Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Wednesday, October 19, 1994

by John Switzer

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October 19, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Kathleen Brown claims she can be tough
on crime because her daughter was once raped and her son mugged;
AIDS patients can be considered employees of insurance companies,
so they can sue to prevent insurers from capping AIDS-related
benefits; words to EIB's PSA to stop friends from voting
Democratic; Clinton budget cuts are hurting hungry people,
according to Second Harvest, a national foodbank network; EIB
staffer impresses her daughter's teachers by revealing she works
for EIB; NYC NOW chapter asks members to boycott NY Times because
Rush is doing TV ads for them; Rush, deciding to take advantage
of how the left boycotts whatever he supports, endorses Mario
Cuomo for New York's governor; Rush presents his version of
Gorbachev's Ten Commandments for the environment; Rush and caller
discuss how to determine whether you're conservative or liberal;
caller changed from being Democrat to Republican during Reagan's
first term; Roger Ailes suggests that Clinton is getting credit
for the recovering economy - if the economy was not good as it
is, Clinton would be even lower in the polls; Senator Jim Sasser
(D-TN) is telling his state's voters that he has "earned the
opportunity to be Majority Leader in the United States Senate";
Leon Panetta claims the White House is deluged with request for
Clinton to appear with Democrats running for re-election; play in
San Francisco is titled "Rush Limbaugh in Night School," and
mocks the Rush; Wall Street Journal quotes Reagan's inaugural
address, showing what a true conservative is; Arnold
Schwarzenegger is denying he ever campaigned for Ted Kennedy; a
NYC newsdealer, along with a superintendent, capture a punk who
stabbed and robbed an ATM patron; Pentagon is sending Combat
Stress Team to find out why there seem to be so many suicides
among U.S. troops there; Gallup poll finds that charitable giving
in the U.S. has declined by 25% since 1989; character issues have
something to do with why Clinton is not getting any credit for
the recovering economy, but more importantly people simply aren't
confident about the future; 73% of those polled are worried about
not having enough money in the future; Ted Kennedy is blaming
Rush and talk radio for his re-election problems; caller says he
appreciates just how good a role model Rush is for his children;
Rush reveals his favorite cigar cutter and lists his favorite
cigars; cigars are not cigarettes, as Rush's local nicotine
addict, H.R. "Kit" Carson, regularly proves; NY Times does
feature story on celebrities who smoke cigars; Columbus improved
the cigar - he didn't steal it from the Indians, as is proven by
the fact that nobody smokes tobacco in corn stalks anymore; owner
of a fast food restaurant finds it hard to find any help, much
less good help; Wall Street Journal features editorial about how
politicians are blaming the voters for Congress's problems;
caller is disappointed by Jack Kemp's opposition to California's
Proposition 187; caller gives definition of "Al-Gorithm"; Tom
Foley (D-WA) is 11 points behind his Republican challenger; Foley
tells voters that if he's re-elected, he'll make sure Congress
lives under the same laws they pass for everyone else; Rush reads
part of the statement released by Jack Kemp and William Bennett
about why they oppose Proposition 187; Jeb Bush scores some
points in debate against Lawton Chiles, who got a bit testy and
who repeatedly attacked Bush's financial dealings; Florida press
has been ruthless in examining Jeb Bush's financial dealings;
Governor Ann Richards calls George W. Bush a "jerk" for
criticizing her record; 1982 Supreme Court ruling forces public
schools to admit all children, even those of illegal aliens;
caller is not impressed with Bennett's and Kemp's statement
against Proposition 187; Proposition 187 is leading in the
California polls by two to one; Isn't it proper for those who
disagree about how benefits are being given to illegal aliens to
force this issue in the courts?; immigration is an issue that
will never go away; U.S. signs agreement with North Korea that
puts off international inspections of its nuclear facilities for
five years; Morton Halperin wants to create a new bureaucracy for
the goal of creating world democracy; caller agrees that it's
hard to find good workers who can think for themselves with any
initiative; government is afraid of independent, self-sufficient
people because such people aren't dependent on government and
thus can't be controlled; caller doesn't like how Rush promotes
cigar smoking by talking about it on the air; charitable
contributions are definitely not down, assuming you use Clinton's
definition of "contributions" as taxes; Congress authorizes a
Secretary of Gender Equity; since Hillary Clinton and her friends
in the CDF think white males deserve only 35% of power in
America, shouldn't Rush take only 35% of his callers from white
males?; current economic recovery is really the Bush recovery, so
if Bush didn't get any credit for it, why should Clinton?

LIMBAUGH WATCH

October 19, 1994 - It's now day 638 (day 657 for the rich and the
dead, and 20 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 824 days left) and 701
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	Democrat Kathleen Brown, who's challenging Governor Pete
Wilson (R-CA), insisted during last Friday's gubernatorial
debates that she could be tough on crime because he son was once
mugged and her daughter raped. During the debate, Brown told
Wilson the following:

"What I resent most of all is you questioning my commitment to be
tough on crime. You cannot imagine what it's like to be a mother,
waiting at home late at night for your kids to come home -
waiting for your daughter to come home in the evening, and having
her come home, and comfort her because she's been raped."

After the debate, Brown told reporters that her son had been
mugged when the family lived in New York in the late 80s, while
her daughter Sascha Rice, 25, was raped during a date. Rice was
unavailable for comment, but Brown's eldest daughter, Hillary
Armstrong remarked that she was surprised by her mother's comment
as her sister "wants to keep it private" because "she's been
through enough."

o	A federal appeals court ruled Monday that people with
disabilities can, in some cases, be considered employees of
health insurers, so they are protected against discrimination
under the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). According
to the court, insurers could be considered someone's "employer"
if they "exercised significant control over an important aspect
of his employment"; in this case, "significant control" was
defined as an insurer or provider acting on behalf of an employer
to control and limit health care costs.

The ruling came in a case originally brought when AIDS patient
Ronald Senter sued his health insurance provider for capping his
benefits for AIDS-related treatment; normally, employees would
sue their employer, but since Senter owned his own business, he
sued the insurer. Although the ADA made a distinction between
insurance companies and employers, allowing insurers to cap
benefits, the court's ruling allows Senter's suit, taken over by
his mother after his death, to continue.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday,
October 21, 1992:

o	A poll in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette showed that Senator
Arlen Specter (R-PA) was leading Lynn Yeakel by 10 points; a new
adjective was coined for how Specter had come out on the
offensive against Yeakel - he "Anita Hilled her," meaning that
Specter was "mean" to the woman.

o	Perot's number two man, Orson Swindle, said that a vote
for Clinton would be a disaster for the country, and that
President Bush would therefore be a better second choice to
Perot. Perot, however, called this comment by Swindle a "serious
mistake" and said it was "just a personal opinion" on Swindle's
part that did not represent the "organization."

o	Hazel from Brooklyn explained the difference between the
accusations made against Senator Inouye (D-HI) and those against
Clarence Thomas: feminists were "very classist." Anita Hill was a
lawyer who went to Yale, so she met with the feminists' approval.
The hairdresser attacking Inouye, though, was viewed with disdain
by the feminists who figured "she's not like me." Had Clarence
Thomas been accused of harassment by a toilet scrubber, feminists
would never have risen to her defense.

o	Stan Baron of Indiana wrote Rush that all would not be
lost if Clinton were elected, and he predicted the following news
events in such a situation:

January 20th, 1993 - James Carville attended last night's
inauguration alone; his normal companion Mary Matalin was rumored
to be in New York City last night, seeking solace from a noted
radio talk show host.

November 9, 1994 - The stunning upset of Senator Kennedy
yesterday, which gave Republicans control of the US Senate, was
attributed by party officials to the nationally best-selling
"See, I Told You So" by Rush and Mary Limbaugh, according to GOP
Chairman Bill Bennett.

September 9, 1995 - NBC announced today that it was scrapping its
entire fall lineup, and that the Tonight Show, starring Rush
Limbaugh, would be extended to three hours, and broadcast 8 to 11
p.m., Monday through Friday.

November 6, 1996 - President Clinton conceded defeat last night
as the Kemp/Limbaugh ticket carried all 50 states and the
People's Republic of New Columbia.

o	EIB had a new public service announcement:

<<Announcer>> You've heard the excuses before . . .

<<Inebriated man>> But honest, it was only a couple!

<<Announcer>> The self-deception . . .

<<Inebriated Man>> One more couldn't possibly hurt!

<<Announcer>> The self-denial . . .

<<Inebriated Man>> Hey, I'm in control! I could stop any time I
wanted.

<<Announcer>> But the results are always the same. Once the
initial euphoria dies, the trip is a descending spiral that
slowly steals away your family, your friends, your job, your
savings, your life. Be concerned! Friends don't let friends vote
Democratic. A public service message from the Excellence in
Broadcasting Network.

<<Inebriated Man>> Hey! Which way to the voting booth?

o	The NY Times' lead editorial quoted Clinton from Monday
night's debate: "I will not raise taxes on the middle class to
pay for my programs." The Times pointed out that Clinton made his
no tax pledge not just once, but four times. "This was no mere
slip of the tongue," said the Times which was mad at Clinton for
making this promise; the paper complained that for Clinton to
rule out tax hikes was "to risk diving into the same policy
straitjacket that has paralyzed Mr. Bush."

o	Rush was impressed by how the Marine Corps Commandant
called the Toronto Blue Jays to apologize for his Marines' flying
the Canadian flag upside down during the second game of the World
Series. The Commandant asked the Blue Jays to allow the Marines
to carry the Canadian colors again during the third game, and
this turned out to be a very classy and moving way to rectify the
error.

o	Madonna's book of erotica hit the bookstores, and the
reviews were scathing, except for NY gossip columnist Liz Smith.
The Washington Post reviewer said the price of the book, plus
tax, came to about $65, "which is about the price of a cheap
trick on Times Square." USA Today also panned the book.

o	USA Today reported "good economic news signals stronger
recovery." Housing starts rose for the second month in a row in
August; personal computer sales were exploding with Apple,
Compaq, and IBM posting huge sales gains. The demand for
semiconductor chips was way up, and Motorola and Intel were
reporting record revenue. Retailers were also reporting better
than expected sales in September, and the Salomon Brothers index
showed a 7.5% average revenue jump.

All of this showed that the US economy for moving again, but
Clinton and Gore were saying that anyone who was positive and
optimistic was out of touch and "sad," as if these people were to
be pitied along with Alzheimer's victims.

Allen Reynolds' column, in fact, stated the following:

"Bill Clinton has been chided for his slippery lack of
truthfulness when it comes to the draft, but a much more
pervasive disregard for the truth is on display almost every time
he opens his mouth to talk about the economy. Let's take the
debates. In the first debate, Clinton said we're suffering `the
first decline in industrial production ever.'

"What? This country has never before had a recession, Governor?
There's nothing wrong with making a mistake in the heat of the
debate, though. We might have expected some impolite person
somewhere to ask the Governor what he meant to say, though,
instead of saying that. Instead the anchor on one network noted
that Mr. Clinton had displayed his `mastery of the facts.'"

Reynolds pointed out that industrial production, contrary to
Perot's repeated claims, had risen by 2.1% since May, 1991.
Manufacturing alone had risen 2.8% in America, while industrial
production had fallen 2.5% in Germany and 7.6% in Japan.

If it weren't for the US defense cutbacks, America would have had
2.3% growth in the past 5 quarters, instead of the actual 1.6%
growth. Reynolds therefore asked how Clinton's further cutbacks
of defense could help out in this situation.

In their debates Clinton and Gore continually asserted that the
economy was either the worst since the Great Depression or the
worst in the past 50 years, but Reynolds disagreed, noting the
"stagflationary mess" of the 1973/75 and 1980/82 recessions. In
1973-75, the GDP fell by 4.3% and unemployment was 9%. In 1980-
82, the GDP fell by 2.8% and unemployment hit 10.8%. Inflation
was high and interest rates were well above 10% in both
recessions.

In the 1990-1991 recession, however, real output fell only by
2.2%, unemployment peaked at 7.8%, and inflation and interest
rates have been quite low. Reynolds' final paragraph stated the
following:

"In the rush to change, everything seems to be a crisis. To
define a health care crisis, Senator Gore claims that 40 million
Americans who work full-time do not have health insurance. Wrong!
The latest Monthly Labor Review shows 83% of all full-time
workers have employer-financed medical care coverage. The
remaining 17% don't even add up to 15 million people. But, the
17% figure is also misleading, because millions of full-time
workers are self-employed workers, and are often affluent, so it
makes no sense to even ask them if they have an employer-financed
medical plan."

o	House bill HR4848, the Long Term Care Family Security Act
of 1992, contained a provision that would allow the US government
to tax at the time of someone's death their personal property in
excess of $200,000; this was a third of the current $600,000
limit. Also, tax rates would be raised to between 33% and 55%.
This bill was being held up, though, until after the election so
that Congress could be certain of having a President who would
sign it.

o	Judy from Williamsburg, PA saw Reed Irvine on Geraldo
tell the story about how Clinton bumped a black woman from an
Arkansas state job so that he could give the job to Gennifer
Flowers. Geraldo, though, cut Irvine right off and didn't let him
tell the story, which was exactly what the media is doing
nationwide.

Rush noted that Irvine was on Nightline and asked this question
of Rune Arledge, who replied that this stuff was old news and not
worth reporting.

o	The NAACP called for "greater efforts to deal with
black-on-black crime," citing statistics that showed 94% of all
African-Americans killed by violence were killed by other
African-Americans. "Blaming these tragic figures on racism alone
is not enough," according to the NAACP.

o	NOW President Patricia Ireland stated that there was a
simple way for men to determine if their actions constituted
sexual harassment: all they had to do was ask themselves if their
mother, wife, or daughter would be embarrassed to see their
behavior. If the answer is yes, then the man's actions were
sexual harassment.

Rush, however, pointed out that many men would be embarrassed to
have their mothers watch them make love to their wives, but is
this sexual harassment? What if some sleazy and irresponsible guy
wasn't embarrassed by anything; should he be allowed to do
anything he wanted?

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MORNING UPDATE

According to the Census Bureau, poverty in America has increased,
with the number of poor people rising, which makes Rush ask how
this can be - weren't Clinton's tax increases on the wealthy
supposed to fix this problem and disparity in income? Yet there's
more bad news - Second Harvest, a network of foodbanks in the
nation, is reporting that the administration's $25 million budget
cuts from the Emergency Food Assistance program are having a
major impact on the nation's hungry.

According to Second Harvest, food pantries, soup kitchens, and
foodbanks are cutting back their hours, and might even be forced
to close because of these cuts. People are going hungry as a
result, the group claims, with senior citizens and those in
public housing being hit the hardest.

Yet Rush doesn't see any front page stories about the cruelties
of these budget cuts, nor does he see any protests at the White
House or hunger marches on Washington. Where have all the
compassionate journalists and protestors gone? Don't they care
anymore?

And it's also being reported that charitable contributions are
down, in sharp contrast to how during the 80s, charitable
contributions skyrocketed to new heights. The bottom line is that
the Clinton 90s, when compassionate liberals finally got even
with the dirty rich, have hurt the poor. Somehow, Rush notes in
his best Algore impersonation, "everything that should be down is
up, and everything that should be up is down."

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	Rush's new secretary, "Mrs. Wiggins 2," tells Rush that
she was at her daughter's school yesterday for a teachers
evaluation, and when the teachers found out whom she worked for,
everyone wanted to not only shake her hand but to get her
autograph, as well as to ask her to get Rush to sign things for
her. Rush is impressed that the teachers were willing to show
their support for him openly.

o	Rush will not be at EIB tomorrow or Friday because he's
taking a mini-vacation to Paris. Tomorrow's show will have as its
guest host Mary Matalin and Friday's guest host will be Tony
Snow. Both will broadcasting from Washington, which means Bo
Snerdley of the dreaded "Limbaugh staff" will be invading the
nation's capitol.

o	Rush recalls how he joked a couple of weeks ago that
since he was doing TV ads for the NY Times, the National
Organization for Women would start boycotting him, just as they
did Florida Orange Juice. Rush was only joking, but even so he's
turned out to be right because the New York chapter of NOW has
announced that they are going to boycott the NY Times.

A gossip columnist in the NY Daily News is announcing that the
New York chapter of NOW is "targeting" the NY Times because
they're using Rush in one of their ads. A spokeswoman for the
Times, however, noted that Rush was chosen to show that the paper
features a variety of columnists and viewpoints; for example,
Jesse Jackson will be doing an upcoming ad.

Diane Welch, NYC chapter president, however, was not mollified,
saying she was still going to "urge our members to exercise
choice and not buy the Times while Limbaugh is being used." Thus,
it will be interesting to see if the Times will cave in to
feminist pressure.

Fortunately, NY Times columnist Anna Quindlen has already
announced her intention to leave the Times to go write books;
otherwise, she'd be forced with the terrible choice of whether to
boycott her own paper. Rush, however, thinks that if the Times is
wise, they'll delay putting on the Jackson ads and keep on using
him, guaranteeing that sales of their paper will skyrocket, as
did sales of Florida orange juice when NOW tried to boycott that,
too.

o	Rush, though, has not been unaware that his endorsement
of products has created, in many instances, boycotts of those
products. Given this awesome power that he has, Rush has been
thinking of how to best use it; what can he advertise next, so as
to do what's best for the nation and its people?

Rush has found a way, so he's going to do a commercial for Mario
Cuomo. As the music of Frank Sinatra singing "New York, New York"
plays in the background, Rush says the following:

"Mario Cuomo, he was the first to praise `flim-flam' Florio for
raising taxes in New Jersey! Mario Cuomo, his solution for the
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was `ah, what the hell, give `em a
couple of islands!' Mario Cuomo, he came up with community
ratings for health care, and even the Democrats in Congress
called it `a disaster.'

"Mario Cuomo, he brought in the nutty professor Leonard Jeffries,
with his sun people/ice people theory to set up multiculturalism
in New York's schools. Mario Cuomo, he sent his wife Mathilda out
on the campaign trail to suggest that race riots would plague New
York if his opponent, George Pataki, actually won.

"Mario Cuomo, he punished the rich by driving New York's bond
rating to the second worst in the country. Mario Cuomo, who has
called George Pataki, his Republican opponent, `a puppet.' Is
this a moral leader or a desperate politician? Is this a healer
or a divider? Is Mario Cuomo a man who respects all Americans
regardless of race, religion, and political affiliations, or
mocks some as puppets?

"Mario Cuomo, vote Cuomo, he's liberal and proud of it! Vote
Cuomo, Limbaugh endorses Cuomo! Limbaugh says vote Cuomo, he's
liberal and proud of it!"

*BREAK*

Rush just heard the news that Roseanne is marrying her bodyguard;
they reportedly are registered at Ben and Jerry's.

Update	Gorbasm	("Theme from the Empire Strikes Back")

Gorbachev is back; yesterday Rush did an update about his talk at
the Environmental Media Awards, where he called for an
Environmental Ten Commandments. As Rush has said for years, the
militant environmental movement is the new home for world
socialism, where socialists are gathering, awaiting a new chance
for their resurgence towards power.

Gorbachev is proving this point for Rush, but sadly Rush didn't
have Gorbachev's Ten Commandments with him yesterday to hammer
this point home. However, after a day of exhaustive study, Rush
has found what they might be.

I.      Thou Shalt Not Prosper.

II.     Thou Shalt Not Have More Than Thy Neighbor.

III.    Thy Shalt Enjoy Standing in Line.

IV.     Thou Shalt Drink a Lot of Vodka To Make the Time Pass
Quickly.

V.      Thou Shalt Not Believe in God.

VI.     Thou Shalt Respect Thy Parents, Bill and Hillary.

VII.    Thou Shalt Not Own Property.

VIII.   Thou Shalt Hate the 80s.

IX.     Thou Shalt Not Harm Anything on the Earth That Can Feel
Pain, Except a Human in the Womb.

X.      Thou Shalt Not Ever Cut Down a Tree, Unless It's to Build
a Mansion for a Liberal Democrat.

In honor of the last commandment, Rush plays his Timber Update
theme ("Lumberjack" by Jackyl).

Phone	Shaun from Wichita, KS

Shaun gives "househusband dittos"; he just left the military and
is a non-traditional, 28-year-old student doing a sociology paper
at a small community college. He thinks most people don't know
whether they're liberals or conservatives, and he himself isn't
sure what he is.

Rush says he thinks most people who are liberals really aren't;
if you go out and ask people what they think about things,
without bringing up the labels, they'll explain they believe in
self-reliance, healthy values in the home, etc. However, these
people refuse to define themselves as conservatives because they
assume all conservatives are bigoted and racist, not to mention
that liberals are supposed to be the only ones who have
compassion.

Therefore, instead of saying that most people don't know whether
they're conservative or liberal, Rush would say that most
liberals are really conservatives but are afraid to call
themselves that because of the stereotypical attacks made against
conservatives, or perhaps they aren't sure what a conservative
is. Rush holds Shaun over the break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Shaun from Wichita, KS (continued)

Shaun says Rush is on the same wavelength he is, as he's trying
to compile different statements and hand them out to the class,
asking his classmates to identify those statements as liberal,
conservative, etc. After this, he's then going to tell people "if
you think this, this is what you are."

Rush thinks Shaun will find a lot of his classmates will be
stunned by being shown what they really are, and Shaun agrees, so
he'd love to get some statements from Rush he could use for this
purpose. Rush gives a few:

"What has made America great is what government has done for
people."

"What has made America great is its freedom, which has allowed
people to do for themselves."

Anyone who thinks government is what makes government great is
leaning heavily towards liberalism, while those who believe in
freedom and individualism are conservatives. Another question
would be:

"Does money in America belong to Washington or to those who work
for it?"

This is an interesting question because the Washington Post last
week stated that Washington "doesn't have the money to give the
middle class a tax cut." This implies that Washington owns all
the money and that what people have is due only to the
government's good graces. Rush, of course, would reply to this
arrogant assumption "Washington, it ain't your money."

Shaun says "higher taxes or lower taxes" was something he was
thinking about, as well as "social programs" and "civil rights."
Rush says Shaun will have to give more specifics about these
issues than this in order to find people's true beliefs. Other
questions would be:

"Do you think people should be allowed to keep more of what they
earn, or should they turn more of what they earn over to
government?"

"Is compassion measured by the number of people who receive
government benefits or by the number of those who no longer need
such help because they've been taught to be self-reliant?"

Rush asks when Shaun has to finish this paper, and he says he has
to do his presentation on November 1st. Rush would like to know
the results, so he puts Shaun on hold so EIB can call him back
next month to find out how his survey turns out. He thanks Shaun
for calling.

Phone	Jim from Springdale, AK

Jim says nobody should complain about Bo because he was great
while screening Jim's call; he laughed "every time he's picked up
the phone." Jim notes that he voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976, but
now looks back on those days in shame. He recalls that he was in
the construction business back then, suffering from lots of lay-
offs and lack of work.

However, he became a Republican after Reagan's first term in
office because he saw the economy improve markedly. A lot of his
friends are now turning to the Republican side because of three
people: Hillary Clinton, Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, and
Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich. People are scared of what
they're losing, which is why Arkansas might get its first
Republican governor in years this year.

Rush notes that this topic is perplexing the "finest minds in
journalism" - they can't understand why Clinton isn't getting
credit for the economy. However, Rush's friend Roger Ailes told
Rush recently that Clinton is getting credit for the economy and
the accompanying 10 to 15% bump in the polls; if the economy
weren't doing so well, his approval rating would be down around
25% instead of the 38 to 42% it is now.

Rush has to agree with that because other Democrats are
suffering, too. Senator Jim Sasser (D-TN), for example, is nearly
pleading with his state's voters, claiming that he has "earned
the opportunity to be Majority Leader in the United States
Senate."

Yet this is the exact opposite of what he should be saying - in
fact, except for this statement, Sasser is avoiding mentioning
Washington at all. He's also avoiding any mention of Clinton and
of how he helped the President get his economic plan, plus he's
avoiding mentioning that he's a Democrat. In fact, Sasser is now
even stating that he stood up to Bill Clinton.

Thus Rush would have to agree with Ailes that Clinton is getting
the credit for the economy and corresponding bump in the polls,
and he thanks Jim for calling.

*BREAK*

Leon Panetta has said that the White House has been overwhelmed
with requests from Democrats wanting Clinton to campaign for
them, but it appears that the "next Clinton campaign" swing will
feature its first stop at Cairo. Then he'll go to Damascus,
followed by Tel Aviv, on a "foreign policy campaign trail."
Undoubtedly, this will disappoint all those Democrats who were
counting on the President to "help" them out this year.

Phone	Michael from San Francisco, CA

Michael says that a play mocking Rush has just opened in San
Francisco; the play is titled "Rush Limbaugh in Night School,"
and the review of it in the local paper starts off by saying:

"On the face of it, taking on Rush Limbaugh in a town like Rush
Limbaugh should be a piece of cake. It's not that Limbaugh is
easy to lampoon - he's almost impervious to exaggeration, but a
collection of his own `know-nothingisms' would be enough to have
any reasonably sophisticated audience rolling in the aisles, when
not gasping in horrified disbelief."

Rush thinks this is great, and Michael promises to send Rush the
review. Evidently the play features "Rush" playing Othello, while
"Cokie Roberts" plays Desdemona and "Garrison Keillor" plays
Iago. Rush is impressed, and notes that his radio show does very
well in San Francisco, always ending up in the top three radio
shows in the city. It is not surprising, therefore, that they are
doing a play about him and not "Sister Boom-Boom."

Rush thanks Michael for calling, and begs him to not just send
him the review, but also to sneak in a video camera into the
theater so as to get a pirate videotape of the play.

Phone	Scott from Pittsburgh, PA

Scott says that Rep. John Kasich (R-MI) wrote an article for
yesterday's Wall Street Journal, and the pull quote was of a
quote from Ronald Reagan's inaugural address. If anyone agrees
with this quote, they have to be a conservative; Scott adds that
his wife thinks Rush is overbearing, but Scott doesn't care
because he agrees with what Rush believes, plus Rush is
entertaining, not overbearing.

Scott adds that he's also a cigar aficionado, and thus attends
the "cigar camps" that a local store, Bloom's Cigar, offers each
Saturday morning. It's a great time, and Rush's name comes up
frequently at these meetings. Scott suggests that should Rush
come in town for a Steelers game, he make a trip to Bloom's. Rush
likes that idea and thanks Scott for calling.

*BREAK*

This morning Rush received a call from an associate of Arnold
Schwarzenegger, claiming the media reports about how
Schwarzenegger campaigned for Ted Kennedy were untrue. Rush thus
called Schwarzenegger's office in California, and they also
denied that the actor ever appeared with his wife, Maria Shriver,
on behalf of Ted Kennedy. In fact, the only politician that
Schwarzenegger has publicly supported in this campaign has been
Governor Pete Wilson of California, so Rush wants to get the
record straight, given that this was mentioned on his show when
it occurred.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Items

o	Rush again repeats that he'll be away for the rest of the
week, and notes that Mary Matalin will have on as guests Newt
Gingrich, Dick Armey, and Phil Gramm. Bo Snerdley interjects that
William Kristol will also be on the show, and Rush wonders why Bo
didn't tell him about this beforehand. Bo explains he forgot and
can only hope his ruthless boss doesn't suspend him for this
memory lapse.

Rush pledges he won't take such action and adds that Tony Snow
will conduct a traditional Open Line Friday on Friday's show.

o	At six-thirty in the morning yesterday, Richard Stagner,
owner of a newsstand on the East Side of New York at 60th and
Lexington, noticed a man loitering nearby and feared the guy was
casing the joint to rob it. A minute later, the superintendent of
a neighboring building, Scott Robison, showed up to pick up a
newspaper.

Stagner asked Robison if he'd mind hanging around for a few
minutes to help keep an eye on the loiterer, and Robison agreed.
Sure enough, the loiterer turned out to be a robber, but he was
only interested in robbing the next customer of the nearby ATM
machine.

When Stagner and Robison saw the punk stab someone and push the
victim out of the ATM kiosk, they ran over and barricaded the guy
inside until the cops arrived to arrest him. Rush thinks these
men should be applauded and praised for not only seeing the
potential problem, but taking action to apprehend the criminal.
Perhaps the Crime Bill should be rewritten to put 50,000 news
dealers and 50,000 apartment superintendents on the streets to
deter crime.

o	Rush notes that he pronounces the word "figures" as
"fig-ers" because this is how America's "most intelligent
newsman" (or so ABC billboard's say) Peter Jennings pronounces
the word. Jennings must know, so Rush would be a fool to ignore
his example.

Rush muses on the outcry that would result if he promoted himself
as "the world's most intelligent talk show host." The EIB staff
point out that EIB has already done this, and the ads resulted in
howls of complaints about Rush's "arrogance" and "egotism."

Rush thanks his staff for reminding him of that, and starts to
talk about the "fig-ers" on charitable contributions that just
came out, but gets distracted by a news story about how the
Pentagon is sending in a psychiatric team to Haiti after three
suicides among U.S. troops there. The "Combat Stress Action Team"
hopefully can discover why some of the troops in Haiti are
killing themselves. Rush, though, didn't think there had been any
combat in Haiti, so perhaps the DC park police could be sent
instead to find out the truth about these suicides.

Finally getting back to the figures, Rush explains that he's
talking about the figures from the recent Gallup poll about how
charitable giving has declined in the U.S. Charitable giving, of
course, was at or near record highs during the 80s, but it
dropped 19% from 1989 to 1991, dropping 6% more last year. The
average amount given, adjusted for inflation, slid from $855 per
family in 1989 to $646 last year.

Many people are wondering how this can be, given that big-
hearted, compassionate liberals are now in charge, and that the
decade of greed and selfishness is over. Rush would posit,
however, this has something to do with why Clinton is getting
much credit from the current recovering economy.

Of course, there are the character issues, such as how Clinton is
the first President to be sued for sexual harassment in office,
not to mention asking the public to pay his legal fees. His wife
scored big on a cattle futures deal that commodities experts
still can't explain, and the Whitewater affair is still
continuing; plus, there's the fact that Hillary denied at first
any knowledge of files taken from Vince Foster's office, but then
later admitted that she personally instructed her chief of staff
Maggie Williams to move those files to the White House residence.

There are a lot of reasons why the American people are
uncomfortable about the Clintons and mistrust them, but there are
other reasons as well, which are tied to the drop in charitable
contributions. The Gallup poll that discovered the drop in
contributions first asked if people were worried about not having
enough money in the future, and the number of those answering yes
is 73%, up from 57% in 1988.

Charity officials point to this question as explaining the drop
in contributions, but this also explains why people aren't giving
the President credit for a good economy: the people just don't
sense a good economy out there. A Times Mirror survey also shows
that American cynicism is on the rise, which would also explain a
lot.

Contrasted to this are groups such as the 70,000 who protested
last Sunday for welfare and other benefits for illegal
immigrants. There are more and more people with their hands out
demanding "gimmie, gimmie, gimmie," and working Americans are
tired of being called racists and bigots because they are being
blamed for not doing enough.

Those inside the Washington Beltway should understand that
Americans are tired of Washington telling them that they're the
problem, and how those in Washington never believe in tax cuts.
Those in Washington claim they "don't have the money" for this,
but it's not their money.

Working Americans are tired of liberals defining compassion as
giving away everyone else's money and of blaming all social
problems on those who are unwilling to pay more in taxes. Now
Americans are not even confident that they'll have a job or money
in the future, and this is confounding the liberals, who seek
villains in talk radio and elsewhere.

U.S. News and World Report, for example, reports that Senator Ted
Kennedy is blaming Rush and talk radio for his current problems.
Rush admits he'd love to take the credit for this, to claim that
for the past six years he's been executing a careful strategy to
poison the people's minds against Ted Kennedy. Sadly, Rush is not
responsible for this - Senator Kennedy is in trouble because of
one man: Senator Kennedy.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dave from Morgantown, PA

Dave says that a caller on Monday took Rush to task for being a
lousy role model and for making fun of people. Rush says he's
beginning to think that woman was a setup, given that she spouted
so many liberal cliches; it's as if someone passed her a sheet
titled "here's how to criticize Rush Limbaugh."

Dave notes he has five children as well as a new nephew, and he
appreciates that Rush is around to be a role model for them. Rush
appreciates hearing that and thanks Dave for calling.

Rush recalls that yesterday he commented how a survey done by
Link magazine about the college crowd's favorite radio
personality, and Rush was number one. "We're still waiting on the
press release for that," Rush adds, but without much conviction
that it will ever show up.

Phone	Michael from San Diego, CA

Michael gives "megadittos from a free-thinking, meat-eating,
gun-owning, cigar-smoking patriotic American," and adds that he
almost fainted when his call was picked up by Bo Snerdley. He
works at a local TV station, which is also amazed that Michael
got through, so he would like Rush to say hello to Jenny, the
station's "kids club" director.

Rush makes Jenny's day by saying hello to her, and Michael says
he's 25, a Republican, who's been smoking cigars long before he
started listening to Rush. He wants to know what kind of cigar
cutter Rush uses, and he replies he uses the absolute best cutter
available, a Davidoff Double-Guillotine, the "Zeno Cutter." He
admits that he's not a big fan of the V-cut because he wants to
totally expose the head of the cigar when he smokes it; this way,
you get the full flavor of the tobacco blend.

Michael asks for his all-time favorite cigar, and Rush, under
pressure from all the possible choices, says a Partagas Number
Ten might be it, or anything by Arturo Fuente. However, there are
many other fine cigars out there, so Rush holds Michael over the
break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Michael from San Diego, CA (continued)

Rush says there are far too many great cigars to avoid mentioning
them, too. Partagas Number Ten is a great cigar, but cigars are
something that you don't necessarily want to have the same
experience with all the time. Some people, for example, think you
should start out the day with a mild cigar and work your way up
to "all out" at night; Rush, however, prefers to smoke "all-out"
all day.

Michael asks about the Primo Del Rey cigars from the Dominican
Republic, and Rush admits he knows little about them. Arturo
Fuente makes a great series of cigars, especially the Meduro
Churchills, such as a Gloria Cubana. Sadly, those, these cigars
are so popular that they're nearly impossible to get. Partagas
cigars are so much in demand that they're backordered a million
cigars.

There was a big smoke in Los Angeles a while ago, with 3,000
people showing up to smoke, which just goes to show the demand
that exists for fine cigars. Speaking of fine cigars, Rush also
suggests the "L'Essentialis Toros," a Dominican cigar, along with
the Ashton and Avo brands.

Michael says cigars to him are a treat, and he smokes maybe only
half-dozen a month. If he smoked more, it wouldn't be as big a
treat. Rush agrees they are a fine indulgence, and as far as the
woman from Coarsegold, CA who called to complain about cigars,
Rush points out they are not cigarettes.

Rush, being a compassionate, loving, and generous boss, shares
cigars with his coworkers, such as H.R. "Kit" Carson. Recently he
gave H.R. a fine cigar, and H.R.took an hour to smoke it,
savoring every puff. However, as soon as he finished he lit up a
foul cigarette to get his nicotine fix, proving that cigars are
not the health risks that dirty, little cigarettes are.

A great cigar is a fine thing in life, and recently the NY Times
did a story about all the celebrities smoking cigars now - it's
the fad thing to do now, which sort of disappoints Rush because
cigars are more than a mere fad. Cigars have been around since
Columbus found Indians smoking tobacco in corn stalks and refined
the art.

Bo Snerdley points out that this means Columbus "stole" the cigar
from the Indians, but Rush points out that if this were really
true, people would be smoking cheap tobacco in corn stalks. Bo
asks if Rush has tried it, and Rush says no, pointing out "if it
were good, they'd make it! They'd be selling them!"

Rush thanks Michael for calling about his passion, and adds that
in addition to his Zeno Double Guillotine cigar cutter, he's got
a fine cigar lighter, which he calls a "torch." He lights it up
near the mike, making listeners think he's unleashed a flame
throwing inside the studios, but quickly backs the flame off from
the EIB Golden Microphone lest it melt.

Phone	Joe from Springfield, IL

Joe gives "Abraham Lincoln dittos from the leading edge of
societal decay," and notes that he owns a fast-food restaurant at
which he works 18-hour days. Rush asks what kind of restaurant it
is, and Joe replies "we sell Whoppers," which reminds Rush how
when Clinton built his jogging track at the White House, Rush
suggested that a Burger King also be built there, given that both
Clinton and Burger King share a slogan: "billions and billions of
Whoppers told here!"

Joe says today's Wall Street Journal has a lead editorial about
how Fred Grandy, Jay Rockefeller, and Warren Rudman are all
blaming the voters for the problems in Washington. Grandy
complains that he's leaving Congress because he can't do his job
due to the "schizophrenic signals" being sent to him by the
voters.

Joe, though, doesn't think it's the voters' fault at all. Rush
agrees, adding that he spent much of Monday's show about this. He
finds this arrogance to be amazing - the voters are being blamed
for not realizing how great members of Congress really are.

Joe says he met with Rep. Dick Durbin recently to fight against
health care reform, given that it would cost the average fast
food restaurant $50,000 a year. They can't raise their prices to
cover all this, so that means restaurants either go out of
business or at the very least, new restaurants don't get built.

Joe was also asking Durbin about welfare reform because it's
getting next to impossible to find employees. He hires people
above minimum wage, but he can't keep employees; he'd be building
more restaurants, but he can't find people to work. There's no
more work ethic, and in some cases Joe ends up being the first
person to discipline his workers.

Joe would love to build more restaurants and make more money so
as to buy more cigars, but he's finding the lack of workers to be
a real problem. Rush asks what kind of cigars Joe smokes, and he
replies Avo Number Fives, a Churchill-sized cigar. Rush thinks
that's a fine choice, and he thanks Joe for calling about this.

Rush notes that sometimes when he talks to other employers, he
marvels at how unemployment isn't 30%, given the type of
incompetence that exists in some employees. As to Washington's
attempt to blame the voters, Rush thinks this will just backfire
- it's what liberals think anyway, that the people are bumbling
idiots who need liberal guidance on a daily basis, with liberals
telling the people what to think and what to believe.

When the people vote along with the liberals, of course, the
people are smart, but should the people dare to disagree, the
people become idiots overnight. However, the fact is that people
living in Springfield, IL did not write the Lobby Reform and
Disclosure Act of 1994, a bill so badly written that even those
in Congress can't agree on what it says or would do.

How can anyone vote for a bill when it's not clear what the bill
says, but this is the kind of stuff that Congress is turning out.
And it's not the people who are to blame for this.

*BREAK*

Vegetarian Bo Snerdley has brought his lunch of "health food":
pea soup and fried cheese. Rush continues to marvel at what his
call screener thinks is healthy food.

Phone	Albert from Los Angeles, CA

Albert is a second-time caller, having first called right before
the 1992 Republican Convention to suggest that George Bush
withdraw from the Presidential race, opening up the convention.
Rush remembers Albert's call, and Albert remarks that two years
ago he had been thinking Jack Kemp would be a good choice to
replace Bush.

Albert is no longer so sure of this, though, because Jack Kemp
has just come out against Proposition 187, the "Save Our State"
initiative in California that would restrict educational, health
care, and welfare benefits for illegal immigrants. Thus, Albert
is bit disappointed about Kemp, given that California spends
about $3 billion a year on these benefits, and the taxes paid by
the illegal aliens don't being to pay for these programs. Rush
says the statistics he saw said that the net cost of these
benefits to California was about $1.8 billion a year.

Albert says that the illegal aliens also ship their money down to
Mexico, so they don't have any left, and that's why they go on
welfare. He's disappointed in both Kemp and Bennett for their
denunciation of this proposition, given that the people of
California are fed up with being told that they are going to have
to pay for liberals' compassion.

Albert and a lot of others were infuriated at the protest of
70,000 people in Los Angeles last Sunday, and many of them were
carrying Mexican flags. He thinks that the country has to start
enforcing its immigration laws, and this means getting tougher on
illegal immigrants.

Rush says he got a copy of the statement that Jack Kemp, along
with William Bennett, put out as to why they're opposed to
Proposition 187. Rush won't have time to read this statement
until the third hour's monologue, so he asks Albert to hang on
through the next couple of breaks so as to get his response to
it.

*BREAK*

Phone	Janette from Fayetteville, NY

Janette gives "mega-stay-at-home dittos," and thinks Rush is the
"doctor of diction," so she thought he'd be interested in a
definition she came across recently:

"algorithm - a mathematical term; for example, you can win or tie
every game of Tic-Tac-Toe by following a simple `Al-Gorithm':
start in the middle and block every move made by your opponent."

Rush thinks these are great and hopes that next time she calls,
Janette looks up "poltroon."

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

The Elway poll has nothing to do with football, but rather is a
Washington state poll that has been keeping close tabs on the
race between House Speaker Tom Foley (D-WA) and Republican George
Nethercutt; the latest figures show Nethercutt leading Foley 49%
to 38%. On either tonight's TV show or Thursday, Rush will show a
clip of Foley speaking to the Rotary Club or something like it,
and Foley promised them that if he's re-elected, he'll see to it
that members of Congress have to obey the same laws they pass for
everyone else.

"What a guy!" Rush exclaims, taken over by Foley's
magnanimousness. Rush has to wonder if Foley truly thinks this is
campaign rhetoric which will send him back to DC; if anything,
this is something that members of Congress should avoid
mentioning, given that the people don't look kindly on those in
Washington who don't think they have to obey the same rules as
everyone else.

********

The statement issued by Jack Kemp and William Bennett about their
opposition to California's Proposition 187 has caught some people
by surprise, especially since Governor Pete Wilson has used the
immigration issue to turn his deficit in the polls to a strong
lead. Rush digresses to note that Governor Lawton Chiles (D-FL)
and challenger Jeb Bush had a debate the other day, and Bush
mopped up big.

Chiles had repeatedly criticized the former governor Bob
Martinez, whom Jeb Bush had served as Commerce Secretary. Chiles
also attacked Tom Feeny, Bush's conservative running mate. In his
closing statement, Bush stated the following:

"Why do you have this Feeny fetish? You're not running against
Tom Feeny, you're not running against Bob Martinez, and you're
not running against my parents. Face it, Governor, you're running
against Jeb Bush."

Chiles got a bit testy at one point in the debate; he had
persistently raised questions about possible financial
improprieties in Bush's Miami business dealings, so Jeb Bush
asked "don't you feel a sense of shame at rehashing matters that
have been thoroughly scrutinized in the Florida press?" Chiles
replied "it ain't scrutinized until I scrutinize it!"

Chiles, of course, is the guy who thinks it would be better not
to sell Florida orange juice as opposed to letting Rush sell it.
Rush, though, has been to Florida several times over the past
months and has seen how the press has scrutinized Jeb Bush; the
coverage of Bush has been vicious. It's similar to how the New
York press insists on referring to Mitt Romney as "millionaire
Mitt Romney," without bothering to label Kennedy as
"multimillionaire without having to work for it a day in his life
Ted Kennedy."

Similarly, the Florida press has examined Jeb Bush's finances so
thoroughly that Rush is amazed Jeb Bush's poll numbers are still
so good. Bush, though, kept his cool, never let the press get to
him, but rather stayed rooted in his principles and kept focus.
Thus, he looks like he might actually beat Chiles this year.

Meanwhile, Ann Richards is crashing and burning in Texas, facing
another son of President Bush, George W. Bush. Richards actually
called George Bush a "jerk" for criticizing her and her record.

Everyone, of course, is claiming that it's the "Bush money" that
is funding the two Bush campaigns, and President Bush is even
being criticized for campaigning for his sons. The November
elections will thus be very interesting to see.

Rush, noting the time, realizes that he hasn't enough time to
read the Kemp/Bennett statement on Proposition 187, so he'll do
so after the break.

*BREAK*

Phone	Albert from Los Angeles, CA (continued)

Rush reads three quick excerpts from the statement issued by Jack
Kemp and William Bennett about California's Proposition 187.

"At the same time, concerns about illegal immigration should not
give rise to a series of fundamentally flawed, constitutionally
questionable solutions which are not consonant with our history,
which would prove ineffectual, and which would help contribute to
a nativist and anti-immigration climate. We are concerned, too,
that the line which should separate our attitude toward illegal
and legal immigrants is being blurred, that the legitimate
concerns about illegal immigrants broadening into an ugly
antipathy towards all immigrants.

"The vast majority of immigrants hold principles which the
Republican party warmly embraces: an entrepreneurial spirit and
self-reliance, hostility toward government intervention . . .
<<I'm missing about 45 seconds because of gaps in KNBR's signal>>
. . . [previously the Republican party increased the] Democratic
base in many of America's cities with its hostile stand towards
the last generation of immigrants from Italy, Ireland, and other
nations of Central Europe. Can anyone calculate the political
cost of again turning away immigrants, this time turning away
Asians, hispanics, and others?

"And to reiterate a point we alluded to above, there is a myth
that is driving much of the support for Proposition 187. The myth
is that illegal immigrants are allowed by law to receive welfare
benefits. In fact, under current law, illegal immigrants are
already ineligible for publicly funded welfare assistance or food
stamps, and they can already be criminally prosecuted for
producing or obtaining fraudulent work permits.

"Finally, Proposition 187 would be immediately enjoined by the
courts. Both sides concede that it's unconstitutional because in
1982 the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot bar children,
including children of illegal immigrants, from attending public
schools. Proponents of Proposition 187 want to force a legal
challenge; it will be several years before the court hears the
case, and it's not likely to pass constitutional muster. In the
meantime there will be no effective control on illegal
immigration.

"First the educational and medical care systems will have
tremendous new regulatory burdens. They'll need to fill out new
forms, send people to new training sessions, hire lawyers to be
available to answer tricky questions about documents. Second, the
state will spend hundreds of thousands of legal bills, bringing
the case to the courts. Third, the state will undoubtedly be sued
by immigrants who are wrongfully denied schooling or medical care
based on previous Supreme Court decisions."

Rush asks Albert for his reaction, and he replies "claptrap,
nothing but sheer claptrap"; he's disappointed that Kemp and
Bennett would come up with reasoning. As to the constitutional
issues, aside from the fact that the courts are becoming more
liberal, the initiative's proponents are certain the proposition
will be upheld in the courts.

Albert is a first-generation American, whose parents immigrated
to America, but the issue is not immigration, but illegal
immigration. Rush asks about the point Bennett and Kemp made that
the wrath against illegal aliens is becoming an "anti-immigrant"
sentiment that will harm legal immigrants, too.

Albert says that if something isn't done about illegal
immigration, this is exactly what will happen. The people are fed
up with how laws are either not enforced at all, or enforced in
ways that will please the special interests. The people of
California are tired of living under this burden and paying this
high cost; they simply think the government should enforce the
law.

This is not a racist issue, and 52% of hispanics in California
support Proposition 187. Rush asks if this measure will force
illegal immigrants into the Democratic party, but Albert doesn't
care because illegal aliens don't vote. Besides, illegal aliens
have no allegiance to this country, and they are just balkanizing
the state.

The liberals love the idea of illegal immigration, though,
because it gives support to their idea that the country needs
"multiculturalism." Rush adds that the left loves illegal
immigration because it increases the power of the state that's
expected to support them.

This is an issue that's polarizing the nation, and the
"nativists" mentioned by Bennett and Kemp think that the nation
is being plundered and raped by those who have no intention of
becoming citizens and becoming a part of America. Nativists are
basically protectionists who argue that the country should first
train its own citizens to access the opportunities of America
before allowing everyone else in.

Bennett and Kemp, though, would claim that it's the immigrants
who are the most eager and capable of accessing the opportunities
borne of America's freedom. These people have been so shackled by
their own country that when they get to America, they work hard,
both in business and in school. The argument is that most
immigrants are not free-loaders with their hand out, but this is
in contrast to the 70,000 protestors who demonstrated in Los
Angeles Sunday demanding "gimmie, gimmie, gimmie."

However, one should not think that the majority of immigrants are
free-loaders. Even so, Proposition 187 is leading in the
California polls by two to one, so it looks as if it will pass.
If it does, though, it's a certainty that it will be challenged
in court, if for no other reason because the Supreme Court ruled
in 1982 that you can't deny access to public education to any
children, even if they are the children of illegal immigrants.

*BREAK*

Items

o	As to Proposition 187, Rush notes that there are stories
coming out about how illegal aliens arrive at the U.S. and head
straight to a hospital for health care, which the hospitals in
certain states are required by law to offer. If this is happening
in California, and if because of a Supreme Court ruling, public
schools are being forced to admit the children of illegal aliens,
then isn't it proper for those who disagree with this to force
the issue?

Rush thinks so and adds that it's not "nativist" at all to want
to eliminate policies that give away benefits and services to
those who violate the law to come to America. Why aren't existing
laws being enforced? Where was the INS during the protest of
70,000 against Proposition 187 in Los Angeles last Sunday?

Immigration, though, is a debate and issue that will never go
away. Rush recalls how a few years ago, he was driving his
grandfather around Cape Girardeau, MO, and the topic of
immigration came up. Rush's grandfather stunned Rush by revealing
that his high school's debate topic in 1908 was about immigration
and whether the influx of southern Europeans should be stopped.
There were fears that these "dirty, filthy" immigrants would
destroy American culture.

Thus, immigration has been around for quite a while and will
remain so.

o	The United States signed a "great" deal with North Korea
about nuclear weapons. President Clinton hailed his
"breakthrough" agreement as being good for the safety of the U.S.
and the world; U.S. officials, however, conceded that North Korea
could already have produced a nuclear bomb, but this agreement
puts off for five years any international inspections of North
Korean nuclear facilities.

Even the Washington Post reports "Deal would allow Communist
nation to keep key plutonium-making facilities for years," so
what kind of deal is this? Why is the U.S. going to pick its nose
for five years, letting North Korea possibly keep its nuclear
weapons.

o	Morton Halperin is a special assistant to the President
and senior director for democracy at the National Security
Council; Halperin was denied a State Department appointment by
the Senate, by the way, because of statements he had made in the
past against the U.S. and in favor of Communist states. Halperin
said yesterday that the United States' push for world-wide
democracy has been "crippled by the lack of a bureaucracy to deal
with it."

Halperin said an entire institution was created to send a man to
the moon, so "maybe we need the same thing for democracy." Rush,
though, had thought this was what the purpose of what the United
Nations was, but Halperin also complained "the United States
government is not well structured to learn what is going on in
the world."

Thus, Halperin wants to create yet another new bureaucracy; shall
this be the "Democracy Bureaucracy," with Halperin in charge?

Phone	Pat from Little Rock, CA

Pat remarks that he told Snerdley "damn it, you're right," and he
agrees with the previous caller who complained about how hard it
was to get good workers. His girlfriend manages a restaurant, and
she has to lead these people, who are in their 20s or older,
around by the hand, pointing out what they should do next. They
don't seem to think for themselves or have any initiative.

Rush says this is an interesting topic, given that Generation X
is a big discussion topic; a lot of people look at today's young
people and see a bright, intelligent generation which will revolt
against their parents' style of doing things. Others, though,
such as today's callers comment that they are uneducated,
incompetent kids.

Pat suspects that this is due partly to the school system, but
also due to how the government tries to make people dependent on
it. Pat recalls how a few years ago there was a big scare about
survivalists, painted as gun-waving, camo-clad nuts; however, Pat
thinks the government was most afraid of how these were
independent, self-sufficient people, who were not dependent on
government. Those who aren't dependent on government can't be
controlled, and that's what this is all about.

Rush thinks this might be a big excessive, although there are
certainly members of the political class who see independent
people as a threat to their own political survival. A lot of
people would agree with Pat, though, that when you spend years
creating a dependency class, you end up with people who can't
think for themselves or who have any initiative.

However, Rush has also heard from many that the younger
generation is very impatient and expects to have it all today,
when they're 20, simply because they're Americans. It would be
difficult, however, to typecast the younger generation - you've
got good apples and bad apples, as in any generation, and
hopefully the good apples of this generation will prevail.

Phone	Charley from Tampa, FL

Charley loves Rush and his show, but he doesn't like how Rush
promotes cigars. He has no problems with Rush smoking cigars
himself, but doesn't think he should be talking about them and
promoting them. "It's not a good thing, it's that simple!" he
exclaims, fearing that Rush might be encouraging others to take
up smoking. Charley is not a liberal or environmentalist wacko,
but he doesn't think smoking of any form - cigarettes, cigars, or
pipes - is a good thing.

Rush agrees that cigarettes are pretty bad, but he doesn't
advocate that others smoke; instead he talks to those who do.
Rush has always said cigar smoking is one of the finer things in
life, but he's not encouraging others to go out and try it. Plus,
there is an anti-smoking gestapo out there trying to enforce its
will on everyone else, which means smoking is also an issue of
freedom.

Rush admits that he has heard Charley's complaint from others,
but he doesn't think cigar smoking is nearly as dangerous as
anything you might inhale. As Rush is saying this, though, Bo
Snerdley has lit a cigarette in defiance of his boss, but in any
case there is the principle of freedom, and until smoking a cigar
or cigarette is made illegal, then all the judgmentalism should
be held back.

Besides, if Rush lights up a cigar in his own studio, it is not
harming anyone who listens to his program. Rush understands
Charley's point, so he will take his suggestions under
advisement, but it's unlikely Rush will change his cigar habits
soon. He thanks Charley for calling.

*BREAK*

Phone	Stefanie from Kansas City, MO

Stefanie is a bit confused about the poll on charitable
contributions - why poll the "hostages" on what they're
contributing, when such contributions have been nationalized.
Rush agrees this is a brilliant point - Clinton did refer to
taxes as contributions, and Stefanie remarks that she'd love to
collect the data on all the "checks" Clinton has made out to all
the people he's visited in his travels as President; it seems
that every time he goes out, he goes with his checkbook, too.

Rush adds that if you now use Clinton's definition of
"contributions," then contributions are indeed way up, thanks to
Clinton's tax increases. Plus, these are forced contributions, so
how can contributions be down? He recalls yesterday's caller from
Denver who noted that he was paying more in taxes than ever, yet
he's now being accused of not giving enough privately. Rush
suspects this caller speaks for a lot of others, and thanks
Stefanie for calling.

Phone	Marilyn from Dallas, TX

Marilyn heard Lamar Alexander a couple of weeks ago remark on
Meet the Press that the Congress had authorized a Secretary of
Gender Equity. She recalls that in 1990, the Children's Defense
Fund had Hillary Clinton as its director, and she was helped by
Donna Shalala and Marion Wright Edelman; in 1990, CDF published a
paper saying that white males "deserved" no more than 35% of the
power in America, and their paper included a blueprint to make
this happen.

Marilyn thus thinks that since Rush is a law-abiding citizen, he
should have only 35% of his callers be white males. After all, if
Rush is going to obey the law in Clinton's America, he should be
working hard to meet their desired Gender Equity laws.

Rush remarks that Alexander was right in what he said, but notes
that EIB has in the past devoted entire hours and shows to women
callers. Rush thinks this would be easy to do this again, but Bo
Snerdley obviously disagrees because he starts screaming. Rush
ignores his call screener and notes that he really hasn't done
any special shows like that since the 1992 campaign. Perhaps,
though, EIB will try that again, and he thanks Marilyn for
calling.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dennis from Cincinnati, OH

Dennis thinks one reason Clinton might not be getting any credit
for the economic recovery is because the recovery started before
he took office. The economy grew by 3.5% in 1992, but Bush didn't
get any credit for it, so why should Clinton?

Rush says that the fourth quarter of 1992 did have a phenomenal
growth rate, and some people think that the normal business
cycles were at work. Rush recalls saying that Clinton's economic
policies would slow down the economy, and he thinks this will
happen when the Clinton policies enter with their full force.

Rush doubts, though, that any administration can do much to
positively affect an economy unless it's with tax policies. Rush
thanks Dennis for calling.

