life lesson to penalize someone for being number one.

Phone Joe from Magna, UT

Joe is a Democrat who's thrilled to be talking to Rush; he didn't
vote for Clinton in 1992 and won't do so in 1996 either. Instead,
he'll be voting for Dole because integrity does count. He notes
that a lot of other Democrats are middle-of-the-roaders like him
who are rejecting Clinton's liberalism and they're starting to
see their interests are more in line with Republican interests.

Rush says Bill Clinton is acting more like a Republican than most
Republicans, but Joe notes that at least he can trust Dole to
follow-up on his promises after the election. As to his main
point in calling, he recalls how Reagan managed to keep Libya
from pursuing its terrorist agenda by bombing Qhaddaffi's home;
if the crash of TWA flight 800 is due to terrorism, would this
sort of response be appropriate?

Rush thinks so but how could this crash be terrorism, given that
Clinton has "ended" terrorism with his anti-terrorism summit?

*BREAK*

Phone Jay from Porterville, CA

Jay hopes Rush can be a speaker at the Republican convention this
year since the party needs speakers who can add life and truth to
the agenda, as opposed to speakers who will be dead and put
people to sleep. Rush says the convention is planning to limit
speeches to only five or ten minutes precisely so as to keep
things moving along.

Jay says the convention's speakers also must have something
essential to say, so he'd love to see Rush on stage. Rush
promises that he would be the last person to be asked to speak at
the Republican convention, so Jay asks about Rush being Dole's
speechwriter. Rush says Dole's acceptance speech has already been
written by Mark Helprin, who's a fabulous writer.

Jay says Dole also has to be on fire at the convention, becoming
a quick listener and talker like Clinton. Dole has to be able to
come up with answers as Clinton does, but Rush says it's easy to
come up with a quick answer that sounds good if you don't have a
conscience and don't care about saying the truth. This is why a
person of honor and integrity will always be flummoxed by a
sociopath who doesn't care about honor, integrity, or the truth.

Mike Maimone suggests that one way to get some fire into the
convention is to have children flood the hall carrying fake
flames on five-foot sticks during Dole's acceptance speech to
simulate Bob Dole "on fire." Rush is struck by the image of this
and admits it would be something to see.

In any case, the big problem is that conservatives are arguing
with themselves and others trying to score intellectual points,
while Clinton and the Democrats are going for emotion. The
Democrats know their audience doesn't really care that much about
the intellectual points but only about whether the candidate
"cares" about them.

Phone Lester from Oklahoma City, OK

Lester says his wife is a teacher so he sees how the NEA works,
and he gets angry at the attempt to take competition out of kids'
lives. People rise or fall to the level of expectations put on
them, so if kids don't learn to compete, they won't ever be
pushed to where they need to be to compete in the world market.

Rush says this is exactly right - those who attack competition in
schools are the same ones complaining about competition in the
world market, but competition cannot be eliminated in the world.
Lester says the Olympics demonstrate the importance of
competition and Rush agrees; if kids do not learn to compete,
where will athletes come from to compete at the high school,
college, or Olympic level?

Besides, some people will compete no matter what because they
want to be the best they can be; this is what competition is all
about and it's a great and wonderful thing. Lester agrees and
says this point was made clearly in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."

Rush says the movement against competition is hideous - should
those who can excel just fall back to let others win? Should it
become virtuous for someone to give up the gold medal and accept
the bronze, out of some "compassion" for his competitors? This is
the worst message that can be taught to America's kids.

*BREAK*

Rush has a trivia question to pose: the San Diego charges and
Pittsburgh Steelers will both leave their home cities on
Wednesday to go to Tokyo. They will leave at roughly the same
time and arrive at roughly the same time, so how is this
possible, given that the Charges are some 3,000 miles or so
closer to Tokyo than the Steelers?

Rush asks his staff if they know the answer, and H.R. "Kit"
Carson answers that the Steelers' plane probably takes a "polar
route." Rush says this is basically correct - the Steelers will
take a more northern route, which means that they will be flying
over the "slimmer" portions of the Earth, while the Charges will
fly a more southern route, where the Earth is "fatter."

Thus, the Steelers and Charges will end up flying approximately
the same number of actual miles when the differences in the
Earth's curvature are taken into consideration. Rush mentions
this because his next caller is from Alaska, a northern clime,
and he remarks "isn't that neat?"

Phone Carolene from Anchorage, AK

Carolene enjoyed listening to Rush's dodge ball competition
because it reminded him of the French language competitions she
went while in school in 1980. The class' French teacher was a
wonderful woman who pushed the class to learn as much as they
could and expand their knowledge of French to the very best of
their abilities.

Sometimes the team won and sometimes they didn't, but that wasn't
the point, as Carolene learned one day when the teacher came in
storming mad. The other teachers had accused her of entering
these competitions for her own personal glory, and she told them
this was absolutely not the case. When asked how she would help
her students regain their self-esteem when they failed in a
contest, she replied she was more interested in "giving them
something they will never forget."

Carolene thinks this is exactly right - this teacher gave the
gift of competition to her students, teaching them that they
could accomplish more than they would have thought. Rush agrees
and this is a valuable lesson for people given that this is a
cut-throat, competitive world; those who cannot deal with this
crash in one form of another - to drugs, to psychosis, etc.

The liberals insist that kids are "fragile," but in reality kids
are strong and are meant to be pushed. It is when people are kids
that they have to be pushed into new experiences. Kids certainly
can be forced to grow up too soon, but when it comes to teaching
them to be the best they can be, there's nothing wrong with this.

Competition is simply trying to be the best you can be, and most
people who are competing really well are actually competing
against themselves. This is how true champions are made and how
life works.

Phone Mike from Salem, VA

Mike is an umpire in "Dixie baseball" which is like Little League
except that it uses national rules, not Little League's roles.
Mike grew up playing baseball and is now attending college, and
he's amazed at the attitudes of modern kids.

These kids will come out and act like nothing matters except that
they tried. Whether they win or lose or whether they did their
best won't matter - all that's important is that they "tried." At
his classes at the University of Virginia, though, Mike has
learned that trying might get you only a C or D; it might not be
enough for actual success and this is a lesson that kids have to
learn.

Rush notes that his comments on this dodge ball story have caused
people to light up his phone lines, and it's indicative of how
many Americans think their society is getting out of whack at its
core. America is a competitive nation and those who are concerned
about the future their kids will face are concerned that their
kids be taught what they need to learn for their futures.

Stuff like this is why parents are putting their kids into
private schools - there are millions of Americans alarmed at the
touchy-feely, "if it feels good do it" movement going on in
America and that is characterized by so much of America's
leadership right now.

*BREAK*

William Kristol's magazine "The Weekly Standard" reports that Bob
Dole's campaign has offered a job to Billy Dale to handle all the
travel for the press accompanying the Dole campaign. Rush thinks
this is a good move since the press would be confronted daily
with how good a job Dale can do and why he should have never been
fired by the Clinton administration.

Also, Buttman has brought his entire family with him to harass
Dole. Over the weekend he showed up in Detroit with Buttwoman,
Buttboy, and Buttgirl. Republicans will have to bring out
"Tokeman" in addition to "Reeferman" to confront this new
challenge.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o Rush suggests MSNBC be called PMSNBC since it describes
much of what goes on at the network. If nothing else, the network
is demonstrating that computers are designed to be used, not
televised.

o Returning to the subject of Buttman, he's started to
bring his entire family with him to harass Dole during his
rallies. However, Republicans are stepping up the heat, too -
last week in Wisconsin they unveiled "Baloneyman," who drew
attention to Clinton's "phony baloney record."

Baloneyman showed up at a Dole rally to hassle Buttman, but Rush
thinks he should be used at Clinton appearances. Nevertheless,
Baloneyman is scaring the Buttman family away, so he is achieving
some success. He is having trouble getting through doors and
navigating around tables, but at least he's in there working.

Rush suggests that Dole could also step up the pressure on
Clinton by doing a press conference at Mena, AR where he can talk
about the drug problem facing America. Mena, of course, is where
it's been alleged that flights carrying arms to southern
guerrillas have returned with drugs. Perhaps a plane could drop
some bales of hay during Dole's speech to emphasize the point.

Maybe Dole can do a speech by a whorehouse to signify Clinton's
infidelity. Or perhaps he can do a speech from the Excelsior
Hotel room where Paula Jones alleges Clinton exposed himself to
her. A Selective Service office would be another great choice.

o Rush is waiting for the press to run corrections on all
of their stories a couple of weeks ago about how Colin Powell is
not going to campaign for Bob Dole. The press made a big deal
about Powell's statement that he would not be doing any
campaigning, in a clear attempt to make it look like Powell was
not supporting Dole, even though Powell quite clearly said he was
going to vote for and support Dole.

Now the Washington Post is reporting that Powell is going to go
out on barnstorming trips for the Dole campaign, in addition to
being the featured speaker for the opening night of the
Republican convention. Rush wonders whether the press will turn
this into as big a story as they did with their previous reports
that misinterpreted Powell's remarks.

o According to New Yorker, Monica Crowley has written a
book titled "Nixon Off the Record" that contains her
recollections of what Nixon said before his death about Bill
Clinton. For example, Nixon is quoted as saying the following:

"I cannot believe this guy is a serious contender for the
presidency. I know why he did what he did to dodge the draft: he
didn't want to get his ass shot off. He is a coward and a fraud.
He didn't serve his country when it needed him, so why should we
have him serve it when he is ready? When he evaded the draft, he
cheated the country and the people whose votes he is asking for.
He was no conscientious objector; he was a selfish, spoiled brat.
He made my job harder and he sent God knows how many men to their
deaths in his place. I'll tell you if he is elected president, I
will know that this country has finally gone to hell."

Crowley also writes the following about Hillary Clinton and
Whitewater:

"Nixon detested first lady Hillary Clinton, dismissing her as a
potentially dangerous radical locked in a loveless marriage.
Nixon said: `She's a radical. If she gets in, whoa! Everybody
will have to fasten their seat belts. The point has to be made
that unlike this situation, no one ever profited in Watergate.
Here you have financial gain and abuse of power and nothing is
done. And here was Hillary on the impeachment committee screaming
about the 18 minutes (gap on a crucial tape recording) and now
she's in Little Rock shredding.'"

Nixon also praised Dole as the smartest candidate expected to be
in the 1996 race and that he was the only one who could lead the
country. Also, after watching Bill and Hillary Clinton appear on
"60 Minutes" in 1992 to address the Gennifer Flowers scandal,
Nixon said:

"You know, this is really something. This guy didn't just have a
fling; he had a 12-year affair. He's a repeat offender - and as
governor no less. That's arrogance of power! But I still don't
think it will destroy him. He's too slippery to have anything
like this stick."

Later, after Nixon met Hillary Clinton at the White House, he
told Crowley she was a cold mother who appeared to intimidate
Chelsea. Nixon observed that Hillary was "ice cold" and that
Chelsea much preferred her father to Hillary. Nixon was also
offended that Clinton didn't send anyone to Pat Nixon's funeral,
but the President told Nixon that he couldn't send anyone because
Hillary would have gotten too mad.

*BREAK*

Phone Brian from Billerica, MA

Brian loves Rush and thinks he's a blessing to the nation, and he
thinks the Republican party should be concentrating on the
message, not the statistics of the polls. As an elected official
himself, Brian is frustrated at how state Republicans cannot get
their message out; Massachusetts is not as liberal as everyone
thinks - it's just that Democrats get their message out better
than the Republicans.

George Bush was voted out in 1992 because of his one lie about
"no next taxes," but Bill Clinton has made countless more lies
than this. Rush says this is because nobody ever had high
expectations for Clinton, who has thus managed to lower people's
expectations for the Presidency.

Brian says this highlights the greatness of Ronald Reagan who
resuscitated the office of the Presidency after Nixon, Ford, and
Carter brought it to new lows. America is no longer respected,
though, as it was under Reagan and Bush, thanks to Clinton.

Rush says this might be true but if so, America can always get
its prestige back with only one election. The nation and its
Constitution are resilient enough to survive the boondoggle of a
bad Presidency.

There's also some hope this will happen since some of the polls
are tightening up a bit. For example, an AP poll done by ICR
Research found that 45% of Americans think Clinton should be re-
elected compared to 42% who don't want him re-elected. In a
three-way race, Clinton gets 45%, Dole 33%, and Perot 11%, but
the electorate is evenly divided over whether they trust
Republicans or Democrats more. As to Congress, 41% prefer
Democrats and 40% prefer Republicans, which is far closer than
the 48 to 37% polls that favored Democrats last December.

Rush thinks Clinton's lead in the polls still boils down to the
fact Americans think he cares about their lives. He heard that
Clinton was shedding tears during the opening of the Olympics,
with the reading of Martin Luther King and the children with the
doves, but nobody else in the skybox was doing that, so were
Clinton's tears genuine?

Clinton's is an administration of symbolism over substance, and a
lot of people have been responding to that approach. These people
think that saying you're for something is the same as actually
doing it, and they continue to think Clinton should get "a
chance."

Phone Milton from Niceville, FL

Milton says Sam Nunn wasn't talking about a new tax on airline
tickets; he was just suggesting that the airlines could charge
some more money to improve their security. This would be the
airlines doing this, not the government.

Rush says if this is not a tax, what is this extra fee? If the
government makes the airlines charge more money, it's a tax.
Milton, though, says Nunn did not say that the government would
be in charge of this.

Rush says even if the government doesn't have a role in this,
it's still an additional fee and cost, and no different than a
tax. The bottom line is that talking about charging more money to
solve a problem is premature since we don't even know what the
problem is that needs to be solved.

*BREAK*

Rush says the Republican welfare reform bill is now in the Senate
and is expected to come out pretty much unchanged. Clinton might
sign this bill, but he has vetoed two previous welfare reform
bills simply so he could use the vetoes to portray Republicans as
extremists who want to harm women and children.

The Democrats, though, might have put themselves into a box with
the latest Republican bill, running into problems no matter what
they do. Algore on "Face the Nation" said that the President
would sign the bill with "minor" changes but only a few hours
later Mike McCurry said the bill needed major changes.

The Democrats don't like how this bill would end the federal
entitlement to welfare, turning the program into a state-run work
program. Recipients would have a certain number of years to find
gainful employment and if that time period runs out, welfare
benefits are ended.

The White House wants vouchers to be given to the children of
recipients who are removed from the welfare rolls, but
Republicans say this would not do anything to reform the system
and get people off welfare. Clinton will make his decision not on
what's best for the recipients but on whether he can benefit
politically more from vetoing or signing it.

Clinton can thus veto this bill, claiming he's trying to "save
the children" but if he does this, Republicans can point out
Clinton has vetoed three welfare reform bills in a row, despite
his promise to "reform welfare as we know it."

If Clinton signs this bill, though, he will get some grief from
his liberal buddies at the Democratic convention. It could thus
be that it will be the Democrats who will fall apart at their
convention, despite how the conventional wisdom states that it's
Republicans who will break apart into divisive battles.

The Democrats would love to see the Republican convention become
a three-ring circus with speeches by Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan,
Ralph Reed, and other "right-wing extremists." However, this
looks doubtful, especially since the opening night speakers are
mainly moderate centrists.

In contrast, the Democrats already have liberal special interest
groups such as the gays and lesbians angry at them. In
particular, gays are very angry that Bill Clinton has agreed with
Republicans that marriage should be defined as a contract between
a man and a woman.

These extremists won't support Dole or Perot, of course, but they
might decide to cause some trouble at the Democratic convention;
after all, these guys excel at causing trouble - that's what they
do best. And if Clinton signs the welfare reform bill, the
liberal activists at the convention will go bonkers, as well.

Thus, while the conventional wisdom is that Dole is wandering
around aimlessly, he does have a strategy that would centralize
and consolidate the Republican party's appearance, so as to
promote a uniform party. Rush had been wondering about this third
welfare reform bill because he didn't know why the Republicans
would give Clinton a third chance to beat them over the head with
a veto of yet another welfare reform bill, but they seem to be
setting things up nicely.

For example, Republicans have picked up the support of a lot of
Democrats who are supporting it because they know their
constituents want true reform. Nobody but a bunch of leftists
will be opposed to having welfare recipients work for their
benefits, so Clinton can lose no matter what he does.

If he signs the bill he angers his core supporters, if he doesn't
he angers everyone else. Of course, Rush wouldn't put it past
Clinton to come out on top with all this, given how he's been
able to slick himself out of so much.

In any case, it would be interesting to see if the Democratic
convention would become the free-for-all that everyone is
expecting to see at the Republican convention. The gays and
welfare state activists are both noted for their ability to
create havoc, so it's not beyond the bounds of reason to think
they might do this at the Democratic convention.

*BREAK*

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) is opposing the Republican
welfare reform bill because it would result in "bands of children
roving the streets, a threat to themselves and a danger to
others." But isn't this already what is happening with all the
street gangs out there?

Of course, Clinton had an anti-gang summit and implemented
midnight basketball, so perhaps his problem has been "fixed."

Phone Michael from Carson City, NV

Michael says if Bob Dole refused to publicize his health records,
the press would be going bonkers with speculation, so why aren't
they criticizing Clinton for his refusal to release his records?
It's clear, therefore, that Clinton and the press are hiding
something about his health; whatever it is that Clinton doesn't
want made public, it's obviously not life-threatening, but it's
obviously something he thinks would harm his election chances.

Rush says the administration would claim details of Clinton's
health are nobody else's business, but Michael disagrees when it
comes to the President. He suspects that whatever is the problem,
it is related to Clinton's libido and active sexual lifestyle,
although this is only a hunch.

Rush says he deals only with facts and the one fact that is clear
is that Clinton has refused to release his records in the five
years since he started campaigning for President. It's only
natural, therefore, to engage in speculations about what might be
wrong about Clinton's health.

Michael says he's wondering why the press isn't doing more
investigation into this, but they seem unwilling to find out
anything about Clinton's refusal to release his medical records.
Yet other Presidents have made their records public.

Rush says Clinton's doctor has proclaimed the President to be in
good health, but Michael notes that Clinton fired Dr. Burton Lee
when he insisted Clinton let him see his medical records. Rush
says this is a good point and thanks Michael for calling.

Phone Ron from Glendale, CA

Ron says something that's not being discussed right now is that
the electorate is a bunch of dummies; the people are stupid,
which is why they don't even know who the Vice President is, much
less what the truth about Clinton is. Thus, Dole has to do what
he has to do to win, which is move to the center, playing on the
emotionalism of the people, much as Clinton has done.

He's got to do this for the people's own good, given that they
don't know what's best for them. There's no choice in this - Dole
should be moving to the center because once he gets elected, he
can do whatever the country needs.

Rush says the problem with this is that if Dole obfuscates his
real agenda, then you don't know what he might do once he gets in
office. Principled people thus have a real problem with deceptive
moves this way or that just to get elected.

Rush, though, admits he would never get elected as President
because in his first speech he would tell the people he is not
concerned about their expectations of him but about his
expectations of the American people. This call to personal
responsibility would panic a lot of Americans, so Rush would be
out of there pronto.

*BREAK*

The Reform Party has decided to publicize the results of its
nomination election after all - instead of simply announcing who
the winner is, the party will announce the results of the
balloting, which previously they had said would not be done.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o The Dallas Morning News has reported that complaints
about the Reform Party's secrecy over its balloting process have
caused the party to change its mind. Party officials are now
saying that American Caging of Houston would be handling the
balloting. Also, contrary to previous reports, the party said it
would also announce the actual balloting results.

o Robert Downey Jr. has been arrested three times this
month for drug and related violations, but Rush suspects he's
only auditioning for a position in the Clinton administration, or
maybe even Major League Baseball. Rush doesn't know, though, if
"three strikes you're out" would apply to Downey, assuming it had
not been struck down by a federal court.

o Datamation magazine <<http://www.datamation.com/>> is
reporting in its current issue in its "Over the Edge" column that
a Russian citizen is claiming he actually invented the "V-chip,"
and he is filing a lawsuit in New York contesting this fact. If
he is successful, he and the city of Moscow, which is backing his
suit, could play a dominant role in world electronic
entertainment, given that the V-chip is expected to be part of
every TV and VCR in the near future.

Rush has no problems believing that a Russian, maybe even a
Communist, would come up with the idea of the V-chip to control
would people can watch.

Update Homeless
(Clarence "Frogman" Henry, "Ain't Got No Home")

A $10.1 million grant given last year by the Department of
Housing and Urban Development has failed to help the homeless
problem in Denver. The grant was given to several housing and
other agencies that help the homeless, in the hope that the
number of homeless, estimated at 2,500, would be reduced, but it
is now suspected that the homeless population might have actually
gone up.

This grant was the largest ever awarded to Denver and Rush notes
that $10 million spread over 2,500 people comes out to $4,000
apiece, on top of all the other money being spent. Yet after all
that money, there might now be more homeless than ever in Denver.

This is no surprise to anyone who understands human nature - if
you start giving things away, more people will show up for it.
Rush is reminded of how the mayor of Boulder, CO in December,
1992 complained that the city's population was "too white" and
"too affluent," so she wanted a program to bring in more "low-
income people" (i.e. the poor).

Denver evidently decided to do the same thing by offering $10
million as a lure to the homeless. Rush notes that he has seen
idiocy like this throughout his eight years as radio host, and
the only way you can deal with it is by laughing at it.

*BREAK*

Phone Steve from Milton, VT

Steve appreciates the hard work Rush puts in his show and he
suggests that if Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) wants to find extra
money for airport security he look at the FAA and how much it
wastes. Steve has worked on airplane maintenance of planes such
as the 747 and DC-10 for about seven years, so he knows that the
FAA has a general fund that has millions if not billions in it.

Rush says this money was already collected from ticket fees and
such and the FAA has not spent it yet on maintenance and similar
things. However, Rush can understand why anyone who has a stash
of money that they are saving for a "rainy day" would not want to
spend it.

Many people with such a stash want to keep the funds sacrosanct,
saving it for things that are "truly important." This is only
human nature - you don't touch your stash until you've run out of
all other sources, and right now the FAA knows it can still bring
in more money from the American people.

Steve also says that his experience at rebuilding 747s from the
ground up has taught him a number of things about the plane's
structure. Before he started his own business, he was a union
worker who would take the plane all the way down to the frame so
it could be rebuilt as good as new.

Steve thus knows what can and cannot happen with the TWA, but
he's hearing all sorts of crazy reports and speculations from the
press. He wonders why the mainstream media and politicians are
being so sensational about the TWA crash.

Rush says he was thinking about this because every politician in
the Tri-State area is showing up at Long Island to monitor what's
going on at the crash site. However, these guys are in a no-win
situation - if they don't show up, they'll be attacked for not
caring and if they do, they'll be attacked for grandstanding.

Perhaps a "Chuck Schumer Pavilion" can be set up for these guys -
this tent would be named in honor of Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY)
who wants to be on TV so much that it's dangerous to be between
him and any TV camera. The Pavilion would be a tent with a TV
camera so politicians could come in, make their appearance on TV,
and then leave.

Steve says this is his point - these politicians are using this
tragedy to get in front of a camera, making hay with the magic
word of terrorism. Rush says these politicians do have to show up
because the American people insist that their politicians "care"
for them. The problem, though, is how the major networks and new
24-hour news networks are continuing to play up this story.

Steve understands but they are speculating in the worst, most
sensationalistic ways. He doesn't want to speculate but there are
many possibilities that exist that are not being discussed. For
example, there could have been a major structural failure occur
in the plane but everyone prefers to talk about terrorists,
bombs, and missiles.

After all, there were 600,000 pounds of jet fuel on that plane
and if this fuel was ignored, it would be no different than a
bomb. Rush, though, says the fuel tanks are segmented, plus the
jet fuel is kerosene, which needs air to ignore.

Steve, though, says that while unlikely, it's possible for the
wings to rupture in a way to open up more than one segment of
tank, with the fuel being atomized and then ignited. This would
create a fuel air explosion as catastrophic as any bomb, but the
press ignores all but the possibility that it's a bomb.

Rush says some people would prefer that the crash was caused by a
bomb - in one way this would be more acceptable than a major
structural failure that was not detected beforehand. And, of
course, if it was a missile, the national ramifications would be
substantial.

For example, many people continued to fly TWA and 747s after this
crash, and they would feel fairly confident doing so because
"lightning cannot strike twice." However, a missile can strike
and it can strike in widely separate areas at the same time, so
if a missile was responsible for the TWA explosion, then people's
attitudes about flight would be changed greatly.

Plus, you never know how open the investigative authorities will
be with what they find. Rush, though, respects the FBI and NTSB
and how they are conducting their investigation; he thinks it's
wise that they keep the lid on what they know until they are
certain about what happened. This could take months, such as
happened with the terrorist bomb that destroyed the Lockerbie
flight over Scotland.

*BREAK*

A number of American journalists are testing the security system
at JFK Airport because some French reporters claim they were able
to gain access to off-limit areas at the gate that TWA flight 800
departed from. Rush finds this interesting because many reporters
are furious that Joe Klein lied to them about being the author of
"Primary Colors," so he would ask if these same journalists are
angry and upset about their colleagues lying to gain access to
secure areas of the airport?

Speaking of Klein, Rush has found that a great way to irritate
liberals is to call Bill Clinton "the Joe Klein of Presidents."

Phone John from Fredericksburg, VA

John says Bob Dole on CSPAN said that he wouldn't have any money
to spend on his campaign until after the convention, and John
thinks this is a great thing. If Dole doesn't have the money, he
shouldn't be spending it.

Rush says the reason for Dole's delay is that Republicans think
it is pointless to spend money until in the last stretch before
the elections, from Labor Day to Election Day. The problem with
this, though, is that the Democrats, Big Labor, and other groups
are spending millions on TV commercials and have been doing so
for almost a year.

These ads have portrayed Republicans and conservatives in a
tremendously bad light and they aren't being answered. So some
people are afraid that these ads' negativity will stick.

John says the unions also attacked his company a few years back
with false ads but the company ignored them and they disappeared.
Rush says this is a risky strategy, and there's no "textbook way"
to respond.

The Clinton campaign, of course, has its "rapid response team,"
which sends out press releases and other things as soon as it
hears of accusations that have been made or are going to be made.
They don't ignore the ads, and this is a tough call to make - the
smartest brains in the PR industry can't tell you the best
response to make against a negative PR campaign, except to
encourage you to run more ads so that they can get their 15% cut.

Phone Mark from Clovis, NM

Mark says the Journal of the International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers has an article on airline safety
that tries to link Newt Gingrich to the crash of the ValuJet
airliner. The magazine does this by blaming deregulation and
saying a Wall Street investment firm that holds 15% of ValuJet's
stock has contributed $320,000 to Newt Gingrich and GOPAC.

Rush notes that nobody has really stopped to consider what has
happened to the ValuJet plane; the final word isn't it but it's
believed that the oxygen canisters being carried by the plane
exploded. Mark says the article downplays that theory, saying
that the canisters cannot explode by themselves.

Rush says the point is that nobody has come up with the
conclusive proof for what happened and in any case, the ValuJet
airplane acted just like it should have done. The problem was not
with the plane, and for this union magazine to make such a huge
stretch to blame Gingrich and conservatives to the ValuJet crash
only illustrates the depravity on the part of the left.

Rush, however, is more than happy to let the unions and other
liberals make such absurd claims given that they will harm the
left more than Republicans. If a union guy says such a thing in
public, he'll only be embarrassed mightily.

Phone Larry from Metamora, IL

Larry says he's concerned about the negative ads being run by the
Democrats and how Republicans have shot themselves in the foot by
not responding to their claims. For example, Republicans let the
Democrats go on and on with lies about the school lunch programs.

Rush says Republicans couldn't believe at the time that these
accusations would stick - after all, who would believe
politicians wanted to starve children? Just how many parents
would just sit by and do nothing if the government was not
feeding their children? Even if Republicans were trying to starve
children, wouldn't parents feed their kids themselves?

It's ridiculous for anyone to claim Republicans wanted to starve
children much less think that it would happen, and if this were
said about Rush, he'd laugh. However, the press picked up this
line and repeated it so much that it became a mantra that meant
Republicans don't care about kids. This idea hit home and Rush
doesn't know why Republicans didn't respond, except that they
wanted to save their money for the actual campaign.

However, Rush at the time said the budget battle was more
important than the Presidential race and had the budget debate
been won by Republicans, the Presidential race would be much
different. Republicans can still win, though, and Rush is
confident that the Republicans will maintain control of both of
the House and Senate, as well as close the gap in the
Presidential race.

*BREAK*

Phone Rusty from Anchorage, AK

Rusty says he's a strong pro-life Republican but he still has a
problem with the Republican's anti-union stance since he's very
pro-union, too. For example, he doesn't support the anti-union
bill that was just passed in the House that would allow
management-controlled unions and support right-to-work companies.

Rusty thinks Republicans might even lose the House and Senate
because of their anti-union stance. Rush doubts this would happen
given that unions encompass less than 16% of American workers and
40% of them voted Republican in 1994; the unions don't control
that many people to begin with.

Also, the union leaders are as anti-union as anyone on the
planet, spending millions on ads full of lies so they can destroy
Republican congressmen. Thus, what should Republicans do - ignore
the threat posed by unions?

Rusty says people will vote according to the economy and if they
see their wages slip because of anti-union legislation, people
such as Rusty will vote against Republicans who are trying to
keep wages down. The right-to-work laws will depress wages, for
example.

Rush asks why anyone should have to belong to a union to work in
the country - he himself, for example, has to pay a union so he
can be on the radio. Rusty says that without this mandate, unions
would not exist, and Rush says this is his point - you have to
force people to belong to unions.

Rusty says this happens only if the majority of workers agree to
a union; Rusty, for example, didn't vote for Clinton but he's
still Rusty's President. Rush asks if this means employment
should be turned over to the democratic process, and Rusty says
that's one way to look at it - in any case, the right-to-work
laws are a backdoor way to get rid of unions.

Unions aren't Rusty's only issue, but the fact is that union
workers produce more per dollar spent than other non-union
workers. Rush disagrees with that and says he can use any number
of union contracts to show this is not the case; rather, union
contracts show that less work is being done for higher pay.

As to Republicans, Rush doesn't think they are trying to put
unions out of business, despite the acrimony between the union
leaders and GOP. However, Republicans have no rancor for the rank
and file, but the fact is that the union leadership is supporting
Bill Clinton and the Democrats, so they are a political enemy to
be overcome.

Rush doesn't doubt, though, that many union workers think
Republicans are targeting their jobs, but Rush doesn't believe
that at all.

*BREAK*

Phone Norman from Hingham, MA

Norman says Bill Clinton was a "big crybaby" at the opening of
the Olympics on Friday night, and it made Norman wonder why
Clinton was crying at such a joyous event. Perhaps Hillary should
hire a babysitter and keep her husband home from now on.

Rush asks what Clinton was crying about and Norman says he
doesn't know since there was no reason for anyone to cry during
the ceremonies. All that was going on were the opening
ceremonies, and Norman doesn't understand why Clinton was crying,
nor why the cameras were right there to pick it up.

Norman also notes that Clinton wasn't crying any crocodile tears
about the 19 American soldiers killed in Saudi Arabia nor about
the crash of the TWA flight. Rush says Clinton did show anger
about the crash, but from what Rush was told, Clinton was crying
when some words of Martin Luther King were being read; according
to his source, though, nobody else was crying at the same time.

Norman says this is right - everyone else was happy and joyous.
Rush says Clinton obviously "cares" and was "moved deeply,"
especially since he knew the TV camera would be on him. However,
people shouldn't be as bothered by Clinton's fake tears as they
are by the American people who are falling for this.

Norman also thinks it's time to get the crybabies and drug
addicts out of the White House and get someone who's mature in
there. Rush says one slogan for Norman would be "Bob Dole, it's
time for an adult," but he hastens to note that nobody knows of
any drug addicts in the White House - this is possible but nobody
knows of any.

--
John Switzer | "You probably can't imagine what it is like
| to be so lost and frightened that you will
| listen to any voice which promises change."
jswi...@limbaugh.com | --Hugh the Borg, or any repentant Clinton voter