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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOlivia Troye's attorney has responded to Kash Patel's demand for a retraction
Mark Zaid is a first class attorney and Binnall is a hack who has filed a couple of lawsuits for trump. I love the concept of using a picture from Monty Python to respond to Patel's demand for a retraction
Link to tweet



flying rabbit
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elleng
(139,031 posts)edbermac
(16,160 posts)
DoBW
(2,398 posts)Punx
(470 posts)Just the right amount of disrespect.
Roy Rolling
(7,273 posts)Not even respecting the demand with a serious reply. Well done, barrister, well done.
GoCubsGo
(33,676 posts)I blow my nose at you...
Skittles
(163,038 posts)don't just say no, MAKE FUN OF THEM
endless summer
(55 posts)is a thing of beauty and it will be a joy forever.
sheshe2
(90,973 posts)I love the Monty Pythons image.
GB_RN
(3,323 posts)Someone better have some aloe-coated toilet paper, because his ass just got burned! Hell, I can feel the heat from here!😂
What a bunch of incompetent morans (sic). Personally, even if you spotted them a tear in it, I wouldn’t trust any of them to find their way out of a wet paper bag.
EarnestPutz
(2,843 posts)Ocelot II
(123,940 posts)Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Very truly yours, and farting in your general direction,
Mark S. Zaid
CousinIT
(11,180 posts)EastBayGuy
(139 posts)orangecrush
(23,958 posts)rsdsharp
(10,617 posts)sign them “Best wishes for the holiday season.”
COL Mustard
(7,313 posts)"Fuck you. Strong letter to follow."
I used to get that regularly from him.
Biophilic
(5,442 posts)Best laugh I’ve had today. Damn that is just a perfect response. Thank you, thank you.
LisaM
(29,085 posts)Oh well, the recipient will likely not notice that.
rubbersole
(9,608 posts)"Kashyap" sounds like a venereal disease.
BattleRow
(1,546 posts)magicarpet
(17,883 posts)Like the one djt splats on the ceilings and walls at the White House when he gets real angry about something.
The Tangerine Traitor's standard ketchup tantrum.
spanone
(138,586 posts)Mr. Evil
(3,220 posts)that is the proverbial grand slam, down by 3 runs, with two out and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Drum
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ultralite001
(1,491 posts)"I fart in your general direction"...
🤣🤣🤣
NoMoreRepugs
(11,134 posts)Figarosmom
(4,997 posts)bikes and bunnies
(99 posts)First class attorneys should proof read- or pay someone to proof read for them.
Otherwise, good letter.
billh58
(6,651 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(53,801 posts)Do you think you are being supportive of the lawyer or the DU member?
Response to Emrys (Reply #36)
Bernardo de La Paz This message was self-deleted by its author.
TomSlick
(12,276 posts)I always proof read, and have my assistant proof read, everything that goes out of the office over my signature. Even so, errors are sometimes missed. Every now and then, someone will point out the error and I apologize profusely if insincerely.
LisaM
(29,085 posts)I am a paralegal, I see attorneys make mistakes like this all the time and it's kind of annoying.
muriel_volestrangler
(103,353 posts)https://shakespeare-navigators.ewu.edu/TN_Navigator/Twelfth_Night_Act_2_Scene_3.html
Hekate
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JoseBalow
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HUAJIAO
(2,730 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,526 posts)... love to Olivia and Mark!
Wounded Bear
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brer cat
(26,878 posts)proud patriot
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Emrys
(8,498 posts)His attention has been drawn to an article appearing in the issue of Private Eye dated 9th April 1971 on page 4. The statements made about Mr Arkell are entirely untrue and clearly highly defamatory.
We are therefore instructed to require from you immediately your proposals for dealing with the matter. Mr Arkell's first concern is that there should be a full retraction at the earliest possible date in Private Eye and he will also want his costs paid. His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply.
The reply that the Eye sent back was:
We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell.
We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off.
A libel writ with a "curt note" arrived by return of post. The legal process continued for more than a year before the case fell apart and Private Eye was awarded costs. The Eye wrote "In view of the above, Mr Arkell has now, albeit belatedly, complied with the suggestion made to him at an earlier stage in the proceedings."
https://prunescape.fandom.com/wiki/The_Reply_Given_in_Arkell_v_Pressdram_(1971)
GoneOffShore
(17,766 posts)Dem2theMax
(10,626 posts)Instant classic!
Now excuse me, while I go fart,
in honor of this masterpiece.
MustLoveBeagles
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yellow dahlia
(2,110 posts)spudspud
(587 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(160,817 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(120,901 posts)And he knows it.
marcopolo63
(72 posts)…on top of a most delicious John Cleese raspberry. Fruit tree firmly planted and thriving!
3auld6phart
(1,495 posts)::
With Bases loaded. In the words of us ordinary pee- on s go pound sand.
gay texan
(2,959 posts)you empty-headed legal type animal food-trough wiper!!!"
Erda
(180 posts)Proud Cajun
(3 posts)I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
LetMyPeopleVote
(160,817 posts)This response by Troye's attorney made me laugh
Link to tweet
https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2670350304/
In a legal letter on Friday, Mark Zaid sneered at demands Kash Patel made for Olivia Troye, a former counterterrorism aide to Mike Pence, to “publicly retract defamatory statements” of the MAGA loyalist. Zaid answered Patel’s lawyer Jesse Binnall, a veteran Trump attorney, by first noting that Troye’s statements have been previously stated “by a wide swath of the knowledgeable population.”
He then offered Patel’s attorney a visual image in his letter to reiterate his stance.
“But to answer your specific question as to Ms. Troye’s intensions as to a retraction, I think Monty Python expresses it best,” Zaid wrote above a photo of a mustached character from the Monty Python film known as the “French Taunter.”
“My counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social’s response to #KashPatel & his threat to sue me for being critical of him on media & stating he is unfit to serve as FBI Director,” Troye wrote on social media. “Monty Python enters the chat.”
And Zaid wasn’t done. He also launched a social media blitz where he dug into his unwavering defense of his client and referred to Patel as “thin-skinned.”
Evolve Dammit
(20,428 posts)mackdaddy
(1,742 posts)Things are so bizzaro world, I get confused.