absolutely... a morbid obsession at that!!! and i hope she relives her nightmare every night for the rest of her wretched life.
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."
This is stunningly ignorant. I wonder if she really believes it. I tend toward thinking that statements like this are deliberate jabs at Fox News (or talk radio or the Internet -- take your pick), just a bunch of lefties striking out, but you have to consider the possibility that she really believes this, and that just floors me! How can you be at the top of your field in TV journalism and so woefully misunderstand the world around you?
Go, Pajamahadeem!
Yes, thank God for your nephew's
safe return.
"I get the feeling that outside of FR nobody really knows who she is. :P"
Yes, they do. She's the-- She's the--
Who is she again?
"Remember Hillary and "gulping for air" when she supposedly discovered Bill's indiscretion with Monica?"
Wow! And to think, she wasn't even covered by national health insurance.
Obviously, she's related to Kathleen Blanco.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Poor baby!
absolutely... a morbid obsession at that!!! and i hope she relives her nightmare every night for the rest of her wretched life.
How such a fragile person gained a position of management is mind boggling.
That's just typical left-wing feminist behaivior.
When things are going their way, they loudly boast that anything a man can do, they can do better.
However, when the going gets tough, they immediately shift into fragile victim mode and swoon into a fainting couch.
You'd think Monica wrote this...
My nephew is one of the many heroes of his generation.
And if instead of just telling the truth about her, freepers had forged documents telling lies about her? How would that effect her?
She can dish it out...
bump
iiiidiot!
Yes, Mary, I'm the new McCarthyite, and you are still the anointed one. If you are seen as a crypto-communinist, it must be some sinister plot, not your own actions that led to your downfall.
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