Posted on 10/07/2005 12:03:12 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
NEW YORK Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post might have a bigger scoop than he thought. In his online column this morning, as a final, almost throwaway item, he quoted from the first chapter of the forthcoming book by former CBS producer Mary Mapes that covers, among other things, her controversial experience with the Dan Rather/Bush/National Guard “60 Minutes” segment.
Among the excerpts: "I was incredulous that the mainstream press -- a group I'd been a part of for nearly twenty-five years and thought I knew -- was falling for the blogs' critiques. I was shocked at the ferocity of the attack. I was terrified at CBS's lack of preparedness in defending us. I was furious at the unrelenting attacks on Dan. And I was helpless to do anything about any of it."
He said he had drawn the brief excerpts from the first chapter, which had been posted (as sometimes happens with new books) at amazon.com. He also provided a link. But the link goes to a dead Amazon page. In fact, the book (which is due out on Nov. 8) seems to have disappeared completely from Amazon, except for its audio version (Mapes narrates herself).
Barnes and Noble still has the book, which is cazled “Truth and Duty, “ online, with the Nov. 8 pub date (and no excerpt). The book is still featured at the site of the publisher, St. Martin's Press, which promises an excerpt-but not until pub day.
Calls to a publicist at St. Martin's have not yet been returned.
One clue in the mystery is that Kurtz writes that he had been meaning to get to this item “for some time,” so perhaps the excerpt got pulled a few days ago. But it doesn't explain why the entire book has gone missing at Amazon.
Among the excerpts quoted by Kurtz:
-- “And right now, on the Internet, it appeared everything was falling apart. I had a real physical reaction as I read the angry online accounts. It was something between a panic attack, a heart attack, and a nervous breakdown. My palms were sweaty; I gulped and tried to breathe. . . . The little girl in me wanted to crouch and hide behind the door and cry my eyes out."
--"Faxing changes a document in so many ways, large and small, that analyzing a memo that had been faxed -- -in some cases not once, but twice -- -was virtually impossible. The faxing destroyed the subtle arcs and lines in the letters. The characters bled into each other. The details of how the typed characters failed to line up perfectly inside each word were lost."
--"To these people, there was no such thing as unbiased mainstream reporting, certainly not when it came to criticism of the president, no matter how tepid. To them, there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair."
Barnes and Noble still has the book, which is cazled “Truth and Duty, “ online, with the Nov. 8 pub date (and no excerpt). The book is still featured at the site of the publisher, St. Martin's Press, which promises an excerpt-but not until pub day.
Calls to a publicist at St. Martin's have not yet been returned.
One clue in the mystery is that Kurtz writes that he had been meaning to get to this item “for some time,” so perhaps the excerpt got pulled a few days ago. But it doesn't explain why the entire book has gone missing at Amazon.
Someone needs to get in touch with Editor & Publisher and inform that that the REASON why first the excerpt and then the ENTIRE book was removed from Amazon is BECAUSE the excerpt was satirized in the DUmmie FUnnies. Remember, shortly after this blog came out, the excerpt was removed from Amazon and then shortly after that the entire book was removed from that site.
Mary Mapes trying to sell a book quick and get her money before she's fallen off the map completely.
Probably seems credible to those who are utterly ignorant of FAX protocols.
The dummy got that much right.
Mary Mapes pushed a forgery.
She got caught.
She got fired.
She cried.
Being punished for her fraud makes her a "victim," she claims. The world should feel sorry for her, she begs.
I doubt that Democratic political campaigns hire her to write any of their speeches anytime soon, though.
After all, Mary Mapes is damaged goods. Getting caught is one of the worst imaginable sins for a Leftist...
I just went to amazon and found it there. Took a few seconds to download, but it's there.
mapes is a buffoon... she is going to use the right-wing conspiracy schtick to prop up her crappy ability at doing due diligence on a story that was A) fabricated and B) not news worthy...
and now she is going to claim that the right wing brought her down...? well, sorry mary, maybe if you stopped playing the victim for a change and look at your inability to ferret a bogus news stroy from a bogus source, then you wouldn't be in this little pickle now would you...?
i swear these liberal morons get tiresome the more and more they bleat...
But she does not express remorse for basing her story on forged documents.
Actually, the physical act of scanning introduces irregularities that can make a word processed document look less perfect and more like a typewritten one.
It does not explain the fact that the CBS defenders have never produced any document from the 1970s that matches the Bush document. Or any typewriter from the 1970s that can match it.
Nope. ONLY the audio book is there. The hardcover book itself is GONE.
Thought I was learning a new word there but it wouldn't google. A puzzling naming of something I figured was the definition.
Crouch and hide because you knew your ass was dead meat you phony liberal liar
Sounds like she is complaining about a "high-tech lynching". Where have I heard that phrase before?
She needs to try to shift the blame away from herself. Because it was fake but accurate.
Dang those bloggers who ruined her story </sarcasm>
You mean faxing a document doesn't change the font from Fixed Courier to Proportional Times New Roman with the same word wrap as MS Word and the the fake kerning used by TrueType?
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