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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Of course Mary Mapes in unrepentent. Mary Mapes has no respect for the truth. So in her own mind, what is to repent? Her point is, "Truth? Truth? Big whew."
No man should listen to that broad, for anything. She should be at home mending somebody's socks, and watching soap operas like a good girl.
DA740
They are a sorry lot ~ indeed!
Glad you didn't mind.
???
What planet has this little Democrat scumbag been on?
Here's the tip of the iceberg of "proof" that the documents were cheap forgeries:
You scared me!
"I don't think I committed bad journalism."
I don't either. I think you committed treason by forging government documents in an attempt to influence a presidential election. Journalism, hell; you should be executed.
This woman is delusional! She cannot see the forest because of the trees.
Article in Vanity Fair, various MSM outlets (except SeeBS) vieing for her interview. Oh, the left still regards her as a warrior for truth.
Even Clinton knew that, once they found the semen on the dress, even some Democrats might not buy the "I did NOT have sex with that (fat, childish , 21 year old) woman.
Somebody needs to tell Mary that Buckhead left a stain.
Then was it someone on John Kerry's Presidential campaign staff who provided her with the documents?!!!
...I saw that little segment on Mapes. She says she isnt sorry and didnt do anything wrong and also doesn't know where she got her information from ...
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