[Lakeshark]

Dewey Whetsell appears to be a real person, has his own blog, and apparently wrote this. What he said in the note appears to be true, and at least his letter is real. This from Snopes: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=53403

[Niteranger68]

Snopes.com is about as useful as Wikipedia. Dig around there and see how often a negative opinion about a liberal politician is shown as “False”. Truthorfiction.com seems to be a little more unbiased.