Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, October 7, 1994

by John Switzer

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this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or
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than as a daily listener.

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October 7, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Rostenkowski's defense against
corruption charges is that there are no federal statutes against
what he did; lobby reform act is defeated, thanks to the people,
but press claims that it's a sign of Republican "mobilization"
for its "agenda"; only three of 234 pieces of evidence in O.J.
Simpson case has been thrown out; one of Rush's friends disagrees
with the idea that Colin Powell would run as an independent;
environmentalist wackos feel betrayed by Clinton; Rush to emcee
tribute to Charlton Heston in Hollywood; NBC News misrepresents
Newt Gingrich and Rush with regards to the lobby reform act;
Charles Osgood notes that it's bogus to accuse Republicans of
being obstructionists simply because they aren't willing to step
in and fill the holes left by defecting Democrats; Congress's
legislation often has opposite effect of its intents; Rush gives
the timeline of his discussion of the lobby reform act; NY Times
complains that the defeat of the lobby reform act shows the new
horrors of democracy: the power of talk radio, and the paper
accuses Republicans of using modern technology to speedily
mobilize in the service of their agenda; both conservative and
liberal groups were opposed to the lobby reform bill; Iraqi
mechanized divisions are moving south to Kuwaiti border; Rush
explains why you shouldn't take off the band of a fine cigar
while you smoke it; Rush's radio show is getting 10 shares in Los
Angeles; Chicago Tribune story about Rush and the lobby reform
act gets three major points wrong; caller thinks Rush has been
co-opted by Tim Russert into believing that Russert is not a
liberal; EIB mailman fools Rush into thinking he's got a new
package; mail carrier takes umbrage over Rush's joke about the
Post Office; Civil Rights Act and Endangered Species Act show how
laws passed by Congress can have unintended and opposite effects;
words to "All I Want to Do is Rule the World"; caller thanks Rush
for helping convert his Democratic father; Arnold Schwarzenegger
campaigns for his "Uncle Ted" Kennedy in Boston; Rush endorses
Mario Cuomo for baseball commissioner; cellist quits Eureka
Symphony because it's playing "Peter and the Wolf"; caller
reveals that Bo Snerdley had coached him; caller thinks it was
inevitable that a tyrant like Saddam Hussein would try something
when the U.S. got bogged down in Haiti; callers says he gets tiny
faxes about GAR - the Gospel According to Rush - from Roswell, NM
saying that Rush will give keynote speech at 1996 Republican
convention; caller thinks Tim Russert has some credibility, even
though he is a liberal; caller thinks gradual decrease in
increases of federal spending would eventually lead to a spending
freeze; caller thinks Jack Kevorkian is showing a need for
assisted suicide in society; Robert B. Reich says that new
poverty figures show a "15-year trend towards inequality" in
America which must be turned around or else; if poverty is
increasing to its highest percentage of Americans in 11 years,
will Clinton accept the "credit" for this, too?; caller's dog has
a conservative litter of puppies.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

October 7, 1994 - It's now day 626 (day 645 for the rich and the
dead, and 32 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 836 days left) and 689
days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air
with 659 radio affiliates (with more than 20 million listeners
weekly world-wide), 250 TV affiliates (with a national rating of
3.7), and a newsletter with nearly 500,000 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" was 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 2.45 million copies.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Friday, October 9, 1992:

o	Rush had to laugh at how Columbus Day in New York City used to
be a grand event, with all sorts of politicians and ethnic groups
participating in a monster parade down 5th Avenue. Modern
politicians, though, were running over each other in their
attempts to be the first to state that they would have nothing to
do with this politically incorrect event, and this hysteria about
Christopher Columbus epitomized the multiculturalist agenda.

o	The October issue of Money magazine reported that small
investors had earned an average annual return of 10.7% during
Bush's term, making it the highest return in 20 years. The NY
Times also reported that the nation's chain stores had their
strongest monthly sales gain in a year.

o	Forbes magazine printed a list of the wealthiest 400 Americans,
listing Ross Perot's net worth at about $2.4 billion. According
to Forbes, over 90% of Perot's assets were in tax-free municipal
bonds, which meant with an annual income of $150 million, he
would be paying about 1% in federal income taxes.

o	Rush's show was creating an uproar in Durango, CO, which had
become the latest haven for trendy leftists who were leaving
communities in California and elsewhere after their liberal
policies screwed those places up. These liberals were demanding
that Rush's show be taken off the air.

Because this controversy had been ongoing for weeks, the weekly
Durango newspaper ran a poll to "settle the Rush Limbaugh
controversy once and for all." The poll asked readers to check
one or more of the following:

[ ] I've listened to his show and think it should remain on the air.

[ ] I've listened to his show and think it should be taken off the air.

[ ] I don't have time to listen to his show and couldn't care less.

[ ] I wish everyone would stop talking about him.

[ ] I wish we would spend our time on issues that matter, like _______.

o	William Norwich's column in the NY Post repeated a story being
told by Dallas socialites about Ross and Margot Perot. According
to the story, which Norwich said he couldn't confirm, Ross Perot
had told his family not to give any interviews while he was
running for President.

An editor for Redbook, however, called the Perot home and got
Mrs. Perot on the line. Mrs. Perot tried to tell the editor she
couldn't give an interview, but the editor insisted, saying that
Redbook was not a political magazine and was interested only in
"recipes and serving tips."

Mrs. Perot accepted that and gave a 30-minute interview about her
domestic life. About a half-hour after she hung up, Ross "blew
into the house, his little ears flapping with rage." When Mrs.
Perot told her husband that she indeed had been talking with the
editor of Redbook, Perot reportedly replied "that wasn't an
editor, Margot, it was one of my people checking you out."

o	Sinead O'Connor, interviewed in Rolling Stone, complained about
how Mike Tyson had been treated in his rape trial. She stated
"poor Mike Tyson - he's only a tiny, little baby, and all these
people are trying to ****ing kill him. If he looks for solace in
the arms of lots of women, what do you expect him to do?"

O'Connor had no compassion for Desiree Washington who was raped
by Tyson, saying "that woman who is suing him is a bitch. I don't
care if he raped her; she used him. She's a disgrace to women as
far as I'm concerned."

o	In response to a Bush campaign ad that listed 100 economists
who supported the Bush economic plan, Clinton's campaign
retaliated by claiming they had 556 economists, including 9 Nobel
Prize winners, who thought Clinton had the better program.

o	According to the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, the national cost for motor vehicle crashes in
1990 was $137 billion, more than 2% of the Gross Domestic
Product; 1986 crash costs were $74 billion. These figures include
not only the auto repair costs, but all other related costs, such
as lost wages, medical expenses, etc.

The average cost for each of the 44,531 auto-related fatalities
in 1990 was $702,000 in lost wages, medical, and other bills.
Over 5.5 million people were injured in auto crashes, and 28
million vehicles were damaged. Property damage because of car
accidents was $47.5 billion, the largest portion of the total
cost. The average bill, though, for a critically injured survivor
was $250,000. Alcohol-related crashes accounted for 34% of the
total costs.

Rush wondered why America just didn't ban the wheel so as to curb
these costs.

o	The September 18th edition of the Lowell, MA newspaper, the
Sun, reported that some citizens were upset about a traffic sign
posted in Ayer, MA that said "Slow Children." The sign obviously
was to warn motorists to slow down because children might be
playing nearby, but some paternalistic liberals complained that
this sign was offensive because it implied the local children
were somewhat slow mentally.

The Sun story reported "because of the possibly derogatory
interpretation, `slow children' signs will one day become as rare
in Massachusetts as signs permitting traffic at 70 m.p.h." The
Massachusetts highway department has agreed that these signs
"might pose a potential insult," and therefore will advise its
workers to replace them with the "less ambiguous signs reading
`children.' "

o	Rush took a 900 poll to see whom his listeners would be voting
for in November, and 91.3% of Rush's audience were planning to
vote for Bush, 4.6% were going to vote for Perot, and 4% were
going to vote for Clinton.

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MORNING UPDATE

First, there was the investigation, followed by months of
speculation and rumors that an indictment was imminent. Then
Attorney General Janet Reno fired all the U.S. Attorneys, which
sent the case back into limbo, raising all sorts of questions
about what would happen. Eventually, an indictment with 17 felony
counts was filed, and the rumors continued, this time about a
possible plea bargain. And then "Uncle Bob" Bennett was fired as
the defense lawyer.

Rush, of course, is talking about Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL),
and the investigation into corruption charges that include, among
other things, that he spent $500,000 of federal and campaign
funds for personal use, hired ghost employees, and obstructed
justice. Rosty's defense attorney Dan Webb revealed Rosty's basic
defense strategy last week in two hours of oral arguments:
essentially, Rostenkowski will claim "Hey! I'm a member of
Congress so I have a license to steal." Webb said this case was
the first time that a member of Congress had been indicted for
"violating House rules."

The federal prosecutor for this case admitted that there were no
federal statutes that made barred kickbacks, but that general
fraud statutes would apply. Rush is amazed that Rostenkowski's
defense is basically that he's a member of Congress and thus can
do whatever he wants. Of course, this case is expected to take
years, but Rush has to wonder how members of Congress missed the
chance to correct the lack of federal statutes against
congressional kickbacks when they crafted the Crime Bill.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	The Lobby Reform and Disclosure Act has been defeated, with
Democrats unable to overcome a largely Republican-created
filibuster. What killed this bill, though, were the grass roots
lobbying provisions that had confused anyone and everyone.

EIB was called yesterday by a newspaper reporter who reported
that Rush was being blamed as one of the "guilty parties" in
killing this bill, so Rush told the reporter exactly what
happened on his show: Rush mentioned this bill after getting a
fax about it from Rep. Newt Gingrich, after which he took calls
from both Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK)
about it.

Both men, though, had very different opinions of this
legislation, and this fact, along with Rush's own confusion after
reading the bill, made him conclude that this piece of
legislation was anything but clearly written. A piece of
legislation, though, should be absolutely unambiguous, without
any hidden or mysterious clauses in it.

The lobby reform bill, though, was being widely interpreted,
which meant that nobody really knew what it would do. This meant
it was not a good bill, so regardless of whatever was actually in
the bill, it should have been sent back to Congress to be
rewritten properly.

The NY Times gives a fairly accurate history of this bill, but of
course the paper acts as if Republicans are the only ones who
ever take grass roots action - it's as if the NEA, Planned
Parenthood, ACTUP, etc. never use grass roots techniques.

However, it's heartening to see the effect the American people
can have. When this bill originally came out of committee, there
were only two Senators prepared to vote against it. Within only a
couple of days, though, once the word got out, there were enough
votes to filibuster it; this was all because of the people's
worries about the grass roots provisions, and it's something that
the people should be proud of.

Of course, it's precisely this sort of grass roots activity that
this bill was designed to stop, and the liberal media will
undoubtedly start insisting that this sort of thing is a major
threat to democracy. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), in fact,
insisted he found nothing objectionable in this bill, but because
he got so many calls about it, he decided to oppose it. The
people spoke out clearly about this, and this is what many in
Congress are afraid of.

o	Rush admits he was wrong yesterday when he said there were 100
pieces of evidence against O.J. Simpson; in fact, there are 234
pieces of evidence and so far only three of them have been thrown
out.

o	Rush was at a restaurant last night when he got a note saying
that Ross Perot had shown up downstairs to have dinner. Rush
didn't go down to meet him, though, because he was instead
engaged in an interesting conversation about the possibility that
Colin Powell might become Secretary of State. This, at least, is
what the New York gossip pages are saying - that Clinton will
offer Powell the post next week, in the hope it will improve
Clinton's rating in the polls.

One observer noted "you really want an ex-military man" in that
position. Rush doesn't know how valid this rumor is, but any help
this would give Clinton in the polls would be at best very
temporary.

One of Rush's dinner companions last night, though, had an
interesting theory about Powell, and whether he would run for
President in 1996. Rush has theorized that if Powell runs, he'll
do so as a President, given that the climate might be right for a
President who campaigns "above politics as usual."

However, Rush's friend noted that Powell was the epitome of the
disciplined military individual, someone who is anything but
independent. Powell is not someone to act on his own or to go
outside the existing structures and institutions, according to
this theory. Rush found this an interesting theory, and only time
will tell.

o	The new poverty figures are out, and on the surface they're bad
news, but Rush will talk more about this later.

o	It's looking bad for the environmentalist wackos, and there's a
story about how they're feeling betrayed by Clinton. Rush will
return to this point later in today's show.

o	Rush will be in Los Angeles over the weekend to emcee a tribute
to Charlton Heston Saturday. Heston is being honored for his
courage and convictions in remaining a conservative in Hollywood,
and Rush couldn't refuse the offer to attend, especially since
Heston has been so nice to Rush, his wife, and his show.

In fact, there's a new book out by Jeffrey Morris, "Rush to Us,"
which is all about the EIB audience. Heston wrote the afterward
to this book, while Dan Quayle wrote the forward, and Rush thinks
this was a really nice thing of both men to do. Rush hasn't read
the book, but from what he's heard second-hand, it's a nice
account of who his audience really is, in contrast to the usual
attempt to portray EIB's listeners as "one-eyed, one-horned,
flying purple people eaters."

*BREAK*

Phone	Dave from East Lansing, MI

Dave gives "most sincere dittos," thanking Rush for saving his
sanity after the 1992 elections. NBC News last night
misrepresented the Lobby Reform and Disclosure Act, portraying
Republicans as trying to prevent Clinton from getting anything
done. NBC also accused Newt Gingrich of calling Rush so he could
"whip his listeners into a frenzy." And throughout it all, NBC
had nothing to say about the grass roots lobbying provision.

Rush notes that even Charles Osgood had to admit that the charges
of Republicans being obstructionists were bogus because what was
happening was that Democrats were defecting from President
Clinton. This meant that Clinton had to get Republican support,
but when the Republicans decide not to help him, they are called
obstructionists. Yet the real obstructionists are the members of
Clinton's own party who are refusing to support him.

Dave agrees, and adds that when he was listening to Senator Carl
Levin last Friday, he remembered how the Campaign Finance Reform
Act was passed during the Nixon administration. This bill didn't
do what it was supposed to, though.

Gerald Ford has noted that the last time he ran for the Senate,
he spent a total of $25,000 during his campaign, but now the cost
of winning that seat has gone up to at least $500,000. This made
Dave realize that Congress often has the opposite effect of what
it claims it's trying to do, and he suspects the Lobby Reform and
Disclosure Act would be no different.

Rush notes that an important thing about this bill is that there
are at least two totally different interpretations of this bill -
the fact that Senator Levin and Rep. Ernest Istook were able to
look at this bill and come to two diverging opinions on it is a
warning sign in and of itself.

Why should bills be written this way? They shouldn't be written
so vaguely, so even if Rush didn't agree with the Republicans on
this bill, he would still call for it to be nixed and replaced by
something that wasn't ambiguous.

*BREAK*

Since the media isn't getting it right about what happened to the
Lobby Reform and Disclosure Act, although the NY Times comes
close, Rush gives a brief timeline of events. At about 10:30 last
Thursday morning, Rush was called by Rep. Newt Gingrich who gave
him the briefest of comments about the bill, saying he was faxing
Rush the same letter about it which he was sending to all of his
colleagues in the House.

Rush got the later and read it, astounded at some of Gingrich's
assertions. Rush mentioned Gingrich's letter on Thursday, and
this inspired people to call their representatives in Congress.
However, as Rush continued doing the show, EIB received fax after
fax about this bill from all sorts of groups concerned about the
bill's grass roots lobbying language.

Rush didn't understand one point of Gingrich's letter, so he
called Rep. Tom DeLay (R-OK) to ask him to explain it for him on
the air. Rep. DeLay did so and added his own analysis. The House
voted on the bill after Thursday's show, and the bill lost big in
the first vote, although the rule did pass by a couple of votes.

In fact, according to Amy Moritz, the Democrats nearly lost the
vote on the rule for this bill; Speaker Foley was forced to delay
the vote a couple of times until he could find some Democrats who
would switch their vote to support it. Once the rule passed,
though, the bill's passage in the House was assured.

Rush thus started the show on Friday thinking that this issue
would tone down a bit because it would next have to be debated in
the Senate, but Senator Carl Levin contacted Rush, asking if he
could come on the show to correct what he thought was some
misinformation that had been aired on Rush's show about this
bill. Rush agreed, so Senator Levin spent the first 25 minutes or
so of the second hour of Friday's show talking about this bill,
answering Rush's questions.

Then Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK) called to give his version of this
bill, and the show ended with some more phone calls about the
bill. However, while this was going on, the Capitol was being
inundated with phone calls from people upset about this bill.

It was these phone calls which turned the two votes against this
bill into the number needed to filibuster it. This shows the
power of the people; contrary to what the media implies, Rush was
not being lobbied for this bill nor was he lobbying for or
against it.

This bill was dead wrong in its attempt to stymie grass roots
lobbying, but even if this interpretation of the bill was not
accurate, the fact that this bill was so ambiguous that it could
be widely interpreted meant that it was a badly written bill.
Thus, if for no other reason, Rush declared that this bill should
be sent back and rewritten.

Today's NY Times gives an accurate portrayal of this timeline,
but the Times nevertheless continues the main theme of the
dominant media by claiming this bill's defeat shows the "new
horrors of democracy - the power of talk radio." The Times talks
about how "conservatives sprang into action," as if nobody on the
left opposed it.

The Times writes "it also demonstrates how fast the lean machine
of the self-described conservative network, aided by modern
technology, talk radio, and in this case an unusual coalition of
disparate special interests, can be mobilized in the service of
the Republican agenda."

Rush can't believe that the Times would be implying that only
conservatives do this; would the Times actually claim that NOW,
ACTUP, Planned Parenthood, and Democrats in general don't
mobilize for the sake of their agenda, or don't use modern
technology? In fact, the Clinton campaign in 1992 had a "truth
squad" which specialized in "fast mobilization," reacting to
anything said by Bush or his campaign, putting out an immediate
response.

George Stephanopoulos even called in to take issue with George
Bush during his appearance on Larry King Live. King, of course,
acted dumb-founded and surprised that Stephanopoulos had gotten
through, when in reality he had been given the show's private
number.

And the National Educational Association tried to mobilize a
boycott against Rush just this last summer. Rush recalls how the
NEA used to be a group of teachers who unionized; now they're a
union special interest that teaches on the side. These guys spend
their entire day mobilizing themselves to affect legislation.

Once again, the media claims Democrats are goods, while the
Republicans are bad. However, Rush is willing to see things from
his opponents' side - if Republicans really are a "lean, mean
conservative machine," then how can their threat be neutralized?

The answer, in true liberal fashion, is obvious: "fairness in
faxing," with a five-day waiting period between the time one
conservative faxes a message and another conservative can receive
it. This will give Democrats a "fair chance" to contact each
other.

*BREAK*

Items

o	Rush adds that the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, along with some
gun control groups, were against the Lobby Reform and Disclosure
Act, and these certainly aren't "conservative" groups. Plus,
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell this morning tried one
last ditch effort to ram this bill through, after everyone had
thought it had been defeated. However, the bill failed again.

o	There are conflicting reports that Iraqi Republican Guard army
units are gathering in the south of Iraq, menacing Kuwait.
Supposedly, Saddam Hussein is fed up with the four-year U.N.
embargo, but there are rumors that the troop movements are a
response to an attempted coup and assassination attempt.

Rush notes that if Saddam Hussein wanted to make a move, now
would be the time to do it, given how American troops, already
underfunded and under-equipped, are playing cops and robbers in
Haiti.

Phone	Tim from Orange Park, FL

Tim has been an occasional cigar smoker for two years, and would
like to get some advice from the expert: should you leave the
cigar band on or take it off while smoking? Rush asks what kind
of cigars Tim smokes, and he replies they're usually Fuente
brands. Rush is aghast that Tim would take the label off such a
fine cigar such as this, and insists that Tim must leave those
labels on.

Rush admits he is appalled by those who take the band off a cigar
- would people take the label off a fine bottle of wine? He
theorizes that the reason most guys take the band off is because
of habit - they started off by smoking cheap cigars and wanted to
hide that fact. However, when smoking fine cigars, you should
keep the band on to let people know just how good your taste is.

And should you smoke the cigar down to the label, you just move
it up, and if you can't move the label up far enough, then only
then can you take it off. Of course, you must hold the cigar so
that the label is visible.

Tim also asks what one should do if their wife doesn't allow
cigar smoking in the house, and their step-daughter rats on them
when they smoke in their truck. Rush remarks that his wife is
really good about this; although cigar smoke sometimes gives her
a headache, she doesn't mind Rush's smoking unless it's in a very
enclosed place like a chartered plane.

Fortunately, the Allergy-Free people who advertise on Rush's show
sell a wide variety of products, one of which is a filter that
actually changes the air four or five times an hour. These
filters really work and Rush is ordering some for both his house
and studio; he doesn't want to cause anyone any grief because of
his smoking, and these filters are a nice compromise.

Tim adds that he loves the smell of cigar smoke, and Rush agrees;
sometimes he asks his wife to smoke a cigar, just so he can smell
it. However, Rush would encourage Tim to keep on smoking in his
truck, regardless of what his step-daughter does. If Tim really
wants to convert his wife, though, he should pursue a number of
methods, from opening the windows to installing fans, to see if
he can't placate her somehow.

Tim says he just wishes he could keep his step-daughter from
telling on him, and Bo Snerdley shouts out his own advice: just
be a man and tell her to mind her own business. Rush suggests
that Tim ignore the single, childless Snerdley and keep on
smoking those cigars, while trying to find some compromise that
will work. He thanks Tim for calling.

*BREAK*

Rush just received some good news - the summer ratings reports
reveal that Rush's radio has received 10 and 11 shares in Los
Angeles, on EIB affiliate KFI. It's the most listened-to radio
show in Los Angeles, and while Rush has occasionally had 10
shares before in LA, he's now getting these numbers for all three
hours.

Rush's show is also the most listened-to radio show during its
time-slot in New York, and close to the number two show overall.
Rush is gratified to have this news and thanks his listeners for
making it possible.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

The Chicago Tribune has a story by Christopher Drew on the Lobby
Reform and Disclosure Act, and it gets a major point wrong about
what happened. Drew interviewed Rush about this, so his mistake
is all the more mystifying.

This story also doesn't mention how Rush made a big point about
how his problem with the bill was that it was written so poorly
that it could not be unambiguously interpreted. This alone was
enough to kill the bill in Rush's eyes.

However, the major thing wrong with the story is that Rush is
quoted out of context in an unbelievable manner. The story
states:

"While the conservative Limbaugh said in an interview Thursday
that he ultimately tried to present both sides of the lobbying
bill in his radio and TV shows, something `which I rarely do,' he
acknowledged that he rushed onto the air to mock part of it after
receiving a fax critique from Gingrich."

Rush first points out that he didn't mock anything, but rather
opposed this bill. Second, as to the quote "which I rarely do,"
Rush was talking about having guests, not presenting both sides
or fairness. As anyone who listens to his show knows, Rush rarely
has guests on his show, but he made an exception to this on
Friday.

It's unbelievable that Drew's story would state this, especially
since Rush typically goes to great pains to articulate the
liberals' positions on his show precisely so he can refute them.
Both sides are presented on his show.

Furthermore, Drew claims that this issue got started on Rush's TV
show, which is also wrong - it was on the radio show which Rush
first discussed this. The story was titled "Religious Rights
Phone Bank Puts Lobby Reform On Hold," so Rush knew it would be
bad even before he read it.

Even so, though, it's amazing that even though Drew talked to
Rush, he got three main points wrong; in contrast the NY Times,
which didn't talk to Rush, at least got the facts right.

********

It's being reported that two Iraqi mechanized divisions are
heading south towards the Kuwaiti border, and the State
Department says it's "monitoring the situation." Rush wonders if
they've called Jimmy Carter yet.

*BREAK*

Phone	Phil from Rocksbury Township, NJ

Phil gives "fellow enterpriser dittos," but because he is using a
cellular phone, his call keeps breaking up, so Rush asks Bo to
put him on hold in the hope he can reach an area with better
reception. "Tell him to keep away from falling aircraft," Rush
adds.

Phone	Doug from Madison, WI

Doug was glad that Rush discussed Tim Russert and "Meet the
Press" on Monday because Doug thinks he's always been a leader in
the "thin lips sweepstakes," little different than men such as
Michael Kinsley and George Mitchell. Doug says Russert has never
been very objective, and Doug is worried that Rush has been
somehow co-opted into believing Russert is not the liberal that
he actually is.

Rush notes that he doesn't doubt that Russert is a liberal, given
that he's worked in the past for both Cuomo and Moynihan, but he
is the least biased of the Sunday morning talking head talk show
hosts. Doug says he, like a lot of other people, don't watch
network news anymore, so Rush asks how Doug knows that Russert is
biased.

Doug admits he is somewhat guilty of holding assumptions about
the man, but he did watch Russert when he first came onto the
scene and Russert's liberal bias was obvious back then. Russert,
for example, was on with Cal Thomas recently, but Doug just
couldn't bring himself to watch the man.

Rush says it can be hard to watch the "thin lips" crowd at times,
but one should still take the time occasionally to do so. Rush,
though, has not been co-opted by Russert at all.

Rush has been on "Meet the Press" once, and Russert was more
respectful and objective than anyone else in the mainstream media
had been at the time. Russert took a lot of heat for hosting
Rush, and he defended that decision well.

Rush later ran into Russert at the Superbowl, and the two of them
just had a nice time together. However, this doesn't mean that
Russert has "co-opted" Rush; Russert has shown himself to be an
"equal opportunity attacker," going after his guests with equal
vigor. This was why his attacks last weekend against Gingrich
were so unusual, given how easily he treated Foley.

Certainly Russert tends to be harder on Republicans than
Democrats, yet if someone didn't know about Russert's background
- his connections with Cuomo and Moynihan - you wouldn't come
away from watching "Meet the Press" thinking he's an
ultra-liberal. Russert has impressed Rush as a gentleman and a
nice guy, and not at all representative of the tightly-lipped
liberal Washington media.

Doug thinks Rush has just demonstrated how co-opted he's been by
Russert; undoubtedly Rush has been responsible for a number of
conservatives watching Russert's show, thinking the man is an
objective journalist. Doug knows he's not the most observant
person around, but when he did watch Russert he was struck by how
blatant his bias was.

Rush says that he just doesn't see that, except for last Sunday's
show, but Rush pledges to watch the show more closely. However,
it's not bad if conservatives watch these shows, even if liberals
are hosting them and even if those liberals are ultra-biased in
their presentations. There is still a lot that conservatives can
learn from watching how these liberals think, work, and operate.

Vinny the EIB mailman comes into the studio with a big smile on
his face, making Rush think that he's got another package. Vinny,
however, is just fooling around, so a crestfallen Rush wonders
why Vinny would pull such a cruel practical joke on him.

Phone	Dennis from Warrensburg, MO

Dennis is a rural mail carrier, so he's been a bit irate about
how Rush's show has been taking a few potshots at the Post Office
lately. For example, there was such a joke made yesterday. Rush
apologizes for his joke about mail carriers stealing his Limbaugh
Letter, but notes this was only because the newsletter gets
reports occasionally from subscribers that their issues are being
stolen en-route.

Dennis accepts that apology and says that America's rural mail
carriers, at least, are proud to deliver Rush's newsletter to
right-thinking dittoheads out there in America. Dennis also notes
that the U.S. Postal Service is not funded by taxpayer dollars,
and Rush, desirous of giving postal workers their time to
respond, holds Dennis through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dennis from Warrensburg, MO (continued)

Rush again apologizes for his joke about mail carriers stealing
his newsletter, and asks Dennis how the USPS makes its money.
Dennis says it's self-supported by sales of stamps and other
services. There are two government oversight entities, though -
the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee and the Postal
Rate Commission, neither of which understand the job the USPS has
and does.

Dennis admits there is some dead weight in the USPS, but thanks
to the unions this can't always be trimmed. However, the mail
carriers who are trying to do their best deserve better than the
jokes such as what Rush and others do. If anything, the USPS
should be allowed to set its rates in a more competitive fashion,
as this would allow the workers more flexibility.

Rush admits that jokes about the Post Office have become a lot
like Dan Quayle jokes - cheap shots that people do without
thinking. Rush notes that he's never had problems with the Post
Office, unless you count the one check of his which was lost. Of
course, other people have had their problems - the Chicago mail
that was thrown into the trash and trucks, for example.

Rush thinks, though, that the USPS would indeed run more
efficiently if it were truly privatized, with the first-class
mail monopoly were ended. The faults, though, of the system can't
be placed on the mail carriers, given that the problems are
really the problems any large, faceless bureaucracy faces.

And anyone who has ever travelled outside of the country has
grown to appreciate such small things as how advanced the postal
service here is. Rush thanks Dennis for calling and making these
points. He just hopes that Dennis doesn't resign - "just stick
with the job," he pleads.

Phone	Mark from La Brea, CA

Mark says that there are lots of examples of well-intentioned
legislation that, because of how it was written, led to all sorts
of unforeseen problems. The original Civil Rights Act, for
example, was intended to make the nation color-blind, but instead
made it color-conscious with things such as Affirmative Action.

Similarly, the EPA Act was meant to save the environment, but has
instead led to people being arrested for farming their own land.
Rush agrees that the EPA and Endangered Species Act are
threatening private property rights, and there's a great concern
about how government can just take people's property because of
some animal.

Environmentalist groups, though, don't like these private
property rights because they are getting in the way of the
environmentalist agenda. Mark notes that a Vietnamese immigrant
had his tractor taken from him because he ran over what the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service thinks - it doesn't know for sure - was
an endangered kangaroo rat.

Rush says this guy was farming near Bakersfield, and because his
tractor ran over some kind of rat, the government moved in to
confiscate his tractor and sue both him and the guy that sold him
the tractor. Mark notes that this is not what Congress intended,
but Rush says there probably were some people who did intend
this.

The militant environmentalists don't like private property
rights, just as the animal rights wackos want to subordinate
human life to all other life. Humans are considered the problem.

However, Mark's point is a good one - you have bills that end up
being used for ways that never were intended when the bills were
written. Mark adds that it's the regulators, not members of
Congress, who end up interpreting these bills, and these
regulators have little controls over them.

Rush agrees, and H.R. "Kit" Carson points out that Congress
passed a bill to cut cable costs, but costs stayed the same or
went up. Rush agrees, and adds that the Lobby Reform and
Disclosure Act had some good things in it, but some other little
secrets were bundled into it.

*BREAK*

EIB has yet another new hit tune, Hillary Rodham Clinton's first
solo effort, "All I Want to Do is Rule the World":

<<Hillary Clinton, speaking over intro>> I ain't no little lady.
I ain't the President either. I am Hillary!

<<Hillary, singing verse>> "`All I want to do is rule the world before I die,'
Says the man next to me . . . in my bed.
`That's pretty cool,' I tell him. He says his name is William,
But I'm sure it's Bill, or Billy, or Elvis, or Bubba."


"And he's real ugly, you see, and I wonder why he hasn't fixed his nose,
It's bigger than life.
And we are laying back and dreaming of the day,
When we will run the world, Billy and his wife."

"We'll talk care of the Haitians and the Russians,
And get rid of Bob Dole and Rush Limbaugh, too.
We got the plan, Billy and me . . ."

<<Chorus>>
Cause all I want to do, is rule the world,
I got to tell you, I am a special girl.
All I want to do, is rule the world,
Come on, baby, I am the only girl.
All I want to do, is rule the world,
Until the sun blows up over Pennsylvania Avenue.
Until the sun blows up over Pennsylvania Avenue."

********

Phone	Jim from Clemons, OH

Jim is Pittsburgh-born and raised, and his father was the first
in the family to go to college and get out of the steel mills.
Rush notes that this is always a big deal in any family, and Jim
agrees. He notes that his father got a master's in economics, but
since he grew up in a Democratic family, he continued believing
that the Democrats were the working man's best friend.

However, after years of Jim and his brother trying to convert
their father, he finally registered as a Republican last month.
Jim notes that this was a team effort because this conversion
happened only after they got him to listen to Rush's show and
read his books. Rush is glad to hear this and thanks Jim for
including him as part of this team.

Phone	Emily from Carver, MA

Emily notes that Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Boston today
campaigning for Senator Ted Kennedy, and the media is reporting
this as "flexing his muscles for Uncle Ted." Emily sighs because
"I guess we know who calls the shots in that family, don't we?"
Rush also sighs because this is always the way it works in
marriages.

Emily adds that a day-long phone poll on WRKO showed Mitt Romney
pulling ahead of Ted Kennedy in the early morning, but as the day
went on, Kennedy closed the gap. She suspects that this is
because the working people called in early before they went to
work, but then as the day continued, the welfare guys finally got
up and called in.

Rush notes that Ted Kennedy's race is really close, and whether
he wins or loses, this campaign really spells the end of the old,
Kennedy-style way of doing things politically. This election,
like all of this year's election, is really the death-knell of
FDR-style liberalism.

People shouldn't count Kennedy out yet, though, because it's
going to be nip and tuck right up to the wire. This is still
Massachusetts, and there are a lot of things that can yet happen.
However, nobody has put a scare into Kennedy as Romney has, which
is monumental in itself.

Rush, though, hadn't heard about Schwarzenegger campaigning for
Kennedy, who is, after all, one of his in-laws, so he'll look
into it. However, there's a break coming up, so Rush, in his best
Arnold impression, tells everyone to stay tune because "we'll be
back."

*BREAK*

Rush is still feeling as generous and as sharing as he was
yesterday, when he gave lots of good campaign advice to Governor
Mario Cuomo. Rush, though, realizes that in spite of his advice,
Cuomo could still lose, so he'd like to look ahead and endorse
Cuomo for baseball commissioner. He apologizes to George Mitchell
for choosing Cuomo, but this really is the right move.

After all, Cuomo did play in the minors, he's a great negotiator,
and he might soon be out of work. Plus, Cuomo could really sell
baseball to the American people by reworking his past speeches;
for example, he could give the "Tale of Two Leagues" speech and
the "Pitcher on the Hill" speech to inspire the populace.

Plus, Cuomo would protect the integrity of baseball by never
making any decisions. What more could you ask?

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

The Eureka Symphony Orchestra is going to perform Sergei
Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" in a couple of weeks, and
there's some great news about it. However, since President
Clinton is holding a press conference right now - a press
conference that undoubtedly will focus on the Iraqi troop
movements near the Kuwaiti border - Rush will hold off on the
major news, such as the poverty figures and this orchestra, until
after Clinton has completed his news conference.

Phone	Howard from Punta Gorda, FL

Howard is pleased to be able to say that he almost always gets
through to the EIB Network, plus he's one of "Snerdley's willing
accomplices." For example, months ago when Rush was talking to
his secretary about why women liked Oprah Winfrey, Snerdley told
Howard that when he came on the air he should tell Rush to "get
off this mushy stuff."

Rush is highly interested in the fact that his call screener is
hard at work behind the scenes, prompting callers about what they
should say. He wonders if it might be time to suspend Bo again
for gross dereliction of duty. Howard hopes Rush won't do this
because it means Bo will never take his calls again.

As to Saddam Hussein, Howard says he was convinced that somewhere
in the world some tyrant would try something once the U.S. got
itself bogged down in Haiti. The rest of the world is laughing at
America, and Hussein obviously knows the U.S. has both cut down
its military and has strung it out really thin.

Rush notes that news reports comparing military readiness now and
in 1990 say that America currently is not capable of mounting
another Desert Storm. Howard says he is a former Naval aviator
and thinks there's no question of this. In fact, his old ship -
the U.S.S. Saratoga - was just mothballed in Jacksonville, FL.

Rush says he heard that there's a campaign on to collect some
money to turn the ship into a museum, and Howard says he'd love
to see this happen. As to the military, the country has nearly
halved the number of its carriers; those carriers would not have
been valuable during a nuclear war, but they are invaluable when
fighting the small sort of brush fire wars that the U.S. will be
facing from now on.

Rush hopes that the stories he's reading about the military's
lack of preparedness are not true, but it is obvious that the
administration is using the military in a feel-good sort of way -
playing cops and robbers in Haiti, for example. This makes Rush
wonder whether the country even has the resolve or will to do
another Desert Storm, assuming that the military was ready for
it. Does the country have an administration that would make the
same decision that George Bush did in 1990?

Of course, this is jumping the gun, so Rush doesn't want to
speculate too much. Besides, Warren Christopher is watching all
of this very closely, which should make everyone feel calm and
relaxed. The EIB staff add that if Christopher can't do it, then
Jimmy Carter will. Rush agrees and thanks Howard for calling.

Phone	Rob from Chevy Chase, MD

Rob received a miniature fax machine from Roswell, NM a year ago,
and this miniature marvel of electronics sent him a tiny two-inch
by three-inch fax telling him to stand by for further
instructions, signed "GAR." Rob faxed back (to a three-digit
number, no less) a question: "Who is GAR?" and he received the
reply "the Gospel According to Rush."

Then two months ago, Rob, who's a retired Air Force Pilot and
thus always follows his orders, received new orders: inform Mr.
Limbaugh that he will be one of the two people selected to give
keynote addresses at the 1996 Republican National Convention.

Rob knows that Rush probably won't believe him about this, but
this news is so monumental and GAR so important, that he's been
trying hard for the past two months to get the word out.

Rush finds it interesting that this fax came from Roswell, NM,
and Rob states that this is a significant point. He adds that
there's obviously "something significant" going on because
whenever Clinton - the draft-dodger - comes on his TV, a big
purple "LIAR" is emblazoned on his screen, and Howard just knows
that the guys that sent him the tiny fax machine are doing this,
too.

Rush asks if Rob got his TV from Roswell, NM, and Rob says no -
it was a gift from his son when he graduated from college. Rush
thinks this trick is better than the one with the tiny fax
machine - a graduate giving his father a gift, and Rob admits
that thanks to President Reagan, his son was only 32 and making
$100,000 a year.

Rob adds that he appreciates what Rush is doing for America, and
asks if Rush's father flew P-51s. Rush says his father flew both
P-51s and B-25s during WWII, and Rob says he flew P-51s, A-80s,
and A-86s while in North Korea, and he enjoys hearing Rush talk
about his father and grandfather. Rob notes that he heard Rush's
grandfather speak last year, and it was an amazing event.

He's glad to hear that Rush's grandfather is out of the hospital
but is not surprised since he asked the GAR people to pray for
him. He suspects this is more proof of the adage that "weird
things happen to us old fighter pilots - we're flaky to begin
with!"

Rob also has to say that he likes Tim Russert because even though
the man worked for George Mitchell, he still has some of his
credibility left. He thinks the previous caller's complaint about
Russert was lacking, given that Russert has been going after
those on the left after a fashion. "I think the truth is dawning
on him," Rob adds, "and he really doesn't like, but I think he's
fair as Koppel is, and Koppel does give both sides to the story."

Rob adds that the GAR people are "right on," and he points out
that these people are out in the desert, and although they aren't
as tall as John the Baptist, he's inclined to believe them. He is
convinced that Rush will be invited to the Republican National
Convention. Rush says he might be invited to sit in a box where
the TV cameras can find him, but he won't be asked to speak.

Rob says Rush's reluctance to believe this is understandable,
given that Rush uses his ego only to entertain, but he's
convinced the little GAR people are right. Rob adds that the GAR
people predicted that Rob would get through, and this came true;
he also thinks Rush affects far more than the 20 million who
listen to him - former Bush strategist Charley Black stated
recently that Rush has to be affecting at least 70 million
Americans.

Rob is also encouraged by how Mike Reagan is trying to imitate
Rush, and he hopes that Rush keeps himself safe and sound for the
next two years. Rob adds that he was ready to move to New Zealand
after Clinton was elected in 1992, but thanks to GAR and Rush, he
was encouraged to stay hopeful. Rush is pleased to hear this and
begs Rob to keep him informed about any new happenings in
Roswell, NM.

*BREAK*

Marta Limbaugh just walked in with four boxes from Bloomingdale's
Bakery, bringing goodies to the EIB staff. Rush is impressed that
these goodies came from Bloomingdale's, but Marta insists "only
the best for the EIB staff." However, she reveals that only three
of these boxes are for EIB; the fourth is only for the Limbaughs;
Rush is pleased with his wife's wisdom.

During the break, though, Marta wanted to know what the heck
"GAR" meant. Rush says that GAR stands for the "Gospel According
to Rush," and the significance of Roswell, NM is that this is
where the UFO nuts think the government is hiding some aliens and
their spaceship. Thus, the previous caller was not so subtly
implying he received a tiny fax machine from some tiny aliens in
the desert who think Clinton is a liar and who want Rush to be at
the Republican National Convention.

Phone	Brad from Wilmington, OH

Brad was talking to a friend about how a genuine spending freeze
with the federal budget could fix the deficit within five years,
but this idea is opposed by those who think it would create havoc
among the federal programs. Brad's friend thus suggested an
alternative - since budget cuts in Washington really mean
increasing the budget but not as much as you'd like, why not
gradually decrease the budget down to a spending freeze by
decreasing the increases in federal programs by one percentage
point a year.

This year they'd get a 10% increase, next year a 9% increase,
etc. - within seven years, these program would be increasing only
at the rate of inflation, which is what a genuine spending freeze
would do. Thus, the budget could be balanced within ten to
twelves years.

Rush says this could work, but there would be major problems in
getting that through the Congress, too.

*BREAK*

Phone	Jim from Mt. Clemons, MI

Jim agrees with Rush on nearly everything, but not about Jack
Kevorkian. Rush thinks he read that Geoffrey Feiger, Kevorkian's
lawyer, argued a case before the Supreme Court this week.

Jim says he is a firefighter who spends a lot of time on medical
runs, and he runs into a lot of "regulars" - people who are
waiting to die who go through a lot of pain without there being
any good reason for it. Jim thinks that if Americans could only
see such things, their minds on this subject would change.

Rush doesn't doubt this because such powerful emotions are
involved, but what Kevorkian claims is that the federal
government is forcing people to suffer by denying them the
"right" to assisted suicide. Rush bets that Kevorkian's argument
will insist "the government doesn't have the right to make people
suffer," but this whole argument is risky, given that a lot of
people think that life is borne of suffering and that one's
mettle is formed in suffering.

Richard Nixon, for example, thought his life was to suffer, so as
to become a better person. This, of course, is quite a different
thing from suffering brought on by a terminal illness, and Rush
does not think the government has any right to make people
suffer.

Yet what bothers Rush about Kevorkian is that he ostensibly is a
doctor, someone whose role is to heal. If someone wants to die,
they don't need Kevorkian, and the question is whether those
people Kevorkian "helped" to die would have killed themselves
without Kevorkian's help.

Kevorkian is consumed with death, insisting "we must learn from
the dying process," but Rush doesn't think the medical community
should be corrupted by turning it into an instrument of death.
Jim says that he doesn't agree with everything Kevorkian does,
and it's true that Kevorkian is at the center of the euthanasia
controversy just because he was the one who got in the news.

Rush adds that many of Kevorkian's victims were not terminally
ill. Jim says this might be true, but they weren't going to get
better from their illnesses, such as Alzheimer's. There is a big
difference between those who are suffering and still have a will
to live, and those who don't. There are people, for example, who
don't want the rescue personnel to touch them because they don't
want to do anything to prolong their lives.

Then there are the doctors who, because of the legal
ramifications, are afraid to give people in great pain enough
medication to kill the pain because the dosage might be fatal.
This is a catch-22 situation.

Rush says the intent is important - these doctors don't intend
for anyone to die, while Kevorkian wants to kill these people.
Jim says that Kevorkian is not killing anyone directly, but Rush
says that if Kevorkian hadn't been there, these people wouldn't
have died. Jim notes that assisted suicide is against the law,
and Rush says this is his point.

Why do people have to have assistance to die? If this is what
they really want, they can use a six-pack, a garden hose, and a
garage; there's no difference between this and having some
death-infatuated doctor hook them up to a canister of carbon
monoxide. Jim says that he runs into a lot of suicides that
clearly are tragedies, but if someone does want to end their pain
by ending their life, these are suicides that should be better
done in a hospital.

Rush says he's bothered by how euthanasia is being portrayed as
the solution to a problem, but instead it will just create a
whole new spate of problems. If you bring the medical community
into this, making them agents of deaths, sooner or later the
medical community will be empowered to decide who will live and
die. Budget concerns undoubtedly will start making the medical
community ask questions such as "is this life worth saving or
sustaining?"

This country already has a too callous disregard for life, and
moving in Kevorkian's direction would only accelerate this. Rush
thinks the current generation has an obligation to the succeeding
generations not to leave them with a society that's been
destroyed by an ever-increasing disregard and disrespect for
life.

Rush talks about Kevorkian only because he's personifying this
movement, but he has to think about the long-term aspects of what
Kevorkian is proposing.

*BREAK*

The segment starts off with Vladimir Horowitz's performance of
Chopin's Polonaise No. 6. The EIB staff insist that this is the
Bugs Bunny version, but Rush stands by his guns. He doesn't have
time to completely tell the story about "Peter and the Wolf," but
explains that a cellist in the Eureka Symphony has resigned and
called for a boycott of the orchestra because it is going to
perform this piece, which she thinks is "unfair to wolves."

Rush plays the haunting "Peter's theme" from the work, followed
by the brass-heavy "wolf theme"; of course, the highlight of the
tune is the "hunter's theme," but the EIB staff embellish it with
a gunshot, trying to illustrate in their own heavy-handed,
plebeian manner what the cellist finds so objectionable in this
work.

Rush notes for his listeners in Rio Linda that the original
Prokofiev work does not include gunshots, and promises to talk
more about this story next week.

********

Since Bill Clinton's press conference is over, Rush wants to talk
about the new poverty figures. However, he first points out that
the first 17 minutes of Clinton's press conference were nothing
but a campaign commercial for Democrats. The subject of the next
Congress and the Iraqi troop movements didn't even come up until
the question and answer period.

As to the poverty figures, they show that the number of Americans
living below the poverty level of $14,763 for a family of four
has increased to 39.3 million people, or 15.1% of the total
population. Rush notes, though, that these poverty figures do not
include any federal benefits such as AFDC or food stamps, nor do
they count the assets owned by these people.

Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, however, reacted to these
figures by stating, "This is a continuation of a 15-year trend
toward inequality. We have the most unequal distribution of
income of any industrialized nation in the world. Unless we turn
this situation around, we're going to have a two-tiered society.
We can't be a prosperous or stable society with a huge gap
between the very rich and everyone else."

Rush is struck by how this sounds like something Karl Marx would
say, and it's as if Reich thinks everyone except the "very rich"
lives in poverty. The facts, though, show that this is not true,
as Rush will describe in detail next week. However, it's
interesting that the percentage of Americans below the official
poverty figures is the highest since 1983, when the country was
coming out of a recession. What this means is that the poverty
figures fell during the 80s.

If poverty is really increasing, then how can Bill Clinton be
claiming that his economic program is really working? If Clinton
takes credit for a recovering economy, will he also take the
blame for the poor allegedly getting poorer? Can it be said that
the "rich getting richer" is a result of Clintonomics? Will
Clinton take credit for this?

After all, if only the wealthy were affected by Clintons' tax
increases, why haven't the poor and middle class fared better
than this economic recovery? The Clinton economic policies have
given the country an increase in the poverty figures, so if
Clinton is going to take instant credit for anything improving in
the economy, then he should take the blame for this.

The main point, though, to see in these facts is that raising
taxes on someone else does nothing to improve your life. Raising
taxes on the rich doesn't help the poor or middle class at all;
the only thing that people should care about when talking about
tax cuts is when those tax cuts affect them.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dana from San Antonio, TX

Dana thanks Rush for keeping her informed and making her laugh;
one of her dogs had a litter of puppies recently, and she named
them Rush, Ditto, Cal, and Bennett. Rush thanks her for calling
and appreciates her thoughts, although she had only 35 seconds in
which to express them.

