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Subject: Summary Mon 12/21/92
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Summary: Unofficial Mini-Summary for Monday, Dec. 21, 1992
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, December 21, 1992

by John Switzer

NOTE: This is being posted to both alt.fan.rush-limbaugh and
alt.rush-limbaugh and thus you may see it twice if your sysadm
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support both groups, this double-posting appears to be
unavoidable, however, if anyone has any ideas on how to avoid it,
please let me know. Thanks - [e-mail].

This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1992 by John Switzer.
All Rights Reserved. These summaries are distributed on
CompuServe, GEnie, and the Internet, and archived on GEnie (NPC
Roundtable) and Internet (cathouse.aiss.uiuc.edu).  Distribution
to other electronic forums and bulletin boards is highly
encouraged. Spelling and other corrections gratefully received.

Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the
first summary for this month. In particular, please note that
this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other as
a daily listener.

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December 21, 1992

NEWS

o       The Footnotes section in today's Los Angeles Times
business section reports that convicted serial killer Kenneth
Bianchi, aka the "Hillside Strangler," is suing Eclipse Comics of
Forestville, CA for including him in its latest series of "Serial
Killer Trading Cards." Eclipse co-owner Catherine Yronwode
believes that the company is legally allowed to produce the card
because of protections granted by the First Amendment.

Bianchi, who is currently serving a life sentence in Washington
state for the murder of two women, wants $6.75 million in
damages. He claims that this use of his name and likeness could
create "consumer confusion"; furthermore, Bianchi objects to the
unauthorized use of his "product," which consists of "his name
and likeness, and the effort made for years to establish that
mark."

o       The LA Times also reports that a Vancouver company will
be selling an "environmentally correct" shoe. The company claims
its "Angelic Sole" will be not only biodegradable but also "Satan
resistant." No word, though, on whether the ACLU will file an
injunction to prevent public school students from wearing this
obviously religious shoe to their classes.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

December 21, 1992 - It's now 49 days after Bill Clinton's
election and Rush is still on the air with 546 radio affiliates
and 207 TV affiliates, and his book has been on the NY Times
hardback non-fiction best-seller list for 14 consecutive weeks
and is currently number one on the list.

Highlights from the TV show that aired on Friday, December 18,
1992

Phone   Tim from Richmond, VA

Tim has some information on Joel Slater, the Santa Barbara man
who renounced his US citizenship in 1987 after President Reagan
bombed Libya. Slater is now hoping that President Clinton will
return his citizenship to him. Tim says he met Slater in a
Richmond coffee shop in November, 1989. Slater at the time told
Tim that he was on his way to Washington, DC to apply for a
"World Passport" so that he could become a "citizen of the
world." (When Tim mentions this, Rush starts dragging on an
imaginary joint to express his opinion of the idea.)

Slater explained to Tim how he renounced his citizenship at a US
consulate office in Australia, even though the consulate
officials keep telling him that it was a bad idea. Immediately
after renouncing his citizenship, Slater then showed up at the
Australian immigration office to apply for citizenship.
Australia, though, wasn't interested in Slater and sent him back
to the US.

Rush asks Tim what his impressions of Slater were, and Tim
replies with one word - "loser." Tim admits, though, that at
first he felt sorry for Slater, and even interviewed him at his
Richmond recording studio. Tim then offered to give Slater room
and board for a while if he'd paint Tim's kitchen. However, after
only two weeks, Tim and his wife kicked Slater out because they
got tired of Slater complaining about how everything in his life
was everyone else's fault and never his own.

Rush is not surprised that Slater is this kind of guy, nor is he
surprised that Slater thinks that Clinton will be able to solve
all of his problems.

MORNING UPDATE

It's the Christmas season and Rush would like to suggest a great
gift idea from EIB's politically correct Christmas catalog:

<<Harp music starts followed by Santa Claus>> Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!

<<Announcer>> This year, the EIB Network helps you enjoy an old-
fashioned politically correct Christmas. Order your special
someone a gift from our PC catalog! Featuring the perfect doll
for little girls who want to grow up to be flag-waving man-haters
- it's the new Feminazi Blabby doll! Just pull the string and she
gets in your face with a host of nutty expressions.

<<Sound of string being pulled, followed by high-pitched doll
voice>> Which comfortable shoes should I wear to the NOW rally?
<<sound of string>> Clarence Thomas is such a jerk! <<sound of
string>> If HE doesn't have to wear a shirt, then neither should
I!

<<Announcer>> The Feminazi Blabby doll - comes with a variety of
accessories - comfortable shoes and a dream condo, complete with
a Clarence Thomas dart board.

<<Doll>> Clarence Thomas is such a jerk! <<sound of string>>
Fight the real enemy! <<sound of paper tearing>>

<<Announcer>> Photos of the Pontiff not included. This year, make
it a Politically Correct Christmas - order the EIB PC catalog!

<<Rush is on vacation until January 4th, and so today's show is
being hosted by Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-CA). Today's summary
will thus include only a few highlights of today's show.>>

FIRST HOUR

Rep. Dornan talks a bit about the goings on in Congress. He
points out that the House of Representatives, unlike the Senate,
does not allow unlimited time for debates; filibustering is
strictly a Senate practice.

The House therefore has a "steam pressure valve type of release"
called "one minutes." At the beginning of each day's session, any
member who so desires can make a one minute speech; although it's
possible for a hundred members or more to take advantage of this
fixture of the House, usually only 4 to 8 members make such
speeches each day. Another opportunity for dissenting speech in
Congress are special orders which allow House members to make
after-hour speeches in front of the CSPAN cameras; each speech
can be up to an hour.

Some "short-thinking firebrands on the other side" tried to limit
the use of both "one minutes" as well as special orders. On
December 7th, the Democratic caucus proposed limiting one minutes
to 10 per each side (i.e. a maximum of 20 such speeches each
day). Special orders would have been limited to only 3 hours
worth each day, with all speeches ending at 9 p.m. EST. This
means all such speeches would be over by 6 p.m. PST, 4 p.m.
Hawaii time, and before noon in Guam.

"Cooler heads prevailed," however. Rep. Dornan vowed that if the
Democrats continued on with their attempt to limit one minutes
and special orders, "they would be in a state of awe at the
imaginative ways the loyal opposition would find to disrupt the
House."

Rep. Dornan promised not to start this form of "guerrilla
warfare" the first day the new Congress met, since the new
members would be there with their families and friends. However,
he promised to start it promptly on the second day.

House Speaker Thomas Foley thus appointed a committee to study
the proposals to limit special orders and one minutes, which is
one of the favorite ways Congress has to kill any prospective
legislation. Thus, Republicans won one of the first battles of
the new Congress.

Dornan remarks on how he used special orders to keep the issue of
Clinton's draft dodging alive; however, George Stephanopoulos had
a brilliant way of avoiding these sorts of stories - the Clinton
campaign would just ignore them for 5 or 6 days. By the time
Clinton made a statement, the issue would be old news.

Dornan points out that this technique would not work with
conservatives or Republicans, but the liberal media let Clinton
get away with this. The press did not stake out Clinton's front
yard and keep badgering him about the story, as they would have
any Republican such as Oliver North.

Rep. Dornan also find an interesting AP story from when Ted
Koppel spoke at Duke Law School in Durham, NC on October 3, 1987.
The Associated Press headlined their story as "Koppel has a moral
message for our times," and they quoted Koppel as saying the
following:

"We have actually convinced ourselves that slogans will save us -
`shoot up if you must but use a clean needle,' `enjoy sex
whenever and with whomever you want, but wear a condom.' No, the
answer is no. Not because it isn't cool or smart, not because you
might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward, but because it's
wrong.

"In its purest form, truth is not a polite pat on the shoulder,
it is a howling reproach. What Moses brought down from Mount
Sinai were not the Ten Commandments."

*BREAK*

Dornan talks about how Vietnam has been caught lying about its
claims that it doesn't have any other information to give out
about missing POWs. Dornan remembers that Senator John Kerry, who
is now championing the idea of "rewarding" the Vietnamese for
their minimalist cooperation, once threw away all of his military
medals and ribbons in full view of the network TV cameras.

Strangely enough, these medals are in full display now in Senator
Kerry's office. When asked about this, Kerry replies that he
didn't throw away his own medals, but only those of a "friend."

Dornan points out that Vietnam is so impoverished, thanks to it
being a Communist country, that there's no reason for the US to
normalize relations for economic considerations. It would take at
least 10 years before US businesses would want to start investing
in the country, and thus the only reasons for recognizing Vietnam
and normalizing relations with it are human rights ones.

*BREAK*

While talking to a caller, Dornan points out that when he first
came to Congress in 1976, Republicans had only 143 House members
as compared to the 176 representatives they have now. Thus,
things are not as bad as some might think, and considering that
Clinton is appointing a number of congressmen to his cabinet,
Republicans might gain even more seats during next year's special
elections.

*BREAK*

Today's Wall Street Journal has an article titled "Scandals Past,
Scandals Future" which admits that the House Bank scandal was a
real scandal after all. Thus, Rep. Dornan bets that there will be
a "real ride" during the next Congress over this, with some
members being pulled down.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Dornan reads something that Alistair Cooke read nearly 20 years
ago to conclude his Masterpiece Theater series on America:

"What is fiercely in dispute between the Communists and the non-
Communist nations today is the quality and staying power of
American civilization. Every other country scorns America's
materialism while striving in every big and little way to match
it. Envy obviously has something to do with it, but there's a
true basis for this debate, and it's whether America is in
ascendance or in decline.

"I myself think I recognize here several of the symptoms that
Edward Gibbon maintained were signs of the decline of Rome, and
which arose not from external enemies, but from within the
country itself: a mounting love for show and luxury, a widening
gap between the very rich and the very poor, an obsession with
sex, a freakishness in the arts masquerading as originality, and
enthusiasm pretending to be creativeness. These symptoms are
shared in western Europe, though they seem to be milder there
only because America has a livelier tradition of self-criticism.

"In the past decade America has demonstrated the Roman folly of
military might remote from the centers of power, and in finding
herself so frustrated by the stamina of primitive peoples on
their own ground as to fall back on the Roman conclusion that
nothing could reconcile the minds of the barbarians to peace
unless they experience in their own countries the calamities of
war.

"There is, too, a general desire to live off the state, whether
it is a junkie on welfare or an airline subsidized by the
government. And most disturbing of all, a developing moral
numbness to vulgarity, to violence, and to the assault on the
simplest of human decencies."

















































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