http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/marymapes/ en-us Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:33:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049361/posts The Media Mob has learned that a team of Hollywood insiders is currently working on a screen adaptation of Truth And Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power—the 2005 book by former CBS News producer Mary Mapes, in which she defends the 60 Minutes II story by Dan Rather about President George W. Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, which ran on CBS in September 2004 and eventually led to her ouster from the network. Who would want to turn "Rathergate" into a feature-length film? According to sources familiar with the situation, Producer Mikkel Bondesen,... New York Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049361/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:33:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983083/posts I'm dancing on the top deck with a 71-year-old feminist and psychotherapist whom I've come to think of as the Twirler. We've spent two days attending seminars on The Nation magazine's Alaska cruise; we've talked about the Bush presidency and prison reform and single-payer health care. Now, at almost midnight, my fiercely intelligent and opinionated new friend is putting all the heady political talk behind her by bodily twirling. "If I start to get dizzy, then I twirl in the opposite direction," Charlotte tells me as the live band revs up its throbbing Motown beat. "I won't fall." "Good, please... South Florida Sun-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983083/posts#comment Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:58:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931248/posts Dan RatherÂ’s Last Big Story Is Himself By Joe Hagan Published Nov 25, 2007 If he werenÂ’t famous, heÂ’d be mistaken for a veteran of a long-ago war: khaki safari shirt on his back, scuffed combat boots on his feet, that wiry crest of a brow, rheumy eyes under heavy lids, lower lip jutting out like an ornery fish resisting a hook. When Dan Rather sits on a bench in Central Park to tell how his 44-year career at CBS News ended in ignominy and humiliation, he is in fact still waging a war, a bitter and personal one. And... New York Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931248/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:29:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901261/posts I have obtained new documentary evidence regarding Dan Rather's relationship with his former bosses at CBS News. Obviously, I cannot identify my source. But he told me during a collect call from Sofia, Bulgaria, that he has access to Rather's "personal files" and that his typewriter was built after 1966. To authenticate the document, I showed it to some of my kids' friends, and they said it was awesome. Here, then, the letter -- written by Dan Rather and dated Nov. 31, 2006: "Dear CBS News: "My new career at HDNet is keeping me busier than a bordello at Mardis... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901261/posts#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:01:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901237/posts In 2004, at the height of the Dan Rather Memogate story, I wrote in National Review: “Across the media universe the questions pour out: Why is Dan Rather doing this to himself? Why does he drag this out? Why won’t he just come clean? Why would he let this happen in the first place? Why is CBS standing by him? Why ... why ... why? “There is only one plausible answer: Ours is a just and decent God.” Well, God has not forsaken us. Dan Rather seems divinely inspired to crash more times than a Kennedy driving home from an... The National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901237/posts#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:01:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900097/posts Partners in deception, partners in denial . . . Earlier today I noted that in her HuffPo column, ex-CBS producer Mary Mapes continues to cling to the delusion that the Memogate documents were authentic. In an inteview on "Morning Joe," Dan Rather has now made a similar reality-denying claim. Mika Brzezinski, who, as was repeatedly pointed out, used to work at CBS and has friends on both sides of the issue, conducted the interview. Bubbles didn't have the gumption to confront Rather with the crux of the issue: the forged documents at the heart of the story. Interestingly, Rather chose... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900097/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:41:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900026/posts How can I put this nicely? Mary Mapes [file photo] has reality "issues." Three years after she was exposed for having perpetrated one of the worst frauds in the history of presidential-campaign journalism, she continues to paint herself as the victim of a right-wing conspiracy. And incredibly, despite a mountain of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, she clings to the notion that the blatantly forged documents at the heart of the Memogate story were authentic. Mapes's meltdown-in-the-guise-of-a-column appeared in yesterday's Huffington Post. Excerpts from the metaphor-gone-wild "Courage for Dan Rather" [emphasis added]: [We] reaped a whirlwind of right-wing outrage and... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900026/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:41:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899546/posts Dan Rather has had three years to mull over his options after his disastrous participation in Memogate, and he has reached the conclusion that the most wronged person in the debacle was ... Dan Rather. After spending the last three years insisting that the obviously fraudulent memos he broadcast as senior editor of CBS Nightly News have not been proven fakes, he now will sue CBS for $70 million for not participating in his fantasies: Dan Rather, whose career at CBS News ground to an inglorious end 15 months ago over his role in an unsubstantiated report questioning President Bush’s... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899546/posts#comment Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:27:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839512/posts Put aside for a minute the chuckles over a leftist magazine, dedicated to the poor of the earth and the worship of Mother Earth, holding a cruise for the rich on a big, polluting cruise ship. Guess who's coming to dinner on The Nation's Tenth Annual Seminar Cruise? Mary Mapes, touted on the Nation Cruise website as the "Peabody Award Winning Former CBS News Producer." It should read: "Phony Document Specialist/Celebrated Smearer of Bush's National Guard Record." News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839512/posts#comment Fri, 25 May 2007 04:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676313/posts Remember those photos that have been running in the media showing a rescue worker holding a dead child following the Israeli air strike in Qana? The message of those pictures has been powerful: look at what those evil Israelis did to that poor, innocent child. Well, now we learn that all may not be what it seems. Many of those pictures were taken by the photographers for wire services like the Associated Press, Reuters and the always pro-terrorist Agence France-Presse, also known as AFP. But an enterprising British blogger decided to dig a bit deeper. He looked at the time... Boortz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676313/posts#comment Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:07:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1667692/posts Title Can the internet ever produce a purity of consent? A case study of Rathergate. Introduction On September 8th 2004, memos by the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian purporting to show that a subordinate of his, one George W. Bush, had a less than perfect war record during the Vietnam conflict, were aired by CBS show 60 Minutes II. I believe no academic study on this topic exists. A search of the Proquest dissertations database reveals no existing work. There are several books extant which subjectively cover the episode from various points of view. I will utilise these as... Some student in London . . . . http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1667692/posts#comment Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:58:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665434/posts Declaring he “absolutely” believes “the truth” of his discredited story based on forged memos, about President Bush's National Guard record, on Wednesday's Larry King Live on CNN Dan Rather contended that “we had a lot, a lot of corroboration, of what we broadcast about President Bush's military record. It wasn't just the documents.” Rather then attacked those who dared to expose his misdeeds: “It's a very old technique used, that when those who don't like what you're reporting believe it can be hurtful, then they look for the weakest spot and attack it, which is fair enough. It's a diversionary... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665434/posts#comment Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:00:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1644975/posts (NOTE TO FReaders. I would not normally alter the basic article, but it so full of delusional thoughts and outright lines that direct attribution is needed so FReader will see what is being references, much like DUmmie Funnies from PJ Comix) STORY FOLLOWS By Mary Mapes My first thought when I read the NY Post's latest Page Six item on Dan Rather was that Dan must have missed a hush money payment or something. Reading on, I realized this was actually an opening publicity volley for a new book, one that is probably guaranteed a small but ready readership. (IT... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1644975/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:58:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635149/posts Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who last week “broke” the news that three major U.S. telecommunications companies were assisting the National Security Agency in building a database to more easily track any communications by potential terrorists, is listed as a donor to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt... A search found a listing for "writer and journalist" Leslie Cauley, indicating she gave $2,000 to Gephardt on June 30, 2003, when Gephardt was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. And that seems not to be her only tie to Democratic politics ... Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635149/posts#comment Fri, 19 May 2006 20:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549231/posts It's time for the 18th annual Media Research Center's awards for the most biased, manipulative or downright goofy quotes from liberals in the "mainstream" media. I'm honored to serve, once again, on MRC's distinguished panel of conservatively biased judges. Here are some of the highlights from among the winners and runners-up of Best Notable Quotables of 2005: Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549231/posts#comment Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:39:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1548056/posts Have you noticed how quickly CBS ex-producer, Mary Mapes, has faded from public view? Her book bombed bigtime because NO ONE except for a few diehard loonies bought her completely unbelievable story. Mapes still contends that the obviously forged Texas Air National Guard documents that purported to prove that Bush was AWOL were authentic and that even if they were fake, the story is still somehow valid. Even many Liberals were embarrassed by Mary Mapes and hoped she would just go away. About the only TRUE BELIEVERS I have been able to find were, of course, in DUmmieland as... DUmmie FUnnies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1548056/posts#comment Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:05:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543882/posts Yesterday reader Randy Porter wrote in response to our post on Mary Mapes's letter to the editor of the Times Book Review. Porter wrote: I was reading your latest Mapes post and was struck by the irony of the situation she has manufactured for herself -- anyone who buys her story (hence her only daily company of friends and followers) is a fool. And she is quite aware of that fact. It seems a special kind of hell on earth. Colonel William Campenni (ret.) served with then-Lieutenant Bush in the same unit of the Texas Air National Guard. He wrote... Powerline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543882/posts#comment Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:29:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540064/posts I just noticed this after another freeper commented that the Wikipedia article on memogate was generally favorable to free republic yesterday. Literally a few moments after the post, some leftist wacko essentially rewrote the entire Wikipedia article on memogate using talking points that supposedly "refute" each evidence item that shows they were forgeries. He added a bunch of citations to TANG-Bush conspiracy sites and the site he used the most (12 times) was www.truthandduty.com. In case you don't know www.truthandduty.com is Mary Mapes' website pushing her new book. Here's the link of all the changes that were made - it's... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540064/posts#comment Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:17:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534021/posts Started 5 minutes ago... The CSpan2 RealAudio and Windows Media buttons are on the right-hand side, around mid-way down. C-Span2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534021/posts#comment Mon, 5 Dec 2005 02:06:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1532525/posts On Saturday, December 3 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, December 4 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm Description: This week on After Words journalist Mary Mapes explains her investigative story on George W. Bush's National Guard record that aired on 60 Minutes II. Her new book about the experience is titled "Truth and Duty: The Press, The President, and the Privilege of Power." Ms. Mapes tells her version of the controversy over the segment, and the ensuing internal investigation at CBS that led to Dan Rather's resignation as anchor of CBS Evening News, and her own dismissal. She is... BookTV.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1532525/posts#comment Fri, 2 Dec 2005 06:45:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1528733/posts While theories about President John Kennedy’s assassination abound, CBS News announced that it is in possession of documents proving that President Bush pulled the trigger. Former CBS data fabricator, Mary Mapes, said an unidentified man handed her an envelope with the incriminating documents while she was touring to promote her new book. “Taking time out from her book tour, Mary Mapes faxed us a copy of a letter in which the then 17-year-old George Bush admitted to accidentally shooting JFK while ‘goofing around’ with his hunting rifle,” said Jack Skwaht, speaking on behalf of CBS News. “The letter is a... AZCONSERVATIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1528733/posts#comment Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:31:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526303/posts Ever since the controversy over the CBS use of forged memos erupted, those disappointed by the exposure of the forgeries have wondered if the whole thing wasn't some sort of set up perpetrated by the Dark Lord, Karl Rove. Integral to this paranoid theorizing was their slack-jawed amazement that anyone could have observed and commented that the documents were fake based on typography as quickly as I did. How could anyone not on the inside have articulated a technical and convincing explanation that the documents were fake within a few hours of the broadcast? Well, here's your answer. It's probably... How Did Buckhead Know? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526303/posts#comment Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:17:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1525679/posts Mary Mapes, former data fabricator for CBS News, is doing the talk show circuit touting her new book: "Truth or Duty." She described her excruciating dilemma over the story on President Bush’s National Guard service. “On the one hand is the expectation that, as reporters, we should tell the truth,” said Mapes. “On the other hand, there was our duty to do all we could to save America from George Bush. We were torn.” Mapes went on to explain that since she and Dan Rather knew the president is evil, taking him down was the higher priority. “I mean, look... AZCONSERVATIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1525679/posts#comment Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:27:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1524097/posts That whinning snitch (har), Mary Mapes, continues her whinning tour-de-force, this time on KGO radio 810 in S.F. "I've always worked like a dog", proclaims the Mighty Mapes. Snausages anyone? KGO radio 810 AM San Francisco http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1524097/posts#comment Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:02:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts September 9, 2004 Documents Suggest Special Treatment for Bush in Guard By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and RALPH BLUMENTHAL ASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard came under renewed scrutiny on Wednesday as newfound documents emerged from his squadron commander's file that suggested favorable treatment. At the same time, a once powerful Texas Democrat came forward to say that he had "abused my position of power" by helping Mr. Bush and others join the Guard. Democrats also worked to stoke the issue with a new advertisement by a Texas group that featured a former lieutenant colonel,... NYTIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts#comment Thu, 9 Sep 2004 03:10:56 GMT