Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers and MSM in Upcoming Book

Editor & Publisher ^ | October 07, 2005 2:15 PM ET | E&P Staff

[JustAnotherOkie]

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 called “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."

[JustAnotherOkie]

"To these people" she says WE ARE THESE PEOPLE.

This made my day.

[Charles Henrickson]

MAPING.

[FlingWingFlyer]

"Truth" and Doody? What kind of title is that for a book written by a Liberal liar whose own father thinks she's a freak.

[planekT]

Eat crap and die Mapes. All your memos are belong to Buckhead.

[drt1]

"And I was helpless to do anything about any of it."

Memo to Ms. Mapes: It is almost impossible to defend a lie, especially one so crude and obvious as the memo you tried to foist on us. Give it up already!

[Stepan12]

She should just write MWAAAAAAHHH and be done with it. It would save a lot of trees in the making of the book.

[MarkeyD]

She's blaming faxing for the the exact location of each single character on the page mapping directly to that created by MS Word?

What a moron.

[neb52]

“And right now, on the Internet, it appeared everything was falling apart. I had a real physical reaction as I read the angry on line 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."

How such a fragile person gained a position of management is mind boggling.

[dead]

“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."

That should be put to music. Party music.

Something along the lines of Buster Poindexter's "Hot Hot Hot" so we can conga line around the internet in party hats.

[Shortstop7]

“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."

Sounds like somebody got "busted"...heehee.

[JustAnotherOkie]

Didn't like getting caught in a lie. What a skank, probably has yellow front teeth.

[Doctor Raoul]

Mary Mapes is no Mike Wallace. Mike would have found out who Lucy Ramirez was. Mapes is a hack. Her own "examiners" said so. The one she put on said he didn't do documents, only signatures. Mapes hired this guy, whose only claim to handwriting fame was an article about how to tell if a woman is good in the sack from her penmanship.

[cincinnati65]

--"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."

Didn't someone follow up on Buckhead's work and copy the document, like 50 times or something, making a copy of a copy, and so forth? Seems like I remember that happening at the time. The result was that there was not enough of a change to amount to the discrepancies in the font type.

Nice try, Mary. Repeat the lie long enough, and maybe some poor schlubs will believe it.

[Duffboy]

Mapes is just another moron....however many liberals will
believe her whining. The more she whines the more I love it.

[airborne]

A badge of honor!

[dead]

The faxing destroyed the subtle arcs and lines in the letters.

Faxing a document many times can turn a typewritten 1973 memo into something that looks exactly like it was created in Word2000 and printed on a laser printer.

It's just weird.

[Colonial Warrior]

Mapes is just a liberal member of...

Reap and sew!

[JustAnotherOkie]

Mary's probably not getting her I's dotted and T's crossed very often any more.

[Doctor Raoul]

--"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."

So now it's a crummy document, but when she used it, it was iron clad...

[Paleo Conservative]

Wow! It's really tearing up the sales charts at Amazon.com.

Amazon.com Sales Rank:
Today: #255,086 in Books
Yesterday: #155,355 in Books