[Enchante]

It’s not just Snopes — there was quite a fuss about this back in 2000 when Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe was suspended for a few months for utilizing another version of this to write a column.

There are many mis-statements of fact in several versions of this story that circulate. The real history is glorious enough without needing to exaggerate it. Let the liberals have the field for inaccuracy!

The signers of the Declaration truly did risk all for our Independence, but there seems to be no evidence that the British in fact did target them specifically and a lot of what circulates on the Internet is not true. This web page has gone over the Limbaugh letter and the Jacoby column in much detail:

http://home.nycap.rr.com/elbrecht/signers/LIMBAUGH.htm

[Sherman Logan]

Let the liberals have the field for inaccuracy!

My point, although better stated.

[kabar]

The signers of the Declaration truly did risk all for our Independence, but there seems to be no evidence that the British in fact did target them specifically and a lot of what circulates on the Internet is not true.

Does that include John Hancock? Why didn't the British target them specifically? Were they that dumb that they wouldn't go after the leaders of the Revolution?