Viacom lie debunked here on Snopes.com
Posted on 09/22/2004 6:53:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Designated Rathergate fallgal Mary Mapes is still on the job at the network's formerly great news division, despite a deluge of leaks from CBS employees fingering her as the "60 Minutes" producer who dropped the ball in the forged memo story.
"CBS News staffers say they're puzzled why Mapes is still apparently actively working on the memos story," reports USA Today in Wednesday editions.
CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius refused to comment on Mapes continuing work on the memos story, but acknowledged, however, that the "60 Minutes" producer remains on CBS's payroll. The fact that Mapes is still on the job has prompted speculation that she may not be willing to walk the plank - or at least not alone.
And since her key source for the disastrous story, Bill Burkett, was also a longtime source for Dan Rather himself, suspicion continues to swirl that Mapes may have the goods on CBS misconduct that transcends her own role in Rathergate.
The Rathergate fallgal, who's been searching for dirt on President Bush's National Guard record since 1999, has spent all that time working under Rather on "60 Minutes II." She's also been a top producer on the anchorman's "Evening News" broadcasts since 1989.
Mapes is also to blame for breaking the Abu Grahab story
with pictures.
She is a bitter Feminist, with a partisan ax to grind.
CBS has lost ALL credibility. Nothing they report can be believed.
Judging by that pic, even Larry Flynt won't be offering up her next gig...
I will bet 100 dollars that the will be a made for TV movie about this where Dan and Mary are depicted as stalwart heros and conservatives as barbarians at the gate...blah blah blah.
so he can't report it to the authorities.
Here's a scary thought. Maybe they are over on ebay looking for that elusive 70's typewriter so they can produce forgeries that at least look like real documents.
Maybe that's the real reason Mapes is still on the payroll.
Having lost all credibility and trust, Dan Rather breaking a story is now like a dog breaking wind.
The walls have ears and so do dogs
Viacom lie debunked here on Snopes.com
That pic of Mapes in 1999 from Jasper Texas....isn't that where Byrd was killed?? was she doing another false story like she did in Seattle in the late 80's that John Carlson talked about yesterday??
HOW did Mapes get the pictures of Abu Grahib??? From Michael Moore...from Nick Berg?? How...Who??
BTTT
Mapes is kept on for the same reason Dan is.
They are both convenient HITMEN. CBS upper mgmt. knows that Rather and Mapes are seriously deluded/self-centered persons with a lifetime grudge against North Texans/Republicans/REAL MEN.
Mapes (IMHO) has been indoctrinated into the Hillary FUZZBUMPER CLUB, and this steepens her hatred of all things REPUB and MALE.
CBS uses them to do what all MSM do. Attack enemies of your boss.
She has her own real CYA memos.
We could not have asked for anything more. Mapes and Rather have the goods on CBS so they keep their jobs. CBS will keep going in a "downward" spiral and will keep this in the news.
God has a funny sense of humor of justice for liars.
Yes, Mapes was held in contempt of court, twice, for refusing to release to the court the entire film interview she did. That was in the trial of the 3rd defendant in the Byrd case.
Mary Mapes's own father said she was Un-ethical....she's far, far worse!! She borders on EVIL.
If that's true, this really *is* Nixon Redux... the whole crew is going to go down with the ship, because everybody's got something on everybody else so nobody dares to break ranks, while everybody outside the corruption is either attacking it or trying to disatance themselves from it...
You know... everything that's coming out about this feminist harpy is making me wonder more and more...
She has a history of fabricating evidence, does she?
You don't suppose she could have called the nutcase in Texas, identified herself as "Lucy Ramirez", and then sent somebody else to drop off the forgeries?
The logical place to leak those documents would be in Texas, where the Guard office was... even a Demonrat might be clever enough to figure that out.
The logical culprit in this, considering her and Dannyboy's desperation to find "Hard Evidence" for their smear story, is, is... Is...
Ya think?
She's probably searching desperately for a vintage IBM Composer typesetter with the 1990's Times New Roman font so she can forge better 'incriminating' memo's so they can badger the President to 'answer the questions'.
you know what i would absolutely LOVE to see??? - that whoever's running the show @ CBS, bite the bullet, call her bluff (if what's described above is fact) and take the inevitable crashing down of the tower into the next level - reconstruct the entire team starting with Brit Hume as the anchor.
Brit is, imho, the Edward Murrow of our Generation. And despite the zaniness of the above idea, I believe that a really smart businessman could see that the current apologies-that-aren't-apologies are - like the present meme that CBS is "fake-but-accurate" - making CBS into the laughingstock of the media world and likely causing more damage (for their arrogance in expecting the public to stupidly nod in agreement) than the actual rathergate forgeries themselves.
Of course, this ain't gonna happen; the evidence points more and more to a federal crime having been committed (media engaged in falsification of government docs to use in corrupting a general election) - and despite their brave, self-anointed eliteness, we all know that an amoeba has more of a backbone than they collectively have.
But a man can dream...
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