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'Memogate' scapegoat was a messenger who erred(hysterical read)
Seattle PI ^ | 01/19/05 | ROBERT L. JAMIESON JR.

Posted on 01/19/2005 11:34:27 AM PST by Pikamax

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

By ROBERT L. JAMIESON JR. SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

President Bush takes the oath of office for the second time tomorrow.

When he raises his right hand, I will be thinking about the relationship between top people in power and messengers who have something to say about them.

I'll have journalist Mary Mapes in mind.

Mapes grew up in Western Washington -- in the Skagit Valley -- to a bloodline of strawberry farmers who believed in doing the right thing. Her kin helped maintain a Japanese American family's Mount Vernon-area farm during World War II after Japanese Americans were rounded up and shipped off to internment camps.

She worked for KIRO/7, where she used reportorial punch to fight for Seattle underdogs. Her careful moxie earned her the chance to go to CBS News.

Mapes, 48, is known for having scooped the competition with photos of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prison abuse scandal last year. But her name has become sullied because of her story about Bush's National Guard Service.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dirtyrats; filthyrats; lurch; mapes; radicalleftists; rathergate; rats; seebsnews; sorelosers
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1 posted on 01/19/2005 11:34:28 AM PST by Pikamax
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To: Pikamax
a bloodline of strawberry farmers

Yes...the strawberries...

2 posted on 01/19/2005 11:39:44 AM PST by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: Pikamax
He honestly thinks that Carl Camerons joke statement about John Kerrys cuticles was more damaging than fake documents about the President of the United States?
3 posted on 01/19/2005 11:44:23 AM PST by codercpc
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To: Pikamax

Spun himself right nto the ground knee high with this story.


4 posted on 01/19/2005 11:44:23 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Pikamax
...in the Skagit Valley...

Wouldn't that make her a Skag?

5 posted on 01/19/2005 11:46:30 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" HRC 6/28/2004)
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To: Pikamax

How liberal does one have to be to assert that CBS overreacted by firing her?


6 posted on 01/19/2005 11:50:46 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Pikamax

Mr. ROBERT L. JAMIESON JR., I'd recommend you read the following verrrrry simple explanation of WHY the content of at least one of those memos was inaccurate. Hopefully, it will be a simple enough explanation that even you can follow.



Exposing CBS
By William Campenni Published January 18, 2005
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050117-100017-7792r


7 posted on 01/19/2005 11:51:06 AM PST by Maria S
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To: NativeNewYorker

LOL!!!!


8 posted on 01/19/2005 11:51:11 AM PST by investigateworld (Babies= A sure sign He hasn't given up on mankind!)
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To: Pikamax
Her kin helped maintain a Japanese American family's Mount Vernon-area farm during World War II after Japanese Americans were rounded up and shipped off to internment camps.

Is this supposed to solidify Mary Mapes' liberal bonafides? First, she wasn't born yet, so how can she get credit for this? Second, it was that paragon of liberal virtue, FDR, that imprisoned the Japanese-American's in the first place. So what does that make the Mapes family, politically speaking?

9 posted on 01/19/2005 11:59:05 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: NonValueAdded
...in the Skagit Valley...

Wouldn't that make her a Skag?

How about a "Skag-it"

10 posted on 01/19/2005 12:00:36 PM PST by RJL
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"Exposing CBS"

Thanks for the link. Simple and sweet; all the things Ms. Mapes isn't.


11 posted on 01/19/2005 12:02:23 PM PST by Socratic (Ignorant and free? It's not to be! - T. Jefferson (paraphrase))
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To: Pikamax
In the disturbing fallout of the scandal, key questions have gotten lost.
Were the documents forgeries? Were the contents of what the documents purported to say real? Did Bush have strings pulled in order to keep him from harm's way?


I feel sorry for this sap. His head is so far up his A$$ that I wonder how he can see without a window in his stomach.
12 posted on 01/19/2005 12:12:26 PM PST by Jaysun (If you disagree with me it's a clear indication that you're wrong.)
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To: NonValueAdded
Wouldn't that make her a Skag?

Mapes has any number of traits that qualify her for that title.

13 posted on 01/19/2005 12:16:48 PM PST by An American In Dairyland
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To: RJL

A Strawberry Skag-it??


14 posted on 01/19/2005 12:16:58 PM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: Tallguy
Is this supposed to solidify Mary Mapes' liberal bonafides? First, she wasn't born yet, so how can she get credit for this?

Since she was not born, one can make the assumption that perhaps it was her father who did the good deed. The father who hasn't spoken to her in years and describes her as a crazed feminist who will do anything to advance her ideology.

15 posted on 01/19/2005 12:17:32 PM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Jaysun

"Did Bush have strings pulled in order to keep him from harm's way?"

Even if this was true, wouldn't that just be the same thing Clinton did? Why don't liberals ever remember?


16 posted on 01/19/2005 12:18:30 PM PST by Spok
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To: Pikamax

She was working on the GW/National Guard story for over 4 years !!


17 posted on 01/19/2005 12:20:13 PM PST by lonerepubinma
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To: Jaysun

"I wonder how he can see without a window in his stomach."

I saw a (live) cow once that had a window in it's stomach. They had cut away part of the flesh and but a sort of "window" in and you could see all the grossness moving as it chewed and all that...yucky...maybe that was this guy?


18 posted on 01/19/2005 12:21:28 PM PST by melbell (There are 10 types of people in the world...those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
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To: Ditto

Great tagline!


19 posted on 01/19/2005 12:22:32 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: melbell
I saw a (live) cow once that had a window in it's stomach. They had cut away part of the flesh and but a sort of "window" in and you could see all the grossness moving as it chewed and all that...yucky...maybe that was this guy?

Where on earth did you see something like that, a carnival side show? I wonder how long they were able to keep it alive........
20 posted on 01/19/2005 12:43:53 PM PST by Jaysun (If you disagree with me it's a clear indication that you're wrong.)
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