Posted on 11/09/2005 6:37:46 AM PST by steve-b
Mary Mapes is madder than a rained-out rooster, as her former boss, Dan Rather, might say. Mapes, the CBS producer who lost her job over last year's "60 Minutes II" story about President Bush's National Guard service, resurfaces with a reconstruction of that incident that savages just about everyone associated with it: conservative bloggers, the mainstream media, CBS and its chief executive, Leslie Moonves, the Texas Air National Guard, even a few members of the Dallas Cowboys of the early 1970s.
And that's just in the first 40 pages of Mapes's wonkishly named but compellingly told tale of a byzantine chapter in journalism and politics.
For all her windmilling anger, Mapes musters a controlled, readable narrative about the story that became her professional undoing. In "Truth and Duty," she almost succeeds in making the case that she got the story substantially right, while the rest of the world insists she blew it....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
wahwahwah!
poor widdle mary! got caught doing what dems and libs do best - lying.
my heart grieves (/sarcasm)
Oh goodness, all these lefties think so smart they can induce water to flow uphill just by screaming enough BS about the law of gravity.
(steely)
And she would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling kids.
Vastie, she had the nerve to go after the Cowboys???
Falsified evidence means nothing to the liberal mind when it's on a roll.
Mapes also addresses the typographical issues, which are complex and easily misreported (as they were, she claims, by The Washington Post, among others). According to Mapes, "superscript" typewriters were widely available on military bases in the early 1970s; and no, Microsoft Word cannot reproduce the exact typography of the Killian memos, at least not to a trained eye.
The woman is bitter and suffering and I'm glad that there is no cure.
Complex and easily misreported, my left gonad! Anyone who grew up in the Age of Typewriters took one look at that thing and knew it hadn't been produced on one! Anyone claiming otherwise is either too young to remember, or a liar.
The Washington Post is still carrying water for CBS and Dan Rather. No typewriter of that time was able to do the superscripting required. The document is a fake.
The Washington Post (or Compost) is a great example of the lamestream media at it's finest.
But not proportional typewriters - devices not used for personal notes typed by an officer with marginal typing skills.
Mapes would have us believe that an Air National Guard officer would have a very expensive and very difficult to use typewriter in his office and would go to the trouble of writing a minor memo mimicking a professionally-typeset brochure that he would then place into his files, never to be seen by anyone else - instead of just banging out such on an old Smith Corona or IBM Selectric.
That absolutely defies believability. It's not that the typography of the memos is technically possible. It's that they are practically impossible.
"The woman is bitter and suffering and I'm glad that there is no cure."
It's called NAG-HAG Syndrome! Old feminazis never die -- they just ugly away.
must be tough to deal with all them fleas she got lying with the dem dogs....
Below is forged CBS document overlayed by Microsoft Word in default mode......courtesy Little Green Footballs..
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....you go girl...
She talks about "peripheral spacing" among other things she "learned."
Whoda thunk Buckhead would look askance? ;)
A book full of BS stinks that much more than a chapter full of BS.
My eye must not be trained.
In an article by Howard Kurtz in today's Washington Post, Mary bemoans all of the attention brought on her, particularly after her father, an alcholic according to her, belittled her and said she was grandstanding. Texans might probably say he told the truth on her.
Poor Mary said she was frightened by all of the people who came around her house, "..leaping out of pickups."
I guess the thought of old Jimmy Dale and Jo Nell were just too much for her liberal sensitivities. The fact that she was plagued by pickups rings about as true as her story about the documents. The eliteism displayed in that remark alone should be enough to tell the world where her head and heart are.
The saying is: Madder'n a wet hen. (Madder than a wet hen.)
Right. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
And keep in mind, Mapes is one of the people who used to control the perceptions of millions of American voters from behind the scenes. Now she's revealed to be a neurotic fool in the grip of delusions. As is her boss.
Amazing. I think the left is going to have to try to kill the internet in order to survive in free society. Either that, or start using the Internet to coordinate violence against ordinary people, as in Iraq.
(steely)
she spent 5 years digging and digging,spend 5 mins listening to a real nut case and went nation wide with a lie
ask Dan why he dropped you like a hot rock when it unraveled
Doogle
Madder'n a set'n hen on a June bug is another, however, a rained out rooster would probably be pretty steamed.
The reason they got away with never calling the memos fraudulent is that they ignored all the evidence demonstrating that they were fraudulent. Anyone with access to Google and able to type the words "newcomer," "memo," and "forgery" can find some conclusive evidence. (Hint: The direct link is www.flounder.com/bush.htm).
..not being able to,but definitely would like to watch...what would a sprinkled on rooster do?. I mean if you flick a few drops his way...???...sick minds want to know?
Doogle
As evidenced yesterday on the boobs not bombs post.
Ain't that the truth! And Helen Thomas is the poster-NAG!
Helen Thomas is the standard by which ugly is determined! Thanks for the laugh!
Holy Cr*p, Batman. WaPo still thinks there is a chance that these memo's are not forgeries? They are going to hang their hat on that???
"what would a sprinkled on rooster do?"
Cockle doodle doo I suppose.
Or is that cock a doodle doo?
The more they "report," the more they reveal their willingness to lie about anything.
What the naive may miss is this - The lies are a message to everyone: we will do whatever it takes to move our agenda forward. I have dealt with that in various institutions.
Thank God for FR and the blogs. The newspapers are all hurting. The lamestream news is ignored or hated by typical citizens. There is hope.
as oppose to what Madonna would say....but I'll pass_______
Doogle
They should have to retract this. Or, They should have to establish to the risk of their own creditability that these documents are indeed genuine.
Ultimately, the problem here is that like in the case of the CIA leak, the administration decided not to pursue serious crimes committed by their enemies. This has been shown to be misguided in that it like terrorists, encourages them to even more bizarre irresponsible behavior.
If the administration cannot stomach being seen using the Justice Department to prosecute crimes committed by the Democrats, then they should appoint a special prosecutor to handle this inquiry on a apolitical level. Was a crime committed? Forgery, Fraud, Voter intimidation, Racketeering, on and on the list of crimes grows and the only person in trouble is being chased for telling the truth.
Good idea.
She doesn't get it.
She isn't a journalist, she's an activist.
She started with the preconception that Bush did something wrong. She ignored any evidence that showed Bush in a good light. She spun whatever information she found to make it fit her pre-defined story.
After years of trying to construct a belivable story she desparately grasped at obviously fake documents to support her story.
If our legal system still had a concept of libel, she would be sued into bankruptcy.
If were forced to find a job compatable with her integrity and honesty, McDonalds would hire her.
Yet after trying to destroy people's lives with lies and half truths spun together, she feels she's been treated unfairly?
This moonbat needs to be instutionalized.
They cannot be "definitively" shown to be forgeries so long as there is one person somewhere who might say he believes them to be genuine.
Lance Rentzel?
When youbelieve that Truth is something invented by white men to oppress minorities and women there is no such thing as falsified anything if it promotes The Cause.
or a Liberal for whom Truth is what supports the politically correct interpretation.
Dan was suely complicit. They had just never been slapped by the Internet before. What looks insanely transparent would have passed as Truth a few years ago. Dan has done it before with the VN vets and it is accepted as History.
I may not have a "trained eye", but this is an obvious forgery.
Mapes and her defenders are delusional if they believe the docs have not "definitively" been shown to be forgeries.
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