Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, October 10, 1994

by John Switzer

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October 10, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Chicago bans pay phones to stop drug
dealers; Fulton County mandates warning labels on guns; Raoul
Cedras is reportedly stepping down and leaving Haiti; Rush
discusses the dinner he emceed to honor Charlton Heston;
conservatives should take confidence from how many of them there
are; Ross Perot claims that Clinton knew about the Iraqi troop
build-up weeks ago, but delayed releasing this information until
now because he needed more help at the polls; media is praising
Clinton for "not repeating Bush's mistakes" in the Gulf; Rush
wonders if any journalists will investigate Clinton's "October
Surprise"; caller notes that Clinton was able to make Hussein
blink only because of what Bush had done during the Gulf War;
Haiti and Iraqi situations are going well, but how long will
American troops remain?; CNN's Jonathan Mann snidely comments
that Clinton won't be "zipping around Kennebunkport in his
motorboat" during Iraqi situation; caller wonders if Hussein is
just trying to make himself look good so as to get the sanctions
lifted; caller says Simpsons TV show tried to portray Rush as the
leader of the non-thinking crowd, such as Homer, while portraying
Larry King as representative of mainstream America; Bill Moyers
blames Rush, "Harry and Louise" ads, and special interests for
defeating the Clinton health care plan, but Moyers' show is
funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which paid for the
NBC two-hour special that was biased towards the Clinton plan;
mainstream media has rejected Rush's Op-Ed piece on "Why Liberals
Fear Me"; dominant press is just getting too predictable; Dee Dee
Myers finally gets the White House Press Secretary's office, and
Rush suspects White House the delay is due to the glass ceiling
being installed; Rush lists some Italian achievements, given that
places like Denver are refusing to honor Christopher Columbus;
ABC is reporting that Clinton faced off Hussein "eyeball to
eyeball" and Hussein blinked; caller finds it curious how quickly
Clinton was able to send 50,000 troops to the Gulf; regardless of
Clinton's motivations, Rush thinks it is heartening and good news
that the deployment of U.S. troops forced Hussein to back off;
Perot supporter thinks there are still reasons to support Perot;
solution to Iraqi problem is not the end of sanctions, but the
elimination of Hussein, so will Clinton cut a deal with him as he
did with Raoul Cedras; caller asks if Jimmy Carter will cut a
sweet deal with Hussein as he did in North Korea and Haiti;
Robert Novak writes that Fidel Castro is delaying emigration from
Cuba so as to help Democratic governor Lauten Chiles of Florida;
rare, endangered Kestrel falcon gobbles up equally rare and
endangered Pink Pigeon; Peter Arnett is back in Baghdad;
Republican is made at how Perot cost George Bush the election,
but Rush warns against thinking that; caller thinks Judge Lance
Ito is prejudiced towards prosecution in O.J. Simpson trial; Rush
is not interested about talking too much about the Simpson case;
caller thinks that Clinton has handled the Gulf situation in a
reasonable manner, although Bush would probably have done it
better; Jill Doherty claims April Glaspie "practically invited
Iraq" to invade, while Clinton is massing troops.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

October 10, 1994 - It's now day 629 (day 648 for the rich and the
dead, and 29 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 833 days left) and 692
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 Monday, October
12, 1992:

o	Rush had done a 900 Presidential poll the previous
Friday, and it had 88.8% of callers voting for Bush, 7.7% voting
for Perot, and 3.5% voting for Clinton. Because the first
Presidential debate was held over the weekend, though, Rush
repeated the poll to see whether the debate had any effect. Thus,
Rush gave the following instructions:

-	To vote for "the President", call 900-446-6661

-	To vote for "Robo-policy wonk Bill Clinton", call 900-446-6662

-	To vote for "the guy who's all ears, Ross Perot", call 900-446-6620

At the end of the day, the new 900 poll gave 87.2% to Bush, 10.6%
to Perot, and 2.2% to Clinton, with Perot being the only one
whose standing had improved. Rush noted that during the debates
Perot was likeable, homespun, and appeared as a repeat of what he
was like back in February and March - an outsider who was not
either Bush or Clinton.

Clinton was a "robo-candidate" filled with programmed answers
from his platform and the liberal Democratic handbook. Whenever
Clinton heard a keyword, the appropriate prepared speech was the
answer he brought up, regardless of the true context of the
question. However, Clinton paused before every answer as if
thinking intently about it, and Rush found Clinton to be
especially slick and disingenuous.

George Bush said many, many right things, but few people seemed
to be impressed. Bush had the right answer about the stock
market's response to Clinton, about Magic Johnson and AIDS, and
about many other things. Yet Bush's answers never seemed to cut
through the debate noise; Bush seemed to be overly coached,
without much passion.

Steve from West Bloomfield, MI thought Al Gore looked like a fool
for saying that Clinton scored a "knock-out" punch during the
debates, especially since he said this right after NBC's John
Chancellor declared that nobody was a clear winner.

Senator Joseph Biden also commented on the debate, using some of
the meanest and most vindictive rhetoric ever. Biden, who had
never shied away from attack Ronald Reagan during the 80s,
reached the heights of hypocrisy by claiming that Bush was a
phony while "Reagan was the real thing." Amazingly, the press
never challenged Biden on this.

It didn't seem that the debates had changed anyone's minds, but
Rush did get a letter from a Martinez, CA listener who was also
livid at the openings that Bush frittered away. For example, Bush
didn't challenge Clinton's comments about how he increased jobs
in Arkansas, pointing out just how many of those jobs were
minimum wage jobs. Bush also didn't refute Clinton's charge that
he had never put forth a health care plan.

Pat Buchanan was visiting the EIB studios, as he was in New York
City for a Columbus Day celebration, and Rush told him that one
thing which irritated him more than anything else during the
debates was that both Gore and Clinton talked about how Bush was
out of touch. In the debates, Bush had tried to show that the US
economy was not apocalyptic nor the worst economy of the past 50
years, he early on in the debates talked about the reality and
told the people that things are not as bad as they thought.

Clinton and Gore, however, attacked Bush for being out of touch.
Gore, in particular was condescending and insulting in this.
Bush, though, did not seem able to refute these charges, and
Buchanan agreed, saying that Bush had to get more angry and
confrontational, and "come out like Joe Frazier."

Rush added that Bush should have gotten mad about Clinton's
charges of McCarthyism; these charges were just another example
of his robotically prepared answers. Buchanan noted that he was
amazed that in the current age of public hatred towards big
government and politics, people seemed willing to elect the most
pro-government politician in decades.

Cathy from Thornton, IL thought that during the debates Clinton
seemed to be groping for his prepared, memorized answers every
time he spoke. Buchanan noted that Clinton at least spoke
directly to the cameras; Perot, however, didn't start looking at
the right camera until half-way through the debates, evidently
not understanding that the active camera was lighted with a red
dot.

Charlie from Lake Grove, IL thought Perot won the debate, but
"Bush gained big time" because he looked Presidential and in
control. Clinton wasn't able to deliver a knock-out blow, and
Charlie felt Bush was setting himself up for the next two debates
in which he would be more aggressive.

Buchanan said Clinton was obviously playing things cautiously so
as to protect his 10-point lead, which meant that Bush needed to
shake up Clinton's game to force him off his prepared speeches.
Charlie added that Clinton appeared very contrived last night,
and Rush agreed - "this guy's a walking, talking, public policy
manual - we're looking at a robot here."

o	Jane Yolan's "Encounter" celebrated the 500th anniversary
of Columbus Day by saying the following:

"Columbus didn't really discover a new world - it was new to him,
but people had lived on the island he had discovered for
centuries. For them, it wasn't a new world, it was home. The
discovery of America brought many good things to the people of
Europe, but it brought many bad things to the people who already
lived here. It is important to remember this on Columbus Day."

The University of Minnesota continued in this vein by holding a
mock trial of Columbus, with the 12-member jury finding him
guilty of slavery, torture, murder, forced labor, kidnapping,
violence, and robbery; jurors, however, could not agree on
charges of genocide, rape, and international terrorism. Columbus
was sentenced to 350 years of community service; the death
penalty was ruled out because "his victims were not a violent
people and do not condone death."

Grace from Bellingham, WA loved America and thought it was a
great country, but she believed Columbus did deserve the
condemnation he was getting. Columbus' own diary praised the
natives he saw for being loving and generous, but he wrote his
king that all he needs was 50 soldiers in order to subjugate and
enslave all of the natives. Grace's sources for this information
were the books "The People's History of the United States" and
"Conquest of Paradise."

Grace thought Columbus was not irrelevant because "he did wipe
out almost an entire race of people - the Indians! They were kind
to him and they did not have the technology the Europeans did,
they did not have the weapons the European did, and he enslaved
them!"

Rush noted that many Indians were cruel and violent, even to the
point of offering infant sacrifices. Grace didn't care, saying
"who's to say we aren't any better? Who's to say that if Columbus
didn't come over, they wouldn't be a thriving country now?" Grace
added that she didn't like how western civilization was still
"incredibly racist" against Native Americans, and she used as one
example of this the Washington Redskins.

o	EIB substitute broadcast engineer Tony Lo Bianco
celebrated his 29th birthday.

o	A new monkey species was discovered in the Amazon. Rush
bet this monkey would undoubtedly be proven even more intelligent
than man, which was why it hadn't been discovered before now - it
was hiding out.

o	A grand jury decided not to indict a man who broke into a
woman's apartment and raped her because the woman had told the
man "stop - please use a condom." The man did use a condom during
the rape, so the jury decided that the woman's request meant that
she had consented to the sex.

o	Time magazine did a fairly accurate biography of Rush,
but one of the pictures they used was not a "beautiful photo"; he
sighed "it makes me look like one of the meanest, cruelest, most
deceitful sons of a gun on the planet - it is not a beautiful
thing." Pat Buchanan agreed, remarking that the photo looked like
"Hannibal Lector just before he got out of that cage."

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MORNING UPDATE

There are some new measures being proposed to fight crime, and
Rush bets everyone will feel safer just knowing these changes are
being made. In Chicago, for example, the city council passed an
ordinance outlawing about 500 pay phones, claiming that drug
dealers were using those phones to conduct business; thus,
according to the city council, banning the phones will curb the
drug dealers' illegal trade.

From now on, a maximum of two private pay phones will be allowed
on private property, with the exception of sports stadiums and
shopping malls. Mayor Richard Daley, though, is not totally
pleased since he wanted to ban all outside pay phones. Rush,
though, notes that by this sort of logic, you'd stop drive-by
shootings by getting rid of all automobile batteries.

However, Fulton County, GA has gone several steps further to curb
violence by requiring warning labels to be placed on all guns.
The labels will inform all prospective gun buyers that a gun is a
dangerous weapon and that having it in the house will increase
one's chances of being killed. Rush, though, doesn't think this
plan goes far enough - there should be warning labels on tire
irons, knives, baseball bats, and every possible item that could
be used as a weapon, including cars.

In fact, the logical extension of this idea is to put warning
labels on people - everyone should carry a sign saying "Warning,
this person might be dangerous!" Rush bets everyone would be much
safer if only his recommendations were followed.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	Raoul Cedras has reportedly stepped down from power in
Haiti and is planning to leave the country; Aristide is expected
to re-enter the country next Saturday. The only question that
seems to remain is whether the congressional Black Caucus will
free American troops so they can join their brothers and sisters
in the Gulf.

o	Rush was at the Century Plaza Hotel on Saturday to attend
and emcee a tribute to actor Charlton Heston for his efforts on
behalf of conservatism over the years. The National Review
Institute sponsored a series of seminars on conservatism and
Hollywood over the weekend, and the gala dinner on Saturday was a
fitting tribute to Heston, especially as it included a number of
people who recounted what Heston had meant to them personally and
professionally.

Rush had to sit back and reflect, though, how if someone had told
him eight years ago that he would not only be at such an affair
but emceeing it, he would have been astounded, given that just
meeting all these people was the goal of his life. Rush even sat
with Heston and his wife Lydia, who are great people, and Rush
thanks the National Review Institute and everyone else involved
for allowing him to be part of it.

The entire evening couldn't have gone better, thanks in part to
the emcee's efforts to move the night along, mainly because there
were planes to catch later that night, most notably the emcee's.
However, it was the people at this event who not only made it fun
but very meaningful, and the entire weekend's theme was that
there are far more conservatives in America than you'd believe if
the only people you listened to was the mainstream media. It was
thus all the more encouraging to see how more and more of those
in Hollywood are becoming more confident about expressing their
conservative views.

This helps give all conservatives confidence, which is a truly
important thing for people to have. If you have confidence and
strong desire, you are nearly invincible, whether you are dealing
with professional or personal matters, and now that the choice
between conservatism and liberalism is so clearly defined in
politics today, it's all the more important that conservatives be
confident.

It's okay if people quietly live their lives, without getting too
involved in politics, but conservatives shouldn't be thinking
that perhaps they are the kooks the dominant media seems to
think. It's not too often that the major media - TV, movies, etc.
- portray moral life-styles in a positive manner; instead, such
people are ridiculed and portrayed as backwards and behind the
times, yet as the recent sex survey demonstrated, most of America
is "normal."

This is the point - there are more Americans who are normal,
believing in the traditional American institutions, than the
dominant media seems to think. Dan's Bake Sale proved this, as
did the many protests against the Clintons' Health Security
Express bus tour. The more that these conservatives realize that
they're part of the majority, their confidence increases, and
this confidence helps propel conservatives in making more of a
difference in the nation.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that he has some callers on-line who want to talk
about the parody of him that was on last night's episode of the
Simpsons, which he didn't see. Also, one caller wants to talk
about how Bill Moyers last night blamed Rush for the failure of
the Clinton health care plan. Unfortunately, Rush didn't see this
show either.

Rush is interested in these callers, but first wants to talk
about how the U.S. is sending 60,000 troops back to the Gulf, to
reinforce the 12,000 already stationed there in case Saddam
Hussein decides to do something stupid. Ross Perot made some
interesting accusations on "Face the Nation" yesterday about all
this, although he did so in a rather maniacal fashion.

Perot's basic claim was that Clinton, a "draft-dodger running a
war in Haiti to put a drug dealer back in power," decided to go
back to the Gulf to start a second war because the one in Haiti
wasn't helping him in the polls. Perot also said that the U.S.
has known for at least a month about the Iraqi troop movements,
insisting "the CIA knows the license plate of everything that
moves over there!"

Perot concluded that the administration wanted to fight one war
at a time; Clinton kept the Iraqi situation silent so he could
see if Haiti would help bump him up in the polls, and when that
didn't happen, he announced that Hussein was moving his forces
towards Kuwait, so as to get to start a second front.

Thus, according to Perot, because the administration didn't get a
bump from the polls from the Haiti invasion, "suddenly" a massive
Iraqi troop build-up was detected near the Kuwaiti border. Within
a matter of days, there were nearly 60,000 American troops on
their way, which is an amazing response. One would therefore
think it would be appropriate to find out if this is true - has
this troop build-up really been going on for weeks before it was
publicly announced?

Perot is clearly implying that the timing of the administration's
response to Hussein is politically motivated, and he thinks the
country could have stopped this build-up without having to resort
to sending tens of thousands of troops. Rush therefore has to
wonder whether mainstream journalists are interested in finding
out the truth of this. Shouldn't the DC press corps be very
interested in looking into this?

Rush doubts this will happen, though, because he hasn't heard one
word of protest about the American troops being sent. President
George Bush, of course, had to fight liberal Democrats tooth and
nail to get the troops over there, so there seems to be a bit of
hypocrisy among the Democrats about this.

Meanwhile, the NY Times has a story headlined "Clinton's line in
the sand," and it makes a point about how Clinton "seeks to avoid
Bush's error" by clearly warning the Iraqis; this, of course,
implies that not only did Bush not do it right but that he
encouraged Hussein to invade via U.S. inaction. Rush is not
surprised by this sort of approach and bets that the next bit of
spin will be "if only Bush had not quit early but instead had
gone into Baghdad, we'd all be safe now."

Rush, though, recalls that the U.N. mandate for the Gulf War had
the express purpose of getting Hussein out of Kuwait, not to
destroy either Hussein or Iraq. In fact, nobody wanted to see
Iraq destroyed, given that it would have made the nation, which
had just concluded an eight-year war with Iran, a sitting duck.

So those who would claim that Bush just "didn't finish the job"
are ignoring a lot of history. Besides, there's been a lot of
talk about an "October Surprise," but if this U.S. troop movement
has truly been engineered for Clinton's political gain, then
couldn't what is going on be called October Surprise 2? Some
might claim this is an unfair charge to make, but Rush notes that
Gary Sick wrote an entire book on the alleged Republican October
Surprise, and the Democratic Congress held a full investigation
about it, in spite of the lack of evidence.

Nothing was found, of course, so it will be interesting to see if
anyone picks up the ball from where an admittedly maniacal Perot
left it yesterday.

*BREAK*

Phone	Jim from Springfield, VA

Jim says that his local top of the hour news reported that the
Iraqi ambassador had announced that Iraq was pulling its troops
back. Jim notes that he was involved in Desert Storm and Desert
Shield, and wants to make the point that the reason Hussein is
backing off is because President Bush did such a good job in
destroying the Republican Guard.

Rush agrees, and remarks that the "Bush made a mistake" spin
that's being heard so often right now is really starting to get
him mad. There was some initial confusion about whether
ambassador April Glaspie misled Saddam Hussein in the summer of
1990 into thinking it would be all right to invade Kuwait, but
regardless, as soon as Hussein did invade, Bush sent one warning
after another about what would happen if Iraq didn't leave. The
U.S. followed through on everything it promised, executing the
military actions flawlessly, and thanks to this record, Hussein
now knows better than to challenge the U.S. again.

Jim adds that each Republican Guard division back in 1990 and
1991 had about 26,000 men, so if there are only 20,000 of them
left, it shows the lesson that Bush taught Hussein. The
Republican Guard was hurt really bad, and Jim hopes that
Americans remember this.

Rush thinks most Americans remember how Iraqi soldiers were
surrendering even to news reporters, but he pledges to show some
of the Gulf War pictures to the nation, just so that the press
can't get away with its assertion that Clinton was so decisive
and tough that he forced Hussein to step back with just one wave
of his hand.

Of course, someone like Hussein sooner or later would test a
President such as Clinton, who has not had a very successful
military record to date. The thing to watch now, though, is how
long the additional American troops will stay in the Gulf - will
Saddam back off a few hundred kilometers, only to inch back in
when the U.S. troops start to leave?

However, just as has happened with Haiti, everything that has
happened so far has gone well. There have been only two suicides
in Haiti and no other deaths, and it appears that Aristide will
be installed right on schedule. Those predicting major trouble
have so far been proven wrong - there was no shooting invasion,
and the U.S. occupied the country peacefully.

Thus, the Clinton administration can genuinely claim the Haiti
invasion has gone smoothly, but how long will U.S. troops stay
there? Clinton has rejected Congress's request to pledge to leave
by next March, so just how long will America stay in Haiti, using
its troops and money to sustain Aristide? Similarly, how long
will American troops stay in the Gulf?

Rush thanks Jim for his call, and notes that while the Iraqi army
and Republican Guard were decimated, the U.S. didn't totally
destroy them because 1) it didn't have the mandate to do so and
2) a weak Iraq would have just created more trouble with Iran.

Also, a door-to-door search in Baghdad to find Hussein would have
caused a great loss of life, not to mention that Hussein had
dozens of look-alikes. Perot, though, seems to think that if the
U.S. couldn't get Hussein, then America should just call the
Israelis. Rush, however, doubts that the Israelis want any part
of this, given that if they're found responsible for taking out
Hussein, they'll be facing a bunch of angry and unified Arabs.

Phone	Steve from Waldorf, MD

Steve was watching Jill Doherty and Jonathan Mann on CNN
yesterday talk about the Gulf crisis, and they made a point about
how Clinton cut his vacation weekend short to come back to deal
with the situation. Right before they went to a commercial, Mann
stated in an aside "well, I don't think President Clinton will be
zipping around Kennebunkport in his motorboat during this time."

Rush is amazed that things are even worse then he thought, and
notes that the dominant press just hates it when any Republican
does anything right. They'll wait until the right time, but then
will just launch whenever they get the chance.

This sort of comment, along with the stories about how Clinton is
not going to repeat "Bush's error," just shows the efforts being
made on Clinton's behalf by the press. The question, though, is
will Clinton get any sort of meaningful bump in the polls from
all this; will the press's efforts be effective?

*BREAK*

Phone	Mike from Albany, NY

Mike thinks there might be some more to the Iraqi situation - the
U.S. has troops all over the world, so perhaps Saddam Hussein is
just making a big play: sending forth his troops and then pulling
them back so that he can make himself look good, in an effort to
get the sanctions against Iraq listed.

Rush doesn't know if Hussein thinks this intricately - these are
United Nations sanctions, after all. Would Hussein really go to
such great lengths to deceive the world and take such chances?
Anything is possible with Hussein, of course, but it's hard to
predict what's going on in the mind of a lunatic.

Mike adds that the Simpsons last night not only parodied Rush but
Larry King, and he thinks the show did a good job of parodying
Rush - Rush came off as himself, and Mike thinks Rush should be
pleased with the show. Rush says he hasn't seen the show, so he
can't make any observations on it, but thanks Mike for his call.

Phone	Tex from Laguna Beach, CA

Tex gives "tube riding dittos from all us surfers," but he
doesn't think the Simpsons made Rush look that good. Larry King
came off looking good, as representative of the general public,
but Rush, though, came off as leading the non-thinking crowd,
with people such as Homer just following Rush blindly.

Rush laughs and says this is to be expected - you aren't going to
get fairness from the mainstream media; anyone that portrays King
as a mainstream guy isn't going to portray Rush fairly. Tex says
he was surprised because he likes the Simpsons - it's just a
cartoon that's supposed to be funny, and he hates when such
things try to make a political statement. He hates movies that
preach to him, too.

Rush agrees - it's ridiculous that when you go out to be
entertained to have your movies and cartoons preach to you. Tex
adds that he used to hate politics and politicians, but he
started following it after listening to Rush; Tex is not a mind-
numbed robot but rather likes Rush because Rush thinks like him.

Phone	Chris from Columbia, MD

Chris agrees with Tex about the Simpsons - it didn't portray Rush
very well at all. Rush, however, notes that historically he
hasn't been portrayed well in shows like this. The only time he
was portrayed well was on "Hearts Afire" when he portrayed
himself; of course, Rush admits, Beavis and Butthead didn't do
too bad a job.

Chris agrees, and adds that Bill Moyers last Friday blamed the
"Harry and Louise" ads, special interests, and Rush Limbaugh for
killing the Clinton health care plan. The show tried to laugh at
Rush, and Kathleen Hall Jamison admitted that Rush was "very
witty" but "so one-sided." She then went on to claim that Rush
was so dangerous because "he has a captive audience."

Chris was frustrated to hear someone on PBS, a network that's
supported by taxpayers' dollars, make this claim, given that it's
really easy to turn off Rush's show if you're so inclined. Rush
agrees, and notes that Chris, like the previous callers, shows
how his is a thinking audience.

Chris adds that what was really interesting about the Moyers show
was that at the end it announced it had been funded by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, which is the group that paid for NBC's
two-hour "unbiased" special on health care which ended up
portraying Hillary and her plan in a very positive light.

Rush is not surprised, but notes that these sorts of shows
illustrate how those in the mainstream media are upset at how the
people in Rush's audience no longer need liberals, including
those in the dominant media. The EIB audience thinks for itself
and all they want is the facts with which to make their
decisions.

Rush notes he has written a 5,000-word piece called "Why Liberals
Fear Me," which is appearing in the Heritage Foundation's Policy
Review, and he's excerpted from it an Op-Ed sized piece which has
been submitted to the NY Times and Washington Post, both of whom
have rejected it as self-serving and not newsworthy. Yet Rush is
only doing the mainstream media's job for them, and they don't
like how Rush and others like him are challenging their monopoly
on informing the public.

*BREAK*

During the break, Rush was being told about Marlon Brando's
appearance on Larry King Live; Brando was talking about plants
that could save the Earth and how you can feed dog bones to dogs
by holding them in your mouth. When asked if he were an
"environmentalist wacko," Brando noted that "they called Louis
Pasteur a weirdo, but now we're all drinking pasteurized milk."

Returning to the subject of the news media portraying Clinton as
the "guy who did it right in the Gulf," Rush remarks that the
press is just getting too predictable. It's become no big deal to
look at a situation and conclude how the press will cover it.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush congratulates Dee Dee Myers - on Saturday, some 20 months
after she was appointed White House Press Secretary, she took
custody of the office that's normally given to the person with
this job. Previously it had been given to some guy, but after
successfully going to Clinton and not only saving her job but
getting a promotion, Dee Dee's finally moved in. Rumor has it,
though, that the reason it took her so long to get in that office
is that the White House only just now has finished installing the
glass ceiling in it.

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Although few Americans other than federal employees and bankers
will know it, today is Columbus Day, at least in most places in
America. Denver, CO, in addition to not having a new airport with
a working baggage system, does not have any Columbus Day parades
because such things are offensive to those with multicultural
sensitivities.

Rush knows that the politically correct crowd doesn't like
Christopher Columbus because he was just a white male who opened
up the New World to pillaging by western civilization. Therefore,
since Americans of Italian descent no longer have him as a hero,
Rush would like to present some other achievements of the Italian
people.

As appropriate ethnic music plays in the background, Rush lists
the following contributions that came from Italy, in the hope
that he can at least get them on the record before the
politically correct crowd makes them verboten as well:

o	1480 - Leonardo DaVinci invented the parachute. There
wasn't anything to jump out of in 1480, but DaVinci nevertheless
had the foresight to invent this device which even now is
allowing Clinton to bail out of many of the problems he gets
himself in.

o	1492 - Christopher Columbus sails the ocean blue and
destroys a civilization in the process, not to mention polluting
all of North America. Columbus, though, balanced out these
heinous acts with his one overriding and supreme discovery: the
cigar.

o	1500 - Octavio de Petrucci printed music for the first
time with musical type, without which EIB could not do its
musical parodies.

o	1504 - Venice sent its ambassadors to Turkey to first
propose the Suez Canal.

o	1537 - Nicolo Fontana invented the science of ballistics.

o	1596 - Galileo invented the thermometer.

o	1608 - Galileo invented the first astronomical telescope,
without which peeping Toms would be squinting Toms.

o	1643 - Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer.

o	1771 - Luigi Galvani discovered the electrical nature of
nervous impulses.

o	1779 - Spolenzani proved that semen is necessary for
fertilization, finally cluing in his countryman about how this
happens.

o	1800 - Alessandro Volta produced electricity from the
first battery made of zinc and copper plates, and this, of
course, made the boombox possible.

o	1894 - Marconi invented radiotelegraphy, making EIB
possible, for which the entire world is grateful.

o	1942 - Fermi split the atom, making the end of WWII
possible and displeasing all sorts of environmentalist wackos for
decades to come.

o	1994 - Rush's good friends at Patsy's marketed their
incredible marinari sauce world-wide.

Rush hopes these achievements are not forgotten because places
such as Denver are reviling Christopher Columbus.

*BREAK*

Rush forgot a couple of important Italian events and discoveries.
First, in 79 A.D. the city of Pompei was destroyed by an eruption
of Mount Vesuvius, which, although tragic, did preserve the city,
making it possible for modern archeologists to discover that the
women of Pompei - fat, hairy, and plagued by headaches - started
the first National Organization for Women chapter.

Also, the great dish Fettucini Alfredo was invented by Alfredo
whose wife was having trouble nursing their newborn child;
Alfredo thus came up with a sauce that would help correct this
problem. And of course, Vespugi Vermicelli invented boiling
water, while Al Fresco was the original homeless gentleman who
discovered the beauty of eating outdoors.

Phone	Tony from Kalamazoo, MI

Tony thanks Rush for saving his life - he's an Italian, so
because of today's holiday he was wallowing in despair about how
his culture and religion led an entire continent to destruction.
Not even going to Mass helped him - he was even looking in the
phone book for Jack Kevorkian's number, but Rush's show rescued
him and brought him back to the land of the living. He's now
going to go off for a lovely meat-filled Italian dinner, drink
some fine red wine, and top it all off with a fine, fine cigar.

Rush thinks this is a great idea - cigars are barely over 500
years old now, having been discovered in 1492 by Columbus. Of
course, the first cigars were wrapped in corn husks, so the world
owes much to Columbus and his gang for not only discovering these
wonderful stogies, but for improving on them, swapping out the
corn husks for fine tobacco leaf wrappers.

Phone	Hani from Bethesda, MD

Hani says that ABC News has already begun the praise of Clinton,
saying "eyeball to eyeball and guess who's blinked?" Rush is not
surprised that ABC is portraying Clinton as a war hero, and Hani
says it's hard to avoid this impression from ABC's coverage. Rush
asks if Hani thinks Hussein would not have blinked, and Hani says
that it's obvious Hussein would back down, but has the dictator
gained anything from this? Will Hussein come out ahead, even
after backing down?

However, Hani finds it strange that Clinton didn't at least hold
an emergency session of Congress to discuss this matter. Rush
says it's not necessarily true that a President would hold such a
meeting prior to taking action, but the timing of this situation
is curious, given that Congress is not in session right now.

Rush thanks Hani for calling and for confirming his suspicions
about the press. There are some rare exceptions, of course, but
for the most part the mainstream press is predictable as hell.

Phone	Bob from Coral Springs, FL

Bob has started to think that Ross Perot might be right with his
analysis of the Gulf situation. For example, he was amazed at how
quickly and decisive 50,000 U.S. troops could be sent off to the
Gulf, given that the country had to take some freighters out of
mothballs to get a far smaller number of troops to Haiti.

Rush says that he had some callers who said that they had been
training for months for the Haiti mission, so if Perot is right
with his charges, then it could be possible that the Gulf War
deployment has been planned for weeks. He agrees with Bob,
though, that this deployment has been going incredibly smoothly.

Bob says that this is why he thinks Perot might be right about
this and that the build-up was planned weeks ago. Rush says the
question is not whether the U.S. knew about the Iraqi build-up
for weeks - America most certainly had to be aware of these
troops; the real question is whether the administration delayed
this news until after testing the winds of public opinion about
the Haiti mission - was the administration waiting to see if the
polls looked good from Haiti before moving on the Gulf?

This is a question the press should be investigating, given how
angry the people are now whenever pure politics seems to govern
so much of the nation's policies. He thanks Bob for calling.

Phone	Craig from Yorba Linda, CA

Craig says the Iraqi build-up was known about weeks ago, and he
thinks the administration just let it stew quietly so that
Clinton could make a major move in response, making himself look
like a big tough guy. Rush would like to ask Craig a question
about this, so asks him to hang on through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Craig from Yorba Linda, CA (continued)

Rush asks Craig if he, as an American, is glad when the use of
American military might forces back a tyrant such as Hussein;
doesn't this make Craig happy and proud, regardless of how Craig
might feel towards Clinton? Craig agrees this is something to be
proud of, but only if it's done honestly, which he doesn't think
is the case here.

Craig notes that if Clinton knew about this situation weeks ago,
why didn't he deal with it early on, before it became a crisis?
He thinks Clinton's big moves in the Gulf were done solely for
show. Rush asks how Craig thinks this - is the U.S. telling
Hussein what to do?

Craig says no, but notes that the U.S. controls the airspace over
Iraq, and America had to know what was going on over there as
soon as it happened. Rush, though, asks if Craig thinks Hussein
and Clinton came to any sort of agreement about this. Craig says
no, but Clinton has had to known about the Iraqi build-up for
four to six weeks; such military troop movements take time to
accomplish - they don't happen overnight.

Craig knows that America has regular reconnaissance that could
pick up these troop movements, and Clinton should have been
talking tough to Hussein back then, not now. Hussein knows what
the U.S. is capable of doing, so Clinton's threats back then
would have had some impact. The fact Clinton didn't move when he
first learned of this matter shows that his movements now are
just a put-on for political effect.

Rush asks if Craig thinks Clinton would really use the military
for political gain, and Craig says yes. He notes that he voted
for Perot in 1992 precisely because he wanted real change. Rush
thanks him for his call and notes that he is hearing from a lot
of people who think similarly to Craig.

Of course, it's too early to say anything about whether Iraq is
really pulling back; Hussein could be playing yet another cat and
mouse game, so the question is what should the U.S. do now - pull
its troops back or keep them in the Gulf for a while? And if the
troops stay there, how long will they remain there?

Will it take a month, six months, or two years to make sure
Hussein stays pulled back? Will Hussein come creeping back if the
U.S. brings some of the troops home? These are the important
considerations now, and this really has nothing to do with
President Clinton; the country cannot allow itself to be
distracted by a cat and mouse game with this lunatic in Iraq.

Besides, the U.S. doesn't need troops to stop Hussein now - the
troops were needed in Desert Storm and Desert Shield because they
had to take back Kuwait, given that you need ground forces to
take and hold onto ground. However, to keep Hussein in check now,
behind his borders, doesn't need a major ground force; air power
such as sea-launched cruise missiles will keep Hussein on his
side of the border. The U.S. should thereby be wary of sending
more troops over there without first establishing a clear
mission.

Rush bets, though, that sooner or later people will start talking
about how this President, who avoided the draft and despised the
military as a youth, is now sending U.S. troops to more places
than any other President in recent memory. If the people think
for even a moment that Clinton is using American military forces
for his personal political gain, then his poll numbers will fall,
not increase.

The American people will not tolerate a President who is willing
to risk American lives for his personal gain; certainly the Perot
people will think this, so it would be worthwhile for the press
to investigate just how long the administration has known about
the Iraqi troop movements and why they were announced only last
Friday. Rush thinks a journalistic career is waiting to be made
with this.

Phone	Ron from Peoria, IL

Ron thanks Rush for "getting on board a little bit with us Perot
people"; he thinks change is needed, and notes that Republicans
and conservatives are regularly painted with the same sort of
brush used for Perot's supporters: every time they say the truth,
they're accused of being kooks, maniacal, and mind-numbed robots.

Perot's supporters, though, are people who can think for
themselves - they aren't bored Yuppies. Ron was sorry that Bush
lost in 1992, but Perot was the only one back then that was
making any sense. And as to Perot being maniacal, you have to be
maniacal to deal with a maniac such as Hussein, especially if you
have a President that's deploying the military so thin that it's
not known if they can handle all the jobs it's being given.

Ron doesn't know if "Billy-Bob" Clinton is cynically using the
military, but he doesn't think that Bill Clinton is really
running the country. There seem to be a lot of "smoke-filled
room" types pulling his strings, and Ron needs someone like Perot
to help make sense out of it.

Rush chides Ron for criticizing "smoke-filled room types" because
he's in a smoke-filled studio right now. Ron admits he's about to
try some of Rush's recommended Perfecta cigars. He's not married,
so he doesn't have to worry about a wife; he does have a dog "but
he don't care!" Besides, the dog eats bananas and spaghetti, so
he'd probably eat the cigars as well.

Ron, though, says that things are getting so weird that it takes
someone like Perot to make sense of it. Rush notes that he has
agreed with Perot on some things, such as how he identifies
problems and goes after some of their solutions. Perot is a
genius at defining problems in ways most people can understand.

Rush's problem with Perot, though, is that Perot must have known
during the 1992 campaign that Clinton was a draft dodger who
wouldn't know how to use the military properly. Perot said
nothing about this, though, and Rush has to wonder why he chose
to kept silent. If Clinton were a draft-dodger in 1994, he was
one in 1992, and if Perot thinks Clinton is unqualified to lead
the military now, he had to come to the same judgment in 1992.

Perot didn't say any of this stuff during the campaign, and it's
just strange that Perot didn't say what he's saying now two years
ago. Ron notes that he and his fellow Perot supporters were not
so much against Bush as being tired of the lack of difference
between the Republicans and Democrats; Perot was a voice crying
in the wilderness.

Rush says he has already detailed all the things about Perot that
have bothered him; Rush has never doubted the man's patriotism or
devotion to his country, and Rush was impressed with Perot's son
when he met him in Dallas a few months ago.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that Saddam Hussein might be jealous of all the
attention being paid to North Korea and Haiti. The U.S. is
mobilizing to help some podunk leader in Haiti, while Hussein is
dealing with 24,000% inflation, not to mention the loss of $21
billion of oil revenues because of the U.N. embargo. So maybe
Hussein is just trying to get the attention of the world
community.

Hussein has got the world's attention, but the question is
whether he'll get his ultimate goal of ending the sanctions. Rush
suspects that such a move would backfire, given that Hussein has
just shown how crazy he is, and everyone remembers how he acted
when he had the supplies with which to fuel his army.

The world knows the solution to the problem in Iraq is not the
sanctions, but rather Hussein himself. The world undoubtedly
would love to see Hussein die, but Rush has to wonder if a
"Cedras-style retirement package" will be eventually offered to
Hussein.

Rush recalls that he predicted a while ago that Cedras would
leave power in Haiti after being bought off, and now he's leaving
a week early for parts unknown. One has to wonder just what kind
of goodies Cedras will be taking with him.

*BREAK*

Phone	David from Washingtonville, NY

David notes that his dog doesn't like it when he blows smoke in
the pooch's face; the dog just glares at him. Rush agrees that if
your dog doesn't like smoke blown in its face, don't do it. David
adds that he thinks what is going on now is "Carter 3" - Carter
was sent to North Korea, giving that country more time with which
to build nuclear bombs. After that "success," Carter was sent to
Haiti to give Cedras some kind of golden parachute.

David therefore just has to wonder what will happen next - what
kind of sweet deal will Carter procure for Hussein? David adds
that it's a bit scary at how 50,000 U.S. troops have been sent to
the Gulf. Rush remarks that it's amazing he's not getting any
calls from people who think that this action is a positive one.

Rush asks what other explanation there could be - even if Perot
is right and Clinton is acting cynically and selfishly, the fact
is still that Hussein has backed off from the threat of U.S.
firepower. David says he does take pride from the fact that the
threat of U.S. military force can still force a tyrant to back
off, if this is really what is going on. Rush thanks David for
calling.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o	As long as the show is discussing whether President
Clinton would place American lives at risk by using the military
to improve his standing in the polls, Rush remarks that he's
amazed at how many Americans would answer this question "yes."
Rush, though, thinks it is a comforting thing to see that the
deployment of U.S. troops has caused a genuine enemy to retreat;
regardless what someone might think of Clinton's motivations, the
results of his action have to be considered a welcome sign.

Robert Novak's column today, though, states that Clinton and
Fidel Castro have basically entered into a "conspiracy" - the two
came to an agreement to increase the number of legal Cuban
immigrants to 20,000 a year, but as of yet not one Cuban citizen
has been processed for emigration. In other words, nothing has
been done, and Novak theorizes that this delay is precisely to
protect Democratic Governor Lauten Chiles during his tight re-
election race against Republican challenger Jeb Bush. A large
number of immigrants would only rile up the voters against the
incumbent, so delaying the immigration from Cuba could help
Chiles.

It thus seems as if every one of Clinton's foreign policy moves
is inspiring others to say it's being done solely for political
gain, either for himself or for members of his party. It will be
interesting therefore to see if Clinton and other Democrats get a
bump in the polls from either Iraq or Haiti.

However, any bump in the polls Clinton might get would probably
be temporary at best; after all, the Gulf War did not help Bush
remain President. Also, Clinton launched a cruise missile attack
against downtown Baghdad in retribution for an attempted
assassination attempt against ex-President George Bush. Clinton
got a huge bump in the polls but it was only a temporary
increase.

o	The Toledo, OH Blade newspaper printed a letter from
dittohead Joanne Rolfe who explained what a "dittohead" really
is:

"Dittoheads know that the strength of a nation is derived from
the integrity of the home. Dittoheads believe that people should
be responsible for their actions, instead of looking for reasons
to be a victim. Dittoheads know that poverty will never be cured
by throwing money at it. Dittoheads also know that government is
not the generator of economic growth - working people are.
Finally, dittoheads would prefer not being governed by a
President who thinks `harass' is two words."

Update  Animal Rights (Andy Williams, "Born Free" with
	gratuitous sound effects including one lame duck and a
	Kestrel falcon)

Rush dedicates today's update to actor Marlon Brando, for his
efforts on behalf of animals everywhere. The Kestrel falcon, one
of the world's rarest falcons, was rescued from extinction by the
Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust of Britain, founded by author
Gerald Dowel. At one point there reportedly had been only four
such birds, but over the past 12 years, the Trust's breeding
program has created hundreds of more such birds in their natural
habitat of Mauritias.

At the same time, though, there were efforts being made to save
the Mauritias Pink Pigeons, which are also endangered.
Deforestation and the introduction of new predators, such as
monkeys and rats, were threatening the pigeons. The Jersey
Wildlife Preservation Trust, however, has gotten the number of
these birds back up to about 250, and the Trust started
introducing these birds back into the wild last April.

However, it didn't take but one day before a Kestrel falcon
swooped down and gobbled up a newly hatched Pink Pigeon, in full
view of members of the Trust. The falcon then belched and flew
away satisfied. The members of the Trust were confounded by how
one bird would dare eat another, so they captured the murderous
falcon and moved it to another site.

Rush notes that it shouldn't be surprised that man is not the
only nasty creature in the world, but he suspects that it will be
only a matter of time before the Trust decides to hold classes
for its falcons, teaching them that they shouldn't eat their
fellow birds. Perhaps they'll put up pictures of the Pink Pigeon
inside a red circle with a line drawn across it, and the falcons,
fully aware of the international symbol of prohibition, will
respect the Trust's wishes.

*BREAK*

Rush remarks that it's by no means sure that the Iraqi situation
has been resolved. After all, Peter Arnett is back in Baghdad,
undoubtedly having gotten his regular room at the El Rashid
Hotel, with hotel officials perhaps inquiring if Bernard Shaw is
on his way as well.

CNN, of course, has a major dilemma - they were on the verge of
another war in Iraq, only to see it, along with the dreams of
sky-high ratings, going down the drain; the question they now
face is whether they should keep focused on the Gulf or
concentrate on the O.J. Simpson trial. CNN might even have set
new standards for TV journalism by going to a split screen,
televising both "Gulf War 2" and "O.J. Simpson, the Trial"
simultaneously, but Hussein doesn't seem to be cooperating.

Phone	Beth from Houston, TX

Beth is mad at the Perot people" because they cost George Bush
the election in 1992, but they won't admit it, even now. In fact,
although Beth is a Republican precinct chairman, two members of
her own household voted for Perot, which is a major embarrassment
for her.

Rush can understand the anger Republicans might feel at Perot,
but warns against blaming Perot for Bush's loss. Former National
Review editor Wick Allison did an analysis of the 1992 election's
exit polls, and he found that even had Perot not been in the
race, Clinton still would have won. Perot himself is claiming
only that he prevented a "Clinton landslide," and Allison's point
is that if Republicans think all they have to do to win the next
election is to neutralize Perot, then they're dooming themselves
to more defeat.

Republicans have to stand for something, so that the people have
something to vote for, as opposed to simply voting against
Clinton, the Democrats, etc. Rush would encourage Republicans to
take Allison's advice because it's pointless to keep on blaming
Perot for Bush's 1992 defeat.

Beth admits that part of the problem was that George Bush was
tired, but she still thinks Perot helped defeat George Bush. She
is also concerned about whom Perot would have appointed to the
Cabinet and to the courts had he been elected. Rush says this is
a non-factor because Perot wasn't elected, and besides those
appointments would not have done anything to deter the support
from the Perotistas.

Beth agrees with Rush, though, that Perot knew everything about
Clinton he's saying right now two years ago. Rush agrees, but
notes that while Perot is saying the right things right now,
Republicans shouldn't consider him to be a convert to their side;
should Republicans win in 1996, it's a given that Perot will be
thrusting himself back into the mix, stirring up the pot,
attacking whoever is in power.

*BREAK*

Rush remarks that he knows he's still getting new listeners
because every time he states he has "talent on loan from God"
he's attacked on CompuServe for being blasphemous and
irreligious, by people who don't realize that he is saying this
precisely to indicate that what talents he has have come from
God.

Phone	Mike from Richmond, VA

Mike mentions the O.J. Simpson case, and Rush comments that he
drove by the Nicole Simpson apartment after attending the
Charlton Heston tribute Saturday. This place is very tiny, in
contrast from what the news pictures show, plus it's very close
to a very busy street.

Mike says that Judge Lance Ito seems to be prejudicial towards
the prosecution in this case, although he's trying to portray
himself as someone who's bending over backwards to the defense.
This is ironic because Ito is complaining about the bias in the
media, yet he himself is biased towards the prosecution, granting
nearly all their motions.

Mike also thinks that TV coverage is incidental to this case
since the case will be decided in court, not on TV. Rush says
this isn't exactly true because until a jury is selected, the TV
coverage could be influential potential jurors. Mike thinks that
this makes little difference, assuming that the jury is
sequestered during the trial.

Rush says Judge Ito is justifiably concerned about whether the TV
coverage will influence potential jurors before the case even
starts. Mike, though, thinks that Judge Ito is obviously biased
against the defense; he seems to go out of his way for the
defense, but he always sides with the prosecution when making his
rulings.

Rush doesn't think this is the case at all; the prosecution has
gotten all but three pieces of the evidence they've introduced,
but he admits he hasn't been watching this case very much,
especially since he's working while the trial is going on. Rush's
impression, though, is that Ito is a tough judge doing his best
to run a no-nonsense, shipshape courtroom.

Mike thinks Ito is on the side of the prosecution, but Rush
suspects that Ito is for a fair trial. Ito is obviously angry at
the media for violating its deadlines and restrictions, but Mike
says that this doesn't matter.

Rush, though, notes that a judge is the final authority in the
courtroom and when the press violated his order not to pre-
release the questions asked of would-be jurors, it's
understandable that Ito would be peeved. The press has already
admitted they've gotten bad information from spotty sources and
run with it, and the defense seems more than willing to work with
the press to engage in high-tech jury tampering.

Granted, the court of public opinion doesn't matter in a court of
law, except in whether it prejudices the jury beforehand. Ito is
trying to let it be known that he, not the media, runs the
courtroom; if the press doesn't like it, then that's tough.

Rush, though, hasn't seen the bias on Ito's part that Mike has;
he thinks Ito is mainly concerned that his courtroom doesn't
become a circus and that whatever verdict is arrived at can
withstand an appeal. The defense, of course, is in a tough spot,
given that they're facing a mountain of evidence and don't have
any alibi, so they're trying to taint the jury pool.

Even O.J. Simpson got irate at his own lawyers for how they were
thinking about posing for a cover story in Vanity Fair. Rush
thanks Mike for his call and adds that his show hasn't discussed
this subject for a number of reasons, mainly because this sort of
thing is already being talked about everywhere else. Rush wants
to do things on his show that aren't being done elsewhere.

Also, though, the fact is that nobody except one person knows
what happened on the night Nicole Simpson was murdered, and until
the jury comes to its conclusion, it's an absolute waste of time
to engage in wild speculation about whether O.J. did it or not.
Furthermore, this case has become a circus which Rush has no
desire to participate in; there are lawyers analyzing everything
said in court down to each and every syllable, and nobody is
talking about the victims.

Rush knows he could easily get calls on this subject - it's like
how novice talk show hosts eventually end up having a psychic on
as a guest because they think it will increase their ratings. In
reality, though, all psychics do is increase the number of
callers, not listeners, but because the phone lines are going
bonkers, the host is certain that he's hit upon a great way to
pull in new listeners.

Similarly, Rush could have a splurge of callers by talking about
O.J. Simpson, but that's not what he wants to do. Granted, there
are some interesting aspects of this case - the role of the
press, the role that race plays in the Los Angeles judicial
system, etc. However, there's no reason Rush should spend much
time on this case because nobody really knows what happened in
this case, except for the one guy who killed Nicole Simpson and
Ronald Goldman, and no amount of talk show chitchat will change
that.

*BREAK*

Phone	Harry from Eli, NV

Harry is glad he could call Rush today, thanks to the fact that
he's a federal worker, which means today is a holiday and day off
for him. Rush, who doesn't get such days off, sullenly sighs
"yeah, I know."

Harry thinks that even if Clinton has known for weeks about what
Hussein has been doing, he's handled it in a reasonable manner,
perhaps working through diplomatic channels. He doubts Clinton
has done anything different than Bush would have done.

Rush says Bush probably wouldn't have sent 54,000 troops over
there; instead, he might have responded with some missiles,
sending in the troops only if they failed - after all, troops are
needed to take and hold land, they aren't necessarily needed to
stop an aggressor. Harry agrees that Bush probably would not have
had to send any troops, and Clinton has had Bush to build on;
even so, though, Clinton seems to have done a reasonable job in
threatening Hussein, at least in public. Harry suspects that
Clinton also sent some private warnings to Hussein before this
point.

Rush agrees that Bush probably wouldn't have had to deal with
Saddam's adventurism, but it's not yet known whether Clinton
warned Hussein privately. Harry says you could give Clinton the
benefit of a doubt about this, but Rush notes that Clinton also
didn't tell the American people. Harry notes that Clinton could
claim he didn't want to distract from Haiti, and Rush admits this
is true.

It's also true that it looks really good for Clinton to have sent
troops, forcing this world-class despot to back down. It doesn't
matter whether it was Clinton or Bush sent the troops, the threat
of their use does seem to have forced Hussein to back off. Rush
thanks Harry for calling.

*BREAK*

Phone	Gib from East Iceland, NY

Gib heard the earlier caller refer to Jonathan Mann's "no trips
to Kennebunkport and speedboats," and adds that Mann made these
comments after talking to a Pentagon spokesman and a military
expert about the troop deployments in the Gulf. The implication
was that Clinton, unlike Bush, was doing the right thing, that
Clinton wasn't making the same mistake that Bush made, i.e.
waiting for Hussein to invade. Then the comment about the
speedboats in Kennebunkport was made.

Then after this, Jill Doherty of the White House press corps was
asked about how this situation differed from the one in 1990 and
1991, and Doherty said that Bush's ambassador April Glaspie
practically invited Iraq to invade in 1990, while Clinton is
massing troops to stop him. Rush notes that this refers to the
memo that Glaspie wrote which allegedly said the U.S. wouldn't
get involved if Iraq invaded Kuwait, and he Rush thanks Gib for
calling.

