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DAN'S PRODUCER DIGS IN (Mary Mapes Fights For Her Job)
New York Post - Page Six ^
| 12/10/04
| Richard Johnson with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson
Posted on 12/09/2004 10:33:02 PM PST by kattracks
WITH the CBS News investigation of Memogate almost done, Mary Mapes, the producer who obtained the fake memos used in Dan Rather's George Bush-bashing report, is fighting to save her job and her reputation. The sleuths at ratherbiased.com report Mapes wrote up a 68-page statement in her own defense and has been lobbying to convince the CBS probers that Rather's exposé on Bush's National Guard service was accurate, even if the documents obtained from a crackpot Texas Democrat were bogus. Rather acted preemptively by quitting as the "Evening News" anchor.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; badhairdecade; mapes; marymapes; maryyourefired; mediabias; planetofthemapes; rathergate; zogbyism
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To: kattracks
THIEF IS TO FENCE AS FORGER IS TO RATHER.
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posted on
12/10/2004 12:28:14 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: ForGod'sSake
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posted on
12/10/2004 12:28:35 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: fish hawk
I could be wrong but in my mind this woman is more guilty than Dan. She's the one that put it all together and presented it to Dan and he was the idiot that bought it. His own Ego and Hate for Bush did him in. She has to go no matter what.You are not wrong. On TV magazine shows, the producers are the ones who do 90% of the work. This was Mapes's baby from start to finish; Dan would never even have heard of the "memos" if it weren't for her.
If this were an episode of "Law & Order," Dan would be the accessory who gets immunity about 20 minutes into the show in exchange for his testimony, while Mapes would be the master criminal, fighting and screaming for the rest of the hour until she finally gets convicted and sent off for 25 to life.
Well, assuming Dan would ever admit to having done anything wrong in the first place, anyway.
To: CurlyDave
I agree. A lot of things
should have happened. He should have been arrested for interfering with a federal election. He and CBS should have been sued for slander by the Bush family. FCC should have revoked CBS' broadcast license for their conspiracy to interfere in the election.
Realistically, though, we're not going to see any of this happen, are we?
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posted on
12/10/2004 12:30:44 AM PST
by
Bonaparte
(Of course, it must look like an accident...)
To: ForGod'sSake
Yikes. I just put my leftover Subway back in the fridge. :-)
To: kattracks
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posted on
12/10/2004 12:53:33 AM PST
by
Guillermo
("But they're European cut vinyl pirate pants" - Rudy Canoza)
To: Hank Rearden
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posted on
12/10/2004 1:21:12 AM PST
by
Jazzman1
To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
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posted on
12/10/2004 1:24:56 AM PST
by
weegee
(WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
To: LdSentinal
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." That's kind of intense, for a father to publicly diss his daughter. Probably didn't go over real well in the Mapes family.
To: kattracks
Ho ho hoAnd a bottom of rum The ax falls today, Mary. |
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posted on
12/10/2004 1:42:32 AM PST
by
Nick Danger
(Want some wood?)
To: kattracks
Boy, in that picture she already has the deer in the headlights look.
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posted on
12/10/2004 1:48:30 AM PST
by
12B
To: 12B
What, me lie?
To: Gum Shoe
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow... Looks like her garden is getting washed out
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posted on
12/10/2004 2:01:18 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: ForGod'sSake
Is she on drugs or just one of the living dead?
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posted on
12/10/2004 2:59:26 AM PST
by
chiefqc
To: kattracks
Mapes wrote up a 68-page statement in her own defense
No doubt on company time using CBS resources.
Mapes, even more than Rather, must go. If not, CBS has zero integrity and believability.
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posted on
12/10/2004 3:02:23 AM PST
by
Beckwith
(John Kerry is now a kept man . . .)
To: kattracks
"Mapes wrote up a 68-page statement in her own defense and has been lobbying to convince the CBS probers that Rather's exposé on Bush's National Guard service was accurate, even if the documents obtained from a crackpot Texas Democrat were bogus."
It's the
Zogby Defense!
To: kattracks
Mapes wrote up a 68-page statement in her own defenseI would LOVE to read this. I'll bet every crackpot who has made the false allegations is cited as "evidence" that the story is true even though the documents are faked.
She'll get canned but have sympathizers aplenty in the media so will continue to try to push her agenda in some other way in some other venue, is my prediction.
To: kattracks
The report's accuracy is exceeded only by her exceptionally good looks.
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posted on
12/10/2004 5:30:29 AM PST
by
bert
(Don't Panic.....)
To: chiefqc
"
Is she on drugs or just one of the living dead?" Answer: Both! She is a poster girl of the Raving Lunatic Lefty Mediots in the Media.
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posted on
12/10/2004 6:04:05 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Writers of hate GW/Christians/ Republicans Articles = GIM=GAY INFECTED MEDIOTS!)
To: kattracks; Travis McGee; weegee; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Danny, quit hogging the trash cans. Move over and make room for Mary! 
After Mary and Dan, who's next at cBS?
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posted on
12/10/2004 6:12:04 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Writers of hate GW/Christians/ Republicans Articles = GIM=GAY INFECTED MEDIOTS!)
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