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Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers and MSM in Upcoming Book
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| October 07, 2005 2:15 PM ET
| E&P Staff
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."
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: danrather; election2004; mapes; marymapes; rathergate; yourefiredmapes
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To: JustAnotherOkie
the documents were fake but the story was real crap.
eat it and die, go sell it to the Terrorists, they will believe anything.
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posted on
10/07/2005 7:08:37 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: JustAnotherOkie
"...and everything else was liberal and unfair."
At least she got that right.
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posted on
10/07/2005 7:18:10 PM PDT
by
Veloxherc
(To go up pull back, to go down pull back all the way.)
To: JustAnotherOkie
Note to Mapes: All your panic attacks are belong to us!!
63
posted on
10/07/2005 7:25:04 PM PDT
by
indcons
(Please FReepmail PhiKapMom and Indcons if you want on/off the Norman Bombing ping list.)
To: Charles Henrickson
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
To: JustAnotherOkie
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posted on
10/07/2005 7:39:11 PM PDT
by
Renfield
(If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
To: JustAnotherOkie
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.
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posted on
10/07/2005 7:43:25 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: JustAnotherOkie
...there was Fox News and everything else -- and everything else was liberal and unfair.Well, she's learned something from the experience.
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posted on
10/07/2005 11:57:47 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: JustAnotherOkie; All
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posted on
10/08/2005 2:45:46 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: backhoe
Can you post a pic of Mapes' book? The cover has a misspelling of PAJAMAHADEEN!
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posted on
10/08/2005 3:11:52 AM PDT
by
Carolinamom
(Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning......Psalm 30:5)
To: Carolinamom
Can you post a pic of Mapes' book?Weirdly enough, I can't find a graphic- they seem to have been pulled...
Home » blogs » Matthew Sheffield's blog
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. Martins Press knows for sure.
To read an extensive excerpt from the book as quoted on NewsBusters, click here
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posted on
10/08/2005 3:52:53 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: backhoe
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.
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:05:34 AM PDT
by
Carolinamom
(Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning......Psalm 30:5)
To: JustAnotherOkie; Charles Henrickson; PJ-Comix; Doctor Raoul; FlingWingFlyer; planekT; drt1; ...
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
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posted on
10/08/2005 8:34:52 AM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
To: JustAnotherOkie; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; ...
Media Shenanigans and Media Schadenfreude alert!
Mapes gets yanked at Amazon! - but her "book deal" is still in the pipeline...
73
posted on
10/08/2005 8:36:52 AM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
To: Chode
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.
To: 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. 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. :-(
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posted on
10/08/2005 8:53:50 AM PDT
by
drt1
To: Morgan's Raider
`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.
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posted on
10/08/2005 8:56:17 AM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
To: backhoe
Also better known as...
77
posted on
10/08/2005 8:56:38 AM PDT
by
Colonial Warrior
("I've entered the snapdragon part of my life....Part of me has snapped...the rest is draggin'.")
To: JustAnotherOkie
"Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers. . . ."
Not NEARLY as hard as they hit HER,
I'll bet.
78
posted on
10/08/2005 8:57:43 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: drt1
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"...
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posted on
10/08/2005 8:59:01 AM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
To: an amused spectator
we may have a lot of work to do
Yes we do.
Keep us informed.
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