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Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, November 8, 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 8, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: words to the Clinton version of
"It's a Wonderful World"; Clinton calls for more affordable homes,
but it is government that is contributing a third to a house's
price; American voters are more happy than angry; ad for Senator
Kennedy mentions Rush; Kennedy campaign gives voters free rides
to the polls; liberal Democrats are losing their power; the
people are more informed than ever; Rush thinks truly historical
changes are happening today; Tony Coelho is outraged that Michael
Huffington is trying to "buy a Senate seat" and that Republicans
"always" depend on a bunch of white males who have a lot of
money; when you figure out how much Democrats are spending per
vote they get, it is they, not Michael Huffington, who are
spending the most; Kathleen Brown pulls lots of TV ads over the
weekend, probably because she knows it's over for her campaign;
Bill Clinton gives seven radio interviews on the morning of the
elections; editor from the Nation magazine thinks the Democrats
are heading for a melt-down, but bets Republicans will be shortly
following them in 1996; caller doubts the elections will be any
sort of "revolution" because of low voter turnout; caller thinks
Republican victories will mean the people have rejected the
"conservative Democratic strategy"; caller thinks Republicans
know only how to oppose; dominant media will not react gently to
the loss of its power, and will concentrate on Republicans more
than ever; Mexican protestors burn Pete Wilson in effigy;
opponents to Proposition 187 are saying it's okay to tax
Californians so that money can be sent to illegal aliens; caller
thinks Republicans are distorting the welfare state; the lack of
health care benefits in low-paying jobs doesn't justify welfare;
exit polls can raise false hopes; Tim Russert says three
Republican leaders are scared of having Oliver North in the
Senate; Anthony Lewis thinks 1996 GOP convention will be "more
bashing of the un-Christian and un-straight"; words to promo for
"Geriatric Park"; Michael Lerner thinks Bill Clinton should stop
accommodating the ethos of selfishness and start encouraging the
ethos of caring, as well as sending every taxpayer a thank you
note on April 16th; Michael Lerner thinks Clinton should
introduce a new health care bill that projects a "full vision of
what spiritually and morally sensitive health care could be";
highest form of charity is giving them a job; caller fears
Republicans won't do enough about the deficit and entitlements
such as Social Security; cutting Social Security will require
one-term congressmen; it's untrue that conservatives think
government should have no role in providing some form of social
insurance; caller is saddened at how little attention is being
paid to Friedrich Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" on its 50th
anniversary; Rush will interview himself in the next issue of the
Limbaugh Letter; Snapple is being sold for $1.7 billion;
California's Proposition 186 for single-payer health care would
re-energize liberal plans for health care should it be passed;
some in Los Angeles fear riots should Proposition 187 be passed;
former Democrat thanks Rush for turning her into a Republican;
major networks will not be providing gavel-to-gavel coverage of
the O.J. Simpson trial; Japanese are worried about a trend
towards public kissing; Israeli professor who spread AIDS to
perhaps hundreds of men is murdered; voters will be casting
ballots on term limits, gambling casinos, euthanasia, and tax
restrictions; Rush despairs of ever learning the logic behind the
NFL's home telecast rules; Missouri initiative would require all
tax increases to be approved by the voters; caller thinks
Proposition 187 will discriminate against Latinos, so the goal
should instead be real welfare reform; Rush sees no problems with
Proposition 187 going back to the courts, so that perhaps the
Supreme Court reconsiders the issues involved; Gore Vidal
predicts Rush will be written about in the next century; caller
wonders why the Republican National Committee hasn't been doing
more to help Republicans in Chicago; newspaper baron Conrad Black
says his experience with journalists has proven to him that most
are "ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and
inadequately supervised."

LIMBAUGH WATCH

November 8, 1994 - It's now day 658 (day 677 for the rich and the
dead, and no days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 804 days left) and 721
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 Tuesday,
November 3, 1992:

o    Senator Daniel P. Moynihan gave the following suggestion to
President-elect Bill Clinton:

"Yes, I think we're going to pick up on that over $100,000 class,
and there's money there - there's a lot more money than there was
15 years ago. And I think taking the capital gains tax down - 28%
where it is now and which is not quite toward the top of the
income tax break - cut it to 15%. Call it a deal and get
governing. That's the, uh, false thing about taxing and spending
- let's govern."

o    WZZM TV 13 of Grand Rapids, Michigan announced the results of
its "Great Late Debate" where viewers voted on whether they'd
prefer to see Rush's show or "Married With Children" at 11:30
p.m. - 3,925 viewers wanted the sitcom while 7,359 voted for
Rush. Rush thanked WZZM and his loyal viewers in Grand Rapids,
but he was somewhat dismayed that during WZZM's election night
celebration they dropped only one single balloon in his honor.

o    A debate was raging about whether Magic Johnson should be
allowed to play in the Olympics, and USA Today claimed that not
one of 250,000 AIDS cases was transmitted through sports contact.
However, page 1105 of the May 5th, 1990 issue of The Lancet, a
British medical journal, documented the case of an Italian soccer
player who contracted AIDS during a game.

The Italian player's team was playing a team from a drug
rehabilitation center and one of the opposing players ran into
the Italian player, bumping foreheads. It turned out that the
opposing player had already tested positive for the HIV virus,
and two months later the Italian player tested positive for the
virus as well.

o    The employees at Radio Concepts from St. Cloud, MN were
disappointed by Clinton's election, but they still got together
to produce a special version of Louis Armstrong's "It's a
Wonderful World":

"I say `tax the rich' and the corporations, too.
I simply don't care for me and you.
And I think to myself `what a wonderful world.'

"I see President Clinton and VP Gore
Make the rich pay the bills so the poor can have more.
And I think to myself `why, they'll never tax me.'

"Now the Supreme Court will soon have Cuomo on the bench
And we'll let Hillary take care of the rest.
I see Democrats shaking hands saying `how do you do,'
But what they're really saying is `we screwed you.'

"Folks telling me, callers calling him.
Letting him know Rush was right again.
And they say to him then `thank God we have Rush.'
Oh, and they say to him then `thank you for Rush Limbaugh.' "

o    Vice President-elect Algore and his wife got lost while walking
through the woods, and it required 38 Secret Service agents to
get them out. Rush marvelled at what could happen to America's
"most profound and preeminent environmentalist on the planet."

o    In a scene that could have been from the movie "Medicine Man,"
D. D. Suharta, a researcher from the University of Illinois,
returned to a tree in Malaysia from which he took sap samples in
1987, only to find that it had been cut down. Suharta was
interested in the tree because its sap in low concentrations
showed an ability to stop the spread of the HIV-1 virus without
destroying human cells.

o    Bob Dole called for a special prosecutor to investigate
Lawrence Walsh for his release of an indictment against Caspar
Weinberger only three days before the Presidential elections.
Rush thought this was a good idea, but warned Republicans that it
would be a mistake to blame Bush's defeat on Walsh and the
indictment.

Certainly the way Walsh handed down that indictment was dirty and
repugnant, but Republicans shouldn't whine about it; had the Bush
campaign been run better and had stronger convictions, the GOP
would have been able to withstand these sorts of attacks, so the
blame can't be laid at Walsh's feet.

Rush recalled, though, that in the 1986 confirmation hearings for
Justice William Rehnquist appointment as Chief Justice, Arizona
attorney James Brosnihan testified that Rehnquist harassed
minority voters in Phoenix in 1960. A number of other witnesses,
though, came forward to say that they never saw Rehnquist even
come close to such actions, giving strong credence to the belief
that Brosnihan's actions were motivated by partisanship.

Thus, Rush was not surprised to learn that Brosnihan was recently
hired by Lawrence Walsh as an assistant prosecutor, and it was
Brosnihan who pushed for the release of his politically timed
indictment three days before the election.

o    Senator-elect Patty Murray (D-WA) told Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Joseph Biden that she didn't want a post on
the committee, but she was confident that "one of the other three
women will accept Biden's offer." Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a
member of the steering committee that determined committee
assignments, stated that he hadn't seen any requests from any of
the women to be on the Judiciary Committee. Rush found this
curious because many liberal women, such as Carol Moseley-Braun
and Lynn Yeakel, had claimed they ran for the Senate only because
of the way the Judiciary Committee treated Anita Hill during the
Clarence Thomas hearings.

o    Senator-elect Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D-CO) was well-known
during his tenure in the House for his pony-tail, which required
special permission from House leaders. Senator George Mitchell
gave similar dispensation to Campbell so that he could continue
his traditional personal dress while serving in the Senate.

o    New York Judge Sol Wachtler, 62, was in trouble for allegedly
threatening and blackmailing a woman with whom he had previously
had an affair. Wachtler was caught on the Long Island Expressway,
trying to evade police, shredding kidnap notes, and throwing them
out the window; New York society, though, was "reeling" and
coming up with all sorts of excuses for his behavior, claiming he
shouldn't have to be punished by the law because he had suffered
enough from "all this bad publicity." Rush wondered if Clarence
Thomas would be shown this same sort of solicitude if he were to
do the same things.

o    Insight magazine did a report on Andrew Hacker, a white
sociologist who had written a book (Two Nations: Black and White,
Separate, Hostile, and Unequal) which claimed that whites were
still keeping blacks down. Hacker, a self-proclaimed expert on
"black authenticity," stated during a roundtable discussion which
was reported in Essence magazine that General Colin Powell "put
99% of himself, or his black self, on hold, in the back, because
he was ambitious, wanted to get ahead and did."

Hacker was being celebrated by the liberal community, yet he had
basically said that blacks, by their very nature, were lazy slobs
who could do nothing else but exist on the public dole. Because
Powell studied and worked hard, was ambitious, applied himself,
and persevered in order to succeed, Hacker was claiming that
Powell betrayed his nature and "turned white."

If this wasn't racism in its purest form, Rush didn't know what
was. It was this type of attitude that had kept blacks in
dependence and bondage to the liberal plantation.

o    Convicted murderer Lloyd Wayne Hampton was scheduled to be
executed by lethal injection in Joliet, Illinois for the 1990
murder and torture of a man; Hampton told authorities that he
killed the man precisely so that he would be caught and executed.
The state was glad to oblige Hampton at midnight, and EIB's
Chicago affiliate, WLS, held a "post-execution gala."

o    One caller, George, said Rush was not a conservative, but
rather a monarchist who believed he was infallible. George stated
that Rush's "talent on loan from God" line not only proved that
he believed in some sort of talk radio "divine right," but that
he thought everyone should believe as he did.

Rush admitted he did believe everyone should share his opinions,
but he was willing to persuade people on these things as opposed
to imposing his will on others. As to talent being on loan from
God, that was true for everyone - everybody has to return their
talents to God someday.

********

MORNING UPDATE

On Saturday, President Bill Clinton addressed the National
Realtors Association convention, telling them that all Americans
should own their own home. Clinton then promised to work with
realtors, builders, mortgage lenders, and government officials to
find ways to create more home owners than ever before.

Some cynics, of course, might claim Clinton is just engaging in
more empty campaign rhetoric, but Rush is willing to work with
the President on this. The truth is simple: more people could
afford their own home without their government's help if it
weren't for their government. In the last year, Clinton
administration timber policies have dramatically increased the
price of building houses, and increased taxes have only made this
worse.

Of course, the guys in Washington think all tax money belongs to
them and that they can spend it better than the people.
Nevertheless, all these things, not to mention costly
environmental regulations, are why 30% of the price of the
average home in America is due to federal, state, and local
regulations. Thus, you could afford your own home without your
government if it weren't for your government.

With that in mind, Rush encourages everyone to help the President
create more home owners than ever before by acting today and
firing the Democrats.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o    Rush notes that Americans have only "one vote per clip" (except
for those in Chicago and other selected parts of the nation), and
he's having a great time reading all the columnists who think the
Americans are too informed, too angry, and too cynical. In
actuality, though, the voters have finally figured out how their
government works, and they are expressing their disagreement with
certain sections of that government today.

Rush would therefore say that there is more happiness than anger
among Americans today, and there certainly will be more happiness
than anger on his show today. He notes, though, that this doesn't
mean Republicans will do anything but "fight, fight, fight" in
their effort to bring back democracy to the U.S. Congress.

o    Rush has been mentioned in a print ad for Senator Ted Kennedy
(D-MA). EIB doesn't know where the ad originally appeared, but
the copy of it which he has features a picture of Kennedy
pointing with the caption:

"His voice is always heard. Friend and foe alike know that
Senator Ted Kennedy is a force to be reckoned with. Whether he's
battling Bob Dole or twisting Democratic arms, upsetting Rush
Limbaugh, or supporting President Clinton, Kennedy matters! He's
that powerful!"

The ad then goes on to list all the great government programs
Kennedy has authored and supported, and then at the bottom states
"Kennedy, he makes a difference! Vote November 8th. For a ride to
the polls, please call xxx-xxxx." Rush hopes some conservatives
call the Kennedy number to get their free ride to the polls;
after all, it's about time Republicans get some freebies from
Senator Kennedy.

o    On Larry King Live last night, Mary Matalin and Tony Coelho
discussed the elections. Coelho is an old-school Democrat
power-broker who's been everywhere during this campaign, having
been brought back into the public eye to help the Democrats limit
their losses this year. Coelho, a white male millionaire who was
making millions in Wall Street, has been working hard to save the
Clinton Presidency and thereby save the Democratic party.

Rush recalls how two years ago the Democrats were euphoric over
Bill Clinton's victory, and as they looked at a
Democratically-controlled White House, Senate, and House, they
had visions of doing "FDR 2," empowering themselves for another
50 years. Today, though, they are on the brink of losing both
houses of Congress and losing the majority of governorships in
the country. Meanwhile, their President has higher disapproval
ratings than approval ratings, which is why most Democrats begged
him not to show up to campaign on their behalf.

The past two years must have been an unpredictable shock to the
long-time Democratic powers that be, who know see their power
base eroding; even their mainstream voters are apathetic, so much
so that they might not even turn out to vote this year. This is
why the Democrats have been trying to scare these typical
Democratic voters into thinking that Republican victories would
destroy the nation.

The liberal Democrats are not going to take this threat to their
power lightly, but Rush is certain that as the liberals fight
back they'll lose even more of their power. Typically the
liberals have been able to move to the right for the campaigns
and then after winning re-election, continue governing on the
left, but this isn't working anymore.

This is because the people are more informed than they've ever
been in modern times, thanks to interactive computer networks, to
the renaissance of the talk radio format, to the alternative
media. These things all allow the people to become not only
better informed, but express their will better than ever.

Rush talked to John Fund this morning because Fund has a great
piece in today's Wall Street Journal, and one thing they
discussed was how truly historical changes often aren't noticed
while they are happening. Typically, those involved in great
changes are too busy to realize what they've accomplished until
afterwards, but Rush feels that this year the people are bringing
about a major revolution in how their country is governed.

Those in Washington derive their power solely from the people
they govern, but for the past several years this seems to have
been forgotten. The people have been slow to awaken to this, but
they have become informed now, thanks to the beauty of the First
Amendment which allows the people to express themselves and to
become well informed.

Today is thus a day to be encouraged, optimistic, and hopeful. If
nothing else, the days of the liberal way of doing things is over
- the people are no longer going to tolerate the secret backroom
deals that have been the standard way of doing things in
Washington anymore. It is the people and the fact the people are
more informed than ever which is making this happen, and this is
turn is due to how the people have more information sources than
they've ever had before.

Regardless of how the elections turn out this year, today's
elections will be the beginning of a tremendous change in
American politics. As to Tony Coelho, he said something
outrageous on Larry King Live last night which shows just how out
of touch he and the rest of the liberal Democrats really are.
Rush will talk about this after the break.

*BREAK*

Tony Coelho and Mary Matalin were on Larry King Live last night,
and during their discussion about the elections the topic of
"outside special interests" was mentioned. Rush pointed out last
week that House Speaker Tom Foley has raised 93% of his
campaign's nearly $2 million of contributions were from outside
of his district. Of course, though, Foley is attacking his
opponent, George Nethercutt, for being too heavily influenced by
"outside special interests."

A caller last night brought this subject up, and Coelho tried to
counter by saying that Michael Huffington was trying to buy a
Senate seat by buying $35 million. Coelho said "this is what
Republicans always do, Larry, they get white males who have a lot
of money." At this point, Rush started screaming profanities at
the TV because he has just about had it with the left's
demonizing of white males. Since this kind of attack doesn't fly
with mainstream America, Coelho had to be trying to court the
Hillary Clintons, the feminists, the multiculturalists, and other
fringe groups of the left by getting them outraged at their
favorite target, "evil" white males.

Coelho, though, is a white millionaire male, and the Democrats
have more millionaires in Congress than do Republicans. As to
Huffington, he, unlike Foley, is spending his own money, not
relying on funds from special interests. Rush admits he was
highly irritated by Coelho's comment, yet at the same time it
shows how out of touch Coelho and the Democrats are - on the eve
of the election, Coelho is bashing white males, and this is the
kind of attacks which have gotten Clinton and the Democrats in
trouble.

The people are not happy at how the Democrats are kowtowing to
special interests such as the feminists, yet on the eve of the
election, Coelho decided to bash white males. President Clinton
is so unpopular in the South that he can't even go there during
this election, and the fact that the Democratic party, which is
run by rich white males, is bashing rich white males is just one
reason.

Does Coelho's comment about white males mean that the Democrats
no longer want white males to be part of their party? Does this
mean that their quota of white males is now filled and that no
more are to be welcomed?

And as far as buying votes and Senate seats, Coelho was just
being hypocritical to the extreme. Rush's TV show last night
calculated how much money some Democrats were spending on their
campaigns, and the facts are clear; when you count how much money
Democrats spent on votes that they get, it's the Democrats who
are spending the most money.

As a point of reference, Robert Kennedy spent $2.84 per vote he
received in 1964. Now, thirty years later, if Michael Huffington
wins the election today with 51% of the expected vote, he will
have spent only $3.45 per vote. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), though,
is expected to spend $7.46 per vote should he win re-election
this year, and Senator Jay Rockefeller, yet another rich white
male, spent $38.77 to win his Senate seat in West Virginia.

Thus, just who is buying Senate seats?

*BREAK*

Items

o    The California press, and some national media, is talking about
how Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown "went
black" over the weekend, pulling thousands of dollars worth of TV
ads from smaller TV markets because she ran short of money.
Supposedly, her campaign mismanaged the funds, so it had to
cancel some ads.

Brown, though, is the California State Treasurer, so if her
campaign is mismanaged, what does that say about her abilities?
Is it believable that she can't manage her own campaign, running
out of money right at the final weekend before the elections, the
most crucial period in any campaign?

Rush thus doubts the story that is being told, and instead thinks
Brown looked at the numbers, saw she was losing, and decided to
funnel some of her funds or support to other candidates, such as
Dianne Feinstein or someone else. Rush just can't believe that
her campaign was so mismanaged that Brown couldn't come up with
the money for a few campaign ads; she seems to have decided to
pull out without really pulling out, perhaps to salvage her
reputation.

Of course, Rush could be wrong about this, but if so, then it
means the California State Treasurer is woefully inadequate in
managing money.

o    President Clinton gave seven radio interviews in one hour this
morning, trying to convince voters that they should vote
Democratic. Rush recalls that it was only in May or June that
Clinton complained that Rush had an unfair advantage because Rush
had all this time to say what he wanted and Clinton and the
Democrats couldn't possibly respond.

Rush bets Clinton could get on seven radio stations every day if
he wanted to, given that most small talk show hosts would
salivate at the thought of hosting the President of the United
States.

Phone    Mika from New York City, NY

Mika is an editor from the Nation magazine, but he's not Mika
Morrison, the "right-winger," but the other Mika, the
"left-winger." He agrees with Rush that the Democrats are heading
for a "meltdown" this election, but doesn't think it's any sort
of revolution because 70% or so of the electorate is not going to
bother to vote.

Rush recalls how the low turnout in the 1988 elections generated
a lot of complaints about voter apathy, but the same people are
now complaining about the people becoming too much involved with
their government. In any case, though, the people who vote in any
election are the ones who are motivated, and if the Democrats
have a low turnout this year, then what does it say about them,
their party, and their ideas and policies?

Rush would suggest that those who are voting are doing so to
actively affirm something other than traditional liberalism,
while those who aren't voting no longer care about liberal
policies; they certainly don't care enough to even bother to
vote. Rush thinks this is revolutionary, especially if
Republicans do gain as many seats in Congress as he thinks they
will.

Mika, though, thinks this is a stretch because Republicans are
going to suffer their own meltdown in the next couple of years.
He agrees with Rush that it's more likely that Republicans will
not win absolute control of Congress but will win enough seats
for effective control, and this is not really that bad a thing.

The current elections will be a repudiation of the "conservative
Democratic strategy" that has been dominating the Democratic
party for the past two years, and maybe the Democratic party will
realize it's time to change policies. However, the people are not
going to choose watered-down Republicans when they have the "real
thing," which is the Democrats, at least when they present real
alternatives.

Rush says the Democrats have not been at all conservative during
the past couple of years; they have been pursuing very leftist
policies, such as taxing the rich and government health care.
Mika says taxing the rich is very popular, and the Democrats'
health care plan was not a government takeover.

Rush says the Clinton health care plan clearly was a government
takeover, but Mika doesn't support the Clinton plan. Rush says it
was the Clinton health care plan that was being discussed and
which was important, even though it did end up being continually
watered down.

Mika asks what the Republican plan will be once they get in
control; Republicans can't rely on market forces to cure things,
especially since the Republicans know only one thing: how to
oppose. Rush says this is not true and the Republicans' Contract
With America proves this.

As to health care, competition on the health care has to be
reintroduced, and this will be done when the consumer gets back
to paying the bill. Mika doesn't see this happening, and notes
that it will be Republicans who will have the problems during the
next two years. Rush agrees completely with this, which is why
the Republican leadership will have to focus the Republicans in
Congress for two full years.

This will be especially important since those in the mainstream
media such as Mika will be giving Republicans unrelenting
attention and criticism. Mika says he is not part of the
mainstream, corporate media, but Rush doesn't believe in the
"corporate media" conspiracy. In any case, though, those in the
mainstream press are angry that they no longer have their sweet
monopolies, and they aren't going to go away gently.

Instead, the dominant media will examine the Republican party and
its 1996 Presidential candidate in a way unlike anything seen
before, but this will make for some fun times. There's a reason
to look this closely at Clinton, and there's no reason right now
to investigate Republicans; however, once Republicans get into
power and are prominent, there will be reasons to investigate
them, too, and the people will demand to know the truth.

Rush again notes this will make for some fun times, and Mika
agrees, thanking Rush for having him on the show. Rush thanks
Mika for calling, noting that the Nation magazine is perhaps the
last refuge of pure liberalism in the country; to them, Ted
Kennedy is probably not liberal enough, so it's interesting that
Mika thinks a "Democrat meltdown" is in the works.

*BREAK*

Rush received a fax of a story from yesterday's Imperial Valley
Press about how Mexican protestors burned Governor Pete Wilson in
effigy yesterday as part of a demonstration against California's
Proposition 187. Protestors early Sunday night walked for two
miles along the U.S./Mexican border in a candlelight vigil
against the proposition and Wilson.

Rush recalls that a caller yesterday noted that Mexicans in
America send a lot of money back to Mexico, which could very well
be the case. However, Proposition 187 is really about whether
California taxpayers should pay for the education and health care
of illegal immigrants; the supporters of this proposition don't
think they should be taxed so as to pay for these benefits to
people who are breaking the law. In contrast, the opponents to
Proposition 187 think that the residents of California should be
taxed so as to send a subsidy to every resident of Mexico.

Thus, why stop there? Why not tax all Americans, from California
to Florida to send money to the Haitians, so that they don't have
to risk their lives to come to the U.S.? Proposition 187 is about
curbing the welfare state and implementing the law, but opponents
to the proposition are basically saying that taxpayers should be
taxed more so that their money can be sent to foreign countries.
By this logic, though, you could just as easily suggest that this
money should be directly to residents in those foreign countries,
so that they don't have to break the law by illegally coming into
the U.S.

Phone    Jeff from Indianapolis, IN

Jeff wants to challenge Rush on a lot of issues, especially since
the Republican party is distorting the welfare state. There are a
lot of people who need the help given by the welfare state
because of the wide disparity of wealth in America; there are
good high-paying jobs out there, but those jobs need a lot of
education and not everyone can cut it at college, whites and
blacks alike. Not everyone can achieve the levels of education
and skill needed for high-paying jobs.

Rush says of course not everyone has the same abilities, but the
purpose of the welfare state is not to help those who are
incapable, but to make people dependent on the government. There
are a lot of capable people out there, but they won't learn that
until they are forced to depend on themselves.

Jeff says that not everyone can go to college, and Rush agrees;
he didn't go to college himself. Jeff, though, says Rush is
lucky, but a lot of jobs require college degrees, such as
computer science and engineers.

Rush notes that a survey of the top executives shows that 46% of
them didn't go to college. Jeff says that one reason for this is
that African-Americans are being turned down for loans by a
higher percentage than other minorities. Rush points out that
usually people don't get loans because they have a poor credit
record or can't demonstrate that they can pay the loans back, and
this is true for everyone, not just minorities. He asks Jeff to
hang on through the break.

*BREAK*

Phone    Jeff from Indianapolis, IN (continued)

Rush says that it's been proven that government cannot use
welfare to bring happiness and prosperity to society's
underclass; this doesn't work and it only creates more bitterness
and anger among those it's supposed to be helping. The true
solution is to teach people how to be self-reliant and
independent, so that they don't have to rely on whatever it is
that government can do for them - government cannot bring them
prosperity.

Jeff agrees; he's a college student who's working full time so he
knows that this is possible. Jeff is for welfare reform, but he
also knows that a lot of people need help. A lot of jobs aren't
paying a lot of money and they don't offer any health care
benefits; a lot of people stay on welfare because they can't
afford these benefits on their own on what these jobs are paying.

Rush says this use of health care as an excuse is getting out of
hand - people have to eat before they can get sick. Plus, minimum
wage and low-paying jobs are entry-level jobs, and everyone has
to start somewhere and work their way up.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush just heard that voter turnout in New York is very low, which
doesn't bode well for the Democrats. Exit polls will probably be
coming out soon, and it'll be interesting to see what the network
news' projections will be once the polls close. However, exit
polls can send false hopes, especially to Democrats.

For example, Texas and California are two states where people can
vote early via absentee ballots, but they don't show up in the
exit polls data. Since absentee voters tend to be Republicans
more than Democrats, this skews the exit polls towards the
Democrats' side. Thus, it's not wise to put too much stock on
early exit poll results.

Interestingly, Democrats are conceding defeat in some major
losses. For example, Tim Russert on this morning's Today show
said he had spoken to three potential Republican Presidential
candidates, "and the idea of Oliver North petrifies them because
they're afraid of the 1996 convention and the kind of message
he'll send. They want him to win a majority in the Senate but the
idea of his presence and his message really does concern
Republicans who want a broad tent."

It is incredible that the press is already thinking about the
Republican 1996 convention, and Anthony Lewis in today's NY Times
writes that the 1996 Presidential GOP convention will undoubtedly
please those who loved the 1992 convention's "bashing of the
un-Christian and the un-straight." Lewis adds that nobody knows
what kind of legislation the religious right would pass but their
idea of society is clear: "a more Christian and a more pious
America with women's right to choose eliminated and their
struggle for political and economic equality turned back."

Rush notes that Lewis is a dinosaur just like Coelho, engaging in
more white male bashing. Rush thinks people such as Lewis and
Coelho should be added to EIB's ad for "Geriatric Park":

<<Speilbergesque music plays in the background as Announcer
speaks>> This summer you can take your family to the only place
on Earth where living fossils roam in their natural environment.
Congressional House Pictures presents Stephen Spenberg's
"Geriatric Park."

<<Father>> Get back here, Billy, it's two o'clock! Senator
Metzenbaum could wake up at any minute!

<<Announcer>> Scientists have cloned the cells of New Deal
Democrats, and despite their harmless appearance, they can be
extremely dangerous.

<<Terrified Man>> Oh my god! Tom Foley is coming toward me! What
do I do?

<<Friend>> Don't worry, they never "attax" you when you stand
totally still. Stare into his eyes and hand him your checkbook.

<<Announcer>> Geriatric Park, where disaster awaits at every
corner.

<<Friend>> Hey, Jerry, where the heck is your wife?

<<Jerry, crying>> She fell into the entitlements tar pits.

<<Friend>> Oh, geez, at least the government will cover those
funeral expenses, huh?

<<Jerry, brightening up>> Oh, good point!

<<Announcer>> Geriatric Park, home of the frightening Barney
Frankus Liberalus <<horrific roar>>, the Carol Moseley
Brauntosaurus <<a cross between howl and roar>>, and who can
forget their leader and granddaddy of them all . . .

<<Jerry>> What the heck is that?

<<Friend>> Oh my god, it's the Arkansaraus Taxanspendus!
Aauuugggghh!

<<Announcer>> Geriatric Park, because no matter how many years
pass, some things always stay the same! Coming soon to a theater
near you.

********

Michael Lerner, Hillary Clinton's "politics of meaning" guru and
publisher of Tikkun magazine, and someone who is discussed to
some extent in Rush's "See, I Told You So," gives some advice to
the Democrats in the latest issue of Tikkun. In an editorial
titled "A Special Focus, After the Fall," Lerner writes that
Clinton will have to admit that he made a "deep mistake" in being
too accommodating to the special interests and "ethos of
selfishness."

Rush thinks Lerner's mind has to be fried to write stuff like
this, but Lerner is evidently serious since he adds that Clinton,
instead of promising specific legislation over the next two
years, "should challenge the ethos of selfishness and replace it
with an ethos of caring." After that, the President should call
for a "national movement for a progressive politics of meaning,"
asking for 10,000 young people to dedicate the summer of 1995 for
door-to-door campaigning to educate Americans into challenging
the ethos of selfishness.

Rush bets Americans will be slamming their doors real fast when
they open it to see a young person talking about the "ethos of
selfishness." Lerner, though, has even more ideas. For example,
he thinks that President Clinton should also "send a letter to
every American taxpayer on April 16th, thanking them on behalf of
all those who benefit from federal programs and reminding them of
how much good they're doing for others by paying their taxes."

Rush would love to see this - he can only imagine the taxpayers'
reactions upon getting this letter from Bill Clinton. This idea
is almost as good as having the national elections fall on the
first Tuesday after April 15th.

Lerner, by the way, is an adviser to Hillary Clinton and a repeat
guest in the White House. Lerner is the one who actually got
Hillary to realize at age 46 that "there are things bigger than
ourselves." Lerner, though, is not finished, but thinks Clinton
should not only introduce a new health care bill, but it should
be one which goes further than a single-payer system. This bill
should challenge the profit motive in health care and "projecting
a full vision of what spiritually and morally sensitive health
care could be."

The EIB ask what "spiritual health care means," and Rush admits
he has no idea what any of this means. This is just what the
Clintons' spiritual guru thinks the President should do to come
back after today's "fall," and Rush can only hope the Clintons
take Lerner's advice. In particular Rush wants to start getting
his letter from the President on April 16th thanking him for
paying his taxes. It's about time someone thank him for paying
his taxes.

In fact, Rush thinks every taxpayer should be informed of every
dollar that the government has collected from them and where it
went. There should also be a full accounting of the money each
taxpayer has sent in. Rush is so excited by this idea, in fact,
that if Lerner were only running for office, Rush this very day
would pull a Perot and endorse him.

*BREAK*

Phone    Edward from Cleveland, OH

Edward gives "98% dittos" and remarks that Memnonides once said
the highest form of charity is giving someone a job, while the
lowest form of charity is handing them money. Rush agrees with
that.

Edward is a conservative Republican who voted a straight
Republican ticket this morning, and he thanks his parents for
bringing him up as a Republican. However, while he thinks
Republicans will do a better job than the Democrats, he's still
worried about the deficit because he doesn't think the Republican
party will cut spending enough to fix the deficit.

In particular, entitlements have to be cut, and most particularly
Social Security has to be cut, given that its benefits have been
increased far more over the years than the country can afford.
However, Republicans don't seem willing to do this, so Edward is
worried that just as it took Nixon to go to China, it will take
Democrats to cut Social Security and they will do this only when
the government is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Republicans should be doing this but they know they'll be thrown
out of office for doing this, but perhaps that's a price that
should be paid. Rush says that Medicare, as far as on-budget
programs are concerned, is far worse than Social Security;
Medicare and welfare programs constitute about 60% of the federal
budget, while Social Security is covered by an "off budget trust
fund" gimmick.

Edward knows that Social Security won't be there for him, so he's
planning his own retirement, and Rush agrees that this is the
smart move. If people, though, could just be shown how much
better off they'd be if they could invest their FICA taxes in
their own retirement fund, they'd be stunned and amazed, and
would immediately demand the end of Social Security.

Social Security, though, has become such an integral part of the
American culture that the only way it's going to be ended is if
Congress ends up with members who intend to stay there for only
one term because once they cut Social Security, they aren't going
to get re-elected.

*BREAK*

Phone    Rick from St. Louis, MO

Rick says a couple of callers have mentioned welfare reform, and
it's been a big subject during the campaign. The conventional
wisdom, though, seems to be that conservatives don't want
government to have any role in this. At a dinner party Rick was
at last weekend, the mostly liberal crowd seemed convinced of
this, and this bothers Rick because Friedrich von Hayek wrote 50
years ago in "The Road to Serfdom" that government does have an
active role in providing some social insurance.

Hayek is one of the founders of true conservatism, and he
illustrates that conservatives aren't anarchists or totally
against government, but this notion seems to have become the
prevailing wisdom. Rush points out, though, that before the
creation of the welfare state, a network of community, church,
and the neighborhood helped out the indigent. Rush is not
suggesting that America return to this era, but only that
government is not the sole source of compassion.

In fact, what liberals have defined as compassion has created an
underclass that is being relegated to a subsistent life. Rick
agrees, but just wants to make the point that most conservatives
think government does have some role in providing some sort of
social insurance.

Rush agrees, and suggests that the next time Rick sees some of
these liberals he bring up Jack Kemp's point that liberals
measure compassion by how many people are on government welfare
rolls, while conservatives measure compassion by how many people
no longer need such help. Rush doubts that most liberals will be
able to address this point, given that liberals tend to be stuck
in cliches, never bothering to intellectually examine their
treasured beliefs.

Rick agrees with that, and thinks part of the reason the voters
are angry with government is that it's failed to do what it's
supposed to be doing. Rick is saddened, though, by how most
people probably don't know who Hayek is, but Rush points out that
he's mentioned Hayek and his books many times. Rick, though,
notes that this year is the 50th anniversary of the "Road to
Serfdom," but he's seen only two tributes to it in the press.

He wishes more conservatives would discover Hayek and realize
that he's one of their ideological ancestors. Rush agrees, but
notes Hayek's books are tough sledding and heady intellectual
fodder. Fortunately, though, Rush's newsletter did a review of
this book, so EIB has done its best to get the word out, and at
"nominal fees," Rush notes. He thanks Rick for calling and
remarks that dinner parties are one of the great experiences of
life.

Rush hates to plug his newsletter, but it does review books from
time to time; it can't do this every month because Rush can't
read that much, but when a good book comes along it gets
mentioned. Rush can't say too much more about the Limbaugh
Letter, given that it has to buy ad time on his radio show like
Snapple and everyone else, but it's approaching 500,000
subscribers, and its subscriber list is definitely the most
sought-after mailing list by Washington think tanks.

Limbaugh Letter subscribers don't have to worry about EIB
shilling their names, though, but they will get a special treat
in the next issue: Rush will interview a special guest, Rush
himself. In fact, he'll be doing this interview of himself
tomorrow after the show, and he vows that nobody will ever be
misquoted in the Limbaugh Letter.

And as long as he mentioned Snapple, Rush notes that EIB's
advertisers never suffer from advertising on his show, and in
particular Snapple was purchased by Quaker Oats last week for
$1.7 billion. Five years ago, the three Snapple guys were selling
their product at delis in only 10 or 11 states, but by making EIB
part of their novel advertising strategy, and because they have
an incredible product, Snapple has become a nationwide concern
worth more than $1 billion.

"That's what happens when you advertise on this program," Rush
remarks, pointing out that Florida orange juice also had record
sales this summer. The Limbaugh Letter, of course, is another
record success story, so if anyone doesn't have it, they should
get it. Now.

*BREAK*

Phone    Steve from Los Angeles, CA

Steve gives "cigar smoking dittos," noting he attended the Cigar
Aficionado's "Big Smoke" in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago,
but he's mainly concerned about Proposition 187. Rush interrupts
Steve to note that California also has another major proposition
on the ballot which is not getting much attention: Proposition
186 would impose a single-payer, state-run health care plan on
the entire state, and should it pass the liberals will be
re-energized, insisting that the American people do want
liberalism and government-run health care. However, nobody is
paying attention to this proposition because of Proposition 187.

Steve notes there are people appearing on LA talk shows insisting
that should Proposition 187 be passed, the city will be gripped
with more riots. Rush isn't surprised by this news, given that LA
has shown it's willing to be governed by fears of riots. However,
in 1968 Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago, stopped any possibility
of riots disrupting the Democratic convention by giving a
three-word command to his police forces: shoot to kill.

Steve agrees that this would have stopped the previous riots.
Rush, though, knows these words won't be uttered to stop any
riots, even though this is what law enforcement is supposed to
do: secure law and order by preventing disturbances like riots.

*BREAK*

Phone    Helen from Huntington, NY

Helen voted Republican today, telling Rush "it's all your fault!"
However, she's happy about this; she used to be a registered
Democrat who would occasionally vote Republican, but now, thanks
to Rush, she's been liberated and today for the first time voted
Republican as a registered Republican. She thanks her in-laws for
making her listen to Rush two years ago.

Rush thinks this is great news, and Helen remarks that both she
and her husband celebrated this morning because they both voted
the straight Republican ticket. Rush asks how crowded the polling
place was, and Helen says it wasn't crowded at all when they were
there. Rush thanks Helen for calling and bets that her story is
being repeated throughout the Fruited Plain today.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o    There's good news in the O.J. Simpson case - the networks will
carry only updates about the case, not full coverage, although
they are planning to carry the opening and closing arguments, if
any. "Good!" remarks Rush, predicting that the trial will turn
out to be even more exacting and demanding than any of the
pretrial hearings were.

o    More and more people seem to be taking Rush's advice about how
to make the world trade playing field more level: by exporting
liberalism to other countries, so that those countries'
businesses can be bedeviled as are American companies. PETA and
feminism have already been exported to Japan, but the latest news
from Japan is that a huge controversy is developing over an
alarming trend among Japanese to kiss in public.

It's been traditional that the Japanese bow to one another, as
opposed to hugging or kissing. Now, though, more and more young
Japanese couples are giving one another goodbye pecks as they
part ways at the subway station, and there are those who consider
this a major threat to Japanese culture.

"Media reports" say that there have even been instances of
outright necking on the subway trains, but this is "tame stuff"
compared to the pornography that exists in Japanese publications
and television. Some critics, though, think that kissing in
public is outright ugly and impolite, and that those doing the
pecking are giving no thought or consideration to those who might
be watching them.

Rush wonders what would happen if Japan had gay rights parades
such as the ones held in New York, where gay activists march nude
or do worse in public. As everyone knows, all of this stuff
starts with a mere peck on the check; can the "heavy stuff" be
far behind?

o    A professor in Tel Aviv who had AIDS spent the last year of his
life advertising for sex, taping the men he slept with, and
spreading the HIV virus around. The professor allegedly wanted to
exact vengeance on his lovers, but he was found murdered a week
ago, perhaps by one of the hundreds of victims he slept with, a
list that probably included students, Palestinians, and U.S.
sailors.

o    California's Proposition 186 and Proposition 187 are only a few
of the many initiatives on state ballots this year. Oregon voters
will be deciding the fate of a ballot initiative that would
legalize euthanasia for the terminally ill; initiatives in
Oregon, Montana, and Missouri would require voter approval for
any new taxes.

In Oklahoma, an initiative would put a 1% tax on entertainment to
pay for breast cancer research, news which makes the EIB staff
ask "what's the connection?" Rush says that liberals don't have
to make any connection between their taxes and the supposed
projects to be funded by those taxes.

Florida, Rhode Island, Colorado, and Massachusetts have ballot
initiatives to permit gambling casinos, which reminds Rush how
it's horse racing which really gets hurt by casinos. California
race track owners, for example, are making plans to get
permission to build casinos at their tracks.

Idaho and Oregon have initiatives to ban gay rights laws and
school programs that suggest homosexuality is acceptable, while
Wyoming voters will decide on a referendum to ban abortion except
in the cases of rape or incest. Massachusetts, North Dakota, and
South Dakota all have initiatives to repeal state seatbelt laws.

San Francisco voters will vote on a proposal to ban sitting or
laying on the sidewalk during the day, but Rush bets that there
are already laws which would bar this if only they would be
enforced. California voters will also be voting on a 4 cent per
gallon gas tax to expand mass transit. Florida also has an
initiative to ban net fishing near the shore.

o    Rush has made no secret about his great love for the NFL; if
Rush were not in radio, he'd either be running an airport or be
involved with professional football in some way. However, the
NFL's home team blackout telecast rule continues to vex him.
Nobody can explain to Rush why this rule exists or why it was
written in the first place.

This rule makes no sense - those who live in an NFL market get to
see three games on Sunday whenever their home team is on the
road; however, should the home team be on the road and playing
before a sold-out house, they get only two games: the home team
game and one other. When a team plays at home and is sold out,
that game has to be televised and no other game can be played
during that time; thus, the only game viewers can choose from in
this case is the home team.

Thus, when the home team is on the road, home team fans get a
choice, but they don't get a choice when the team is playing at
home and is sold out. This makes no sense whatsoever; if a game
is sold out, then why limit someone's choices at home? The only
possible explanation is that if the sold-out home game is not a
very good one, some people with tickets might not show up,
instead choosing to stay home and watch the competing televised
games.

But home team fans tend to go to the games no matter what,
especially at NFL ticket prices. Thus, is the home team rule
supposed to guarantee high ratings for the home team? If this is
the case, though, why doesn't someone just tell Rush that this is
the point?

For example, the biggest game of next weekend is coming up
Sunday: the Dallas Cowboys versus the San Francisco 49ers, but
those in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Denver, and New
Orleans won't be able to see it. It makes no sense to keep the
best game of the week out of the biggest television markets, but
this is what will happen because of the NFL broadcast rules.

FOX is happy about this because they think they'll have 80% of
the country watching their game; however, eliminating the top two
markets in the U.S. is not a smart idea. What FOX should have
done is show the NY Giants game, which is being televised Sunday
afternoon, on Sunday or Monday night, but FOX didn't do this
because the network wanted the New York market, even though it
meant not televising the best game.

This means die-hard fans will have to get on an airplane to be
able to see the game of their choice. The EIB staff suggest a
ballot initiative to cure this horrendous problem, but Rush sighs
because not even the referendum process could cure this societal
ill. "This stuff really frosts me!" he exclaims before going to
the break in utter frustration.

*BREAK*

Returning to the subject of professional football, Rush notes
that what is going on with its television rules is exactly the
same as if ABC decided to televise "Jurassic Park." However,
because earlier in the day the local affiliate aired "The Lost
World," another movie about dinosaurs, that station wouldn't be
allowed to broadcast "Jurassic Park." This is exactly the same
thing as what is going on in NFL football.

Rush sighs because he despairs of anyone ever explaining this to
him; perhaps he should make it his personal goal that he won't
end his radio career until he understands the NFL blackout rule.
If he stated this as his goal, the liberals would certainly go
all out to explain this to him, just to get him off the air.

Phone    Kim from St. Louis, MO

Kim thanks Rush for inspiring her to pay attention to politics
this year. In particular she's been studying Missouri's Amendment
7, which would require all tax increases to be approved by the
voters. Rush asks how the polls are on this amendment, and Kim
says she fears the "liberal puke" ads on television have turned
majority opinion against it. The opposition has worked overtime
to defeat this amendment by claiming that should it pass, schools
will be closed and criminals will be released from jail because
the public would never pay enough taxes.

Kim also has been paying a lot of attention to the Second
Congressional District and Rep. Jim Talent's re-election
campaign. Kim hasn't been too thrilled with Talent, though,
because he is a typical moderate Republican. "Vote for him
anyway," Rush exhorts.

*BREAK*

Phone    Francisco from Palmdale, CA

Francisco wants to take issue with Rush about California's
Proposition 187, which he thinks says that anyone suspected of
being an illegal alien should be turned in. He thinks people are
being hypocrites because there's been a system to detect welfare
fraud for years, but that system hasn't been implemented.

Rush agrees, which is why the Californians are angry - the laws
aren't being enforced and the legislature isn't listening to
them. Francisco says that only six out of California's 50
counties have any sort of welfare check system, so if welfare
fraud were the real reason for this proposition, this concern
would be better served by enforcing the law.

And last year crime cost Californians $18 billion, which is a lot
more than the $5 billion supposed cost that illegal aliens are
costing the state. The state is not going to stop any of this by
passing Proposition 187.

Rush asks if Francisco is in favor of illegal immigrants having
free access to taxpayer-funded benefits, and Francisco says he's
not in favor of anyone doing illegal things. Proposition 187 is
just an excuse that California's bigots and hatemongers will use
to attack hispanics. He adds that you hear this hate and anger in
the people who call into local talk shows to support the
proposition.

Rush says anger and hate are not synonyms; Californians are
angry, but not at a particular minority but at how working
taxpayers are being forced to pay more in taxes for benefits to
illegal aliens. The word "hate" has been bandied about way too
often recently, but Rush has not heard any hate in the voices of
those he's heard talking about Proposition 187. These people are
concerned about the ever-growing welfare state and they want it
stopped.

Francisco says that illegal aliens are allegedly costing the
state $5 billion, but agriculture brings in $70 billion to the
state each year, and he doesn't think Proposition 187 is about
illegal immigrants but all immigrants. "Read the ballot!" he
exclaims. Rush says he has read it, and there's an easy way to
identify legal residents: check the paperwork.

Francisco, though, says that illegal immigrants only have to be
"suspected," not proven, by this proposition. Rush refuses to
believe such scare tactics, and the fact is that opponents of
Proposition 187 are supporting the use of taxpayer dollars to pay
for benefits to those breaking the law.

Francisco says Proposition 187 won't do anything to stop this;
the problem is with fraud and theft in the welfare system. Rush
agrees that this has to be fixed, but he disagrees with
Francisco's contention that Proposition 187 is trying to enforce
the laws against only one specific minority. Francisco disagrees
- if people want to stop welfare fraud, they should implement the
laws that already exist.

Rush agrees, but this is why Proposition 187 was written - it is
the first step towards enforcing these laws and it's a message to
the state legislature that they should enforce these laws.
Francisco says Proposition 187 will only cost the state more
money than it saves.

Rush, though, says the proposition is about rules and the law,
and it's designed to send a strong message to the state
legislators who aren't doing anything about making sure the laws
are enforced. The welfare system has failed for 30 years and the
people are angry about this.

There are those who are claiming that this proposition is
unconstitutional, but the 1982 Supreme Court ruling requiring the
state to educate the children of illegal aliens was a 5-4 ruling,
and the proponents of the measure seem more than willing to take
this issue to the Court again. If you believe in something, you
have to continue working to change it, regardless of the setbacks
you face.

Francisco, though, says that the laws are already on the books
and there are already sanctions against employers who hire
illegal aliens. These laws should be enforced. Rush asks why
Francisco is so afraid of this proposition, and Francisco says
he's Latino and is thus afraid if he ends up with some bigot for
a doctor. He's a legal resident, but should he lose his ID and
papers, he's going to end up in big trouble.

Rush doesn't think these extreme examples will be the normal
course, and you can't make policy and law based on extreme
examples and situations. Besides, emergency services aren't
covered by the proposition, which covers only non-extreme health
care.

Rush thanks Francisco for calling, and Francisco ends by warning
that under Proposition 187 anyone who is of minority descent will
have to start carrying their birth certificates with them.

*BREAK*

Phone    Lou from Roselle Park, NJ

Lou saw Gore Vidal at the National Press Club on CSPAN yesterday,
and one of the questions he was asked was which current
personality 21st-century historians would be writing about.
Surprisingly, Vidal replied Rush Limbaugh. Lou thinks it would be
great if Rush could get a clip of this and show it on his TV
program.

Rush pledges to check into this, and asks what the audience's
reaction was to Vidal's comment. Lou says there were a lot of
sighs, and Lou knew from that reaction that this news wouldn't
make any headlines. Rush says he'd love to have seen the
journalists' reaction to this comment, but promises to look into
finding this clip.

Phone    Carrie from Chicago, IL

Carrie says Chicago residents are feeling a bit out of things
because the Republican National Committee hasn't been doing much
in her area. Rush says that the RNC did give Rostenkowski's
opponent, Michael Patrick Flanagan, $60,000 for some last-minute
ads, but Chicago is obviously a pocket of Democratic political
ideology and will probably remain so for some time.

Republicans want to focus their energies on where they have a
chance, and everyone knows what Rostenkowski can do to get out
the vote. After all, in the primaries this year, Chicago's mayor
gave public employees election day off to give Rostenkowski some
help. Carrie says that a friend's husband is a public teacher and
the schools are all closed today so they can be used as polling
places.

Rush says Chicago will always be Chicago - after all, when the
dead vote every election, what else can you say. Perhaps Chicago
will become the nation's living liberal museum, to serve as a
reminder to the rest of the country what liberalism really is.

*BREAK*

Conrad Black is a Canadian press baron who has part or full
ownership in over 500 newspapers in the United States, Canada,
and elsewhere, with a paid circulation of more than 7.5 million
worldwide, is quoted in today's Wall Street Journal as saying the
following about journalists:

"My experience with journalists authorizes me to record that a
very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated,
intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised."

With that in mind, Rush encourages everyone to keep Operation
Restore Democracy in mind throughout the day.