Posted on 11/09/2005 1:16:11 PM PST by conservative in nyc
EX-CBS producer Mary Mapes, fired over a controversial "60 Minutes II" story on President Bush's National Guard service, says she still believes the report was "true" — and accurate.
"No one has proved that the documents were not authentic," Mapes says on this morning's "Good Morning America."
Mapes is breaking her silence to promote her new book, "Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power."
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She says she "did not have it in for George Bush" and says she doesn't feel responsible for what happened to her colleagues in the scandal's aftermath.
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What Mapes doesn't dispute is the fact that she called a member of John Kerry's presidential campaign before the "60 Minutes II" report aired.
"I wish to God I hadn't done it, because I think it was so widly misinterpreted," she says - adding that she only made the call to curry favor with the source who gave her the disputed documents.
"I don't think that I committed bad journalism. I really don't," she says.
Mapes says she's continuing to investigate the source of the documents.
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Oh and yes, Mary, YOU let your colleagues down, YOU colluded with the Kerry campaign in getting the story out, YOU committed bad journalism, and you're continuing to investigate the source of the documents as much as O.J. is still searching for the real killer.
Bill Burkett used moonbat Bev Harris to try to push the TANG charges as a November surprise in the 2000 elections. There was no proof then. There is no proof now. Perhaps you need to learn to take what political operatives give you during an election with a grain of salt.
Jackal on a book tour PING!
Did anyone see the GMA interview?
Maybe she can team-up with OJ.
And just because we haven't found any, doesn't prove unicorns don't exist...
No one can prove I didn't sleep with Angelina Jolie.
Hey! I like how this logic works.
ROTF................does she golf??
The documents in question were "genuine" forgeries.
too stupid to live
Yes...they have. Ya need to get onto FR more often Mary old girl.
Conversely, no one has proven that the documents WERE authentic.
Delusional idiot wench.
Didn't I hear somewhere in Logic 101 that you can't prove a negative?
But if those documents were studied by an impartial jury in a court of law, I don't think there's any reasonable doubt that they would find them to be obvious FORGERIES.
Publish anything thing seems like it will sell really well. Use your imagination.
Leave it to a court of law to decide if its true or not. That's what they're there for, right?
I hope this dimwit never tries her hand at Science. For every "prove that..." question, she would come up with "Why don't you prove why it shouldn't be so....".
We would still be trying hard to invent the wheel with such brilliant thinking.
WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKIN' PROOFS! ALL YOU MEDIA IS BELONG TO US!..........
LOL Is that in, "like no one proved OJ killed them."
Is this new? Isn't she basically admitting that she got the forged docs from the Kerry campaign? Or is she saying she called the Kerry campaign to tell them to listen Burket?
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