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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This had better be Bush's wake-up call.
It is a given: Bush cannot articulate and explain.
He has, therefore, essentially ceded a president's most potent weapon: the bully pulpit.
It has been very irresponsible of him. He has allowed the likes of the clintons, kennedy, dean, the NYT and chris matthews to undermine him, his party, Iraq-which is the War on Terror, and this country.
Bush had better have an army of quick responders at the ready who will debunk the left's lies and sedition strongly and directly ON A CONTINUOUS BASIS. (and don't leave out identifying the left's self-serving motivation and sedition when doing so)
And I would like to know if and when the Bush family will stop propping up our, America's and the Constitution's biggest enemy--the clintons... and why in heaven's name they are doing this, in the first place.
............... and right after Meg was done doing her thing, the lady at the next table was asked what she would like to eat ......... and she said, "I'll have what she's having."
ROFL!
there definitely is a resemblance ;)
Dan Rather could almost pass for a hirsute Fred.
That has happened to me so many times. I go on and on for months often generally thinking that a poster is a male, then boom........ the poster will say something about their "hubby" or something like that. It is really amazing sometimes to find out you were wrong all along.
WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?
BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE
THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)
Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power
REASON 1: SHE HIRED JAMIE GORELICK
sandy berger haberdashery feint
(the specs, not the pants or the socks)
THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans
pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
WHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)
the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich
ESTRICH IMPEACHED BY HER OWN WORDS,
EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMEN
my amazon.com review
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ED KLEIN AND SUSAN ESTRICH AGREE ABOUT HILLARY
PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE, 9/11 + KATRINA
CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS:
Justice Undone in the clinton White House
NANO-PRESIDENT
the danger of the unrelenting smallness of bill + hillary clinton
HIROSHIMA'S NUCLEAR LESSON
bill clinton is no Harry Truman
CLINTON RAPES, REVISIONISM, USEFUL IDIOTS AND ENTROPY (an update)
JENNINGS DOES A DIMBLEBY: clinton legacy-RAGE redux
1st Feminist Prez Impeached
(clinton, pushed by the "smartest woman in the world," managed to impeach himself)
THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?
clinton legacy of lynching update
TALL-TALE TWEAK:
In honor of Rosa Parks, 'burning church' becomes 'bus' for 'first black president'
(clip included)
For the children?
the clintons ARE pornography downloads
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005
You would think that with all that is going on today, the media would stop long enough to figure out that their profession is beginning to die and instead of attempting to save it, they just seem to be hastening it's death. I wonder if they've given any thought to what they'll do for a living if the media dies?
You're up early............. speaking of wake-up calls.
;-)
can't someone legally go after her?
There is one answer to that question that is becoming louder and louder in my head. The answer is the most unpleasant of all, and that is that we were wrong about Bush all along, and that this "government/leader thing" is all a big charade these days, and there really is basically one party.
It's really starting to look that way. You know what I MENA?
LOL
I loved Fred (William Frawley) in "Miracle on 34th Street". He was great in the scene where he was trying to convince the judge not to rule against Santa Claus.
;-)
Rodeo clowns?
Excellent!
Bush's army of quick responders must also GO ON THE OFFENSIVE. AND STAY THERE. Bush's army must start attacking and weakening and, yes, undermining, the seditious left. Bush must face reality: his 'new tone' has been a bust. It is he--not the left--who is tone-deaf.
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"She also said on some other show (and I paraphrase) that it is not the STANDARD for the reporter and the news organization to make sure the report is factual, it is the standard for the citizens to prove their report wrong. Unbelievable!"
Attention Lying Mapeist, Free Republic, conservative talk radio and most of Fox News have changed the standards.
If you and you fellow vermin lie, we will expose you to the world. That is the new standard. Put some ice on it and get used to it.
A whole lot of us would pay to see the Queen of Denial face Howlin or any of our wonderful women freepers in a toe to toe discussion of the lies from the Queen of Denial.
After all, if we had let Hitler finish the job we would not have problems in Israel. The liberals are really smart!
sarcasm off.
Miss Marple would be another one who would bury M. Mapes with logic and respectfully presented facts.
I am afraid that I wouldn't be the best candidate. I have the unfortunate tendency to cry when I am angry. LOL!
There's no crying in (baseball) and the burial of lying liberals with facts and logic.
;-)
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