[PJ-Comix]

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.

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.

[Siena Dreaming]

Mary Mapes trying to sell a book quick and get her money before she's fallen off the map completely.

[fso301]

"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."

Probably seems credible to those who are utterly ignorant of FAX protocols.

[HEY4QDEMS]

[martin_fierro]

To them, there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair.

The dummy got that much right.

[Southack]

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...

[sarasota]

I just went to amazon and found it there. Took a few seconds to download, but it's there.

[Rummyfan]

"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."

But she does not express remorse for basing her story on forged documents.

[Jim_Curtis]

the book, which is cazled “Truth and Duty, “

Thought I was learning a new word there but it wouldn't google. A puzzling naming of something I figured was the definition.

[jim_trent]

Sounds like she is complaining about a "high-tech lynching". Where have I heard that phrase before?

[contemplator]

Hasn't she ever heard the expression to the effect that "It's better to keep silent and let people suspect you are an idiot than to open your mouth and confirm it"? (Yeah, I paraphrased it)

[conservative in nyc]

Kurtz' column is here. It's mainly about how headlines in the Rove grand jury story have been slanted. The Mapes stuff is near the end. One excerpt:

What about the suspect memos by that long-dead Guard official? "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."

The problem is that three of CBS's own document experts later said they could not have authenticated those memos, and two had warned the network about that.

Mapes on her critics: "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."

Mapes on the MSM: "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."

Problem: Lots of MSM outlets, including The Post, did their own reporting and concluded the memos were highly suspect at best.

[RasterMaster]

Mary Mapes...the queen of sour grapes.

[Paradox]

You just KNOW she lurks here, probably swearing under her breath, eyes wide, fingers typing erratically, as she mutters "I'll get you, you buckheaded bastards, I'll get you yet..."

[laredo44]

"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."

Oh please! You had the entire CBS news apparatus behind you and Dan. All you needed were some reasonable explanations -- which of course you didn't have.

The truth is you weren't attacked at all. Some of the MSM reported a tiny fraction of the other side and it seemed like an all out attack. Dan Rather needed to grow some but he couldn't and didn't.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Among the excerpts quoted by Kurtz:

-- “...on the Internet, it appeared everything was falling apart. I had a real physical reaction ..... 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,...."

..good job Mapes

...."analyzing a memo that had been faxed....was virtually impossible."

[alnick]

"I gulped and tried to breathe."

Sounds like a similar reaction to what Hillary said she had when she learned Bubba had done the nasty with Monica.

[Republican Red]

"To them, there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair."

I admit I am one of "them".

[conservative in nyc]

Fellow digital McCarthyites and hyperconservatives:

As a "hyperconservative" who has "manipulated the Internet" (by googling her name and book title), the first chapter of the Mapes book has now been embargoed until November 8. This is probably because Mary Mapes has promised to appear on 20/20 and Larry King Live.

She's being represented by Leigh Bureau. Their website promises the book will offer "groundbreaking new information on Bush's Guard career" and "An expose of the emergence of “digital McCarthysim” as conservative bloggers manipulate the internet."

Sounds like Howlin is going to be posting another live thread or two in November as Mapes smears Free Republic on air.

[Rockitz]

More like "Sleuth and Snooty"?

[Starve The Beast]

"... The little girl in me wanted to crouch and hide behind the door and cry my eyes out."

How about this, instead: "The insect hiding under a rock in me wanted to scurry from the terrible, terrible sunlight".