Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, October 13, 1994

by John "Yeoman John" Switzer

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October 13, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Children's Defense Fund announces
crusade to stop the number of children killed by gunfire; BATF
stops import of firearms; American Association of Physicians for
Human Rights changes its name to the Gay and Lesbian Medical
Association; Norman Schwarzkopf comments on Saddam Hussein; Santa
Cruz changes Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day; White House
Counsel Mikva rules that Tony Coelho doesn't have to follow
federal disclosure laws because he is a "special employee, at
best"; South Korean official says that U.S. has given North Korea
five years in which to allow international inspections of its
nuclear facilities; William Perry orders Pentagon to come up with
"non-lethal weapons"; paperback version of "See, I Told You So"
has reached national distribution; Clinton suffers a drop in
approval rating after Gulf deployment; Democrats decide to
campaign against the Republicans' contract with America because
it represents a return to the 80s; Washington Post doesn't seem
to understand that Americans' money doesn't belong to Washington,
but to the working people; Senator Hollings again claims that
Rush changed his position on GATT because of pressure from GE;
Rush has no ties with GE, except when he eats at the Rainbow Room
in the GE Building; Jesse Jackson says he's accompanying Aristide
to Haiti to "protect him"; the differences between Reagan and
Clinton are obvious to see; caller thinks Clinton's ratings are
dropping because nobody has any confidence in him; Washington
Post story makes the point that the situation in the Gulf is all
about oil and oil revenues; if Iraq could resume full oil
production, it would force the oil price down, putting pressure
on countries such as Saudi Arabia; French's oil investments in
Iraq are motivating their refusal to support a demilitarized
buffer with Kuwait; Iraq owes Russia about $6 billion; William
Gray praises Aristide as a man of the cloth, but whenever
religion is associated with conservatives in any way, it becomes
a major danger to democracy, at least as far as liberals are
concerned; caller thinks that had Bush sent allied troops in to
Baghdad in 1991, Arab terrorist attacks against the U.S. would
have quickly followed, plus there would be no MidEast peace
process now; Colin Powell did not support going into Baghdad, so
will he be criticized as Bush is?; caller thinks those who most
dislike the 80s are from the most heavily taxed states which
benefited the least then; Rush gives tech support advice for
CompuServe download section; Rush explains the truth about the
80s, including how its job growth was in good-paying jobs;
Reagan's tax cuts double federal revenues, so they can't be
responsible for the deficits of the 80s; congressional spending
that was out of control was responsible for the deficits of the
80s; Clinton's pollster Stanley Greenberg advises Democrats
running for re-election to use negative words about the 80s, such
as "trickle-down" and "Reaganomics"; some of the Haitian military
leaders are being allowed into Miami; caller points out that had
Bush gotten Hussein during the Gulf War, it could have divided
Iraq into three warning factions, creating an Iran client state
on Saudi border; Canadian Broadcasting Service describes Hussein
as "even less popular than Bill Clinton"; Rush gives a list of
what has happened to previous leaders of Haiti; rare octopus
species has males trying to mate with each other; Ivan the
Gorilla is moved from Tacoma mall to Atlanta zoo, riding in first
class, talking with his vet and being read to out of Crichton's
"Congo"; World Wildlife Fund releases list of ten most endangered
species; caller asks if media is setting Clinton up to fail in
the Gulf by criticizing Bush for not getting Hussein; someone
doctored Rush's TV show when it aired in Pittsburgh; Rush wishes
a happy birthday to his mother; Today show shows clip of moth
getting mashed on a football field; Susan Estrich blames Rush for
defeating Clinton's bills, but also puts the blame on those
Americans who let Rush's supporters monopolize Washington faxes
and phones; caller says America should adopt new aquafuel as is
being done in New Zealand; Rush can't believe anyone would
consider awarding Yasser Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize; liberals
got the peace with Russia they wanted, yet they still don't
applaud Reagan for acquiring it; caller pledges to take Rush up
on his challenge to total up her family's total taxes.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

October 13, 1994 - It's now day 632 (day 651 for the rich and the
dead, and 26 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 830 days left) and 695
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.

NEWS

o	The Children Defense Fund's Marion Wright Edelman announced a
new crusade to stop the number of children killed by gunfire each
year. Edelman stated that "it's time that the American public,
religious leaders, parents, all of us to stand up and say it's
morally unacceptable for 5,000 children a year to be killed by
guns. That's one every two hours.

Edelman and the CDF define "children" as anyone up to 19 years of
age, and their death figures include gang members and others
killed while committing crimes, suicides who killed themselves by
gun, and deaths by gun accidents.

o	The October 14th issue of GunWeek magazine reports that the
Treasury Department, through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms, has halted all firearm imports into the U.S. According
to BATF officials, this action was taken upon orders that came
from the White House. Previous news reports had indicated that
Treasury officials were worried at how requests to import more
than 7 million Russian firearms had been received to date in
1994.

o	The American Association of Physicians for Human Rights
admitted that it was a gay rights organization by changing its
name to the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association; this change was
done on Tuesday, "National Coming Out Day." The association has
1550 members, and executive director Ben Schatz noted that the
group's purpose has always been "to eliminating the necessity of
the closet," so the name change reflects its "obligation to be
out and honest and clear about who we are." Schatz, though,
insisted that the group had always been honest about its support
of gay rights initiatives.

o	Former allied commander General Norman Schwarzkopf was asked
Tuesday about what Saddam Hussein was trying to do in the Gulf
with his troop movements. Schwarzkopf admitted that he didn't
have a clue, saying "I spend eight months trying to get into
Saddam's head and predict what he'd do. I finally decided to pick
the stupidest course of action he could take, and I'd come pretty
close."

Schwarzkopf did give one possible theory for Saddam's actions,
saying that to Hussein, "If you compromise with him, you lose. So
he sends his troops down, gets everybody worked up, then pulls
them back and says `see what a good guy I am? Now send Jimmy
Carter over and let's talk!'" Schwarzkopf admitted, however,
"having said all of that, it beats me what he's doing."

o	The Santa Cruz (CA) City Council declared last Monday to be
"Indigenous People's Day," changing it from the traditional
Columbus Day. The city council's resolution said the change was
needed because Columbus' arrival was an "invasion," and American
Indians were killed by the diseases Europeans brought with them.

Skip Tara of Stagnaro Brothers Seafood, though, wasn't impressed,
saying that "it didn't surprise me because they've done so many
odd things. We try not to get excited when they go stupid like
they do." Santa Cruz, like Berkeley, which several years ago
adopted the new holiday, is the site of a University of
California campus.

o	White House Counsel Abner J. Mikva released a report saying
that Tony Coelho would have to give up his chairmanship of the
President's Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities
because of his work for the Democratic National Committee.
However, Mikva also ruled that Coelho wouldn't have to disclose
his business dealings with the firm he works for, Wertheim
Schroder Investment, nor would he have to reveal his clients.

Mikva rejected Common Cause's insistence that Coelho disclose his
private interests, saying that federal ethics laws requiring such
disclosure for public employees don't apply to Coelho, who's a
"special employee, at best." Furthermore, Mikva said that while
Coelho couldn't be chairman of the President's commission, he
could still serve on its panel.

o	According to Lee Se-ki, member of the South Korean ruling
party, the United States was going to give North Korea five years
to open up its nuclear facilities to international inspection.
This compromise was reached at talks in Geneva, but Se-ki warned
that South Korea, which wants the inspections before it replaces
North Korea's current aging nuclear plants, will take issue with
the delay.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Thursday,
October 15, 1992:

o	Geno from Tampa Bay, FL said he was an ex-Republican party aide
and worker, and he was concerned that the Republican party and
Bush had dug themselves into a hole. When Geno worked for the
party, it was a "cloth coat party" but had become a "mink coat
party" that no longer represented the average person. GOP
officials were wining and dining top CEO executives and giving
them everything they wanted, including the S&L bailout.

Geno thought a lot of southern Democrats who supported Reagan
were going back to the Democrats or Perot; in 1980 they didn't
like the liberal "bullcrap" but in 1992 they didn't like how the
Republican party seemed to be a shill for the wealthy. Rush
agreed that this was the popular image of the GOP today, but he
noted the party still had a lot of people who were frustrated at
its patrician image. Regardless of how the 1992 elections went,
Rush knew there would be a four-year battle over the soul of the
Republican party.

o	Kathleen Baylog of Upland, CA filed a lawsuit against Bill
Clinton because the prospect of having a draft-dodger and
Communist sympathizer as President was causing her "emotional
distress."

o	A Congressional committee started probing charges of illegal
links between the 1988 Bush campaign and the independent group
that created the Willie Horton ad. CBS News reported that the FEC
received an anonymous tip that the woman who was part of the
group that developed the ads might have been given newspaper
clippings about Horton from a researcher for the 1988 Bush
campaign.

o	Amy Pagnazi called Rush "an ornery ozone-sucker" in her column
in the NY Post. Pagnazi, though, was most upset that Senator Al
Gore blew it in the Vice Presidential debates by not pinning
Quayle down on environmental issues; this bothered her because
she thought that Bush and Quayle, "abetted by that ornery
ozone-sucker Rush Limbaugh," had given environmental issues lip
service by implementing only "limp-wristed" regulations.

In a similar vein, Pete Hamill wrote a column in the NY Post
attacking Republican "chicken hawks"; Hamill wrote that it was
inexcusable that Republicans were investigating Clinton's past
and draft-dodging, because "now they insist the war should have
been fought as long as it was by others. `They' include Richard
Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Rich Bond, Pat Buchanan,
and other Republican bravos."

Rush noted that Hamill was just one of many liberals who were
trying to portray conservatives as people who loved war and loved
seeing people die. This was their complaint about Reagan - that
he would send the sons of America's poor off to die.
Conservatives, though, never liked war, but at least they
understood what war was about - killing people and breaking
things.

Conservatives never liked war, and wanted to end it and its
horrors as quickly as they could. This was why leaders such as
Schwarzkopf were honored, not because they were bloodthirsty
warmongers, but because they understood the true nature and
horrors of war.

Rush admitted that if Clinton opposed the way the Vietnam War was
fought, then Rush would agree with him - LBJ built up US military
forces to 500,000 but these soldiers weren't allowed to do what
they needed to win. However, if Clinton opposed what the war was
all about, then Rush had a serious disagreement with him about
it. All one had to do was to look at what happened when the US
lost the war and pulled out - hundreds of thousands, if not
millions, of people were slaughtered in Cambodia. Stopping the
tyranny of Communism was a worthy goal.

o	Senator Alfonse D'Amato, running for re-election, was called a
"fascist" by his opponent, Robert Abrams, and by an Abrams'
supporter Gloria Steinem. The term "fascist" was particularly
offensive to the Italian D'Amato, and Abrams apologized to
Italians for his use of the term, but insisted that "fascist" was
an accurate description of D'Amato's "misleading and disruptive
campaign tactics."

Gloria Steinem then said she supported Abrams because D'Amato was
not only a fascist but an outright nazi as well, claiming
"D'Amato's anti-abortion positions exactly replicate those of the
Nazis. The first thing the National Socialists did when they were
elected to power between the wars in Germany was to padlock the
family planning clinics and to declare an abortion a crime."
Steinem had previously said that the "patriarchal society" in
America was based on Nazi roots.

o	In 1991 Ross Perot paid 6.8% of his income in taxes, compared
to the average tax rate for the entire country of 11%. Perot paid
only $15.8 million in taxes on his $230.4 million income by
heavily investing in tax-free municipal bonds. "That's pretty
good," Rush remarked.

o	The Los Angeles Times reported that the new season's syndicated
TV shows were receiving lower ratings than their lead-in shows;
"`You Bet Your Life,' `The Whoopi Goldberg Show,' `Rush
Limbaugh,' `Star Search,' `Vicki!,' `Infatuation,' and `That's
Amore' were all receiving, on average, lower ratings than their
lead-in programs" in the top 25 US markets.

However, the Times noted that "Limbaugh has been the only one to
show any growth at this early juncture," plus Rush's show had
"come the closest to meeting his projected numbers." Whoopi
Goldberg's show, however, had taken a drop of 0.5 points since
its debut, and its syndicator reported it would have to give
"make-goods" (free advertising time) to some of its advertisers.

o	NOW president Patricia Ireland spoke at a noon rally in Santa
Rosa, CA, and the local newspaper presented the story as if a
huge crowd appeared, even though only 50 people showed up.

o	Mikhail Gorbachev denied that when he was President of the USSR
he failed to disclose that Soviet leaders ordered the execution
of 14,000 Polish officers during WWII. "I didn't hide anything
that I knew," stated Gorbachev.

o	Rush devoted another hour to callers who were supporting
Clinton. Quentin from Kensington, MD said he was voting for
Clinton because of the "total decadence that I've observed in the
12 years of the Reagan/Bush administration."

Bridget from West Hartford, CT said she supported Clinton because
during the 80s, Republicans encouraged everyone to spend all
their money and use credit; because of that everyone was faced
having to pay back the piper.

Bridget said she had just graduated from college and was still
unemployed. She had lived with a friend of hers, though, for a
while in the East Village, which "is not pretty." This was quite
a contrast to the upper middle class home and community she grew
up in, and she was shocked to realize that her "fantasyland" idea
of America as a "land of prosperity in which everyone is taken
care of" was wrong.

She lived in East Village for a month and saw children playing
with rats and glass in the gutters, with their 14-year old
mothers standing nearby. One day she went to the neighborhood
grocery store and the clerk asked if she would be paying cash.
Bridget assumed that the clerk was asking if she was going to use
a credit card, but she realized her mistake when the cash
register was opened and "there were food stamps there piled a
mile high."

"I had the audacity," stated Bridget, "to come in from the upper
West Side and ask if I could charge my groceries. How dare I, as
an American citizen, be that out of touch with what is going on
in our country! That is no different than Mr. Bush one year ago
going into a grocery store and saying `oh, gee, isn't that cool,
these scanner things.' This man has not been in a grocery store
for 35 years. This man has no idea of how hard I had to work to
get through college. Mr. Bush has no idea of what we, as average
human beings in his country want or need, or what our daily needs
are."

Bridget went on to say that America was giving "billions to
Russia, billions - B-I-L-L-I-O-N-S - to Russia? We need it right
here! Those kids didn't eat that evening!" Rush asked how Bridget
could think that the government was not doing enough for the poor
when she herself saw a cash register drawer piled high with food
stamps.

She didn't think it would be an easy four years under Clinton and
Gore, but she felt betrayed by Bush's administration, especially
with his many scandals. Her friends at Fordham had to die because
Bush sold arms to Iraq and then had to fight a war. Rush asked
how many of her friends died in Iraq, and Bridget replied "one
kid in New York" that she knew died.

Tim from Weimar, CA said that the first Presidential debate
changed his mind. Clinton told the entire nation that Arkansas
was the number one state in creating new and high-paying jobs. If
Clinton could do this in his 12 years as Arkansas' governor, then
he could do the same thing for the rest of the country. The fact
that Bush didn't refute Clinton on his claim must have meant it
was true.

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MORNING UPDATE

The October 10th issue of the Army Times has a story headlined
"Perry Seeks Directive on Non-Lethal Warfare Feat." Defense
Secretary William Perry has directed the Pentagon to purchase and
use non-lethal weapons for humanitarian and peace-keeping
missions, which makes Rush wonder if Perry is following Joycelyn
Elders' advice about safer guns and safer bullets.

According to Perry, though, in military operations such as those
in Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, and other global hotspots, "non-lethal
weapons can make available significant new capabilities - they
can minimize fatalities and undesired damage to property and the
environment." Rush can't believe that what's being considered
here is a compassionate and politically correct, environmentally
friendly military.

Rush wonders if Perry is going to arm his troops with pepper
spray or mace; should they be given slingshots and warned not to
put anyone's eye out? Maybe some assault frisbees could be
issued? Somalia, though, was supposed to be a humanitarian "meals
on wheels" type mission, but it ended up with American soldiers
being killed by those whom America was supposed to be helping.

Rush notes that the administration obviously doesn't understand
that the purpose of the military is to kill people and break
things; this sounds harsh, but it's true - military missions are
not scouting expeditions or environmentally-friendly crusades or
field trips. U.S. troops need weapons that kill because this is
how they save their own lives; Perry's idea is a bad idea that
will cost American lives.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	The paperback version of "See, I Told You So," complete with a
new chapter, is now in stores nationwide. The EIB staff think
this is an "election year plot," but Rush would prefer to call it
an "election year bonus." He notes that this paperback has been
in some stores for a while, but national distribution was
achieved only yesterday.

Rush discovered this fact, though, only last night when he got
some paperback versions of his second book to sign. He adds that
the extra chapter in this book deals with the challenges that the
Republican party faces in the near future.

o	The November elections are starting to heat up, and the polls
are now showing that President Clinton's approval rating dropped
when he sent troops to the Gulf. The Times Mirror poll shows
Clinton has a 38% approval rating, down from 43%, which is an
amazing thing.

Meanwhile, the Democrats' strategy for the November elections is
to run against Ronald Reagan and the 80s, and Rush really has to
wonder if they know what they are doing. His TV show last night
was a tribute to the 80s and Ronald Reagan, showing the truth
about Reaganomics and the economy of the 80s, and it showed the
folly of the Democrats running against this.

President Clinton spoke to a crowd of at most 1,000 people
yesterday at Dearborn, MI, telling them that the Republican
contract with America was a "throwback to the 80s." Clinton even
said that the 80s had the worst job growth since the Great
Depression, which is an incredible, bold-faced lie.

When Rush heard this, he decided to illustrate just what the 80s
were. He finds it amazing that the Democrats are running against
the 80s, as opposed to running on their record or their
President's record. No Democrat, though, is running on Clinton's
agenda or their party's agenda; instead, they're continuing to
run against the 80s, of all things.

The Democrats have latched onto the Republicans' contract with
America because they're scared by it; they're scared by a
prospect of returning to the 80s because the 80s worked. Liberal
Democrats as a rule think that what makes America great is bigger
and better government programs; any time a problem surfaces,
their pat answer is to commit more money, more resources to the
problem.

Republicans, though, believe that freedom is what has made and
still makes America great; this freedom allows ordinary people to
become extraordinary people, and the 80s put these two
philosophies in stark contrast to one another. The 80s saw the
creation of 21 million new jobs, and they weren't minimum wage
"hamburger-flipper" jobs, but good, high-paying jobs of
substance.

Rush wants to repeat what he did on his TV show last night to
document how even though all Americans received a reduction in
their tax rates, the percentage of total taxes paid by the upper
5% of wage earners went up 11% after these tax cuts. If the
Democrats want to run against this, Rush will be more than happy
to take them on and accept the challenge of defending the 80s and
Ronald Reagan.

The liberals' view on all this was epitomized by an editorial in
yesterday's Washington Post which opined that there shouldn't be
any middle class tax cut because "Washington doesn't have the
money to give the middle class a tax cut." In other words, the
Post actually seems to think this money belongs to Washington,
but most Americans know this money isn't the government's, but
that of working taxpayers.

This is the difference between liberals and conservatives - the
liberals believe all money belongs to Washington, and that
whatever people end up with is due solely to the beneficence of
those in Washington. Rush would tell them, though, "Washington,
it ain't your money," and it's about time that those inside the
Beltway stop thinking they are entitled to the wealth that is
created by Americans.

Americans are tired of hearing this sort of thing, so today Rush
will issue statistics and figures that give the truth about the
80s and why they worked.

o	Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) seems to have already lost his
mind. Hollings had previously stated that Rush had changed his
position on GATT because of pressure from GE, which allegedly
"owned" his station, a charge which Rush has refuted. However, on
CompuServe this morning Rush found some email informing him that
Hollings is continuing to make this ridiculous accusation.

In a Senate hearing this morning, Hollings again stated that Rush
used to be against GATT but is now in favor of it because EIB is
owned by NBC and its parent company GE. Somehow "pressure" has
been brought to bear on Rush to get him to `change his mind.'

Rush notes, though, that he is not owned by GE at all, nor is
anything he does touched by them in any way. EIB is an
independent, entrepreneurial company, and the closest it gets to
any network is ABC, which owns EIB's flagship station WABC and
which distributes Rush's show over its ABC Satellite Distribution
services.

The closest Rush ever gets to GE is when he sits on a jet that
has an engine manufactured by GE or when he's in the Rainbow Room
in the GE Building. Furthermore, Rush hasn't taken any firm
position on GATT one way or another because he's still
researching it and learning about it.

Rush thus doesn't know who is Hollings' source on this, but it's
obvious that Hollings is not listening to Rush's radio show or
watching his TV show. Interestingly enough, by the way, the GE
PAC has been one of Hollings major contributors over the years,
while in contrast GE has contributed nearly nothing to Rush - he
doesn't even own any GE appliances. The only possible way that GE
contributes to Rush's coffers is that EIB advertises a few CNBC
programs on Rush's radio show.

Thus, Senator Hollings must have lost his mind, or else he's got
some bizarre source which he trusts implicitly. Rush marvels at
it all.

o	Jesse Jackson said that the reason he was going to Haiti with
Aristide this Saturday was because he wants to "protect" the
Haitian leader. Rush, though, has found out what has happened to
all 40 of Haiti's previous leaders; Cedras, of course, hopped a
plane to Panama last night, and Rush for a moment thought he was
watching the movie Casablanca.

Meanwhile, the White House has announced that it is unfreezing
the bank accounts of Haiti's former leaders. Another word for
this, Rush notes, is "payoff."

*BREAK*

Phone	Bob from Yelm, WA

Bob saw Rush's TV show last night and was very moved by how it
reminded him of the good times of the 80s. As he watched the
show, he also remembered that when President Reagan talked about
the opposition party, it was always with respect, with the
assumption that those in the opposition were good intentioned but
mistaken; his goal was always to unite the nation. President
Clinton, though, is exactly the opposite - he talks about the
opposition with venom and hatred, with the goal of dividing the
nation.

Rush agrees - Reagan never got mad, but kept smiling and was
courteous. The current President, though, works hard at creating
division, and those who think Republicans are obstructionists and
divisionists should look at the Democratic party; the Democrats
have been far more divisive, not just during the past 12 years,
but even now, governing against the popular will more than any
other President in current memory.

Rush lists the Presidents since WWII: Harry Truman, Dwight
Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and
Bill Clinton. He asks which one of these Presidents took the most
time bragging of his successes, and which took the most time
complaining he didn't get enough credit for his successes. Was it
JFK? LBJ? Ronald Reagan?

Did President Reagan go on TV every night to boast about the jobs
he's created or did he complain about not getting enough credit?
During the Reagan administration did the media ever do the
soul-searching it's doing now about why the President isn't
getting the credit he deserves?

Why does President Clinton stomp his feet and complain about not
getting any credit, while insisting he's not to blame for
anything bad? Is this a character issue or a generational issue?
Does this say something about Bill Clinton or is it an indication
of a generational shift?

Rush thinks the answers to all these questions are obvious. He
recalls how Clinton quickly passed the buck even back in the
beginning of his administration, such as the Waco massacre, and
this sort of thing continues even now.

*BREAK*

Phone	Liz from Portland, ME

Liz says she thinks that the reason Clinton's ratings have
dropped is because nobody has any confidence in that
"Bubba-head." It's one thing to send troops to deal with Haitians
who are 100 years behind the times, and another to deal with the
truly dangerous types who are in the Middle East.

Rush observes that the Democrats are complaining that the people
of America are ambivalent about the 80s, or even that the people
don't want a return to the 80s; the Democrats really think this
approach will sell and win elections. At the same time, though,
the Democrats act as if the people really care about Haiti and
really think it's worth sending 20,000 American troops to
reinstall Aristide. It's obvious that the Democrats are
misreading the minds of the American people.

Liz agrees, but confesses she is scared by what's happening in
the Middle East and how Clinton is way out of his league. Rush
notes that the Middle East is all about oil, no matter what
others might want to think. Everything involving Hussein, Iraq,
and Kuwait has to do with oil, and Rush recalls that during the
Gulf War, James Baker admitted that the Gulf War was about jobs -
jobs in the oil industry, in the industries that depend upon oil,
etc.

Today's Washington Post has a column by Hobart Rohan about this,
which says in part:

"It was not a misreading of Bill Clinton - Saddam did not
imagine, as some have suggested, that Clinton would chicken out
and not respond. To the contrary, Saddam knew precisely that
Clinton had no choice but to spend a couple billion dollars to
reinforce the Kuwait defense troops with a huge American force.
Rather, Saddam gave Clinton three alternatives, none of which is
desirable from the standpoint of the U.S. and its closest ally in
the Gulf, Saudi Arabia:

"He could mount a costly war, chasing Saddam to Baghdad and
beyond. He could keep a garrison force in the Gulf for perhaps
the next 50 years. Or he could enter into a negotiation that
would lift the sanctions and make Saddam a respectable member of
international society.

"Well, for Clinton, this poses a dilemma - the Saudis are under
great financial pressure because of the declining costs of oil
and their rising budget outlays. The last thing King Fahd wants
to see is a revivified Iraq capable of producing 6.5 million
barrels of oil a day, which will keep oil prices on the very low
side for a long time. Anything that Clinton decides to do in the
Gulf will need Saudi support.

"And how can Saddam be trusted? The simple answer is that he
can't be, and therein lies Clinton's `catch-22.' The underlying
lesson for the President is that foreign policy will almost
always emerge as a responsibility at least equal to domestic
problems, and during the 1992 campaign, Clinton all but ignored
foreign policy issues. He knows better know, and that's likely to
make him a better President over the next two years than he was
in his first two."

Rohan continues on to note that even assuming that Iraq pays 30%
of all oil revenues to Kuwait for war reparations, as required by
the 1991 cease-fire, its capacity of 6.5 million barrels of oil
per day means Hussein would keep the revenues of 4.5 million
barrels a year. This would make it a major rival to Saudi Arabia
and drive down the cost of oil world-wide.

Rohan quotes one oil expert that Russian, French, and Italian
companies are discovering all sorts of new oil fields in Iraq,
and the French are not supporting the idea of creating an
expanded demilitarized zone within Iraq that is forbidden to
Iraqi troops. This is because the French are depending on oil
revenues from Iraq.

Meanwhile, Hussein owes Russia about $6 billion, so Yeltsin is a
strong supporter of Saddam, and therefore he might oppose any
further military actions against Hussein. The lesson is that this
entire situation is about oil, and how countries that need oil
money don't want to see Iraq flooding the market with oil, which
he would do if the embargo were lifted because he needs the
money, too.

Also, it has to be remembered that Hussein's express objective,
as is the case with all dictators, is to stay alive and stay in
power. Hussein doesn't care about his own people, about the
economic plight of his country, or any of that; all he cares
about is his own plight, and he needs oil to keep himself in
power. The Saudis, though, don't want to see Hussein pumping more
oil because that will drive the price of oil down, hitting into
their profits.

In short, this whole issue is about oil, and it's ironic that
Clinton is being forced to base his foreign policy on
capitalistic concerns which he is rejecting here at home. People
might not like hearing that American troops are being expected to
fight for oil, but oil is essential to American freedoms and
sovereignty.

*BREAK*

Rush heard William Gray, Clinton's envoy to Haiti, comment that
Aristide was a Catholic priest, a brilliant and compassionate
man, so there could be nothing wrong with him. It seems that
whenever Aristide's religion is mentioned, it's considered a
bonus and a positive. However, should any American conservative
have any religious connections, all hell breaks out.

It's okay for Aristide to be a defrocked priest and praised for
that religious tie, but Americans who have similar religious ties
are portrayed as threats to America and democracy. "There's so
much hypocrisy out there," Rush observes.

Phone	Jennifer from Washington, DC

Jennifer says that if George Bush had sent U.S. troops all the
way into Baghdad in 1991, there would have been a slew of
terrorist attacks in the U.S.; the Arab world would have viewed
the U.S. as invaders, and there would have been a lot of World
Trade Center type bombings. People should remember this danger
when they think about what the U.S. did during the Gulf War; Rush
agrees, and adds that any invasion of Baghdad would have broken
up the Arab portion of the allied coalition.

Jennifer also thinks that if the U.S. had invaded Baghdad, there
would be no peace process going on right now because the Arab
world would not have trusted America any longer. Without the U.S.
being there as a trusted intermediator, the Arabs would never
have agreed to talks with Israel.

Rush adds that if Iraq had been totally humbled, Iran would have
only been strengthened and encouraged. Most people understand
these things; it's only the ignorant who are claiming that the
U.S. should have gone all the way to Baghdad during the Gulf War.

Jennifer also wonders if Colin Powell will be hurt by this trend,
given that he didn't want to go to Baghdad either; will the
people criticizing Bush for "not finishing the job" similarly
criticize Powell? Rush doubts it because Powell has such a
reservoir of good will that this sort of thing won't hurt him.

General Norman Schwarzkopf hasn't been hurt because he wanted to
go in, and Powell hasn't been hurt by the fact that he originally
opposed sending in the troops. However, once Powell got his
orders, he carried them out, doing what he was told what to do.

Jennifer agrees, saying that this is a debatable issue, given
that nobody knows what would have happened had the U.S. forces
advanced on Baghdad. However, she just has to wonder if this sort
of thing will hurt the undercurrent of support for Powell.

Rush says only time will tell, but Powell is highly respected
right now, although there are some people who aren't smitten by
him. Powell could be hurt by some things should he assume a major
political position, such as running for President or becoming
Secretary of State. Right now, though, Powell isn't really much
of a target, and nobody is going to attack him for carrying out
his orders.

Rush would love to hear from anyone in the audience, though, who
thinks that the U.S. should have continued on into Baghdad to get
Saddam. The Gulf War, though, was not about getting Saddam, but
about oil.

*BREAK*

Phone	Mark from Wentzville, MO

Mark did some research on what Rush said about taxes and the 80s
on last night's TV show because he couldn't understand why people
were criticizing the 80s so much. He quickly figured it out,
though - the people who griped the most about Reaganomics and the
80s were from the states with the highest taxes: New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, etc.

The high taxes in these states is why businesses left those
states and why those states' economies did so poorly. It wasn't
the 80s that caused these problems, but Democratic policies that
had taken hold over those states. It was the liberals' high state
taxes that destroyed those states, not Reagan's federal policies,
and that's why the liberals are complaining about the 80s.

Rush notes that the average liberal citizen complains about the
tax breaks given to the rich, and Mark agrees this is what they
do, but it's not true at all. Rush tells Mark to stay tuned,
because this is what he will be talking about at the top of next
hour's monologue.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o	Rush got a scathing note from some guy on CompuServe who called
Rush a fool because he tried to download Rush's response to FAIR
by entering GO RUSH DL. Rush again reminds everyone that you have
to GO RUSHDL (no space between RUSH and DL) to get these files.
"Do you follow instructions?" Rush asks, obviously unaware that
for a brief second in time he is sharing the same sense of
frustration that every single tech support guy feels every day
while on the job.

o	The paperback version of "See, I Told You So," complete with a
new chapter, has now reached national distribution. "Let's go for
number one again, folks!" Rush encourages.

o	Rush repeats that Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) is way offbase
in saying that Rush has 1) changed his position on GATT because
2) of pressure brought by GE.

o	Rush's TV show last night was a retrospective on the 80s, which
Rush feels passionately about. He's tired of liberals trying to
cast the 80s as one of the worst economic periods in American
history. This charge is being made by many Democrats, including
President Clinton who recently claimed that job growth during the
80s was the worst since the Great Depression.

Yet the 80s saw 21 million new jobs created, and according to
Labor Department figures, only 6% of them paid less than $7,000 a
year in 1984 dollars, which puts the lie to the Democrats' claim
that Reagan created only minimum wage, "hamburger-flipper" jobs.
Yet during the Carter administration, 42% of the jobs created
were minimum wage jobs.

Furthermore, during Reagan's administrations, 46% of the jobs
created paid between $7,000 and $28,000 a year; in contrast, this
figure was 68% during the Carter years. Sharp-eyed listeners will
notice that so far, Carter's figures come out to 110%, but this
is because during the Carter years, the nation lost 10% jobs that
paid more than $28,000 a year. During Reagan's administration,
however, 46% of jobs created paid more than $28,000.

Thus, the jobs that were created during the Reagan years were
about equally divided between those paying between $7,000 and
$28,000 and those paying more than $28,000, with a very small
amount paying less than $7,000. In contrast, most of the jobs
created during Carter's administration paid between $7,000 and
$28,000, nearly half paid less than $7,000 a year, and the nation
lost jobs that paid more than $28,000 a year.

It should thus be clear that Reaganomics did not create
"hamburger-flipper" jobs, although this is what happened during
the Carter years. Clinton, though, is claiming that the 1980s
were the worst period of job creation since the Great Depression.

Furthermore, between 1981 and 1988 an interesting thing happened
to the rich in terms of taxes; the Democrats claim that the rich
got an unfair tax break during the rich, with everyone else's
taxes going up. Clinton, Robert B. Reich, and liberals are all
making this claim, but they are wrong, and they know it.

In 1981, the top marginal tax rate was 70% and the top 5% of wage
earners were paying 35% of federal income taxes; the bottom 50%
of wage earners was paying 8%. In 1988, though, the top marginal
rate was only 28%, yet the top 5% of wage earners were paying
more than 46% of federal income taxes, an increase of 11%, in
spite of the fact that tax rates went down.

The reason for this apparent paradox is that because of the lower
tax rates, high-income workers were producing more, earning more,
and declaring more income, therefore paying more in taxes.
Sheltering their income was no longer cost effective, so the
taxes paid by the rich went up, even though their tax rates went
down; there just wasn't the incentive any more to try to hide or
avoid additional income.

This was also why federal revenues grew from $515 billion in 1981
to $985 billion in 1988 - because entrepreneurs and others were
able to keep more of what they made, they pushed themselves more,
worked harder, and took more risks, thereby creating a lot more
wealth. Because there wasn't as much incentive to shelter income,
it got taxed, resulting in higher federal revenues, in spite of
the lower tax rates.

Meanwhile, while the bottom 50% of the income earners in 1981
paid 8% of the total tax burden, after Reagan's tax cuts, they
were paying only 6% in 1988. In other words, the bottom half of
wage earners - the poor and lower middle class - were paying less
in taxes than they were before.

Furthermore, in 1981, the top 1% of wage earners were paying 18%
of the total tax burden, but this jumped to 28% by 1988, when
Reagan left office. If the Democrats want to claim that this is
unfair and the rich "not paying their fair share," then Rush will
be more than happy to take them on.

He promises to get the facts out to the American people, using
facts from the Joint Economics Committee, the IRS, and Department
of Labor. These aren't fake statistics, but rather the cold, hard
numbers from the U.S. government. If the Democrats think they can
win by running against the 80s, where everyone benefited, then
Rush will also be more than happy to remind them that inflation
in 1980 was 13.5%, but it dropped to 4.6% when Reagan left office
in 1988.

Yet the 80s saw the strongest period of peacetime growth since
WWII and the strongest economic recovery of the nine since then,
but this was done without rampaging inflation. The fact is that
the Democrats are running against Reaganomics not because it
failed but because it worked too well, and because the Democrats
don't dare mention Clintonomics and their own President.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dick from Brookline, MA

Dick says that Rush's monologue on Tuesday about why Americans
are "surly" towards those in Washington was one of the finest
he's heard, but he still has to complain about how Rush is
praising Reagan without mentioning how the deficit shot up during
his eight years. The deficit had been going down before Reagan,
but the Democratic Congress zapped it back up, using it as
ammunition against the Reagan years ever since. He'd thus love
Rush to explain this again.

Rush again notes that the federal revenues nearly doubled, from
$515 to $985 billion, during the Reagan years. However, the
deficit still exploded, so if the revenues were going up so much,
then the problem has to be on the spending side. Thus, Reagan's
tax cuts cannot be responsible for the deficit.

Dick agrees, and Rush notes that the Democrats are still trying
to claim the deficit is the result of Reagan's tax cuts. While
Reagan can't escape the fact that he didn't keep the deficit
down, the fact still remains that those deficits resulted not
from Reagan's tax cuts but from the fact that members of Congress
couldn't contain their out of control spending.

*BREAK*

Rush admits he can't defend the deficits of the 80s, especially
since Reagan got the budgets and spending that he wanted; Reagan
went out to rebuild the military, and he succeeded in this. It's
only because of this that Clinton now has the F-117, the cruise
missiles, the stealth bombs, etc. which he might soon be using in
the Gulf. Some of this technology started during the Carter
years, but it was Reagan who built the military back up and got
those weapons in production.

Reagan also authorized the Tax Equity and Fiscal Reform Act
(TEFRA) during his term; this was the largest tax increase in
history at that time, but it also included spending cuts which
never happened. Congress never followed through with its pledge
to come up with these cuts. Reagan, unfortunately, signed a
couple of other deals like this - accepting tax increases in
exchange for future spending cuts - and again Congress never came
through.

Meanwhile, though, the Democrats are claiming that the deficits
are purely Reagan's fault - because he spent too much on the
military, because he got his tax cuts, because he gave tax breaks
to the rich, etc. The Democrats running for re-election in 1994
are still trying to claim this, but their claims are absurd.

Reagan cut taxes and raised revenues during the 80s, so the tax
cuts can't be responsible for the deficits. Furthermore, if
revenues were nearly doubled, but the deficits went out of
control, then isn't it spending that was the problem? And it
wasn't military spending, but entitlement and welfare spending
which have risen to obscene levels; as if this weren't bad
enough, these government programs are destroying the family,
destroying self-esteem, destroying a sense of personal initiative
and responsibility - there's an entire class of dependent people
being created, and this is criminal.

The Washington Post yesterday shed some light on how those in
Washington think about this by claiming that the government
doesn't have the money to give the middle class a tax cut, as if
all money belonged to Washington, which therefore had the sole
right to decide how it's spent. But this is not Washington's
money, much less money to "give"; the only thing Washington does
is take the money that others earn.

If the Washington Post, though, believes this, then elected
officials must believe it far more. So while the deficit is a
problem and it did become a major problem in the 80s, the deficit
was a result of ballooning spending; the American taxpayer is not
to blame because they didn't pay enough taxes during the 80s.
Similarly, the solution to the deficit is not higher taxes - tax
cuts didn't cause the problem, so higher taxes won't solve it;
the solution is responsible spending and responsible handling of
the debt.

The administration financed the debt by using the short-term
bonds, and higher interest rates are going to send debt financing
costs higher now, as those bonds get turned over. The
administration's own figures show that the deficit could reach
$300 billion by 1997 or 1998.

People have to understand the truth about this, especially since
Rush seems to be the one lone voice among the media who is
telling the truth about the 80s, and the assault against the 80s
continues. The Washington Post, for example, reports that
Clinton's pollster Stanley Greenberg wrote a letter on October
12th to the Democratic leadership in Congress, telling them that
"the message is much more powerful when it includes references to
Reaganomics and Reagan's trickle-down policies."

Greenberg found that voters had more negative than positive
feelings towards "trickle-down," "Reaganomics," and "Star Wars"
than other buzz words of the 80s. Among undecided voters, 48%
responded negatively and 23% responded positively towards
"Reaganomics." Greenberg also advises Democrats to link the GOP's
contract with America to negative terms such as "explode the
deficit," "trickle-down economics," "tax cuts for the wealthy,"
"billions in defense increases," and "cuts in Medicare."

However, when "Ronald Reagan" and "the 1980s" were mentioned,
voters more than two-to-one tested responded positively. Rush
thus wants Republicans to force Democrats into saying they are
running not against Reaganomics, but Ronald Reagan and the 80s.

Rush hopes listeners are not fooled by the Democrats, and also
remember that the only way to balance the federal budget is to
reduce the amount of spending. The country just can't take more
and more money arbitrarily from the American public; the people
in Washington have to live by the same rules that everyone else
has to live by and live within their means.

Tony Coelho, though, loves to say that it's "time to pay the bill
for the party in the 80s," but in reality the time to pay the
bill is November 8, when those who have spent this country into
debt are voted out of office. Paying the bill does not mean the
American people paying more in taxes.

The American people are not to blame because they didn't cause
the deficit by getting a tax cut; instead, the American people
generated the biggest economic recovery since WWII, simply
because they got to keep more of their own money.

Rush will always believe that he wage-earner can spend their
money than someone in Washington, but those in Congress actually
believe that they can spend people's money better and more
morally than they themselves can. People shouldn't believe this,
though, and they should never believe that they're at fault for
the deficit simply because they got to keep more of their money
in the 80s.

*BREAK*

Phone	Arlene from Midland, MI

Arlene heard on the news that the Haitian military leaders are
being allowed into Miami. She wonders why this is being allowed.
Rush says this is Clinton's payoff to these guys, but notes that
Cedras himself is not going to Miami, although some of his
associates are.

Arlene, though, wonders why these people, whom Clinton last month
said were so terrible, are being allowed into this country.
Shouldn't this news be making more headlines than it is? She
doesn't think that America should have to make payoffs like this
to men such as these.

Rush says Arlene should be prepared for more than this, and he
bets Cedras is not going to be satisfied with Panama. Sooner or
later, Cedras, his wife, and his mistress will go
country-shopping again, given that their bank accounts have now
been unfrozen.

Rush adds that in the third hour he'll describe what happened to
the previous rulers of Haiti, and it does not look good for
Aristide. But to answer Arlene's question, the reason these guys
are being allowed in Haiti is that this is the payoff to them to
get them out of Haiti.

*BREAK*

Phone	Holly from Petersburg, VA

Holly thinks another thing to remember about why George Bush
didn't try to get Hussein during the Gulf War is that if Iraq
were thrown into chaos and a civil war, it would probably break
into three parts: the Kurds in the north, Iran's Shiite allies in
the south, and the Arabs in the middle. This would have been
catastrophic, and the Saudis definitely did not want a puppet
government of Iran on their borders.

Rush agrees - Iraq is a buffer between Iran and the rest of the
Middle East, and there are many strategic reasons why it should
be kept that way.

Phone	Marilyn from Coarsegold, CA

Marilyn hopes Rush keeps hitting the Democrats on the Reagan
years because the 80s were great for the country. The Democrats
seem to think they need to warn the country about the 80s, just
as they warned the Republicans about the "Christian right."

Rush notes that these attacks are really a sign of hysteria and
panic because they know the 80s worked. Rush, though, hopes the
Democrats keep attacking the 80s - he'll even run DNC Chairman
David Wilhelm's commercials for free on his show because it's
about time this issue got straightened out and about time that
the truth got out about the 80s.

Phone	Eve from Toledo, OH

Eve says that the Canadian Broadcasting System recently did a
story about the build-up in Iran, and they referred to Hussein
"as a person who is even less popular than Bill Clinton." Rush
loves this description and thanks Eve for calling with it.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Saturday is the big day for defrocked Catholic priest
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who will then reclaim the Presidency of
his country, accompanied by the Congressional Black Caucus,
Randall Robinson, and Jesse Jackson. Rush, though, has done some
research in order to see if he could find out what fate is in
store for Father Aristide.

His historical researches have discovered that Haiti has had 40
previous rulers since independence was declared in 1804. Of
those, only one died of old age, one retired, seven fled to
Jamaica, six were overthrown, four fled to parts unknown, three
fled to France, three resigned, two (including Aristide) fled to
America, two died of illness, the fate of two others is unknown,
one was executed, one was shot, one committed suicide, one was
blown up, one was poisoned, one was murdered in jail, one was
taken hostage, one was dismembered, one had apoplexy, and there
were (as far as anyone can tell) zero incidents of "impeachment
by voodoo."

Obviously, this is not a past history that will comfort Aristide,
so it should be obvious why the man never blinks - he's scared
out of his mind about what could happen to him.

Update Animal Rights (Andy Williams, "Born Free" with gratuitous
sound effects including some lame ducks in honor of the November
elections)

There are three items into today's update:

o	British scientists who photographed two previously unknown
species of octopuses say that they might know why the animals are
so rare: two males were trying to mate with each other. This
species were seen only once, and one of the observing scientists
noted that the unnamed octopuses might be trying to make the best
of their bad situation by trying to mate with every other octopus
they find, "rather than to leave opportunities for reproduction
unexplored."

o	Ivan the Gorilla is an urban lowland gorilla who was moved to
the Atlanta, GA zoo seated in first class, sedated with a fruit
juice and tranquilizer gorilla. The gorilla had spent the
previous 27 years in display at a Tacoma, WA shopping mall.

Ivan's sedative had worn out when the plane landed, though, and
his veterinarian remarked "he's just been a trooper! I think he
enjoyed the adventure, he's been talking to us, making happy,
rumbling sounds!" The vet added at during the trip, people read
to the gorilla from Michael Crichton's book "Congo."

So the gorilla was talking to the people, and the people were
reading to the gorilla. Rush says it's good that they didn't Ivan
about Mrithi the Gorilla, star of "Gorillas in the Mist," who was
killed during the Rwandan civil war.

o	The World Wildlife Fund has published its list of the ten most
endangered species, and it includes the Asian yew tree, a tiny
Middle East tortoise, and a Russian horned antelope. The Fund
hopes that action can be taken by 125 governments to protect
these species.

Rush, though, thinks that given the news in this update, the best
thing that can be done to save these species is to put them in a
mall. Then they get a sedative cocktail, a first-class trip to
Atlanta, and a vet who talks to them and reads top novels to
them.

*BREAK*

Phone	James from Austin, TX

James notes that during the 1992 campaign, Clinton promised to
change the Bush Haitian policy, but then when he was inaugurated,
he adopted the Bush policy because it was the right thing to do.
James thinks that the liberal media should therefore realize that
their criticisms of how Bush "didn't finish the job" are just
digging the same hole for Clinton, given that these criticisms
are basically saying that Clinton can't get any victory there
unless he gets Hussein's head on a lance.

Rush says this is a good point - if Clinton doesn't get Saddam
Hussein, the media's definition of a successful Gulf mission
means that Clinton will have "bungled" it, too. James adds that
the liberals in Texas are doing much the same thing with their
commercials; they're trying to run against the 80s, but end up
just putting their feet in their mouths.

James also thanks Rush for his success - five years ago he was
delivering and selling pizzas from his car for another company,
but he kept listening to Rush's show every day. He got inspired
by what Rush said about entrepreneurs and started buying his own
equipment at auctions and such.

Today he now owns two pizza delivery and carry-out restaurants -
The Pizza Guy where the second pizza is always half price; he's
making good money now, and the only down thing is that he's in
too high a tax bracket.

Rush thinks this is a great story and thanks James for calling.
He notes that James proves how America is a country where you can
create your own job.

Phone	Rick from the University of Pittsburgh, PA

Rick was watching Rush's TV show last night at 1:35 a.m., and
Rush remarks that his show got a "major move" in Pittsburgh -
from 2:30 in the morning to 1:35. Rick says that during the show,
while Rush was talking about Reagan and how the Democrats were
running against the 80s and the "most popular living President,"
a female voice cut in to say "and unlearned."

In other words, someone doctored Rush's show with some liberal
editorial comment. Rick has this show on videotape, so he'll be
glad to send Rush a copy of it. Rush asks Rick what he thought of
the show, and Rick says he liked it. He had seen it earlier on a
FOX station, but he wasn't able to record it then; however, he
did stay up late to catch it in the morning.

Rush says this is the first he's heard about his show being
edited; he does know he was the only host of his show, so someone
had to have done it after the show was uplinked. He puts Rick on
hold so Bo can give him EIB's FedEx number so Rick can overnight
it to the EIB offices. He thanks Rick for calling with this
interesting information.

*BREAK*

Phone	Millie Limbaugh from Cape Girardeau, MO

Rush welcomes his mother to the EIB Network, given that today is
her birthday. Rush is surprised that his mother is at home, given
that she usually goes out to her club with the "Blue-Haired
Bloody Mary Gang." She explains that this is scheduled for
tomorrow, but Rush's brother, David, and his wife will be taking
her to dinner tonight.

Rush is glad to hear this, and Mrs. Limbaugh remarks that the
show today is really going well. She adds that she, Rush's
brother, and his wife went to Washington several weeks ago for
Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Meeting. They flew coach in a
DC-9, but she was seated in the first row of coach class, so when
she stretched her feet, they at least got to fly first class.

Rush chides his mother for not flying first class, and she says
she basically did, given that the plane was nearly empty. He
remarks that his mother is so devoted to him that she tapes each
day's radio and TV show, and she adds that if she misses it, she
can always listen to the replay of it later on.

Mrs. Limbaugh notes that she and Margaret Thatcher were born on
the same day, so they are the same age: 69 years old. Rush
remarks that he would have called earlier, but doubted that she
would have been home.

She says this was the case because she had to talk to the
dietician about gaining weight. Rush sighs at how his mother has
to go to a hospital to gain weight; why didn't he inherit those
genes? He asks what advice his mother got, and she replies that
she was told to east some fattening foods. However, she's already
doing this - for example, she already had her Carnation Instant
Breakfast this morning.

Rush laughs at what thin people think are "fattening foods," but
Mrs. Limbaugh rebukes her son, noting that she put into the drink
three scoops of ice cream, chocolate malt powder, and extra
Hershey syrup. Rush agrees that this fits the definition of
fattening food and is glad to hear that his mother has things
under control.

Rush suggests, though, that if his mother wants to gain weight
she ought to visit her son in New York and eat what he eats. He
wishes her a happy birthday, and she remarks that her birthday
wish would be for everyone to understand Rush.

Rush says the liberals do understand him - this is why they get
so hysterical and panicked. Mrs. Limbaugh notes that the few
critics she talks to never seem to listen to Rush too much. Rush
is not surprised and hopes to be coming home to see her soon.

Mrs. Limbaugh notes that she's got a lot of "homework" (signing
copies of his book) waiting for him when he does, and adds that
she knows Rush is happy because he talks about Marta all the
time. Rush says he is very happy and loves his mother a lot,
blowing her a big radio kiss.

Rush bets that the Blue-Haired Bloody Mary Gang will now come
over in their van and pick his mother up for a celebration.

Phone	Shirley from Brawley, CA

Shirley says that the last hour of the Today show this morning
featured Lynn Berman, who on his "Spanning the Globe" feature
showed a clip of a football player with his toe on the ground and
heel in the air, and a little bird came limping across the field,
moving under the football player's arch just as the player put
his foot down. The show then cut to Katie Couric, who was trying
hard not to laugh.

Rush says he saw this clip a week ago, but thought it was a huge
moth; it was obviously on its last legs, though, given how it was
hobbling across the field. He finds it interesting, though, that
Couric was laughing about this, given how she presided over a
"live lobster murder" earlier on the show.

Shirley adds that Rep. Barney Frank just accused the press of
being responsible for everything going wrong with the Clinton
administration. This reminds Rush of a column written by USC law
professor Susan Estrich that's in today's papers. The headline is
"Rush Isn't the Real Problem," but the headline writer obviously
didn't read the column because Estrich does think Rush is the
problem, or at least part of it.

Estrich notes "minorities rule when the majority is sitting on
its hands," and she blames Rush for making 39 Republicans change
their minds on the Lobby Reform and Disclosure Act; she claims
most Americans want such reforms, but they were silent while
"Limbaugh's supporters were faxing and phoning."

Estrich then states "if Rush Limbaugh can kill a bill the
majority of American support, it's only because we let him. The
problem isn't that democracy has failed but that we haven't
worked hard enough to make it succeed."

"Zowie!" Rush exclaims, amazed that he's now being accused of
killing the lobby bill. He points out that he didn't kill health
care either - health care was killed by the health care bill, and
the lobby act was killed by the grass roots provisions which
Americans didn't want. He thanks Shirley for calling.

*BREAK*

Phone	William from Rockledge, FL

William says he knows Americans are dependent on energy, but oil
doesn't have to be the only source of that energy. The current
political structure, though, is designed for the oil producers,
and this is just hampering continued growth. New Zealand, though,
is going to put a new fuel system, aquafuel, into production that
will reduce its dependency on foreign oil, and he can only hope
America eventually look into this new technology.

William has been working in the energy business for 20 years, and
this aquafuel can work in any standard internal combustion engine
without any modifications. Plus, the exhaust of this fuel is
cleaner than the air coming in, and producing it will create
thousands of new jobs.

William has a personal interest in this because his own son will
be going to the Gulf, and he'd prefer not to trade red blood for
black oil. Rush says America will not produce alternative sources
until it has to, and even if the decision were made to switch
over now, it still would take decades before its dependence on
foreign oil could be ended.

Rush knows there are many conspiracy theories about how the oil
companies are keeping new technologies off the market, but he's
not interested in hearing such stories. The fact is that America
is now dependent on oil, so until this changes, America has to
conduct its foreign policy to protect its oil sources.

Phone	Mark from Beachwood, OH

Mark asks if Rush thinks Saddam Hussein is trying to interfere
with the Israeli peace negotiations, perhaps by sending some Scud
missiles over there. Rush doubts it, plus Hussein firing some
Scuds at Israel might not interfere with the peace process at
all.

Mark asks if Rush heard the news about Yasser Arafat receiving
the Nobel Peace Prize, and Rush says he doesn't know how anyone
could give a terrorist a peace prize like this. Arafat has spent
his life killing people and blowing things up, and Rush just
doesn't see the logic in honoring him for peace.

Of course, this is the Nobel prize, and Rush has rarely agreed
with their selections of Peace Prize recipients. After all, they
gave it to Mikhail Gorbachev, while Rush thinks if anyone
deserves it, it's Ronald Reagan who nearly single-handedly
defeated the Soviet Communist state, ending the most barbaric
country this world has seen.

The liberals throughout the 70s and 80s were clamoring for peace,
and when Reagan was President, they accused him of wanting to
blow up the world. They kept condemning Reagan for his tough
stance towards the Soviets, complaining that the U.S. had to
"learn how to get along" with them. However, it was Reagan who
got peace precisely because he stood up to the Soviets and with
his support of Star Wars forced them into a game they could not
win. The liberals got what they want, yet they still vilify
Reagan.

*BREAK*

Phone	Di from Lincoln, NE

Di heard Rush comment yesterday about how most Americans would be
surprised at how many taxes they really pay, when you figure in
everything from income taxes to sales taxes to government fees,
etc. She thus would like to make a challenge - she'd be willing
to chart her taxes on a daily basis and give Rush the total at
the end of the year.

Rush would love to make Di a "field reporter for the EIB
Network," and would be glad to work out a "compensation schedule
with no taxes" in exchange for her efforts. In fact, Rush says
he'd like to get a month-to-month report from her, and passes her
on to Bo to set things up.

