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	President's Day at 8 a.m.
	8 p.m. and midnight Eastern time.
	Next on C Spam, 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.
	Okay.
	Please.
	Good enough.
	19 uh 84.
	Here I move to Sacramento.
	Trying to listen.
	He's over there.
	He's over there.
	Here he goes.
	Come on.
	I've got a copy surf note here.
	It says this is not the only information super highway you'll ever need.
	This show is the info bond.
	like auto bond Rush is the 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.
	It walks in here just to get on the show before.
	You know, you should have come in here while I show after the show had started.
	Yeah, well, you'll do that.
	All right, we'll see you later.
	Is that Mo Packer?
	That was Mo Thacker, your boss.
	Nice speed info.
	I'll be in later if you need it.
	Are you uh 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, you so you just go home.
	You just hear loitering is what you're doing.
	Well, I'll be by on the next break.
	is that okay Oh, the update bed, the flint stones.
	Uh we definitely want that.
	I should make a copy of that and show them what we got.
	Right?
	That's what I'm trying to get together right now.
	together We have all show opens.
	We got Mike Tyson's, we got the WFIR open.
	We have the old Hey Lovey.
	Kill the TV.
	music
	It's not a little bit of a delay.
	You've got the Open Line Friday jingle ready to go.
	You got to dig.
	Hey, would have Diana bring me a uh a copy of the 3509 Ruth.
	Yeah, give Diana a call.
	Just have her bring me a copy of the uh 3500.
	Ask her, by the way, ask her when she comes just to come on in.
	Okay.
	Just to come on.
	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 sit come have a seat here.
	Diana Schneider, ladies and gentlemen, is the editor of the uh the Limbaugh Letter.
	I just want to one of the many lovely women on staff here.
	Thank you for bringing it in.
	We love you.
	We 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 in I wrote them in 1987-88.
	And they dealt with uh a lot of the Soviet Union and the threat posed there.
	Since that threat has uh for the most part been vanished because of Ronald Reagan.
	Um we've had to revise them, and we've done that for an upcoming uh in fact.
	Let me let me see this.
	See that?
	That is the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
	And that picture uh was of me in People magazine during their most uh what 25 most incredible, awesome, uh unique.
	Gee, there aren't anybody like this in the country of the year issue.
	And uh on this issue, right there on the back of it, is uh 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 can see it's the same thing.
	And uh, I'm gonna 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 uh on radio as as well.
	Let me get to the count.
	Today is day 394 of the raw deal for the uh the poor and the middle class.
	Day 414 of the raw deal for the rich and the dead with uh what is this 10 billion days left.
	What is that, 1067?
	1,067 days remaining for everybody, ladies and gentlemen.
	Live from New York, it's open line Friday, which means, uh ladies and gentlemen, that you choose the topics today.
	This is 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 uh 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 four o'clock this afternoon Eastern time, which is a regular run of the mill day.
	We also have taken the occasion of Friday to uh let you, the callers, have a little bit more latitude and leeway in choosing the items we discuss uh on the program.
	Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882.
	And I'd like to welcome the C-SPAN audience once again uh to the program today.
	We were slated to do this uh sometime in January, was that true?
	Maybe back in December.
	December, and uh about two or three days prior to uh the date we had agreed to.
	I came down with a bad cough uh and and it was spasmodic, and I didn't want to sit here and uh be going through coughing spasms, so uh the C-SPAN folks graciously allowed us out.
	We agreed for a return, and this is it today.
	Now, I I don't know how many of you watching on C-SPAN are not familiar with this program.
	We are so everywhere.
	We're the EIB World Service shortwave at 15.420 megahertz.
	The Armed Forces Radio Network around the world serving over one million men and women in uniform.
	And we uh, of course, uh now heard on over 636 uh 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.
	So don't sit here on Friday morning and say, okay, next Thursday, let's do a show on Tonya 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 Snerdly, 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 articulated articulate, and you have to have a topic or an idea or subject matter that is uh relative to something that is in the news either today or recently uh recently has been.
	Don't allow people to read.
	We don't want people making speeches, we don't people uh want people saying uh other people's words, but rather speaking from uh from their hearts.
	That basically is it.
	That's uh that's it in a nutshell.
	Uh this is a program, also I should say, devoted exclusively to what I think.
	Uh we don't sit here trying to learn what anybody else thinks, per se.
	I mean, I 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 uh generally use Fridays to uh uh 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 uh you will, uh, if you stick with us for the entire three hours.
	Before we go to our first break, there's something that I'm that I want to uh 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 to, in fact, I'm online even now.
	I just got a uh 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 Autobond, that we go so fast here that nobody can keep up with us.
	And I like that suggestion.
	Um 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.
	Uh today, ladies and gentlemen, we finally made the New York Times.
	Uh 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 the sterling accomplishments in the world of publishing, either 440,000 subscribers to the newsletter, uh, nor did this article mention that over seven and a half 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 is an advertising vehicle.
	And I want to clear up just two things, because we've 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 is 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 L C P, or if you're a parrotista, we could call it the NAAYP, the National Association for the Advancement of U People, uh, have uh 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 have uh been overwhelmingly with uh overwhelming me with uh 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 uh leftist uh 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 gonna 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 switchboards.
	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, um, a higher profile, um, dignity, if you will.
	Uh, the people at the Florida Department of Citrus have handled this.
	They're very solid in their decision, and and the 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 the grocery store, buy it.
	Uh, 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, uh, that remains the policy here, rather than to get into a phone call battle.
	But I do want to clear up some 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.
	Uh, 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 one million dollars.
	The press is reporting that I am personally getting one million dollars 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 one million dollars.
	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. Dinadell show as well.
	But you don't hear any protest about that.
	And you don't hear Larry King is being given a half million dollars to be spokesman for the Florida oranges, and uh you don't hear it about Dina Dell.
	It's a it's a clear example of how certain people are allowed to have people uh recommend various things or endorse various things, and other people are not allowed to have their spokesmen, and conservatives are not allowed to have their spokesman, it seems, uh, based on the actions down in Florida.
	So that that basically is it in a nutshell as far as the Florida orange juice controversy 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.
	Uh the new head of the NAACP, Benjamin Shavis, 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.
	So I can't promise it the cities won't burn.
	I mean, this is this is real mainstream uh peaceful, wholesome stuff.
	And then they wanted to make Tupac Shakur, uh, one of their image award winners.
	In fact, I think they did.
	Uh then the last time I looked, the National Organization for Women was trumpeting Lorena Bobbitt as their latest heroine.
	And we all know what she's famous for.
	What is what is the last image we have of Lorena Bobbitt?
	First thing she had to do was say it was crazy.
	I didn't know what I was doing.
	I was nuts, I was crazy.
	And the now gang went, yay, there's our woman.
	And our last picture of her is being let out of the courtroom with a sheriff in custody into a car driven by the authorities, headed off to the nut house.
	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.
	A 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 uh funny ad take-offs, some of the funny audio bits.
	We have a great Clinton impersonator that we've had a lot of fun with.
	Uh 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 good health.
	You probably think you don't.
	Why are you going home?
	Researchers.
	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 a good one.
	Other studies specifically talk about the wheel.
	I don't know.
	You'll have to ask the C Space.
	More than likely.
	It depends, Lobby.
	I imagine that the odds are pretty good.
	Too many people come in here and ham it up though.
	You never know what that'll do, our odds.
	I'll bet you didn't.
	Why don't you call Patsy's?
	That's some sausage and some fried shrimp.
	Usually enough to satisfy the spread around it.
	Good idea.
	I'll do that.
	But you know how to do it.
	Put it on your house account?
	Put it on my account.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Florida Orange Juice.
	You can't beat it.
	Everywhere.
	Dinosaurs like the Prostratosaurus.
	Stoop it back.
	Somebody called me and they weren't sure what the Citrus Florida tree looked like on March 31st.
	Trade in your old thermostat.
	Maybe fax machine.
	We're up to 300.
	I don't know that I have a container here with the Florida citrus tree.
	But how what it's a lot quieter than what you have now.
	Portrayed a table for 1800.
	Somebody might not recognize a drawing of a tree that you know.
	There's just one place.
	Hey, he just calls your needs.
	Also, Johnny brought in the new uh limbos.
	Little party tape.
	I haven't heard that yet.
	Bring bring that in for a second.
	Let me just have somebody bring that in.
	Let me let me hold them on.
	All right.
	Where are you calling from, Sarah?
	You want to buy name brand spatula and a fraction of retail price?
	It is.
	Okay, home on place.
	Fine nine spatula to get the tenth one for just one penny.
	Nice call.
	I love it.
	Don't forget they make great Christmas presents.
	And what better way to say I love you?
	Well, this is green, though.
	No, it's not a spatula.
	Yeah, we don't have it.
	I like the specialists so much.
	Where are the yellow page under spatulated?
	We sound satisfied.
	Okay, we're gonna practice our home fire.
	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 et cetera, et cetera.
	And he's very upset that you advocate especially killing the Great Whale.
	Well, he has talked about whaling in the International Whaling Commission, et cetera, et cetera.
	We're gonna have to hide that personalized harpoon.
	Ready, get set.
	Let's go.
	Come on, Jay, let's go.
	Hurry!
	Hurry, kids.
	Does your family know what they're supposed to do?
	That's all uh about the survey showing fire.
	We have some old sweepers here.
	Would you like some of the moments brought back to the survey show sweepers and all that?
	One of the funny sweepers that you used to use in lower for.
	That's P.O. Box 70.
	Sure, go ahead.
	Washington, D.C. 20024.
	Rush.
	You got the timber update standards.
	35.
	What's the question or comment for us, please?
	What's the question or comment for us?
	Surveys show that people who listen to Rush Limbaugh have 45% cleaner and brighter wash.
	You're somebody special.
	When you listen to Rush Limbaugh.
	On the Excellence in 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 uh break, broadcast engineer Mike Maimon 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 providing information.
	Can we get a close-up on this with the C-span camera?
	It is right there.
	We have um just we've covered up the brand name of this particular orange juice.
	If they got it, I do not have my monitor on.
	Is that it?
	Alright, now that's what it looks like, folks.
	So that's there.
	It may be a product of the Florida Sunshine Tree.
	It's just plain and 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.
	Ditto's Rush.
	Thank you.
	By the way, by the way, dittoes.
	Many of you may not know what Ditto's means.
	When this program first began, by the way, this will not take away from your time on the air, Paul.
	You bet.
	Compassionate understanding host.
	When uh 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 cut.
	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 the guy hung up and 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 uh mind-numbed robots waiting for marching orders every day issued by me, and that's uh not true.
	In fact, if there was ever a program that inspires independent thought, uh, it is this one.
	Now, uh, 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 uh you came on the air, and uh they had a small article talking about the talk shows and how they may be influencing the American people.
	Maybe affecting the American 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 Limbaugh here.
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	1-800-28 tapes.
	That's 800-28 T A P E S. Alright, I don't know what I'm gonna squeeze this in.
	Leave me in the number I can call you back, Lord.
	Don't mind the way to squeeze it in.
	Ah, yes, sir.
	Right here.
	First on the list is Cummings.
	Highly qualified, plenty of experience.
	He's uh 57.
	I think that's a little OLD, don't you?
	Who else is on the list?
	Uh Gunnarless.
	I don't think we need any of that.
	Well, then there's Tyler for give her go in.
	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 lighting the loafers, get my group.
	Well, that doesn't really matter.
	Oh, sure.
	All right, I've always liked Richard.
	He's worked his way up.
	Uh helped reorganize by New Standard.
	He's black.
	So he'll slow the whole department down.
	He's one of the best workers we have.
	Well, we bring that back to me again.
	So well, it's the whole list.
	One of them is qualified, isn't that ridiculous?
	And you're in the middle class?
	Ridiculous.
	Well, you need to make that clear up front because that would be the reason that we would take the call.
	Our progress depends on our diversity.
	First, there was the Carter administration.
	Twenty-two percent interest rates!
	Double-digit inflation.
	Where are you calling from?
	Now, pinhead is back.
	White House again, right up.
	Bill Cleanson in Tax Raiser 2.
	He's a tax spend Democrat dressed in cheapest clothes.
	But don't let his clever disguise fool you.
	Invest in America.
	He's got a line, okay?
	When you get on with Rush, no small talk.
	Thank you.
	Bill Clinton is tax raiser too.
	He's a master of waffling on issues and stretching the truth.
	What a we have for never told me.
	Well, that's I never used my influence.
	Jennifer Who?
	Bill Clinton.
	Tax Razor 2.
	He and his wife Hillary have got a whole bag of tricks they want to try on you.
	Ross Perelly in tax raiser too.
	Elect to see this, and you'll be paying for it for the next four years.
	Why do I give blood?
	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.
	Well, you got Julia.
	Who'd never spent a day in the hospital suddenly fighting for a life?
	See, prayers to pull through.
	Friends gave blood.
	And we all gave prayer.
	Julia?
	Yeah.
	Definitely.
	Rush Rolades.
	I wouldn't want to live through that again.
	Yeah, definitely.
	I can't forget it.
	And how much that blood meant to Julia?
	So I give blood months.
	Don't vote Democrat.
	I think it's presidential.
	I didn't lose you.
	Uh...
	Okay.
	One I always forget.
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	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 C CNN did?
	They simply did a report where they concluded that talk shows, daytime talk shows may be affecting juries.
	Yes, sir.
	They showed uh several clips from uh different talk shows, including one of your favorite um female talk show host, uh going up to one of the people.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, ho, ho, which one?
	There are a number of different women talk show hosts.
	Uh Sally.
	Sally Jesse Raphael.
	Yes.
	Uh there's uh hang, hang on just a second.
	Uh can you hang on here just a second, Paul?
	Um could you could you run do 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, uh, we'll explain this to you in just a moment, folks, when the cover arrives.
	Go ahead, Paul.
	Well, uh, apparently a victim was sitting in it in the chair, and uh 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 uh way that uh the audiences are turning toward the people that they're putting on the stand, making them look like the victims.
	Right.
	Uh basically it was just a reiteration of what you have already said for the last couple weeks, uh, listing the same examples that you give.
	Uh, for example, the Menendez, Harding, Bobbitt, things like that.
	I like to illustrate these things.
	Uh here you we have a caller here, folks, who is talking about something he saw in 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 uh of what happens, what I think is happening.
	Because see, I think I think that uh uh 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.
	Uh, 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.
	It's just, and it's really just a small, small segment of uh 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.
	Um 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 uh in the 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 the the audience, and they're gonna have to go through the rest of their lives without their parents.
	And what you have really is somebody should say, yeah, but but that's because they killed their parents.
	Well, we know, but but if they've got to go through the rest of their life with other 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 a um a pretty 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 I, of course, uh that that drove.
	When I saw that, when I saw this bunch of these jurors uh interviewed on, I guess it was uh Stoned Phillips did it on his NBC show one night.
	Uh he was uh showed the testimony of uh 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 do it.
	He was gonna have to live without the parents of the rest of his life.
	I said, it's time to get women off of juries.
	Um it's just time it and the best way to do that is to is to where do we get female jurors?
	We get them from voter registration rolls.
	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 uh 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.
	And 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'd 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.
	Long time previous.
	They then began to study the five fact.
	Can we get a close-up of the 5,000-year-old guy?
	They began to, we 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 some researchers in Denver did to try to figure out what the 5,000-year-old guy looked like.
	Um, 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 you, if we had that picture, we'd show you you'd 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.
	Uh, crime-bitten judge frees thug's killer.
	Here's the story.
	I have clipped it out.
	There it is there.
	Uh my copy of the Daily News was bad today.
	There's pre the ink from the foldover pages on the story.
	Basically, what it is.
	This is Bernard Getz 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 killed these two young boys who were just out uh 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 judges 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 sawed-off shotgun.
	The friend whom the judge identified only as a real estate agent carried a licensed gun, but that only uh that only heightened his fear.
	Anyway, the point I wonder what would have happened had this case been in front of a jury.
	Had there been a def 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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	Rush warned us about this.
	There is uh serious news about health care today.
	There has been every day.
	Uh, and uh it's all started this week as the president went out and spoke to the uh association of uh well, what the the AARP.
	The greedy geezers, as one caller here said yesterday.
	I don't believe that, of course.
	I I refer to them as seasoned citizens, but a woman from New Jersey called and called a greedy geezers, and I studied it, and they're not.
	Uh AARP, half of the membership at least is not for any health care reform.
	Uh at least the Clinton health care 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 they're you know, I I don't know how else to say this.
	I mean, the the 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 uh it's 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 what was going to happen is that their housing was going to be taken away from them.
	I mean, it it's just it's it's uh it's amazing to see in my mind this kind of stuff uh go on, and with it it's like I said yesterday, the old pylon theory.
	When Reagan or Bush were present and make an announcement, uh a policy statement on anything, on the nightly news, rather broke all 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, you'd have president of the NAALCP, the president of the you know, the spotted owl league, uh whatever, and they'd all have a a viewpoint creaming what the president, Reagan or Bush said.
	Now when the president comes out with a where is the Republican pylon?
	Where do they go?
	Uh it is it's it's clearly a difference uh in coverage.
	And uh 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, 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's inadvertent remark you may.
	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 um you know, there's an observation I just if if you recall, the president has said that everything about his plan is negotiable.
	And the first lady, you remember this, right?
	You remembered everything is negotiable.
	Whatever you want to talk about, except the mandate.
	Except the employee mandate.
	That we're not gonna compromise on.
	Yet what are they doing around the country?
	Anyone 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?
	Um 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.
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	Rush, now that the political leader of this country, I either now gang the Times as I'll have joined the fray of the citrus debate.
	I think it's time for some irreverence on the part of the audience members.
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	This is Kevin.
	We have about a minute, Kevin.
	Can you squeeze it in?
	I'll get it real quick, Rush.
	Thank you.
	Mega Diddles, by the way.
	Thank you.
	Uh by the way, I'm just wanting to verify that the uh double taxation does happen.
	I just got a profit sharing check from a company.
	And the government 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.
	On uh and you uh when you take the itemized deductions, that's great.
	That's a great thing they give us, but what they end up doing now is they have to take two percent of your growth and subtract your deduct your itemized deductions.
	So your itemized deductions go down.
	So, Rush, you did tell us.
	And you're right.
	I know.
	Hey, look, let me let me tell you something, folks.
	Uh, 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 and commission checks, though.
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	This is Rick.
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	Uh, what I called about before uh you came on at twelve, I was watching uh C-Span 2, and Paul Senator Paul Final was testifying before the House Appropriations Committee.
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	Yeah, there wasn't any discipline in uh either of those deals.
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	I got a I got a fax this morning right before I came down to the studio from Senator Larry Craig, who uh 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.
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	Uh all of which I understand.
	I I don't have time to detail this now because we got a break here coming up, but I this whole balanced budget concept is something that you know I have talked to a number of people.
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	Larry uh Cudlow, who is uh I'm proud to say he's a friend, he's a very bright guy, and he's served in the uh Bush uh Reagan administration first term.
	He has a theory that, and and it's not just his, by the way, there are a lot of others who think that this is uh doable.
	If you could just get a genuine spending freeze.
	Genuine freeze, not even a cut.
	In fact, you could allow uh for spending to increase at the rate of inflation every year.
	Not raise taxes.
	You would just freeze spending, allowing for inflation with uh an appropriate economic growth program, which is less government, that you could get this budget deficit down to the 50 to 60 billion dollar 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.
	Uh a cut in Washington is never a cut, it's simply a reduction in stated increase.
	I love it.
	You 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.
	Uh the budget, when when have you noticed a budget getting smaller?
	It doesn't happen.
	When have you last seen a budget tied to the uh rate of inflation as its only means of expansion?
	You've never seen it.
	Uh current services baseline uh means that what you the current services are the current expenditures on whatever budget item that you're looking for.
	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 of the, I think it's the budget reform act of 1979, allows uh 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 in uh the previous year's budgeting is is ignored, doesn't have to be paid any attention to.
	And so if they decide to increase the spending in an in a in a line item, say six percent, uh they can say, guess what we've done?
	We have cut spending four percent in this particular area when they're spending six percent more than we did last year, but it's four percent 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, uh then you would you would uh get much closer to balancing the budget without going through an amendment and a bunch of machinations.
	Now, nobody's gonna believe that, nobody's gonna go For it, and this amendment looks like it's got some life to it.
	And it looks like it has some momentum that uh uh I think is worth worth looking into.
	A further illustration of the zero base budgeting uh and the 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 you will see hearings on Capitol Hill and you'll hear the current services uh being talked about, or the baseline budget.
	You'll 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 a hundred thousand dollars.
	I'm just using this because these are easily understandable numbers.
	And uh you're gonna buy this car in June.
	You're gonna spend a hundred thousand dollars on it.
	June comes around, you go out, you kick the tires in that car, you don't particularly like it, and you decide that you like a car better that only cost 40,000.
	So you run around and tell yourself and everybody else that you just save sixty thousand dollars by buying a 40,000 dollar 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 sixty thousand less than you had intended to spend.
	So you saved yourself sixty.
	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 when spending is discussed and cuts are uh talked about.
	Here is Dave from Coralville, Iowa.
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	Hello.
	Hawkeye Diddle's from Carlville, Rod.
	Thank you, sir.
	I'm glad you called.
	I like your tie.
	Well, thank you.
	I'm I I thought it was I wore it specially for the C-span audience today.
	Yeah.
	Now, I I 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?
	Um 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.
	Uh billions and billions of tuna die, uh, and uh nobody cares while we, you know, occasionally in the harvest of tuna, they all die.
	In the process, two or three dolphins 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 and it ties in with the great whales.
	The uh 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 when you discussed the uh 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 it's been some time ago.
	Uh I don't remember a lot exact date, but I think it was last year sometime.
	And uh So you think I believe in the slaughter of uh whales.
	Well, I never know I never noticed you 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 at except peripherally that it is not possible to kill these creatures humanely.
	Well, I you know this is this is uh something about which I have no recollection of discussing.
	Uh I just I I tell you what I am going to do, though.
	I'm gonna take the occasion of your call to illustrate something about my beliefs.
	We 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.
	Uh I love pets.
	I've 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.
	Uh I do not believe that uh uh 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 I think it's very dangerous to start granting the same uh sanctity to the life of of amoebas and and lobsters and other uh 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 uh we have a million and a half abortions every year.
	We've now got Dr. Kavorkion deciding that uh he's going to assist people who don't want to live on the uh elderly end of the scale or in the terminally ill end of the scale.
	And I 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 uh the whole the whole notion that individualism, rugged individualism somehow is a crime now.
	Uh 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 uh that blade of grass growing over there, or that little strip of astro turf in the back of an El Camino.
	We're no different uh than that.
	And and I think it's a tragedy, and and so to to to try to equate everything that lives on the earth, uh you have to devalue human life.
	That's why I 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 uh for each other.
	Uh 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.
	Uh and this is not to put down dolphin.
	Is this what's not understood?
	This is not to put down any animals, but they just they are what they are.
	And they're lovely and they're cute, and they're they may be very smart.
	I mean, you can sit there and go, eh, eh, and try to talk to them all you want.
	And uh they may talk back to you.
	Uh and and I think those to whom they do call uh uh 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 uh live and occupy space.
	We got a quick break here.
	We'll take it 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 and shake them off.
	Big pan, a big can.
	This is a dumping the seat, bring a little pam on it.
	Catch their will now, shake it out.
	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.
	Who they are.
	They are the people who make human work.
	Many of them have family businesses, been around for years.
	Today there are more than 12,000 citrus growers cultivating 92 million citrus.
	They see that well on over 600.
	More than 14,000.
	That's not humane.
	What is this?
	I want to know my routine.
	Your daily routine wants you to walk through what you do during the day from the time you get up to you.
	First, I wake up and stand.
	I put my feet on the bar.
	Which is 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 little bobby does.
	Ever since companies came out with free tuna.
	Luckily, not every company seamlessly bends over and drops their pants for each whiny special interest group that comes along and complains about something.
	When animal rights activists, fan have no smoking policy with its cameras.
	It doesn't really lightly said a life.
	Weaves go, Tuna has the great dolphin flavor you grew up with.
	In fact, it's shock bullet dolphin.
	Now there's more for us to eat.
	Because it's a secret blend of tuna.
	Dolphins, yeah, shark, medical waste, and dancing.
	Let's have it lighted.
	But you won't smell it.
	I brought in one of the ones that doesn't smell.
	Try it.
	Yeah.
	See, I have I no, really, I I call it this one, you won't smell this one.
	Are you tired of wondering whether it's a good thing?
	And if you do taxing out, if you do not know.
	Why not do what millions?
	Yeah, I thought it was good.
	Americans are doing that.
	I did.
	I think.
	Without even knowing.
	It tasted fine.
	It was a little rough.
	We'll send up a new trial balloon.
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	I don't understand what you're saying here.
	Taking four calls so far.
	See that?
	Four calls.
	That's why I used to suggest that I know what America's thinking because of what happens on this show.
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	Music Coming up here, Dino and the ripped.
	We've taken four calls.
	Four calls in about two hours.
	That see, my friends, this is why I verse very honestly beginning of the program is suggesting to you that I cannot gauge the mood of the country simply based on what the calls to this show happen to say, or what the callers to this show happen to say, which means this I'm not here to survey America.
	When I say I don't, this is this is not a program designed to find out what you think.
	I mean it in a survey sense.
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	Any number of ways we can think of that would do the trick.
	We can think of that.
	To Los Angeles and Tom, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hello, sir.
	Rush cigar smoking dittoes from Hollyweird.
	Thank you very much.
	Right on the border, unfortunately.
	Really, really.
	Holly weird, eh?
	Yeah.
	Rush, would you say hi to my father?
	He's listening in uh Bellevue, Washington.
	Yeah, what's his name?
	Yeah, Bill Spear.
	Bill?
	Hello, Bill.
	Hello, Bill Spear in Bellevue, Washington.
	Great to have you in the audience.
	Thanks.
	Rush, I I was very interested in in learning a little bit more about you as far as what your daily routine consists of.
	What exactly you do during the day to prepare yourself for the show and what you're doing.
	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.
	Uh talking about myself.
	And now you're calling and asking me to talk about me.
	Oh, yeah, but I I think that I think the viewers and the listeners at C Spa I want to, you know, want to see you as a regular guy.
	Uh you know, you're I mean, I am a regular guy.
	I'm sitting here, I'm hosting my I'm a regular guy.
	Well, just walk us through your your kind of your daily your daily thing when you wake up.
	It's boring.
	It's really it's nothing but work.
	It's it's really it it I mean my daily routine is is real simple.
	I get up, consciousness overtakes me begrudgingly.
	I hate waking up.
	I get up at about eight.
	Be very honest.
	Get up at eight 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 uh get ready to uh to leave.
	I get dressed, I go out, I make sure that enough cigars that I'm gonna need for the day are packed in my formerly uh 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 and uh 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.
	Looks just much like this.
	And I headline hunt.
	Cut out things that I think are interesting.
	Uh Mrs. Wiggins, my uh 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.
	Uh at about 11 30, I make a phone call to Dick Mincer, who runs the TV show, and uh, he's the senior producer, and 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 four o'clock, goes for a half hour to an hour.
	Um, decide what we're gonna do on TV.
	Uh these past three days have been doing two shows a night because I gotta go to Los Angeles next week.
	Uh the and that's 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 I got it.
	I finished last night at eight o'clock, and uh at that time it was then for the first time today I had a chance to find out who had called me, what they wanted, uh uh what kind of other things and clerical things I need to do.
	Um usually go to bed about two in the morning, getting an hour and a half to two hours from midnight to two, totally to me to do whatever I want to do.
	Uh 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 uh 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 um 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 I don't abort it or dispose of it until I actually leave town and go on a vacation.
	That that basically is it.
	I 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.
	I just it's it's just no different than anybody else's day.
	It's no different than anybody else who uh who uh 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 that's basically what my day is.
	Uh and it all comes to fruition here during these three hours and and also on on TV.
	That's that's where the the hard work pays off.
	That's where the fun comes.
	That's all fun, but this is the manifestation of it here and uh and on TV.
	Thanks, uh Tom for the call.
	We got a quick break here back with more right after this.
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	Give me Governor Quomo line, too.
	Hey, Mario, goodbye.
	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.
	Yes, sir, I need to know what exactly is the question of time.
	I'm grateful for your kind and generous offer.
	But let's face it, you've so much on your plate already.
	That's not a question of comments.
	Somalia.
	I'll campaign it's hard.
	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.
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	And the way for you to get popular is to stay away from me.
	Mary Al.
	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 health place, it's got a request here for the opera bump.
	We may not have time.
	He can read your number right off the phone by the best.
	And make thousands of dollars worth of calls.
	The one I have is a minute eighteen and the number count, obviously, is way off.
	The millions.
	Cover the buttons while punching in your calling card numbers.
	And when you must give the operator your number...
	Well, what a regular bump for now.
	I'll make an executive decision on it later.
	Wi-Fi Fi.
	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 hmm 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.
	You want to do this going.
	We are going to in the next hour uh try to uh jam in a few more phone calls than we've had so far and go through a little bit of the news that uh is still waiting to be discussed.
	But I told you, uh C-Span's gonna be with us for the whole hour, right?
	I just got a question here how long is C-Span staying in here for the whole hour.
	By the way, I'd like to thank C-Span today for this.
	Uh and I would like to also thank them for the tremendous lead-in uh they gave us uh with the proceedings of the Japanese diet uh in session.
	I couldn't have asked for greater lead in.
	I want to thank Brian, everybody down there for doing that.
	We'll be back with our final hour right after this.
	Doot, doot, doot, doot.
	Three, two, one.
	What's the question of comment for us, please?
	When the door gets towed, the door gets red.
	What's the other question?
	Yeah, I'm over in the night.
	I've got something to tell you.
	Where are you calling?
	It's tougher and tougher to extricate myself.
	Okay.
	I don't know when I'm gonna be able to squeeze this in yet or give me a minute.
	Let me try to figure out where I'm making with cars and I'll uh let you know, okay.
	Thank you.
	Where's this stuff on the table?
	Um yeah we can't leave stuff there.
	That's where the TV that's where the camera's pan.
	The camera's planning right in there?
	No, that's where they're panning it.
	If they put it down on the floor, it'll be okay.
	Just...
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Be careful stuff is uh leaky another right now I don't know.
	Josh said put it here.
	I love it.
	Yeah.
	Come on.
	Well.
	I gotta get it through to you.
	Yeah, right below the thing.
	Yeah, that's what we were thinking.
	Right here.
	Mr. Snirley.
	Yes, sir.
	Thank you.
	Hey, Matt.
	How you guys doing?
	All right, they're panning over, and I'm getting them.
	Thank you very much.
	I do wonder if it's me today.
	Right there.
	It's still up there.
	I think I went to get it.
	No.
	No.
	no I don't want to eat anything now am I to do but you're on C spam now.
	Am I smiling?
	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.
	The Lobianco mask.
	Oh, look at the price.
	Whoa.
	What?
	Huh?
	Night is something.
	Do save me some for later.
	We got one more here, Kim.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm gonna have a clip.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm gonna have a clip.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm gonna have a clip.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm gonna have a clip.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm gonna have a clip.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	clip last time I did this I got in trouble I'm not gonna do it never mind I'll just look at it.
	I don't know.
	Never mind.
	I'll just look at it.
	I don't want Johnny to bitch.
	Why don't you set it up on the near side?
	Because if anybody comes in to get something, he's got a lychee on the same mic.
	Yes, he's doing it on this one.
	Really?
	He did?
	All right.
	I guess you want to...
	All right.
	Mike, it's okay for you?
	Okay.
	Anybody see that?
	Some Pepsi, though.
	All right.
	All right.
	a word can we shove this down there's no meat in it.
	Oh, okay.
	It's cheating for me.
	Here's what I have.
	Thomas.
	Are you sorry?
	You missed the question in the camera for us.
	What's the point you want to make for me?
	Oh, baby, just kidding.
	Just kidding.
	Huh?
	I don't need enough to have a song to say.
	Don't keep telling you now I'm ready.
	You told me that nobody else I don't think it'd be a problem.
	What?
	I think it'd be a problem, but it doesn't want me to say true for him, so.
	We have two pricey it out in the ground.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hold on a minute.
	AJ, hold on a minute.
	I'll be back with you in a minute.
	Alright, we're all right.
	John.
	John, not gonna squeeze us in leaving your number if I can't call you Monday.
	71, 6.
	0, 9.
	I'm gonna catch my ribs.
	No, sir.
	Not gonna be able to get through the thing.
	Thank you.
	oh Rush number is probably what's your first name?
	I'll tell you, I just personally comment, right?
	These are so so you gotta find one.
	Relaxing.
	Do you like?
	Before you leave this afternoon after you've torn down, come down to my office and I'll I'll give you you uh smoking.
	Well if we can get you just like that, get on.
	I'm gonna try my best as well as you can.
	Where's the thing?
	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, and where are you calling from, Harry?
	K E Double N I S. Um.
	Rush Rap.
	Okay, well, again, get right to the point where you get on.
	Right with the topic.
	I just you know, this is what you think will happen.
	What does he think or whatever you want to do?
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	I want to do rush rollings.
	Gotta do that.
	We've got to congratulate.
	All three.
	Just let me know which one you want.
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	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 gonna try to get a few more in this hour.
	And uh 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 uh 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.
	Or just because of a flippant comment I made when we uh started the program, Patsy's, you know, Patsy's is becoming the official uh restaurant of the Rush Limbaugh TV show audience.
	At least half of them go there every night after the uh TV program.
	All right, let's show you, my friends, our original rap song.
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	Right here on the EIB network.
	Let's uh the Godzilla of Talk Radio.
	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 1,600 professors and instructors.
	Showed that about three-quarters, that'd be 75% 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.
	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 Bidness 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 uh 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 Gigot's Potomac Watch column.
	Because in essence, the uh chamber have uh the Chamber of Commerce uh 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 Jigot in his column today.
	There's a man named Robert Patreselli.
	The Big Three Automakers have an ally in the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce's health committee, Mr. Patreselli.
	He is described by Paul Jigot 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. Jigot.
	Last month, Value Health, Mr. Patreselli's company, won a contract from Ford and the United Auto Workers to administer drug benefits program for 275,000 people nationwide, which is a worth about 90 million dollars a year.
	Value health, which is Mr. Patracelli 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. Jigo 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 Healthcare Plan survives, then Mr. Jigot 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 uh Mr. Patriselli 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 Jigot's column today in the uh in the Wall Street Journal.
	I know that several uh 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, otherwise, 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 that's magically arisen uh to 58 million overnight, despite all this bursting economic news?
	Something to think about.
	Then this, the PS de resistance.
	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 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 to Little Rock said, 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 uh by uh 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.
	Uh I mean, this is gonna cost the taxpayers a whole lot of money.
	I never I never wanted any of this.
	He's the one who called for it.
	Has he forgotten?
	Clinton scoffed yesterday that the probe is gonna 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 appointed he asked the the attorney general Janet Reno to appoint a special prosecutor.
	She did, and now the guy says, here's what it's gonna take.
	And Clinton's going, hey, I didn't mean this.
	CBS News is 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, haven't the appearance of impropriety is more than this country should stand for, and our attorney general.
	Broom.
	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.
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	It's Rush Limbaugh in New York on the EIB network, 636 radio stations in the United States and Guam.
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	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 uh 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 out the press.
	It's not in the mail yet, but it's it's the next one you're gonna get for those of you who subscribe.
	And I want to uh go over just some of the new truths.
	We've had to revise them.
	True, and they're not in any particular order.
	Number one is not more of a truth than number 35.
	They're just they're they're 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 a longest period of peacetime growth in American history.
	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 rot 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 sixteen, 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.
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	Over a hundred years of service.
	Yeah, remember my first day behind the camera.
	Capital Hill Post Office.
	Uh neighbor.
	Well, uh, hello there, Mr. Congressman.
	Is there anything I can help you with there?
	Well, yes, son, somebody says here that liberals have been tampering with the C-span.
	No, uh, let's let's get the details.
	Boy, sir, I don't I don't know.
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	Trust me, son.
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	You see, it's just the way we do things up here on the Ori.
	Oh, sure.
	They sent it at 112 this afternoon.
	We're just watching you on C span when all of a sudden a screen went blank.
	We checked to see if it was a cable, but all other channels were crystal clear.
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	This may be part of the new cable bill to ensure that TV is up right away.
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	Wherever I go, people know my wife, but they don't know me.
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	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 wound to tomb.
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	Hillary.
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	Now, without medical coverage, this guy's screwed.
	With the American access card, his emergency bill and any recovery cost will be paid for by good old Uncle Sam.
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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.
	Twenty-five.
	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, you can't win.
	Using federal dollars as a measure.
	Our cities have not been neglected, but rather poisoned with welfare dependency funds.
	For 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.
	and Number thirty, compassion is no substitute for justice.
	Number thirty-one.
	The 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 the ice with that.
	Number uh 33, you you could afford your house without your government if it weren't for your government.
	We're 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, Rosh.
	How are you?
	Good.
	I'm glad you called, and thanks for your patience too.
	Oh, that's okay.
	I had you on a speaker phone.
	I'm I'm working at work here and uh 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.
	Um I I'd like to make a few points, and then I notice what you seem to do is uh let someone talk and and um a lot of times we never hear them again, and you you make your comments, so I feel like, in a sense, a little defenseless um, 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 um being in pursuit of the truth.
	That's right.
	And that you are the source and the only source that anyone needs for the truth.
	I think that is is a statement that no one, no one can make it and and and have that be actually a fact.
	There is not one source of truth ever.
	Do you ever read Socrates or or any of the great writers?
	I I heard you describe your day.
	And it seems to me you're you're 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, when do you where where's the introspection and the reflection about life?
	I I hear you commenting on um the value of human life, which I totally agree with, but I think that you have to e extend that further.
	If you value human life, then you value all life in this world, including the trees and the animals.
	How often do you listen to this show?
	Um I would say several times a week.
	Because I'll tell you something.
	When you when you talk about introspection, uh I am I wish I weren't as introspective as I am.
	It doesn't come across Oh, but it how you know you you obviously have not heard the reasons that I have given for the reason that for for my for my stance in opposition to the legalization of drugs, or why animals don't have rights, or why I am pro-life, or or why I think Dr. Kavorkin is wrong.
	These things don't come from newspapers.
	These come from the precise precisely from this introspection uh and reflection that you're talking.
	I think constantly all the time.
	Well, how can you make how can you you deride and make fun the way you do of um certain people or organizations?
	I mean some of it seems very cruel.
	Like what why why do you have to uh 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 uh rather than getting up and saying, okay, who can I attack today?
	That's not how I looked in newspapers.
	See, I think people can't laugh enough.
	What?
	Oh no, I I agree with you.
	I think they I think people do need to laugh at themselves, but I think um it it just cr crosses the line sometimes.
	Give me 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 not I'm trying to not feel like I'm on the spot.
	I'm trying to think too.
	Um I don't want to get into the feminazi thing because I'm a woman, and then it seems like that would be the natural thing to say.
	Um I guess Why don't you want to get into that?
	Because I'm not I don't consider myself a feminist, a liberal anything.
	I don't like the labels.
	I think a lot of the 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 people will 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 every But why even why even put labels on people?
	Why even mention it?
	Why, why 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 and you know, personalities are unique.
	Everybody is different.
	Everybody has a different way of persuasion.
	But 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 in the world?
	You know, this, I think what you...
	I'd like to hear an answer to that.
	I'm gonna 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.
	But then 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 you're part of that.
	No, I am not.
	I am not.
	I am a small little attempt at balancing that.
	No, you you're 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 want.
	No, no, I don't know.
	Wait, wait, just a second.
	But I what I do, uh uh Barbara, I clearly state that what I am offering is commentary and opinion, and I tell you the the the standpoint from which I come.
	I tell you that I'm conservative.
	I don't, and and liberals won't admit that.
	The liberals in the media will not admit they're liberals.
	They will not admit that they have.
	But your labeling again.
	I don't think that's true.
	I don't think ever I don't think there's just Are you denying they're liberals in the media?
	Come on, I'm trying to be as honest with you as I can.
	I know.
	And I'm and I'm 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 gonna 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 I'm that there are too many people who will look at it that way.
	So this isn't this 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 say no, when you say that this is the source of truth and the only thing that people need to listen to, are you are you really saying that tongue in cheek then?
	Are we not to believe what that that you really mean that?
	I mean, to make can't think of it.
	Let me ask you this.
	Now think of the logic of the 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 let me can you hang on just 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.
	Uh-huh.
	I'm glad you're laughing.
	Lighten up.
	Now let me ask you should lighten.
	Barbara, I'm the one who's light.
	You're the one who's got the problem.
	And you hang on to you.
	I'm the one who's light.
	Hang on.
	Oh, see?
	Now I can take it and hang on just a second.
	I want to ask you guys.
	Now I want an honest answer here.
	Now he's laughing at it.
	But you can't hang up with me until I say two things.
	I know I have two things to say.
	I don't hang up on anybody.
	Okay, good.
	And you you know, take a breath.
	What about three o'clock?
	What about three 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 that the sole only truth is on this show?
	No, no.
	Never have.
	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 think 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 gonna listen.
	Sometimes 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 um no no.
	I'm the guy, I'm the guy that when I make a boo-boo.
	If 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 on my in my life, which is my show.
	Okay, hang on.
	Here, hang hang on just a second, Barbara.
	We gotta take a break.
	Tries they want to to dislike me.
	They can't.
	And we'll be back with more in just a moment.
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	Oh Lord, please don't let me be Miss Sunday still.
	It's open line Friday 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 uh um yes.
	Well get to it.
	One of them is what were your what did you call your thirty-five uh the list the thirty-five undeniable truths of life.
	I have one of the undeniable truths I think is deniable.
	You said the I now I may be not saying this correctly, so you can read the line about the trees.
	Yeah.
	All right, it's uh 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 antique furniture.
	Sure, I do.
	Sure I do.
	Wait, wait, let me finish.
	No, no, no, no.
	For itself that could be just looked at, um, that bears fruit.
	It doesn't have to be just chopped out.
	I I agree with you that it's good for other things as well, but I don't think that is necessary.
	There are all kinds of trees.
	Well, I do.
	I think you're sweeping a statement, right?
	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 wax.
	I don't disagree with that.
	I'll be like, you can't say it's the necessarily the best thing.
	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, I'm not I'm not disagreeing with within.
	You're not you know what?
	You're not listening to me.
	I am sugg you you think that because I say the most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with 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 you shouldn't have any complaint.
	Certainly.
	It 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 isn't the last thing that I wanted to say.
	Okay, we're gonna get to the last thing.
	What's that?
	A couple of weeks ago, you made a comment that there uh that I don't know if it was one, two, or three percent, but the a very small percentage of the of the top earners pay forty percent 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 factory.
	Which is what percentage of the taxable income do those people earn versus the 40% that they pay.
	What if you're gonna be able to do that?
	Oh, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, 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 gonna question it.
	You're you're you're starting to say And I'm not saying what should be done, depending on the answer.
	I just want to say that you left out a very good thing.
	No, no, no, no, I didn't know.
	I didn't I did not leave out anything crucial.
	I made the point I wanted to make.
	The rich are paying more of the the real tax burden in this country today than they were when Ronald Reagan took office.
	The upper five percent of wage earners in this country pay forty percent of all dollars to taxes.
	The upper one percent pay twenty-five percent 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 gonna 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 gotta go now.
	I think I've dement demonstrated here that I have been totally fair, and I have I have I have opened myself up, I've answered every charge.
	I've dealt with every accusation, and we that this is a good thing too, because there's a there's a 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 in the 800 number.
	She called on the local New York WABC line, snurdily screened it, found somebody who disagreed, bam-oh, 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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	Well, so a uh special uh thanks once again to the uh fine folks at C-Span uh for coming in today and telecasting this uh these three hours.
	Uh we always have a great time when the C-Span cameras show up.
	And uh I I personally have uh I've shared these sentiments with Brian Lamb before, but I'd like to do it here.
	I think that the uh 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 in Senate chambers uh is is just a godsend for the people of this country who choose to uh who choose to watch it.
	And the uh the access that people can have to the inner workings of their government they wouldn't otherwise have is uh is a wondrous thing.
	And I always uh 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 just I just been up at Good Morning America and I came down to do the journalist round table on a Friday morning with uh with Brian Lamb, and uh I I considered that a milestone.
	Um many things uh 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 but rather uh the kind of programming that that C-Span chooses to uh program and and the kind of people they invite on.
	I've 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 uh not just let the cameras be here and proceed as though they're not here.
	I I watch a lot of C-SPAN, and I I know that many of the programs C-SPAN televisors are programs that uh 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, 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 uh again, I I'd like to thank C-SPAN for allowing us to acknowledge their presence here and to use the uh fact that they are here as uh part of the ingredients today in this giant recipe that is EIB.
	I 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 from part of which will come from California, LA.
	So see you folks.
	Adios.
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