[bilhosty]

Here goes Mary Mapes story. As everyone on this board already knows she's just another CBS lying scum.

[Republican Red]

Did you read your link?

This woman refutes specifics in Mary Mapes book. She points out how Mapes book is WRONG.

[Shaka]

Just doing a story...no whims about affecting the outcome of a Presidential election. These Watergate wannabes are really something. Thats all they dream about.

[dirtboy]

I watched Mapes on O'Reilly last night. She was a complete weasel.

O'Reilly was way too soft on her, but he did drag out one telling admission. O'Reilly told her where she went wrong was not proving the documents beyond a reasonable doubt. Mapes responded by saying she believed them to be accurate beyond a reasonable doubt.

And that, in a nutshell, is how the modern liberal mind works. Their beliefs trump overwhelming evidence to the contrary, which is why Mapes refuses to admit the evidence is overwhelming that the memos are fakes. She clings to the one-in-a-trillion possibility that an officer with very limited typing skills would use an extremely advanced typewriter requiring advanced training and elaborate setup to create photo-ready quality text - for minor personnel memos destined for his own personal files. THAT is what Mapes believes and demands that others believe.

And Mapes casually restated that she had been pursuing the story for four years. That shows an Ahab-like fixation on getting Bush. Her bosses should have taken that as a warning signal that Mapes was way too personally involved and invested in the story - which led her to reject any feedback that the memos were forgeries.

[queenkathy]

What ever happened to the investigation into who gave who what?

[Triple]

This analyst simply crushes Mapes. Way to go Emily.

follow the link at the top

[DustyMoment]

What is fascinating to me is that Mapes, by her own admission, CONTINUES to "work" this non-story. Presumably, she has commissioned a forger to create a better set of "documents" to implicate Bush.

What will be interesting to see, once she takes receipt of the new forgeries, is if any reputable news organization (a stretch when we include the MSM), will give her the time of day, given her current reputation.

[dirtboy]

This is the most telling paragraph by Mapes:

Page 167: "Emily Will and I had an unusual conversation that Monday [Sept. 6], a talk that raised questions for me about how well-suited she was to be working on this project. I called to see how her analysis was going and she told me she had a problem with the documents."

Apparently to Mapes, "well-suited" means "rubber stamp" the documents. Amazing.

[savedbygrace]

During Mapes' CNN-Blitzer appearance, she appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. IMO.

This rebuttal by Emily Will is devastating to Mapes, but Mapes seems oblivious to any criticism.

[Tribune7]

ping

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this. What may be even more upsetting to Mapes is what CBS News is sending to those who will be interviewing her after her GMA debacle.

Look at the CBS News response to her appearance on GMA. This was sent to Larry King before and he read it before he interviewed Mapes. Apparently O'Reilly got the same response before Mapes was on his show.

"(After yesterday's Mapes' Good Morning America appearance, CBS issued the following statement, which Larry King read to Mapes last night):

"KING: We're here with Mary Mapes, the book "Truth and Duty, the Press, the President and the Privilege of Power." CBS News gave us this statement today.

"Mary Mapes' actions damaged CBS News as an organizational and brought pain to many colleagues with whom she worked. Her disregard for journalistic standards -- and for her colleagues -- comes through loud and clear in her interviews and in the book that attempts to rewrite the history of this complex and sad affair.

As always, revisionist history must be tested against the facts. Not only are those facts contained in the extensive media coverage that took place at the time, but also in the 200-plus-page report of the independent panel which investigated the matter for more than three months.

We believe those facts speak for themselves. The idea that a news organization would not need to authenticate such important source material is only one of the troubling and erroneous statement in her account."

(Mapes only reply was: CBS has been working on that statement for months.)

Hey Mapes, your former employer, CBS News is setting the record straight about your lying past. CBS is not Free Republic.

[wildbill]

Somebody ouught to find a way to get this into the MSM talks shows when they interview Mapes.

What's interesting however is how the MSM is rallying around Mapes and her book.

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz for example wrote a column that virtually accepted most of Mapes' accusations and explanations.

We will have to fight this fight again or they will sell the public on the issues and rehabilitate Mapes, Rather, and all the MSM who jumped on the story. (Sigh)

[Cicero]

According to her bio page, Emily J. Will is a certified documents examiner in private practice, working out of Raleigh, NC. Does anyone know what her position was with CBS, and whether she was fired for telling the awkward truth during Rathergate?

Here's her internet business card, as it were:

http://qdewill.com/cv.htm

[cgbg]

from your link:

Ms. Mapes asked if I were 100% certain that superscripting could not have existed in 1972. I said that I was as certain as I could be, but for 100% certainty she should contact a particular examiner whose office is in New York City.

Bwahahahaha

Sounds like a right-wing conspiracy to me--to obliterate all evidence of superscripts in 1972. ;-)

It is incredible that Mapes is willing to subject herself to public humiliation this way.

The networks want her to go away--she is the poster child of media bias, bad reporting, and falsification of data.

Every time she defends herself she digs a deeper hole.