Posted on 11/09/2005 5:29:44 PM PST by wagglebee
There is not a doubt in my mind that Dan Ratherbiased would expect Mapes to risk career suicide for the opportunity to bring down Bush and there isn't a doubt in my mind that Mapes would happily do it.
I think it's unanimous.
I think she's going to be on Larry King Still Alive tonight if anyone wants to endure that.
Well if the shoe fits, ...
PING!
It wasn't wrong, it wasn't a mistake, t was just that YOU PEASANTS DON'T UNDERSTAND ME!
Does Rush have a take on the events in France? I try to listen and maybe hear about 40% of the program on average. I still haven't heard a word about France.
ML/NJ
This absolutely exposes quite well the MSM modus operandi when it comes to conservatives, which is the "when did you stop beating your wife" school of journalism.
...uh, I think it should be:
"If the 'broom' fits....".
I can't stand watching TV at all, so I'm always grateful to the strong-minded Freepers who endure such torture to bring us the latest news on the Media Pimps & Liars Front.
> ... but it's sort of old news and/or pathetic..
As I said on an earlier thread:
"... people are missing the real news here. It's not
often that a Legacy Media type openly, explicitly
describes the principles that fuel their corruption.
Mapes has admitted not only a logical proof inversion,
but also her motivation: she enjoyed "making a difference"
(i.e. using her journalist position to support her
social advocacies).
Thanks Mary. No one can now pretend the episode was an
innocent error."
Furthermore, it is now incumbent upon CBS to confirm
or deny that her standard of journalism is also that
of CBS itself. Don't hold your breath awaiting a
statement. They still haven't disclosed the chain of
custody of the fake memos.
> Does Rush have a take on the events in France?
He's discussed it a couple of times. No surprise insights.
king of the softball.
she will come off well on larry king
Cheers,
knews hound
http://knewshound.blogspot.com/
Yep, they all knew it wa a crimminal scam from the first micro-second. A private citizen jinning up a phoney charge against another private citizen will land in very big trouble with law, and lawyers, and tour the inside of a prison at length. These people are out of control crimminal sonofabitches using "journalism" for a cover.
You and I may think it's "incumbent upon them," but they'll just go on ignoring what we think, which seems to have gotten them through quite a bit; which is why this is old news.
As for whatever questions I heard asked of Mapes, I thought they were a joke. Why not just ask, "Do these memos appear to you to have been typed on a typewriter?" and move on from there.
ML/NJ
> As for whatever questions I heard asked of Mapes,
> I thought they were a joke.
And I'm sure that Ross thought they were softball
questions. But this exchange is extremely telling,
and although it's no surprise to FR readers, it's
a damning indictment of Legacy Media, made openly
on a Legacy Media show.
>> ROSS: Have they proved to be authentic, though?
>> Isn't that really what journalists do?
>> MAPES: No, I don't think that's the standard.
That statement may echo for some time to come.
> Why not just ask, "Do these memos appear to you to
> have been typed on a typewriter?" and move on from there.
On one hand, the memos are trivially simple to recreate
with MS Word using default settings.
On the other hand, it has proven impossible to recreate
them using any technology even remotely likely to be
available to TANG at the time, not to mention the various
problems with contents, terminology, chronology, etc.
Occam's Razor leads to a conclusive conclusion.
Mapes is still in denial, along with Rather. Given her
now admitted "standard" of journalistic fact checking,
even if she was locked in a room with all the evidence
and analysis, it's easy to see why she would remain
blind to it ...
... plus she'd have to come clean about the provenance
of the documents, a trail likely leading back through
the DNC and ...
... not to mention the remote chance of being
prosecuted for passing forged government documents.
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