Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show for Friday, May 13, 1994 by John Switzer This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1994 by John Switzer. All Rights Reserved. These summaries are distributed on CompuServe and the Internet, and archived on CompuServe (DL9 of the ISSUES forum) and Internet (cathouse.org and grind.isca.uiowa.edu). WWW users can access http://neptune.corp.harris.com/rush.html The /pub/jrs directory at ftp.netcom.com contains the summaries for the past 30 days. Distribution to other electronic forums and bulletin boards is highly encouraged. Spelling and other corrections gratefully received. Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the first summary for this month. In particular, please note that this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other than as a daily listener. ************************************************************* May 13, 1994 BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: <> LIMBAUGH WATCH May 13, 1994 - It's now (allegedly) day 479 (day 498 for the rich and the dead) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal") and 556 days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air with 640 radio affiliates (with more than 22 million listeners weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national rating of 3.7), and a newsletter with over 440,000 subscribers. His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction best-seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million copies sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster stopped printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things Ought To Be" has been on the NY Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," was on the NY Times best-seller list for 16 weeks and has sold over 2 million copies. LEST WE FORGET The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Friday, May 15, 1992: o Hillary Clinton had once talked about "when we get into the White House," but she had since been "muzzled." Rush bet that if Hillary ever started speaking again, it would be in reference to "when my husband, Bill, gets to the White House." Evidently, the public anger about Hillary's previous comments had forced her back out of the limelight, and Rush mused aloud about what this meant for the state of feminism. o Shortly after Rush played his commercial for Fur Cafeteria in the previous day's show, he received a FAX from Michael J. Levinson, Chairman of the Board of Furrs Cafeteria. The FAX informed Rush that the company `Furrs Cafeteria' was on the New York Stock Exchange and operated 150 restaurants. The company was named after its founder, Roy Furr, who started the business in the 1940s. Their restaurants served 1.1 million diners every week, and Levinson said many customers thought Rush's ad was a real commercial, and were upset about the "road kill products." Levinson also said that his company had been inundated with phone calls, especially from those "appalled that we would advocate custom cooking of road kill." He requested that Rush explain the difference between his commercial and the real "Furrs Cafeteria." Rush therefore played the commercial one more time to make sure his listeners could tell the difference between it and the real restaurants. He pointed out that Furrs Cafeteria did not have any drive-thrus. <> o An Atlanta study of people killed while falling off horses revealed that 40% of those who died had been drinking. The researchers therefore wanted the government to take steps to stop "drinking and riding." Rush thought the solution to this was simple - don't let your horse drink before riding since it was totally irresponsible to expect your drunk horse to "trot a straight line." o Fred Turner, 53, left South Carolina on May 6 on a trip to walk across America so that he could demonstrate that most people in the country were good and kind hearted; however, he was robbed and pushed over a bridge. When interviewed by telephone from a bait shop in Georgia, Turner said he was robbed by two men as he was walking across a bridge. The men asked Turner if he was the "guy walking across America"; when he answered yes, they demanded "good, give us your wallet." The muggers then beat Turner up and threw him off the bridge into the river below. Turner, though, was undaunted by this experience and promised to continue his walk. Rush was impressed by Turner's resilience but was glad to hear that Turner did not plan to walk across New York. o When a defendant muttered a threat in court, Ft. Lauderdale circuit judge J. Leonard Fleep levelled a handgun at the man and challenged him to take the gun away from him. The judge took the action when the defendant told a bailiff that the judge was an "S.O.B." and that he would kill the judge if he only had a gun. o A Los Angeles city councilwoman was claiming that truck driver Reginald Denny deserved to get beaten up because he was supposedly shouting racial slurs at the four black men outside of his truck. The press was also reporting that the man "may have brought in on himself." Rush noted that people seemed so afraid of another riot in LA that they weren't challenging anything said by the traditional civil rights leadership. o The current issue of SPIN magazine had a story about AIDS "that is unconventional in all of its aspects." For example, the story claimed that the HIV virus has nothing to do with AIDS; many people have HIV, which is a harmless virus. Something else, such as drug use, is triggering AIDS. The article further claimed that nobody has proven that HIV causes AIDS. o The Washington Post reported that subpoenas had been issued to three Senators by the Federal Grand Jury investigating the House Post Office scandal. Senator Dan Rostenkowski received one of the subpoenas as did Rep. Austin J. Murphy (D-PA) and Rep. Joe Colter (D-PA), along with the acting House Sergeant-at-Arms and a clerk. The subpoenas were for records dating back six years, including vouchers for postal stamps. The Grand Jury was investigating charges of drug use and sales at the Post Office, and several post office employees had already pleaded guilty to various charges. However, these charges were unrelated to the new subpoenas as the Grand Jury was investigating whether money laundering occurred, with members converted their office expense funds or campaign funds for their personal use. o On Nightline the previous week, a gang member told Ted Koppel that "the worst thing a black kid could do is to get a college education because that makes him subservient to the white power structure." This gang member said that going to college was "assimilation" while Rush noted that nearly everyone else considered it to be "accessing the system" and "success." o A CNN's legal correspondent said that Officer Laurence Powell's trial for beating Rodney King should be moved back into Los Angeles because "this is the only way justice can be achieved." One caller was horrified that this lawyer thought that justice could be achieved only by moving the trial to an area where "justice is different - where justice is not the system, but a predictable, politically correct outcome." o One caller mentioned how San Francisco activists and supervisors were trying to get rid of police chief Richard Hongisto for allegedly stealing copies of a gay newspaper. The caller noted that at both Stanford and UC Berkeley, conservative students had tried to put out their own newspapers, but their boxes were trashed and their newspapers stolen. Obviously, freedom of the press existed on these campuses only for liberals. The caller noted, by the way, that federal and state laws did regulate the taking of free newspapers, so stealing them in this manner was indeed a crime. o Jack "The Dripper" Kevorkian had struck again - police in Clawson, MI responded to a 911 call and found the body of Susan Williams, who was assisted in her suicide by Kevorkian. Kevorkian did not use his patented suicide machine, though; instead, he used a can of carbon monoxide to kill Williams. Williams suffered from blindness and severe multiple sclerosis, which totally incapacitated her. Her sisters and 29-year old son were also present at her death, along with Jack Kevorkian and his own sister. Kevorkian was already facing two murder charges for helping two Michigan women kill themselves in February, and was under a court injunction not to assist anyone else with suicide. ******** MORNING UPDATE <>