I gulped and tried to breathe... i wonder what her mentor the BEAST will have to say about this??? sounds like what it said about SlickWillie in it's own book of lies.
Posted on 10/07/2005 5:16:26 PM PDT by 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."
I gulped and tried to breathe... i wonder what her mentor the BEAST will have to say about this??? sounds like what it said about SlickWillie in it's own book of lies.
Better re-eyeball that earlier post, Ciss.
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The book, one month before published release date, is dropping faster than a bag of dirt. Gotta really be making the publisher happy, what with Amazon pulling the excerpts because of a steady drumbeat of ridicule on the 'net.
BWHA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!
even the skanks Father thinks she's a POS!!!
http://www.theweekly.com/news/2004/September/17/Rathergate.html
But Mapes' father sees a political agenda behind his daughter's work. Don Mapes, 76, was a recent guest on a radio talk show hosted by John Carlson on KVI in Seattle.
He said, "I'm really ashamed of what my daughter has become. She's a typical liberal. She went into journalism with an ax to grind, and that was to promote radical feminism."
He confessed to being disappointed in his daughter's role in the controversy. He said, "When I heard about 60 Minutes, I suspected she would be the producer of the show."
In an interview with Talon News, Don Mapes said his suspicion was because that he believed, "Dan Rather and she have been working on this ever since Bush was elected."
In commenting on the Wednesday's 60 Minutes show, he said, "It was a farce, it was fraud. I'm sorry as a father that my daughter was the producer of it."
His fatherly instinct showed through when he said, "To give her the benefit of the doubt, I believe she has been had."
But he also chastised his daughter for being intellectually dishonest.
He said, "She ought to look closer at George Soros or Michael Moore."
Mary Mapes declined several opportunities to comment for this article.
I've heard that Amazon wasn't supposed to post the excerpt until the release date and now Amazon is in the doghouse.
PJ-Comix's brutally funny comments on Mapes' book.DUmmie FUnnies 10-04-05 (Mary Mapes Spins Fiction---Book Excerpt)
Sounds like a quote from DU to me.
Golly, does that mean any one of them can reproduce the memo on a Selectic and give it to CBS* and call it truth? Damn, wouldn't surprise me one bit.
*CBS stands for Controlled By Satan.
Rather and Mapes - Thanks to FreeRepublic in the toilet. Flush.
My, my, my, my, my! Poor little self-centered victim, she should go on tour with mama sheehan. The Moonbat Girl Tour!
Cindie
If so, they would have done it by now.
She expected the media to come to her defense because she's one of them, even if she was wrong. Says a lot.
Hey Mary, try faxing your book to yourself.
If you keep trying, it might change from a whiny pack of excuses for getting caught to a great opus of ultimate victim hood.
Remember Hillary and "gulping for air" when she supposedly discovered Bill's indiscretion with Monica?
"Hmmmm, that sounds just like Hillary's reaction when she found out about Monica. Does Mapes use the same ghostwriter?"
I see you got there before me!
CBS worked hard to get a reputation as a biased liberal network that cannot be trusted. Likewise Fox (maybe not as fair and balanced as they like to think) is simply miles ahead of CBS in the credibility of their news reporting. Their is simply no comparison.
CBS News is dying and it will not be mourned on FR.
Fox is on a roll becuase they are interesting, report the news with only a slight bend to the right and they have the best looking gals.
I sure hope Buckhead and Howlin make it into the book, that would be priceless.
I would also like to see her quote being ZOTTED! LOL
"To them, there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair."
And her point is?
What will happen to her little mind in that little pointy head when she realizes we think Fox has a bit too much tolerance for the socialism impaired?
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