Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Friday, June 10, 1994

by John Switzer

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June 10, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: AF Sargent claims that investigation
into $200 taxi bill is reprisal for her testimony about sexual
harassment; roller blade skates are the latest danger to American
youth; CDC recommends that teenaged drivers be restricted until
they become adults; press gets failing marks for not reporting
whole truth about Clinton D-Day visits; new book on feminism
exposes how their facts and figures are made up for the sake of
their agenda, but press never challenges them; only 54, not
150,000, women die each year from anorexia; often cited March of
Dimes study about domestic violence never existed; press will
challenge conservatives' figures, but never those of the left;
Woodward's book quotes Clinton as saying his economic plan was a
turkey, and that if a recession happened, he'd just lower taxes;
caller accuses Rush of impugning the professional photo industry
because he didn't hire a professional photographer to take his
wedding pictures; female caller was heartbroken upon hearing the
news that Rush is married; Senator Phil Gramm makes brilliant
case comparing October Surprise to Whitewater; journalist
surprised to be asked who will pay for health care if smoking
taxes result in a reduction in smokers; members of military
disgusted that Clinton aides would knock down an American flag so
that Clinton could have a photo-op of him putting it back; caller
defends Rush's character, noting that he's not running for public
office, nor is he spending taxpayers' money for them; Democrats
trying to raise money by claiming the five most frightening words
in the American language are "United States Senator Oliver
North"; House's vote to lift arms embargo in Bosnia is just
another attempt to usurp the president's constitutional powers in
foreign policy matters; caller's Rush-bashing associates never
listened to Rush for themselves; LAFD Fire Chief to appeal court
ruling allowing firefighter to read Playboy in private quarters
in firehouse; FBI investigating Mike Espy for accepting gifts
from Tyson Foods; Clinton White House tried to run things as they
did in Arkansas, but have found that Washington is not Little
Rock; caller thinks ultimatum is needed for North Korea, but
doubts current administration could back it up, and North Koreans
know this; U.S. Navy veteran says morale in military is
dangerously low because of President Clinton and his obvious
contempt for the military; caller doubts Japanese trust the U.S.
or President Clinton; health care bill in Senator Moynihan's
Finance Committee is nearly identical to Clinton's, which means
it won't get any bipartisan support or be passed out of that
committee; letter in USA Today asks if Clinton will next claim
that he wishes his marriage had been one of fidelity because he
watched 60s TV shows; letter to USA Today shows that rich are
paying more than their fair share; employer mandate in Clinton
health care plan would have a lot of holes; Woodward's book
quotes Hillary Clinton and Ira Magaziner as being in favor of
health care price controls; studies are finding cow flatulence
and barbecues to be threatening the environment and atmosphere;
Clinton claims his Haitian policies are already working; woman
files sexual harassment suit against her female boss; instead of
good manners, people are trying to use government to force others
to be nice to them; Republicans and Democrats do have important
philosophical differences, especially in how they view the
individual; caller thinks most wars fought for money, not
freedom.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

June 10, 1994 - It's now (allegedly) day 507 (day 526 for the
rich and the dead) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal")
and 584 days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on
the air with 640 radio affiliates (with more than 22 million
listeners weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national
rating of 3.7), and a newsletter with over 440,000 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 2.25
million copies.

NEWS

o	Air Force Sargent Aneda Martinez is insisting that she
was targeted for reprisals after she testified in Washington
about sexual harassment in the military. A criminal investigation
was launched against Martinez when she returned to her base in
England and presented a $200 taxi bill for reimbursement.
Martinez claims the bill is justified because it was the only way
she could return to the base from London.

Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) stated the Air Force's
investigation "looks like classic whistle-blower reprisals, and
the amazing thing to me is that the Air Force just doesn't seem
to understand." Schroeder, though, didn't comment on whether she
thought the Air Force should routinely pay $200 taxi bills, or
whether such bills were common practice for U.S. military
personnel in England.

o	The Consumer Products Safety Federation has issued a
warning about roller blade skates, claiming that accidents due to
the use of such skates will double this year, with the majority
of those injured being younger than 15.

o	The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has proposed
restricting the ability of teenagers to drive on their own,
claiming that such restrictions are necessary because automotive
accidents are the leading cause of death among 16 to 20-year-
olds." Dr. Jennifer Luallen of the CDC reported that many of
these deaths would be prevented by measures such as prohibiting
unsupervised nighttime driving by teens, implementing a zero
tolerance for teen drinking and driving, requiring the use of
seat belts, limiting the number of passengers that can be
carried, and restricting the roads and distance that teens can
travel.

Such restrictions would be gradually restricted as teens grow
older. "The beauty," Luallen said when talking about the CDC's
suggested program, "is that it recognizes that driving is a
complex task to master fully and allows a young driver to
gradually gain experience."

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Friday, June 12,
1992:

o	Bill Clinton asked 200 campaign staff members to go
without their pay checks for a week so he could buy $400,000 of
TV time to directly address the American people. Rush found this
interesting because there seemed to be a "massive change" going
on with Presidential elections, with candidates starting to use
talk radio and TV as their primary means of campaigning.

o	Arsenio Hall responded to news that George Bush would not
appear on his talk show with the statement "well, excuse me,
George Herbert `irregular heart-beating, read my lying-lipping,
sipping in the pool do nothing, deficit raising, make less money
than Millie the White House dog last year, Quayle-loving, sushi-
puking' Walker Bush. I don't remember inviting your ass to my
show, and as a matter of fact my ratings are higher than yours."

o	Senator John Kerry (D-MA) received a letter from Boris
Yeltsin's administration admitting that the USSR held 12 US
airmen in Soviet prisons and in psychiatric hospitals after they
were shot down by the USSR in the 50s. The USSR also confessed to
interning hundreds of Americans both during and after WWII.

o	Rush noted that EIB's Water Gun Amnesty Program for Super
Soakers was going well, although people had started to steal from
EIB's water gun collection. In particular, Joy Behar took two of
the Super Soakers and then acted as if she had a right to take
them.

EIB had received so many of these guns, though, that it resorted
to storing them in an office that was reserved for the newly
hired staff that would soon begin working on the Rush Limbaugh
newsletter. Someone even turned in a "homeless" version of a
Super Soaker - it was composed of two 2-liter Dr. Pepper bottles
connected with rubber tubing, and sealed with gum. Since gravity
was the only force that expelled the water from this contraption,
Rush doubted that its range was any farther than a homeless
person could urinate.

o	Liz Barrett Brown of the Natural Resources Defense
Council reported that "the Earth Summit is a giant garbage mill,
and very little of it is being recycled. Most delegates show up
in gas-guzzling luxury cars, and car pooling seems to be a
foreign concept." Brown also said that every day the Summit's 250
photocopy machines produced 1 million photocopies with a shelf
life of 20 minutes. In addition, UN printers churned out 70,000
pages of press releases, 150,000 pages of memos, and 300,000
pages of schedules each day.

o	Rush received another hate letter from a Perotista:

"Rush, we don't give a rat's ass where you had dinner and what
kind of political insiders you're talking with. You're missing
the boat, and your show is over as far as we're concerned unless
you get on this bandwagon."

o	Rush responded by playing a new commercial for "Sugar-
Coated Ross Perots":

<<Husband, yawning>> Morning, honey. What's for breakfast?

<<Wife>> Well, there's these Bush Toasties.

<<Husband>> Nah.

<<Wife>> The Bill Clinton cereal - Get Lucky Charms?

<<Husband>> Nah, I need something different this morning.

<<Wife>> How about these?

<<Husband>> Hmmm. New Sugar-Coated Ross Perots - slick packaging
<<sounds of package being opened and being poured into a bowl>>.

<<Wife>> Honey, don't you want to know what it's made out of?

<<Husband>> Nah, honey, compared to what else is on the table,
I'll try anything.

<<Narrator, speaking over the sound of birds chirping>> Bill has
discovered the breakfast cereal that 38% of Americans are trying
- new Sugar-Coated Ross Perots.

<<Husband, speaking with his mouth full>> Ah, this is great,
honey. Can I have some more?

<<Narrator>> New Sugar-Coated Ross Perots - the cereal with no
ingredient label. So if you wonder what it's made of, your guess
is as good as ours! But because we're spending $100 million on
slick packaging, you won't care!

<<Husband, enjoying his breakfast>> Hmmm. What's this in the
bottom of the box here? A Rolex?!?!

<<Husband and Wife together>> Hey!

<<Narrator>> And every box of Sugar-Coated Ross Perots has a
secret toy surprise - a $1000 bill or a Rolex watch. We'll do
anything to get you to try Ross Perots. Ross Perots, get `em
while the sugar coating lasts!

o	Rapper Ice-T released a new song, "Cop Killer," that
advocated shooting police officers. Warner Bros. Records
responded to calls for the album's recall by saying that although
the company didn't advocate violence, it wouldn't restrict the
distribution or sale of the song because Ice-T was an artist
exercising his First Amendment rights.

Warner Bros. insisted that its response was "not a matter of
profits, but a matter of principle." Rush wondered, however, why
the company didn't support Holly Dunn when feminists called for
her song "When I Say Maybe" to be banned because it "encouraged
date rape."

o	OFPRO was a new consumers group in Britain that would
regulate the country's 5000 prostitutes to ensure "customer
satisfaction." The group's answering machine promised that all
communications would be treated in strict confidence, and if a
customer's complaint about a prostitute was upheld, they would be
compensated by OFPRO either by a cash refund or by "an alternate
service from our recommended prostitutes who comply with OFPRO's
code of practice, standards, and ethics."

o	NYC school chancellor Joseph Fernandez ordered all city
school districts to provide lessons to their elementary school
children on "alternative life-styles" (e.g., homosexual life-
styles). Fernandez ordered the schools to show how they would
address the problems of discrimination and sexual orientation, so
as to produce an "education that is bias-free and respects
differences."

Fernandez's order was in response to how many schools had
rejected the "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum which taught
elementary schoolchildren about homosexual lifestyles.

o	The black grandparents of a two-year old girl won a court
battle to adopt her, even though she had been living with white
foster parents since she was 4 days old. The Minnesota Supreme
Court didn't rule, though, on the constitutionality of the state
law which gave relatives and same race couples priority over
adopting minority children.

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MORNING UPDATE

Now that President Clinton has concluded his European tour, Rush
has a few critiques to make. First, the press missed something
when it ignored Clinton's comment in Italy that he was honored to
be walking on the same ground that Romulus once walked. Had
Reagan or Quayle said this, the press would still be making jokes
about it because Romulus is a mythical character; according to
legend, Romulus and Remus were brothers raised by a she-wolf,
after which they went on to found Rome. The press gets an "F" for
failing to point out that Clinton's comment was meaningless as
mythical creatures don't walk anywhere.

Also, in an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw, President Clinton
claimed that the reason he and other former Vietnam War
protestors felt so conflicted during those days was because they
"loved" the military. However, the correct word is "loath," as in
"loathed the military," a phrase that Clinton used in a letter he
wrote to his ROTC commander in Little Rock, as he tried to
explain why he didn't want to join the military. Brokaw therefore
gets a "D" for deceive, since Clinton fooled him with this lie.

Finally, though, Deborah Oren of the NY Post revealed that the
photo of Clinton making a cross out of a pile of stones on a
beach at Normandy was a setup, carefully orchestrated by White
House aides. The stones had been placed there in advance by aides
who chose that spot because they knew it, with a battleship in
the background, would tug at people's heartstrings. Oren, for
exposing this deceit, gets a "B".

The lesson from all this, of course, is "never, ever trust a
draft-dodger."

FIRST HOUR

Rush remarks that nearly everything revealed in Bob Woodward's
book about the White House, "The Agenda," had previously been
predicted by Rush on his radio and TV shows. Yesterday's show had
a number of callers who thought Rush was being too hard on the
President, and Rush admits he can see why people would think
this. However, even these critics would have to be impressed how
Rush has so far been right on with his analysis of the Clinton
White House.

Granted, Rush has been issuing opinions, not revealing anything
that comes from inside sources as Woodward is doing, and he
doesn't do the type of research that Woodward has done.
Nevertheless, Rush has great instincts, especially about liberals
and why they do what they do.

And now another book is proving Rush right, this time about the
feminist movement. Christian Hoff Summers has written "Who Stole
Feminism?", and it exposes the fraud of the feminist leaders.
Rush finds this book especially fascinating since for five years
he's been giving specific examples about how the radical feminist
movement is a fringe movement that makes things up and how they
get away with it because the mainstream press never challenges
them.

Now Summers has come along to back up what Rush has been saying
with scholarly research. Of course, the mainstream press won't
consider Rush to be vindicated, but at least it will open some
people's eyes. In fact, more and more women who call themselves
feminists are writing books and articles which are obviously out
on the fringe, and mainstream women are wondering just what the
heck modern feminism has become.

Summers starts her book by quoting Gloria Steinem's "From
Revolution Within" as saying that 150,000 women die each year
from anorexia, three times the number of people who died in the
Vietnam War or in car accidents each year. Naomi Wolfe in her
book "They Beauty Myth" also reports this figure, and calls it a
modern, male-generated holocaust.

The source for this story is another book which attributes it to
the American Anorexia Association, so Summers called the group
and found out that they were misquoted. The real figure is only
54 deaths a year due to anorexia, yet three feminist authors
reported the 150,000 figure as if it were fact, using it to
promote their agenda.

Ann Landers also repeated this phony figure in her syndicated
column, and it's gotten into a college textbook titled "The
Knowledge Explosion." Rush has long noted that the women coming
out of college are angry and bitter because angry and bitter
feminists have filled their heads with anti-male lies. For saying
this, Rush has been called extreme, yet all he has been doing has
been criticizing the extremists and radicals of the feminist
movement.

Another deceit exposed by Summers is how in November, 1992
Deborah Louis cited a March of Dimes study that claimed domestic
violence was responsible for more birth defects than all other
causes combined.

In February, 1993, NOW President Patricia Ireland repeated this
claim on the Charlie Rose show. Time magazine, along with a
number of major newspapers, also repeated this claim in early
1993, and so much was made about it that Senator Ted Kennedy
contacted the March of Dimes for a copy of their study.

It turned out that the March of Dimes never had such a story, nor
did they ever make the claim which Louis insisted they did. Time
printed a retraction a full eleven months after their original
story.

Summers asked Louis for the source of her information, and it
turned out that she got it third-hand, with the original source
herself claiming that she had heard a speaker claim that a March
of Dimes nurse had told her that more women were screened for
birth defects than for domestic violence. Thus, the original
statistics was not anywhere near what Louis claimed it was, yet
nobody in the press challenged it when it was first reported.

Rush thus wonders where the press is about all these things;
where is the natural inquisitiveness of the press? This is
exactly what Rush means when he accuses the press of being
willing allies of these feminist radicals.

Scott McConnell of the NY Post asks this question, too, wondering
why the media would accept the claim that domestic violence is
more responsible for birth defects than all the known
physiological causes. Is this acceptance a result of the
journalists' vast medical experience or their biases? The fact is
that the willing media is more than willing to cut left-wing
groups some slack because they are sympathetic towards those
groups.

Rush would love to see these leftists forced to provide proof for
their charges and allegations. Summers notes that reporters would
never print information from sources such as the NRA or tobacco
industry without cross-checking it three or four times, yet when
a report comes from a university-sponsored domestic violence
group, the press doesn't dare question it. Instead, as Summers
notes, their skepticism goes on vacation.

Rush has assigned members of his staff to read Bob Woodward's and
Summers' books, so that he can find more examples of the left's
claims and of how he's been right about both them and the Clinton
administration. Rush pledges to demonstrate how his own books,
his newsletter, and his shows are the only scholarly research
that people need.

He notes that his wife Marta found Summers' book in the
bookstore, and she went nearly ballistic when she read it because
Rush has long been saying the same things for years. Rush wasn't
surprised that Summers would be so on target because she's been
exposing the left's hypocrisy for a long time, but the press
simply doesn't seem willing to question the people they are so
sympathetic to.

*BREAK*

Turning to the book "The Agenda," Rush notes that he has always
believed that President Clinton knew that his economic plan was
the exact opposite of what was needed to spur the economy on to
growth and to health. Woodward's book quotes Clinton as telling
Paul Begala as saying that his plan was a "turkey."

Also, in a July, 1993 meeting, some of the Clinton advisors
warned that the Clinton plan would slow down the economy, echoing
what Rush had said in his proposed bet with the Democratic
National Committee. Woodward says that when the advisers warned
President Clinton that his plan could indeed hurt the economy by
1995, Clinton reportedly replied "if it doesn't work, and we fall
into recession, we'll have to stimulate by lowering taxes."

Rush thus predicts that at some point in 1995, as the 1996
elections near, President Clinton will miraculously propose a tax
cut. Rush admits that this is a no-brainer of a prediction, but
he also thinks that along with this tax cut, Clinton will also
propose a reduction in the capital gains taxes, stunning everyone
(except Rush, of course).

*BREAK*

Rush notes he is not going off on an ego-trip about how right
he's been, but rather has been frustrated at how he's been
mischaracterized and attack by the very members of the press who
themselves refuse to investigate the left's claims. Not only do
they attack Rush, but they attack his audience and all
conservatives. Susan Estrich, for example, is writing that Oliver
North's primary victory means that "hate is on the march."
Liberals such as her throw these labels around without any care
or concern for the truth.

Nobody in the press challenged the absurd claim that 150,000
women died each year due to anorexia, and it is this sort of
extremism that Rush responds to and exposes in his show each day.
The same press that is so willing to ignore the real extremists
on the left, though, goes out of its way to attack Rush and his
fellow conservatives as being hate-filled extremists and
fanatics.

Phone	Rhonda from Houston, TX

Rhonda loves Rush but is sort of angry at how Rush "attacked" the
photography industry Monday night on his TV show; she wonders if
he's trying to follow Hillary Clinton's footsteps by selling
short in the photography industry while putting them down on the
air, taking about how he didn't want any professional
photographers to take pictures of his wedding.

Rhonda understands his privacy concerns, but says there are many
professional photographers who could have discretely taken
pictures of Rush's wedding. Rush says this is probably true, but
he simply couldn't take the chance that those pictures would have
ended up in tabloid hands. After all, photographer Joseph Perkins
turned over photographs he had taken of Rostenkowski's basement
to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Rush hopes that those in the photo industry don't take his
comments personally, but he has to trust his instincts with
regards to his private life. He and Marta will probably reenact
the wedding with professional photographers, but he was insistent
on secrecy and privacy when it came to the real thing.

Rhonda says she wouldn't have done anything untoward had she
photographed Rush's wedding, and Rush can accept this. However,
he's seen tabloid photographers and journalists try to bribe
members of his staff and others in the EIB Building so that they
could get personal photos and information. Rush has taken the
near paranoic approach he has about this because his personal
experience has shown him that he must.

In fact, someone even rented an apartment from across his, using
binoculars to spy on him, trying to find some dirt. Thus, Rush
has to be very, very careful in how he protects his privacy, and
this has nothing to do the fine American photography industry.

Rhonda notes that Rush also disparaged Fotomat with his comments
about how he couldn't trust one-hour photo places to develop his
pictures. Rush sighs and says and his only point was that should
the negatives leave his hands, the developer could make as many
copies as they wished and sell them to anyone, anywhere.

There are people out there who want to find the worst pictures
possible of Rush and other celebrities, so that they can publish
them. People magazine, for example, found the worst photo in a
spread they did of Rush and they used that one, simply to portray
Rush as a mean ogre.

Therefore, Rush has to trust his instincts, which meant he had to
keep his wedding as secret as possible, trusting it only to the
closest of friends. This meant no professional photographers or
photo developers, but his decision doesn't mean he has a low
opinion of that fine industry. In fact, as he's said, he will
have professional photographers at the reenactment of his and
Marta's wedding. He understands Rhonda's point, though, and
thanks her for calling.

Phone	Susan from Danville, CA

Susan is heartbroken because Rush is now married, and it was
especially worse because she found out about his marriage on the
evening news. In fact, when the newscaster reported that "Rush
takes a bride," Susan couldn't believe her eyes and hoped that
the news anchor really was saying "Rush takes a bribe" because
the real truth was too horrible to bear. Susan is even on "RMS"
now instead of PMS because "Rush Married Someone" she's never
heard of.

However, Susan does apologize for the scathing letter she went
Rush; in this letter she accused Rush of belonging to all
American women, and thus he betrayed all American women by
marrying just one of them. She really wishes Rush the best on his
marriage, though, and takes back all the nasty things she wrote
in that letter. She wonders, though, if Rush can really juggle
being a great husband as well as maintain his high broadcast
standards.

Susan suspects, in fact, that the Clinton administration was
responsible for setting Rush up with Marta, hoping that he would
be so distracted with her that his radio work would suffer. Rush
says he can be both a great husband and talk show host because he
married the right woman, so Susan doesn't need to worry; the only
way his marriage will affect his show is for the best - he can
only improve now.

Susan, though, says Rush was distracted during the previous
couple of weeks before his wedding. "I wonder why?!" Rush
exclaims, but pledges that his standards will continue going up
and up and that his faithful audience has nothing to worry about
as far as his marriage is concerned.

*BREAK*

Phone	Drew from Alexandria, VA

Drew congratulates Rush and wonders if Rush heard that the
Republicans had voted down a bill to investigate Whitewater. Rush
says that this did happen in the Senate because although Senate
Majority Leader George Mitchell wanted hearings to begin by July
29th, he defined the scope of those hearings to be so narrow that
they would have been useless. For example, Mitchell wanted to
discuss only the Washington aspects of Whitewater, with no
mention being made of Arkansas events; since Whitewater is in
Arkansas, this meant the hearings would be pointless.

Republicans do want hearings on Whitewater, but real hearings.
Mitchell, of course, insists that Republicans only want to
embarrass the President. Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), though, last
night made a brilliant case for Whitewater hearings, noting that
the October Surprise hearings concerned alleged misdeeds that had
occurred 12 years earlier, back before Reagan was President, back
when he was only a governor.

Gramm even quoted what then Senator Al Gore said about the need
for October Surprise hearings, and Rush hopes to get a transcript
of Gramm's remarks so as to show how brilliantly he exposed the
hypocrisy of Democrats. It's being claimed that Republicans are
trying to "get" Clinton, yet even if this were true, it means
Republicans are trying to "get" Clinton just as Democrats tried
to "get" Bush and Reagan with the October Surprise, just as
Democrats have been trying to get Republicans ever since
Watergate.

However, even if this is true, what is so bad about wanting to
get some ethics back in government? To address Drew's original
question, though, Republicans are still pushing for hearings on
Whitewater, but they have to be legitimate hearings, not a
whitewash job.

*BREAK*

Phone	Chuck from Branerd, MN

Chuck says when cigarettes are taxed to the point that nobody can
afford to smoke anymore, what will pay for the Clinton health
care plan? Will cigars be taxed, too? Rush says that all tobacco
taxes will be raised, with cigar taxes going up 3,000% if one
particular plan is passed.

The left still doesn't seem to realize how contrary their plans
are about this. For example, on "Equal Time" with Mary Matalin
recently, her guests were the award-winning NPR journalist Susan
Stamberg and author Christopher Buckley, who wrote the funny new
book "Thank You for Smoking." One of the callers asked the same
question that Chuck asked, and the award-winning Susan Stamberg
said "ooh, that's a good question - I've never thought about that
before!"

This is an award-winning journalist, yet she evidently never
thought of the most obvious point about using cigarette taxes to
fund health care. Yet every thinking American has noticed that
you can't get rid of cigarettes as Joyce Elders is trying to do,
while still using cigarette taxes to finance health care.

"Oh, man!" Rush exclaimed when he saw this, "spare me from the
elites!" The answer to Chuck's question is obvious, but it
obviously escapes many people, given that one of the health care
plans out there would raise cigarette taxes $2 a pack.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Phone	Viva from Ramstein AFB, Germany

Viva is paying for her long-distance, international call with her
Sprint card so she can give dittos to Rush from all the members
of the military who listen to him. Her husband is a military
doctor, and he and his fellow members of the military were
thoroughly disgusted with the idea that President Clinton's staff
would knock down flags in a cemetery so that Clinton could
replant them.

Rush hopes Viva can see the video of both this incident and the
cross-building on the beach photo-op, both of which he'll be
replaying tonight. He finds it amazing that anyone would believe
that Clinton could just happen to be walking in a cemetery, past
all sorts of graves which have American flags flying, and then
happen upon the one grave at which the flag has "fallen down,"
all when the TV cameras are filming. And it's even more
incredulous that this fallen down flag was perfectly rolled up,
giving the President the opportunity to reverently unroll it,
before the cameras, and then patriotically replant it.

No flag, however, will fall over and roll itself up, so it had to
be rolled up and placed on the ground deliberately. Viva says
that there are many in the military who have died to protect that
flag, so she has a real problem with the White House doing this,
especially since her family has a long history of serving in the
military. She hopes this is not true, but if it is, she is
thoroughly disgusted.

Viva also heard the phone call yesterday from a woman in St.
Louis who insisted that Rush's character is in doubt because he
and Marta have six marriages between them. Viva notes that Rush
is not running for public office, nor is he asking the public to
trust him with their tax money and with their freedoms.

Viva also doesn't see any parallel between a divorce and sleeping
around on your wife. Rush agrees, but isn't worried about such
attacks since defenders of the President will grab at anything
they can throw at his critics. Viva says these liberals are
losing sight of the real issues.

Rush says that these liberals know their man is indefensible, so
all they can do is lash out at those who are bringing the truth
to the public eye. Viva says that she and a lot of her friends
are grateful for what Rush is saying about the Clinton health
care plan because a "good percentage of the military" is not
thrilled with it. She hopes that Rush continues to stress that
the character of a public official is important.

Rush says that he agrees, but while this is a good point to make,
Rush still refuses to accept the basic notion that he has
character defects that are on a par with Clinton. He asks Viva
how she managed to call the 800 number from Germany. Viva says
she called the Sprint operator, who was also a fan of Rush's and
kept on dialing the number for her. Rush is pleased to hear this
and thanks her again for calling, and he wishes her and everyone
at the Air Base his best.

********

Rush recalls that when the Paula Jones's charges first broke, the
Democrats first claimed that it was just a Republican trick to
raise money. However, Rush wonders if anyone has yet received a
fund-raising letter from the GOP about Paula Jones. This isn't
happening, so Rush at the time had to ask himself why the
Democrats would make such a claim.

The reason is that this is what the Democrats do - they use
things like this to scare their supporters into contributing
their money. Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the official Democratic
committee whose job it is to work for the re-election of
Democratic Senators, is trying to capitalize on Oliver North's
primary win in Virginia by sending out a four-page fund-raising
letter which begins as follows:

"What are the five most frightening words in American politics
today? United States Senator Oliver North."

Rush can't believe the absurdity of this, but it goes right along
with how Susan Estrich, Al Hunt, and who knows how many other
liberal columnists are warning that North's victory shows the
danger of the "hateful religious right." So it isn't surprising
that a wing of the Democratic party would claim that the five
most frightening words are "United States Senator Oliver North."

Rush, though, thinks five words that are even more frightening
are "Clinton has no foreign policy," "Clinton has no economic
policy," "46% still support Bill Clinton," "his wife runs the
country," "North Korea is not afraid [of Clinton]," "Joycelyn
Elders is Surgeon General," "Janet Reno is Attorney General," or
"Bill Clinton is still President."

Rush finds the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's tactics
to be funny, given that the above set of five-word phrases is far
more frightening than anything that could be said about Oliver
North.

Speaking of North, today's NY Times is reporting back on page A-6
that the House of Representatives voted to end the arms embargo
against Bosnia, so that Bosnian Muslims could get arms and fight
for themselves. The House resolution would order President
Clinton "to circumvent the NATO alliance and end the United
States' participation in the arms embargo against the Bosnian
government."

Margaret Thatcher and others have long been calling for this, and
Rush recalls that North got in trouble because he allegedly
violated the Boland Amendments, which forbid the executive branch
to aid the Contras. North is accused of "shredding the
Constitution," but House Speaker Jim Wright, Rep. Michael Barnes,
and Rep. Joe Miller were doing exactly that with their foreign
policy trips to make peace in Nicaragua, telling Daniel Ortega
that he shouldn't be worried about Ronald Reagan because the
Democrats in Congress would keep him in line.

The Democrats sided with Communists, solely to deny Reagan a
legislative victory. This is what drove the Reagan administration
to find a way around the House's limitations upon their foreign
policy options. Democrats in the House were acting in ways not
permitted by the Constitution, yet nobody accused them of
shredding the Constitution. But they said this about Oliver North
when he tried to get around Congress.

These same Democrats are still trying to take control of foreign
policy, by issuing orders to the White House. And still nobody is
talking about how the Democrats are shredding the Constitution
with their usurpation of executive power.

*BREAK*

Phone	Erin from Hermosa Beach, CA

Erin is an attorney in Los Angeles, and when Rush's name came up
at a recent ABA dinner, the Rush-bashing began in earnest. Erin
was evidently the only conservative there, and she had to listen
to things like a retired judge stating that Rush's listeners
weren't intelligent and that Rush took only callers who would
make him look good (i.e. agree with Rush's "lies").

Erin asked the judge if he listened to Rush, and the judge
proudly replied no. Erin then remarked "well, there you go!" She
loved seeing how this totally deflated these Rush-bashers, but
she continued the pressure by asking exactly what it was that
they found so objectionable about what Rush says. They couldn't
answer this, either, so they quickly turned the conversation to
other topics.

Rush would love to ask people like this how they gained their
opinion on him. Erin says that she had her victory, so she didn't
want to push the point, especially since she's just an attorney
and this guy was a judge who still might come back to the bench
for special cases. Rush congratulates Erin for nuking them with
"calm, cool intellect" and thanks her for calling.

Phone	Ann Marie from Great Barrington, MA

Ann Marie is disgusted and disappointed with the women earlier
this week who thought Playboy shouldn't be allowed in firehouses
because the magazine was disgusting. These women missed the
entire point of the First Amendment rights that are stake.

Rush says that the judge in this case made the ruling official
yesterday, stating that the First Amendment allowed the
firefighter to read Playboy on his breaks in his private
quarters. Tammy Bruce of the LA chapter of NOW probably loved
this ruling because it was a great feminist call to arms; she was
screaming and near hysterical on the LA courthouse, claiming that
women "would not tolerate being harassed anymore." Yet someone
reading Playboy quietly by himself in his private quarters is not
harassing anyone.

Sadly, the Fire Chief said he didn't like this verdict and would
appeal it on behalf of the 11 out of 2500 LAFD firefighters who
are female. Ramona Ripsten, head of the LA chapter of the ACLU,
supported the ruling, though, and praised it as a First Amendment
victory. Thus, the ruling has turned into a huge controversy in
LA.

*BREAK*

Phone	Pete from Rheem, CA

Pete has been following the FBI investigations of Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy, which seems to be just a continuation of the
type of ethics shown by the draft-dodging Bill Clinton and
cattle-future investing Hillary Clinton. Given that Hillary's
cattle futures trading was done by a head lawyer for Tyson Foods
and that Espy is accused of receiving gifts from Tyson, Pete
wants to ask "just who is running this chicken outfit anyway?"

Rush notes that it's pretty well accepted now that Tyson Foods,
the largest employer in Arkansas, certainly needs to be on the
good side of all the politicians who have regulatory power over
it, at both the state and federal level. Thus, some find it
suspicious that James Blair, lawyer for Tyson, was the one who
arranged for the cattle trades that resulted in Hillary making
about $100,000 in one year. If this was a bribe, then the
practice of "parking trades" would hide it.

Rush, though, doesn't know if there was a direct tie to Clinton
with Tyson; if anything did happen, it's likely Tyson officials
were motivated not by any close friendships but by the simple
fact that Clinton at the time was governor. And during the 80s,
Tyson saved millions of dollars because of favorable regulatory
treatment.

Similarly, it could be that Tyson wanted to stay on the good side
of the Agriculture Secretary, who just happens to be Mike Espy
right now. Janet Reno has confirmed that the Justice Department
has concluded that Espy accepted gifts from Tyson over the years.

However, it's a mistake to think that Tyson Foods is the bigwig
in Arkansas, because it seems to be the Stevens family that is
running a lot of things in that state. Arkansas definitely has
its own ways of operating, given that it seems to be run by an
oligarchy, in which only a few people have a lot of power and
wealth.

Pete says that the article he read about Espy reported that he
accepted these favors at the same time he was delaying the
implementation of new, tighter government standards governing
inspection at poultry plants, and Tyson has 66 such plants. Rush
says this is true, and at the same time the Agricultural
Department was leaning heavily on the beef industry.

Pete adds that what was also reported, although not in his paper,
the San Francisco Chronicle, "a paper that gives liberalism a
good name since it's so far left," was that FBI agents were also
claiming that Janet Reno's Justice Department was trying to shut
the investigation down and that documents had been shredded.
Shredding seems to be happening a lot with the Clinton
administration.

Rush says this is possible, but all he knows is that Reno has
confirmed that this investigation is going on. However, it's not
news that the administration would try to stonewall it. There are
so many apparent improprieties surrounding the Clintons, both in
Washington and Arkansas, that it's hard to keep track. It's
obvious that the Clintons tried to work the same way in
Washington that they did in Little Rock, and people like Webster
Hubble and Vince Foster found themselves out of their league.

Rush is certain, though, that there are many people which will
refuse to let these investigations die, so time will tell about
them. Rush also recalls some story about how a Tyson concern in
Alaska got favorable treatment, but he's not certain about the
details <<the SEC was investigating several Arkansas investors,
including some with ties to the Rose law firm and current White
House staffers, for insider trading in Arctic Atlantic Fisheries
shortly before Tyson Foods bought it out; see the March 18, 1994
summary for details>>. As to Arkansas, though, it's the Stevens
clan that reportedly "grinds the gears in Arkansas."

Phone	Greg from Manitowoc, WI

Greg thinks North Korea is the most delicate and important
foreign policy issue concerning the world right now, and the
country has to go beyond basic diplomacy in dealing with it. A
little "Ronald Reaganism, punch-in-the-nose" approach is perhaps
needed, with an ultimatum being delivered: open up your nuclear
facilities or lose them. This is also what George Bush and the
Israelis did with Hussein and Iraq.

Rush, though, wonders if Greg really thinks this administration
could make such a threat and follow up with it. Greg doesn't
think so; in fact, he thinks the only reason North Korea is
getting so smug and cocky is because of who is currently in the
White House. Rush agrees, and thanks Greg for saying this.

Greg adds that if North Korea is really crazy enough to invade
the South, there would be world-wide repercussions against North
Korea, and he's certain that North Korea would be wiped off the
map. He doesn't think China would support them because they would
end up being isolated.

Rush says that China is already isolated, plus the Japanese
aren't supporting sanctions either right now; this isn't
surprising since Japan is within the range of North Korea's Scud
missiles. Greg adds that the U.S. is Japan's defenders, and they
probably are waiting for the U.S. to do something.

Rush notes that it can't be assumed that the North Korean leaders
aren't crazy, which is a huge difference between the other
nuclear powers, such as the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, etc. With the
U.S. and U.S.S.R. stand-off, the parity between the two countries
kept a nuclear war from happening. And though this was called MAD
(Mutual Assured Destruction), it was a very rational and sound
approach, and it worked.

However, should weirdo and unpredictable countries, such as Iraq,
Iran, and North Korea, get these weapons, and it's a brand-new
ballgame, especially if Washington is perceived to be weak and
unwilling to act. If the U.S. really thinks that North Korea is
that close to making nuclear weapons, along with the missiles to
deliver them, it better have a plan ready to take them out.
However, there also has to be the resolve to use that plan, and
whether this currently exists is anyone's guess.

*BREAK*

Phone	An anonymous caller from a naval station

The caller gives "major anchor-weigh dittos" and identifies
himself as a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, with the current
rank of Master-Chief Petty Officer, the highest non-commissioned
officer rating possible in the Navy. He notes that those serving
in the U.S. military are warriors, the same type of warriors who
hit the beaches on D-Day 50 years ago.

Those now in the military cannot stand the farce that was put on
by President Clinton, who claims to be the Commander-in-Chief.
Rush notes that Clinton, by virtue of his being elected, is the
Commander-in-Chief, and the caller agrees, adding that those in
the military will follow him, if ordered to do so.

However, those in the military aren't falling for his claims that
he respects the military. These staged photo-ops are just one
aspect of this, and it's obvious Clinton is trying to tie himself
to the military heroes of the past. Yet it can't be denied that
Clinton abhors the military and has no use for them.

Those in the military have been relegated to the status of
second-class citizens in this administration, even though they
are the finest military in the world. The morale in the military,
though, has fallen to such a low point that lifers such as the
caller wonder if they really want to stay in and continue serving
any more. If the Commander-in-Chief abhors the military, how much
other Americans feel towards them?

The caller says he doesn't believe Clinton's recent statements
that he loves and respects the military, especially since he has
proven himself to be a continual liar. Rush says that hearing
calls like this are also demoralizing, but he has faith in those
who are serving the military that they will continue to do their
duty regardless of the President. He points out, though, that
this call again shows that it's not just he who is criticizing
Bill Clinton.

*BREAK*

Phone	Dave from Columbia, MO

Dave thinks the reason Japan has backed away from sanctions
against North Korea is because it can't trust the U.S. in
general, given all the trade war rhetoric over the past few
years, and can't trust Bill Clinton in particular. Rush says this
could be, but the Japanese also have to know that economic
sanctions won't work against North Korea.

The Japanese are in the Koreans' backyards, and they are pretty
sure that the North Korea bully is willing to flex his muscles if
need be. Besides, it would take a lot of time to get a full
embargo against North Korea going, and time is exactly what North
Korea wants.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o	As Rush predicted earlier this week, there is no
bipartisan support for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's version
of the Clinton health care bill. The employer mandate is
essential to the Clinton plan since it makes universal coverage
possible. USA Today is reporting that Senator Ted Kennedy's plan
has sailed through his Labor Committee, which is not a surprise,
but Moynihan's bill was "surprisingly similar to President
Clinton's," a fact that evidently stuns USA Today which had
expected a "bipartisan" bill.

However, the point of Moynihan's bill is that it is similar to
Clinton's because Moynihan knows that such a bill will never make
it out of his Finance Committee because the Republicans (and some
Democrats such as David Boren) on that committee won't support
the employer mandate. The press is stunned and amazed that a bill
exactly like Clinton's is running into trouble, but this
shouldn't be a surprise at all.

o	USA Today also has some great letters about Clinton's
trip to Normandy, with one person writing that Clinton's comment
about how he wished he had gone into the military because he
watched war movies as a kid probably meant he'd next be claiming
that he wished his had been a marriage of fidelity because he
watched "Father Knows Best" and the "Dick Van Dyke Show."

Another letter concerns the story in USA Today about how the rich
supposedly aren't paying their "fair share." The letter writer
notes that "figures never lie but liars always figure," and he
wondered why the two reporters would have quoted misrepresented
statistics to claim the income tax system favors the rich. He
points out that the top 1% of tax-filers reported 13% of the
nation's total adjusted gross income, but paid nearly 25% of all
federal income taxes. The top 5% of wage-earners paid over 43% of
all federal income taxes, while reporting only 27% of the total
adjusted gross income.

The letter writer also notes that the tax system of the 1950s,
praised by the story in USA Today as being a model system of
fairness, had far more many tax loopholes than exist today, which
was why the wealthy paid less then and are paying more than their
fair share of taxes today. And the bottom half of 1991 tax-filers
paid less than 6% of income tax revenues.

The letter writer concludes by saying that it's about time for
responsible journalists to start reporting the facts and stop
"trying to rewrite the economic expansion of the 80s to promote
their own agenda or simply sell more books." Rush says this is
the question: where are the real reporters anymore; why do they
accept the facts and figures of the left without question, while
doing their best to disprove anything conservatives might claim.

*BREAK*

Phone	Ron from Delavan, WI

Ron says the Clinton administration has overlooked the aggregate
effects of its employer mandate, which affects only businesses
with more than 10 workers. Rush notes that 75% of all U.S.
businesses have ten or fewer employees. Ron agrees, adding that a
number of elite congressional districts will be exempted, too, so
with all of these exemptions, just how much money will be
collected anyway?

Ron also suspects that businesses with 12 or 15 employees could
fire some of them and rehire them as contractors. Rush says he
remembers hearing something about how Hillary wants to make this
illegal, which shouldn't surprise anyone either.

Ron notes that there are also individual mandates being proposed,
but what will be done with members of some religions think modern
health care violates their faith. Rush says that Clinton's health
bill already would establish 49 new crimes for buying health care
privately, so why not put these religious people in jail, too?

Rush adds that Hillary and Ira Magaziner have been insisting for
over a year that their plan doesn't impose price controls on
health care, yet Woodward's book quotes these two as being
strongly in favor of such price controls.

Phone	Susan from Omaha, NB

Susan says that the Omaha World Herald recently reprinted a NY
Times story about how barbecues and charcoal grills were
destroying the environment, and thus electric grills should be
used instead. This is absurd, though, given that electricity has
to come from power plants that burn stuff like coal which
pollute, too.

Rush says he's heard about the dangers of charcoal grills for
some time, with people even such as George Will complaining about
them. Susan wonders where the money comes for these stories, and
Rush recalls that while he was gone, there was a story about how
$300,000 was spent studying cow flatulence and the effect of the
released methane on global warming. As if this weren't bad
enough, now $500,000 is being spent to study the methane
generated by cow burps.

Aside from the money being spent on this, what is going to be
done should these cows be declared a danger? Kill them all? Give
them a bovine version of AlkaSeltzer? Rush finds it hard to
believe that natural things which have been occurring for
thousands and millions of years are supposed to only now be
destroying the world.

Phone	Shane from Corpus Christi, TX

Shane says Bill Clinton just gave a press conference about his
new Haiti policies, which include a more comprehensive embargo
against the country. Shane adds that this press conference
started about 12:15 EST, right after Rush started his show. Rush
is not surprised at this bit of scheduling.

Shane says that the administration insisted that Clinton's
policies were already working, but the only evidence they could
give for this was that the "gas prices were higher." The
administration also insisted that nobody was starving because "we
are feeding one million people per day." However, Haiti has five
million people, so what's happening to the other four million?

Rush wonders how the U.S. could be feeding people if there's such
a strict embargo in effect. Shane also wants to know what kind of
effect this embargo will have, given that it's the people who
will be hurt, not the military leaders.

Rush asks if Shane thinks there will be a U.S. invasion of Haiti,
and Shane doubts it because the U.S. has had sanctions against
Haiti for ages without doing much more. Rush notes that embargoes
really don't work - the U.S. embargo against Cuba is in its 32nd
year, and it's still not eliminated Castro. The Cubans were being
helped by the Soviets, of course, but that help has been gone for
five years now, and Castro is still around. Will the U.S. be
willing to keep its Haitian embargo in effect for five years or
perhaps even 30 years?

The administration's policy against Haiti is a joke, with those
in the administration hoping their tough words will be enough to
defeat the military junta. Shane agrees - what is needed in Haiti
is freedom, and you can't get freedom through words. He adds that
Clinton didn't take any questions himself; instead, William Gray,
new envoy to Haiti, took all the questions.

Rush notes that it's the envoy's job to answer questions, so this
isn't unusual. "I," he points out, though, "don't have an envoy!"

*BREAK*

A 23-year-old secretary at the Manhattan law firm D'Amato and
Lynch filed a sexual harassment lawsuit Wednesday, claiming that
her female attorney boss ogled and fondled her, and made sexually
suggestive comments to her. The secretary's lawyer said he didn't
know of another case in which one woman filed a sexual harassment
lawsuit case against another woman, but said "it doesn't case to
be sexual harassment because they're the same sex."

The secretary claimed she complained of this harassment to the
partners of the firm, but that they took no action; her boss,
though, then allegedly became more demanding and would scream at
the secretary without cause. The secretary said she resigned from
the firm in May, 1993 and underwent therapy to deal with the
experience.

Bo Snerdley remarks "it's so typical," but then explains he was
referring to bosses in general, not women.

Phone	Cathy from Plante, TX

Cathy says that Rush has really educated her about sexual
harassment, and recalls that good manners used to be taught to
kids. This was nothing more than kindness and consideration for
each other, and in healthy societies, children grow up learning
such things. However, this has been lost now, and people are now
going to the federal government, demanding that laws be passed so
that others will be nice to them.

Rush agrees with some of this, but it's gone beyond a lack of
manners. There are a bunch of ninny-nannies who are insisting
that everyone live as they do, because this will reduce the
chances that they'll get insulted or inconvenienced in the
future. Cathy agrees with that, and says it's easier to mind
everyone else's business than to tend to your own. Rush says it
is much easier to mind everyone else's business than to get a
real job, which is a perfect description of many of these
mindless, busybody activists.

Phone	Tom from Detroit, MI

Tom doesn't see much difference between Democrats and Republicans
anymore, as the only difference is the degree of meddling. Rush
understands this point, but there are still huge differences
between the two parties. The biggest such difference is that
Republicans believe that individuals are best left alone, given
that it's individual freedom which has made America great,
allowing ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Democrats, though, believe that it's government and what
government does that have made American great. By this logic,
anyone who's excelled had to have cheated. Granted, some liberal
Republicans might believe this, but there is still a basic
difference between the two parties.

Tom says that nobody is "stepping up to the plate" to show this
difference between the parties, especially on health care. Rush
says this is happening, not to mention that Democrats such as
Senator Moynihan are engaging in artful sabotage of the Clinton
plan.

Tom hasn't seen anyone in the Republican party challenge the
basic assumption of the Clinton plan, which is that health care
is a right; there seems to be no philosophical opposition to this
idea except on Rush's show. Rush says that Dan Quayle's former
chief of staff Bill Kristol, along with William Bennett, Jack
Kemp, and others are out there, making speeches, rallying support
against the Clinton health care plan.

The fact is that the Republican party won't be very visible about
such things until it chooses a candidate for the 1996 Presidency.
Nothing will really happen until then, but people shouldn't allow
themselves to think that Republicans and Democrats are no
different, because there is a fundamental difference between how
these parties view the individual and what the individual is
capable of.

*BREAK*

Phone	John from Houston, TX

John gives megadittos, but disagrees with Rush about whether wars
are fought for freedom. Most wars are fought for money; even the
Revolutionary War was fought for money. Rush agrees that there
are always economic concerns, but the high taxation levied on the
colonists by Britain was just one aspect of how the colonists'
freedoms were being infringed.

John says that the Gulf War was not about freedom since Kuwait
was not a democracy in the first place. Rush says that America
was not fighting for democracy in Kuwait and nobody in the
administration claimed otherwise. The Gulf War was about the free
flow of oil for market prices, and Bush stated this; however, the
press immediately accused him of fighting to prop up oil prices
for his Texas friends, even though the price of oil fell after
the U.S. got involved.

Of course there are financial concerns with oil, but oil is also
the fuel of America's freedom, which is why the war was fought.
Oil is what allows Americans to heat their homes, to drive to
work, etc., and had Hussein gotten his hands on the Saudis' oil,
America's freedoms would have been threatened directly. Rush
doesn't deny that money is part of this, but freedom was a part
of the war.

John says that the war was more about money than freedom because
if wars were fought for freedom, the U.S. would be in Bosnia and
Rwanda. Rush points out that the Bosnian civil war is precisely
for freedom - just because the U.S. is not there doesn't mean
that the U.S. doesn't care about freedoms or that the Bosnian
Muslims don't care about their freedoms. The reason the U.S.
isn't over in Bosnia is because the U.S. can't win this war.

John says that the Bosnian Serbs want money, which is why they're
trying to take over the Muslims' land, which is equivalent to
money. Rush says every war has an aggressor and a defender, and
Hitler fought his war for evil purposes, which is why he is
considered a bad guy; the defenders opposed Hitler for good
reasons, i.e. freedom. The Allies weren't fighting for peace,
though, but for freedom.

The Allies opposed Nazi Germany for freedom, not money. Rush says
the soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy didn't care
about the economic actions, but John disagrees - "those soldiers
felt in their hearts knew they were fighting for money!" Rush
disagrees - those soldiers were fighting for freedom, they wanted
to free Europe from the evil clutches of the Nazis.

Certainly there were financial gains to be had, but so what -
money exists and it might be at the root of all evil, but money
that's earned by your own actions is not evil and having that
money is not evil.

*BREAK*

Phone	Tim from San Angelo, TX

Tim is in the military, so he wonders what will happen in Haiti.
Rush says he has great fears that America will invade and then
occupy the country with no end in sight. This won't be another
Vietnam, given that the Haitian army is not Saddam's army, plus
there's nowhere for these military leaders to hide. A U.S.
victory is assured.

However, once the military junta been ousted and Jean Bertrand
Aristide is installed, the U.S. will end up there with yet
another Caribbean beachhead. What bugs Rush most about this,
though, is that if the U.S. is going to invade a Caribbean
country, we should be going after Cuba and its fabled tobacco
fields.

Tim says that North Korea is another problem, but Rush says he is
no longer worried; after all, the U.S. is sending Jimmy Carter
over there to deal with the problem. Perhaps there will even be
an "Arms for Carter" exchange problem with North Korea.

