Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers and MSM in Upcoming Book

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

[dila813]

the documents were fake but the story was real crap.

eat it and die, go sell it to the Terrorists, they will believe anything.

[Veloxherc]

"...and everything else was liberal and unfair."

At least she got that right.

[indcons]

Note to Mapes: All your panic attacks are belong to us!!

[fabriclady]

Boo-Hoo
Poor little Mary, spent her life lying, spent 5 years building lies on President Bush, in the end lost it all. Having panic attacks because her lies were exposed.

Awwwww Poor little Mary

[Renfield]

http://www.engrish.com/recent_detail.php?imagename=ok-donkey.jpg&category=Clothing&date=2005-08-26

[doug from upland]

Oh, my. I don't know if we'll be able to survive. Please don't hurt us, Mary.

My goodness is she ever in denial.

[Rudder]

...there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair.

Well, she's learned something from the experience.

[backhoe]

-60 Minutes to Infamy- those forged memos and The Shot Heard Round the World--

-Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media--

[Carolinamom]

Can you post a pic of Mapes' book? The cover has a misspelling of PAJAMAHADEEN!

[backhoe]

Can you post a pic of Mapes' book?

Weirdly enough, I can't find a graphic- they seem to have been pulled...

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The Case of the Missing Mapes

Posted by Matthew Sheffield on October 6, 2005 - 11:08.

After initially putting the first chapter of fired CBS producer Mary Mapes's book, Truth and Duty, on its web site, Amazon.com has apparently pulled the plug on the enterprise. Visitors to the online book retailer can no longer read the excerpt as it no longer shows up in listings for the print or audio versions of the book.

Was the excerpt yanked because of the several objectively incorrect assertions it contained, and the subsequent blog firestorm their exposition caused? Only Amazon or Mapes's publisher, St. Martin’s Press knows for sure.

To read an extensive excerpt from the book as quoted on NewsBusters, click here

[Carolinamom]

Here's another weird fact about her book, TRUTH and DUTY: Barnes and Noble has a pic of it, but the original cover has been changed and "Pajamahadeen" is not there! (The first cover...saw it myself...had the word spelled "Pajamhadeen".

Apparently, instead of the book being a bombshell, it's bombed. Good riddance, I say.

[an amused spectator]

Just a heads-up to remind people that we may have a lot of work to do yet when it comes to this book. As is well-known here on the Free Republic, when a good little Leftist soldier like Mary Mapes takes a machine gun burst or sixty "Going Over The Top" against the Evil Right Wing And/Or George W. "NaziMoron" Bush, the Leftist publishing industry sets up a little recompense in the form of a "book deal". While nobody in their right minds would buy this drivel, the taxpayers (and that's you and me, buckos) pick up the tab for Mary Had A Little Lie's post-traumatic stress pension.

I'm going to be on the lookout in my area for this heap of trash and will make the necessary adjustments to bring the fiction in line with the record. ;-)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22truth+and+duty%22+and+%22mapes%22+and+%22library%22&btnG=Google+Search

[an amused spectator]

Media Shenanigans and Media Schadenfreude alert!

Mapes gets yanked at Amazon! - but her "book deal" is still in the pipeline...

[Morgan's Raider]

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."

`According to Bernard Goldberg, Mary Mapes has been pursuing this story for 5 yeats at the time, predating W's first election. As Goldberg said, this went far past the level of investigative reporting into the realm of an obsession.

[drt1]

I assume the purchase of this junk by thousands of Public Libraries throughout the country is the taxpayer subsidy you are referring to. While I certainly don't like ANY money to go to Mapes for this self-serving, pathetic and corrosive drivel, I don't see how it can be avoided short of some form of censorship. The Libraries are full of junk books and, unfortunately, this one will just add to that pile. :-(

[an amused spectator]

`According to Bernard Goldberg, Mary Mapes has been pursuing this story for 5 yeats at the time, predating W's first election. As Goldberg said, this went far past the level of investigative reporting into the realm of an obsession.

Isn't "stalking" a crime in a whole bunch of jurisdictions? If this doesn't come under the definition of stalking, I don't know what does.

[Colonial Warrior]

Also better known as...

[righttackle44]

"Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers. . . ."

Not NEARLY as hard as they hit HER,
I'll bet.

[an amused spectator]

I assume the purchase of this junk by thousands of Public Libraries throughout the country is the taxpayer subsidy you are referring to.

Yep. That's how the game works. Bill & Hillary's fictional "non-fiction" works were picked up AT FULL PRICE by the nation's libraries. The books were bios, dontchaknow, and "historically important"...

[ConservativeGreek]

we may have a lot of work to do

Yes we do.
Keep us informed.