Mary Mapes Blames 'Vicious' Bloggers

NewsMax ^ | 2/12/06 | NewsMax

[wagglebee]

Fired CBS "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes is still blaming the internet for ending her media career prematurely - or more precisely; the "vicious" bloggers who discovered that documents she unearthed in a bid to trash President Bush's National Guard service were forgeries.

"The criticism that was launched at us initially really came from the very conservative blogosphere, folks who are on these very conservative web sites," Mapes complained Friday on WVMT Vermont's "Charlie & Ernie" radio show.

"This was really a terribly vicious attack they launched on CBS," she insisted, before lamenting: "Politics is not necessarily the way it was when we all grew up, where you might disagree on something but you wouldn't eviscerate someone."

Mapes says that she was a victim of a new standard in journalism where "the truth doesn't matter" but instead it's "the perception of truth that matters."

"What happened to me, I think, and to all of us at CBS, was that the perception of truth became that these documents were not real; that there were flaws in the typeface and all kinds of sort of dry and extremely dull details about proportional spacing and superscript and all that."

Mapes said that she still believes the documents cited in the "60 Minutes II" broadcast by her boss, Dan Rather, were authentic, saying; "I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw."

She also noted that CBS's own internal investigation "could not prove that the documents were false."

[wagglebee]

This fool doesn't realize that it was the "flaws" that did her and DanRatherbiased in.

[Richard Kimball]

"This was really a terribly vicious attack they launched on CBS," she insisted, before lamenting: "Politics is not necessarily the way it was when we all grew up, where you might disagree on something but you wouldn't eviscerate someone."

Corrected: "This was really a terribly vicious attack they launched on CBS. Politics is not necessarily the way it was when we all grew up, where we could launch ad homonym attacks on Republicans using false, incomplete or misleading information, and count on the rest of the media to either jump on the bandwagon, or at the least, remain respectfully silent."

[mware]

"I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw."

You only needed to look at the font, Mary.

By the way if I recall the so called experts were only looking at the signatures not the document

[Fiddlstix]

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[AgThorn]

Unbelievable that she and blather are still stuck in denial mode ... are they really that stupid? Do they really think that the American people are that stupid ... sorry, I know the answer to both questions being yes but one has to ask continually.

dry and extremely dull details about proportional spacing and superscript and all that

Unbelievable ... did Mapes never really understand investigative journalism? Do the 'facts' matter at all to this dim bulb? fascinating ...

[FOG724]

She needs MSWord for Dummies.

[Enterprise]

May her pain have no end. And all those like her.

[conservative in nyc]

Mapes says that she was a victim of a new standard in journalism where "the truth doesn't matter" but instead it's "the perception of truth that matters."

Well, she's sort of right about that. This explains why Mapes and Rather aired the forged documents to a T - the truth that they were forgeries didn't matter - the perception that they were "accurate" is what mattered to them. Too bad for them, the documents were fake and NOT accurate.

[Always Right]

The lady needs help for her mental illness.

[Richard Kimball]

[D.P.Roberts]

Na, na, na, na,
Na, na, na, na,

Hey, hey, hey- Goooodbye!

[Razz Barry]

"Mapes said that she still believes the documents cited in the "60 Minutes II" broadcast by her boss, Dan Rather, were authentic, saying; "I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw."

Could someone please draw her a map.

[Terriergal]

Fired CBS "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes is still blaming the internet for ending her media career prematurely

[JLS]

Yeah 20 or 30 years ago she might have a felony record for attempting to influnce the public using forged documents. Heck now leftist who use fraud get 6 or 7 figure book deals.

[SandRat]

Mary "Mopes" Mapes

It was a Rightious bust made by the

[Terriergal]

LOL!!! "passionate but inaccurate" that's great!

[xcamel]

Live from Burlingsk, CCCP-VT

"The Sour Grapes Of Mapes"

[Theresawithanh]

I have spent my entire career first banging away on a monster manual typewriter I nicknamed "the beast", then on to very nice electric typewriters, and now on a computer, doing transcription. I saw the copies of the memos that they had. I was not astute enough to pick out the contrast between computers and typewriters, and I am very thankful to those who did! Bloggers rule!

[Howlin]

She's talking about you again!

[ncountylee]

I always enjoy hearing from Mapes. Such bitterness is so soothing.