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CBS Fires Mapes
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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:02:45 AM PST by 1Old Pro

Report just issues, mapes finally fired


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
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To: BulletBobCo
That is just cruel, you should be ashamed of yourself. Apologize to that poor monkey for that insult.:)
201 posted on 01/10/2005 8:07:02 AM PST by sticker
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To: BulletBobCo
That is just cruel, you should be ashamed of yourself. Apologize to that poor monkey for that insult.:)
202 posted on 01/10/2005 8:07:03 AM PST by sticker
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To: newzjunkey

Hackworth's role in this is thoroughly disgusting.
He declared the documents "genuine."


203 posted on 01/10/2005 8:07:51 AM PST by onyx
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To: Mo1

I didn't know the Kerry camp HAD run the ad--I thought it wasn't run.

THAT corruption should be the subject of an inquiry. Instead, the left is pillorying Armstrong Williams for what was imho a simple mistake.

The left probably calls it moral equivalence.


204 posted on 01/10/2005 8:08:23 AM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Thanks for the link . . . I guess ;-)

They really are delusional -- one claims as self-evidence that cable news is hard right, most of the MSM is right, and CBS is the middle. Oy vey!

205 posted on 01/10/2005 8:09:17 AM PST by maryz
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To: logic
@ important conclusions:

1) They can't admit the documents are forged
2) They can't admit this the motive of the report was to influence an election.

WHY? Because many, many people would go to jail AND it would literally be the END of CBS NEWS.

206 posted on 01/10/2005 8:09:18 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: chiller

So they faked it. Wrong call.

I think it's worse than that:

Mapes stridently believed in both the authenticity of the documents and their content, and, indeed, told the Panel that she still does.

This kind of delusion is pretty instructive. It sounds a lot like VoteFraudInOhioButNotPennsylvania. I wonder if Mapes posts over at DUpeville.

207 posted on 01/10/2005 8:09:33 AM PST by timpad (The Wizard Tim - Keeper of the Holy Hand Grenade, Finder of Obscurata)
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To: RushCrush

I saw the news alert on my PDA; hasta la vista beeyyyyyyyyatchhhhh !!!!


208 posted on 01/10/2005 8:09:35 AM PST by smonk
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To: OXENinFLA

Neither CBS nor presumably its Panel have been able to conclude with absolute certainty whether George W. Bush won Ohio.


209 posted on 01/10/2005 8:09:38 AM PST by Petronski (I'm *not* always cranky.)
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To: 1Old Pro

It may just be the end of CBS News anyway.


210 posted on 01/10/2005 8:10:06 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Lancey Howard
The report is a whitewash.

Still the reality is CBS has been and will continue to fail. It's in their genetic code and their passing is already written in stone.....

211 posted on 01/10/2005 8:10:07 AM PST by cbkaty
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To: 1Old Pro

WHAT WE NEED TO DO....
We need a slush fund here at Free Republic. We could hire a news crew to follow Mapes around like Michael Moore and document her wallowing misery. Just like 60 mins has done for decades. You dont think Foxnews or ABC would play it in a heart beat?


212 posted on 01/10/2005 8:10:20 AM PST by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: onyx

Thanks for that information.


213 posted on 01/10/2005 8:10:38 AM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: mewzilla
It may just be the end of CBS News anyway.

I agree, but if they admitted to the truth, the criminality of all of this, CBS news would be so discredited they would have to cancel/eliminate the news division.

214 posted on 01/10/2005 8:11:54 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
Updated links:

Download PDF FileComplete Independent Panel report on CBS News

Download PDF FileExhibits and Appendices for report

Download PDF FileOfficial CBS News reaction and actions taken
215 posted on 01/10/2005 8:12:06 AM PST by TomGuy (America: Best friend or worst enemy. Choose wisely.)
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To: smonk

I saw the news alert on my PDA; hasta la vista beeyyyyyyyyatchhhhh !!!!

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why am I so giggly about this statment? Maybe 'cause mapes had it coming? lol.


216 posted on 01/10/2005 8:12:40 AM PST by BoBToMatoE
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To: 1Old Pro
You're right. But this is better anyway. If CBS had apologized and/or retracted, they might just have had a snowball's chance in Heck of making it through this.

Not anymore....

217 posted on 01/10/2005 8:13:49 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: MeekOneGOP
The panel said a “myopic zeal” to be the first news organization to broadcast a groundbreaking story about Mr. Bush’s National Guard service....

“....a zealous belief in the truth of the segment seem to have led many to disregard some fundamental journalistic principles, “ the report said.

The piece was aired during a tight and hotly contested presidential race between Mr. Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry. The timing of the story prompted charges of political bias against CBS News.

"....the Panel cannot conclude that a political agenda at 60 Minutes Wednesday drove either the timing of the airing of the segment or its content.”

TRANSLATION: "The panel cannot conclude anything based on what is right before its own stinking eyeballs."

218 posted on 01/10/2005 8:13:56 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Judith Anne
I didn't know the Kerry camp HAD run the ad--I thought it wasn't run.

You know what ... the more I am thinking of it ... it might have been the DNC

I'm still trying to get the brain cells to work

But One thing I am sure of ... there was a commerical that had reference to the 60 Minutes show that aired like 2 days after

219 posted on 01/10/2005 8:14:08 AM PST by Mo1 (Does the distinguished Sen from VT wish to act as our treaty rep. for negotiations with Al Queda?)
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To: OXENinFLA

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220 posted on 01/10/2005 8:15:40 AM PST by Amore (First, let's kill all the lawyers!)
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