To: RatherBiased.com
Only Amazon or Mapes's publisher, St. Martins Press knows for sure. Well if she has too, Mapes can always....well you know....fake it.
2 posted on
10/05/2005 7:46:07 PM PDT by
Doctor Raoul
(If Osama Was A Piece Of Ass - Clinton Would Have Nailed Him)
To: RatherBiased.com
Yeah right in the first chapter she brags about how great and thorough her fact checking is, then she says buckhead posted his debunking of her story before it even aired on TV. He posted hours afterwards. Gross error right in the beginning of the book that a quick check would have revealed.
To: PJ-Comix
I think you can claim at least an assist on this one.
4 posted on
10/05/2005 7:48:29 PM PDT by
Slings and Arrows
(It took 6 grand juries to indict Tom Delay. That's 5 more than it takes to indict a ham sandwich.)
To: RatherBiased.com; Buckhead
From the link to the incorrect assertions:
That first entry, posted by a longtime Republican political activist lawyer who used the name Buckhead, set the tone for what was to come. There was no analysis of what the documents actually said, no work done to look at the content, no comparison with the official record, no phone calls made to check the facts of the story, nothing beyond a cursory and politically motivated examination of the typeface.
So... according to the now fired Mapes, all stories should have their content thoroughly discussed, whether they are made up or not. In the old days that was called mud-slinging. Sounds like something right tout of the DNC play book... Investigate because of the seriousness of the charge, who cares if there is no evidence.
Bill Clinton was charged by a woman with rape. I don't recall the MSM or democrats screaming for an investigation.
5 posted on
10/05/2005 7:51:48 PM PDT by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: RatherBiased.com
... Mary Mapes's book, Truth and Duty... The title of her book is "Truth and Duty". I think that right there is the problem with the left-wing MSM. It's largely composed of zealots who think they're on some kind of mission from God to bring The Truth to the ignorant masses.
Newsflash, Mary: All I want from you is the news. Not the truth, the news. I'll decide what the truth is.
6 posted on
10/05/2005 8:00:33 PM PDT by
Starve The Beast
(I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
To: RatherBiased.com
Saint Martin's Press can kiss this bookshop goodbye; the sales critter was less than happy to see us go.
Mapes' excerpt was just too much.
10 posted on
10/05/2005 8:21:47 PM PDT by
kingu
(Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
To: RatherBiased.com
I was told that the first posting claiming the documents were fakes had gone up on Free Republic before our broadcast was even off the air! How had the Web site even gotten copies of the documents? We hadnt put them online until later. Man, this woman's full of crap! Just from memory, I know the above is 100% wrong, because I was on that thread that night. Buckhead's posting was shortly after it first aired.
Nice fact-checking, Mopes/Dopes - you moron!! Just as diligent as you were with the original fake documents. You, Rathernot - the whole gang of leftist liars, you can all just kiss my ass.
C?BS!
12 posted on
10/05/2005 8:26:52 PM PDT by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: RatherBiased.com
My favorite excerpt was how she heard it was being discussed on obscure websites she had never heard of before, such as Free Republic and Powerline, so she ran right over to Daily Kos and checked it out....
13 posted on
10/05/2005 8:30:58 PM PDT by
I still care
(America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
To: Buckhead
14 posted on
10/05/2005 8:34:44 PM PDT by
GOPJ
(Mapes isn't stuck on stupid, she invented it.)
To: RatherBiased.com
17 posted on
10/05/2005 8:39:44 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Instead we got a Dem approved Bush crony. :-()
To: RatherBiased.com
They still don't get it.
The docs were fake but the story was real matra.
They could feel it was true. Idiots
Just like the coverage of N.O.
18 posted on
10/05/2005 8:52:51 PM PDT by
dila813
To: RatherBiased.com
Perhaps she had a physical reaction, and was gasping and gulping for air, sweating and shaking, and checking out websites full of hyperconservative vitriol. Perhaps she recoiled in horror and shock at all the refutation and cruel mockery of her first chapter, as if a right wing political jihad had been born, with her as the target!!!
Or maybe her publisher did.
19 posted on
10/05/2005 9:15:21 PM PDT by
Buckhead
To: RatherBiased.com
Our work was being compared to that of Jayson Blair, the discredited New York Times reporter who had fabricated and plagiarized stories. That would be me. :-)
27 posted on
10/05/2005 9:46:49 PM PDT by
Jeff Gordon
(Lt. Gen. Russel Honore to MSM: "You are stuck on stupid. Over.")
To: RatherBiased.com
The book is no longer on Amazon at all this morning! (Thurs)
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32 posted on
10/06/2005 7:19:30 AM PDT by
knuthom
To: RatherBiased.com
The ONLY place where you can read the ENTIRE Mary Mapes book excerpt is in the
DUmmie FUnnies where it has been preserved for posterity...and comedy.
34 posted on
10/06/2005 2:34:46 PM PDT by
PJ-Comix
(Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
To: RatherBiased.com
The audio tape version is still up
here. No excerpts though.
39 posted on
10/06/2005 2:50:31 PM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: RatherBiased.com; PJ-Comix
The headline for the screed at St Martin's:
"TRUTH AND DUTY is the always fast, sometimes furious, and often unexpectedly funny story behind the collapse of one of America's great institutions."
Did you write this, PJ?
45 posted on
10/06/2005 3:28:51 PM PDT by
decal
(Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
To: RatherBiased.com
THE MAPES
OF RATHER MARY: "It don't matter. I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where--wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fax so hungry journalists can be duped, I'll be there. Wherever there's a blog beatin' up a lib, I'll be there. I'll be in the way DUmmies yell when they're mad--an' I'll be in the way FReepers laugh when they're amused an' they know the moonbats are barkin'. An' when the people are watchin' the stuff we make up, an' believin' the stories we report, I'll be there too."
DAN: "I don't understan' it, Mary."
MARY: "Me neither, Dan, but jus' sump'n I've been thinkin' about."
48 posted on
10/07/2005 4:46:07 PM PDT by
Charles Henrickson
(Crouching Producer, Hidden Drama Queen)
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