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Summary: Unofficial Summary for Friday, December 25, 1992
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, December 25, 1992

by John Switzer

NOTE: This is being posted to both alt.fan.rush-limbaugh and
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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 25, 1992

LIMBAUGH WATCH

December 25, 1992 - It's now 53 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 15 consecutive weeks
and is currently one on the list.

MORNING UPDATE

<<missing because KTMS did not play it>>

<<Because Rush is on vacation until January 4th, today's show is
a "Best of Rush" show. The first hour is from the second hour of
the show originally broadcast on Thursday, January 9, 1992>>

SECOND HOUR

Illegal gambling is going on at EIB - the staffers are betting on
whether Rush will actually do a promised Animal Rights update. If
Bo wins, he will save the money ($1), while Christopher J. "Kit"
Carson will buy a cheeseburger. Rush explains that when he tells
his staff that he is planning to do an update, they bet on
whether he will actually get to it, or whether he will have
"diarrhea of the mouth." Rush hasn't decided on who will actually
win this wager.

Rush talks about the new Public Enemy video, which he hasn't yet
seen. He prefaces his remarks, though, that he is not trying to
make any racist or bigoted comments. That being said, Rush thinks
that many of the problems in the black community are the result
of irresponsible black leadership. An example of this is
multiculturalism, in which black students are taught different
things than white students. This is "absolutely criminal" since
tribal African history is not going to do anything to help the
students succeed. Tribal Africa is great to study as a secondary
subject, but the primary focus should be on what students need to
know to survive in today's society. Rush thinks a lot of this is
the result of socialistic tendencies, and it threatens the
ability of black Americans to excel and do as well as they can.
Rush has no desire to see anyone fail or not be competitive.

Rush thinks, therefore, that the Public Enemy video is a far
greater threat to American youth than anything David Duke could
do. In the video "By the Time I Get to Arizona," the Arizona
governor is blown up and a Senator is poisoned. This is in spite
of the fact that the current governor is trying to get the Martin
Luther King, Jr. holiday approved. This video is full of rage,
hatred, and lies, but Rush believes the video is protected by the
First Amendment; however, he doesn't think it will do anything
positive for the black community. Rush bets, though, that the
video will die a well-deserved death simply because of its own
excess.

Rush doesn't believe that stuff like this is intended for a
general audience; it is aimed at a specific audience and has a
specific agenda. Thus, it is important for people like Rush to
offer commentaries that expose it. It would be one thing if the
video was filled with truth, but it isn't; the only consequence
of the video will be to increase the bitterness of young blacks.
Rush wonders why the black community doesn't address this, and
why leaders like Jesse Jackson are silent about this.

Update  Animal Rights         (Andy Williams, "Born Free" with
gratuitous sound effects)

Rush clues in his new listeners by telling them that animals
cannot have rights in the same sense as human beings; doing so
will only reduce the value of human life. This is shown by saying
that the Spotted Owl is worth 33,000 jobs.

There are three items in this update:

o       EIB is tabulating the number of people killed by
Elephants and those killed by rap concerts. An enraged elephant
killed a tourist guide in Zimbabwe yesterday, so to date 37
people have been killed by elephants, while 9 by rap concerts.

o       Rats, mice, and birds are entitled to the same conditions
as other research animals, according to a ruling issued by
Washington Judge Charles Ritchie yesterday. In a lawsuit brought
by animal rights activists. Rush says that he can live with this
since the research has to do with prolonging human life; these
animals thus have the same "right to die" as any other lab
animal.

o       Rush recalls Martin Sheen's announcement a couple of
years ago that Malibu was a sanctuary for the homeless.
Yesterday, though, the Malibu City Council went one better by
passing a resolution declaring that Malibu was a "human/dolphin
shared environment," and urging "warmer relationships between
humans and animals." Francis Jeffrey, co-founder of the Great
Whales foundation, said "This is a new concept, to say that
dolphins are citizens of the community." Mary Frampton, head of
the Save Our Coast group, told the council "The dolphins thank
you." Rush wonders how Frampton knows that the dolphins are
thanking the council, and says this is just one result of people
who have "far too much free time on their hands."

*BREAK*

Phone   Gent from Enid, OK

Gent saw the Arsenio Hall show last night, and Bryant Gumble was
the guest. Gumble related that Jesse Jackson was at the NAACP
Image Awards, but he was no longer popular with the black
community; Arsenio made a joke about Jackson's lack of
popularity. Rush relates that Jackson used to be a great role
model for young blacks, going from school to school urging
students to keep away from drugs and such. But when Jackson
became a national figure and ran for President, his focus changed
to the Third World, and he seemed to jettison the moral causes
that he once espoused. Rush wishes somebody like Jackson would
renounce the Public Enemy video, because whites can't do it
without being accused of being racists.

*BREAK*

Phone   Rodney from Glendale, CA

Rodney thinks that the "insidious" income tax is the reason for
America's current economic problems, its low savings rate, and
imbalance of trade with Japan. The income tax is really a hidden
cost that applies to all goods sold in America since every
producer has to pay it to make their products. This puts American
producers at a disadvantage with foreign producers. Rush agrees
and says that "there are a number of societal considerations that
consume wealth, not produce wealth" that American businesses have
to deal with every day.

Rush says anyone who thinks that they aren't paying a lot in
taxes or that it was Reagan's tax cuts that killed the economy is
crazy. The percentage of the US budget that is derived from taxes
is at an all-time high, and Americans are paying more taxes than
ever before.

Phone   Greg from Portland, OR

Greg thinks Rush has done a real good job in defining the
liberal/conservative split in the condom debate. Greg thinks that
the liberal side is simple - give condoms to kids so that they'll
be protected if they do it; however, he would like to make the
point that parents can determine their kids' sexual behavior.
Greg works with difficult and incorrigible kids, and the basis
for controlling kids' behavior is knowing where they are, whom
they're with, meeting their kids' dates and their parents, and so
forth. In particular, parents should be talking to each other.

Rush goes back to his teenage memories, and Greg has been
describing his parents exactly - they wanted to know the girl,
where he was going, and so forth. Rush says that this takes a lot
of work and an investment of time on the parent's part. This is a
hard thing, and parents need to be selfless; this is something
that Rush hasn't been able to do yet. To be blunt, his life is
very self-absorbed right now, and Rush has a hard time seeing how
he could make his kids the number one part of his life.

Many parents have become good parents simply by having kids;
their life-styles change. However, there are many who don't
change when they have kids, and that's unfortunate. It is
supervision based on selflessness that will help to produce
responsible kids who have a good set of values. This is basically
love for the most part, and its absence is one good reason for
the high illegitimacy rate in America today. Rush thanks Greg for
a great call.

*BREAK*

Phone   Robert from Sharon Springs, NY

Robert thinks people are missing the point on the Japanese; they
love anything that is part of the American culture, if it is made
well. During his travels to Japan, he saw this first-hand. Rush
adds that Japan is the US's second largest trading partner.
Robert says that the Japanese don't buy American cars because
they implemented individual inspections of cars, due to the
problems that were common in American cars years ago. Robert
doesn't believe these inspections are simply to keep American
cars expensive, as the thing with the Japanese is that when a
ritual is established, it is difficult to change. Robert is
convinced that they wouldn't put a roadblock in the path of
things they really wanted.

Rush, though, mentions the Japanese restrictions on rice imports,
which keep rice prices in Japan 10 times higher than in the US.
So he wonders why this isn't happening with cars. Robert says
that the Japanese have a "cultural fixation" with America, and
that they will buy quality American products. Rush thanks Robert
for his comments and call.

*BREAK*

Bo commented during the break that the Japanese don't seem to
love American culture since they seem to criticize America so
much. Rush suggests that these criticisms might be valid, and are
coming from Japanese businesses. He also points to all of the
Japanese tourists that visit America, and does believe that they
are somewhat fascinated with America.

*BREAK*

<<The second hour of today's show is the first hour from the show
originally broadcast on Friday, January 17, 1992>>

SECOND HOUR

Items

o       Rush will be in New Orleans next week at in radio station
WWL.

o       William Bennett has a new book out, "The Devaluing of
America." Bennett has decided to help Bush instead of Buchanan
because he wants to be part of Bush's policy making.

o       Pat Buchanan's office faxed Rush his column from August
25, 1977 which was quoted out of context by Michael "Nerds Are
Us" Kinsley. Rush reads from it: "Though Hitler was indeed racist
and anti-Semitic to the core, he was also an individual of great
courage . . . and a political organizer of the first rank." This
is definitely not a statement of support for Hitler on the part
of Buchanan.

o       Rush got the single, greatest response ever to the second
hour of his program yesterday which was a retrospective of his
show during the Gulf War. Rush is embarrassed to say that he
forgot totally about the one year anniversary of the air war; he
was reminded five minutes before the second hour by EIB staffer
Bo Snerdley about the anniversary.

Rush praises his staff for their Herculean efforts in putting
together all the songs, news excerpts, and such which were used
in that hour. Rush is getting many requests for copies of
yesterday's show, and he thanks his listeners for their
compliments.

Also, yesterday's show was probably the most positive in attitude
that EIB had done in a long time. This was what a lot of people
mentioned in their calls, faxes, and letters. Even Tony Lo Bianco
had tears in his eyes during the show.

o       Rush has been named one of the top-ten well-mannered
citizens by Margibell Young Stuart. Stuart has written a number
of etiquette books, and she said that Rush has "taken the cause
of good Americans" with courtesy and grace. Rush bets that this
will be a burr under the liberals' saddles, but admits that he
has always tried to make a difference between himself and the
rude talk show hosts. Others on the list are Mr. and Mrs. Bush,
Willard Scott, and Oprah Winfrey.

*BREAK*

Phone   Rocky from Sandusky, OH

Rocky takes Rush to task for having to use a computer and a
calculator to calculate a simple fraction; Rush says that this is
in reference to the difficulties he was having earlier this week
figuring out the percentage of women in America who belong to
NOW. His problem wasn't one of mathematics, however, it was that
he couldn't believe the ratio (0.196%) was as small as it really
was. To get the right figure, he had to move the decimal point to
the left, and as everyone knows, Rush has trouble moving to the
left.

Rocky would like to point out that there is more than semantics
to "being born different" and "being born differently." Rush
can't believe that Rocky is actually defending the Time magazine
piece, and Rocky admits that he isn't. Rocky is a Democrat who
didn't vote for Jimmy Carter but he remarks on how many of his
Democratic friends listen to Rush. This proves to Rush that he is
not simply preaching to the converted.

*BREAK*

Phone   Julie from Fremont, CA

Julie's five-year-old daughter, Heather, was upset when she heard
Rush say that there was no Santa Claus. Julie therefore wants
Rush to tell Heather that there is a Santa Claus; Heather,
though, is too embarrassed to come to the phone. Julie mentions
that Heather has been devastated and has been saying that
"someone ought to tell Rush that there is a Santa Claus, because
he's wrong."

Heather finally comes to the phone, and Rush tells her that there
"was no Santa Claus for me because I was rotten, I was naughty."
Rush tells Heather that she should listen to her mother instead
of him, and Heather replies with an air of frustrated finality "I
know that." Julie also thanks Rush for waking her up politically
and for letting her know that it's okay to be a stay-at-home
mother.

The EIB staff breaks into the studio and yells "Liar, liar, pants
on fire" and starts booing Rush. Heather admits, though, that
Rush handled the situation well. Rush says that he believed in
Santa Claus and that his Christmas memories are the happiest he's
ever had, and he thanks his parents. He also doesn't think that
the imaginations of children should be stifled by those who want
to force them into seeing "reality." He thus doesn't think
playing with guns will warp children, nor will telling them about
things like Santa Claus. However, he insists that he wasn't lying
because there was no Santa Claus for him this year.

Phone   Mike from Staten Island, NY

Rush starts to take Mike's call but his staff reminds him that he
promised to play his new commercial during this segment. Rush
realizes that if he doesn't do this, he'll be a liar, and so Mike
agrees that the commercial has to take precedence over his call.
Rush thus features a new commercial for a new EIB advertiser:

<<Narrator>> This is a bungee jumper. He's about to jump off the
cliff with only a band of rubber to protect him from instant
death from the rocky beach below. He leaps off the precipice
<<sounds of bungee jumper screaming>>. The rubber stretches to
the limit and he will live to jump again. <<Boing, boing>> But
take another look - that bungee cord is no ordinary band of
rubber.

<<Well-trained actor speaking in very professional monotone>> Hi
I love to bungee jump, but whether I'm doing something dangerous
like jumping off a cliff or jumping into a strange bed, I always
depend on the strongest most reliable rubber products available.
That's why I always use Bungee Condoms.

<<Narrator>> Bungee Condoms, made of pure, 4-ply industrial grade
rubber for safety and durability. And this patented inner tread
means Bungee Condoms hug the surface to prevent dangerous slips
and slides.

<<Actor>> And no matter what size you buy, it always has "Extra
Large" stamped right on the side. I like that.

<<Narrator>> Bungee Condoms now available in the handy, 18-pack
Kennedy Saturday Night Special. Pick up your free Bungee sampler
pack at a high school near you. Bungee Condoms.

<<Actor>> Because whether it's love or bungee jumping, when you
fall hard, you want to be able to bounce back, ready to go again.
<<Boing>>

Rush follows the ad with the theme for his Condom Updates - the
Fifth Dimension singing "Up, Up, and Away."

*BREAK*

Rush quotes Tom Harkin's line about Bush - "He was born on third
base, but he thinks he hit a triple."

Phone   Mike from Staten Island, NY (continued)

Mike really liked yesterday's show but would like to talk about
the National Review issue on anti-Semitism; however, someone has
come to his door and his dog is barking too much. Rush thus lets
him go see what is happening and will come back to him after the
next call.

Phone   Dan from Sacramento, CA

Dan accuses Rush of telling a "flat-out lie" by not telling
Heather that there isn't a Santa Claus. Dan is disappointed with
Rush and suggests that parents tell their children the truth. Dan
figures that children will find out anyway and that they don't
need a Santa Claus to enjoy Christmas. Rush tells him that he's
missed the most important point - that Rush interfered with the
way that Julie wanted to raise her children. Dan, though, insists
that parents who tell their children about Santa Claus are lying.
However, if this is his point, Rush points out that Walt Disney
films are also all wrong because animals don't talk.

Dan, though, thinks that telling kids about Santa Claus is just
as bad as telling them that Ronald Reagan is responsible for the
homeless. Rush disagrees with this type of comparison, and again
says that although Christmas has a much deeper meaning than Santa
Claus, it doesn't do any harm to tell a five-year old that there
is a Santa Claus.

*BREAK*

Phone   Mike from Staten Island, NY (continued)

Rush says that the National Review issue on anti-Semitism is one
of the most thoughtful magazines he's ever seen. He makes the
point that Buckley wrote this issue long before Pat Buchanan
announced his candidacy for President. Rush asks Mike to hang on
through another break.

*BREAK*

<<The third hour of today's show is the second hour from the show
originally broadcast on Friday, January 17, 1992>>

THIRD HOUR

Phone   Mike from Staten Island, NY (continued)

Mike thinks that the National Review issue, although written
before Buchanan announced his candidacy, has hurt Buchanan. Rush
doesn't think so because the only ones it would convince that
Buchanan is anti-Semitic are those who thought so previously. The
issue is just a coincidence as far as its timing goes, and Rush
points out that Buchanan is only one of several people on whom
this issue puts a spotlight.

Buckley himself said on the Charley Rose show that he would vote
for Buchanan in order to send Bush a message. Rush therefore
doesn't think that Buchanan is a real anti-Semite, but the
definition of anti-Semitism as it is used by some is so broad and
sweeping that it includes any criticism of Israel and of Jews.

Rush mentions the columns by Joseph Sobran that opposed the
political positions of Israel. These columns were called anti-
Semitic and many newspapers pulled them. Also, Buckley wrote a
column in National Review disassociating himself from Sobran on
these issues. Rush says Sobran is not anti-Semitic, but the issue
is charged with such controversy that it is almost impossible to
have any political disagreements with Israeli policies without
being called anti-Semitic.

Rush has experienced some of the same thing from the feminist and
animal rights activist groups. Because Rush attacks militant
feminism, some people thinks he is attacking all women; this, of
course, is not true - militant feminism does not stand for all
women, but some people think it does.

Items

o       The Dallas Morning News reports today that David Duke is
proud of his years as a leader of the KKK. Duke, however, denies
the report and challenges the Morning News to print the entire
transcript of his interview.

o       Rush goes onto the topic of taxes and his oft-repeated
statement that taking the rich will not help the middle class. In
fact, in order to raise any money, taxes will have to be raised
on the middle class because that's where the money is. Rush
mentions Bush's plan to trim taxes for families making over
$50,000 a year, which is an "honest policy." Democrats say they
want to lower taxes for lower-income families, but are unable to
agree on any common policies.

Rush reads a paragraph from the column by Paul Jigo in the Wall
Street Journal. The column says that the middle class should not
expect any great tax relief because any "goodies promised to the
middle class will be eventually paid for by the middle class
because that's where the money is."

o       Rush talks about the rumors printed in the Star about
Bill Clinton's alleged affairs. These rumors have been spread by
a former disgruntled employee who was fired. Bill Clinton has
responded in the past to these rumors by saying his private life
is none of anyone else's business. Rush admits he would love to
see Clinton ravaged by scandal, but not if the source is the
tabloid Star; he's thus discouraged by the major media picking up
these rumors and running them as a legitimate news story.

The Star's sources are never mentioned, and Rush wonders why
these accusations against Clinton are being made. He suggests
that Clinton invite the press to follow him around in order to
find out how truly boring he really is. This is what Gary Hart
did, and look where it got him.

*BREAK*

Rush points out that given everything that has gone wrong for
Bush - his Japan and New Hampshire trips - for him to put forth a
tax plan that benefits those making over $50,000 during his State
of the Union address is interesting. Senator George Mitchell has
already denounced this idea, which shows how vulnerable the
Democrats are on economic matters. Rush will talk more about this
later, but says that $50,000 for a two-income family is really
not that much.

Phone   Elaine from West Olive, MI

Elaine thinks that the issue of Santa Claus is trivial and that
children should be allowed to dream. She is also surprised that
most children would listen to the "boring issues" that Rush talks
about on his show. Rush says that a lot of children listen to his
show because their parents listen. Elaine admits that she forced
her daughter to listen to Rush's show for two weeks as a form of
"punishment," and her daughter did change some of her opinions.

*BREAK*

Phone   Elaine from West Olive, MI (continued)

Elaine's husband told her that she should listen to Rush to find
out why she shouldn't go see the movie JFK. Rush said that he
never advised people not to see the movie; in fact, many people
have recommended the movie for entertainment. However, from a
political standpoint Stone is definitely out to lunch.

Elaine thinks that this shows how many people fail to see the
humor in things, and often carry issues far too far. Rush tells
her that she has it right. Rush thanks Elaine for her comments
and sends her four Rush Limbaugh mugs for her and her family, and
a Rush Relaxer for herself.

Rush says that Elaine raised an interesting point in calling it
"punishment" when she had her daughter listen to Rush. Yet,
punishment is supposed to teach children the difference between
right and wrong. Therefore, "what better form of punishment could
there be than forcing an errant child or teenager to listen to
this show for two weeks?"

Rush encourages all parents to tape his show so that they can
correct their "ne'er do well" children's bad habits. "Another use
for the Rush Limbaugh program - now the Rush Limbaugh program can
work for the youth of America." For this great idea, Rush also
sends Elaine a copy of the Rush III video.

Phone   Paul from Beeville, TX

Paul enjoyed the cast listing for Rush's Gulf War miniseries; he
and his mother sat parked in a car while they listened to it. He
asks Rush about the SF Giants' proposed move to San Jose. Rush
says that if they're going to move, they really should go to
Sacramento. Actually, Candlestick park is not a good stadium for
baseball, especially in the summertime. Voters, however, have
continually rejected modernizing the stadium, so what option do
the Giants have but move? Rush guarantees that San Jose would
support the Giants, as would Sacramento.

Paul remembers the 1989 proposal to modernize the stadium, but
the earthquake cancelled any increased spending. Rush calls the
move "not an easy thing" given that San Francisco is one of the
major cities of the world. He doesn't blame the Giants
whatsoever, though.

*BREAK*

"Global warming may cause new ice age" is the headline of today's
USA Today. Supposedly, global warming will cause an ice age in
10,000 years because it will eventually cause an expansion of ice
sheets. Rush is "worried" that we have only 10,000 years to solve
this problem. Once again, Rush points out that even global
warming proponents admit there is not conclusive evidence that
global warming even exists. They instead claim that we MUST
assume it's happening and don't have any time to wait.

Rush reads more from the story which states unequivocally that
global warming is caused by fossil fuels and other destructive
gases. Rush wonders if fossil fuels cause global warming, then
what caused it in the past? Rush is tired of seeing the media
accept such idiotic claims from lying scientists. USA Today
didn't even qualify their statements, but stated their "facts" as
if global warming had already been firmly established.

Phone   Santa Claus from the North Pole

Santa thanks Rush for defending his principles and he tells
Heather and all of the other girls and boys that Santa is always
there if you believe. Rush says that it must be frustrating for
Santa to do what he does when there are so many disbelievers and
malcontents. Rush asks him, though, if the reason Santa didn't
come to him this year was because he was bad and naughty. Santa
says Rush was on vacation during Christmas and Santa can't follow
everyone around everywhere. Rush mentions that it's amazing that
even though Santa is on his own vacation, he still took the time
to call his show.

*BREAK*

Phone   Linda from Eugene, OR

Linda is "stressed out with these liberals and how they blame
everything on Reagan and Bush." Rush tells her "join the club."
Linda remarks on how Don Rather said that "the loggers would be
out of work anyway because of the recession" as a way of
justifying the loss of jobs to the Spotted Owl. This makes Rush
mad that liberals like Rather think it's criminal for GM to
layoff 70,000 workers but it's okay for environmentalists to do
the same thing.

Linda is also tired of the government telling people that they
can't cut trees on their own property. Rush says that this is the
whole focus of the culture war and what the environmental
activists are trying to do - shut business down. Linda remarks
that shutting down the timber industry affects all sorts of other
people - retail stores and car dealerships, for example, have
gone out of business in her area because of this. She points out
that 30% of the area's roads are paved by logging companies.

Rush says that businesses are caught off guard by activists like
this because they don't know how to deal with them, but this
seems to be changing and Rush hopes that the logging industry
continues to get the word out.

--
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- MST3K's Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester,
Internet: [e-mail]   | after TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.