Posted on 02/12/2006 1:09:08 PM PST by wagglebee
Fired CBS "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes is still blaming the internet for ending her media career prematurely - or more precisely; the "vicious" bloggers who discovered that documents she unearthed in a bid to trash President Bush's National Guard service were forgeries.
"The criticism that was launched at us initially really came from the very conservative blogosphere, folks who are on these very conservative web sites," Mapes complained Friday on WVMT Vermont's "Charlie & Ernie" radio show.
"This was really a terribly vicious attack they launched on CBS," she insisted, before lamenting: "Politics is not necessarily the way it was when we all grew up, where you might disagree on something but you wouldn't eviscerate someone."
Mapes says that she was a victim of a new standard in journalism where "the truth doesn't matter" but instead it's "the perception of truth that matters."
"What happened to me, I think, and to all of us at CBS, was that the perception of truth became that these documents were not real; that there were flaws in the typeface and all kinds of sort of dry and extremely dull details about proportional spacing and superscript and all that."
Mapes said that she still believes the documents cited in the "60 Minutes II" broadcast by her boss, Dan Rather, were authentic, saying; "I feel that if they had been forged there would have been a flaw. And I have not been able to find the flaw."
She also noted that CBS's own internal investigation "could not prove that the documents were false."
I am not clear what she is even claiming.
Is she claiming that what the documents were typed on a typewriter? I assumed it has been proven that no typewriter that would have been used by Texas Air NG could have been the source?
No we don't love her in VT. Well...some do, but I don't!
Well, who's fault is that. You tried to gut President Bush, and instead got gutted. My sympathy for your plight is small. Democrats started the vile smears, now they have to live in the political atmosphere they created.
Mapes says that she was a victim of a new standard in journalism where "the truth doesn't matter" but instead it's "the perception of truth that matters."
Oh, come on. The truth never mattered to the liberal MSM. Durant, Rather, Cronkite. Liars all. But the truth does, matter to the right. And now we can get it out there. Learn to live with it. Or get prematurely retired.
That high, huh??
I never did have much faith in the intelligence of theaverage consumer.
what an uproariously funny and self-serving title
mary mapes, con-artist, discusses truth and duty (of all things!)
Do you suppose she is so delusional that she doesn't even admit TO HERSELF that the document was fake?
These people are unbelievable.
And well she should, they uncovered her completely unethical effort to smear Bush with false documents.
I'd almost pity her as a mentally ill person, except her motives were dishonest nasty and evil from the start.
I can't stop laughuing at Mary Mapes and here self-serving lies. She can say that after being one of "60 Minutes" hatchetmen? LOL...ROFLMAO...Mapes is such a ditz.
The one expert she hides behind is a "signature expert" with no formal trainging and no credentials that a court would accept had she tried to get him to tesitify as an expert witness at a trial. His claim to fame is an article for a woman's magazine (Cosmo?) about what a woman's signature says about how she'll do in bed.
Mary, your signature says that you got screwed by Rather rathet than the blogs. He should have been thrown out on his ass just like you were.
LOL, Doc you got a way with words.
Next up for Mary, an arrest for forging scrips for percocet..
LK44-40 < pajama clad but viciously serving righteousness since 1946!
Anyone at that rank writes better than that.
Only the best for Dan and his date...
What an E-tard she is.
She certainly believes in "denying it till the end".
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