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5:05 PM Friday, November 6, 2009

Re “Searching for a reason to rally around Rush Limbaugh,” Oct. 22: For someone who never listens to Rush Limbaugh, Leonard Pitts Jr. is quick to misquote or distort him.

Pitts’ most recent screed brought up the Donovan McNabb flap again, and distorts the meaning. For a sports commentator, any assessment of a football player’s athletic abilities is fair commentary. But Pitts distorts Limbaugh’s dig at a biased and left-wing media into a blatant racial slur, which it was not.

Pitts also fails to mention that the quotes, originally spread by the left-wing media and others against Rush, and which were cited as a reason to declare Limbaugh unfit to be a part-owner in an NFL team, were fabricated.

For liberal pundits like Pitts, who offered a Franklin D. Roosevelt dime for Rush’s “legal defense fund,” the era of Ronald Reagan is over; but the era of FDR and Lyndon Baines Johnson will live forever.

William P. Barron Jr.

Fairborn

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