Fired CBS News Producer Unrepentant (ABC Mary Mapes Interview)

ABC News ^ | 11/8/05 | BRIAN ROSS

[frankjr]

Mary should team up with O.J. to find the real memo writers.

[frankjr]

[Izzy Dunne]

I wish to God I hadn't done it, because I think it was so wildly misinterpreted.

That's right, it wasn't a mistake, it wasn't wrong, it's just that YOU DANG PEOPLE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT !

[tobyhill]

"She tells Ross that she had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents before including them in the "60 Minutes II" report."

Wow, so the new media standards are now official? I've got some Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame memos.

[JamesP81]

no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."

Uhh....Ms Mapes, the burden is on you to prove the documents *are* authentic. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.

[Bigh4u2]

""no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."

You've got it backwards Mary.

You didn't prove the documents WERE authentic.

And still can't to this day.

[Bigh4u2]

Beat me by 16 seconds.

[thulldud]

Mary should team up with O.J. to find the real memo writers.

Think she'll find them at the 19th hole?

[blackie]

When liberal, jerk-weed, moonbats are caught lying ~ what do they do?

They keep on lying.

[steve-b]

"no one has proved that the documents were not authentic"

No one has proved that Ross Perot is not a space alien.

[wallcrawlr]

In her first interview...,

ummm...who wanted to hear from this battleax again?

[camle]

does she have a job now? how is she keeping herself in caviar?

[theDentist]

She tells Ross that she had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents before including them in the "60 Minutes II" report.

I can see the mouths of editors and publishers across the nation just drop when they read that line. And then they lean over andspeed dial their lawyers to arrange another little talk to their reporters about the legal ramifications of words like "libel", "defamation", "slander", and "absence of malice".

[t2buckeye]

"no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."...

Actually, they HAVE!! That's the reason she was FIRED!!!! When you say documents are from the 1970s and they can be shown to be word processed in Microsoft Word, a type that was NOT AROUND in the 70s...they are NOT AUTHENTIC!!

But does the interviewer question her on that? Of COURSE not! She is not challenged, so for those who don't know or who have forgotten, the lie can be passed on until they revise history!

[roses of sharon]

ABC CHIEF Investigative Reporter interviewing a political operative for the DNC, a lowly producer, selling a book?

No wonder America has no more serious News orgs, news bureaus, or reporters.

They are all busy campaigning for Saddam and Son.

[robowombat]

A century ago using dubious documents and unsubstantiated rumors was common in the press. Back then it was standard to caveat such curious items as 'important if true'.

[KC_Conspirator]

In her first interview since being fired, former CBS News producer Mary Mapes maintains that her controversial "60 Minutes II" story on President Bush's National Guard service was "true" and that "no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."...

These documents werr forgeries through and through, and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather got caught trying to foist this big lie upon the American people.

None of their story was corraborated. Their research was shoddy and their references unchecked. This was low propaganda of the lowest order and they got caught. She's lucky the only thing she lost was her job. She should be sued and have her assets seized.

[Juan Medén]

Proverbs 30:20 "This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I've done nothing wrong.'"

[MarkL]

She tells Ross that she had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents before including them in the "60 Minutes II" report. "I don't think that's the standard," she said. ...

This is right out of the John Landis movie, "Amazon Women on the Moon." There's a "sketch" where there's one of those investigative TV show that uses the line, "Using undiscovered evidence," they "prove" that Jack the Ripper was actually Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster!

Mark