Posted on 05/11/2007 7:32:14 AM PDT by rface
SANDLE, REIFF and YOUNG, P.C.
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May 10, 2007
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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,
(Signature)
Joseph E Sandler
Isn't it though? It's kept my attention all day. Sheesh! I'm glad I'm retired, or I'd be fired.
I’ve had some hellish ones over the past two years.
The pain is too close to your brain. And your brain doesn’t like it one bit.
LOL!
How and why is it that you blissfully* ask this question, implying that rface hasn't replied to "all the comments on this thread" when you obviously haven't read the thread. If you had, you'd realize that those questions have been answered repeatedly: the letter was posted on another website.
* please reference "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", by Thomas Gray (1742)
The Top 10 Democratic Lies By John Kanelous 8/5/2003
"In 50 years New York City is going to be underwater from global warming," – 2002, former president Bill Clinton.
Democratic leaders, who profess the importance of education, are constantly lying to the American people, and particularly to their base, the ignorant and ill-informed who are eating this stuff up and spreading it like wildfire. How do I know? I pay attention. Watch C-Span, and you will get the picture too.
Lie #1: Global Warming, caused by the emission of greenhouse gasses, will melt the ice caps and cause massive global flooding.
Truth: In 400 years of measuring global temperatures, the temperature has only increased 3/4 of one Degree.
Truth: Ice expands when it freezes, that’s why ice floats above the water’s surface, and contracts when it melts. Thus, any floating ice (like the entire North Pole) when it melts, will not add any volume whatsoever to the oceans.
Truth: Only land based ice can add to the volume of water in the oceans.
Truth: The overwhelming majority of land based ice is on the continent of Antarctica, where the average year around temperature is more than 60 degrees below zero. The average temperature would have to rise by more than 60 degrees to melt the Antarctic ice cap. Hardly something we need to worry about in the near future.
Truth: Natural Global Warming, and Global Cooling, has been documented by scientists over millions of years. In general it runs in 10,000-year cycles. We are currently at the end of one of those cycles. We are soon, within a hundred to a thousand years, to enter a period of thousands of years of Global Cooling, a far more dangerous prospect to life on Earth than Global Warming.
Lie #2: Bush stole the election through the Supreme Court. Gore had more votes, and should have won. Bush is an illegitimate president.
Truth: Gore, not Bush, contested the results of the election in Florida, filing a complaint to be settled in the courts, not the ballot box, where George Bush won the vote count.
Truth: It was Gore, not Bush, who placed the fate of the election into the courts. Bush had already won Florida.
Truth: Two subsequent statewide recounts, after the election, one by the left wing St. Petersburg Times, proved that George Bush won the popular vote in Florida.
Truth: Under our system of electing our leaders, the popular vote is not the determining factor. Each state gets allotted electoral votes loosely based on state populations. Then whoever wins the popular vote in the state, gets all of the electoral votes.
Lie #3: The only reason for Bush going to war with Iraq is to get their oil, and line his own pockets.
Truth: This slanderous Democratic allegation was totally un-American, bordering on treason, and was never backed up by any evidence or supporting facts. It insinuated the President of the United States was a liar and a criminal.
Lie #4: Bush wants to abolish Social Security
Truth: Another slanderous Democratic lie designed to scare senior citizens.
Truth: Bush wants to help make Social Security more efficient by allowing people some control over the money that is deducted from their pay.
Truth: The Democrats don’t want this because the payroll taxes currently go into the general fund and are used, at least partially, for discretionary spending. If enacted, Democrat’s will have to either raise taxes, or reduce spending, to maintain their spending habits.
Lie #5: Bush is dumb. He is not smart enough to be President.
Truth: Bush has an Undergraduate and Master’s Degree from Yale, an Ivy League college. He is only the second President in the history of our country to have such a degree.
Truth: It is impossible to be dumb, and be elected President of the United States. Even an idiot should know that.
Lie #6: Bush is a liar.
Truth: Bush is one of the most honest, forthright Presidents in history.
Truth: Democrats can’t recognize Bush’s sincerity because they think lying is what all Presidents do to stay in power.
Truth: Democrat’s have to lie to the American People. If Democrat’s told the truth about what they really want the people would throw them out on their ear.
Truth: Democrat’s want to raise taxes, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s want to scale back our military superiority, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s are against developing an anti-ballistic missile shield, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s are against getting tough with our enemies, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s are agnostics, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s are against civilian ownership of guns, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s fear patriotism, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s prefer socialism, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s think the American people are dumb, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s are hoping the economy goes into the tank, but they won’t admit it. Democrat’s are hoping things in Iraq go badly, but they won’t admit it. They have to lie, they know they will never get back the power they lost, if they tell the truth to a now right-leaning public.
Lie #7: Bush tax cut was only for the rich.
Truth: To a Democrat, rich is anyone making a decent living.
Truth: Everyone who pays taxes, got a tax cut.
Truth: The rich are the only ones who can afford to hire employees.
Truth: The rich are the only ones able to afford new technologies, providing a test market for new products. Products such as Television, Cellphones, Computers, Fax Machines, etc., etc., were all made possible by the rich.
Truth: The rich form companies and provide employment.
Truth: The rich are the backbone of our economic and military strength.
Truth: The rich provide the majority of funds for charities and foundations.
Truth: The rich provide an incentive to become rich, a possibility and a dream of every American.
Truth: Democrats are constantly demonizing the rich, but they are the goose that laid the golden egg. Kill the goose, and that’s the end of the eggs.
Truth: Democrats would rather have no tax cut than one that would help the rich, but since the rich pay 90% of all U.S. taxes, it’s pretty hard to design a tax bill that would not help them. Therefore, with Democrats in power, there were never any tax cuts for anybody.
Lie #8: This is the worst economy since Herbert Hoover – John Kerry, 8/6/03, Presidential Candidate and current U.S. Senator. An outrageous lie, that is reiterated on a daily basis, by the Democratic Leadership.
Truth: The stock market is up 23% this year.
Truth: The recession that started in the last year of the Clinton Administration has been declared over by the think tank that keeps track of these things.
Truth: The GDP (gross domestic product), the leading indicator of economic activity in the U.S. is higher than it has ever been.
Truth: The economy is effected by consumer confidence.
Truth: Frightening the Americans about the state of the economy could, in itself, create an economic downturn.
Truth: Democrat’s are not only hoping the economy falters, but are trying their best to make it happen.
Truth: Democrat’s are only interested in their return to power, and will say or do anything to get it back.
Lie #9: Bush lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. (His only reason for going to war with Iraq.)
Truth: Everyone thought Iraq had biological and chemical WMDs, and were seeking nuclear weapons, including former President Clinton, and still presumably Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Truth: It was not only WMDs, but the fear that a man of Saddam Hussein’s character and hatred for the United States, would not hesitate to assist terrorist determined to hurt the United States.
Truth: Other reasons were cited by the President, included the tortures to Iraqi citizens, like throwing screaming people into tree shredders, sometimes feet first to prolonging the inhumanity. And Saddam Hussein’s support of Hamas, a known terrorist group, by paying the families of suicide bombers a bonus of $25,000.
Lie #10: Bush squandered a 300 billion dollar surplus.
Truth: The event of 9/11, the collapse of Enron, the collapse of .com companies, Gore challenging the election in the courts, and the subsequent war on terrorism all contributed to the deficit we now face.
Truth: Bush had no control over the devastating economic loss caused by 9/11.
Truth: Bush had no control over Al Gore’s challenge to the election causing an immediate 20% drop in the stock market.
Truth: Bush had nothing to do with the collapse of Enron and other corporate giants.
Truth: Bush had nothing to do with the collapse of .com companies.
Truth: 9/11, an act of war against the United States, required a military response.
Truth: Even Democrat’s know, but won’t admit, that tax cuts stimulate the economy and represent only a small portion of the current deficit.
Lie #11: Bush's Tax Cuts haven't worked.
Note: The lies keep piling up, so now there is more than 10.
Truth: Thanks to Democratic action in the U.S. Senate, Bush's first round of tax cuts to the "rich" were set to begin in the year 2005. (How could they work if they were not in effect?) His second round of tax cuts changed the effective date retroactive to 2003, and did not take effect until May of 2003. We are now in August, and to the Democrat's dismay, in this short period of time, the economy is starting to react to these cuts. The stock market is up, the housing market is at an all-time high, inflation is under control, the GDP is at record levels, and consumer confidence and spending is on the upswing. The only thing left, is for the Democrat's to prey for higher unemployment – an unlikely scenario under the circumstances.
Lie #12: "Bush turned a 5 trillion dollar surplus into a 5 trillion dollar defecit." Wesley Clark 9/17/03
Truth: The projected deficit for 2003 is 450 billion dollars. Evidently, the general has trouble with billions and trillions, or he knows the difference, but believes Democrat's don't.
Truth: There never was a 5 trillion dollar surplus.
Lie #13: "Bush's failed policies has caused a 2.7 million job loss" Wesley Clark 9/17/03
Truth: 9/11 caused the job loss, along with a downturn in the economy that started in the last year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 also caused a 370 billion loss to the economy, plus a three trillion dollar capital loss in the stock market crash that immediately followed this disaster.
Truth: Bush's policies since 9/11 has caused a rebound in the economy which eventually will result in more jobs for people.
Truth: At the peak of Clinton's administration the unemployment rate was 3.7 percent. Our unemployment rate is 6.1 percent and dropping. The difference is only 2.4 percent. During the Hoover administration the rate was 35 percent unemployed. This is hardly a good comparison, but the Democrats keep using it anyway. Either they are ignorant, or they think we are.
What will these wascally Democrat's think of next? Stay tuned
“Now where’s the update and how do we fire back??? :>”
By first finding the video of what she DID say about the equipment on teevee early on......the last 2 paragraphs on rawstory don’t quite comport with what I saw/heard her say.....
“They’ll never take me alive.”
Sounds like a new Freeperism to me!
DEAN THE SCREAM needs to get back on that medication before he spends any more DNC funds on attorney welfare.
Thanks for that link ... coffee260’s report clearly states what was said on the radio show and in an associated email. The press release you link, OTOH, attributes the Brownback part to FR rather than the report from which it was sourced. Coffee260 was not generating this news de novo, simply reporting what others had said and published - exactly what ABCNBCSeeBSPBSBBC does. I’d say a demand for a retraction was in order!!!
The pain is too close to your brain. And your brain doesn’t like it one bit.
In the middle of a bad one if someone would have suggested, give me one of your children and the pain will go away, I would have..................
Mine are all fixed now so they will be a thing of the past. But a tooth ache could make me cry like a baby. That's a pain you never forget.
I hope your better now.
Cosmo?
After thousands of dollars worth of perio work, I am better.
But not cured. :(
i dont have to, I said its bogus, and you said its real. Jim Robinson laughed it off in the post you posted.........
Oh my God are you prophetic! This one takes the cake beyond the pale of sanity.
There is no hope for humanity with fools like Joe Sandler polluting the gene pool!
Fine. Then don't.
Glad to hear that.
But not cured. :(
:(
Well, after picking myself up from the floor and regaining my composure after having suffered bouts of derisive laughter, I quickly dashed off my reply that they should resend their letter in plain text as I do not open email attachments from questionable senders. Not that there was any question, as I already know the reputation of the DNC and would assume the same of any law firm representing them.
Then I dutifully sat up all night waiting in breathless anticipation for their letter. Alas, the sun came up and no letter had arrived so I went to bed.
I awoke this morning at approx 11:30 am (PDT) completely refreshed after my usual five or six hours of sleep. After my usual morning routine, I finally made it out to my computer at about noon. As is my custom, I clicked on FR’s latest posts to catch up on world events and I was shocked, shocked I tell you to see this thread in breaking news. I rushed to my email account and lo and behold, there’s the much awaited letter from the DNC attorney.
Now one thing I noted on their original email message from yesterday was that they had instructed me in no uncertain terms that their message is intended only for the use of the intended addressee and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure. They even warned me that the IRS might get me if I used any information in their email as tax advice.
Now I’m thinking if all of this is true, how did it get out on the Internet while I was sleeping? Hmmmmmm? I didn’t put it out there. So I gotta ask, who dunit??!!
As to the content of their letter, I think it's totally laughable and told them so in a polite four word response cc'd to my attorney (exact content privileged).
I now tremble in fear as I await my fate.
WeLLLLLL then, that certainly legitimizes this thread then doesn't it?
I'm saying the threat is bogus, what say you? Better yet, I have kept asking the question what has been Jim Robinson's response to the email sent to him (according to the the thread title) but nobody around here has been able to give me an answer. Maybe you can give me Jim's response to all this nonsense????????
CAN ANYBODY ON THIS THREAD ANSWER THE QUESTION I HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR THE PAST HOUR: WHY HASN'T JIM ROBINSON PERSONALLY RESPONDED TO THIS EMAIL THAT WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO HIM????????????
Because its bogus, thats why!!!!!
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