Sorry, Jim, but I can't let that go by. To say that there is any comparison at all between Bill Moyers and Rush Limbaugh verges on the disingenuous. To give you the benefit of the doubt, I can only assume that you are unfamiliar with either one or the other, or have not really thought the matter through.

I have followed Bill Moyers for years, and although he is an unabashed liberal (and is the first to say so), I have never ever heard him distort the truth the way Limbaugh does. Limbaugh is an ignorant and angry blowhard who makes up his own "facts" (I can cite many instances if you wish), and a hypocrite on top of that. Bill Moyers, on the other hand, is knowledgeable and articulate, and respectful of the principle that, as Patrick Moynihan said, "You have a right to your own opinions, but not your own facts." I have never known Moyers to make up facts out of whole clothe that way Limbaugh does. And Limbaugh does it on practically every show.

Furthermore, I have never heard a conservative accuse Moyers of lying or distortion. What those who don't like him accuse him of is being "too liberal." Which, incidentally, is not and never has been a moral flaw. Where Moyers arouses the ire of the Right is when he runs stories, as he has done many times on his PBS program NOW with Bill Moyers, reporting things that the Right would rather the American public not know.

He often arouses angry responses from the Right, but I have never heard a member of the Right cast aspersions on his integrity as a journalist or accuse him of distorting the truth or making up facts.

Don Firth