Posted on 11/08/2005 9:48:08 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
After a year of silence about the biggest scandal in CBS News history, Mary Mapes has plenty to say -- about George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Les Moonves, her father, bloggers, the mainstream press and others who she believes contributed to her downfall. What took her so long? "I was extremely battered," she said in an interview yesterday. "I'd had months and months of having my head kicked around a soccer stadium by much of the Western world. I needed some time to regroup." Mapes is now pushing a book, called "Truth and Duty," about the botched "60 Minutes II" story on Bush's National Guard service that led to her firing. She ladles out plenty of blame but largely defends what she still considers a fair piece of reporting, although an independent panel accused CBS of having "failed miserably" to authenticate the documents before rushing the story to air. "I'm a human being; I do things wrong from the first breath I take in the morning," Mapes said. "I don't in any way feel I am without responsibility in this. . . . I probably shouldn't have been as pliable or as malleable as I was" when her bosses were finalizing the story. "This is a huge shortcoming. I didn't know how to say no. . . . I was trying very hard to please them." She praises Dan Rather as "a tremendously loyal person" and says the story cost him his anchor job. "Dan was betrayed by a number of people, certainly by the company he has gotten up and worked for every morning for 40 years," Mapes said.
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Has anybody seen the face on this gal? ugh. double bag it.
She's washed up and deluded.
I suppose I should never have expected that a scumbag like Mapes would have the class to just disappear.
Yes, Mary. We know you are zealous.
The forgeries confirmed that.
Mapes ping.
The face of HATE.
HEY MARY............The Documents were forged.
Poor poor poor Mapes. The press kicks peoples heads around like a soccer ball for sport. It's sure a shame when it happens to one of their own. Battered? Someone get me a crying towel. The members of the media simply cannot take ownership of anything. Mapes... honestly, you're a child. Grow up.
He knows a forgery when he sees one.
Which is more than can be said for Mary.
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawing..... and a miss!
Hannity played a clip of this Leftist bimbo whining that no one had ever proved that Mapes' "documents" weren't authentic. Sorry Mapes, NO ONE EVER PROVED THAT THEY WERE AUTHENTIC either. Liberals are stuck on stupid.
"Battered," my aunt fanny. What a whiney snotnose.
Wah, boo-hoo.
See Mary whine. See Mary moan.
Get out the violin, folks. ♫
In Rather's words (concerning Clinton) - this is a paraphrase: I think someone can lie and still be an honest person.
Huh???
This butch girl has been coming out, coming around and coming up swinging since December 1999 against Republicans/Conservatives in general and President/Gov. Bush in particular.
I suppose I should never have expected that a scumbag like Mapes would have the class to just disappear.
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These sicko libs are amazing -- she runs a HUGE scam with Rather, then tries to blame others for her downfall -- well that is very CLINTONESQUE if ya ask me!!!
I wonder if HBO pick up her book as HBO Movie
Guys who could Play Buckethead and Howlin
Dont' say Faye Dunway for Howlin LOL!
brilliant. Made me stay tuned to watch the whole thing.
I've detested DanBladder since he screamed at G.H.W. Bush way back when Dubya's daddy was V.P. What an arrogant a-hole. Nice to see him go down in his own flames. Warms the cockels of mah heart.
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