[wagglebee]

MAPES: I don't think I committed bad journalism. I really don't. I don't think I've done a good job for 25 years, woke up on the morning of September 8th and decided to commit professional hari-kari.

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.

[Izzy Dunne]

I don't think I've done a good job for 25 years

I think it's unanimous.

[McGruff]

I think she's going to be on Larry King Still Alive tonight if anyone wants to endure that.

[staytrue]

I mean, it was like having a little mini-witch hunt within the corporation.

Well if the shoe fits, ...

[goarmy]

PING!

[Izzy Dunne]

I wish to God I hadn't done it because I think it was so wildly misinterpreted.

It wasn't wrong, it wasn't a mistake, t was just that YOU PEASANTS DON'T UNDERSTAND ME!

[ml/nj]

This is all very interesting, but it's sort of old news and/or pathetic..

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

[visualops]

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.

[Waco]

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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think my tag line says it all. By Mapes standard of evidence it is incumbent on the Jews to disprove the "Protocols". Certainly, the "TANG memos" have been more thoroughly debunked than even the "Protocols".

I think ANY fair minded person would find Juanita Barlett more credible than Bill Burkett or Anita Hill. In fact, Clinton has NEVER denied Juanita's charges, knowing that to do so would instantly open him up to a suit for slander, one he would almost certainly lose. Yet the same people who embrace Burkett and Hill, dismiss Juanita out of hand.

[TC Rider]

She still thinks there no problem with the first part of the TANG story, where Rather had on Ben Barnes, former Texas House Speaker, who said he helped get Bush in the Guard. Ben Barnes, a neighbor and fund raiser for Kerry, who contradicted his own previous sworn testimony. Barnes own daughter later stated her father lied.

Nope, nothing wrong with that.

[Agent Smith]

Mapes is delusional and the book is headed to the remainder pile as we speak.

[steve-b]

Can you prove that it didn't happen?

[Bush gal in LA]

''Arrogant, elitist, head stuck in the sand, knows more than anyone else, unrepentant,victim of right wing extremists''.........perfect definition of a liberal!

[compuguru]

Mary Mapes, Dan Rather's producer, 60 Minutes II: no, the standard is not on us to prove they're authentic. What she's saying is the standard is on critics to prove that they're not. She can take anything she wants, put it on the air, without authenticating it, without verifying it, and it's up to critics to disprove it. Now, I think what's going on here, I don't think she's that far out when it comes to all these people in the mainstream press. I think this is the way they look at things.

As long as that is their stated position, they have an "out" if they're caught. They can say "Shazam! We were fooled! We were lied to!" instead of spending alot of time and money checking those pesky facts.

Do a Google search on Mary Mapes/Seattle/Police/KIRO and you 'll find some links to a story she produced while employed at KIRO where she (through her reporter husband) charged the police killed a man needlessly. By the grace of God, another reporter was on site (unbeknownst to Mapes) who set the story straight. And what did she do? Moved on to Dallas with her husband (another "journalist").

Carpet-bagging, lying, scoundrel. How can she live with herself?

[Barney59]

LOVE RUSH!

A great segment...

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

ROSS: Have they [the documents] proved to be authentic, though? Isn't that really what [investigative] journalists do?

MAPES: No, I don't think that's the standard.

A 'your guilty until you prove yourself innocent' is a flagrantly un-American attitude. Migrate to France and live under the Napoleonic Code if that's the way you think.

Given this admission, one can't help but wonder how many other stories she fabricated, and how many other characters she assasinated, over the past 25 years. Thank goodness this beast and her partners in crime--Dan and the SeeBS network--have been outed.

[hershey]

She's making the MSM rounds, trolling for a job. They'll hire her...she's already proved she's crazy.

[Born Conservative]

[Tall_Texan]

"Mainstream" journalists still expect a level of respect they no longer deserve. "How dare you question my motives?" they seem to bark, just like anti-America protestors cry "How dare you question my patriotism?".

They really don't see how utterly biased and agenda-driven they are. They are completely blind to it. Are they any better than those who shoot abortion doctors or blow themselves up at synagogues? They are so rigid in their belief that they and their small group are right and the rest of the world is wrong that they are willing to commit heinous wrongs and believe they were only doing what justice and morality demand.