[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.

[RedMonqey]

"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."


She shoots her own foot with this lousy excuse.


If it is a faxed document and faxing detorts the document, then you cannot say it is real or not. It'sa FAX and therefore open to being distorted from the beginning.

She's a dog chasing her own tail.


She and Dan let their own BIASES write this "story" not the facts and they got CAUGHT.