Mapes is going to take the fall to protect Rather, and to deflect attention from the Dimocratic Party connection.
Wonder if she'll still stonewall for Rather once she's been branded a liar and put out on the street?
CNN will pick her up.
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.