[Doctor Raoul]

Only Amazon or Mapes's publisher, St. Martin’s Press knows for sure.

Well if she has too, Mapes can always....well you know....fake it.

[Mount Athos]

Yeah right in the first chapter she brags about how great and thorough her fact checking is, then she says buckhead posted his debunking of her story before it even aired on TV. He posted hours afterwards. Gross error right in the beginning of the book that a quick check would have revealed.

[Slings and Arrows]

I think you can claim at least an assist on this one.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

From the link to the incorrect assertions:
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.

So... according to the now fired Mapes, all stories should have their content thoroughly discussed, whether they are made up or not. In the old days that was called mud-slinging. Sounds like something right tout of the DNC play book... Investigate because of the seriousness of the charge, who cares if there is no evidence.

Bill Clinton was charged by a woman with rape. I don't recall the MSM or democrats screaming for an investigation.

[Starve The Beast]

... Mary Mapes's book, Truth and Duty...

The title of her book is "Truth and Duty". I think that right there is the problem with the left-wing MSM. It's largely composed of zealots who think they're on some kind of mission from God to bring The Truth to the ignorant masses.

Newsflash, Mary: All I want from you is the news. Not the truth, the news. I'll decide what the truth is.

[kingu]

Saint Martin's Press can kiss this bookshop goodbye; the sales critter was less than happy to see us go.

Mapes' excerpt was just too much.

[Hank Rearden]

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.

Man, this woman's full of crap! Just from memory, I know the above is 100% wrong, because I was on that thread that night. Buckhead's posting was shortly after it first aired.

Nice fact-checking, Mopes/Dopes - you moron!! Just as diligent as you were with the original fake documents. You, Rathernot - the whole gang of leftist liars, you can all just kiss my ass.

C?BS!

[I still care]

My favorite excerpt was how she heard it was being discussed on obscure websites she had never heard of before, such as Free Republic and Powerline, so she ran right over to Daily Kos and checked it out....

[GOPJ]

ping

[KarlInOhio]

PJ-Comix comments on Mapes' book. DUmmie FUnnies 10-04-05 (Mary Mapes Spins Fiction---Book Excerpt)

[dila813]

They still don't get it.

The docs were fake but the story was real matra.

They could feel it was true. Idiots


Just like the coverage of N.O.

[Buckhead]

Perhaps she had a physical reaction, and was gasping and gulping for air, sweating and shaking, and checking out websites full of hyperconservative vitriol. Perhaps she recoiled in horror and shock at all the refutation and cruel mockery of her first chapter, as if a right wing political jihad had been born, with her as the target!!!

Or maybe her publisher did.

[Jeff Gordon]

Our work was being compared to that of Jayson Blair, the discredited New York Times reporter who had fabricated and plagiarized stories.

That would be me. :-)

[knuthom]

The book is no longer on Amazon at all this morning! (Thurs)

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[PJ-Comix]

The ONLY place where you can read the ENTIRE Mary Mapes book excerpt is in the DUmmie FUnnies where it has been preserved for posterity...and comedy.

[AnAmericanMother]

The audio tape version is still up here. No excerpts though.

[decal]

The headline for the screed at St Martin's:

"TRUTH AND DUTY is the always fast, sometimes furious, and often unexpectedly funny story behind the collapse of one of America's great institutions."

Did you write this, PJ?

[Charles Henrickson]

THE MAPES
OF RATH^ER

MARY: "It don't matter. I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where--wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fax so hungry journalists can be duped, I'll be there. Wherever there's a blog beatin' up a lib, I'll be there. I'll be in the way DUmmies yell when they're mad--an' I'll be in the way FReepers laugh when they're amused an' they know the moonbats are barkin'. An' when the people are watchin' the stuff we make up, an' believin' the stories we report, I'll be there too."

DAN: "I don't understan' it, Mary."

MARY: "Me neither, Dan, but jus' sump'n I've been thinkin' about."