Posted on 11/10/2005 9:36:47 PM PST by Jim Robinson
It is apparent that CBS News producer Mary Mapes hasn't learned anything after being fired for using forged documents to smear President Bush. She calls White House official Karl Rove the "mastermind" of the attacks on her story but admits to the Washington Post that she has no proof of that. The Mapes performance, which is designed to sell her new book, can only diminish the reputation of journalism even more. Have we reached a point in journalism where the facts and evidence simply don't matter?
Her bizarre performance continued on CNN's Larry King Live, where she was asked if the Bush administration put pressure on CBS to retract or "suppress" the story. "I don't know. I have no evidence that they put direct pressure on," she said. But she went on to complain about the "thousands of e-mails from conservative bloggers," as if the White House had been behind them. So was this "indirect pressure" from the Bush Administration? That was the implication from Mapes—again without any proof.
This is reminiscent of former Democratic Vice President Al Gore's recent speech in which he falsely claimed that Dan Rather was "forced out of his anchor job after angering the White House…"
What we are seeing here is an attempt to rewrite history, to obscure the fact that CBS tried to subvert the President during the heat of a campaign using phony documents. The Mapes version is that the story was true and that CBS retracted under pressure from the White House or CBS parent Viacom. The only problem with the Mapes version is that there is absolutely no proof that it is true.
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"She isn't all that popular at CBS news at this time."
Well, she sure isn't popular at my house at all.
The lady ain't stupid, but she sure is a chameleon.
it is the standard for the citizens to prove their report wrong.
Could you believe it? These people are beyond redemption.
She said on CNN American Morning that she was the victim of a "drunken blogging brawl."
I kid you not.
NO, I could NOT believe it. This nation is is very, very deep trouble when a once big-time producer of news shows for a major network can utter (and mean it) a sentence like that.
I have heard all day about new polls in the latest Newsweek. Although I do not trust these people at all I feel that their poll numbers are not completely irrelevant. These numbers, like 27% think Cheney is honest, are unbelievable, and go to show what years and years of distortions and lies by the old media can do to public opinion.
This country is being killed by the old media.
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The old established/liberal/socialist media is America's most ruthless, relentless, and destructive enemy.
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