It was she who pursued this story for five years, and she who attempted the journalistically-verboten coordination of the "news" story with the Kerry campaign. Yes, Rather must take his lumps for his part in this, but these invisible functionaries who run around setting these stories up are a big part of what's wrong with the media. This woman's father as much as said that she went into journalism not to speak truth, but to proclaim it — as she saw it with her thoroughly leftist bent. The alphabet networks, the AP, and the New York Times are crawling with these cockroaches. The media can't get rid of them fast enough to clean up their act; no matter which "rising star" they turn to, the odds are it's another leftist cockroach like Ms. Mapes. They've been hiring their own kind for so long that there's no other kind left. |
I think that VDH is remiss in leaving out the role of Ms. Mapes, who is not of Rather's generation but who is a major power behind the throne in this little escapade.