Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, October 14, 1994

by John "Yeoman John" Switzer

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

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October 14, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Rush lists what's happened to the past
rulers of Haiti; Mike Maimone gets suspended for fooling around
with a PSA; Rush congratulates Robert W. Morgan for being
inducted into the radio hall of fame; listener who's been wearing
Uggs for years praises them; Ronald Reagan writes Rush a letter
thanking Rush for his TV retrospective on the 80s and the Reagan
record; Reagan's letter to Rush shows he understands the
importance the people play, and how he has confidence in their
abilities; cat and mouse game between Clinton and Hussein has
begun; Mathilda Cuomo says if her husband's opponent wins, it'll
lead to race riots in New York; Washington Post asks why the
voters are "denying" Clinton any credit for the improving
economy; Governor George Allen of Virginia signs law forbidding
parole for violent crimes such as murder and rape; the U.S. has
unfrozen bank accounts for Raoul Cedras, giving him $1 million,
and is renting his homes in Haiti for $4,000 each per month;
Moffett, OK to get $106,000 of Crime Bill money for new cops,
even though it doesn't have a police department, can't afford the
25% of matching funds, and has a total budget of less than
$10,000; President Clinton thinks Crime Bill's billions might
reduce the federal deficit; the Eagles' new song "Get Over It"
attacks the trend towards victimization in America; Rush's lapel
pin is a pelican, not a stork, and Marta is not expecting; ABC
News and Peter Jennings feature a piece on what to expect if
Republicans win Congress, but it was so biased that it could have
been written by the Democratic National Committee; Rush explains
his statements about American Indians are not motivated by a
dislike of them but rather an opposition to how there are those
hard at work rewriting the history of America to portray them as
perfect humans; two teams of female researchers find that men
earn more when their wives stay at home; NRA is running ads
against Tom Foley, who insist that he is concerned mainly with
his constituents (even though he is suing those same
constituents); Democrats are running TV ads against the 80s and
Republicans' contract with America; Rush rates the weekend's NFL
games; Republican caller is doubting his party loyalties because
of GOP's reluctance to take strong action to solve problems with
Social Security program and deficit; means testing of Social
Security, while a valid step, won't save much money; caller
thinks reform of taxes and Social Security is needed; deficit is
declining in part because of short-term financing of the national
debt, but this will backfire in the future; Rush is for free
trade, but hasn't made up his mind about GATT yet; Rush is not
worried about GATT's WTO; Howard Kurtz claims U.S. electorate is
surly and that this is why attempting adds are so bitter and
mean, but in reality voters have a lot of reasons to be angry at
government; Rush reads part of a thread on CompuServe about how
he's part of the CFR and Trilateralist conspiracy; Compuserve
poster thinks Rush is a stooge of the CFR; supposedly, Rush
opposed the Clinton health care bill only because his bosses at
the CFR needed him to fake some conservative positions one in a
while; Nightline piece featuring Phil Gramm and Leon Panetta asks
if Republicans are conspiring to make the people hate Congress;
the cat and mouse game in the Gulf has already begun; Democrats
are not worried about how cities will pay for their share of the
Crime Bill cops, but Kansas City doesn't want them because they
don't have any extra money; caller updates Paul Westphall's joke
about USC and Penn State; caller asks Rush to clarify his beliefs
in individualism and conservatism; caller defends "poor Mr.
Maimone."

LIMBAUGH WATCH

October 14, 1994 - It's now day 633 (day 652 for the rich and the
dead, and 25 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 829 days left) and 696
days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air
with 659 radio affiliates (with more than 20 million listeners
weekly world-wide), 250 TV affiliates (with a national rating of
3.7), and a newsletter with nearly 500,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction best-
seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million copies
sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster stopped
printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things Ought To
Be" was on the NY Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list
for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," was on
the NY Times best-seller list for 16 weeks and has sold over 2.45
million copies.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Friday, October
16, 1992:

o	The big news was the Presidential debate in Richmond, VA,
but Rush said anyone who thought it was exciting also probably
loved to watch PBS documentaries that got awards; at best, the
debate was not a good discussion of the issues, but a "public
policy seminar."

Perhaps the most telling point of the debate was that about 49
minutes into it Bill Clinton gave his view of government:
"elections are to determine what the President wants to do. Then
you go to Washington, get together with the Congress, and do it."

Rush, though, thought the questioner who told Bush to "get off
the character issue" was an idiot. The press, however, had an
orgy over how this guy put the President in his place, and how
Clinton then said he didn't care about Bush's character, but
wants "to change the character of the Presidency."

Clinton followed this statement up by saying he was concerned
whether the people could trust their President to do the right
thing. But wasn't trustworthiness an essential part of character?
If Clinton were truly concerned about trust, then why wasn't he
concerned about character?

Rush added that he didn't like anything about the debate except
for the fact that it ended. Aside from the stupid format,
moderator Carol Simpson was anything but impartial. When a
questioner asked about education, Simpson, in a biting,
sarcastic, and condescending tone, said "well, let's ask our
education President."

There were also questions such as "when do you think a black or
woman would be President." Rush asked how anyone could answer
that in a serious manner, yet when President Bush said he thought
Barbara Bush could win, the media pundits insisted this meant
Bush had no confidence in himself.

John from San Antonio, TX doubted that the audience for the
debate was undecided voters, and he noted that Simpson made a
point of zinging both Perot and Bush, but conspicuously left
Clinton alone. She attacked Bush on education and Perot on how he
seemed to have an answer for everything, but didn't have any
smart quips to make about Clinton.

Jackie from Portland, ME asked why the media thought it had to
explain what people had seen with their own eyes and ears; she
wished the press would allow the people to make up their own
minds on things. In particular, she was sick and tired of
watching something like the Vice Presidential debate and then
reading two days later that Gore won it.

Walter from Richmond, VA was a dittohead who was in the spectator
portion of the audience for the Presidential debate, in the
"cheap seats getting a nosebleed." He, though, wasn't sure if
last night's festivities were a debate or if Bill Clinton was the
guest host for an episode of "Amazing Discoveries."

Walter noted that the moderator was supposed to be unbiased but
then asked leading and biased questions such as "if the education
President would take a question?" Walter was also bothered by how
one woman asked how the national debt had affected each
candidate.

Walter also thought the debate was a phony Donahue-esque program,
and he laughed at how Clinton pretended to be so caring about
everyone and every problem under the sun; Rush said he observed
this, too, adding that Clinton hadn't met a baby yet that hadn't
had a disease.

Cathy from Jersey Shore, PA was impressed with Clinton's
theatrics during the debate and wondered why he hadn't been
attacked for being an actor, as Reagan was. Cathy had also
noticed that every issue was Clinton's "number one issue."

She also noted that the November issue of Good Housekeeping
magazine listed all of the major issues in the campaign, saying
that Clinton would start a "national deadbeat databank" and make
it a felony for parents to cross state lines in order to avoid
child support payments. The article claimed Clinton would also
use the IRS to track down deadbeat parents, as well as report
them to credit agencies so as to prevent them from borrowing any
money until they paid up on their commitments.

o	Rush noted that in the Vice Presidential debate, when
Vice President Quayle mistakenly said something was on page 304
in Gore's book, the press immediately jumped on his error. Yet
when Gore claimed that the economy was the worst in 50 years, the
media ignored this. Rush asked why the media, which was so
insistent on exposing Quayle's error, was ignoring Gore's
mistake.

The economy grew by 2% in the first half of 1992, which
admittedly was not fast enough to reduce unemployment, but it was
growing, a fact at odds with the incredibly negative
presentations that the press was putting out. In fact, according
to Stanford economics Robert Hall and John Taylor, writing in the
NY Times, "in recent months press reporting about the economy has
become so pessimistic that it has completely lost touch with
reality. The view that America has had the slowest growth in 50
years has become gospel. The view that we are in, or may be in, a
period as bad as the Depression is going unchallenged."

Hall and Taylor showed that "real Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
fell by 30% in the Depression, compared with a 1% decline between
1990 and 1991. In the last 30 years, there have many times when
growth has been slower than it has been in the last few years."
In 1973 unemployment was between 8.5% and 9.0%, and the GDP was
down 3%. In 1981 and 1982, unemployment was 10.5%, and the GDP
was down 4.2%. In 1992, unemployment is 7.2%, and the GDP is down
1.4%, which is certainly better than in 1973 and 1982.

o	Gene from Sioux City, IA watched Senator Joseph Biden on
CSPAN claim that Bush was out of touch with America because he
vetoed Congress' enterprise zone bill and a bill that would have
raised taxes on the rich. Gene, though, noted that Bush was
elected in 1988 precisely because people did not want taxes
raised; thus, Gene had to wonder who was really out of touch -
Biden who wanted to raise taxes or the President who did not.

o	Dave from Trenton, NJ thought that George Bush had a
winning campaign commercial if he displayed the Time magazine
cover that asked "Bill Clinton, can you trust him?" and then
replaced that with the picture of Bill Clinton wearing sunglasses
playing the saxophone. This picture would then be moved to the
left side of the screen, and next to it would be shown in rapid
succession all of the world's trouble spots - Bosnia-Hercegovina,
the Middle East, Russia, etc. Again the question would be asked
"who can you trust?"

Rush said this would be a good ad that made the point, but
unfortunately people "don't give a rat's ass about foreign
policy."

o	Bill Keane, artist for the Family Circus comic strip,
sent Rush a copy of a political cartoon he did for the October
issue of GQ magazine. This was his first attempt at a political
cartoon, and it showed all the pitfalls "Little Billy" had to
avoid as he "skipped to the nomination."

o	Vicki from Charlottesville, VA had seen an interesting
phenomenon - as the owner of a small business, she had talked to
many other owners of small businesses, and all of them were
scared to death of a Clinton Presidency. These business people
had already assumed that they would have to scale back their
businesses, and their only question was how much they would have
to downsize in order to pay for Clinton's programs.

o	Mark from La Mirada, CA noted that Clinton was claiming
that trickle-down economics had failed, but in reality it was
Washington social spending that had failed to trickle down. Mark
said that according to his figures, two-thirds of all government
money got "eaten up by bureaucratic moths before reaching the
poor." Rush noted that the GAO had already announced that only 28
cents out of every welfare dollar got to the poor.

o	For months New York Governor Mario Cuomo had been saying
that George Bush had to be voted out of the White House because
the nation's cities had to be rebuilt, and that only a Democrat
would be able to give cities such as New York what they needed
(i.e. money).

However, after the Richmond Presidential debate Cuomo appeared on
NBC to state that when Bill Clinton became President, he would
have his hands full turning the country around from the current
economic malaise created by Reagan and Bush. Cuomo thus said that
because Clinton would be so busy in rebuilding the country, he
would not ask him for any help in rebuilding the nation's cities
or states.

o	An Albuquerque man sued the city police for not
preventing him from driving drunk. The man, who was paralyzed
during a recent drunk driving accident, broke down in tears while
on the witness stand as he described how the doctors broke the
news to him that he would never walk again.

The former construction worker said that the police ordered him
not to drive, but allowed him and a friend to walk away. By not
preventing the man from driving away, the defendant insisted that
the police deprived him of the rights guaranteed to him under a
state law that allowed police to drive intoxicated people to
their homes, a detox facility, or jail.

o	Sporting columnist Dave Kindred finally stated what
should have been said months earlier about Magic Johnson and
AIDS. Kindred wrote that Johnson should tell the public how he
got this disease, especially since the statistics on infection of
males showed it was really hard for them to be infected through
heterosexual sex. Johnson had to have been really promiscuous in
order to get this disease, and since he was a role model, he owed
it to the country to be more honest about this.

o	Certain welfare recipients in the Netherlands would be
able to qualify for government funds to pay for prostitutes. The
government's health secretary reported that she could not rule
out "professional sexual relief" for long-term patients in the
country's health care facilities.

o	Clarence from Haines City, FL gave "ozone-sucking
dittos," and Rush noticed that he sounded a lot like Governor
Clinton. Clarence was less than thrilled with this compliment,
but Rush asked him to say the following phrases so EIB could get
them on tape:

-	"The richest got all the breaks in the 80s, saw their
income go up and up, while the rest of us saw our taxes go up and
our incomes go down. We've got to get rid of this trickle down
stuff."

-	"My plan will destroy America."

-	"My wife tells me what to do every night."

-	"These are not the worst times in the last 50 years."

-	"I don't have any idea of what my policies are really
going to do - I just want to be President."

-	"I am amazed at how easy it has been to fool people into
believing I'm a moderate."

-	"I am amazed at how easy it has been to fool people into
believing I'm not a liberal."

-	"I loathe the military. There needs to be more places
like Moscow. They'd love to know what I really did there."

-	"Gennifer, just be quiet! If you blow it for me it will
be the last time you do it for anybody."

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MORNING UPDATE

Tomorrow, Jean-Bertrand Aristide will reclaim the Presidency of
Haiti, accompanied by the Congressional Black Caucus, Randall
Robinson, and Jesse Jackson. It thus would be interesting to
examine the fate that might be in store for this defrocked
priest.

Rush looked up what has happened to Haiti's 40 previous rulers
since independence was declared in 1804, and he found that 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."

Rush thinks it's now obvious why Aristide never blinks - he's
scared to death. He obviously knows his history and what has
happened to his predecessors, so Aristide is going to need a lot
of luck - once American troops pull out and Aristide is left home
alone, he's going to need some luck, especially since it's highly
unlikely the Congressional Black Caucus is going to hang around
for long.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	Rush starts off the show by announcing that Tony Lo
Bianco will be broadcast engineer both today and Monday because
regular engineer Mike Maimone has been suspended for two days
without pay for altering one of the PSAs that EIB plays during
its "B" time commercial breaks. Earlier this week a woman called
to complain about a PSA for panic disorder, and she had some
justification, given that Maimone had gussied the PSA up with
people screaming, the quacking of a lame duck, and other such
noises, all to amuse himself during commercial breaks.

Rush admits he knew about this, but in the finest tradition of
the current administration, he insists it's not his fault because
he had nothing to do about it, so he's axed Maimone for the next
two days. "It's not my responsibility," he states, adding that
Maimone's doctoring of this PSA was totally unauthorized, and
even though this PSA was not supposed to be heard nationally, the
fact that it was broadcast on the satellite meant such meddling
was not allowed.

Rush notes that this is the second such suspension in EIB's long
history - as long-memoried listeners might recall, the first
suspension was of Bo Snerdley, who dared to interfere with an EIB
official poll by broadcasting subliminal messages to the audience
which Rush couldn't hear in his headset. Lo Bianco shows how
outraged he is about all this by playing the sound of a cuckoo
penny whistle, which brings Rush's wrath down on his substitute
engineer.

Lo Bianco insists it's not his fault because the other staff
members forced him to do this. Meanwhile, local EIB thug Mo
Thacker comes into the studio to look menacing, but Rush is not
worried because Thacker is a member of the United Screenwriters
of America, which has no jurisdiction over broadcast engineers.

o	Rush has long respected Robert W. Morgan of Los Angeles,
one of the broadcast industry's giants who helped to
revolutionize the top 40 radio business in the late 60s. Morgan
will be inducted into a new radio hall of fame in California this
weekend, along with Ronald Reagan, Larry King, and three others.
Rush thus congratulates Mr. Morgan and the other inductees, but
singles out Morgan for long overdue recognition.

o	Rush received a letter from a listener who has been
wearing Uggs for years, long before Rush started advertising
them. The listener, who used to be known as "Sky Fargo the
Trailsman" when he worked in radio in Michigan, now works in a
computer store in Redwood City, and wears his Uggs even now. The
man would have written Rush earlier about this but he uses a
`real PC,' not a Mac, and his modem stopped working for a while
because it had slipped out of its slot.

He hopes Rush keeps "giving them hell," although he never talks
about Rush at work because these "liberal geeks" in Redwood City
would go bonkers.

o	Rush got another letter dated October 13th from a man who
appreciated the retrospective on the 80s that Rush did on his TV
show. The man was Ronald Reagan, who writes:

"Dear Rush, my staff tell me the phones haven't stopped ringing
this morning, and I know your show last night is the reason why.
I happened to catch the program myself and was truly humbled by
your kind words. It certainly was a walk down memory lane, and
you'll never know how much it meant to me, that you boldly
defended our record and all we accomplished.

"Unfortunately today, we can't escape the so-called experts who
are busy chipping away at all we accomplished. Not only our
record, but also our convictions and even our integrity. Frankly,
I've never been distracted by the revisionists' claim but feel
strongly that we should allow our record to stand the test of
time. Let history decide - I know it will judge us fairly.

"I'm comforted to know that our country is in the capable hands
of gifted young individuals like you and your listeners. You are
the backbone of our great nation, solely responsible for the
success of our worldwide crusade. God bless you and your audience
for believing, for having faith in America's future and for
making a difference in this world. Keep up the good work.
Sincerely, Ronald Reagan."

Rush is impressed that President Reagan was watching his TV show,
given that EIB didn't tell him in advance about it. Furthermore,
he wants a copy of the show since Nancy didn't see it.

However, Rush is most impressed by two things which he
immediately noticed when he first read this letter, so he rereads
the letter, and then notes that Reagan is still not bothered by
his revisionist critics; to this day, he still doesn't get mad or
angry by this, and Rush will discuss this a bit more after the
break.

*BREAK*

Rush remarks that the first thing he noticed about the letter
from President Reagan was the paragraph:

"Frankly, I've never been distracted by the revisionists' claim
but feel strongly that we should allow our record to stand the
test of time. Let history decide - I know it will judge us
fairly."

Rush wrote about this in his book when he examined his critics
and the various ways he could respond to them; some people were
telling Rush to just ignore them, while others encouraged a
direct approach, taking on the critics immediately, point by
point. Reagan, though, obviously chose the first approach - never
responding in anger, ignoring attacks such as those against the
80s.

Reagan's letter points out just how confident he is about what
happened in the 80s - he's so confident about his legacy that he
knows history will vindicate both him and it. He doesn't feel a
need to respond now, because he knows history will do this for
him in time.

Rush, though, is not as patient and doesn't want to wait for
history to get it right. For example, after Rush did the
television show about Reagan, he asked his commie make-up babe,
Debra Phillips, want she thought about it. She replied that it
was a nice show, "but the 80's are so far away and so long ago -
today is the 90s!"

Rush told her that economic concepts are timeless and that the
80s worked, but she still thought "it's so far away." Rush,
however, notes that the nation even now is looking back in
history to find simpler and easier times, so why not look back at
the 80s? Rush admits he envies Reagan's attitude, but confesses
that he is not so patient to wait for history to make its
judgement. He'll thus continue his crusade to get the truth out
about the 80s.

The second thing Rush noted in Reagan's letter was the paragraph
saying:

"I'm comforted to know that our country is in the capable hands
of gifted young individuals like you and your listeners. You are
the backbone of our great nation, solely responsible for the
success of our worldwide crusade. God bless you and your audience
for believing, for having faith in America's future and for
making a difference in this world."

In other words, Reagan clearly understands the important role
that Rush's audience plays in his show; this was always Reagan's
message - he never put the people down or attacked their
abilities or intelligence, but rather was convinced that if you
could only unshackle the people and give them the freedom they
need, ordinary people would and could become extraordinary
people.

Yet the current leadership of America thinks America is a country
full of stupid, lazy people who are incapable of living their
lives without the help of big government. Reagan, though, has
faith in the American people, in spite of how the left portrays
him as an evil ogre who would steal the last bean from a starving
homeless person.

Reagan's letter, though, illustrates the confidence and optimism
he has in the American people; his approach of exalting Americans
is in sharp contrast of those who think that Americans in
general, and listeners to talk radio in particular, are nothing
but a bunch of dolts and fools who don't know what's best for
them.

Reagan, though, has always had more in common with the average
American and more respect for them than anyone in Washington
today; the contrast between him and the current administration in
this stands out like a beacon. Rush thanks President Reagan for
his note.

*BREAK*

Items

o	The cat and mouse game between Bill Clinton and Saddam
Hussein has begun, just as Rush predicted, and it's all the more
worrisome given that Iraq and Russia might be firming up their
alliance, with perhaps North Korea jumping in for good measure.

o	The wives of the New York gubernatorial candidates have
jumped into the political fray, with Mathilda Cuomo doing her
best Rosalyn Carter impersonation. Rush recalls how Mrs. Carter
during the 1980 campaign remarked that her problem with Reagan
was that "he makes us comfortable with our prejudices," and now
Mrs. Cuomo is attacking Republican George Pataki, claiming that
his election will generate race riots.

Mathilda Cuomo is insisting that Pataki pits one group against
another, and her remarks just illustrate how desperate the
Democrats are becoming.

o	The Washington Post has another "why isn't President
Clinton getting any credit?" type of story. This one is titled
"Rising Tide Doesn't Lift Clinton," and the piece goes on about
how although the economy is recovering, "voters deny Clinton
credit on pocketbook issues."

This is the most arrogant claim - that the voters are denying
Clinton credit, as if he were entitled to the credit just because
he's the President. Rush can't recall the press even once writing
a story like this about Reagan and Bush; did the press ever ask
why Reagan or Bush didn't get the credit they deserved after
losing a congressional battle? However, the Post's story is the
just the latest in a two-week attempt to revive Clinton.

The press, of course, answers this question of why Clinton is not
getting any credit by assuming that the American people are
idiots who don't know what they want; for example, they assume
that the people don't realize that they should want more Haiti
operations, and it shows how out of touch the inside the Beltway
crowd is.

o	The governor of Virginia, George Allen, has signed a new
law forbidding parole for crimes such as murder, rape, and armed
robbery. Governor Allen has warned criminals that his state will
no longer tolerate such crimes.

o	The U.S. not only paid $1 million to get Cedras out of
Haiti, but is also paying $4,000 a month to rent each of his
three or four homes there. The U.S. also unfroze accounts
totalling $79 million which will be distributed to Cedras and his
supporters, according to the NY Times.

o	Two independent surveys, both conducted by teams of
women, have data that will "nuke" the foundations of modern
feminism, and Rush will talk more about this during the second
hour.

o	Moffett, OK, a town of 340 people, just received its
share of the Crime Bill money: $106,000. However, in order to
collect this money to hire new cops, the town will have to come
up with 25% in matching funds this year, even though its total
annual budget is less than $10,000.

Furthermore, Moffett city officials pointed out that they don't
even have a police department, much less a need for new officers.
They were surprised that they got this money, being one of the
first of 392 towns in America to get $200 million from the Crime
Bill to hire new cops. David Lindsay, one of Moffett's two city
counselors, noted that all his town really needs is a part-time
officer three nights a week on weekends; "a retired cop who will
work cheap, that's all we need," Lindsay noted.

Thus, $106,000 of federal funds is going to be given to a town
that doesn't even need it or want it, and which couldn't afford
to come up with its share of matching funds in any case. This is
what the federal government thinks is "saving money." And to top
it all off, when President Clinton announced these grants a
couple of days ago, he came up with the nonsequitor of the year
by remarking that "the genius of this may be that spending this
money will reduce the deficit."

o	Rush had a caller on hold who was going to talk about the
Eagles' new song, "Get Over It," but she is no longer on the
line. However, Rush has perused the lyrics of this song, which is
from the Eagles' new album "Hell Freezes Over."

The song is a protest against all the "victimization" going on in
America today, and Rush was stunned to hear it, given that he
just assumed the Eagles were big liberal types. However, this
song seems to belie that notion, and Rush plays some of it to
illustrate why:

<<Intro and Verse>>

"Turn on the tube and what do I see,
A whole lot of people crying `don't blame me!'
They point their crooked little fingers at everybody else,
Spend all of their time feeling sorry for themselves
A victim of this, a victim of that,
Momma's too thin and daddy's too fat!"

<<Chorus>>
"Get over it! Get over it!
Always whining, crying, and bitching a fit,
Get over it! Get over it!"

<<Bridge and Verse>>
"You say you haven't been the same since you had your little crash,
You might feel better if they gave you some cash.
The more I think about it, ol' Willy was right,
Let's kill all the lawyers, let's kill them tonight!
You don't want to work, you want to live like a king,
But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing!"

<<Chorus>>
"Get over it! Get over it!
If you don't want to play, then you might as well quit,
Get over it! Get over it!"

Rush is impressed by this change in pop culture against the
culture of American victimization. "Dare we say, we're winning?"
he asks, hoping that now that he's praised this song, the Eagles
don't recall all their new CDs to take this song off of it.

*BREAK*

Phone	Mark from Manassus, VA

Mark thinks Rush's TV shows this week have been among the
greatest ever, and Rush says tonight's will be a classic, too.
Mark, however, would like Rush to clear up something - he and his
wife have noticed a lapel pin that Rush has been wearing, and his
wife thinks it's a stork that maybe signals that a little Rushie
is on the way; Mark, though, thinks the pin is only a pelican.

Rush says Mark is right and sadly his wife is just engaging in
some wishful thinking. He notes that he loves pelicans, having
seen his first one in Florida only two years ago, and he's become
fascinated with them.

Marta, though, having grown up in Florida thinks these birds are
little better than pigeons, but Rush still loves them, thinking
of them as "wise, old men." Marta, being a loving wife, went out
and indulged Rush by having a special pelican pin made. He notes,
though, that if a little Limbaugh crumb-cruncher is ever on the
way, his audience will quickly know about it.

Phone	John from Havelock, NC

John says that on last night's ABC World News Tonight Peter
Jennings had a segment about what would happen if Republicans won
a majority in Congress this November, and Jennings was very
negative and pessimistic. Jennings predicted that about 47% of
the voters this November would vote Republican, with only 44% or
so voting Democratic, and he portrayed this situation as if it
would be the worst thing that could happen to America. Basically
Jennings portrayed Republicans as some sort of bogeymen.

Rush says he didn't see this program himself, but when he came
home late last night he was surprised to see that his wife was
nearly climbing the walls in outrage; this really surprised him
because his wife rarely gets bothered by what Rush thinks is news
bias. The two of them used to argue a lot about whether the media
was biased, but slowly Rush is winning her over. Even so, Marta's
reaction surprised him.

Rush doesn't think, though, that Mark is talking about Jennings
but rather John Cochran, whom Marta called "the Spock-looking
guy." Mark says both Cochran and Jennings were part of this
story, and Jennings was particularly blatant in his portrayal of
Republicans as the worst evil that could happen to the nation.

Rush notes that he was intrigued by Marta's description of this
story because she was beside herself in outrage, which was very
uncharacteristic for her. She told Rush that this blatantly
biased piece was not a news story but rather a `warning' to
Americans of what would happen should Republicans get elected.
For example, the piece predicted Jesse Helms would become a major
figure in the Senate, and that Republicans would block Clinton at
every point.

Mark says this was Jennings' final point - that if Republicans
win, it'd be back to gridlock, with Clinton not being able to do
anything. Mark thought it was clear that the whole point of this
piece was to scare Americans into voting Democratic, and Rush
says Marta had this impression, too.

Rush asked Nick "Crapshoot" Africano of his TV show to make a
copy of this tape, so he'll watch it later today, but curiously
Africano thought the piece was "middle of the road." Rush,
though, is going to trust his wife because it takes a lot of bias
to get her angry, and if she and Mark are correct, it's just
another example of how the liberal press is trying to resuscitate
Clinton and the Democrats.

Rush doubts that Marta is wrong about this, though, because her
instincts are usually right on, and she rarely gets as emotional
about such things as she did last night.

*BREAK*

Phone	Chuck from Jacksonville, MS

Chuck gives 99.9% dittos and says he would like Rush to clarify
his statements about American Indians, given that Rush has at
times called them savages and beasts. Rush says he's never called
Native Americans beasts, although he has used the word "savages."

His main point is that the Native Americans were not any better
than anyone else. He resents the mythology that is being created
that portrays them as a peaceful, perfect people, and that had
white Europeans not arrived on North America, this continent
would be a lot better off because the Indians were at one with
nature.

Rush has no personal animus against these groups of people, but
rather opposes those who are hard at work rewriting history to
portray them as perfect humans and everyone else as murdering
barbarians.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o	The paperback version of "See, I Told You So" is now
available nationwide, and Lo Bianco notes that he saw it in the
stores. Rush asks if Lo Bianco bought a copy, but he replies no,
given that he knows he can always score a free copy at EIB;
however, he did leaf through the book to read the new chapter.

o	Two teams of women have done surveys about what men and
women earn. One survey of Fortune 500 companies was done by
Loyola University of Chicago professor Linda Stroh and
Northwestern University profession Jeanne Brett. The other study
was done by Pace University professor Frieda Reitman and Rider
College professor Joy Schneer, who analyzed salaries of 231 men.

The two studies both basically found that men with children and
working wives earn less than fathers who have stay-at-home
spouses. Rush notes that some listeners will be stunned by these
results, but others won't. He reads from the AP news story:

"One study surveyed 348 married fathers in management at twenty
Fortune 500 companies, and found a wide gap between the salaries
of men with stay-at-home wives and those in two-income families.
The other study looked at the earnings of men who held master's
degrees in business and found a similar disparity.

"The researchers in business management speculated that the upper
ranks of corporate America favor men whose wives stay at home.
They also suggested that such wives actually further their
husbands' careers by relieving them of the demands of raising the
children and by entertaining and building social networks.

" `It is also possible that dual-earner husbands self-select into
jobs that are not quite so fast-paced, not quite so high-risk,'
said Brett. `They may not be on the fast-track.'

"That study did not rule out the possibility that wives of
higher-earning husbands are more likely stay at home because they
can afford to, Brett said. However, all the men in that study
earned so much it was doubtful their wives needed a job, she
said.

"With Loyola University Chicago Professor Linda Stroh, Brett
analyzed the salary progressions of mid-level managers from 1984
to 1989. They found that pay for fathers in two-income families
rose 59% in the five years. Salaries of fathers who provided all
their family's income climbed 70%.

"The other study, by Pace University Professor Frieda Reitman and
Rider College Professor Joy Schneer, analyzed salaries of 231 men
who received MBAs in the late 1970s. The average pay for fathers
in two-income families was $95,140 in 1993. Men who were the sole
provider made $124,510 on average. Both studies were presented at
the annual August meeting of the Academy of Management."

Rush notes that these studies show that men who are the sole
providers for their families might have be more highly motivated
in their careers, perhaps taking higher risks to climb the
corporate ladder and get higher-paying jobs. Also, this study
also found that wives who stay at home might further their
husbands' careers by relieving them of the duties at home, in
addition to entertaining and building social networks. This goes
straight to traditional family values.

One doesn't have to go back too far in America to a time when
this was the norm in many places, and Rush bets that when these
studies gets out, they will rock the foundations of the modern
feminist movement. These studies show that the most successful
households are those in which the man works, and the wife
furthers her husband's career, with everyone benefiting.

And it was female research teams that came up with this
information.

o	The National Rifle Association is buying $50,000 of
advertising time on three Spokane, WA television stations to
campaign against the re-election of House Speaker Tom Foley (D-
WA). The NRA has confirmed that these ads would be aired, but
wouldn't release any information about their contents.

The NRA previously has supported Foley, but when he signed the
Crime Bill and its Assault Weapons Ban, the NRA decided that
since Foley had abandoned them, they would abandon him. Foley's
response to this was "my responsibility is to my constituents,
not to an organization. I don't think people in this district
need outside groups coming in telling them how to vote."

Foley, of course, is the man who has sued his own constituents
because they dared to vote for term limits, which makes his
remark about his responsibility to his constituents a curious one
at best. The Democrats, by the way, have begun a national
television campaign to help their members win re-election, and
the campaign includes four TV commercials that attack the 80s and
the Republicans' Contract with America.

Some Democrats, though, don't want these ads to be aired in their
own districts because they don't want to run on national issues
or run against the 80s. In fact, Stanley Greenberg is telling
these Democrats that they should avoid mentioning national issues
or the Democratic party, running on local issues; Foley's
response is exactly such a move, trying to avoid any mention of
any national issues. However, his race is getting all the more
closer.

*BREAK*

Rush thinks the best NFL games of this week will be the Miami vs.
the Raiders, and the Forty-Niners vs. the Falcons; on prompting
from his staff, Rush agrees that Philadelphia vs. Dallas will be
THE "bone-crunching, smash mouth" game of the week. Sadly,
though, New York fans will miss this game because they will have
the "privilege" of watching the Anaheim Rams play the Giants.

Phone	Matt from Tallahassee, FL

Matt is 22 and gives "sorta, kinda dittos," and says he's so
happy to get on the show that he'll light up a Gloriana Cubana as
soon as he gets off the air. However, he's a born and bred
Republican who's starting to fall away from the party because
Republicans seem willing to stand up and shout about reducing
government, the federal budget, etc., but when it comes right
down to it, Republicans are no more willing to take concrete
action on this than the Democrats.

Republicans also prove that they are for the rich with their
Social Security policies. Rush says that the two authors of the
book "Revolution X" were on Equal Time last night, and they had a
lot to say about how Generation X'ers see demons in both parties,
especially with regard to Social Security. In particular, these
young people are looking at their future lives, fearing they are
going to be saddled with an incredible debt, and ever-increasing
taxes to pay for it and for those who don't work.

Matt agrees with this and adds that he's been looking at Social
Security for some time - the country is giving Social Security
payments to the rich who don't need it, but the moment anyone
talks about means testing this program, everyone runs away
screaming, and Republicans run away fastest of all. Rush says he
has to disagree with this opinion to some extent - his own
grandfather at 103 has been trying to give back his Social
Security payments for 40 years, without success.

However, even if means testing was applied so that everyone
making $75,000 a year or more, such as might be the case with
investments, was denied their Social Security benefits, it
wouldn't save much money. Thus, means testing, while a valuable
step, is not going to solve the problem. It's the same thing as
with taxing the rich - you can take all the money the rich make,
but it would still run the country for only a month. There are
other things which you must do, which Rush will explain after the
break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Matt from Tallahassee, TN (continued)

Matt says that the real problem with Social Security is that
people get penalized for working; they have to pay taxes on their
Social Security, just because they have to work at Burger King to
earn money to eat. Rush notes that the Clinton administration
just levied increased taxes on those who are making more than
$32,000 a year; this was part of the 1993 Clinton budget deal,
and every seasoned citizen knows this.

Matt says this might be, but there still is an unfair taxation of
earned income and unearned income. A grandmother working at
Burger King gets taxed on Social Security because she's earning
$5,000 a year, but one who's getting $300,000 a year from a trust
account isn't getting taxed on Social Security.

Rush notes that all income is earned, but Matt says that
investment income is unearned for the purposes of taxation. Rush
says that all income ends up being taxed, but Matt says he's not
talking about the taxes on income, but rather the taxes that get
levied on their Social Security.

Rush agrees that this is true, but there aren't that many people
earning $300,000 a year from their investment accounts; to
generate $50,000 of income a year, you'd need from $750,000 to $1
million in investments. The point is that changing the taxes on
such people isn't going to do much to solve the Social Security
problem.

Matt, though, thinks means testing on these people is a good
idea, and Rush agrees; however, the political reality is that
these people were sold a bill of goods in the 30s and 40s, told
that Social Security is theirs and that they've paid their share
into it. Matt, though, says that the average person gets back
what they paid into Social Security in only a matter of a couple
of years; they thus end up collecting Social Security for twenty
years or more, taking out far more than they put into it.

Rush agrees this is a problem, but they were still promised that
Social Security would be there for them. They have the
expectations that these promises will be kept. Matt says everyone
is continuing this lie by refusing to face up to the problems
that exist.

Matt adds that the CBO released figures showing that the deficit
was going down, that in 1992 it was $290 billion but in 1993 it
was about $200 billion. The projection for 1995 is for a deficit
of $162 billion. Rush says the deficit is coming down, but there
are some bookkeeping tricks being used to achieve this.

However, while the deficit is shrinking for the moment, last
year's deficit was still higher than the highest Reagan deficit
of $221 billion. And the deficits during the end of Reagan's term
were coming down, getting to about $150 billion, thanks to
economic growth. However, when Bush passed the 1990 budget deal,
tax revenues dropped and the deficits increased.

The Clinton administration, however, has gotten the deficit down
now in part because of how it's financing the national debt with
short-term bonds; since the historically low interest rates of
the past two years were not locked in for 30 years, the nation
will end up paying much higher debt servicing costs when it comes
time to roll over these short-term bonds. This will end up
pushing the deficit and debt way higher. In fact, the Clinton
administration projects a budget deficit of about $300 billion by
1997 or 1998.

Matt asks why the Republicans can't get their act together and do
something about this, explaining all this to the nation, showing
how the government is lying to the country. Rush says that the
administration is not really lying, but rather taking risks; they
gambled that interest rates would stay low, and they lost that
bet.

The country used to finance 75% of its debt-financing with 30
year bonds, but the administration changed that so that only half
is done with long bonds. The administration took this gamble so
it could lower the deficit in the short term, but the gamble
failed. And everyone will have to admit that it's clear that the
deficit has not been going down because the country is spending
less money.

The only way to stop the deficit and budget problems the nation
is facing is to lower spending; the American people aren't going
to stand for any more taxes. Matt, though, still thinks this is a
scam on the part of Washington.

Rush agrees that in a broad sense this is a scam, but had
interest rates stayed low, Clinton would have taken a gamble that
paid off. This didn't happen, so there will be some higher debt
financing costs in the future.

Matt asks what effect GATT and its lowering of tariffs will have
on all this; won't GATT mean the country will be receiving less
revenue from tariffs? Rush says this is an interesting question
because Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen did say the other day
that while tariff revenues will decline, this will be made up for
by more business and economic growth. Lower taxes create more
business activity, which expands both the economy and federal
coffers.

Matt, though, wishes Rush would come up with a firm stance on
GATT, given that he hears a lot of conflicting things about this.
He thinks free trade should be the goal, but doubts that the U.S.
lives in a world where true free trade is possible anymore. There
are countries that have lower wage costs than those in Mexico, so
how can the U.S. compete with them?

Rush says the U.S. can compete, just as it's competing now with
Mexico. Matt, though, says that the U.S. is losing a factory a
day to Central America. Rush says that even if this were true,
it's only half the story - you also have to find out how much
factory expansion is going on.

Matt says GATT scares him, especially because of the sovereignty
issues. Rush says that Judge Robert Bork doesn't think the World
Trade Organization is a problem, given that the U.S. can just
ignore its issues. Matt says if the U.S. can do this, then so can
everyone else, so why bother signing a worthless agreement?

Rush says that this same argument came up during the NAFTA
debate, and the basic answer was that if the U.S. constitution is
such that America can lose its sovereignty by signing a piece of
paper, then the nation is no longer worthy of surviving. Perhaps
the best way to examine this issue is to examine who's lined up
on what sides of it.

However, while Rush does like the idea of free trade, there are
still some things about GATT he doesn't like, so he's still
undecided by it. He thinks, however, that the U.S. will survive
any free trade because the U.S. lives in a global community and
it is the leader of that community.

As to Social Security, Rush would encourage Matt to plan for his
own retirement, given that his investments are bound to do far
better than anything Social Security can do.

*BREAK*

Rush had some time to kill last night, so he logged onto the
ISSUES forum where he found a thread in the Rush Limbaugh section
about how "Rush hung up on a conservative call." Rush found this
on-line conversation to be both the funniest and most frightening
thing he's ever read, because these guys taking part in it were
creating a huge conspiracy theory about how Rush was now part of
the Trilateralist Conspiracy, and everything tied into GATT,
Ernest Hollings, etc.

Rush wishes he could read this thread on the air, but while he
printed this thing out at home, he didn't bring a copy with him
to the studios. However, if his dear wife could fax the printouts
to her loving husband, he could share it with his listeners.

Marta calls Rush on EIB's supersecret phone line to tell him
"it's on the way!" Rush tells his staff to pick the fax up from
EIB's supersecret fax, and tells his responsive wife "I love you,
sweetie!"

*BREAK*

Phone	Jean from Logansport, IN

Jean wants to ask a favor - she tried to tape Rush's radio show
on Tuesday to get a copy of his monologue about what the American
people were angry about, but her tape broke. She thus would love
Rush to repeat this segment at some point.

Rush says he probably can squeeze that six or seven minutes of
tape onto the last hour of today's show. "What the hey!?" he
exclaims, asking his staff to find it.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Rush lives up to his pledge to replay the monologue he did at the
top of the third hour of Tuesday's show, given that EIB has
gotten a number of requests for it. He notes that he'll take a
break after this, and then get to the discussion on CompuServe
about he's part of the Trilateral Conspiracy.

<<excerpt begins>>

Today's Washington Post has a front-page story by Howard Kurtz
about the "bitter bromide TV ads" which are "serving mean cuisine
to voters fed up with government." One Republican consultant is
quoted as saying that voters want substance; instead of "soft and
fuzzy stuff" and "video cliches," they want the "meat."

The "objective" Kurtz, though, defines the "meat" as "rather
raw": being in favor of the death penalty, longer prison terms,
cutting off welfare benefits, against higher taxes, and cutting
congressional perks. Kurtz then goes on to say in this allegedly
unbiased story to say that issues don't matter as much as
"tapping into the electorate's rather surly mood."

Rush, however, disagrees - once again the dominant press misses
the whole point by being so out of touch with what the American
people want. The American people are motivated by the issues and
they're not surly because they're uninformed or mean; the people
of America are fed up and tired at how for the past 30 years
they've been told that compassion meant paying more in taxes,
with the money going to "wipe out" racism, poverty, and all other
social ills.

The working people are being blamed for every problem, in effect
being told that the problem in America is that the working people
aren't paying enough in taxes. This is what the working American
is sick and tired of hearing.

Despite 30 years of the War on Poverty and Great Social transfer
programs totalling more than $3 trillion, there are more people
in poverty than ever before. The American people are tired of
paying more in taxes, just as they're tired of being afraid to
leave their homes and worry whether their children, wives, and
other family members might be robbed, raped, or mugged.

These people are upset that criminals aren't serving full
sentences, and that the crimes being committed by these criminals
are being blamed on law-abiding citizens who own guns. These
citizens should be surly because they've been pummeled with all
this rot for the past 30 years.

The American people are tired of a condescending and arrogant
political class that considers the average American to be an
idiot that cannot be trusted to run his own life, and that
therefore more and more power must be ceded to government. The
American people simply are tired of hearing all this, even as
their members of Congress are able to exchange stamps for cash or
to write checks for money they don't have.

The working American is being blamed for everything going wrong
in the country, and when they try to correct the problems - such
as stopping illegal immigration - they are blamed for being cruel
and lacking in compassion. Americans are tired of hearing that
they are responsible for everyone else's illnesses because they
oppose the idea of universal coverage.

And those who have written all these laws have taken great pains
to exempt themselves from these laws. Meanwhile, those who want a
moment of silence in school or dare to suggest posting the Ten
Commandments in school are called kooks and a danger to
democracy. While these people are accused of violating the
principle of the separation of Church and State, they then have
to listen to Clinton give sermons at a Harlem church.

The American people are tired of hearing how they - who play by
the rules, obey the laws, and are only working to make sure their
kids have a decent future - are to blame for all the country's
problems. These people should be surly and are justified in doing
whatever they can to make sure that politics as normal don't
continue as normal.

Those in the press and in the dominant media had better learn
that the people think it's they who pose the greater threat to
this nation. These people are trying to save the institutions and
traditions that made America great, and they are acting on those
fears at the ballot box, by making phone calls, sending email
letters, and by faxing each other.

Only six years ago, the Washington pundits were worried about the
public apathy they saw, but now with the people getting more
active then ever, the Washington crowd is trying to shut these
"idiots" up. Yet these "idiots" won't shut up because they are
the country and they are the ones who make it work; they'll do
everything they can to fix this country and solve its problems,
regardless of what the DC Beltway crowd thinks about it.

<<excerpt ends>>

*BREAK*

Rush notes he normally ignores threads about him on CompuServe,
but he thinks it's hilarious how there are now those who think
he's a member of the "Trilateralist Conspiracy," standing
alongside David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and all those other
"one world government," Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) types.

He first confesses, though, that he went to many John Birch
Society meetings in 1975 and 1976 while living in Kansas City; he
was doing a talk show then and identified as a conservative, so
the Birchers invited him over. A young and naive Rush was taken
in for about six months, but then he started asking all sorts of
questions which they couldn't answer. When they accused William
F. Buckley of being a Communist, Rush realized how ridiculous
this was and said "I'm out of here."

Now, Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) is telling anyone who will
listen that Rush has been forced into supporting GATT because GE
has put pressure on him. Rush, though, hasn't taken any position
on GATT yet, nor does he have any associations with GE.

He was thus intrigued when while scoping out the ISSUES forum
last night on CompuServe, after an absence of about a couple of
months, he saw a thread titled "RL cutsOffConserv.Call." Rush
started reading it, and learned all sorts of interesting things.
For example, one poster wrote:

"Do you think Rush has ties with the CFR? What is your concern
with the CFR? Why did you think he might be tied with them?"

The answer came back:

"Do I think Rush has ties with the CFR? Good question! And why do
you think he might be tied with them? That's another good
question. Let me respond. Do I know for sure? No, I don't. Am I
suspicious? Yes, I am. Why? First, there is the fact that Rush
rose from being a nobody to being Mr. Talk Radio and he did it on
the back of Mr. Roger Ailes.

"Now the fact that Mr. Ailes happens to be a CFR public relations
asset is, in my estimation, meaningful, particularly when one
considers that this would be consistent with the sort of
operation that might be run. It has been reported that the CFR
used PR firms to continually profile the public. If this is true,
then the CFR will know what trends are surfacing before the
public is aware of them. If the CFR were to detect a trend
towards rising grass roots concern and to detect the emergence of
the talk radio phenomenon, it would be consistent for them to
want to control the agenda.

"Controlling the agenda is sort of a maxim, so the selection of a
talk radio guy, quick witted, with an eye out for his personal
interests, and not particularly dedicated to conservatism beyond
mere talking, to groom to national prominence would be beneficial
to their interests."

In other words, Rush notes, he is a member of the CFR conspiracy
because Roger Ailes is a PR guy for the Council on Foreign
Relations who back in the late 80s discovered that there was a
rising tide of grass roots conservatism. So they found a talk
show guy - Rush Limbaugh - and put him in New York, turning him
into "Mr. Talk Radio."

One of the things that "proves" this conspiracy is that Rush
refuses to take calls about the CFR, so he "obviously" must be
part of them. Rush wrote the guy back to tell him that it was
posts like this, which went on for three pages, which were why he
didn't talk paranoiac CFR calls. Rush also informed the guy that
he only met Ailes two years ago, and Ailes had nothing whatsoever
to do with the radio show which started six years ago.

Rush concluded his letter by saying he'd love to talk more about
it, "but David Rockefeller is on the phone, waiting to tell me
what to say about GATT. Got to go, see you next time."

Rush, though, doesn't think the CFR theorists will give up their
beliefs; if anything, they will claim that they must be getting
close to the truth because they forced Rush to go on the air to
discredit and ridicule them. This "obviously" proves that Rush is
a CFR lackey and that the conspiracy theorists are getting close.

Other "proof" of Rush's CFR ties is that he doesn't talk about
gun control enough. In addition, Rush's "stirrings" about health
care and the lobby reform bill - i.e. his conservative stance on
those bills - also prove he's only a fake conservative because
"if Rush doesn't exhibit at least some conservative tendencies,
what would happen to his credibility?"

This, by the way, is what the John Birchers said about William F.
Buckley - that the CFR had hired him to act like a conservative,
so as to throw the people off the scent and not realize he's a
Communist. "Buckley's pink on the inside," they told Rush 20
years ago, who replied "you guys are lunatics, I'm outta here!"

Evidently, they now think the same about Rush, which means "I've
made it, I've arrived! I'm major media!"

*BREAK*

Phone	John from Philadelphia, PA

John says he also thought the segment on ABC News last night
about the Republicans taking over could have been something the
Democratic National Committee would have done. John expects
normal media bias, but this went so far beyond the bounds of even
the media's decency as to be atrocious.

Rush says this has to be the case, given that his own wife
thought the same way; however, Nick Africano of Rush's TV show
thought it was "fair and balanced," so Rush will be very
interested in seeing a tape of the show later today. He notes
that a lot of people have told him what John has said - that this
segment was not news, but a scare piece designed to frighten
voters into voting Democrat.

John agrees and says this piece destroyed any credibility that
Jennings might have left. Rush recalls that on Nightline a couple
days ago, Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) and Leon Panetta were the
guests, and the setup for them was something along the lines of
"are Republicans conspiring to make you hate Congress so that you
will vote against Democrats?"

However, Congress is the only reason people are feeling negative
towards Congress, and John agrees. He adds that he suspects that
after the elections, sanctions against Iraq will be lifted; this
would be in character for Clinton.

Rush says something has to happen with the Gulf since the U.S.
has been sucked into another mess. Yesterday Clinton responded to
an initial retreat by Iraqi troops by saying "they have seen our
message," and he responded to the Iraqi moves by saying that only
7,000 Marines instead of 19,000 would be sent to the Gulf.
However, Iraqi troops then stopped their retreat and dug in about
100 miles from Kuwait; they even started hiding their tanks.

This is exactly what people feared would happen - Hussein would
make a minor conciliatory move and then start playing cat and
mouse with the U.S. Hobart Rohan pointed out earlier this week
that Clinton has three options, none of which are good: starting
a war to get Saddam, keep U.S. forces in the Gulf for 50 years,
or lift the sanctions.

Meanwhile, the Iraqis are forging closer relations with the
Russians, and the centerpiece of all this activity is oil - the
Iraqis have reserves that rival the Saudis' oil reserves, but
they need the equipment Russia can supply. Thus, there's an
alliance just waiting to be made there, and it'll be all about
oil.

Phone	Pat from Seattle, WA

Pat has been listening to Rush since 1988 when Rush "joined" NOW
and "really blew our minds out." Pat says that the Crime Bill is
supposed to put 27 new policemen on the street in Seattle, but
when a county commissioner was asked he'd pay for the new cops
when the federal subsidies stop in three years, he replied "don't
worry about that, we'll worry about it when the time comes." This
basically is the philosophy of the Democratic party.

Rush says in many cases, this is the truth - the Democrats write
a bill and then don't worry about the "details," such as funding,
instead saying "don't worry, we'll deal with that later." Pat
adds that he was in Kansas City recently, and the head of the
police department said he didn't want any Crime Bill money
because the city doesn't have the money to come up with its share
of the cost of the new police. He noted that if Kansas City had
any extra money for new cops, it'd be using them for new cops
right now.

Rush says many people are forgetting that the Crime Bill requires
matching funds, not to mention how the story of Moffett, OK shows
how foolishly some of this money is being spent. This city will
now have to come up with 25% of their share of $106,000 allocated
by the Crime Bill, but the town's whole budget is less than
$10,000.

Meanwhile the town just wants a part-time retired cop, yet
Clinton thinks his Crime Bill is a perfect example of his
"reinventing government" idea.

Phone	Bob from Columbus, OH

Bob recalls that Rush recently quoted Paul Westphall as saying
that making players going to class was devastating the basketball
team of his alma mater, USC. Rush says that the two of them were
watching the football game between Penn State and USC, and it was
35 to nothing at half time; Westphall then sighed and joked "you
know, ever since they started making those guys go to class, it's
just not the same."

Bob would reply, though, that the Penn State players show what
happens when you always go to class, which is the case with them.
Rush agrees and notes that the coach at Penn State is not only a
great coach but a great motivator with high standards.

*BREAK*

Phone	Keith from Sandusky, OH

Keith is glad that Rush replayed his monologue about why
Americans are fed up with Washington, but would ask Rush to
consider taking a more radically philosophical approach to the
problem of big government and the economy. Rush right now
stresses individualism when talking about economic and political
issues, but often when talking about social issues, he stresses
more conservative philosophies. Keith wonders if Rush sees any
conflict between the philosophies of individualism and
conservatism.

Rush says he doesn't think conservatism and rugged individualism
are exclusive, and Keith agrees, although he does think there is
a demarcation line when talking about religious issues. In
particular, Keith thinks Rush would be more effective in making
and encouraging political change by making a decision in favor of
either conservatism or individualism.

Rush says that individualism is not the sole requirement for a
successful nation, but some rugged individualism - risk-taking
and entrepreneurism - is crucial. Not everyone will be like this,
of course, but there do have to be leaders, and those leaders
have to be free to lead; in particular, they shouldn't be
punished when they do succeed.

Rush, though, doesn't see too much difference between
individualism and conservatism; it benefits everyone in a family,
for example, if one of their members succeeds and prospers.
Individualism is based on self-reliance, not waiting for
government to do something for them.

Keith agrees, but doesn't think this is compatible with
conservatism; he thinks modern religious issues tend to conflict
with individualism, and he thinks the founding fathers, although
religious people, were intent on avoiding religion as part of the
public debate and government policy.

Rush says he never advocates that religion become part of
government policy, but he also doesn't see any problems with
religious people serving in government. Keith agrees, but he
notes that Rush often advocates positions that would have
religion determining some part of government policies: school
prayer, the criminalizing of drugs and abortion, etc.

Rush says that an individualist would not support the
legalization of drugs because such a person is governed by
morality and law; being an individual doesn't mean you believe
you can do whatever you want as long as it "doesn't hurt" anyone
else. Rush is not for state-established prayer, but he would
encourage a moment of silence in schools. Furthermore, he doesn't
think the Ten Commandments - which aren't the Ten Suggestions, as
Ted Koppel once remarked - pose any danger should they be posted
in schools.

Rugged individualism, as far as Rush is concerned, implies a
sense of responsibility and self-reliance, not selfishness.

*BREAK*

Phone	John from Houston, TX

John commends Rush for putting out the Limbaugh Letter,
particularly the tribute he did in it to the WWII generation.
However, he does think Rush is being "too severe on poor Mr.
Maimone," who was only engaging in the true EIB spirit, thumbing
his nose at federal intrusion into private life, bringing along a
spirit of levity and humor. John says he loves Lo Bianco, but
thinks Rush is being too severe with poor Maimone.

Rush understands, but notes that rules are rules, and Maimone's
altering of a preproduced piece is no different than what might
have happened to his TV show in Pittsburgh: a female voice
overdubbing Rush's voice while he was speaking about Ronald
Reagan. Maimone took a furnished PSA from the National Mental
Health Association, added blood-curdling screams and shouts, plus
a number of other sound effects, such as the penny whistle which
Lo Bianco interjects even now as Rush is speaking.

Rush reminds Lo Bianco that he can suspend two broadcast
engineers at a time, but Lo Bianco pleads innocence, saying the
rest of the staff forced him to do it. Rush continues on to say
that the EIB Bylaws and Constitutions expressly forbids such
tampering. In fact, that particular clause was added after Bo
Snerdley took it upon himself to interject a subliminal message
while Rush was taking a 900 poll about some issue.

EIB no longer tolerates this kind of meddling, and Maimone will
have to endure his unpaid suspension until Tuesday. Rush and EIB
have spoken.

