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Jan. 1, 1993 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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Day one, my friends, Stallone outpost of sanity which remains on this planet.
Rush Limbaugh, the television show.
As you know, the inauguration of Bill Clinton took it happened.
441 days, I think.
I haven't really multiplied it out.
I know one of these four years is going to be a leap year.
And we're going to wish we could just leap past the whole year.
America is now being held hostage.
We are all imprisoned to the liberal idealism of the hippie-ish 60s, ladies and gentlemen.
And every night we're going to remind you of it on this show.
This show will not go off the air.
This show, taking its cue from ABC's Nightline, will be here every night during this crisis so as to keep you informed.
That's right.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let us go down to our nation's capital.
As you know, one of the things that I have constantly sought to convince you about is the animal rights movement.
I have told you of how wickedly evil and idiotic these people are.
I've shared with you the fact that these are people who really have an agenda other than that which they state.
It is to drive the vehicle of the animal rights movement, which is the same as the vehicle of the militant environmental movement, which is the same as the feminist movement.
All these leftist ideals are simply vehicles which are being driven toward a more socialist America, a poorer America, an America where there are fewer prosperity rights.
I have just invented that term.
They want less prosperity.
Only then can we be a nice people and things will be fair.
And a lot of people think that I don't understand the animal rights people.
All they're out to do is protect animals.
Every animal is the same as their little pet.
You have your little pet at home.
It's got those cute little big eyes and it loves you.
And it knows when you get a mean letter and it knows when you're feeling upset.
And it cries along with you.
And that's how everybody views their animals.
The animals in the wild are the same as their pets at home.
The animal rights movement, in order to prosper, must devalue human life.
It must devalue the supremacy and superiority of the most brilliant creation of God in the universe, humanity.
To prove it, let's go to the animal ball.
Yes, part of the inaugural celebration.
No, no, wait.
Part of the inaugural celebration, my friends, last night, a bunch of animal rights people got together and had a ball.
An inaugural ball, Hollywood leaders, and we just have some videotape.
Our man in Washington.
Let's roll the tape, Chad.
Our man at the inaugural.
There he is, prepared to sneak in with comments from the attendees at the party.
Listen to this.
Can you define the term animal rights?
Define that.
Well, I think that, you know, it just has to do with extending humane treatment toward animals under all of the variety of conditions that we have.
Well, I haven't gotten that far in Al Gore's book yet, you know, in the chapter on animals.
So when you say the term animal rights, what rights does that imply specifically?
Well, the right to drive a car, the right to vote.
I'm a great believer in freeing the animals.
That's all.
Freeing the animals?
Animal rights is the compassion and understanding that humans don't have the ability or the right to consider themselves above another living species.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I think that every living creature should be given its own rights.
You know, that was Katie Lang who said that humans don't have the right to consider themselves above other species.
If I were Katie Lang, I'd feel that way about myself, too.
But there's truth.
These people, folks, let's face it, that was a bunch of psychobabble.
That's a bunch of people who have no idea what they're talking about, but they think they're good and wonderful people because they care about animals.
And it doesn't matter what the results of that stupid rhetoric that they just enunciated happen to be.
No, they care.
They're compassionate.
You're not.
And they're better people than you.
That's what it means.
It's idiocy.
Now, one of the celebrants at the inaugural bash incurred the wrath of these people.
But this show would like to honor Aretha Franklin for daring to show up last night's gala on television.
You might have seen it.
There she is, folks.
That is a dead animal.
That is a dead animal she's wearing.
And she is flaunting that in front of the animal rights activists who the day before criticized her for not being of the proper sensitivity.
So, Aretha, we questioned your participation in this thing last night, but you've gotten back in our good graces by stuffing it down the throats of the animal rights blackouts.
What's left on our show tonight?
A lot.
My friends, this is a scene from the gala that we just showed you a clip of Aretha Franklin at last night.
We are going to analyze parts of the inaugural speech given by President Clinton to I just, I can't, you know, I feel like I'm in fantasy land when I say that.
President Clinton made the inaugural address today, and we thought we'd spend a lot of time on the show analyzing it, playing Eclipse.
My friends, it's a 14-minute speech.
It may take us the next four years, but we're going to analyze this whole thing line by line, and we'll get started tonight.
Also, doesn't he look more presidential?
Doesn't Mr. Rogers.
That's Mr. Rogers there.
And if you said, if somebody landed from Mars and said, we want to see your president, here, find him in this picture, which one would the Martian choose?
Probably Mr. Rogers.
As you can see, he's giving a gift to the president-elect.
This happened last night.
We'll tell you about the significance of this little trolley.
The president of the United States, George Bush, left Washington.
If we have time, we are going to try to do a little tribute.
If not, we will get to it on some later show.
A couple of shows have done tributes to the president, and they've not been tributes at all.
They've done highlights of his administration, and they've mocked it, and they've impugned it, made fun of it, and laughed at it, criticized it.
We're going to do just the opposite.
And of course, the question mark continues to represent what's next.
And we'll get started with all the rest of this show right after this break.
So stay right where you are.
Be right back.
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Hey, folks, let this show be a guiding light and a lesson to you.
I mean, there are a lot of people who did not vote for Bill Clinton, who probably watched today, and for the first time in a long time, have been on the outside when it comes to their president winning an election or their candidate.
You can't let it get you down.
We're smiling here.
We're forging on.
I mean, we've got some things that are somewhat unsettling naturally.
I'll tell you something.
We're going to get into the analysis of this speech in just a second, very quickly.
But one of the things I want to make this point before we get too far into this show, and I don't have time to do it.
A lot of people have been asking me what I think really is going to happen in these next four years with this administration.
And very quickly can tell you, you have heard, no doubt, the pundits and the analysis of the so-called experts say that the presidency of George Bush was a transition presidency.
He was a transition president.
He's the last dying gasp of an archaic generation, an archaic way of doing things, an old-fashioned way of thought.
It's time for the young people to move in.
And this transition was a necessary one, and we're all glad it happened, of course, yada, yada, yada.
But now it's time for the real leadership of America to gake our country back.
I love this.
We must take our country back.
We must get it back.
We must unify.
Take our country back from what?
It's as though it really, this stuff is grating on me.
Let me tell you, I think this is the real transition presidency.
I think this is the real transition administration.
You know what's happened here?
Because of the quirk of a three-party, a three-candidate race, and because of the quirk of a media successfully convincing people they lived in a rotten economy, we have some people who are really relics from the hippie 60s.
These are not the mainstream people I think from the generation of the 60s.
I think the people that think they've gotten hold of things here are those of the free love, free sex generation, the free speech crowd from the Berkeley days out in California.
Basically a bunch of oddballs, kooks, and weirdos who finally have gotten hold of things.
And I think this administration is going to cause a major turn back to the right.
I think that this administration is going to see to it that those glory idealistic socialist utopian days of the 60s are once and for all shown to be nothing but idealism, not reality.
And there's no way of achieving it.
And I think that's going to happen here.
And I think for better or worse, Bill Clinton is a man who cannot keep commitments.
You can talk him out of things with a little pressure.
It goes to just what his convictions are or aren't.
There's going to be a lot of disappointed people, a lot of people feeling jilted very soon.
But one thing, Thursday or Friday of this week, he's going to let loose with a bunch of cultural executive orders.
They're going to lift the gag rule on abortion.
He's going to okay fetal tissue research, things like that, that the left initially is going to go, oh, good, oh, finally, oh, and they're going to collective orgies all over America.
But it's only going to be for a couple of days, folks.
It's just the surface stuff.
I'm just warning you, it's going to happen.
Now, I've, I've got to take a break here, or else I'm going to get way behind.
We come back.
We'll get into the speech analysis, just a couple of quick clips, and then we'll move on with the rest of the show, too.
And it's all juicy.
It's all good.
So stay right there, we'll be back.
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I don't know if you saw that show.
I don't know if you saw the show Tuesday night that ran all over the country, but everybody that went up there, no matter what they said, no matter what they did, Clinton started crying.
I mean, that's too sensitive.
Not half of that stuff was not worth crying.
My gosh, they're getting a signal here, folks.
I didn't know we had.
Never mind.
We've gotten it handled.
Let's go straight to the speech.
What was that?
It was Deborah's beeper.
You know what it was Deborah's beeper?
Deborah is our commie babe makeup artist, folks.
It wasn't.
It wasn't her.
It was her beeper.
There she is.
Comie makeup.
You know what?
She desperately, folks, you ought to watch this next bit on Clinton because she wants a husband.
And I didn't know, but she's a commitment phobe, she said.
That's the only reason.
So she obviously is wanted on another job.
Didn't know you worked for anybody else, Deborah.
All right, let's go to the speech.
We're losing valuable time.
The inaugural speech.
Let's just roll it.
I haven't seen much of this.
I heard some.
I haven't seen much.
We're going to roll it from the top just to give you some on-the-spot analysis, line by line.
I'm not sure.
Roll the tape in there, Chet.
My fellow citizens.
Whoa, stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
My fellow citizens?
Whatever happened to my fellow Americans?
You think that he didn't say Americans by accident?
That was on purpose, folks.
I guarantee you, that's exactly what this administration is all about, this stupid symbolism.
You know what the problem with Americans is?
Americans is not inclusive enough.
No, no, it does not include everybody.
It alienates people out there on the fringes whose pain we are all trying to feel.
There are a lot of people who aren't proud to be Americans.
Native Americans, the people who don't like to call them red skins and braves and all that.
This is purposeful.
This is exactly what I mean when I talk about symbolism over sight.
He just can't say my fellow Americans.
Let's roll the next one, Chet.
Just some more from the inaugural speech, see what we get next.
Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously.
It's a long word, tough word.
To billions around the world.
Communications and commerce are global.
Investment is mobile.
Technology is almost magical.
And ambition for a better life is now universal.
Stop to tell you.
I cannot, but what did any of that mean?
I had to go get the transcript for it.
I have it right here.
Communications and commerce are global.
I mean, that's nothing new there.
I mean, investment is mobile.
What does that mean?
Crooks walk from bank to bank with their depositors?
What does it mean?
Technology is almost magical?
Almost?
Well, I send him the latest copy of the Limball letter.
The next issue, we got an interview with George Gilder in there about technology.
He may learn something.
Almost magical.
And oh, this is the one I love.
Ambition for a better life is now universal.
Now, again, here I go.
I'm going to attach meaning to what he said.
When he says here that the desire, ambition for a better life is now universal.
That means that before today, some people didn't want a better life.
Some people were content to live in squalor.
Some people were content to just sit there and basically vegetate and be a bunch of zeros.
But now that he is there, oh, everybody wants, when do these people figure this stuff out?
See, now in the 80s, when we had this desire for a better life, it was called selfishness and greed, right?
But now the 80s are blind, and so now it's okay.
Oh, folks.
Let me show you the Mr. Rogers clip.
Take a look at this.
This is funny, too.
Watch this a couple days ago.
have brought you something for you and your family to help you along the way you know the clinton family likes mr rogers neighborhood And if we can make every neighborhood like Mr. Rogers' neighborhood, America would be a happier place.
See, see, we are.
We would all be better people if.
Now, we can't go back to the days of Ozzie and Harriet, though.
We can't go back to that.
No, no, those days, that's not realistic.
It's not, not, you can't expect people to go back and live wholesome lives, but boy, we can all go to the neighborhood.
Do you know what that trolley symbolizes?
This is maybe a negative omen.
See, she does.
If you watch Mr. Rogers, you know that that trolley takes you to the land of make-believe.
That's all it is.
All right.
Look, we have to take a break.
We have to take a break.
I can only tell you we're not going to squeeze everything in tonight we wanted to, but I've got to do James Edward Olmos or whatever.
It's an Edwards James Almost, whatever, when we come back.
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Now, at this bash at the Capitol Center in Atlanta, Maryland last night, big television, Bill cried at virtually everything.
Have you ever noticed Gore clap, by the way?
I want to get you.
Watch it.
That's how he claps.
Edward James Olmos made a speech.
This typifies what these people think is important about life.
Watch this.
My own background is one of inclusion, so I can relate to it.
The entire concept.
For you see, my route originally is from Africa.
I am African first.
Crossing the continent to Asia.
I'm Asian second.
Leaping over the ocean to add some Mayan Aztec heritage, which in the 15th century, with the arrival of my Jewish, Hungarian, Spanish ancestors from Europe, bringed those Bill Brimes and produced the multi-ethnic man standing proudly before you.
Why can't he just say I'm an American and I'm proud of it?
Why is it the birth of our he's a mongrel?
But they think that's important.
All of that irrelevant stuff makes him a good person.
It's just stupid.
It's sad.
That's what they think is important.
We're in trouble.
We're not supposed to notice that stuff.
We're all humans.
Whatever happened to that concept?
I mean, it's the same thing that I was trying to tell you regarding the cabinet when they were putting that together.
All they're looking for is diversity.
They're not looking for the best.
The thing that puzzles me is these are the same people, folks, who are trying to tell us that we should not notice what somebody's skin color is.
We ought not notice what their ethnicity is.
And if we do that, we're bigots.
But here are these people coming saying, this is what's important about me.
Listen to this.
Oh, well, I want to close the show tonight, ladies and gentlemen, with a recap of this day.
There's President Bush shaking hands with Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton.
There he is.
There he is, Mr. and Mrs. Bush.
Mom and dad, if you will, saying goodbye.
They are leaving the house.
They are going away, folks.
There they are.
They're actually leaving.
And guess what?
They're leaving us.
We are with Bill and Hillary.
They're home alone.
For four years, folks.
For four years.
They're home alone.
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This is especially pleasing now to Senator Vice President Gore and other liberals who believe in symbolism over substance.
This is it.
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Well, let it just make you feel like the real thing here, folks.
All right, our fireside chat show is one in which we change the intensity a little bit.
And I'll be honest with you, the reason for it, we tape the fireside chat show before the end of the week.
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I would like to show you something.
This is funny.
As you know, we've had our man in Washington throughout this entire inaugural week.
And he has spoken to several dignitaries of the Democratic Party and asked them various questions.
Most recently, a question about me and my television show and why it isn't in Washington.
Other resorted questions as well.
Here is his report.
There he is now, our man in Washington.
Don't laugh, studio audience.
Washington, D.C. is the only major city where Rush Limbaugh's television show is not on.
Why do you think that is?
I don't really know.
Maybe they have good taste.
I guess the profit motive is at take somewhere, unfortunately.
The purpose is to let as many people see it as possible, and I hope they will ultimately.
He's got a very big audience, so I'm surprised he's not here here.
Would you welcome him in Washington, D.C.?
Sure, I'd be glad to have him on here.
Do you think Washington slowly misses that television show here?
Well, they ought to have a little durset dose of conservatism every 100 years at least in this town.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Senator Dole.
Now, we got a thing in the mail the other day from somebody who I think is from Texarkana, Arkansas.
Let me get the name out just so it will give them credit.
Eric Saylor lives in Texarkana, Arkansas, Texarkana, Texas.
And the family found themselves at a McDonald's in Arkansas.
And guess who strode in?
That's right.
Now, let me show you some things here in this picture.
That is President Clinton with the McDonald's staff.
Now, you notice that little kid.
That little kid is in sheer agony.
That kid is crying and throwing a fuss.
That is the child of Eric Saylor.
So they wanted to see how they could maybe get the child into a better mood and get him out of that feeling of oppression and fear and anger.
And here's how they did it.
Look at this.
Same little boy.
Same little boy holding my book, The World is Fine, in a picture with President Clinton.
That's a smart kid.
Now, this just came in the mail the other day, folks.
Just happened to show up.
And it was in the hands of Diana Schneider, who's the editor of The Limball Letter.
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And as always, as always, the success of any venture that originates from this television show, the radio show, all of it is due to you.
Of course, it wouldn't be happening if I weren't here, but since that's a given, we appreciate, I mean, it's just, it warms my heart.
It really does.
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So we get a lot of mail to the show here, the radio show, and the newsletter is starting to generate its own mail.
And the editor got a letter from Keith Corso, who is the instructor of broadcast communications at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
There is a textbook, and I think they're either using it or they're going to be using it soon, that has been written by a guy named John Vivian of Winona State University.
Here's what the cover of the textbook looks like.
The media of mass communication.
And they sent me, Keith Corso sent me a sample page, page 191.
Now you can see there's a picture of me sitting in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair at the EIB Institute.
That's the radio show there.
It's the radio microphone.
I want to read to you the caption that goes with this picture because it's too small for you to see it.
I want you to notice the tense.
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh attracted past tense, notice that, huge audiences in the early 1990s, but critics say people listened more to be entertained and outraged than to participate in dialogue on the great issues of the day.
The great disappointment of talk radio is that it has fallen short of its potential as a public forum to help democracy work better.
Well, obviously we know this guy is a commie lib.
Obviously this guy, you know, let me tell you something.
Let me tell you a little bit about, thank you.
Let me tell you a little bit about talk radio.
Nobody ever said talk radio is about democracy.
That's the media's fixation with it.
All of the critics in Time and Newsweek, you know when talk radio hosts around the country during the pay raise of 1990 sent in all those tea bags during the, it was December of 1989, Time and Newsweek wrote letters, oh, is this a threat to democracy?
Why, these hosts are actually getting people to send in tea bags.
They're actually getting people involved in their government.
Can democracy withstand this assault?
They actually wrote this.
And now here's this idiot who writes this textbook claiming that talk radio is failing in whatever he thinks it should be, and that is a forum for democracy.
Well, Mr. Vivian, let me just tell you something.
In case you haven't heard, if you're going to put me in your textbook, you ought to get what I do right.
Because you're out there trying to take young skulls full of mush and tell them, hopefully, the truth and teach them about broadcasting.
And I'm going to just fire full force, I mean, double barrel right at you.
If you want to teach somebody in broadcasting how to exceed in broadcasting, who better than me as a role model, as an example?
Seriously.
Wait, this is.
Now, seriously, this is not ego.
In terms of my radio show and this television show, we're doing it unlike the way anybody else does it.
And we're the third most watched late night show in America.
We're watched by more people than watch Letterman.
We're watched by more people and watch CBS late night.
We're watched by more people than who watch Whoopee or on some weeks even Arsenio.
And the idea that somehow this guy's got to write a textbook and criticize what's happening here is a disservice to the student who reads this book.
I have never said that this is about democracy.
In fact, it's not.
This is a benevolent dictatorship.
The only reason this show is on the air is so you can discover what I think.
The only reason I do the radio show, it's totally about what I think.
It's not about trying to find out what you think.
Get your own show if you want to tell people what you think.
What is wrong?
What is wrong with using the medium of radio or television, which are both entertainment medias?
What's wrong with critics say people listen more to be entertained?
What else do people turn on radio and TV for?
Have their shoes shined?
Do they turn on radio TV for the purpose?
Why don't you hold the network news to the same standard, Mr. Vivian?
People don't get one iota's worth of input into the TV news.
And when people try to tell the TV news people what they think of them, the TV news people say, you're too stupid.
You don't have enough knowledge to know what's going on in the country.
You're going to get it the way we want you to hear it.
But no, this guy has to write a textbook where he is instructing people in broadcasting and communications and gets it entirely, totally wrong.
Now, I don't apologize for responding this way, and I only feel sorry for whatever students have to take the course where that's the textbook.
That's what's wrong with the country.
Even if he disagrees with me, there is no reason to show or to hold this radio or TV show up as examples or bad examples of broadcasting.
We have only revolutionized it.
We have not done it with irresponsibility.
We've not done it with dishonesty.
We have not done it fooling anybody by any stretch of the imagination.
We're a commercial success.
I mean, at least we don't need a government grant to keep us on the air because people don't want to watch us.
I mean, we're only going out there and ascertaining and amassing our audience within the free market that is known as the U.S. economy.
Ooh, I've got to take a quick break here, folks.
You may notice these little things here from me on this thing.
See these?
We'll tell you what they are.
If you have a vivid imagination, you might be able to figure it out.
If you can't, we'll tell you when we come back.
Don't go away.
There you have it, folks.
That's Clarence Frogman Henry.
What is it, 1965?
It's a 1965 kinescope of the frogman on some one of those old television shows that you see after school.
The frogman, as you know, is singing our official homeless update theme, Ain't Got No Home.
We have some video from the Homeless Ball at the Democratic.
But first, before we show you that, I've got to explain these little things.
Now, can you get a close-up of these where they are?
Do I need to move them somewhere?
There, that's good enough.
Here, let me.
Little eyes on there.
Can you see them?
Wait a minute.
They're hidden by the there.
Can you see the little eyes?
Blue denotes what?
Male, right?
Little boy.
And this is pink.
See this?
Good.
These, ladies and gentlemen, are boy and girl sperm.
What happened on this show the other night, I happened to mention that Deborah, our comie babe makeup artist, was fed up with men.
She was a commitment phobe, and she was afraid of committing and finding a husband, but she wants a baby.
So I said she was looking for a sperm donor.
So somebody, a woman, makes boy and girl sperm and sent these things.
These are the sperm that have been donated to Deborah Now we're only I want to stress something I want to say the audience doesn't know whether gee I've never applauded sperm before It's okay folks.
It's just a gag.
And and of course Deborah has no she's.
We were just teasing her.
So you know, and I made a joke, if you do send some sperm in, make sure you include the condom.
And Now, these we also told you about, these are our official new pointers and and these are from the rainforest that trees died to make these pointers, promise those to you.
Now our homeless video, homeless ball video.
The first one is from George Stallings.
Father George Stallings is a reverend in the Catholic Church.
He's a renegade Catholic priest.
Actually, here is our man in Washington interviewing him this week at the homeless ball at the inauguration.
The ball itself, ladies and gentlemen, and soon looks like a heavily attended ball.
Why is it important to have a homeless ball?
It is important that we have a homeless ball to enable the president-elect to see that the homeless are a part of the tapestry of America and that, since our president desires to reflect the faces of America in his new administration, this is our gift to our new president to say that, while he would have desired to send invitations to the homeless, who to invite them to the various activities,
and knowing that they have no homes where those invitations could have been sent that, then we have taken it upon ourselves, as those who are sensitive to the needs of the homeless, to create an inaugural ball so that they, as homeless, can feel a part of this, of his great uh event and the great celebration of a new president.
He wouldn't shut up.
Well, now you laugh, but let me tell you something.
That's the kind of guy who takes Clinton seriously.
Those are the kind of guys who think that they have finally arrived, they're out of bondage now.
These guys have finally gotten out of the shackles and this administration is theirs.
I mean, they really and we pointed out to you on this show just the other night there is no homeless cabinet member.
He said he was gonna have a cabinet that looks like America and there's no homeless and there's nobody from the homeless on the Now, do you remember Mitch Snyder, who was one of the big-time homeless guys, big-time homeless guru?
Mitch Snyder assumed room temperature in the spring of 1990.
And Mitch was, after assuming room temperature, they then cremated him, and his urn is on display at the homeless shelter he founded called the Center of the Committee for Creative Nonviolence.
What are you smiling at, Sandy?
You're not supposed to smile because when you smile, I start laughing.
and it's supposed to be a sensitive segment talking about well mitch uh committed suicide because of a love affair that had gone sour with a woman named carol fenley We just happened to have videotape of her.
She was asked the same question, Bill Clinton and the homeless, and isn't it wonderful?
Here's her response.
What changes do you expect from the Clinton administration?
None.
I think people are delusional.
They think he's going to change anything.
You don't expect him to try to do anything to end homelessness or alleviate it?
He doesn't have a clue and doesn't have a plan.
Oh, no, not really.
Absolutely right.
Oh, by the way, you know, we have another broken promise.
Promise 18, he was going to have some kind of a jobs bill or something that was going through the legislative session.
It's number 18 on your promises, promises sheet if you have it.
It was going to do something on the day he was inaugurated, and it didn't happen.
And we mentioned it to you the other night.
I just wanted to remind it, remind you of it again.
Let's take another quick break, and we'll do that.
We'll be back with more right after this.
We have some home videos coming up too, so don't go away.
Did you see that, Deborah?
Okay, enough.
Enough.
We're having more fun here than human beings should be allowed to have.
Folks, this is from the kids are going to do it.
You can't stop them, department.
In East Palo Alto, California, the school district there is considering taking out life insurance for the students.
Do you know what for?
Bury them.
There are more murders per capita in East Palo Alto, California than any city in the country.
And the school district there is, they're having all kinds of problems with the students shooting each other or killing each other.
So they want to go out and buy life insurance to handle the burial.
The burials cost $1,500.
I'm not making this up, folks.
The burials cost $1,500, and the teachers have been kicking in $500 each to handle this, and they're tired of paying for it.
So they're going to go out there.
They're going to get an insurance policy for this.
And they talked to some guy, a spokesperson for the Association of California School Administrators, when asked about this whole idea of life insurance to bury dead students.
He said, well, I credit the school district in East Palo Alto for being responsive to social, for being responsive to social conditions that affect learning.
Well, now, we got to hand it to this guy.
He's got a point.
After all, death can affect learning.
He's very sensitive about this.
I mean, I can just see it now.
A mother calls the school.
Hi, this is Mrs. Jones.
Billy won't be there.
I mean, he's calling in dead today.
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
You know, I can just see now that they'd be the sponsor.
I want to show you the tackiest moment of that Tuesday night gala and extravaganza.
I better take a break, otherwise we're not going to get there.
We're going to have a problem.
Let me take a break.
I want to show you the tackiest moment of that big gala at the Cap Center with the Clintons and Gores were all there, Michael Jackson and all that going.
and I'm going to show you the tackiest moment when we come back.
Don't go away.
We are...
Very good.
I asked the audience, well, we don't have much time.
Just give me one clap, and they did it.
Tackiest moment.
This is Bill Cosby, and I think this is one time I felt sorry for Clinton, and I think he should have told Bill Cosby a thing or two under his breath.
Watch this.
I think this is really insulting and tacky.
How do you do?
I'm fine.
And how are you, sir?
Congratulations.
Congratulations, sir.
And congratulations.
What I wanted to talk to both of you about was I'm confused.
You have people in black tie and tails, and you're from Arkansas.
You're from Tennessee.
Where are the clothes?
Look at Clinton.
Corporate wants to tell us.
This is your last affair dressed like this.
Yeah, I got the wrong clothes, but I think I have the right clothes.
We're going to bring it home.
Got it?
You're not always funny, Bill.
It's not always funny.
And that clearly wasn't a funny moment.
And the Clintons didn't look like they thought it was very funny either.
It's one time I just, you know, I could see him under his breath.
My friends, we'd like to show you our version of how we saw the inauguration of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
There are four names.
May we show it to you now as we go out?
Thanks.
Have a great weekend.
We'll see you next time.
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Winner, do you remember, you people in the audience, I'm sure, remember this, Spike Lee's movie, Malcolm X. Apparently, if you go, Spike is making this charge.
Everybody involved denies this charge.
Apparently, if you go to certain theaters to see Malcolm X, your ticket represents, or they have printed on your ticket, some other movie, as though you didn't really see Malcolm X.
And that, Spike says, is an attempt to under-report the success of his movie.
And they investigated and found it wasn't true.
We got a letter from a guy in Moore, Oklahoma, Mr. Paul and Sharon Jaynes, Mr. and Mrs., I assume, Paul and Sharon Jaynes, Moore, Oklahoma.
Guy went in to, I think, ought to mention the name of the store.
What the heck?
It's a fine store.
It's an absolutely marvelous store, one of America's greatest success stories.
There's a Walmart store in Moore, Oklahoma, and this guy, Paul Jaynes, walked in to buy my book, as nearly two million other Americans have done.
And when he got his receipt, we have a picture of this receipt to show.
Now look at this receipt.
This is Walmart.
It says, we sell for less, go lions, more Oklahoma.
Now you see down there underlined, it says sweet liar.
It's underlined, if you go over, quantity one, $16.48 was the price.
Other stuff on there, just so you'll know, videotape, film, snack, cake, candy, snacks.
This is a junk food family, obviously.
But they bought my book.
Now you say, Rush, where's your book on there?
Sweet Liar is what my book is.
So we got this and we said, what is Sweet Liar?
Is there another book out there named Sweet Liar that maybe they're trying to credit when my book is purchased?
So we found there's no other book called Sweet Liar.
So we called this Walmart store.
We actually call them there.
So what's going on?
What does this mean?
Well, that's just the way it's in the computer, sir.
Don't know how it got there.
Obviously, what's happened?
They've got a kook running loose at this Walmart store.
One of the finest store chains in America, Sam Walton, an American sex sester.
They got a liberal running around, and they've put, you know, the barcode on these computers.
When my book gets scanned, it's reported as Sweet Liar.
So there's obviously a liberal who resents the success of my book and thinks I'm a liar, but I'm a sweet person nevertheless.
And that's we thought we shared, because we did, we did the research.
We are sure this is not chain-wide.
In fact, we know it's not chain-wide.
We know it's only in the Walmart in Moore, Oklahoma.
And there's got to be, you know, some loose fruitcake running around in there.
All right, what do we have on tonight's show?
It is so good.
Let's get started.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Concorde supersonic jetliner landing from London in New York.
On board is Carol Mosley Braun, the first welfare queen elected to the United States Senate.
She's from Illinois.
We have an amazing number of details about the controversy which she finds herself in.
This is Patricia Ireland, the chairman and president of the Now Gang, the National Organization for Women.
She's reacting to Bob Packwood, a big protest.
Got to get Packwood out of the Senate.
Sexual harassment story.
We'll have that for you tonight.
We were speculating in our production meeting today, you know, one of the, one of the, if you wanted to punish this woman, what would be the single most harmful thing you could do to her?
You could force her to go out with her husband.
Think about it, folks.
Think about it.
What's this?
Oh, oh, the inaugural balls, Bill's balls, and the parades and everything coming up.
This is a marching band that's been in every inaugural ball and parade and so forth since 1957, but not this one.
They have been X'd out.
And our fourth monitor, I can tell you, we're not going to get to it.
There's nothing there tonight.
All this other stuff's going to take too much time.
We've got to get started with it.
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As you know, on Tuesday, the 103rd Congress was sworn in, and amongst our new leaders, Carol Mosley Braun, Senator, there she is.
Senator from Illinois.
Now, she's, of course, elected because of all the unfairness and the mistreatment of Nita Hill during the Clarence Thomas situation.
She's got to go in there and fix and straighten that out.
She's embroiled in a controversy, folks.
Let's just show you here, real quickly, what the criticisms of Carol Mosley Braun are.
Here they are.
One of them is that she took the Concorde and a friend's private jet back from vacation when her campaign is in debt.
We're going to have some details on this later in just a minute.
During her closing days as the Cook County recorder of deeds, 10 people were improperly hired.
Some of them worked for her campaign.
She said, gosh, it's right.
I apologize.
I was on autopilot.
I didn't know it.
She sold the modest home in which she lived, moved into a $3,300 a month penthouse apartment, and bought a new Jeep and some expensive clothes while members of her campaign staff have not been paid.
Now, by the way, her campaign got $6 million in donations, and there's still a $500,000 debt.
She has said that she's not interested in a seat on the Judiciary Committee, and that's the whole reason she ran for the Senate.
But let me tell you why she doesn't want to go to the committee.
I'm just going to tell you a point back up from the TV set because it's coming right out at you.
When you're on the Judiciary Committee, many of the things that happen there are televised.
And so when you're an idiot, the world will see it.
None want to go there.
You've got to understand about liberals, too.
It's symbolism over substance.
What do you mean?
Judiciary Committee.
Why?
I don't have to go there just because I'm in the Senate.
That's the difference.
This is the woman who said that women are better equipped to nurture the economy back to health.
Does that mean she's the national nipple?
I don't understand what that stuff means, but that's what she says.
Now, wait, wait, wait.
She went on that 30-day vacation.
She went to South Africa.
I said, why go to South Africa?
Why in the world?
She's black.
Why go to South Africa?
She vacationed there for 30 days with her campaign manager, Cozy Matthews.
He's been accused of sexual harassment by unidentified female staff members of hers.
She said, well, we'll show you what she says here in just a moment.
Let us play for you now, Carol Mosley Braun responding to the questions by reporters about these improprieties in hiring her staff.
Here's what she said at a press conference this week.
Who's going to be on your staff?
See, I was going to hold that for an actual press announcement.
I have, we haven't reached total closure on some of these.
Total closure on hiring the staff.
Oh, she is perfect for Congress.
Gridlock has begun.
Total closure.
We haven't reached closure on the hiring of the staff.
Folks, I'm going to tell you another thing right now what's going on here.
This is a woman who is not equipped.
My opinion, that's what this show's about, what I think.
She's not equipped by virtue of experience or for the job.
She didn't want it because she has any great ideological concerns.
If you've seen her interviewed on this week with Brinkley by George Will, she doesn't.
She just has no clue.
She may be a totally nice woman, but she has no clue.
This is all about perks.
This is simply, you know, I've seen everybody else get theirs and I want my piece of the pie now.
It's simply get me in there and it's my turn.
It's our turn.
I want in the inside.
That's what all this is about, as you'll soon see.
Now, here is what she said about her vacation and the arrangements and all of that.
Take a look.
I planned for this vacation.
I saved for this vacation.
I've paid for this vacation out of private resources.
I have not taken a dime of campaign funds for anything.
By the way, that boyfriend of hers, her campaign manager, accused of sexual harassment, she said, unfounded charges.
I don't think it has anything to do with it.
We'll show you what she says about it.
This business of her expenditure and everything, vacation, what it costs, we've put together a little budget.
She makes $50,000 a year as Cook County Recorder of Deeds.
Don't put it up there yet, Chet, because I want to take a break.
Let's go to a break.
We'll come back and we'll just run down as we've put it together here, being very fair, very even-handed, extremely understanding of the costs of things these days, and we'll find out just how much.
By the way, that boyfriend, she's paying $15,000 a month, too, to run her campaign.
It's twice what they get in Illinois for it.
Be back with the budget.
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I just asked members of our audience, anybody in the audience from Illinois.
Not one hand went up, even though I know there's got to be somebody there.
They're just afraid to admit it.
And I know you people in Illinois got to be embarrassed.
You're the ones who've done this to us.
You're the ones who have elected this woman and sent her to the United States Senate in this, the year of the woman.
But as is always the case here at Rush Limbaugh, the television show, Rush Limbaugh Enterprises, we don't get upset at this stuff.
We look at it as fun city.
Now, let's look at this trip, her Jeep and all.
We've put together a budget here because we're going to show you Democrats' version of deficit spending.
And we want to show you just how odd this story is and how tough it is to believe.
Now, we've put together the budget.
We're going to run a total on it as we go.
Her salary is $50,000 a year as Cook County Recorder of Deeds.
Now, as a member of the Senate, she's going to get $120,000, but it is important to remember for this exercise, you people, that she has not received that money yet.
She's being paid at the rate of $50,000.
And remember, she had to give back the $28,000 she stole from the welfare department because they caught her.
She had to give it back.
She said she didn't steal it.
She said she didn't.
I'll take it back.
she had to give back the money she mistakenly kept so we can't kind of now we figure she pays taxes but she's a democrat in chicago and that may not be true But we nevertheless think that it is, and we figured $12,000, this is roughly about 30% or 25%, whatever it is, taxes.
Grand total then, we have $38,000 here to work with.
So she's got $30,000 a year.
Now, what'd she do?
She bought a Jeep.
Now, I have purchased a Jeep.
I know what a Jeep costs.
We're going to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Say she got it at cost because she knows somebody, a Democrat who owns a dealership.
She got it for $22,000, but didn't pay that.
We're figuring $500 a month for the payments plus insurance, if she can get it, times $12,000.
So we're figuring $6,000 for the Jeep.
That gives us a total now of $32,000 to work with.
Then she moved on up.
And we're moving on up, moving on up.
She moved from $1,000 a month pad to a $3,300 a month high-rise on Lake Shore Drive, Lake Michigan Drive, somewhere in Chicago.
That $3,300 times $12, $39,600 per year.
Ring it up.
And there we're into the red here, folks.
She's down $7,500.
She's not in South Africa yet.
Okay?
She's down $7,600.
Now, she bought some expensive clothes for this vacation.
I asked some women, what do you think for 30 days expensive clothes?
What do you think?
They said $10,000.
We're being conservative with this.
The shoes alone can probably cost $500 a pair, depending where she bought them.
We're going to be conservative.
$10,000.
We ring the new total.
She is $17,600 in the red, still not in South Africa.
She got to get there.
She's going to fly first class.
She's a member of the U.S. Senate.
It's time to get hers.
She's got the perks.
First class airfare to South Africa three.
She took her son.
She took her boyfriend campaign manager, Cozy Matthews, and herself.
It's three people.
We called a travel agent.
$4,000.
One way first class times three is $12,000.
New total, $29,600 in the red.
She is in South Africa now.
She's landed.
We'll deal with the costs of that in just a moment.
Now, she's got to leave South Africa after being there for 30 days.
So she's got to fly from South Africa to London.
This is what she did.
First-class airfare, 4-2, one-way, South Africa to London, $6,000.
There you see it.
New total deficit spending, $35,600.
She then took the Concord back.
This is the supersonic airplane we showed you at the beginning show.
London to New York.
We checked it out.
We called.
We don't make things up on this show.
$10,000 one way for all three of them.
She's now $45,600 in the hole.
She took a private jet back from New York to Chicago.
Now, it was a gift, but she's got to report that, especially now since we have done this show.
And now, wait.
Wait, wait!
Wait a minute.
I also have chartered jets.
I'm a big star.
Sometimes I have to avoid crowds.
I know what this costs.
$10,000.
It's just a Lear.
She's going to pay around $10,000.
Lear's a small jet.
$10,000, new deficit spending total, $55,600.
Now, let's go back to South Africa.
She's got to stay there in a hotel, right?
Now, this is where it gets interesting.
She's got three people, her boyfriend and her son.
Did she get one room?
Did she get two rooms?
And who slept in the second room?
Did they get a three-bedroom suite?
We figured she's a virtuous woman, the Democrat from Illinois.
Virtuous woman.
We're not going to make any assumptions.
Three-bedroom suite.
We were conservative.
30 days, $9,000 for her hotel in South Africa.
Grand total, $64,600 in the red.
She didn't use any campaign spending.
She saved up for this.
She saved up for it.
We're not counting food in South Africa.
We're not counting car rentals.
We're not counting any of this stuff.
We're not counting cable TV bills.
We're not counting tours.
We're not counting safaris.
Whatever she did over there.
We're just getting a hotel.
We're not adding food.
The woman has to live.
We're not counting makeup.
We're not counting the condoms.
I'm sorry I didn't mean to mention condoms.
She can get those for free.
She called Joe Fernandez in New York, New York City Public Schools.
Now, I didn't mean...
But, you know, you've got all kinds of incidental living expenses that we have not even tabulated.
We have been more than fair.
Would you all not agree?
Now, there's one other item, the phone.
One of the big complaints is that she hasn't gone to any of the Senate orientations.
She's not put together staff.
She hasn't been in contact with anybody.
So we figured that she was very economical.
Here's how much she spent on phone calls to her staff from Johannesburg, South Africa to Chicago.
Zero.
Grand total deficit spending, $64,600.
In the meantime, 10 members of her campaign staff have not been paid for a long time.
She's $500,000 in debt, and she purchases all of this stuff.
She's paying her campaign manager $15,000 a month.
That's a rate of $180,000 a year.
He didn't work that long, but that's the rate.
And he's been accused of sexual harassment.
This woman, my friends, bears a lot of watching.
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I promised that we would show you one more clip from Ms. Braun.
This is her response in the press conference to the accusations of sexual harassment on the part of her boyfriend/slash campaign manager.
Take a look.
I've never made any bones about dating fuzzy matthews or going out with anybody.
Matter of fact, I'll tell you who I date if you're interested, although I think that's personal and private.
In terms of the campaign effort, it is consistent with my 15 years of fighting for women that I would absolutely want to know all the facts.
I would absolutely want to know whether or not this occurred.
And quite frankly, had I gotten information that something like this occurred in the context of the campaign, I would have moved on it immediately.
Boy, wouldn't it have been great to hear that about the idiocy and the silliness of Anita Hill's unfounded charges?
Isn't it funny to point out this hypocrisy of sexual harassment?
It's all about ideology.
It just continues to be.
And here's a woman who was elected to end the hideousness of sexual harassment.
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Now let's go to the Culver Military Academy.
This, my friends, is a, I think, of something of note.
The Culver Military Academy horse team, there they are even now, have marched in presidential inauguration since 1957.
They're out of there this year.
The Clinton administration said no, and instead, the Washington Post has reported that the inaugural parade groups have been invited to participate are a precision lawn chair marching team, a reggae band, two Elvis impersonators, and the lesbian and gay band of America.
They can march, but the Culver Academy can't.
Our cameras have spotted rehearsals on the part of these groups.
Our cameras are rehearsing all over the world for this inaugural parade, and here is the footage that we have found exclusive from the Rush TV show.
That's the precision lawn chair team.
Here comes a short little Elvis impersonator.
Who does this guy think he's kidding?
Looks more like Daniel Inouye.
That guy's a...
And now this must be...
Yeah, that's...
Well, there's a transvestite son...
We've got dikes on bikes there, gay nuns on dope, the precision marching team and lawn chairs.
Ah, dikes on bikes are there.
That's what it's going to look like, folks.
That's what this inauguration is going to look like.
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in politics i find it difficult to understand how the white house for example could not have coordinated uh with a senator as powerful as sam nunn on such an issue
Well, I think they probably were in touch with Sam Nunn.
I don't think there was any breakdown of communication between Sam Nunn and the president.
I think they're friends, as a matter of fact.
I think that could he have played the game differently?
Sure, he could have played the game differently.
But I think that everyone has to respect the president who campaigns and says black is black or white is white and then speaks the same language after he gets elected.
You have to have a kind of respect for him, even though it's a very difficult issue.
Political consultant Paul Begella helped Bill Clinton win the White House.
So what are you going to do now?
I mean, how do you help the president get over what is clearly a major hurdle?
Well, you try to make your case, and you make it as best you can.
You appeal both to the principle and the pragmatism behind the policy.
You state it clearly and unequivocally, and then you move on.
I think one of the reasons that this issue has taken on such a life of its own is that it is existing in a vacuum.
One of the reasons we're able to talk tonight, for example, is that you're not going live from Port-au-Prince because President Clinton saw a crisis coming and he averted it.
And he should get credit for that.
I know it's not the nature of the media, and I don't mean this as a criticism, that people don't stand up and say, well, you know, tonight, Peter, there are no boat people coming from Haiti because President Clinton took decisive action to stop them from coming.
But he did.
And so we have to talk about something.
The economic package is not ready yet.
Once that's ready, it'll suck all the oxygen out of these other stories.
They're going to wither and die because the economy really is what President Clinton is focusing on like a laser beam, just as he said the day after the election.
But between now and then, what does this do to other policies?
What does this do to affect the overall perception of how successful he is in his first week in office, and what difference does that make?
Well, exactly.
The voters gave him four years.
The Constitution gives him four years.
We've got to deliver on those meat and potato issues.
Does a president modify his position when he feels that public opinion is going too much against him?
He modifies his position if he feels that it would be wrong not to.
And that can be affected by a lot of factors.
Wrong ethically or wrong politically?
Wrong ethically, wrong just materially, whether or not the policy won't work.
And then finally, I mean, you can't always bow to public pressure.
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At the moment, it seems as though the president will have no option but to modify his original plan, which, of course, was to legalize gays in the military by executive order.
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We are here to get started.
A lot to do tonight.
Just going to run down these monitors, tell you what's coming up on the show, then take care of some business that we have to straighten out or add to from last night.
As you know, hypocrisy running rampant now from the Clintons as they have decided to send their daughter Chelsea to a private school in Washington, D.C.
This is now.
Wait, be kind.
Be kind.
I don't blame him for doing it.
That's, I mean, if you lived in D.C., would you send your kid to a public school there?
Well, but you would have to, you see, unless you have lots of money or lots of influence.
What Bill Clinton did, you, most of you, most of you, don't have the chance to do.
And he doesn't want you to have the chance to do it.
Oh, we're going to talk about that tonight.
Yes, we are.
This is the school.
Notice how they've pictured it here.
It looks like the old modern version of the old one-room cabin, a one-room schoolhouse.
You'll probably be walking 12 miles a day to school.
I'll get to the place.
This is from last night.
You know, I liked the line I used so much about her last night that I said, I want to do it again.
The line is, this is Patricia Ireland, the president of the Now Gang.
Her husband, a painter, lives in Florida.
Her girlfriend lives in Washington.
That's where she lives.
The biggest punishment, if you really wanted to ruin her day, you'd make her go out on a date with her husband.
We have, see, it works.
It works because it's clever.
And nobody else on TV would dare say it.
I do.
Sexual harassment update on tonight's show.
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And of course, our fourth monitor, I can promise we won't get to it tonight, so don't ask what's there.
Okay, now, last night, you'll recall, or yesterday, we showed you a receipt from a Walmart store in Moore, Oklahoma.
Why, there it is.
The magic of TV.
You can look at it.
Now, see down there, keep it up there, chat.
See where it says sweet liar down there?
This, there it is.
We even make it bigger so you can see it easier.
That is, as it turns out, the title of a book.
Our staff yesterday, when we heard about this, see, that guy bought my book at that Walmart store and got home, looked at the receipts, and sweet liar.
I didn't buy that.
Why?
They're calling Rush a liar and it's a secret code in there.
So he sent us a note in that receipt to let us know.
And that's what we reported last night.
We were wrong.
There is a book called Sweet Liar.
Here it is.
It's by Jude Devereaux.
There's Jude on the back.
She's not bad.
It's a, I'm sorry for noticing.
I'm sorry for noticing.
It's a sexist thing I did.
Sorry for.
We said this book didn't exist.
Turns out the book does exist, but not even the publisher knew.
We called the company that publishes this book.
Same company that publishes mine.
They didn't know it existed.
So anyway, the guy who runs the book department at Walmart, his name is Kendall Kilman.
And he sent us a note here.
He apologized to us and said, look, this does not mean your book is not being credited with the sale.
He told us how it works.
It's too lengthy and complicated to go in here, go into here.
But the simple fact of the matter is, they can't keep enough of my books in stock.
He said, send us more now that we got you on the phone, Rush.
You got to send more in there because we can't keep them on the shelves.
Which, of course, was great news.
We enjoyed hearing it.
So those of you out there who are giving Walmart grief, please don't.
They're a great American tradition.
And we didn't last night get mad at them.
We thought that there was some loco weed running around.
They're just having some fun with the barcodes.
Turns out there is this book.
Also, got a fax today at the office.
TV guides got this cover story.
I'm sure you've heard about this.
All these rumors that President Reagan voted for Clinton.
Yeah, right, is exactly.
One of the unidentified anonymous Clinton Saffers is out there saying that it happened.
Well, I, in my office today, got this facts.
Take a look at it.
We'll put it up.
Statement by President Reagan.
I'm going to read this to you.
Los Angeles, after more than 80 years on this earth and several decades in public life, I thought I'd heard everything.
But this week's TV guide story ranks up there with the worst of them.
To put an end to such nonsense, I'll spell it out for you once and for all.
I actively campaigned and energetically supported George Bush in the November election, and I proudly cast my vote for him.
Please, please, we have the rest of the show tonight.
I know this is, you want to applaud with virtually every syllable I say.
But you have to, and Tori says, finally, ladies and gentlemen, this is just funny as it can be.
You all know who Al Sharpton is.
Well-known black leader and black civil rights advocate and so forth.
And Al Sharpton wants to be the president of the New York City Council.
He's going to run for City Council presidency in 1993.
There was a problem.
It seems that Al didn't file a tax return in 1986.
Now, you would think that that would hurt you.
No, no, no.
In New York, that's resume enhancement.
Here's what you did.
No, no, no.
He copped a plea.
He copped a plea.
Now, normally when you cop a plea, you go down to say, well, yeah, I did it, but I'll admit to doing it, and then you won't punish me for it.
That's how you cop a plea.
You plea bargain the charge down.
He admitted it full-fledged.
He plea-bargained guilt in preparation to run for the New York City City Council.
In other words, you cannot run for office in New York City without a guilty verdict on your record.
I wondered, can it be he may not have even done this?
It may have been made, you know, because the general, Mayor Dinkins, he didn't pay his taxes for two years.
He just forgot.
And look at him.
He's mayor.
See, Sharpton only didn't pay his for one year, so he can only run for city council.
What, though, if he did pay?
He could just be lying about this guilty verdict so as to get votes.
We have our rest of our show.
Think about it.
Rest of our show is coming right up.
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Why don't we just do it?
Thank you.
Why don't we just do a whole show of applause?
No, no, no, don't do it.
Don't do it.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, we have some members of the New York City Police Department in the audience tonight, New York's finest.
And they're saying, Rush, no, you sound like you want Charpen to be elected.
I'm saying, yeah, it would be fun for what I do.
And they said, no.
So it's not all happiness and unison here on this issue.
Now, Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea and school choice.
Now, first off, as I said at the top of the show, you can't quarrel with, I'm for school choice.
I think parents ought to have the right to choose where their kids go to school.
That's called competition.
That would create competition.
That's going to make all schools better, including the public schools.
Now, Bill Clinton thinks that he should have that choice too.
He exercised it.
He found, you don't have the tuition to this school.
I'll show you the school.
This is the Friends of the Sidwell Friends School, and this is where so many children of elite rich parents in Washington attend school.
We have a list of those names coming up for you in just a moment.
I have no quarrel with him sending his kid there, but you don't have that right, and he doesn't want you to have that right.
He is beholden to the National Education Association.
They're a major, major lobby.
Now, Bill Bennett, a good friend of mine, was on Good Morning America today and pretty much summed up the hypocrisy that is evident here.
Let him say it.
They made personal judgment as to what was best for Chelsea, and that's fine.
I don't argue with the personal decision, but it does show the liberal hypocrisy when it comes to the issue of school choice.
The Clintons made the best decision for their daughter, but this is not a decision that poor people can make as long as you have the current monopoly.
I saw the heads of the teachers' unions on this morning saying, well, that's his decision.
They didn't want the Clintons' daughter.
They just want the money.
Let's show you some of the other parents.
You'll recognize the names who are sending or have sent their kids to this school.
Donald Graham, that's publisher of the Washington Post.
Judy Woodruff, PBS, McNeil Lair, Albert Hunt, married to her.
They have sent their kids.
Their kids go to this school now.
Next page, Porphyr, Spanish lingo there.
Senator Jeff Bingaman from New Mexico.
Bill Bradley from New Jersey sends his kids there.
Senator Max Baucus of Montana, I think we have even more.
David Brinkley of ABC, Leslie Stahl of CBS, Marion Wright Edelman.
Now that's interesting down there at the bottom.
She's head of the Children's Defense Fund and she's one of Hillary's big buds.
And they've all sent their kids there.
Now, a lot of people say, Rush, why are you being so critical?
Again, I'm not being critical of the decision.
But here's a guy.
See, this is symbolism over substance.
He's been trapped by symbolism, folks, because here's a guy who's planning his inauguration, this big parade with bus tours and all this stuff.
Every bit of his campaign was symbolism.
The volleyball games, the jogging of the beach, the going to McDonald's, it's symbolism.
So if you're going to live by symbolism, you've got to be prepared to die by it.
If you're going to live by the photo op, you've got to be prepared to die by the photo op.
And Bill Clinton's spokesman, George Stephanopoulos, said, look, this is a personal decision.
There's no politics entered into this.
Well, his supporters think you can't keep politics out of it.
Liberals believe that politics should govern the way you live your personal life.
And if you don't live your personal life according to their politics, you're a bad person.
You're mean and you're evil.
Now, here's the full impact of the hypocrisy.
Bill Clinton was seven years old when his mother moved their family from Hope, Arkansas to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Now, that's another little side issue because they've got this film, The Man from Hope.
He didn't grow up in Hope.
He left Hope.
He left Hope at age seven, went to Hot Springs.
Hot Springs in Arkansas is the equivalent of Las Vegas in Nevada.
So they couldn't, the man from Las Vegas, they just wouldn't fly.
So they got this big big about going to Hope.
When they got to Hope, Arkansas, his mother didn't like the school.
It wasn't good enough.
His mother decided and then chose to put him in, of all things, a Catholic school.
Do you know Bill Clinton was taught by nuns?
And his mother is on record as saying it's the best decision she ever made for him.
Now, interestingly here, in addition to all that, the choice aspect of this and his mother exercising it, when you're taught at a Catholic school, you're taught the Ten Commandments.
You're taught certain elements of religion.
And Bill Clinton says the best thing that ever happened to him.
His mother says it's the best thing that ever happened to him.
But here's Bill Clinton saying, no, you can't have any prayer in school, no religion.
Everything that happened to him that made him what he thinks he is, no good for anybody else.
And it's not because he doesn't believe it.
It's because his supporters won't let him be himself because he's got to pay off these ultra-liberal groups.
This school that Chelsea is going to is a Quaker school.
It's a religious school.
There are elements of religious instruction taught.
So he knows how important it is.
He's sending his daughter to the best school he can find.
But he wants to deny you the same opportunity.
That's what, if you hear the school voucher plan discussed, that's what it's all about.
You say, well, I can't afford it anyway, no matter what.
You could, if they let you spend the equivalent of what's being spent for you on public education and give you a voucher in the amount of your share of public education and say, you can spend that voucher at any school you want, you could do the same thing Bill Clinton just did.
But Bill Clinton doesn't want you to do that because the National Education Association, the big teachers union, would have a fit.
The big teachers unions have set themselves up so that they don't have to be tested by quality.
They got a monopoly, and it doesn't matter, therefore, how good they do teaching your kids.
And as we all know, many people are dissatisfied with the job they're doing.
But if you had vouchers, and if you could send your kid to whatever school you wanted, just as the Clintons have done, that would improve education all the way around.
This hypocrisy is blatant, and it raises this question.
Where is the soul of Bill Clinton?
What is the soul of Bill Clinton?
This is a good example of how the next four years may look on a lot of issues.
We'll be back with more right after this.
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That was Anita Hill in our sexual harassment segment coming up.
I was just told that I inadvertently said that Mrs. Kelly, Virginia Kelly, went to Hope.
She left Hope.
I thought I made that clear, Dick.
You're harassing me.
He left Hope, and she did not go back to Hope.
Not even to get the grocery.
She left Hope.
They went to Hot Springs.
All right, Bob Packwood was seated despite the angry protestations of the Feminazis.
This is a man who's been accused of sexual harassment.
Here is a protest.
Now, see if this is not an elevating thing.
See if it doesn't make you feel better about the feminist group.
Listen to this.
Pack your bag.
Pack your bags, Packwood, back your bag.
Pack your bag, Packwood, back your bag.
Pack your beds, Packwood, Pack your bag.
Real elevating stuff in it.
There you go.
There's the Now Gang label.
They're out there.
They're upset.
A bunch of women have come forth and said that he harassed them.
Now, Patricia Ireland, who again we could really punish by making her have a date with her husband, said the following about this evil guy, Packwood.
Take a listen.
Packwood continues to insist that he just didn't get it when he committed unquestionable acts of physical assault that were beyond the bounds of propriety, even by pre-Anita Hill standards.
For the Senate to confirm this man would be a mockery and an embarrassment to the institution and to the U.S. Congress as a whole.
Let's get something straight about this, real quick.
Bob Packwood maybe did bother some women sexually.
And I'm not here to defend him, but I do think that there's too much inconsistency in all of this because you remember during the Clarence Thomas and Nita Hill hearings, I will never forget this.
They asked some feminist commentator, one of the people on TV did, said, well, if no means no, what does that mean?
What should a woman do?
What should a man do to ask a woman out?
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And when a man asks a woman out, he should do so very carefully.
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Sometimes it means maybe, and sometimes it means yes.
This is a fact of life.
That's a very unrealistic restriction to place on natural behavior.
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Oh, it's definitely worthwhile.
When we went into Baidoa, and when we first got there, going down the main streets of Baido was pretty sparse.
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And in the short time we were there, we were there about three weeks.
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There's a lot of improvement that needs to be done.
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Main concern about that country is to get a government.
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We barely made a little drop over there to help with the food lines.
But if the people there don't care for themselves and care for their country, it's not going to get better.
It's not going to get better.
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I don't have a teleprompter.
I don't know if I can do this.
I can.
What?
Add Libet?
Well, I can try to add Libbet, but the problem with that is I haven't memorized it yet.
All right.
Greetings to all in Northwest Ohio.
We've signed on a new station in Toledo, folks, NWO, Channel 24.
It's an ABC affiliate.
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Don't miss it.
How's that?
Is that all right?
That was good.
Good.
Okay.
Get that done.
How long did the show start?
Four months.
Four months.
That was the start of the show.
Countdown.
I thought the countdown.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to Rush Limbaugh, the television show.
I thought that countdown was from the promo.
I was supposed to do this promo.
And I was wondering where the teleprompter was.
You know, it's your last day on this show, Matt, and it really is.
We're not being unkind.
It's been great having you with us, Matt.
Matt's been the floor manager all week long while our regular floor managers get away.
Now, could we bring the lights down?
It's our fireside chat show.
It's time now, ladies and gentlemen, to start the fake, there it is, remote control romance, the environmental fireplace.
There it is.
That makes liberals happy.
Symbolism over substance.
Now, there are a number of you out there who are no doubt pleased that we do this.
You are phony.
We'd like to now show you real.
We have an animal rights contingent in our audience in the front row.
Can we take a shot?
Some women have shown up.
There they are.
Now, let's show you how they came attired.
All right, that, that was real.
That is real.
Hey, is Deborah here, Deborah?
Deborah, ask me the question that you asked me last night.
This is our comedy babe makeup artist, Deborah, who loves me now.
When we started the show, she was too conservative, but now ask me the question.
The question I asked you is why does it seem that most conservative men get divorced?
Yeah, here's what she says.
We finished the show last night, and I'm busy unwinding.
This is a monumental project.
I'm sitting in my real TV show host office, and Deborah kind of walks in to take the makeup off my face.
She says, hey, how come so many conservative guys get divorced?
Well, I'll tell you, folks, I didn't miss a minute.
I'll tell you why people, I'll tell you why men get divorced.
I don't know about conservative men.
It's real simple.
It's because we accept the responsibilities of life.
We're out there trying to make a better life for our families, our wives, or whatever.
And while we're out there doing that, they get bored because we're not spending enough time with them.
We're not spending that time with them.
Ah, see, try to tell the truth.
You're not spending enough time with me.
So, you end up leaving for some guy who sells jeans at some shop, making one-third what your divorced husband makes.
That's fun for a couple of years, and then you miss the good times.
You miss the good life, and you want somebody who's out there who will spend 50 hours a week with you and 50 hours a week working, Deborah, so that you can have all you want in life.
For two years, you want romance, and then you want the fur coat.
Anyway, anyway.
Anyway, we actually like ourselves a lot here, and we like each other a lot, and we did have fun with that.
But I really believe that.
I mean, I've been divorced twice, and it wasn't my fault.
I was out doing what I supposed to do.
I thought.
And, you know, I don't want to share my dirty laundry with everybody, but I want to once again show you the map, folks, of everywhere this show can be seen.
Not much has changed.
We've added a lot of stations in Alaska.
We've got a lot of stations in Baja.
A lot of stations in Mexico.
But there's still this lingering little red dot here, our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., where this show still cannot be seen.
And again, the answer to the question, why, Rush, can't your show be seen in Washington?
Because whatever general manager decides to take this show will never be invited to a party the next four years in Washington because it's a politically incorrect thing to do.
Now, let me show you a couple of things, though, to illustrate just what a mistake in a business sense this is.
Chet, let's show the print off of the Washington Post.
This is the Washington Post, folks.
Last week, that's the top-selling books.
Number one, The Way Things Ought to Be by me.
I mean, it's not as though we're not popular there.
Now, most shows would not do what we're going to do.
Now, most of the time, we wouldn't do it, but we're different.
That's why we are going to do it.
This is electronic media.
This is a trade publication.
There's a long shot of it.
It's read by people who run television stations and who generally work in television and radio in the broadcast industry.
This is the cover of the most recent issue, January 4th, 1993, survey of stations, the mood of the market, the most rewarding purchases of 92.
What they did, this magazine surveyed station general managers and said, What was the best decision you made in syndicated programming you decided to air on your station this year?
Now, put that cover back up there, Chet.
We tied the most rewarding purchases this show and Roseanne.
Now, then, then, if you open, if you open this up, open it up to page four, take a look at this story: Rush Tops Snaps list for sweeps.
That's a rating service and an audience measurement service.
Now, when you see all this, I mean, obviously, we're proud of it, and the reason it's happening is because you're watching the show and we love you for it, and we're grateful and highly appreciative.
But when you see this, I mean, they in Washington are carrying television shows with one-third the audience this show has, and they still don't want to carry this show.
Do you think it's a business decision?
No!
But there's more.
Broadcasting magazine, this is another trade publication.
And I now turn to the inside here, and there's a little story.
There it is.
Let me read just portions of it to you.
The Lone Star shining in late night has been Multimedia Entertainment's half-hour Rush Limbaugh strip.
And the rest of it goes on to talk about how well we're doing and gives the details.
My point is, folks, is that there is no business reason why this show is not in Washington.
It's purely a political reason, as we have demonstrated.
Now, what else do we have in this segment before?
That's it.
What do we have later on in the show?
We've got some viewer videos, and they are superb.
And guess what?
I never would ask you to do what I wouldn't do.
And so I just returned from vacation.
I have my own home video from vacation.
I'm wearing shorts and a golf shirt, and I'm going to show it to you next when we come back.
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I do this once a week, play the show, play the fire, and chat.
I just got back from Hawaii.
I had a great time over there.
I stayed at a place called Holly Kalani, and I met the general manager and his wife, Ers Abe, from Switzerland, and his wife Katie.
Gorgeous hotel.
I have a picture of it to show you.
Also, I got a tour of the USS Indianapolis.
It is a nuclear sub.
You want to see the bunks on this.
I mean, there are 95 bunks and 140 crew.
And I'll tell you, these bunks look like bookshelves.
They're not much bigger than this.
And they're not longer than 5'8.
If you're longer than 5'8 or taller than 5'8, you can't stretch out in these things.
I mean, it really is cramped.
The largest room on board is the mess, and it's the size of two picnic tables for a huge submarine.
And the people who serve on this thing have a very important job.
There's a little footage.
I took my video camera and I brought some footage back, and we've put it together just so that I can get in on this home video stuff like you people always do.
And here's some footage.
It starts out with some footage of a house in Maui that a friend of mine from Sacramento just built.
This is a gorgeous house.
And I'd love to show you the whole thing, but I didn't get his permission.
Now, this is the hotel room.
This is a Holly Kalani.
This is where I was staying on vacation.
And out that window there, that's Diamond Head.
We're on Waikiki on Oahu.
And here I am zooming.
Now, my camera has an interesting overlap effect.
I can, you'll see in a minute as scenes fade together like that.
Really nice.
There's the sub.
There's the sub.
We're in the ward room.
I'm the finest ship in the U.S. Navy to USS Indianapolis.
Wonderful.
Thank you.
It's been a pleasure to be aboard.
Right.
Say something.
It's recording.
It's recording.
Let me, let me, let me.
That's it.
I am recording.
That, look at that.
That's an intelligence gathering ship.
This is Pearl Harbor that we're on.
We're on a yacht now on a tour of Pearl Harbor.
There's the Arizona Memorial.
We have a flag that flew over that.
That flag is on this set.
They sent that to us.
We'll show you that in just a second.
That little ridge in the mountains where the Japanese Zeros flew in for the attack on Pearl Harbor, they flew straight that way and then made a right turn as you're left turn actually as you're looking there to where the Arizona Memorial was.
Captain David Zacharias is the skipper of the USS Indianapolis, a great crew, and it's a unique thing to see to be able to see that submarine and nuclear sub and see how it works and so forth.
Acts has a periscope and you go down the hatch just like you see in the movies.
All right, it's time.
Yes, let's try it.
We're going to squeeze it in for our first.
No, I look at the we better take a break now, otherwise we're going to be short on all of our remaining segments.
When we come back, our first viewer video of 1993, and it is hot.
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Fleet Command sent that into us, and it will always remain here on our set as a reminder.
All right, now the viewer videos.
Let me refresh your memory.
And if you're just joining us for the first time, we have offered viewers the chance to send in questions, comments, or their own home productions to our show.
And we will then judge those that we receive and we'll play them.
You send them in a VHS tape.
We'll show you the address later in the show.
You don't get the tape back.
And the ones we show you are designed to motivate you.
They're the ones that we think are good, and they're not full of a lot of production value.
We're not asking you to go out and spend a lot of money on this, but just be creative and have a chance here at doing your own video on this show.
And remember, it can be a question or a comment for me that you would like an answer or a response to.
Maybe you just want some advice, whatever it is.
Now, we would like to show you our first for 1993.
I don't even want to try to describe it, just watch it.
Now watch.
Now, listen carefully here, too.
Listen as it moves.
It's a pig for you feminist.
See, it's boring is the thing here, folks.
It's bored.
it has an idea.
Acting out the idea.
Okay, you know what?
The feminists are watching this show are saying they're saying, oh, it takes one to no one.
See, if I laugh at myself, it takes the ammunition away from you.
That's why I say I don't mind laughing at myself.
We all ought to be able to do that a little.
Can we do the next one that was in the next one?
Let's go ahead and do it.
Here is 1993's second viewer video on Rush Limbaugh's Friday chat fireside chat show.
Here it is.
Isn't that something?
I mean, he's actually, they've recreated this set in their home.
Talon on loan from God.
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The only way we can take a phone call is if the caller says, Rush, you're great.
Thanks for letting me say it.
Now we want to go back, show you some videos from last year.
We've got one more for 93, but we want to show you some from last year, some of our highlight videos from last year, ones we think are the best.
And we've actually lifted these from previous programs so you'll hear the way they actually aired from those previous programs in 1992.
The first one we call Dumpster Dining.
Go ahead and roll it back there, Chet.
This is an amazingly creative video.
This is a guy, this is before the election, and he is coming home.
This is a voter and a former, a great American citizen arriving home.
He's going to let the trash dumpster collector people know that he's home by putting that flag up.
And he's now, he's arriving home.
He's getting in.
There he goes.
Now we have audio, you can use it.
Today I found a half-eaten chicken and some sourdough bread.
Great.
Hey, you know, I was so skeptical of taxes under Bill Clinton.
But since we laid off all of the employees and let the business go back to the bank, aborted the children, and sent the house and the car back to the finance company, we don't have to pay any taxes.
I'll tell you, sweetheart.
This is life in the West Lane.
Don't talk about the White House.
It just doesn't get any better than this.
The next one, this is just priceless.
So many people have sent videos in of their children.
We love children on this show, as you can imagine.
And this one we call the Kid Crib.
Take a look at this one.
Don't worry, he's not drunk.
He's got responsible powers.
Now watch.
Look at this.
Came home, got out of the crib to watch Rush Limbaugh, the television show, getting hold of these young skulls full of mush, folks, and forming them and shaping them to great conservative Americans.
How much time left on this show, Matt?
All right.
We have a couple of minutes left, and this is our final video for the night from 1993.
This one is really, really fun.
I think it's very creative and fun and funny.
We call it the Mint Commercial.
Here it is.
Take a look.
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Now, I heard.
I heard.
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I heard some groaning in the audience from some women out there, but I think there are a lot of men who look at this whole sexual harassment issue as that.
But see, anyway, the point is that it's not even something you can have fun with without some people getting all disturbed and upset.
And don't forget, it's not.
What are you, trying to chop off your arm or something?
You know, we have signals in TV.
This just, I said, give me that for a half minute.
This guy's, Matt, we've enjoyed having you on and it's been great.
Gender-based, what is it?
Gender-based power abuse or something like that is what sexual harassment is.
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All right, let's just...
Let's just...
Oh, look at that tie.
Man, that shows.
Now, see, from this distance, the home viewing audience cannot tell Sandy what this tie is.
Why don't you zoom in tight here, John?
See what those are?
Those are hearts, folks.
Yes.
I'm such a warm-hearted, conservative kind of guy.
All right, well, we've got a show tonight that's going to do what a lot of people in the media are doing, especially the liberals in the media.
They're very disappointed, very, very disappointed at President-elect Clinton.
He's breaking promises before he's even president.
Imagine that.
I mean, stop to think about that.
It's an amazing thing.
Now, before we get to the broken promises, we'll get to that in just a second.
First off, we got some problems with some cabinet appointees.
Zoe Baird, the Attorney General appointee.
Be kind.
You know, she's not what you think.
Most of her enemies on Capitol Hill are the Liberals.
This is a corporate attorney.
She's 40 years old.
She worked for Aetna Life and casually.
She'd been named Attorney General.
Liberals don't like that.
They want these legal aid lawyers that have never been paid a dime to go sleep on sewer grates with the homeless and so forth.
And then they go serve beans to Haitians and so forth down in Miami.
That's the kind of lawyer they want to be Attorney General.
And Zoe Baird is not that.
But folks, she did a no-no.
She put an ad in the paper, wanted to hire a nanny.
No Americans applied.
So she hired a couple from Peru, illegal immigrants, folks.
And she said, well, what do I was supposed to do?
They didn't apply.
No Americans applied.
That's right.
We have exported those jobs to Mexico.
And you know what this does prove?
Let me tell you what this proves.
There are just certain jobs that Americans aren't going to do anymore.
And those are the jobs that exported to other countries, low-wage jobs.
Nannies are not necessarily it.
But just because no Americans apply doesn't mean you break the law and go out and hire illegals.
Well, I had no choice.
That's a great excuse, isn't it?
I held up that bank because I had no choice.
I had no other way of getting money.
Now, this, folks, this is hilarious.
This next is hilarious.
How many of you saw our show on Tuesday night where we showed you the answer Les Aspen gave to the question, what do you think we should do about lifting the ban on gays in the military?
Let's play a portion of that answer again just to refresh your memory.
And if you didn't see it, it's some of you have to do this.
Let me tell you, Senator Coach, where I'm coming on the issue, because I think we'd be dealing with this issue in some form in any case.
I mean, I think, first of all, my view is that there's some obvious flaws in the current policy.
I think that this is an issue that is kind of a gathering storm here.
I see that starting to nuke.
A little bit.
Okay, okay, let me have it back here, Chuck.
Now, that answer went off for 10 minutes, but it never made any more sense than what you just saw.
So I'm reading the paper today, and it's a story about Clinton says he's still committed to lifting the ban on gays in the military, but, but, he may immediately not do it, may wait a while, and aides have suggested that he consider asking Les Aspen to issue a written directive ordering the end to discrimination against homosexuals.
It takes us three weeks to read it.
And he still wouldn't lift it.
Now, that's just an example.
I mean, Clinton is running from that issue, folks, by giving it to Aspen.
Having the guy we just showed you do it.
Oh, I'll tell you.
Now, flip-flops, changes of mind.
Gee, I didn't really mean it.
Haitia, Haiti.
To Haitians from Haiti.
He's sending them back.
They're distressed.
He's the one who's doing it.
He has broken promises.
This is the new international symbol for broken promises.
And we're going to talk about those tonight.
And we have, if we get to this tonight, we're going to violate a rule on this show.
We have a guest, and it's here if we get to it.
If we don't, we'll do it some other time.
We'll be back and get started with all of it right after this.
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Have you heard the latest thing that women are doing to recapture their legacy and their heritage?
They're playing drums out there someplace in New Jersey, in fact.
Really, that's what they say.
Natural heritage, women can express their outrage and anger by playing the drum.
The outrage and anger that the oppressive men in our society are causing them.
Well, I feel better.
I don't know.
This next segment pretty much speaks for itself.
This is a rarity on this show.
In this segment, you really don't need me.
But you're going to get me.
Let's go back to November.
I think it's the 16th, somewhere around there.
Wait, is it this year?
Wait, are you saying sure it's November?
This happened before the election, I thought.
What?
This is the statement he made right after the election.
Right after the election.
Okay, okay, because he made this statement before the election, too.
But what I, oh, okay, we have it in a post-election statement.
But when you see this, he made this statement during the campaign.
Here it is.
I think that the blanket sending them back to Haiti under the circumstances which have prevailed for the last year was an error.
These are the refugees from Haiti coming here in boats, trying to find freedom, fleeing poverty and oppression in their own country.
And you remember during the campaign, he said that he disagreed stringently and stridently with the president that the president's policy was heartless and all that.
Clint says, I think it's now Bill Clinton had to make a speech, a radio address, if you will, to the people of Haiti.
It was broadcast today.
Here's an excerpt: many hundreds of Haitians, including women and children, have already lost their lives in dangerous sea voyages.
Just this week, some 400 Haitians packed aboard one ship are reported to have died at sea.
For Haitians who do seek to leave Haiti, boat departure is a terrible and dangerous choice.
I've been deeply concerned by reports that many of you are preparing to travel by boat to the United States.
And I fear that boat departures in the near future would result in further tragic losses of life.
For this reason, the practice of returning those who flee Haiti by boat will continue for the time being after I become president.
Those who do leave Haiti for the United States by boat will be stopped and directly returned by the United States Coast Guard.
You know whose policy that was?
George Herbert Walker Bush.
That was the policy of the United States government.
Bill Clinton denounced it, said it wasn't any good.
He welcomed the people of Haiti, said they were going to be welcomed into our country.
So they came.
400 of them, he's right, 400 of them perished at sea because the makeshift boat they manufactured to get here sank.
You see, the thing that he forgets, and I'll tell you, the media is very forgiving in this.
I guarantee you, had it been a Republican president who said, come on in.
And so they came and died in the process.
And then after that, said, don't come on in.
Stay there.
They would have been all over that president's front door.
Don't you think the death of those people may be at your feet?
Not one question about that toward Bill Clinton, but my friends, this is a classic example.
Words mean things.
The people in Haiti believed him.
And that's something this administration had better get used to.
The words they say, people believe.
We're going to show you in another segment of this show, but the liberal media is among the most disappointed group of people in this country because these, I'll tell you, folks, we've got a president here who I don't think has a soul.
I think this guy says things for symbolic reasons.
I think he says things because he should.
It's psychobabble.
It sounds good.
It makes him look good.
It makes him feel good.
But he doesn't think anybody's really going to listen.
But they do, especially the oppressed who want to come here and can't wait to get here.
Words mean things.
He was asked about this at a press conference recently.
Here it is, his response.
I still believe the policy should be changed.
We are changing it.
I think it should be changed more, but I don't think we can do it on a dime on January the 20th.
And I have been profoundly moved by the dangers involved.
You should be.
In having a lot of people set sail in homemade boats made from wood.
They become to do it.
As far as we know, nearly 400 people died just a few days ago.
Yeah.
And I do not want to do anything to fuel that sort of danger and perilous journey.
Of course not.
That wouldn't be nice.
Policy still needs to be changed, but not on January 20th.
Maybe not all the way, but we still need to change the policy.
Words mean things.
May I take you back to the campaign?
Remember the debate?
I guess it was in Richmond, Virginia, the second debate, that idiot with the ponytail, the Clinton poster boy, and everybody applauded this guy all because he said, would you stop talking about each other?
Would you stop talking about character?
Treat us as your children.
What are you going to do for us?
And everybody went, oh, finally, we're getting to the meat of this campaign.
And I'm telling you something, folks.
You can't take character out of leadership because leadership descends from character.
And I wonder how long it's going to be before people start questioning the character here.
This is a serious, serious problem because people have died.
400 plus people have died.
And he's right.
Others are making votes and they're coming in.
I don't know about you, but I remember the news reports after he made the statement and after the election was over.
All these excited Haitians, oh, boy, I didn't believe him, Mon.
I can't wait to come.
They were saying there's a lot of them.
No, no, no, don't laugh.
I mean, words mean things.
And character is, for all you people who don't think it matters, it matters.
And it's going to be showing that, it's going to be showing itself to you.
It's going to demonstrate itself to you, character mattering, throughout the next coming weeks.
You're going to be blindsided by it.
Now, broken promises are up next.
Not to the Haitians, but to you.
Right after this.
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If you are a subscriber to the Limbaugh Letter, one of the most successful newsletter rollouts in recent memory, then you have received this.
This is called Promises Promises.
There you have it, ladies, and right there on your screen is side one.
It's a two-sided page, and it lists 50 promises made by candidate Bill Clinton.
And lo and behold, I told you in the rundown of the show, we can show you where the first promise has been broken.
And as I said, it happened before he was president.
Now, let me show you how this works.
If you have one of these at home, Chet put this up.
There we go.
You can't see it.
It doesn't matter.
You're too far away from it.
I'm just going to show you what happens.
Here is a column that says date broken down here.
This is a checkbox, and these are the promises.
Now, the promise that has been broken is number 44.
Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.
That he stated in Putting People First, his massive economic plan.
Well, that promise has been broken, as we'll demonstrate for you in a minute.
Now, what you do is magic.
You'll just wipe it away.
What you do, you come down here to number 44, you check the box, and you write in the date, like that.
And of course, you do it on your page at home.
Don't do it on the TV.
And keep track of it.
And this has been done as a service to the readers of the Limbaugh Letter.
And we, of course, will keep you track, and keep you posted and keep track of these things for you as well on television.
Now, here we have some videotape, Governor Clinton, President-elect Clinton, explaining why, all of a sudden, he has to break this most important of promises.
Take a look.
I think I have to revisit it in light of the bigger deficit.
So there's a chance now it won't happen.
There's a chance that we'll present a slightly different program because I think, look.
Now, watch this.
There are two issues about the middle-class tax.
Making it up here as he goes.
Making it up.
When I first proposed it in New Hampshire when the deficit was about half what we now know it to be.
A little more than half.
That's not true.
that is not true there was a whole question of thinking about it now thinking about what i was like What am I going to say?
Whether that should contribute to a stimulation of the economy, which was very depressed and where there was virtually no consumer demand.
All right.
There you have an example of the psycho babble.
Now here's what he's saying.
He's saying the deficit is half as high as we thought it was going to be.
It's half again as much as we thought it was going to be.
It's not.
It's $18 billion, folks, higher than what they thought.
$278 billion to $292 billion if you want the numbers.
$18 billion.
And for that, we're going to just throw it all away and get rid of the middle-class tax cut.
Here's the truth about it.
He never intended to give you a middle-class tax cut.
He just said it because he thought that it would help win the election.
Now, you may say, politics as usual.
It is, but you wanted change.
This is politics as usual.
This is the epitome of politics as usual, and you said you wanted change.
You don't have change.
You've got the same old thing times about five.
This is pure, concentrated, undiluted, same old thing.
Now, Now, wait, no, wait, at this same press conference, he was asked, well, President-elect Clinton, how do you think the people are going to judge you since you have decided to change your mind about the middle-class tax cut?
Now, watch this.
I think the American people voted for me because they knew what I, they supported the big things that we were running on.
From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, The press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut.
I never did meet any voter who thought that.
He never met a voter who thought a middle class tax cut was something on which they were counting on him to deliver?
Now you know why they called him Slick Willie.
You never wanted it in the first place.
Why?
You know, you only wanted to, you were only concerned about the big things.
What are they?
I thought it was the economy, stupid.
And if taxes and how much you have to spend are not part of the economy, student, I don't know what is.
Now the fallout has begun, folks.
Look at this.
We have two columns just to show you.
You just want to illustrate this.
We've got Michael Kinsley, well-known liberal.
Washington Post, phony excuses on the desktop.
He's all upset.
He says, come on, this doesn't wash.
Tell us the truth.
But go ahead and what it says there is, it goes right here.
It says, break your campaign promises if you must, but don't insult our intelligence.
Then Richard Cohen, also in the Washington Post, an unpromising start.
He writes in here, listen to this.
I have to read this to you.
In poll after poll and focus group after focus group, the so-called character issue came up.
It's folly to think that all has been forgotten or forgiven.
And he goes on here to chronicle how people believe what Bill Clinton says.
Words mean things.
That's my phrase.
Symbolism over substance.
It's my phrase.
These guys, these liberals, Kinsley, Cohen, a bunch of them, the reason why they're doing this, you think there's media bias and there is, they believed in him, folks.
These are idealists.
These are utopians.
He was their savior.
He was a guy that was going to do what they thought needed to be done for the last 40 years.
He's the same old thing, only worse.
Because he didn't tell, I mean, he's breaking promises already.
I'm trying not to use the word begins with an L. Got a break.
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