[Atlas Sneezed]

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.

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Note carefully that the DNC does not deny that a call was made, nor that there was advice on how to politicize the tornado. They merely set up a very specific straw man and assert that the specified precise set of facts are not entirely and precisely true.

I’d guess that the Quinn report has a greater percentage of the truth than does the average New York Times report on an uncontroversial issue.

[tcrlaf]

The DNC is not worried about what the Radio show, they are worried about the wide-spread appeal of Free Republic, and the fact that the press MONITORS it for tidbits...

OBVIOUSLY they are worried that this will get picked up by the MSM’s, and screw up some carefully laid strategies.

[PeteePie]

“Governor Dean I knew Dan Rather. You sir are no Dan Rather!” Nice try.

[CDB]

Note carefully that the DNC does not deny that a call was made, nor that there was advice on how to politicize the tornado. They merely set up a very specific straw man and assert that the specified precise set of facts are not entirely and precisely true.

This is a VERY good point. If even one LETTER or one WORD was not identical to the spoken conversation, Dean's lawyers could claim the "Gov Dean had no such conversation with Gov Sebelius, ever." Joe Stalin used to use this technique, too.