Mapes Wished to "Save the World from a Bush Presidency"

Media Research Center ^ | 9-23-04 | Medial Reseach Center

[dirtboy]

Appearing on MSNBC's Imus in the Morning on Wednesday, Fineman fretted that due to the CBS scandal, it is getting "increasingly difficult to prove" that the rest of the media strive for "objectivity" and want to be "fair" and "even- handed."

Well, there's an easy way around that problem. Start being fair and even-handed.

[happygrl]

bttt

[Howlin]

Fineman fretted that due to the CBS scandal, it is getting "increasingly difficult to prove" that the rest of the media strive for "objectivity" and want to be "fair" and "even- handed."

Sweet! Perhaps that explains why they were so nasty at the presser this morning.

Fineman also predicted that "if Roger Ailes and Fox had done something like this, you know, the world would be on fire."

Predicted? That's a known fact.

[Lunkhead_01]

So now when she is indicted, she can claim she was insane?

[Brilliant]

She wanted to save us from Bush, but ended up doing something infinitely more valuable--she saved us from Dan Rather and CBS News. The Lord works in strange ways.

[Mr. K]

nope - no bias at seeBS

[bigbob]

Exactly! And the reason Roger Ailes and Fox News are not likely to find themselves in this kind of situation is because they are fair and balanced.

[Puppage]

because she wanted to "save the world from a George Bush presidency

And, save the world from unborn babies,the word of God, school choice, etc etc etc.

[1Old Pro]

Well, there's an easy way around that problem. Start being fair and even-handed.

They simply can't. They think being fair and balanced is the same as being right wing. They HAVE to slant the news and show a liberal bias, it's in their blood.

[Revolting cat!]

So why is Little Mary in hiding now? Why not come out and say "I want to save the world from a George Bush presidency"?

[EggsAckley]

The tap dancing among the MSM is becoming deafening.

LOL!

[bootless]

An amazed BUMP.

[EGPWS]

"save the world from a George Bush presidency,...

I haven't heard such rhetoric from the liberal left since the late, great, Ronald Reagan was President.

The similarity in their reactions to Dubya' is a good sign which is very comforting in an abstract sort of way. : )

[Chummy]

"...CBS News producer Mary Mapes became 'obsessed'..."?

Well, beyond this obvious thought, are we to assume and accept that she was allowed to perform cart blanche, and that no one at SeeBS offered any oversight?

It's a culture of loonie left bias.

[orangelobster]

This idea of "saving the nation from Bush" is quite common in many of new york's professional offices. Since election day, 2000 seemingly rational people transform into venomous secular church ladies at the mention of Bush and immediatly attack the person that dares breath the word Bush in a positive light. It really has gotten so extreme that we are starting to see the first cracks to the ruling establishment in the form of the rathergate exposure. Expect a tidal wave of additional scandals as psychotic leftie controlled organizations decide to come clean.

[KellyAdmirer]

And that, to me, means obsession, and as you pointed out the other day, you know, that's what editors are for. Editors are there to harness the energy, sometimes obsessive energy of reporters and they clearly didn't do it in this case."

Come on, Howard, there wasn't an "editor" who should have stopped the story. Mapes has a direct line to Rather. There is no "editor" in between. The only "editor" who could have injected some reason into this partisan exercise was Dan Rather, but he was either too stupid or too partisan to do anything but go along.

[MEGoody]

Mapes is obsessed with hatred for Bush, and has thrown out all semblance of objectivity and journalistic integrity. If CBS doesn't fire her, they can never again proclaim themselves to be an objective news source.

Of course, we all know they aren't. But at least in the past, they tried to hide their bias.

[jmstein7]

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