CBS' Mary Mapes, in 'Vanity Fair,' Defends Role in 'RatherGate'

Editor & Publisher ^ | 10/31/05

[freespirited]

"I must answer the bloggers, the babblers and blabbers, and the true believers who have called me everything from 'feminazi' to an 'elitist liberal' to an 'idiot.'

How 'bout moonbat?

[SevenofNine]

You know what I hear she going mention Free Republic in her memiors that be classic

[timestax]

Their Communistic dirty tricks worked in bye gone days, BUT NOT NOW! A HA HA HA HA. The internet, and FrRepublic is putting an end to their lies and dirty tricks.

[DB]

Gee, Mary, maybe it had something to do with the lack of truth, you think?

[Howlin]

Oh good......we need more new members!

[claudiustg]

---.I didn't know that the attack on our story was going to be as effective as a brilliantly run national political campaign, because that is what it was: a political campaign."---

What a nerve! She should be ashamed to go out in public and she knows it, but she can't atone and ask forgiveness because she doesn't believe in that sort of thing.

[ncountylee]

that is what it was: a political campaign."

It was fiction to achieve your hard left agenda.

[Lancey Howard]

She claims that a researcher has since shown her typography on other documents from the period Bush was in the Guard that suggest that the memos she obtained cannot be easily dismissed "as being forgeries."

Oh yeah, she's an idiot alright.

[SandRat]

CBS

[Brad from Tennessee]

I sent this e-mail note to Editor & Publisher last night:

Savannah TN 10-31

Dear Editor:

One wonders if Mary Mapes mentions, in her book, her
coordination with candidate John Kerry's campaign
command center as she and Rather rushed the Guard
story to the air. This ethical breach alone would get
her and Rather fired if 60 Minutes II were anything
more than a commercial, entertainment product.

Mapes', and Rather's, trauma over the scandal is
understandable. Their sad folly illustrated the end of
the establishment news media's monopoly on reality.
Something they still don't fathom.

Brad (last name)

[Fenris6]

LOL. The gift that keeps on giving. Remember, her peers categorized her as "brilliant"....

[taxesareforever]

I didn't know that the attack on our story was going to be as effective as a brilliantly run national political campaign, because that is what it was: a political campaign."

Mary, if you don't classify your story as "an almost brilliant ran national political campaign", I would be interested in what you would call your scam.

[Billthedrill]

She claims that a researcher has since shown her typography on other documents from the period Bush was in the Guard that suggest that the memos she obtained cannot be easily dismissed "as being forgeries."

Pathetic. Yes, Mary, they can. And that's as weak a defense as the "fake but accurate" formulation that convinced absolutely nobody.

And yes, it was a "political campaign," - not the outcry against the forgeries, but the forgeries themselves. Mapes was not a victim of McCarthyism, she was a victim of what is at the least credulity, ineptitude, and unprofessionalism and at most a particularly clumsy attempt to swindle and smear.

[Theresawithanh]

"She claims that a researcher has since shown her typography on other documents from the period Bush was in the Guard that suggest that the memos she obtained cannot be easily dismissed "as being forgeries."

Mary, bring him/her and the other documents out and let them be examined, IF they exist.

[p[adre29]

Ms. Mapes defense of who me? begs for the answer of
"screw you". Talk about a true believer, one cannot
pimp a lie trying to hurt a sitting president and then
say "Who me?". Shame on you Mapes, in the old days of
the USSR you would be handed a pistol with one bullet
in it and be told to "Go home and think about it"

[ComputerGuy]

..."CBS could find its own lousy analysts."
Lousy would mean raising the bar at CBS

[SevenofNine]

I hope they don't trash Free Republic like Hollywood trash Joan Crawford with Fayne Dunway

That what this forum dont' need PR be remember as wire hanging alcoholic Hollywood b***h

I just hope some Hollywood writer do number on CBS pick up this book rights LOL!

[Lancey Howard]

lol

[claudiustg]

She should be facing charges! She tried to mislead us in one of the most important selections for the Republic and then she complains when found out and called on it. She'll be married to this fraud for the rest of her life.

[dr_lew]

She claims that a researcher has since shown her typography on other documents from the period Bush was in the Guard that suggest that the memos she obtained cannot be easily dismissed "as being forgeries."

I'll betcha anything this is a reference to the elevated "th" and the half-space non-elevated "th" with an underscore they showed on TV as proof that the elevated "th" could have been typed in the Guard office.

This whole affair really turned me. I don't know which is more astounding, their brazenness or their stupidity.