In its latest “study” entitled Municipal Broadband: Optimistic Plan, Disappointing Reality (June 20, 2005), the Heartland Institute attempts to achieve two purposes simultaneously: (1) attack the municipal fiber project in Bristol, Virginia, and (2) use its criticism of the Bristol system to undermine the Lafayette fiber project. Heartland’s paper contains so many mistakes, misinterpretations, unsupported and insupportable claims, irrelevancies, innuendos, key omissions, and obvious untruths in Heartland’s latest harangue against municipal broadband that it would take a paper many times the length of this one to respond to them all.