Posted on 09/27/2005 5:44:14 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer fired for her role in Memogate, has come out with her new book, Truth and Duty : The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power.
In it she mentions some encouraging words from Dan Rather, offering his support for her in her darkest hour.
I knew I could count on Dan. In tough situations, he became “fightin’ Dan,” someone who told us all to “never back up, never back down, never give up, never give in.” I was glad to hear from him and reassured by his reaction to all of it.Dan told me he was confident in the story and that he was lucky to work with me. He signed off by saying something that had become a shorthand for us over the years: “F-E-A.” That was code for “F---’Em All,” a sentiment that needed to be expressed from time to time in any newsroom. Dan was too much of a gentleman to say the real thing---at least most of the time. But he knew that when I was under deadline or work pressure I was hard put to find any sentence that couldn’t be improved by the liberal use of the “f”-word. At this point, I deeply appreciated the sentiment.
Mapes also claimed that the first criticism of the documents appeared before 60 Minutes had even ended and before the documents were put up on the CBS website. But the forum hosting the criticism was from the West coast, with an earlier timezone.
Mapes also demonstrated what could be a lack of knowledge about just what it was people were criticizing. She referred to "peripheral spacing" appearing on some typewriters, when the actual term was "proportional spacing."
Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Web sites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line. They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS. Our work was being compared to that of Jayson Blair, the discredited New York Times reporter who had fabricated and plagiarized stories.All these Web sites had extensive write-ups on the documents: on typeface, font style, and peripheral spacing, material that seemed to spring up overnight. It was phenomenal. It had taken our analysts hours of careful work to make comparisons. It seemed that these analysts or commentators---or whatever they were---were coming up with long treatises in minutes. They were all linking to one another, creating an echo chamber of outraged agreement.
I was told that the first posting claiming the documents were fakes had gone up on Free Republic before our broadcast was even off the air! How had the Web site even gotten copies of the documents? We hadn’t put them online until later. That first entry, posted by a longtime Republican political activist lawyer who used the name “Buckhead,” set the tone for what was to come.
There was no analysis of what the documents actually said, no work done to look at the content, no comparison with the official record, no phone calls made to check the facts of the story, nothing beyond a cursory and politically motivated examination of the typeface. That was all they had to attack, but that was enough.
So she's a liar AND an idiot.
Fitting.
Hey Mapes, W STILL THE PRESIDENT! :D
All they had to attack was the fact that the documents were forgeries. It's the seriousness of the charge that matters not whether the documents are real or fake. /sarcasm off
Her new book is called 'Truth and Duty'?!?
Thats a big laff! I guess in their twisted world, their duty is to fabricate 'truth' to fit their political agenda's.
Too bad they get busted for it now, they sure got away with it for a long time.
Tell the truth Mary. It's okay, really.
This Mapes woman is exceptionally stupid. How did she ever get a job with even CBS?
I have been searching for the original live thread of that show--does anyone have it bookmarked?
It would be interesting to post a link to it in this thread.
I still recall Blather's response to the charge that the documents were forgeries: "I don't care if the documents are fake the President must answer the charges."
What an idiot!
No wonder she slipped up. She never bothered to research Earth culture and technology before she came here.
Apparantly CBS hadn't even done that.
It was to a Kinko's ~ in Texas.
The implication was profound. Either Mary Mapes was stepping out of her well-equipped editor's office to use a FAX at Kinko's (to cover her own trail?) or someone else had sent the FAX (and a well-known, but otherwise mentally ill, anti-Bush activist lived there).
I wonder why Mary doesn't mention that phone call?
We know, Mary. We know. ;)
I'm reminded of a Seinfield episode when Elaine is explaining to George that (after a hit on his head) he should "stick with the opposite," because everything he does on instinct is wrong.
I'm thinking you chose to go with instinct in your book Miss M.....stick with the opposite!
What a blithering idiot. She belongs at CBS. Her intellectual prowess is what keeps sending people Free Republics way. I salute her.
Didn't this vile POS Mary Mapes also break the Abu Graibe story?
F you, you damn America hater. Ego run rampant while you hurt America and our troops in Iraq.
Yah, a crack team at CBS, huh? Mostly crack.
I hope she gets what she deserves. Unemployment and nobody but Dan Blather buying her book.
Mary Mapes and Abu Ghraib prison
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Yep, and call this site hard-core, politically angry, and hyperconservative. Yeah....WE're the bad guys. Sheesh.
And the weird part is she seemed SHOCKED that we all took an interest in FINDING OUT THE TRUTH.
This was a rhetorical question, right? I think it is a requirement.
Yep, and then to put that word "Truth" in the title of your book. These people have VERY large huevos ....
Any luck in finding the thread? I would love to confront Mary Mapes with the truth again by clarifying the record on when the documents were first analyzed as fraudulent.
Our side still has Buckhead.....your side has the "retired" F-E-A-head.
Leni
Funny. That's the way I've felt about TV in general and news casts specifically for about the last twenty years...
Mary Mapes....Robin Rather's "best friend"?
If a cursory examination of the typeface can pull down your whole story, it must have had a pretty flimsy foundation, no? Stupid is as stupid reports, I guess.
These pompous fools are still in denial, must have been Karl Rove behind it eh?
And in a single sentence, Mapes reveals her hermetically-sealed ignorance of anything outside the perimeter of Liberal Land.
Yes, Mary, amazing, isn't it--your lies were immediately detected and those finding them now have a forum to have their voices heard. The Old Media world is crumbling, Mary...you and your liberal hack friends now are going to be more accountable for your propaganda.
Sweet, isn't it?
Related:
Rather: CBS 'Doesn't Want Me to' Pursue Bush Guard Story
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1491897/posts
F-E-A better describes how we feel about cBS News.
Your days are over as effective promoters of the Democratic Party.
Man, some people never learn.....The reason you are losing money is people are turning away. Tell Danno you and him are largely to blame for that.
Of course, you think Journalism should not be bound by any rules but your own. Wrong, you are Entertainment, a commercial enterprise, not PBS.
Ooops, perhaps Bill Moyers might disagree. (snicker)
You are a Dinosaur...get over it.
I resemble that remark.
Actually, anybody who followed closely notes that the first suspicions were raised here on FR because of what was visible on TV, the fact that the documents were proportionally spaced and appeared to be in a modern font. I dont even think that was Buckhead, it was someone else. And those idiots dont realize that East coast freepers were watching and posting before it showed on the west coast. Mapes is an idiot..
It actually took a few days for the lengthy rebuttals to be posted on the internet. These morons are playing up a conspiracy, oh, how could they have figured it out SOOO fast, when it took our experts HOURS to be wrong? Bunch of Liars...
The printing business, the military, any subject--it doesn't matter. The collective knowledge/expertise of 100,000+ individuals will dwarf any news bureau or collection of political hacks. Not every poster knows, but someone will have the resources or know where it can be found in order to get to the truth.
Conversely, any misstatements, half-truths or misinformation will be challenged. It's the ultimate in freedom of the press.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts
Howlin posts a link to the docs ALREADY ON-LINE at 11:17PM.
Buckhead responds at 11:59PM:
To: Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.
47 posted on 09/08/2004 11:59:43 PM EDT by Buckhead
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Mapes's assertion that the first acusations of forgery occurred before the docs were available for viewing is a lie.
Gee ... I get the impression that Mary doesn't like us
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I have this thread by howlin .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220090/posts
From time to time, we get DU trolls on FreeRepublic & I am sure that one of them will pass along the following message to you:
1. You lied.
2. You got fired.
3. W. got reelected and is STILL the President of the U.S.A.
4. In closing, ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha. You can suck it.
I am sure that Air America is hiring or maybe you can get a job from you comrades over at NPR.
“All your 'peripheral spacing' are belong to us!”
Not to worry. Gunga Dan and Mary 'quite contrary' Mapes have redoubled their efforts to find Lucy Ramirez, and they're confident of success. Really! O. J. Simpson has offered to help...
Yes it was. Thank the Lord. They still don't get it.
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