Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, June 12, 1996

by John Switzer

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June 12, 1996

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: the Center for Science in the Public
Interest calls for a ban in the use of Olestra in any food
products; Bill Clinton breaks 80 on the golf course, and a USA
Today reporter and sometime golfing buddy, confirms that he
didn't cheat; words to "My Girls"; Weemsco Tuna commercial; Cow
Protection Institute (COWPIE); Rush introduces a new entitlement
for all working Americans: Employeecare; Anthony Marceca, the
Army employee who requested the FBI files for the White House,
was not an inexperienced young man, but rather an experienced
criminal investigator specifically requested by the White House;
in his retirement speech from the Senate, Bob Dole lists his
proudest achievements in Congress, and all of them were big
government legislation that got the government involved in
people's lives; Dole says it's "doubtful" Colin Powell will be
his running mate; Bob Dole argues with Gary Bauer over where the
statement of tolerance in the Republican party platform should be
put; 25 of the 51 church fires since January, 1995 have been of
white churches; caller thinks Bob Dole is triangulating so as to
appeal to moderates and centrists; caller thinks Dole is setting
things up to choose Colin Powell as his running mate; Republicans
will have to consider their options as to whether Bob Dole really
meant what he said when his said his proudest achievements were
liberal big government programs; caller fears Bob Dole is making
a big mistake by moving to the center; caller is not happy with
Bob Dole's pragmatism and "the end justifies the means" type of
thinking; caller thinks Bob Dole yesterday knew he shouldn't be
preaching to the choir and thus was talking to those on the fence
or further left, trying to get them to his side; caller thinks
Bob Dole was demonstrating yesterday that he could be bipartisan;
caller points out that Dole's list of accomplishments shows he's
a man who can get things done, unlike Bill Clinton; caller thinks
Dole yesterday reinforced that he has a weak and passive
personality; caller thinks Dole was only reminiscing about the
past when he listed his accomplishments yesterday; caller thinks
Dole was pandering to liberals and women to get their vote;






caller insists Rush hangs up on callers and then pretends that
they're still on the line; listener asks if 90% of men are
philanderers, then how many women are the willing accomplices?;
the White House's Craig Livingston specifically requested Anthony
Marceca from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division because
Marceca was an experienced investigator; two years after the
deaths of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, the only people
talking about the Simpson trial are the TV shows that depend on
the Simpson trial; Dennis Rodman and Michael Jordan cut a PSA
asking Chicagoans not to burn down their city should the Bulls
win the championship tonight; study shows that most people lie on
a daily basis and do so for the sake of making themselves feel
good and to communicate; Democrats accuse Bob Dole of violating
FEC campaign spending limits; caller says Dole will have to run,
act, and think like a conservative to be elected President
because the American people want to elect a conservative as
President; caller in insulted by those who would claim Clinton's
philandering is no big deal because most men do it, too; if
Clinton will break his marriage vows, why trust him on anything
else?; caller doesn't think Rush has to be defensive about
hanging up on callers because he doesn't do it; caller says
conservatives have to support Dole, who has done much good for
them as a member of the minority party for 30 years by watering
down liberal legislation and making it much less worse than it
could have been; caller hopes Bob Dole praised his part in
liberal programs to show that he did support them in the past but
that now it's time they be changed and reformed; caller suspects
the women who support Clinton are envious of the women he sleeps
with, while the men are envious that he gets away with it; Rush's
mailing address is Rush Limbaugh, EIB Building, 2 Penn Plaza,
NYC, NY 10121; caller thinks she saw a person, possibly female,
ducking back into Clinton's on Air Force One; Bill Clinton claims
the turbulence he experienced on Air Force One was a "character
builder"; caller recalls that it was Bob Dole who single-handedly
stopped the Clinton health care plan from happening.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

June 12, 1996 - It's now 1302 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
(with a national rating of 3.7), 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 (according to the May 5, 1995
USA Today, received target letter from Whitewater prosecutors).

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	The Center for Science in the Public Interest has called
for an end of the use of Olestra in all foods, including Frito-
Lay's new fat-free "Max" potato chips. The CSPI will also begin a
$50,000 ad campaign in the three cities where Olestra products
are being test marketed; the ad shows a can of dog food with the
same warning label that appears on Olestra foods and asks whether
people would buy a dog food that warns their pets could
experience "abdominal cramping and loose stools."

Michael Jacobson, executive director of the CSPI, stated "Olestra
is simply not safe. A product like this should not be on the
market." He warned that allowing Olestra to be sold nationwide
would create a "national epidemic" of gastrointestinal problems
and a rise in the number of long-term health problems.

CSPI's internet site (http://www.cspinet.org/) states that the
group has 750,000 subscribers to its Nutrition Action
Healthletter and an $11 million budget with 50 full-time and
part-time employees. The information published on the site calls
for a government ban on Olestra, a public boycott on McDonald's
Arch Deluxe sandwich, increased state and federal taxes on beer
and alcohol, increased government regulation of the weight-loss
industry, a government ban on most forms of alcohol advertising,
and increased government monitoring and regulation of the food
industry.

The web site also touts how Jacobson was given the FDA's highest
honor, a Special Citation, by FDA Commissioner David Kessler. The
CSPI also lists its previous accomplishments: warning the public
about popcorn made with coconut oil, about Italian, Mexican, and
Chinese food, about misleading ads from Pillsbury, Quaker Oats,
and Cookie Crisp, and about food additives such as NutraSweet
that should be avoided.

o	President Clinton obtained one of his life-long goals
yesterday: breaking 80 in his golf game before he turns 50 in
August. Playing at a San Diego golf course, Clinton reports "I
was hot. I was smoking it. I was having a good time."

USA Today's White House reporter, Bill Nichols, who has played
golf with Clinton confirmed that the President did not cheat to
get this score, saying "He didn't cheat, which is what everyone






always asks me. He didn't hit two balls. He didn't shave the
score."

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, June
15, 1994:

o	Hillary Clinton told the League of Women Voters that she
might drop federally-funded abortions from her health care plan.
Pro-choicers predictably were outraged at this possibility, with
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) saying that Hillary should "have been
stronger."

Lowey also warned there would be trouble if the White House
didn't stand firm on abortion rights, saying "abortion is part of
the basic women's health care and can't be traded away." She
promised a fight if abortion coverage was removed.

o	Hillary also a group of female military veterans that she
tried to join the Marines in 1975, the same year she married Bill
Clinton. According to Hillary, the recruiter, who Hillary claimed
didn't look any older than 21 years old, rejected her, saying
that she was too old, wore glasses, and was a woman. He then
reportedly suggested that Hillary go to the Army because "maybe
the dogs might take you."

Jerry from Baltimore, who joined the military with a special
exemption after age 27, doubted Hillary's story, given that at
age 27, Hillary was a law professor, a field that the military
was willing to make exemptions for. Since the military was also
bending over backwards for women, he thought Hillary's story was
difficult to believe.

Other callers also expressed doubts about Hillary's story, such
as Maiti from Biloxi, MS, who was active duty military and about
to retire. She said there was no way a Marine recruiter, who
would have gone through all sorts of specialized training, would
tell Hillary what she claimed unless perhaps the recruiter were
goaded into doing it by the would-be recruit. Also, when Maiti
joined in 1977, the recruiters were falling all over themselves
to get her to sign up.

o	The NY Times had the following headline for a story about
President Clinton's appearance at Commerce Bank in Kansas City:
"President Offers Delayed Proposal to Redo Welfare - Passage
Unlikely in '94 - Clinton Tries to Bolster Party for Fall
Elections with Plan Appealing to the Right." Thus, Clinton was
pretending to move to the right to get votes, while putting his
welfare reform plans on hold.

Rep. Gary Franks (R-CT), chairman of the House Republican Task
Force on Welfare Reform, sent Rush a fax in which he noted that
Clinton has "once again faked to the right, but the details of
his plan go to the left." Franks commented that "the
Congressional Black Caucus has longed for a jobs bill, and now
President Clinton has given them one."

o	The Senate ordered its Banking Committee to begin very
limited hearings into Whitewater, but they would not deal with
any real estate dealings in Arkansas or with the Clintons' role
in them. Instead, the hearings would look into only the apparent
suicide of Vincent Foster last July and improper contacts between
Treasury officials and White House aides.

The Democrats claimed the Whitewater real estate matters were too






old to matter, but Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) made a brilliant
speech about how the October Surprise hearings concerned a matter
that was 12 years old and that occurred when Ronald Reagan was
only a governor. There was no evidence or reason for these
hearings, but Senator Algore and others insisted on the need for
a full investigation to find out whether Reagan and Bush cut a
deal with the Iranians to keep the American hostages until after
the 1980 election.

o	A spokesman for the NAACP said the group was accepting
Louis Farrakhan at their national conference because "it was the
right thing to do" to bring all viewpoints there. Rush doubted,
though, that the NAACP also invited Clarence Thomas and Colin
Powell to their conference, too.

o	Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, was found
slain, along with a friend Ronald Goldman.

o	The NY Rangers won the Stanley cup, and afterwards Al
Troutwig asked the Rangers' coach why it was so exciting to win
the Stanley Cup. The coach replied "because it's so difficult to
achieve."

o	A survey done by United Artists Theater Circuit, Inc.
found that only 3 to 4% of customers at its 428 theaters
preferred air-popped popcorn to popcorn made with coconut oil.
The theater chain started offering air-popped popcorn when the
Center for Science in the Public Interest claimed that popcorn
made with coconut oil was a "silent killer," laden with saturated
fats. Despite the warning, though, the air-popped popcorn did
well only in markets with large elderly populations.

o	EIB introduced a brand new Clinton song, "My Girls":

<<Verse>> "I get tongue-tied, when they call me on the phone.
I get so nervous, every time the news comes home.
Well, I'll guess you'll say, what makes me fear this way:
Oh it's my girls (my girls, my girls) . . . talking about my
girls, my girls."

"I got so much good I want to do for this country of mine.
But all these bimbo eruptions, well they're throwing my agenda behind.
Well, I wish that they would just shut up and go away.
My girls (my girls, my girls) . . . talking about my girls, my girls."

<<Chorus>> "I can't take any more of their scandalous claims.
I'm running out of excuses and people to blame.
And I've said . . . I've said all that I'm going to say.
And I've given all the really good federal jobs away.
I mean, why can't, why can't, why can't they see . . .
I just need to focus on the economy.
My girls (my girls, my girls) . . . they're talking about my
girls, my girls!"

<<spoken>> "That was a terrible thing to say! I wasn't even at
that hotel !I mean, my momma's autobiography will back me up on 
that. Maybe I was there, but I don't remember, I mean, I've been in a
lot of hotels . . .

Look, I just asked the trooper to get me some phone numbers, how
was I to know he was going to go off and do that? I mean I'm not
that kind of guy! Hillary will back me up on that, right honey?
Honey? Honey?? Honey, where are you?!"

o	One of Rush's favorite commercials was for Weemsco Tuna:







<<Whiny Little Bobby>> Mom, the tuna doesn't taste as good as it
used to.

<<Narrator>> Millions of Americans feel the same way little Bobby
does, ever since companies came out with dolphin-free tuna.

<<Bobby>> The tuna doesn't taste as good as it used to.

<<Narrator>> Luckily, not every company shamelessly bends over
and drops their pants for each whiny special interest group that
comes along and complains about something. When animal rights
activists pressured Weemsco into eliminating the dolphin in our
tuna, we politely said `*blllphht* - get a life!' Weemsco Tuna
has the great dolphin flavor you grew up with. In fact, it's
chock full of dolphin because now there's more for us to use.
Weemsco Tuna tastes great because it's a secret blend of tuna,
dolphin, shark, medical waste, and dead sea turtles who choked on
deflated helium balloons.

<<Bobby>> The tuna doesn't taste as good as it used to.

<<Mother>> But this is Weemsco Tuna, honey. Try it!

<<Bobby, smacking his lips in delight>> Mmmmmm!

<<Narrator>> Weemsco!

o	Rush also liked the commercial for the Cow Protection
Institute:

"From the day our forefathers first set foot on this great land,
to plant their crops, to raise their families, the cow has been
there to share our burden, to feed our families. The cow, making
our westward expansion possible, helping this country grow and
become great.

"Now a small group of environmentalist wackos threaten this great
national symbol, stalking the woods and plains, hunting down this
wily creature. That's why a group of real Americans is forming
the Cow Protection Institute. You can become a charter member.
Simply send your name and address to COWPIE, c/o EIB Building,
New York City. Join the Cow Protection Institute now, and you too
can proudly say `I'm a COWPIE, and I proudly stand behind this
noble creature.' "

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MORNING UPDATE

Rush thinks it's time Americans had a new entitlement, and he's
just the guy to offer it. Since everyone loves Medicare and comes
to expect more and more from it every year, and since Medicare is
the last word in entitlements, Rush has decided to base his new
program on Medicare, except his idea would go one better by
helping every working American.

After 60 years of the New Deal, 30 years of the Great Society,
and 3 years of the New Covenant, Rush has come up with a new
entitlement that's even better than Medicare: Employeecare. This
idea is brilliant in its simplicity: every year, everyone's
salary goes up at three times the inflation rate.

Thus, if inflation goes up 2%, everyone gets a 6% raise. If
inflation goes up 4%, everyone gets a 12% raise. And, if
inflation gets up to 10% a year, everyone gets a whopping 30%
increase in their salaries. Furthermore, neither the employee nor






employer pay for this increase - the government pays, so everyone
is bound to love Rush's new plan.

Rush is thus putting the people first, and if he were running for
President, Employeecare would make it a lead-pipe cinch he'd get
elected. And Rush has the perfect slogan for Employeecare: "If
you're against it, you're an extremist."

FIRST HOUR

Rush starts off the hour telling his staff that they must make
sure when they do an upcoming remote broadcast that a second EIB
Golden Microphone from Electrovoice is present. The EIB staff ask
if Rush will need anyone on-site, and Rush says he's not sure
yet; the staff don't seem too eager to go, though, so apparently
this remote broadcast will not be from Hawaii.

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Rush notes that Anthony Marceca, the Army guy who allegedly is
responsible for improperly requesting 330 FBI files for the White
House, is not the young, wet-behind-the-ears grunt that the White
House has been implying. Rather, he is near 50 and works for the
criminal investigations department at the Army, which means his
job is to dig up dirt.

The impression Rush got from the Washington press corps, though,
was that Marceca was just some inexperienced temp worker who
didn't know what he was doing. That, however, was not the case,
as Rush will discuss later.

********

Bob Dole retired from the Senate yesterday, and Trent Lott (R-MS)
has succeeded him as Majority Speaker. Dole gave a lengthy
retirement speech yesterday on the Senate floor, and among other
things he listed the accomplishments and friendships he's
proudest of.

Rush showed some of this speech on his TV show last night, but he
didn't show the clips of Dole listing what he considered his
proudest achievements from his 30-plus years in Congress. Before
going through that list, though, Rush notes that Colin Powell has
repeatedly said he's not interested in the Vice Presidency on any
ticket, so why did Dole bother to repeat this news himself
yesterday?

Dole, for some reason, "dampened speculation about Colin Powell
joining him on the ticket, saying it was `very doubtful'," but
Rush would ask what's doubtful about it. Powell has made it quite
clear he's not going to be anyone's running mate, so why did Dole
even mention it?

Rush suspects something fishy is going on here, but perhaps Dole
was only seeking to end any speculation and rumors that Powell
might have changed his mind. Nevertheless, it was a curious thing
for Dole to say.

Rush reads the list of achievements that Bob Dole yesterday said
he was proudest of:

o	His role in creating the food stamp program

o	His part in getting the Americans with Disabilities Act

o	His work with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) to






save Social Security in 1983 by passing a huge payroll tax
increase

o	His work with Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) to create the
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) welfare program

o	His work in protecting the federal school lunch program

o	His part in establishing Martin Luther King Jr.'s
birthday as a national holiday

o	His friendships with many Democrats in the Senate, such
as Moynihan, Hubert Humphrey, Phillip Hart, Robert Byrd, and
George McGovern. Rush finds it interesting that Dole mentioned
these Democrats more than he did Ronald Reagan

In addition to this, Bob Dole yesterday got into a shouting match
with Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council on KMBC-TV in
Kansas City, a TV station, Rush notes, that he used to watch when
he lived there in the early 80s. Rush digresses to note that the
station's general manager back then used to dress up like a clown
to do editorials under the name R. Kent Rebozo. Rush always will
remember those editorials as "special."

Returning to Dole's shouting match with Bauer, it was about
Dole's supposed change of heart over the expression of tolerance
that is going into the GOP party platform. Everyone assumed last
week this expression would go in the preamble and thereby apply
to all aspects of the party platform, but then Dole instead said
he was going to make it part of only the abortion plank. This
hasn't pleased pro-life advocates, who see it as the first step
toward weakening the support for pro-life causes.

Referring to this, Dole told Bauer, one of the nation's leading
pro-life advocates, the following:

"I don't know where these people come from, you know? What's the
difference if it's in the preamble or the platform? I mean, this
is a moral issue. I don't know where Gary Bauer's been all his
life, but I have always known that we have pro-choice Republicans
and pro-life Republicans. . . . We can't agree on every issue in
this party and we ought to respect the views of others. And if he
doesn't want to do that, that's fine with me."

Thus, in one day Bob Dole listed his proudest achievements, all
of which involve government involving itself in people's lives
ostensibly to make them better, and he went after one of the
nation's leading pro-life advocates by name. Rush is thus curious
to hear what people think about this, although he knows he will
get a lot of "told you so" calls from those who supported
Buchanan, Forbes, Gramm, etc. in the primaries.

Rush, though, thinks there is a lot more to what happened
yesterday than just this, and he would like to see how many
people think they know what it might be.

********

Returning to "Filegate," Rush notes that Clinton was in South
Carolina this morning visiting one of the churches that had been
burned. It was a hot day, though, and Rush suspects Jesse Jackson
and the rest of the dignitaries up on stage were hoping Clinton
would wrap things up quickly so they could get back in the shade.

One point that has not been made much, though, is that there have
been 51 church fires since January, 1995, and nearly half, 25, of






them have been of white churches, while 26 have been black
churches. Rush is thus trying to find out if any of the pastors
of the black churches that were destroyed last year asked for the
federal government to get involved. If so, then why did it take
Clinton so long to get involved in this issue?

Rush finds it interesting, therefore, that Clinton decided to
take action to stop these black church files the same week that
Filegate erupted, thereby taking Filegate off the front pages.
Rush knows he's being cynical about this, but he thinks he's
justified in being so.

The Republicans on the Filegate list, though, aren't going to let
this issue drop, especially if they had White House access before
in the Bush administration. They are going to ask why they needed
to be investigated again and just who was going to invite them
back anyway into the Clinton White House.

The White House kept these files since September, 1993, and
they've come up with numerous stories for doing so, just as they
came up with four explanations for why the White House requested
Billy Dale's file. This issue is thus not going to go away, and
Rush suspects more attention will be paid to it, especially since
Anthony Marceca, a professional dirt-digger, was specifically
requested by a Clinton appointed White House official.

*BREAK*

Phone	Casey from Dallas, TX

Casey says what Dole is doing is a brilliant strategy of
triangulation. First, Dole will sucker the liberals in by listing
achievements he knows liberals will like, but everyone else knows
that this is not the real Dole. As to abortion, the party
platform still has a pro-life plank, so Dole will try to appease
pro-choicers by talking about tolerance.

Rush asks whom Casey thinks Dole is aiming at with this strategy,
and Casey says he doubts Dole will get much press from this. Rush
says Dole did get some press but it wasn't complimentary - one
column, for example, by Lars Erik Nelson, concluded that Dole
showed his real colors yesterday and that he wasn't the
conservative he pretended to be.

Rush can't imagine Nelson writing a column like this about Bill
Clinton, exclaiming "aha, this is the real Clinton!" Casey says
Dole thus pulled his trick off perfectly, but Rush notes that the
press is not praising Dole.

Casey says that doesn't matter - Dole's strategy will stay pay
off. Rush says this might be, but Dole shouldn't be trying to
persuade the press. Casey says that's not whom he was thinking
Dole had to persuade - rather, Dole is talking to the centrists
in the American political landscape.

Rush would agree with this - Dole would find it difficult to get
the liberal vote. Casey agrees - Dole might get some of it, but
he doesn't need it if he gets the moderates.

Rush agrees and is glad that his first caller on this has
identified what Dole is doing. Rush had thought he would be
getting a lot of calls from those who would claim that Dole has
exposed himself for what he really is, a big government guy, and
that Rush should have supported Buchanan or Forbes or Gramm in
the primaries. However, Rush hasn't seen any calls like that show
up on his board yet.







Phone	Bob from Spokane, WA

Bob gives "big summertime dittos from de-Foley-ated Washington,"
and Rush is at first confused about Bob's use of "defoliate." Bob
explains, and Rush sees why he was confused - he's doesn't think
about Tom Foley anymore unless the subject is stealing food off
airplanes.

Bob says Bob Dole has pulled a coup because he's softening the
blow before announcing Colin Powell as his VP. Rush asks if Bob
thinks Dole believes what he said yesterday about his proudest
achievements, and Bob can't say.

Rush asks if Bob would like Dole to believe this or not, and Bob
says this doesn't matter to him because the important thing is to
put Dole in the White House. Dole made this point the other day
by pointing out the Republicans' plan should be "to get 90% now
and then work on the other 10% because it's a snap."

Thus, even if Dole doesn't bring all the ideas conservatives want
to the White House, he'll be bringing 90% of it with him, which
means the remaining 10% will be a snap. Rush says Bob must be
expecting that Dole is saying he'll sign the stuff that the
Republican Congress has passed but that Clinton has vetoed.

Bob agrees, and Rush says this raises some other questions, which
he'll discuss after the break.

*BREAK*

Rush notes his staff seems to be plotting something, and he warns
them not to plan any special surprises for him in August, which
will be EIB's eighth anniversary. "Don't do anything in August,"
he warns. "I'm not going to be here in August. If you're going to
surprise me, you're going to have to find me!"

Returning to the question of Dole's list of achievements, one
question to ask is if Dole means it when he says his proudest
achievements are things like the ADA, food stamps, WIC, etc. The
ADA, after all, has turned alcoholism into a disability, so that
employers cannot fire drunks anymore.

Thus, if Dole is serious about this, then are people comfortable
about supporting Dole if that's what it takes to defeat Clinton?
If so, then what happened to all the talk about the need to stick
to principle because unless you win on principle you don't get a
mandate?

And what if Dole doesn't mean what he said yesterday? Wouldn't
this show that Bill Clinton's method of moving to the center and
saying things you don't mean is what it takes to win elections?
Does it trouble anyone that Dole would say he's proudest of
working with liberals on liberal programs?

Dole didn't say much yesterday about what the 104th Congress has
been doing, such as the balanced budget, so does that bother
anyone? And will Clinton now complain that Dole is copying him?

Phone	Nancy from Elmira, NY

Nancy is a big slow coming to the phone because she'd rather Rush
talk to her husband about this, but given that he refuses to take
the phone, Nancy is the one who will have to speak. Thus, she
says it would be a big mistake for Dole to think he can win by
taking a centrist position.







The 1994 elections were won by Republicans because these
Republicans took a stand on principle. Nancy and her husband will
vote Republican no matter what, but many of her friends may not
vote if they don't see Dole standing on principle.

It's almost as if Dole is betraying the entire Republican party
and stance - who wants to end up imitating Clinton, just to win?
If Dole were to do this, he'd end up lying to the American
people.

Rush says the point of elections is to win, but Nancy says she
doesn't know if this means you should lie to do so. Rush says
it's not known if this is what Dole is doing - after all, the
pro-life plank is still solidly in the party platform; Dole
hasn't taken it out.

Nancy says Dole hasn't yet said what he believes - it's one thing
to "tolerate" something and another to state your beliefs. Being
wishy-washy turns Nancy off and this is not what Reagan did;
Reagan told the world what he believed in and let the chips fall
where they may. In any case, Nancy is confident that the pro-life
stance is a winning one.

Rush agrees, but in addition to Dole's addition of a "statement
of tolerance" for opposing views, Dole did come out in favor of
an activist government yesterday by listing accomplishments such
as the food stamp program. Reagan would never have said that was
one of his proudest achievements, which shows there's more to
Dole's behavior than just abortion.

Nancy, though, says a lot of people think only about abortion,
and Gary Bauer is influential to them. Many pro-lifers won't vote
for anyone who refuses to stand up for what they believe in;
their attitude is that the country will have to learn the hard
way what happens if principles aren't supported.

Rush says the pro-life plank will still be in the GOP platform
and the Republican party will still be a pro-life party. All the
statement of tolerance says is that the party acknowledges that
it has members who disagree; in contrast, the Democratic party
refuses to acknowledge that such a thing as a pro-life Democrat
exists - such people are weeded out and silenced before they can
get ten feet of the press or a microphone.

Nancy says pro-life supporters are worried that this tolerance
for the pro-choicers will expand into tolerance for the pro-
choice beliefs, with each election introducing more and more
tolerance until the pro-life plank means nothing. At that point
Republicans won't stand for anything.

Rush says one thing to remember is that the party platform
matters only during the convention; afterwards it has no impact
on the actual policies. The platform is just symbolism, and it's
a mistake to get too wrapped up with symbolism. Republicans are
supposed to be the party that says citizens don't and shouldn't
have to go to Washington to solve all problems, and that goes for
abortion, too.

The key to fixing the abortion problem is not having a friend in
big government but in changing people's hearts. The law is
certainly important, but people break the law all the time - the
law does define what society considers proper and right, but by
itself it doesn't stop people from breaking the law.

To stop abortions, therefore, you have to change their hearts and






minds. People therefore should not get caught up in the symbolism
of the party platform because it is the people who will make this
happen, not government nor a set of platform planks. Those who
get caught up in the symbolism and ignore the practical realities
won't ever be satisfied.

As Newt Gingrich has pointed out, once the welfare state is shut
down, the responsibility to help the disadvantaged becomes the
people's, not the government's. The people will have to assume
more responsibility before, and they'll do so because they want
to actually improve people's lives instead of just talking about
it.

*BREAK*

Phone	Warren from Detroit, MI

Warren salutes "Rush Limbaugh, the Captain Kangaroo of
conservatism," but Rush isn't sure how to take that, given that
Captain Kangaroo talked to kids and had a pal named "Mister
Greenjeans." Warren says he meant it only as a compliment, and
besides, Mister Greenjeans was Frank Zappa's dad - Warren read an
interview of Zappa where he made this point.

Rush has a hard time believing that Frank Zappa's dad was named
Mister Greenjeans Zappa, although he has to admit it's not that
hard to believe that Greenjeans Zappa would be the grandfather of
Dweezil Zappa. Warren confesses that he was "on the same plane as
Zappa" several years ago so this memory could be something that
just spontaneously happened.

Warren says his point is that it's pointless for Republicans to
exchange their double-talk and pragmatism for the Democrats'
double-talk and pragmatism. It's time to make a distinction
between the pragmatists who believe the end justifies the means,
and those who think a lie is always a lie and a sin is always a
sin.

Rush says everyone lies - a survey from Charlottesville, VA has
found this out, as Rush will discuss a bit later. In fact, people
have to lie to communicate, so it's no big deal Clinton is a
lying, or so says this psychological report.

Warren says "social science" is the world's biggest oxymoron, but
his point is that the end result of conservative pragmatism is
Adolph Hitler because when you start believing that the end
justifies the means, anything is possible. Rush agrees with the
latter part of that but Bob Dole is not going to try to be a
Hitler.

Warren, though, says the point is that once you decide to be a
pragmatist, and once you believe that compromising your
principles once is okay, then anything is possible, as Dole
proved by listing his accomplishments. Rush says Bob Dole did
everything that was on his list of proudest accomplishments, but
Warren says these things were all bad.

Rush, however, says Dole evidently doesn't believe these programs
are bad, so he's not compromising his principles by listing and
supporting them. Warren says then that's just as bad - this is
not the kind of guy he wants for President.

Rush asks if Warren is thus going to vote for Clinton, and he
says not a chance; he'll probably hold his nose and vote for
Dole, just as he held his nose and voted for Bush in 1992. There
simply is no choice in this election.







Rush, though, says that from Warren's own admission it appears
the pragmatists in the Dole campaign have things figured out
correctly. He asks if Warren knows what block of voters that Dole
and Clinton will be fighting for in these elections.

Warren says this is the group of undecideds in the middle, and
Rush agrees - these people make up about 20% of the electorate.
Perhaps Dole and his people think that he has to attract this 20%
to win the elections and that he'll have to move to the center to
do so.

After all, the point of political campaigns is to win the
election, which some people don't seem to realize. However,
there's a negative slant on winning and achieving anymore
nowadays . . . unless, of course, you're the Chicago Bulls and
win the playoffs. Rush predicts that the Bulls will win the NBA
finals this year and Chicago will burn and riot as a result,
causing some people to insist that the Bulls should have known
this would happen and thus should have lost the finals to prevent
it.

Rush, though, realizes he's been running off at the mouth and
hasn't given Warren a chance to make his point, so he asks Warren
to hang on to the break, and then Rush will stand back and give
Warren a chance to make his point in a cogent way without
interruptions.

*BREAK*

Phone	Warren from Detroit, MI (continued)

Rush notes that Republicans have to realize that politics is
about winning, and you have to know how to win, not just how to
play. Warren says the lesser of still evils is still evil, and
that's what is going on in America today.

Ronald Reagan, the great President in American history, said the
same five things for eight years, and he won both his elections
in a landslide. In one hundred years, Reagan will be remembered
as the greatest President in the 20th century, and he didn't
flip-flop, so why does America need a flip-flopper now?

Dole doesn't have to flip-flop and speak out of the both sides of
his mouth, trying to out-Clinton Clinton. Warren understands
where Rush is coming from with his point about winning elections,
having listened to Rush for six years, but Dole doesn't have to
waffle to win.

Warren also would like to put his son on to talk to Rush, and
Rush is glad to do so. A young boy comes on the line to say that
he got one of Rush's ties, which was black, orange, and red. He
also bought a tie for his grandfather and for his principal.

Rush is glad to hear this and thanks him for doing so. This means
a lot to him and Rush is glad Warren and his son like the ties.
He thanks them for calling.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush repeats the news about what Bob Dole said yesterday were his
proudest achievements, noting that this is a list of big
government programs. This is not the conservative vision of
America.







There are some government programs that have worked, but they
eventually outlive their usefulness. Nobody, though, ever kills a
government program - they just continue growing and growing and
growing.

Affirmative Action might have served a good purpose 30 years, but
the question now, as then, is when will the program end. The
problem is that nobody will ever end this program because there's
too much power and money to be gained from it.

Dole, though, didn't say he was proudest of the Reagan tax cuts
or his time with Ronald Reagan, but that he was proudest of the
big government programs and the liberals who came up with them.
Dole then attacked one of the major pro-life advocates, Gary
Bauer, so Rush is curious what people have to think about this
and Dole's motives.

Phone	Greg from Newport, RI

Greg is a retired Naval aviator who thanks Rush for keeping him
sane in his liberal enclave. Greg also thinks Bo doesn't make
enough money for being the true gentleman he obviously is. Rush
asks how Greg knows how much Bo makes, and Greg says he doesn't,
but it's obvious Bo, like all average working men, deserves a
hefty raise.

Greg's been listening to Rush for eight years, and he thinks Rush
has hit the nail on the head with Bob Dole today. Dole is
probably talking out of the left side of his mouth, but that's
okay because you can say whatever it takes to get elected in
America anymore. As long as Dole governs from the right, he'll be
okay.

Rush asks what indication do people have that Dole will govern
from the right. After all, does Dole really believe that the
items he listed yesterday are his proudest achievements?

The bottom line is whether Dole yesterday was just speaking from
his heart, talking to a bunch of friends as he was about to leave
a place he had known for 30 years? Was he saying things in a
spontaneous, free-flowing manner, as often happens when someone
retires from a place they've been at for a while, and thus this
stuff will never be heard on the campaign trail?

Or was Dole's speech part of his strategy and will America hear
more of this kind of thing from Dole later on? If so, then
confidence does anyone have that Dole will govern on the right?

Greg says before Dole can govern, he has to get elected first.
Dole doesn't need to preach to the choir, which is composed of
people like Greg who think Rush's big problem is he's not
conservative enough. These people will hold their nose if
necessary to vote for Bob Dole because they've had enough with
the "pant-load" the country has now.

Rush asks what "pant-load" means, and Greg says that's the
civilian version of a more colorful Navy term that is often heard
aboardship. Greg continues on to note that Dole's job, therefore,
is to convert those who are on the fence or to the left; these
people don't think - as long as you say the right words, they'll
vote for you.

The goal is thus to get elected, and then Dole can assume the
bully pulpit. Rush says this brings up the question of whether a
campaign should be run to fool the people or to educate them, or






perhaps is it just to get them on your side? Greg says unless you
can get the people on your side, you can't do anything else
because you won't be in office.

Greg thinks this particular group people will believe Bob Dole,
but thinking Americans know that Dole is not to the left of
Clinton. Rush agrees, but the question is how many of those in
the center will be converted by Dole, and this will depend on
whether Dole was just speaking as a man who was retiring or
whether he was starting off his campaign.

Will Bob Dole's campaign tell the American people he should be
elected President because he supported the ADA, WIC, food stamps,
and so forth? Time will tell about this, and Rush thanks Greg for
calling.

*BREAK*

Phone	Phyllis from Overland Park, KS

Phyllis was surprised by Rush's cynicism toward Dole's speech
yesterday. She thinks the reason Dole was recounting his list of
accomplishments was to show that he could be bipartisan, unlike
the Democrats, who stonewall, lie, and otherwise obstruct
progress.

This is all Phyllis thinks Dole was doing in his speech. As to
Colin Powell, Dole undoubtedly mentioned his name only because
Dole is constantly asked about him. Powell has always said he's
not interested, but the press is not willing to let go of this
idea, so they keep asking Dole about it.

Rush asks if Phyllis thus thinks Dole will not run on the record
he listed in his speech yesterday, and Phyllis replies no - there
would be no reason to do this. Rush, though, says some people,
including some callers, think Dole is trying to triangulate and
position himself in the middle.

Phyllis says Dole was saying the appropriate things for where he
was yesterday, on the floor of the Senate, but on the campaign
trail he has to stick to the issues and explain where he is
different on these issues than Clinton. Rush says Dole said he
was proudest of the achievement he listed, so why wouldn't he
articulate them?

Phyllis says this wouldn't be necessary. Dole yesterday was
leaving the Senate, but now he's got to go on the campaign trial.
Dole knows that some of these things have to be changed, so he
will say that when he goes on the campaign trail.

Rush asks why Dole didn't say this yesterday, pointing out that
he was proud of these programs but that they needed to be
changed. Phyllis doesn't know why Dole didn't do this yesterday,
but he probably was trying to reach out to prove that he has been
and is capable of bipartisanship.

Rush says he is cynical of bipartisanship since Democrats
interpret this to mean "going along with Democrats." Republicans
have to defeat the Democrats to get them to go along with a
Republican plan.

Ronald Reagan, for example, didn't compromise with the Democrats
on tax cuts, but rather beat them to the ground with a brilliant
legislative strategy that went straight to the American people.
Today the liberals and Democrats aren't interested in
compromising at all because their only goal is to reclaim their






power.

Rush knows many Americans think bipartisanship is a great thing,
but in reality gridlock is a positive thing, simply because the
greatest thing that the government can do for the American
citizen is nothing. One of Rush's friends yesterday said the best
President would be someone who plays golf twice as much as
Eisenhower - the less these people do, the better off everyone
is.

However, a "great legislator" is considered by many to be someone
who fiddles with legislation and passes all sorts of additional
government programs. Rush disagrees with that idea, which is why
he is cynical when it comes to government and to those who claim
bipartisanship is a good thing.

Rush understands why Dole would want to show he could cooperate
with the opposition, but the current crop of Democrats have no
desire to cooperate at all. Phyllis agrees, and she thinks the
CSPAN cameras in the House and Senate are opening people's eyes
to this fact.

She remembers how when the Clintons were promoting their health
care plan, the owner of Godfather's Pizza asked how he could
afford to pay for this health care for all his employees.
President Clinton told him just to raise his prices a few cents
per pizza, and that opened up Phyllis' eyes to what was going on.

Rush recalls that - he was going to interview this CEO for the
Limbaugh Letter, but their schedules got messed up so it never
happened. Phyllis says that really got her mad, and Rush says
others felt the same way, and he thanks her for calling.

Phone	Justin from Johnson City, TN

Justin gives megadittos and says that Dole's list of
accomplishments shows he is a leader who can accomplish real
things, unlike the current President who has waffled on
everything but his preference for McDonalds. Clinton wakes up,
looks at the polls, and goes in whatever direction the wind is
blowing.

Dole, though, is a leader who gets things done, and while people
might not agree with him on everything, Dole is still a leader.
With welfare, for example, Dole should be pleased with his part
in a program that has helped many people; it does have problems
and needs to be reformed, but Dole should take a bow for what he
has done.

Republicans, especially Gary Bauer, thus need to get behind Dole
so that the nation can vote Clinton out. It bothers him that some
Republicans would think about trying to defy the party until
August. Rush thanks him for calling.

Phone	Dan from Island Lake, IL

Dan gives greetings from the home of the Chicago Bulls, and this
reminds Rush of a PSA that the Bulls have done to ask the
residents of Chicago not to riot and burn down their city. Dan
says this is why Mayor Daley will be at the 911 center tonight -
trying to avoid the riots and right there to call up the National
Guard, if need be.

Rush says he's not heard of this, and Dan says the new 911
system, which cost millions, is a major scandal because it's
still not working. Dan thinks Dole is taking the exactly wrong






approach, though, and he has to wonder who is running the man's
campaign. Rush says Dole is in charge, and he asks Dan to hang on
through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dan from Island Lake, IL (continued)

Dan thinks most voters view Dole has having a weak, passive
personality with no backbone, and Dole has only reinforced this
view with his list of accomplishments. Dole is certainly a
compromise vote for most people and he's lacking genuinism, while
Clinton in contrast knows at least that the people want
conservatism.

Rush says whether Dole was being genuine yesterday or not is the
whole question. It's obvious that the Dole campaign would not
have written yesterday's speech, so Dole is certainly running his
own campaign.

Thus, was this speech really a campaign speech, or was it just a
speech for the moment, where Dole shows up at the Senate to say
goodbye to his friends in both parties? Did he give that speech
because he didn't want to make a partisan speech? Did Dole just
want to say goodbye gracefully?

After all, Dole was leaving a place he had been for more than 30
years. He was making a major change in his life, and he had to
have some strong feelings as he stood there, knowing that when he
left the Senate floor this time, it would be the last time he
would ever see it as a Senator.

People are retiring every day in America, saying goodbye to the
workplaces, friends, and associates they have known for years.
Rush had only one experience like this, and that was his last day
in Sacramento before he left in July, 1988 to begin living in New
York, but he knows that it is usually an emotional, warm-and-
fuzzy moment. People don't use these occasions to attack their
enemies.

Rush didn't leave Sacramento, for example, angry or
confrontational, but rather thanked everyone and left gracefully.
Could it therefore be that this is what Dole did yesterday? Was
his speech just an isolated moment in Dole's life?

Dan says his point is that Clinton knows the people want
conservatism, as can be seen in Illinois, which currently has two
liberal Senators. The Republican challenger for Simon's seat,
though, is Al Salvi, and Dan is confident that despite being down
in the polls, he will be elected this November because he is
genuine and stands firm in the issues.

The people want this sort of leader, who has integrity and
character. Rush says Dole certainly has character and integrity,
and Dan agrees, but Dole needs to display this properly. Dole has
to have enough confidence in the voters to realize that these
qualities are important, and that he has to show the voters that
he will do what the party platform says.

Rush doesn't think Dole has a character or integrity problem at
all, so he would distance himself from Dan on this.

Phone	Pamela from Long Island, NY

Pamela heard part of Dole's speech, and she got the impression
that when Dole mentioned the Democrats, he was just reminiscing






about his decades in the Senate. He was, after all, in the
minority party for most of his years there, so it's naturally he
would have worked more with the Democrats than Republicans.

Also, as far as his list of his accomplishments go, perhaps this
was to derail the Democrats' continuing attacks against
Republicans as being meanspirited. Rush says this means Dole was
acting defensively, but Pamela doesn't agree - he got into the
Senate during the 60s when the welfare issue became prominent, so
perhaps he was being honest, but he could also have been trying
to show he was compassionate.

Rush asks if Pamela expects to hear any more of this on the
campaign trail, and she replies no; she was surprised at how Rush
and the callers have taken Dole's speech. Rush says the reason is
because Dole has not said on the campaign trail what he said
yesterday; instead he has been saying that these large social
programs need to be changed, but yesterday he sung their praises.

It's interesting, though, that Lars Erik Nelson has decided to
instead claim that yesterday's speech shows the "real Bob Dole."
Bill Clinton has been meandering all over the place, stealing one
Republican idea after another, but it's Dole that Nelson targets
and after only one speech.

The press is thus implying that "even Dole knows compassion and
liberalism is what it takes to win in America," simply because
what he said yesterday is at such variance with what happened
before. Thus, many people are wondering what set of beliefs
really could be said to be Dole's.

Pamela still thinks Dole was simply reminiscing on the day he was
saying goodbye, and Rush thanks her for that take.

Phone	Eleanor from Tampa, FL

Eleanor says hi and says she loves listening Rush for his humor
value and to see "what the enemy is doing." She is a proud
liberal who can't believe that Rush took her call because he
never takes liberal callers and then hangs up on people who
disagree with him.

Rush says he never hangs up on anyone, but Eleanor says she's
heard Rush do this in the six years she's been listening. Eleanor
predicts that Rush will hang up on her after a couple of minutes,
and Rush says he won't, plus it should be noted that she was
moved to the head of the caller line, in front of people who have
been waiting for some time already.

Eleanor dismisses that with a "ehhh!" and then says her opinion
is that Bob Dole is pandering to liberals, just as Kato Kaelin
pandered after the Simpson trial to make money on his notoriety.
Dole is desperate for votes because he's way behind the polls so
he's saying whatever it takes to get those votes, especially the
women's votes.

Rush notes that Dole did do everything he listed yesterday - he
did help to create the Americans with Disabilities Act, food
stamps, WIC, etc. Eleanor says she admires Dole for this, which
is why she thinks he's a "pretty neat guy as Republicans go," but
she'd never vote for him.

Rush asks what Dole could do to get her vote, and she says he'd
have to do something about the social programs, which have gone
down the tubes because of conservatives. Rush asks what social
programs have gone down the tubes, and Eleanor mentions student






loans - if Republicans get their way, the financing for these
loans would be really cut.

Rush says Republicans want to increase spending on student loans;
their only reforms are to end some of the subsidies the federal
government has been making so far with them. Eleanor doesn't care
because she would feel very nervous if the conservatives got
their chance, given that Republicans represent the corporations.

The Democrats are also in cahoots with the corporations, but they
do at least represent some of the people. Rush says Clinton got
more corporate contributions than Bush got in 1992, but Eleanor
says she read that she heard the Republicans have raked in $50
million while Clinton has gotten only $1.5 million in corporate
contributions, but she can't remember the source so she won't
make a big deal about it.

Rush says the Republican party does not have a majority of
corporate contributions, and Eleanor agrees with that, but she
still thinks Dole is desperately pandering to liberals to get
their vote in general and the women's vote in particular with
abortion. She personally is against abortion but she does think
Dole is pandering to those who believe in it.

Rush says Dole can't hope to get the support of the pro-choice
women, given that they wouldn't leave the Democrats just because
Dole came down on Gary Bauer. But could Dole close the gender gap
by doing what Rush has suggested: having women sue him for sexual
harassment and creating a "bimbo eruptions unit?"

Eleanor says this is a ridiculous idea, and sexual harassment
suits are not an issue to her because 90 out of 100 men would do
the same thing, and Rush is probably included in that 90%. Rush
decides to look past the personal insult and ask if Eleanor is
willing to settle for such a person as their President.

Eleanor says she doesn't even know if the charges against Clinton
are true, so the Paula Jones issue is a total non-issue to her,
which is why it's not worth talking about. Rush asks why Eleanor
brought Jones up, but Eleanor insists Rush brought it up, saying
he's just like Dole.

Rush and Eleanor go back and forth with "you did, too" and "I did
not" exchanges for a while, and Eleanor says she'll check the
tapes she's making of this conversation. She knows that Rush
wants to put other people on so she'll leave, but only after
telling Rush that he should stop putting Clinton down every day -
if Rush were to have done this 30 years ago, he would have been
tried for treason.

Rush says the First Amendment would have protected him, but
Eleanor says nobody on the radio who put down FDR three hours a
day would have a program for more than a month. Rush asks if
freedom of speech does not extend to political criticism, and
Eleanor says it's gotten out of hand because Rush has no respect
for office of the President.

Rush says he does have respect, which is why he is so critical of
Clinton. Eleanor disagrees, saying that all Rush does is put down
both the President and Hillary, who is the best First Lady since
Eleanor Roosevelt. All Rush does is make fun of her.

Rush notes he makes genuine, issue-oriented criticism, and he
asks Eleanor to hang on through the break.

*BREAK*







Phone	Eleanor from Tampa, FL (continued)

Rush wants to give Eleanor a chance to redeem herself with her
comments about how he was going to hang up on her. This sort of
criticism is intolerable, so he would like her to apologize for
insulting the host of the EIB Network or else be banned from the
EIB Network.

Eleanor screams "I won't apologize. I've listened to you for six
years and I've heard it!" Rush says he does not hang up on
callers, as Eleanor is claiming - he does not insult a caller and
then just move to another caller. He terminates each caller
politely before going on to the next.

Eleanor says she's heard Rush do this, plus he'll hang up on a
caller and then pretend that he's talking to them for another
three minutes. This way he can get his final zingers in without
letting the caller have any chance to respond.

Rush says he does not do this, but Eleanor insists he does. Rush
says he ends every conversation thanking callers; he doesn't hang
up on them. Eleanor says that Rush then calls some of his
conservative callers a "plant" and a "spy"; Rush denies it, but
she insists otherwise, growling out the word "plant."

Rush says the Democrats are tutoring would-be callers on how to
get through to right-wing talk show hosts, and some of these
people are lying to get on the air. Rush has read this on the
news so he's not making it up. However, he doesn't care about it
but thinks it's funny.

Eleanor asks why the Democrats have to have a school for plants
and spies - this makes no sense to her. Rush says these liberals
think they have to lie to get on the air, but Eleanor didn't have
to lie for this; rather, she just lied about Rush hanging up on
callers once she got on the air.

Eleanor says Rush does go on for two to three minutes with some
callers, giving the impression that the caller is still on the
air. She used to wonder why the callers never responded but then
she figured it out.

Rush says when he talks about something, there's nothing left to
be said, which is why the callers don't respond. Rush thanks
Eleanor for calling, and she asks if she can't get some kind of
beach bag or book for calling. Rush declines the offer, noting he
doesn't give hand-outs, but he thanks her for calling.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that because he spent so much time in the previous two
segments with the liberal, freebie-seeking Eleanor, he has no
more time left in this hour. However, he pledges Excellence in
Broadcasting will continue for one more hour.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o	Rush tells Eleanor he just received a fax from Bob in
Alaska who wants to know if 90% of men are philanderers and
cheaters, what percentage of women allow these men to get away
with it? Bob also wants to know if Eleanor is part of this group






of willing accomplices to the men who play around?

o	It's "Filegate Day Three," and Rush notes that it's now
been learned that the military attache whom the White House
blamed for requesting the 341 FBI files, Anthony Marceca, is not
some young, inexperienced, and innocent soldier who just did his
business the best he could. This was the impression that the
White House tried to leave, though, just as Hillary did when she
tried to claim she didn't handle the Rose law firm billing
records for Madison Guaranty.

Hillary said she had nothing to do with this but that Rick
Massey, a "young" lawyer, was responsible. Everyone got the
impression this guy was a young lawyer right out of school, but
in reality he was in his 50s and bald.

Marceca is similarly bald and solidly in middle age, plus he was
specifically requested to be assigned to the White House by the
director of White House personnel security, Craig Livingstone.
Marceca worked in the Army Criminal Investigation Division and
had previously worked with Livingston, a Clinton political
appointee.

Marceca thus was not just some innocent babe in the woods, but a
professional dirt-digger who was told to find out what he could
on these people. Of course, the press and Democrats will claim
that the only thing this proves is that the Republicans are out
to get Clinton because they have no positive agenda of their own.

Rush bets he will soon read stories about how the Republicans are
making hay out of nothing, but at least it's a great time for
anyone on the radio who has 20-20 vision, a "truth compass," and
the Golden EIB Microphone.

o	Today is the two-year anniversary of the deaths of Nicole
Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, and Rush last night saw Greta
van Susteren of CNN do a promo for her show today that asked "why
are people still talking about the O.J. Simpson trial two years
later?"

Rush had to laugh because the only people talking about the O.J.
Simpson trial are those whose shows are based on it. The only
time Rush hears people talking about the Simpson trial are when
they appear on the TV shows that depend on that case.

o	The Chicago Bulls will try to sweep the NBA finals
tonight in Seattle, hoping to win their fourth game straight
against the Sonics. In preparation for this game, Dennis Rodman,
Michael Jordan, and the Bulls' coach Phil Jackson have recorded a
PSA that basically asks Chicago's residents not to destroy the
city if the Bulls win the championships tonight.

Rush can't imagine Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig in the 1920s and 1930s
cutting a PSA asking New Yorkers not to burn their neighborhoods
done if the Yankees win the World Series. Rush can't imagine
Willie Mays in the 1960s cutting a PSA like this, especially if
Willie Mays had hair with 14 shades of color in it.

Would the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1979 or 1980 ever have thought
about asking the citizens of Pittsburgh not to destroy their city
if the Steelers won another SuperBowl? But Rodman, Jordan, and
Jackson have cut this PSA, and they are being applauded for doing
an incredible favor for the community.

This PSA is a good thing, but nobody seems to be wondering about
the incongruity of citizens destroying their city because the






team won, not lost, the finals. Rush now has to wonder if on
Election Eve, Bob Dole will air a PSA asking Republicans not to
burn Washington if he is elected President.

Meanwhile, Mayor Daley is going to be supervising the 911 center
in Chicago tonight to make sure he's there in case they need to
send out the National Guard. Rush suspects that the Mayor is
really just going through a dry run for the Democrats' national
convention this year; to them, the Bulls game will just be a
rehearsal for that.

*BREAK*

Professor Bella Depaolo <<sp?>> and assistant professor Debra
Cashey <<sp?>> of the Psychology Department at Texas A&M have
done a survey that finds everyone lies. Depaolo says that while
some lying is manipulative and exploitative, the most common lies
are to enhance self-esteem, get people to like them, and to spare
other's feelings. Lying is thus not necessarily about just
pursuing materialism but often is about feeling better about
yourself.

This study appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology and explores what kinds of people lie and how often
they do it. It analyzed journal entries of 77 students at the
University of Virginia and 70 students at Charlottesville
University who recorded their daily social interactions.

This gave the researchers some 1500 lies to work with and
analyze, and they found that the University of Virginia students
lied in one out of every three interactions, while the
Charlottesville students lied in one out of every five. The
researchers divided the lies into "self-centered" and
"altruistic" lies, with most people telling more self-centered
lies than altruistic ones.

Women would tell, though, more altruistic lies to other women.
For example, women would tell each other "you look great" when
they don't really mean it.

Those most likely to lie are extroverted, manipulative, and care
deeply about what others think of them. Those who were more
satisfied with the quality of their same gender relationships
told fewer lies and they told lies that were more altruistic.

Because "lying is an everyday process," people don't think minor
lies are serious, they don't plan them in advance, and they don't
worry about being caught in them. Margaret Farley, a professor of
Christian Ethics at Yale University, said all ethical systems
condemn lying, based on the notions that communicating requires
the truth and that lying can be coercive and fraudulent, but most
people don't view these minor lies like this.

Thus, Rush notes, the bottom line is that it's okay to lie
because everyone does it and it's done only to make others like
you. This, of course, means most women do not think other women
look great but they will never say that out loud. The corollary
to this, of course, is that one women will realize that she could
never fit into a great-looking dress worn by another woman, and
thus will lie to the other woman, telling her that she looks
horrible.

Rush notes that it wasn't very long ago that he, on the EIB
Network, predicted that the theory would be put out that
Clinton's lies don't matter because everybody lies. Rush just
knew that someone somewhere would put forth the notion that lying






is not that big a deal because everyone does it, and the lies
don't matter much anyway, so there's nothing wrong with Bill
Clinton. <<Editor's Note: this was on May 20, 1996>>

At about the same time, Rush also predicted that someone would
accuse Dole of being a crook, too, and thus there was no
difference between his character and that of Clinton. This has
just happened, with the Democrats now accusing Dole of
overspending. The NY Times story on this has the headline
"Democrats Accuse Dole Campaign of Exceeding Federal Spending
Limits."

According to the Democrats, Dole spent more than $37 million in
the primary season, violating the FEC's rules on campaign
spending. Thus, the conclusion is that everyone lies, every man
plays around, and that all politicians are crooks.

Of course, Eleanor from Tampa would undoubtedly think that only
5% of women are playing around, with the remaining 95% being
vestal virgins. She would also undoubtedly agree with the notion
that Dole is just as big a crook as Clinton, so that means
Clinton is okay.

This is what Senator Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) meant when he talked
about "defining deviancy down" - eventually you give up trying to
fight a problem and just accept it as normal.

Phone	Barry from Lakeland, FL

Barry thinks Bob Dole is in trouble with his comments praising
his record on the ADA and food stamps. First, though, he
recommends that Rush look at yesterday's Wall Street Journal,
which reports that the Motor Voter Law is registering more
Republicans.

As to Bob Dole's praise for the ADA and food stamps, either Dole
meant what he said or he doesn't, which is one more option that
you get from Bill Clinton, who never means what he says. However,
if Dole does mean what he said about these liberal monster
programs, then he's in trouble because Americans want to elect a
conservative, not someone who will just go along with the
liberals.

And if Dole doesn't mean what he said, then he has some bad
advisers who will be running his campaign into the ground by
moving it to the center. Americans want to elect a conservative,
which means Dole has to stay a conservative.

Rush says those in the Beltway don't think Americans will elect a
conservative, but Barry says Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and
Dukakis were defeated by conservative Republicans. Even Bill
Clinton couldn't get more than 43% of the vote in 1992, despite
running against the most ineptly run campaign in American
history.

As to pandering, the Democrats had 100% of the feminists, the
gays, the unions, and the blacks, but they still lost in 1980,
1984, and 1988 when the American people thought they could vote
for a conservative. This is what the American people want, and if
Bob Dole wants to win, he's going to have to act like a
conservative, be a conservative, and run like a conservative.
Time runs out so Rush thanks Barry for calling with these wise
words.

*BREAK*







Phone	Vicky from St. Louis, MO

Vicky says she was incensed that Eleanor from Tampa insulted the
men that Vicky knows by claiming they are no different than Bill
Clinton. It's this sort of blanket statements that women are
fighting against, and if they want to be judged as individuals,
they have to practice what they preach.

Vicky was also offended by the idea that Clinton's personal life
doesn't matter - Clinton took some very serious vows when he
entered the sacred institution of marriage. He made a promise to
God, to Hillary, and to himself when he got married, and if he
doesn't care about those promises to the people closest to him,
then why would he ever keep the promises he makes to the American
people?

Rush says the Clinton supporters don't care if Clinton keeps his
commitments, as long as he's ideologically pure. Vicky agrees,
and this brings up the question of why women are drawn to
Clinton, who is not an attractive man.

Clinton has the power, though, so people are willing to sacrifice
their integrity for him - he's nothing more than a carrier pigeon
to them. Rush agrees except that there's more of a personal
attachment than Vicky is seeing - Clinton is a lot like the
people who are supporting him in many ways.

Vicky says if a child lies to her, she's willing to deal with it
for a couple of times but eventually she won't trust that child
anymore. The same thing happens with adults - if a criminal
appears before a judge more than once, he's considered a repeat
offender.

Clinton, though, has been caught in lie after lie after lie, so
how many chances will he get? Rush says the Democrats would claim
this is politics, but Vicky notes that Clinton has lied about the
affairs he's had. Rush adds that Clinton lied about not inhaling,
and Vicky agrees, plus he lied about giving the middle class a
tax break.

Rush recalls that Hillary Clinton also once claimed she tried to
join the Marines in 1975, and Vicky says she doubts that Hillary
was serious about adopting a child. This was just a ploy for
sympathy and sentiment. Rush says this might be so and thanks her
for calling.

Phone	Jose from San Diego, CA

Jose got upset listening to Eleanor because he's listened to Rush
for years and has never heard him hang up on someone. Jose thinks
Eleanor set Rush up by accusing him of this and putting him on
the defense.

Rush says this is a problem with American society - if you're
accused of something and defend yourself, you're then accused of
being on the defensive. But had Rush not responded to her charge,
he would have gotten dozens of callers demanding to know why he
let Eleanor "get away with it."

Rush asks what he was supposed to do then, and Jose says that
Rush did it by responding with the truth. Eleanor, though, just
kept insisting she was right and Rush appeared to be pleading
with her.

Also, Jose has been taping Rush's TV show for the past four
years, and his brother in Texas is doing the same, but he replays






it for his political science class at the University of Texas at
Austin. Rush is impressed this teacher still has his job, and
Jose says he does, but the class does have very "animated
discussions" about what they see on Rush's show. This, though, is
very healthy. Rush agrees and thanks Jose for calling.

Phone	George from West Los Angeles, CA

George notes that he was already on hold when Eleanor called and
got put to the head of the line, and he fears that having to
listen to her has damaged several hundred thousand of his brain
cells, which could affect the quality of his life. Thus, if his
call thus appears disjointed, it's probably because of this.

Rush hopes that's not the case, and George says he wants to talk
about Dole's support for liberal legislation. George is more
conservative than Rush and most of his listeners, and he feels
that nobody knows what Dole's real politics are because he's been
a "legislative broker" for more than 30 years.

Dole's also been part of the minority party, which means that
he's done whatever he was able to do to improve the liberal
legislation being passed. Much of this legislation would have
been much worse had he not been there, watering the liberal parts
down, and this is what mature people do.

Everyone makes concessions to principle in their lives, acting
and speaking in different ways depending on whom they're with.
This is all Dole did in Congress, so the Republicans and
conservatives who insist upon "nothing but principle" are like
spoiled brats because there's no doubt that Clinton would be a
worse President than Dole.

Dole, after all, will be working with the Republican majorities
in Congress, and he might be the conservatives' last hope, given
how big the government has gotten and how the next President
probably will make several Supreme Court and other appointments
by the time he leaves office. Now is thus the time for
conservatives to marshal their forces and get behind Dole, who
will undoubtedly be more conservative than he's been in the past
because he'll be working with conservatives.

Rush thinks this is exceptionally well stated and doubts that
George had any brain cells destroyed by Eleanor's rantings. He
especially likes George's point about how Dole has helped to
temper the liberal programs, making them far less worse than they
otherwise would be - you don't always get your way and it's not
compromising your principles to try to water down something you
oppose but cannot defeat outright.

Rush thanks George for calling and making this point.

*BREAK*

Phone	Donna from Philadelphia, PA

Donna says that Dole could say he listed the accomplishments he
did so that he could say he supported these things in the past
but it's now for a change. Dole can claim that he did support
social programs when they were needed but that they have to be
changed because the country can no longer afford them.

Rush says nobody knows whether Dole's speech yesterday was part
of his campaign or not. If Dole were to claim, though, that he's
a Republican with a heart because he supported these social
programs, would that really win any votes?







After all, if Rush is called defensive for saying he does not
hang up on callers, Dole will certainly be considered defensive
if he tries to claim he's not heartless because he has supported
food stamps et al. Dole simply cannot win on this.

Donna agrees, but she for one will vote for Lassie before voting
for Clinton. She was a registered Democrat until Clinton became
the party's nominee in 1992, and she changed to a Republican so
nobody would think she voted for him.

Rush says that Dole might be able to say that he was instrumental
in creating these programs and is proud of their achievements,
but that they've now gone too far and need to be reformed. This
would be a wise thing, and Donna agrees, which is why she's
hoping this is what yesterday was all about. Rush thanks Donna
for calling.

Phone	Chuck from Omaha, NE

Chuck says he thinks the reason so many women and men back
Clinton is that although they claim they want men of high
character in the office of the Presidency, they secretly envy him
and Hillary. The women, for example, might say they hate
philandering and cheating on your wife, but they are still
envious of how Bill treats Hillary, Gennifer, etc. The men who
back the President similarly are envious that he can get away
with it.

Rush says this means these women have no self-esteem, and Chuck
says this is it. The men who like this behavior are envious of
how the President gets away with it.

Rush is glad to say he cannot relate to this approach to life,
but he thanks Chuck for calling. Rush adds that he's always
amazed and fascinated by the thought patterns his callers come up
with to explain these things.

Phone	Kit from St. Louis, MO

Kit asks if Rush could give her a mailing address, and Rush says
it's Rush Limbaugh, EIB Building, 2 Penn Plaza, NYC, NY 10121.
Kit says that the first news reports about Clinton's plane trip
showed footage that included a brief glimpse of a short, brown-
hair, curly-headed person ducking back into Clinton's cabin on
Air Force One.

Rush has trouble believing that a woman was hidden in the
President's cabin, and Kit says she doesn't know if it was a
woman, but the person was shorter than Bill and taller than
Chelsea. She found this interesting because this part of the clip
was shown only at the very beginning of the coverage about the
turbulence that Clinton faced on Air Force One; after the first
reports on the early news, this part of the clip was cut from any
subsequent coverage.

Rush promises to find a clip of this, and Kit says it would be
interesting to ask the President who was with him. Rush tells her
not to expect the press to ask this question, but maybe this
explains the turbulence on Air Force One.

Speaking of the turbulence, Rush notes that almost everyone who
has flown in an airplane has experienced turbulence. It's thus
ridiculous for Clinton to say afterwards "it was certainly a
character builder, wasn't it?"







Rush would think that being shot out of the sky over the western
Pacific Ocean is a true character builder, as George Bush can
attest. But evidently turbulence on Air Force One is now
considered a "character builder," and Rush wonders whether
Clinton's comments are an admission on his part that character
needs to be built.

*BREAK*

Phone	Harry from Chicago, IL

Harry says that people should remember one thing about Bob Dole:
he was the minority leader when Clinton became President in 1992,
which means he was probably the single most influential person
who stood in the way of Clinton's health care plan and stopped
the government takeover of American health care. Everyone seems
to be forgetting this.

Rush says this is a good point - Bob Dole stood in the way of
socialized medicine, and Harry hopes people remember that Dole
single-handedly saved America from this fate. Rush agrees and
asks if Harry will be celebrating tonight if the Bulls win the
championships.

Harry says he was thinking of going to the 911 center and hang
around with Mayor Daley. The reason, by the way, Daley will be
there is that this multi-million dollar 911 center doesn't work,
so Harry plans on giving Dale a roll of quarters for the
payphones.

Things are so bad that if someone dials 911 to report the fire,
the firefighters cannot request any needed police assistance when
they get that call. Instead, the firefighters have to make their
own 911 call because the system cannot transfer calls like this.

Rush is amazed to hear this and Harry says this is how bad things
are. Rush laughs but catches himself, and Harry admits he has
problems not laughing himself. Rush thanks him for calling.