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	Day, President's Day at 8 a.m., 8 p.m. and midnight Eastern Time.
	Next on C-SPAN, the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show.
	This nationally syndicated three-hour talk radio program is broadcast on about 620 stations affiliated with the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	Each weekday, Mr. Limbaugh, guests, and listeners discuss current issues.
	The program originates from the studios of WABC Radio in New York City.
	That's the stuff.
	Now play something I like. Please.
	Good enough.
	1984.
	Here I move to Sacramento.
	I'm trying to listen.
	Is it over there?
	Each chance of
	I've got a copy surf note here.
	It says this is not the only information super highway you'll ever need.
	And this show is the Info Bond.
	Like Autobahn.
	Bruce, is your computer okay?
	Lobianco, the computer is just fine.
	You found the phone plug?
	Yeah, hang on just a second.
	Yeah, hello.
	I can't either.
	He walks in here just to get on the show.
	You know, you should have come in here while the show after the show had started.
	Yeah, well, he'll do that.
	All right, let's see you later.
	Is that Mo Thacker?
	That was Mo Thacker, your boss.
	Nice speed.
	Inferno I'll be in later if you need it.
	Are you running the show on the New York side?
	Is that what you're doing?
	No, I'm finished.
	I did the morning.
	Oh, so you just go home.
	Loitering is what you're doing.
	Well, I'll be fine the next break.
	Is that okay?
	No.
	Perfect.
	We definitely want to make a copy of that and show them what we got, right?
	That's what I'm trying to get together right now.
	We have old show opens.
	We got Mike Tyson's.
	We got the WFIR open.
	We have the old.
	Here's the TV.
	It's on a little bit of a delay.
	She's got the open line Friday jingle ready to go and everything.
	Diana, bring me a copy of the 35 on Animal Truths.
	And give Diane a call.
	Just have her bring me a copy of the 3500 NIV Truths Wife.
	And ask her, by the way, ask her when she comes.
	Just to come on in.
	Okay.
	Just a couple of days.
	Hey, greetings, my good friends, and welcome to the award-winning Thrill Pack ever exciting, increasingly popular growing by leaps and bounds Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	It's time for yet another excursion into broadcast excellence, and we are happy to have you with us.
	Make our way to the weekend.
	This is a special edition of the Rush Limbaugh program, America Held Hostage.
	And now from our studios in New York City, here is Rush Limbaugh.
	As you know, my friends, we count the days of the Raw Deal.
	That's what we call the Clinton administration.
	It's also a hostage crisis.
	And just as Nightline was there every day for all of us during the Iranian hostage crisis, so shall I be here each day during this, the Raw Deal.
	Today is day 394 of the Raw Deal.
	Ah, come on in, Diana.
	Ladies and gentlemen, come have a seat here.
	Diana Schneider, ladies and gentlemen, is the editor of the Limbaugh Letter.
	I just want to hear one of the many lovely women on staff here.
	Thank you for bringing it in.
	We love you.
	Thank you.
	Well, say that.
	I knew it.
	Anyway, this, my friends, is the new revised 35 Undeniable Truths of Life that we have revised since the first edition of the Undeniable Truths of Life came out.
	I wrote them in 1987-88, and they dealt with a lot of the Soviet Union and the threat posed there.
	Since that threat has, for the most part, been vanished because of Ronald Reagan, we've had to revise them, and we've done that for an upcoming, in fact, let me see this.
	See that?
	That is the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
	And that picture was of me in People magazine during their most, what, 25 most incredible, awesome, unique, gee, there aren't anybody like this in the country of the year issue.
	And on this issue, right there on the back of it, is, if I pull this up, just pull it out and show you.
	There they are, the 35 Undeniable Truths, which have just been brought into me here.
	You see, it's the same thing.
	And I'm going to, for the first time today, announce some of the new 35 Undeniable Truths.
	We've got a lot of stuff planned for the C-SPAN audience and a lot of you on radio as well.
	Let me get to the count.
	Today is day 394 of the Raw Deal for the poor and the middle class.
	Day 414 of the Raw Deal for the Rich and the Dead.
	With, what is this?
	10 billion days left.
	What is that?
	1,067?
	1,067 days remaining for everybody, ladies and gentlemen.
	Live from New York, it's Open Line Friday!
	Which means, ladies and gentlemen, that you choose the topics today.
	This is sort of a vacation day for us.
	Every Friday seems to be sort of a decompression day here at the EIB network because this is just an average run-of-the-mill eight-hour day.
	Since we tape our Friday television show as the second show we tape on Thursdays, there's no TV show to tape today, so we are in effect through at about 4 o'clock this afternoon Eastern Time, which is a regular run-of-the-mill day.
	We also have taken the occasion of Friday to let you, the callers, have a little bit more latitude and leeway in choosing the items we discuss on the program.
	Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882.
	And I'd like to welcome the C-SPAN audience once again to the program today.
	We were slated to do this sometime in January, was that maybe back in December?
	December, and about two or three days prior to the date we had agreed to, I came down with a bad cough and it was spasmodic, and I didn't want to sit here and be going through coughing spasms, so the C-SPAN folks graciously allowed us out.
	We agreed for a return, and this is it today.
	Now, I don't know how many of you watching on C-SPAN are not familiar with this program.
	We are so everywhere.
	We're in the EIB World Service shortwave at 15.420 megahertz.
	The Armed Forces Radio Network around the world serving over 1 million men and women in uniform.
	And we, of course, now heard on over 636 domestic radio stations, commercial radio stations in the United States and Guam, so we pretty much cover everything.
	But for those of you who are new to this program, who may not have seen it or watched it before, let me just give you a little information about it, bring you up to speed as to what happens on this program and how it differs from most.
	There are no guests on this program unless they call in like anybody else.
	We don't slate or schedule interviews here.
	This is a program that is driven by the news of the day, driven by issues, driven by events.
	We don't sit here and do topics.
	I don't sit here on Friday morning and say, okay, next Thursday, let's do a show on Tanya Harding and see if we can line up guests for it.
	That doesn't happen here.
	It's expressly event-driven.
	This is also a benevolent dictatorship.
	I am the dictator.
	There is no First Amendment here except for me.
	We have one responsibility, and that is to have the listeners of this show enjoy it and be entertained and drawn to it and want to stay.
	And as such, that is my responsibility.
	Our screener of calls, whom you cannot now see, but perhaps you'll meet during the course of the day, is Mr. Bo Snurdly, and he is eagerly answering calls now in our studio control room and placing these calls on hold, readying them for the air.
	And how do we choose these callers?
	Well, the first and foremost thing that must happen to you if you are a caller is that you must be judged to be one who will make me look good.
	Now, you are probably thinking that that's an ego statement, but it is not.
	It is simply just because you get through does not mean you get on the air.
	You have to be passionate, you have to be opinionated, you have to be articulate, and you have to have a topic or an idea or a subject matter that is relative to something that is in the news either today or recently has been.
	Don't allow people to read.
	We don't want people making speeches.
	We don't want people saying other people's words, but rather speaking from their hearts.
	That basically is it.
	That's it in a nutshell.
	This is a program also, I should say, devoted exclusively to what I think.
	We don't sit here trying to learn what anybody else thinks, per se.
	I mean, I'm interested in what you think, but the purpose here is not to take the pulse of the nation, because I am not laboring under any illusions that taking 25 phone calls, let's take account today how many calls we take today, because we don't take that many.
	I would suggest today we'll take more than we usually do since it's open line Friday and we generally use Fridays to go through more people on the phones than usual.
	But even on Fridays, we don't take that many.
	Therefore, it would be folly.
	It would be very unrealistic of me to assume that based on what I hear from 25 people on any given day that I then know the mood of the country.
	So in that sense, we're not here to try to find out what America thinks about anything.
	It's a program devoted to you discovering what I think.
	And you will if you stick with us for the entire three hours.
	Before we go to our first break, there's something that I want to try to say the last thing about.
	You see in front of my computer here, by the way, I am dialed into CompuServe today.
	And if you would like, in fact, I'm online even now.
	I just got a note from the internet from some guy who says that I should stop calling this program the only information superhighway you'll ever need, the Turnpike of Truth.
	He says this is the only info bond, the only info bond, as in Autobahn, that we go so fast here that nobody can keep up with us.
	And I like that suggestion.
	But we're logged on to CompuServe.
	You want to send some email?
	Let me give you the number here real quickly.
	It's 70277, 2502.
	That's no spaces in there.
	70277, 2502.
	Today, ladies and gentlemen, we finally made the New York Times, not because of the profound success of this radio show or the overwhelming late-night success of Rush the TV show.
	Didn't make the New York Times today because of the sterling accomplishments in the world of publishing, either 440,000 subscribers to the newsletter, nor did this article mention that over 7.5 million copies of two books I have written are in print.
	No, this was a story that's about two or three days old about the continuing controversy raging in Florida over the choice of this program by the Florida Department of Citrus as an advertising vehicle.
	And I want to clear up just two things because we've talked all week about what you can do.
	For those of you on C-SPAN, again, who are not familiar with the program, what has been happening is that a number of the usual suspect special interest groups on the left from the National Organization for Women, known affectionately here as the NOW Gang, and the NAACP, known affectionately here as the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, should be the NAA LCP, or if you're a parotista, we could call it the NAAYP, the National Association for the Advancement of You People,
	have been predictably trying to stop the Department of Citrus from making this particular advertising purchase to advertise the wondrous beauties and tastes and benefits of Florida orange juice.
	Well, in the process of the media reporting this, they are ignoring a couple of things that the Florida Department of Citrus has made very plain.
	Also, the listeners to this program, listeners of this program, regular listeners, have been overwhelming me with email and faxes, asking me to give them a phone number at the Florida Department of Citrus that they can call so that they can be heard too.
	They want to shout down or be louder than the voices of the usual suspect leftist protest groups.
	Now, I do not give out phone numbers.
	I don't give out phone numbers to Congress.
	I don't give out the phone numbers to the White House.
	I don't urge people to make phone calls.
	I have done it one time.
	Steve Roberts, U.S. News and World Report, would not believe that I was not the one sponsoring all these phone calls to Washington.
	So I said, all right, Steve, look, I'm going to do it once.
	And if you want to see what will really happen when I do it, it'll shut down the Congress switchboard.
	The Congressional switchboard will be shut down for an hour.
	So he was standing by.
	I gave out the number, told people why I wanted him to call.
	I said, I don't care what you say when you call.
	I never tell people to say this or say that when they call.
	If you want to be heard, fine, do it.
	I did it.
	They shut down the switchboard.
	It's the only time I've done it.
	People are saying, Rush, get us the number so that we can call the people down in Florida we need to call.
	That's not what I've said to do.
	I like to maintain a higher plane, a higher profile, dignity, if you will.
	The people at the Florida Department of Citrus have handled this.
	They're very solid in their decision.
	And the whole notion of adding more phone calls to them is simply something that I think would be useless.
	The real thing to do, as I've always said, is simply go wipe off the shelves, is clear them out.
	Whenever you see orange juice in a grocery store, buy it.
	Make sure you look for the Florida Sunshine Tree so that you know that you're getting Florida orange juice.
	If you see that mark on the carton, you know that every drop of orange juice in that carton came from a Florida orange or Florida oranges.
	Well, that remains the policy here rather than to get into a phone call battle.
	But I do want to clear up some things that are being misreported.
	In the first place, I am not the spokesman for the Florida Department of Citrus.
	I am not what Burt Reynolds was.
	I'm not what Anita Bryant was.
	You will not see cardboard cutouts of me in grocery stores pointing to the orange juice display.
	You will not see television commercials of me sitting there drinking orange juice, urging you to do so as well.
	And I do not get $1 million.
	The press is reporting that I am personally getting $1 million in exchange for becoming the spokesman.
	And it's a classic example.
	And by the way, the press has been told this.
	The Florida Department of Citrus has been very specific with them about this.
	What is happening here is that Florida Department of Citrus is buying advertising time on this program, like any number of other companies and enterprises around the country have done.
	And they have been all wildly successful.
	And the amount of advertising they have purchased is $1 million.
	And that contract runs from now through June.
	It's just like if they decided to sponsor the Cosby show, or if they decided to sponsor any other radio or TV show, which they're doing.
	They're buying time on Larry King.
	They're buying time on the Dr. Dina Dell show as well.
	But you don't hear any protest about that.
	You don't hear Larry King is being given a half million dollars to be spokesman for the Florida Oranges and you don't hear it about Dina Dell.
	It's a clear example of how certain people are allowed to have people recommend various things or endorse various things and other people are not allowed to have their spokesman and conservatives are not allowed to have their spokesman, it seems, based on the actions down in Florida.
	So that basically is it in a nutshell as far as the Florida orange juice controversy is concerned.
	I would just like to make this observation, though.
	The last time I looked, the NAACP was shouting things like, no justice, no peace.
	The new head of the NAACP, Benjamin Chavis, last summer, or last spring going into the summer, was threatening or implying unrest in the inner cities if the president's job stimulus package didn't go through.
	I can't promise that the cities won't burn.
	I mean, this is real mainstream, peaceful, wholesome stuff.
	And then they wanted to make Tupac Shakur one of their image award winners.
	In fact, I think they did.
	Then the last time I looked, the National Organization for Women was trumpeting Lorena Bobbitt as their latest heroine.
	We all know what she's famous for.
	What is the last image we have of Lorena Bobbitt?
	First thing she had to do was say, I was crazy.
	I didn't know what I was doing.
	I was nuts.
	I was crazy.
	Now gang went, yay, there's our woman.
	And our last picture of her is being led out of the courtroom with the sheriff, in custody, into a car, driven by the authorities, headed off to the nuthouse.
	And those are the groups that are out there suggesting there's something wrong with the Florida Department of Citrus advertising its product on this program, where they will reach 22 million people per week.
	Sound decision on their part.
	The record is set straight.
	Hopefully some of this is placed in perspective as well.
	Also, tell what we're going to do today.
	I'm a little over time here, but what we're going to do, in addition to the phone calls, again for the C-SPAN audience, and for those of you new to this program on radio, we're going to go back and play some of our funny ad takeoffs, some of the funny audio bits.
	We have a great Clinton impersonator that we've had a lot of fun with.
	The house bank and house post office scandals we had a lot of fun with.
	So it'll be kind of a review of the archives of this program.
	A best of, if you will, as we combine the present with the past and the phone calls.
	It's all coming up next, right after this, so stay right where you are.
	You're listening to the EIB Network.
	Oh, goody-goody, get to tell you about Florida citrus again.
	Do you know there have been over 500 studies, including 100 studies alone about vitamin C, that point to the helpfulness of citrus?
	The vitamins and minerals found in Florida orange juice can play an important role in maintaining poor health.
	You probably think you're not going to be able to do it.
	Why are you going home?
	Researchers are not going to be able to do that.
	You're giving up your chance to be on the air.
	Please stay.
	I'd like the whole staff to stay and be part of this, Lobianco.
	It's clear that you'd like to be able to do that.
	Other studies will be replayed over the week.
	I don't know.
	You'll have to ask the C-SPAN.
	More than likely.
	More than likely.
	It depends, Lobi.
	I imagine that the odds are pretty good.
	Tell me that if too many people come in here and ham it up, though, you never know what that'll do to our odds.
	Why don't you call Patsy's?
	Have them send out some sausage and some fried shrimp.
	Good idea.
	I'll do that.
	Put it on your house account?
	Put it on my account.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Dinosaurs like the Frostratosaurus.
	Stupid job, Garby's back!
	Somebody called me and they weren't sure what the citrus Florida tree looked like.
	Can we show them one?
	I don't know that I have a container here with the Florida citrus tree.
	It's a lot quieter than what you have now.
	Portrayed into tails called 1-800.
	Somebody might not recognize a drawing of a tree that you know.
	There's just one place in the city.
	Hey, he just called.
	Also, Johnny brought in the new Limbox Liminal Party tape.
	I haven't heard that yet.
	Bring that in for a second.
	Let me just have somebody bring that up.
	Let me hold on, all right?
	Where are you calling from, Tater?
	You want to buy name-brand spatulas at a fraction of retail price?
	It is.
	Okay, hold on, please.
	Take advantage of it.
	Find nine spatulas.
	Get the tenth one for just one penny.
	Nice call.
	I love them.
	Don't forget, they've made great Christmas presents.
	And much better way to say I love you than with the gift of a spatula.
	Make that a tree.
	Well, this is Sy Green.
	No.
	Yeah, we don't have it.
	I like the spatula so much.
	I bought something.
	Spatula City.
	Seven locations.
	Where are we going?
	Spatula City.
	We sound spatula.
	And that's all.
	We're going to practice our home fire as well.
	Some guy thinks I advocate killing whales.
	Well, our personal best time is 37 seconds.
	Yes.
	And he knows for a fact that you don't support Greenpeace and etc. etc.
	And he's very upset that you advocate, especially killing the great whale.
	Best, when you've ever heard Rush talk about the great whale, while he has talked about whaling in the International Whaling Commission, etc., etc.
	have to hide that personalized harpoon let's go for the record ready get set let's go come on jay let's go hurry kids does your family know what they're supposed to do if there's ever time about the survey show thing or we're We have some old sweepers here.
	Would you like some of the moments, bro?
	Like, you know, the survey show sweepers and all that.
	Some of the funny sweepers that you used to use in all the long term floor.
	That's P.O. Box 70.
	Washington, D.C., two-oh-oh-two-four.
	You got these timber updates.
	Can we make it?
	Thirty-five seconds.
	What's your first name?
	All right!
	What's the question and comment for us, please?
	Surveys show that people who listen to Rush Limbaugh have 45% cleaner and brighter wash.
	You're somebody special.
	Will you listen to Rush Limbaugh?
	On the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, I am here, my friends, ensconced firmly and comfortably in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair of this, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Open line Friday, callers choose the topics for the most part.
	We don't really dispense with all the rules here.
	We just give them a little bit more latitude when it comes to topic selection.
	Let's show you something here first.
	Somebody during the break, broadcast engineer Mike Maymon said that he got a call from somebody saying, I don't know what this Florida sunshine tree looks like.
	How do I recognize it on a carton of orange juice?
	Well, we are in the business here of providing information.
	Can we get a close-up on this with the C-SPAN camera?
	It is right there.
	We have covered up the brand name of this particular orange juice.
	They got it.
	I do not have my monitor on.
	Is that it?
	All right.
	Now, that's what it looks like, folks.
	So that's there.
	A product of the Florida Sunshine Tree.
	It's just plain.
	Look for a tree on the cart.
	To the phones.
	We'll start in Charleston, South Carolina.
	This is Paul.
	Hello, sir, and welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Dittos, Rush.
	Thank you.
	By the way, by the way, Dittos.
	Many of you may not know what Dittos means.
	When this program first began, by the way, this will not take away from your time on the air, Paul.
	Thank you.
	You bet.
	Compassionate, understanding host.
	When this program debuted in August of 1988, people called and said, Rush, we love this show.
	We love you.
	Please don't ever stop.
	Keep driving.
	Keep good.
	Every call it seemed would say that.
	And they'd go on longer and longer, and I liked hearing it, so I'd let them say it.
	And after about six weeks, we got one such call, and a guy hung up.
	It was followed by a woman from Manchester, New Hampshire, I believe.
	It's either Manchester, New Hampshire or Rochester, New York.
	And she said, Rush did all to what that guy just said.
	And so, Ditto is simply an economical way of saying, I love the show, I love you.
	Ditto does not mean, Rush, I am a mind-numbed robot and agree with everything you say.
	The press continues to report that Ditto heads are simply mind-numbed robots waiting for marching orders every day issued by me.
	And that's not true.
	In fact, if there was ever a program that inspires independent thought, it is this one.
	Now, Paul, what was it that you wanted to say?
	Well, sir, I wanted to prove you right again and to let you know that the national media is just now catching up to you once again.
	I was just watching CNN a few minutes ago, right before you came on the air, and they had a small article talking about the talk shows and how they may be influencing the American people.
	Maybe affecting the American people.
	Hang on, Paul, we got a break.
	Hold you through it, and we'll talk about it when we come back.
	Don't go away, folks.
	Hi, Rush Limboy here.
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	All right, I don't know whether I want to squeeze you to leave me in the number.
	I can call you back.
	Yes, sir, right here.
	First on the list is Cummings, highly qualified, very experienced.
	How old is Cummings these days?
	He's 57.
	I think that's a little OLD, don't you?
	Who else is on the list?
	Gonzalez.
	His last name, Gonzalez.
	I don't think we need any of that.
	Well, then there's Tyler Google.
	I think so.
	Alrighty, what about Gardner?
	Works long hours, knows the department.
	Don't tell me you don't know about Gardner.
	What?
	The man is light and the loafers.
	Get my drink.
	Well, that doesn't really matter.
	Oh, sure.
	All right.
	I've always liked Richardson.
	He's worked his way up.
	Helped reorganize.
	He's black.
	He'll slow the whole department down.
	He's one of the best workers we have.
	He's a mathematical worker.
	Remember, bring that back to me again.
	I think so.
	Well, it's the whole list.
	And you're in the middle class?
	Ridiculous.
	Well, you need to make that clear up front because that would be the reason he would take the call.
	Mind you that our strength, our progress depend on our diversity.
	First, there was the Carter administration.
	22% interest rates.
	Double-digit inflation.
	Where are you calling from?
	No, Pinhead is back.
	Way up the REA.
	White House again.
	Bill Clinton in Tax Raiser 2.
	He's a tax-spec Democrat dressed in cheapest clothing.
	But don't let his clever disguise fool you.
	Invest in America.
	He's got the line, okay?
	When you get on with Rush, no small talk or strength.
	Thank you.
	Bill Clinton is tax raiser too.
	He's a master of waffling on issues and stretching the truth.
	What do we have?
	I never used my influence.
	Jennifer, who?
	Bill Clinton.
	He and his wife Hillary have got a whole bag of tricks they want to try on you.
	Ross Perry in Tax Raiser 2.
	Elect to see this, and you'll be paying for it for the next four years.
	Why do I give blood?
	The one night my wife was coming home from a school meeting, that old station wagon gave us so much trouble.
	Another car from out of nowhere slammed into her.
	Julia, who never spent a day in the hospital, was suddenly fighting for her life.
	They said she could film blood and prayers to pull through.
	They gave blood.
	Friends gave blood.
	And we all gave blood.
	Free Willie.
	And Julia.
	Yeah.
	Definitely want free Rush Role-Aids.
	I would not live through that again.
	Yeah, definitely.
	But I can't forget it.
	And how much that blood meant to Julia?
	So I give blood.
	Don't vote Democrat.
	I think.
	This is for you Julian, I'm so glad I didn't lose you.
	From New York City, via SATCOM C5 in geosynchronous orbit, 22,300 miles above mean sea level.
	Transponder 23, vertically polarized, using CDAT, the spectrum-efficient digital audio transmission algorithm, channel 54.
	This is the Rush Limbaugh Program.
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	Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God on Open Line Friday with callers choosing the subject matter, 1-800-282-2882.
	And again, welcome to the C-SPAN cameras here to televise all three hours of today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
	Back to Charleston, South Carolina.
	And Paul.
	Now, what was it CNN did?
	They simply did a report where they concluded that talk shows, daytime talk shows, may be affecting juries.
	Yes, sir.
	They showed several clips from different talk shows, including one of your favorite female talk show hosts, going up to one of the people.
	Whoa, Which one?
	There are a number of different women talk show hosts.
	Sally.
	Sally Jesse Raphael.
	Yes.
	Hang on just a second.
	Can you hang on here just a second, Paul?
	Could you run, we have this back there.
	Could you run back to my office and get the time cover with the 5,000-year-old guy?
	Okay, we'll explain this to you in just a moment, folks, when the cover arrives.
	Go ahead, Paul.
	Well, apparently a victim was sitting in the chair, and she began crying, and Sally basically said, Can I reach over and give you a hug?
	And of course, the audience was going, ah, talking about the sympathetic way that the audiences are turning toward the people that they're putting on the stand, making them look like the victims.
	Right.
	Basically, it was just a reiteration of what you have already said for the last couple weeks, listing the same examples that you give.
	For example, the Menendez, Harding, Bobbitt, things like that.
	I like to illustrate these things.
	We have a caller here, folks, who is talking about something he saw on CNN.
	But here's the illustration of what's happening.
	It's the victimization of those who commit heinous crimes.
	And if you want to get a good mental picture here of what happens, what I think is happening.
	Because, see, I think that television daytime TV talk shows are the museum of modern American societal decay.
	It's just an endless parade of the dregs of our society, an endless parade of human debris, some poor people that are exploited left and right by these hosts.
	And the idea is to tell the viewer, this is your country.
	These are the people that live next door to you.
	This is what's become of your country.
	And you better love these people.
	And you better think these people are not abnormal because this is your country.
	And it's really just a small, small segment of a population that's gone awry.
	But with all this exposure, they're made to look as though they represent quite a large percentage of the population.
	So here's how it manifests itself.
	Let's take one of the Menendez brothers' trials.
	You have Lyle Menendez up on the stand, and he is the guest on the talk show.
	You have the jury.
	They are the audience of the talk show.
	Then you have the defense attorney who's the host or hostette of the show.
	And in the case of the Menendez brothers, where they shot 16 rounds into their parents and reloaded to shoot their mother because the first blasts did not kill her.
	So they got point-blank range and literally blew her face off.
	The guest, Lyle Menendez, admits it.
	He's on the stand.
	He admits it.
	And the jury, the audience, and the host is asking everybody to feel sorry for the guest, the defendant, on the basis that he will not have his parents anymore.
	So you have the host telling the jury, the guests, or the audience, and they're going to have to go through the rest of their lives without their parents.
	Oh, that is shame.
	And what you have really is somebody should say, yeah, but that's because they killed their parents.
	Well, we know, but if they had, they've got to go through the rest of their life without their parents.
	But they shot their parents.
	Don't you understand?
	They did it.
	They just admitted it.
	Well, we don't really think that they knew what they were doing.
	That's what happened.
	And it's pretty much an accurate display of what happens in some of these shows.
	It wasn't long after that that Sally Jesse Raphael herself brought out a topic, women who would leave their husbands for a Menendez.
	And I, of course, that drove, when I saw that, when I saw this, a bunch of these jurors interviewed on, I guess it was Stone Phillips did it on his NBC show one night.
	He was showed the testimony of, I forget which Menendez brother it was, admitted that he'd shot his mother to death.
	And then this female juror said, we don't think that Lyle really didn't mean to do it.
	He was going to have to live without parents the rest of his life.
	I said, it's time to get women off of juries.
	And the best way to do that is to, where do we get female jurors?
	We get a voter registration roll.
	So maybe what we need to do is just take the vote away from women.
	Well, you can imagine the outrage from that because people thought that I was dead serious.
	I'm simply, this is another thing that I do in order to make my, anybody can tell you what they think.
	I like to illustrate absurdity.
	And clearly what's happening with juries today, in many cases, absurd.
	I like to illustrate that with absurdity so that the first absurdity is recognized.
	Here's why I wanted a time cover.
	This is it.
	This is from October 26, 1992, the last cover prior to last year's election.
	This cover was supposed to be a cover story on me.
	The editors at time decided there had been too much politics.
	So I got aced off the cover by the 5,000-year-old guy, who was not even news.
	This guy had been discovered a long time previous.
	They then began to study the 5,000.
	Can we get a close-up of the 5,000-year-old guy?
	They began to, in fact, this guy was the first guest on our own TV show.
	He melted.
	He's an ice man.
	They found him in the ice.
	We had him.
	He melted before our show was finished.
	But they studied this guy out in, some researchers in Denver did, to try to figure out what the 5,000-year-old guy looked like.
	And they got a computer version, a computer rendering of what this guy might have looked like.
	And it looks, this guy looks strangely like Sally Jesse Raphael without makeup.
	If we had that picture, we'd show you, you see an amazing resemblance between the 5,000-year-old guy and Sally Jesse Raphael at her Christmas party two years ago without makeup.
	Juries, let me show you something else very quickly.
	This is a New York story.
	This is from the Daily News today.
	Crime-bitten judge frees thugs killer.
	Here's the story.
	I have clipped it out.
	There it is there.
	My copy of the Daily News was bad today.
	The ink from the foldover pages on the story.
	Basically, what it is.
	This is Bernard Goetz, number two.
	A guy named Arthur Boone faced a maximum of seven years in jail for using an unlicensed .44-caliber revolver to gun down two teenage thugs in November who were trying to mug him.
	Two guys tried to mug him and he blew them away.
	And there was outrage all over New York City, not because a couple of predators had attempted to mug the guy, but rather he had an illegal gun.
	He had a gun he shouldn't have had, and therefore he was able to use it and kill these two young boys who are just out experimenting with teenage life.
	The judge in the case, Thaddeus Owens, freed the guy totally.
	Yesterday, Thaddeus Owens handed down the light sentence after telling a stunned courtroom that he stopped carrying his gold judge's badge because it looks too much like an NYPD detective's shield.
	A mugger said the judge might read cop, might see cop in the badge, and I would have been shot.
	Owens also said he and a friend were once the victims of a holdup in which the weapon of choice was a saw-off shotgun.
	The friend whom the judge identified only as a real estate agent carried a licensed gun, but that only heightened his fear.
	Anyway, I wonder what would have happened had this case been in front of a jury.
	Had there been an attorney representing these two teenage predator thugs, I wonder how much sympathy could have been aroused in the jury, the guests on the talk show, for the economic plight, the woeful period of the 80s, the Reagan and Bush years, which caused these two thugs to choose a life of crime in the first place.
	You know the riff.
	And I wonder if they too would have gotten off.
	It didn't go to a jury.
	The judge simply freed the man.
	And a lot of people in New York today are hailing it as proper justice and the way to fight crime.
	Punish.
	Punish.
	Or, in this case, defend yourself when somebody's mugging you.
	And this guy had a gun pointed to his head.
	They had a gun stuck in his ear.
	Or something they thought was a gun.
	Something he thought was a gun.
	Quick break here.
	We'll be back with more right after this at 1-800-282-2882.
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	Okay.
	Think about it, Lord.
	When you bite into a fresh strawberry, when you experience that incurable, juicy, sweet, fresh fruit taste, you're thinking how far it tastes.
	Now, Mr. Bo Snerdley.
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	Do you know there are only 44 cells of the English language?
	44.
	He's kind of nasty.
	Span's still with us or when they've pulled out.
	Almost everything.
	I'm still with us.
	C-SPAN is still with us.
	They've not yet pulled away.
	We've got the orange juice, the orange juice, and the orange juice.
	Call 1-800-A-B-C-D-A-L-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-G-S-M-M-S Porner.
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	You've heard the excuses before.
	The Russian bus program was your first time fighting.
	Hello, get a grip over there.
	I could stop anytime I wanted the results.
	Okay, now you're through.
	Sandra, what's the question or comments?
	The trip is a descending spiral that slowly steals away your family, your friends, your job, your savings.
	It doesn't matter when it was taken from you.
	So it's a letter right here.
	Go ahead and sneeze.
	Don't let me.
	Have you got some kind of allergy pillars on the next message for me?
	Do you guys live here in New York?
	Hey, what's worse?
	C-SPAN, send you up in a shuttle, or did you train it?
	Hold on, honest.
	Sandra, get your action.
	You don't remember.
	Think about it, Dr. Woods.
	Well, it's hot in here.
	You guys are not sure.
	Normally, folks, this show takes place in subdued lights.
	No glaring heat producing lights, but of course, television needs to be.
	Hey, let's.
	No, I wouldn't be trying to do it.
	Let's do some Perot songs here.
	Collins.
	How would you be bad?
	We got a cameraman here.
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	Sudafed?
	Drives you out, Pepsiop.
	The Neo Diamond on Fellowsier Nave.
	The American breed.
	He'll do Coming to Take Me Away.
	And dozens of others.
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	Do a sweeper out of the music bump.
	I'll cue you for all this.
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	I'll cue you for the first Perot tune.
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	You have womb, right?
	Yep.
	Maybe.
	Maybe a temperament may follow.
	Never less than one.
	Call it a row.
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	Half my brain tied behind my back.
	Just to make it fair, it's the Rush Limbaugh program from New York and our flagship station WABC, where you'll find the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	I told you to be mixing in some of the archival bits that we have done throughout the past of this to bring new viewers, new listeners up to speed on all the things that are possible to occur on this program.
	You'll recognize this.
	Remember when on Larry King, I said I'd handle everything because I knew how to make this country work?
	Well, you followed me for a little while and then found out what makes me smile.
	And now you know I got this little quirk.
	See, they're coming to take me away, ha ha.
	They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hey, hey, ha-ha, to the honeycomb, where life is beautiful all the time.
	And I'll be happy to sleep in volunteers and in starch brown shirts.
	And they're coming to take me away.
	Ha ha.
	You thought I was a joke, and so you laughed, you laughed.
	When I had said that I'm all ears and there's nothing in it but me.
	You know, you laughed, I heard you yes.
	You laughed, you laughed, and laughed, and then you left me because you knew I was utterly mad.
	Well, you'll believe the conspiracy when they have had to marry me after the Cubans take me out like they did JFK!
	See?
	They're coming to take me away.
	We call these Doug Rice and the Cutting Edge, and here's the health care plan, the Hillary health care plan, enrapped.
	Some of the benefits that health care now provides.
	Hey, now, let's begin.
	New health care plan with the liberals spin.
	Say hail to the chief, the missus, chief edge.
	Partners named crime on the national debt.
	The royal deal's cooking.
	It's out of control.
	Put your hand down now.
	Clinton's on a roll.
	These four words mean you're taking care of.
	Womb to the tomb.
	Hit me.
	Boom, do that tomb.
	Free health.
	Oh, Hillary.
	Boom, to that tomb.
	Boom, do that tomb.
	Oh, heal me.
	Crisis, we'll stop it.
	Quick.
	Healthcare reform.
	Gonna heal the sick.
	Don't pay for them pills.
	Uncle Sam's gonna get it.
	Hillary Rodham, yo, baby, you did it.
	Surgery, medicine, anytime you need them.
	Healthcare security, better than freedom.
	Welfare clinics, see the doc call a nurse.
	Not a penny, not a dime comes out of your purse.
	Health credit card, don't leave home without it.
	Smoke has been over, no doubt about it.
	Appendectomy, taxolectomy.
	Gunshot boom, hey, got VD.
	Don't sweat it, get it.
	Hey, man, you're covered.
	Be attached your thing.
	No problem, my brother.
	Who that's sick?
	Come on, come on.
	Womb to the tomb.
	I'm done.
	Oh, Hillary.
	Boom, do that tomb.
	Boom, do that tomb.
	Bring health.
	Boom, do that tomb.
	I'll kill you.
	Boom, do that tomb.
	Hey, man.
	Rush warners.
	There is serious news about health care today.
	There has been every day.
	And it's all started this week as the president went out and spoke to the Association of the AARP.
	Greedy Geezers, as one caller here said yesterday.
	I don't believe that, of course.
	I refer to them as seasoned citizens, but a woman from New Jersey called and called her greedy geezers.
	And I studied it.
	And they're not.
	AARP, half of the membership at least is not for any health care reform, or at least the Clinton healthcare reform.
	And the Clintons are running around on this national tour now.
	And I want to tell you folks something.
	I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but they're at the I don't know how else to say this.
	I mean, the president gets away when he says something that isn't true later being told about it.
	Oh, yeah, it was an inadvertent statement.
	And the press then reports, yeah, it was an inadvertent statement.
	It wasn't inadvertent.
	The motto of this administration every day is, what can we do to fool them today?
	What can we get away with today?
	And he's trying to make everybody think that there is no other health care reform but his.
	And that's what they're, and they're trying to go, and especially when you go out and talk to seasoned citizens and you tell them that, it's just, it's part of the crisis mongering and this attempt to get people worked up into a frenzy of fear and fright.
	I will never forget, I was in Sacramento, California after the 1984 election, re-election of Ronald Reagan.
	And within days, Alan Cranston, the then senator of California, was running around telling people what the re-election of Reagan meant.
	And he was going to old folks' homes out there, telling what was going to happen is that their housing was going to be taken away from them.
	I mean, it's just, it's amazing to see, in my mind, this kind of stuff go on.
	And with, it's like I said yesterday, the old pylon theory.
	When Reagan or Bush were president and make an announcement, a policy statement on anything, on the nightly news, rather Brokaw Jennings, it doesn't matter, then you'd see five Democrats and a couple special interest group leaders all with their opinion.
	You'd see Foley, you'd see Jim Wright, you'd see Mitchell, you'd see whoever, then you'd see the president of the Now Gang, the president of the NAALCP, the president of the Spotted Owl League, whatever.
	And they'd all have a viewpoint creaming what the president, Reagan or Bush, said.
	Now when the president comes out, so where is the Republican pylon?
	Where do they go?
	It's clearly a difference in coverage.
	And this, in fact, where's the newspaper story that I've Clinton?
	Here it is.
	USA Today.
	Right there, I'm holding it in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
	It says here, Clinton tells seniors his is the only plan protecting Medicare.
	His is the only plan.
	After he told them that two days ago, and he was already, Mr. President, an inadvertent remark you made.
	Oh, yes, it was an inadvertent remark.
	Back now to trying to find some part of his plan that is unique, not mentioned in any other plan to sell only his.
	And I've, you know, there's an observation.
	I just, if you recall, the president has said that everything about his plan is negotiable.
	And the first lady, you remember this, right?
	You remember it.
	Everything is negotiable.
	Whatever you want to talk about, except the mandate.
	Except the employee mandate.
	That we're not going to compromise on.
	Yet what are they doing around the country?
	Anybody who disagrees with any aspect of their plan is being attacked.
	Insurance agencies, pharmaceuticals companies, anybody who disagrees with one shred of their plan.
	Anything that things that have nothing to do with the mandate.
	They're out there as though dissenting is some crime.
	How dare these people run commercials against us?
	How dare these people disagree with us?
	So it just goes to show that what they say oftentimes cannot be relied on as what they or what they say cannot be relied on as what they mean.
	In fact, if you want to know what they mean, take the opposite of what they say and you'll be closer to the truth.
	We'll be back after this.
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	You've heard all the claims right here from cleaner allergy symptoms.
	Well, a crack EIB has no about allergy-free filter owners.
	No, he just listened to this.
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	I guess you're going to lay down your bets on the timber.
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	By the way, for those of you out there sending me email, my email box is filling up here every time I log on.
	I'm glad.
	And I just wanted to tell you that it's not possible for me to remove all these because the mailbox holds 100, and what I'm doing is looking for clever lines on the subject line.
	If it's something intriguing, that's what I'm looking at.
	I'm not even going to sit here and tell you I'm reading every one of these things.
	Opening each founder, I'm not.
	I'm just hunting and pecking.
	The ones I've looked at so far are the ones who are telling me how good I look on C-SPAN grave.
	But I intend to get to the issue-oriented mail.
	Can't extend the time.
	If you want to see it like never before, come to the 60-second second part.
	Drink it from the cart.
	If you're not here already, you ain't going to make it.
	Rush, now that the political elite of this country, I either now, gang, the Times, et al. have joined the fray of the citrus debate.
	I think it's time for some irreverence on the part of the audience members.
	In addition to purchasing Florida orange juice, I propose it today and today only all those drinking orange juice should drink it straight from the carton.
	This will show the naysayers of the left what we mean in the business.
	Well, the men of the United States are affected by Indians.
	And most couples don't talk to their doctor about the college.
	Why?
	Because most couples don't realize that.
	Here's another one that says, I look great on TV.
	Let's see what this one says.
	That's your circulatory problems.
	It's important.
	That's what it says.
	Look great on TV.
	I love that you did.
	We're going to delete that.
	Don't need to hold on to that one.
	It's easy to correct.
	For more information about Indians, it's causes a disruption.
	Call the Invest Institute of America.
	You know what's going to happen now?
	I know what you people are going to do.
	A number of you are going to now talk writing in about how ugly I look, about how bad I look, about where did I get that tie?
	I know you're going to do this.
	I know that I've set you up for that.
	Mediocre are always at their best.
	That's the W Somerset form.
	Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program, 1-800-282-2882 to Berea, California.
	This is Kevin.
	We have about a minute, Kevin.
	Can you squeeze it in?
	I'll get it real quick, Rush.
	Thank you.
	Mega Dittos, by the way.
	Thank you.
	By the way, I'm just wanting to verify that the double taxation does happen.
	I just got a profit sharing check from a company, and I'm in California, so the government did double whack me for federal, and the state got me pretty good, so I could end it up about half of it.
	And then also on the taxes.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And when you take your itemized deductions, that's great.
	That's a great thing they give us.
	But what they end up doing now is that you have to take 2% of your gross and subtract your itemized deductions.
	So your itemized deductions go down.
	So, Rush, you did tell us.
	And you're right.
	I know.
	Look, let me tell you something, folks.
	Citibank ran a 16-page advertising supplement in the New York Times this week, spelling out how most of the people affected by the new tax law are middle-class people.
	There is not double taxation on bonuses and commission checks, though.
	It's simply the companies don't know what they're doing yet with the withholding tables.
	Try to get more on this as the program unfolds.
	See you in just a minute.
	Don't go away.
	I'll be right back.
	The fourth branch of government.
	We are being held options.
	Ulysses Albos.
	Ulysses Albos.
	My name is not Bill Clinton.
	Ever, ever.
	Ulysses Albos.
	Ulysses Albost.
	Period.
	Do you recognize that argument?
	Come on, Rush.
	You've made your point.
	Now back off.
	Taxes are contributions.
	Come on, Rush.
	You've made your point.
	Now back off.
	You are customers, but you have no choice.
	Yeah, I know.
	How do we change it?
	Come on, Rush.
	Come on, Rush.
	You've made your point.
	I'm the target.
	3860.
	Come on, Rush.
	You've made your point.
	Now back off.
	This is political crisis.
	Come on, Rush.
	You've made your point.
	Now back off.
	This is liberalism, political correction.
	Come on, Rush.
	You've made your point.
	Now back off.
	You don't get it.
	What choice do I have?
	Come on, Rush.
	You've made your point.
	Now back, we want to hear speeches.
	That's why they sent me here.
	Don't forget to keep this secret.
	You understand that?
	Make Washington work for special enterprise.
	Willingness to stop things that work.
	Change must begin at the top.
	I cut the white on the web by 25%.
	Ah.
	I'm a target.
	You'll get it.
	To keep this simple, that's why you sent me here.
	Everybody's in the comments to me.
	You'll get control of our economic destiny.
	That's exactly right.
	I'm taking another step back.
	Don't doubt my instincts.
	Period.
	What you don't know about women, what you don't know about women.
	You only have to open up your mouth to show.
	I think it's great.
	It's showing a whole, it's putting it in a different context.
	I love it.
	They got the song.
	Good old rush.
	I mean, Franger and stuff.
	I love it.
	Look at this.
	Let me know if my camera comes in here.
	Is it?
	It's only pinning this year and this year and this year, so make it up.
	The limbox bot comes up.
	They're asking him for that.
	He puts it on the console.
	All kinds of girls.
	It doesn't matter if it's mini or fat.
	Or if they make a living wilderness.
	It doesn't matter.
	Here's the deepest pen they get right now.
	If they got a lot of hair in the ball, it doesn't matter if they're richer than the wall.
	Hit it.
	Alright.
	There you go.
	Stay on your back.
	Are you watching the American car?
	It looks funny.
	It's great.
	I didn't wear a last snack when you went, you know.
	That's this.
	Rest your mouth.
	You know you're stripped of funding.
	You know you sinned from the sand.
	Whenever the heaven stars are shut, you get them all the buttons.
	I know you.
	Chemistry.
	What sort of stuff are you talking about?
	Stay back.
	It's good little Rush the Knife.
	You got it.
	Blondberg, brush the knife.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I'd rather just stay to the topic that was already raised, to be honest with you.
	And let's just, we'll get to Golds 2000, I think, coming up.
	See you later.
	I assume you're standing by on Rush the Knife.
	I saw no verbal conversation.
	Confirmation.
	I see it now.
	The HR6.
	Yes, but it's not.
	No.
	There is no.
	In fact, hey, what we're going to do.
	We'll do this.
	We'll do the count.
	We'll open line Friday, then the timber update.
	And then I'm going to be holding up an envelope here in just a second, and I want you to zoom in on.
	I'll try to hold it as steady as I can.
	Just trying to help out.
	You know what I mean?
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	We're counting the days of the raw deal.
	One day at a time, hopefully for the last time.
	This is the number of days of the hostage crisis known as the Clinton presidency.
	Day to day, 394 for the poor in the middle class.
	Day 414 for the rich and the dead.
	There are 1,067 days left for everybody to endure.
	Live from New York, it's Open Line Friday, where callers choose the topics we discuss on the program today.
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	One of the most beautiful sounds you can hear in the world today is a tree being chopped down.
	In fact, we say it here in the new 35 Undeniable Truths of Life, number eight.
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	What I called about before you came on at 12, I was watching C-SPAN 2, and Senator Paul Simon was testifying before the House Appropriations Committee.
	Right.
	And of which Robert Byrd, he was just sitting there by himself.
	There were no other committee members there.
	But during the cross-examination, after Paul Feynman got done talking, Robert Byrd was grilling them on the inflexibility that this amendment would give Congress.
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	Yeah, there wasn't any discipline in either of those deals.
	See, you've been sensitized, I think, to be able to watch this stuff now and actually understand what's going on.
	I got a fax this morning right before I came down to the studio from Senator Larry Craig, who said he had heard that I had expressed reservations about the balanced budget amendment because Senator Simon was one of the sponsors or was very much for it.
	And he was trying to explain to me why they need the supporters of this amendment need people from all over the political spectrum because they need two-thirds majority to get this thing passed.
	They cannot rely on one ideological coalition to pass this amendment.
	All of which I understand.
	I don't have time to detail this now because we've got a break here coming up.
	But this whole balanced budget concept is something that have talked to a number of people.
	I have a couple of people who I consider to be my economic advisor.
	One of them is Larry Kudlow, chief economist at Bear Stearns.
	The other is Dr. Thomas Hazlett, who is an economist and professor at the University of California at Davis.
	And I've discussed with Kudlow this whole notion of a balanced budget based upon a simple spending freeze.
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	Larry Kudlow, who is, I'm proud to say he's a friend.
	He's a very bright guy, and he's served in the Bush, Reagan administration, it's a first term.
	He has a theory that, and it's not just his, by the way, there are a lot of others who think that this is doable.
	If you could just get a genuine spending freeze, genuine freeze, not even a cut.
	In fact, you could allow for spending to increase at the rate of inflation every year.
	Not raise taxes.
	If you would just freeze spending, allowing for inflation with an appropriate economic growth program, which is less government, that you could get this budget deficit down to the $50 to $60 billion range inside five or six years.
	The dirty little secret, we've talked about it on this radio program a lot, is the current services baseline method of budgeting.
	A cut in Washington is never a cut.
	It's simply a reduction in stated increase.
	I mean, the budget went up again this year, and yet everybody's talking about how they've cut this and they've cut that and they've cut this.
	They haven't cut anything.
	The budget, when have you noticed a budget getting smaller?
	It doesn't happen.
	When have you last seen a budget tied to the rate of inflation as its only means of expansion?
	You've never seen it.
	Current services baseline means that the current services are the current expenditures on whatever budget item that you're looking.
	And when it comes time to do the budget for the next year, you take the current services, what you've spent, and there is, because I think it's the Budget Reform Act of 1979, allows a 10 to 12% increase automatically in each item of the budget.
	Whether there is evidence that you have need to spend that much or not, the data that has been used in the previous year's budgeting is ignored, doesn't have to be paid any attention to.
	And so if they decide to increase the spending in a line item, say 6%, they can say, guess what we've done?
	We have cut spending 4% in this particular area when they're spending 6% more than we did last year, but it's 4% less than what they could have spent, the spending authority.
	And that's how it happens.
	If you just eliminate that and get to what in essence would be zero-base budgeting, then you would get much closer to balancing the budget without going through an amendment and a bunch of machinations.
	Now, nobody's going to believe that.
	Nobody's going to go for it.
	And this amendment looks like it's got some life to it.
	And it looks like it has some momentum that I think is worth looking into.
	A further illustration of the zero-base budgeting and the current services baseline method that Congress now uses.
	And this is a dirty little secret.
	And I think when you watch C-SPAN a lot, you will see hearings on Capitol Hill and you'll hear the current services being talked about or the baseline budget.
	You'll hear these words used.
	It would, I think, help you to know what they are, what they mean.
	A way to illustrate this in your own life, let's say that you decide next month to go out and buy a car that's going to cost $100,000.
	I'm just using this because these are easily understandable numbers.
	And you're going to buy this car in June.
	You're going to spend $100,000 on it.
	June comes around, you go out, you kick the tires on that car, you don't particularly like it, and you decide that you like a car better that only costs $40,000.
	So you run around and tell yourself and everybody else that you just saved $60,000 by buying a $40,000 car.
	That's how it works.
	You've spent $40,000 more than you had spent last year or last month or yesterday, but it's $60,000 less than you had intended to spend.
	So you saved yourself $60,000.
	This is a little-known secret to shopping that wives have perfected for decades with their husbands.
	And now Congress has perfected it with its usage on us.
	But that's exactly what happens in Washington when spending is discussed and cuts are talked about.
	Here is Dave from Coralville, Iowa.
	You're next on the Rush Limbaugh Program.
	Hello.
	Hawkeye Dittos from Coralville, Rush.
	Thank you, sir.
	I'm glad you called.
	I like your tie.
	Well, thank you.
	I thought I wore it specially for the C-SPAN audience today.
	Now, I want to state right off the bat that we are in agreement that the commercial killing of animals is permissible as long as it's done humanely.
	I think we're in agreement on that, are we not?
	The commercial killing of animals is all right as long as it's done humanely.
	Such as.
	Such as the slaughter of pigs, sheep, cows, etc., like for meat and other commercial products.
	Yeah, but I'll tell you what, I'm a little upset at what happens to tuna.
	Billions and billions of tuna die, and nobody cares while we, you know, occasionally in the harvest of tuna, they all die.
	In the process, two or three dolphin may get trapped and everybody screams bloody murder about how mean we are to the dolphin.
	In the meantime, billions of tuna have lost their lives.
	I don't know if that's humane.
	Well, there's a little difference there, but it ties in with the great whales.
	The point that I have is that it is impossible to kill a great whale humanely and still have it usable commercially.
	These whales are so large that the explosive harpoon used to kill them with takes anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours, during which time the animal is flailing around in mortal agony.
	What is it?
	Now, I don't recall ever having discussed that on this show.
	So what is it that's motivated you to call and want to talk about it?
	When you discussed the International Whaling Commission and the nations that weren't going to go along with the ban on whaling, like Norway and that.
	Yeah, when was that?
	Oh, it's been some time ago.
	I don't recall the exact date, but I think it was last year sometime.
	So you think I believe in the slaughter of whales?
	Well, I never noticed you did not come out and take a stand either for or against killing whales.
	And it occurred to me that it might not have occurred to you, or because you didn't get into it except peripherally, that it is not possible to kill these creatures humanely.
	Well, you know, this is something about which I have no recollection of discussing.
	I just, I tell you what, I am going to do, though, I'm going to take the occasion of your call to illustrate something about my beliefs.
	We have become known on this program for several things which aren't true.
	And one of those things is that I hate animals.
	I don't hate animals.
	I love animals.
	I love pets.
	I've had pets.
	And I am not for the cruel treatment of animals whatsoever.
	But I also don't believe that they have rights.
	I do not believe that they have rights in the same sense that you and I do.
	I do not believe that we are independent from nature.
	I don't believe that man plunders nature and that every other living thing is natural and we aren't.
	And I think it's very dangerous to start granting the same sanctity to the life of amoebas and lobsters and other food sources that we grant to human beings, because to do that, you have to devalue what human life is.
	And I think we're seeing the evidence of generations of devaluing human life.
	We have a million and a half abortions every year.
	We've now got Dr. Kvorkian deciding that he's going to assist people who don't want to live on the elderly end of the scale or on the terminally ill end of the scale.
	And I think the crime rate and a number of other things that are happening in our society are all tied.
	The illegitimacy rate, the whole notion that individualism, rugged individualism somehow is a crime now.
	All of these things I think descend from the notion that human life is not special and that we've devalued it and that we're no different than that blade of grass growing over there or that little strip of astroturf in the back of an El Camino.
	We're no different than that.
	And I think it's a tragedy.
	And so to try to equate everything that lives on the earth, you have to devalue human life.
	Like I love to say, and this makes people mad, show me the hospitals those dolphins build.
	If they're that smart, if they're smarter than we are, show me the emergency medical systems and health care plans that they have for each other.
	Show me the buildings and schools and so forth that they've built.
	People say, well, Rush, they don't have hands.
	Oh, as if they had hands, they could do all this.
	And this is not to put down dolphin.
	This is what's not understood.
	This is not to put down any animals.
	But they are what they are.
	And they're lovely and they're cute and they may be very smart.
	I mean, you can sit there and go and try to talk to them all you want.
	And they may talk back to you.
	And I think those to whom they do call talk back sometimes call here.
	But we have a profound respect for all life.
	We just realize that there are stages and levels on which different life forms live and occupy space.
	We got a quick break here.
	We'll take it and be back with more calls right after this.
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	Of course, you could try killing whales in the humane way that you've practiced in the past.
	Put them in a big can, boil it down with a little bit of pan, shake them off.
	Big pan, a big can, big can.
	Dump it in the sea, spray a little Pam on it, catch that whale nail, shake it off.
	Informative, educational, and hopefully persuasive.
	Of course, they're still working on that whale electric chair.
	I want to tell you about the orange growers.
	They are.
	They are the people who make many of them family businesses.
	Been around for years.
	Today, there are more than 12,000 citrus growers cultivating 92 million citrus on overseas.
	Picture of Sally Jesse Raphael.
	Heart attacks.
	That's not humane.
	Lawsuits, cruel, and unusual punishments.
	What is this?
	I want to know my routine.
	Your daily routine.
	I want you to walk through what you do during your day from the time you means the whole thing is Florida Orange.
	First, I wake up.
	I put my feet on the floor.
	What's wrong, Bobby?
	The tuna doesn't taste as good as it used to.
	A lot of kids and a lot of parents feel the same way Middle Bobby does.
	Ever since companies came out with Dalton-free tuna.
	Luckily, not every company seamlessly bends over and drops their pants for a twiny special interest group that comes along and complains about something.
	When animal rights activists, C-SPAN have a no-smoking policy with its cameras.
	It doesn't lately said, get a light.
	Weems go tuna has the great Dolphin flavor you grew up with.
	In fact, it's Chuck Bullet Belton, because now there's more for us to eat.
	I just think C-SPAN does not have because it's a secret blend of tuna.
	Dolphins, sharks, medical waste, and dead seafood.
	That's going to have it licensed.
	Yeah.
	But you won't smell it.
	I brought in one of the ones that doesn't smell.
	This is Weemsco Tuna, honey.
	Try it.
	Yeah.
	See, I have.
	No, really.
	Yeah, well, this one, you won't smell this.
	Are you tired of wondering whether you're missing out on great new taxes that you never knew existed?
	Why not do what millions have been doing?
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I did.
	Without even knowing it.
	It tasted fine.
	It was a little rough.
	It's so great.
	Every month we'll send up a new trial balloon.
	If you like the tax, do nothing.
	It will automatically be left against you.
	If you don't like the new tax, don't worry.
	There's at least one new tax every month.
	Remember, send no money.
	We'll take it from you.
	Hold on, Anna, we don't have to do a thing.
	No coupons to cut, no cards to mail back, no confusing forms.
	We do all the work, and all you do is pay.
	What could be simpler?
	You don't need to.
	I'll try to do that.
	We'll make sure that nobody misses out on this investment opportunity.
	No matter how little money you make, that's right.
	It's the tax program that everyone can afford, even if others have turned you down.
	Clinton House says, yes, you can and you will pay more taxes.
	I don't understand what you're saying here.
	Taking four calls so far.
	See that?
	Four calls.
	That's why I'm here.
	Your police officer.
	This is the EIB, World Service, and Rushman Baugh, holder of the World Record opening monologue time of one hour and 35 minutes.
	Coming up here in Dino, the rip is going to be.
	We've taken four calls, four calls in about two hours.
	See, my friends, this is why I was very honest in the beginning of the program in suggesting to you that I cannot gauge the mood of the country simply based on what the calls to the show happen to say or what the callers to the show have to say, which means I'm not here to survey America.
	When I say I don't, this is not a program designed to find out what you think.
	I mean it in a survey sense.
	We just played something during one of our commercial breaks.
	Some of you in cars or some of you in offices where you're not able to watch this show because everything we do in the breaks here is being televised on C-SPAN.
	But on radio, you may not have heard this.
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	Leave them overnight in Fort Marcy Park.
	Send them to South Central Los Angeles after a jury verdict.
	Any number of ways we can think of that would do the trick.
	To Los Angeles and Tom, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hello, sir.
	Rush Cigar Smoking Dittos from Hollyweird.
	Thank you very much, Agley.
	Right on the border, unfortunately.
	Really, really?
	Holly Weird, eh?
	Yeah.
	Rush, would you say hi to my father?
	He's listening in Bellevue, Washington.
	Yeah, what's his name?
	Bill Spear.
	Bill?
	Hello, Bill.
	Hello, Bill Spear in Bellevue, Washington.
	Great to have you in the audience.
	Thanks.
	Rush, I was very interested in learning a little bit more about you as far as what your daily routine consists of.
	What exactly do you do during the day to prepare yourself for the show and what?
	This is a problem for me.
	I'll tell you why it's a problem because people accuse me of coming in here and doing nothing but talking about me, talking about myself.
	And now you're going asking me to talk about me to enjoy.
	Oh, yeah, but I think the viewers and the listeners at C-SPAN want to see you as a regular guy.
	I mean, I am a regular guy.
	I'm sitting here.
	I'm hosting.
	I'm a regular guy.
	Well, just walk us through your kind of daily thing when you wake up.
	It's boring.
	It's really, it's nothing but work.
	It's really, I mean, my daily routine is real simple.
	I get up.
	Consciousness overtakes me begrudgingly.
	I hate waking up.
	I get up at about 8.
	Be very honest.
	I get up at 8 o'clock.
	That's when the radio alarm goes off.
	At about 8:20, I decide that it's for real.
	And I go into the bathroom and do the routine.
	I then get ready to leave.
	I get dressed.
	I go out.
	I make sure that enough cigars that I'm going to need for the day are packed in my formerly an alligator leather cigar case.
	And I put any dirty clothes that I need to take to the valet or to the dry cleaners or whatever and all that and put them in a trash bag.
	And then I open the door with briefcase and trash bag in hand and head to the elevator and head down and get in a cab and come to work.
	I get to the EIB building between 9 and 9.30, usually, at which time I immediately sit down and begin reading eight newspapers and a razor blade.
	It looks just much like this.
	And I headline hunt, cut out things that I think are interesting.
	Mrs. Wiggins, my personal assistant, is clearing the fax machine, reading it for anything that might appear to be interesting.
	I am doing my best to stay off the phone so as to not to be distracted against show prep.
	At about 11.30, I make a phone call to Dick Mincer, who runs the TV show, and he's the senior producer.
	We talk about what we might want to do that night on TV based on the news events of the day so far.
	Come in here, do the radio show just as you're seeing it.
	At 3 o'clock, head back to my office, look at what phone messages I've got.
	No time to return calls, maybe a couple.
	Head in the car, head over to TV, have a production meeting at 4 o'clock, goes for a half hour to an hour.
	Decide what we're going to do on TV.
	These past three days, I've been doing two shows a night because I've got to go to Los Angeles next week.
	And that's a bigger chore than you might think, is putting together two TV shows to do in one day since we try to be as topical as we can.
	I generally finish up with a television show signing autographs about it.
	I finished last night at 8 o'clock.
	And at that time, it was then, for the first time the day, I had a chance to find out who had called me, what they wanted, what kind of other things and clerical things I need to do.
	Usually go to bed about 2 in the morning, getting an hour and a half to 1 hours from midnight to 2, totally to me to do whatever I want to do.
	A lot of it spent watching C-SPAN some news just to make sure that I'm always up to speed and aware.
	And the day starts again when I wake up.
	That pretty much is it.
	I have to go to dinner a lot and business takes place at dinner.
	Very little social stuff except when I actually take time away from the program.
	I do not mix social stuff and the business.
	The business day is the business day and I stay totally, narrowly focused on it.
	I don't abort it or dispose of it until I actually leave town and go on a vacation.
	That basically is it.
	I don't know how glamorous it sounds or how disappointing it is, but that basically is it.
	Does that satisfy what you wanted?
	No, it's great.
	I think it's just, I didn't mean to put you on the spot.
	No, no, no, not at all.
	Not at all.
	It's just no different than anybody else's day.
	It's no different than anybody else who is committed to what they do and wants to do it well and has to spend a lot of time working at it.
	And that's basically what my day is.
	And it all comes to fruition here during these three hours and also on TV.
	That's where the hard work pays off.
	That's where the fun comes.
	That's all fun, but this is the manifestation of it here and on TV.
	Thanks, Tom, for the call.
	We got a quick break here back with more right after this.
	You're listening to the EIB Network.
	When you think of President's Day, what comes to mind?
	Sayings of some of our past presidents, like the buck stops here?
	I don't know anything about it.
	The buck never got here.
	I cannot tell a lie.
	I never said it.
	Honest.
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	And now, another edition of Behind the Scenes at the Clinton White House.
	Give me Governor Cuomo on line two.
	Hey, Mario, good buddy.
	Bill, forget it.
	Listen, Mario, I need your help on this health care bill.
	Stay away.
	If you could just go around the state with me next month and help me sell it to the voters, it would sure be a lot of help.
	And they'll be on the street.
	I need to know what exactly is the question of coming to you.
	I'm grateful for your kind and generous offer.
	But let's face it, you've so much on your plate already.
	You've got to help me.
	That's not a question of coming.
	Tell you what, if you help me, I'll campaign as hard as I can.
	Thanks, but no thanks.
	Look at what happened to Dinkins and Florio.
	Do you think I'm crazy?
	Stay away.
	Look what happens to the people that you go near.
	They sink the minute you get there.
	Let's face it, you're not popular.
	You're not popular.
	And the way for you to get popular is to stay away from me.
	Mario!
	Mario!
	Join us next time for another edition of Behind the Scenes at the Clinton White House.
	There's nothing like the convenience of a telephone calling card.
	But when you're using one in a busy public place...
	She's got a request here for the opera bump.
	...can steal your telephone calling card.
	We may not have time.
	You got it in there, but you're going to be out in this.
	He can read your number right off the phone by you.
	And make thousands of dollars worth of calls.
	The one I have is a minute 18, and the number count obviously is way off.
	The millions.
	Cover the buttons while tuning in your calling card numbers.
	And when you must give the operator your number.
	Well, just what a regular bump for now.
	I'll make an executive decision on it.
	Because you never know who might be listening in.
	Don't leave your telephone calling card where other people can see it.
	And whenever possible, use the magnetic card reading phones.
	Use your telephone calling card carefully.
	Don't give your number to strangers.
	And if you think it's been stolen.
	So far, the reviews of me on C-SPAN are good.
	think that your cameras are looking good we have one hour left on today's rush limbaugh program from the limbaugh institute for advanced conservative studies And don't forget, this is Mental Floss for the Brain, your best protection against truth decay.
	We are going to, in the next hour, try to jam in a few more phone calls than we've had so far and go through a little bit of the news that is still waiting to be discussed.
	But I told you, C-SPAN's going to be with us for the whole hour, right?
	I just got a question here.
	How long is C-SPAN staying?
	I'm going to be here for the whole hour.
	By the way, I'd like to thank C-SPAN today for this.
	And I would like to also thank them for the tremendous lead-in they gave us with the proceedings of the Japanese Diet in session.
	I couldn't have asked for a greater lead-in.
	I want to thank Brian and everybody down there for doing that.
	We'll be back with our final hour right after this.
	What's the question coming to the rest, please?
	When the dog gets tugged, the tongue's Tougher and tougher to extricate
	myself.
	Hold on, John.
	I don't know whether I'm going to be able to squeeze this in you or not.
	Let me try to figure out where I'm going to be able to call it and I'll let you know, okay?
	Yeah, we can't leave stuff there.
	That's where the TV, that's where the cameras pan.
	The cameras are panning right in there.
	No, that's where they're panning.
	Just be careful.
	Stuff is leaking.
	Cannot touch it.
	No, I don't know.
	Bro, she said to put it here.
	Yeah.
	Come on, well, yeah, right below.
	Yeah, below the pin.
	That's what we were thinking.
	Right here.
	Mr. Snerdly.
	Yes, sir.
	Hey.
	Monty.
	Hey, Matt.
	How you guys doing?
	All right.
	I had to order this thing today.
	It's still up there.
	I went to get it no no I don't want Now.
	Never mind.
	But you're on C-SPAN now.
	Am I smiling?
	In fact, they're coming at you from your right side and back, so they can't see your face.
	If you want to turn to my studio, they'd see you.
	Say bye.
	The Lo Bianco mask.
	Do you have a clip?
	Last time I did this, I got in trouble.
	I'm not going to do it.
	Never mind.
	I'll just look at it.
	No, never mind.
	I'll just look at it.
	I don't want Johnny the bitch.
	Hey, what?
	Why don't you set it up on the near side?
	Because if anybody comes in to get something, you've got a detailed thing, Mike.
	Really did?
	Alright, I guess he wants.
	Alright.
	Mike, this okay for you?
	Good luck.
	Good time.
	Anybody stop?
	Thank God it's Friday!
	What's the punch you wanna make, please?
	Oh, baby, just care.
	There's gonna be a problem.
	I think it's your problem, but it does want me to stay tuned for him, so if you try to see it, I don't think I'm going to go.
	Oh, boy.
	Yeah, hold on, I'm in an AT&T.
	AJ, hold on a minute.
	I'll be back with you in a minute.
	Let me see where I can squeeze this in here.
	Hi, John.
	John, I'm not going to squeeze this in.
	Leave me a number if I can.
	I'll call you Monday.
	Hey, Scottish!
	71, 6, 0, 9, no sir.
	Not going to be able to get through it today.
	Thank you.
	Bye-bye.
	What's your first name?
	I'll tell you, I just, so you gotta find one.
	There, just show me.
	Relaxing.
	Before you leave this afternoon, after you've torn down, come down to my office and I'll get you.
	You smoke them?
	You got my gear.
	Well, if you can get to it just like that, we're gonna get on.
	I'm going to try my best to squeeze it in.
	Oh, you better prove it.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
	Look at this.
	Why don't you shut up?
	It says I just want to stay with that topic.
	Just as pure and simple as you did there.
	Otherwise, it's hard to follow.
	Okay?
	No, you're on hold.
	Right, you'll be on home.
	Where are you calling from, Harry?
	KE double in, I assume.
	It's gonna be rush rap.
	Have it a hand?
	Okay, well, again, we'll get right to the point.
	You get on right with the topic.
	You know, this is what you think will happen.
	What does he think, or whatever?
	You gotta both.
	Hold on.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	And I want to do rush roll-ins.
	Gotta do that.
	We've gotta be rush roll-aids.
	Gotta be locked in motors.
	And all three, just let me know which one you want.
	The views expressed by the host on this show make more sense than anything anybody else in the air is saying about anything.
	The views expressed by the host on this show are the result of a relentless pursuit of the truth.
	We find it each day.
	Remember, my friends, evidence.
	Evidence refutes liberalism every time it's tried.
	This is a special edition of the Rush Limbaugh program, America Held Hostage.
	And now, from our studios in New York City, here is Rush Limbaugh.
	Counting the days of the raw deal, day 394 of the Clinton presidency, known as a hostage crisis, with all of us being held captive.
	It's day 394 for the poor and the middle class, day 414 for the rich and the dead.
	1,067 days left for everybody to endure.
	Live from New York, it's Open Line Friday, where callers are given more latitude and leeway in topic selection or subject choice.
	How many calls is it so far in these two hours?
	We've taken five calls, ladies and gentlemen, which is more than we usually take.
	Five calls, and we're going to try to get a few more in this hour and do a number of other things before we have to shut down for the day.
	The C-SPAN cameras, which have been here throughout today's program, will be here again this hour for the entire remaining portions of the program.
	You want to be on the program.
	It's 800-282-2882.
	The folks at Patsy's just brought their stuff in.
	Man, they've got some Rigatoni marinara in there and some fried shrimps, some sweet sausages, and a couple of other things too.
	Just because of a flippant comment I made when we started the program.
	Patsy's, you know, Patsy's is becoming the official restaurant of the Rush Limbaugh TV show audience.
	At least half of them go there every night after the TV program.
	All right, let's show you, my friends, our original rap song.
	Yes, we are in the cutting edge of societal evolution here.
	Doug Rice and the Cutting Edge, they're from Dallas.
	This is the song.
	No other top show coach can't do it like he can.
	Documented, almost always right.
	Rush Limbaugh knows it all.
	If you really want to know what's going on, just give the man a job.
	Updates on the speed.
	New age.
	Always give a pod.
	And there's a case.
	You can't always give up.
	That little small district in New York that plays all taxes, but you don't mention that they earn most of the rapporteurs.
	Etc., etc.
	And you just see with your description of your day how you have time to pursue the truth.
	There is no time for reflection.
	Oh, you apparently give us different truths in the newspaper or whatever, whatever.
	Tip about that name.
	Tell, tip, tip, tell him about that man.
	If you want to say, on the cutting edge of society, day in, and there's good stuff here to tell you the news, what's going on and what it's all about.
	With talent, someone's talent is almost hard to believe.
	He talks to you from within.
	What's the impression I left on Tim?
	I hate wood.
	It's just clear-cut everything, et cetera, et cetera.
	Product, ladies and gentlemen, that occasionally you may need to.
	fourth spring during the average day the average american is lied to 73 times i'm trying to put as many people america to work as possible endures 60 minutes of acute stress do you like the way rush took up for janet renovous program he only did it because she was attacked by a black guy
	and two million americans experience heartburn at least once a day and i tell you we are not going to obey the law in this country women will not there will be lawlessness everywhere luckily rush limb ball gives fast relief so while there's a lot of things you can't change you can change the way you feel in first run and best of rush spells relief
	You're listening to the William Tell of the airwaves.
	Rush Limbaugh always on target.
	America's vital national interest.
	Me right here, right here on the EIB Network.
	Let's, let's the Godzilla of talk grading.
	Let us uh let's okay that's, that's fine.
	Enough Japanese bashing.
	Let us look at some news.
	This is from the SAN Francisco Chronicle.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Stanford faculty wants to restore the f grade.
	what stanford wants to restore the f grade this means that some students will actually fail why not in america it doesn't happen we're not going to humiliate people that way are we by giving them an f here are the details the dreaded f grade was banned 25 years ago at stanford university to accommodate the football team just kidding i'm just kidding
	But a growing number of faculty want to see it reinstated, according to a survey released yesterday.
	The survey of more than 700 of Stanford's 1600 professors and instructors showed that about three quarters that'd be 75 percent for those of you in Rio Linda would like to be able to give a failing grade when a student deserves it.
	Consider this novel approach.
	Quote, our current grading system does not reflect a fair picture of whether a student has mastered the materials, said biology professor Robert Simone.
	Currently, if a student earns a grade lower than a d, no record of the class appears in the transcript.
	So they want to put the f back in the grade system at Stanford.
	This is a good sign.
	All right, uh folks, the um.
	What was it?
	Two weeks ago, the president's health care scandal was received negatively by the National Association OF Manufacturers, the Chamber OF Commerce, the Bidnez Roundtable, and then came the Congressional Budget Office report, which said it's a budget buster.
	It's going to cost 25 more than social Security will by the year 2004.
	This was not good news for the uh president and first lady who desperately want this plan.
	I don't know if you know this or not.
	The Chamber OF Commerce has reversed itself.
	You people out there in the Chamber OF Commerce, you may want to go to the WALL Street Journal today and read Paul Gigaud's Potomac Watch column.
	Because in essence, the Chamber of Commerce has decided to sell out about 96% of its membership, who are small businesses, so that one of the high-ranking members in the Chamber of Commerce can skim some lucrative health care contracts for himself or itself, his agency,
	and also so that the automotive manufacturer Chrysler can shift its retiree health care costs to the taxpayers.
	Basically, here are the details as provided by Paul Gigaud in his column today.
	There's a man named Robert Patricelli.
	The big three automakers have an ally in the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce's Health Committee, Mr. Patricelli.
	He is described by Paul Gigaud as a Washington health wonk who dates back to the 1960s.
	He now runs Value Health Incorporated, which is a fast-growing managed care company in Avon, Connecticut.
	And Value Health's specialties are drug and mental health benefits, both of which would get big new subsidies under the Clinton Plan.
	Even more intriguing, writes Mr. Gigau, last month, Value Health, Mr. Patricelli's company, won a contract from Ford and the United Autoworkers to administer drug benefits program for 275,000 people nationwide, which is worth about $90 million a year.
	Value Health, which is Mr. Patricelli again, already has Chrysler's drug business in Michigan and is bidding for it nationwide.
	Now, as to the Chrysler stuff, Chrysler, it is reported by Mr. Gigot, stands to benefit as much as any U.S. company from the Clinton health care scandal.
	As an old-line manufacturer with a lot of employees, Chrysler now carries huge health care liabilities because of the massive labor contracts that they've signed over the years.
	And they would love to be able to pass those liabilities off on to taxpayers and small business.
	And so would Ford and GM, which also endorsed mandates despite their recent soaring profits.
	And the way they'll be able to do this is the employee mandate.
	If the employee mandate of the Clinton health care plan survives, then Mr. Gigaud says that Chrysler will benefit by being able to pass off some of the liabilities for early retirees to small business members of the Chamber of Commerce and the taxpayers, and that Mr. Patricelli will benefit personally because his company is involved in providing the kind of health care services that are going to be subsidized by the Clinton Health Care Plan.
	And it is thought by many that most members of the Chamber of Commerce are not aware of this switch.
	Most people think the Chamber is steadfastly opposed to the Clinton health care scandal, but they've done a reversal here, and it's been done somewhat quietly.
	And the details are all in Paul Gigaud's column today in the Wall Street Journal.
	I know that several members of the Chamber of Commerce are regular listeners to this program, and most Chamber of Commerce members are, in fact, small business.
	Small business is the backbone of this country.
	You can look at the Fortune 500 and what they're doing, laying off all of these tens of thousands of white-collar middle and upper-level management people.
	And if we have employment coming down, or unemployment coming down, in other words, we're providing we're getting more jobs, which they say, if that's happening with the Fortune 500 laying people off, where are the jobs coming from?
	They're coming from small business.
	It has to be.
	Along those lines, if unemployment's coming down, if more people are getting work, and if most people get their health care coverage from their employment, how can we have now not 37 million without health care coverage?
	How come it's magically arisen to 58 million overnight despite all this bursting economic news?
	Something to think about.
	Then this, the PS des résistance.
	We talk about White Watergate.
	As you know, the special prosecutor, the special counsel Robert Fisk, has decided to impanel a new grand jury because it's going to take a million.
	They've got a million documents.
	He's also issued a warning.
	You better stop that shredding.
	You guys better stop.
	It's kind of like the way we talk to Bosnia.
	You guys better stop.
	You really are making us mad.
	And the guy who runs the Rose Law Firm down in Lunar Rocks, we're not shredding anything.
	We don't have any documents here.
	And the ones we do have, we're setting aside.
	Well, anyway, the new grand jury, as impaneled by Robert Fisk, is expected to be at work for a year and a half.
	So they asked the president yesterday, what do you think about this?
	Hey, I haven't done anything.
	I mean, this is going to cost the taxpayers a whole lot of money.
	I never wanted any of this.
	He's the one who called for it.
	Has he forgotten?
	Clinton scoffed yesterday that the probe is going to cost taxpayers millions of dollars, and most of it has nothing to do with me.
	He said the only reason he reluctantly requested a special prosecutor in the first place is I wouldn't have to fool with it anymore.
	He called for it.
	He asked the Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint a special prosecutor.
	She did, and now the guy says, here's what it's going to take.
	And Clint's going, hey, I didn't mean this.
	CBS News has also obtained a copy of a letter in which the Rose Law Firm bragged about its connections to the administration.
	The Rose Law Firm has, this is a quote from the letter, the Rose Law Firm has developed relationships with officials who are now in the Clinton administration and members of the Congress.
	Said the letter.
	A representative of the firm denied the letter violated legal ethical standards.
	Hey, hire us.
	We have people in Washington who can get things done.
	That's not unethical.
	That's not even a violation of it.
	And it may not be a violation, but it certainly has the appearance of impropriety, doesn't it?
	Now, where did I last hear that?
	Wasn't it when they were trying to boot Ed Meese out of Washington?
	Democrats on Capitol Hill, even the appearance of impropriety is more than this country should stand for in our Attorney General.
	Broom them.
	I guess we've moved all the appearances of impropriety to the White House.
	We've cleaned them out of the cabinet.
	We've cleaned them out of the Congress.
	And everything's now in the White House.
	It's okay there.
	Quick break back with your phone calls after this.
	You're listening to the EIB network.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, it's time now for the world's biggest tall, Rush Limbaugh.
	As a former security guard here at WABC, Khalil.
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	He went to visit his mother in Pakistan three years ago, and not a word has been heard from him since.
	He is supposed to be back, but he hasn't been.
	It's Rush Limbaugh in New York on the EIB network, 636 radio stations in the United States and Guam, the EIB World Service 15.420 megahertz shortwave, and the Armed Forces Radio Network heard also around the world.
	Here are in my formerly nicotine stained fingers the previously referred to 35 undeniable truths of life.
	These are revised and they are the back cover of the what issue is it?
	It's the upcoming issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
	You ever been in publishing, you're always working two months ahead, and so this issue with we just came off the press.
	It's not in the mail yet, but it's the next one you're going to get for those who subscribe.
	And I want to go over just some of the new truths.
	We've had to revise them.
	And they're not in any particular order.
	Number one is not more of a truth than number 35.
	They're just all equally truthful.
	There is a distinct, singular American culture, rugged individualism and self-reliance, which made America great.
	Number two, the vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth.
	They earned it.
	They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.
	Number three, no nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
	Number four, evidence refutes liberalism.
	Number five, there's no such thing as a new Democrat.
	Number six, the Earth's ecosystem is not fragile.
	Number seven, character matters.
	Leadership descends from character.
	Number eight, the most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.
	Number nine, Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th century.
	Number 10, the 1980s was not a decade of greed, but a decade of prosperity.
	It was the longest period of peacetime growth in American histoire.
	Number 11, abstinence prevents sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy every time it's tried.
	Number 12, condoms only work during the school year.
	13.
	Poverty is not the rut cause of crime.
	Number 14, there's a simple way to solve the crime problem.
	Obey the law and punish those who do not.
	15.
	If you commit a crime, you are guilty.
	Number 16, women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.
	That one will take some explaining.
	Number 17, the way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's.
	Reading, writing, arithmetic, and rush.
	Number 18, I am not arrogant.
	Number 19, my first 35 undeniable truths are still undeniably true.
	Number 20, there is a God.
	Number 21, there's something wrong when critics say the problem with America is too much religion.
	And we'll have the rest of these and calls, I promise, after this break, so don't go away.
	Imagine having a virtual photographic memory and being able to meet over 100 people and remember all their names.
	We're having too much fun again.
	Virtually everything you see more.
	Think about it.
	This is Kevin Trudeau, founder of the American Memory Institute.
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	I know.
	Everyone's on Instagram and all photos.
	The wax has been alive.
	Oh, yes.
	And they sell it on screen, most of them.
	All of them, in fact.
	That's one of the things that we're talking about.
	Boy, can you tell?
	That's Capitol Hill Post Office over 100 years of service.
	Yeah, I remember my first day behind the counter at the Capitol Hill Post Office.
	It's something I'll never forget.
	Well, hello there, Mr. Congressman.
	Is there anything I can help you with there?
	Well, yes, son, I need to.
	Somebody says here that liberals have been tampering with the C-SPAN broadcast.
	Let's get to details.
	Boy, sir, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Trust me, son.
	Can.
	You see, it's just the way we do things up here on the shore to come.
	We were just watching you on C-SPAN.
	This is at the Senate at 1:12 this afternoon.
	We're just watching you on C-SPAN when all of a sudden the screen went blank.
	We checked to see if it was a cable, but all other channels were crystal clear.
	Therefore, we suspect liberal tampering of the C-SPAN broadcast.
	This may be part of the new cable bill to ensure the TV is probably the local operator.
	Okay, that'll be 29 cents.
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	Nah, and here's your change.
	Thanks, Congressman.
	And, kid, you keep that stamp.
	Hey, thanks.
	Edway, if I'm indicted, he's my accomplice.
	Bye-bye.
	Yes, sir.
	I guess it's true what they say about Congressmen in the Capitol Hill Post Office.
	Neither inquiry nor bribes nor abuses of power shall keep our appointed leaders from making their rounds.
	The Capitol Hill Post Office, another special privilege institution.
	Do you know this man?
	Hi, wherever I go, people know my wife, but they don't know me.
	That's why I carry this: the American Access Card.
	It's the only card that card-carrying liberals like me carry with them.
	The American Access Card covers all your medical and social ills from womb to tomb and a host of other things you won't get from other cards.
	For example, excuse me, son.
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	Hey, I'll take Barbara, New York.
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	All right, back quickly to the 35 undeniable truths of life.
	Where do we leave off?
	We left off with number 21, so we'll pick up at number 22.
	Morality is not defined by individual choice.
	You hear that, you liberals?
	Number 23, the only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.
	We're 24.
	Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
	And this has been proven by Naomi Wolf.
	She writes about this.
	Do not blame me for being right about it.
	25.
	Always follow the money trail.
	When somebody says it's not the money, it's the money.
	Number 26, liberals attempt to win through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.
	Number 27, using federal dollars as a measure, our cities have not been neglected, but rather poisoned with welfare dependency funds.
	Number 28, progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness.
	Progress is economic growth.
	Number 29, liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare.
	Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.
	Number 30, compassion is no substitute for justice.
	Number 31, a culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers, who want to become winners.
	The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
	Do you follow that?
	32, the Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict.
	The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
	I know I'm on thin ice with that.
	I know that this is...
	Number 33, you could afford your house without your government if it weren't for your government.
	Number 34, words mean things.
	And number 35, too many Americans can't laugh at themselves anymore.
	Hear that, feminists?
	All right.
	Back to the phones.
	This is Barbara in New York City, I assume in Manhattan.
	Hi, Barbara.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you?
	Good.
	I'm glad you called, and thanks for your patience to me.
	Oh, that's okay.
	I had you on a speakerphone.
	I'm working at work here and listening to your show.
	I disagree with a lot of, not a lot of things that you say, but the way that you say them.
	I'd like to make a few points, and then I notice what you seem to do is let someone talk, and a lot of times we never hear them again, and you make your comments, so I feel like, in a sense, a little defenseless because I don't know if I'd be able to counter what you might respond to what I'm about to say, but you talk about being in pursuit of the truth and that you are the source and the only source that anyone needs for the truth.
	I think that is a statement that no one, no one can make and have that be actually a fact.
	There is not one source of truth ever.
	Do you ever read Socrates or any of the great writers?
	I heard you describe your day.
	And it seems to me you are rushing, Rush, from here to there, reading eight newspapers.
	And when you have two hours to yourself, you're watching C-SPAN or whatever on TV.
	Where's the introspection and the reflection about life?
	I hear you commenting on the value of human life, which I totally agree with.
	But I think that you have to extend that further.
	If you value human life, then you value all life in this world, including the trees and the animals.
	Barbara, Barbara, hang on just a second.
	How often do you listen to this show?
	I would say several times a week.
	As I tell you something, when you talk about introspection, I wish I weren't as introspective as I am.
	It doesn't come across.
	Oh, but you obviously have not heard the reasons that I have given for my stance in opposition to the legalization of drugs or why animals don't have rights or why I am pro-life or why I think Dr. Kvorkian is wrong.
	These things don't come from newspapers.
	These come from the precise, precisely from this introspection and reflection that you're talking.
	I think constantly all of this.
	How can you deride and make fun the way you do of certain people or organizations?
	Some of it seems very cruel.
	Like what?
	Why do you have to...
	Give me an example.
	I'll be glad to talk about specifics with you if you just give me an example.
	I don't think that I make fun.
	I think that what I do, when I get up and read the newspapers, you know what I see?
	I see the traditions and institutions that I think made this country great under assault.
	I look at myself as one who defends the things I believe in rather than getting up and saying, okay, who can I attack today?
	That's not how I look to newspapers.
	See?
	And I think people can't laugh enough.
	What?
	Oh, no, I agree with you.
	I think people do need to laugh at themselves.
	But I think it just crosses the line sometimes.
	Give me a specific example if you can.
	I'm not trying to put you on the spot.
	No, I know you're not, and I'm trying to not feel like I'm on the spot.
	I'm trying to think, too.
	I don't want to get into the feminazi thing, because I'm a woman, and it seems like that would be the natural thing to say.
	Why don't you want to get into that?
	Because I don't consider myself a feminist, a liberal, or anything.
	I don't like the labels.
	I think a lot of the problems that we have in communicating and understanding each other is that people have personal definitions, and you use certain terms.
	And I have, they're not, they are not personal.
	I have defined what a feminazi is.
	If I've done it once, I've defined it a thousand times, and every...
	But why even put labels on people?
	Why even mention it?
	Why get into that?
	Why can't you?
	You're asking me, why am I me?
	Why are you you?
	Why am I me?
	And, you know, personalities are unique.
	Everybody is different.
	Everybody has a different way of persuasion.
	Do you really think that everything you say is the truth and that this is the only source that people need to get a sense of what's going on?
	I'd like to hear an answer to that.
	I'm going to give you an answer to that.
	I think one of the problems you're having is that you are a literalist and you are one of those who finds it difficult to laugh at things that are obviously funny.
	When I say, my friends, you don't need to ever again read a newspaper.
	You don't ever again need to watch television.
	I'll do it for you.
	And as a bonus, after I tell you what's important in there, I'll tell you what to think.
	In truth, that defines the dominant media culture today.
	They're the ones that think that people are incapable of learning.
	They're the ones who think that people are too stupid to understand and grasp the details of the great issues of the day.
	But then you're part of that.
	No, I am not.
	I am not.
	I am a small little attempt at balancing that.
	No, see, that's where you can't see yourself.
	That's where you can't.
	You are part of it.
	You're a big part of it, and you're doing exactly what they're doing.
	No, no, no, no.
	This is what to think.
	Sure you are.
	No, no, I don't.
	I don't know.
	I didn't listen to you.
	Wait just a second.
	But what I do, Barbara, I clearly state that what I am offering is commentary and opinion, and I tell you the standpoint from which I come.
	I tell you that I'm conservative.
	And liberals won't admit that.
	The liberals in the media will not admit they're liberals.
	They will not admit that they have to.
	But you're labeling again.
	I don't think that's true.
	I don't think there's...
	Are you denying there are liberals in the...
	Come on, I'm trying to be as honest with you as I can.
	I know.
	And I'm suggesting to you that when I think that I have discovered the truth, for example, I think Bill Clinton knows that this health care plan of his is a fraud.
	I think he knows that it's going to cost far more money than we have.
	I think what Bill Clinton's trying to do is not so much ensure everybody against health care coverage as gain control for himself and his party one-seventh of the U.S. economy.
	Now, I'm honest about that opinion.
	Here's what I think it is.
	And there are too many people who will look at it that way.
	So you could say this is an alternative voice.
	As long as you, yeah, as long as you say it's an opinion.
	Well, I don't.
	No, when you say that this is the source of truth and the only thing that people need to listen to, are you really saying that tongue-in-cheek then?
	Are we not to believe that you really mean that?
	I mean, to make, think of it.
	Let me ask you this, think of the logic of this statement to say, everything I say is the truth.
	Now, no one can really say that and have that be the truth.
	Therefore, I can't believe anything that you say.
	Excuse me.
	Let me.
	Can you hang on just to- Do you understand what I'm saying?
	I do.
	Even though you are a woman and you offered logic, I still do understand it.
	Now, let me ask you right there.
	Ha I'm glad you're laughing.
	Lighten up.
	Now, let me ask these.
	You should lighten up.
	Barbara, I'm the one who's light.
	You're the one who's got the problem.
	Now, hang on, James.
	Hang on.
	Oh, see?
	Now, I can take it.
	Hang on just a second.
	I want to ask you guys.
	Now, I want an honest answer here.
	Now he's laughing.
	But you can't hang up with me until I'm going to go.
	I'm not saying.
	I don't hang up on anybody.
	Okay, good.
	And, you know, take a breath.
	What about 3 o'clock?
	What about 3 o'clock?
	Were you asking me for a cup of coffee?
	Yeah, let's have a wine.
	Let me ask you guys in there this question.
	Have I ever said that the sole, only truth is on this show?
	No, never.
	I say that we are in relentless pursuit of the truth and that what we do find here often is the truth.
	And sometimes I say it's the only truth you'll ever need, but I am not.
	I'm not, you really think that I think people are only going to learn.
	In your pursuit of the truth.
	I'm what?
	I think you take detours sometimes in your pursuit of the truth.
	You know what?
	If I'm wrong.
	You're in your own.
	I'm the guy.
	I'm the guy that when I make a boo-boo, if I err, I lead the show the next day with a correction.
	Well, that's good.
	I try to do that too.
	On your show?
	That's why we can talk on my life with my show.
	Okay, hang on here.
	Hang on just a second, Barbara.
	We got to take a break.
	Try as they want to to dislike me.
	They can't.
	And we'll be back with more in just a moment.
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	Today where callers choose the topics and also have at the host on occasion,
	as is the case with the lovely and gracious Barbara from New York City.
	You said you had two other things that you wanted to do.
	One of them is, what did you call your 35, the list?
	The 35 undeniable truths of life.
	I have one of the undeniable truths I think is deniable.
	You said that I now I may be not saying this correctly, so you can read the line about the trees.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	It's number eight.
	The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.
	You think that's the truth?
	Absolutely.
	It's the truth.
	A tree is a crop.
	It is a renewable resource.
	It is what we live in.
	It's what we make pianos out of, and baseball bats and great ideas.
	You don't value just the beauty of something.
	Sure, I do.
	Sure, I do.
	Wait, wait, let me finish.
	No, no, no, no.
	It's a good thing for itself that could be just looked at, that bears fruit.
	It doesn't have to be just chopped out.
	I agree with you that it's good for other things as well, but I don't think that is necessarily the best thing that we can do.
	Well, I do.
	I think you...
	Too sweeping a statement, right?
	It is.
	It is not too sweeping a statement because there still are trees.
	You know, there's no such thing as a virgin forest.
	The environmentalist wackos...
	I don't disagree with you.
	I think you can't say it's necessarily the best thing.
	What I'm trying to do is, do you know that we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we had at the time the Constitution was written?
	That's fine, too, but you're missing my point.
	I'm not disagreeing with you.
	You know what?
	You're not listening to me.
	You think that because I say the most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down, that what I want to do is cut them all down, don't you?
	No, I don't think that at all.
	Well, then you shouldn't have any complaints.
	This statement is an undeniable truth.
	It certainly depends on who you're asking and what their purpose is at any given moment.
	And that's why I have a problem with a lot of what you say.
	You leave things out, which is a segue into the last thing that I wanted to talk about.
	Okay, we're going to get to the last thing.
	What's that?
	A couple of weeks ago, you made a comment that I don't know if it was 1, 2, or 3%, but a very small percentage of the top earners pay 40% of the taxes.
	Undeniable.
	What are we complaining about?
	Undeniably true.
	I shouldn't say we, but what are people complaining about?
	And what you left out, this is what I almost called you that day.
	I said, this guy is leaving out a very important factor.
	Is what percentage of the taxable income do those people earn versus the 40% that they pay?
	What if you be please?
	I'm warning you to be very careful here.
	You're starting to sound like a socialist.
	You're starting to say that the more somebody's.
	And I'm not saying what should be done depending on the answer.
	I just want to say that you left out a very tough tax.
	I did not leave out anything crucial.
	I made the point I wanted to make.
	The rich are paying more of the real tax burden in this country today than they were when Ronald Reagan took office.
	The upper 5% of wage earners in this country pay 40% of all dollars to taxes.
	The upper 1% pay 25% of all taxes.
	Now, I don't care what their income is.
	They are paying a slew of dollars.
	And I'm pointing out to you that these people are hard workers too.
	And they're the ones who create jobs and create wealth.
	And if you don't create wealth, you don't create jobs, you don't have economic growth.
	If government's going to tax these people on the basis that it's fair because they've earned more, you're taking all that money out of the private sector, you're giving it over to these guys for their so-called investment, the growth of government, the shrinkage of the private sector.
	And I'm just trying to point out to you when I make these statements that it's not true that the rich aren't paying their fair share.
	They are paying far more than a fair share already.
	And that's my only point.
	And so I got to go now.
	I think I've demonstrated here that I have been totally fair and I have opened myself up.
	I've answered every charge.
	I've dealt with every accusation.
	And this is a good thing, too, because there's a misconception about this.
	So many untruths.
	People say that people who disagree with me never get through on this show.
	We violated a rule to take that call.
	That woman didn't even call on the 800 number.
	She called on the local New York WABC line, snurdily screened it, found somebody who disagreed.
	Bamo, she was moved to the front of the line.
	We take calls who disagree.
	Try to find them.
	There aren't very many, probably because they don't have the guts this woman had.
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	Do that again.
	What does she sound like in queue?
	I don't believe in labels except for Gucci.
	That's that sound you get after you've been with a woman for about six years.
	The words don't mean anything anymore.
	Keep talking about motion.
	Have you been with a woman for six years and the words don't mean anything anymore?
	You're concerned about cholesterol.
	That's right.
	Fastest day, Squid.
	The worst stopping your things, and it all sounds the same.
	That's most clearly doing it.
	You think I don't like women?
	I love women.
	I'm just telling the truth.
	Yeah, I mean, my wife exclaimed, that's your version of the truth.
	It's your version of the truth.
	You guys don't have sole possession of the truth and you know it.
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	The fault of the...
	This lies squarely on Reagan and Bush.
	Hear the expert testimony of psychiatrists and social workers.
	A few billion dollars more in social programs, and we could have saved him.
	Free Willie Horton, where a psychopathic murderer is unfairly portrayed as a psychopathic murderer by a gang of unscrupulous Republicans.
	Free Willie Horton.
	Free Willie!
	Horton, the nightmare continues.
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	Segment time for Open Line Friday, the Rush Limbaugh program.
	The most listened to radio talk show, perhaps in history.
	Not counting the worldwide audience.
	Also, a special thanks once again to the fine folks at C-SPAN for coming in today and telecasting these three hours.
	We always have a great time when the C-SPAN cameras show up.
	And I personally have shared these sentiments with Brian Lamb before, but I'd like to do it here.
	I think that the service that's provided by C-SPAN and all of the thought that's gone into the presentation of the programming that is outside the House and Senate chambers is just a godsend for the people of this country who choose to watch it.
	And the access that people can have to the inner workings of their government they wouldn't otherwise have is a wondrous thing.
	And I always, I remember my first time that I was invited to be on C-SPAN.
	It was during the Democratic National Convention of 1992 here in New York.
	I'd just been up at Good Morning America and I came down to do the journalist roundtable on a Friday morning with Brian Lamb.
	And I considered that a milestone.
	Many things are considered milestones by many people in their careers.
	And I looked at it simply because, not because of the size of the audience or anything of the sort, but rather the kind of programming that C-SPAN chooses to program and the kind of people they invite on.
	I was very pleased and honored to be a part of it, as I am today.
	And our whole staff has had a fun time.
	What we've tried to do today is not just let the cameras be here and proceed as though they're not here.
	I watch a lot of C-SPAN, and I know that many of the programs C-SPAN televises are programs that proceed under the basis that the camera just happens to be there.
	We're not going to pay any attention to it.
	And there's a school of thought which says that you should do it that way, depending if you're having a serious meeting or congressional hearing or some sort.
	But this is a radio show, and we try to combine a number of elements, and we do believe that one of the elements that has to be present every day is fun.
	And the C-SPAN cameras, along with the fine folks that come in with those cameras and operate them, give us another element here that is not normally here for us to have fun with.
	And so we have today.
	And again, I'd like to thank C-SPAN for allowing us to acknowledge their presence here and to use the fact that they are here as part of the ingredients today in this giant recipe that is EIB.
	Hope you have a great weekend.
	I'm going to go home and reflect.
	I'm going to go home and engage in introspection, little Socrates, little Plato.
	And then we'll be back on Monday with yet another full week of broadcast excellence, also part of which will come from California, LA.
	So see you folks.
	Adios.
	Little Plato, a little sock rates.
	And that's that.
	A piece of broadcast excellence in the cab.
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