Rush Limbaugh: source of fake 'racist' quotes traced to law firm

October 16, 7:00 AMConservative Politics ExaminerKathy Shaidle

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Rush Limbaugh

All week, intrepid bloggers have been trying to trace the source of two "racist" quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh  -- quotes which poisoned the atmosphere to the point where he was dropped from a bid to purchase the NFL's St. Louis Rams.

Now comes word that the quotations may have been added to Rush Limbaugh's Wikipedia entry by someone using a computer at a liberal New York law firm.

A letter writer to columnist Mark Steyn writes:

The quotes were added by a user with the IP address of 69.64.213.146. This address has been used mostly to make changes to the [Wikipedia] article about Rush, but also Karl Rove, Sean Hannity,.. James Dobson and Sara Palin from 2005 until earlier this year.

While others have noted this in various forums, no one seems to have made the connection that this IP address is used as a gateway by the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP (...) that all users from that IP address come from the pbwt.com domain.)

So American Thinker looked into the firm and reports:

The firm provides a wide array of legal services with a broad spectrum of politically correct causes served.

No doubt by the end of today, various forensic data auditors will have investigated and more information will be revealed.