Second Time's a Charm? [Free Republic & Buckhead Credited]

Weekly Standard ^ | November 29, 2005 | Scott Johnson

[massgopguy]

But Mary Mapes has an "authentic" NG memo written on the back of an Eskimo Pie wrapper in REAL crayon that says "Bush Lied".

[SeeSalt]

"We are a force to be reckoned with, that is for sure."

God Bless Free Republic and the Brave People of FR!
FR is a miracle. And I believe that FR is the HART of America.

[RayChuang88]

I think you need to read Alvin Toffler's famous book The Third Wave. Once chapter in that book, "De-Massifying the Media," specifically said that as communications technologies improve the big media companies will have less and less control of what you can read, hear, and see. The fact that Howell Raines and Gerald at the New York Times, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes at CBS News, and Eason Jordan at CNN got flattened by the New Media shows how prophetic Toffler's vision was.

[tx_eggman]

[Republican Babe]

As a fellow Texan I can appreciate the fact that Bill Burkett really does sell bull.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

No one who has reviewed this book mentions the most damning factoid about Mapes: She spent 20 years trying to pin the bogus TANG story of George W. Bush and didn't get it done. When the fraudulent documents appeared, she was only too glad to publicize them.

[reagan_fanatic]

Mapes and the rest of the old school MSM still do not understand what they are dealing with. This isn't the 'good old days' when a falsehood like the NG documents could be presented as fact and gotten away with.

[johnny7]

The RATher/Mapes forgeries go beyond the 'mouthpiece' label. Hell... they're teaming-up with elements in the CIA to bring down Bush(Plame/Rove) as I write this.

It is my belief that they are working hand-in-hand for the implementation of a socialist democracy in America and will use ANY and ALL means to achieve this.

Unless they make a mistake of monumental proportions, they will continue to get a slim majority of viewers/readers... and continue to be competitive in elections. We are now a nation that either actively searches for the truth... or sits back and enjoys the brainwashing.

[lafroste]

Mapes now proclaims that rabid right-wing blogs have joined forces with Fox News, talk radio, and "magazines like THE WEEKLY STANDARD"...the US Military and more than 100 million citizens in blue states and red states..."

"The sheer size and breadth of this conspiracy is mindboggling", Mapes added. She went on to speculate whether democracy itself was still a workable concept "since it appears that this conspiracy is so vast, they may actually have more votes at their control than us normal people".

[GOPJ]

"But in Texas, one of the world capitals of "shit happens," a place where bull semen is worth its weight in gold (and the bizarre long ago became the mundane), I believed it was quite possible that Bill Burkett was finally telling the truth, the whole weird truth, and nothing but the truth."

Try this one: " But in New York, one of the world capitals of "high fashion", a place where a scarf is worth twice its weight in gold, ( and the bizarre long ago became the mundane), I believed it was quite possible that Bill Burkett was lying and Mapes slept her way to the top.

Can anyone tell me what the price of Bull Seamen or a scarf has to do with the truth? Mapes doesn't even lie well. She even lacks the pretense of logic. Only a journalist living in the Northeast could believe her (as she would say) shit.

[tumblindice]

Mapes claims her mind was boggled?
"Bogglery": a freeper breaking and entering into the mind of a liberal at any time
of the day or night with the intent to disclose the truth therein."
Illegal only in three blue states and a handful of cities.

[libstripper]

If she slept her way to the top, the sleepee was a man of notably bad taste.

[writmeister]

Since Mapes lives in Texas, she could have truthfully told O'Reilly that we do not have party registration. You simply announce your party preference when you show up to vote in the primary.

Mape's obfuscating when it was unnecessary just confirms that she is a congenital liar.

[GOPJ]

If she slept her way to the top, the sleepee was a man of notably bad taste.

In big cities, where the price of perfume can top $1,000 an ounce, and street people spray paint abandoned buildings, anything can be true. It's possilbe he had notable bad taste, and it's possible his name was Dan Rather. There's no way of judging truth where graffiti artist paint passion on dead streets.... (/ sarcasm off)

[Jim_Curtis]

He then told Mapes that the documents were provided to him by one George Conn, but that Conn would never admit to being the source.

Shows how political that it all was that the fool must have made the name up on the fly and combined the names of the President and the guy who he hoped would replace the President, Kohn. When they realize the obviousness they come up with some alternate spelling for the surname.

[GOPJ]

If she slept her way to the top, the sleepee was a man of notably bad taste.

In big cities, where the price of perfume can top $1,000 an ounce, and street people spray paint abandoned buildings, anything can be true. It's possilbe he had notable bad taste, and it's possible his name was Dan Rather. And it's posssible both are true or not true. There's no way of judging truth where graffiti artist paint passion on dead streets.... (/ sarcasm off)

[mo]

somebody needs to say this...Mary Mapes and Dan Rather may well have committed journalistic malpractice....with the CBS shareholders being stuck with the liability.

[GOPJ]

somebody needs to say this...Mary Mapes and Dan Rather may well have committed journalistic malpractice....with the CBS shareholders being stuck with the liability.

You might be right. I wonder if money was involved or just access? Was a crime committed by Mapes, Rather, and CBS? The motive of taking down a President isn't a small thing. It wasn't an "innocent" mistake.

[Aquinasfan]

Finally FR (and Buckhead) gets its props.

[Matchett-PI]

"...read Alvin Toffler's famous book The Third Wave.

Exactly. Click the hot link.