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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: FAIR's Reply to Limbaugh's Non-Response Rush Limbaugh's long-touted "5,000 word response" to FAIR's "Reign of Error" report has been released -- after nearly three and a half months. Unfortunately for Limbaugh, it doesn't rebut; mostly it changes the subject, dodges and wastes thousands of words on tangents and what-I-really-meant-to-say digressions. Whereas the FAIR report offered facts to specifically rebut Limbaugh's claims, his response relies on off-point quotes, non-responsive texts, even passages from opinion columnists. It's telling that Limbaugh doesn't bother to rebut our original report -- which we provided to him two days before its public release. Instead, his response works from (sometimes incomplete) press accounts of our report. As a result, Limbaugh ignores almost half of the errors that we pointed out. (He also ignores one of our items printed in the Washington Post, a smear of conservative commentator Cliff Kincaid.) The response is in many ways more disturbing than the original false claims -- because it reveals that even after his accuracy has been specifically challenged, Limbaugh (along with his multi-million dollar broadcasting and publishing operation) is utterly incapable of engaging in factual discourse. In his "Dear Mr. Journalist" cover letter, Limbaugh writes that "there has been no double checking; there have been no questions asked of FAIR. Journalists were handed a list of items by this group, and they simply repeated them." In fact, journalists repeatedly asked tough questions of FAIR, sought added documentation, and did their own reporting. It is clear from Howard Kurtz' Washington Post piece (7/1/94), for example, that he did his own independent research and interviews. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1896 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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