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. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
HER BOOK IS A FLOP!
Truth and Duty : The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power (Hardcover)
by Mary Mapes
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,894 in Books
Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 24,638
It's the after look. I just googled it expecting the same old, but got that from some lefty site here. http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=318
For that matter no one can prove that Chelsea is Bill Clintons daughter.
In J School I, too, was instructed that Presidential elections afforded reporters an ethics holiday.
"An expose of the emergence of “digital McCarthysim” as conservative bloggers manipulate the internet."
This is the one I liked.
It implies that the 'bloggers' somehow 'manipulated' the evidence to prove it wrong.
What a dope she is.
Oh, and the reviews are starting to come in (at least on Amazon.com)....
Still looks like a left wing pig...
They keep on lying...
Yes Indeed like...
I never had sex with that woman...
I threw the ribbons over the fence...
I invented the internet...
"That's my story and I'm sticking to it." Ted Kennedy.
Less than four hours later, another blog commentor, nicked Buckhead, posted at FreeRepublic.com, pointed to "proportionally spaced fonts" used in the memo and concluded that the documents Rather cited had been drafted on a modern-day word processor rather than a typewriter.
The "deny, deny, deny" strategy only works if your last name is 'Clinton,' Mary.
It doesn't work for ordinary liars.
...Whatever her motive, Mapes's arguments about the authenticity of the "Killian" documents are candidates for the "trilemma" challenge made famous by C.S. Lewis. So here it is (with apologies to Clive):1. Lord: Mapes is the presenter of factual documents, and thus spoke the truth.
2. Liar: Mapes knew the documents were fakes, but she said they were real anyway.
3. Lunatic: Mapes presented fake documents, but she mistakenly believes they are real.Mapes claims in "Truth and Duty" that she is neither liar nor ideologue, and since everyone on the whole planet, except for Mapes, believes the "Killian" documents were produced on Microsoft Word default settings, Mapes's trilemma case ends in choice three: "Truth and Duty" therefore, is a work comparable to a Looney Tunes romp.
"Lun*a*tic:: Function: noun. Etymology: Latin. 1: Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager."
Well, let's forgive this lapse then, the woman believes in fairy stories and moonmaids and has never heard of William of Ockham. So how good is "Truth and Duty" on other merits? (other than belly laughs, we mean)....
Since CBS won't release the original document nor identify who supplied it, how is it even theoretically possible to prove the document is forged absent a signed confession?
On the other hand, we do know:
(1) The document is pixel perfect to one produced with the default settings of Word 2000.
(2) To produce the document using 1970s technology, the branch office of the reserves would need an extremely expensive IBM executive typewriter, a ruler to get the centering right, a second spool to get the superscripts, and by the way his secretary says the alleged author never types his memoes (not even the ones "to file"), and the captilization, punctuation, and abbreviation of the military units do not match existing memoes from the same period.
I think the word 'monopoly' gives it away!
As did proportional space fonts and a dozen other things.
We found you out, you're a liar, now get lost.
Nice edit!
GREAT graphic! It shows that the old media is no longer the unquestioned gate-keeper! If they do not learn to fact-check themselves, others will do it for them...as was done here. Their credibility will continue to tank....
" As did proportional space fonts and a dozen other things."
I know it. You know it.
But apparently Mary doesn't.
Birds of a feather!
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