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* Lech Kaczyński called the article "disgusting and mean" and on July 21, 2006, he said that that he knew of no comparable attacks against politicians and their families.<ref>{{de icon}} {{cite news|title=Polnische Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen "taz"|date=July 21, 2006|publisher=[[Spiegel Online]]|url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,427984,00.html}}</ref>
* His brother [[Jarosław Kaczyński|Jarosław]] declared that "an insult to a head of state is a crime and there must be consequences." (Indeed, the Polish law qualifies it as a crime.)
* [[Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland|Foreign Minister]] [[Anna Fotyga]] said that "such a collection of disgusting remarks is reminiscent of the language of the ''[[Stürmer]]''", a [[Nazi propaganda]] paper. She added that some dictators, as Saddam Hussein and Aleksander Lukaschenko were not treated this way. Fotyga then demanded a reaction from the [[German government]], triggering a diplomatic row with Germany that the German press dubbed the "Potato War".<ref>{{de icon}} {{cite news|title=Viel Lärm um wenig|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,polm1/ausland/artikel/985/79906/|publisher=Sueddeutsche Zeitung}}</ref>
On their part, German officials have declined to comment or to take any actions on grounds of the [[freedom of the press]], while (according to newspaper reports) privately describing the row as "risible" and "unworthy" of a European Union member state.<ref>{{cite news|title=Germany in hot water after labelling Polish leader a 'potato'|author=Tony Paterson|date=July 16, 2006|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2006/07/16/wspud16.xml}}</ref>
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