Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show for Friday, November 4, 1994 by John Switzer This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1994 by John Switzer. All Rights Reserved. These summaries are distributed on CompuServe and the Internet, and archived on CompuServe (DL9 of the ISSUES forum) and Internet (cathouse.org and grind.isca.uiowa.edu). The /pub/jrs directory at ftp.netcom.com contains the summaries for the past 30 days. Distribution to other electronic forums and bulletin boards is highly encouraged. Spelling and other corrections gratefully received. Please read the standard disclaimer which was included with the first summary for this month. In particular, please note that this summary is not approved or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or the EIB network, nor do I have any connection with them other than as a daily listener. ************************************************************* November 4, 1994 BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Senator Frank Lautenberg claims Chuck Haytaian is supported by pro-life extremists, the national gun lobby, and a racist; Democrats complain about voting guides distributed by the CHristian Coalition; Minnesota school implements perfume-free environment because of fears about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Environmental Illness; Clinton declares William Kristol to be the newest demon who tells Republicans what to think; Clinton attacks Republicans for wanting to cut farm subsidies, but it was Leon Panetta who implemented five years of such cuts in 1990; Republican Tim Lefevre is posing a strong challenge to Rep. Vic Fazio (D-CA), and he refuted Fazio's claims that the Republican contract will cut Social security; Rostenkowski is reportedly trailing in his re-election battle by 20 points; two, maybe three Democrats, will challenge House Speaker Tom Foley for the Speaker position next year, assuming Foley is re-elected; Senator Dole found that the number of federal criminal prosecutions has dropped 5% under the Clinton administration; caller thinks the people are stupid for re-electing certain members of Congress; caller would like to see the Republican party have one spokesman to give a unified party line, but Rush doesn't think this would be a real strength; the Republicans' Contract With America has carved out a strong area of Republican unity; caller thinks action has to be taken against Republican moderates who continually betray conservatives; words to EIB's PSA urging that "friends don't let friends vote Democratic"; Hillary Clinton and Ira Magaziner have been "fired" from health care; Robert Ruben and Carol Rasco will take over health care in the Clinton administration, and perhaps will try to include it in next year's budget; Wall Street Journal complains about outside special interests that are financing term limits in Washington state, but 93% of Foley's total campaign contributions come from outside of his district; Marshall Coleman is hurting Chuck Robb more than Oliver North; farmer points out that payments to farmers have fallen 15% under the Clinton administration when compared to the Reagan and Bush years; farmer wouldn't mind ending farm subsidies as long as the government also stops interfering with farming; Bernadette Castro says Giuliani endorsed Cuomo out of fears of political repercussions should Pataki win; Bernadette Castro hints that Golisano is in league with Giuliani and Cuomo; Ross Perot to endorse Golisano and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ); Lautenberg is basing his re-election campaign on a hate campaign against Bob Grant, a NY radio talk show host; Abe Hirschfeld claims Perot and Cuomo are planning to run for President in 1996; Lautenberg reaches new lows in his attack ads against Chuck Haytaian; Clinton says African-Americans are not "ordinary Americans"; Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) says Clinton's statement about African-Americans shows the cynical liberal view of America; Clinton urges voters not to vote out of anger, but rather to count to ten before voting for Republicans, implying that anyone who votes for Republicans is irrational; when Bill Clinton campaigned for David Dinkins, he implied that anyone who didn't vote for Dinkins was racist; Newt Gingrich got savaged for saying that Democrats were the enemy of normal Americans, but the press hasn't jumped on Clinton for saying African-Americans aren't normal; words to Presidential PSA to get out the vote; caller casts doubt on the veracity of EIB's Presidential PSA; Republican Gary Gill gets $60,000 from RNC to fight Dick Gephardt; Gary Gill is reportedly closing in on Gephardt, if he hasn't already passed him in the polls; Rush will do an ad for Big Ass Hams on David Letterman; caller thinks the "Turning Point" program was a lynch mob attack against Clarence Thomas, but Rush notes that the show had the lowest ratings for the night; it was Hill's defenders who didn't want Angela Wright to testify during Senate confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas because they knew her story couldn't withstand cross-examination; Paul Gigot column quotes from Clarence Thomas's statement against segregated voting districts to show why the left hates him; Justice Thomas thinks segregated voting districts exacerbate racial tensions; Chuck Robb loses it when describing Oliver North; NOW hangs up on caller when she tries to find out why they endorse Senator Ted Kennedy; caller proposes starting the National Organization for Women Not Represented by the National Organization for Women; Rush sings along with "Eye in the Sky"; caller suspects that the Clinton sound-alike caller whom Rush found during the 1992 campaign did the "presidential PSA", and asks Rush to replay that caller's statements of what Clinton would say if only he were honest; KCAL in Los Angeles will be airing Rush's show a bit earlier than usual whenever Laker games are on; Rush wonders how long it will be before someone claims that Susan Smith drowned her two children because of something wrong in society; caller thanks Rush for bringing her and her son-in-law closer. LIMBAUGH WATCH November 4, 1994 - It's now day 654 (day 673 for the rich and the dead, and 4 days until the November elections) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 808 days left) and 717 days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air with 660 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 Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) is leading his Republican challenger Chuck Haytaian in the polls, and his campaign advisers have said that if his lead continues to hold up through this week, the Senator will end his re-election campaign with a "few days of positive ads." Until then, however, Lautenberg will continue to attack Haytaian for refusing to denounce New York radio talk show host Bob Grant for making allegedly racist comments. Referring to the fact that Haytaian is pro-life and opposed to gun control, Lautenberg's latest ad also ends with the line: "Pro-life extremists. The national gun lobby. A racist. They're all supporting Chuck Haytaian. Should you?" o Democrats have charged that a voter guide to be distributed by the Christian Coalition this weekend is a violation of the constitutional principle of the separation of Church and State because it primarily contains thinly-veiled partisan endorsements of Republicans. The coalition's leaders, however, insist the guides don't pick sides but only offer researched evaluations of the candidates. Some Democrats, such as Stuart Price of Tulsa, OK, however, claim the guide is full of "mistruths" about their positions on abortion, homosexuality, and school prayer, but coalition spokesman Mike Russell had no sympathy for him and others who are complaining. "It is something we expect," he stated. "What we routinely see is candidates who refuse to answer our survey start complaining that we are putting their record out there for people to judge." The coalition has been accused of focusing on isolated parts of congressman's records so as to influence the voters, a technique Arthur Kropp of the People for the American Way called "a sickness in the system easily found on both sides." Kropp added that the coalition "has a lot of very good lawyers. While they don't come right out and endorse, it is very clear at least from the perspective of the Christian Coalition who [sic] you should vote for." LEST WE FORGET <> ******** MORNING UPDATE Americans have been inundated with studies recently about how the foods they enjoy are unhealthy and dangerous, but now there's a new threat to people's health: perfume. The University of Minnesota's School of Social Work, undoubtedly one of the nation's major institutions of higher learning, has decreed that its students cannot wear perfumes or colognes because a plethora of such scents could trigger Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Environmental Illness, a new syndrome Rush bets will soon be found related to Attention Deficit Disorder. The school's ban applies only to the its own students, but others, such as philosophy and women studies students, who use the school's four-story building are being urged to remain scent-free. This, Rush notes, should make the women studies students happy, given that the perfume-free environment will be a sort of basic training for feminists who want to learn how not to be feminine. The school's director, Jean Kwam, said "we're not the smell police. When people get educated about it, they still may think it's crazy, but they will also realize that perfumes can physically make people sick." Rush notes, though, that this is a crazy idea, and it's a symptom of how some in society simply can't stand to see anyone else enjoying themselves. FIRST HOUR Rush is in a singing mood, so he starts the show by singing excerpts from his version of the Alan Parson Project's "Eye in the Sky," which he pledges will be done in toto later in the show, assuming his staff can find the tune. Tony Lo Bianco says he doesn't want to go into the music library to find it because two men are hugging in there, but Rush sternly rebukes him by saying "don't say can't! This program has not gotten where it has with people saying `can't'!" ******** Rush, however, is a little depressed at the moment because he's no longer the source of all problems for President Clinton. It used to be that Rush was the centerpiece of all that was going wrong with Clinton and his administration, but now some upstart has replaced Rush as the ultimate evil. Rush learned about this horrible change in the political landscape when President Clinton said the following while campaigning in Iowa yesterday: "Last Sunday on Meet the Press the Republicans' top strategist in Washington, Bill Kristol, said he wanted to end farm subsidies, and that as soon as the election was over, the Republican Senator from Kansas, their leader, would take the lead in doing just that. He said that, I didn't. Now, Mr. Kristol, you probably haven't heard of him, but he's the fellow who tells them what to think up in Washington. He told them, for example, to stop cooperating with us on health care. I pleaded with him. I said, `You don't like my ideas? I'll try yours! Let's cooperate on health care!' " Rush notes that this last statement has to be one of the biggest lies Clinton has yet told - it's absolutely untrue that Clinton ever told Republicans that he was willing to listen to their ideas. However, in spite of that it's clear that Rush is no longer the apple of the President's eye. William Kristol, though, seemed surprised to learn that he's now become the focus of all things anti-Clinton, saying "Me? The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States is worried about me?! Who am I?" Rush called Kristol this morning to describe how jealous he was that Kristol has usurped him from this prestigious position, but Kristol consoled Rush, saying that in his view, he had actually been elevated to join Rush. Rush, however, was not placated because President Clinton has clearly dumped him from any further Presidential considerations; undoubtedly, FAIR will soon come out with a list of Kristol's "lies" so as to continue the President's attacks. As to the farm subsidy business, though, Rush has been doing some homework on this subject, to see what Democrats have been doing about this. It didn't take long for him to find that the May 14, 1990 edition of the Chicago Tribune reported that Congress was working on a new five-year Farm Bill, with Rep. Leon Panetta (D-CA), chairman of the House Budget Committee, telling the House Agriculture Committee that "farm programs have to be cut by $8.6 billion over the five-year period." Panetta also directed that $900 million in savings be made for fiscal year 1991. Thus, Clinton's own chief of staff suggested and implemented a cut in farm subsidies, which is no surprise, given that it was also the Democrats who implemented new taxes on Social Security recipients and are even now considering cuts in Social Security cost of living adjustments. Nevertheless, the Democrats are accusing Republicans of wanting to do exactly this, but the truth is exactly the opposite of what the Democrats are saying. Rush promises more about this topic a little later, along with news about how Tom Foley is getting 93% of his contributions from out of district and/or out of state sources. Foley, though, is hypocritically accusing Republican special interests of funding George Nethercutt's campaign, but Rush will supply the facts to illustrate Foley's hypocrisy and lies. Today's Wall Street Journal has an editorial, in fact, that asks "Democratic conversion: what ever happened to liberalism?" In short, the Democrats are displaying that they have always been liberals and have no intention of changing that. *BREAK* Rep. Vic Fazio (D-CA) of West Sacramento has had a traditionally safe seat, so he often has been sent out to do tough jobs, such as making the case for congressional pay increases or attacking the religious right. No matter how angry people might have gotten at Fazio, he typically has never had to worry about re-election. However, this year Republican Tim Lefevre is giving Fazio some real problems, so Fazio is responding by attacking and mischaracterizing the Republicans' Contract with America, claiming that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Lefevre thus took a copy of the contract with him to a debate with Fazio, and when Fazio predictably attacked the contract, Lefevre brought it out, waved it in Fazio's face and declared the following: "This is the Republican contract, here's what's in it. If you can find anywhere in this contract where we talk about cuts in Social Security benefits, cuts in Veteran benefits, cuts in student loans, or cuts in education, I'll withdraw from the race. But if you can't find mention on any such cuts, I expect that you'll have the integrity to withdraw." Fazio was left fumbling, bumbling, and speechless, and Lefevre has kept up the pressure to counter Fazio's claims that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Fazio is not "misinterpreting" the contract but is outright lying about what it says. Instead of withdrawing from the race, though, Fazio has instead cited groups like Families USA which claims that the GOP's contract will cut at least $165 million from Social Security checks. Similarly, the National Council of Seasoned Citizens states the contract will cut benefits to the old, sick, and the poor, while the Center on Budget Policy insists that future benefits cuts and tax increases will be required to offset increasing deficits caused by this contract. Fazio presented this as his "proof," but Lefevre noted that none of what Fazio said was any evidence that Republicans will cut Social Security. Rush thinks this is a great race to watch and he's encouraged by how Lefevre is not backing down but continuing to press Fazio. In other races, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) is trailing a little known Republican candidate in the polls in Chicago, IL. Today's Washington Times reports that private Republican polls show that Rostenkowski is trailing by 20 points, and the Republican National Committee will spend about $60,000 putting on an ad blitz during the final days of the campaign. These ads will not attack Rostenkowski but will bring up the crime and other local issues. And because House Speaker Tom Foley is having so many problems with George Nethercutt in Washington, two other House Democrats, Charles Stenholm and Charlie Rose, have said that should Foley be re-elected, they will challenge him for the Speaker's position, and Dick Gephardt might do so as well. Thus, even if Foley wins, he'll face some major problems in Congress. In other news, Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) has found that the total number of new criminal prosecutions by the federal government under the Clinton administration is down 5%, which puts the lie to the assertion by the Democrats that they are tough on crime. *BREAK* Phone Roland from Anaheim, CA Roland heard Rush a few weeks ago criticize two stories in the NY Times and Washington Post which put the blame for problems in Congress on the people. Roland, though, thinks that whatever is happening in Congress is put there by the people. Rush doesn't agree, but notes that the two stories he mentioned weren't saying that the people were to blame for electing these guys, but rather that the people were stupid and didn't know what they wanted in the first place, and that when they get what they want, they complain. The papers were attacking the American people for having it too good and for not understanding how good they really have it. Roland says he talked to Rush several months ago when Kenneth Starr was first appointed, and he tried to make the point that Rush's attacks on Clinton might cause some people to feel sympathetic towards him. These people would be stupid, though, and similarly, if members of Congress such as Kennedy, Rostenkowski, and all the others who continually get re-elected in spite of scandal and character problems, then aren't the people to blame for this? Rush says his point is something different. There were some callers a while ago who tried to claim the American people were stupid for electing people like Kennedy, Foley, and Rostenkowski, but Rush warned them that they had to carefully define what they meant by "stupid." The Washington Post and NY Times pieces, though, weren't calling the people stupid because they elected these men, but rather because the voters didn't realize how great these men were. Places like Massachusetts are very liberal and they'll continue electing liberals for some time to come. These people, though, might be called blind and misguided, but Rush wouldn't call them stupid. The NY Times and Washington Post, though, did call the voters stupid for not recognizing how good liberals are and how bad conservatives are. Phone Bob from Parma, OH Bob thinks the one thing that the Republican party has to do is unify itself; for example, Clinton gives his radio address every week, but each week it's a different Republican who replies. Bob thinks it would be a lot better if the GOP picked a spokesman who delivered the party line. Rush disagrees because one of the strengths of the GOP is the fact that it does have a variety of opinions and is willing to present them. It's the Democrats who are the monolithic politicians who insist everyone follows their orthodoxy; for example, the Democrats didn't even allow Governor Bob Casey (D-PA), who's pro-life, to speak at the 1992 Democratic convention. In contrast, Republicans did allow both sides of the abortion debate to speak. It's tough to manage a party with many diverse views, but it's an ultimately good thing if the Republican party can be seen as a place where differences of opinion can be discussed and debated. Bob, though, says the party doesn't seem to have any unity, but instead is composed of a bunch of guys all trying to get their individual agendas out. Rush says this will remain the case until the 1996 Presidential race; when the party chooses its nominee, a unified agenda will result. Bob, though, still thinks the party should have just one spokesman. Rush says this would be very tough; for example, assuming that Rush were given this job, how would he develop this "unified Republican response"? Would he call a cabal of Republican leaders to find out what he should say, or would he just respond as he personally feels? Bob thinks Rush would make a very good spokesman, but Rush says Arlen Spector might be the spokesman, and the same question remains - how will this spokesman determine what to say? Bob doesn't care about who the spokesman is but thinks it's important that there be one spokesman articulating the core Republican values to the people. The Republicans have to let the people know that the Constitution should be absolute and inviolate. Rush asks Bob about Jack Kemp's opposition to Proposition 187, and Bob says that Kemp should have kept out of what is a local issue. Rush then asks how Bob would feel if Kemp became the "official" GOP spokesman and spoke out on this issue. Bob says he would disagree with Kemp, but he still respects both him and William Bennett. Rush, though, says that the point is no one Republican spokesman will please everyone in the party. Bob says that Richard Riordan has endorsed Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) because she has pledged to bring federal funds to California; Bob doesn't understand why the GOP couldn't step in and rebuke Riordan, telling the nation that he doesn't represent the Republican party. Rush says that the Republicans' Contract with America is one step towards what Bob wants, and this reminds him of Bernadette Castro, the Republican who's challenging Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), and who has charged that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was on the phone with Riordan, telling him to endorse Feinstein. Giuliani is denying this, saying that Castro has lost it getting near to the elections. Rush adds that ABC's "Turning Point," which did a hatchet job on Clarence Thomas, finished dead last in the ratings for Wednesday night. Rush thanks Bob for his call and has no doubts that many Republicans feel as he does. *BREAK* Phone Mark from Ft. Lauderdale, FL Mark agrees completely with the previous caller and Rush that the first step is to vote Republican, but that after the elections you have to work on making sure the Republican party goes in the right direction. The Republican moderates, though, are basically telling conservatives that they are welcome in the "big tent," but only if they sit in the back and shut up. Throughout the country the moderates are betraying conservatives, taking their money and then ignoring them. Republicans desperately need someone in the party to stand up and speak for the conservatives, pointing out that the moderates are betraying them. Principled opposition within the party means going to a convention and giving a speech about what you believe; it's not going out and working for a member of the opposition and denouncing the Republican candidate who was chosen by Republican delegates, as Giuliani has done. The difference between these two types of opposition is exactly like the difference between marching in an anti-war demonstration at home and going to Hanoi to associate with the enemy, posing on an anti-aircraft cannon that's used to shoot down American planes. Similarly, Mark doesn't think Kemp and Bennett were really principled in opposing Proposition 187; they interfered with the affairs of another state, and this bothers Mark because he knows Florida is going to have to deal with this problem really soon, too. The Republican leaders have to start pointing this fact out and reining in these Republicans who are attacking their own. However, the party leaders keep telling conservatives that they have to accept such moderates and "understand" their principles. However, the moderates take the conservatives, their support, and their money for granted; conservatives, though, want to know that if they get involved in the battle at the front lines, the party leaders will be supporting them. It's the moderates in the party who have to go because they are unreliable, untrustworthy, and not deserving of conservatives' faith, it's the moderates who are the betrayers. Rush says "amen and a thousand attaboys" to this, and notes that there's no question that a war is going to be held within the Republican party over the next two years. The issue of party unity, though, will be decided in the Presidential elections, and Rush has never made it a secret that he has little respect for moderates and middle-of-the-roaders. What is most important is that after next week's elections, the moderates have to be shown the truth, which is that the country is not made up of moderates such as they. *BREAK* EIB, ever eager to do its civic duty, plays an especially appropriate PSA: > You've heard the excuses before . . . <> But honest, it was only a couple! <> The self-deception . . . <> One more couldn't possibly hurt! <> The self-denial . . . <> Hey, I'm in control! I could stop any time I wanted. <> 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. <> Hey! Which way to the voting booth? *BREAK* SECOND HOUR Items o Hillary Clinton has been "fired" from health care by her husband, at least as far as anyone in the public sphere will know. Both Hillary and Ira Magaziner have been "redeployed" to other duties, while Robert Ruben and Carol Rasco will take over health care next year. President Clinton might attempt to make health care reform part of the federal budget, which is a "real sneaky" move on his part. Rush pledges, though, that he'll keep a sharp eye on what happens. In any case, though, Hillary Clinton has been fired as "health care mama" (not her official title). o The back page of today's Wall Street Journal is about the "populist-sounding" attempt to promote term limits and to defeat House Speaker Tom Foley in Washington. This effort is drawing upon "wealthy Republicans with ties to Libertarian and conservative causes, and to GOP Rep. Newt Gingrich." The campaign, though, refuses to disclose its contributors, according to the Journal, but the Journal found ties to individuals that have given hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past to a Gingrich-backed political committee, the Libertarian Cato Institute, and the Nicaraguan Contras. Rush loves this story because it illustrates how the left is cracking up; the left is actually trying to demonize supporters of term limits by calling them "Contra-givers." However, the editorial page of today's Journal contains an interesting expose on "outside special interests." Contrary to the obvious interpretation, though, "outside special interests" are not special interests that are outside one's district but rather outside special interests that dare to contribute to non-liberal causes. Foley has been whining and complaining for weeks that "outside special interests" are giving huge contributions to Nethercutt, and that this is not fair or right, not what the country's founders intended. However, when Foley's contributions are examined, it's discovered that 93% of them also come from "outside special interests." According to the Journal, in this year's primary, individual contributions to Foley's campaign amounted to $519,897, but $441,000 of that came from outside of the district (85%). PACs contributed $724,000 to Foley during the primaries, and 98% of that ($711,000) came from outside of his district. Thus, out of a total of $1,244,000 in contributions to Foley this last primary season, 93% of it ($1,053,000) came from outside his district. Foley, though, is claiming that Nethercutt has an unfair advantage because of his "outside special interests." Meanwhile, the Journal story on the back page of today's edition complains that "outside special interests" are daring to support term limits in Washington state. Rush pledges that he'll continue doing stuff like this - as long as the Democrats keep lying and distorting the truth, EIB will set the record straight and expose their lies. As to Foley's current battle with Nethercutt, individual contributions to Foley have totalled $120,632, and 77% ($92,000) of that came from outside his district. And out of $266,545 in total PAC contributions for the general election, 100% of it, every last dime, came from outside special interests. If you add up the figures for the general election, you once again find that 93% of his total contributions have come from outside his district. For Foley's entire 1994 re-election campaign, therefore, 93% of $1,631,221 in total contributions have come outside of his district, yet Foley is complaining that his opponent is daring to accept contributions from "outside special interests." Chuck Robb also lost it big time in describing his opponent Oliver North; Rush will talk more about this later, but notes that the Washington Post is reporting that contrary to the conventional wisdom, independent Virginia Senate candidate Marshall Coleman is hurting Robb more than he is North. *BREAK* Phone Greg from Scotts Bluff, NE Greg heard Rush's mention of the farms subsidy, and since he's been growing corn since 1972, he knows that farmers were paid more in deficiency payments during the Reagan and Bush years than in the Clinton years. He explains that farmers are actually paid for the acres on which they grow crops, contrary to the popular impression that farmers are paid for not growing crops. For example, a 100-acre corn farm can have a 10% "set aside," which means they can lay fallow up to 10 acres of the land each year; under the Reagan administration, farmers were paid on the full 90 acres they could grow corn on, but under Democrats such as Clinton and Foley, the farmer is paid on only 85% of the 90 acres. Thus, while the Democrats are accusing Republicans of wanting to cut the farm subsidies, the Clinton administration has already cut the farmers' subsidies via manipulating the farm bills and the formulas used therein. During the Reagan years, Greg's farm was collecting between $25,000 and $30,000 a year, but last year he had to pay everything back. Rush asks if Greg thinks it's right to receive such payments, and he says no; he'd instead like to see a real insurance reform that reduces the risk that farmers take each year. Someone doesn't insure their house for half value - if the house burns down, the insurance pays for it all, but farmers get paid only 30 to 40% of the value of some of the crops they grow. Rush asks if Greg's point is that farmers are being paid or subsidized less under the Clinton administration than under Republican regimes. Greg says this is his point, and Rush says many people think farmers are being paid not to grow something. Greg says he knows people may think this, but this isn't the case. Rush, though, says a lot of people oppose all farm subsidies, and Greg would like to see that happen, too, but for this to happen, the government has to stop a lot of things, such as its farm reports which depress crop prices. Farmers are getting 1940s era prices for their crop while paying 1990s prices for farm equipment. Greg adds that many farm banks were closed by the FDIC during the Reagan terms, but he knows this happened because of the Carter administration policies, not Reagan policies. Rush thanks Greg for calling, and says that everyone should take a course on the federal government's relationship with the country's farmers. Rush recalls that it took him quite a while to research how the U.S. subsidized grain sales to the Soviet Union back in the mid-80s; it's a complex issue which he couldn't even begin to explain now. However, when it comes time to cut the budget, the country will have to closely examine its farm policies because the people aren't going to accept any more taxes (which is why Democrats and liberals are angry at the public for refusing to accept higher taxes). But the federal budget can be fixed only on the spending side, and this means that hot political issues such as farm subsidies will have to be addressed. *BREAK* Rush remarks that it's going to be a fine, fine football weekend this weekend because one of New York's teams won't be playing Sunday, which means that New Yorkers will get to see a good game then; in this case, they'll be able to see the 49ers vs. the Redskins. ******** Returning to the story about Bernadette Castro, who's opposing Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Rush says she's claiming she had an October 30th secret meeting with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani at Gracie Mansion. She says that during this meeting, Giuliani said he was endorsing Mario Cuomo "out of fear of the political repercussions" should Pataki and his political mentor Alfonse D'Amato beat Cuomo. Reportedly, Giuliani tried to convince Castro that both she and he would both be finished under that situation. Castro also hinted that independent candidate for mayor Thomas Golisano might be in league with Cuomo and Giuliani in their attempt to defeat Pataki. Castro quoted Giuliani as telling her "I've got a three front war going, myself, Tom Golisano, and Governor Cuomo. You could be the fourth front! We have to take George out!" Castro is now campaigning with Pataki, and Giuliani has dismissed her allegations, saying "I honestly feel sorry for Bernadette. She lives in an unreal world. She believes she's going to win. I don't want to give her any more attention." Golisano's adviser has also denied Castro's charges, saying that Golisano has been running against both Cuomo and Pataki. Rush notes, though, that Ross Perot and Mario Cuomo are good friends, and it's curious therefore that Perot is planning to endorse Golisano. Even stranger is the rumor that Perot will be endorsing Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), which makes Rush wonder what it is motivating Perot's endorsements. Obviously Perot is not informed about what Lautenberg has resorted to in his campaign. Lautenberg is a cliched tax and spend liberal, and even though he has spent 12 years in the Senate, he's not been touting his record; instead, the major focus of his campaign has been a vindictive series of attacks against New York radio talk show host Bob Grant. Lautenberg doesn't mention what he stands for, what he believes, or what his record has been; instead, he has engaged in one character assassination after another. Yet Perot is going to support Lautenberg, campaigning for him after he goes out and campaigns for Golisano, who has only 7% or so in the polls. Perot obviously is working to defeat George Pataki. Meanwhile, Abe Hirschfeld, who once owned the NY Post for a couple of weeks before the paper's employees revolted, is claiming that Perot and Cuomo have cooked up a side deal, planning to run together for President in 1996. Rush, however, warns people not to give this report too much credence because Hirschfeld is known for "coming in from the margins." While this sort of thing is fun to watch, though, Rush notes that Lautenberg has reached new lows in his attack ad against his opponent Chuck Haytaian. This ad is full of misinformation and lies, based on fear-mongering at its worst, and it's totally irrational for Perot to endorse this man if he cares about the issues at all. And then, when President Clinton was interviewed on Black Entertainment Television he said the following: "African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do." Rush can't believe the President of the United States said this, especially since Clinton was obviously trying to play the race card, frightening apathetic minority voters into coming out to the polls. Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) perhaps had the best comment about Clinton's comment: "For Bill Clinton to say that African-Americans are not ordinary Americans is an outrage. In a desperate attempt to scare voters in this election year, Bill Clinton is revealing the cynical liberal view that Americans are to be pitted against each other on the basis of gender, age, religion, or race." Rush doesn't think this could be said any better because the Clinton administration has consistently sought to pit one group of Americans against another, in any way that they think will benefit them and their agenda. Just as Charles Rangel thinks that the real racists are those who want to cut taxes, Clinton's statement shows that he's the real racist, that what he's accusing Republicans of is what he truly feels. The left don't look at someone and see a human being; instead, they see a man, a woman, a black, a white, a gay, or a straight. It is liberals who segregate people into increasingly smaller groups, and then they turn around and blame everyone else for being racist, bigoted, sexist, homophobic, etc. Clinton's huge faux pax sheds a huge light on what he believes - it's the President who doesn't think African-Americans are "ordinary." Clinton also said the following during an appearance in Albany on behalf of Mario Cuomo, as he urged voters not to vote out of anger: "Take a deep breath. Sit down and have a cup of coffee. If you're mad, count ten before you talk. How many times were we raised with that? Well, what the Republicans want for you to do is to go in and vote before you count to two." Thus, Clinton thinks anyone who votes Republicans is irrational and not thinking clearly. This arrogant condescension, as with his earlier statement, shows what liberals truly think about the people they allegedly represent and support. *BREAK* Rush says the EIB Institute's Memory Division has just remembered something with regards to Clinton's remark that "African-Americans watch the same news as night as ordinary Americans do" (a remark that was ignored by the mainstream media). When President Clinton campaigned for Mayor David Dinkins last year, Clinton stated that he was disappointed how people in New York just didn't want to vote for "anyone who looks different than they do," thereby implying that anyone voting for Rudolph Giuliani was a racist. Last year Clinton came to town to play the race card, in an attempt to defeat Giuliani, but evidently Giuliani doesn't hold any grudges since he and Clinton are the best of buddies right now. Rush played a clip of this on his TV show last year, but of course the mainstream press didn't have much of a reaction to what Clinton was implying. Yet when Newt Gingrich said that the Democrats were the enemy of "normal Americans," the liberals and Clinton went bonkers. Clinton himself had a fit out on the campaign trail, vilifying Gingrich for implying all sorts of heinous things with his use of the term "normal Americans," but Clinton's insult of African-Americans is ignored. This shows how it's the Democrats who are engaging in guttural and visceral fear-mongering in a desperate attempt to save their political skins. The Democrats claim to be the healers but the truth is that they can win only if they divide the people, using the worst fear-tactics and scare-mongering. This should make people angry but on the other hand it shows just how desperate the Democrats' situation is. Another example of this is what Chuck Robb is doing in Virginia, which Rush will relate in the next hour. *BREAK* Phone Eric from Morristown, NJ Eric has something to say about yesterday's Presidential PSA, so Rush replays it now: <> My fellow Americans, a pillar of our democracy is the right to vote, but not only is it our privilege, it's also our responsibility, and a necessity in a free society. So when the people want change, when they're fed up with an ineffective or oppressive government, they can express their disapproval by voting. If you're that kind of person, I urge you to go to the polls and vote November 9th for the candidate of your choice. Eric caught the mistake with the date of the elections, and points out that Clinton has been out campaigning for all sorts of Democrats, so he must be very much aware that the elections are on Tuesday, November 8th. Thus, it doesn't make sense to Eric that Clinton would make this kind of slip, not to mention that a President has all sorts of people around to catch mistakes like this. Sadly, Rush runs out of time, so he can't get to Eric's ultimate point. *BREAK* THIRD HOUR Rush, undoubtedly under extraordinary pressure from EIB's heavy-handed lawyers, gives the following disclaimer at warp speed: "Remember, ladies and gentlemen, voices-heard-on-this-show-may-not- necessarily-be-those-of-the-actual-people." Rush regrets he didn't have any time for the previous caller, and asks Bo if he knows what the guy's point was. Bo says the guy was convinced Clinton had purposely given the wrong date for next week's elections in the PSA so as to fool the EIB audience. Rush finds this a shocking allegation and explains that the White House called EIB earlier this week to ask if the network would run a public-spirited PSA. EIB was glad to do so, but it quickly got a lot of calls about how the PSA had the wrong date for the elections. Rush replays the PSA, just so everyone can hear it again and come to their own conclusions. Phone Mary Jane from St. Louis, MO Mary Jane gives dittos but says "no way that's a PSA from the White House!" A stunned Rush demands that she explain herself, so she points out that the real Bill Clinton doesn't believe in the existence of something like an oppressive government. Rush demurs, pointing out that Clinton might not believe this but he says stuff like this all the time, at least during campaigns which is when he moves to the right. Mary Jane suspects that Rush is trying to snooker the audience, to which Rush replies "Mary Jane, what must you think of me?" Mary Jane hedges her bets by saying "I think you're trying to make a statement." Rush applauds her diplomatic style and rewards her by replaying the PSA in question. Rush pledges to look further, promising that he'll admit it should it turn out that EIB has been snookered or even if EIB is the snookerer. He asks Mary Jane if she's been following the race between Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO) and Republican Gary Gill, and she replies that she doesn't nor has she heard much about it. Rush remarks that EIB hasn't been able to find any polling data on this race, and the most recent story he found on it was dated October 28th. Gill has been having money problems, but he just received $60,000 from the Republican National Committee to run some TV ads in the final days of the campaign. Mary Jane says the problem is that the media features Gephardt whenever they get the chance. For example, there's a drive on to convince the Los Angeles Rams to move to St. Louis, and Gephardt is on the news giving updates on this. Rush is not surprised by this and thanks her for her call. Phone Glenda from Festus, MO Glenda says hi to her mother in Advance, MO, and Rush remarks that his mother used to drive him to Advance so he could catch the bus to see his grandmother. Glenda adds that she's known Rush's grandfather for some time and has admired him and Rush's family for years. She would love Rush to lend his support in the effort to defeat Richard Gephardt, given that the press is not mentioning him or the race at all, which must mean things are going back for Gephardt. The race between him and Gill has been neck and neck, but last night she heard from one of Gephardt's campaign workers that Gill has pulled ahead. Rush says EIB has been trying to find out more information about this, but it's not found any polling data at all; there doesn't seem to be anyone doing any polls on this race - none of the media outlets will admit to doing any congressional polls. The only poll they found was three weeks old that showed Gill behind by only 6 to 9 points; even this, though, is an amazing achievement for Gill, given that Gephardt has typically had the safest of the safe seats in Congress. Rush hopes that Glenda's information is right, though, because a Gill victory would be monumental. Rush met Gill during a trip to St. Louis in May, and when Gill told Rush he would be running against Gephardt, Rush encouraged him, but without much hope he'd even come close. That's why Gill should be applauded in the first place because the conventional wisdom was that nobody could win against Gephardt, yet he undertook the challenge anyway, and if Gill is neck and neck with Gephardt now, then it's an incredible achievement. The Republican National Committee's $60,000 donation, the maximum amount, should help him though; the RNC has also donated $60,000 to Ron Freeman of Kansas City. In the past three weeks or so, Gephardt has been attacking the Republicans' Contract with America, and Gill hasn't been able to respond effectively because of a shortage of funds. With the $60,000 from the RNC, though, hopefully he can effectively fight back. Rush thanks Glenda for calling, and adds that he'll be making a cameo appearance tonight on Late Night with David Letterman, appearing as himself doing a commercial for Big Ass Hams, Letterman's running joke. Letterman doesn't do commercial endorsements, but he started doing joke ads for Big Ass Hams because he gives a canned ham to one member of his audience each night. Rush considers himself fortunate because he'll be doing a commercial for a new product, Big Ass Breakfast Links; the ad is a take-off on the Harry and Louise health care commercials, and Rush encourages everyone to watch. It'll be aired at the end of the first guest segment of tonight's show, following Steffie Graff's appearance. *BREAK* Phone John from Westminster, MD John has heard Rush accuse some liberals of projecting their own failings, such as racism, on Republicans, and since he's been guilty of doing this sort of projecting himself in the past, he's very much aware of how it works. He's seen things a lot of this recently, such as how Peter Jennings and other news anchors claim that the country will face major disasters should Republicans win control of Congress. However, the nadir of this sort of thing had to be last Wednesday's "Turning Point" program, which was nothing less than a mindless lynch mob out to hang Clarence Thomas, and they didn't care what the evidence was or what Thomas's guilt might be. Rush agrees; there is no evidence against Thomas, and in fact there wasn't even one new charge levied against him on Turning Point. And it's absolutely untrue that there was a Republican plot to stop these other women from testifying against Thomas during his Senate confirmation hearings. Angela Wright, for example, didn't testify before Congress three years ago because Anita Hill's people didn't want her on the stand. Wright had so much baggage, such as her anger at being fired by Thomas, that Hill's defenders knew her testimony would hurt Hill more than help. However, Hill's defenders are more than willing to give Wright all the space she needs in a new book in which she can make her charges without fear of being cross-examined or challenged. Coauthor Jane Mayer, who has previously said she and coauthor Jill Abramson didn't have any axe to grind or agenda to promote in their book, said on Larry King Live the other night "I had hoped Clarence Thomas would have shown more empathy" towards Hill. But what business is it of Mayer's to demand that Thomas show what she thinks is empathy? Clearly the authors of this book have their own agenda, which is to beat Thomas back down because he's still a conservative and is therefore not satisfying the left. Paul Gigot's column in today's Wall Street Journal addresses all this, and he notes that part of the problem is that liberals still won't admit that their "racial politics has backfired." Gigot points out that Thomas has proven the failure of such politics by writing the following in a Supreme Court case earlier this year: "Few devices could be better designed to exacerbate racial tensions than the consciously segregated districting system currently being constructed in the name of the Voting Rights Act. Our drive to segregate political districts by race can only serve to deepen racial divisions by destroying any need for voters or candidates to build bridges between racial groups or to form voting coalitions." This is why the left is against Thomas - he opposes their attempts to exacerbate racial tensions and to divide the country. The left's high-tech lynching of Thomas continues to this day, but fortunately nobody seems to be interested, given that Turning Point was the lowest rated show of the night. *BREAK* A Reuters story quoted the following "jawbreaker outburst" uttered by Chuck Robb about his opponent in the Virginia Senate race, Oliver North: "a document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander-in-Chief bashing, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, drug-condoning, Noriega-coddling, swiss-banking, law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving snake oil salesman who cannot tell the difference between a truth and a lie." Rush bets that someone such as Arsenio Hall had to write this for Robb, who clearly doesn't have the skill to write even things like this. Phone Helen from North Redding, MA Helen has spent a goodly portion of the past week trying to find out from NOW why they're endorsing Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). The woman at NOW told Helen that their endorsement was based only on his voting record, so Helen asked if this meant that NOW believed that as long as you publicly stood up for women, it was all right to privately abuse them. The woman at NOW said the group didn't agree with this, so Helen again asked why NOW was endorsing Kennedy. The woman never did answer the question and eventually hung up on Helen when she pressed the point. Helen thus has decided to come up with a new national group: NOW NOT NOW, or the National Organization for Women Not represented by the National Organization for Women. Rush loves this idea and thinks Helen has pegged NOW perfectly. Rush notes that NOW's membership is at most 250,000, and that generous figure would have to include those who have died. NOW is clearly not representative of mainstream American women, but the reason the group supports Ted Kennedy is because he's liberal and pro-choice. Helen understands this, and adds that she found it ironic that at the bottom of NOW's literature endorsing Ted Kennedy is a plea for women to help stop the violence against women. Helen found that to be very hypocritical. Rush agrees, adding that everyone knows what is being discussed here, and he thanks Helen for calling. The EIB staff has finally find "Eye in the Sky," so Rush, noting that he has never minded embarrassing himself by proving he can't sing, has them play it, as he sings the new lyrics he once invented for its chorus: "I am a Democrat, In the House of Representatives. I've got what it take, To take what you've got, I can steal you blind. You will have nothing left if you vote for me! Because I will steal you blind. You will be finished off, and you must love me for doing it to you!" Rush originally made up these lyrics when he was driving around in Sacramento in 1986 or so, but sadly he can't remember all of the lyrics he ad-libbed at the time. However, if you make up your own lyrics, just remember to keep vamping on "I will steal you blind" at the end so as to get that true liberal Democrat flavor. *BREAK* Phone Jeff from Worchester, MA Jeff is calling from his car phone in front of where a Democrat congressional candidate just met with Hillary Clinton, but this doesn't seem to be helping him. Mitt Romney still seems to be doing strong, although the media has different opinions about his chances. Rush sighs because Romney probably would be doing a lot better if he actually disagreed with Kennedy once in a while. Jeff agrees with that and next says that as far as the Presidential PSA is concerned, Jeff wonders if it might have perhaps been done by the caller two years ago who sounded a lot like Bill Clinton. Rush says he remembers that caller, but he knows for certain that the guy who did the PSA wasn't that caller. Jeff comments that he can remember the very day that Rush talked to this caller; he was in his car at the time, stopped at a light, and couldn't stop laughing when Rush had the Clinton sound-alike say all the things Rush suggested. A Cadillac in the next lane honked its horn, and when Jeff looked over, the car's four occupants, all wearing business suits, shouted out "Rush." They thus obviously were listening too and knew what Jeff was laughing at. Rush says he doesn't have a tape of that actual caller but EIB does have a tape of the statements that this guy made when asked to say what Clinton would say if only he were honest: o I loathe the military. o My wife tells me what to do every night. o My plan will destroy America. o I don't have any idea of what my policies are really going to do - I just want to be President. o I am amazed at how easy it has been to fool people into believing I'm not a liberal. o I am amazed at how easy it has been to fool people into believing I'm a moderate. <> o These are not the worst times in the last 50 years. o Gennifer, just be quiet! If you blow it for me it will be the last time you do it for anybody. Jeff is amazed at how closely this guy sounds like Clinton, but Rush replays his Presidential PSA so as to show that whoever did the PSA is not the same guy as the caller two years ago. Rush is glad that Jeff reminded him of this and praises him for having such a good memory. Jeff says this is partially because he listens all the time to Rush because he's on the road a lot; he used to listen to classical music, but that tends to put you to sleep. He tried rock music, but that made him want to run people over, but listening to Rush is just right. Rush can't disagree with this and thanks Jeff for calling and contributing to the program. Phone Tom from Hacienda, CA Tom is glad that he can watch Rush's TV show on EIB's Los Angeles affiliate KCAL channel 9 at 7:30 p.m. each night, but he wonders what's going to happen with the LA Lakers start playing; will Rush's show be preempted on those nights and will it be replayed? Rush is aware of this conflict and explains that EIB has arranged a special feed for KCAL so that they can air the show early as a lead-in to the Lakers game, which is a really nice thing for the station to do. KCAL is going out of its way to accommodate Rush, his show, and its audience, so Rush encourages Tom and others who appreciate this to let the station know. EIB will have to tape the show a little earlier on these nights; EIB normally sends the program out on the satellite at 6 p.m. eastern time, but the station needs more time than that to prepare the show, add its commercials, etc. Thus, it's a joint effort by both KCAL and EIB, and Rush thanks them for making that effort. He thanks Tom for calling. *BREAK* Rush mentions Susan Smith of South Carolina who is now accused of killing her two young children, after telling a story about them being carjacked. He wonders, though, how long it will be before someone starts asking "what did America do to make her drown her kids? What has happened to America that this kind of thing can happen?" He doesn't know exactly when this will happen, but sooner or later someone will ask some form of this question. Phone Yvonne from Franklin, NJ Yvonne says that she, like Rush's mother-in-law, has a wonderful son-in-law, too; the two of them didn't have much in common until she learned he listened to Rush, too, and since then she's been much closer to him than the typical mother-in-law. Sometimes when she calls him at night, Rush is the first thing he mentions, and after they discuss Rush they move onto other things. She thus wants to thank Rush for bringing the two of them closer together. Rush is intrigued that Yvonne calls her son-in-law, and she says she's very grateful at how good he is to her daughter, working hard and making her happy. Rush is glad to her this and thanks her for ending the program on such a positive note. Rush also encourages everyone, though, to be certain to tune to Monday's Morning Update because it will contain "special instructions" to EIB's dittohead faithful.