What makes you believe he was? If you follow the link for the original post, you'll see it goes off site to http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/pdfs/20070510_freepletter.pdf.
Thus, he was referencing an off site pdf file of a letter sent by email to Free Republic.
Re-read my comment, I DON'T and that is the point. I wasn't about to read thru over 600 posts on this thread alone then go off on another to get to the bottom of this hoax.
There was nothing said in his/her initial comment that made any inference that he/she was not the recipient of said posted email and that is why I asked how it was they were the recipient of this email..........