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.