Posted on 11/08/2005 1:45:17 PM PST by frankjr
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."...
In her interview with ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, to be broadcast Wednesday morning on "Good Morning America," Mapes says she is unrepentant about her role. "I don't think I committed bad journalism. I really don't," she says....
Mapes says Rather did not have "any obligation to resign" from his position, as CBS correspondent Mike Wallace recently suggested.
Mapes says she is continuing to investigate the source of the controversial documents whose authenticity was seriously questioned by the CBS panel. 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. ...
Mapes says one of her few regrets in handling the story was her phone call to a member of Sen. John Kerry's Presidential campaign staff prior to the broadcast. "I wish to God I hadn't done it, because I think it was so wildly misinterpreted." She says she made the call only as a way to gain favor with the source who provided her with the documents.
Mapes rejects suggestions she had political motives. "I did not have it in for George Bush," she said. ...
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So this is it.... the rest of her life justifying this?
The documents were authentic computer representations of memos that were supposed to have been 35 years ago, using microsoft word, that was invented less than 20 years ago. Nobody proved that the documents were fraudlent? Bullship. I'll bet mary mapes $ 100,000 cash up front, that the documents were not typed in the 60's and 70's and therefore were fraudulent.
"May I play through?"
Then she will help OJ search for the real killers.
"The documents were authentic computer representations of memos that were supposed to have been 35 years ago, using microsoft word, that was invented less than 20 years ago."
Yeah I know.
I was here then.
But I understand your frustration with these LSM idiots.
The modern liberal - demanding that others prove a negative, rather than vetting their own work.
"Mary done got herself a new look."
Is that the before or after pic?
" Well, great minds think alike, you know."
It's either that or we both know BS when we see it.
:)
Simply amazing. According to the Dinosaur media, it is now incumbent upon the public to prove a negative.
Does Mapes even understand the meaning of "slander", or "libel"?
Does she think networks are allowed to air lies?
The woman is dangerous....dangerous and deep in denial.
In today's modern society we have technology that can tell the probability of forgery or not but Mapes is claiming that todays journalist have no obligation to use the technology, especially when they have an agenda. The modern media didn't get their way in the last election so now they will browbeat us with everything from oil to Libby and I'm really getting sick of it. They're still trying to play the game after places like FR has already claimed checkmate.
...they were created on a word processing program to simulate the real thing...but actual records of Bush's service: NO...
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