Posted on 05/11/2007 7:32:14 AM PDT by rface
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Mr. James C Robinson FreeRepublic.com PO Box 9771 Fresno, CA 93794
Re: Statement re Democratic National Committee
Dear Mr Robinson:
We are writing on behalf of our client, the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
A post by “coffee260” on FreeRepublic.com today states that this morning, on the Quinn & Rose show on XM, co-host Quin stated that the DNC chairman, Gov. Howard Dean had called Gov Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kans) “around 5:00am on morning after a tornado destroyed the town of Greensburg, Kansas and discussed with here what to say about the tornado and how to blame the war in Iraq and the Bush administration on a slow response to the aftermath.”
The statement was made by Mr Quinn, repeated on FreeRepublic, is demonstrably, unequivocally and absolutely false. Gov Dean had no such conversation with Gov Sebelius, ever.
No effort was made by FreeRepublic to contact anyone at the DNC for comment or to check the accuracy of these statements before they were published. FreeRepublic not only repeated this statement, but further stressed that Quinn’s “source” was extremely reliable and in a position that would give him direct knowledge of these revelations.
The statements quoted above are false and defamatory, are libelous and slanderous and clearly threaten to interfere with the DNC’s operations and ability to solicit support and raise funds by predjuding the organization in the eyes of the Democratic Party supporters and the public. For these reasons, we demand that FreeRepublic immediately cease and desist from Further dissemination of the above quoted statements or any statements similar in substance and immediately post a retraction of these statements in a location on its web pages at least as prominent as that on which the original story appeared.
Please let us know by noon, May 11, 2007, whether you intend to comply with these requests.
Thanks for your time and immediate attention to this important matter.
Sincerely yours,
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Joseph E Sandler
Check the links provided. Actually, they're blowing both ways. Some think this is great, others can see how this could affect them.
Good catch, CB. Doesn’t surprise me that MoveOn’s flacks would have that day job, too.
Excellent! Sounds like something Harry Truman would have done.
I am coffee260!
Sounds like she is of the same calibre as the Louisiana governor, Kathleen (blank slate) Blanko.
Ping.
“It would be funny to see the mainstream media have to report the charges because the DNC threatened legal action about it.”
Can we run with months, and months of articles quoting “Anonymous sources”, or Attorney’s close to the case”, like they did?
I read the comments. It's hard to tell if they're from actual moonbats or folks satirizing moonbats.
What Does A Guy Have To Do To Get His Own Cease & Desist Letter From the DNC? (Update on the Sebelius/Dean allegations)
Dear DNC, we’ll be glad to stop spreading these allegations just as soon as you stop this dirty lie about “Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq”. He was quoting British intelligence and British intelligence has never backed down from their story.
So stop lying about that first and maybe we can discuss no longer discussing this alleged exchange between the DNC and the Kansan governor.
Fight.
The statements are repetition of what someone else said.
Slander/Libel : Bob is a thief. - Joe.
Not Slander/Libel - : Earlier today Joe said that Bob is a thief.
The reporting was simply covering what was said on a talk show.
That's funny, I saw posted on the internet that "Joseph E Sandler rapes border collies." What a coincidence.
“I don’t buy the Sebelius conspiracy”
The only conspiracy is the one where the dems lie like a rug about every issue on the planet making all problems “Bush did it”.
It is like blaming the Pope for being Catholic. I doubt the good governor needed a call from anyone to parrot the party line.
AS to the letter, it smells and looks like a fraud to me, too many words mispelled and too many simply made up.
Last trip I made to the DUmp, was from a city library computer. I hear enough four letter words at work, so that doesn’t really bother me very much. The hate for Republicans and especially the President at that site is beyond belief.
Who would want to call lairs?
Damn .... just damn.
we could start a thread listing all of the lies that have been told by libs in the past two months...send it on with a Cease and Desist of our own ....
oh nm it would take up too much paper and theres global warming to think of ...
choke choke cough cough
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