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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
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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 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

<<Since Rush was taking a post-election vacation, the show
Friday, November 6, 1992 was a "Best of Rush" show; the first
hour was a repeat of the first hour of Rush's show on Thursday,
October 22, 1992, the second hour was a repeat of the third hour
on Friday, October 16, 1992, and the third hour was from the
third hour on Thursday, October 15, 1992. However, EIB continued
its salute to America's next President by playing bumper music
from the Woodstock Generation>>

********

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:

<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?

*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:

<<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.

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.

<<Rush didn't play all of the sound bites he got, so allow me to
finish them off>>

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.