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THE MAPES MIASMA
Powerline ^ | 30 Apr 2024 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 04/30/2024 7:48:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan

I am warming up to watch the documentary Rather, celebrating the career of the disgraced former CBS News anchor. It is to be aired this coming Wednesday on Netflix. Apparently having access to a screener for media critics, the Star Tribune’s Neal Justin found the documentary to be wanting (“when it comes to the stumbles, like walking off the set when a tennis match went long, the legendary broadcaster goes missing”).

Speaking of “stumbles,” we have the matter of Rathergate. However, “stumble” doesn’t quite capture it. “Disgrace,” “disaster,” and “fraud” are more like it.

Award-winning CBS News producer Mary Mapes was the real author of Rathergate. Dan Rather was the mouthpiece. Rather magnified the underlying fraud into an epic moment by standing behind the story for 12 days. Rather thought he could tamp down the scandal on his reassuring say-so. Like the clueless elders in the Bob Dylan song, he did not understand that “the order [was] rapidly fadin'” or that “the times they [were] a changin’.”

In November 2005 Mary Mapes told her story in a memoir published by St. Martin’s Press. I must be one of the few citizens of the United States to have read it...

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: buckhead; danrather; idrathernot; marymapes
This real-life Ron Burgundy just won't go away.
1 posted on 04/30/2024 7:48:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Mapes was the producer of the CBS 60 Minutes II segment on President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard that aired on September 8, 2004. According to the segment, President Bush had received preferential treatment in being admitted to the Guard, and once in, had served dishonorably. The segment predicated the latter theme on four 1972 and 1973 documents from the “personal file” of Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Killian, then-Lt. Bush’s commanding officer in the Texas Air National Guard. CBS had obtained the documents from a confidential source. In the online version of the story, CBS posted PDF versions of the four documents.

The authenticity of the documents was originally attacked on the website Free Republic by an anonymous poster (since revealed to be Atlanta attorney Harry MacDougald) late on the evening of September 8.

Hooray Buckhead!

2 posted on 04/30/2024 7:51:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

Dan Blather - grandfather of fake news


3 posted on 04/30/2024 7:51:59 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Rummyfan; Buckhead

In absentia PING.


4 posted on 04/30/2024 7:56:16 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: Rummyfan

Does anyone here have the posting or text of it that Buckhead made here, that started the ball rolling that the documents were forgeries and Rather and Mapes were frauds for airing them?


5 posted on 04/30/2024 8:03:52 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: desertsolitaire

Never mind.
I found it!

“9/8/2004, 11:59:43 PM · 47 of 300
Buckhead to Howlin
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.

In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90’s. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn’t used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80’s used monospaced fonts.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.

This should be pursued aggressively.”

Still warms my heart to read it.


6 posted on 04/30/2024 8:14:20 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: Rummyfan
Dune
7 posted on 04/30/2024 8:15:23 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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To: Rummyfan

This lady never learned that hate is more destructive to the one who hates, than the one who is hated. She ruined her own life because of hate. And the same goes for Dan Blather.


8 posted on 04/30/2024 8:16:54 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Rummyfan
So weird:

He agreed to copy the documents inside, then burn the original papers he had received, which were also copies, not originals. He was also to burn the envelope they had come in. Burkett said that he agreed to this, assuming that Lucy or whoever she was wanted to destroy any DNA evidence that might be gleaned from the papers or the package they had come in.

Now who got his panties all twisted up in 2000?

Al

9 posted on 04/30/2024 8:47:14 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Reality is what you imagine it to be.)
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To: desertsolitaire; Buckhead
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. This should be pursued aggressively.

I was surfing Free Republic when Buckhead posted the proof of forgery. My first thought was, "Buckhead nailed that SOB."

10 posted on 04/30/2024 8:49:07 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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