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A MS. MAPES MYSTERY (CBS' 60 Minutes Democrat connection)
NY POST ^ | 9/22/04 | EDITORIAL

Posted on 09/22/2004 3:11:11 AM PDT by Liz

As we asked yesterday: What did Dan Rather know?

And when did he know it?

And that was even before it was disclosed that CBS News' dubious source for those phony National Guard memos insisted on being put in touch directly with John Kerry's campaign — apparently as a condition for turning over the documents.

As USA Today reported in detail yesterday, CBS producer Mary Mapes arranged for Bill Burkett (who provided the forged documents) to speak with Joe Lockhart, the former Clinton press secretary who's now a top Kerry campaign adviser.

CBS claims hooking Burkett up with Lockhart "was not part of any deal" to get the memos, which producer Mapes had spent five fruitless years in search of.

Burkett, however, insists that the contact was indeed part of an "understanding" — without which he would not turn over the documents.

At this point, neither Burkett nor the network have much standing in the credibility department.

But even taking the network's claim at face value undercuts Rather's claim that using the documents — which he now says he regrets — was "an error that was made . . . in good faith."

Not to mention his insistence that this story was part of the "CBS News tradition of investigate reporting without fear or favoritism."

Simple common sense would have mandated that — faced with a demand by their source to involve the Kerry campaign — Rather and Mapes say flatly, "No way."

But they were so eager to get their hands on what they believed were explosive memos — supposedly proving once and for all that George W. Bush received special treatment in getting into the Air National Guard and then avoiding his full service obligation — that they agreed to anything Burkett wanted.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbs; marymapes; news; planetofthemapes; rathergate; stainedbluememo
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To: uncbob

It just amazes me that there seems to be no investigative journalism going on here. What a feather in the cap of the reporter who comes up with the whole,true story here.


61 posted on 09/22/2004 5:59:29 AM PDT by surrey
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To: Cboldt
Points well made. This I think is something we should emphasize. President Bush wanted to serve in combat & John Kerry did not. However, because of (to quote Shakespeare) "giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel", President Bush wound up in Texas, and John Kerry wound up in the Mekong Delta.
62 posted on 09/22/2004 6:20:15 AM PDT by Teplukin
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To: surrey
It just amazes me that there seems to be no investigative journalism going on here. What a feather in the cap of the reporter who comes up with the whole,true story here.

Left wing media is only interested in Anti GOP stories

They could care less about democrat corruption fraud etc etc
63 posted on 09/22/2004 6:34:48 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: pt17

Is this Vallely related to the ex-military (General?) pundit we used to see on TV during the Iraq war? It's not a very common name.


64 posted on 09/22/2004 6:56:36 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: Teplukin

And what about their hero, William Jefferson Clinton? He avoided the service entirely and has hated the military ever since. What hypocrites.


65 posted on 09/22/2004 7:18:51 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD is STILL in control, even if Bush loses in 2004!)
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To: Liz

It goes without saying that Lockhart's a liar.......he was Clinton's mouthpiece, after all.


66 posted on 09/22/2004 7:21:56 AM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: meyer
If you've watched "60 Minutes" in the past, you might conclude that nearly all of CBS's stories are at a minimum, sensationalized, and more typically, false.

Horrors !

You mean they've become no better than Tabloids!!!!!

67 posted on 09/22/2004 7:34:49 AM PDT by happygrl
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To: Montfort

John should contact them - not that "they" want the truth...


68 posted on 09/22/2004 8:17:07 AM PDT by Libertina (Thank God we have President Bush in the White House.)
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To: Liz

Ugh, really bad visual. LOL


69 posted on 09/22/2004 8:17:55 AM PDT by Libertina (Thank God we have President Bush in the White House.)
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To: Liz
Viacom owner of CBS: MTV Running Ad Saying Kids Will Be Drafted!!"

Viacom lie debunked here on Snopes.com








70 posted on 09/22/2004 8:45:08 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (What did Dan Rather know, and when did he know it?)
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To: Paleo Conservative
You missed one logo:


71 posted on 09/22/2004 8:51:34 AM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: Libertina

Just ask John Carlson of 570KVI radio in Settle. He worked with her and had a story on air today about HOW SHE HAS DONE THIS BEFORE! (But I wouldn't expect the mass media to actually be able to root this source out for themselves...)


You heard that too, eh? Almost started a race riot with a "phony" witness.


72 posted on 09/22/2004 8:54:57 AM PDT by Just Lori (Exit strategy: Terrorism dead..... freedom flourishing)
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To: Liz
this was NOT an "error" ... this was not a "mistake" ...

this was an INTENTIONAL FRAUDcast by an Old Media outlet, like hundreds they have perpetrated before.

They Just Got Caught This Time.


73 posted on 09/22/2004 10:27:25 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: SkyPilot



All these stories put all the onus for "checking sources before broadcasting" on C___BS. The fact is, in my recollection EVERY MAJOR NEWS SOURCE (Old Media, that is) repeated C___BS's FRAUDcast without themselves checking that it passed the smell test.

ANY of them could have been monitoring FR and the blogs and within HOURS generated a story calling it into question, and within 36 hours have known they were almost certainly fraudlent. Yet, nearly all of them ran stories even TWO DAYS later relying on these FORGERIES. After two-three days, any reporter who was willing to spend six hours of research with FR and the blogs could have, and should have, decreed with certainty that C___BS had perpetrated a Fraud on the American public, AND that the source was either directly tied to the DNC, or that it was closely associated with the DNC.

None of them did so. They are all complicit in the FRAUDcast.
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74 posted on 09/22/2004 10:30:03 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: js1138
The other "simple fact" is, that if there had been any MORE of a delay in getting out the word that these were FORGERIES that even more American Voters would have irreparably become sKerry voters. If the typical 1-3 week delay of the Old Media had been in force, this election dynamic would have been reversed. As it was, they all were buzzing about it for two days as fact, and were only stating "controversial" by four days later, and only NOW are conceding these are FRAUDS.

This type of FRAUDcasting by the Old Media has to come to an end, and NOW. This was an inexcusable attempt to affect an election by the whole Old Media establishment, about 90% of whom were HOPING for just this type of story to break.
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75 posted on 09/22/2004 10:38:00 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Liz
Simple common sense would have mandated that — faced with a demand by their source to involve the Kerry campaign — Rather and Mapes say flatly, "No way."

But they were so eager to get their hands on what they believed were explosive memos — supposedly proving once and for all that George W. Bush received special treatment in getting into the Air National Guard and then avoiding his full service obligation — that they agreed to anything Burkett wanted.

HA! They were more than willing to hook Burkett up with the DNC - Hell, I bet Mary has Joe Lockhart on speed dial.

What is truly delicious is the whole cabal was brought down by the ravings of the archetypical Moonbat... Burkett.

76 posted on 09/22/2004 2:14:23 PM PDT by bikepacker67 (Sandy wasn't stuffing his socks, he was stuffing A sock.)
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