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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Thursday, November 3, 1994

by John Switzer

This unofficial summary is copyright (c) 1994 by John Switzer.
All Rights Reserved. These summaries are distributed on
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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.

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November 3, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) claims that
conservatives are the new Klan and that saying "I'm for tax cuts"
means you're racist; words to Presidential PSA urging people to
vote; new poll shows that things are worse than expected for
Democrats, who are reacting with ever more hysteria; wanting a
tax cut simply means you want to keep more of what you earn; USA
Today accurately reports that the Republicans' Contract With
America does not have any Social Security cuts in it; words to
EIB PSA that urges "friends don't let friends vote Democratic";
Americans are very dissatisfied with current Congress, according
to latest poll; Clinton adds $2,000 and $1,800 and gets the wrong
answer; caller is worried that Republicans will let up in the
home stretch, losing their leads and ultimately the election;
Perot is going to endorse independent NY gubernatorial candidate
Tom Golisano, which can only hurt George Pataki and help Cuomo;
caller is worried that people are still buying the Democrats'
lies, but Rush is not worried; Perot's negatives among Texans are
higher than his positives, and his endorsement of Ann Richards
hurt her poll numbers; caller is outraged at "Turning Point"
attack against Clarence Thomas; Senator John Danforth stated that
the "Turning Point" witnesses could not pass muster in any court;
the left is out to destroy Clarence Thomas because he poses a
major threat to the civil rights coalitions; why isn't the left
investigating past sexual history of Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton
as they are Clarence Thomas?; Clarence Thomas is not worried by
the constant attacks by the left against him; Jesse Jackson calls
Jeb and George W. Bush "the new WIllie Hortons"; Democrats are
playing the race card to get out the vote; caller is worried that
Republicans are peaking too early this year; Michigan Democrat
Bob Carr dropped 3 points in the polls after a visit by Bill
Clinton; Republicans don't have to win that many seats to shift
the balance of power in Congress; caller notes that illegal
immigrants are a federal burden, as well as a state one, and that
Proposition 187 is a signal that taxpayers aren't going to
tolerate this anymore; Presidential PSA has the wrong date for
next week's elections; caller thinks it's vital that Republicans
be warned that the voters won't tolerate candidates who move to
the right for the campaign but then shift back to the left while
governing; EIB Institute's Pension Fraud Division suggests making
retroactive pension cost of living cuts so as to correct the
obscene congressional pensions that some past members are
receiving; U.S. Trust survey on the top 1% affluent business
owners reveals a lot of interesting things about the really
successful; most affluent businessmen fear government more than
they do any private market competition; caller doubts unions will
be able to deliver their members' votes to the Democrats anymore;
union leaders are urging members to vote Democratic in spite of
their votes for NAFTA; caller moves to Florida to escape Cuomo,
only to find Lawton Chiles; caller is encouraged by Jeb Bush's
campaign in Florida; the left's political vilification of its
members has been going on for decades, and it will only get
worse, especially if Republicans win big next November; caller
thinks new book on Clarence Thomas proves that "Anita wasn't too
far off"; attacks against Clarence Thomas are not about sexual
harassment; Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reportedly employed
an illegal alien.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

November 3, 1994 - It's now day 653 (day 672 for the rich and the
dead, and 5 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 809 days left) and 716
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.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Thursday,
November 5, 1992:

o    Rush was overwhelmed with nice letters and faxes thanking him
for his positive and happy mood after the 1992 Presidential
elections, and this mail proved to be quite a contrast to the
mean and vicious hate mail he received from gloating liberals.
Since Rush and the EIB network were good sports in defeat, they
helped celebrate Clinton's victory by using as bumper music some
selected tunes from the Woodstock generation. The first tune Rush
played was appropriately enough an anti-Vietnam protest song by
Country Joe and the Fish.

o    Somebody pointed out to Rush that Bill Clinton actually got a
lower percentage of the vote than Michael Dukakis did in 1988.
Yet the media and others were still referring to Clinton's win as
a landslide.

Joe from College Station, TX mentioned Hans and Franz, the
body-builders on Saturday Night Live who had little respect for
people who weren't pumped up like them, and suggested that Rush
borrow from them to start referring to the "Clinton mandate" as
the "girlie-man mandate."

An "eager-beaver dittohead" in Jacksonville, FL wrote Rush to
point out that less than one-third of one percent of the total
voters could have changed the election's outcome. The dittohead
showed that Clinton's margin of victory in 12 states (Tennessee,
Ohio, New Mexico, New Jersey, Nevada, Montana, Maine, Louisiana,
Kentucky, Iowa, Georgia, and Delaware) with 103 electoral votes
was 617,821; had 308,911 voters in those states voted for Bush,
he would have been re-elected by the electoral college.

o    The NY Times featured a profile of Bill Clinton which revealed
that his full name was William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. Rush
found it curious that the media always made fun of George Herbert
Walker Bush, claiming his four names "proved" he was a
northeastern snob and elitist, yet nobody was saying this about
President-elect William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.

Anne from Chicago, IL was a 72-year-old Clinton supporter, and
she had never heard Clinton say that the press was biased.
Clinton had been through "hell" throughout the campaign,
especially on Rush's program, but not once did he ever accuse the
press of being biased.

Anne also stated that Bush was head of the CIA once, adding "I
feel anyone in the CIA and in the FBI - all of them stick
together. They can spend $40 million or they can spend $60
million, and they'll never find anything. This is what people
forget - he was head of the C-I-A!"

o    New York papers were filled with headlines asking when Clinton
was going to take care of the cities - "it's our turn," these
papers proclaimed. Amy Pagnazi wrote the following about Clinton
in the NY Post:

"Maybe he's planning all along to take care of us. Maybe for
appearance's sake we're supposed to tread two steps behind him
like Japanese women used to do. It could be that this is some
kind of divine retribution, straight out of the Bible, and the
cities will lie fallow for seven years. Or it could be Bill is
really as slick as we've said he is, and this could be good,
maybe he's been planning all along to take care of us."

o    A number of New York papers published the obligatory "in and
out" post-election lists. Rush, of course, was on the "out" list,
and even made the cover of Long Island Newsday, which proclaimed
"move over, Rush Limbaugh - starting today, the Bubba crowd takes
over." David Hinkley of the NY Daily News also predicted that
Rush was "out," but Rush wasn't afraid at all, and in fact was
"happy they've got the long knives out there for me."

David Hinkley also wrote, "In - cute kid in the White House, the
First Child follows in Amy Carter's footsteps," and Rush let
sarcasm and mean-spiritedness of this remark stand on its own.
However, he did tell the story how his mother severely chastised
him for once calling Amy Carter the ugliest Presidential daughter
in history; "besides," his mother added, "you forget Margaret
Truman."

Rose from Worchester, MA was outraged at Rush, asking if he liked
being called "fatso," and if not, why was he calling Chelsea
Clinton "ugly?" Rush said he did not call Chelsea ugly but only
mentioned a story which referred to Chelsea as a "cute kid in the
White House . . . follows in Amy Carter's footsteps."

Rose was not placated and after much debate told Rush, "Don't
pick on her anymore, don't be so insensitive." She admitted
though, that Rush was in great shape, "for the shape you're in."

o    The NY Post had a "news story" about how "Bush juggled the
books" to create false and misleadingly optimistic unemployment
figures. The story claimed that Bush ordered the Labor Department
in October to "cook the books" to improve his chances of winning
re-election, and that the upcoming October unemployment figures
would be a "shocker" (i.e. really bad) since Bush no longer had
any reason to "cook them."

Rush noted that this story showed what media bias really was -
not an editorial, but a news story on the regular news pages
which presented wild speculations as if they were fact.
Interestingly enough, the new unemployment claims for late
October were released that very morning, and they were the lowest
in two years, with only 360,000 new claims. So much for the
Post's predictions that they would be a "shocker."

o    A Wall Street Journal editorial disproved the myth that the
1992 elections were a call for bigger government run by liberals.
Aside from the fact that nearly six out of ten voters rejected
Bill Clinton, voters in California rejected by a margin of 58 to
42% Proposition 167, which would have "soaked the rich" and
imposed higher taxes on businesses. This initiative would have
given tax breaks to the "less affluent," and increased the top
income tax rate to 12%, in addition to raising the corporate
income tax.

Voters in Colorado approved by 54 to 46% an initiative that would
require all tax increases be approved by the voters, and they
defeated an initiative to raise the sales tax to benefit schools.
Nearly three quarters, 72%, of Arizona voters passed an
initiative that required the state legislature to pass tax
increases with a two-thirds vote. A Florida proposition that
imposed property tax limits was passed by a 6% margin, even
though a campaign lawsuit meant that its supporters could afford
a very under-funded campaign.

In South Dakota, voters refused to create a state sales tax by a
three to one margin. Public works bond issues lost in both
California and New York, while Illinois voters defeated an
attempt to designate education as a "right," allowing citizens to
claim entitlements for it.

Voters rejected every tax increase Tuesday, even those on the
"rich" and businesses. Rush hoped Clinton realized that he did
not have a mandate for big tax-and-spend policies, and that he
was voted in by only 4 out of 10 voters. There was no desire on
the part of voters for tax increases, yet Rush bet that the first
thing to happen in the Clinton administration would be an
increase in the top tax rate from 31 to 36%.

o    Rush attended a book party for Kathie Lee Gifford's new
best-seller "I Can't Believe I Said That," which was number 4 on
the NY Times best-seller list. The party was quite the
star-studded affair with Neil Sedaka, Donald Trump, Marla Maples,
Robin Leach, Alan Alda, Shirley MacLaine, among others.

Rush was always struck by how Gifford was not only an
astoundingly gorgeous woman, but also a truly deep, substantive
person. She was surrounded by her family and Rush was pleased to
find out her husband was a regular listener to his show. Alan
Alda also listened to Rush's show, although he didn't agree with
Rush's political views, but he told Rush "I get the sense that
you're not a mean guy. You don't form your relationships based on
your politics."

Rush was also glad to meet Shirley MacLaine who came up to him at
the party to shake his hand. Rush shook her hand with a firm
grip, having learned his lesson from the days when he used to
give women such meek handshakes that he was called "Rush
Limppaw." After shaking his hand, MacLaine stared at Rush's heart
and his eyes, telling him she was surprised to learn that he was
not the evil demigod that everyone told her he was.

o    Scott from Santa Barbara, CA remarked on how CNN reported that
the stock market experienced its biggest drop on the day after a
Presidential election since Truman; however, CNN then added "by
the way, the Dow has gone up 1,000 points during the Bush
administration." Scott wondered by CNN didn't make this point
before the elections.

o    Chris from New York, NY said he voted for Bush because she
thought the country needed a change; Rush was a bit confused by
this, and Chris realized that she misspoke. Chris explained "oh,
I voted for Clinton. I'm sorry, but now it's never-ending -
between you and Bob Grant, it's impossible to enjoy your show."

Rush found it funny that people were criticizing him for being
happy after the election; had Bush won, people would be
criticizing him for gloating and for being too happy. Clinton won
but instead of basking in their glory, his supporters were
instead telling him to stop talking about Clinton. The winners
who voted for Clinton should have been happy but they weren't;
"your guy won," Rush told Clinton voters, "you're miserable, and
you're mad that I'm happy. Get used to it!"

o    Mark from Waterbury, CT gave another example of media campaign
bias - on the Today show after Bush gave a speech on family
values in which he said he wanted America to be more like the
Waltons and less like the Simpsons. Bryant Gumble, of course, got
his gratuitous shot in by saying "I wonder why Bush didn't say
the `Huxtables.' "

Mark also wanted Rush to come up with a new game to replace the
Kennedys in Jeopardy Game because he wanted his shot to get a
free mug. Rush thought an "America in Jeopardy Game" was a good
idea, and since Mark came up with the suggestion that spurred the
idea, EIB gave him a free mug. Mark was happy, confident that he
could now make it through the next four years.

********

MORNING UPDATE

It's only five days until "Operation Restore Democracy," also
known as the 1994 mid-term congressional elections, and the
Democrats and their willing allies in the media are frantically
injecting hate and fear mongering into their campaigns in an
attempt to stave off major losses.

For example, Charles Rangel (D-NY) recently said the following
while talking to his district's voters:

"It's about race and a certain costume change. Where once it was
the sheets and hoods of the Klan, it's now the `black suits and
red ties' of conservative politicians. `It's not spic and nigger
anymore. They say let's cut taxes."

This shows what Rangel thinks about taxes - that they are the way
his people get by. Rangel doesn't think tax cuts will empower his
people, but rather endanger that which allows them to survive at
a subsistence level. In short, it could be said that Rangel is a
modern-day slave master who is working hard to keep his
constituents dependent on big government. And Washington Post
columnist Richard Cohen, illustrating why Rush calls the media
the Democrats' willing allies, wrote that Rangel "is on to
something."

Meanwhile, Clinton and the Democratic National Committee are
going out to work the people into a frenzy by claiming that
Republicans want to cut Social Security. However, item seven of
the Republicans' Contract With America specifically calls for the
repeal of the tax increases on Social Security recipients which
the Democrats passed as part of their 1993 Budget Deal. The
Democrats are acting out of sheer desperation in making such
charges, but this is to be expected because the Democrats are
desperate.

FIRST HOUR

EIB received a request from the White House a couple of days ago
asking that the network to play a Presidential Public Service
Announcement (PSA) for the upcoming elections. Since Rush and the
EIB Network are always interested in doing what's in the best
interests of the country, Rush plays the PSA now, at the start of
the show:

<<Bill Clinton>> 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.

"It's the least we could do," Rush notes, adding that the
President is echoing what Rush said earlier this week about how
the main weapon that the public has is their vote. He pledges to
keep on replaying this PSA today, tomorrow, and on Monday.

********

Today's NY Times has an incredible story on its front pages about
a CBS/NY Times poll which shows just how bad things are for the
Democrats. This story is in sharp contrast to the media's
attempts to resuscitate Bill Clinton and the Democratic party by
claiming that the Democrats are "surging back" and that the
Republicans aren't going to win big this November.

The left is hoping to discourage Republicans from voting while at
the same time encouraging apathetic Democrats to get out to the
polls next week. These attempts have been fairly successful in
masking just how bad things are for the Democrats, but Rush has
predicted that this onslaught would happen, so he's never lost
confidence and he hopes his listeners haven't either.

Rush predicts that next Wednesday it will be clear that America
is undergoing a massive shift to the right, and this shift won't
be deterred by any of the attempts going on to limit the damage
by the press and Democrats. The mood among the people is not an
anti-incumbent move but an anti-liberal move, as the people are
simply tired of being told they have to pay ever-increasing taxes
so as to fund the liberals' failed schemes.

Rep. Charles Rangel has shown how hysterical the Democrats are
getting by claiming that anyone who wants to cut taxes is the
modern day equivalent of the KKK; this story is finally being
reported in the mainstream press, although nobody really has come
out to condemn Rangel yet for saying that the new racist epithets
are not "spic" or "nigger" but "cut taxes."

This sentiment shows that to liberals, taxes are not designed to
raise revenues for responsible government programs but rather the
means by which liberals support their constituents. This is why
Rush says Rangel is a modern-day slave master who's seeking to
keep his constituents disempowered and dependent.

Those advocating cutting taxes, though, aren't saying they want
to steal money from the poor but rather are demanding they be
allowed to keep more of what they earn. This sentiment is felt so
strongly among the people that it threatens to shift the balance
of power in Congress, which is why President Clinton is shrilly
lying about what Republicans would do if they get power in
Congress.

USA Today, at least, is correctly reporting that the Republicans'
Contract With America "doesn't even mention Social Security; its
authors have instead sworn not to cut it." This doesn't stop the
President, however, from trying to frighten senior citizens into
thinking they're going to end up being homeless should
Republicans win; Clinton is even claiming the Republicans would
cut Social Security checks an average of $2,000 a year and
Medicare checks an average of $1,800 a year, for a total of
$3,600. In an aside, Rush notes that these two figures actually
total $3,800, but evidently Clinton can't even add correctly, but
the press hasn't bothered to call him on this mistake, although
had Dan Quayle done it, the jokes would be told for years.

The Democrats are also playing the race card, not to mention
trying to scare the heck out of senior citizens, and the left
wouldn't be doing this if they didn't know just how bad things
are for them.

*BREAK*

Rush starts off the segment with a PSA that EIB ran during the
1992 Presidential campaign:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

********

Rush was informed over the break that EIB is receiving a lot of
phone calls saying that the Presidential PSA which Rush aired
earlier features the wrong date. Sadly, Rush can't replay the PSA
immediately, but he pledges that EIB will check into this
accusation as soon as possible.

As to the CBS/NY Times poll, it indicates that Democrats are
facing a bleak future with next week's congressional elections.
The story says "voters are profoundly alienated from their
elected representatives and the political process," are filled
with a deepening pessimism about the future, and are disgusted
with Congress. More than 60% of those polled were unable to name
a public elected official they admired, and this attitude is
reminiscent of 1979, when Americans were depressed about the
economy and Iranian hostage crisis.

About 56% of American people approve of America's public
officials, but only a third think their own representatives
deserve re-election. This is marked change from the past where
everyone hated Congress but loved their own guy.

When asked about Congress as a whole, only 12% thought most
members deserved re-election, and 82% believed that Congress
should start from scratch with all new people; however, even if
Congress did have new people, more than half of those polled
doubted government would work any better. Furthermore, two-thirds
of Americans didn't think they had much say in what their
government did, which reflects the highest level of helplessness
in four years, with three quarters saying most members of
Congress didn't understand the people's needs.

Registered voters say they are more likely to vote Republican
than Democratic by a 5% margin. About 54% of all Americans view
the Republican party favorable, while 44% view the Democratic
party favorably. Those surveyed were equally divided by those who
believe the Democratic party favors the rich and those who think
they help the poor. And by two to one, the people think
government should be less involved in solving national problems.

Rush notes that it's obvious now why the left is panicked and
hysterical, given that they are the ones who believe that
government and its programs are what make America great. The
Democrats are now pretending they want less government, but that
claim doesn't seem to be flying anymore with the American people.

Over 57% of the American people think the country needs a new
political party, while 42% think things in America five years
from now will be worse. About 18% think the next generation will
be better off than today, while 57% think it will be worse and
21% say it will be the same.

Only 22% of the people said they always or mostly always trusted
the government, while 77% said some of the time or never. When
asked about whether they have much say with their government, 68%
said "not much."

Rush is impressed by this poll and notes that it demonstrates not
so much an anti-incumbent mood among the people as much as an
anti-liberal mood. He thinks it's now without question that
Republicans will win the Senate, with a gain of about 35 to 40
seats in the House.

Rush suspects the Republicans' victory this November will send
some profound shockwaves through government and the Democratic
party, but after the elections Republicans will have to start
focusing on holding their representatives' feet to the fire so
that they never forget what it was that got them elected.

*BREAK*

Rush pledges that EIB will check the Presidential PSA sometime
today, but he just can't drop everything to replay it now; EIB,
after all, has its commitments, and Rush has a full plate of
information he has to get to. He doubts, though, that Clinton got
the date for the elections wrong; granted, Clinton can't
accurately add $2,000 and $1,800, but surely he wouldn't
deliberately or even mistakenly get the date of next week's
elections wrong?

Phone    Frank from East Northport, NY

Frank says it appears that Republicans always do well in the
first part of a campaign, but as the elections near, they seem to
give up. For example, George Pataki was doing fine, but all of a
sudden Mario Cuomo has overtaken him with a splurge of negative
advertising.

Rush says Giuliani's endorsement of Cuomo has also had an effect,
and as far as the media is concerned, Pataki is not only not
qualified, but he's a "puppet" of Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY).
In reality, though, New York gubernatorial elections should be
about the dismal state of New York's economy, its public schools,
its low bond ratings, and crime.

Cuomo has a dismal 12-year record with zero accomplishments, and
scores of problems, but that's not being discussed. The media is
ignoring the harm Cuomo has done to the state, and instead is
focusing on a Senator. The Berlin Wall might have been a huge
one, but the liberal wall that surrounds the New York press is
even larger, and this is a factor in Pataki's falling numbers.

Meanwhile, Ross Perot is expected to come into New York next
weekend to endorse Tom Golisano, the independent millionaire who
right now has only 7% of the vote. Frank says this will only harm
Pataki by taking votes away from him, and Rush agrees.

Frank says if Perot wants to be on the winning side, he should be
pushing for the candidate who can win. Rush notes that in the
past Perot endorsed Christie Todd Whitman and Kay Bailey
Hutchison only after it was clear they were going to win, and he
then took credit for their victories. Now, though, Perot is
endorsing Golisano, which is curious given that Perot and Cuomo
are good friends and that Perot has previously praised Cuomo.

Rush therefore suspects Perot is trying to help Cuomo out by
harming Pataki. Yet Perot claimed on Larry King Live that the
Democrats in Washington have done a horrible job, and if this is
true, what about the Democratic governor of New York? Perot
doesn't want to "back" the winner, but obviously wants to be a
king maker who can shake things up wherever he goes; he's trying
to get his credibility back by putting the fear of God into
politicians by guaranteeing Cuomo his re-election.

Rush thus wouldn't accept much talk about Republicans' caving in,
but while Republicans do have a problem knowing how to win, as
far as the New York gubernatorial race does, the Republicans are
facing an incredible alliance in Perot and the NY press. Frank,
though, doesn't think Republicans are caving in so much as
backing off when they're on the verge of winning, as if they're
afraid of winning by too big a margin.

Frank thinks this was George Bush's problem in the 1992 campaign,
but Rush notes by the time the actual campaign started, Bush had
already lost his big approval ratings. Perhaps Pataki has been
too gentle on Rudolph Giuliani, but Rush wouldn't characterize
him as backing off in this race.

Rush again notes that it's amazing how Cuomo's record as governor
is clear and dismal, but it's being ignored while the press makes
Senator D'Amato the issue in this race. And top it all off,
Hillary Clinton was in town last night claiming that Cuomo is his
"own person." This shouldn't be the issue, but this is what has
become the issue thanks to the power of the NY liberal press.

*BREAK*

Phone    Laura from Allentown, PA

Laura is perplexed at how people are still listening and
believing the Democrats. The DNC chairman was on CSPAN last
night, and callers seemed to agree with him that should
Republicans win big in the House, they'll end up giving tax
breaks to the rich and cutting Social Security. It seems people
are really buying into this idea.

Rush says this is not the case - it's likely that the Democrats
stacked the phone lines for this show, but even if this wasn't
the case, such opinions are not the majority opinion. Next week's
elections will demonstrate this, as does the recent NY Times/CBS
poll.

Rush thinks there is a far larger shift in power than even he
predicted, and while Republicans shouldn't be overconfident, they
shouldn't be discouraged just because there are Democrats out
there believing Clinton. Besides, talk shows simply aren't
representative of public opinion; you can't count on them as a
scientific sample of the U.S. To find out what's really going on
you instead have to use a wide variety of news sources.

Phone    John from Hamilton, OH

John first notes that KHOU TV and the Houston Post found that
Ross Perot's negatives among Texans are higher than his
positives, so his endorsement of Governor Ann Richards (D-TX)
will only hurt her. Rush says this poll showed that Perot's
endorsement of Richards made 10% of voters more likely to support
her and 13% less likely; this isn't surprising since Perot has a
74% disapproval rating. John thinks Perot's endorsement of
Richards is a net plus for George W. Bush, and Rush agrees.

John is also outraged at last night's "Turning Point" which was
nothing but a vicious attack against Clarence Thomas. Any idiot
(i.e. a liberal) who watched the show would come away thinking
that everything Anita Hill alleged against Justice Thomas was
true because she now has "corroborating witnesses."

However, Senator John Danforth pointed out on last night's
Nightline that any cross-examination of the "witnesses" featured
on Turning Point would show the gaping holes in their testimony.
John thinks it's unbelievably outrageous that the press is going
back three years to continue to attack Thomas, even thought
they're ignoring Paula Jones's charges against the President.
Where are all the two-hour specials about Jones and where is all
of the outrage against the President for what he allegedly did to
her?

Rush asks why John thinks this is going on, and John says this
show was obviously the result of a desire for ratings so the
authors can sell more copies of their book. Rush, though, says
that the left is determined to destroy Clarence Thomas, even
though he's on the Supreme Court for the life, because they can't
accept the fact that the most powerful black man in America is a
conservative.

John says the country is moving to the right as well, and the
left is losing its power, so they're doing anything they can to
hold onto their power and money. Rush agrees this is true, too,
but the left fears Justice Thomas because he directly threatens
them.

For example, a headline in the Washington Post last week declared
"Justice Thomas says he's not stepping down," but what reason
would there be for him to step down in the first place? Has
anyone demanded that Justice Thomas step down, and if not, why
was this story printed? Would anyone expect headlines saying
"Justice Scalia says he's not stepping down"?

The left is trying to destroy not just Clarence Thomas's
reputation and character, but his very life; the left is
undertaking an all-out assault to render Justice Thomas dead for
all practical purposes. This is one the most hideous things Rush
has seen, and it indicates just how close the civil rights
coalitions are to losing their power and influence. These guys
will now do anything to hold onto their power and what it
represents.

Rush didn't see the Turning Point show, and he saw only saw half
of the Nightline show, but he was sickened by what little he did
see. He expects many others felt the same way, so he'll probably
talk more about this topic with them as the day goes on.

*BREAK*

Rush points out that Justice Clarence Thomas is the most powerful
black man in America, and Rush can't emphasize enough how angry
the civil rights coalitions and liberal groups are that the most
powerful black man in America is a conservative; they think that
the only way any American black can achieve anything is through
them and Affirmative Action.

The left's special interests believe Clarence Thomas is a
turncoat because he doesn't believe in Affirmative Action; he's
someone who therefore threatens their claim on black America
because he demonstrates that American blacks don't need to stay
on the liberal plantation in order to succeed.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush doesn't want to spend too much time on the Clarence Thomas
controversy, given that he thinks it's already got enough air
time and will get even more from the left's allies in the press.
The motives of those on the left are transparent and clear, and
as Senator Danforth noted, had Anita Hill or any of these other
women made their charges in a court of law, they wouldn't have
lasted five minutes - they had no evidence, Hill had no
corroborating witnesses, and these other women would have had
their testimony thrown out because of their past histories -
they've been fired by Thomas, are unstable, and have obvious axes
to grind.

Rush again says it's hideous how the left is determined not to
let up with their hateful attacks until Justice Thomas is off the
Supreme Court, and none of this has to do with sexual harassment.
If sexual harassment were really important, the left wouldn't
have stopped with Thomas and Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR) but
would have continued on to President Clinton.

The latest allegation against Thomas is that when he was at Yale,
he liked Playboy and pornographic pin-ups. If this stuff is
important, though, why hasn't anyone examined Martin Luther
King's private life? Why hasn't Congress and the media examined
Ted Kennedy's private life to this detail, especially given
what's known about his behavior with women. Why hasn't anyone on
the left investigated Bill Clinton's private life?

The left is hypocritical beyond belief in how they exempt their
own; it's clear they are out on a solely ideological vendetta
against Thomas, a man who threatens everything the civil rights
coalitions stand for - those in the NAACP, the People for the
American Way, NOW, etc. all survive via public donations and are
empowered by the Democratic party.

Black civil rights leaders, for example, get their power by
delivering 90% of the black vote to Democrats, and as long as
they can continue doing this, their power base continues. Should
these guys ever be unable to deliver the black vote, their worth
has ended.

Plus, whenever someone earns their money from donations and the
public will, they are paranoid about anything that threatens the
gravy train. This is why PETA and the Sierra Club are going
through massive retrenching: their donations are down. These
people don't have real jobs, but rather get paid via donations
and it is this which allows them to keep on protesting and
screaming about their agenda.

Clarence Thomas, though, represents the antithesis of people such
as these, and it scares the civil rights coalitions to death. For
years the left has been able to survive by convincing their
constituents that only the left can save them. Rep. Charles
Rangel, for example, has built his career on convincing his
voters that he is their only hope in getting anything in life.

Rangel has told his voters that they don't have any chance in
America unless they support him. So whenever a minority member
succeeds without the help of leftists such as Rangel, the left is
threatened. And Thomas was by far the worst of those who
challenge the left's little racket because he replaced the man
who had become the left's icon, Thurgood Marshall.

This was more than the liberals could tolerate, which is why
they've been in a hysterical panic for the past three years.
Clarence Thomas's rulings, though, have further agitated the
left, given that he's written against modern-day interpretations
of the Voting Rights Act and against drawing voting districts to
guarantee the election of someone of a particular race.

This infuriates the left beyond words; the civil rights coalition
has a stern orthodoxy which is imposed on its members. Those who
don't fall in line are called Uncle Toms, and should such a
person become prominent and an active threat against the left,
the liberals will do whatever it takes to destroy them.

It could sexual harassment, witnesses who lie, witnesses who
couldn't withstand five minutes in a courtroom, but the left will
use whatever means is necessary to destroy such people. Due
process and the evidence doesn't matter to them; they'll do
everything possible to eliminate their threats, using the
friendly media.

Rush didn't see the "Turning Point" show, but everyone he's
talked to has said it was horrendous and disgusting. Rush knows
Thomas, though; he met Justice Thomas for the first time at the
home of William Bennett, and Thomas later officiated at Rush's
wedding. When Rush first met him, though, he didn't know what to
expect - the conventional wisdom is that he's a broken and quiet
man.

In contrast, though, Thomas is still effervescent, outgoing, and
fun-loving; when Rush first saw him at Bennett's home, Thomas
threw his arms around Rush, greeting him with a hearty "Hey,
buddy!" He's still got his most infectious life, and he and his
wife are obviously still very much in love. Thomas is also more
than willing to discuss any of what's happened to him and is very
positive and optimistic about it all.

In fact, when they first met, it was Thomas who encouraged Rush
to keep on doing what he's doing, and not let the left's attacks
tear him down. Rush should have been the one giving Thomas moral
support, but Thomas didn't need it.

When Rush finally got up the courage to ask Thomas how he got
through the media blitz against him, Thomas replied that he
doesn't read the NY Times or the Washington Post, nor does he
watch the major networks. He just smiled and said "Rush, I've got
a lifetime appointment, they can't touch me!"

Thomas is not a defeated man, but still engaged and very
intellectually independent. He's sincere, genuine, and truly
nice, and the Clarence Thomas whom Rush knows is not capable of
the things being said about him. He's not the kind of person that
was described by Anita Hill or by those on the Turning Point
program.

The kind of scurrilous charges made against Thomas are designed
for one purpose: to destroy a human being, to strip from him his
humanity, and to make him go crazy and become irrelevant. The
left is doing all it can to eliminate the threat that Thomas
poses to the civil rights coalitions because Thomas represents
the ultimate defeat of these people and their ideas.

Thomas proves that these guys are wrong, and the left is not
going to surrender quietly. If anything, their attacks against
Thomas will continue and get worse; however, they'll also try to
destroy anyone else who rises to prominence and poses such a
threat.

This is shown by how Rangel is insisting that "tax cuts" is now a
euphemism for "spic" and "nigger," and by how Jesse Jackson
referred to Jeb and George W. Bush as the "new Willie Hortons"
who prove "the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree." Yet it's
not the Bushes who are bringing up race; it's their opponents who
are playing the race card.

Similarly, Proposition 187 has nothing to do with race, as its
opponents are claiming, but with law and order, responsibility,
accountability, and the welfare state; Californians are tired of
tax and spend policies, and it's hideous that those who support
this proposition are being called racists. However, this all
shows how panicked the Democrats are.

Rush also warns that the November elections won't be the end of
this either; the diatribes and screeching will only get worse
when Republicans win big next week and people should be prepared
for it.

*BREAK*

Phone    Bill from Pendleton, OR

Bill has worked for a lot of campaigns in the past, and Roger
Ailes once did a negative spot for a gubernatorial campaign he
worked for in 1989. He thus knows from experience that candidates
shouldn't peak too early, and he's worried this is what is going
on with Republicans.

Rush asks why Bill thinks this, and Bill says he's seeing this
sort of stuff in the papers; for example, Clinton's approval
rating went up after his foreign trip, plus Clinton is going out
to campaign for Democrats. Rush notes, though, that Clinton is
campaigning in Democratic strongholds; for example, he and his
wife are coming to New York to campaign for Mario Cuomo. This is
strange because this is not a national race, not to mention that
if there's anywhere Clinton shouldn't be needed, it's in New
York, the bastion and mecca of American liberalism.

Clinton also campaigned for Bob Carr in Michigan, but Carr's poll
numbers went down after Clinton's visit. Rush starts to give the
results of WJBK TV's tracking poll but he's cut off by his
punctual broadcast engineer who's noticed it's time for a break.

*BREAK*

Phone    Bill from Pendleton, OR (continued)

Rush says the WJBK TV (Detroit, MI) tracking poll surveys 133
likely voters each night, with a margin of error of 4.5%. Around
October 31 and November 1, Spence Abraham had 42%, Bob Carr had
37%, and the undecideds were at 16%. Clinton then visited on
November 1, and a poll through November 2 found that Carr had
dropped to 34%; similarly, poll numbers for both Senator Dianne
Feinstein and state Treasurer Kathleen Brown also fell after
Hillary Clinton came out to campaign for them.

Bill hopes that the Clintons soon come out to Oregon, and Rush
encourages him and everyone else not to feel defeated. He asks if
anyone can honestly think a major switch between Republicans and
Democrats can or will happen in less than a week; can such a
movement to the Democratic party really happen, as the press is
claiming?

Bill says some people can and will change their minds, so Rush
asks what the Democrats have done to change people's minds. Bill
says nothing and he sees no reason for the pro-Democratic changes
in the polls. He does, however, think too many Republicans are
acting too overconfident too soon, especially since the Democrats
have the media on their side, skewing the stories in their
Democrats' favor.

Rush says the American people know the truth - they can open
their wallets and see it for themselves. Liberalism will never
actually die, but there are clearly signs that it is dying; there
are dozens of Democrats who are pretending to be conservatives so
as to get votes. Jim Sasser is still stumping for school prayer,
and in particular bit of absurdity, Tom Foley tried to lure back
angry NRA voters by going to a Spokane rifle range and shooting a
shotgun.

Rush says that voting one's heart and mind can be a challenging
thing, but Rush takes comfort from where the people's hearts and
minds are; the country is moving to the right, and while it's
unknown whether this movement will translate to Republican
victories in the polls, this is still a reason to be confident.
Even if Republicans don't win majorities in Congress, the fact is
that Republicans can gain as little as 10 votes in Congress and
totally screw up Clinton's agenda; he's been winning his
victories by one or two votes, so ten more Republicans mean his
one-vote victories become losses.

Bill says that if the Democrats get overconfident, they'll be
hurt a lot since it's the Democratic voters who are apathetic and
not turning out. Rush says this is why the Democrats are trying
to get out the vote by engendering fear about what Republicans
would do in Congress. This is why Rangel is playing the race
card, and why Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has reached rock
bottom with the lowest of the low, running a campaign commercial
that can best be described as repulsive scumswill.

Rush doubts the people, though, will buy this anymore, so the
Democrats can continue digging their own grave. Republicans
should remain confident, but not overconfident.

Phone    Judy from Burlingame, CA

Judy says Proposition 187 is an internal affair for California,
but its defeat would have ramifications for the rest of America.
The illegal immigrants who reside in California, Florida, etc.
help establish new congressional districts, which undoubtedly
will lean more to the Democrats; representation in Congress is
based on population, not the number of citizens, and the Census
counts residents, not citizens.

Also, all Americans are paying for illegal immigrants, given that
federal dollars help fund all these welfare, health, and
educational benefits they are currently collecting. Plus, Judy
sees a subculture of illegal immigrants developing; they live in
a shadowy America and she fears that in ten or twenty years the
country will have a huge segment of the population that doesn't
think they are Americans.

She thus would urge anyone who has relatives in California to
call them and encourage them to vote yes on Proposition 187 to
send a message that taxpayers are not going to tolerate this
anymore. The only reason the proposition is on the ballot is
because the federal government has done nothing about this
problem.

Rush disagrees to one extent: the proposition is on the ballot
because the federal government is actually encouraging these
benefits to illegal aliens by mandating that the state pay for
them. This is why the country is moving to the right - the people
are sick and tired of being told that they must pay for benefits
to people who are breaking the law.

This proposition is a law and order issue, not an immigration
issue. Of course, the opponents to the proposition are claiming
it's racist and bigoted, but there are too many Californians
supporting this proposition for all of them to be racist and
bigoted. Rather, it's the federal government which has created
this situation, and the proposition is simply the people's
rejection of their interference.

*BREAK*

Rush finally replays the Presidential PSA which he played in the
first hour, to address the question of whether the President gave
the correct date for next week's elections:

<<Bill Clinton>> 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.

Rush notes that November 9th is next Wednesday, one day after the
actual elections. Rush sighs because he's never been the victim
of such a horrible trick such as this, and he apologizes
profusely to his audience for airing this PSA without properly
screening it first.

The EIB staff ask if perhaps someone in the EIB Building screwed
around with the tape. Rush admits that both Bo Snerdley and Mike
Maimone are prime suspects, and he can only hope that his
listeners don't fall for the false date.

Phone    Tom from Winston-Salem, NC

Tom recalls how Ronald Reagan campaigned by moving to the right
and he governed in the same way; Bush campaigned on the right but
when he was elected he moved to the left, towards the center.
Clinton also campaigned to the right, but like many Democrats
today, he's governing on the left.

Tom therefore hopes that the politicians running for election
today realize that the people want them to govern, not just
campaign, on the right. Rush agrees, which is why he's
encouraging people to hold the Republicans' feet to the fire
after next week's elections.

He notes, though, that there is a Republican talking about
consensus and getting along - Republican Mitt Romney, who had
been dead even in the polls with Senator Kennedy but fell like a
stone after he started being conciliatory. Romney took nearly 50
minutes in his second debate before he even disagreed with
Kennedy, and he proves you can't defeat liberals by becoming one
and by being one.

Rush, though, doesn't think Newt Gingrich, should he be in a
position of power in the next Congress, will allow Republicans to
move back to the left. However, Tom's warning is a good one that
everyone, both politicians and voters, should remember.

*BREAK*

Rush promises that he'll detail the latest survey of affluent
Americans and business owners by U.S. Trust. He also pledges to
deliver the promised report from the Limbaugh Institute for
Pension Fraud about how members of Congress pull in far more than
in retirement than they did while actually serving in Congress;
Algore's father, for example, earned at most $42,000 a year while
in Congress, but his retirement grew to $85,000 in 1986 and is
now well over $100,000 a year.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Last Sunday 60 Minutes surprised Rush by running a story about
how much America's politicians make "off salary," such as making
twice as much in retirement as they did while in office. The
question is therefore how this sort of fraud can be addressed and
solved.

The EIB Institute's Pension Fraud Division has been hard at work
thinking about this very problem, and its great thinkers
delivered their first report to Rush yesterday. President Clinton
actually showed the way with his retroactive tax increase on the
rich in his 1993 Budget Deal, so the Pension Fraud Division
realized that the answer was simple: retroactive cost of living
adjustment cuts.

If the Clinton administration can talk for two years about
cutting Social Security cost of living adjustments, then why
can't the government impose retroactive pension cuts on members
of Congress? For example, the country could go back to January,
1992 or even January, 1980 to make these cuts; in fact, perhaps
it would be truly just and right to go back all the way to
January, 1964, the start of the Great Society programs. Rush
marvels at the things his EIB think tanks come up with.

********

U.S. Trust has just done its sixth annual survey of affluent
Americans, and this time they surveyed business owners among the
top 1% of the nation's wealthiest Americans and whose business
realized sales of at least $6 million a year. The survey is a
massive document, but highlights from it are fascinating and very
revealing.

About 89% of respondents in the survey described their family
background in childhood as poor, lower middle class, or middle
class; the typical member of this survey began a childhood job
such as baby-sitting or a paper route at age 10 and started
working full time at age 18. The typical member of the survey
first became a business owner at age 29; only 46% of them
finished college, and 75% of those who attended scholarship
funded it in part with a full or part-time job, 58% got
contributions from parents or relatives, 32% from scholarships,
and only 29% through school loans.

About 54% of them were corporate employees before they ever owned
a business, which probably doesn't mean that corporations are
where these guys got trained but where they got frustrated, where
they started thinking they could do better on their own. Only 14%
said they had been involved in a failed business, but most of
those were involved in only one failed venture.

When asked why they went into business for themselves, the
following were listed as the most important reasons: 75% said
they wanted to make more money, 75% wanted more freedom and
independence, and only 10% said they inherited the business.

When asked about what threatens the prosperity of private
businesses, 88% said government policies and regulations will
make it more and more difficult to do business in the U.S. and
75% said it was getting more difficult to attract and retain
skilled workers. Also, 75% felt rising interest rates would slow
growth, and 70% thought it was getting more difficult to attract
and retain competent management.

Only 38% of the business owners felt their business would die
without them, and only 37% feared that the demand for their
product or service would diminish; only 30% feared competition
from abroad and a mere 22% believed that advancements in
technology would obsolete their country's products.

In other words, this group is highly optimistic and isn't going
out there and looking for reasons why their company will fail.
They are aware of the problems, but don't have a hunkering down
mentality.

When asked to rate government policies that threatened their
businesses, 97% said government-required paperwork was the worst;
95% cited taxes on businesses, raw materials, and services; 82%
cited environmental regulations; 81% said health care reform; 78%
mentioned product liability laws, and 77% said government pension
laws.

Obviously, what bothers these people is government and government
policies; these are people in the real world, not college
professors who only know theories. These are the people who
provide jobs and employ Americans, and they think government is
their biggest threat.

*BREAK*

Rush returns to the U.S. Trust survey's sixth annual survey of
affluent Americans, pointing out that most of those surveyed were
not born into wealth nor did they inherit their businesses. Only
3% said they were wealthy at age 10, 9% said they were upper
middle class, 42% said they were middle class, 23% said they were
lower middle class, and 24% said they were poor. About 79%
bettered their economic situation since childhood, and 52%
considered themselves to be upper middle class, 21% think of
themselves as middle class, and 25% think they are wealthy.

Out of the 151 respondents, 44 said they took less than two weeks
of vacation a year, 23 took two years, 9% took three weeks, 22%
took more than three weeks, and 2% didn't know how much vacation
they took. The mean vacation time was thus three weeks. When
asked about their greatest sacrifice, the two biggest answers
were time to take vacations and time to relax.

Phone    Jim from Atlanta, GA

Jim has been a union member for 21 years and he doesn't think
unions can carry the Democratic party any more. Many of his
friends are voting the straight Republican ticket, and Jim is
voting for the best candidates, who this year seem to be all
Republicans. Rush agrees this is a good sign, but regardless of
the rank and file, the union leadership is still directing union
money to Democrats.

One recent story said labor leaders were encouraging their
members to vote Democratic this year, in spite of NAFTA, and the
basic point was that if you're a labor leader who believes in big
government, where else can you turn but the Democratic party?
Rush thanks Jim for his call.

Phone    Mark from Tallahassee, FL

In 1990, Mark was living in New York and vowed that if Mario
Cuomo got elected for his third term, he'd leave the state. This
is what he did, moving to Florida. Rush is surprised that this
was all it took to get Mark out of state, but Mark says taxes
were the number one reason; he had a part time job working for a
radio station, and his total taxes were ridiculous, not to
mention the cost of living in New York.

When Mark decided to move, he looked at Texas, Florida, and
California, and immediately eliminated of Texas because he
couldn't stand Governor Ann Richards (D-TX). He also thought
Lawton Chiles would be easy to defeat, so he chose Florida,
figuring that California was too far to the left.

Mark thus moved to Florida, and discovered that "Walking Lawton,"
the poster boy for Prozac, is gaining in the polls, even though
Jeb Bush is still doing a great job. Republicans in Massachusetts
and New York are also self-destructing, and Mark doesn't know
why. In particular, he can't believe that New Yorkers don't think
that twelve years of Cuomo is enough.

Rush says he'll explain this after the break and asks Mark to
hang on.

*BREAK*

Phone    Mark from Tallahassee, FL (continued)

Rush theorizes that two things are happening with the races Mark
mentioned; first, polls done early in a campaign might not have
much value, especially if there isn't much negative campaigning
going on. Negative ads typically begin late in the campaign, to
maximize their effectiveness, and negative ads work. These races
probably have always been pretty tight, although the earlier
polls might not have shown this.

Mark recalls how Lawton Chiles said it was "irresponsible" for
the Florida orange juice growers to advertise on Rush's show, not
to mention that Chiles refused to close down Florida state
offices for a day when Richard Nixon died; most states had a day
of observance, but not Florida. It's also customary to lower the
flag for 30 days when a former President dies, but Chiles did so
for only a week at most, and all of this was motivated by
partisan politics.

Chiles couldn't even show the most basic respect for a President,
and it illustrates the kind of man he is. Rush asks what Mark
thinks will happen next Tuesday, given that Bush and Chiles are
dead even right now.

Mark says he just visited Jeb Bush's campaign station to pick up
some bumper stickers, and he was encouraged and believes that
Bush will win. However, the media is praising Chiles for his
"country style," and the race will be really close.

Rush asks what would happen should Perot endorse Chiles, and Mark
says the local paper noted that the area Perot supporters are
supporting Jeb Bush, so Perot's endorsement wouldn't make much of
a difference. Besides, Perot has a personal vendetta against the
Bushes, and most people are aware of this.

Rush says his instincts tell him that Jeb Bush will win next
Tuesday, so he encourages Mark to remain confident. The race
between Bush and Chiles is nip and tuck, but Bush has an
excellent chance to pull a victory out.

Phone    Aaron from Des Plaines, IL

Aaron first notes that he's going to the Tampa Bay game to watch
his favorite team, the Chicago Bears, and asks Rush to recommend
some good Cuban-blend cigars. Rush says you can't get such cigars
in Florida, but he would suggest that if Aaron can find it, he
pick up a "Cuban handmade" cigar; these are made by Cubans but
aren't actual Cuban cigars. You can get cigars grown from Cuban
seed, but they aren't the same as real Cuban cigars.

Rush asks what kind of cigars Aaron smokes, and he says he
usually picks up the drugstore brands, but is thinking of
upgrading to the nicer brands. Rush says Partagas Number Ten,
Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection, and Arturo Fuente Hemingway
series are all high-class smokes, not to mention Davidoff or Avo.
However, Rush would recommend going to a tobacco store, not a
drug store, to choose your stogies.

Phone    Jay from Georgetown, TX

Jay says the left has been politically vilifying its villains for
decades; during the 70s oil crisis, for example, the villain was
the oil companies who made "obscene profits," and Ted Kennedy
even called for the nationalization of the oil companies. The
same thing happened with health care, and what's happening to
Clarence Thomas is only the latest example.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was also dragged into a kangaroo
court for alleged misdeeds by her political opponents, and George
W. Bush is being attacked now for supposed business misdealings.
And Rush, of course, is attacked in all sorts of ways by the
left. This is typical behavior on the part of liberals.

Jay is also a physician, so he thanks Rush for helping to stop
the Clinton health care plan, but as he looks at the left's
history of dealing with their enemies, who'll be next? Newt
Gingrich, perhaps? Rush says Gingrich is already being attacked,
and it'll probably get worse.

Rush warns that should the country make a big shift to the right,
the current attacks on Republicans will get only more brutal and
vicious. If the Republicans win the House of Representatives next
week, and Newt Gingrich becomes the Speaker, it will be the start
of a two year effort to get rid of as many Republicans as
possible.

Republicans will end up being under constant scrutiny and the
attacks will just intensify, with the Democrats being aided by
their willing allies in the press. And the Republican
presidential candidate will get the biggest media anal exam ever
seen; the left will claim that Clinton has had all sorts of
personal questions raised about him, so the Republican nominee
will be given this sort of examination in spades.

The press will claim that this has to be done in the "interest of
fairness and balance," in an effort to find the "Republican
hypocrites" who attacked Clinton's character without looking at
their own.

If necessary, the left will go back to age two to find some dirt
on the Republican nominee, and this is why Rush has been asking
various Republican candidates, such as Elizabeth McCaughey, if
they are prepared to win next week. And once again, should the
Republicans actually win control of the House, the left will go
bonkers, beginning an ongoing onslaught against them.

*BREAK*

Phone    Linda from Upland, CA

Linda read the story in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about
Clarence Thomas, and "it sounds like Anita wasn't too far off."
The story said there was a lot of evidence about how he harassed
women, "and let me tell you, Rush, the emperor has no clothes!
Come on, admit it!"

Rush says if what Linda wants to be true were true and Clarence
Thomas harassed Hill, what should come next? Linda says this
doesn't make him ineligible to be a Supreme Court Justice, and
Rush notes this is the point - all the attacks against Thomas are
to get him off the Court; they have nothing to do with sexual
harassment. Linda says that Kennedy, Cisneros, and other
politicians are perverts, "but that doesn't mean they can't make
judgments on some national policies."

Linda suggests that Rush ask Marta if she'd feel comfortable with
a guy who's watched "hundreds of these porno videos that are
unnatural kinds of things and talk about all this stuff." Rush
says this is not the Clarence Thomas he and Marta know, and he
finds it interesting that Linda is choosing to believe the people
who wrote this book and not those who actually know the man.

Linda says the Journal article was very well documented and it
named names, but Rush is not impressed - this sort of thing is a
given, but these "witnesses" wouldn't last five minutes in court
if they testified; they are of dubious character themselves.
However, the point of these attacks is that the left doesn't want
Thomas on the Supreme Court; if sexual harassment was truly the
overriding issue, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and many others on
the left would be under a microscope.

In fact, if sexual harassment is important, Henry Cisneros should
have resigned by now, but sexual harassment is not important,
it's only the vehicle the left is trying to use to destroy
Clarence Thomas.

*BREAK*

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reportedly employed an illegal
immigrant, according to a story in a free newspaper being
published by the striking employees of the San Francisco
Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner. The story claims that a
Guatemalan woman worked for Feinstein for two years in the 80s
and did not get legal working papers until several years
afterwards.

Rush remembers that Rep. Michael Huffington (R-CA), who suffered
a drop in the polls when it was revealed he did this, accused
Feinstein of doing it, and she denied it. In any case, Rush
doesn't think that Feinstein's re-election is by any means a sure
thing, nor does he think that the attacks and revelations about
Huffington have damaged him that much.

And while he might be engaging in wishful thinking, but Rush
still doesn't think that Mario Cuomo is guaranteed re-election.
There are still five days to go, and the polls seem to be not as
reliable as they once might have been, so Rush would encourage
everyone to remain confident and upbeat.