Another Limbaugh Under The Influence (Of Stupidity)

When Ann Coulter praises a book as "copiously researched," you can bank on a story like this to follow:

Author David Limbaugh apologized for mistakenly including a Tupelo school in his new best-selling book about incidents he calls anti-Christian.

In his book "Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christianity," Limbaugh describes the removal of explicitly Christian references from Christmas songs at an unidentified Tupelo elementary school, and students being led in chants of "Celebrate Kwanzaa."

Limbaugh's source was a November 2000 news release from the Tupelo-based American Family Association Center for Law and Policy. It carried a Tupelo dateline "and I mistakenly inferred the incident occurred in Tupelo," Limbaugh said in the letter.

In fact, the news release was about a dispute in State College, Pa. The American Family Association had asked an appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit alleging that a 1999 holiday program at State College's Corl Street Elementary School presented Christmas as a "celebration unworthy of respect."

Limbaugh, an attorney and columnist who is the brother of radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, apologized for the error in a letter published in Thursday's edition of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.

As predicted by this site weeks ago, Limbaugh's "research" involved rewriting press releases from various wingnut organizations and, as it turned out, not even bothering to read them, much less determine their accuracy. Shoddy research is the hallmark of the Limbaugh brothers. And poor, persecuted Davey can't even blame it on the household staff.