I'm no fan of Mapes, but I'm happy she's not allowing herself to be the fall-girl for Dan Rather.
She's not the fall girl; she IS the liar.
Are you kidding?
She is defending rather to the hilt with her obviously intentional lies that the memos are "real".
She was in it up to her eyeballs. At least as far as Danny-boy was, and probably deeper. She was the one that ran down all the fake leads. That's why she was fired outright, and not offered any kind of severence package like the other two. Odds are about even that she was behind the whole thing, or was at least the one in direct contact with the Kerry campaign and/or DNC to propogate the false story.
Fall-Girl?? Are you insane??? Mapes spent 5 years searching for dirt, lied thru her teeth when she kept coming up empty and you call her a fall girl??