Underground Informer
Volume 5 Issue 18
November 5, 1994
Page 6


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Rush Limbaugh the Anti-Christ?
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                                    Part 2
                                                                     By Pip...

     Last time I suggested in jest that someone should play Rush Limbaugh's 
tapes backwards and see if anything that sounds vaguely satanic pops up.  It's 
been two weeks, and I can't help but wonder if anyone has played Rush 
Limbaugh's tapes backwards and if anything that sounds vaguely satanic has 
popped up.

     We start with a review of the Reagan years by Rush Limbaugh as seen on 
the Rush Limbaugh TV show and praised by ex-President Ronald Reagan in a note 
to Rush that was read on the Rush Limbaugh TV show.  In order to keep a 
reasonable pace, I will skip Rush's customary opening insults and get right to 
the meat of the show. 

     I've decided to leave out the opening act.  It basically consisted of a 
speech by Clinton on the state of our economy, a speech whose points Rush 
elaborated on in his standard blow-it-out-of-proportion way.  For his next 
trick, Rush proved that Reagan-Bush won by a landslide in their first bid for 
election.  Rush touted this fact highly without consideration to the factors 
giving rise to this landslide.  Let's face it:  when the other guy isn't going 
all out to run for office since he's trying to cope with Iran as he promised, 
this landslide isn't the big deal Rush makes it seem.

And now I'll allow Rush to take the floor. 

     "My friends I am jazzed, I should have done this show two years ago when 
we started.  WeĠre going to lead off with here with the economy.  The 
President and the Democrats try to make you think the economy of the 1980s is 
the absolute worst it's been since the Great Depression, when it has been the 
best it ever has been since the Great Depression in the 1980s.  We want to 
lead off here with three separate cuts from President Reagan's inaugural 
address in January of 1981.  You compare this man and his vision for America 
to what we've gotten recently, and see if your heart's not moved."

Reagan Cut Number 1: 

     "It does require, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe 
in ourselves and our capacity to perform great deeds--to believe that together 
with God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.  
And after all, why shouldn't we believe that?  We are Americans."

Pip here:

     I like this clip.  It's very upbeat, but that's all it is.  There is no 
stated goal.  It's just a pep talk, a sound byte to make you feel good. 

Rush:  "Cut number two from the same address.  All right, what are the 
problems we face?  See if you don't love this." 

Reagan Cut Number 2:

     "The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades.  
They will not go away in days, weeks or months, but they will go away.  They 
will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we had in the 
past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest 
bastion of freedom.  In this present crisis, government is not the solution to 
our problems; government is the problem."  

     Rush winked and went on to say, "All I want you to do when you listen to 
these clips we have for you today is contrast that to what you're hearing 
today, the doom-and-gloom crisis creation of the liberal Democratic wing of 
the Democratic Party.  How were we going to get over this problem of the 
economic malaise that Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter?  Just as a reminder, 
here's what Reagan thought we ought to do." 

Pip back at ya:

     I can't define what these economic ills were from Reagan's statement.  I 
have to go back to the campaign and look at what he was saying they were.  In 
doing so, I must say that the single greatest economic ill he spoke of was the 
national debt and the need for balancing the budget.  In fact, this was the 
cure-all he hung his promises on, and it was a cure never delivered.

     What it was that we needed to do to overcome these ills is no better 
defined than the ills themselves.  Let's read the line again where he tells us 
what to do to overcome these ills:  "They will go away because we as Americans 
have the capacity now, as we had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done 
to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom." 

     Sure sounds good, but it lacks something--like direction, like a goal, 
like a plan.  Nor are we or were we the last bastion of freedom as the line 
implies.  It's a wonder of feather-puffing with a nice touch on national 
pride, but it stops there as Reagan lays the blame for these ills on 
government in his next line:  "In this present crisis, government is not the 
solution to our problems; government is the problem."  Drop the first four 
words, and what's left is nothing you haven't heard a million times before.  
Wouldn't it be more helpful to say *how* government is the problem and how 
*your* being elected to head the problem is going to cure it?  
 
     "In this present crisis..."  Those are Reagan's words.  Tell me, are 
things better for you today than they were in 1980?  Is that pesky $1 trillion 
debt resolved, are your taxes lower, your standard of life better?  That is 
the only true test of history.  The rest is just window dressing and political 
games.  As far as leadership goes, Reagan might as well have danced a jig. 

Reagan Cut Number 3:

     "It is time to re-awaken this industrial giant, to get government back 
within its means, and to lighten our punitive tax burden.  And these will be 
our first priorities, and on these principals there will be no compromise."

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