[PGalt]

Interesting.

[PeteB570]

And that DNC shark who is all worried about truth will send a letter to DU..........??????

Still waiting.
;-)

[elhombrelibre]

The MSM will never pick this up. They’d probably be able to see what a sloppy attempt at intimidation this is, yet not want to harm their doltish leaders in the DNC. And at the heart of the matter is just how much of the caterwauling in Kansas about the tornado is actually just Dean’s blame Bush campaign. They’re not going to touch that topic.

[don-o]

This thing seems to have legs. Hope some of our big guns pick up on it.

Yhello!

[GoldenPup]

Cut the letter into four inch wide strips and put it next to the FR toilet where it can serve it’s true “useful purpose”.

[Condor51]

Since the thread is still up I assume the answer was 'pound sand'.

So someone better call a whaaaaaaaambulance for Howie, and stat. He'll have an aneurysm.

[cbkaty]

Hey Howie-boy...I got ya cease and desist right here......

[Bunny_with_a_switchblade]

Ping!!

[wildbill]

As I read it, Coffee260 was simply reporting on what he heard on a radio show from some talk show host.

Disredarding the constitutional issues, I don’t see how someone can be legally liable for repeating what he hears on the air.

I think this letter from legal counsel is an impermissable intimidation against all legal ethics.

[SteamShovel]

DNC Attorneys Send Cease and Desist Letter to Free Republic

If people are discussing what was said on a radio show, they are not the ones making the allegation. If they are now discussing both the radio show and the DNC response, what law is being broken? It is not as if the allegation was originated HERE.

If this is successful, then the right to discuss ANY news event is in question. I doubt this will ultimately be successful.

If the allegation was made here in an original post then it might have a chance based on slander. But I don't think discussing what they perceive as a slander in another venue is fair game for "Cease and Desist".

[bannie]

"SOURCES SAY" We need to preface EVERY post with, "SOURCES SAY:" It's the band-aid.

;-)

snicker...

[upchuck]

From the article (from the DNC's letter):

The statement made by Mr. Quinn, repeated on FreeRepublic.com, is demonstrably, unequivocally and absolutely false. Governor Dean had no such conversation with Governor Sebelius, ever.

Demonstrably false? Okay, we're waiting...

{{ crickets }}

[Fido969]

Here ya go:

http://www.trinitydc.edu/images/20030925_Pelosi_Sebelius.jpg

[Enterprise]

An ode to Democrats:

They waddle like a duck
the live in the muck
they always pass the buck
and they suck suck suck

[o_zarkman44]

Looks like DNC Lawyers are about to make the price of free speech go up.

Perhaps another freep-athon is in order to raise legal defense money?

I say file a counter suit back at em!

[KC-10A BOOMER]

These are the same people that constantly whine about “Freedom of Speech.” But, then again you are only allowed that luxury if you are in lock-step with their world view. Priceless, you just can’t make this stuff up.

[KenmcG414]

No surprise here. The pinko socialist RATS would like to do nothing more than stifle free speech.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Suck it, DNC.

[gitmo]

So the question is, "Did Jim Quinn on the 'Quinn & Rose' XM Satellite radio show state that:

DNC Chairman Governor Howard Dean had called Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kan.) “around 5:00 a.m. one morning after a tornado had destroyed the town of Greensburg, Kansas and discussed with her 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.”

Assuming that is true, what is Dean's gripe?

[justiceseeker93]

Fortunately, the 'Rats don't own the judiciary lock, stock, and barrel - at least not yet. Until they do, this kind of defamation suit is a loser for them, and threatening one is merely an act of intimidation.

Interesting that the DNC seems to be monitoring FR. Perhaps that stems from the exposure here of Dan Rather's fraud re President Bush's National Guard Service during the '04 presidential campaign.

In the paranoid minds of the DNC, we here at FR are definitely part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.