Posted on 03/02/2005 5:15:35 PM PST by wagglebee
Fired CBS Rathergate producer Mary Mapes is planning a tell-all book that could blow the lid off the scandal that ended Dan Rather's tenure as "CBS Evening News" anchorman and destroyed the credibility of the once-golden "Tiffany" network.
Mapes, who obtained documents on President Bush's National Guard record that turned out to be forged, "is preparing to shop a book proposal offering an inside account of what happened at CBS News during the memo scandal," reports the New York Observer. "The book will constitute Ms. Mapes’ defense against charges of journalistic misconduct," the paper says.
Mapes' literary agent explained that she "plans to argue for the veracity of the four memos supposedly typed by President Bush’s former National Guard squadron commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, in the early 1970s," where Killian complained that Bush's Guard records had been "sugarcoated."
"Now that the other people have copped a plea ... she’s the only one who can tell this story," said Wesley Neff, president of the agency that is representing Mapes.
After being asked to resign, CBS producers Betsy West and Mary Murphy, who also worked on the Bush segment, have negotiated settlements with the network. A third producer, Josh Howard, is still working out the terms of his departure.
But with no such settlement to cushion her fall from grace, Mapes is undoubtedly looking for vindication. She is said to have put together 40 pages of analysis and documentation to back up her claims.
And if Mapes' comments after being thrown under the bus by her former employers are any indication, her book may point the finger at higher-ups at the network.
"If there was a journalistic crime committed here, it was not by me," the one-time CBS goldern girl complained after getting the ax. "I vetted all aspects of the story with my editors."
This is going to be great to watch!
Snore...
I'd hate to be this woman's neighbor. That being said, why should we believe anything she says? Her stock and trade is lies and distortions.
Agree! There's no way this is going to be a forthright expose'. It'll be a CYA!
She's going to continue on with the myth that the information in the documents was correct.
I agree with you three about the accuracy of what she has to say. However, I will be happy to see the left lie about each other instead of us for a change. Let the games begin.
WOW! Hope she names who FAKED them! not too likely
The Left will buy this book in droves.
They live for misinformation.
She'll probably throw some minimum wage Kinko's worker under the bus.
What's she gonna title it -- Rather Fradulent?
Isn't there a law against reaping financial benefit from your crimes!?
It will be another Michael Moore job--lie and trash Bush effort. That's all. She's as partisan as they come and she knew first and foremost she was committing news fraud just to get Bush. Koolaid drinker type.
There won't be any Liberal RAT blood on the table after she wields her knife.
"See we had an agreement to go after these conservatives..right??? ..I mean weve done 40-60 hit pieces, skewed most of our stories...but then he leaves me high and dry! Im outraged!"
She's been working on this since 2000 and has "put together 40 pages of analysis and documentation"? That's impressive.
Let's just hope it is lucrative enough for her to actually tell the truth about it. It would be a major shift for her, but if the $$$$$$'s are big enough, who know'.
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