What happened at that library in Iowa, John Deeth?

Curious about a post at Hot Air detailing an aborted media version of Kathleen Sebelius' campaign appearance at an Iowa library, I decided to contact an attendee other than the AP reporter to find out if the original version of the AP story was accurate.

John Deeth of the Iowa Independent had attended and reported on the event. His e-mail address was easy enough to find, so I sent him a message asking for his assessment of the AP story.

Before too long, Deeth had replied with two messages that did little to address the content of the AP story.

I'm now awaiting a response to the following message:

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I blog at "Sublime Bloviations."
http://subloviate.blogspot.com/

I was hoping you would be able to provide some insight into the (cached version of the) AP reporting. Was the AP reporter perhaps part of the GOP outrage machine? Or do you believe that the cached version is a phony?

By NIGEL DUARA

Associated Press Writer

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius accused Republicans on Tuesday of injecting race into the presidential campaign, arguing that they are using "code language" to convince Midwesterners that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them.

"Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?" Sebelius asked with sarcasm. "(Republicans) are not going to go lightly into the darkness."

Sebelius was responding to a question from the audience at the Iowa City Public Library about the tenacity of Democrats and whether they would fight for victory as hard as Republicans in the closing weeks of the election.

She did not elaborate on her comment.

Did Sebelius make the statement attributed to her above ("(Republicans) are not going to go lightly into the darkness")? Was it fair to juxtapose that quotation with the preceding one?

Cheers,
Bryan

Deeth blogs at The Huffington Post, so it may be that ideology will influence his willingness to address the issue.

Deeth's own account of the Sebelius appearance is about as sanitized as the updated AP version.