Could it be that the master of deceit has been caught with his pants down? Now there's a disturbing thought! After reading this book and then reading some of the pro-Rush reviews, I am convinced that this book has come very close to the mark. Limbaugh is a cult leader -- a very charismatic and energized leader -- that attracts those who are dissatisfied with their lives or their surroundings and are looking for someone to blame. Rush is on 3 unchallenged hours a day spoon feeding his followers with information that is often misrepresented or is outright false. Limbaugh has been asked on numerous opportunities to debate in public, but he chooses his own forum where dissension can be controlled with an iron fist. If Limbaugh and his sheep were interested in truth, a full account for all of Rush's misrepresentations and falsehoods documented in this book would be forthcoming. It is not. And Rush's most faithful followers defend his refusal to deliver such an account. Is it any wonder Limbaugh should be considered a cult leader, whose followers eat his every word as if it is gospel truth? To the true die-hard Dittohead, this book will do more to aggravate one's conscience and cause one to lash out then it will to deprogram. Deprogramming can only be achieved by removing the programmed from the constant bombardment of propaganda and forcing the individual to experience the real world, absent any filters or interpretations.

That Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot should be obvious to all, but since it isn't FAIR is here to point out that fact. Conservatives hate this book, not so much because of what it says, since as a rule they don't read books, but because of what it represents. The idea that an established authority (no matter how dubious or self appointed) can be criticized is profoundly disturbing to their staid little brains, especially if that authority is on their team. Never mind that Limbaugh contradicts himself, as FAIR deftly points out, the rightists have never read him either. Is Alar harmless? Was the Denny beating portrayed as a race crime? Is the Supreme Court controlled by conservatives? Find out the answers to these and many more questions. Will be a wake up call to those unfamiliar with Limbaugh's right wing distortions. Will be enjoyed by those who are aware. Will terrify his fans, if they dare to read it.

Steve Rendall and his colleagues at the media-watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) have produced a compact, readable and devastating analysis of talk-show host Rush Limbaugh's war on the truth. They document how Limbaugh repeatedly bases his discussion of important issues like health care and the environment on serious factual errors. Also included are a discussion of Limbaugh's career, an account of the deluge of hate-mail that is routinely received by anyone who criticizes Limbaugh, a series of "Limbaugh vs. Limbaugh" comparisions showing how he frequently contradicts himself in a blatantly hypocritical way, and a discussion of Limbaugh's pathetic response to the initial FAIR report on his factual inaccuarcies, in which Limbaugh was unable to find a single point on which he was right and FAIR wrong.

Anyone would find reading this book informative. The people who most need to read it are Limbaugh's idolatrous legions of "dittoheads." Unfortunately, they will be unlikely to even look at it.