Stupid is as stupid does.
Or:
Stuck on Stupid!
Take your pick.
So, what, instead of the 30 minutes it took the blogosphere, it would really require a few hours of work to conclude the docs were fake?
Other than learning that Mary cried and that she thinks Thornburgh is full of it, what do we learn other than that even Mapes herself can't bring herself to claim that the documents are forgeries?
Mary Mapes and Al Gore to star in "I coulda been a contender" - on the waterfront 2
A crying towel for another pimp of the election industry!
Hey Mary: Boo frickity hoo!
Courage Mary... courage.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Or:
Stuck on Stupid!
Take your pick.
Just wondering if anyone at FR was contacted by Vanity Fair to dispute her side or is this just another one-sided media hit-piece? (I know, rhetorical question.)
After the Verona Papers, who gives a **** what Murrow would think?
"I must answer the bloggers, the babblers and blabbers, and the true believers who have called me everything from 'feminazi' to an 'elitist liberal' to an 'idiot.'
Includes the following statement:
She also calls one of the co-leaders of that probe, Dick Thornburgh, worse than an "empty suit...He was completely full if it."
Ms. Mapes appears to be a clone of Mr. Rather; both are a little slow on the uptake.
I don't have a clue what these people would do if there had never been a Senator Joe McCarthy!! It all goes back to him. This woman is nuts, pure and simple.
Two words for you Missy Mopes...er, Mapes: Occam's Razor. In twelve minutes someone was able to produce documents identical to yours: character shape for character shape, superscript for superscript, kern for kern on equipment unavailable at the time. In twelve months all you've come up with are a few examples of typefaces that are SIMILAR, not identical, just similar, to what is in the documents.
Your argument would be strengthened immeasurably were you to reproduce those documents with contemporaneous equipment and describe how it was done. But, despite all the muscle of CBS and all the empathy of the liberal horde, you couldn't, could you? I'll bet money that folks like Michael Moore and George Soros offered private rewards to anyone who could.
When your pants have been yanked down and all the world has seen, I suppose a rest room is as good a place to cry as any.
Soembody called her a feminazi over the fake documents story? That doesn't even make sense. Lying again Marypoo?
"Suspected liberals had become the new 'Communists..."
New? Why does she think this is new? Haven't they always been a deep shade of pink?
First, she's the person in a position of power -- and if 60 Minutes isn't the Power Bully of Television, there is no such thing as a bully. If Mapes has any doubt, let us have a large network show, and we'll give her a computer.
The reason we won was we were telling the truth and she was lying. Citizens at keyboards are David, not Goliath's.
Mapes was taken down for lying and using forged documents. Things she conveniently leaves out of her pity party.
In the old days 60 Minutes could take on any citizen, lie about them and get away with it. Those days are over. And Mapes needs to get over herself. The world has moved on...
It is impossible to verify fax copies of documents are real. What is amazing is the forgeries were so bad you could easily conclude that fax copies were forgeries.
I went back and read this story again and this sentence really struck me....
"Mapes writes that she had felt the Guard segment was a big success after airing on Sept. 8, 2004, until the following morning at 11 a.m. when she learned that a bunch of "far-right" Web sites were claiming that documents were forged."
Big success? Is that what the press is supposed to do? Air stories that are big successes? Meaning what? That it would ruin George W. Bush's chance of re-election? Isn't the press supposed to report the true facts and let the people decide? What made her think it was a big success? How did she know so soon that it was a big success? Was it because it was all over the liberal MSM? She and Dan Blather really were trying to bring down this president. They are the slime balls. The so called MSM scares the hell out of me. Even Fox News has gone bad. Who can you trust anymore?
So is the more Shilling for Socialists via Timmy Russert's (Go Bills) wife at Vanity Fair. That rag seems to be working overtime to salvage every chronically lying liberal around--Mapes--Wilson, etc.