Are you taking the stance that Mapes is not complicit and culpable in this fraud? She is and is not "taking a fall".
And don't worry your head about Rather being protected just because this wench is made to answer for what she has been doing.
Nothing personal, but I am getting fed up with all this "taking the fall" and "scapegoat" nonsense as if Mapes is being accused of something she did not do.
Right! Mapes deserves to be fired, but so does Rather. Neither of them could have pulled this off without the cooperation of the other. Both are partisan leftist ideologues. Both have a history of searching for scandals that will sink Republicans while turning a blind eye to more serious crimes that would harm Democrats. They spent five years, which is an incredible amount of time, trying to find dirt on President Bush on this issue. Yet they showed no interest in the Sandy Berger scandal, the fully documented Swiftvet allegations, and so forth.
Mapes is in more trouble than Rather only because she's unknown to the general public, so she can be fired and the public CBS "icon" Dan Rather can be presented as being a "victim" of a bad story unearthed by others. Only time will tell if it works.
Perhaps a better way to phrase this would be to say that CBS is trying to ensure that the blood trail ends at Mapes' office. Time will tell if their efforts will pay off. A lot of MSM outlets have slammed Rather and CBS, calling for investigations, Rather's firing, etc. But will they keep the pressure on, or will they now try to say it's time to "move on"?