Rush Limbaugh: Blogoshpere rumor -- Mapes is the forger!

[Partisan Hack]

Rush mentioned during Friday's show that the rumor floating around on the internet is that Mary Mapes is the person who actually FORGED the doccuments.

This may have been fully vetted here and my search missed it. If so, please pull this thread.

Otherwise, I wondering if there is any reporting on this "blogosphere rumor."

[DianeDePoitiers]

Why would CBS keep stonewalling, even if their reputation was going down the tubes on account of the coverup? They wouldn't do it just to protect Burkett. The ultimate source must be much more scandalous. Maybe the DNC is in cahoots with a foreign intelligence service. Why is the press burying the story about the South Korean intelligence agent who was raising money for Kerry?

[Paulus Invictus]

Forging or faking an official US government document is forgery pure and simple and against the law. Locate and bring the perps to justice now! For me that would be Mapes, Rather, SeeBS and the DNC.

[ReadyNow]

Mary Mapes could NOT have forged the documents. She is a very highly thought of producer at CBS, for pete's sake. And she operates under CBS's rigid code of ethics and extraordinarily good system of checks and balances.

On the other hand, I think she probably did it. CBS is a snake pit of liars.

[wagglebee]

If what I've read recently is correct, the style and rank abbreviations have some subtle, but noticable differences between the different branches of the military. It is possible that the "sample memo" did not have an Air National Guard background. Plus there is evidence that the sKerry campaign referenced the memos (or what they wanted them to contain) back in April. This would mean that the memo (or the "necessary" content of it) was in the possession of the DNC before CBS got involved. Rush talked about it last Tuesday:

The Kerry campaign had run this information on one of their press releases back in April. They've been working this story since April. I think it's pretty easy to figure out what happened here because the Newsmax people have got this. Let me just give you the details of the story before I tell you what I think happened here. Headline: "Kerry Campaign Touted Forged Doc Info in April. -- The Kerry campaign made an explicit reference to information in at least one of four forged military documents broadcast 14 days ago by CBS in a detailed campaign press release attacking President Bush's National Guard service dated months before the September 8th 60 Minutes show.

Appearing in Kerry campaign literature on April 27th, 2004 under the headline: 'Key Unanswered Questions on Bush's Record in National Guard' was the reference to verbal orders to recommend Bush's suspension from flying because he missed a physical issued by Bush's commander Lieutenant Colonel Killian on August 1st, '72. One of the forged Killian memos broadcast by CBS is also dated August 1st, '72, and chronicles Killian's verbal orders to suspend Bush and then the story quotes from the memo excerpt and the April 27th Kerry campaign press release cites Killian's verbal orders for suspension as a fact. Fact?

"The order suspending Bush from flight duty stated verbal orders of the commander on 1 August '72 suspending George W. Bush from flying status are concerned, reason for suspension, failure to accomplish annual medical exam,'" blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, the Kerry campaign was using this in April. They were using these documents. Here's what's happened. Just a little speculation. They used the story in April. They put it out and it didn't get any traction. People at the Kerry campaign and the Democratic National Committee just know this is true, because Bush is a skunk. They just know it's true because Bush is a lying SOB. They just know it has to be true. It has to be true! But nobody believed them and their press release. They need these documents from Killian.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092104/content/truth_detector_2.member.html

[Uncle Vlad]

This is almost as stupid as the story you hear about the moron who robs the convenience store and leaves his wallet at the scene of the crime.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Yes it is dumb. I really wish someone would talk. Maybe Mapes will be fired, get mad and come forward...or someone else will.

[Just mythoughts]

"Forging or faking an official US government document is forgery pure and simple and against the law. Locate and bring the perps to justice now! For me that would be Mapes, Rather, SeeBS and the DNC."

Agreed. Reason I asked the question was that JFKerry campaign and their 527 CBS are still claiming that while they cannot verify the authenticity of the documents what is contained within is correct.

Not a lawyer so was not sure what the legal term would be for documents that are a complete hoax.

[JSteff]

Whoever is talked into taking the fall should beware of Arkancide. Dead hacks tell no tales and all that...

[Jaidyn]

I posted several times I thought it was Mapes because she was quoted as calling Dan and saying someone GAVE the documents to her. I found it odd that she didn't say someone faxed them to her. I assume from the article (which I don't have any longer, but posted it here) that she was in Texas at the time. She had them on her person and probably faxed them on since it was a rush job.

[MOgirl]

Hello,

I told my family when this 1st broke that the forger (faker) must be a young person. I was pretty young in the 70s, but I know that if I wanted to fake a document from that time, I would not turn on a PC. Younger people, however, can not imagine a world without computers (My nephews are blown away that I did not have a remote control for the (B&W) TV!!)

Glad to be here, MOgirl

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

I was in the military 30+ years ago and I took one look at those memos right after they were posted and agreed that they were fake.

Once you have been in the military for a few years you have certain "military knowledge" that never leaves you. It is so automatic that you don't even notice it. I still sign the my dates military style. But if the style or format is wrong, you notice.

Burkett was a Colonel in the Army Guard. You don't make Colonel in a year of two. Most Colonels that I know have been in for at least 20 years.

[savedbygrace]

Yes.

[poweqi]

If we just had an itenerary we could UNBLOG her. Are travel records public documents? There's got to be a way.

[Libertina]

LOL One No! One Yes! (Yuk, I woudldn't want to look like that!)

[Mach9]

Agreed--Kerry's band of bros?

[Mach9]

Not necessarily on first point--he was Army, not AF.

[excelsior]

One of Mary Mapes's young researchers?

[Mach9]

Delicious thought. Funny we haven't got back to Abu G, though.

[Mach9]

But faxed documents would have given them absolutely nothing to work with . . .

[not2worry]

To me Burkett seems too stupid to do such a thing.

Mapes own father says she is a wacko. The prison story she was working on in Colorado wasn't exactly the planning of a rocket scientist.

Desperate people do desperate things, especially if she's been working on a story to destroy GWB for years, and Rather would have been a very willing and even unsuspecting accomplice.