Posted on 12/20/2005 5:29:03 AM PST by conservativecorner
Yesterday reader Randy Porter wrote in response to our post on Mary Mapes's letter to the editor of the Times Book Review. Porter wrote:
I was reading your latest Mapes post and was struck by the irony of the situation she has manufactured for herself -- anyone who buys her story (hence her only daily company of friends and followers) is a fool. And she is quite aware of that fact. It seems a special kind of hell on earth. Colonel William Campenni (ret.) served with then-Lieutenant Bush in the same unit of the Texas Air National Guard. He wrote some key columns debunking the Mary Mapes's fradulent 60 Minutes story on President Bush's service. After we posted a message from Colonel Campenni on Power Line, we received an inquiry from a literary agent asking Colonel Campenni to write a book on Rathergate and seeking to represent him. It appears that our matchmaking efforts have paid off. Colonel Campenni has been hard at work writing the book and updating us on Mapes's continuing pratfalls. Yesterday Colonel Campenni wrote regarding Mapes's letter: This woman is really funny. In her letter she says:
Alter can question our source, as I have, but here's what nearly everyone missed: The overhyped typeface criticisms ingeniously hijacked the story and created a false controversy, which media competitors gleefully exploited as proof that CBS had fallen short. In fact, ALL the evidence supported the documents' genuineness and that holds true today. We carefully vetted their every detail, matched them with official records and corroborated their content with a former commander. Our document analysis has been completely misconstrued by reporters, pundits and the panel: two analysts validated the documents' typing and signatures and two others deferred to them before our broadcast, despite their later characterizations.
I just sent off the book proposal draft for the agent who is going to shop it around. In the chapter dedicated to the fake memos, I gave her a pass on stuff like the typos, fonts, etc., because you guys and others have already proved that. Instead I went against her new defense, repeated ad nauseam, and in bold italics in the above excerpt; that ALL the evidence supports the documents. I was running out of paper in tearing apart her own arguments and exposing glaring errors. One example: Twice in the 6 fakes one finds Bush's service number. Problem here for Mary is that these memos are in 1972 and 73. The Air Force stopped using service numbers on July 1, 1969, and switched over to social security numbers, 3 and 4 years prior. All of Bush's released records had the SSNo blacked out as required by law. But old service numbers from Bush's earlier documents were not redacted...
[The fabricator] grabbed the service numbers from released records, not realizing that they would never show up on a 72-73 document. Irony is, he put the anachronistic service numbers in the wrong format - the FG had to be a prefix, not a suffix, like FG 1234567...For a while we used to put the two letter code FG (means Air Guard; FR means Air Force Reserve, FV means active duty Air Force) as a suffix to the new SSNo ID, as in 987 65 4321FG. Later we dropped the two letter code entirely. [The fabricator's] personal experience was with the 987-65-4321 FV format (actually, the Army Guard used different codes), so when he grabbed the service number from files to add a hint of authenticity to the memos, he probably reverted to habit. Stupid, because if you look at Bush's real records, you will see the letters FG as a prefix - he couldn't even plagiarize correctly!
It's fun tearing apart this delusional woman's aberrant thought processes. I hope to meet her some day to talk about this stuff.
PS: I have never met Mapes and she never called me. She doesn't even know I exist. But in her radio debate with John last week, she launched into a tirade about how I was a Bush insider when Scott Henner simply mentioned my name (he had me on his show in February and September 2004). Now my wife wants to know why we aren't invited to White House dinners if I am such a buddy.
Colonel Campenni describes this item of his analysis as a "tidbit" that will be disclosd in his forthcoming book together with many other previously unrevealed flaws in the bogus documents. His book should make a signal contribution to understanding the fraud Mapes continues to peddle.
1. Who contrived the fakeries?
2. What part did Tom Oliphant play in the ruse?
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With the Rather-gate stain on their resumes', the only place Mary and Danny are going to get a job offer from is the NY Times.
Snort! There goes Mary, rewriting history again. In fact, ALL the evidence supported the documents' disingenuineness, and that holds true today. (Even the CBS analysts claim their reports were misquoted, taken out of context, twisted, and deliberately misrepresented to support rather than criticize Mapes's conclusion.) Mary, Mary, you're quite the contrarian.
She is basically saying that it isnt about the documents...its the STORY that is real...the documents are just a red herring for the evil republicans to attack her good name. lol
Yes, I do. It's a hoot when they talk about CNN being a mouthpiece for the right!
One of those "analysts" was Marcel Matley the faker who "validated" the phony Vince Foster "suicide note
Mary Mapes wikipedia entry needs serious rewriting by Freepers. Be nice though, just factual.
Amen on the "thanks to management" end on leaving it in news, and you are so welcome for the thread.
I'm far from a prude, but I really hate to see this kind of disgusting imagery in common useage.
remember Carter chatting it up with the Soviets, asking for their help to defeat Reagan? They've been doing it again and again and again, and well before 9-11.
Selling out Vietnam in '75.
Carter and the Canal giveaway.
Carter and the betrayal of the Shah, unleashing these islamofascist demonspawn.
The left's demonization of Reagan as he parked Pershing II's across from the Soviet SS20's in Europe.
Iran-Contra, which was a successful repeat of their "forsake our Vietnam ally" - hamstringing our support to anti-communist rebels (Kerry went and stopped by for a photo-op with Daniel Ortega, just like the photo-op he had in Hanoi over at that NVA heroes museum... some things and some traitors never change...).
Through the 90's, Clinton's inability to fight terror - the 1993 WTC in which Iraq & Saddam WERE involved! - the embassies, the COLE.
And now, post 9-11, the continued leaks that hurt our war effort, the continued lack-of-support that helps the enemy's morale, thus endangering more of my warrior brethren's lives.
The list is endless.
Jefferson once said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - it is plainly obvious to any who will see where our patriots are today; they are the firemen & policemen who valiantly responded on that tuesday morning over 4 years ago... they are our military currently fighting and winning the war on the battlefield. From where I stand, at this moment in time only half of Jefferson's quote is right.
It seems unjust to me. I don't have patience for the ROE Effect to take it's toll on these last, virulent dregs of the 60's hippies as they grasp for power and their failed dream of orwellian utopia.
When will this vermin taste in blood the bitter fruit they sow, and for which good American men and women - their betters by far - now pay in life and limb to counter?
What impresses me is that a publisher has approached a conservative to write a book! The times, they are a' changin'--
Isn't it, though.
I actually question how God, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to make such creatures in the semblance of rational persons. I've got a border collie who has a better understanding of the world than these folks do.
Which once again points to Burkett as the fabricator. For Mapes to say that the documents were well vetted when a certified nut case like Burkett is the beginning and end of the chain of custody shows Mapes to be delusional.
I look forward to this expose of witch Mapes. She's gonna wish she left well enough alone, that she had not written her book.
But I saw once on TV and thought she was pretty good at the lying game. She came across in a credible way. Not an obvious phony
Right after we all started hearing about the SeeBS story, I read somewhere that the secretary of Killian said that she didnt remember ever hearing Airman Bush being spoken of in the office.I have not been able to find it again. Any idea where I can find it?
"Mapes isn't gonna stop digging that hole she's in until she pops up in Bejing!"
LOL!
IIRC it was in the Houston Chronicle..I don't recall it precisely. I don't seem to have it in my file.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225723/posts
The Fall
National Review Online ^ | September 24, 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 09/24/2004 8:21:27 AM CDT by sola_fide
Dan Rather's initial, furious street-side defense of an amateurish forgery — smug, huffy, self-righteous — brings to mind one of those bad movies about the Paris barricades, especially the grainy, black-and-white shots of powdered and wigged aristocrats on their way to the Guillotine, yelling out of their carriages at pitchfork-carrying peasants.
Worse than being duped, worse than cobbling together a highly politicized hit-piece during a war and in the waning days of an election, worse than the shady nature of the "unimpeachable" sources and the likely sordid origins of the story, and worse even than the pathetic nature of CBS's "expert" witnesses — worse than all that was Rather's ten-day denial of reality, culminating in the surreal half-admission that the phony documents could not be verified as accurate. That's the equivalent of saying that a corpse cannot be proven to be alive.
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Found this and loved it.
Aah, nobody even knows who Mary Mapes is except for political junkies. They know Rather got busted passing off some fake memos written in Word with Times New Roman font. THAT people can understand. Mapes' contention that this is all very esoteric and mystical is hogwash.
Well put and I stay on go just anticipating the day. I hope it does not come but I am getting mighty restless. I hate to leave those I love in this shape.
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