[RightOnline]

So she's a liar AND an idiot.

Fitting.

[Echo Talon]

Hey Mapes, W STILL THE PRESIDENT! :D

[hflynn]

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.

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

[chesley]

Class acts, Mary Mapes & Dan Rathermdon't you think? Why look at the content of a lie? It's enough to know that it is a lie. Thank God for people like "Buckhead" and for sites like FreeRepublic, Powerline, & LittleGreenFootballs. The MSM will never be able to lie to us again and get away with it.

[misterrob]

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 smear job on the President. That was all they had to attack, but that was enough.

Tell the truth Mary. It's okay, really.

[muawiyah]

It wasn't just the "type face" but the time dilation factor ~ many of us here at Free Republic know a lot more about the printing business than is seemly, and when CBS tried to peddle current technology as old technology, it was too much.

This Mapes woman is exceptionally stupid. How did she ever get a job with even CBS?

[proud American in Canada]

How had the Web site even gotten copies of the documents? We hadn’t put them online until later

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.

[Oztrich Boy]

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

No wonder she slipped up. She never bothered to research Earth culture and technology before she came here.

[muawiyah]

Regarding follow-up phone-calls ~ I recall one that was particularly devastating ~ someone at FR called the FAX number on the photocopy CBS was passing around.

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?

[TheBigB]

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

We know, Mary. We know. ;)

[NordP]

Sick and pathetic.

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!

[Tolkien]

What a blithering idiot. She belongs at CBS. Her intellectual prowess is what keeps sending people Free Republics way. I salute her.

[dennisw]

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.

[kevinm13]

I hope she gets what she deserves. Unemployment and nobody but Dan Blather buying her book.

[manwiththehands]

If Mary Mapes and Dan Rather were honest they would have stuck by the story - AND the documents. They did neither. 1st commandment of pathological liars: When confronted with the truth, deny everything and attack your accusers.

[MinuteGal]

Too bad, Mary.

Our side still has Buckhead.....your side has the "retired" F-E-A-head.

Leni

[clintonh8r]

I love it when a lefty's been spanked by FR....and knows it.

[Little Ray]

Funny. That's the way I've felt about TV in general and news casts specifically for about the last twenty years...

[clintonh8r]

Mary Mapes....Robin Rather's "best friend"?

[MortMan]

nothing beyond a cursory and politically motivated examination of the typeface

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.