[shhrubbery!]

More comment from Ardolino:

"Mary, no hard feelings? Even in forced retirement, Mapes continues her legacy of accuracy, as neither Powerline, nor Spacetown, nor INDC Journal worked anonymously during the scandal. I invite everyone to revisit my September archives and peruse the "wild and hateful claims" made by INDC. Good times.

"I will grant her one thing - the "school of sharks" analogy is pretty accurate, though her description of a helpless victim (a multi-million dollar respected professional news organization) is a bit ... off. And let's not forget who chummed the water."

[MitchellC]

Mary could easily silence all her critics by doing one simple thing.

And that is, produce the Magic Copy Machine that magically makes regular-sized letters from a 70's typewriter into superscript size, such as the kind that appears on Microsoft Word.

[doug from upland]

Electroshock therapy? Do you think that would help?

MIDI - IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE - 2nd version

I hate Buckhead and the FReepers...they had cost me a great job
They made me look foolish...a left wing whackjob...they had piled on like a mob...like a mob

I got blamed...they threw me out...out the door

I must have been sane but that's over now
I must have been sane but my mind's lost somehow
I must have been sane but that's over now
I'll get you, JimRob...I am making that vow

That "th" thing was a problem...but denial I'll sustain
You still haven't proved that...the docs were phony...I'll continue that refrain

So I got blamed...they threw me out...right out the door

I must have been sane but that's over now
Must have been sane but my mind's lost somehow
I must have been sane but that's over now
I'll get Jim Robinson...I'll get Jim Robinson

(musical break)

I must have been sane but that's over now
I must have been sane but my mind's lost somehow
I must have been sane but that's over now
I will get you, Jim Robinson...I'm making that vow

I hate all your Freeper-thons...and your "bump to the top"
What is up with that little pinging thing...that is something that's got to stop
I must have been sane but that's over now
So I must sell a book...I've got to sell my book...on the talk shows
They're not forgeries
They're not forgeries
There's no forger

[The Shrew]

"The great Howlin swam silently below the ocean depths, propelled by short swift strokes of her huge crescent tail!"

Apologies to Peter Benchley and to Howlin ;-)

Regards,

TS

[gunnedah]

Let me tell you what troubles me about Mapes that most people I do not believe picked up on in her interview with O'Reilly. If I did not misunderstand her she said the way they reported this was SOP for the press and that is frightening if true. (That is paraphrasing her of course).

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You know, there is no disagreement among modern cartographers that the world is not flat. Astronomers seem to be in alsolute lockstep in belief that the Sun does not rotate about the Earth, despite the almost daily evidence of our very eyes. Doctors close ranks in dismissing the theory that disease is caused by an imbalance in the bodily humors.

Everywhere, there exist these swarming conspiracies. Whence cometh the next Mary Mapes to enlighten all of us, we poor intellectual mites, when compared to her Ruthian intellect?