Posted on 09/19/2004 4:09:08 AM PDT by beyond the sea
..............In the years that CBS producer Mary Mapes has been pursuing this story, she never contacted Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's secretary, Marian Carr Knox, until after her existence was revealed by the Drudge Report. On 60 Minutes on Wednesday, Knox said that the documents were forgeries, but the content was accurate.
Mapes interviewed Killian's widow Marjorie Connell and his son Gary. Both expressed doubt to the CBS producer that the documents were real. Neither of them have appeared on the network nor even been mentioned in CBS's reporting.
CBS' own experts have moved away from the authenticity of the documents. One of the experts consulted was Emily Will, a veteran document examiner from North Carolina. She told ABC News that she sent Mapes an e-mail message about her concerns and strongly urged the network the night before the broadcast not to use the documents.
She said, "I told them that all the questions I was asking them on Tuesday night, they were going to be asked by hundreds of other document examiners on Thursday if they ran that story."
If Rather was informed of the doubts, he ignored them, plunging his network into a quagmire. The veteran anchor forged ahead because, as he stated on Wednesday's broadcast, that the charges are so charges are so serious, the evidence of little importance.
His confidence in Mapes may have led him to go with the story, despite the red flags. After all, it was Mapes who brought CBS the Abu Ghraib photos of prisoner abuse and who risked jail by refusing to turn over videotapes of Rather's interview with a man charged in the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas.
But Mapes' father sees a political agenda behind his daughter's work. Don Mapes, 76, was a recent guest on a radio talk show hosted by John Carlson on KVI in Seattle.
He said, "I'm really ashamed of what my daughter has become. She's a typical liberal. She went into journalism with an ax to grind, and that was to promote radical feminism."
He confessed to being disappointed in his daughter's role in the controversy. He said, "When I heard about 60 Minutes, I suspected she would be the producer of the show."
In an interview with Talon News, Don Mapes said his suspicion was because that he believed, "Dan Rather and she have been working on this ever since Bush was elected."
In commenting on the Wednesday's 60 Minutes show, he said, "It was a farce, it was fraud. I'm sorry as a father that my daughter was the producer of it."
His fatherly instinct showed through when he said, "To give her the benefit of the doubt, I believe she has been had."
But he also chastised his daughter for being intellectually dishonest.
He said, "She ought to look closer at George Soros or Michael Moore."
Mary Mapes declined several opportunities to comment for this article.
The next time his last explanation to viewers is replayed on cable, do notice the white knuckles in the clenched hand--another telling reflection of the inescapable, venemous, and corrupt act he himself wrought!
For the remainder of his life, he'll not have a restful sleep. This well-deserved retribution I celebrate!
Regards . . . Penny
- intellectual immaturity is a major factor in liberal reasoning. The use of drugs arrests the development of intellect. These old hippies and younger drug users are in fact intellectually immature. They will never get over their collective disability.
Seems Daddy is unhappy with his little girl.
I'm sure he could counter with: "My daughter's head-first fall made her a Liberal."
Wonder if this is the same Don Mapes?
http://www.trafford.com/4dcgi/robots/01-0126.html
They could have the Barnes family as guest to make it real interesting.
>Christmas at the Mapes house this year might be a little tense.<
Well, not so much so if she's in jail for fraudulent creation of Federal documents.
Unlike Watergate, with the new tone there probably won't be any Congressional Hearings or criminal investigations. The best way to deal with this current scandal is to demolish the credibility of both the Democratic party and their media arm, the MSM.
"We're usin' code names" -- RAISING ARIZONA.
She said she had googled all the construction firms in New York, and they were involved in the fewest lawsuits. She got the job.
I hope to spend this Christmas either getting my new home ready in DC or getting ready for my new job as a producer for 60 Minutes.
I expect a lot of job openings at CBS. At least three.
Don Mapes was in military service and served in China-Burma-India during World War II. He was called back into service during the Korean War.
Every year he plans and co-ordinates the Tri-city Veterans' Memorial Day Service in Middleburg heights, Ohio, where he lives with his wife.
Don't know if it's the same guy. Age should be about right though. Sentiment seems the same too.
Looks like a big one. It's going to grow just as long as they circle the wagons against scrutiny. The way things are going, that's going to be a long time; their hubris and hypocrisy is very deeply seated.
There are none so blind as those who are stupid.
If you don't think well, don't think to often.
I was sad I had no shoes, till I met someone who had no class.
All of the above seem to apply to Rather and his supporters.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004
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