Lashing Back Over the Memo Scandal

The Washington Post ^ | 11/9/05 | Paul Farhi

[steve-b]

Mary Mapes is madder than a rained-out rooster, as her former boss, Dan Rather, might say. Mapes, the CBS producer who lost her job over last year's "60 Minutes II" story about President Bush's National Guard service, resurfaces with a reconstruction of that incident that savages just about everyone associated with it: conservative bloggers, the mainstream media, CBS and its chief executive, Leslie Moonves, the Texas Air National Guard, even a few members of the Dallas Cowboys of the early 1970s.

And that's just in the first 40 pages of Mapes's wonkishly named but compellingly told tale of a byzantine chapter in journalism and politics.

For all her windmilling anger, Mapes musters a controlled, readable narrative about the story that became her professional undoing. In "Truth and Duty," she almost succeeds in making the case that she got the story substantially right, while the rest of the world insists she blew it....

[steve-b]

On the goofy old Super Freinds cartoon show, one of the recurring cliches was the idea that the Flash could accomplish whatever was required to get the writers out of whatever corner they'd painted themselves into, just by spinning really fast. Evidently, Mr. Farhi believes that he possesses a similar super spinning ability.

[camle]

wahwahwah!

poor widdle mary! got caught doing what dems and libs do best - lying.

my heart grieves (/sarcasm)

[Steely Tom]

Evidently, Mr. Farhi believes that he possesses a similar super spinning ability.

Oh goodness, all these lefties think so smart they can induce water to flow uphill just by screaming enough BS about the law of gravity.

(steely)

[dfwgator]

And she would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling kids.

[secret garden]

Vastie, she had the nerve to go after the Cowboys???

[samtheman]

Falsified evidence means nothing to the liberal mind when it's on a roll.

[steve-b]

Speaking of BS, here's another quote:

Mapes also addresses the typographical issues, which are complex and easily misreported (as they were, she claims, by The Washington Post, among others). According to Mapes, "superscript" typewriters were widely available on military bases in the early 1970s; and no, Microsoft Word cannot reproduce the exact typography of the Killian memos, at least not to a trained eye.

[ncountylee]

The woman is bitter and suffering and I'm glad that there is no cure.

[jaydubya2]

From th WAPO article:"But then, no one has definitively shown them to be forgeries, either. The "independent" panel that CBS hired to look into the story (composed primarily of lawyers, not journalists, and co-chaired by a former Republican attorney general) cast plenty of doubt on the story and CBS's handling of it. But it never said the report was baseless, never accused Mapes or Rather of political bias or called the memos fraudulent."

What are those guys smoking over there?

[prion]

Mapes also addresses the typographical issues, which are complex and easily misreported (as they were, she claims, by The Washington Post, among others).

Complex and easily misreported, my left gonad! Anyone who grew up in the Age of Typewriters took one look at that thing and knew it hadn't been produced on one! Anyone claiming otherwise is either too young to remember, or a liar.

[sr4402]

From the Article "But then, no one has definitively shown them to be forgeries"

The Washington Post is still carrying water for CBS and Dan Rather. No typewriter of that time was able to do the superscripting required. The document is a fake.

The Washington Post (or Compost) is a great example of the lamestream media at it's finest.

[dirtboy]

According to Mapes, "superscript" typewriters were widely available on military bases in the early 1970s

But not proportional typewriters - devices not used for personal notes typed by an officer with marginal typing skills.

Mapes would have us believe that an Air National Guard officer would have a very expensive and very difficult to use typewriter in his office and would go to the trouble of writing a minor memo mimicking a professionally-typeset brochure that he would then place into his files, never to be seen by anyone else - instead of just banging out such on an old Smith Corona or IBM Selectric.

That absolutely defies believability. It's not that the typography of the memos is technically possible. It's that they are practically impossible.

[Polyxene]

"The woman is bitter and suffering and I'm glad that there is no cure."

It's called NAG-HAG Syndrome! Old feminazis never die -- they just ugly away.

[camle]

must be tough to deal with all them fleas she got lying with the dem dogs....

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

But then, no one has definitively shown them to be forgeries

Below is forged CBS document overlayed by Microsoft Word in default mode......courtesy Little Green Footballs..

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....you go girl...

[freedumb2003]

She talks about "peripheral spacing" among other things she "learned."

Whoda thunk Buckhead would look askance? ;)

A book full of BS stinks that much more than a chapter full of BS.

[OSHA]

Microsoft Word cannot reproduce the exact typography of the Killian memos, at least not to a trained eye.

My eye must not be trained.

[billhilly]

In an article by Howard Kurtz in today's Washington Post, Mary bemoans all of the attention brought on her, particularly after her father, an alcholic according to her, belittled her and said she was grandstanding. Texans might probably say he told the truth on her.

Poor Mary said she was frightened by all of the people who came around her house, "..leaping out of pickups."

I guess the thought of old Jimmy Dale and Jo Nell were just too much for her liberal sensitivities. The fact that she was plagued by pickups rings about as true as her story about the documents. The eliteism displayed in that remark alone should be enough to tell the world where her head and heart are.

[savedbygrace]

Mary Mapes is madder than a rained-out rooster, as her former boss, Dan Rather, might say.

The saying is: Madder'n a wet hen. (Madder than a wet hen.)