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.
A Short Rebuttal
Not that anyone cares, anymore, but just two sentences of Mapes letter contain an incredible fusillade of lies.
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.Careful vetting? They were in a mad rush to air, and didnt have time for a thorough vetting. Burkett was not vetted as a source - he was an obvious nut as 15 minutes on Google would have shown; he asked for money as a quid pro quo, he asked to be hooked up to the campaign as a quid pro quo; he was a indefatigable litigant against Bush, and spent hours with Mapes explaining his case. More red flags than the Communist Party, and thats just a drop in the bucket.
bttt
The two are not mutually exclusive, you know.
She's so over, but she won't lie down.
I can't wait for this new book.
"delusional fantasy of a whack-job" comes closest in my mind. Liar comes in a close second, though. Remind you of anyone? She is as much of a sicko as Burkett himself.
Yeah, they are really peas in a pod.
A total lying nutjob. That's my pick :-)
That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it.
he told her that Bush had Killians permission to go to Alabama and take his physical when he returned. Mapes hung up the phone from being told that
Enough with the [expletive] truth.
I vote for a Buckhead book tour!! :-)
this is why it is hard to lie. The liar never knows what he doesnt know. What doesn't come up on his radar as a problem, Screams out to others as your lunatic uncle running down the street pantsless, screaming about the evils of celery. It is something that you can not not notice. Mapes always had the MSM to cover her lies so she grew over confident. I am sure she was clearing a place on her shelf for her emmy. Lucky for us she just keeps providing fodder for us to comment on.
Blinded by fury and hate, that is my pick.
Liar or Nut.....both
Just another jealous no talent.
"Lucky for us she just keeps providing fodder for us to comment on."
AMEN BUMP!!
SECOND THAT!
My vote is for 'BOTH'.
It's amazing to see these leftists go completely over the edge in hatred. They don't even seem to care that what they are saying can be easily disproven........they say it anyway.
I say, let Mary keep talking. She is so obviously disturbed that it does nothing but help the truth be known to hear her whine and utter [expletive deleteds].
Can't wait for Campenni's book! Thanks for the ping, Buckhead. Great stuff! Keep up the good work!
And to think that Mapes's peers called her "brilliant". Says alot about the state of journalism these days. How the hell did a Moonbat like Mapes climb the CBS corporate ladder? How many other stories of hers were just as fraudulant as this one? How many other Mary Mapes are working right now at the NYTs, Wapo, LA Times, etc.?
No original documents + no original source = unsubstantiated BS
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