Posted on 09/22/2004 6:57:28 AM PDT by johnny7
Right. She "unearthed" the photos.
The woman is an accomplice to the dems and that's plain to see. I have no problem with her being thrown to any wolves, nor do I see her as a "fallguy". She will face consequences but she won't be the only one as far as this matter goes.
Are you taking the stance that Mapes is not complicit and culpable in this fraud? She is and is not "taking a fall".
And don't worry your head about Rather being protected just because this wench is made to answer for what she has been doing.
Nothing personal, but I am getting fed up with all this "taking the fall" and "scapegoat" nonsense as if Mapes is being accused of something she did not do.
They are both done, and they both know it. What is being negotiated now are terms of their retirement.
Dan is a stinking pile of buried secrets. CBS can't waste him or the book he'll write will make Goldberg's look like my 2 year old's Seuss books. Rather's tell-all will be his pension, and he'll 'wreck CBS to save it.'
Mapes is done because she's expendable. If she tells all, who cares, they will squish her like a bug.
CBS isn't stupid. They know they have to cut him loose, the question today is how.
Right! Mapes deserves to be fired, but so does Rather. Neither of them could have pulled this off without the cooperation of the other. Both are partisan leftist ideologues. Both have a history of searching for scandals that will sink Republicans while turning a blind eye to more serious crimes that would harm Democrats. They spent five years, which is an incredible amount of time, trying to find dirt on President Bush on this issue. Yet they showed no interest in the Sandy Berger scandal, the fully documented Swiftvet allegations, and so forth.
Mapes is in more trouble than Rather only because she's unknown to the general public, so she can be fired and the public CBS "icon" Dan Rather can be presented as being a "victim" of a bad story unearthed by others. Only time will tell if it works.
That was my point. People keep saying this like one precludes the other.
I thought I was crystal clear so I don't understand why you felt the need to argue a position like the obvious one above.
And with all due respect, that is an absurd statement. Anybody can see Rather is in heap big trouble. I do not perceive Mapes as in "more" trouble.
So, "unimpeachable" is liberalese for "lost at playing 'hot potato' with hand grenades?"
She will resign within 2 weeks with an undisclosed retirement package (i.e. $$$$$$$$$). She will then write a book about how evil and dangerous the Right is. All in all she will come out ahead on this.
Perhaps a better way to phrase this would be to say that CBS is trying to ensure that the blood trail ends at Mapes' office. Time will tell if their efforts will pay off. A lot of MSM outlets have slammed Rather and CBS, calling for investigations, Rather's firing, etc. But will they keep the pressure on, or will they now try to say it's time to "move on"?
#####I thought I was crystal clear so I don't understand why you felt the need to argue a position like the obvious one above.#####
Nor do I understand why you're so impolite to people who do nothing more than mildly engage you in discussion. This is a message board, after all.
Impolite? I? I don't think so.
:)
I'd like to see Mapes buried and barred from the networks.
She's no journalist. She's a rabid liberal whose young enough, and vicious enough, to do a lot of harm to the Conservatives.
I do wish you'd mind your manners. LOL
Seriously, as bad as rathergate is, it doesn't compare to the harm that evil woman did to our military. Normal channels were handling it, but she made it out like higher-ups were encouraging and condoning it.
I'll bet if Mapes had been there, she would have been the FIRST with whips and chains.
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